skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I sit corrected. Instead, the current typical approach is to use cross-breeding to produce seeds that grow well the first generation and don't produce reliable seeds themselves.
This explanation is just an attempt at hiding the actual problem: the revolving door between the public and the private sector, specially in the banking industry. Of course you don't want to be the one sending Lloyd Blankfein to prison. No way you are going to get a lofty job at a bank after that.

This is the one case where regulators would have massive popular support, specially in an election year when two very popular candidates (well, three if you believe Hillary's latest statements) are calling for stronger measures against the people responsible for the "Great Recession".
Clearly you don't, but you haven't given us any reason to agree with you!
I don't want to be part of that "future". PyPy is good but "closed": It's very hard to tinker due to excessive compile times and unreachability of the C level (no, cffi is no substitute).

If you just use Python as a managed language, fine, but the magic is gone. I'd probably use Java if I wanted a "closed" language.
There was a survey that went out to VW owners a while ago trying to gauge interest on different deals. The options presented were, in exchange for surrendering your car at a dealership, you'd get:

a) value of the car in Sept 2015 + 20%

b) value of the car in Sept 2015 + 30%

c) a replacement of your car - same model, same specs, same features, same color, but the 2016 model. Lease/loan payments would stay the same and you'd basically just get a newer replacement.

They specifically noted that the value would be determined by using a reputable car value estimation reference, so it won't just be some random lookup table that they've pulled out of thin air. Unfortunately, I don't see an easy way to look up historical values from KBB (haven't checked NADA), so I really don't know what the value of my Jetta was in Sept.

None of those things were officially from VW, but the survey was supposed to be somewhat confidential, so I can only imagine that the survey was contracted by VW.

Again: THIS IS UNOFFICIAL INFORMATION AND SHOULD NOT BE RELIED ON.
It works better now.

They under-dimensioned the launch peak capacity. This is peculiar, I do know they have much, more more capacity than needed for in that terms of both servers and bandwidth. ;)
For MemSQL folks here...implement stored procedure support please. I would love to move all legacy apps I have over to MemSQL but I can't because of this.
The quickest way up the ladder is to prove to the person above you that his (or her concerns) are yours, and to proactively solve them.
nope nope noep
Java developers know them quite well. In fact Java 9 is getting a plugin API for Graal.
"Silbermann helmed the process, bringing his kids by the office on the weekends while he checked in on the team as they raced to transform Pinterest into a sleeker, faster service. He passed up the McDonald’s hash browns that the engineers ordered"

"Which is why Silbermann has been coming in on the weekend. The changes the company is about to unleash will determine whether Pinterest can earn its deca-corn valuation"

"And in one central location, a product manager named Adam Barton, who had been tasked with running the code and design overhaul, roped off a line of desks."

" “I worked for 42 days straight,” says Barton, whose early experience as a contract negotiator for Google had given him the skills to keep everyone on task. One of his most important jobs: He was the guy who went to McDonald’s every Saturday to pick up the hash browns."

"Goodson was excited about a team trip to Vegas to see Calvin Harris. There was also talk of a camping trip, but someone still had to plan it. Silbermann was already looking beyond; the team will take on the Android platform next."

How do most people view these parts of the article?
The internet interprets adblocker-rejection as censorship as damage, and routes around it.
Sometimes I like to imagine that there are esoteric business relations like this in places like Palestine with an Israeli regulator.

But I can never get a discussion deep enough going on about how the rule of law is implemented there.
Marco's comments on Swift
Part 3 will talk about Common Lisp / CLOS which had multiple dispatch 20 years before Julia was conceived :-)

Part 4 will talk about Clojure.

I just couldn't put it all in one piece - even broken to chunks it's of formidable length
And then in case you want to change element size you will have to go through all the elements that were generated in the backend where you applied inline style and change that manually for each of them? You either have never worked with big CSS projects or I am just not understanding what you mean, applying inline styles directly to elements will cause a maintenance havoc in my opinion
Indeed:

Maker Faire: May 20-22
Startup Conference: May 19
Google IO: May 19-20

http://thestartupconference.com/tips-for-first-time-attendee...

</plug>
Google  Sales, Profit Miss Analysts’ Estimates on Ad Weakness
The problem is not the mechanical difficulty of pressing a large button, the problem is that the application popping up alerts and encouraging you to press the button means taking your eyes away from the road.
Contractual agreements, NDAs, etc. might make it impossible to disclose work product and/or source code to a 3rd party which would include Kite.

