skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I do it, because I feel paypal is safer than totallynotgonnagiveyourcardtochina.randomsite.com

That may not actually be safer, but it feels like it. Though, I would be OK using most of the alternative payment services in this case.
Have you ever tried building a web app in under six months and with three people? Step 1 is usually not "reading Apache Storm documentation".

Your point is well-made, there are a lot of benefits of micro service architecture, but fast startup with few engineers is not one of them.
Presence of exceptions still prevents some optimizations that the compiler can do otherwise like omitting frame pointer etc.
Thank you 4th Amendment. If this kind of thing, for some ridiculous reason, reaches any court, it should be thrown out by the 4th. However, in today's society, nothing would surprise me anymore.
Of course, hobbies and preferences are inherently subjective, but CA has a lot to offer.

Parts of the state have (what I consider) perfect weather year round; access to the beach and mountains to ski/snowboard, tons of other outdoor activities, etc. You can find most of these in other places, of course, but CA is pretty unique in that it's all in the same state, and easily accessible.
Talk about an abuse of the trademark system.
Does anybody actually believe that diverse cultural backgrounds are at all relevant to ideas about programming language design or compiler programming? Claims that diversity is good for project organization sound believable, but I see no reason to think the diversity of background has any impact on technical contributions.

There is no moral obligation to have a diverse group, just to have a group that is tolerant of diversity, in the interest of fairness for members of minority groups. Encouraging actual diversity is just a strategy to avoid letting people who don't care about this stuff develop bubbles of intolerance in homogenous bubbles where intolerance isn't challenged regularly. The presence of diversity indicates a lack of intolerance, but a group consisting entirely of one demographic could be just as tolerant, and its homogeneity just a coincidence or a result of lack of advertising. So I find it a little strange when a group is "congratulated" on its diversity.
> I think one of the reasons for CS' enduring popularity is even noobs can get lucky or trick a better player and kill them.

It's probably better for the better player as well. No matter how good you are, a stray bullet or two could take you out. There was no relaxing, and the game promoted caution enough that if you felt unchallenged, there were risks to take.
Since you are prepared to make that argument, in what way will it benefit?

Does the color of my skin, my gender or my sexual orientation matter when providing feedback for a project such as this?

I would argue that those things are entirely irrelevant in this context, and wouldn't want them connected/associated with any contribution I made.
I am prepared to believe that the majority of HN readers are in the top 20%ish globally, but the top 1-2% is a stretch. Tying that to a particular skill is, of course, ridiculous, but I think a lot of us here have consistently performed at the top of our class or at the top of our paygrade in the working world (and when we haven't, we were probably already in a very selective environment). I imagine the same can be said of doctors and civil engineers, most of whom probably understand compound interest anyway.
Yes, Scala is a great choice.
Is the salary of remote employees working for Bay Area companies the same as for local employees, or do they differ based on cost of living?
I only took Uber mostly but would also commute from downtown to Beverly Hills. I never once got stuck in traffic but we always left after 10am.

Also it depends on which way you are going. The 405 north of Sunset is a disaster if you (in general) are going from West LA to the Valley after work but if you travel the opposite ways, traffic is generally fine...
Can we ask the moderators to capitalize Seafile and drop the "Dropbox Alternative" at least from the HN headline?
As a native English speaker, there is zero patronizing connotation. Whereas "capable at" is never used, so it just looks like a typo.
You have to come up with something or else the agent will never be able to explore worth a damn in complex domains. Imagine trying to learn to write Haskell programs by typing random gibberish...

'gamestate' is illegal. It's pointless to suppose an agent which has access to the true groundtruth RAM of the Atari games, because that generalizes to vanishingly few other domains. The goal is to create a general agent which can be used elsewhere, such as in recommender systems. (And if you did have access to the raw RAM, that would reduce the problem from an extremely challenging POMDP or harder, to a fully-observed deterministic MDP, because you could then construct a game-tree of each individual RAM state and the possible actions taken in it; in which case, you would use a much faster and more powerful MDP solver like MCTS rather than DQN.)

One can come up with hand-crafted heuristics which might improve over the naive bitstring equality approach, but your suggestion still doesn't do the trick, assuming you could figure out how to meaningfully define 'periodic changes' and teach the NN to ignore them. Imagine a game in which the overall screen lighting varies (perhaps it's set at night or during rain, or perhaps each level has different color themes). As all the bits keep flipping with changes in lighting/intensity, you'd be in about the same place.
hmm ctrl-f "biden": zero results

Of course as a Senate Democrat he did take part in any blocking of judicial appointments by Bush where applicable, which did not rise to the level of the Republican blocking of Obama appointments, but this source hardly paints him as the sort of, I don't know, judge-appointment-blocking ninja which I guess in your mind he's made a career out of. And it certainly doesn't support your original wrong assertion that Biden threatened to block SCOTUS nominees during an election year, back in 1992.

