skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A device like that could use a 2-phase protocol so that each step of the transaction is kept under 2ms even if the whole thing takes 10s.
I believe that should be solved with improvements in computer vision. We are probably decade or two away from parsing realtime 2x100 megapixel streams.
HN bans buzzfeed submissions outright, but I would have loved to see the community's comments on this article, for example:

https://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewrice/the-fall-of-intrade-and-...
Anecdotal, but we implemented this as we had a large number of existing users who would sign up on our marketing site (when they were actually trying to sign in).

We changed it so that they enter their email first, then we detect whether we have that email in our db, and direct them to the appropriate next step (either a sign up form as a new user, or a password field for an existing user).
I wouldn't say recently... it's a symptom of how the roads and highways were built in the US. They are essentially in a constant state of construction due to repaving needs, growing traffic congestion, etc.

What sort of "source" do you expect would exist for this? It's just the day-to-day job of DOT.
For most Mac users, there's a kind of consistency: It doesn't matter whether the drivers or the kernel are to blame; either way, avoiding Windows means avoiding the whole mess.
was recently given fentanyl when I had to have a dislocated arm re-located. I passed out within 4 minutes, and woke up without a dislocation. I don't understand why you'd want to take it recreationally (how much does your life suck that you want to sleep constantly?), but I'm glad it exists to ease suffering. Maybe some of these scare articles should look at the "Rat Park" study, and figure out why people are doing the drug in the first place?
And Jigsaw has landed, build 116 if I recall (too lazy to look it up)
I keep hoping for a "you should probably have realized by now that your baby is a lot uglier than you think" filter.
Could you explain how "password managers" are a good idea?

I can't seem to grasp the concept, or what makes it more secure to have one password for all your passwords and/or to store all your login credentials on someone else's computer.
I pretty much do. Barry Lyndon was also a cinematic tour de force for the time in its use of available light. But, like 2001, it's a long and rather cold film and one that I ultimately respect more than I love.

(In the case of 2001, it is on my list of best films, but if I'm being honest that's more on the basis of its place in film history and scenes that are part of both film and broader cultural memory than because of a particular desire to watch the movie as a whole repeatedly.)
If his client was found guilty, or took a plea bargain, and he then didn't issue a pardon, he'd be making an implicit statement that he thinks the defendant was indeed guilty....

Whatever the Constitutional issues, it's messy for sure, although as noted he could take on the case after he steps down, he just won't be able to spend as much time with his family ^_^.
Given Elon Musk's track record of spelling out exactly what he wants to do, receiving a bunch of naysaying, and then doing exactly what he said, I think betting against him is a bad bet.
Progress bar would be good, just a level above the polish I ever reached.

I do not want income from it because I feel this makes me more obligated, and I do not know how much time I can spend down the road (I will still spend time, I just don't want additional obligations hovering over my head) :)

World construction takes a few seconds on my computer, although IIRC some of it is tied to the GPU, but mostly it uses the CPU.
Point taken. Unfortunately he also encourages his 3-year old sis to climb over the fence with him now too. And she is absolutely adorable.
I have no involvement in Erlang, but I just looked at that page, and as an outsider I would agree that the navigation could certainly be improved. I think a lot of the problem for me is that there is no distinction between the numbers for "Chapters" and for "Sections", and this confused me as to where I was in the progression.

Maybe using numbers for chapters, letters for sections, and a 1.A notation for the headers? At the least, adding the chapter numbers to the header, so it says "1. Introduction"? Putting the chapter numbers in the URL would help too. So would adding some highlighting in the right column index to indicate the location of the current page.

It seems like fantastic introductory material, but only if people can find it. Usually, the first thing do when I encounter a paginated manual like that is to search for a "single page" or "print" or "PDF" link. Is there one there that I couldn't find? If not, adding one might be a simple (partial) fix.

Edit: If others have more (and better) suggestions, they can be added to the issue I filed here: https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir-lang.github.com/issues...
Django's docs are some of the best I've seen

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.10/

I love how they provide example code for everything and explain it.
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Although I found the comment funny, the paypal button sends the data to https://www.paypal.com/... so wouldn't http be just as safe? (As long as the MIM does not serve a altered version of the page that has attacker's site instead of paypal's that looks exactly alike as paypal I guess)
https://www.quora.com/TJ-Holowaychuk-1/How-is-TJ-Holowaychuk...
It's also for a great cause :) that helps.
"LWN articles are paywalled"

It is paywalled for a short period (2 weeks??). After that, everyone can read their articles for free.
just doing pretty standard things well, with attention to detail, is in itself revolutionary

This is exactly it! The challenge in hiring isn't coming up with a good process, it's making sure that process is actually executed well across the company.
Cars are also relatively expensive. iot products seem more in the disposable and non-essential space. You can always just throw it away without much inconvenience, so why put a lot of effort into the purchase process? Heck people don't even seem to care much about cell phones and keeping them up to date (iPhone and Nexus aside). And cell phones are far more important than lights etc.

