skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Java and Scala? Who uses that in ML? Python has long been the best language for ML

You're kidding, right? Java has been extremely popular for ML for a long time. Not to cast any shade on Python, but I'd say Java and Python are roughly equivalent in this regard. Both have good libraries for various ML tasks and both are very popular in the domain.

For reference, a quick search on mloss.org finds 84 projects identified as "Java" and 105 identified as "Python". So while Python has a small edge in sheer numbers I think that supports my assertion that they roughly equivalent in terms of their popularity for ML.
Motion for injunction
I got myself got caught up in a messy situation. My previous startup dont want me to build this product so they requested motion for injuction.

Anyone else had this experience?

I have two choices, either drop the product or fight the case. I only have $3000 left in my bank and the lawyer would cost me around $15,000.

Any suggestion?
Why all the negativity here? You can still like things, comment with text, or just not use Facebook. Nobody will ever be forced to use these emoticons, and nobody at Facebook is saying you can only express these 6 emotions while using Facebook.

I also don't get why everyone feels FB owes them a dislike button. It seems like that would be a bad feature.

Personally, I think it's a good change. It won't change Facebook much, but it certainly won't do harm.
This is great, been waiting for the scheduled feature for a while.
I'd really love to be able to use Sentry to collect errors in a closed .NET web app that just spams a log file. Is there a collector/raven for just tailing files (on Windows), configurable via RegEx or other parser definition? Right now we use a custom grok filter for Logstash and dump it all into Elasticsearch, but the Sentry UI sure would make life easier when something goes wrong and we have to figure out why.
Also, it's much easier to get a MacBook to run Windows than it is to get a Windows laptop to run OS X.
Because the World Bank is a large organization with many paid staff tasked with devising and implementing their methodology.

You're two random people on the Internet.

I'm siding with the World Bank, not with the internet commenter who demands another internet commenter defend experts.

You're the one making the extraordinary claim here.
My speculation is that X1 instances is where Amazon QuickSight in-memory BI service is running.
The price/performance ratio wasn't good enough. I went with an ASUS laptop instead. Same price, but instead of 8GB of ram, I get 16 GB. Instead of 256 I get 512. Instead of i5, I get i7.

The monitor is much bigger as well. Sure, form factor is not as compact, but geez.
Perforce is terrible. It's a slow, cryptic, and expensive
dinosaur. Time to leave the mid 90s and hop on the git train.
Some pro trips: by default it searches YouTube for the argument you give it, but if given a URL, youtube-dl will always use that instead. So `play <bandcamp URL>`, `mp3 <SoundCloud URL>` will work.

If the first result for your search isn't the song you want, I usually append "hq", "hd", or "album version".
Stackify works with a single API key for all apps and I think we do a good job with notification settings. Love to see what you think. Thanks Matt with Stackify.
That's a lack of higher education... or of Google-fu: https://www.google.com/search?q=algorithm+find+points+inside...
A material that shrinks when warm
There's not. The primary reason is that Sentry doesnt really match up well to traditional logging. A lot of we do involves highly structured data, and simply wouldn't be usable without that.

It helps to think of Sentry more like classic crash reporting more so than modern logging. We want (and need) to know precisely what a stacktrace is, which piece is the function name, the line number, etc.
Globalisation is absolutely vital in reducing poverty -- particularly in countries that used to be very poor because they were excluded from the world market, e.g. China and India, where a very large proportion of the world's poor used to live. Not any more.
Emoticons are different than "engagement" buttons, unless you are talking about a feature I don't know about.
The fact there are height limits in the first place are part of the problem. Height limits should be removed, and height minimums should be put in place.

SF is giving pathetic 2 floor height limit increases in exchange for a larger amount of BMR units when new development should be multifamily only development with a minimum of 10 floors.
Further still, jkh's primary dominion is over iXsystems products, not upstream FreeBSD itself. For instance, he's not on the FreeBSD Foundation's Board of Directors despite being a high-profile figure.

On the other hand, though desiring launchd is not insanity, I do consider it hasty and not well thought out, as you might know.
You don't notice the drug users who are well functioning. There are a lot of factors that feed into addiction and even more into how it affects your life.

Drugs definitely have their role in the world. People are prescribed amphetamines daily to function better. However, as with anything that changes how you perceive the world, there are always new chances to hurt yourself. My best advice is not to view drugs as an end themselves, but a means to reach a mental state.

The "safe performance pill" is called adderall. I would not call it very relaxing, though, or calming; it merely makes reward feedback much, much stronger.

