skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From my experience, the fuzzy matching works well enough to handle picking out text or icons on interfaces with semi-transparent backgrounds that change on scrolling (e.g., due to a parallax effect). It's pixel-based and not scale-invariant, though, so it won't automatically handle multiple zoom levels/resolutions.
React with Webpack and Meteor as a back end
The downvotes are particularly hypocritical and self-serving. I guess tolerance of "of people expressing dissenting points of view" has particular requirements.
And as a Rails dev I was thinking: "hey, somebody is taking a shot at Python's single-threadedness for a change".

I'm not familiar with Celery, I gather it is similar to Sidekiq/Que/Resque/DelayedJob/etc?
> 1) Efficiency. A flying car can theoretically take a straight line to its destination instead of having to follow a complex road layout. It might be less efficient to fly per minute, but if you're flying less minutes, it could be a net gain.

Theoretically. That fact that standard commercial flights don't do that should be a red flag. Commercial flights follow pre-designated airways.

Smaller aircraft in unregulated airspace aren't that constrained. But that's because there's too few of them.
Reviewing Microsoft's Automatic Insertion of Telemetry into C++ Binaries
This is important, and I think it's actually the key skill underlying the "powers of persuasion" mentioned in other replies. If you can empathize with a person's feelings and motivations, you can explain why your idea or proposal will help them, which is key to convincing them.
The French system grants special cards to low-income people that allows them to charge their outpatient visits directly to insurance.
There's no benefit from making the GPL into something like the LGPL or MIT/BSD. If you prefer those licenses, they're already available to be used instead. The GPL stands for a specific kind of freedom and should continue to stand for the same, maybe with tweaks but definitely in the same spirit.

If it continues to go out of fashion then that's a different issue, but watering it down doesn't help to further the causes that the FSF set out to achieve with it.
Unless you don't use emacs...
We lost Linux. The big thing about Linux was that you could swap out pieces of it for better ones if you wanted. "Linux is about choice" - vi or emacs, KDE or Gnome and so on.

OSX doesn't have that. Android doesn't have that. And in these days of systemd, Linux doesn't even have that any more.
Important next step in IANA Stewardship Transition: proposal meets NTIA criteria
I've worked with these types of bridges before. They are terrible if you want to keep the program running and intermittently call Mathematica throughout the course of a multi-hour session.

If you have a small script that makes a single one-off call to Mathematica, and the interface already exists for your language, which it probably doesn't, even if you're using an extremely popular language, and even though you're paying hundreds of dollars a year just for PERSONAL use, then things can be ok. But if you want to make a bunch of calls and keep the program running reliably then you're SOL.

Oh, and don't even think about deploying. It will cost you so much that it's more cost-effective to just rewrite the thing or do the work of switching out with a different library/tool.
Well if the top investor suggests it, then it MUST be true. Oh dear...
Uber finally lets you schedule rides ahead of time. But there’s a catch
Nice, I may have to check this out. I'm looking to setup a small site for myself with a blog and security always worries me if I look at things like Wordpress.
https://creativecommons.org/about/history/
On Healthkit, Granola and JSON with Sherbit
Surely nobody thinks this can happen without autonomous (or at least remotely centralized) control?

Do they?

Because if they do, they've obviously never driven a normal car in traffic, much less a flying one.
Donald Trump Is Not Fit for the Presidency of the United States of America
With jenkins
The Prescient Joel on Software
Tips for Bringing Novice Developers Up to Speed (2013)
They accepted the promotion.
Creating a Lookalike Audience with Your Customer Data
I shouldn't have to look at the html source of a page to determine the title. (Most mobile browsers don't show the title, and even desktop chrome only shows a little bit of it).

You're right about the adverts. It's more of a design thing than anything else. The site looks like it was designed in the 90s.

As for statements from twitter and others, they are very important, as they give credibility and background to the story. Most people here don't have time to do their own analysis and research on a story.
Any such back door would be best implemented in the WeChat back-end servers. You'd never find it by analysing the client app or the communications to and from it.
> look it up don't just comment reply "I love the suburbs and my driving my Model X everywhere

Instead of this passive aggressive remark, perhaps post links to the research that you believe validates your point? I'm not disagreeing with you, but I bet it's probably possible to find "studies" that back up both sides of the argument.
Drop bears, they are scary.
> The victim can call her bank and report a fraudulent transaction

This only works to seize the funds on prepaid cards, not bank accounts.
Even weirder, a Google search for "xlispstat" seems to bring up more R hits that don't even mention xlispstat than actual xlispstat ones. Some weird algorithm is associating R and xlispstat as relating to statistics and because R is much more popular these days, prioritizing R over xlispstat.
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How much experience is required for Software Engineer position?
>So you're saying people brought up differently are p-zombies?

