skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, that's the thing. I don't doubt there are holes in my idea. I do think it's good, but I'm sure there is work to be done. I honestly don't plan on dropping law school. It's just too risky for me. Not because, again, I don't think it's good, but this is my future and life. So yeah, I guess I'll have to figure something out at this point.
Honda engineers scaled back rare earth metals in hybrid engines significantly
Well, I respectfully disagree with the Venn diagram in the article. You can be at the center of that Venn diagram and still not be a senior engineer.
http://i.imgur.com/iVQvGJs.jpg
But only to the person opening them.
I don't mind the "try ... except" version for the cases where most of the time the key will be present. Two reasons for this:

1) the "except" semantics help hit home the point you expect the key to be there most of the time

2) in cases where the exception will rarely be raised, the "try ... except" route runs faster than the ".get() ... if" route.
Golang Govtrack HTTP client
It might be a good idea with comments like this to disclose that you're professionally involved with ESOFund - most people won't click through to your profile to discover that.
Private sector will always take the lowest cost option. The market will not give a shit until they start losing real money (edit: or going to jail).
Smoking is different from dopamine releasing drugs. Smoking's addiction mechanic isn't dopamine release. Dopamine is the body's natural pleasure signal and short circuiting that would cause the issues I mentioned.
Maybe look into a hackathon like a startup weekend: http://startupweekend.org/

It's specifically made for it to be quick and easy to share your idea and connect with devs/designers/biz devs.
Are any modern alternatives to VMWare player and Oracle VirtualBox for running a Linux guest OS (with GUI) on a Windows desktop host?
You are not alone! I want things like this so much I've considered adding an m4/go-generate step into my projects to get them.
Is Go a low-level language, or a slightly lower-level language? Woodhouse, fetch a rug!
Depends how hard you try, but don't let reading stop you!

My greatest mentor was mostly blind. He could see the terminal but would need to be about 2-4 inches away and would be energetically moving his head as he read the contents of the screen.
WebP is now supported on Safari 10
A lot of 2015-2016 work can be seen as addressing the latter two. For memory, all the work on neural programming, soft and hard attention, content-addressable memory and 'memory networks'. For unsupervised learning, adversarial networks have spawned a whole bunch of papers with OpenAI's latest batch being quite exciting.
"Our main source of revenue is off the toolbars we push out, which isn't a great source of monetization, but it's something. You can do the math on how many installs we have and what the monetization of toolbars is, and subtract out the costs of having 50 employees, and you'll get a reasonable ballpark of how profitable we are, although the short answer is very. Even lousy monetization works well when you have more users than Twitter." - Bram Cohen

[0] - https://www.quora.com/How-profitable-is-BitTorrent-Inc
>Your idea is no less extreme than the one you referenced.

I mean they're on opposite directions, so it's not so simple to compare directly, as you'd be comparing distances that aren't between the same groups. You can look at distance from the Overton Window but that introduces its own vagueness.

>So is your point that we shouldn't enforce social more's? If so, why not just say that more directly.

Not quite. I suggest you look through my comment at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12086667 again:

>If child porn is inherently bad, then it makes sense.

>But if the only problem is the impact on the victim, then the victim should have control over whether they were really a victim.

I am a consequentialist, and I think you should only consider something bad if it has bad consequences. I recognize others disagree, but I did say that directly above.

>I don't think anyone is pretending this isn't one

Not quite in those words, but as I noted plenty of justifications for the laws are couched in consequentialist terms. I'd give them the benefit of the doubt that they actually mean that as the reason.
This article is from 2011.
Thanks! I'll for sure check this out.
The ruling isn't that powerful at all. On the latest development.

http://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy-defence/article/198...
yes, you could draw from multiple data sources at the same time.

csv_data %<-% read.csv("myfile.csv")
tsv_data %<-% read.tsv("otherfile.tsv")

csv_data %>% left_join(tsv_data, by = "id_user")
Yes, people can retreat. But they should not have to. Just like the blogger should not have to retreat to somewhere, some other industry, etc. That said, personally, when I've worked abroad and experienced some of what I've related, I simply don't care enough to bother about it --it bothers others sometimes. [As a foreigner you can also be ignorant of the lurking dangers you walk into]

The second sentence isn't hypothetical. I've been in the middle of those convos.

I've also worked with lots of working class people from all the major racial groups while in HS and uni. From my personal experience, there are two which are unafraid to speak their mind and express unreserved stereotypes of the others --even of their own. So, I can tell you from my experience working with working class people, upper middle class people are not especially problematic. Every ethnicity and class has this tendency, some expressed more then others. Some more freely than others.
Thought the exact same thing, really expected them to mention it too. Not that there's really anything legally wrong with it and they did look at a different angle on the story but still.
5 policy people, 1 technical person seems like an overly large swing in the other direction, IMO.
> Government kept trying with Common Criteria but almost all vendors and customers went for least secure stuff. NSA tried again with programs like SPOCK that evaluated Sentinel's HYDRA firewall. Defense contractors and DARPA/NSF-funded groups keep making stuff. Basically nobody buys it.

