skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
huge, black-boxes from scheming companies

My argument is that you (as a customer buying 1x device) can't do your own verification of the device that you buy. For example the Geisler processor ( http://www.gaisler.com/index.php/products/processors/leon3 ) looks genuinely interesting - but it doesn't seem to be a commodity part that you can actually buy off, say, Digikey. If I wanted to sow doubt on the origins of it I'd point out that the parent company Cobham PLC is a defence contractor. We're back to "scheming companies".

At some point you, the end user, are going to get a small black epoxy chip package which you have been told contains a particular chip design. You can't modify or realistically inspect that object. While for software you can at least attempt your own build, Ken Thompson attacks notwithstanding.
Just because 'that is the way things are done' doesn't make it right.

You (the hypothetical you, not the real you) are responsible for your own actions. The company doesn't control how you act, you do. It's fair enough that the company is held accountable, but you should be equally held accountable for willful negligence, gross misconduct, unprofessional conduct etc. etc. That's on you.

Just because this prosecutor is a Government official, doesn't immediately remove his culpability, nor his accountability. He was wilfully negligent and ruined an innocent man's life. The Government didn't do that, he did that. It should be on him to fix it. He should be held accountable to the extent of his means to make it right. If it is beyond his means to make it right, it should then fall to the Government to provide the shortfall.
Ok.

> grab complete control over their emotions and keep them in check

This is what is wrong with the concept of Vulcans (when applied to human goals). Controlling emotions and keeping them in check (which is what most healthy normal humans already do to various extent anyway) is not the same as having them not arise in the first place.
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I am also horrified.
That particular image is a GIF with a reduced palette of 8 bits per pixel, whereas the rest seem to be full-colour PNGs.

http://regex.info/exif.cgi?imgurl=https%3A%2F%2Fanders.unix....
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Hi I'm one of Starling's creators. We decided to err on the side of privacy. The good news is that research has shown that quality and quantity are really highly correlated - if you choose to talk more to your child's you're highly likely to say positive things.
Historically, all such "carrying capacity" estimates have been shown wrong. What makes you believe the 7.7 one is any better?
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10468840
Agreed. It's definitely better than just commenting out code and leaving it there, but it could get super messy.
>They probably taste really good.

Could be- Or they could have been a good investment for the ratio of effort to food gained. In the case of the cave bear it may have been a case of killing of creatures that could be predators when humans were not in a pack and competed for the same shelter sources.
Even though I have an account for years now, I just recently got hooked on HN. I still don't have an estimate on how much time I spend on it, but I don't even care. Ok, I use it as a news aggregator and I'll probably forget about most of it in a few days, weeks or whatever, but more importantly, I use it to find out about resources too.

Resources for learning and for my job in general, for my own products or for my day job. I think it currently might be one of best places to stay informed and on top of latest technologies.

I don't think HN and Facebook belong in the same category here, at least not for most of people. Somebody can still use Facebook to get informed about the technology, but most people don't.
An alternative explanation is that some board members were concerned about personal liability and decided they would rather not serve any longer.
Thanks! We actually started with NLP libraries, but fell back on plain old regex, which in the end was the right tool for the job, though it got a bit hairy. (Nice to hear from someone who can appreciate it.) As for daylight savings, we use the browser to get a current GMT offset on your first request and determine an Olson TZ, which we cookie. Subsequent requests are passed off to a Node instance for processing along with the time zone, which also processes posts from Slack and HipChat. And yes, MomentJS and Moment Timezone are the workhorses here.
For a small village with excess solar capacity, absolutely, a university in a nearby city could choose to negotiate a PPA with the village's solar entrepreneurs and build a datacentre there using the electricity. But if you want renewables to make a difference worldwide and go from 1% of electricity generation to say 30%, then you're going to need such applications on a global scale. Right now there simply aren't such applications, evidenced by the large differences in the price of electricity throughout the day which means there's no arbitrage opportunities available to smooth that out.

The most likely arbitrage factor will probably be the rise of electric cars which will provide a natural, decentralised, consumer-driven battery storage on a large scale. Cars are idle most of the day, e.g. when you're at work at noon and solar generates peak power, they can be programmed to charge when prices are low, and at peak times prices would be pushed down due to extra supply.
> It sounds like an auction. It's a clever system, but I don't think it represents a more fundamental understanding of economics than Uber's system, which is to raise prices to induce supply to match demand.

Uber's system is a central planner trying to simulate the results of a two-sided auction by centrally setting prices to try to achieve a desired result given supply and demand signals.

Fasten's system strips out the simulation and just is an auction, which allows supply and demand to align without requiring central planning.

