skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
British Olympic medal winning cyclist Victoria Pendelton is now competing as a jockey.

At London 2012's Olympics she set a world record in the Team Sprint, got silver in the Match Sprint and gold in Keirin.

The irony here is that Olympic Keirin is derived from a Japanese/Korean betting sport, which is basically horse racing. But with people.
UN tries to hide involvement in deleting Australia from its climate report
Do you guys sponsor H1B?
Even easier, it's the second occurrence of the word "historians". :)
Will share one which helped ease down the "getting in the zone" part for me: Use all 10 of your fingers while typing code
Ask HN: Looking for Startup Report
I've been racking my brain trying to find the company that puts out a periodic report on startup outlook or startups to watch. The only thing I can really remember is that they mention the startups no longer in the running because they have had an IPO. Does this ring a bell for anyone?
I couldn't name a single place off the top of my head that forbids tipping.
it could also be done pretty trivially using an xposed module, such as:
http://repo.xposed.info/module/mobi.acpm.sslunpinning

i haven't personally tried this route yet though
> I think mysql users are just there quietly making money

98% percent of people using w/ever are quietly making money. Then you have 1% that complain and 1% that praise. (Numbers are arbitrary.)
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Something of a hit piece - just for starts, she didn't know (then) whether she was joining Verizon 'cause it ain't her call, she didn't know what if any terms would be offered. WTH.

As for her not treating Yahoo as a sinking business, and gambling... well, that's exactly what the shareholders wanted. They didn't want the McKinsey approach, milking the remaining profit while hollowing out the company (and hoping some idiot would buy the husk without due diligence, just before bankruptcy.) They could easily have had that, if that was their desire. It wasn't. They wanted to gamble and win back their mojo. The results were predictable.

A better yahoo mail wouldn't have saved the company either, by the way - it might have been a surviving business, but again, that's not what the over-optimistic shareholders wanted. Yahoo had no secret sauce left. The shareholders wanted to find another secret sauce, and or (re)create a network effect (which is where media might have fit in.) Media didn't work 'cause they stuffed it with dark pattern ads, not 'cause they spent money on the wrong faces, IMHO. I'm still looking for a good portal, there - google news doesn't thrill me.
Do you have a better solution, then? Signature-based is very effective for known malwares out there. There is not much a browser can do without becoming a full-blown AV scanner.
I think the main difference with today's civilization is we will watch the collapse minute by minute, collectively. Hopefully we can lay down the most important parts of our civilization gently and swap in redesigned culture quickly enough to avert the worst of the death and chaos.
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Niche subject matter is a barrier of entry allowing only a specific subset/types of person in. To be precise a certain type of personality self-selects to find a site like HN.

That fact alone makes a significant impact on moderation.
What's your full email id?
your question caused me to spend a little time comparing the two (NumPy, which i know quite well, and nd4j, which i don't know at all).

so based on comparison, it's clear the nd4j uses the key structural features of numpy arrays--linear buffers, strides, bit-wise and integer indexing, etc.--and the coincidence in the two APIs is also very high (eg, comparing the methods for a 2D NumPy array versus those for a 2D nd4j array).

in my view, this is an impressive project, both w/r/t the work done to date and w/r/t the impact on java and scala open-source communities. In Scala land for instance, the most widely used matrix computation library is Breeze, which i've never found easy to use. nd4j, in particular, the Scala bindings, nd4s, seem to me to be a substantial improvement both in architecture and in the api.
Can you elaborate on this? I have not seen this technique.
Brock Lesnar, a world-class wrestler, once said, "I saw my Olympic-training buddies scrape by to have a rusty car, and I decided that was not for me, and went pro (WWE and MMA.)"
I started going through those somewhat recently and have really enjoyed it. Thanks for putting that together.

For anyone else looking for another one along the same lines, this is a good one too: http://overthewire.org/wargames/natas/natas0.html
This was very informative for me, thank you!
I was introduced to the waffle house recently. These places are open 24/7 including Christmas. God Bless America.
Musical connections
An unexpected journey, a Postgres DBA's tale
> you'll meet highly effective people who add value to relationships and businesses who will make you unhappy.

