skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I remember reading about the BeFS, and how advanced it was for its time. Can anyone who does filesystems help me remember why it was so powerful?

Is anything out there now comparable? Have we surpassed BeFS? Any residual functionality that contemporary filesystems lack?
What you're describing is lob.com (which we use and love). It may be the wrong approach, but we've sent 50k+ postcards in 2 months with a 50% margin... delivering a 5x LTV return on investment. So, it seems to be working for us. I guess maybe this is the wrong audience as it's more of a service for marketers than developers. Scout is part software part marketing service.
Video Game shows what it's like to be an Immigrant in America
The problem is that you've now created a bubble for yourself.

People did this on a national scale, then are surprised to see Donald Trump have so much support.

Too much negativity is debilitating, but sticking your head in the sand has its downsides.
In the meantime, do you recommend against PPAs in general, or just for specific sensitive things like Bitcoin?
The Shadow Brokers Mess Is What Happens When the NSA Hoards Zero-Days
As I seem to recall the author now works for Apple and worked on their new file system.
You're talking about two different threats / attacks:

1. Someone got access allowing them to push commits.

2. Someone got access allowing them to push commits and also got unrestricted access to the trusted PGP key.

In the first case, auto-signing will expose the issue. In the second, not. But in the second case, you're likely screwed in many other ways.
Please change the title to say it's not free/open source.
AWACS is BVR. It's a little different when the asset can loiter 50 or 100 miles away from the battle.
It would be good if the video worked on my Windows 10 Phone...
Confidential Data Question Cyanogen’s User Figures
Can be sci-hubbed for those without endowments to back their studies..
Coursera’s Co-Founder Daphne Koller Joins Alphabet Company Calico
I think it is a matter of degree. Here - not sure how this is handled in other countries - it is a crime if you come across an accident and do not attempt to help. And to me this is obviously not only the right thing to do because it is required by law but because there is a moral obligation to do so.

Nobody has to enter a burning car and risk his life but at least you have to call the emergency service or do whatever you can reasonably do to help. And it really doesn't matter whether you are doing your work delivering packages, whether the accident was the fault of the driver because he was driving intoxicated, if somebody else could also help or whatnot.

Discovering a vulnerability is of cause different in most respects - the danger is less imminent, the vendor may have a larger responsibility and so on. But the basic structure is the same - more or less by accident you end up in a situation where there is a danger and you are in the position to help to make the outcome probably better.

So I think one can not simply dismiss that there might be a moral obligation to disclose a vulnerability to the vendor on just the structure of the situation, one has to either argue that there is also no moral obligation in the accident scenario or argue that the details are sufficiently different that a different action - or no action in this specific case - is the morally correct or at least an morally acceptable action.
Great explanation for a generally messy problem!

Just one thought because I spent some time thinking about this type of problem before deciding to do it a different way in my own work:

If you use an orthographic projection and just actually draw 3-D boxes, this problem becomes trivial, including the intertwined boxes problem, because the GPU will take care of it at a per-pixel level with the Z-buffer.

Of course this also means you're suddenly working in 3-D, which complicates other things. But you can still use 2-D textures by picking the right texture coordinates for the vertices on the box.

These days it usually makes a lot of sense to be doing 2-D stuff using a 3-D engine/library anyway, if only for access to hardware accelerated post-processing and hardware accelerated layering/compositing, in which case using actual boxes on a tilted camera and using "no projection" for your HUD/UI works pretty well.
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I'd say it's quite possible that someone is just trying to spread FUD to distract from the emerging plans to fork Bitcoin to bigger blocks that have been materializing in the past couple days.
Nothing, there are businesses doing it in the US paying taxes on their income.
How is this at all a response to the parent poster?
> but this is not the same as them being bad.

Well obviously, there is no such thing as "being bad" as an intrinsic quality. All "badness" or "goodness" is extrinsic, so it should have been fairly clear what I meant. ("This is bad" = "I think this is bad".)

