skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Both are responsible because they both took actions that caused delays,and I was not speaking of any bias the TSA have when taking people out of line etc and doing things also that may increase lag.

I have no irritation with passengers wasting everyones time in line, I expect many people to be inconsiderate of others, that is human nature. I also note how many pass the blame onto others instead of realizing there are things they can do to help their fellow passengers, but they don't, to me it says a lot about that person.

I place blame of the slowdown on anything that causes the slowdown, including inconsiderate people and inept TSA policy and people.
Bots seem as pointless today as twitter did 8 years ago. So, um... Yeah, I dunno.
Show HN: Lerna: A tool for managing large JavaScript projects
Woah... I'm just going to say it. This guy fucks. Am I right?!
Sure. A "system" (which is an incredibly broad term; in practice a circuit composed of resistors, capacitors, and inductors can model any linear system so we stick with that) takes the signal x(t) and maps it to something else, f(x(t)). The autocorrelation function r(t) defines the bias of the coin (r(t) is generally given in the problem, or in real life found empirically). All of these functions are difficult to work with directly.

However, their Laplace transforms are much easier: X(s) and R(s), and because of how Laplace transforms work, F(s)X(s) (convolution becomes multiplication after a Laplace transform). So if F(s) is 1 / R(s), F(s)X(s) = X(s) / R(s), which means all of the correlation in X(s) is divided out, and you're left with an uncorrelated function, or fair coin in this case.
A "couple" meaning literally two?
Speedtest.net and other speedtests often choose the speedtest server that's close to you and has low ping.

What you describe is probably congestion in the network somewhere that isn't the last mile. Speed tests aren't a good indicator for any issues occurring anywhere but the last mile, as they won't take the same path with fairly high probability.
parse-server is open source, and you can plug anything back to it. Eg:for files, use s3, azure, google cloud...
Passages from the Life of a Philosopher
How to Quantize Neural Networks with TensorFlow
I think the jury is truly still out on whether the anton designs are worth it (compared to commodity clusters/GPUs, etc).

and Anton wasn't really "scale" in this sense. It was a vertically scaled single (or several) machines.
California wants to own copyrights on everything
Likely the same sources you do, but with a different interpretation.

https://edwardsnowden.com/docs/docs/tarex-class-guide.pdf

Pg 2, change 1: this is very telling - as they've basically redefined the mission statement in order to avoid the association.

Pg 3: NSA HUMINT is from the US Army command. Bonus info - this is the primary point of connection to the other services (USMC CI being a good example).

Pg 7: TAREX personnel are loaned to CIA operations, not the other way around.

Besides that, the history and culture of the two (NSA and CIA) are very important to keep in mind. The NSA is very old school military, it is structured that way and it behaves that way. The CIA is a very different animal, to the point where comparing the two is like comparing the FBI to the National Park Service.
Is burning wood carbon zero? My in-law/relatives in Alaska say it can pollute quite a bit. Though I don't know how that relates to any carbon zero metric.
This isn't a UK PhD, at least it's not up to the standard of any rational UK PhD I've ever seen.

I've supervised Masters theses and PhDs in the US at a top institution. No one can do a part-time PhD; it's just so much work. The fact that Reading is willing to sign a PhD with basically no research with one publication in an absurd venue is pretty sad. This wouldn't pass for a thesis proposal here!

It's also very sad that this person's adviser is willing to shirk her responsibility and just let him go without a proper education. Part of the problem with the UK is how funding works encourages this reckless and pretty selfish behavior on the part of faculty members for their own benefit.

A PhD is supposed to teach you how to do research, pick a big problem, break it down in several different ways, push the state of the art several times, and learn how to communicate in reasonable venues. Looking at his thesis and publication he's done none of the above.

As for the UK vs the US, I have collaborators there and have postdocs from there. A US PhD is like a UK PhD plus a postdoc. You're basically just halfway toward being able to do good research by the time you're done a UK PhD so standards are pretty low, although not this absurdly low. There's a reason why getting a faculty position in Europe with a European PhD almost requires a US or Canadian postdoc.

As the parent said part of what the PhD gives you is the access to people that are smart and capable. Being around them will make you much smarter and more capable in ways that are intangible but obvious in retrospect. Doing this remotely defeats the whole purpose. Because of this in the US you would never get into any reasonable (top 100 or even lower) grad school if you said you wanted to a part-time PhD.

That being said. A real PhD is worth it. You'll learn a lot. You'll work very hard for 5-6 years and at the end you'll be far better equipped in any environment.
Postgres scales great up to 256gb, at least with 9.4. After that it'll use it, but there's no real benefit. I don't know about MySQL. SQL Server scales linearly with memory even up to and past the 1TB point. I did encounter some NUMA node spanning speed issues, but numactl tuning fixed that.

