skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Maybe the European "right to be forgotten" has something to it after all...

All the more dangerous if you can't find out someone is a white supremacist because they've politely asked to have the internet scrubbed all the terrible things they've done.
Aren't halogens (as a subclass of incandescents) expensive, and run hot/high wattage?
Well he called himself a socialist, so he might be totally down with that. No private exchange of labor or capital allowed in the communist utopia, only free association. Because y'know, if people were unshackled from the burden of capitalism, they'd be beating down your door to mow your lawn, fix your car, etc. for no compensation whatsoever.
This is brilliant. I turned my old iPhone 4 into a server to listen for my Amazon Dash buttons.
I think this is just "good design," you expect tools to be designed to handle failure in a reasonable way.
a) Ethereum is not deflationary
b) Deflationariness is completely orthogonal to this problem. This is an issue of liquidity, which would exist in an inflationary or deflationary currency equally.
I feel like the author went too easy on LinkedIn.

> I don’t expect much from companies like LinkedIn, but when their incompetence makes our lives more difficult, they could at least pretend to care a little more.

This had the potential to do a lot more harm than just making his life "more difficult".
> Having worked for both private companies and government contractors

Government contractors are generally also private companies; those aren't really separate groups.
There's a post on building Docker images with Nix: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11502989
Well, that's what I thought too, but enough people liked it and commented on it that I was getting notifications for days. (I'm assuming they show it to more people when it gets reactions, which I agree, is almost never)
So you pull the package down and the signature checks out to some key on a pgp key server. How do you know it's the correct key?
I researched this over a summer once by downloading the latest scientific papers on gaze tracking. The result were pretty disappointing to me. Then I figured I was doing this researching all wrong. Because I already knew from highschool biology that your eye does micro movements all the time to keep the retina stimulated and to keep a larger area in focus at the same time.
So I opened wikipedia and looked up the smallest micro moments that the eyes do. Based on the angle of it and the average distance between your eye and the screen, it's easy to see that you can never replace the mouse with gaze for a pixel perfect pointing device.

However! If you think outside the box, you might get a fairly accurate gaze tracker and a different GUI design to get this to work. That vision (no pun intended) is more of a long term one. An easy short term use for eye gaze use would be automatically setting GUI window focus based on eye gaze. That already might save you a keyboard-mouse switch. As long as you have no more than four windows on your screen, you can make it work with the current tech already.
> you really need someone who understands these problems to efficiently scale a JVM language

Yes. That's not a problem to find and hire one or two of these guys to write a core. And then hire a ton of regular Java developers to write a ton of code you need around that core, educated and managed by those two smart guys.

Compare it to the problem you have going C, C++, Rust, Nim way. Now you need to hire a ton of guys who can write good C++ code (because it must be good to not to crash every 5 seconds, at least), or even worse - a ton of guys who can write any (not even good) Nim code.
Not really. The nature of trade is that people only interact with these startups if they value the good or service greater than they value their cash, privacy, or whatever. Maybe the users are ill-informed, but that's the expectation.
If you mean "what was so special about post WWII that the US succeeded by being laissez-faire" - then I'd argue that WWII was what happened. With Germany and Japan destroyed, the US had an advantage. Call it unfair or not.
Germany looks very healthy now, with their focus on industry.
Where is the web of trust that lets me cryptographically verify that my install.sh file was published by some PhD student in the Netherlands? And unless I trust the https server, how do I know which PhD student in the Netherlands I'm supposed to trust?

If this were software that I had to install multiple times (say there are several updates a year), it might make sense to implement TOFU with a published GPG key -- each successive update would use the same key I imported the first time. However, the nix installer installs a package manager which is self updating, and therefore implements TOFU itself.
To add on to this, it's also a pure tech services play, which IMO is generally a bit harder to monetize than a product company, but generally a lot easier to sell in an acquisition. Which doesn't make this sitatuion any better.
We found the same—using OSM data that just had points was problematic, both because of accuracy and because it tended to often be the front door, not the centroid of the object.

I believe we limited our model generation to selecting places that had outlines, and computed the centroid of that outline. One of the benefits of our technique is that we didn't need to be comprehensive—we can throw out lots of places and still have enough to be useful for the model.
This could be really useful.

A simple way to get started on Android can be "Automagic".

It lets you trigger actions based on events and conditions.

Events can be almost anything the phone can sense.

Actions can be almost anything the phone can do including sending requests over http(s), mail or sms.

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Yep, additionally, /nix is really no different than /usr/local here. Just in a different spot.

