skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How Your Smartphone Light Sensor Could Help Websites Track You
Björk: ‘I build bridges between tech and the human things we do’
well, yes, of course all the space users are using the <tab> key.
That's both counterproductive and unfair. Counterproductive because unless you'd start arresting and forcing people to testify, you'd just mass evasion, just like there already is for jury duty. The only "experts" willing to come would be self-promoters trying to get their name on the newspaper.

Unfair, because that "duty" would be almost exclusively levied on the most capable and productive members of society. If you think expert testimony is a social duty, then it should be imposed on the whole of society, by getting the State to finance it.
Use unique passwords ffs.
Why? Increase in supply will affect the entire curve, thus making housing cheaper for everybody.

Ie that's like making one part of the room warmer.
Database of Brutalist buildings
This is a very neat library, I hope that I find myself using this on a project soon! Thanks!
I'm with you, maybe I'm getting old too.

The local language here is not english, but I use english voice recognition since it's better, which adds extra weirdness.

I only use it to set alarms and reminders on google now.
I manage a small fleet of six T460s and we're sitting at 50% of the units hitting a BSOD during the update and then being stuck in a perpetual reboot loop.

I've found that if I roll Windows back using Win10 installation media to a pre-Anniversary state, the computers that BSOD will (be automatically forced to) update and not BSOD on the second go around.

The "your computer has to update" mantra is a real bummer in a situation like this since if you connect the computer to the internet, it will download updates and attempt to upgrade/break again. I'm not sure if I've gotten lucky with the three I've rolled back and then had re-update, or if some poor soul is an eternal restore -> update -> BSOD loop.
Humm... But the set of Turing Machines is countably infinite, and a nat -> nat function is necessarily representable as a Turing Machine.
If you're familiar with Python, try the Jupyter notebook (jupyter.org) - very useful for quick visualizations while also allowing you to quickly transform the data when necessary. The big advantage is your interactive 'repl' session is persisted as well as editable so you can resume anytime.

You can use any one of a number of visualization libraries such as matplotlib, bokeh, and more. Here's a quick start for an idea of the code needed: http://nbviewer.jupyter.org/github/bokeh/bokeh-notebooks/blo...
His experiences working with regulators/Government agencies?

Tesla and SpaceX are in really strict industries when it comes to regulation, how did he navigate through all of this when going from 0 to product?
Essentially, this is suggesting to implement in text editors what word processors have done for almost forever, with some additional automation.

It's sad that this hasn't seen any traction in the past 10(!) years. It seems so much better than the current mess.
Spacegirl – 70's style funk action soundtrack
Thoughts on Aramco IPO?
(similar disclaimer: I've done a bunch of text input work for mobile)

That phrase set was explicitly designed for text entry (typing) experiments. While not optimal, it does allow for more direct comparison to a large body of previous studies using the same phrase set (and similar procedures).

Having said that, keyboard input methods that provide suggestions/corrections at multi-character or word level features probably also benefit from longer words since the recognizer has more signal to work with. Revisiting the assumptions that went into that initial phrase set (character at a time input) in light of modern text input techniques might be a good thing.
Show HN: EPOH – A simple multiplayer turn-based game built with JavaScript
Yes, this is a basic computer vision task, so I think deep learning is probably overkill. In this case, there's no clutter and you can choose any configuration of cameras and illumination you like, which makes the task much easier (and probably feasible on a single desktop machine...).
Mark Zuckerberg built an AI that controls his house. He'll demo it next month
The next version of Fedora picks up Rust
Very cool!

I'm surprised by this one:

https://bloomberg.github.io/bucklescript/js-demo/#Curry_Opti...

Why doesn't it actually curry? Impressive output, don't get me wrong. But given how native and idiomatic currying is in Javascript, and how much trouble I'd expect this to have taken to implement... is there a specific reason for this? Just curious.

Anyway, again: very impressive. Thanks.

EDIT clarification: I expected:

function f(param) {
return curry(32, param);
}

(or is this to highlight the difference between currying and partial function application?)
This is bullshit. It's a variation of an old British tabloid story that has been around for years. Our system will remain a tangled mess of metric and imperial, and people will continue arguing about it. There is nothing new here.
Transmitting Text via Ultrasonic Audio, Awesome Open Source Library
A Simple Website Dedicated to Rubber Duck Debugging
It's also possible to implement a decompressor in javascript to support browsers which don't do it natively. The performance would likely suck but if you're truly bandwidth constrained and don't mind users having a bit of a lag, it's an option...
Not a surprise.

Most of the "my mom used to do this for me" service startups are destined for failure.

If you can afford washio, you can afford a maid.
Show HN: Nginx config tester
Box beats earning expectations
Most website owners use a 3rd-party service provider to stream video--like YouTube, Vimeo, Ustream, etc. And very big video providers build custom analytics into their custom platforms--like Netflix, Amazon, Apple, etc.

