skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
TCP load balancing with a modified nginx config that forwards the websocket upgrade header
When hedge funds are paid to be too big
Thank you for making a sane default based on actual usage data. BTW, for people who need something a bit different, I have been using this for one of my sites that is hosted on GitHub:

$ git subtree push --prefix=public origin gh-pages

The `public` directory is where the HTML/CSS/JS generated by my static site generator and I push that subtree to the gh-pages branch.
re: 100m runner or cyclist, someone ran the numbers,
http://www.crankcycling.com/usain-bolt-vs-sean-eadie/
World Heating Up Faster Than James Hansen Originally Predicted
> my understanding is that pieces once considered nearly impossible to play are routinely played at music schools now.

Yeah, but there's a few Alkan pieces I have yet to see a proper rendition of. Liszt even stated that Alkan "had the finest technique of any pianist" known to him, so I imagine he could in fact play them correctly.
> Conservative views typically wind up grayed, even when they are substantive arguments.

Not sure about that, could you find one such comment? Many people would upvote any greyed comment that comes with substantive arguments, regardless of their political view.
There's a nice irony to the downvotes you're getting on this post.
US crude is sold at market prices and is NOT specifically dependent on Saudi Arabia supply increases (e.g. another oil producer could cut production and zero out that increase).

Also, the price fell long BEFORE Saudi Arabia increased production (about a year). This was due to excess supply and why Saudi Arabia tried to cut production in 2014.

http://www.artberman.com/wp-content/uploads/Chart_Market-Bal...

https://ycharts.com/indicators/saudi_arabia_crude_oil_produc...
"To create a new node, an application performs any of the various ioctl() operations that accept a handle, passing the special reserved handle number of "3".

what a bunch of jokers :)
Hacker News: shills and the bluepills who eat their shit.
These terms do have fairly precise meanings in the FP community; there are many papers on the subject that define shallow versus deep as I described. For example: http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/publications/publication7584-abstract...
It's not a particularly good fit for the socket API. In particular, communication is unidirectional at its most basic and uses something a lot like seL4's "reply capabilities". It's a very nice, if counterintuitive, design, and it can give an asymptotic memory usage reduction, but it means that sendto and recvfrom don't work the usual way.
Yeah, it would be great to see something showing split times, so you could see which sprinters are quick off the mark and which ones just have a blisteringly high top end.
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Alright, so about a year away?

Yes, DDOS mostly, rate limiting is quite trivial.
Unfortunately, environmental review is often a vehicle for ensuring that people get as many chances to complain and obstruct as possible, even if the environmental impacts are minimal. An example of absurd objections in this vein can be found in the Virginia Avenue Tunnel replacement project, where residents objected because:

a) It would lower their home values (note that the railroad tunnel predates the houses by a few decades, and the railroad has talked about doing this project for 2 decades)

b) Extra train traffic means more pollution. Seems reasonable, until you realize that the tunnel is almost literally in the shadow (it's on the south side, not north, so not quite literally) of an interstate. Guess who's responsible for most of the air pollution.

c) The project calls for railroad to temporarily run in a exposed trench while building the tunnel. Residents are worried about what would happen if an oil tanker car caught fire. Unfortunately, a glance at the map indicates that this is not on the routes between oil supply centers and oil demand centers, and, as Baltimore found out (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Street_Tunnel_fire ), fires in tunnels are much worse than fires in the open air.
Slightly related, I push my site's generated code from the `public` directory of my repo directly to the `gh-pages` branch using git's subtree push:

$ git subtree push --prefix=public origin gh-pages
The discussion of gradient descent was excellent. So far I'm quite impressed. As others have said the question is going to be whether you can succeed at building on this base in a way that makes the later topics accessible.

A nitpick is that you use the words "matrices" and "differentiable" at the end of chapter 2. Maybe this is okay because you are signposting that these concepts will be explained but if you are aiming for high school algebra level readers with some python experience this could intimidate people.
You're wrong about Tokyo, where housing prices have remained pretty flat for the last 20 years: http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2016/08/lai...
It's dangerous, and might be illegal, so be careful if you decide to do that.
The only intuitive user interface ever created was the nipple.
Halving the 100 mile running record would be something I could probably do tomorrow utilizing a bike. And I could repeat that feat a few days in a row.