Here's something he also said during that same speech:

> I believe that so long as the public continues to split its confidence between the branches, compromise is the responsible course both for the White House and for the Senate. Therefore I stand by my position, Mr. President, if the President consults and cooperates with the Senate or moderates his selections absent consultation, then his nominees may enjoy my support as did Justices Kennedy and Souter.

Garland was approved unanimously by the Senate for his current appointment, and Obama has made every attempt to reach out to Senate Republicans. Every criteria laid out by Biden back then, has been met. So no, this GOP obstruction does not have precedent or justification across the aisle, or it at least does not have it where you claim it does. Look somewhere else.

And let's not forget it's a shitty precedent to have. The Constitution says nothing about "except in an election year" for fucks sake, and the American people most certainly did "decide" back when they re-elected Obama in 2012. For that matter, given his current approval rating, they have not changed their mind since then, either.
And without nukes, that war probably would have devastated Germany yet again.

The argument that nuclear weapons have prevented large-scale wars seems to be sound. The years since 1945 have been remarkably peaceful.

My worry, though, is that it's hard to estimate the risk they add. If nukes prevent massive conventional wars and there's a zero chance of nuclear war, then hell yes, nukes are great, all praise Einstein and Fermi and Teller and Ulam. On the other hand, if nukes prevent massive conventional wars and there's a 0.5% chance per year of an all-out global thermonuclear war, then no way, we just bought a couple of hundred years of peace followed by the end of civilization.

The data from the 71 years that nuclear weapons have been around is consistent with both possibilities.... Actually, I'd argue it's more consistent with the second, given how close the world has come to global thermonuclear war on several occasions in that time.
Paypal follows the sane system of having the payer tell them who and how much to pay, instead of CC's process where the seller tells them "it's cool, the buyer totally wanted me to have $X" and the payment processor simply complies.

/rant

(Yes, 3-D secure exists, but as a user it's impossible to verify that the site is actually using it before handing over the CC info)
This is disappointing, but not surprising given that Lets Encrypt threatens a large and out-dated revenue stream for Comodo. Thankfully Lets Encrypt is backed by Mozilla and the EFF, they have the resources to defend the brand.

Good luck guys!
Specifically?
Seems overly paranoid. The only people who can gain from the leakage of proprietary data from their competitors also have a lot to lose if they make use of such data and get caught at it.
The bullshit the CAs pull never ceases to amaze me.
I'm a college student, and I don't have a credit card. I do all my online spending via PayPal, which I top up from my bank account.
i was referring to tor. you probably know about the drug markets and more importantly the abuse case. If you read it again i'm merely saying Tails is another spy tool. i am not saying it is involved in any scandals.
being caught by the compiler.

Have you been writing too many try/catch statements?
Yup. Because these black rappers where probably the first AirBnB guest to stay at that house...
I have worked at two separate companies where they differ, typically 10-13% delta from what I remember...
That's not really relevant. These decisions are going to be made anyway, and until we have general AI that means human inputs and often something even worse -- human logic. Algorithms remove the latter by standardizing the logic; that's a win in my book. An excerpt from the other thread:

> Keep in mind that judges already had and continue to have latitude to independently conclude the same thing the algorithm does and act appropriately.
No one is denying the beauty, and adventures that await in California, that's why people live there. The issue here is what the original article is all about. When it becomes a grind just to live there, you can't even enjoy what makes it so awesome to be there.
You can only imagine it's being done for malicious reasons.

It doesn't seem like there is any good reason for Comodo to do this, other than try protect revenue loss.
Passing a Constitutional amendment is a perfectly legal, valid process - the Second Amendment, like all amendments, is subject to debate and possible repeal.

That some segment of the US population is willing to commit murder over that shouldn't really be relevant to the debate - such people aren't acting in defense of the Constitution, they're just asking like thugs and vigilantes.
https://github.com/rbanffy/3270font/releases/tag/v1.2.15

A bit early.
Have there been nuclear tests where they just pulled a weapon off the proverbial shelf and blew it up without any more preparation than it would get in a real war? I wonder if such a scheme would ever have been detected.
> Also, as someone who's never actually invested, do people really judge investments on that number rather than internal rate of return, payback period, etc etc?

Given that it made the difference between a profitable and unprofitable investment, I'm guessing that whoever was selling the investment just kept fiddling with the payoff metrics until they found a way to make it look attractive.
>anywhere it feels like

It's not as arbitrary as you make it out to be: Names, nouns and the beginnings of sentences are capitalised.
I don't think your points are invalid, but I think you overvalue the data that's available and relevant to most programming tasks. And without novel data, ML can offer little novel value.

