skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
re edit: TL;DR: Unable. This is the usual pitfall when troubleshooting a highly reliable system: any uncaught exception is going to be an outlier, almost by definition.

Given the millions of km travelled, one collision in 2 years on the whole continent means "insufficient data to draw conclusions." The only thing that follows is "can't generalize from that." Whether it's a lot or not is completely essential to drawing generalizations: with 5 data points (which I have honestly picked out of Wikipedia under the assumption that such an event is unlikely not to be mentioned - that's a lot of filters right there), what you're saying is equivalent to "there has now been a single confirmed death by meteorite; let's generalize!"

(Tangent follows:
Europe (or even the EU) does not have a homogeneous rail network, with the same standards kept everywhere: each country keeps its own set (albeit loosely compatible) of standards and its own overseeing agency; that translates to very different quality of track, service, security etc. The only thing that's common is "the overwhelming majority of track is of the 1435 mm gauge" - there are even countries with four(!) different electric power systems on the same network. (Also translates to a certification nightmare for cross-border trains.)

Moreover, there are various levels of rail: there's the (sparse) TEN-T backbone, national major routes, regional networks, and local lines; although those are interconnected, there are varying levels of safeties, from the (interoperable) ETCS, through various local (automated and semi-automated) block signalling, PTT radio dispatching and manual signal operation, all the way down to 1890s-style train handover by telephone signalling. (No idea which of these is used on this specific line.)
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I would be interested in that, I'm sure many others would too.
But it's still micropayments. They've done a good job of aggregating some quality content, but it's still pay per click to the consumer.
These are all links to Youtube videos, nothing more. If you want to actually download music files, you must sign up first.
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> Someone come up with a service where you push money to (so any security breach is limited to the $20 or whatever you keep there)

That's how I use my Paypal account. I top it up occasionally by transferring money from my real bank. Paypal has usually the equivalent of about USD100 and it does NOT have my credit card number.

I would be quite happy to use Paypal for micropayments but I haven't seen anything yet that works and asks for a small enough amount to qualify as micropayment.
except they are by offering a subscription model with no ads
Google is giving away 2GB of free Drive storage today
If I google for "omxs30" then I see real-time value "OMX Stockholm 30 INDEXNASDAQ: OMXS30 - 9 Feb 08:11 GMT-5"...
Makes you wonder, if these secret services can't keep their own data safe, what's gonna happen with the data they capture from us?
>Another thing I do which may shock many JS people is to actually check in the build directory of my setup into version control, because this makes deployment much easier and ensures that I will always have a working version of the code in the repository, even if some external dependencies should change in the future. This also eliminates installing extensive tooling on my production servers, which itself is a large burden and creates many security issues (for a simple setup consisting of rabel, react, require.js and a few support libraries, node.js downloads about 350 MB of source files onto the machine).

Kudos. I can't remember how many 'open/source/Free' git repo that I cloned can't compile or have problems compiling. Personally I think it is NOT open source unless the user can compile and get an exact copy of the software that is in the app store.
FYI Microsoft.
Thanks for calling out my inaccurate comment. What i really wanted to say: don't eat a big pile of meat with a big pile of simple carbohydrates all the time. And eat the dessert/sweet stuff separately, presumably in the afternoon, but not too close to dinner. This will work wonders.

And again, never view fats as something to avoid completely. If the fat is of good quality, it is a nutrient and an essential part of the diet.

sorry for not providing any links, i can not find any good english source materials at the moment. PM me if you want to get some more info.
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So great, they re-introduced the features they took out 20 years ago. Wake me up when they properly support UTF-8.