As for the last paragraph, perhaps certification instead of standards? The equivalent of UL (Underwriters Laboratory) would work, but it would need to suit the nature, prices and timelines of these products. At least consumers would then know to look for the logo.

While there could be conventions for REST endpoints, I'm sceptical they would be of any use. The devices by their nature are special purpose (rather than general) so there would be a lot more domain knowledge needed to make sense of them. Additionally making them robust against general clients versus only in-house ones is a lot more work. The general ones would attempt to do nonsensical or potentially even harmful settings, and so would require more engineering spend to protect against.
Not all people are visual thinkers or have large visual bandwidth.

Also, if asking one question at a time adds a % or two to the user base of something as big as Google, then that's a lot of new users.
It could be configured to automatically allow X transactions below $Y every Z seconds. So you could tag into the subway once every five minutes without any user input, but larger or more frequent transactions would require confirmation.
Honestly, I think another reason for so many ancient polymaths is that the fields themselves were less developed, and took less time to fully learn. I in no way want to put down Renaissance polymaths, who were tremendously impressive, but it simply takes less time to learn up to the cutting edge of mathematics or chemistry in 1660 than 2016.
Tests are great as long as there's a strict discipline (you usually need to enforce this with tooling) of never committing a change that causes any tests to fail.

Then anyone who writes a test has to make it pass, and anyone who makes a change that breaks a test has to fix it. No rotting tests that passed long ago and have been failing for months that everyone ignores because whatever
How to change the wallpaper on KDE: Right-click on desktop->Click "Desktop Settings"->Select a wallpaper->Click "Apply".
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Mathematician hacked into Google. Thought it was part of job interview
No I understand your argument, I'm just trying to illustrate how small a part of the tail professional sports really is (turns out it's small but not that small).
A lot of 'relevant' 'authentic' 'genuine' words there. Yet I'm still afraid that this is sugar coated heroine. The very nature of facebook MUST induce "clickbaiting", if not in title one, then a stream-of-short-yet-another-video/picture/sillyarticle.

It's because facebook is optimising news stream for TIME SPENT. The longer the better. Facebook must optimise for it because:

* facebook income is directly corelated with time spent, as time spent is corelated with number of ads shown

* the longer time spent the bigger user retention in long run, which simply is fb goal.

So human/fb relation is screwed no matter what authentic, genuine PR will be written about it :(
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I've never understood people's abhorrence of sigils. They are useful shorthand for very specific concepts. It's like hating apostrophes in English. You can do away with them entirely, but I don't think most people would consider that an improvement.

Now, the greater density of concepts shorthand notation can be abused, and too much of that often shifts the cost benefit ratio further to the cost side for all but the most expert in the language, but that's a problem of too much, not on inherent with their use at all.
It's very common (a) for 7% to be an unrealistic return for pensions, given their allocations; and (b) for pensions funds to estimate even higher (8 or 9%) growth rates.

I can't speak to the majority of pensions funds, but there are State funds that assume 8.5% returns while having 50-60% of the fund in bonds. Those are the Minnesota numbers, and they tend to be pretty good for a State. They're ~75% funded, and that makes them 19th best in the country. If you face the reality that their assumptions are insane, then you have the wrestle with more realistic projections of how much they've really funded.
asyncpg was developed by @redcrowbar and me. Ask us anything ;)
It's not rare that a company hires 5 bad developers (or more) for each 1 good one.
> I don't recommend doing ecommerce...or anything that could gather sensitive information

The problem with this kind of thinking is that if I can get remote code execution, or even just content control over your no-ecommerce-or-sensitive-information blog, I can have a great time. Sure, it's not as valuable as CC info, but the potential for malware distribution, credential phishing (password reuse for the win!), various kinds of social engineering, or even just as an anonymizing host to hide illegal activity, is still huge.
Hi, do you have a contact email for this?
SSA publishes some stuff about it. Figures 2a and 2b are interesting to this discussion:

https://www.ssa.gov/oact/NOTES/as120/LifeTables_Body.html

The number of people living to 65 has increased and they live longer after reaching that age.