I think its pretty fair to describe the latter as evidencing a better understanding of economics.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10455735
Do you just leave the code in the spot it was? Or do you move it up in the function comment? I've done that to also explain example use cases, and I've seen David do it in Rails core.
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10336675
> With a sharing-economy-restaurant, there's no way for me to assess how safe the food is to eat.

And a once-yearly inspection that is announced with plenty of notice to the restaurants to clean up their act makes you feel safer? I've been to restaurants with a 100% health score and yet there's rat feces on the floor and dirty silverware. I for one would feel much better about eating in someone's home, especially if the home is immaculate. Obviously if you walk into a home chef's house and it's filthy, you'd be stupid to eat there, and it's the same with a restaurant.

> Is this person's fridge at a safe temperature? Do they use a separate cutting board for raw meat or fish? Do they regularly wash their hands? Did they try making their own chilli oil and accidentally culture botulism? Did they use some mouldy peanuts full of aflatoxin?

Call me crazy, but I feel safer eating at a chef's house than out of a perfectly legal streetside food truck. I'm an amateur cook on the level of many contestants on the show "Master Chef", and I follow strict personal guidelines for clean and safe cooking even though it's just for me and my family. If anything, I am more strict on myself when cooking for strangers, not less. An actual chef (read: trained and licensed, unlike me) should have even higher standards, so I don't see the issue from a health and safety point of view.

No, just like the taxi lobbies and Lyft/Uber/Sidecar, this is a consumer-friendly disruption of the old guard, and they are choosing to litigate instead of competing on their merits.
Great idea. This is how I learnt to code when I was young. If I found a cool or interesting website that I liked, I'd have a go at cloning it by copying the frontend exactly and writing the code for the backend myself.

I eventually even started selling some of these websites as turnkey scripts for a little while, so others could buy them and setup their own version (often in their own language for their country). Supporting and updating/bugfixing these was eventually too much for 15 year old me so I stopped.
I can't thank you enough for this link. This is the exact nostalgia boost I needed. (Many nights while in college, computer parts all over my apartment floor, installing FreeBSD, NetBSD, Slackware, Debian on different boxes just because) I tried every possible WM/Desktop I could find.
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I'm actually not all that concerned. Telemarketing has been going on for a very long time. That's what drove the do-not-call registry and related laws in the first place. I'm not saying what still exists (whether because of deliberate loopholes in the laws or simply breaking them) isn't annoying but it doesn't really seem to be getting worse either from personal experience or from the experience of others I speak with.

I get very few junk calls on my cell--though why there isn't a "report junk call" button I don't know. Home gets a steady enough stream to be annoying (2 or 3 a day) but they're easy enough to ignore if I don't recognize the caller ID.
I probably didn't put enough entertaining spinning gifs ;)
very forward thinking to ask for those
A very simple example is that of Google which gives you a Wikipedia summary of a topic, but that's too simple.

In your case you are looking for some way to heatmap certain keywords, or even the tone of a piece of content. You could go further and see the context of the content (which is presumably some form of document which can be parsed).

There are innumerable things online to do this. My first port of call is to trawl Github and find a repo on there which does this.

Just be careful of online services which are hoovering up your query and making off with your data...
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Yes, I find actual (TV) news to be a waste of time. It wasn't always like this. I used to follow news related to politics etc daily, until I realised I was spending too much energy and time on it, and over a long period it wasn't helping me.
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Agreed, this documentation is exceptional - It makes something rather complicated look trivially easy to implement.

It would great to have a "Analysed with CausalImpact" page like a "built with AngularJs" where we can explore how this was used in the wild.

I'm tempted to start applying this immediately, but I look forward to reading http://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.co... before starting.
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AWS is part of the advanced notice group. Could it be that they've already been mitigating this behind the scenes before disclosure?
That's damn true! We felt the same way and that was why we came up with Code4Startup.

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I've always thought 1871 was way too expensive for what it offered, but I don't know what the pricing on nights/weekends is.

Just for the extremely great location, we're in Wework at Fulton Market; I would rent the coworking space there before I would pay for the coworking membership at 1871.

Both spaces are, in my opinion, pretty extremely douchey. Wework probably a little more so.
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Why the creator of PHP was mentioned in this post?
Interesting, but what am I looking at? Someone is willing to do a job for a dollar?
i agree. i just wanted to raise the imagery of being a prosecutor in jail. if they're hostile to child molesters, imagine what they do to prosecutors! yowza.
Next up: Anti Call Spam software for Mobile devices becoming a big thing. Built in by default in iOS12.