> If you're a contract developer, or a developer working full-time for a consulting firm, you might not have the authority to determine for yourself whether it's contractually allowable to upload code to Kite's servers. But if you're working for a pro shop, you can bet every dollar in your pocket that the contracts your firm has with its clients technically prohibit it.

As tptacek said, you might be prohibited and/or not have the authority to do so.

> Why does the device need to be on-premise? Would a Github Enterprise-like setup, where you have a dedicated Kite instance/VPS at their datacenter, work for you?

We run GitLab on-premise so I'm not familiar enough to answer. However, if by "their" you mean Kite? Yeah, that won't work as its essentially the same thing. [e.g. Disclosing it to a 3rd party outside of my control]
It's a reciprocal process, meaning that it works for transmit as well as receive. In the receive direction, the antennas/microphones sample the incoming waves at various spatial points, and then the cancelling/reinforcing occurs when the received signals are phase shifted or delayed and summed.
Pagekit 1.0 is here
Love seeing a Scott Sandage reference -- his classes were probably the highlight of CMU Undergrad for me.
Of course he doesn't have to. But the judge's decision does seem to be the most reliable source of information available about what actually happened, factually, in the case. One would think a reasonable person would find it at least relevant.

One does not normally start spraying ones crops with RoundUp. This, as they say, kills the crop. That the farmer did so and just happened to wind up with a large population of RoundUp Ready plants clearly suggests that the farmer was breeding them selectively to get the Monsanto patented plants for free, not just that they "happened" to be there and reproduce.
They get very large fees for "securitizing the deal", or being the ones who turns a bunch of loans into something that can be traded. In the case of very complicated deals, it can be several percent for a transaction that is low-risk for the bank since they've already identified both sides of the trade.
I just heard a story from a listener of The Current about exactly that: Prince pulled up in a van at her friend's house with a couple other people and spread the word.
Who said anything about immediacy? Python 3 has been out for nearly 8 years. That's more than enough time to update libraries, especially given that the list of incompatibilities between Python 2 and Python 3 is tiny.

So, what have the library developers been doing for the past 8 years? Probably adding features to the Python 2 version of the library. Why? Because Python 3 has seen low adoption. Why? Because the libraries haven't been updated yet. Why? ...

It's an endless cycle. If people want Python 3 to be adopted more widely, they ought to adopt it themselves (and many programmers have, though clearly not enough).
What presidential candidates promise and what presidents deliver are often very different.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treason
The board actually doesn't appear to have an ADC, the microphones output pulse density encoded digital data wich can be directly received and interpreted by the processor.
> Sounds like a slippery slope argument.

Strange, I'm having a hard time thinking of a single US government program that hasn't expanded far beyond the original justification. Bureaucracies expand, water is wet. A classic example of a USG switcheroo would be the social security number being used for identification purposes beyond social security administration. A more contemporary example would be the NSA providing intel to the DEA for domestic law enforcement, which I'm sure wasn't part of the founding mission statement.

> Which governments of civilized, democratic countries...

So only a true Scotsman?

> Are you saying you don't want any laws...

Are you saying that if somebody caused an accident with a drone, then prosecutors would just throw up their hands? We already have enough laws on the books to charge anybody for anything. If causing a horrible accident isn't enough of disincentive for a drone operator then I doubt that they'd pay any attention to the FAA.
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>Anyway, ignorant article with a dishonest attempt at trying to spin two things together "illegal betting!" "valve" and failing.

How is a system where you spend real money in the hopes of receiving a valuable item by random chance not considered betting/gambling? Because that's effectively what system like the skins in CS:GO is at its core.
Are the companies that issue stock responsible if people bet with them in poker games?
On paid App Store search results
This looks extremely useful, thanks for sharing.
> You're assuming hashrates and electricity consumption are 1:1, ignoring improvements in efficiency.

You're right, but since the price of bitcoin has risen over the past month the increase in hash rate could be due to miners turning back on less efficient equipment that wasn't profitable at lower prices.

It's really impossible to know, but since the price is rising I think it's likely additional hash power would mean more mining equipment coming online -- therefore using additional power -- while leaving existing mining hardware but still profitable hardware running.
Realistically speaking, what it means is that this particular minister somehow managed to employ a "technical expert" who actually is just that. Oh, and that this technical expert is both a) competent, and b) has managed to gain the trust of the minister. The combination is probably easier said than done, so props to whoever that person is :).
You'd need at least a little bit of remote code execution on the perpetrator's machine to lift his MAC address. Not guaranteed, but plausible.