That is the truth. But there is a chicken and egg a bit there as well. Common Criteria certification (say EAL4) is not cheap and takes years to achieve. RedHat even opted to do it in Germany by exploiting some international mutual agreement thing. RHEL 7 was out 3 or so years ago and it is still "in evaluation". Who has time for that?

https://www.redhat.com/en/technologies/industries/government...

So I think the requirements and boilerplate needed is too much and too many hoops to jump through. A lot are not technical I feel but rather bureaucratic. I call it paper security -- security that exists only as rubber stamps or checkmarks in some checklist, which might not actually improve anything in reality. A lot of it is downright dangerous -- such as mandating installing an antivirus on a Linux server, which installs a kernel driver, which has a buffer overflow and so on, cue full on kernel level remote exploits ... as a result of a "security requirement".
Project Fixkart: Binny Bansal and Co.’s Last Shot at Turning Around Flipkart
This is the fourth time a story about Null Island has frontpaged on HN alone, so it's not as if it's a particularly unusual or unique topic to write an article about.

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=null%20island&sort=byPopularit...

I'd bucket it as one of a standard set of "quirky" subjects that get covered again and again on slow news days.
How the UFC became the Netflix of combat
Searching for null island on google maps brings me to the US Library of Congress.
More than this -- what even is software? A lot of the work we've seen with self driving cars is based on "AI" (machine learning). Much of the software is useless without the model, or the training data. I can certainly see a company making the case that it is not software even if the rest is OSS.
This is actually interesting in terms of GWAS - there used to be a large difference between "heritability" (~the measurable variance offspring shares with their parents, like height in cm, which can be influenced by a ton of parameters if you don't know about them/don't control them [like nutrition]). In the age of genome-wide association studies the linked SNPs often correlate much weaker than the heritability predicts (example: you could explain 10% of variance with SNPs, but heritability says it should be 70%) - this was called the problem of "missing heritability".

Some more complex models recover some of that missing heritability, these slides are a nice summary: http://jvanderw.une.edu.au/Mod9Lecture_SNP_Her.pdf

There is a paper from 2011 looking at human intelligence (http://www.nature.com/mp/journal/v16/n10/full/mp201185a.html) and using a little bit of modeling they got the correlation up high:

>We estimate that 40% of the variation in crystallized-type intelligence and 51% of the variation in fluid-type intelligence between individuals is accounted for by linkage disequilibrium between genotyped common SNP markers and unknown causal variants.

However, look at that "unknown", because the same abstract says:

>Finally, using just SNP data we predicted ~1% of the variance of crystallized and fluid cognitive phenotypes in an independent sample.

Using their SNPs alone it's only 1%. I assume the "true" genetic variability (~~~heritability) is somewhere in between those two values, since the 40/50% number seems to assume that these unknown variants will be discovered (they haven't yet AFAIK, maybe they don't exist, maybe they do).
> unusual and onerous requirement of fingerprinting drivers

Maybe it is unusual because it's not common in other cities, but let's not pretend it's onerous. Austin really tried to work with Uber/Lyft on this, such as offering to pay for the fingerprinting or have mobile fingerprinting stations, and Uber/Lyft still didn't like the idea because it would likely mean that other cities would see it as an example. And it's also not fair to say that it's even effectively banned because it's a law that's not difficult to work within.
I don't know much about how this works on *nix, but on Windows it's not super difficult to bundle a Python application with py2exe and distribute that.
I believe that anything between (1,1) and (-1,-1) is safe to kill if you are are only dealing with land based coordinates.
Tuning torch for the cpu
Anyone know where to source that blue map t-shirt? It's great!
Yeah, but if you had 5 operations in Haskell, you'd write:

do
a <- operation1
operation2 a -- This one returns nothing
b <- operation3 a
c <- operation4 b
operation5 c

In Go, you'll keep repeating that 'if err != nil {' everywhere. And things get way more interesting with more complex monads, but error handling is simple.
Yes, but perhaps less than you think. I fly small aircraft, and the one we fly gets ~15 mpg in cruise carrying up to 6 people at just over 200 mph. There are cars/trucks on the road that get less than that. If I slow it down to 150 mph, I can get over 20 mpg.
Reaction-diffusion could easily generate these patterns. There are several places in parameter space that look possibly correct. http://mrob.com/pub/comp/xmorphia/index.html
It's so they can pretend to not have any racial biases. "How can I be racist? I'm not like those people from the South."

