skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are always tradeoffs... airplanes move more or less at a steady speed, and are much more aerodynamic than cars, which spent quite a bit of time stuck in traffic. Thus in many cases planes are more efficient than cars (despite needing to lift).
And yet they sadly still do not accept prepaid credit cards. :(
Did it? How so? It has almost no mechanics in common apart from procedural terrain generation.
Reminded me of the SCAR tool many of us used to use back in the day for botting on Runescape. Will have to look into this for QA automation, as Selenium isn't always too fun when you've got a hairball of ASP.NET WebForms, Vanilla JS, and Angular for a code base.
Software Is Healing the World: Cancer – Freenome
I would not consider a Blu Ray box set "digital" in any way. That's a physical item that you physically place into a physical player.
Another Calculus Limerick
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Is there a reason you opted to use Elo rather than other rating systems commonly used in baseball analysis like log5 or Pythagorean (e.g. https://summerofjeff.wordpress.com/2010/12/05/serving-agains...)?

I'd also be interested in knowing a bit more about point 2 as well.
A more likely contender is Nosh. It's additionallyy inspired by SMF and systemd and can import systemd's unit files. it also works on BSD and Linux.
This doesn't solve the parking problem. Sure, you get to work a bit faster but now you need to put that thing down. In a downtown area where there's a major price premium for parking. Getting to work in 10 minutes instead of 30 is going to be attractive and that'll raise parking demand, but there's only going to be so much parking available. Tearing down profitable office buildings to make flying car parking lots will be cost prohibitive and I doubt Joe Officeworker is interested in a $500+ a month flying car space.

Its also worth mentioning that none of these proposed designs are vtol, so you'll need a real runway to land or take off.

Worse, how do you leave the massive underground parking lot? Drive to the street then somewhere you can safely lift off? Now you have to wait to taxi to the proper runway or lift off zone or whatever these things will ultimately be allowed to use. Double worse, now we're less invested in solutions that actually work and don't require massive parking spaces like public trans via light rail, e-bikes, traditional bikes, etc.

There's a reason why the personal plane never took off. I'm pretty bearish about the flying car concept, even if all the technical and regulatory issues are easily solved (hint: they wont be) there's still pricing and safety issues on top of the parking problem. Oh and 9/11 is fresh in everyone's minds. Can you imagine anyone approving these things flying near the skyscrapers we work in? I suspect that if that these things catch on, they'll be like the Concorde. A toy for rich people in a hurry but with so many strict regulations and limitations that it'll ultimately be infeasible in the long run.

If Page and Google have shown anything, they're poor futurists outside of the information realm. When it comes to hardware, they're batting very poorly. They let Valve and Oculus take the VR crown, they let Musk take space tourism and electric cars, they let Jobs take the first mass market smartphone, let Amazon take the e-book crown, etc.
> Think about it: Do we really, in the US of A or anywhere in the 1st world countries, have a lack of resources? In the 21st century?

Yes, I just say national debt. As long as this is not paid back (or we are working seriously to decrease it) we can't claim that we have an abundance of money - quite the opposite. Even more: As long as we aren't seriously working to decrease the national debt we are near to delayed filing of insolvency, which is not a good idea as any founder can tell you.
French court fines Uber, execs for illegal taxi service
Elon Musk never does something just because.

There has to be compelling reasons why flying cars are the future.
“We were promised flying cars, and instead what we got was 140 characters”

Silicon valley tries to create the future
The work factor also increases the work the server has to do to handle users logging on, which is a big cost both in UX and hosting fees. In practice, reasonable work factors for bcrypt are between 10 and 12. What application could tolerate a full second of delay (and 100% usage of a server core) just to hash the users password?

