skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We want to have a good API for this, but we haven't figured out yet what it should look like. Right now, it's possible to read and write the underlying data representation via the Meteor Dynamic Data Protocol, and we have some JavaScript library code to help with this. That's what the spreadsheet client-side code does for all reads and most writes, and what the client-side code of the example applications does for all reads. (For completeness, I'll mention that certain complex data writes and all schema writes from the spreadsheet go through APIs, and all writes from the example applications go through an API to invoke stored procedures.) We're planning to build a better API bit by bit as we do more things with the system; I don't think I can estimate a time by which it will be stable.
How Free Software Stayed Free
Krebs on Security is down again, after record DDoS and move to Project Shield
This is an amazing milestone! I have to ask, why did we need a separate boot disk sent over instead of flashing the previous disk with the contents of a boot disk? I suppose swapping out parts is an expected part of restoration though.
San Francisco has an audacious plan to reclaim space from cars
My approach as a learn-it-as-I-go-DIYer is basically:

1) Google part number and the symptoms, half the time somebody has blogged about the exact same issue. These consumer products often fail in the same way.

2) Google symptoms and look for issues with similar products. Faulty capacitors for example is a classic cause of problems
for older electronics and can be observed by just looking at the PCB (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitor_plague)

3) Debug using Service Manual (note the User Manuals are typically useless / not detailed enough). Again just googling your part number will typically get you a PDF.
If you still can't find the Service Manual you can buy it at these sketchy sites online for $10US, or buy the manual from the OEM (typically closer to $50US from my experience).

4) If still not sure what's wrong, buy a new logic board

5) Buy new gadget

Warning - depending on which appliance is broken irritation level of spouse may grow exponentially!
How We Got Here with Cory Doctorow
That is not his assumption:

This is not one of those “he said, she said” where reasonable people can disagree on whether the PCE or CPI is a better price index. This is a pay/productivity gap being invented by using the slowly moving price index (NDP, which is similar to the PCE) to make worker productivity look better, and the faster moving price index (CPI) to make real wages look lower. That’s not kosher. You need to use the same type of index for both lines on the graph.
I presume so,

The two of them are prone to drinking games whilst climbing/caving and so it was assumed to be something from that until much later on where it was then suspected to be something touched and inadvertently consumed on their morning climb.
Misconceptions About Majority Rule
While "real" numbers are indeed weird, I don't think that's the real explanation here. There are lots of small programs with complex output that have nothing to do with real numbers. If someone gave you one of these programs without telling you what it was for, real numbers would at best be a useful abstraction (bear in mind that there are no actual "real numbers" here, only finite bit-strings). But it might turn out to be the equivalent of a stream cipher, instead. That would, if done correctly, have even more apparent entropy than your typical fractal, which at least has some higher-level structure.

In my view, the real source of complexity is the fact that the algorithm can use arbitrary iterations to magnify small differences. It's the unpredictable nature of computing machines, not real numbers. The nature of real numbers is only a guide to developing and explaining that underlying complexity.
Does anyone have a breakdown of how .NET Core/4.5/MVC/etc interact, are different, etc?
I think, it is more of a timeline, than what is better/more powerful.
5x faster ad creation
So next year .NET Standard 2.0? Excuse me for being cynical but Microsoft's track record in regards to versioning isn't great.
To me, the two ways of learning are not mutually exclusive. Sometimes the reading motivates me to act in the real world, and often researching the problem at hand leads to further research into the larger context in order to make more informed decisions.
The most productive week ever in CPython development
Probably out of fear that the signals might deteriorate with probes attached.

But with a modern-ish logic-analyzer and the ancient original hardware (huge voltage swings, slow clock, very long busses), I doubt that the probes would make a discernible difference, would they?
What exactly do you need in a server-side language these days? Most of the interaction is done on the client, in javascript. Your web service should just be responsible for handling basic request/response, CRUD operations and delegating to other more specialized systems when the need arises, which can be written in the most appropriate language given the problem domain and tools/libraries available. More often than not what dictates language choice is supporting libraries that you'd rather not rewrite from scratch. How good are they, how long have they been around? etc...

For that, its often just easiest to use anything non-blocking to serve as the main handler that communicates to your other services. For me, I use node but there are other choices if you don't like javascript.

Most of the time it's not worthwhile to switch to a language just because IBM deems it suitable. I've picked up more than a few freelance gigs where IBM have botched the job and grossly overcharged for something that could be done simply. My clients appreciate my honesty, openness, and simplicity of work.

