skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Assuming this is your GitHub profile, https://github.com/sannysanoff, it looks like you live in Kharkov, a city that Russia is actively trying to control[1]. I was wondering how you feel about that.

[1] http://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/new-atlanticist/did-kha...
> flat part of the logarithmic progress curve

The curve you are looking for is called the logistic. A lot of apparently exponential curves are actually logistic.
This actually sort of reads like she was just an alcoholic. Everyone's got problems. Every class of people even have problems (men, women, children, white people, black people, etc.)
Repost from here, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12298245

Highly recommend the article, which has some interesting predictions for advertising, broadcasting, and even consumer goods. Just worry that people missed it because the title wasn't very clear.

Hat tip to dwaxe.
Most of the punk people I knew liked every genre, except maybe 80s pop.
I wonder if these guerillas could paint a fake curb that looks real enough that cars wouldn't want to cross it?
Yup. The people who need to be told to stop having kids are the people in India, Mexico and Nigeria etc. who are currently having population explosions that have crippled their economic progress and have lead to intractable poverty, environmental mismanagement, and starvation.
Because they were commenting on the fact that it isn't offered in the UK in schools at all, which the author didn't appear to realise. I don't see anyone calling it an "issue" at all.
“The Pulse of a City,” as measured by Uber ride data
For Bill de Blasio, Housing Opposition Abounds
Honestly, I had the same thought years ago when many long time Linux users moved to OSX. But then, we're speaking about the same userbase here.
PACLEC is pretty old. I wonder what the next thing will be? Anyone have some recent papers?
By the way, "holding a pen in your mouth makes you feel smiley" is definitely in psych 101 courses, and social 201, and also showed up in cognition 301 if memory serves.
Is it really about never thinking those things, or is it about training yourself to have the ability to turn those thoughts off when you want to?

Like meditation is about not thinking, but it doesn't mean you try to never have a though again... it just means you have a degree of control over when you put gas on that fire and when you let it burn down.
Probably not taking subscriptions from Somalia...
Can't speak for anywhere else, but here in Baltimore I've never observed them to actually do anything. But we all just jaywalk across roads at whatever point happens to be most convenient for our purposes, so it doesn't matter anyway.
We want the model to be better right? I just want to express input data using as little bytes as possible. Do you mean that if we are able to somehow express in 1 byte what used to take 100, that you wouldn't expect it to noticeably improve the model?
The tone of the piece is serious, but I can't help the feeling that it is a parody. How can this be serious? "Males are the weaker gender, don’t be fooled; just look at the flimsy Y-chromosome."
All that build up and it ends up basically an ad for Amazon Echo? Disappointing. Amazon Echo is of very borderline usefulness at best. On its own it does almost nothing that the digital assistant on your phone can't already do, and a lot that it can't just because your phone is so already entrenched in your life.
The constant exchange between the west coast of the US and Japan is so regular!
The southern tip of South America is known as Cape Horn (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_Horn). It's an unpredictable and dangerous area, hence the popularity of the Panama Canal.

Russia is huge, hence a lot of river shipping.

Control of the seas would bring a lot of influence, hence the British control of Gibraltar and the complex history of the Suez Canal.
> whereas CAP is only relevant in the arguably rare case of a network partition."

Isn't it ambiguous in a system when and if a partition occurs? At least I have seen 2 sides of the partition disagree if a partition occurs and when it occurs. I have seen clients see the server, but servers don't see each other (yeah that was horrible...).

It seems the idea in the wiki (and paper) is to assume code is operating in this binary fashion -- partitioned mode vs un-partitioned mode. Which implies somehow all sides will immediately know if a partition happens and switch modes. If that is the assumption, I think it is impractical.

> tradeoff of replicated systems is a major oversight [in CAP]

Usually the way distributed algorithms work, if they are implemented to pick A in case of a partition, they are already working in a certain way that will also pick E in case of PACELC. If they are implemented to pick C in case of a partition they will also be implemented to pick C for PACELC.

The provided table shows that pattern in 5/7 cases, most pretty solid databases (Dynamo, Cassandra, Riak, Volt, Megastore). And is disproved for 2 cases (MongoDB and PNUTS).

So I don't know.... Based on what I've read and seen, I wouldn't trust MongoDB with any distributed systems claims. It had a history of terrible default (un-acknowledged writes) and also terribly failing Aphyr's Knossos check. And I don't know much about PNUTS.

> [Title] PACLEC theorem for distributed databases – improves on CAP theorem (wikipedia.org)

It is "PACELC" according to the paper not "PACLEC" it seems. Though, granted PACLEC is more fun to say so maybe the paper can backronym that in.
FWIW, strictness may be introduced into haskell programs. Weak-head normal-form evaluation is builtin with the "seq" function and the "deepseq" library is commonly used for fully normal form evaluation of expressions.