Thus the power of the bicycle ;)
I feel people in those positions are just people who want a job in tech / startup and have gotten there not because they deserve those positions but because, they've given up on learning the skills and resorted to becoming a "manager". At least from my experience this is what I've seen. They generally don't really add any value because they don't have any skills, don't know how to do anything.

The positions I mentioned above are usually the position people who failed at picking up any valuable skill seem to resort to.
Intel has thousands of employees and a compiler. Get 200 of them in a room and implement CUDA.
This is the last year where China will be viewed as market economy. After end of this year, they'll face tariffs and barriers to their trade due to the fact that China has not followed most of the requirements to stay in WTO. EU and US have already refused to automatically extend WTO acceptance for China. Watch for Chinese economy collapse after that.
this is a kind of carelessness shared by virtually everyone shipping any kind of software anywhere.

I don't feel wrong saying that all of those are irresponsible. There are some people who write good code, who at least make an effort to avoid vulnerabilities, and those are the responsible ones.
The emancipation of information by MooCs is a big positive.

MooC's themselves are not the reason for it, nor do they represent much evolution in how content has been delivered technologically in the last 15 years.

Here's to hoping the next, and actual innovative level of cracking the online education innovation is found vs reinventing the technology curriculum of the 90's with WebCT with newer themes.
I worked for 3 yrs (as a joint EE/CS engineer) after finishing my Bachelors degree in physics at age 21.

I went back to school at age 24, for PhD (in experimental condensed matter physics). On one hand it was hard going from earning a nice salary to very little stipend. But on the other hand I came in freshly determined, where some of my fellow incoming students just in from their undergrad days weren't as into it.

I was certainly above average age for the incoming student class, but there were a few other students in similar situation, and some had worked even longer before coming back to school.

I also changed fields again afterwards. Towards the end of my PhD I got a bit fed up with he daily realities of life as an experimental physicist, and almost by chance found my way into an internship as a quant in the financial sector. I enjoyed the internship greatly, and afterwards wrote up my thesis and then started working at the same company.

It's interesting because up until around 1-2 yrs before that internship, I never would have thought I'd work in finance. I had no interest from the little bit about finance that I knew. But one day in supplementary course notes during a many-body field theory class, there was a little aside where the prof derived the Black Scholes equation using a Feynman path integrals and it just blew my mind. I had no previous idea there was so much formalism underlying financial products.
Call me cynical but I kind of assumed that this was the last race before the start of serious anti-doping tests.
Wait, I didn't realize the prevailing opinion was that "right to be forgotten" is a good thing. I thought the pseudo-libertarian strain combined with the strong archival beliefs of many on HN would be turn common opinion against it.
Certainly, a percentage (guessing under 10%??) of the employees at Google and Facebook ARE superstars in their fields. But the others are mostly over-rated.
> When people get sick they come to the US for treatment if they can

I live in Bangalore, India. My local private clinics are filled with American citizens. Medical tourism is all the rage here.
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I didn't come up with that, but I don't remember where I found it. So don't credit me for it :-)
They should have called it "Learning Deep Learning Deeply"
There's no reason a sabbatical shouldn't be available to anyone then, child or no child.
Have you seen David in real life?

I'm not artistic at all nor do I understand artistic nuance.

I can say there was something striking about going into that museum in Florence, seeing other massive blocks of started-on marble in the corridor, and finally arriving at David.

No, I didn't get the nuance then nor do I get it now, but I remember the awestruck feeling I got seeing the statue for the first time.

It's probably a personal perspective I'd guess.
You're trying to root Android to get what you want, and Samsung doesn't want you to do that.

Unfortunately there's no better option out there. If you had an iphone you'd have even less control over your phone.

I'm in the same boat, I have a Samsung at the moment because the hardware is nice, but I'm pretty dissatisfied with the bloatware and IMO Android in general is getting further and further away from satisfying the power users.

The default Gallery app is a UI abomination, and you can't completely replace it with something better (the Camera app will always use the Samsung Gallery App to review photos, there's no way to change it).
This only works on rectangular prisms (which is the definition given for 'box' in the article.) If the red box continued below the purple one, it wouldn't be such a box anymore.
I wonder why there is no integration with default contacts app in android . I think its a bad idea to release app with simplicity as objective with out providing a simple way of using it with out knowing much about it.