So the remainder is companies big/clever enough to try to build their own video platform, but not enough to build in their own analytics. That seems like a pretty small market to be going after.
I would still highly recommend the StackExchange network in general. A lot of the sites on the network are programming related, and if your question fits in on StackOverflow, its possible it might fit in on one of the related network sites---post your question there instead, for better feedback and answers.
Fear of losing your technical skill set when stepping into a management role
Hopefully at some point you will mention the fact that not everyone has the same idea about what a file is (streams, extended attributes) or what metadata is (ACLs, versions, other timestamps)...
Didn't you know. That the common answer to this on HN, is that these displaced workers are going to retrain for a job in a STEM field.

If that doesn't work, just pay more tax like a good boy and put them on basic income!

Hilarious!
I made this mostly for myself, because with large configs it's sometimes hard to figure out which server/location will be triggered. It can be tested by running nginx in debug mode, but that's tedious. Instead, this site parses the config and applies the same rules nginx would. (apart from nested locations at the moment)

Everything happens client-side, I don't need/want your data :)
Relevant for both YC & Elon:
Since it seems like every company trying to hyperscale is experiencing a desperate shortage of tech talent, how can we get more unexposed people excited about technology? If Elon didn't have an engineer parent, what could have been another avenue for him to have been exposed to technology, and how might we be able to target those entry points globally to train more great founders and engineers?
Mz: "So basically, alligators dig holes, and this does a bunch of important things, and also they eat one of the main animals that would otherwise destroy wetlands."

Well, that's not what you originally said. Furthermore you're misinterpreting what you quote above too.

FWIW in the U.S. the word "coypu" is rarely used, we use the word "nutria" instead.

First of all, to say

Mz: "...like an alligator making swamps in the American South..."

is like saying that cows make cow pastures, or prairie dogs make grasslands, or oysters make the seabeds that they lie in - it is essentially incorrect.

I lived decades in the American South and have seen my share of alligators. I even raised one awhile and she did not terraform the backyard in any manner whatsoever. Mostly she crapped, irritated the dog, hissed and stood her ground until fed. To read someone speaking of alligators "making swamps in the American South" still has me laughing.

Mz: "Removing alligators from certain swamps would, in fact, significantly impact the swamp and make it much more likely to revert to solid land over time."

No. The swamp would be there with or w/o alligators. For example, Disney is removing alligators from their Disneyland parks. The swampy areas won't dry up as a result.

Swamps are consequences of geography and climate, not of alligators. There are plenty of swamps w/o alligators and alligators w/o swamps (e.g., lakes, rivers, etc.).

Humans are probably the main predators of nutria. Humans introduced nutria to the U.S. for their fur, in some instances, and to control various wild grasses, in others. Were the alligators were all gone, I have no doubt that other predators would easily pick up the slack.

Even if the nutria were allowed to reproduce unencumbered, they would not "destroy wetlands". Firstly the population would, as in the usual predator-prey models, boom then bust. Secondly, as I said earlier, the wetlands are a product not of biology, but of geography and climate. Of course biology diversifies the environment, but it doesn't create it. You could hit Louisiana with a giant neutron bomb, killing every living thing there and the wetlands would remain for eons.
You might want to check to see if you have a local Whiteboarding Meetup. We have one here in Seattle where people can practice interviewing. If you don't have one you could probably set one up.
I've been pretty happy not even knowing that. (YubiKey OpenPGP smart card + pass) It feels natural for my password manager to be just another thing I have to unlock with a physical key. The security concerns in practice are similar to that of my house keys, so there's pleasantly little mental overhead.
Is the Nobel Prize Good for Science?
"These explanations suggest that when compared with suicidal women, men who reach the point of suicidal action are: [More X, More Y, More Z].... Despite some limited theoretical and empirical support, we currently lack strong evidence to support these explanations."

Welp there goes the whole thread guys

Any follow up study?
Hosting My Static Site
I was extremely bored at work, so I made this "fake hacker" demo with the font: https://forty7.org/tmp/font_test.html

For those who cannot download the link, I have a copy of the font on my website too: https://forty7.org/tmp/fonts/Glass_TTY_VT220.ttf
I have to type a single number into Google Maps for it to auto-complete to my home address. That's not really a beatable speed.

And there is the tiny problem that I can't even pronounce some of the things I've typed into Google. Examples include: Japanese manga names, company names, and foreign names from news articles.
Hi Elon,

Since you have a passion for Mars and Space Ships, has the video game project "Star Citizen" crossed your path yet? They're doing some pretty amazing things with how they're able to render a full solar system and planets you can actually land on.

I ask because it would be very interesting if Space X utilized this software to create simulations for Mars! The game engine could support simulating leaving earth in a SPACE X craft, the travel to Mars, landing, and exploring.

