skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm hardly a physicist, but I have a degree in "general engineering" (long story about how I managed to escape specialization there) and a master's in software engineering, and I've taken a few advanced math courses, including partial differential equations, computational theory, scientific computing, and a math-heavy course on relativity. I also spent a year and a half working for a Harvard physics professor, alongside his team of grad students. So, while I can't "do physics" I think I know enough to understand a little about what it takes to _be_ a physicist, and appreciate the work that they do.

My husband and I were listening to a radio program (http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/293/a...) about a man convinced that he had found a mistake in Einstein's theory of relativity, and trying to communicate this idea to a physicist (futilely, obviously). My husband, who was a music major for a year before dropping out of college, and I started getting in an argument about this episode that was so heated, I felt like we were listening to two completely different stories!

I kept insisting that the advanced math and education wasn't just some funsies shibboleth the physicists had to keep the hoi polloi out of physics -- the devil's in the details and the man in the story didn't even understand the big picture correctly. My husband was angry and insulted that the physicist dismissed the man's theory out of hand, and felt that anyone could make a contribution to physics with perhaps a little help from a calculus book -- just look at history! I thought the hero of the story (if there was one) was clearly the physicist, while my husband was solidly on the side of the electrician with a little learning, trying dangerous things.

I was really shocked. We don't usually fight like that, and especially over something so seemingly trivial, but, in retrospect, I thought that it displayed huge tension in society as a whole, between academics and non-academics. We hear so much about the "one percent" and income-based class distinctions, but relatively little about academic barriers in society, whether real or artificially imposed. Should physics open up in a real way (not just "pop science" articles and occasional books for laymen)? Should we put a stronger "academic" focus in early public and high school education? Should we provide more resources for "physicists who just need a little help with the math" whether they're right or wrong?

Although I was staunchly in favor of the hallowed halls of academe, and it still holds a special place in my heart, I suspect that the correct solution lies somewhere in the middle. Anyway, fantastic article, and it really brings up an important point that is too seldom addressed, by physicists, or society as a whole!
Why Developers Are Migrating Away from Native Apps
Reverse Basketball: How easy is it to lose a basketball game?
But what if you were paid to convince them?
Yup, how it was in the "good old days" of open outcry floor traders. Say you want to move your pension funds around a bit? It might take a week for you to get to your final position, and the market has moved against you in the meantime. I perfectly efficient market, however it is achieved, is good for everyone, including the trading firms.
Systemd has a problem with SATA disks behind port multipliers
How the Nervana Deal Boosts Intel's Machine Learning Chops
Not just the same domain, they'll likely serve the ad assets from the same location as the standard Facebook assets. So images from the same place they serve profile and photo assets. Javascript will likely be a single JS file with both the Facebook JS (required for FB to work) and the ad JS. The individual ads will likely be within elements that change id and class so those can't be blocked either.
There are states that have that type of law far before Time Warner. The original purpose was to keep corrupt politicians from using the power of the state to destroy opponents. Some states actually have specific businesses the state can engage in their constitutions.

Allowing a business owned by someone who can regulate / inspect every competitor out of business isn't seen as very fair.
I think thats fair. With services as this one you hand over lots of apps/services permissions, so a certain level of transparency about the company behind it is needed.
As much as you seem to dislike Lenovo it looks like the Thinkpad P50 is exactly what you want.

i7/xeon, 64GB RAM, 3 HDD slots, FHD to 4K 15" screen, thunderbolt and dGPU although I think the latest quadros are not currently supported on FreeBSD.
I was going to post the same link. I have no qualms buying clones what so ever since reading this story. I've had several now and there have been no issues with quality or stability. Not even been hit with any fake FDTI chips either.
TPUs are only useful for prediction, not for training.
Hello, thanks for the suggestion, we will add "About us" page.