I'd recommend everyone try nixos out as well to see why everything (mostly) in /nix is a good idea.

nixos is easily the most un unix unix i've seen, and honestly i can't wait to get rid of apt/rpm/yum/zypper. Not dealing with /some/file/blah being version X or Y in general is so freeing.
I ended up searching "Flurp" because with the current state of things, there was a chance that this was real.
There's certainly never been a shortage of protectionist economies, it's pretty much the default of countries for obvious reasons of protecting vested interests. The best explanation I've ever read for the rise East Asian export economies post WWII is in the book "How Asia Works" [1]. The title is a little misleading, it's only about East and SE Asia, but it has a good broad overview of what made Japan, Taiwan, South Korea, and China all rapidly industrialized 1945+, and why South East Asia (particularly Malaysia) failed.

The main thrust of the argument is that markets need to be protected but also forced to export. Whether this is through tight currency controls (to get foreign currency you have to export), government support, or government force (Park arrested South Korean businessmen, and released them only when they agreed to focus on export). And ruthless culling of companies that failed in the global market. You also need very disciplined land reform, to create the initial capital generated by intense land use by small farmers - many SE Asian nations failed to do this, and South Korea, Japan, and Taiwan were all quite successful [2]. China is more muddled, but they also had a strong focus on exports and government support for that.

Exports are important, as otherwise protected companies stagnate and become uncompetitive, reliant on government support. With a focus on exports, countries can use their local market as a test bed and a market to build up to exporting to richer countries.

What I'd really like is a good overview of ISI policy in the successful East Asian Countries versus Latin America which has an even longer history of ISI.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/How-Asia-Works-Joe-Studwell/dp/0802121...
[2] To an extent too succesful: Japan spends a lot of money today protecting inefficient small farms created by land reform. But it's a small price in comparison.
I dunno, I made a joke about "White People" years ago on Twitter (something like "White People won't dance") and then Klout figured I was an expert on "White People" and sent me a free subscription to the Red Bulletin.
Simple: penalize the lack of oversight unless it can be proven that an AI/algorithm is significantly superior at performing a task than a human. So if a human trucker is asleep at the wheel while the AI drives and the truck crashes, fault the driver (and possibly company if policy) for negligence. If the driver is awake and the AI glitches out and the driver does the best they can to rectify the situation but still results in a crash, then it it was it is: a mistake.
Calling that "AI" is going a bit too far.
Here’s my take on this (corrections welcome): the thing you need to get light out is a hot filament. You use electricity to a) make it hot and b) keep it hot. Both are easier the better the filament is thermally isolated.

Caveat: if that argument is correct, I would think a bulb with triple glazing would help, too. Has that been tried?
Is there any reason to switch if homebrew worked perfectly for me in the last couple of years?
I wonder how it works though. Who checks the logs to make sure what it would've done is the correct thing. And if it's done by software. Why isn't that software "driving" the car?
EMC announces open source orchestration tool for cloud, IoT apps
MS documentation site running behind Nginx on Ubuntu
Yes, that's great. I do hope that Tesla nor any other car maker ever pushes a silent OTA update while the car is in motion, though. In fact, there should be a hard rule embedded into the code that prevents any such in-motion update from happening.
Wow they can monitor quality now? That's awesome.
1. Establish a news website.
2. Spend a few years so people respect your site as legitimate.
3. One day, issue headline "LinkedIn executives X, Y, Z, etc. arrested in pedophile ring investigation". Or some other heinous crime.
4. "Enjoy your update emails, you fuckers."
Trying to imagine a case where this CEO is just inappropriate rather than mean spirited. The only idea that comes to mind is that the CEO was trying to guard against racial division. He wanted to avoid a situation where race mattered at all in his company, and was probing to see if this person was easily triggered along those lines. While twisted, it makes some sense since a job offer was actually forthcoming.
Some of the other movies (the really bad examples) are out of sample. The last example is also from training set, though.
HP Enterprise to Spin Off and Merge with CSC
Whilst abhorrent, it's easy to see how this happened. No matter how much you train a machine it will make mistakes in this kind of classification when natural language is involved. Identifying that an article is about something or someone is a very very hard problem.
> My email included the words libel and attorney

I understand why this is offensive, but really?
I have a moderately common name, shared by several people with more impressive public accomplishments than I have. I always laugh about people Googling someone's name to research them, because that'd be completely impossible for me without adding a few search terms.

