skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
yeah it's useful to have the adapter, but do you need it so often that your ethernet cable is 100% attached to your notebook?
I mean I actually don't want only 4 USB-C's.
But I'm fine with having, MagSafe, 1-2 Thunderbolt, 1-2 USB-C's (depending on how many Thunderbolt), SD Card (I have a 256 GB extension card), maybe HDMI.
However Ethernet falls short cause it's so big. I mean the smallness of the Mac is a pro and a contra (it's too heaty I actually needed to clean my MacBook Pro since it got slower after there was too much dust in it). But just having it bigger caused by one port would be bad.
I'd have to disagree with Go not scaling for large projects. A primary goal of it's design was to be good for large projects, and there's plenty of large and/or complex codebases that have been written in Go. Docker, Kubernetes, and a lot of things in the CoreOS ecosystem specifically.
And? Did you try to talk your friend out of it?
I'll bet he has plenty of respect for the "poor losers" but little for those who took advantage of them (PhD programs).
What do you count as a "court judgment" and how are they evaluated? Are, for instance, a successful motion to dismiss and a jury decision for the defendant weighed equally? Or do you give higher weight to the motion to dismiss since that's usually a better outcome for the defendant than making it to trial?

And do you look at motions other than actual judgments? I.e. if Firm A wins a motion to suppress some piece of evidence and then there's a subsequent settlement, we should infer that Firm A "won" the case, even if there's no judgment to that effect.
Anyone who thinks an SSN is a secret is naive at best.

Back in the day, your student ID at California State schools was your SSN. It was on your ID card, which you had to present to do anything at the school.
He also exploits people because he's "building the future." He is an evil capitalist with a cult of personality and doesn't deserve the worship he gets.
Let's not forget the $80 billion or so spent on the auto bailout...
You may call it 'older projectors', but it is the defacto standard. Any conference will make sure that at least VGA is available. It doesn't help of you show up with display port and the conference offers DVI.

I never had a female VGA connector fail. I wonder what you have to do to make that happen.

Apple's thunderbolt-ethernet dongles are from a mechanical point of view an extremely poor design. If you expect problems with a VGA connector, expect those dongles and the port on your MacBook to fail way earlier.

Don't get me wrong, it is perfectly fine if Apple offers modern connectors. It is just that some connectors, like VGA, RJ45, USB-A and 3.5mm jack are so universal that not offering them is just making lots of people suffer for no good reason.

And as for those connectors being bulky, just use the opportunity to add a larger battery. It's a MacBook Pro, it can use all the juice it gets.
A backdoor on Xiaomi device allows silent and remote deliver of any app
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Some HN commenters never cease to amaze with their negativity...
> You can switch disks while the system is running

Is that something you can do at any time, or only at the "home" screen when no apps are running?
Market cap tends to be much lower than revenue for capital-intensive industries. Factories, machine tools, and steel cost a lot of money, after all.
Outcomes can be effected as well.
Au contraire, people that know the technology and industry can see through the PR much more clearly.
I saw a black version of the same car here in Arizona last week, complete with roof apparatus. I guess it's just being driven and isn't self-driving yet. The Google car has been around here for weeks.
Why would you not be able to scale a monolith? You can apply the same principles to it: "[Stick] a load balancer in front of a micro service and scaling based on measured load"?

A microservices allows you to scale up very particular components of an architecture, but there is nothing stopping a monolith from being horizontally scaled in just the same way. In AWS, I would make the monolith deployed with an AMI in an auto-scaling group with a load balancer in front.
Astonishing and insightful episode. Please post the RSS feed here.
I would guess your view derives from the fact that the parts of the regulatory state that have grown since the 1970's have more direct effects on individuals and small businesses: environmental, workplace safety, anti-discrimination, anti-money laundering. But there isn't much money in gaming those. The big-money sectors of the economy: telecommunications, transportation, manufacturing, and finance have been deregulated. And software has become a big-money sector of the economy and has remained almost completely unregulated.

I handle appeals in regulatory cases, so I have occasion to research historical regulatory treatment of different areas. It's really eye-opening to go read ICC, FCC, or FERC opinions from the 1940s and 1950s and compare them to ones from today. Agencies back then had vast powers: they could deny entry of a competitor into a market if they felt it would harm the revenues of incumbents. If you were an air carrier, you had to publish your prices, and if the agency did not like them it could impose prices on you. Those agencies are a shell of their former selves. Agencies used to have to power to structure industries top-down as they saw fit. Today, they might have thousands of pages more regulations covering various minutia, but nobody is going to build a "corporate colossus" lobbying to influence agency treatment of minutia.
Wait, are those given away already?!
That's a technically accurate, but weasely answer from the SSA. Realistically, there are many loopholes and exceptions.