GHC 8 also introduces the Strict and StrictData pragmas[1] which allow you to make a module (or its types) fully strictly evaluated.

[1]: https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/StrictPragma
>so no toothpaste possible in the cabin

Sure it is. Buy a travel/trial size tube. I do it dozens of times a year.
And to think we then preach "disruption" to everyone else. It's just jawdropping.

Allow me to disrupt your null and Interface {}.
From the pdf, data and registered protocols in the Open Science Framework site: https://osf.io/pkd65/
Olympic Gold medals contain only 1.2% actual gold
So if I spent an afternoon each talking to five people who all had done CBT, your expectation is that I would have learned nothing about the "broader truth" about CBT's effects?
Thanks for sharing! See my other comment. It seems the title should be PACELC.

From paper: "PACELC (pronounced “pass-elk”)..."
It happens in some cases when the focus is on the field.

Here's one condition:
There are sometimes textboxes that are dynamically set to read only depending on certain criteria. If it is set to read only at some point and you aren't aware of it, backspace goes to the previous page.
Ionic, Firebase and Image Upload Revisited: Sorry Android Users Clearly Innovative
> I'm not really ever seeing problems where I'm stuffing an integer into where I wanted a string in dynamic languages.

If you are writing all of your code from scratch, then it doesn't happen too often. You usually have enough of the current context in your head to avoid most type level mistakes.

The real strengths come from two situations.

The first is refactoring. There is just no contest here. Having every single place where your change affects the test of the program identified automatically is extremely useful.

The second is returning to old code and either trying to understand it or make small changes to it.
>> The map is built from data showing ship locations in 2012, so it's not exactly what things look like today, but it's a pretty close approximation.

What were oil prices then? What are they now? What is the state of piracy then? What is is now? Interesting, but I suggest that the really interesting details aren't to be found on this map.
Actually yes, you can pass a compiler flag, -fdefer-type-errors, which makes type errors turn from compilation errors to simply warnings. That said, any code that does not type check will also not run and instead will throw an exception at runtime if called (laziness is key here). But if Part B was giving type errors and you only cared about testing Part A, then you are good to go.
Systemd-logind must be restarted to prevent delay
I don't think non-cyclists realize how much risk you take on when you ride in the city.

In my town we really only have bike lanes on the two main roads that go up and down the bulk of the city, and they ride dangerously close to lines of parked cars. I was riding downhill once when someone opened their door in front of me without looking -- luckily I managed to get past, but had they opened it a few moments earlier I would've slammed into it and possibly fallen into traffic.

Another time I was riding down a street without a bike lane. There was a row of parked cars on the side so I was rode roughly a door's length away from them, enough to keep me safe but taking on enough of the lane that other drivers wouldn't be able to pass without driving in the opposite lane. I hear a car suddenly rev up behind me and blare their horn as they sped past, sideswiping me and almost knocking me off my bike. I managed to confront the driver at the next intersection, "Hey were you trying to kill me?" "Yeah, I was" (he had two kids in the car too)

Cones are a smart way of tricking people into respecting these boundaries, but I wonder how long it'll be until drivers start violating them when they realize they're not official or the city starts removing them. In the meantime I might get my own cones though...
An assembler programmer at full attention can beat a compiler at most operations. That said, the average level of attention a compiler can give over the whole program is much greater than an assembly programmer. When performance is the ultimate goal it makes sense to only drop into assembler for your inner loop.

However assembly programmers will also instinctively avoid things that result in massive amounts of code because they have to manually write every line of it. Compared to C++ where templates are effectively a code generation meta-language. C makes you work a lot harder to generate huge amounts of machine code - and its binaries tend to be smaller because of it.
Here's a bookmarklet that gives you video controls: http://slbkbs.org/jsgif/

It lets you play it backwards, frame by frame and change the speed.
the source is available to look at. It's not "open source". See definition of "open source"
Really.

To make it better the term really came into its own because the automobile industry ran various PR campaigns using it in order to combat the many campaign groups who were against bringing large numbers of vehicles to the city.

Pretty standard smear campaign.
No proof as usual. Let's just make Russia our enemy because they don't want to put men in women's restrooms and other similar issues that progressives can't accept.

But being friends with Saudi Arabia and radical Islamist groups that want to cut off infidel heads is no problem.

The article that I'd really like to see: "More of Clinton's Opponents Are Ending Up Dead"
There are tons out there, no? Amazon Echo is a stark example, but e.g. nest camera seems to as well.

https://nest.com/support/article/Do-I-need-Wi-Fi-to-use-Nest...
Great post, great library. I used it in a CloudFlare dynamic dns client I wrote to play around with Rust. I'm still very new to Rust so these sorts of post are really helpful. Thank you bluejekyll!
I was very upset about that too. I feel lied to. Moreover, are there hard numbers about how "successful" the Echo really is?