-Jason
The most crucial fact about all of these sites is that they are essentially investment workflow platforms, NOT investment promotion services.

A company needs to do their own promotion among investors to raise money, there aren't waves of investors at these sites eager for new opportunities.

This is actually how Kickstarter works, and the reason that effective promoters are the ones who succeed at raising money, rather than the cleverest inventors.

> FundersClub, Wefunder, and other sites like SeedInvest, CircleUp, and EquityNet offer crowdfunded investments on their sites that are mechanically similar to KickStarter.
Awesome! Thanks for creating this, heading over now.
It's too late! Seriously. The worst advice parents give to children, is to wait before settling down and having children. To wait for anything: having fun, studies, carrier, whatever the reason.

On the contrary, parents should help children to get married and start making babies as soon as possible once they're adult.

Because otherwise, as you mention it, you get to hear what's really like to have a family, and the more time passes, the more you come to realize what a crazy thing it would be, and the less you become inclined to do it. No, this is something that should be done before you come to your senses, while you're still a crazy young adult yourself! And also, while you still have the energy to have three lifes at the same time!

Soldiers are sent to wars in their twenties. They shouldn't be sent there without having a wife and one or more babies already. Therefore people should marry very early, so they're ready to be sent to wars and be possibly killed, with their children already born!

Economically, it makes also much more sense to have babies early. Imagine you have a son at 20, then you study till 24, start your business and develop it. 16 years later, your business has grown, like your 20 years old son, who can then start working with you in the family business. 20 years later, your grand-son is ready to start working with your and your son in your business, and you're not even thinking in retirement yet!

So, you're 30. That's not too late, but I would say hurry, because soon you'll start to feel tired, and also it will become more and more expensive, for a guy, to find a woman in age of having babies about your same age: you will have to find younger and younger a woman, and this is expensive. (Despite menopause age being about 50 years old, women often cannot make healthy babies after 30 or 35 years old).

So hurry! And good luck!
Best Look yet at the Cars of Transformers 5 – TopSpeed One
I fail to see what is the problem, care to elaborate?
Defend or grow?  These plants can do both at the same time
Baldwin Holdings Unlimited appears to be a shareholder, not a subsidiary, with one share of ownership (amounting to .01%) of Apple Operations International and one share of ownership in a few other of Apple's Irish subsidiaries. Aside from holding one nominal share in each of the Irish subsidiaries, this company does not appear to be materially significant to Apple's international operations, and I can find no evidence that Apple's international profits have been transferred to this company.

From what I can tell, Apple's money remains in Ireland, where they already enjoy an extremely low tax rate, and therefore have no reason to move it out. (Of course, this is why the EU is going after them now.)
Box buying Wagon
Why would they do that?

The cuckoo hashing is just a collision resolution technique used in open addressing hashing schemes. Having two possible hashes of a key always next to each other (that is what you suggest by using buckets if I understand correctly) would cause the cuckoo algorithm for kicking out the conflicting items to stop working.

If both possible locations for a key are always in the same bucket, the two keys with a colliding hash would also share the alternative hash (i.e. it would be the other place in the same bucket). And so, they would only be able to kick each other out. A loop of length 2. Always. If three keys hash into the same bucket, you will have to rehash the entire table.

You can have larger buckets, but the problem remains. Once a big enough number of keys hash into the same bucket, you will have to rehash the table. That would most probably mean low typical load factors.

Of course, what you will be getting in return is the locality of memory references. But is that a reasonable trade-off? I think there are better ways to achieve locality of memory references...
From various anecdotal evidence and talking to other graduate students (and going to Graduate School myself), it seems like the experiences vary a lot, and they seem to depend a lot on the amount of funding a field or a professor can attract.

For me personally, I had to teach one semester as a TA, but the Prof. I worked with was extremely helpful, and would pitch in to help when the workload was too much. After that, all my semesters were spent as an RA, which is a pretty awesome job if you work in the lab of a good professor and on an interesting project, which I did. And many of my friends pursuing graduate degrees in engineering seem to be in a similar position.
How/where does he get the all these super cool energy to do all these ground breaking work?
Postmates God (internal CMS?)
I don't see the horrific wasteland others do on those subreddits which I participate in. In fact, I am significantly more likely to ask my own questions there than SO.
It's so obvious that whoever wrote this is not from the Midwest. If you are going to call CMU as in the Midwest, you might as well say Seattle and Phoenix are suburbs of Silicon Valley.
A few ideas:

- the optimal form of government (direct democracy for every level, semi-dictatorship like in companies,...)