Alternatively, there is acid, which is its own thing. Do your research heavily with that, but I experience it as very relaxing and clarifying. It is also extremely hard to abuse in a way that would cause "wreckage and death".
Not everyone lacks downvote buttons. I have them. I don't know how you get them, but I assume it's related to account age and/or karma.
Great to see what you were able to accomplish with the SigOpt / Rescale integration - excited to see how commercial customers will be able to leverage your algorithm tech.
It’s Apple’s World, So Why Do Other Smartphone Makers Even Bother?
Us too. We also reject the wealth-forward culture helping itself to the neighborhood, not necessarily the people who take part in it. But very often we find the representatives of that culture to be intolerable as well. Ye shall know them by their fruits, and so forth.
I remember when this was posted on HN before, what I always wondered about is the discrepancy between the violations that NASA found and Barr.

NASA found 7000 and change Barr found over 81,000, I'm not sure whats the size of the code that was reviewed but that's allot, even if you count the fact that half of them might be silly like naming convention violations that still leaves quite an odd number for actual violations especially when considering that the code for an embedded system can't be that huge.

And the 10,000 global variables thing, well 10,000 sounds like a huge number but there wasn't any mention if they were a) necessary, b) implemented correctly, and c) out of how many variables in total? if the code they've tested has say 1 million variables then well....
And how they described global variables is also weird, they claimed that every software within the system can access them to me this sounds that your stereo or the rain sensor for the wipers can override data for the breaks, but that might be true only if everything is running within a single application.

If the breaks run as an independent application well then only every function within the break software (depending on the language and how global variables are implemented) could potentially access those variables.

To me pretty much that entire explanation seem to be constructed to sound worse than what it is, which is why I think that expert witnesses should only be allowed to be appointed and called by the court it self (as in by the judge so they and the jury could understand the technical details better) and not by either the defense or the prosecution.
Because everyone has a facebook and so everyone can be part of the conversation. Everyone feels involved in this. People want to be distracted. I'm not necessarily saying it's a good thing, only why dumb news is always more popular than "actual" news.
haha I actually use flux on my desktop! didn't know they had it for mobile. Very cool. Thanks!
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Saving $1000 a month towards retirement and an additional $500 for anything else is actually doing very well by American standards. Saving $1,500 is no small feat for most families, that's more than half of the take-home pay for the median family in America. Plus, you have the copays+transit+random crap = $1000/mo bucket that has a lot of obvious savings.

Your post solidifies my point. Saving that much money in the midwest would be difficult on $50k/yr, but doing so on $100k in SF requires a little self-control.
If you want to read about the Afghan war and things like that, tech news sites aren't the place. Of course tech news sites are full of Facebook news.
I am making no claim about the benefits, only the claimed negative consequences.

merpnderp made the claim that making guns illegal would end up with a "massive number of people going to jail for not obeying, country wide stop and frisk, and New Orleans style door to door SWAT raids to confiscate."

Guns are illegal in Australia, though certainly many guns remain. (Hunting and other guns remain.)

Australia did not end up with a "massive number of people going to jail for not obeying", etc.

Therefore, it's possible to make guns be illegal, in the way Australia has, and not end up with the consequences that merpnderp predicts must necessarily be the case.

Therefore merpnderp's claims are not believable.
A Sneak Peek at Qualcomm's Prototype ARM Server Chips
Show HN: MMO Pixelart with  and Websockets
The producers likely have distribution agreements on a by-country basis. So, for example WB cannot distribute <movie> in Germany because GEMA has the rights. But GEMA didn't buy the rights for the English subtitles. I imagine technically WB could then sell subtitles rights for <movie> in Germany but it would be a pain because maybe those subtitles were done by <subcompany> for licence in America and Oceania... etc.
Would the incentives of people working in well-respected development organisations be equally twisted to those of S&P etc before 2007? I don't think so.
I realize that it can be interpreted as rude, I just don't understand why. It's not a question about socioeconomic status, it's a question about "what [you] like to do, what interests [you] have, etc.," as those characteristics are expressed in the activity you've chosen to spend at least half your waking hours on.
I'm interested to hear more about his claims that bitcoin uses more energy than other forms of currency. Can anyone speak to that?
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I favor Python as well, but from what I see in industry, Python is best for exploration/initial experiments and Java (and recently, Scala) is for production.
Brian from Rollbar here. You actually can do what you describe in Rollbar: set the name of the app as the 'environment' (configured via application code), and then you can just use a single API key. That's not really what it's designed for, but I think it would work rather well.

I'm not sure when you last looked at our APIs, but we do now have methods for creating and managing projects (though not yet notification settings): https://rollbar.com/docs/api/provisioning/
Like Super Mario 64? https://youtu.be/Nn-Rz6lBGW0
Yikes. That's bad news for sure.
That's not the right use of literally, and at best, is a good use of hyperbole. 20 years is a long time. 20 years ago, SMS wasn't a thing, and IRC and internet chatrooms were more popular. As time goes on, you have things like MSN, Yahoo! Messenger, etc. Emoji were invented after 20 years ago.
Ubuntu with IBM Power Systems LC Models for Big Data
Wow, I wasn't aware of that. Do you have a reference?
You can build on hills. I've lived on a hill.
Haha. The doors would be cleaning doors! ...stupid joke.
The problem is that an attacker who compromises a machine that has access to the HSM will have the privilege to drain the wallet. Unless there is some rate limit or some higher access control the attacker will be able to initiate a bunch of BTC transactions that will dump the wallet. Also if they are intelligent about it they will batch the signatures and release them to the network in one hit.

