skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On the flip side of your point, I find myself taking weird positions on issues of what should be in curricula. It seems to me that most people carry around a mental model of schooling such that schools just pour knowledge onto a hard drive that then retains it for the rest of that person's life. But this doesn't stand up under 5 minute's examination if you look around in the world. All those polls about how 60% of $FIRST_WORLD_COUNTRY can't even name the number of $SUBDIVISION they have (state, province, whatever)? They all went to school, too. Is it really a crisis if we remove something from the curriculum that 90%+ of 40-year-olds can't recall anymore? Curricula debates should be grounded in reality, not some fantasy where we apparently spend 12 years downloading a couple dozen megabytes of text into people's brainharddrives and set the read-only bit.

Also: It is impossible to understand the solution to a problem you don't have: http://www.jerf.org/iri/post/2943
> How is that not the end of proof needed to a court?

Because this guy is, in all probability, mentally ill. There's no evidence I can find of Chrysler actually speaking to prospective employers or lying about whatever employment history he has.

Here's (what he calls) the Oakland circuit court case judgement, an appeal of his original case: http://www.michbar.org/file/opinions/appeals/2003/120403/212...

To wit: he claimed that Chrysler lied about his employment history to a perspective employer, but the only perspective employer presented as evidence testified that she hadn't even contacted Chrysler about him.

Lacking literally any evidence of wrongdoing on Chrysler's part, the case was dismissed, and this appeals court upholds that dismissal.

He lists other "case numbers", most of which I can't turn up (no pacer access here), but I suspect it's just a litany of affirmations of the original judgement, or refusals to hear the case, or that they're simply filings of various sorts that never went anywhere. This simply looks like a persecution he is suffering in his mind.
#joist60 is trending on Twitter and lots of Toronto startups and software organizations are supporting those laid off. Some of your peers are tweeting that hashtag as well. Head there and take a look at the offers.
Keeping in mind that we're speculating on a case without any direct access to the subject, it's actually really unlikely that we're looking at a single episode caused by one situation (his employment with Chrysler) that's lasted for thirty years. But it's entirely possible that the situation could have made existing problems significantly worse.

There are certainly aspects of his writing that might be suggestive (the graphorrhea and rambling over minor details, irrational paranoia, etc.) of certain mental illnesses. Since paranoid schizophrenia was mentioned by the parent comment, take that for example: it's not something that comes about because of a single situation later on in life. There are clear, measurable physical symptoms in that instance such as a significant and measurable difference in grey matter. That doesn't happen because of any episode you've experienced.
I've spent more time than any sane person should trying to model fantasy sports for the purpose of making money as a psuedo hobby/second job.

My day job is essentially practical applications of simulation and machine learning so this was a natural way to broaden my modelling capabilities.

I'd love to chat with anyone who has any specific insight as to what the raptors are doing. If you're in Toronto I'll buy lunch!! Contact info in my profile.

Specifically a focus on methods applicable to selecting teams for Fantasy Hockey and Football with applications to weekly/daily fantasy is mostly what I'm concerned with.

I've spent alot of time/money figuring out what doesn't work very well so I can offer 3 years of failed experiments as a trade:)
We added that to the title and buried the submission. One thing we've learned over the years is that it's fine to wait until a story is actually ready before discussing it.
You can see the deep sadness in its googly eyes.
Apple controls the Lightning port and cables completely. They could easily detect when headphones are plugged in (which would take a tiny passive chip), and then serve an analog audio signal over designated pins in the Lightning cable. This would obviate all the discussion about putting DACs and other intelligence in the headphones themselves. It would be the exact same headphone with a different plug on the end.

The cable isn't the point, anyway. Apple is planning for a world in which all headphone connections are Bluetooth. Which, by the way, like the 3.5mm jack, is an open standard that anyone can build to. That's how accessory companies get around the Lightning port and MFi program in the future.