Take a made up scenario: Say you plan on being able to pay 10 people for 10 years. Something like adding 1 person and 1 year smashes your budget (100->121).
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For the most skilled players, it would certainly be worth it to them to treat it as a full time job. They make more doing that than most jobs.
Your "Wow" threw me and gave me a suspicion that your reply will be biased :) Please allow me to clarify my statements and see if I can make any sense. (FYI i have two older parents as well and the whole point is not to "discard" old people instead create parallel opportunities that would require less consumption of resources. Honestly speaking medicinal science has caught up to the point where more and more people and enjoying longer lives but the economy is slowing down and consumption of natural resources is increasing.

And yes my comments were mostly targeted at richer older people. Come live in Manhattan and see it for yourself what I am talking about. I dont want to spend my life in NYC or SF. I want to spend 10+ good years here to learn and contribute towards the industry and move out of here and give the resources to younger generation instead of hoarding on them. My perspective my comments they are all revolve around urban dwelling and not most of the older class living peacefully in suburban sprawls.
Ask HN: Talented kid: what to do?
I am looking for ideas on what to do with my cousin's 8 year old (clearly gifted) kid. Ideas for pathways, scholarships, online courses, etc.

When Simon comes back from school, he entertains himself with math problems, and also creates for himself math problems and solves them. He's been moved to 6th grade algebra in school. He is a good reader. His other idea of fun is to play classical music on piano and compose new pieces. He is not socially awkward either: he just gets bored with most kids of his age, but enjoys smart kids and plays with them well. They live in Chicago.

His IQ been tested at 148 (very superior). Here's photo of his IQ report:

https://2nznub4x5d61ra4q12fyu67t-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/IQ-1.jpg

Any ideas appreciated! Thanks.
How can Squarespace even exist in a world that Wordpress supposedly had won? The answer is by winning over the average Joe, who is not a developer or webmaster.

I don't get how wordpress.com never became something more attuned to the needs of average Joe...
Yeah. Getting started in a new discipline isn't easy either. Between jargon, investing in tools, and figuring out where all the good documentation is and purchasing it (most other disciplines don't give away most of their best ideas), somethings just getting started is a project unto itself. Good luck in 3D modeling.
Most of my Linux use for the last several years has been terminal only, so I am way out of touch with how GUI Linux has improved. How is the desktop nowadays? In particular, how is it as far as consistency among programs goes?

For instance, here is a screenshot I took in 2003 showing several the file open dialogs from several different programs: http://i.imgur.com/Wcwaiwu.jpg

Note that there is almost no consistency between these dialogs. That's because the file open dialog that a program presented was determined by what GUI toolkit the developer picked to use to develop their program.

Compare to Mac and Windows, where file selection dialogs are part of the system, and so almost all applications use them.

People tried to tell me the Linux way was better, because it means the OS vendor wasn't forcing their choice on everyone. Cool...I like choice, but how about putting the choice in the hands of the user, rather than the individual app developers (or rather the GUI toolkit developers)?

It seems to me that the right way to do this is for the system to provide a standardized API for file selection, and provide a way to register multiple implementations, and to provide a way for a user to tell the system which implementation they prefer in general and perhaps for specific programs.

Each toolkit could continue to provide its own implementations of file selection dialogs, but could register those with the system, and access them via the standard API so that if the user prefers the dialogs from a different toolkit the user gets their preferred dialog.
The shorters, and there is a lot of them, don't think so, but I agree with you. We need a sustainable future and this is a really good effort to get parts of our society there. Waiting for the auto companies to get their act together, then we'll burn.
http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/compare.php?lan...

as-in FAQ 1.4 "What sort of problems is Erlang not particularly suitable for? … The most common class of 'less suitable' problems is characterised by performance being a prime requirement and constant-factors having a large effect on performance. Typical examples are image processing, signal processing, sorting large volumes of data and low-level protocol termination."
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> "It's human nature"

Rather than making difficult-to-prove statements about humans that imply some sort of just moral backing for behavior, perhaps we should just refer to it as "something [lots of] people do."
Touch versus trace typing
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Try signing up! You can create a new listing, search existing ones, send messages to other users, and view upcoming trips. It's integrated to Stripe as well so you can actually book a trip (although I wouldn't recommend that since every listing is fictional).
Thanks. That was an interesting article.

"Roman bookies ran numbers on the election of Renaissance popes until Gregory XIV banned the practice on penalty of excommunication. Around the turn of the 20th century, Wall Street brokers openly traded election futures and newspapers quoted their prices like modern opinion polls. Strumpf estimates that at the peak of this practice, in the election of 1916, around $10 million was bet on these markets — more than $200 million in today’s dollars. By the end of the New Deal era, though, the electoral markets had all but disappeared, due to both competition — modern polling pushed the betting lines out of the newspapers — and legal crackdowns."
Yes, it can be used for sentiment analysis.

This library basically means you don't have to write the code for sentiment analysis anymore (just one example).

