skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Please read my most recent two blog entries on http://www.voxelquest.com where I talk about the current state of things. :)

I have pinged my network, and am very grateful for all the job offers that have come of it. However, at least half those offers have come with technical interviews that basically ignore my work experience, or in one case the recruiter could not even determine why my experience was relevant (even though it was). Some offers involved getting paid to continue working on Voxel Quest. However, one such offer was in a remote country where the US dollar is much stronger, and I could not have operated under the salary they were offering (at least, not without moving to their country, which is very far away).

At this point I am trying to figure out the "best" path, and that involves many factors, one of which is trying to ease up on the stress I have put my family through. By insistence I have put up Patreon although I am not yet touching the money until I know what my future job is and what that means for VQ (and as mentioned I'm also refunding all the money put into VQ).
Wikipedia? Are you talking about editing or just plain reading?
The larger livestock will usually have a much longer lifespan. It has to keep its flesh heated above ambient for that entire lifespan. If Mouse A lives 100x longer and puts on the same weight and achieves the same stature as Mouse B, it's spent ~100x as much energy getting to the same physiological place as Mouse B.
To argue the case of the middle ground, it's perfectly possible to give the impression of a well animated app without breaking HTML's layout and constraints everywhere. Simple, non-obtrusive animations can give your interface a ton of "app-like" weight, and avoiding the complexity makes it easier for browsers to render, and also generally less expensive to develop in the first place.

If it's possible to do it with the new CSS animations (which should be reasonably well accelerated on modern browsers) and gracefully degrade by... y'know, not having the animations play, that's probably the ideal compromise right there. If you start restructuring your DOM in the name of easier animations or flashier effects, you've gone too far.
> A whole company going after one person

What do you mean by "goinf after"? Shouldn't they be able to defend themselves?!
Ransomware detection is just a (perhaps necessary) band-aid.

By default all applications should be sandboxed. Why should a random application be able to read/write to every user directory? We enforce process separation in memory, we should do the same on disk.
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It's the same as with Apple. If you put out so much marketing about how your products are perfect every little flaw will be hyped just as much as you hype the positive traits.
From the way you described it, you could consider the pre-trained network to be the "missing image". It already has an idea of what images should look like so when it detects an object the "style" is what makes that object different than the stereotypical one it's already modeled.
Oh, I agree with you, you are totally right. I am mostly speaking from a hypothetical "I wish the world did not operate this way" type of tone. :)
Any reason you couldn't add steering controls to an emergency parachute, just like skydivers use? Not manually pulled, but with some small emergency actuators? Basically you'd just need the ability to pull down corners of the parachute, right?
we'll fix your car for you, but only if you keep quiet about [it]

I think you're confused about the meaning of 'claims' which in this context means a legal claim; it's not referring to a blog or freedom of speech in any way preventing you from claiming things, just that you won't sue them over it.
Most cars from Volvo and Mercedes can drive at least 300,000 miles (500,000 km) so 70k is nothing.

But on the other hand suspension problems like this are also nothing. Drive into a hole hard enough and something breaks.
Just happens.
So, you talked to an idiot whoclaimed to represent a certain idea and ended up believing his claim?
And if there is no record in the repository, what should I do with the default value? Check if the returned value is different from the default? I actually don't see any real benefit in cleanliness. The only thing that could actually happen is using the default in some way that could eventually bring the data in some strange state. An NPE would at least shout "YOU MESSED SOMETHING UP" in my face.
Perhaps a student saw an opportunity to get a quick $20,000 discount on their tuition?
The one about joining ISIS is in there.
A broken iPhone is not international news.
It's difficult to create backups if you can't write into the backups storage.
I have a hard time imagining how you got all that from the article. Bullying? Legal Retaliation? Doxing? Companies "controlling public space communication"? Censorship?

Not a single one of those things have come close to happening here.
This is one more reason why I no longer post on social media.
>70,000 miles is an incredible distance. I am impressed the car held together that long.

Huh? Nothing unusual at all about that. I'm sure others will chime in with even higher numbers, but I sold my last car after I put 200,000 miles on it. It was still working, but did have some miscellaneous issues by that point (no suspension issues though and I did have a gravel driveway for 2/3 of my ownership of the car). Buy a reliable model and you'll find 70,000 to be only middle-age.

(To back this up with some sort of data--a quick search of cars.com for Toyota Camry's (since it's a fairly popular, quite reliable car) shows 4,837 for sale with over 100,000 miles right now. I see pictures of some of those odometers with over 350,000 miles on them. While that's unusual it is FIVE TIMES the 70,000 miles you thought was an incredible distance.).
Is the code particularly buggy or inefficient? If not, having a feature that you don't use doesn't really affect you. There's an argument that lets you squeeze together multiple blank lines into one. That's arguably superfluous, as you could pipe your text through a sed/awk/ed/perl/snobol script beforehand.