No, I'm saying that people brought up differently actually identify our selves with our actual, physical bodies, and don't imagine/visualize a tiny little figurine in our head. We have a different experience of the world, not no experience.

To me it seems weirder to say, "When I get bitten by a dog, the little homunculus gets a loud alarm ringing in his little room saying, 'BITTEN BY DOG!'" than "When I get bitten by a dog, its teeth feel sharp and painful."
doh https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11856835
interesting, the model seems very slightly confident that italy will win against belgium, even though it recently lost 3-1, and most rankings put the belgians ahead, and gut feelings say that italy's current team kinda sucks.

I really hope your model is right :)

EDIT: could it be you are underestimating the weight of player age?
Newspapers’ Complaint to Consumer Agency Shouldn’t Lead to Bans on Privacy
On the other hand, cities have higher crime rates, more pollution, more noise, less space, and higher cost of living.

Have you ever lived in an apartment building? Have you ever had noisy neighbors and wished you lived in a detached house with a spacious yard? Have you ever been awakened by a truck's backup beeper at 5 AM? Have you ever thought about what it would be like to live in a city where a riot takes place, or a terrorist attack, or a public health epidemic?

There is a big gap between "living in tune with nature" (whatever that means to whoever reads it) and living in a city. Some people prefer living in less densely populated areas. Some people prefer living in the wilderness. Some people prefer living in skyscrapers, stacked on top of each other like sardines.

Personally, I think that the more people are packed together in small areas, the less happy people are. People are happier when they have space of their own, giving them privacy--not just in terms of being hidden from sight, but in terms of having their space not being intruded upon by noise, pollution, etc.
Growing Coalition Opposes California Exerting Copyright Over Public Records
EFF's Badge Hack Pageant Returns to DEF CON
I found a bug
http://imgur.com/VDQOT7o
You become a millionaire by making an average middle-class salary ($45k ish), marrying someone else who does the same, setting your 401k to 15%, and waiting a few decades. That does not make you rich, it is simply the prerequisite for retirement.

"Millionaire" at 25 means rich. Millionaire at 50 means it is at least plausible you will retire without wrecking your children's finances to keep you off the street in old age.
If the two former employees were men, would you have commented on it?
> And OSX now is by far the most popular workstation Unix.

That's kind of cheating though. OS X is a "workstation OS" but it's also a "desktop OS" used by millions of elementary school teachers and news reporters. So then the "workstation OS" gets to claim those people as users, but their main competition in that market is Microsoft Windows, which OS X loses the popularity contest to in the same way that OS X (including iOS) loses to Linux (including Android).
yeah, got a little confused there.
Jessica asserts that conventions are too distracting and you shouldn't go to them.

I don't completely agree with that. Depending on what type of business you're making, the best way to get work done is to go to conventions, because that's the only time you can easily meet with a bunch of people that are related to your industry and make new partnerships, check out new hardware/software solutions to save time or money, possibly hunt for some new talent to join the company, discuss business propositions, etc, can all be possible in much shorter period of time than doing the same outside the convention.

Even just having the opportunity to meet someone face to face that you've been doing business with for the past several months can be useful.

That being said, you don't need to go to a lot of them. Attend only one or two of the most productive ones per year (most productive ones are not always the largest), and you should get a lot done without spending too much time at them.

Also don't go if you're strapped for cash, as they're often expensive (depending on the industry). They're not absolutely necessary, and they can be a waste of time if you don't utilize them properly. But they can be helpful tools.
http://imgur.com/755Bnzw
To be honest, I'd rate pkg-ng higher than apt and dpkg these days. It's faster, cleaner, and uses an SQLite database as the backend, which allows for much more interesting queries for figuring out system state. For the base system, FreeBSD has an in-place binary updating system called freebsd-update that works rather well. I'd definitely encourage you to try FreeBSD, it has a beautiful amount of cleanliness that's missing from current Linux distros.
With modern FADEC engines, all of this is automated (from what I read...I've never actually flown anything with FADEC).
I imagine we're still in the infancy of the "styling" as right now designs mostly are "how do we cram all this stuff inside and make it fit".
If docker for FreeBSD doesn't turn quickly to "stable" I believe that it will lose a large chunk of possible market share.
I had very similar thoughts recently. Really glad someone took time to express them properly.

Even on this very website... I feel there is an immense bias in favor of anything "deep" and "neural" when it comes to AI. Can't recall any recent AI papers that made it to the front page without having those two words in the title.