If Amazon is a bad actor they trivially have access to the HSM because they could just write some software that pretends to be the HSM. However, this is probably not in the threat model because the amount Amazon loses by fucking a client like this is much more than the amount they would gain by fucking a client. The real thread is rogue Amazon employees and I guess it would be be hard for them to MITM the HSM from the start.

Your only protection for the hot wallet is to obscure the credentials you use to connect to HSM. Good luck with that against and a determined adversary that has a lot to gain from dumping the HSM key. (if it is not clear this 'only protection' thing is when the adversary has root access to your machine)

Oh.. and if you are a gemini dev. Obscure your code encrypt your HSM credentials in memory. :) Security through obscurity is actually a useful thing against attackers.
Like send a message containing actual text and an emoticon?
Does having only positive emotions to virtually express causes a global mood raising or quite the opposite ? with HN local samples it seems neither, only sarcasm.
Yes.

getcloak.com is a combination app and subscription VPN service that makes it easy. You can either switch it on, or set it to always on. You can decide which wi-fi networks (or cellular) to "trust" (exception to always-on).

The VPN, including always-on functionality, is implemented by iOS. The Cloak app merely configures it via API (or via configuration profiles prior to iOS 9).
This. They should have worked harder to get useful customer information, that would also benefit the reader. Easily done using multiple scales: Like <-->Dislike Spam <--> More of this, and so on.
If you want to learn more about how space may have a fractal structure Laurent Nottale [0] developed a rigorous theory around it. It's definitely not considered mainstream, but him and his team are respected physicists. A more technical intro can be found here: http://elbereth2009.obspm.fr/~luthier/nottale/arIJMP2.pdf

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurent_Nottale
The Euro model win only demonstrates the effects of budget cutting on results. Meteorology computer modeling is nearly entirely dependent on supercomputer time, and the time and quality of supercomputing resources is a direct function of money available. Meteorologists can discover better equations for modeling the atmosphere, but without the computer resources to implement these models, they are useless.

Weather models are an O(n^4) problem (you solve in x, y, z, and time), so the computing resources needed to model the globe are vast. Right now, the GFS (Global Forecast System) resolution is 18 miles. That means it has to treat the globe as a grid of 18 mile cubes. 18 miles is big; it allows for a lot of smaller-scale weather features to slip through the cracks.

Ultimately, Less money -> Less computer time -> Worse model resolution -> Worse model output -> Worse forecast. Meteorology is one of those rare places where throwing money at the problem does fix the issue.

https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/data-access/model-data/model-datas...
No, I read it says that welfare systems successfully alleviate poverty, which is why quoting numbers prior to the application of those welfare systems is not giving a realistic assessment of poverty.

I.e. if a worker gets $5 in salary and $5 in welfare subsidies, it is somewhat dishonest to argue that because his income is only $5, the welfare subsidies are insufficient.

It's the net income after taxes and transfers that should be looked at when considering poverty, not pre-tax pre-transfer income (which quite astonishingly seems to be used fairly often).
They won, but in the final section the judge had this to say:

“This decision grants summary judgment in favor of the Mother Jones Defendants. Even so, the Court finds Mother Jones’ reporting styles, and indeed the general trend in political journalism, troubling. The Court record and, in particular, [an email from Mother Jones reporter Stephanie Mencimer], illustrates Mother Jones’ determination to present a biased article by offering a skewed view of the Plaintiffs.…”

“Mother Jones describes its articles as ‘smart, fearless journalism,’ ‘ahead of the curve’ and ‘about reporting.’ Contrary to its perception of itself, this case illustrates the non-objective bias of Mother Jones and its approach in seeking out only the negative to support its position; resorting to sophomoric bullying and name-calling to lead the reader to adopt its particular agenda.”

“The Founders of this country expected that democracy would thrive only if the press was not hindered in its reporting upon the actions of government and the governors, James Madison, in 1825, wrote: ‘The diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.’”