Anyway, Czech Republic is not in Eastern Europe. Prague is more to the west then Vienna :) We are Central Europe, like Germany (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Europe) ;-)

We also have a branch based in US, as you saw on our Contact page.

Please, go to www.justice.cz (public register of compaines in Czech Republic) and enter our company ID number, as shown at Contact page, to the field Veřejný rejstřík. You will see the complete info about the company's structure, with owners etc. Everything is public, nothing hidden.
curious, which dealer is this? do you know if they were directed by the manufacturer to do this, or they just did this on their own?
1Password for Teams and 1Password personal. I use 1Password because, even with their sync service, 1Password's central systems don't ever receive the keys required to decrypt the passwords. That is, 1Password's sync infrastructure is completely untrusted. That's what sold me compared to other options.

More: https://1password.com/teams/white-paper/
If drawing the line on what is and isn't harassment is subjective, perhaps they should focus on building better mechanisms for individuals to take filtering / blocking into their own hands? One could argue that Twitter has these features already, but apparently the "privileged class" (celebrities) are incapable of leveraging them?
Microsoft acquires Beam interactive livestreaming service
Yes, that is exactly what that means. Legislatures decide what the laws are and what is legal. This is how this works...

If you're looking for morality, you're in the wrong department.
12 steps to iterative mobile app development: From app mockup to launch
Also Hawaiian Pidgin (not a literal pidgin).
Google Authenticator uses an open time-based algorithm that doesn't even require a server. Both sides just need to have the same seed and the same time on their clock (you can configure server-side how much clock drift to allow).

Authy supports the algorithm as well, they just don't advertise it because they want you to use their's.

It's actually an RFC https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6238 and there are implementations for almost any language.
From TFA: "She deleted the tweet and posted the image to Instagram where she doesn't get abuse"

So Instagram clearly does something differently, and from the perspective of at least one person, better.
I wonder why they are skipping Brazil (and going for Argentina)
What Every SaaS Startup Founder Should Know: A Conversation with Christoph Janz
I guess all her compensation finally vested.
>'Google of the Future' will be like the 'Microsoft of Today'

Microsoft has diversified it's revenue but most of it's profits comes from Windows & Office licensing. Its' amazing how little Microsoft's' way of generating profits has changed while it has changed so much.
I can't agree with that. I know how to read and write code, but I do not have the time to maintain, say, a fork of Firefox to fix their questionable UI direction, much less deal with the politics of getting my changes into the mainline app.

Stallman's ideal world, and by the sound of it, yours, is one in which everyone is a programmer. Put simply, as nice as it would be, this is totally impractical and unrealistic. Opening up a field to all comers does not meaningfully change what people enjoy and specialize in and spend their time on.
> Everyone sells worldwide now.

Yeah.. no. Not even close.
TLDR;

I’ve claimed a few times that our futures library provides a zero-cost abstraction, in that it compiles to something very close to the state machine code you’d write by hand. To make that a bit more concrete:

- None of the future combinators impose any allocation. When we do things like chain uses of and_then, not only are we not allocating, we are in fact building up a big enum that represents the state machine. (There is one allocation needed per “task”, which usually works out to one per connection.)

- When an event arrives, only one dynamic dispatch is required.

- There are essentially no imposed synchronization costs; if you want to associate data that lives on your event loop and access it in a single-threaded way from futures, we give you the tools to do so.

This sounds quite badass and awesome. I'm not sure what other language implementations take this approach, but this is clearly an extremely beautiful, powerful, and novel (to me at least!) concept. Before reading this, I thought rust was great. This takes it to the next level, though.
PP was saying that "money laundering being a crime" is not a travesty, not that civil forfeiture is not a travesty.
The most ridiculous part of these stories to me is that the ending was repeatedly "you got us, we can't prove this money is from illegal sources, but we're only returning part of it."
It's like they are trying to return the minimum amount to make it no longer worth the victim's effort. Definitely doesn't inspire confidence that this done in good faith.