I expect the manufacturer to have a database correlating MAC address, serial number, date the device left the factory, and where (i.e. which retail store) it was shipped to.

I expect the retail store's inventory tracking system to know when the device with that serial number was sold, by which cashier, at which register.

If it doesn't know the (tokenized) credit card number and name on card directly, I expect the store to be able to find its copy of the receipts from that register at that time, which would contain the last 4 digits and name on card.

If the purchase was relatively recent, I expect video of the register at that time.

If the purchase was in cash but the video is still around, I'd also expect video of the purchaser walking out to his car, and (maybe separately) a shot of that car with good enough resolution to pick out the license plate.

I don't think Joe Credit Card Fraudster gets this kind of attention, but someone who is believed to be a credible national security threat... absolutely.
I'm currently quite happy in an industry job in which my PhD is an asset, but I'd still advise others against pursuing a PhD. I could've found a career path that would be just as fulfilling without a PhD, and I could've gotten there faster if I hadn't spent 10 years on a PhD+postdoc.

My standard advice to people currently in grad school is to drop out with a masters.
I don't think it's so much that decentralized systems are technically safer, but that the people who own and control the centralized ones have incentives to keep them unsafe (at least from themselves) whereas if each person runs its own server, the incentives are properly aligned for security.

In essence, it's an economic argument, not a technical one.
Matt Levine's theories nearly all suggest we should end the 'revolving door' because it leads to conflicts of interests - either by making regulation harsher or less harsh, rather than impartial.

If regulators really are harsh so banks hire them "to get them of their backs", presumably banks have an expectation that this works, causing in the long run, softer regulation.

The alternative theory that regulators are incentivised to be diligent and fair so banks will hire them on that basis is... not compatible with most people's understanding of the financial sector's culture.
Yeah, but is it specifically about its chemistry and electrical properties that makes it interesting?
There's a distinction between 'agile' (the manifesto) and Capital-A Agile. I believe your parent comment is referring to the latter, where Agile has just become yet another way for managers to control their underlings.

...I mean seriously, "Agile process" is an oxymoron and terribad managers go around saying it without a hint of irony. Seriously?!?
To developing countries only. I didn't see how a country is deemed no longer developing, so it makes me think it's just the classic pusher tactic: the first crop is free.

Once a developing country's economy has become entangled with the crop, start charging rent.
They're not commenting on the quality of Jarvis (an excellent project), but on the headline. One of the key features of Echo, and one which is essential for something like this, is a good microphone. Most off the shelf ones are useless for this, and so the Echo provides fantastic value by delivering not only the voice recognition/action platform, but the hardware to make it work well.

I'd challenge someone to make a practical device that leverages Jarvis. Most microphones just aren't up to it.
Example: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/verizon-att-get-most-bucks-from-...

>AT&T, for example, imposes a $325 "activation fee" for each wiretap and $10 a day to maintain it. Smaller carriers Cricket and U.S. Cellular charge only about $250 per wiretap. But snoop on a Verizon customer? That costs the government $775 for the first month and $500 each month after that, according to industry disclosures made last year to Congressman Edward Markey.

>And while Microsoft, Yahoo and Google won't say how much they charge, the American Civil Liberties Union found that email records can be turned over for as little as $25.
Are your costs really that high? This was a Kickstarter I participated in several years ago working on plants that glow in the dark. Total cost was ~$484k.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/antonyevans/glowing-pla...

Put $1-2 million together, knock out the terminator genes, profit. How are you going to sue? The plant is no longer they same biological entity Monsanto rights apply to.
If all 3 of these were solved, I'd be at risk of never growing tired of using HN on mobile and closing it to get other things done.
Fixed! A new video has been uploaded with spliced-in demos (courtesy of recordmydesktop)!

https://youtu.be/WLovW6hlYHM

--Tom
I used to work as a contract developer for a consulting firm. I kept the project repo in my Dropbox. Everything got uploaded. This was obviously a security issue, but nobody asked, and I didn't tell. Dropbox saved my ass multiple times. The cost of accidentally losing uncommitted changes seems much greater than the probability weighted cost of somebody 1. hacking Dropbox, and 2. giving a shit about the client's project. I would do it again. #thuglife
You can always open such content in an incognito tab, to disable the adblocker completely.
Would it work if we made the revolving door less attractive?

