skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We're already running Debian onboard. Just wanted to see if ChromeOS would be more useful since schools are using it.
＞ python3 --version

Or: http://packages.ubuntu.com/xenial/python3
For a moment I laughed hard at this, thinking it was ironic humour. But now I'm scared it's not.
All those poor people who sold Bitcoin at the peak hype of $3. :( Or $20, or $250.
I may have misread your tone, but you sound as if you find such protesters distasteful. I for one hope they bravely continue, until such time as one need not fear being detained on convenient pretexts for legal activities.
At first glance, I'd consider it a (security) bug in Perl 6 that it permits tokens containing invisible characters, let alone consisting solely of invisible characters. Are there any other languages with this behavior?

As a random example:

titan:~ geofft$ python3 -c "$(printf "\u2063") = 1"
File "<string>", line 1
= 1
^
SyntaxError: invalid character in identifier

If you change it to e.g. 00e9 ("é"), Python 3 permits the character, so it's not just a lower-ASCII thing.
As somebody who has made things (projects/blog posts) that have garnered mixed reviews (i.e. some insults) I think it's important that we as a community don't turn this into a "safe-space"

My rule of thumb:
1. Positive
2. True
3. Important/Relevant

Every comment should strive for at least 2 of these.
But if you are heaviest in the winter, every winter, it will result in uneven wear :)
This is a clever collection. I'm sure at least one article, on the eve of the moon landing, asked "We've been wanting to go to the moon forever. What's different this time?"

Concerning robots, I can answer that question. This time, we have cheap sensors and connectivity, powerful processors, and machine learning.

It's early, but it's a sea change. Since the beginning, robots have been instructed what to do. Now, increasingly, they can decide what to do. They can react to the environment. Recover from failure. Handle variance.

Most of the focus has been on autonomous driving, but the same sensors and algorithms are applicable to so many varied tasks that have traditional been unapproachable by machines. (The moment this technology enables a laundry folding robot, I'm buying it, not matter what it costs.)

And it's not just manual labor but knowledge work as well. We laugh at strange errors from Siri and Google Now, but I have also started to notice that more and more of my calls don't involve a phone tree and don't have to get escalated to a human.
It's not the API that's broken, that uses UTF-16 consistently which qualifies as Unicode by any definition.

The problem really only lies in file and console encoding. If they'd simply give you the option between legacy code pages and UTF-8, and made UTF-8 the default, life would be grand.
I second this. I'm using a just-refreshed 12" Retina MacBook ‘toy’ (BTO m7/8GB/512GB) and it is an utterly perfect, ‘nervous’ little machine that suits my varied computing needs perfectly (local databases, spreadsheets, data exploration, symbolic mathematics in Mathematica, general productivity word-processing/email and assorted browsing & multimedia). This is a machine that deserves respect.
I guess this has been ignored for awhile: Google started downtown. When they are referring to Amazon, I'm pretty sure that's A9 which was started as Altavista as a DEC project in the same building.
The difference between MAD and STD is the use of the mean instead of the quadratic mean. Sometimes the quadratic mean is better, for example: if you have n some particles with velocity vi then the quadratic mean allows you to replace your system with another where each particle has the same velocity, the quadratic mean, this way the total kinetic energy is the same as in the original system, and this conservation of energy is a very important property in physics.
Glancing through it, it almost appears that it's almost copy and paste. It has so many tangents and subject splices, it is hard to follow.

It appears to be arguing that the Planck constant is defined partially by mass, which has never had an high-precision value SI unit. The Avogadro project has determined a high-precision definition the Avogadro constant. The Rydberg constant is known to high precision; therefore, the two can be used to together to find a high-precision value of the Planck constant. Also, once a fixed definition of mass through physical constants is made, we will have an exact definition of Plank constant.
Morskoi Boi/Sea Hunter has no computer, or chips for that matter. It's 1960s tech.

Some computer based arcades started to appear in late 1980s, but more like Pong clones and similarly simple "racing" games with 2600-like sprites. At this point the "coops" started popping up, offering pay per minute experience on Atari 800 and ZX Spectrum.

There was no Soviet 6502 or Z80 clone; there were however 8080A clones and DEC LSI-11 inspired designs. There were a bunch of creative programmers sure, although there hardly was a real "school" and CS remained largely backwaters to the West.
I love the idea behind ChromeOS, but the actual implementation is lacking in a lot of ways. Fundamentally being tied essentially exclusively to Google services just doesn't work for a lot of use cases.

It's probably fine for a lot of individuals in the US, and for K-12, but it's not great in a lot of overseas markets (Google services being blocked, etc.), and probably never a viable option for medium/large businesses.