> This is only the simplest case imaginable.

And in this case I disagree with you. I question whether or not legal accessibility requirements have been a good thing for society. As an example, I used to live in an old university building that was legally required to have a sort of wheelchair lift on some stairs to a commons room. The university had to pay close to $300,000 for that machine. In the two years I lived there, I do not believe the machine was used once. Was it really worth a good 35 years worth of in-state tuition scholarships to pay for a wheelchair lift that no one ever used?

> sustained economic or societal "subsidization" that has observable, long-lasting negative effects?

While it's impossible to isolate this policy as a causative factor, almost all European countries have drastically inferior GDPPC (adjusted for exchange rates and purchasing power) to the USA.

It's also not very hard to see how encouraging people to leave the workforce for months at a time would hurt productivity.
I've never worked in the restaurant industry, but, I've heard from people who have that it's STILL extremely common for black customers to be considered undesirable. I.e. a server will get upset at a host(ess) if they get "too many" black customers assigned to their tables.

Why? Servers claim that black customers - on average - tip less.

I don't know how prevalent this belief on the part of servers is. And I don't know how much of a numerically accurate basis in reality it has.

But, as a thought experiment, imagine for a moment that there exists an identifiable group [black people, star trek fans, old people, dentists, ...] that are likely to lead a server to go home with less money at the end of the night.

There can be a really fine line between statistics/machine learning and "bias"/"racism".

Where it gets even more complicated is that there might be variables which are not expressed as "is the customer black" which ultimately predict/are highly correlated with the question "is the customer black" - but are also predictive of the question "is the customer profitable".
I guess everybody is different. Having anybody depend on me makes me feel depressed. The only thing that truly makes me happy is working on my own projects. Anything that seriously distracts me from doing this is my enemy.
I'm ok with spending a small percentage of my time with family but more than that and I will probably fall into deep a depression followed by a really angry backlash from me.
Which is why I will probably never have a family. I don't think I can dedicate them the time they deserve.
If you're worried about the speed difference between reflection and a hand written command, you're spending your time in the wrong part of the code. Reflection isn't the bottleneck, the database is, by far.

Yes, if you speed test the difference between reflection and handwritten, it'll look slow, but such micro-benchmarks are unrealistic of production code. If you look for slowness you'll find it everywhere you look, but if you profile real code you'll find the only slow code that actually matters and you'll find that database IO is the bottleneck generally.
Thanks , Dude it was Helpful
MOOCs seemed like a good idea at the time until everyone realized you go to college for the rubber stamp. The actual knowledge is an illiquid thing available on YouTube/Google or wherever. It is most definitely not a business.

What's surprising is that people who've been professors for 18 years at Stanford or frickin heads of a Ivy League university didn't realize this until 5 more years into the business side of education. Shows how narrow academic's wheelhouse is.
Our pill can be vegetarian or vegan depending on the supplements you choose! The pill shell of the pill is a pharma-grade polymer (not gelatin), omega 3 is derived from fish (though we are considering a plant option) and vitamin D3 is lanolin.
> But Reddit is a toilet

I've found just the opposite. Coincidentally, I all the subs I'm subscribed to have less than 40k subscribers.
Xerox PARC sued Palm over Graffiti for patent infringement in 1997 [1] [2], having filed a patent for Unistrokes in 1993 [3]. Their patent was ruled invalid due to prior art, Xerox appealed the ruling, and Palm payed Xerox $22.5 million [4]. Research [5] has shown Unistrokes to be somewhat faster than Graffiti.

>Furthermore, the [Unistroke] alphabet's strokes are well distinguished in "sloppiness space", allowing for accurate recognition of not-so-accurate input.

>Unlike Graffiti, Unistrokes gestures bare little resemblance to Roman letters. However, each letter is assigned a short stroke, with frequent letters (e.g., E, A, T, I, R) associated with a straight line. Unistrokes is analogous to touch-typing with a keyboard, as practice will result in high-speed, "eyes-free" input.