Also, a few thousand hashes per second (and that's on a GPU, and bcrypt is decidedly GPU unfriendly due to memory allocation patterns) won't allow you to do much more than a dictionary / rule + dictionary attack, so in the short term you're only going to get weak passwords.
These are testimonies about him being an ass (bad enough for some consequences). Accusations of sexual mistreatment are still anonymous. I find that distinction important.
Thanks for posting about tricking it to confirm email -- I was in the same boat.
And politicians are unwilling to do anything about it lest someone accuse them of being 'soft on crime'.
In chess you can also have a draw.

Either by having the player agree to a draw, or by killing every piece that is not the kings.
Yes, you can use dplyr to connect and query data from a database. https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/dplyr/vignettes/data...
Kind of how Android is "open" to OEMs, not you.
It's actually a low power memory LCD on the Time, not e-paper like the OG. The notifications and caller ID features are great, and being able to control the media player on my phone is very useful when I'm on the bike.

I think they strayed from the path with Round because it sacrificed so much battery life. It looks like Pebble 2 is going to be 7-10 days again though.
The Wales starting lineup is missing Gareth Bale (arguably in the top 5 best players in the world). His 'kickscore' is listed as higher than any of the welsh players so I don't understand why the model has excluded him from the starting lineup. See also Portugal and Ronaldo (kickscore 100!).

Interesting but perhaps needs some tweaking to match the expected starting lineups.
...except every 5 weeks is do-or-die with starving startups. Sounds like PG had some inside info on whether they would get funding. Otherwise that would have been the most foolish advice.
I wonder if due to the scale of AWS and certain AWS customers, if AWS signs a post mortem with -Fred would a very large AWS customer have the pull to say "Amazon, fire Fred"? Just curious if anonymous postmortems are company policy at certain places and why that might be.
Learning to Deal with the Inevitable
You're assuming that everyone wants a path forward. Some of us value stability and security.

If someone told me "if you come work for us, you'll be employed for life and guaranteed at least a cost-of-living adjustment each year, but you'll never see a promotion even once", I'd take it in a heartbeat.
Is reflashing your phone so hard?
No, that's not the case at all. Laws without enforcement or strength are a waste of time and the legal process. They should all have teeth, otherwise it's just a waste.

This adds teeth to the previous law and makes it worthwhile. That's all.
Terrible post, worst I've read today by far.

Not only does the author completely NOT understand why the GIL is a problem, but he also misunderstands asynchronicity which is hilarious given his recommendations.
>I don't see how people come up with crazy numbers like this. Honda sells a shit ton of cars, and it's market cap is 50Billion.

I think the way to view $700B is to picture Tesla as diversified company of selling battery technology, self-driving AI algorithms, in addition to selling cars. E.g. the PowerWall for homes, or licensing self-driving tech to FedEx, UPS, garbage trucks, etc. I don't have a crystal ball but this type of "diversified world domination" thinking seems similar to the grand strategies of AlphabetGoogle and Apple.

It would be similar to thinking of 1995 Amazon.com as "only an online bookseller" and underestimating its future market cap potential. If Barnes & Noble market cap is only $84 million, how can Amazon be worth $340 billion?!? Because investors and industry observers noticed that Jeff Bezos was expanding to sell CDs & DVDS, kitchen appliances, opening up a 3rd-party market platform, cloud computing with AWS, etc.

Honda also does some other things besides cars (e.g. Honda lawn mowers and Honda motorcycles) but some people believe Tesla's ambitions outside of cars will be worth more. Today, Tesla car sales are only a tiny fraction of Honda's and yet it already has market cap of $34 billion.
This has everything you need:
http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2013/02/22/getting-rich-from-...

I personally ignore most of MMM's frugal lifestyle stuff and focus on the saving 25x your annual spending part.

I highly recommend the book Your Money or Your Life as well. You don't need 250K/yr (unless you are using the surplus to achieve financial independence).

http://www.amazon.com/Your-Money-Life-Transforming-Relations...
Yep, grew up and have friends/family in Oklahoma. Disability and unemployment benefits come on prepaid cards, as well as tax refunds.