If this were an article USA today was writing about Mexico it probably would have just gone out and called it corruption. I am certainly convinced from these cases it is a massive abuse.
When the ESP8266s were first introduced, they came with a closed firmware that simply responded to AT commands over a serial port. To do anything with the chip, you had to have another micro controlling it.

However, sometime after the hobbyist/maker market started to take notice of the devices, an SDK was released, allowing for code to be run natively on the devices without a separate micro.

Nowadays, there are multiple options for running code on the devices. You can do it natively via C/C++ with the SDK, or you can try out one of the other firmwares that various parties have produced, like NodeMCU (Lua) or MicroPython.

The chips are actually pretty damn powerful compared to the Atmega series micros used with the classic Arduinos. And cheap too. You can get a NodeMCU module that already has a voltage reg. and USB->UART controller on it for around $3. Very hard to beat.
Dan Carlin has a good take on this in his Common Sense episode "Revenge of the Gangrenous Finger". There's a largely neglected segment of the population, and they're getting angry enough to burn everything down.
What are the "commentator classes"? People who take an active interest in their society? People who try to stay informed? Is that a "class"? What is a "taste maker" city? Please explain what they are and how you pin all the worlds ills on them.

New York, DC and London are responsible for the worlds problems?

I honestly have no idea what you are are talking about.
Show HN: Nitro – Daily news web application by ReactJS
Daily technical news web application https://nitro-news.herokuapp.com/ by ReactJS, Webpack, ES6. The source code at https://github.com/vinhnglx/Dzone-news
Universal Basic Income and the New Corporatist Democrats
On the contrary, I think it's extremely useful for two enormous reasons:

1) This recognition that our models are not the truth and can (should) be frequently questioned and rejected fundamentally underpins skeptical inquiry. Newton believed he was discovering fundamental Laws, the clockwork that runs the universe. Einstein proved this to be fallacious, and now we live uneasily with the knowledge that Einstein's descriptions are "false" as well.

2) Our models are not only responsible to "reality", they are also responsible to political, social, economic demands. Who, what, and how we observe are choices we make that shape the nature of our reality (that is, our view of "the real world", which is the only thing ever available to us - the real world is always inaccessible). It behooves us to be aware of this intrusion. Science is not a pristine garden undisturbed by anything other than "fact" - fact itself is polluted by its habitat, the human mind. The history of science is littered with horrors that resulted from the conviction that our current dogmas are true and that our current forms of knowledge the best.
If Bernie ended up with < 5% of the voters / delegates, I might be obliged to agree with you, but that's far from the end result. It seems he's far more in-line with the democratic party, according to the party itself, than you're suggesting.
Similar situation here. My inhalers are $40 each after insurance and last me about 30 days. And then I still have to pay to visit the doctor, who refuses to give me more than 3 at a time.

Nowadays, I have a friend from Cuba who also has Asthma and can buy them for less than a dollar with no prescription. So I just buy him a case of beer and get a year's worth of Salbutamol inhalers.

I can't find somewhere as cheap to get my Advair, but I find I don't really need that one.
Also if you're load balancing any other application protocol other than HTTP/HTTPS. (e.g. SMTP load balancer)
Really good work, thank you for sharing. Probably worthy of a Show HN post. I wonder how this will track over time.
Wow I just tried this setup (tried using WeeChat directly from the terminal a while back but somehow it didn't feel comfortable) and it's pretty darn good. Thanks!
Physics tends to attract cranks though.

I credit the compiler as The Great Filter for autodidactism working so well with programmers. It's good to have a tight feedback loop.
How does it read your electricity meter?
Process Streaming Data in Real Time with SQL
you can set your max spot price high, and/or you can periodically save the trained weights (to an EBS volume) and continue from where you left off, same as recovering from a crash. Probably not a huge deal.

Here's how you do it with Tensorflow:

https://www.tensorflow.org/versions/r0.10/how_tos/variables/...