But you don't even need that. If you've ever searched Facebook for a name, surely you know that most names are not unique identifiers.
It's likely that at least some of those large holders are exchanges like Poloniex that allow you to purchase DAO tokens directly on the exchange.
In fact, for for the normal case of uncoerced transactions, it's safe to assume that both parties are getting more than they give, in ways that provide the greatest utility to themselves.
I'll add that America is the most protectionist country according to Credit Suisse: http://www.businessinsider.in/The-country-that-imposes-the-m... (Couldn't find link to original report)

Worked out well for America. Protectionist laws are a legitimate tool for social and economic progress.
Well, given Micromax exists and has manufacturing (and HQ) in India, now Indian government can say that smartphones are not cutting-edge high-tech per se.
The reflected IR light will be absorbed by the filament, therefore requiring less energy over time to keep the filament at temperature. That thermal energy while lower than the input energy will create a baseline temperature, so now you only need Some of the new energy to output more photons, instead of All the energy.
I'm not searching for a job right now, but I've decided that the next time I do, my resume will also contain a "This is me" that says what is me on HN, reddit, github, etc., and a disclaimer that anything else with that name isn't necessarily me. There are at least two other programmers that share my name, one of which even has vaguely similar programming language skills, to say nothing of all the other hits it gets. And my handle "jerf" is merely rare, not unique, and not everything that comes up under that is stuff I'm associated with either.

I recommend this to everybody.
The article does not evaluate the quality of the embeddings, so there's not much to say about all of that.
Well it's time I un-endorse you for "attention to detail" on LinkedIn then...
Also, at low brightnesses, the PWM frequency of the LED backlights drops, and depending on how low it drops to that can cause a bunch of eyestrain as well.
That's not true at all. If you had those opinions and wanted to keep them to yourself, how could that possibly be a bad thing? Shutting up about biases and intolerance is a fine way to allow clearer thoughts to be heard.
I'm suprised noone brought this documentary up: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1j0XDGIsUg
Based on the fact that you don't want to talk about it, I'm guessing this is not an issue that you have to deal with personally.

"The incessant focus on identity politics and oppression olympics is extremely cancerous"

Yes, instead of dealing with race-related issues, which you admit exist, let's just tell the people who suffer that their POV is cancerous and they should shut up. That should fix things. -_-
In response to 3, I think the main problem it solves is that most people don't have access to invest in VC funds, and the DAO represents a way of democratizing that access.
He should be happy they think his name is real. You can get some real fun going when they won't acknowledge that.
While Transparent, Agile = True
the cutting edge of technology is always moving, moreor less tautologically, they could give better guidelines (i haven't read them they might actually be very good guidelines already) but there isn't going to be a concrete definition.
The country that has the most number of trade restrictions is America
I apologize for using a term that is derisive. I'd be fine if contributing back was the only requirement. The other terms however at the very least inconvenience developers in how they build and deploy applications, and at worst simply exclude entire platforms. Therefore, I disagree that LGPL is 'the best' for contributing back because the MPL maximizes utility and potential targets. On the other hand with the additional LGPL terms, I don't see how they improve the 'contributing back' part. They instead extend additional user level freedoms which in my opinion are orthogonal to contribution. I'm not starting a permissive/restrictive flamewar here, both the MPL and LGPL have a very similar flavor so I think its fair to compare them.

Most developers I know use the LGPL only because they want any improvements contributed back and not because they want to restrict linking or platforms. Plenty of LGPL libraries come with linking exceptions, and lots of devs don't even know about potential platform limitations.
DAO was dead as soon as ODBC entered the room.
everything david (workergnome) said, and also: in the tile you point to, "swimming pool" is most interesting/recognizable feature, but most of the image is just "trees and asphalt". if you pick another image where the pool takes up more of the image, you'll find more of what you're looking for: http://nyc.terrapattern.com/?_ga=1.84865689.1830936426.14642...
How did this "Connections in the news" feature use a person's name and surname to uniquely identify them? This is appallingly asinine, as this example indicates. My name is as generic as they come, and so this is a risk for me. I wonder if LinkedIn were to group its members by name and count them, how many people (excluding those not on LinkedIn) would actually be uniquely determined by a name/surname combo? A quick search for "William Johnson" yields 7,476 results. Why didn't LinkedIn even ask this guy to confirm if he was indeed that William Johnson in the news? What an absolute fuck-up.
Sure, this is a pretty typical way to field-test algorithms that you need more data about but are worried about handing over control to.

Google does it, for example.
Obviously Sanders uses a different definition for "socialist" than you do. What makes your definition correct and his wrong? An appeal to authority fallacy? He can produce just as many "authorities" with equally fancy credentials who agree with his definition and say yours is wrong.

Part of the problem with socialism is that every particular faction thinks their own pet definition of "socialism" is the One True Correct Socialism, and all others are merely ignorant heretics.
When did adaptive cruise control and lane keeping become "self-driving"?
How useful is this data really though? Say their software makes the decision to go straight and maintain the speed limit. I, as the driving choose to speed up. Was their software right or wrong? Did I speed up because I was avoiding some hazard or because I'm driving a Tesla? Is this an important data point, or some fluke that should be thrown out.