Sure.

> "For better or worse." "Take the good with the bad." "Lighten up Francis."

That depends on what you want out of life. Leaving money on the table for the sake of happiness is perfectly reasonable too.
Maybe I have a poor definition of 'point of refusal', but this is the term developers use. Most developers in SF don't tell you whether they drilled down to bedrock or not.
A Purge Is a Purge Is a Purge
While true, I think it has more to do with the way the relative niche-ness of HN shapes the community. The average person who comments on an Iraq war thread in HN is not selected from the same sample as the average person who comments on an Iraq war thread across all fora. HN consists of enough niche topics that the average person doesn't want to hang out here and make an account just to jump in on random Iraq war or Brexit threads (the current frontpage has about 25/30 tech-focused topics, many of which are beyond esoteric for most people). This shapes the community in a way that affects the make-up of the commenters on even such politically-charged threads.
> majority

I'd argue that all, not most, subdomains must be HTTPS capable (I won't say TLS generally, either; this is only dealing with HTTP). Any that aren't will not be accessible by a user agent that recently (within the max-age) visited the parent domain if it had an HSTS header with that flag.
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I think this is great. People need to be aware of toxic behavior.

That said, though, I am often bugged at work because I am both an introvert and need to isolate my environment by wearing headphones. My team and others make assumptions that I'm unfriendly. It's frustrating and I've just started to go along with it and agree, "Yes, I'm wearing headphones because I am trying to shut you all out." The truth is, I am not mean, but I enjoy my alone time and need quiet to be productive.

Also, a lot of times, I've gotten frustrated with the leadership in the companies I've worked for over the years. Not every company- about half. And a lot of times in the past, I would vent to co-workers about this. I'd also be honest in reviews and surveys describing in detail what had been done incorrectly.

I don't think of myself as toxic, but because I've been so persistent at times talking about someone else failing to do their job correctly as a leader, people see me that way and as a pessimist.

I'm aware of this and have made attempts to be more optimistic. It has really helped out, but it's still tough. I often realize too late that I'm being down on something, even as I try to imagine a future where everything gets better.

I don't think I'm a jerk, bozo, or asshole, and I don't want to be any of those things. But, I also just want to be allowed to be who I am. I'm not always going to be sunshine.
-Usually the SSE model accounts for a malicious server that just stores every search token it's given, so the server doesn't need to reconstruct them.

- You could store W on the server, but you would leak additional information to the server during an update - namely, the per-keyword update frequency. Section 5.5 describes an extension to reduce client-side storage at the cost of additional computation.
Hmm. So people that live in Greenland/Sweden get more cancer because of the 24 hours of daytime-thing?
Yeah, I don't get it at all either. I couldn't stand living in Bangkok. Traffic is abysmal, it's hot, dirty and muggy. I understand the appeal of living in a big city, but BKK would never be my choice.
Limits are never reached, they are only approached asymptotically. Thus most people will never observe a limit in human innovation in their lifetimes, instead they will only observe an eternal slow down as innovation spends forever converging with the limit. This makes it impossible to prove (or disprove) that there is a limit to technology. One can only make an educated guess.

Have we reached the limits of human colonization? Are we approaching a limit? Mars may be possible, but it is an order of magnitude harder than colonizing the Americas. Colonizing the west happened only a couple years after Columbus discovered the new world. Mars was discovered 3 centuries ago... are we at a limit? How long will it take to colonize the nearest star?
I'm imagining that driverless cars could work well on very predictable roads that are exclusively for driverless cars.

But on real roads with questionable maintenance and other unpredictable cars on it, I just can't see it happening unless there's some major change to the roads infrastructure.
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Obviously not. If the price is too high, people will not pay it.
We call that "the profit motive"
7 Lessons Pokémon Go Teaches about Starting a Business – Trdinoo
>I see many economists with a much deeper understanding in economy then myself are convinced that economy isn't a zero sum game.

These are idealized models. To simplify calculations. The sun will burn out in a billion years so one can assume in a model that it will never burn out.