All of my black friends who moved into Seattle from the South complain about liberal racism. It'd be funny if it weren't depressing.
Our government, at least under this administration and other recent administrations, seems to have forgotten that they exist to _serve_ us.

Maybe it's not treason, but it's definitely an abdication of their responsibilities as public servants.
The best feature of Vagrant – Multi-Machine
Being 100x better than a sober, attentive human is a very high bar to pass.
There is also the city of None. https://foursquare.com/v/none/51546ecfe4b08e83463f2f8b
The operation is called "map". In Haskell it is the same as the "fmap" function, for historical reasons.

By the way, is this the Civilization III armor? I never knew what model they got the image from. It is British... I always expected it to be German for some reason.
This is from the same company that has seized control of the development of the main Bitcoin codebase and has been making changes to cause problems that their Lightning Network claims to solve.
There's only been one accident that was the Google car's fault. Google cars have been involved in more than a dozen collisions in total.
Reminds me of this other story https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11466849

At least this is a fictional island, albeit in a real place, rather than coordinates in an inhabited place bringing unpleasantness to unwilling participants.
With some effort, it can be made less horrible. I have a utility function that lets me write it like this, whenever I can get away with doing steps after an error has occurred:

a, err1 := foo()
b, err2 := bar()
c, err3 := baz()
return a+b+c, errs.Combine(err1,err2,err3)
Pokemon Go and the Traveling Salesman Problem
hedonism can look great when it's practiced by people who believe that the greatest pleasure comes from appreciating art. but it can look horrible for example in the case of suicide bombers, who i believe to be rational agents (i don't believe that they're mentally handicapped or on drugs or something). these are men who are completely convinced that they're doing the victims a great favor and that they will be rewarded with the highest pleasure imaginable. so in this case, the definition of pleasure has been moved so far that what is meant to be an expression of the highest pleasure imaginable is indistinguishable (to an outside observer) from pain.

maybe that's too extreme of an example, but it illustrates the point that the hedonist notion of good and bad is vastly ambiguous and can lead to undesirable situations, most notably in cases where people try to optimize for the afterlife, but also in varying degrees in other cases. so i think it ultimately it fails in practice as a moral philosophy.

I also think hedonism tends to stigmatize pain to an impractical degree. i think experiencing and accepting pain is an important part of life, not because it leads to greater pleasure, but because pain is a part of the human condition and there's value in observing it and recognizing its importance. in regards to art, there can't be catharsis without pain, so it doesn't make sense to me to say that pleasure is somehow better than pain in that sense. i think pain and pleasure are two sides of the same coin.

i don't know. maybe i'm just crazy
Actually, Bioware/Pandemic made John Riccitiello its CEO just to be acquired by EA (but not before Riccitiello has resigned and joined the EA as the CEO again).
Well, of course, this might have something to do with him being a partner in Elevation, which bought Bioware/Pandemic and, likely, invested in Unity as well (he had been sitting on the Unity board before becoming the CEO after being fired from EA).
Some thoughts on bots
These fines are fundamentally stupid: yes, Citi's IT fucked up, but the fault is with the regulators for having such braindead reporting requirements to begin with.

Instead of something sensible like "you trade, you report", the regulators have set up a patchwork of formats, inclusion criteria and target agencies that pretty much ensures that lapses like this occur. Turning Frank-Dodd into workable code is fucking hard: I spent a couple of years pushing that boulder up the slope until I ragequit a couple of months ago.

The regulators should be ingesting data in one place and running analytics on a data lake. The banks are so sick of spending money dealing with the lack of regulatory technical competence that they'll probably happily pony up a couple of billion dollars between them to set up the surveillance system for the Feds; doing it once is cheaper in the long run than repeating the same set of mistakes at every bank on the Street.
Only in instances where you don't care about any of the other return values.
Because Stratoscope is working on a Unity project?
> It's not about balance, it's about you willing to make guesses regarding the bad things Tesla has done, and not make guesses about the potential good things.

You're being pedantic. I can wager guesses about good things too. They're just not pertinent to the focus of this article. Constructive criticism, for me, is a positive thing.

> You said the equivalent of, "I'm voting for X because of my speculation about Y but I refuse to speculate about Z as it does not fit my current argument."

I gave some raw analysis of the statistics drawn, further here [1], and all you can do is complain that I am somehow voting against Tesla. I never said any such thing. I said we should demand more transparency from them about accident data. I made some further speculation about Tesla's likelihood to do this on their own because it supports the argument that we should be part of this conversation.

To expand on that, I think we should ask this of all companies that enable driver-assist. Currently, California requires monthly reports on accidents involving fully autonomous vehicles. I think it makes sense to do that for every car [2].