History repeating…
I think the colors would need to be posterized a bit more (which would be a nice addition - make the actual colors match all known official Lego brick colors). 32 shades of green looks nice in the demo image, but it's probably not buildable.
Wow. 10 days vs 25 years. This seems like real justice...
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I only have one number, so people from work call me from time to time. Though I largely agree - in that case I just have their numbers in my address book copied from the company register, even though they've never called me.
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wow, how many tasty information, thanks
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This seems much more likely to me as well. The likelihood of bad press and lawsuits suddenly outweighed the profit potential, and these board members probably wanted out. This is a "face saving" way of accomplishing that.
Isn't SR+QM "just" QFT? I thought it was GR+QM that was troublesome.
Oh yes. little bobby tables we call him. https://xkcd.com/327/
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'we can "inject" normal functions in to them'

As an aside, I think I wish Arrow did not have `arr` (particularly after watching Conal's "compiling Haskell to hardware" talk).
The intelligibility of the universe has been an important theme in the Western Christian intellectual tradition from the earliest centuries of Christianity. You'll find it in the writings of major figures, such as Aquinas and Augustine of Hippo, and many others besides. That being said, I certainly don't mean to downplay Kepler's achievements and contributions.
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In addition, even if they have no hope of liquidating their position, the VCs involved have every incentive to hide problems so as not to look bad in front of their LPs.
So instead of writing a program, you write a program that writes a program using a less precise natural language. Good luck with that.
A git binary is also included with source tree or maybe you could install a git binary via home-brew if that's a problem.
Cloud providers typically have early access to security fixes and would be patched by now. Amazon has the ability to hot-patch Xen, a feature which is now being developed for general use.

This guest escape vulnerability (http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-148.html) has been present since 2008 and was found by Alibaba, which recently joined the Xen advisory board, http://www.xenproject.org/about/in-the-news/192-xen-project-...
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Another data source: http://www.grandjuryfoundation.org/lgdaconvict.php

Table 1 gives the ten-year average 1996-2005 for California as 84% criminal conviction rate.
> Resources for learning and for my job in general, for my own products or for my day job.

I agree with you on this. However, when I need resources to learn about a topic, I have found it more effective to just go to the HN Algolia search [1], and look for the most voted links for that topic.

For example, if I want resources on React, I would search "react" filtered by "past year" on Algolia [2]

I find this approach more effective because I dont have to be constantly following all the stories on HN, and keep bookmarking the resources I find useful.

[1] https://hn.algolia.com/

[2] https://hn.algolia.com/?query=React&sort=byPopularity&prefix...
One solution, (not that it would ever happen) , is to anonymize the bills. In order to submit a bill, you have to be a house member, but once you submit it your name is stripped off. everyone reviews it and either adds it to a larger bill or discards it. larger bills eventually make it up to group vote.

another deterrent would be a rule that every meeting between congressmen and lobbyist has to be recorded. So CSPAN can air what actually goes in at the negotiating table between these "lobbyists".

finally, if there were some kind of "citizens' lobby" that could influence these assholes the same way corporations do (even though this is how it was supposed to work all along). But the "citizens" are so divided on partisan and emotional issues they'd never agree to form a coalition and lobby on par with industry.
For some types of credit, it could be. I had trouble getting a credit card with no credit history too. But potential employers aren't looking at it for that, they're just looking for specific negative things.
The premise of the court system is that we don't have some infallible technology to tell us whether someone is guilty so we go through this whole process to try to figure it out. If a prosecutor wrongly does something that can change the outcome of a case, the severity of the act is measured by the years taken from an innocent man.

You can reasonably argue that there is a difference in severity between e.g. withholding evidence and manufacturing evidence, but that difference is only worth so much when they both predictably cause the same outcome. And a term of incarceration of five days... it could be twenty times that long and still be overly lenient.
"what am I looking at?"

An utterly terrible auction system.
I don't have a source ...busted. ;)

In any case, the relevant ration should be confessions/convictions, not convictions/accusations.
A job for the government, specifically. 18F is the (outgrowth of the) team that overhauled healthcare.gov. Presumably it's an altruistic open source programmer willing the help out the government without pay.

https://18f.gsa.gov/
There has to be research (anthropology? business theory?) on this topic. Everything seems to go through these cycles.

Just to pick an example:

- Single developer is smart, hard working, and produces an excellent concept (minecraft alpha)
- Interest grows, sales increase and a team is formed (minecraft beta). Things improve even more.
- Product grows too big and sales start following the right hand side of the bell curve (microsoft involvement, minecraft story holo lense...). Seriously I think we are past peak minecraft.