Too little, too late.
You can get around constant buffering with about 1Mbps and VP9 codec. You can't ever get HD streams with no buffering at 512. If you wait at start for it to move ahead, that is a different story. The reason why you still see the spinner even on 2-3 Megs connection is that although you ISP is saying that you will get 2-3 Mbps, the connection to YouTube streaming server you are fetching content from is notat that rate. You can use the "stats for nerds" option in the yt player to get aprox speed you are getting
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I combined seconds into 3M, which is roughly 8640 (number of calls a month to keep it in cache) * 300s (timeout set so it stays in memory). My understanding of AWS lambda is that if you keep it up for 300 seconds, you get charged for that much. Because it's #reqs * #secs. Here's the example from the pricing page (with my comment at the end of the Total compute line):

The monthly compute price is $0.00001667 per GB-s and the free tier provides 400,000 GB-s.

Total compute (seconds) = 3M (1s) = 3,000,000 seconds # ( roughly equals to 8640 * 300 ~ 2.6M seconds in the case of this app)

Total compute (GB-s) = 3,000,000 * 512MB/1024 = 1,500,000 GB-s

Total compute – Free tier compute = Monthly billable compute GB- s

1,500,000 GB-s – 400,000 free tier GB-s = 1,100,000 GB-s

Monthly compute charges = 1,100,000 * $0.00001667 = $18.34
Staying productive – Quicksort for the brain
Negative 1.5 Mandelbox
I think this concept of the "sharing elite" is overstated. You're not that influential.
Exactly. I for one will be one of the people who will stop visiting the page altogether since it doesn't provide that much of a content for me personally.
I get sub-100ms times quite often for light calls. The 'boot-up' call will always be longer, but that's because the service had gone idle. If you are getting heavy usage that is not an issue.
Dear Publishers, i do not have a solution for the general problem.

But, the one thing i can tell you: there is no way i will manage premium subscriptions/accounts for 20 different sites. Not only does this get costly very fast... but even if it was only $1/month each (it's not!) - handling 20 incompatible logins on 5 different devices, most likely payed via different payment methods... that is just absurd.

This is not the way to go.
It usually fine on hardware that has been available for more than a few months. Brand new stuff can be hit and miss.
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IDEO, Silicon Valley's Most Influential Design Firm, Sells a Minority Stake
From my understanding of the pricing (I could be wrong), even if the call is 100ms, because the timeout is set to 300s so the app stays in cache, you'll be charged for 300s (app is "running" for that long).
This is just a dump of their "phonebook". Not even close to OPM hack... Sensationalist article.
Worst advice I have ever been given as an entrepreneur
One where idiots hand off responsibility to other idiots and only cover their asses legally.
I don't think a basic social network starts out creepy, and quite a lot of effort goes in to implementing the features that enable it to become creepy. Non-creepiness is not a requirement, it is a constraint, such as 'no retroactive default boundary-weakening' and 'do not send email that dishonestly misrepresents the intentions and views of your members, and particularly not of specific members by name.' It is not that hard.
Thank you! This rather blew my mind and I hope others take time to try it out.
I don't. My MacBookPro is late 2011 and my iPad2 was inherited from wife.

Both work fine although iPad is indeed more slugish than it was.

But I also use an old iPod which is still on IOS4 and that isn't great either (skips certain songs/podcasts...).

I could complain about all of them, but my point is that the same was true in any previous year.
Or, you know, their employees.
> ..they don't want to be fed things / advertisments somebody else wants them to see.

Good that they use AdBlock then, cause Twitter puts ads in your feed.
The probability calculus has nothing to do with correctness of probabilities supplied the very same way the propositional calculus had nothing to do with validity of given propositions. Or any calculus in that matter.

Inference is application of valid heuristics. Mere statistics is not sufficient.
> Why does everything for girls have to be pink?

That's fairly recent. It wasn't until the early 20th century that blue and pink started being promoted as gender identifiers--and it was pink for boys, blue for girls. It stayed pink for boys, blue for girls until the 1940s, and then the pink for girls, blue for boys convention took hold.

From the '60s through the mid-80's the trend was toward gender-neutral clothing for kids, due to the rise of feminism. The style of feminism at this time had a strong anti-femminine bent.