What they really mean when they say "Swift is ready for the enterprise" is that THEY are ready --- they have developed all the sales materials, support orgs, and hired the "correct" developers (in this case Swift ones) to run their gambit on as big of fish as they can.
You can't. The LEDs were so good that the company went out of business.
Sure, there doesn't need to be only one. If one is more widely known it's common lisp.
To be blunt, it made people sick. I was there, I saw the queazy faces at the end of the demo. I was "hardware boy" in the producer ranks and when that came up, I passed. I'm not sure they would have given it to me, but I made it clear I would not want to work on it.
> If you already know what thresholds are it is far better to display a number and use the color to indicate where that is within the continuum of states.

Since this thread is already on the topic of accessibility, I feel compelled to point out that this is the single worst option when considering colorblindness unless you mean shades of one color.
Or click the audio icon on the tab that appears when the tab is playing audio.
>When a person says, "I'm having a problem" and the response is, "Well I'm not having any problem, buh-bye!" it in effect says "I don't care that you have a problem."

What a bizarre interpretation. When someone says, "It works for me," they're saying "I tried your example because I want to help, but was unable to reproduce your problem. Maybe there's some information you didn't provide that can explain the difference between what I'm seeing and what you're seeing? Please add more information so I can understand what's different and help you."
Sure, by removing all nuance from what I actually said, you can argue for anything.
With respect, I find these stories hard to believe. I've been in a very large number of NY taxis and very rarely had these experiences. Cabs aren't problem-free or pristine, but they are almost universally clean enough and very functional.

The cab driver doesn't want a bad-smelling, filthy cab either; they work in it, it affects their income, and the great majority are responsible, reasonable people.

Why would anyone believe otherwise? I think there's some class-based stereotyping here - maybe not in the parent comment, but in these comments generally - cabs are working class, Uber is professional class. Working class is the 'other' to many professional people; something foreign, unknown, and scary.
DBHub.io: SQLite database storage “in the cloud”
I was in a similar situation for a couple of years. Recently I started doing warm compresses on my eyes and it has made a huge difference.

I also recommend changing one thing about your routine every week and keeping an eye pain diary. That will help you identify things that help. It takes some work, but as you said eye health is super important.
"Own few but good things" - love everything about this as it relates to living "modestly minimal" as I call it. Buy a small amount of high quality possessions, and take care of them.
"Product Managers". If you have ever had the pleasure of dealing with one you would know
Donald Trump the New Obama on Twitter? A Quantitative Analysis
Really great write up. Ive been trying to wrap my not too mathematically talented head around convolutional filters and this really helped in visualizing what is happening.
Open Source DIY quadcopter drone powered by 32bit ARM CPU
TL;DR:

> Taking into account all the issues listed above, Mozilla’s CA team has lost confidence in the ability of WoSign/StartCom to faithfully and competently discharge the functions of a CA. Therefore we propose that, starting on a date to be determined in the near future, Mozilla products will no longer trust newly-issued certificates issued by either of these two CA brands.

I recommend reading the whole thing if you have time. They used some shady tactics.
I think both approaches are fine to be honest. I usually go for a merge tree because I don't want to bother with rebase, and whether it's a flat tree or a merge tree, I can usually find whatever I'm looking for in the log.

Whether it's faster to search for something in a flat tree or not remained to be proven. It feels like it's mostly a matter of personal taste.
Well it's only come up because two of them say it's a wonder treatment and the other two couldn't keep a secret to save their lives.

I can imagine if you had one and it didn't go well you wouldn't be particularly inclined to tell relative acquaintances.
Yes, that is what I mean. Why is there a disconnect between the complexity of the compact description and the naive description? Why are simple expressions not simple in all "natural" representations?

This is not addressable with the contrived example of "you can create an encoding scheme that reduces an arbitrarily complex description to an arbitrarily short identifier". After all, this is not a constructed compression scheme. Why does nature expand simple expressions to these particular complicated forms?
Why should we trust their list?
Indie Hackers: Learn from Profitable SaaS Businesses
Also, even with identical DNA, that doesn't mean the twins will be exactly identical: if things like fingerprints are only very similar instead of exactly matching, then there's reason to think that the fine brain structure can vary as well -- perhaps enough to straddle sides of a disorder.

So in addition to twin frequency, it would be worth analyzing twin spread: what is the variation in the behavior of twins (in the background), and is the spread in autistic/non-autistic twin pairs statistically similar, ie, are we just selecting for normal, expected variation that happens to fall close to a boundary?
> harmful to people's self-esteems

Hoo boy, that's what we need, more people with self-inflated self-esteem issues. I think what you mean is that it's harmful to their immediate gratification response.

> CICO "fad of the month diets"

Could you point one of those out to me, because the only CICO diets I'm aware of are things like Jenny Craig and Weight Watchers (oh and maybe Nutrisystem). Shit like South Beach, Atkins, Low-GI, Keto aren't focused on CICO, but on some other aspect of nutritional content.
Have you seen Elementary OS? It will suit you if you are a mac person who doesn't really like the no-frills of other linux distros.
The finance industry loves cap and trade schemes as it creates a new market to trade and create financial products for.