I setup a handful of pgsql and Windows servers around this size. SQL Server at the time scaled better with memory. Pgsql never really got faster after a certain point, but with a lot of cores it handled tons of connections gracefully.
This is good news for me. File storage and push messaging are particularly nice.

As a user of the Firebase iOS SDK, I was wondering why the SDK was getting so stale. The Quickstart guide used deprecated Swift, didn't offer Carthage support, etc.

I looked at the new docs, and I guess they ditched the old Quickstart format in favor of a bunch of examples. At least the code seems to be up to date, which is somewhat encouraging. I still wish for Carthage support, though.

I see a lot of people worrying about reliance on proprietary BaaS. I had services running on Parse when it announced the shutdown, and it really wasn't that hard to migrate. Firebase should be even easier to leave if necessary, since it's basically just a NoSQL data model. If you abstract your queries and avoid some bells and whistles, you can keep everything in one place for a relatively painless move that hopefully will never become necessary.
Reddit appears to have been taken over by Trump supporters for a while now.
1. Calling someone "weird" seems a lot more playful than insulting to me.

2. Do you find it equally unpleasant when people make insulting remarks about their own group than about a group they don't belong to? I think the latter is usually considered worse.

3. Speaking of which, "self-hating SJW" is a term used to denigrate a group--in this case, a group you don't belong to--and to dismiss them as people without considering the validity of their ideas. That's a cognitive shortcut that could be harmful.
the original commenter said they "sell personal data". Yes this is nonsense. Yes every company is susceptible to breaches and every company has the ability to change TOS in the future. Not to belittle you but the only way to protect yourself is to live completely off the grid. As to the person, correlations != direct persons personal data.
I totaly agree, Springer gets all the moneys they could have gotten anyway. In my opinion, the compromise Springer/Nature has to make is more on their reputation... at least on our campus.
Apple's strength is in consumer (and to a lesser extent, developer) ecosystems; the cozy comfortable bubble you get when you're surrounded by everything Apple. Getting access to your stuff across multiple devices is virtually effortless and continually seamless, with almost no configuration required.

Whether that's good or not may be arguable, but it's certainly a selling point for many and I don't see Google or any other company's offerings approaching the same experience, and I suspect that's by design; they have to be more open and support all devices but that kinda dilutes everything. Apple will only get stronger in that aspect IMO.
How would the average Ethereum speculator know that the contract is flawed? Given the limited success of other, much easier-to-use blockchain technologies I'm skeptical that Ethereum can reach critical mass if every participant must learn the Solidity language and conduct a complete code review of any contracts they call. It seems to me that the Ethereum marketplace has to be married to some kind of source of trust, even one as simple as an upvote/downvote system.
I don't think that criticism of Foxconn is out of line at all. However, you're probably getting downvoted because your tone and style is way too Reddit-y, and that will indeed get one dismissed on HN.
Visualization of Apple Swift Commits on GitHub for 2016
The Horizon client uses websockets to connect to the Horizon server. The Horizon server uses RethinkDB's protocol[1] to connect to the database.

[1] http://rethinkdb.com/docs/writing-drivers/
Its a running joke between the "old timers" of the community about how many kids bought mustangs around this time (the player 'Sparc Mac' being the most well known).

The upper bounds that existed was actually caused by payment processing. Paypal vehemently sided against the seller of 'virtual items' which led to locking of accounts. That's what did me in at least.

The margins though decreased over time as the demand for virtual currency went down. In 2012 the proprietor of the most widely used botting-client went to work at Jagex and in 2013 they released a patch known as the "bot nuke" which quite appropriately wiped out maybe 90% of injection-based botting clients (which is what we all used).

I actually poked my head back into the scene when OSRS came out. But three things make gold farming on the game pointless: 1) Jagex monitoring systems are much better. They can ban you when they want to ban you, they still don't (I imagine because they want to wait for your membership to renew, as well as keep numbers up), but they'll get to you eventually if you're a serial offender. 2) the margins are still really low. Throwaway accounts will make $0.40/hr at most. 3) the software quality is even lower then before, the clients are poor and the scripts are poorer. All the best scriptures from ~2011 are probably full-time SWE's right now who can't be bothered.
NGA, NRO, NSA Joining DoD in Silicon Valley
The stakes are too high for this problem to be unsolved. People can accelerate the aging of wine as a chemical process. With billions on the line, people will figure it out for Whiskey too.