And please, don't tell me there is nothing interesting going on in the field outside of deep learning. Even when an approach doesn't beat SOTA in terms of error rates, it can still contain valuable ideas or have interesting properties.
Funny, even though I wear an Apple Watch every day I've gone back to using Apple Pay on my iPhone instead. It's just easier than the contortions that are sometimes required to get the Apple Watch close enough to the reader.
be careful not to confuse Django the framework (which is not a cms) with Django-CMS the cms built on top of Django the framework by a different set of people. I cannot comment on the security of django-cms because I didn't look into it but Django the framework tends to be "secure by default" i.e. has defaults that enforce csrf protection and other security best practices.
Have you had any chance to compare your player strength values against other models to check how well they are aligned? You can find from Premier League's web site "Player Performance Index", e.g. for last season the top three players according to PL PPI were Harry Kane, Riyad Mahrez and Jamie Vardy.

Another obvious question is that have you checked your model against the odds on betting sites that provide "Draw-no-bet" bets since you are not yet taking into account draws?
Related blog post that explains what this is and why we open sourced it: https://blog.cloudflare.com/cf-ui/
Microsoft Orleans
Ripoff Report Doesn't Own the Copyright in Posts, Gets Sued Anyways
I've often wondered why stack based architectures haven't hit the mainstream. Burroughs / Unisys had stack machines that outran competitors in everything but math intensive programs. With popular languages following in the steps of Algol I would think stack machines would be a good choice. We always talk about passing things in the data stack and pointers out to other data elements, both things a stack machine excels at.
> We are still crippled by proprietary firmwares everywhere[1], rampant with backdoors, and there is no mindshare there to worry about - all it takes is a concerted effort and focus and within several hardware generations we can reverse this dire course, and the consumers do not even need to notice it happening.

(Please understand I care about these issues as much as you do but) you're vastly understating the effort required to purge these proprietary firmwares. Especially with the rise of high speed serial links, the model for peripherals has become a separate CPU running closed code, with ever-more complex code for competitive advantage (eg SSDs). Software is eating this world as well, for much the same reasons - increased complexity, post-manufacturing flexibility, and the emphasis on marginal cost.

A possible way forward is to concentrate on the central processor, treat peripherals as hostile [0], and mitigate vulnerability to them. For example, a hard drive "as-a-service" can be made secure with encryption and some type of PIR/ORAM (depending on our model of its side channels, which could be reduced by putting it in a Faraday cage with filtered power). This seems excessive, and it is.

But the alternatives are to convince Samsung to open up their SSD firmware (lol), hack into their always-changing devices, or to independently create an open SSD design. This design would be Free software with dumb hardware/flash, would have to be performant enough to convince consumers, and you'd have to successfully deter manufacturers from re-adding microprocessors to the dumb flash to increase margins.

[0] This obviously doesn't work for some peripherals, like a keyboard.
I hear you. Take a look at the Martian line of smartwatches. https://www.martianwatches.com/
Application Users vs. Row Level Security in Postgres
There are safety measures such as autorotation and airframe parachutes that can safely land the aircraft after an engine failure.
> The other is to see whether, now that I'm out from under my 2 year phone "contract" with Verizon, I can coerce better pricing/capacity out of them.

If you are currently paying the contract rate, you should be able to get ~20/month off.
I contend that people are happier and healthier where the population density is lower, resulting in less crime, less pollution, less noise, lower cost of living, more space, more privacy, etc.

If you want to live in big buildings, packed together like sardines, unable to escape from the noise of your neighbors and everything that goes on in the city outside the window, more power to you. But don't presume to say that everyone else will be happier if they would just do what you prefer.
Sorry if you had any problems with our demos - it turned out that the A/B testing tool we had on the form was sometimes raising a 403 error - we've deactivated it and all is working smoothly now.
I'd rather see it directed, specifically, to needed public goods. Otherwise it becomes just another generic revenue source (i.e.: a tax) and, over-time, it becomes all too tempting to still milk it for more money. Red light cameras are a good example of this. Revenues from them (in Chicago, at least) went to the city's general fund. That didn't stop the city from reducing yellow light times to increase revenues.
To all the haters: the GIL is just a constraint that can be worked around. Clever ways of starting more than one interpreter is a solid way to do that. If you can't think of a way to do that, then maybe you shouldn't be working on distributed systems.

For example, I wrote a high-speed distributed database load tool, a perfect python use-case. It did some transforms, but nothing heavy. The database (Vertica) could generally keep up. For large files (multiple TB) I'd divide the file into a number of chunks and each interpreter would just seek into an offset, read to EOL, then load until it reached the next interpreter's offset. I built it in a few hours.

Just trying to say that there are very few real-world workloads (were python is extremely useful) that the GIL really gets in the way. It certainly doesn't offset the time and ease of developing a solution.
How to implement Angular UI data grid in MVC 5 application
I think the Linux community has always massively underestimated how destructive the no-stable-API policy has been.

The result of not being willing to commit to a driver API has been that Android devices - by far the most massive deployment of Linux kernels ever - are a wasteland of out of date, exploit-ridden kernels that can't be patched because of the monolithic driver model. Windows has a single kernel and all driver vendors play nicely within it. You can upgrade Windows separately to upgrading your PC, and you get the updates when Microsoft pushes them out. This takes a lot of effort by Microsoft, but it works.