Google, Facebook, M$ Research, and perhaps Yahoo are extreme outliers. They have zottabytes of broad unstructured text data, so they mine it. Everybody else has megabytes of narrow structured data, most of it commercial transations of their products. That stuff has already been effectively mined by traditional basic OLAP methods. Most/all of the value has been extracted.

Mainstream software apps have yet to show the value of using ML. Such apps have access to very limited data of very narrow relevance. The utility of ML in such domains isn't new; it's classic optimization. Or it's bayesian anticipation. But it's not a game changer. Frankly, the use of ML in most mainstream apps is more likely to add distraction and annoyance as the computer mispredicts your intent -- like Microsoft Bob did.

Maybe "life in the cloud" will create new opportunities for smarter software. But I definitely don't want free apps making their own decisions when to notify me. I guarantee that will get old immediately. So how will this work? Frankly, I can't guess. Like Apple's iAds, programming ML into the mainstream or cloud sounds like an idea that will serve the software / cloud vendor far better than the user.
Or maybe he's just paranoid and you shouldn't jump off the cliff too
There is latent racism on Airbnb, but I think they're looking at it the wrong way.

We have two properties on Airbnb and instead of my white and shaved ugly head, my wife is on profile picture (she's asian). We get far more requests from minorities than is normal.

Basically, we've cornered the market on asian people visiting Cape Cod. It's not our doing, but there is clearly a selection bias by renters, which I think is human nature.
Highly relevant:

https://fsharpforfunandprofit.com/about/#banned

Seriously! As I make clear on the home page, this site is not targeted at mathematicians or Haskell programmers. It is targeted at the vast numbers of C#, VB and Python programmers who are coming to functional programming for the first time. F# is a fantastically accessible language for the average enterprise programmer, but mathematical jargon puts a lot of people off ("a monad is a monoid in the category of endofunctors, what's the problem?"), and I think it is much better to explain F# with concepts from within its native environment, rather than using terminology that originated elsewhere and is often not applicable. For example, treating F# computation expressions like Haskell monads can often make things more confusing. Doing this also helps to bypass the "how can you get anything done in language X? It doesn't even have y." debate and focus on what F# can do well.
The page does not translate very well, but is PayPal admitting fault here? Does this open them up to litigation from Seafile?
The Parlance of Pilots
Comodo in particular has a long history of shady bullshit. Tarring all CAs with that brush strikes me as unduly harsh.
Got it. I was trying to do a proof while avoiding abstract algebra as much as possible, given how rusty I am with it.

Thanks for the feedback, and additional things to take a look at!
Ranger Able was 1kt.
I'd love to learn more about Java's broken collection types. What's broken about them?
I've never understood why that phrase applies to Python when the language still has the map, filter, reduce, etc. functional functions. Generators and comprehensions completely removed the need for those, yet the functions remain even in Python 3.

On the subject of printing, there are actual reasons for having this duplicate functionality. The main way to print is of course the print function in three, or print statement in two. The print function was lacking the ability to flush the buffer before that was introduced in three. You would have to call sys.stdout.flush(), whereas now the print function includes the boolean "flush" keyword argument. The second way to print is to call sys.stdout.write(), which does not automatically append a newline. That functionality was implemented in the print function with the "end" keyword argument. You can pass it an empty string in place of the newline.

So for most use cases, print() is just fine. Sometimes you want finer grained control, and for that you would use the sys module.
The worst possible move by a competitor. Not cool Comodo.
Even if you cover the camera, there is no way to do the same with the microphone (turning it off in software is not the same). Vendors should make machines with a hardware switch.
Nothing.

It's one of fundamental rights of an American. It's one of the power granted to the people by the Constitution.

Asking the people to give up this power is as idiotic as asking Congress to give up its power.

Also of note, the Constitution specifically DENIED the government the power to outright ban guns. The government can regulate it, but the government can not outright ban it.

>A well regulated militia...

Meaning the government can regulate arms.

>...arms shall not be infringed.

Meaning the government can not outright ban arms.
I'm fine here. I have a job in tech and I'll be able to put down roots and buy a home, Etc.

However by virtue of living here I basically force all of my children to do the same or move away. it's simply too hard to live here unless you're working in tech.
It made me actually realize how simple and effective it actually was. Without graphics he understood something was wrong... Out of the ordinary, but the text eased him.

BTW, he is 3 years old.
No offense intended to math teachers, but I think in the US that's as much because of ineffective math teachers & textbooks as students.

I realize self-selection bias in that it did work for me, but I went to a decent school and still had both wonderful and terrible math teachers.

