skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I thought you were supposed to implement it in a basic way then have the investor money pay for other people to think through your project
While it is useful, I think that wasn't what the author meant. There is actually very tiny amounts of gold used in manufacturing etc. Compared to iron and other metals gold isn't used much is probably more what was meant.

Gold is actually mostly used for money, decoration, and collecting which is what drives the price to such high levels. I agree it isn't all that sensible when you try to make sense of it.
What's the issue with having plastic in dumps? IMO, they dumps are one of the few carbon sinks humans actually use. Releasing that carbon seems to be a waste.
I've worked very closely with tracking companies. They are very strict about not storing any unhashed identifyable information such as email adddress, postcode etc.
Dry wood lasts a lot longer than 10 years. Presumably, dry plastic would also last a very long time.

A paint can also protect stuff for a long time.
As the sibling comment indicates, and I wish to amplify with precision, if you are using the static constructor reference to initialize the local, declaring the local reference to be of a super type is cargo cult nonsense, not a best practice. The concrete type is already locally known, nothing is gained via the abstraction.
https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:HihU1Z...
This is why I don't understand the "Internet of Things." A light switch is a pretty effective solution to the problem; there seems little advantage to networking it. Ditto for a toaster, refrigerator, et cetera, et cetera.

Now get off my lawn!
Exhibitionism and voyeurism are not illegal when it's fully consensual. There's plenty of people who like to show off, and to watch. Just saying.

Also BDSM is its own subculture. There may be a munch near you. Go forth and have fun.
You're being intentionally obtuse and vitriolic.

Let's lay it out simply: As a [whatever I am] I have the ability to teach [X]. Therefore, I will teach [X] to my children to help them be a useful member of society.

In my particular case, for example, I have the ability to teach my child about math, logic, critical thinking, problem solving, general computing, and rudimentary electrical engineering. I'll also teach them about hiking, backpacking, a love of nature, fine art, an appreciation of music and storytelling... but as far as "making a wage" skills?

I just can't teach them skills I don't have.

I would LOVE LOVE LOVE to teach my child how to be an extrovert, an athlete, a politician, an actor, a doctor, a singer, an agriculturist, a CEO of a major corporation... but... those are not in my skillset.

And to call this guy "a horrible-sounding parent" for doing what he should be doing just means you're not a parent.
We all know that gold has industrial uses. But those won't appear for thousands of years. Mentioning that you can use gold in integrated circuits does nothing to explain gold in the Stone Age.
Just read over their FAQ. They claim that Modbus over TCP is an internet protocol. No where do they even mention security. I wonder how many devices are sitting on IPv4 addresses that are completely controllable over the net without a shred of security. Lovely.
I have done a lot of Ruby work and a lot more JavaScript work (not one of the languages you mentioned, but I consider it a similar language to ruby/python). I find Scala to be a lot more enjoyable to use compared to them. It's probably my favorite language so far.

I never thought I would like statically typed languages, but now I don't know how I can live without them.

Scala is also more functional than Ruby or Python. I use it in a hybrid OO/Functional style. I probably lean 80-90% functional though.

As for people complaining it being hard to read, I disagree. Sure, some people try to be clever and play the, "how much can I reduce this code down to as few lines as possible" game. But if you break things out and not chain too many combinators or use too many symbolic operators, it can be readable. I don't find it any more difficult or easy compared to any other languages out there. It's just how you write it.

I think the biggest hurdle is to find a good mentor to give you the ah ha! moment when learning Scala (or any other functional language). I don't think many people can learn it by themselves. But once someone shows you how you can write your app in a more functional way, you begin too see some of the benefits of FP.
Not necessarily. Unlike the human brain, NNs are extremely organized. They can change their weights but they cannot easily change their fundamental structure. Their organization can make them bad at certain tasks.

For example a CNN does well at object recognition from photos, but does poorly at recognizing a pencil sketch of an object it hasn't previously seen a sketch of. Or recognizing a scene at night that it has only seen daytime photos of. Those tasks, humans do very well because the trained human brain combines cultural understanding, physics intuition, and visual cortex at the same time, and would be able to use this to their advantage to easily beat, say, a massively trained CNN image recognition program that lacks cultural understanding and physics intuition.