Wireless is what Apple thinks will be the best user headphone experience, so they will provide a platform incentive to go that way. That is why it's like the iMac shifting to USB and removing the floppy. Doing that gave the entire Mac ecosystem a shove toward building more USB peripherals, and doing more data management on the network. Getting rid of the 3.5mm jack will give everyone a shove toward Bluetooth headphones.

You're never going to plug a cable into your Apple Watch. So if the Apple Watch is going to start doing more audio stuff, cannibalizing the iPhone, Apple needs their user base to switch over to Bluetooth headphones.
haha, had exactly the same experience with the first GTA.
Same difference (a group of people armed with guns are going to have a better time issuing edicts than a group of unarmed people...).

The point is that threatening to take up arms against the government is an ironic companion to constitutional fervor.
But if I need another tool for logging those errors, I could use the same tool for both use cases, which would make Sentry unnecessary?

Ideally speaking a Sentry exception is the last escape hatch - if we can't handle something in code at least the error is sent somewhere so that developers can handle the issue. Following this the philosophy I'd like to follow is that every time I get a Sentry exception, I'll make a new ticket in Jira "handle error x, see link to Sentry", and ultimately there wouldn't be any errors sent to Sentry.
Right. Most of those countries in Europe have never been threatened by invasion or fought off invaders. Oh. Wait. They have. This notion of an antagonistic relationship to the world around us is childish and has to end. The small-minded fears of a minority of this country are inflicting greater fear and damage on the rest of us.
Journalism’s challenge isn’t Facebook. It’s much bigger than that
Why do you limit the meaning of 'data' to facts and/or observations?
Just bumped my servers to erlang 19, Elixir 1.3 and Phoenix 1.2. The erlang and Elixir communities have done a great job shipping.

At my organization, I created our first internal service which uses Elixir and Phoenix. I've had a number of both junior and senior devs come up to me really excited about building on Phoenix and Elixir. It's rock-solid stable, fast and fun to use. Props to José, Chris and the rest of the team for their continued hard work.
2016 State of DevOps Report [pdf]
Definitely! If you're going to be a part of something in its early stages (or really, in any stage?), why not try to make it the best possible version of itself?
There are many invented advanced statistics that supposedly fill those intangible gaps. For example, the defensive win shares stat is supposed to measure defensive impact.
Yeah this really stuck out to me. Why does Joist require top talent anyways? It seems to me that the technical work they'd need is pretty routine web application building. I really don't see Joist attracting top-talent in SV anyways. Unless they're planning on offering top dollar why would any top talent go work for a startup in the home improvement space?
Does anyone know if Programming Phoenix will be receiving an update for 1.2? Are there any backwards incompatible changes in 1.2 or Ecto 2.0?
> "Necessary" is an ill-defined and reductive way of looking at communication.

I took "If we want to be able to talk about it in text (like now), I want to be able to encode it in a standardized way" as implying that the two clauses were related to each other. Saying "if we want to be able to talk about it" means you're talking about what's necessary for that purpose.
Will the Cryptocurrency Industry Figure Out Governance?
Elizabeth Warren Pushes FCC for Broadband Privacy Rules
Thanks Nik!
I mean, I CAN have visuals like that, as I don't have aphantasia. But I don't believe most of my ideas originate from the visual imagining. It usually starts with concepts, is connected through logic, and then along the way images may or may not be generated, depending on what I am ruminating about.
Sounds like a thousand other jobs. Any company would benefit from stable and dependable workers. Nobody else gets this special treatment.

I'm unconvinced. I believe they get special treatment only because they are a large lobby group.
Why would then companies want to cater to sentiment-driven investors?
Shopify offers a competitive platform for larger business called Shopify Plus https://www.shopify.ca/plus/
I don't see why, as long as the IDE sees the build file as a genuine source file for the language it's written in.
Hadn't made that leap at that point. I was still using A/Z for looking up/down in Descent - also a great game btw.
Only in the same vein as the more extreme example of avoiding flight itineraries with a layover in North Korea is.