“But the journalistic model revealed to the Court in the record of this lawsuit is anything but a ‘guardian of true liberty.’ Instead, it is little more than mud-slinging, advertised as journalistic fearlessness, which offers very little in the way of a complete or balanced picture for its readers. Instead of being a leader in educating the people about civil discourse in an era of increased political polarization, the press in general, and Mother Jones in particular, leads the way in demonizing, rather than fairly discussing, those whose points of view differ from its own.”
Debian Dropping the Linux Standard Base
So, given that Tim Cook has welcomed Microsoft onto the stage at the last keynote, and Satya Nadella has been fairly aggressive pushing Microsoft software products onto Apple gear, when will the Surface Book, OS X edition, appear? Or will we have to wait for bastardized hackintosh versions?
From Wikipedia's page on Compact Disc Digital Audio:

Each audio sample is a signed 16-bit two's complement integer, with sample values ranging from −32768 to +32767. The source audio data is divided into frames, containing twelve samples each (six left and right samples, alternating), for a total of 192 bits (24 bytes) of audio data per frame.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compact_Disc_Digital_Audio#Dat...
From earlier this year:

> A more fundamental worry is that digital-currency mining, like other sorts of mining, has environmental costs: all that number-crunching uses a lot of electricity, and not all of it comes from renewable sources, as it does in Boden. The rapid development of the ASICs chips has made the machines more efficient, but even if all mining worldwide were carried out in modern facilities like Boden’s, the combined electricity consumption would be 1.46 terawatt-hours per year—the consumption of about 135,000 average American homes.

http://www.economist.com/news/business/21638124-minting-digi...

The whole consensus network of Bitcoin is based around burning so much energy/space/infrastructure on hashing that a single actor wouldn't be able to invest a bunch of money and take a controlling majority.

I can't speak to how much energy we burn with ACH systems, paper money, etc., but those are much bigger than Bitcoin in terms of usage. If you add up the total energy consumed by every bank and mint in the world, you might get a higher absolute number. In terms of energy used per amount of value transferred, the traditional currencies almost certainly win.
MP3 bitrates are conventionally given in kilobits per second, not bytes.
Each of these markets is at the intersection of two or more inflationary forces.

Real estate and colleges are often positional goods - you can spend as much money as you can afford to live in a nicer house than your neighbor, or go to a better school than other job applicants.

Health care and college tuition are victim to increasing efficiency in making things like manufactured goods. If you're ambivalent between apple farming and practicing medicine, then the price of 2 hour doctor's visit is going to be approximately buyable with two hours of apple farming. And since apples per farmer is going up faster than apples per dollar, the cost of health care is going to increase over time relative to other goods.

College loans and mortgages are the debt society has decided it has to pay in order to fund retirement. There really isn't another way to save on a long enough timeframe for enough people (unless you're Norway, and you can just decide to sit on oil reserves). If you make things, they fall apart, become outdated, or require ongoing maintenance - either way, when society stops making them, they stop having them. They can trade these things for promises to make them later, which basically works.
surely if you have a large short position on bitcoin, you may profit as people lose confidence?
> E. The only masters Americans show interest in are: JD, MBA, MD.

JD (Juris Doctor) and MD (Medicinae Doctor) are actually doctoral degrees.
This paper appears to use the term conservative to mean right wing. That's incorrect. You can be left wing and be a conservative; in fact, it's rather common in American today.

Looking the three perception statements on page 11, agreement means you agree to some rather radical change. A true conservative would disagree with all three questions due to that. Compared to the true conservative, a conservative right winger would be more likely to agree with the last, and a conservative left winger would be more likely to agree with the first two; however, they might not support any of them because they might be too radical. For example, I know many left wingers that support health care reform but don't support socialized medicine, so they'd likely disagree with "Implement a universal healthcare program to guarantee coverage to all Americans, regardless of income".

That leads to issues with the results. If a conservative left winger says no to the first two, s/he appears more right wing than s/he is.

On the other hand, if they are using conservative correctly, then it appears they are using liberal incorrectly. Liberal isn't the opposite of conservative. Radical is the opposite of conservative. There are radical right wingers that support same sex marriage who come to that idea from libertarianism.

The charts on specific questions are great, because they remove the terminology issue I'm raising, but when they identify the politician as liberal or conservative, it comes right back.

I'm sure the authors know this stuff better than I do, so I suspect I'm misunderstanding their work.

I know one of the authors posted here; I'd appreciate if he'd or someone else could clarify what I've got wrong.
That doesn't change YouTube's ToS
We're working on (by which I mean I am working on) the invitation support for clients. The standard allows either, and we didn't turn it on because it was buggy, then months of other things dragged us away.

It's really looking pretty nice now - the tricky part is safely processing incoming invitations, which I'm trying out a couple of different architectures to see what is most robust.
Installing it (and utilising it) as a default, pro-user, privacy-preserving tool would do a lot to improve its public perception.
None of those are what I described, though.
F-Secure's FreedomeVPN is a great persistent VPN service that also runs anti-tracking and other security features. The iOS app runs great and always connects over VPN.
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I love Seattle, but the people spewing hate against techies gets me down, hard. I haven't really run into hostility outside of the anonymous ranting on reddit and the rude graffiti, etc.