Android devices, on the other hand, can't do that because Google can't provide shared kernel builds. Everyone has to do it themselves. And as noted above, this did not lead to a utopia of shared and open drivers, it just led to Linux users having out of date operating systems.
I independently monitor availability of 150 public cloud services and only observed 1.73 hours downtime for this event. This is the first EC2 outage I've observed in any region for over 6 months. According to my stats, in 2015 EC2 was highly available with 6 of 9 regions (including every US and EU region) having no outages, and total average service availability of 99.998% (78% of downtime in sa-east-1). I haven't observed a single outage in us-west-2 or eu-west-1 in nearly 3 years. This compared to 16-33 minutes of downtime in every region for GCE in 2015, and total average availability of 99.995%. Additionally, since 2013 I've never observed a global EC2 outage like the 4/11/2016 GCE event.

https://cloudharmony.com/status-for-aws
What these tech giants need to do is collude, but this time instead of colluding to screw over their employees by not "poaching" them, they need to collude to cut off all their services to this district of East Texas. Screw over the morons living in this area whose economy lives off this leaching, and also make it so many patent lawsuits can be easily dismissed because the internet services these patents supposedly cover won't be available there, so they can argue the venue is inappropriate.
How many startup founders do you know think they aren't building something people want?

These are some nice tips, but the problem with this advice is that it probably won't change founder behaviors.

Most startup founders I know would think that they are focused, building something people want, not over hiring, etc...

With the exception of the default alive or dead, none or the other tips are really quantifiable.

I appreciate everything Jessica has done, and she has a wealth of experience and exposure to a wide variety of startups, but this advice is too subjective.
The latter phrase seems like a reasonable expression of the article, so we've replaced the (arguably baity and misleading) title above. If anyone suggests a better (accurate and neutral) title, we can change it again.
Fast DNA-sequencing machines are leading to simple blood tests for cancer
Huh? Have you even used an Apple watch? These are all features of the Apple watch...

"I still find it crazy that the Apple Watch display is off by default!"

Apple watch is default off, but turns on as soon as you look at it. I'd consider this a feature, if anything...

"Pebble vibrates and shows who's calling when someone calls me"

Apple watch does this too... you can even answer the call from your watch.

"Its UI is really simple and well thought out, especially compared to the Apple Watch"

How so?
Who's implementing it and why would it cost me less than paying a sysadmin to use sudo?
> If it continues to go out of fashion then that's a different issue, but watering it down doesn't help to further the causes that the FSF set out to achieve with it.

If it continues to go out of fashion, that means that it is not an effective means of furthering the cause ths FSF set out to achieve for it.

One can agree with what the FSF overtly claims its goals to be, without believing that the current form of the GPL is particularly an effective method at achieving those goals in the current environment (one might even believe that the basic approach of the GPL was the most effective approach for an earlier time with different circumstances, without believing that it is effective now.)

It may be the case that compelling very specific rules for software freedom if a package is used isn't actually the most effective way, in practice, of promoting software freedom.
Quirky: QR code printer for your terminal
You missed my point, which was that factors that influence productivity are more fundamental than those that influence consumption.

Nobody (sane) enjoys going the doctor.
> I'm sure this is something Elon Musk would be trying to make

I am not so sure. An electric airplane at least has the effect of lowering greenhouse emissions, thus increasing, even by a minuscule amount, the amount of time we have on this rock.

But flying cars? This is something that would increase the world's energy consumption, for little benefit.

He has already tackled transportation with the Hyperloop. Those are flying cars(or trains, depending on your point of view). Only they are safer, more energy efficient and more economical.

Besides, adding wings to a car doesn't seem like something one would do, if trying to think from first principles.

Also, I think the flying suit was a joke (my inner child is hoping not).
The new portal is still lacking compared to the old one and they should have waited longer before pushing it IMO. I still find I need to go back to the old one for many things. Azure ML still uses the old portal.

If you need to try stuff in the future you could use BizSpark. The best way of not getting charged is not to provide payment information.
And what happens when a Cessna parachutes onto the roof of your house? Onto the middle of a busy street? etc. If we were all using flying cars, this would become a regular occurrence. It's just not practical at that scale.
> "no handout" US

Roughly $2trillion of the nation's $3.8trillion spending in the 2015 [1] budget was healthcare, social security, food assistance, and unemployment. This doesn't include any of the substantial spending on welfare and 'handouts' as you call them by state and local governments.

The problem isn't that we aren't willing to redistribute money, the problem is that the politicians do a crap job of it, and do it in ways that often seem specifically designed to keep the poor people poor.

[1] https://media.nationalpriorities.org/uploads/budget-graphic....