The sweet spot would be updated AWS GPU instances at spot prices. You could spin up XX instances for a relatively short time to train fast. Needs some Kubernetes etc cluster setup for distributed training but should be doable. If the spot price is $0.1-$0.2/hr that's pretty attractive, considering that is close to the price of electricity alone
California's rich-poor gap: It isn't what you think
Pricing is different.
Yeah, but if a rack-mount server was cheaper, easier to use, about the same size, and used a reasonable amount of power compared to an Arduino, I'd probably use a rack-mount server for all my DIY projects.
You can hire someone to interpret it for you if you need to. For example, hiring a specialist to do a security audit, a task which is beyond the normal expertise of most developers.
Kafkaesque instructions on what to do with Franz Kafka’s manuscripts
Twitter is a cesspool, but isn't an open, public conversation between everyone in the world pretty much guaranteed to be a cesspool? I don't see how you can stop that from happening without compromising the principle of Twitter itself.

You take on risks when you start announcing your private thoughts to the widest possible public audience. Those risks go along with being any kind of public creator. Other than because no one would really be interested in my tweets anyway, this is precisely the reason why myself and others exercise our free choice not to tweet. We don't want a trail of statements for which we are publically held to account, even if by harassers, racists and misogynists, if we can't - and shouldn't - control the audience for those tweets. If you want a limited, curated audience, go somewhere else.
Opinion Piece on 'Bug Bounty Crusade'
Here is an article which outlines details on an opinion about bug bounties. This same article was word for word posted to a mailing least at breachexchange@lists.riskbasedsecurity.com by Audrey McNeil. Article is located here: http://edmdigest.com/opinion/the-cybersecurity-bug-bounty-crusade/

I've assumed that this is a good practice based on personal professional experience and what I hear discussed in broader circles. This piece has a slight taste of distrust for the practice and carefully chooses words like 'Crusade', which don't carry a positive connotation.

Is it on target and how close to the ideal is it?
The perspective I have on HFT is the following: it's a dubious endeavor which in itself does not seem to bring any real value into the world (quite a subjective opinion, I am open to hear yours). However, the pursuit of this endeavor can bear some interesting ' technological' fruits which might some day help humanity in a more concrete ways. I would be glad to review my perspective given a constructive conversation with an insider.
They do, but it doesn't work if the ELB is in a VPC.
Whilst that may be the case that isn't anything close to what the article is talking about. Discussion about content v context automated filtering, and training filters for specific AMAs with Obama and Jenner demonstrate that there is an objective level that has been used in specific instances.

There is a vast amount of abuse of Twitter to be dealt with long before we get into any territory where subjectivity is required.
"Corporate well-being and productivity" is the kind of thing that can very easily turn into a zero-privacy dystopia where the employer demands continuous access to a mandatory FitBit as a condition of employment. It would make occasional random drug testing look positively genteel.

It also potentially turns into an environment where you have to "perform wellness" to keep your job. As soon as there are hints of unhappiness or dissent your job is at risk. Not only do you have to turn up at the office when you have minor flu-like symptoms, you have to try your best to hide them.
I built lab grade NIR spectrometer around Arduino. At least first two prototypes of it, then graduated to Teensy (32bits compatible board) and will use custom board for production.

The thing is: most of electronic projects needs some way to control things and it is great to take shortcuts. In my case all analog section was custom made to the point of 16bit ADC and used Arduino/Teensy as a way to react to clicks on button, transfer data to computer and stuff like that.
A comparison of the perfomance of a few popular JavaScript frameworks
> And anyone else can plausibly claim that you carefully forged a file to get a victim to sign it

Yes, of course, but by the time someone realizes this the damage may already have been done.