Some other more complex NN structure may be able to tackle these kind of tasks, but as long as its neural structure is rigid, it will have yet other deficiencies. The human brain is still able to structurally adapt in ways that NNs cannot, yet.
http://archive.is/vSFf9
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The porn industry must have known about this for years.
Seems like a typo. GM is investing heavily into research and development. There jobs postings in Detroit for electrical and software engineering has skyrocketed. Being more objective and looking into Cruises history, they are not remotely worth 1 billion dollar, nor does it look like they have any technology that would be worth that much. Unless GM was that desperate and the Cruise guys amazing negotiators, I am skeptical on the 1 billion dollar price.
Health insurance is regulated way beyond what you would expect. At least for the individual market, many plans are standardized across all carriers as mandated by the ACA. And in New York (if not elsewhere), rates are proposed in advance to the state and either approved or rejected (and forced to adjust), which can happen for being too high or too low compared to other players. The rates are then set for the year. This is not something subject to real-time bidding.
I actually do like programming AIs as well. For some reason I am just fascinated to watch different AIs take on each other while I play the god - that being throwing random resources, challenges, units, disasters and etc. in the game and observing how they react. I used to do this with the very, very limited AI scripting and map trigger placement availability in AoEII and now I switched to C&C Generals but it is more unit modding oriented than general scripting so I'm looking for an alternative.

If you or someone else ships something like you just described, I'd probably waste a lot of weekends. So let me know if you win the lottery!
reminds me somewhat of Towns: http://www.townsgame.com/

I think this shows a lot more promise though

Edit: As pointed out below, don't buy Towns unless you know your buying an abandoned beta-stage game. Good idea for a game, but, IIRC, the dev got kickstarted, took the money, and left
I have reviewed more CS papers than I want to remember, and 80% of them are abysmal in quality. Most of them are papers that undergrads wrote for a class, that they then hope to publish on the off chance that it will be accepted. "Off chance" is the important part of that phrase.

Obviously some of the reviewer comments are out of line or show incompetence, but others are simply reflecting the effort that the authors put into the paper. It really is that bad at times!
I somehow had assumed this was about Apple App store reviewers. At least ours always had hilarious comments and requirements, so maybe it's not too late to hope for some place to share these stories :)
only 12% of people got this puzzle it says. I used rubular.com though, so maybe that was cheating...
You can't read the code of most C++ programs yet if operating systems dropped support for C++ there would be a reckoning.
Stop using gold as reserve currency and the price of gold plummets >99%
Guys, what are you using for customer predictive analytics?
Could be. I just spent some time on the modbus.org site. I haven't looked in a while. There is pretty much no mention of security though they claim that Modbus over TCP is an internet protocol.
Many countries have Aluminium coins, that's a very reactive metal.
I would love a section on anti-aliasing. It seems to be the big thing missing.
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Makes sense... I'll have a play with the generics, but my hat goes off to you - great looking tool.
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The lowest bidder!

In all seriousness, radiation shielding (necessary thickness of metal, etc) is quite well understood. It's probably not even an especially hazardous cargo compared to what most tankers haul.
I dislike that we live in a world where this is acceptable to people.
Ok let's say you had a delivery business and have all the insurance necessary. You're saying you're equally likely to use a driver who has a history of careless driving as you would a driver who has a history of driving safely because you're covered by insurance.

I'm claiming people are seeking avoidance. People would rather have the deterrent effect, so that they might avoid the hassles of going through claims and then waiting for things to be righted.
Anyone else concerned that by helping this new bacteria thrive it will set off a series of unforeseen side effects?
We would just have to add some toxic substances to the plastic to keep the microbes down :-/
We do actually have JavaFX now, which has some has some weird historical baggage from back when it was supposed to be its own platform, but is actually pretty nice to work with from a UI standpoint.

It has a XML/CSS based way to describe the UI/layout and then lets you link that to your code with annotations. It's not perfect, but it's a lot more pleasant to work with than the likes of SWT.
HN Meta: Highly rated off-topic comments dominating discussion
One thing that I've been noticing lately has been highly rated, off topic comments with lots of replies floating to the top of a discussion. Because they have lots of replies, the on topic discussion gets pushed way down the screen. These are good comments and good discussion; but they're off topic and hide comments discussing the actual article at the bottom the screen. Is there anything we can do about it?

examples: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11266796, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11262239
I was not a first party to the discussion, but what I heard is that Alex Roetter had asked the most senior engineers to consider strongly whether or not it would be better to have one JVM language. Twitter pays a polyglot tax and Scala's tool chain is clearly not as mature as Java's. In the resulting discussion, though, even engineers that primarily wrote systems in Java wanted to keep Scala as an option.

I had one conversation 5 years ago with Raffi about which language something should be built in. He advocated strongly for me doing it in whatever I felt made the most sense. I think this is typical of his management style -- which is to establish goals and let the people responsible for achieving those goals work out how to do it. Raffi had left the company by the time the JVM standardization discussion happened.
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Canada has eliminated all but 77 ounces of their gold reserves.

http://www.mining.com/web/and-then-there-was-none-canada-sel...
It's funny because it's stating the obvious.

Yes, arithmetic means are inherently misleading and everyone knows that. They summarize a quantity of information and conceal its important attributes like variance and skew.

The 7.7 figure was probably not being used to deliberately mislead.