I've never used that argument. But I never had less crash on me because of it, and I don't think it caused a big security impact. If having that command means that every second procedure in the code has to handle special cases because of it, then yes, it's probably not worth it. If it's just a few lines in one place, plus another command line argument parsing section, plus a line in the docs, then why not?

Extraneous features can cause harm, but one shouldn't be too extremist about this and consider each case. When it comes to handling text, there are a lot of special cases that require little code and thus don't really hurt. That's one of the main reasons why GNU utilities might be considered bloated, but most of the time it's no big deal beyond philosophy/aesthetics.
(I'm sure my Python/Perl standard lib has a lot of modules I'll never use, too)

On the other hand, I'm not quite sure whether I'll ever need the Tektronix emulation of xterm...
That's how every type of ransom works.
What's shameful is that they need to protect against people taking advantage of their good will in the first place.

If you were the customer in the absence of the agreement, after everything that Tesla had done at no cost, would you have taken them to court? In this case it's arguable that they would gone to court: the troll took to social media only because the agreement disallowed legal action. The troll used every possible tactic to his advantage, including an extreme degree of omission.

This whole ordeal has inadvertently proven exactly why Tesla has this agreement. Lose when you do; lose when you don't. The agreement isn't there for people like me and you, it's there for people like Niedermayer.
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> the steel workers should probably work harder to get out of the industry

Exactly how? Who's paying for their retraining? We've wound up in a situation where an industry's about to die and no systematic plan for what to do when it does - again.

> Why does Port Talbot deserve this money more than any other place?

Why did the private buyer deserve a subsidy to take over the company? Why wasn't the whole thing left to die, if we're thinking of a way to spend as little money on actually helping people as possible?
What strikes me about this whole saga is that if the dealership had simply recognized that those joints should not have failed this early in the vehicles life and fixed them it would have ended right there.

Also I think that to have a 'will not sue' clause in the agreement to fix issues that are out of warranty is fine but the explicit consent not to talk about it is the kind of thing that will make your lawyer happy in the short term but that will damage your reputation in the longer one. Manufacturers should never try to control the speech of their consumers, even if it benefits them in the short term. It will look like you're trying to cover something up, even when you don't.
> Hell, the government could step in and recruit people and companies to falsely claim that they were ransomware victims who paid up, but never got decryption keys and were screwed over. That could put a damper on ransomware psychology.

This actually did happen to me. Paid the money, got the key, couldn't unlock my files. Damn shame.
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it does. but it hits the west bank businesses harder than others
In other words: you should read more carefully whatever you quote given that the meaning is pretty clear.
There is nothing in your quote about keeping quiet and, most importantly, if you don't want to accept the free repair you can still pay.
It's really incredible how people pretend to have everything for free, and even when they can actually have it for free they manage to find a reason to complain.
I have never ever seen any other car manufacturer paying for the suspensions repairs on a out-of-warranty 100k car.
Not taking them to court is one thing, not being able to talk about the agreement is another.
I just re-implemented something similar for Dreamscope that gets very similar results. If you want to do it yourself, simply convert the original and style image to HSV and create a third image like this:

[H, S, V] = RGB2HSV(original)
[H_s, S_s, V_s] = RGB2HSV(style)
result = HSV2RGB([H, S, V_s])

You can play with the algorithm on Dreamscope, just click the "Original Color" star before processing!

https://dreamscopeapp.com
Before my volvo v70 went, it was just a shade under 250000 miles, and got 53mpg (UK gallons) not bad for a 2002 diesel car. Almost entirely original parts, only major thing that broke was the aircon and you can get by without that in the UK. Stupidly comfy to drive and a bargain at £2000, shame it lasted only 2 years.
That's exactly what UWP(universal windows platform) is - it sandboxes every app. But I am sure you will agree that having this as default behavior on windows would be disastrous, breaking compatibility with every app written before Windows 10, not to mention that the reason why we use PCs is to have low-level access to hardware, many applications require it and sandboxing isn't going to be a good option here. I guess MacOS way of doing things is a good in-between - by default, every app not from the app store is blocked, and you have to go through a slightly cumbersome process of unblocking it manually in security settings. I'm sure it beats the default windows permission popup, which I imagine 99% of users just accept without looking at, or disable outright.
'I want teachers and parents to recognize that when you do see unusual talent, instead of demanding that these people have certain test scores, let’s find a way to help nurture them. Because I think humanity needs it. I think these are the lessons we learn from Ramanujan.'

So well said, can't even comment on the line!
>The whole post is written in a pretty aggressive tone as well.