There are two sides to any story and countries have different versions of reality that they believe in and promote. Nonetheless it's foolhardy to not notice which countries take an overly keen interest in people's communications and the "correctness" of their views... and jail those saying things they don't like.

If you're completely unfamiliar with the history of recent Chinese-western software collaborations, try googling "TOM-Skype"
Smart-Contract Escape Hatches: The Dao of the DAO
I'm very nearly certain because I benchmarked decrypting the iOS 10 beta kernel using the code at [0]. The kernelcache is about 13 MB compressed and takes about 60 milliseconds to decrypt. Previous iOS versions encrypted the compressed kernelcache so benchmarking decryption of the compressed kernelcache should be correct. Unless Apple was doing something very stupid, kernelcache decryption should never have been much of a bottleneck in the first place. It is nice to see that they have found other ways to improve the boot time.

[0]: https://gist.github.com/jevinskie/40df60e3e9d76ad05304be9bd5...
Fortunately this does not work in France (it cannot)
$10 says the guy in the Christmas sweater is Ops/DevOps (I'm DevOps myself). :-) lol

The length of the beard is proportional to ops experience.
I've looked into Docker and I definitely like the isolation and simplicity it provides. The one thing keeping me away has been networking and file persistence, but I haven't really put in the effort necessary to wrap my head around it.

Is there a simpler, more automated way to handle the networking when publishing a new containerized app?
>> "...the purpose of this other than marketing..."

In fact the whole purpose of having a stock exchange floor is 100% marketing. The real action happens in a colo in New Jersey; the trading floor only exists for the cameras and the NYSE would carry on perfectly fine without one.
This project was discussed recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11355976.
Couldn't you say the same thing about any perk? "Oh, you want more vacation time? Seems incredibly self entitled to me." "Oh, you want free coffee? Seems incredibly self entitled to me."
I'm sure there are a lot of Firefox extensions of questionable quality but I would expect that at least the popular ones are of fairly decent quality. I also would assume that only a small minority of users know about and actually use extensions.

Even people who do use extensions probably don't really use more than an adblocker.
Saying something like that is only bad and wrong if it's about Israel.
> To be fair to both sides, this is a really hard thing to measure.

Is it though? It's more the fact that Big Data is totally useless because it contains thousands of uncontrolled variables that confound the results.

If you really want to know which browser is more power efficient, get a sample of the commonly visited sites and then visit the same sites on the same common devices in different browsers and see which one uses less power.

You can still get the wrong outcome by using a biased sample on purpose, but then the outcome is wrong because you fudged it, not because it's hard to get the real answer.
I also just donated
Ludicrous speed is good, the "hold down a button to temporarily run a tiny bit faster until your stamina bar runs out" mechanic is what sucks.
Is coconut strongly typed? Is it closer to Haskell or to Lisp / ML?
Agreed. It seems odd to harp on that, especially for a Bay Area newspaper. Also, it's not at all specific on what kind of taxes it's talking about and it makes it sound like taxes are higher in the Bay Area than the rest of California.

Local income tax is more or less nonexistent in California (and the US in general, really). Property taxes are some of the lowest in the country. We do have a high state income tax compared to other states, but it's still negligible compared to federal income taxes.

I guess your federal income taxes will be higher in California because you'll make more money here than in most other states.
It seems pretty unlikely that the data wouldn't be normalized by some metric of intensity of use since this is pretty much the first thing anyone would think of. Normalizing even by something as simple as "number of websites visited" would, I imagine, significantly reduce the contribution of such factors to the differences observed.
> there are many characters used just in names in Chinese that would leave locations and people having unencodable names if the characters were not in Unicode

I was under the impression that this describes the current state of affairs, and has since before Unicode came around. I know I've read an article about someone whose 姓 was 马 and whose personal name was a character composed of three 马 stacked left-to-right (which might have been pronounced cheng?) getting harassed because the government couldn't encode the name.
I think it's just that the investment firm who bought Opera also owns Qihoo 360, a notoriously sketchy “antivirus” (and I use the term loosely) company. There's probably nothing to worry about, given that Qihoo doesn't actually own Opera.