(of course, "trust Google to run the infrastructure behind it" makes a lot more sense than "trust Asus or Samsung or Acer or HP or ...", or worse, "trust your carrier.")
That would make me pretty nervous. A couple of years from now, it will be taken for granted that all new Python projects are written in Python 3, and AWS Lambda will either be obsoleted by a Python 3-based competitor or--about the time you get your code built out--they will announce with great fanfare that Python 3 is their future and put projects like yours on the B Team's legacy infrastructure.

After "forcing" you to build your company on Python 2, they'll build theirs on Python 3 and too bad for you.
how come this article only got 2 points[1] when someone submitted it here a day ago, but this time it's at the top of everything?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11726766
It'll be great if they can do this for older people eventually, so we don't need to wear reading glasses.
It points out that we don't need more and more computer languages that no one uses. If you can come up with a language that really makes new contributions or really works better than the existing ones, great, but instead it seems we just have a bunch of me-too languages doing almost the same thing. Languages aren't useful unless there's a critical mass of people developing them, making libraries for them, making good compilers for them, and providing mindshare for them, so that there's enough people competent in them to use them. This is why languages like C and C++ are still used even though there are many valid criticisms of them and supposedly superior alternatives have been developed: the alternatives just haven't been good enough, in many/most cases, to justify switching. C++ may have its warts, for instance, but with all the libraries that exist for it and all the existing code and all the workers familiar with it, it usually makes sense to stick with it rather than switch to something like D or Rust or Swift or Go unless you have a really good reason (like you're developing on iOS where Swift is really well-supported).

These days, Python is the de-facto standard for general-purpose type-optional programming, and has a huge amount of libraries and mindshare, and is growing. So why do we need a clone?
Exactly. All the Google cafes more-or-less destroyed demand for the restaurants that used to exist around the old SGI headquarters.

One could argue that the cafes do replace those businesses, just in a different form. And one would be right, but the tax situation works out differently, especially the sales tax situation.
The MAD of that data is not 54.5.

Here's how you calc MAD:

(1) Find the median of your data which is -2

(2) Generate the absolute deviations of your data from this median which is {4,0,4,0,4,0,4,0,4,0,4,0,4,0,4,0,4,0,998}

(3) Find the median of the absolute deviations which is 4.

It's ironic that Taleb prefers a statistic that ignores extreme examples (i.e. black swans) but he nevers seems to make sense to me. I've found MAD useful in dealing with noisy data.
I used to think like you but after reading Sapiens I now understand how these things work.
Correction, Robots have been taking all the jobs for more than 200 years.

They just haven't finished yet.
Listen to that radiolab broadcast. I'm pretty sure that is the one that goes into detail about a man that grew up deaf (in El Salvador, I think) and without any access to sign language. The broadcast has a woman that went there as a grad student and, I think, ended up teaching the guy sign language. A translator for the guy describes when he finally 'got' language and from what I remember, it was life and soul changing for him. He mentions that his friends that were also without the tool of language would try to communicate through charades and it would take hours to 'talk'. I can't do this justice, but the tale is very powerful. I also can't verify that the linked broadcast is about what I just said fyi (in a coffee shop, no headphones, sorry)

Still, I disagree. The tools that we use shape our souls as much as our brains. It's that repetitive daily use that mostly does this. We come to see the world and then believe things in the way we experience it, and our tools heavily shape this view.

To reduce someone's humanity is an incredibly deep question and i don't have the space here, nor the access to beer, to do it justice. However, I like that you turned the question on it's head. Most of the time we ask what it would take to make something human. The way you pose this question: "what would it take to rob a person of their humanity?" is MUCH more interesting and very provocative.
> The Palantir employees tend to eat in their own cafeteria

If that is a problem, then the zoning laws should restrict cafeterias, not job functions. The more specific and direct that regulations get, the better things tend to be.
I have spent more money at The Patio than I would care to admit. The second I left my job downtown I never went back.

I get the feeling the sentiment is more about "get off my lawn you pesky techies" than about actual economics.
Is there any fundamental difference between this and simply dropping rent by $100/month and charging $100/month for a parking space? Aside from the fact that carless tenants in that scenario could spend their $100/month on something other than transportation.
> If I understand this guy right

Trivia: This guy was actually pretty famous in the 90s for "Kais Power Tools"[1], a set of very popular image manipulation plugins with - at that time - unrivaled features. Later his company also released Kais Power Goo, Bryce, Poser and more.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kai%27s_Power_Tools
"Conjoined triangles of success." Enough said. (note I'm software engineer and a business major)
I think we have both expressed our views. I understand what you mean more with your summary of freedom.