The complainer hadn't in fact fact mislead; they had access to other data from the paper on which to base the complaint.

Basically it boils down to "you shouldn't have summarized such and such data using an arithmetic mean because I don't like means; whenever someone uses a mean, they are trying to deceive".
I've never seen reviews this ugly in my engineering field, nor written one. Although I've certainly felt tempted to tell people that their work "fills a valuable hole in the literature," I try to keep it constructive. For all that, I've certainly seen reviews that were needlessly pedantic or refused to accept some entirely reasonable premises. Not to mention the timeless classic, "Your review of the literature has overlooked Jones and Smith, 2008, Smith, 2010, and Jones, Smith, Ramakrishnan and Zhang, 2014. Please incorporate citations to these relevant studies in your revision." Gee. Thanks, Professor Smith.
No, poverty + busyness + laziness is the poison.
Yes, I'm sure that the only thing standing between you and untold riches is your resistance to lax security measures in app-controlled sous vide machines.
Same here - I used modbus only a few years ago, as it worked well for reading analog signals from hydroelectric turbine monitors, into a Linux box that converted them to digital for reporting. I cannot imagine actually using it on a modern network.
Give them some credit beyond being "amazing negotiators." Have you used their kit? The publicly released one, or the one actively in development? How do you know if their tech isn't that valuable?

EDIT: It's very hard to pinpoint an exactly value for R&D heavy startups. Their tech could easily be worth well over $1 billion if it plays a crucial role in developing & accelerating GM producing & selling driverless cars. Just know that GM sold $154 billion worth of car last year.
There are keys which are simply used for tamper reduction. If you buy an RV in the United States, it will have lots of external compartments storage. These will likely all have the same key, as every other RV on the lot. Furthermore you can use your key to open all kinds of things! It's like a treasure hunt. Mysterious stainless steel panel on public restroom wall? Yep. Sprinkler controller? Yep.

And you can order them on Amazon for a wide variety of prices, depending on what function the are sold for. Sprinkler keys are cheapest. Security system keys are much more expensive. RV keys, in between. But all the same key.
Add a physical switch for firmware updates, on an opt-in basis.

How does Tesla implement updates?
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If "close to half" scored below the mean, then the mean and median are probably very close together.

I think the charitable interpretation would be that some conclusion in the paper hinges on the value of the mean, but that conclusion is not valid when you consider that values are more widely distributed, and the reviewer just stated it poorly.
I can't wait until Random Q. Hacker can flood the lobby with blood from the elevators.

And if you wonder why the blood reservoir has to be connected to both the elevator shafts and to the Internet, I ask you this: who would want a dumb blood reservoir in their hotel? I mean, obviously you have to have one, but wouldn't you rather be able to query tank levels from your phone and automatically order refills online? Nobody wants to be the unlucky employee that has to go up there with a dipstick at midnight during a thunderstorm, right?
Isn't this the biggest YC exit yet?
That would be news to me and I work there.
I don't deny you can get cheaper hotels rooms than airbnb rooms. nonetheless, I have visited Japan, US, Caribbean and in many cases the airbnb proposal is way better for the same money.
I don't see what this gains the hotel. You get an increase in complaints/request about not being able to turn on/off lights, etc. Standard light switches are dirt cheap and last years and everyone from age 2 up knows how to use them.

Is this solely to look "fancy"? If so, then at least get the tech right otherwise you look incompetent.
That's a puzzle question worthy of a board of ethics interview.
Thanks for taking the time to post that. Many of those statements are surprising given how well designed Qubes looks on the surface. I wish more people nitpicked projects like this. Please consider trying Qubes 3.1 out and posting a review. I'd love to read it.
is it in part due to the fact that as we have a rising population then rare or quirky kinks are now held by a greater number of people and are therefore more commonplace, in addtion the internet helps bring people together so people have access to a community of like minded folk and further people are less likely to be worried about talking about it so are more open to discussing it and making others aware.
I've been excited for PHP7 for the speed, never even thought what that would save in server costs!
Only 12% of people who attempt this puzzle solve it.

Static text or real statistics?
The opening is happening because a citizen has been battling in court for the last 1.5 years and the court finally ruled in his favor....
> Also I see what problem they solve, to prevent people like you ruining a child's mental health.

Strange comment. I'm thinking of all the girls I knew in public high school that would cut themselves. The boys did other kinds of self harm; severe drug use, and if they couldn't get drugs, they'd go huff gasoline.

What I expect from my children is that they do a few hours of work in the morning, a few chores after lunch, and then they can do what ever they want the rest of the day (like help me at work if they want since I work from home). Is that such mental anguish?

Of course none of my kids are over 5, so this is all my pipe dream. Might work, might not.