- People born in various New England states have social security number overlap with number ranges issued by the social security systems in Micronesia, Palau and the Marshall islands. Those territories get services from Federal programs which causes issues.

- EINs and SSNs are issued by different departments and can overlap. People in various scenarios will provide the number in the wrong context.

- Millions of people use the wrong SSN without fraudulent intent.

- People frequently and fraudulently use the SSNs of children and older people.

- Hundreds of thousands/low millions of people have multiple valid SSNs.

- 40,000 people used a real SSN included as a sample in a wallet in the 1930's.

- Some populations have a higher incidence of mistakes, fraud, multiple valid SSNs or other problems. One dataset that I was acquainted with had IIRC a 7% known exception rate for SSNs.
Awesome, thanks! Just added the URL to my iPhone podcast app.
I am much happier when I have cold hard cash at the bank than when I am owning shares. The moment I buy shares, I watch my portfolio like a hawk. My happiness starts to depend on how the portfolio is doing. When the numbers go down, my happiness level drops. Vice versa. It becomes an obsession.

Instead of thinking about coding and other things that occupies my thoughts on a normal day, I start to think about markets when showering, sleeping, eating, driving etc. When I am investing in index funds, I don't experience such. That's why I only invest in index funds these days.
Announcing Stride – A Realtime Analytics API
The problem with Musk is that he's managed to garner a cult of personality for being a perfect representation of an issue that has been plaguing the high tech industry for years. For decades the public has been contributing (through taxes) to the creation of the entire research and development/high tech industry, an industry that wouldn't have been created otherwise since it creates long-term profit at the expense of short-term profit (which isn't expedient to capital), an industry that requires immense collaboration among society, a society which has been contributing its social intelligence since the beginning of society itself, yet what do the people get for all this? Nothing. The public work is looted and privatized, then we are forced to buy back the products we created so a few capitalists can profit. Again, the production is collective yet its product is appropriated privately.
Hopefully the community forum will help GitHub to keep in touch with the community!
Important to note that repetitions are never exactly the same: new connections are found each time.

Also, choosing what to repeat seems important. Drilling in what is already understood may help you become a good teacher but how does one develop new and original ideas?
The article says they have a machine-learning algorithm that can "calculate the probability of a successful outcome" of a case. Then they calculate firms' ability to improve (or not) that outcome. But if I had such an algorithm I'd just use it directly to decide what cases to fund.

My understanding from talking to litigation funders is that lawyers are terrible at valuing cases. There is money to be made for anyone that can use technology to improve those predictions.
The Imperfect Art of Product Development
I'm curious what makes you think that. At the end his bio says he has 12 years of experience, and from his blog seems to know a thing or two.
Try "surgery" instead of "plastic surgery". Plastic surgery is a luxury product with little demand, but the life-saving kind of surgery is just as expensive (or even more) in labour and resources, but because there's a demand and a moral urgency, societies figured out how to finance it for ordinary people.
The induction hypothesis is a process in mathematics which assumes a formula for P(n) which is true, then uses this assumption and the problem definition to prove the case P(n+1).

As a concrete example, take the formula for the sum of integers: S(n)= n * (n+1)/2. Proving this inductively means asking what value should be assigned to S(n+1). We can calculate this either with a direct "change of variable" expansion of the hypothesized formula or, nothing that S() is the sum of a series, there is an alternate expansion of S(n)+(n+1). Refactoring both sides yields the same algebraic result, (n+1) * (n+2)/2.

[The final step for a full proof would be to establish a "baseline" case, traditionally either 0 or 1, where we show our formula yields the correct result. The inductive step, applied repeatedly, then proves the formula must be correct for the next higher input, and the one just after that, ad inifinitum.]
By that, he's referring to the brain-computer interface [0], right? Or is it broader than that?

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain–computer_interface
Funny you should mention that, someone did indeed take it and it was only unused for a couple of hours. Oh well...
> Not dogfooding their own service? I think I'll pass.

The opposite. If they went down no one would be able to view a status page.

It's actually best practice NOT to host your site on your own network.