.. or is it because its two teams at google ?
I've read the article twice and I'm still not sure what point it is trying to convey.
Global Variable? Make it go away!
How modularization felled Japan’s electronics titans
Also this: https://github.com/chengr28/RevokeChinaCerts/
Learning values across many orders of magnitude
You don't have control over what nvidia, intel or the rest of them either.

If you want to get your 'feet wet', then why bother?
You should probably read the article. It's not morphine based.
Maybe the improvements in the weight of the shoe matter, not just the spikes. Reducing the weight is more than a matter of shaping the shoe - I think most improvements now come from using new materials. The weight is added at an extremity and has to be lifted every time you pull your foot up. I know this makes a noticeable difference for long distances, but I'm not sure about sprints, where you take a much smaller number of much more powerful steps.
> So now you have to care about what you say

Exactly, you have to care about what you say, and that's exactly why I love HN comments so much. Also, you make it sounds like there are such great comments that disappear because of the downvotes, but it's not the case. The only disappearing comments are stupid jokes or trolls. I don't remember any well-argued position that I was unable to read because of the downvote.
this is such an important subject and I'm happy it's finally getting attention in larger tech community. while housing is a regional issue, it also all starts at home with each city committing to housing policy changes. in Palo Alto Adrian Fine is leading that change - he works for nextdoor.com, he was born and raised in Palo Alto, he is a young, urban planner, govtechy and cyclist. let's start paying attention and start small - if you live in Palo Alto or know someone who does - check out www.votefine.com and support him any way. housing is a social equality issue
I believe one of the original proposals in this design space was AF_BUS[1], which was actually in fact a new socket address family. But that design used domain sockets, which were extended to support multicast -- and it was rejected as making an already complex path more complicated, among other reasons.

[1] https://lwn.net/Articles/504970/
My point is that what Valve does with in-game items is similar to what certain mobile games do with time/pay-walls and how casinos exploit certain aspects of our psychology. And if you do not practice this "shady stuff", it is not that profitable…

# Crates

Crates or doubling, tripling, etc. item's cost. Say I want a certain hat, on average, I'll need to pay multiple times (crate contains 5 other items, but successive crates do not yield duplicates in most recent Dota 2 versions, so worst case you pay 6 times a price).

# Steam Marketplace

Adds at least 30% to item's cost, since you buy with real-world dollars, but sell for "Valve Dollars" (only usable in Steam, no withdrawals), this is effectively paying more for a single item (at least 30% more expensive which is Valve's margin for Steam purchases of non-Valve titles).

In addition, Valve makes purchases non-tradable via Marketplace for a period of time (multiple months, usually) since original purchases for "preventing fraud". I see it as "incentivising gambling with crates", though.

# Third-party site

These were probably shut down because they involved real money, so Vavle could be potentially helping organise casino/bookmaking businesses from legal standpoint. It's all fine with Steam Money from marketplace.

So, yes, it is extremely profitable, probably orders of magnitude more profitable than "honest" selling where transaction is "pay money, receive item".

# Regarding TI

It is incredible how much money it made. It is as incredible as how Valve decided to split matchmaking pool for months with International Ranked to boost prize pool, so you had to pay $10 to go into faster queue.
I'm aware iOS isn't a better option. There's a reason I've not gone that route.

I'm absolutely irate at Samsung and Google/Android. Once again, the latter company is absolutely burning up goodwill it's engendered among technical users.

I'm keeping my eye on alternatives. There's a Spanish-made Ubuntu phone which might be suitable.

Otherwise, a small ultralight notebook could be useful, but from whom? I've run Thinkpads for nearly 20 years, but find current offerings abominable. I don't care for Apple hardware precisely because of keyboards and mouse/trackpad options.

Samsung's iron fist over apps is similarly pathological.
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The problem with medical marijuana is that it doesn't relieve severe pain and it gets you stoned which not everybody wants.
Those still exist outside of the Web 2.0 world.
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Flagging is extremely effective in taking content off the front page. I understand the intention, to quickly kill spam and avoid flame war topics, but it's extremely powerful in even preventing discussion on issues and it is probably a greater contribution to groupthink than downvoting comments is. Agenda setting, controlling which topics are discussed at all, is way more powerful than controlling the range of views expressed on those topics.
A Nickel's Worth's guide on variable naming seems like a relevant read here:

https://a-nickels-worth.blogspot.ie/2016/04/a-guide-to-namin...
Does anyone know why they suspect this particular release will be targeted by state sponsored attackers?