If you think Tesla and other companies will become more transparent and you don't feel the need to do anything, great, that's your prerogative.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12087603

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12084226
Because that threat today keeps people from modifying their cars by cutting springs, installing lift kits, putting on ridiculous wheel/tire packages, and changing to poorly "engineered" HID retrofit lighting kits.

I see unsafe modified cars almost every week right now.
I don't necessarily want "high-level, succinct code", I want something simple that compiles to static binaries with minimal configuration. Rust is most likely what I'll use in the future, but it's fairly low-level compared to Go, and the editor support pales. Eventually I think it will get there though.

Python can be friendly, but in practice people frequently use Python's magic features for everything. Go reigns people in, which can be a burden for some, but I appreciate the predictability.
What's a crf?
This is the gist of it:

"But in 1998, the company started using alphanumeric branch codes as it expanded its business. Among them were the codes 10B, 10C and so on, which the system treated as being within the excluded range, and so their transactions were removed from any reports sent to the SEC."
If you have a lot of data that you want to ingest and store, without keeping it in an active instance, you might want to take a look at Joyent Manta[1]. We allow you to run compute jobs directly on the storage servers themselves -- basically anything you can do in a UNIX environment with a script you can run against an object in the store, from "grep" up to "python" and beyond. If you were to select "single copy" storage, the public service pricing[2] might be more interesting for you; if you grow too big or want to move onto your own hardware, the stack is open source[3] and/or we can sell you support!

Disclaimer: I work at Joyent.

[1]: https://www.joyent.com/manta

[2]: https://www.joyent.com/pricing/manta

[3]: https://github.com/joyent/manta
Show HN: Llama Attack – send your friends llamas from a random number
Everyone just has to stop caring, honestly. About race. If you are racist...well, that's an instant loss obviously. If you are deathly afraid to be racist and want to be politically correct (read: hyper race-conscious), you are unwittingly reenforcing separation and division and boundaries. I truly believe that overthinking it is what keeps us from getting over it.
How (and why) FreeDOS keeps DOS alive
There is actually a weather buoy at 0'0 http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/station_page.php?station=13010
After ‘Brexit,’ Britain Could Look to Norway as a Model
Would you mind answering the second half of that question? I'm curious.

> You keep citing examples of cleaning up after other people for a job. Why don't you have their source code?
I misread your comment as saying you discarded the paper. Actually, 'discarded.' is part of the quote.
Like most developers I get sick of people asking for help with side projects. But as soon as my friend said "Llama Attack," I told him, "say no more." It also didn't hurt that he's awesome at Python and was building the backend.

Ate some pizza, drank some beer, and this monstrosity was born. Also credit where credit is due, this is a total rip off (in good fun) of Goat Attack. Think of it as Goat Attack for Llamas.
Should have written TODO
Yes. Investing in miracles is what VCs do. Investing in 50 companies and only having 5 of them succeed is what they do.

Investing in 50 companies and expecting 45 of them to succeed is called being a small business bank.
This works at higher levels of abstraction, too. For instance, NetApp filers have a deduplication feature, where identical files are detected and stored once instead of several times. When one of the files is changed, supposedly a copy on write happens. Yet in practice, I saw, more than once, two identical files, with completely identical time stamps, owned by two different users, where only one file was modified intentionally by a program ran by one of the users (that program logged its actions to a file, and the other user's log would be empty, plus there was no chance that both modified their files at the exact same time.) I concluded that NetApp's deduplication wasn't on the beaten path - or perhaps something in the timing or other specifics of our creation and modification of identical files was unusual.
Honestly, most products are becoming so integrated, and so delicate, that "repair" means "replace the one expensive bit."

Couple that with every lighter, ever thinner, ever flimsier, glue based laminated construction, needed to hit market size and weight requirements, and you get absolutely no economic sense in designing for, or supporting, repair.

In a sense, it's our growing skill at mass fabrication, and the growing cost of skilled human knowledge workers, that is driving this "not economically repairable" phenomenon.

Do we really want heavier, clunkier, more expensive things, that can be repaired? The planet may approve, but the Wall Mart shopper sure doesn't!
Yes, the same kind of logging - transaction logging.
Conditional random field. It's a model that comes from the probabilistic/statistical side of ML, which was the "hot" ML area before deep learning.
It probably has to do with seed dropping patterns, and where light is. Fascinating stuff though.
This idea is often presented as soon as anyone mentions "harmonic series" and "Western music theory" in the same breath, and in the same hand-wavey terms. Do you have any material to support these claims?
Could be. I personally doubt that policy ever sees the light of day. Companies are legally obligated to be financially responsible on behalf of their shareholders. A few executives holding the company over the edge of a cliff named "class action lawsuit" doesn't spell responsible to me. However IANAL
A Pure Swift 2 Implementation of MKNetworkKit