This will dramatically bring down the cost of whiskey too. First comes from simply increasing the supply. More importantly, most of the cost of whiskey is time. If I spend $5 today making a bottle of 18 year whiskey, and I have a cost of capital of 6% higher than inflation, then I'll need to sell it at $14.27 (5*1.06^18) inflation adjusted just to break even.
Burning wood is ultimately carbon neutral, deforestation is the problem.
Okay please see http://qbix.com/platform and - if you are interested - email me (my email is greg @ that domain)
This: https://forums.docker.com/t/file-access-in-mounted-volumes-e...
Large amounts of data can also be open sourced, and aggregated. What's large today will be average tomorrow.
IANAL, but I would not assume that "without counsel representing you" would be enough to say it was under duress.
I think this is working out to be a better situation for him than doing it on his own. Since he's still in high school it's very hard to actually run a company especially one that operates in multiple states and inherently needs a lot of management to run. I'm his father and we are working hard to ensure that everything is structured in a manner that works well for everyone involved.
Why not call it "liberating software". Sounds more positive and is more accurate!!
Direct link: https://machinelearningmastery.com/deep-learning-with-python
>Which leads to a fairly obvious observation: providing insufficient editorial guidelines leaves room for unconscious bias to take over.

Fully agree. Things like this tend to be better explained, as a rule, as side effects, without resorting to agency or conspiracies. That specific information, however is not new as of this article ("As the Guardian reported in leaked documents...." precedes the bit you quoted in TFA).
I don't understand this new web design trend. Who thinks that being presented with an image which occupies the entire screen and doesn't relay any pertinent information is good UX?
I just broke past Twitter's 140-character barrier
If Ethereum or something like it were to succeed, it would end up taking the form of low-level plumbing for financial products or other stuff which will simply say: "built on the Ethereum trustless/blockchain system". And as others here point out, there would be an ecosystem with companies which would audit and rate smart contracts for trustworthiness by an end-user. That in itself might end up being another application of Ethereum. Again, emphasis on the aforementioned if.
I wonder if that's employees who commit suicide while at work and if it accounts for Foxconn employees who commit suicide outside of work.
No, but it makes it clear to what might be an otherwise unaware reader that that's the case, which is the whole point.

Also, even if I don't trust you, your research paper might still be informative.
The appeal of React is that frontenders realized that the slow part of frontend is DOM manipulation. React keeps a virtual DOM, and only tells the browser to change those elements that actually changed. The big-picture explanation of this is it does this by maintaining data about your components, and it knows the difference between "state" things (that can change) and "properties" (that shouldn't ever change). Components are only rerendered when their data is dirty. Because React manages this for us, it saves us a lot of code and brainpower, while keeping our stuff fast.

I have been told that .NET works in a similar way, but with a key difference of that diffing happening on the server, so it isn't as fast. This is just hearsay, please don't take my word for it, I don't claim to know how .NET works.

What's with that 200+ line package.json? That's like a makefile, with everything already configured for you. Sure, it's a lot of tooling, but you could say the same about most software development tooling. Why is XCode 4 gigs? That's a lot of libraries just to create simple mobile apps. Back in my day, all we needed was a tiny WML XML 200 byte file to display to a cell phone. And yet, here we are, in the future.
If we are going to have to have TSA, I'd rather have the private contractors run it than the TSA. No Stockholm syndrome; just thought they offered a better experience for the same thing than the TSA.
I think this is the biggest issue with firebase that I can't find an answer to. It seems everyone is ok with just doing everything on the client side. Schema changes, business logic, etc.
depends on your perspective...

At the risk of defending a complete moron (the AG), he is likely an elected official who the people of the state want to do these things and the law is preventing him from doing the will of the people.

(analysis of a point of view, not a validation of it)
Have you tried Bq Aquaris M10 Ubuntu tablet [0]?

I've got one and although it is not ready for the general public yet, it's a little gem for us free software fans.

[0] http://www.bq.com/uk/aquaris-m10-ubuntu-edition
Interesting. To me the car is the least free method of transport. I feel like I'm in jail. There are thousands of rules, stay between the lines, listen to all the signs, careful to not hit children, it's so much more stressful than smoking a joint, sitting in a train and reading a book (my preferred way to get around).
> How is the process changed when I want a degree from it?

When you understand the answer to this question you're well on your way to a PhD. The PhD is not about implementing something. Although an implementation is sometimes/often a part of it. The real problem is to read a lot, get a grasp on what people understand about a topic, think about it, and say something new and interesting. That might mean coming up with some new algorithm, or a cool observation that solves a problem, or a theorem, or an experiment on humans that shows something interesting, etc. Finding good questions, learning how to ask them in the right way, and how to squeeze out what's actually doable and important from them, that's the point of the PhD. When you can do that from beginning to end, you're ready to graduate. Historically, this was what a PhD thesis was. Your first end-to-end piece of research.

As for the first few questions. That's why you have a PhD adviser. Someone who can help you pick your first few questions. Guide you on the path to getting answers, finding new questions, getting a handle on what's known, etc.