EDIT: how did IOT end up there?
So it needs to be clear which ones are non-functioning so people know it's ok to park there. Ignoring that, and profiting off of it is malevolent.
Hi. I think he's right. But that's beside the point. Whether I think he's right or wrong, I can say so, or not say so, for myself. You don't need to worry about it. Thanks for the thought, but I've got it covered.
I love this! I feel so uncomfortable cycling on main roads, knowing that if the person behind the wheel of the x-ton vehicle beside me does one small mistake, I end up paralyzed or dead. The bicycle is a really great means of transport that deserves more love (and space on the streets).
How much did you pay for them? I've lost all faith in consumer-level gear. I just don't think the businesses prioritise any kind of QA any more.
No permissions per se, we just didn't want to have users create YAA. We figured if you're going to be interested in OSV you'd already have an OSM account anyway.
As far as music notation goes, this is very unstructured notation--asides from the initial metadata, the data boils down to hitting one of 7 notes of the scale across 2 octaves, with an optional length parameter. Reading the full documentation indicates there's more complexity, but the RNN appears to have used none of it.

That the result is largely consonant appears to primarily due to the structure of the format: if you don't know that you can create accidentals off of a normal scale, play chords, create multiple competing melodies, etc., then you can't use them to create dissonance. This means that a pure random string largely amounts to hitting random white keys on a piano, which never really sounds grating (although it doesn't sound good either, just bland)... which also happens to describe the samples that have been selected for us!
> Why can't things be built to just use local TCP/IP connections? Those work just fine on my local network...

Simplicity, possibly. Vendor lock-in, probably.

I'm in the same boat. I wanted a weather station that didn't cost several hundred units of currency but also let me query it directly instead of having to hit Weather Underground or (FSM help us) a vendor's web site with no API. Only a handful of them do this so I wound up rigging up what I wanted using a Raspberry Pi, a USB-connected weather station, some extra sensors, and several lines of PHP.

Why I'd want to subject my light bulbs or coffee pot to that is beyond me.
Ungendering seems like the extreme, and so, the wrong step to take in the workplace.

What Obama put forth -- using the facilities meant for the gender you identify with -- seems like a more common-sense response. Chances that someone would exploit such a policy at a work place seem pretty low.

Maybe the point is to spread awareness by taking a stand? Maybe the point is to take a more extreme step to make trans people feel more welcome? On the other hand, what about everyone else? After all, it's a workplace and there is enough politics there anyway.

To be honest, I think I would be uncomfortable if this happened at my workplace.

Anyway, I get that this is a touchy thing to comment on, but figured I would put in my 2 cents incase I learnt something from any responses.
I recommend the associated book[0] to everyone who asks me about programming book recommendations. The book arrives, and you are shocked at how small it is, just a few hundred pages. If you follow all of the exercises, you get an understanding of how logic works inside of processors (logic gates, adders, etc.), how machine code drives them, how assembly maps to machine code, how a basic virtual machine language (like the JVM) can compile to assembly, then how a higher level language is designed and compiled to the VM.

After doing all of this, you make Tetris in the high level language. It's a badass book, super well-written, and what I consider an essential text.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Elements-Computing-Systems-Building-P...
Mostly unrelated, but does anyone have (or has seen?) an opinion on self driving cars and how that may impact cyclists on the road? Do you think the shift to autonomous vehicles will make the road safer for people on bikes?
Not quite. As legal explained to me -- it's too legally ambiguous for some entities to feel comfortable using because your only fall back on public domain is copyright, which can be overly restrictive, and the usage rights are undefined and enforcement or rights can be applied or modified at will by the copyright holder in the absence of a clear license. And that copyright, even in the public domain, often exists inherently.

That's not an issue for me at my $corporation because they are sane, but apparently that's the argument.
No illegal per se, would be closer to say it's undefined or that it has no value. IIRC Germany doesn't allow you to disclaim your copyright. A CC0 dedication is probably the best option for a portable public domain option.
Really? Russia is now having a military base in Iran and Turkey will likely leave NATO and cooperate with Russia. Israel is also no friend of the Obama administration to put it mildly.

Oh and we here in the EU are also very happy with the current Western elite (which hopefully will soon be destroyed by a Trump administration) sending us millions of illiterate Arab men.

Maybe Obama will negotiate with ISIS to open a military base in the Caliphate. Everything seems possible with liberal progressives at this point.

I've already seen feminists claiming that Sharia law is very feminist, so it seems they are getting accustomed to the idea.
Yes. You can defer type errors. I turn this on in development.
>In less than two years, the CPU inside the TV quickly becomes obsolete

If it's Linux based, this just means that the SoC vendor hasn't kept the board support package (BSP) up to date.