>Over twenty fifteen-phrase sessions, text entry speed in the Graffiti group increased from 4.0 wpm to 11.4 wpm. During the same time, text entry speed in the Unistrokes group increased from 4.1 wpm to 15.8 wpm. However, an analysis of variance yielded a lack of statistical difference in entry speed between the two techniques. Participants often performed unnecessary deletions, resulting in high correction rates. In addition, the duration of gesture chart views decreased quickly, but varied widely between participants. Inter-stroke time between the two groups was similar, but the significant difference in stroke duration favoured Unistrokes. The Graffiti alphabet's recognisability endears itself to novice users. However, this study shows that investing the same time learning Unistrokes can result in significantly faster stroke time and higher text entry speed.

Ken Perlin also developed a continuous stylus-based text entry system called Quikwriting [6] [7], which he patented [8]. And there have been various imitations and other questionable patents [9]. It would be interesting to measure how Quikwriting compares with Unistrokes and Graffiti -- it might be faster since it doesn't involve lifting the pen between letters.

[1] http://www.brighthand.com/news/palm-xerox-finally-settle-gra...

[2] http://www.palminfocenter.com/news/8628/xerox-graffiti-lawsu...

[3] https://www.google.com/patents/US5596656

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graffiti_(Palm_OS)#Lawsuit

[5] http://www.yorku.ca/mack/chi2008b.html

[6] http://mrl.nyu.edu/~perlin/doc/quikwriting/quikwriting.pdf

[7] http://www.mrl.nyu.edu/projects/quikwriting/

[8] https://www.google.com/patents/US6031525

[9] http://shr-devel.shr-project.narkive.com/wIClUJgX/someone-is...
Each time we make a dashboard, we model it after GitHub's status page.

This looks fantastic, simple to implement, and, heck, could be hidden behind a feature flag or auth :)

Great work!
I believe there are two of them: "CNNIC Root" and "China Internet Network Information Center EV Certificates Root".
All Olympic gold medal winners in the 100m sprint compared in one race
Update: Windows is now supported! https://github.com/sourcegraph/thyme/pull/12
Note: my thoughts on Tesla capacity were in fact way off - they are physically distinct units.
> ISTR studies that retention is much better from printed books than ebooks.

Yes, that is correct. It is true that retention is better with a "rigidly & finely laid out" book. Physical books have a rigid layout so they have that advantage. Some ebook formats too have that quality and those ebooks have a better retention.

Retention/memorization depends on visual signatures of a piece. I mean, apart from the context it is the arrangement of paragraphs, subtle use of diagrams and figures and a well designed layout, and other hints that add up into the pictographic memory that people form while reading books. Also the linear reading direction and sometimes even the page number helps people recall a concept later in life.
I neither expect or would use an ORM that was considered part of the standard library, it's going to be far too crappy trying to please everyone. ORM's are something you get aftermarket, from core I just want raw database drivers, from those the much better open source libs can build real ORM's that are tailored to difference audiences. The core should be libraries for dealing with the OS and network, frameworks are things I'll look for open source or build to suite me, not something I want from core.
That's explains why my $1000 donation didn't go through
What if the key being advertised is the attacker key? :)

Why would you even pre-announce this? Has it been compromised in the past?
What about in the web/startup world? Although not a real meritocracy, proving you can program/hack/design gets you a lot further than a piece of paper with a stamp in it.
> when you retire you should not be allowed benefits paid for from the tax base you made the choice to not enhance.

While I'm having trouble parsing this sentence, I believe you're saying that we shouldn't give money to retirees because they're economically unproductive. I agree, except that most retirement programs (nominally) required retirees to put in money before they retired, so it's at least plausible to claim that they're owed that money, having already paid for it.

> Or should you be allowed to employ or even work with people who were raised and educated at the expense of people who made the choice to do so?