The fact of the matter is, the economy runs on resources. Resources are limited. Thus the economy is limited.
Likewise Los Alamos, NM and Richland, WA as the article mentions.
Maybe it was both?

The Foundation series by Asimov talk about the Foundation, that aimed to hasten and then control a still inevitable collapse, and ensure itself would be the replacement culture.

Al Qaeda, that can mean "The Foundation" in Arabic, is speculated to have this aim too, using immigration, intermarriage, and dragging western civilization in a extended unpayable war with the same idea: hasten the inevitable collapse, and be ready to rebuild and replace from the ashes. (And ISIS is an impatient Al Qaeda, and wants to trigger a total war, to overextend western countries even faster, and cause a refugee-driven diaspora)
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> "causing interference" In theory, yes the possibility exists. In practice not likely.

uh... every time i've seen anyone increase their router's power usage, it was done directly to cause interference so as to MITM everyone else into ignoring the lower powered signals.

you're all idiots.
I'm curious about US cities that are effectively closed today. What happens if you try to drive to Pilcher, OK or Love Canal, NY?
That's just street/slums/ghetto behavior. Such heavy selection pressure selects the most adaptive and the most lucky (on the contrary to the popular misconception that the strongest and the smartest are selected). One could find a whole countries with this kind of society - Russia and some African states are good example. Highest level of corruption and crime produce such street-gang social norms.

Such practices are plainly stupid and based on misconception and uneducated common sense and primitive memes. Every serious professional athlete will tell you that too much stress and pressure will dramatically diminish one's performance and health instead of making one "stronger". Relaxed self-control, proper habits and just enough of exercises will do.

Any highly such competitive and stressful societies of assholes and jerks characterized by high turnaround, very short lifespan for participants, high injury and mortality rates, and hence adaptations, such as earlier reproductive age, smaller body sized, quicker but lower quality development, etc. It is just biology.
I live in HK, and have for 4 years. I lived in Shenzhen for 4 years prior to that, and Hong Kong is much better. It is nearly impossible to immigrate here without employer sponsorship, however you can look at their new startup immigration scheme, which allows startup founders a special visa provided you have a business plan, and plans to hire local people. Programming jobs abound, look up some headhunting/placement companies, and they will bend over backwards to place you. I work for myself, but my wife is HKese so that's how I manage. I love HK, it's a modern vibrant city, however it's offing expensive. Income tax is very low, but rent is hilariously overpriced, so this makes everything more expensive here. That said, if you want to live more locally, you can get by relatively inexpensively for things like food. Public transport is cheap and phenomenal so there's no need for a car. That said, unless you're in fintech or have a very good reason or big desire to be here, there are probably better places to go.
I did not have a fortune to get to know the LOGO or even SMALLTALK languages. By the time I've heard about it, it is the C++ or even C, and all us "professionals" dismissed this. I've just read up on the LOGO language on the Wiki, and some of its fortes are based on its roots in functional (encouraging recursions over a set) and declarative style. These people were already thinking about many years ahead for me. I would imagine my career would have been more enriched if I have encountered this early on in my life.
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Good to learn from him:

He had very little jealousy towards other major creative figures, though Chopin, Schumann, Brahms and even Wagner did not always respond to him so generously. He supported the development not only of these major figures, but of fascinating minor ones such as Joachim Raff and Peter Cornelius, and any number of great pianists.
Also, someone like Bret is very unlikely to be attracted by purely monetary gain like a $20/mil year salary(or even $50/mil year.) He probably cares as much, if not more, in being able to achieve some larger goal--which requires building a sort of team he has already built.
One thing to understand regarding Smalltalk, it is the paradigm shift compared to file based environment:
- with the later, you deal with characters (ascii, utf8)
- with the former, you deal with object (an internal object representation).

So indeed the tooling is different. One deal with text processing, the other with object processing. The benefits you get are different. The browsers in Eclipse and Smalltalk are not processing the same thing, an Object is a far more abstracted representation of your source code, for example the browser can ask to an Object can you do 'that' kind of processing, or do you accept I send this message (method call in other language), etc.