We could go over the subtle points for a long time. I believe they mean far more than you might.

My overall point is more along the lines of this full scale propaganda really makes it hard to read peoples opinions of the government on quite a few levels. Perhaps that's not a fair direct retort to your development narrative. But they are connected.

I don't want to be to picky, but the great famine was caused by the government after 1949. May seem trivial now but.. I still see its effects.

The other problem with state control and censorship is you don't really know the level of what's going on. China has work camps without trial in regions far from where the person might live, offences are usually based around expressing dissent over policy. China also has a lot of snitches.. I was told that any one wearing the red armbands was one. And that's a lot of people. I know a lot of the government send young family members to study in places like new Zealand in case they start to lose favour.. So they have a way out.

Besisdes all these points China is a big place. Generalisations over public opinion and the importance of it are fairly misleading. Take Tibet for example, I doubt Tibetans have an improved opinion of the government.

I dont like disregarding your views but in all this dialogue I can't help thinking that your views in the context we are discussing - censorship - are legitimising and downplaying the problem of Hunan rights in China. The Chinese people have no voice and the kind of support you are giving the government by saying they are developing and represent the peoples views, seem to be the final nail in exstinguishing dissenters voices in China.

I doubt that is your intention but that's how it comes across and that's why I've been asking you to clarify.

I can't agree China has improved but that's a debate for how you define improve. For me improved in the context of China, doesn't mean shit if people can't express dissent. Its more like reinforcement.

Edited for typos.
Because life isn't fair.
If you have a thin skin, keep your ideas to yourself.

Why? Is it so much to ask for people who have nothing constructive to add, to just sit down and STFU? I mean, nobody is saying that criticism shouldn't be aired... but there's criticism and there's pointless flaming which serves no purpose other than to try and tear people down. As far as I'm concerned, if somebody has nothing to offer besides the latter, they are the ones who should keep their ideas to themselves. After all, it's not like airing a comment like "seems like another useless dingleberry plopped down from the arse of academic CS" is adding any value to the world or making anything better for anybody.
I shut down a 64-core Xeon mining setup because it'd "only" net me 100 coins a month. :(
Let me put it this way:

Consciousness is definitely not deterministic.
This is a bogus argument, I get about 42 miles free and clear electric (in spring and summer) no engagement of ICE, unless it is too damn cold or steep or I choose HOLD mode (which I do for distances over 40 miles). Yes, the ICE propels the wheels but only in limited circumstances, and its not simplistic as glorified Prius.
It's a bitcoin clone but with the secure proof of work removed and replaced with insecure proof of stake. Sounded great at the time and they made lots of money from a crowd sale.
> How many people are now identifiably being turned down for ...

There's the rub. For the most part you'll never know, unless it reached epidemic proportions.

"Sorry the apartment's gone" - Google told me you had financial problems 15 years ago.

"" (silence) - We infer from the internet you're gay so won't be offering you a job interview. It's illegal discrimination but can't be proven.

The effects of losing privacy in the scenarios you list are mostly invisible. The chilling effect on having legal but fringe or unpopular views has already been demonstrated.

So there is a downside for many. They just don't realise it.
Thanks, there are obviously much better ways to do this (even something like GreaseMonkey over using the console), I was going more for an optimization of total time invested. It takes less than 5 seconds per page, so you could probably still swing doing 88 in less than 10 mins pretty easily.
You should let JP Morgan, Microsoft, IBM, Samsung, Deloitte, Merill Lynch and Bank of America know, so they can cancel their ethereum projects ASAP.
> As a content provider, I have to support HLS if I want to support adaptive streaming in iOS.

I see. Safari on iOS is still missing MSE? Is Apple doing it to slow down DASH adoption?

The other expected problem is codecs. Apple are being sleazy and refuse to support free codecs like VP9 and Opus. So making DASH serving those won't work with Apple too (unless you'll use pure JavaScript decoder which is very not optimal).

May be Daala / Thor will eventually break their nasty behavior, especially if it will be adopted as mandatory for WebRTC.

> DASH264 is an attempt to keep it simple, and tie it down to a smaller subset of codecs (x264/5 and the like), and seems to be making headway.

Tying DASH to a set of proprietary codecs to propose a standard sounds like a very bad idea. I don't see it going anywhere.
Unless you have some specific reason to otherwise, please specify container widths using ems instead of pixels.

That keeps things easy to read for users that want to override the font sizes. 40-60 is a good range.
This sounds like a big deal, can somebody with some expertise in the field comment on it?
One thing I'm not sure I made entirely clear. Whenever my JS library intercepts a link or button click, it will update the URL bar with whatever the link or form would've brought you to, so that at any time if you refresh the page it will result in the same state that the AJAX gave you. Also, the approach is designed to gracefully degrade if JS is disabled, because the links and forms really are just links and forms.