Not sure what you're saying here. As far as I'm concerned, employment should be a mutual agreement to trade labor for resources. Not sure how the way they were raised comes into it.

> Paternity and Maternity leave is a drop in the ocean in subsidizing the expenses parents make or the benefits of their choice to society.

While I disagree that people having children in general is good for society, let's leave that aside; we don't feel the need to have the government subsidize (or force companies to subsidize) every "good" behavior, like being nice or having a job. There is no need to subsidize people having children, because they will do it anyway. It's a lifestyle choice, not a public service.
> What amount of your taxes goes to military?

Too much.

> Do you consider killing people more noble job than raising them?

False dichotomy. I'd rather subsidize neither.
The House Where You Live Forever: The Reversible Destiny of Madeline Gins
Accidents and vulnerabilities are not directly comparable, so a position on vuln disclosure does not necessarily imply a particular position on accident assistance.

I would feel a moral obligation to help mitigate concrete physical harm to victims of an accident. I feel no such obligation to protect against hypothetical threats to computer systems.

Chances are, you recognize similar distinctions; for instance, I doubt you feel obligated to intervene in accidents that pose only minor personal property risks.
> Media professionals sometimes see themselves as noble experts standing outside the internet echo chambers, and able to judiciously filter info-cacaphony to the benefit of the public.

OTOH, to the extent that journalists view themselves in this light, it helps them enforce and maintain some sort of standard for themselves.
I'm fairly certain the rest of the world would be happy to exchange cash for oil or oil for cash.
When we’re happy, we actively sabotage our good moods with grim tasks
E2E Testing in JavaScript from Zero to Hero (part 1)
Everyone pays the same prices for what they order, but they can choose to order more or less expensive foods, more or less expensive wines (or none at all), etc., and they can tip differently.

If you have more customers trying to make reservations than tables to seat them, it is economically rational to seat the customers most likely to buy your more expensive items. We decided (correctly, IMO) that it is more important for society to fight entrenched racism than to enable business owners to make that particular locally-rational economic decision.
This is going to pass because tens of thousands of businesses are slated to change hands as a generation of owners pass on. Existing estate taxes and this proposed rule will create a tax windfall for USGOV that will make up for years of bad legislation and policy. The unintended consequence of this rule is that even more businesses will not be able to afford the tax liability and the will sell to businesses who can killing good paying jobs for tens of thousands of Americans. Its inevitable, this rule is coming.
I said rocket boosters :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqAPRWMkuv8
takeoff is even shorter than landing unless its captured landing, the c130 landed on a carrier before :P
Why a Man You've Never Heard of Holds the Secret to Professional Success?
I get that paying for the MEAP will eventually get you access to all of the chapters, but it seems a little steep at this point. I'd a lot more willing to pay, say, $10 for access to only the first three chapters, and then pay more if I get hooked. I'm guessing that isn't possible.

It also stung a bit that the link said 'Click To See the First Few Chapters' when in fact you click to see the first chapter and pay for the rest.
Maybe I should have been clearer: Just because you say it's derivable "from logic" doesn't mean it is. No logic system can do anything without axioms, and the adoption of those axioms is an arbitrary choice.
here's a few that come to mind

o the US govt will have a laundry list of features so
specialized that you really end up working just for them

o companies that are big enough they want everything
running on their internal infrastructure

o health care providers with hippa requirements

o nation states (including the US) that want to impose
monitoring or censorship requirements for you to serve
their populations

o customers who want their children to use your service
or software and have you be responsible for censorship,
controlling harassers, etc

o any minority community, say classic music lovers want
you to accommodate additional metadata that doesn't
show up in a service targeting popular music

basically any time you have a feature request you need to think about the ongoing cost vs reward. if you let sales drive this process you can easily end up chasing your tail just to land them their commissions.

i don't think its that unusual. you have to say no sometimes.
This Is What's Missing from Journalism Right Now
The site lists 53 items by Lucia Moholy, so not really a huge part of the collection.
How Companies Will Use VR and Read Your Brainwaves to Sell You More Stuff
My least popular comment ever was downvoted for trying to point out the problem with assuming that the people who fought against the healthcare bill are the same ones who hate the idea of SS/Medicare reform. Are we really so camp-y in our politics that you can just assume that the people who don't like something you like are on 'the other side', and that we can ascribe the opposite of all our other preferences to those people as well?
Thanks for the feedback. I'll update the link title to be more precise.