Math to me is somewhat of a fractal, and if a teacher or textbook can't effectively answer "Why?" in addition to teaching blind computation then a good outcome is unlikely.
It's almost like Silicon Valley's attempts to "disrupt" regulated industries by replacing them with its own alternatives that don't follow the regulations is a bad thing...
> (Note: my translation might be a little off. I haven't used german in a good 15 years)

Wow, very good! It was nearly perfect, it should have been "Das Mädchen trägt ein blaues Hemd".
While its fair to say that some CA's are not scum, so many of them have done shady things, and they are basically rent seekers for a product that they spend little on to verify things like identity etc.

Most certs are just money printing machines for the orgs in charge of them and I am not surprised they would want to fight back against LE.
Show HN: Yarn – A platform for reading and writing interactive stories
I mean, you can buy a Tizen phone from Samsung right now:

http://www.samsung.com/in/consumer/mobile-devices/smartphone...
Ideally the base should be from a project that handles base system upgrades, so that consumers don't have to trust that the vendor is building security updates in a timely manner.

Last I checked, OpenWRT did not do security updates, and it's up to the user to recompile everything if they want newer versions.
Next thing we'll likely see is that Comodo getting hacked / breached and their data exposed, making them the least trusted computing security firm.
Hm, I still think that's stupid. The information leaked by the cam are minimal compared to gettinng your email hacked for example. The mic part, a tape is probably not doing anything significant and you can still be spyed upon.
The odd thing is "black" tape over mic & "clear-ish" tape over camera. Shouldn't it be the other way round.

Oh, and I try to find a tape that matches the laptop color so my paranoia isn't visible from a mile away.
Seattle is tempting as a SF resident but I think Seattle tech scene is much more risk-adverse (i.e. AMZN, MSFT employees) and not as entrepreneurially minded as in SF.
It is very disheartening that Comodo, a seller of SSL certs, is attempting to steal some of the attention of Let's Encrypt has put into making a more secure internet. Instead of trying to weasel their way in front of Let's Encrypt a better strategy, in my personal opinion, would be to offer services on top of SSL. (Installing and managing SSL certs is still something a lay person cannot do.)
I suffer from poor vision, but surely I can't be the only one... there is no lighting in those pictures. It's black. I'm tempted to say it's so black you ask yourself how much more black could it be... Well, a little more black, but not much. I never played quake because I literally couldn't see it. I always wondered what it looked like to people who liked it.
They aren't paying them down. They are just paying them.
I always thought Canada would be a safer place in case of a nuclear exchange. I wonder whether there are any Canadian cities which are targeted by Russian nukes at all.
Why did he also have his audio jack taped over?
What tool are you using there?
You can try it on me, I'd volunteer. Never been employed as a programmer but I'm curious to know if anyone would hire me, and if so what kind of employer would that be.
I don't think that's true. Doom also used 256 colors with the same technique for shading and was much more colorful and brighter.

In some ways Quake started the "real is brown" trend.

That's not to say its visual design isn't really good, though!
Concrete Problems in Artificial Intelligence Safety
You save a bit of time and you look pretty smart.

I can do calculus in my head, but I struggle with arithmetic. My colleagues who can do fast mental math but can't do any algebra to save their lives end up looking much more competent in meetings.
After my disappointing experience with the Nexus 6P, I can't imagine a situation where I would roll the dice with Huawei hardware, let alone software.
> I would argue that the resources spent on (visual) effects is dumb money trying to improve a game where the creators fail to build a better, more engaging, highly replayable game.

Graphics make you buy the game, mechanics make you keep playing, and story gives you happy memories afterward. That explains why AAA games have good graphics, average mechanics, and bad stories :-)
I spent most of my childhood in California. Real estate is and always has been the number one industry in the state. The majority of my childhood friends' wealth seems to derive from houses their families bought in the early 80s or earlier. Prices have benefited from a stable of one trick ponies - fixed low property taxes (prop 13), massive population growth (net domestic migration is now negative), job growth from the tech sector, the cultural shift to assortive mating of dual income white collar professionals, and the drop to near zero interest rates. I thought for sure that prices had hit the mathematically inevitable plateau - and then came tens of billions in foreign capital fleeing China. Is there another unpredictable one trick pony waiting in the wings? At some point it seems like prices would have to hit a ceiling reflecting the fact that all future appreciation and demand has been pulled forward, at which time the great financial machine grinds down to a much slower pace, if not a halt. It will be interesting to watch and see what happens.
Why do government pensions even exist anymore? There is absolutely no reason for them and they need to go. The government can pay a reasonable salary if they wanted skilled workers.
Joist lays off 60 employees in Toronto as company relocates to SF
I think a big thing for many is the lambda: syntax, as well as the lack of full anonymous functions.