Just like you should not use an email address @ the same domain you are registering. If your domain had a problem they could not email you at that domain.
My approach is to design like microservices and develop like a monolith. Thinking about microservices will force you to define module, their boundary and interfaces. A monolith will simplify deployment, refactoring. Once your code matures, you'll know if any microservice has to be taken out and deployed seperately.
and people born in the 70s aren't millenials.

Really, the oldest are mid 30s, and I think even that is a stretch.
Elo rating is a system used to gauge chess players. You win/lose point depending on your points difference before a match. If the favourite loses, more points are lost to the underdog than if the underdog loses.

You can apply this to a wide variety of sports where most teams don't get to play most other teams, eg you can guess that Germany are better than India at soccer despite the rarity of the tie.

And of course you can modify the system to take account of various issues such as the retirement of better players, which tends to remove points from the system.
No thanks for the next 1 year, after Backbone, Angular 1.x, React-Redux, I am going to take a break from learning a new framework. React-Redux is simplistic with most of my coding being JS, I don't want to keep looking up documentation for ng-this and ng-that. If the framework really takes off in 12-18 months then I might consider investing some time in it.
http://www.zdnet.com/article/ballmer-i-may-have-called-linux...
As somebody who is relatively uninformed, is there anywhere to read about Musk's shadier practices?
Show HN: ShouldBe – Eye-pleasing assertions for complex object graphs in C#
Not a big deal but was written by Barbara Oakley (woman) "As a young woman with a yen for learning language and no money or skills to speak of ..."
but the avg citizen doesn't have reason to care about the likelihood of getting caught.
This is mainly for any C# coders, so I hope this is the right crowd. I made this package for sanity & brevity when writing assertions about deep, complex object graphs (like big DTOs) and it's been useful enough for us that I thought I'd pay it forward.

Appreciate any comments you guys might have!
Inside the Knockoff-Tennis-Shoe Factory (2010)
I readily accept that we need Certificate Transparency deployed, not least to deter malfeasance in the DNS (which is a more tractable problem as the list of TLDs is relatively small and well known in advance). Hopefully you also accept that DNSSEC (or something very similar to it) is needed to ensure the integrity of DNS responses (and to give us authenticated denial of existence, and so on).

The question then becomes "Is the amount of work to use DANE on top of DNSSEC (and potentially changing the TLD of my domains, depending on my threat model) too great to justify the extra security of being insulated from malfeasance by unrelated third parties (i.e. any of the CAs in the world)?"

I think that reasonable people can disagree about both the amount of work and the amount of extra security, and it is probably a different balance for each domain being considered. I don't think it is reasonable, though, to say that DANE as a technology shouldn't exist and be available to people who would benefit from it.
There's some overlap with "dark enlightenment" stuff. Unfortunately that always tends to take on racial connotations because of the groups it originated in. Whereas the anti-modern conservatism I and others who generally agree with those kinds of arguments believe in rejects race as a modern concept made to suit modern purposes, not a basis to reject modernity.

And yeah, I used to write TK and he's hard to get along with. But I think a lot of his "antagonism" isn't personal so much as it is an attempt to stir up popular antagonisms, a propaganda of sorts. I can't ever be sure though. Guy's a mystery to me in a lot of ways. Super interesting though.
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I had the added annoying step of ctrl-f'ing for "Interviewer" and "Elon" and replacing them with "<return> Interviewer" and "<return> Elon", but I think that has more to do with how crappy Windows 10's clipboard is than Scribd.
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The short answer is that you want to structure your resume and cover letter to show authority and career progression. Clearly you're a generalist, which is not a good place to be early in your career. If you're personable with experience at a consulting firm, you might be a good candidate for a solutions engineer, which are notoriously hard to fill.

You also seem to be using the word "domain" referring to tech and not industry. But you may have experience in healthcare or something that the right company will value. You didn't include any links to your LinkedIn profile or resume, which you probably want to add ASAP since you're looking for a job :-) That also greatly limits the advice you will get.

My long answer is here: http://madeupname.com/careercourse/

Don't worry, it's free, no spam, unsubscribe, etc.
Yeah, I couldn't help but think about my nephew and nieces. No urge to get their driver's license, can't find things in the grocery store, not sure how much cash change they were supposed to get back...basic stuff. The video called those mice stupid.
Ha! Fair, there are plenty of divergences. That one just struck me as particularly odd.