My biggest advice is find a topic you're interested in, read a few papers about it (google scholar is your friend), find a few people that work on that topic, read 1 paper from each, and when you apply for grad school in their department say something meaningful about what they've done (don't suck up, we know and it doesn't impress anyone) and what you would do instead/in addition. When people pick grad students they like to know that the student they're picking is smart, motivated, and knows enough to say something interesting about their work. It sounds daunting but it's doable. Particularly if you do summer research while in undergrad or do a good masters thesis. Good luck!
We have some supermicros that have about 12TB RAM, but the built in fans sound like a jumbo jet taking off so consider the noise pollution for a second there.
COBOL, C, and HOGAN
I think you will prefer the Reddit hive mind better accommodating. It's just a browser tab away.
FWIW, I have never understood "affordable" housing to have that connotation.

In my experience, as appears to be the case here, local governments often "encourage" developers to offer below-market-rate housing as part of the residential zoning rules. Here's an example: http://gothamist.com/2015/12/18/de_blasio_zoning_affordable....
It was an adaptation of the Mafia/Werewolf game called The Darkfriend Hunt. You'd have a Darkfriend, Aes Sedai, Warder, and I think a few other jobs; the goal was for the players to find the Darkfriend(s) before the Darkfriends killed everyone.
That wouldn't surprise me, lets hope that this is the final straw and we a mass privatizing of of security in airports as a result.

You would expect that an agency tasked with the security of citizens might be a data-driven organization so the fact that this current shortage of staff while there's an increase in the flying population is just inexcusable.
Carbon is not the only form of pollution, burning stuff generally puts a lot of nasty crap into the air.
A FPV Remote-Controlled Jansen-Style Walker
I recently got an Echo and the shopping list feature is great, even given I'm outside the US and can't use the ordering functionality.

It's very easy (don't have to get phone out or find paper) to say "Alexa, add Cornflakes to my shopping list" and then when I'm at the shop, have a live list to check off.

The timer function is simple but effective as well. "Alexa, set a timer for 10 minutes" when cooking pasta. I get so sick of getting my phone out and doing it that way.

These sound like tiny things, but they're so much more natural.

My three year old asks "Alexa, how tall is an elephant?" etc.
From Wikipedia[0]:

> Chinese wall is a business term describing an information barrier within an organization that was erected to prevent exchanges or communication that could lead to conflicts of interest. For example, a Chinese wall may be erected to separate and isolate people who make investments from those who are privy to confidential information that could influence the investment decisions. Firms are generally required by law to safeguard insider information and ensure that improper trading does not occur.

...

> The origin of the phrase is the Great Wall of China.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_wall
I wasn't aware brains were made of things other than atoms and molecules. Interesting stuff.
Ask HN: Twitter bootstrap or material design for your web side-project?
I'm working on my new side-project and would love to know what your opinion is on this topic. Which one is more visually attractive to you?
5 Signs Your Business Needs Video Chat Software
Probably a reference to this: http://fortune.com/2016/04/11/goldman-sachs-doj-settlement/
They'd only need to be friendlier to international buyers than the Echo (which you can use elsewhere, but with some mucking around) and they'll do well.

The best and easiest features of Amazon Echo don't need the most difficult local support. Things like the shopping list sans buying, timers, weather, timezones, traffic, etc.
For yet another perspective, the measure in question was put in place by lawmakers who are elected to do the will of the people. If this law is being passed then we can infer that the will of the people is not, in fact, to have their property stolen by the state without due process.
Salesforce lost 3.5 hours of customer data in instance NA14
I honestly love my Nokia 106 in general. There are a couple of menus which are inconsistent, color is unnecessary, and the background images are ???; but despite all of that, it has been excellent and gives reliable calls.

Sadly GSM is going down in Canada for good next year.
I'd love to have a 106-shaped LTE or HSPA phone with multilingual input and display. Essentially no other device would make me happier.

I have learned to love T9, it is very comfortable once you are used to it; and it maps very well to Japanese (though not available on this device). If I ever need to get a smartphone again, I'm using a T9 keyboard on it.

I wonder if they'd hire me...
> the desktop client requiring chrome is pretty awful

That's rubbish. They are a small company with not enough person-time to develop native versions for all OS. Would you prefer only to have a windows version available? Developing with Chrome/NW.js/Electron allows you to have an app that runs on 3 OS's from the start. I think it's pretty awesome.

Plus you only need chrome installed, it doesn't have to run if I understand correctly. Who doesn't have Chrome installed? Or why would you not install it?
They're two separate concerns but they both contribute to the bloat and scope creep of this farce of an agency.
I personally feel that following your own intuition in the first days can be more helpful.
Stumbled onto this mostly because instance NA4 is also down right now: https://trust.salesforce.com/trust/au/instances/NA4