When developing, the image is your sandbox environment with object representation of your code, but of course Smalltalk developers also save their code in text file representation, but it is only mean as a backup and transportation scheme from an image to another image. AFAIK, it is never uses for anything else than transporting or comparing source code version; not because we can't do it, but because we don't need to it.

The question regarding the source code file arises very often on Smalltalk. Not because Smalltalk is doing wrong there, but because it is a paradigm shift, and as you know we are all more or less conservative regarding changes or different point of view; some fellow free software activists disregard me to use such an awkward environment, but at least RMS did not get problem GNU DrGeo moved to the Pharo platform once I explain the underneath system, and that the access to the source code from the VM up to the Pharo environment was plain free software licensed as MIT licence.

To sum up:
- the image is the sandbox where you deal with object
- we save code in file (one monolithic file, or small granulated one file per method) for back up, versioning, transportation
- the developer may from time to time, decide to take a fresh image and reload his source code
- delivered Smalltalk application are built from a fresh image and source code installation from the source file of the code. For http://drgeo.eu I use a combination of Smalltalk script and Bash script to build the delivered application for GNU-Linux/MacOSX/Windows.
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There's nothing wrong with it, but often they are famous because of their personality, and have little actual skill, including needing auto-tune or even lip-syncing performances.

The skill needed to be a rock-star is orthogonal to the skill needed to make beautiful music, and that is why those skills are worth considering separately.
> delete all insulting posts

This would be ok on HN. I'd rather that than people downvoting because they disagree or because you made an honest mistake. It wounds me every time I get a downvote, and often I just logout and create a new user, so that I don't feel marred by being associated with a past comment that someone didn't like. I had a serious amount of karma about 9 years ago and probably should've just gotten over it, but I said a few things I believed at the time, got seriously embarrassed when others disagreed, and then just started quitting and creating new users, and have been doing it ever since. I'm not proud of it. Really- I'd much rather everything just be anonymous. That would be easier.

I also disagree with the rules saying that you can't frame something as "I know I'll get downvotes but..."- really, I don't understand why it matters. I think flagging offensive or spam comments really should be the only control necessary. I know that being a moderator is tough, but the community should be welcoming to all sorts of ideas and comments. I'm not a troll.
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The instructor was this surly, ancient old lady, and pretty famous concert pianist

Who?
Or you could think of each NB classifier as a convolutional filter, followed by maxout / selection by voting at the top.
Git isn't going to manage the licences for commercial software and your operating system updates ...
Deploying the Netflix API
I like to put it this way: look for solutions, not problems. Many programmers spend their effort on figuring out why something can't work, rather than how it could work.
It's not really about how much someone likes a product. It's about the widescale famine, extinction and war on our doorstep and whether we as a planet can do anything to confine warming to a manageable rate.

Manageable being the opposite of out-of-control.
$750M for a word processing app? Go home Silicon Valley you're drunk!
I think it's OK to have advice that isn't always correct in cases like this. By the time you're ready to actually track down and demonstrate an OS or compiler bug, you're ready to move beyond simple advice and think more for yourself.
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> it's easy to assume the trope of him being a superficial virtuosic performer

When you listen to his compositions it becomes impossible to assume that:

"Piano Sonata in B minor" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfHgLyuO0hY

This is no composition by just a virtuosic performer. It has huge emotional depth. It's a spiritual meditation.
The negativeness, of course, being towards the book, and not the man Liszt.
If you angled them right, they would redirect the breeze from outside right on to your face.
Tabs are already there, since version 1.3
It was hurricane season and the repairs were done as a major storm was approaching.

> Three Meteorological experts were retained to provide updates three times throughout a day. An emergency evacuation plan was developed in conjunction with local law enforcement, search and rescue, firefighters, major city authority figures, and shelters. 2000 emergency red cross workers were kept on stand-by in the event of a failure.
They're totally official. I used them all the time to claim taxi expenses in Beijing. Same in Shenzhen.
This thread reminded me why I spend zero time on the cesspool of misinformed hot takes that is Twitter