The next generation of feminists took a more accepting approach to femininity, accepting that a woman could be the equal of a man and still also want to be feminine. Marketers picked up on this, and started pushing the blue means boy/masculine and pink means girl/feminine because having different categories leads to more sales (if a family has children of both sexes, they need to buy two sets of baby things instead of just passing the first baby's hand-me-downs on to the second baby). Hence, the spread of blue for boys, pink for girls beyond clothing to things like cribs, strollers, room paint, and so on.

Here is a nice article on this history of this: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/when-did-girls-st...

> I feel like, if we got rid of all these false associations, the difference between genders would be minimal, and that would make the sorts of problems discussed in the article a lot more manageable

There would probably still be some significant differences. Nearly every other mammal has significant sex-based [1] behavior differences, including primates. It would be astounding if humans did not. There is research that indicates that very young children do have built-in preferences for certain kinds of toys and that these preferences are different for boys and girls, and there is research that finds these same preferences in some non-human primates.

For instance, studies in two different monkey species found that girl baby monkeys preferred to play with dolls more than with trucks, and boy baby monkeys preferred the trucks over the dolls. See http://www.livescience.com/22677-girls-dolls-boys-toy-trucks...

Researchers looking into these preferences in human babies have found that they correlate with sex hormone levels. Boys with higher testosterone levels tend to have stronger preferences for "boy" toys. Girls with congenital adrenal hyperplasia (a condition that causes them to experience high levels of androgen in the womb) preferred "boy" toys, lending more credence to the theory that hormones are involved. (See previous link for more on this).

[1] I'm saying "sex-based" here rather than "gender-based" because when talking about more than just humans we need to stick to things we can externally observe. Since sex correlates very highly with gender in humans, this substitution works for most humans.
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And lovingly mocked in a CAD drawing at Microsoft's Devices event last October: http://www.winbeta.org/news/microsoft-toaster-fridge-makes-a...
5 Myths of Cloud Computing That Are Holding You Back
If he were indeed following the "move fast and break things" mantra, then i guess someone should have warned him that doesn't include things like.. the law.
I had heard this story on a podcast history of Rome but the original is great to see (I knew it as Nero sought to blame Christians and even went as far as to light his parties by burning Christians on crosses. The Roman public, instead of blaming the Christians essentially said that guys gotta go)
Especially when dealing with large files, atom just breaks. In ST3 it shows loading the file, but never becomes unresponsive
Most of the content I read comes through places like HN. If Wired loses many of the more active participants on HN (who are probably more likely to run adblockers), their articles will get posted less and upvoted less, so they'll lose many of the people who aren't running adblockers too. Would be very interesting to see how much impact those active participants have overall on their readership - my guess is it's a lot.
I am actually surprised Twitter never released a business version similar to Yammer/Facebook for Business.

There would be a lot of benefit in lightweight communication between teams and especially when integrated with internal services e.g. customer complaint received.
I'm excited for you.

And for me and other st3 users :)
Andy Rubin Former Android Head Continues His Work on AI
I've got much better opportunities through here and StackOverflow.
There is still an annoying bug that will create multiple BitBars in the menu bar.

https://github.com/matryer/bitbar/issues/21
IBM is not a technology company - it is a technology holding company.

Watson has been around for a fair number of years; almost five years since the Jeopardy stunt. Aside from the story about Watson turning into a foul-mouthed asshole after being exposed to Urban Dictionary, I've not seen much that is particularly impressive out of it.
You can still have sponsored posts strategy like on daringfireball.net
Impact of automation puts up to 85% of jobs in developing countries at risk
I only have a fuzzy idea of what they're talking about here, but Terence Tao had an interesting reply:

"This paradox is actually very similar to Banach-Tarski, but involves a violation of additivity of probability rather than additivity of volume.

Consider the case of a finite number N of prisoners, with each hat being assigned independently at random. Your intuition in this case is correct: each prisoner has only a 50% chance of going free. If we sum this probability over all the prisoners and use Fubini’s theorem, we conclude that the expected number of prisoners that go free is N/2. So we cannot pull off a trick of the sort described above.