And I am generally a fan of Studio Ghibli. I specifically am not saying it is a bad movie.
It's all about the tiered compilation. Tons of unused but eagerly compiled code w/ C1 (the dumb and fast compiler) that never reached the proper C2.

The issue has been three since 6.0.23 when the -XX:+TieredCompilation defaulted to true. (hmm, or was it 6.0.25?)

I'd say nothing really new.
If you run a server, just disable tired compilation altogether. It might cost few seconds slower startup but that's it.
Not to mention recent advancements in deep learning / machine learning with neural nets. It seems like that field has really proliferated over the past 5ish years. (I'm not sure what breakthrough specifically has led to all this, but we have TensorFlow, Torch, etc.)
You could achieve better horizontal scalability by making the monolithic application work in a distributed fashion. This would be easier with some platforms than others. Actor based systems in particular tend to be easier to do this with.
Personally, I would rather see the first version with better variable names.

I always find that map() methods tend to obscure the purpose of the values whereas a simple appears more explicit.
Aftermath of a TechCrunch article
>> Who studies philosophy in school when graduates becomes a historian of philosophy, not a philosopher.

> No, when they graduate, they become a degree holder in philosophy.

No, what they become is a historian of philosophy. Because what they learn is the eminent philosophers and schools from the past, and the philosophical methodology. This is like studying hittitology, they get to learn the hittite language, the hittitle literature, and they practice their writing on actual stone tablets, but at the end they become hittitologist, not hittites. What the education system in a given country considers a graduate from a philosophy course of a university is irrelevant, that's just a bureaucratic title.

>> Requirement of a diploma to philosophise contradicts philosophy itself.

> Similarly, formal education in philosophy can be useful to those wishing to do philosophy well.

My words agrees yours. I don't say a diploma is futile, just that it's not a requirement, and it cannot be one. Nor do I say that it's useless.

>> Philosophy is not a job, it's a personal trait [...]

> No, its not. "Philosophy" has at least two related senses, one of which is a thing one does (perhaps as a job, perhaps not), and the other of which is an a label for a class of belief systems, [...]

>> Philosophy is love of wisdom.

>The English word "philosophy" derives from Greek for the love of wisdom, but that's not what it means. Etymology is distinct from definition.

A personal trait is a group of things one does anyways. If one is timid, he does things that makes him timid. Philosophy is such, it includes thinking, doubting, searching, discussing and deciding.

You are mostly describing a western, originally-catholic, formal and academic sense of philosophy. I do not stay within that confining context, and think that the first and foremost task of a philosopher --and a task that continually shows up in whose life-- is to define what philosophy is, a task unachievable if one just opens some dictionary's P section and accepts whatever he finds there.
ID fraud already makes a lot of SSN non-unique; one in seven SSN has been used more than once, though the SSA doesn't report this to the owner of the SSN.
The socialist slave number was never intended as a private key empowering the bearer to authorize or prove identity. It's more akin to a serial number on a a manufactured item. It allows item-specific tracking and servicing of inventory by both state and third-parties.

When viewed from the item's perspective, its drawbacks may amount to a "disgrace," but that's coming from the products' perspective, not the customer's.
As someone in Tech who has worked both in Sorrento Valley and Downtown as well as places like LaJolla, Point Loma and now remotely from home in Lakeside I can only say that as a developer I preferred my experience working downtown vs anywhere else. Keep in mind this wasn't me the Entrepreneur, this was merely me the software engineer working for someone else, I was living in Fashion Valley at the time and could take the trolley right up to the office across the street from the main train station and it was a great commute. My wife would bring the kids down for lunch and we'd meet up at the water fountain park at City Hall or at the Children's museum. If I had to work late it didn't matter because the trolley ran late into the night and would drop me off right at home. The dev team could walk outside of the office and go to pretty much any restaurant in little Italy or within a short walking distance so we were never limited to mall or fast food and team lunches were the highlight of the week. If you didn't want to go to a restaurant there were always food trucks on some days of the week and the views from the high rises made you feel like the kind of work you were doing was important. As an entrepreneur now having an office downtown is crazy expensive and an unnecessary commute but if you're trying to understand it from the perspective of the workers and the talent themselves, I would always pick a job downtown vs one in Sorrento Valley or LaJolla any day of the week but that's just me and different people have different desires and perspectives. I'm not a beach guy though but I can also see a beach office being a huge talent draw for you as well, I guess it just depends on the personalities of the folks you're trying to draw that's all.