- self-organization: how do he manage his tasks, agenda, priority and how to maintain a good equilibrium with personal life

- what he think could be his next fight (after space exploration and removing the dependency to oil)

- what can we do against the rich getting richer and taking control of all the ressources
Seriously. The testimonial block-quotes are images with meaningless alt text (e.g., "Testimonial 1"). They're clearly doing plenty of things right, but the inattention to detail and disregard for accessibility get my goat.
Yes, and additionally, I don't believe any part of the zoning codes specify rent to be charged. What the market will bear and all that.
This is a technical post on a Google blog for a software library highlighting a use-case written by a "Developer Advocate" for developers to read... this isn't a NYTimes human interest piece about a new technology written by a journalist for average humans to read.

Regardless of the non-relevant nature of the context, the HN crowd (the target audience) is well aware of the side effects of technological progress.

Similarly, we don't expect every blog post by security researchers highlighting the latest software exploit to include blurbs about the societal implications of vulnerabilities on privacy. There's a time and place for that.
Don't many GDB frontends provide this, however?
Box Brings on Wagon Team to Advance Insights Around Enterprise Content
I found his (Yann's) blog posts the most helpful for getting a basic idea of what was going on with FSE:
https://fastcompression.blogspot.com/2013/12/finite-state-en...
and the followup
https://fastcompression.blogspot.fr/2014/01/fse-decoding-how...
If they're siphoned anywhere besides under a mattress they'll be a net benefit. (And even the mattress might just delay their usefulness.)
Jared, I enjoyed your article and agree with most of the thoughtful analytic distinctions that you make and fully support your effort to sensitize the public to the evolving and varied business models of all JOBS Act related platforms. I am a partner in Ellenoff Grossman & Schole LLP, a securities law firm that worked closely with the platform community and the Federal and State regulators that established the rules around the JOBS Act statute. I also co-founded iDisclose, a legal technology company, that offers entrepreneurs an application to generate their own legal disclosure documents (required under Title III, a so-called Form C-- we also have a PPM application).

I would also highlight that both issuers (entrepreneurs) and investors ought to focus on the revenue models of the platform. Broker-dealer (and RIA) platforms typically take commissions on each dollar raised by an issuer, must perform regulatory required due diligence and their activities are monitored by the SEC or FINRA, as the case may be, and they are responsible for overseeing those platforms activities and compliance with the rules. Same holds true for Title III platforms which must by statute be approved by FINRA.

Certain Reg D platforms and Title II platforms generate revenue like a venture fund or real estate firm benefit only from the profits generated in excess of the original investment amount of the investors (a so-called profits participation). While I fully agree with your observation of the benefits to investors, along with the lead investors and syndication generally, it is important to also note that these platforms do not necessarily have to be licensed as broker-dealers consequently. Perfectly lawful in most cases.

These platforms consequently have different economic incentives and liability profiles.

We specifically developed iDisclose to drive down the cost of legal disclosure to be consistent with this new online ecosystem but maintain high quality disclosure through a TurboTax like process to reduce potential liability to the issuer and the platforms.

BTW, all of the platforms which you referenced should be acknowledged for their excellence and pioneering approach to this new online investment world.

Would love to answer any further questions you can find me here or @douglasellenoff
alternatively emailhunter.co is great at this, they also have a Chrome extension you can just click when you're on a target domain
> StackOverflow does not delete duplicate questions i.e., there is a builtin support for asking the exact same question multiple times in various ways.

The second does not follow from the first, because SO does lock duplicate questions and prevent people from answering.
X, Y, Z, A, B, C:

• hopeless.

• clearly resolved to die.

• likely to be intoxicated and thus more disinhibited.

• willing to carry out actions that might leave them injured or disfigured.

• unconcerned with consequenc­es because of a high risk-taking orientation.

• likely to have a greater capacity to enact lethal self-injury.
New cloud attack takes full control of virtual machines with little effort
What is his ultimate ideal vision of the future. We know transportation and energy. What about healthcare and delivery of health. How about the fundamental structures upon which our world is built, what will be the role of government and financial institutions in a decentralized platform world? Will the cease to have complete control over us and dictate our lives from the shadows?
I think mathematicians would call this "representation
theory." This is the whole question of do we
think of a calculation as syntax, or
can we represent this syntax as a "dynamic", or action;
something that is being moved around or transformed.

Some people really are driven to just calculate stuff
(pushing language itself around), and others seem to
want to know "what does it mean?" Ie. what are the
representations of this language.
Logicians call this semantics: it's a model for the syntax.

I'm a theoretical physics grad student, and see plenty of this.
Most physicists seem to just want to calculate stuff, and don't
care where the symbols "live".
For me, a calculation is rarely enlightening. I want the context,
the type theory that tells me how the pieces talk to each other.
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nuclear: msr projects and their fusion reactors.

various space based warfare kit (shooting down satellites for example)

that quantum communication satellite.

Im sure there is more.
Innovative Self-Sustaining Village Model Could Be Future of Semi-Urban Living