The generally accepted solution is a carbon tax that increases over time. The tax can even be revenue neutral with everyone getting an equal share of a year end rebate.
Seems pretty simple to me.

* Almost every .NET API will be in the standard library and thus will be cross-platform

* Terrible APIs that they should have never created will be available as packages

* Stuff that's platform-specific runs only on those platforms

* Every API is listed in this repo: https://github.com/dotnet/standard

I got that from reading the TL;DR and skimming the rest of the post
Right but they might still be available via resellers.
Interesting use of the word flash here. It's a magnetic disk though, no flash chips, so you would just say write.

I imagine the issue was a lack of working drives, and Alto systems to run them.
Note as the GP mentioned that this bill comes from the likes of Ted Cruz (Texas) and Marco Rubio (Florida). What government agency do those two states have in common?

The space program isn't really about exploring space, it's a jobs program.
How can I check if I am using one of their certificates?
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” (Apton Sinclair)

Even more so, “It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his under the table profits depend on his not understanding it.” (Coldtea)
I went to the Resolver One launch in London about 10 years ago. I was excited about it, being something of a Pythonista. I think it suffered from the same problem that afflicts many attempts to create a better Excel; which is being somewhat incompatible with Excel. In enterprise IT one often hears managers talk about the "server estate" or the "application estate". Companies off all sizes have spreadsheet estates too. These are end user generated Excel sheets that have become business critical. To tap into that market you have to deliver something to the users of those existing sheets that "just works". IMHO, natch...
But you listed emacs?
What controversy ? If your referring to the cost of the ISRO program - we are very proud of the Space Program in India, both media and People.There is no doubts about the cost effectiveness of the Space Program. It is just the western media, who highlight the short commings of other areas of India and compare it to our Space Program.
Yes you're absolutely right. The wording was terrible because I was caught up in the emotions and didn't think carefully about it. What I really should have said is that HK culture inherits and imports from a few other cultures and thus HK culture has always changed with its history.
Indian media is a TRP hungry machine and it optimizes news for TRP. There are other competing new issues which are driving that currently.

Also its sort of given that ISRO does all these awesome things often so its not a like a surprise anymore.

More like more new news to solidify our pride in ISRO.

Something like the next solar mission Aditya(planned to launch 2019), Moon mission Chandrayaan 2(planned to launch 2018), Mars mission Mangalyaan 2(planned to launch 2020) would be interesting.
To be fair, the leadership of Sega of America was opposed to most of the mistakes, but was overruled by Sega of Japan. The autonomy mentioned in the article didn't last.
Why would you bother making the system more complicated. If it's determined that use of fuel creates emission problems, then just tax it at the start and don't try to worry about every industry to come.
There was a lot of excitement about VR in the early 90's, but it was not driven by the game industry. I had the rare experience of using a VR hang glider simulator that was exhibited at SIGGRAPH in 1993. I was just a kid then, but it was far more impressive than any gaming system.

Looks like the hang glider simulator is mentioned in this book, "Sex, Drugs and Tessellation: The Truth About Virtual Reality, as Revealed in the Pages of CyberEdge Journal" [1]

SIGGRAPH has been called "the original VR meetup." [2] Much of the VR technology back then was used for military training/simulation and wasn't shown to the world [3].

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Sex-Drugs-Tessellation-Revealed-Cyber...

[2] Siggraph's VR Pioneers Panel – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdB8k_qn7qM

[3] http://www.verycomputer.com/279_26cdca95e0a26462_1.htm
First firing of the Raptor interplanetary transport engine
This is calling into something named "HNS"; what is that please?
I lead a .NET development team, and I have no plans start using Core any time soon. That's based on my experience testing it out -- just too different, too based on a myriad of nuget packages (which is too much like NPM for me).

This confirms my decision. I'm sure it will be nice once it's all sorted out. The money quote for me is below:

Since our goal was to represent any .NET platform we had to break it up into smaller NuGet packages. This works reasonably well if all these components can be deployed with the application because you can update them independently. However, when you target an abstract specification, such as PCLs or the .NET Standard, this story doesn’t work so well because there is a very specific combination of versions that will allow you to run on the right set of platforms. In order to avoid that issue, we’ve defined .NET Standard as a single NuGet package.
It's a common API for things like networking, IO, threading, serialization, and so forth.

Library authors need to do refactoring to achieve compatibility across .Net Platform (old stuff, Windows-only) and .Net Core (new stuff, cross-platform).

This is the bridge for library authors to transition from being Windows-only to cross-platform.