Most ATMs charge a fee to check balance, and a separate fee to withdraw money as cash. These cards do usually have a free phone number you can call to check balance, but you almost always have to pay a fee for withdrawal. And if you have, say, $19 on the card, it's effectively impossible to get that out as cash, because no ATM lets you withdraw in less than $20 increments.

Also, most blue-collar and minimum wage jobs use prepaid cards. At least companies like McDonald's as well as various factory jobs do. For McDonald's, according to friends at least, there is no option for anything else. Even if you have a bank account, you can't do direct deposit, you still get a prepaid debit card that your paycheck goes to.
> 1) Efficiency.

I expect it will always be more efficient to roll an object on wheels than to keep an object lifted under power and moving forward at the same time. Rolling friction is not very high. This and safety are major reasons we don't have flying cars today. Prop planes are in the sub 20 mpg range and jets are in the gallons per mile.

>2) Reduce congestion

I think that autonomous cars (on the ground) will solve this a lot faster than flying cars.

> 3) Reduce urban sprawl.

This is just incorrect. The roads are not what causes urban sprawl and the roads are not the only negative impact. Urban sprawl happened for two reasons: "white flight" and easy transportation. This does nothing for one and makes the other easier.

> 4) Reduce national infrastructure costs.

This would be a very long term benefit after ubiquity of flying cars:cars as cars:trains now. I don't think it will ever get there because of point 1). Personal flight consumes more energy than personal rolling.

>5) convenience.

True. Although houses would have to have heli landing pads installed making it more of a rich toy item. Not to mention noise. Also, autonomous rolling vehicles will solve this too. Is going to your roof more convenient than going to your driveway?
Can't we still be hunters/gatherers?
Yes, but even if you allow it to only take 1ms per check for an attacker, it's still practical for you and will take an attacker 4 minutes per account to check all of /usr/share/dict/words (to say nothing of the "add a 1 or a ! at the end"), so long as you are using random per-account salt (which bcrypt basically guides you towards).

Make it 15ms for an attacker and it becomes an hour per account just for the dictionary.
Create Bots that connect your work apps and do your work
How to Use Godog for Behavior-Driven Development in Go
Stop Comparing JSON and XML (repost)
I used to work at Microsoft, so take this with a grain of salt, but the company really runs (or at least ran) like a bunch of smaller companies than it did like one giant corporation. There were people in leadership in some verticals that really detested the way other verticals ran. E.g. none of us in the web side of things would touch an architect that came from the Office team.

So it may be possible that the teams releasing OSS have relatively good motives while the people running Windows have relatively misguided ones. Different verticals have different-- possibly conflicting-- aims.

Personally, I think we can encourage the right behaviors and discourage the wrong ones. Use their OSS stuff, don't use their closed source/adware stuff. I don't think I'll be using Windows again (unless something drastic changes), but I do use VSCode, and I'd love to use Visual Studio again, if it ever arrives on Mac/Linux.
> If using loads of data and cpu is a bad thing, he should propose a new measure of goodness that takes these into account.

You better separate between using lots of data (perfectly OK, in my opinion) and the number of parameters that the model uses (say, number of weights in the neural network) and where you better have good explanation for the existence of any variable and why it has this concrete weight and no other and why it is even necessary to introduce (consider any parameter that you have to introduce as some kind of physical constant - physicists invest lots of time to explain/reduce the number, so should CV researchers).
> ...which at the same time are collecting huge amounts of data ("telemetry") on and locking down their OS against users

They've only begun catching up with Google and Apple in this regard, though.
I don't see much harm in "winning big" over somebody who just died. Being dead, it's not like she would have missed the money.

On the other hand, having someone pay tons of money and then die without anything to show for it, I do see, even if he "willingly signed into it".