These kinds of things are hardly ever mainlined, so it becomes difficult to update drivers, kernel versions and then even software versions (think X11)
“Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in SV” by Antonio Martinez
Orange cones are a novelty. Put them everywhere and behaviour will eventually return to where it was. The same thing happened with high-mounted brakelights on cars - they significantly reduced rear-end collisions for a few years, but eventually the trend returned to where it was beforehand.
Exactly. As the article says:

> If GIFs are like framed pictures you can take down and move to your new house, these GIF-like videos are murals painted right onto the wall.

In an ideal world, I would be able to bookmark a URL, refer to it 10 years later, and still get the exact same information. Unfortunately, this is not true for any of the image/video hosting services that we use on a daily basis, from Imgur to YouTube.

So if I really want to preserve a piece of information for later retrieval, I need to keep a copy on my own computer. I can right-click a GIF and save it as a file, and I'm pretty sure it will stay where I put it for the next 20 years (or more). I don't have the same kind of assurance with most other video formats. Yeah, the GIF is 20 times bigger, but who cares? Disk space is cheap. Bandwidth is cheap. Universal compatibility is hard.
It's superior for a certain problem domain, one in which the desired feature set is unknown, the desired feature set is simple, and the consequences of failure are limited. Consumer web & mobile startups, basically, as well as some limited small-business B2B software where the alternative is an error-prone manual process. It's probably not appropriate for enterprise software, and is certainly not appropriate for embedded, regulated, or safety-critical software.

This is far from the whole software industry, but it's a segment that tends to be of disproportionate interest to HN readers, given the startup-focused origins of this site.
>At 5nm, it will cost $500 million or more to design a “reasonably complex SoC,” In comparison, it will cost $271 million to design a 7nm SoC, which is about 9 times the cost for a 28nm planar device, according to Gartner.

So basically with every node improvement, the "design" cost increase at around 50% - 100%. This heavily flavours Apple's model. You will have to sell a lot more SoCs to balance out that $500M design cost for leading node.
Apart from the design cost, does anyone know if the Wafer cost increase as well? And at what rate does it increase per node?

Thinking this in Intel's scale, PC Industry is shrinking in unit, the CPU die size is also getting smaller to keep up with Intel's profit margin. at what point does the cost increase sway the balance to other Foundry's flavour, when Intel 's unit sales takes longer to recoup the cost then TSMC.
> They’re about to get disrupted by a unicorn / comet.

Assuming they just sit still, sure. But large companies aren't uniformly run by Hollywood stereotypes.

More importantly: Large companies don't need to be better than startups to crush them. They have the depth of finance to sustain a brutal fight.

They only have to be good enough to hold the line. Attrition will do the rest.

Add to which, a lot of F1000 companies have decided that disrupting their existing F1000 competitors seems like a jolly good wheeze and have been studying up on this hunky-funky agile and lean thing.

Disclosure: I work for Pivotal and in Pivotal Labs, we've seen a massive surge in interest from F500s who want to learn to dance. Some of them are quick studies, too.
'The "evidence” is destroyed. Florida’s machines have no paper trail in Bush v. Gore.'

As I recall, the ballot was not electronic, it was paper, which allowed for a re-count, but the number of ballots that where invalidated due to incomplete punch cards was a further issue.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida_election_recount
Exploring Haunted Abandoned Church GOES WRONG (BLOOD WARNING)
DNC opponents are ending up dead too.
> Other countries, notably Israel and the United States, pursue targeted killings, but in a strict counterterrorism context.

So all those attempts at eliminating Fidel Castro and Muammar Gaddafi were in a "strict counterterrorism context"?

> No other major power employs murder as systematically and ruthlessly as Russia does against those seen as betraying its interests abroad. Killings outside Russia were even given legal sanction by the nation’s Parliament in 2006

Maybe if they did those killings with drones or have a "kill list" like the US president keeps, it will be OK in the eyes of the NYT. Or if the person "betraying its interests abroad" is another country's head, an outright military invasion, like against Iraq and Libya, would be OK with the NYT.

The article even went as far as bringing up murders during the Soviet era. The NYT should next do another piece on CIA murders at about the same time.
> In less than two years, the CPU inside the TV quickly becomes obsolete and can’t be upgraded while the display itself easily lasts a decade, and software updates are persphinctery, if they happen at all.

That's odd — the word 'persphinctery' seems to appear only in Monday Note articles. Is this some sort of trap street[1] for medium-form articles?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trap_street
I thought the Voynich manuscript made the news a while back and the findings were that it was nothing special, just a catalog of plants.
A relevant clip from Louis Ck : https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=msy__Gujljo
It is absolutely bad business. I'd happily (and do) pay ~10% more to fly with a more pleasant airline, and I know many people who are the same.
DeepDrumpf: A Neural Network Trained on Donald Trump Transcripts
Available for viewing on the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/TheVoynichManuscript