> you shouldn't sign binary files

There are a lot of things that people shouldn't do that they do nonetheless.
You mean you're not using Arduino to grow weed with indoor hydroponics?
YC Startups' Tech Stacks
Perhaps part of it is down to the fact they said the margins were slim already. It seems like even if it was trivial to facilitate separation or SKUs geographically it's just not worth having to work with a supplier with such restrictions.
You are perfectly right. As a matter of fact I have done this in the past—written a brainwallet passphrase on a birthday card :)
Thanks very much for the paper, I'm always more than happy to be proved wrong, I'll have a read.
While it is saved as a wifi module with a basic serial interface to be controlled from, The ESP8266 actually has a powerful microcontroller that can now easily be programmed using the Arduino IDE (and other stacks).

There are different firmwares that allow programming in Lua, Basic, Javascript... or just compile directly from C/C++
Oh well, looks like Facebook just got all anti-user
Reading before the age of 5 spontaneously is actually a rare (5%-10%) ability autistic people can have.
I don't use Twitter, never have, but I don't understand why the platform doesn't have a whitelist mode, where only those people you've added to a list can message you. Seems like it would sort the problem for good, but I'm probably missing something.
Surplus of Manhattan and Brooklyn Rentals Driving Prices Down, Report Says
"Money laundering" and "stolen" are orthogonal. "Money laundering" is usually persecuted against someone suspected of doing legitimate business that the government doesn't like, and sometimes even against people who are simply pushing back against that FINCEN >$10k surveillance.

You can tell it's one of those specious "laws" that actually destroys the rule of law because it flips the script to guilty until proven innocent.
That is not the meaning of :^)

:^) indicates that a joke is being made. It's quite similar to TwitchTV's Kappa, if you know about that.
"Who cares about source code? Not most users."

I agree with bad_user that they care implicitly. They care when Oracle is gouging them at $40-70k when it could be free to $5k. They didn't like Microsoft taking away their start button, which was easy to bring back for FOSS GUI. Many didn't want to spend much on a computer for basic tasks, which Linix distros on Netbooks helped with. Many wanted more or specific applications for their smartphones, which Android lets you have. Many want their OS to not spy on them like Windows 10 does, which requires being able to inspect or modify it.

So, they care. They just rarely see it put in terms they understand. Whenever I do, they always support the alternative even if they won't buy it occasionally due usually to backward compatibility with locked-in stuff (eg Office, Oracle, SAP) Stallman warned about or just their personal preference (eg iPhone over Android).

"If the aim was to make software that's easily user-modifiable - user-modifiable, not developer-modifiable - free software has been a complete failure."

Yeah, that's true. It also, as you note later, hasn't been easily developer-modifiable either with how they write it. One of reasons for LLVM's existence was how much of a pain it was to work with GCC. And all kinds of people want to improve FOSS software but few can or do. The dream and reality are quite different.
>Now I just buy artesian alkaline water

When the third world revolts, this will be their rallying cry.
> Is it possible to have a password that you don't even know?

Seemingly, yes, according to https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity12/technical... , which has a paper I read a while ago and a video I never got around to watching.

Abstract:

Cryptographic systems often rely on the secrecy of cryptographic keys given to users. Many schemes, however, cannot resist coercion attacks where the user is forcibly asked by an attacker to reveal the key. These attacks, known as rubber hose cryptanalysis, are often the easiest way to defeat cryptography. We present a defense against coercion attacks using the concept of implicit learning from cognitive psychology. Implicit learning refers to learning of patterns without any conscious knowledge of the learned pattern. We use a carefully crafted computer game to plant a secret password in the participant’s brain without the participant having any conscious knowledge of the trained password. While the planted secret can be used for authentication, the participant cannot be coerced into revealing it since he or she has no conscious knowledge of it. We performed a number of user studies using Amazon’s Mechanical Turk to verify that participants can successfully re-authenticate over time and that they are unable to reconstruct or even recognize short fragments of the planted secret.
Nice haproxy / nginx alternative. It's got http2 support though which puts it ahead of haproxy.