There's also a threshold over which it should just be handed over. That such a threshold wasn't in the contract doesn't make it any less odious.
I have an anecdote to support your comment: One of the more valuable tools I've worked on was random_compat. Over 6 million Packagist downloads and has been integrated in all the major frameworks that still support PHP 5.

https://github.com/paragonie/random_compat

https://packagist.org/packages/paragonie/random_compat

Despite being incredibly useful tool, there isn't a lot of active development going on. It just works, and when it doesn't, it's because your operating environment is borked.

Paying per commit wouldn't make sense for us. We have very little technical debt.
Well I was late to respond to this party, as is obvious, but yes, it still applies. As a matter of fact, even more so.

We all understand ms is a proprietary software producing company, and many in the tech community have been veering away from them in increasing numbers. They have sought to regain this leaking market share by doing some open source initiatives, with the intended purpose of getting people locked in in other areas! This is exactly what we mean in the modern context when we say eee. Embrace (the pro open source community), extend (the oss into other platforms, pulling devs back into the proprietary platform), and extinguish (pull back the open source to reveal the proprietary base it's founded on).

Half the problem is people see open source and think it's automatically good. What we need is FOSS (free open source software) and people need to learn the difference and why the F in front of FOSS is so important.
My favorite is A poem on pretending to understand:

Tiger got to hunt,
Bird got to fly;
Man got to sit and wonder, "Why, why, why?"

Tiger got to sleep,
Bird got to land;
Man got to tell himself he understand. [81]
That was how I did it, too. Monthly, I'd archive posts, to allow archive perusal by months. I wasn't tied to any particular software. I got hosting with friends who set up their own blogs at their own domains. All of us were in or just out of high school, no real plans for the future, lots of free time to post and talk over AIM/MSN.

In retrospect it was primitive, and it worked. There was a huge scene around all this - everyone had their blogs, and those with an eye for colour and design were doing cutting-edge presetation in idiosyncratic ways. I really miss this when taken against today's single-page, "FOL.IO IS A PLATFORM FOR MANAGING WORMS" type of web.

mc's online journal was what drew me into all of this. It's been offline for probably 20 years now, but it was deeply personal and intense, and wonderfully written.
Using the foreach construct in .NET
I guess I saw his proposal as more about customer acquisition; those of us who already know and love the game can send Tarn $19 any time we want, right here: http://www.bay12games.com/support.html
Imzy Is a Kinder, Gentler Reddit. If It Can Stay That Way
I was under the impression that GCD used green threads, which means it's sharing the same address space, and ultimately would be subject to the GIL?

When you're memory bound, sharing the address space is important, and Celery might not work well at all.
This a list of edible protein that can be grown per unit of land, soybeans and other legumes top the list along with hemp seeds, animal sources are the less efficient. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edible_protein_per_unit_area_o...
Here's the deal, most tasks I've seen are both CPU and I/O bound, only in different part of the same task. Of course you can very aggressively optimise the design, but sometimes it becomes so unreadable, the cost you incur through complication makes it not worth the effort.

What I'm trying to advocate is that the distinction of CPU bound and I/O bound makes sense in CS classroom, but most of the tasks in production code are a mix of both.

Therefore, the distinction is really between blocking and non-blocking, and Celery enables "almost readable" non-blocking coding
on your phone? how? last I tried it involved going to iTunes on a desktop
A solution to the security guidelines proposed by FCC for home routers
Good point, but I'd add that the defining difference that's taking over the software world at the moment is that we're finally working out ways of not needing the programmer to do everything. Machine learning lets the computer learn some things on its own. And it's only getting better.
You're suggesting to use one systemic corruption to fight the other! That might solve the one problem in the short term (maybe), but legitimizing that sort of strategy for affecting change just means that in the end the most corruptest one with the biggest army of lobbyists and campaign donations is going to call the shots. Hey it's your country, but maybe just think about that for a second.
So actually nobody bothered to Google for that ?

https://www.google.com/search?q=user+counter brings many websites offering this in various fonts, sizes and colors.

But then again, 'good' can be very subjective...
There used to be a guy who mowed the lawn around our offices once every couple of weeks. Now there's a robot doing it.