Just feed it a model:

$ ./fasttext supervised -input train.txt -output model

And then you can predict what the most likely label for a text is:

$ ./fasttext predict model.bin test.txt
They don't have to have done something wrong.

Years ago I had a lurcher, raised from a pup. One day I noticed that if you spoke to him in a stern manner - even if he had done absolutely nothing wrong he would hang his head low and look up at you, and put his tail between his legs as if he was guilty of something bad and wanted to look contrite.

It seems to me that it may be a long ago learned, now instinctive, behaviour to react that way to a particular tone of human voice.
> There's nothing wrong with running E-Commerce on Wordpress also, as long as your payment solution does not include storing sensitive data such as credit card numbers in the database.

This is just not true. Suppose I get write access to the content your Wordpress site is serving. Now I can replace, say, the Stripe (or any other managed payment solution) JS and HTML with my own, to save the CC info and forward the unmodified request to Stripe. Game over.
I wonder of you could use this on car commercials and thereby deduce the actual comparative quality of construction. Assuming that better built cars would vibrate less at speed. It would be interesting to understand where the vibrations occur.

A question for the authors. All the video is with vibrating but otherwise stationary objects. Must the object be stationary for these tools to work?
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> That said, a part of me has always wished this sequence gave more thought to the physics and what it might be like to visualize the experience of traveling through a gate/wormhole like this. I don't think the coloration, visual patterns, or sequencing represents much understanding of the then-current physics theory on what this sort of thing might possibly be like, and I'm not sure it even captures it well in the abstract.

'Interstellar' did some of that, and they had to hire Kip Thorne as a consultant, and run a render farm to raytrace the relativistic effects.

I'm not sure the theory was quite at the same level in the '60s, and the cinema technique was definitely not the same. It would have been a lot harder to do any degree of realism.
The point is that this is a two-way street with (effectively) only one lane, so regardless of how good your sensors are, your AI needs to predict and react to the actions of oncoming cars in order to successfully navigate this road.
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It may be fun for a few hours but reading clickbait headlines excessively is like eating vomit. I'm sure these people have quotas to meet so I doubt even more the "fun" element.
The current market valuation IS what people expects Tesla to be worth when/if it makes a profit in the future -- at least according to the efficient market theorem. Right? So unless new information comes along, the current valuation already encompasses the market's expectations of success and failure.
i don't get it. the first "node" has to get "online" somehow, how is this accomplished?
These have existed for a while [1]. I've been using one to make sure that my business and personal cards aren't both charged in public transport

[1] https://www.secrid.com/en/
The problem is Google's most bragged about statistic, miles driven, ignores the frequency at which test drivers intervened to prevent accidents. Google reports yearly to the California DMV how many disengages the system had, both due to driver intervention and due to system failure on the part of the self-driving system. They also report how many accidents would've occurred if test drivers hadn't intervened.

Those numbers are staggering, if you read the reports, and it's incredible that people believe these vehicles are anywhere near as safe as human drivers. We are nowhere near the point where you could remove the steering wheel... something Google has begged legislators to let them do. The important statistics about self-driving car safety are NOT the statistics Google is telling Congress or the media about their cars.
> If I'd bought bitcoin, or ethereum early on, or if I'd invested in Apple in 1998 what would my life be like...

A constant regret of having only bought/mined X instead of 1000*X.

Seriously, back when i first heard about Bitcoin, they seemed almost like a joke. I mined a bunch (difficulty was still in two digits, you could do it on a CPU. There was a button in the Bitcoin Client called "Generate") just in case they would be worth something in the future (it looked like a neat joke after all), but quickly lost interest...

Thing is, such opportunities are often only apparent in hindsight. So, either you know a certain industry well enough to spot something unusual and bet on it, or go the VC route and bet a little on everything that sounds kinda promising.
I'm not so sure shareholders like the deal, I think its more of a case where they like Telsa despite the deal.

Or more to the point, they consider the deal more of a distraction than something that will sink Telsa. When you think Tesla, you probably think electric car, or autonomous driving car, or Elon Musk.

I mean if you hate the deal what are you going todo. The deal is almost certainly going to go through so holding shares just to vote against the deal won't do any good. You could short Tesla but over the past 5 years the street seems to love Tesla so much that bad news doesn't seem to affect the company that much.

This is a stock that has had a high short interest number for a long time. And quarter after quarter they miss numbers but the stock goes up as the shorts are forced to cover their positions when the stock fails to drop.

People aren't investing in Telsa due to any fundamental, int he financial sense, numbers, they are doing it on belief that Elon will come through. Which is good news for Tesla as they really need the short term investors on their side in the next year as they'll almost certainly have to raise cash to fund the production of the Model 3.