Think about library authors that need to write for both Python 2 and Python 3, there needs to be a common API between both, and this is it: .Net Standard.

Meanwhile .Net Core is cross-platform build tooling and a minimal API.
I'm from India, I can say local media mentioned it as major success launch & especially placing satellites in two different orbits. I think it includes playload from foreign countries like US.

Btw, why you think its controversial?
Docker seems to be in great need for a monetizing play. Docker has a great mindshare in open source community but is making very less to none strides in commercial offering (read reaching profitability and keeping investors happy)...thus this PR!
If you're going to obsess over the nature/nuture thing, you have to consider the counterexample - animals that are born ready to go. These are called precocial species. Most of the large grazing mammals, including all the equines, are precocial.

You can see this by watching the first day of life of a horse.
Within the first hour, the foal stands up by itself. This is a complex coordinated operation for an animal with such long legs. The sequence for doing this is dynamic (not statically stable and can't be done slowly), and clearly built-in, but requires tuning. The foal may fail the first few times, but eventually gets up on the long spindly legs and wobbles. The first few steps are tiny and cautious, but the nervous system calibrates rapidly. Stable walking is achieved quickly.

Trotting appears after a few more hours. Within a day or two, a newborn foal can run with the herd. At that point, all the locomotion functions are working - balance, coordination, visual foot placement, obstacle detection, and collision avoidance. That's a lot of capability. Having worked on both automatic driving and legged robot balance, I know how hard that is.

This demonstrates that mammal brains don't come up blank and learn. There's a lot of hard-wired capability.

(I sometimes comment on mobile robotics that the main thing is getting through the next 15 seconds of life without screwing up. If you can do that, you can then add task-oriented back-seat driving to get something done, and that's the easy part.)
Sorry, I newest in this field!
Your technique is good but that require a solid investment at the first and it has the biggest barriers on enter.
I would like to deepen the field of trading but i do not know quite where to start.
I am fascinated about high frequency trading. Have you something to recommend?

Thank you.
They don't currently have any way of writing to the disk except using the Alto itself, which would require booting it first. Once they get it working they should be able to create their own boot disk.
Major Record Labels Sue Over Ripping Audio Tracks from YouTube Videos
Diversity in viewpoints, which I agree is important, does not arise from diversity in race or gender. The celebration of diversity in race or gender seems to be just for the sake of diversity.

I don't know how you would select for diversity in viewpoints when hiring. But I do know that selecting for diversity in race or gender isn't a way to get there.
Yikes, cringe. Please tone down the emoji and literallies and why evens.
The new modes of censorship and propaganda that are well developed in America, Germany, Israel, the UK, etc and that are maturing in the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Morocco really scare me.

The reason is that unlike prior art in information warfare (altering versions of history textbooks, encyclopedias, newsprint, etc) where control for narrative and shading of facts was done on a very coarse level - the mode of surveilling social media and targetting individual news feeds and people with high connectivity and influence - is tailored and specific.

This combined with the new way that information is injested and the new ways that digital records have become an integral piece of regular thinking and problem solving make these elements of every country's information warfare programs uniquely dangerous.
My understanding is that Venus' surface conditions aren't great, and that one needs to be miles above the surface for tolerable conditions.

That being said since you seem to have thought about this I'd be curious to read any resources you can recommend.
I'm an OVH customer for 5 years, at the beginning all was very great, no problems at all. After several years I switched to Kimsufi (their cheap dedicated server) but it was a mess: Never had a day without a disk failure or good response time. I quit for 2 years (for Online.net) and I've recently bought a VPS for production usage and after some hours problems came again... It's incredible! I cross the fingers for the future but I'll not switch all my servers in their datacenters.

As a french, I'm proud of OVH as a french company but they favor service quantity over service quality and that's a shame.
That's a great idea. I was just able to very comfortably reduce mine from 100 to 70.
I've recently started porting some bash scripts over to Racket, using https://docs.racket-lang.org/shell-pipeline and it's been pretty straightforward and painless so far!
So ist works just like i thought it would. Why are CNN so hyped? Wasnt all this already known decades ago? Or is it just because we can afford the computing power?
It wasn't quite that bad. But it wasn't all that good, either. Still astonishing, especially for its time, and worth experiencing back then for the sake of having done so - but not really something you'd seek out on its own merit, even when it was new.
Not sure why you need my email address to check if I am registered...
FYI, at first glance the name looked very spammy. If I didn't see the samaltman.com domain I wouldnt have clicked. I'm glad I did though, good luck with that initiative.
I'm not so sure anymore. Scheme is at least taught in schools and isn't uncommon as a scripting language. Where are you likely to run into Common Lisp?
Just a side note. Was the miami fare a flate rate? Many Airport to City routes are flat rate without meter.