If we have an infinite number of prisoners, with the hats assigned randomly (thus, we are working on the Bernoulli space {\Bbb Z}_2^{\Bbb N}), and one uses the strategy coming from the axiom of choice, then the event E_j that the j^th prisoner does not go free is not measurable, but formally has probability 1/2 in the sense that E_j and its translate E_j + e_j partition {\Bbb Z}_2^{\Bbb N} where e_j is the j^th basis element, or in more prosaic language, if the j^th prisoner’s hat gets switched, this flips whether the prisoner gets to go free or not. The “paradox” is the fact that while the E_j all seem to have probability 1/2, each element of the event space lies in only finitely many of the E_j. This can be seen to violate Fubini’s theorem – if the E_j are all measurable. Of course, the E_j are not measurable, and so one’s intuition on probability should not be trusted here.

There is a way to rephrase the paradox in which the axiom of choice is eliminated, and the difficulty is then shifted to the construction of product measure. Suppose the warden can only assign a finite number of black hats, but is otherwise unconstrained. The warden therefore picks a configuration “uniformly at random” among all the configurations with finitely many black hats (I’ll come back to this later). Then, one can again argue that each prisoner has only a 50% chance of guessing his or her own hat correctly, even if the prisoner gets to see all other hats, since both remaining configurations are possible and thus “equally likely”. But, of course, if everybody guesses white, then all but finitely many go free. Here, the difficulty is that the group \lim_{n \to \infty} {\Bbb Z}_2^n is not compact and so does not support a normalised Haar measure. (The problem here is similar to the two envelopes problem, which is again caused by a lack of a normalised Haar measure.)"

I found thinking about the two envelopes problem he mentions (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_envelopes_problem) a more accessible way to wrap one's head around the paradoxes that arise when you compare a (potential) infinite quantity to a (known) finite quantity.

(The crux of the envelope paradox is that each envelope has an infinite expected value, but in reality only contains a finite amount. I can sorta-kinda see how the infinite hats problem is another example of the same paradox).
Using Vim as a JavaScript IDE
Thanks! PhD in the PLT group; I still know virtually nothing about NLP. In fact, if this had been an NLP project from the get-go, I probably wouldn't have started it.

This project began with me creating wiki software for the campus history interest group I run, realizing that a wiki with no content was _very_ lonely, and importing Encyclopedia Brunoniana as a remedy. From there, it was hard to resist the temptation to try to structure the documents. I threw an hour at it or so every Friday night.
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Also note that you can not use other cloud platforms for your games backend. While I understand their position, I consider that a deal breaker.

Q. Can my game use an alternate web service instead of AWS?

No. If your game servers use a non-AWS alternate web service,
we obviously don’t make any money, and it’s more difficult for
us to support future development of Lumberyard. By “alternate
web service” we mean any non-AWS web service that is similar
to or can act as a replacement for Amazon EC2, Amazon Lambda,
Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon RDS, Amazon S3, Amazon EBS, Amazon EC2
Container Service, or Amazon GameLift. You can use hardware you
own and operate for your game servers.

Q. Is it okay for me to use my own servers?

Yes. You can use hardware you own and operate for your game.
> you might get stuck holding the bag for a bunch of medical bills

What part of that is not financial?

> Completely ignorant.

Is there a licensing requirement for bank CS representatives that I'm somehow not aware of?

Ad hominem attacks are not an acceptable form of argument on HN.
Hm, I wonder what will this do to their advertising revenue. People who are ready to shell out money for subscription are probably those who were most likely follow the ads as well (as in, they are ready to part with their dough)
There's a decent chunk of certain segments of the tech sector in the Bay area but saying they have a "de facto monopoly on the US tech sector" is overblown. There are plenty of tech jobs in many areas of the country (including but not limited to jobs with companies that are headquartered in Silicon Valley).