That said, I think a general lack of trust toward the PRC is understandable.
That gets you a kernel dump, a decrypted kernelcache gives you very handy MachO headers. And as Will said, the well known kernel dumping methods do not dump Watchtower. I'm not sure if anyone has privately been able to dump Watchtower with a kernel privsec or if it has only been possible with the kernelcache keys.
How about some blog posts? I'd be interested in seeing what you tried and the results.
Comodo is just cross-signing CF certs[1] because the CF Origin CA is not yet in browser trust stores. GlobalSign and Digicert also cross-sign CF certs.

[1] https://blog.cloudflare.com/universal-ssl-encryption-all-the...
I get what you're saying, but what's the alternative? Go back to the first half of the 1900s where San Jose was annexing everything?
This might help:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkv-_LqTeQA
Software written by Chinese people -- no problem.

Software written by persons and companies subject to the will of the Chinese government -- huge problem.

It's really no different than European countries not wanting to do business with US companies because of the NSA.
Side note: The volume on BBC's media player goes to 11.
I have to agree: the magento ecosystem produced some of the worst code I've seen. we're currently supporting a few mid-sized online shops (40-80k products) - around 50% of our development time is spent patching things.

magento 2 has made things a lot better, at least on the tech side. but the 2.0 code is far from stable. even the now available 2.1 is hardly ready for production - unless you patch things up yourself or have a rather simple shop.
Since I am not a god, and every person has a right to self ownership (extending to their property), a hotel owner has every right to decide by whatever criteria they see fit who uses their property. Just as I have every right to decide my own criteria for which hotels I would like to do business with (bigoted hotels wouldn't meet that criteria).

Every person has the right to life, liberty, and property.
I like this report, but on page 48, the reporting of downtime cost per deployment seemed disingenuous. The business cares about (cost of) downtime per year, and there the high performers seemed to do worse than the medium and low performers.

(This whole calculation seems rather forced; IMHO they should use matching number of deployments and change failure rates rather than averages for both. I can't believe a high performing IT operation would accept a change failure rate of 7.5% when doing multiple deployments per day, at least not if each failure leads to an actual outage).
> Here, I expect a certain sort of signal - insight from experienced and intelligent people working hard on interesting technical problems.

In a comment thread about somebody donating? You must be disappointed often.
I think some people feel disgruntled because the development of clustering started as open source and was some way down the road to being production ready, then it was removed and moved to the enterprise version only. I was planning a metrics architecture around influx; but following that announcement, influx was out of the picture. Had I known from the start that clustering was going to be enterprise only, likely I still wouldn't have chosen it, but my takeaway thought would have been "wow, this is cool, shame clustering is enterprise only". Now I just feel a mild sense of deflation.

I don't blame them for going down this route (we all have to eat), but I think had that descision been made earlier it would have looked better on them.
I found flights to Bergerac on flychecker at € 97
What's your computer's spec?
What's your PayPal address?
Honest if potentially naive question: why can't you just measure points per minute by the player's team's opponents when the player is on versus off the court?
Robots are currently bumbling electric imbeciles and do not perform well in such adversarial scenarios. They are also more fragile than they seem. One could permanently modify the robot's kinematics with the swift impact of an office chair or percussively decommission it's lidar sensor with a baseball bat.
I really like the influxdb interface -- reading and writing data are super simple, but in some recent testing I did, it really really hated high-cardinality data sets.

https://docs.influxdata.com/influxdb/v0.10/guides/hardware_s...

Show stopper if you're in the same boat that I am.
You are testing more or less the same input just producing different output. This was a common strategy where graphics cards for example would degrade image quality for speed when a driver noticed you where running a benchmark.