In fashion and culture, we call it a fad. In investing, we call it a bubble. In business people make comments about corportism and monopolies. However, time and time again, we see this cycle.
The problem with this line of thinking is that "someone in the future will fix our problems" doesn't inspire much assurance.

Some believe we should limit growth now, thus potentially preventing the problem before it becomes, well, a problem.

Nobody is suggesting nobody has children. People will still be born, discoveries made etc.
Remember when we were speculating that theranos and its wacky cast of characters heralded the zombie apocalypse?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7951019

I guess we can breathe easy now.
It was also apolitical. That's one way to not have to deal with any new Diego Riveras popping up.
Pretty cool stuff. Good luck with this venture!
I find it so hard to believe that anyone could possibly think going live with a total clone of a competitor's website for "testing" is a good idea.

Maybe, _maybe_, for offline testing with small focus groups. But even then, what's the point? You could just show them the competitor site and ask what the dis/like..
I once found a dentist chair at a thrift store near work. The colors matched exactly our company logo. I thought it would be an awesome workstation so I brought it into the office. Everybody loved it, took pictures of me working in it, and it was the conversation piece of the office for a couple weeks until facilities made me get rid of it.

It actually was the most comfortable workstation I've ever used, so I was excited to see this chair. I hope someday I can both afford it ($3,900) and be allowed to have it in the office.

Here's the actual site for the guys building it: http://www.altwork.com/
Ah. "Cold call" as in "not in your contacts list." Cold call usually refers to a sales call to someone who you don't have a prior relationship with (i.e. isn't current customer or hasn't requested information).
You're referring to this? Definitely a bit of an eyebrow-raising moment.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48119-2005Mar...
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Yes, you can do that. One of the more interesting strategies if you have the space for it is to pump water with excess energy. Pump water from a lower reservoir to a higher reservoir, you can later recover that energy by draining the water through a micro-hydro system. One challenge though is capacity, you would probably want essentially two olympic sized pools, one above the other as your storage unit.

PG&E in California does this one a fairly large scale in the Bay Area. Pumping water into the Helms Creek reservoir (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helms_Pumped_Storage_Plant)
Richard Stallman is a legend. While most of us blindly agree to terms and conditions for crap proprietary software, he doesn't even need a GUI. He's one of my top inspirations.

Edit: grammar
Downside to whom?
so the next version of pypy3 should be 5.0.x, lol
I don't have direct knowledges of practices of companies who refuse to disclose who they are. What I'm saying comes from the fact that it just hasn't worked for the calls to my line. I switched numbers to make them stop. There's an Internet full of reports of other people saying the strategy you advocate doesn't work for them either, and the government agency that regulates the phone lines explicitly recommends against it.

But we could call that dueling supicions if you'd like.

And just to clarify, you're talking about a US number that's been listed on the national Do Not Call list, right?

And not just regular scam calls, but calls placed by an automatic dialer and answered by an automated system that falls to a human caller only after being answered, right?
Destiny does PC building and musical composition (when he streams), but I didn't know it was against the Twitch TOS.
Interesting article that made me incredibly hungry for my grandmother's bread.
I know. I was trying to be subtly sarcastic (and obviously failed).
I asked farmers about this. They said it was stupid now that we have electricity. And even then, with the shorter days.. it was still stupid. (I'm quoting them)
There's also non-relativistic QFT, ie SR+QM != QFT in general. You're right that special relativity has been incorporated into QFT.
I just saw a bunch of our SoftLayer VMs get rebooted (with ahead notification) and they seem to use Xen. They probably got notification too.

Looks like my others (Digital Ocean, Vultr) use KVM (according to virt-what).

Did anyone see Amazon do reboots? I wonder if Amazon has some method of hot-patching kernel and Xen code under the hood? There are such things, and that would be some interesting secret sauce.
I think it might be a programmer trying to troll the bid system, and willing to code (or "lose their bid on acceptance criteria").
I suppose it could be someone who wants to work on the project for kudos...

Or, more likely, there is someone trying to game the system as one of the comments suggests.
What's terrible about it?
An app would be a further distraction and would perhaps be detriment to what you want to achieve.
Deadmau5 just forged a pretty extensive partnership with Twitch. http://www.engadget.com/2015/09/30/deadmau5-is-on-twitch/
Linode apparently was affected but got advance notice and patched all servers over the past week.
Depends on your point of view: Arguably, the 'stringy' view of space-time is more in line with the bimetric theories of days gone by, with the metric being a field on top of a fixed background.
It's a bit cumbersome to have the calender date changing during our work period. Just consider all the contracts that end on a given date.