Also, FWIW, I'm offering free Q/A for feedback on those chapters (assuming i don't get totally overwhelmed).
By the looks of it, it doesn't need to be open both ways at all. Like the article states, Chinese companies like Musical.ly have the chance to access and profit from the US market without US government intervention. US/foreign companies don't have that luxury in China, or they do for just long enough for a local variant to gain traction and then they're booted out.

Why the US puts up with this blatant WTO violation is baffling.
That seems excessively cynical. That said, the market [EDIT: from a $ revenue opportunity perspective] for online ongoing professional education for motivated people who don't care about certifications isn't a huge one. There are things like the Great Courses, Lynda, and of course books.

But these are neither VC-sized opportunities nor anything especially disruptive.

Leaving aside a few useful tools like online code evaluators, MOOCs largely solved a problem that was long-ago solved. Namely, access to quality broadcast-style lectures and other course content. At the same time, peer interactions and any genuine coaching pretty much didn't work with MOOCs.
> What people talk about when discussing wormholes affecting things before they've happened are on a quantum level.

No, they're actually not. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wormhole

General relativity admits traversable (i.e. macroscopic) wormholes. This is what we're discussing.

> you need an equation to explain that

Which equation? Schroedinger? The SE has time as a variable and doesn't do any of the "time travel" stuff you're talking about, so you must be referring to something else.
I'm interested but thought scikit-learn was the go to for Python machine learning. Is there a reason there is no mention of it?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acI6bGYH0Ns
Hiring for data? Seems like the potential for massively distributed research is there especially since feedback is a natural part of the process.
Those are a pretty important 10%.
Ch 1-3 sample at https://manning-content.s3.amazonaws.com/download/2/0d079ab-... linked from https://www.manning.com/books/grokking-deep-learning
So much this.

I've been looking at a slew of issues, starting from the question "what are the big problems?". Without getting into what I've concluded (and find considerable agreement, as well as some disagreement) on what the big problems are, there's the dynamics behind these.

The slogan I'm blogging behind is "Progress, Models, Institutions, Technology, Limits. Interactions thereof".

It's the interactions especially between Institutions, including the media, politics, commerce, religion, and education, and our Models -- the theories and frames we carry with us as to how the world works -- that strike me as most critical.

I'm not limiting this to scientific models, but every crazy idea people have as to how and why the Universe is the way it is and does what it does.

But yes: one consequence is that we end up with people who have very incorrect and very dangerous ideas. In positions of extreme power -- heads of companies, leading popular movements, on radio and television, as heads of state.

The history of the concept of "the marketplace of ideas" is an interesting one (as well as its own interplay with concepts of free markets, and of "free market" as "completely unregulated market"). It's a tangled, tangled, tangled web.

We also find many of the same people and organisations turning up. Adam Smith. John Stuart Mill. Oliver Wendell Holmes. The Mont Pelerin Society. And more.

Makes you wonder.
If you are independent, then you have a family of one to provide for. That seems simple enough.
I was surprised to not see Creatine available, given it's popularity among the bodybuilding/gym community!
Agreed. The tech/CS world is more open to these alternative credentials. But a decent majority of the jobs are outside web/tech where traditional degrees hold a lot of value. It's not as easy to get a good mechanical engineering degree online because it requires a fair amount of lab work. Similarly for other forms of engineering and science.