Which is one of the reasons benchmarks are so difficult.

PS: A more insidious problem is when you specifically optimize for something because it's a benchmark.
Did you consider PowerApps is a replacement for SharePoint Designer and InfoPath
"Sometimes it feels like Mads and co. are too focused on making C# functional-like and in the process encourages a lot of foot-shooting"

I agree. When they added dynamic and functional concepts, I though: great, a dynamic/statically typed imperative/functional oo language. Too many different ways to do things, makes it harder to understand code written in a different style. Basically the opposite of python's "pythonic way" idiomatic style.

I do love functional programming, which is why I am trying to move to f#. People at work are open to the idea!!
How are investors supposed to value the company right now at this moment?
Miva. www.miva.com
You can reference C header files from go. If you include a headerfile defining a constant "foo", then C.foo would give the value to the Go program. It is not overly elegant, but the Go-C interface is pretty usable.
Am I wrong?
I know Idiocracy, and I like Mike Judge, but I don't really believe that (much of) intelligence is heritable, at least in the way the film suggests.

I base my prediction that feminist will die out not so much on abstract theories of information transfer and evolution, but on what I observe in the world.

where did Feminism come from

This is an interesting question, and I could comment at length on this subject, but maybe HN is not the right venue for this subject matter, especially as what I'd say goes against the ruling SJW orthodoxy.
Edge allows extensions now or are you using an OS-level adblock?
Nope. That's me. :)
Microsoft adding an ad-blocker by default, while also owning an ad service seems to be a set of conflicting interests.
Please mention the "curl" dependency in the readme.
I really don't understand how Bluetooth headphones can be a passable user experience, to say nothing of better.

- I need to charge them, which means toting around yet another charge - two chargers, actually if I want to charge in parallel, one for each ear!

- They probably weigh more, because now they include a battery.

- They're no longer plug-and-play, I need to manually pair them, then forget them to use them with another device.

- I probably have to manually turn them on and off.

The only improvement is that there isn't a cable.

Maybe switching to Bluetooth will be more profitable, but I can't see it providing a better user experience.
Is anyone else seeing the code samples getting cut off? Seems to happen to me in Chrome on both OS X and Ubuntu. The page shows:

export const sum = (a, b) => { re

And when I copy and paste the line the rest of it is copied to the clipboard.
VW Said to Pay Diesel Owners Up to $7,000, Fund Clean-Air Grants
Now that's a nice piece of machinery. Much closer to a salable product than the big machines they did for DoD. This is more in line with Google's business model. Maybe this is BD's effort to stay under the Alphabet umbrella. It will be good if it works.

They really have leg control and balance software figured out now. That machine is more agile than any of the previous BD machines.
It's not, but it's Microsoft's problem. The reason Edge exists is to try to win back market share from Chrome. The reason Chrome exists is to perpetuate the Google ecosystem by making Google offerings cross-platform, but more importantly Chrome-platform -- not just Google ads.

But you're right, Microsoft will have to decide which one is more important: driving ad eyeballs to Microsoft properties at the expense of Google properties -- or -- decreasing the share of users using Chrome and by proxy, the attractiveness of Google's integrated cloud email/drive/docs offerings.
Do you know if (m)any of your coworkers also quit?
Have you heard the story of Vugar Huseynzade, a kid who got so good at the game Football Manager that a legit club took him on?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2340324/Fo...
While I more or less agree with you, and there's nothing wrong with graphical fidelity in itself, I think the argument is more one of priorities.

If you have 6 months to build a game, do you spend 3 on graphics and 3 on gameplay or do you spend 5 on graphics and 1 on gameplay.

Personally, I have no insight into the game industry, so it's very possible that it's not a zero sum tradeoff, and crappy games would just be crappy games with crappy graphics if they focused on graphics less, but I wouldn't be at all surprised if gameplay was at least somewhat scarified for graphics.