I think one has to be very careful when inferring any conclusions from these logs.
Really interesting to read over the highlights:

http://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-15-315

The LoC is a HUGE organization but reading this example makes me wonder what's happening there... " For example, while the inventory identifies over 18,000 computers currently in use, officials stated that the Library has fewer than 6,500. Until the Library addresses these weaknesses, its ability to make informed decisions will be impaired."
Nothing he said is contradicted by the mediocre/sub-par performance of recognized experts. In fact it's explained by it:

>that 5% has a disproportionate impact on the marginal price of shares.
I'm very glad about less freedom of speech here in germany. It surely has it's downsides (mostly because it's a slippery slope). Here you would win big in court (several hundred euros, you're rich afterwards), but also you'd win the right to publish a correction on the same place and the same prominence as the original article.
This suggests Tesla stores a recording of every driver's traffic violations. Have they received any subpoenas for that data?
When agricultural productivity went up people got different jobs and things got better unless you think all us coders should be out digging potatoes instead.

Unemployment through lack of demand is another issue and can happen with or without productivity changes. See for example Singapore with 2% unemployment and high productivity and say Mozambique with 60% unemployment and low productivity (figures from Wikipedia).
This is a good opportunity for everyone to disable this feature before LinkedIn sends any news articles to your contacts about you.

Go here (https://www.linkedin.com/psettings/privacy) and turn off the setting labeled "Notifying connections when you're in the news". It's the last item in the first section. While you're still on that page, scroll to the bottom and enable two factor auth too.
FAQ time:

I see references to a “core” in the code, what is that?
The core is referring to our internal C++ storage engine. It is not currently open-source but we do plan on open-sourcing it also under the Apache 2.0 license once we’ve had a chance to clean it up, rename it, and finalize major features inside of it. In the meantime, its binary releases are made available under the Realm Core (TightDB) Binary License.

https://realm.io/docs/objc/latest/#faq
color is any ethnicity that's not "white". In the U.S. it's mostly used to refer to black people, but Asians, Hispanics, etc are also considered "colored"
In some contexts “color” has referred to mainly African-descended people. In other contexts “color” gets applied more broadly to anyone with non-European ancestry. Don’t overthink the /dev/color/ name.

For some very incomplete hints at some of the history, see Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colored https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Person_of_color
I wouldn't be so quick to judge. Most of this Ethereum stuff even confuses me half the time and I've been following BTC closely for a long time now. I'm not surprised the journo mixed up him being a co-founder of Ethereum, which underpins the tech behind DAO, and being a co-founder of The DAO.

Off-topic: This type of nerd superiority complex comes up in every article written for a non-technical audience on a tech subject. Can't we ever just point out the error and move on, without turning it into an attack? It'd do a lot to improve the civility around here.
Your entire second paragraph indicates to me that you haven't spent time at a well-oiled C++ shop or potentially haven't worked with modern C++ at all. What does "crash every 5 seconds" even mean? Do you think outside of Java we are all sitting around pounding rocks together and dealing with segfaults all day long? Are you saying JVM languages don't NPE in poor hands?

There are three focus areas of wrongness in your comment (maybe four if I'm feeling particularly culturally trolly) but I'll stick with that one and leave the others to others.
At least 30 per cent of the value of procurement of manufactured/processed products shall be sourced from Indian small industries.

So for high margin product like iphone, they're going to base it on cost of good or (materials). There's probably some fudging room.
Yep, whenever someone say that GM/Ford/VW is going to destroy Tesla with their better mfg experience this is one of the things I drive home as Tesla's real advantage(along with the supercharger network).

Seeing the changes in the ~1 year we've owned a Model S has been incredible. For each new feature they add/improve they increase the value across the whole fleet(assuming AP hardware/etc).

Heck, they've said they already have a huge mapping network, you could start giving some of the major mapping companies a run for their money just with that data alone.
When you think about it from a business's perspective it makes sense. If a bunch of people who aren't your customers fill up your lot, and there isn't nearby parking or it costs money, potential customers will arrive and might leave without patronizing your business because they can't find a place to park.

Obviously it's annoying when it's enforced as overzealously as the above example.
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The limiting factor is the bootloader. Mac firmware can read HFS+ natively, find the bootloader, which in turn recognizes HFSX, Apple RAID, and Apple Core Storage. I doubt any of the previous ZFS support exists in the current bootloader.

Unlike linux where there's a separate /boot, OS X doesn't really separate boot from root file systems. So how you'd boot XNU from HFS+ and transition to a separate ZFS root fs isn't obvious to me from the existing documentation.
Working with Lisp images: it's horrible when you lose track of what runtime change allows your code to continue working. You typically keep a working compilation between code and your intended environment, and use the run time to experiment in between changes.
Its a struggle to get website visitors but my mobile apps grew to 60k users with $0 marketing budget.