For instance, could we pay the regulators enough for it to become attractive? Over time, maybe being a regulator will become the end goal of new grads.
But the cost of pure silicon is not due to the cost of the raw silicate. It is due to the energy requirements of purification. AFAIK
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and no worries about needed to shoot to the next level

I think it's a bit off to characterize them as "levels" in the sense that a "higher" level is "better" than a lower level. My sense is that some people want near complete autonomy (I do, for example), but other people would be very uncomfortable in that kind of role (or at least, ineffective). I suspect this overlaps to some extent with some basic personality characteristics as well as goals / intrinsic motivation.

Still, it's a very interesting and worthwhile article, and I believe this definitely contributes something new and useful to the overall discussion. I'll definitely use some of these ideas in the future when it comes to hiring and what-not.
Brilliant idea, but somehow I have the feeling it would not make any difference in a patent dispute if an idea shows up here. What's the legal situation?
Here's your stinking memo: The grass is always greener on the other side of the street.
Um, the whole point of the article was that "they" don't think it was a drone. The idea that it was a drone seems to have come entirely from a single tweet by the local police force, which the media jumped on.
Same article on the FT:

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/af23e3ea-07f1-11e6-b6d3-746f8e9cdd...

James Comey, director of the FBI, said on Thursday that the cost was “worth it”, but added that an accommodation needed to be made with Apple and other technology companies in the future, as paying outside technologists to find ways to access highly-encrypted messages on phones used by terrorist suspects was not “scalable.”
This really seems like a terrible market for a state to be so openly involved in.
Uber for failure: How on-demand startups crash and burn
I installed a chrome plugin just to blacklist Quora in Google SERPs a couple years back. I think I did make an account at one point, but it was just a terrible experience clicking through to find that you couldn't actually see the answer.
An interesting write-up and perspective, yet in my experience, has no practical or pragmatic designs by which to replace seniority-based, heirarchical and heavily engrained systems. Re-naming titles is a start, but it's still wishy-washy. I mean, sure, start from scratch and implement, but can it work in software or running a bakery or for a pool cleaning business? Context is important, and while I enjoy reading 'open mind' type educational riffing (of which this is clearly an example), it's hard to capture any genuine take-away approaches for, well, generalization.
I made a dating app for y'all
Reggie.io: A Docker registry with infinite private repos
The UK has strict guidelines about where fixed speed cameras may be located and how they should be signposted for similar reasons.
https://developer.nvidia.com/embedded/buy/jetson-tx1-devkit ?
If you're white, sure.
Ex-DARPA gal, actually:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regina_E._Dugan
http://fightyourspeedingticket.com/fifty-miles-over-the-post...

Speeding often has surprisingly low fines. Get caught doing 115 in a 65 mph area in Florida. That's ~1,000$ for a first offence. Second time they revoke your license for a year and more than double the fine, next they revoke it for 10 years and charge you 5k.

But, first time around it's kind of meh, IMO. Of course you will probably also get reckless driving which is stiffer. http://www.leg.state.fl.us/Statutes/index.cfm?App_mode=Displ...

Considering the high risk of killing someone you would think the could come up with a better deterrent.
> Argentine farmers had benefited substantially from its Intacta technology and called for “all producers to pay ... if they decide to use it.”

This sounds a lot like the music industry and their constant call for "royalties".
Well now they have a tool they can use at any time.
Does it color the sea blue and the grass green?
Move to XUbuntu :)
Just a quick note, but picking LA County to minimize the impact of something isn't very useful.. LA County has a higher population than 43 states.
How do we know that studies purporting to show emotions and sentience in human beings aren't just anthropomorphic bias?
The Missing Link in your Operations [and how to resolve it]
That's it?
Check out about:crashes, you can submit a dump to the trace servers and get a backtrace that will tell you where it's crashing, and make it easy to file a bug report.

(if you're using a distro provided build, it might be more involved, see https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/How_to_get_...)
I've seen many of his interviews (e.g. with Arsenio Hall, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYK4o6o1YFo), in real life he seems like the opposite of his stage personality: humble and dedicated to his art.
Care to explain why? There is a huge amount of provisioning and deployment software that relies on distro repos.
Is that it? Had they found a way to do it internally it could easily have cost 10x more.