Much of the Bay area has had expensive housing for decades. Even if there's a downturn that disproportionately hits SV startups, the impact on Bay area housing prices is probably going to be pretty minor in the grand scheme of things.
Is the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention Decision on Assange
And dumb HN clowns fall right for it...
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Why don't they just have watson play a few more rounds of jeopardy and use the winnings to support the company.
Probably a stale cache somewhere...perhaps your browser or a CDN.
Why is this on HackerNews? I understand the policy for what's acceptable is pretty broad but what relevance does a list of Youtube videos of drum tracks have? I'm assuming I'm missing something as there are quite a few upvotes.
Why would you believe that? They have great revenue. They're just not adding enough new users.
I'd buy into your idea with one addition: A "Refund" button at the bottom of the article that I can click to get my money back if the content ended up being low quality. That's a "No questions asked, no arguments given" refund, and it is my sole judgement as to what constitutes crappy quality.

That might buy the publisher (a) some credibility, and (b) an incentive to publish decent quality articles and not clickbait headed by misleading summaries.

Might some people abuse it? Sure. Probably. But I think that a large majority would not. Most of us do get it that people need to get paid.
Bitvise has had a free ssh client that puts full terminal emulation into a cmd window for years. It's very well done.

But I don't like the cmd environment for ssh, unfortunately securecrt spoiled me but it is too expensive these days.
Five years ago using C# for a serious game would get you laughed at. But every day the balance shifts: computers get faster, but developers don't get smarter, so a language that sacrifices performance for ease of development becomes a better choice. If you're looking to the future I'd recommend sticking with C#.
Yep. Even the spooky Stratfor[1] would have more information than this. This is nothing like what Snowden or literally hundreds of thousands of people who hold TS/SCI have access to (identities of NCOs or other espionage operatives, access to recruiting databases for foreign nationals who went abroad to the US for graduate studies and are being assessed as potential intelligence assets by their professors, etc). A pissed off 4channer with good Google-fu could get more information than this.

[1] Which I'm sure intelligence agencies are thankful for, because all the tin-foil hatters are misplacing their resources in designing conspiracy theories about an incompetent "private intelligence organization" which amounts to a bunch of people who could easily be outsmarted by a 4chan-er with good Google-fu. You know all those stories you heard about the KGB being incompetent, or now hear about how the Party is in modern China w/r/t information control? Yeah.. the FIVEEYES are about on par when it comes to incompetence.
Pitch it as "Spotify for text". Amazon are inching towards it with the royalty-per-pages-viewed option for some Kindle titles.

Unfortunately the obstacle is that publishers would have to give up control, and share with other publishers; and I think many would rather go out of business. The music industry only cooperate due to the threat of piracy eating the entirety of their lunch.
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"Inspired by roaches’ ability to squeeze into tiny spaces, this new critter is part of a rising trend of building robots that are soft and malleable."

A couple of GIFs are at the bottom right of the article to give an idea of what they mean by it being able to "squeeze into tiny spaces".
The console manufacturers have typically provided a C/C++ compiler and nothing else, so it was very difficult in the past to use any other language for developing console games. Some studios did retarget existing compilers like gcc but it was pretty rare; you don't usually have the time for that! If you're doing cross-platform that then limits your code base, so you can't even use the latest features of a language on one platform but not another (e.g. some platforms don't support C++11 in their compiler).
Tangentially related, but have the people affected by the OPM hack last year been notified?
1. Move Thread 0 to end.

2. do a few iterations through thread 1 (e.g. n=5)

3. step darkness++ concurrently (via expand), so that darkness=1

4. step thread 0 to Monitor.Wait(sanctum)

5. the rest is straightforward.
You raise a good point, but like many of these things it's not totally broken, just temporarily. Just when you're about to try and look for a fix/alternative, it starts working again.

So you get that impression of everything being a bit creaky but never really getting motivated to spend some time fixing it.