As far as socialization, that is a human trait. Some have more of it, and some have less. Environment does play a small factor. But thinking your child will get great social skills by hanging out with teenagers is...unfortunate.
Right, but apparently this distribution is not particularly skewed, since close to half of the values are below the median. And since distributions where the mean and median line up are common and expected, it's really weird to say that the mean is misleading because of that. I suspect/hope the reviewer meant to say that the use of the mean is misleading because the lower values somehow don't support whatever conclusion was reached.
Yep, you have to lose all shame to be successful. See also the subthread about MIFARE cards in the "towel with RFID" submission.
Assistant VP in a big bank usually means underpaid third-class software dev. Working as a software engineer at Etsy is most likely a promotion.
This was probably the biggest demotivating factor in school. Trying to force feed me a bunch of biology terms for every species isn't going to help me learn biology. There is little purpose in memorizing a bunch of random subjective names that people named things.
some more things to note (granted, I don't know how things work in the rest of the world):

the sorting after the age of 10 is simply a recommendation. It is simply an estimation of the Teacher if the Student will get accepted by a school of certain tier. For example, I recieved a mid-tier (Realschule) recommendation, but was accepted by a highesthtier (Gymnasium) school due to musical skill and passing some kind of intelligence test.

Skills taught by the scools vary by tier. A friend wo went to a lower tier school tended to have more practical subjects such as "mechanics" or "crafting". They learned how to assemble a solar array, how a transmission or factory line works etc.

You can get to any tier of education if you want. If you want to become a baker and are on a highest tier school you can drop out after getting your low-tier certificate in 9th grade and go to a trade school, and that's totally fine. If you are in a low-tier school you can either have grades good enough to get accepted by a mid-tier school and then by a high-tier school. You can also go to school in the evening if you want a better certificate, but have a job.
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Another article about the subject: https://www.busbud.com/blog/airbnb-vs-hotel-rates/
I like that idea! A 21st century version of: https://41.media.tumblr.com/b56a0e413ba7869ffc4a9ec99777f132...
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That's just the TOPAZ-II model, the 2 of the earlier model flew, and 31 for the Soviet's military radar satellites.

That Russia was willing to work with us and share the TOPAZ-II is yet another sign of how much things changed after the Evil Empire fell.
Isn't this just a modern day equivalent of Phone Phreaking ?

There used to be party lines in villages where the whole village could listen in to anyone's phone call.

Never mind the operator could also have a sticky beak.

Now if they can change your sound system to play Kanye West... that truly is a problem worth worrying about.
mandatory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IG3zqvUqJY
...right before gold shot up ~15%. Bad timing.
If you connected fridge can brick itself in such a way that it stops refrigerating things then it wasn't worth buying in the first place, especially for things like this where you could end up accidentally poisoning someone the failsafe in case of software failure should be switching to an old school circuit that just keeps things at a fixed temperature.
IANAL: Buying something you think is cheap is legal, even if you know your buying it will push the price up as a side effect (any big order will move the price, if you want to buy or sell a lot it's basically impossible to do that without affecting the price). Selling it afterwards because you think the price has gone up to more than the asset is worth is legal. What's not legal is deliberately manipulating the price, and it can be hard to tell the difference from the outside. Some traders' moral instinct is that if you're taking on the risk (i.e. if you're putting your orders out there for a while where you're going to trade if anyone wants to) then it must be legitimate, which has a certain intuitive appeal but is not the current law.
How long have they had them for?
Must be that twice a year time again. 1000 articles about daylight savings times. Where everyone has an opinion but no-one does anything about it in the end.

first requires that the legislature approve a constitutional amendment

good luck with that
Not necessarily, what would happen in this case is that once you are compelled your contract to work on the code is terminated. Nothing illegal about such a contract.
Fair point. So, I look forward to the follow ups :)

If it's just the pretty, shiny stuff that makes it valuable, then gold will always have some value (bar nuclear synthesis and Star Trek replicators).

If it's scarcity, then there's market manipulation and alternative artificial currency a la Bitcoin.
So we're back to a couple of comments above: suggesting that people actually upgrade firmware.

An opt-in switch is merely convenience for the incredibly thin % that bothers with this kind of thing. And that % will actually be informed enough to not opt in.

Come to think of it, that % will likely be informed enough not to buy this kind of device in the first place.
http://jods.mitpress.mit.edu/
here's the link to the journal itself if anyone is interested
There's surely a Wildean quote in there somewhere.. "The only thing worse than your data being sent to people you don't know..."
Holy personal attacks, Batman!
Looks great but the App Store link doesn't seem to work FYI
Opt-in just means nobody gets updates again. I realise this is more a techy audience but think of these things from the mainstream perspective. Especially when the tabloids and social network copypastes get the word out that hackers can turn your oven on or something if you enable updates