Well they (the team) obviously feel like they're being victimised here. And given the Tesla Death Watch thing I'm inclined to say they might be right.
But some areas require knowledge base of others
Easy solution - the government writes into law it's illegal to pay ransomware hackers. Sure hackers might get the occasional payee after this but the likelihood goes down dramatically removing much incentive, especially for larger organisations to be targeted.
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Right. But it's more complicated than that, the choice of layer(s) to use matters a lot, and I have no idea why they do as they do. Seems it's a bit of dark magic to get it to work well - takes lot of aesthetic judgements too.

I think Alex J. Champandard's implementation is probably the best one out there right now. It has a ton of knobs to twist and is very fast.
The way I do it is I create backups locally and then copy them to my NAS over ftp(with a password), instead of samba. Hopefully, that way any ransomeware would not be able to encrypt my nas as well, as it does not have any publicly accessible folders on the network.
grep and regular expressions in general are a great example of something that Unix seems to excel at but that leaves me cold: shitloads of power, but all dependent on learning arbitary syntax by the bucketloads, thus requiring a time investment I just don't have to make.

I marvel at and am impressed by the things that clever shell command chains or carefully constructed regexes can do, but the gap between being able to do those things and when you're awkwardly hunting through man pages and 40 year old docs just to do basic things is huge, and I so rarely need to actually do those things that putting that kind of time in is rarely worth it. Is 3 hours to save 5 minutes really worth my time?

99% of my use of grep is just a simple string search. I don't need an entire esoteric programming language to do that.
Unless they are worried about the publicly sharing of files vs. the loss of them.
I put 50K on a 16 year old car in the last 6 months or so, it had 70K (kilometers) on it in when I bought it. I would be very disappointed (to say the least) if a suspension component as critical as this had failed in spite of the vehicles age and the number of miles driven. It's being maintained very well and I totally rely on it taking me all kinds of places and back again without breaking down, especially without breaking down in such a catastrophic way.

Control arm failure is a great way to wind up dead and it should not happen on a well maintained car unless the car is already involved in an accident.
Clever use of flask & ngrok was news to me too. Thanks.

I can imagine asking alexa "whats the best 2 man tent on the wirecutter; order it for me, delivered to work by Friday"*
Do you think the technology will get there anytime soon?

*other review sites are available
> 70,000 miles is an incredible distance

Erm, maybe 20 years ago.

I actually killed a car with a broken drive-shaft jamming the wheels (it got wedged between the inside of the wheel and brake disk+calliper) and that happened at about 116K...and that was a 1997 Peugeot!

I sold a Honda a couple of years ago that had about 160K on the clock - zero mechanical or electrical defects and still drove like new. I now have a Toyota on 85K and a Mazda on 75K - the only mechanical issues I've had on either of those is 1 of the 7 exhaust hangers rusting off of the exhaust pipe on the Toyota which is trivially minor point.
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One great example is Haseeb, who spent two years of all his life programming. He now commands a $250k salary (which, I say more power to him for exploiting our current interview system).

I don't doubt that Haseeb is an excellent programmer. But not everyone has two years to devote to mastering the interview system like him, and there are plenty of skills you won't get just by doing competitive programming.

http://haseebq.com/farewell-app-academy-hello-airbnb-part-i/
And it's quite unfortunate for them that the UK might vote for a Brexit, without them necessarily being able to chime in. We recently met UK retirees in Spain who were deeply worried. They had not lived in the UK for over 15 years so weren't eligible to vote for or against. And yet their life situation was directly affected by the outcome: If the Brexit occurred, they'd end up unable to afford local healthcare, and would end up needing to return back north.
That rules out selling any in large parts of the world then.
If something fails on your car after the warranty period, should it be replaced for free then? It's great that some parts last for much longer than the warranty, but don't kid yourself in thinking that Toyota would honor a ball joint or suspension piece for 200,000 miles or more.

If anything, you should be comparing similar vehicles. Compare the Model S to a Mercedes S class, or a BMW 7 series car. For example, a common complaint of these cars is the air suspension goes bad and has to be replaced for $2000/wheel. There's a warranty, and if it happens in that warranty it's covered for free. But if the air suspension goes out after warranty, no one bats an eye and expects it to be covered for free.
Possibly the finest painting software currently available is Synthetik's Studio Artist (http://synthetik.com/). Compared to Adobe's powerhouse software, it's relatively unknown, but that doesn't make it any less innovative.

It uses an algorithmic 'paint synthesizer' to generate brushes (with hundreds of presets) and auto-paint canvases, and is designed for animation (rotoscoping) as well as static artwork. The output can be reminiscent of the style of the movie 'A Scanner Darkly', but the software is hugely flexible. Here are a couple of rather amazing examples: http://studioartist.ning.com/video/auto-rotoscoped-dancers and http://studioartist.ning.com/video/dance-styles-animation-re...