I used to want to hire a maid. Now I want a Roomba and a dishwasher.

I doubt that people who were a maid or a gardener will start solving cancer. Also, 'solving cancer' is currently getting more automated. IBM Watson is being used to analyze huge amounts of data that would've been pretty much impossible for people.
I mean that he was able to do this at all it shows what LISP can do, not literally. If you want to see the power of LISP though, http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/practical-an-mp3-database.ht..., and look how trivial it is to add functionality without changing the structure or semantics of the program.
Loving your article.

1) You can describe the market in a few sentences, even to people without a background.

2) You can track user reaction without the need to ask them.

3) You know that most people don't understand their problem and therefore can't give good feedback via feature requests.

4) You understand human nature. People want to see a payout fast, before investing real energy into something.

5) You can pull the plug when the setup is not right.

Hope to work together with more people like you in the future. Are you currently looking for a CEO position in a start-up btw? ;-)
It is not like Emacs. Emacs is sensible and logical. It is more like vi.
I was a huge fan back in the 4.x - 6.x days.

The problems, for me, were:
- apps developed specifically for Linux. The shim wasn't 100%.
- Hardware support. This wasn't too bad, but I always had to take it into consideration.
- Virtualization. This was the killer for me. Yes, jails are fantastic, if your entire workload ran on FBSD. But if you needed even one Windows/Linux instance, for any reason, you needed another physical machine. With Windows and Linux I could consolidate everything into a single machine.

Things have improved a lot, and I may try it out again, but unfortunately the mindshare is all Linux now.
Microsoft research have contributed significantly to advancing the state of computing going back to the early 90's. So sounds like you have missed a lot.
I suspect that the utility of more packages increases only logarithmically. Having 10x more packages doesn't mean it's 10 times more useful. If your obscure need isn't in the first 8,000 packages, it probably won't be in the next 80,000. That's just how power laws work. And any common task you can think of will probably be in the top 8,000.
It is. Software developers are not investment bankers. Software development jobs offering $400K are... not normal.
Right.
But then again, you cannot say it's 100% that player A or player B will win, right? There's a chance for draw that is not negligible.
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site-specific content (or formulaic derivations based on other columns likely to be in the same DB dump) suffer from internal (or former internal) bad actor problems as well. Disgruntled (or just loose-lipped) ex-employees can leak the formula or constant and you have a false sense of security.

(I'm not arguing it's "too horrible", but I am saying that it's worse than other schemes that aren't significantly more burdensome.)
Hi! I'm Victor, one of the researchers behind this project. We used the most recent lineups (up to yesterday) to do the predictions you see on the web page. We will update them with the latest friendlies (e.g., Portugal indeed) and before every game, as soon as we have the official lineups!
bcrypt is limited to 72 characters (admittedly this is not that big a practical limitation), and scrypt is an excellent KDF, but wasn't designed as a password hash, and thus doesn't have great GPU defence. In practice, they're still both great, but that doesn't mean we should stop trying to do even better.

Argon2 looks really interesting, but it is still relatively new.
The results from that advice vary wildly depending on your 10 minute personal skills.

I know someone who happens to be extremely likeable that way. In this case, that person also ends up spending very little effort in fostering long term relationships, or doing the job well, but changing jobs becomes easy: Staying at a place is hard.

Someone else I know has Aspergers, so in a 5 minute coffee they appear to be 'off': unlikable. However, after a few months, care for users, coworkers, and technical competence show through: Instead of a very wide network, they have a much smaller one, but the people in it would recommend them for absolutely any job, warning others that the first impression of the dreaded "culture fit" will be very wrong.

Therefore, some people are great at this, are easily liked, and get very far on meeting for coffee. Others that lack those social graces, or are part of groups that are typically prejudged as incompetent, will fail with this shortcut. The solution is probably still networking, it just might be a very different kind of networking than informational interviews.
Scaling a technology business is about unscaling technical debt
Should have been a .nu domain!