> why redo it with JS? To lower the load time? Then don't make the page multi-meg already, no?

I hear you, and often I let links do their full behavior, no JS magic involved.

But beyond a certain amount of interactivity, the AJAX intercept approach does add a few things beyond just load time:

* Even if your payload is very small, the HTTP round trip can make the interaction feel slow, especially if your browser has to go through the full load+render routine. Things like images and sometimes even the whole page will flicker. When all you need to do is update a very tiny portion of the page, having a thin JS layer on top of your usual link/form element can be a significant UX improvement.

* Say you have a page with a few interactive buttons/links and a form with text input. Without any AJAX, if you click a button or link (that isn't the form's submit button), it will wipe anything you had entered into the text field. Not a great experience.
Programming doesn't fall under "general business" uses? It seems like that would cover just about anything.
It appears to be:

An abbreviated history of the SI system of measures told with interspersed jokes of arguable usefulness from a first person POV character of unnecessary abstraction.

Within this history are glimpses into the complicated history of experimentally verifying Planck's constant and the interest in moving to a Planck's constant-based kilogram rather that the previous kilogram definition.

It would seem these glimpses into said experiments and kilogram debates are the reason for this post to exist and key thesis of the chosen title/headline. However the majority of this content is nested deeply below the fold and surrounded by so many tangents and attempts at humor one can only question if perhaps the author or authors misstated their thesis in the title or are intentionally attempting to confuse potential audiences for some semblance of humor.
ethereum uses proof of work.
As somebody who has made things (projects/blog posts) that have garnered mixed reviews (i.e. some insults) I think it's important that we as a community don't turn this into a "safe-space"

Agreed. Nobody wants HN to become a swamp of PC tripe... but it doesn't cost anything to simply "not be a dick". I think that's all most of us ask for.. just don't be a dick. It's simple, painless and free. And no "PC" is required.
While reviewing statements from our processor ~8 years ago, I noted that some transactions had slightly higher fees than others. Research found that those were... rewards cards. So, the processor may pass some of the cost along to the merchant.

As for the "free money" argument, research [1] suggests that humans tend to spend more when using credit / debit cards than they do when using cash.

[1] https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/ulterior-motives/201001...
Or who didn't sell at $1200!
Berlin is without a doubt the nicest city I have ever been to. Every time I go there, I think to myself, why couldn't the T in Boston be 10% as nice as the U/S-Bahn system? I absolutely hate cities, and I think I could possibly stomach living in Berlin.
How is whatsapp not convenient?
I can sympathize, Windows is my environment too. But I'm not blind to other environments where some simplifying assumptions can be made.

For true insanity try adding IDLE to the mix. IDLE under Windows in Python 2 will let you output UTF-8, but won't accept it as input. Python 3 is more consistent.
Snowdon sure seems to have problems following his reporting about the USA.
It is a bit weird to use at first but I highly recommend giving it a shot.

I've built some complex UI's with the same class name styles (Basscss). 99% of the time I'm reusing classes and I don't have to write anything custom.

Prototyping is great once you memorize the classnames.. Just write HTML, no need to switch to CSS files.

If you're working with global styles this is by far the most scalable CSS methodology as of right now IMO.
Author of the blog post here.

I wasn't at the talk, but had the same question.

BLESS, as released, appears to be intended to drop onto an AWS bastion host and recommends an AWS IAM role to authenticate the bastion to the Lambda function that acts as the CA. Like you mention, there are a lot of limitations to that, but its still a neat demonstration of using ephemeral client certificates without having to spin up a bunch of infrastructure.

At ScaleFT we're building a solution on the same principles that offers some of what you're talking about out of the box:

1. Authenticating users against a variety of SSO systems
2. Treating bastions as nothing more than an untrusted TCP proxy

For me the critical takeaway though, is that whatever automation you're layering on top, client certificates make great ephemeral access tokens and they're increasingly catching on. Its just a matter of building the right automation, integrations, and tooling on the client to make the experience good.
If you think that's central planning, you should see what zoning looks like in most US cities!

Not that I think their answer is very good.
Your neighbors at Parkmerced would include: a large park with a lake, two golf courses, San Francisco State, and (if you cross two busy highways and a Muni line) a small neighborhood with a few ordinary homes, but up a hill - Ocean View or the like.
What about carriage return. newline,form feed, etc? Those are invisible character, and those are just plain ASCII.
Do you anal every day, or just on special occasions?
Fortunately money doesn't make you happy and it can't buy you love. So you lucked out.