Also, unlike most other 'painterly' software, the graphics are resolution independent - meaning that they can be scaled up to any size without loss of detail.
Awesome timing: I am hosting a LAN party in two weeks, and I'd really love to hear as many tips and suggestion as you HNers can give me.

Thanks in advance!
If you read "Why Nerds Are Unpopular", [0] then look at these photos by pg, [1] and then ask yourself, "who is in the chess club?" then "who is the in the weight lifting/track team?"

"The kind of things we were interested
in didn't count for much in our high school." -- pg

Having gone to HS around about the same time and a mathlete, I recognise similar dynamics, even though I was 10,000 Ml away. It's no myth.

[0] http://paulgraham.com/nerds.html

[1] http://paulgraham.com/gateway.html
I haven't seen the full agreement, but grandparent's quote contains no language that prevents the customer from talking about it.
I think Firefox is a great example here.

It has a simple UI to guide the user into finding and setting the most common options. That UI must be as simple as possible for new users and can be changed regularly, according to the changing needs of the majority of users.

It also has an advanced, generic but type-safe UI (about:config) for finding and setting any possible option present in the software.

Configuration files are the traditional way to achieve this second level, but they don't always help the user in finding the options and are generally not type-safe.
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People asking for ransoms are shady to begin with, but to target a university? That's past gangster, that's just wrong.
It's impossible to draw any conclusions without a fair trial. Apart from saying we should assume innocent until proven guilty. It's a really good idea that seems to have been marginalised in the age of the web.
Off a paved road is not exactly off-road. Over here, many roads are not paved - even my home street. Still I would expect to drive any regular car there; if the suspension can't take it, it's faulty.
I have a land rover discovery 3 with 180k miles on it(4.4L V8, 2005 model) that I drive daily and it has absolutely no issues. Having said that - I guess what OP meant was that if the owner drives the car through dirt every single day, that reduces the longetivity of a car VERY quickly. In most car manuals you will find a "service" section which will very often say something like "full service is recommended every 20k miles, unless the car is used in difficult conditions, then full service should be done every 5-10k miles". Maybe this Tesla was serviced that often, maybe it wasn't - but 70k miles with a lot of use in "difficult" conditions is quite a lot for a production vehicle without uprated suspension, mud guards etc etc.
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The agreement has this passage in it:

"The Goodwill is being provided to you without any admission of liability or wrongdoing or acceptance of any facts by Tesla, and shall not be treated as or considered evidence of Tesla’s liability with respect to any claim or incidents. You agree to keep confidential our provision of the Goodwill, the terms of this agreement and the incidents or claims leading or related to our provision of the Goodwill. In accepting the Goodwill, you hereby release and discharge Tesla and related persons or entities from any and all claims or damages arising out of or in any way connected with any claims or incidents leading or related to our provision of the Goodwill. You further agree that you will not commence, participate or voluntarily aid in any action at law or in equity or any legal proceeding against Tesla or related persons or entities based upon facts related to the claims or incidents leading to or related to this Goodwill."

Which could easily be interpreted by a consumer as barring them from discussing the whole affair, even with the authorities.

Which led to:

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/safety-agency-chides-tesla-...
> have never ever seen any other car manufacturer paying for the suspensions repairs on a out-of-warranty 100k car.

It happens a lot. You could have just Googled. Manufacturer would pay for the repair, warranty or no warranty, if there was a defect. For example almost all of those 690000 cars were out-of-warranty at the time of the recall:

http://www.nbcnews.com/business/autos/toyota-recalls-690-000...

Tesla using NDA to prevent such situation is so childish. I hope Musk would fire that a-hole who came up with the idea (i really hope it wasn't Musk itself).

Simple Google search brings this by the way, so there are definitely issues:

https://forums.teslamotors.com/forum/forums/model-s-pulls-le...

What important here is that it is not the issues itself that are main risk to the company - after all it is a young car company - it is how the company reacts to them, and such rotten actions like NDA is a really bad style which would cost a lot in the long run.
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I was very fascinated by networks and network protocols back then, so often at LANs I would play around with a tool called "netXray" which could capture network packets (basically a proprietary equivalent of Wireshark).

I could spend a lot of time trying to decipher the data that games would send on the network, and I also tried to mess with my friends by replaying modified UDP packets (rarely had an effect, though). As far as I remember, I found the MAC address issue while playing around with netXray :).
The problem is that ransomware doesn't have to activate immediately, so you can end up with multiple copies throughout your backups before it takes effect. Hence, restoring from backups may not solve an infection.
> all applications should be sandboxed.

not a bad plan, but also, all data should be backed up. In this 'cloud age' of computing, there's no reason, and no excuse. I certainly don't want to blame the victims of ransomware, but if that data was so important that they paid ransom to get it back, why didn't they back it up ?