It seems they indicate the specific 0.13.0 release will be targeted, why not the previous releases (or presumably all future releases)?
There is another discussion going on on HN here where people are discussing how to fix scientific reporting.

This article covers several critical issues

> It starts with this: The most important ingredient in investigative reporting is not brilliance, writing flair, or deep familiarity with the subject (though those all help). It's something much simpler—time.

Mother Jones also points out the known fact that mergers have resulted in firms that must return value to the shareholders, and this is only possible with significant ad revenue.

It feels like we've walked full circle back to paying for subscriptions to magazines. (And now they are tax deductible?)
I think it is a combination of both the reputation that Microsoft has in tech community and also the fact that unlike other softwares you noted, Windows OS is used by a lot of people, even those who don't like using it (you'll see lot of posts where people have installed it for their family members because those family members find it easier to use it)
I'm personally struggling to find a way of answering this that doesn't sound ridiculous on account of the fact that I've been obsessing over this stuff for several decades. These subjects address the heart of what it means to be able to make decisions and use language effectively. This subject matter is essentially a continuation of a broad attempt at a modern conceptualization of meaning, and as such it's value is immediately obvious to me... You should value this material because it is this kind of material that describes what 'value' is, why it is important, and what limitations it has.

But this is all absurd when I try to apply it to a specific book. It's a low rung on a ladder so tall nobody has seen the top.
Here's How a Tesla Taxi Held Up After 100,000 Miles
> The animation is deceiving simply because it doesn't show acceleration. Those starting blocks you mention will have a big impact on the initial acceleration, but ultimately, the data isn't there; we don't know what meter splits any of those medalists ran.

For any Olympic races held after the availability of video recording, you could get a reasonable approximation of split times, with careful review of the video and timer. Not with the same degree of precision as the race timers themselves, but with enough precision to compare acceleration.
Them having to scramble for dear life in an inequitable market situation doesn't justify them engaging in anti-competitive actions. The problems with public exchanges in the ACA should be addressed without resorting to monopolistic practices. Let them fail.
>I know nothing of how Windows works. It could be impossible without completely rewriting the entire thing. It's just my ultimate pet peeve about Windows.

I imagine the Windows sourcecode to be a total clusterfuck shitshow, with all the ancient code and exception cases.

I doubt you could make live updates work without a major redesign, which would inevitably break a lot of stuff that people actually use.
Awestruck is one thing, but I think you need to actually read the author's recounting of his own experience (which from sounds of it is furthermore many years in retrospective) to understand why I'm calling him out on it.
The English needs a massage here. The very first sentence is grammatically incorrect, which doesn't inspire confidence. It's a fine introductory post for learning Git, though, and as such I welcome it.
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Personally I will never by windows anything again. Unix all the way.
Great design but to be brutally honest I hate the scrolling behavior. I've seen many other sites do it and it is super annoying. I expect the screen and mouse to move at the same rate.
I would re-write the first sentence to "You probably know how to use Git on a daily basis" or perhaps "You probably know how to use Git in your daily workflow."
I'm personally against such an idea:

- The journalist isn't supposed to be a copy-paste robot. Even if the press release contains big claims, the journalists should be blamed if they don't do fact-checking. An example from the recent times (and not scientific): If the conman is claiming to be a bitcoin founder, the serious journalist aren't supposed to just repeat his claims.

- The "layman summary" as in "relevance" is impossible to be realistic for most of the basic research. Is research relevant if it can be applied in 10 years? In 20 years? 100 years? How can you even estimate when it can be applied? The realistic estimate of the application of the research is possible only if the research is targeted at the short-term goals. Which is then more engineering than science. But if you include long term view, then what could be "possible" is typically not what the "public" understands ("but you said we will be able to use x and where is it now you liars.")

- The scientists should actually be somehow also motivated not to exaggerate the applicability of their research, as a force against their reasonable and real motivation to do so. We should be able to let the researchers do the research even if we don't expect the immediate "use." Otherwise we don't support the science, just solving the shortest-term problems.
Plucker - now that's a ebook format that brings up memories of reading on the Palm.

If you still have Plucker files, you might have some luck using FBReader to read it. It apparently still supports Plucker (but not on android) [1]

[1] https://fbreader.org/content/book-formats-supported-and-not-...