skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To add to the Samsung anecdotes:

I have a 65" 4K Samsung TV (JS8500) purchased 1 year ago. We bought it because it was the top of the line, best reviewed non-curved, non-OLED TV. Worst purchase ever. The entire goal was to buy high end and avoid hassles. Had I known what a PITA it was going to be, I'd have just gotten a vizio at Sam's club.

The day it was delivered I noticed the 2 bottom corners were very bright (my wife didn't when she accepted delivery). It was incredibly distracting. It looked like somebody was pressing on them. A thread on avsforum.com for the TV indicated that lots of the 65" JS8500 had started showing up like this the week that I got mine. The retailer first asked me to deal with Samsung for a warranty replacement. I went through level after level of tech support, with each level telling me to basically pound sand. I bought it, that was normal for LED TVS, too bad. Others in the AVS forum thread reported similar experiances.

The retailer, after speaking to a manager, replaced it for me with the same model. This one we opened before delivery to confirm that it did not have the issue.

That experience has taught me to never buy Samsung again.

Oh, and did I mention the pop up ads on my TV thanks to their smart tv software? FU Samsung.
Penn Station Reborn
I'm glad he mentioned it cause I wouldn't have noticed otherwise. I submitted it [1].

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12612574
The news of another exploding Samsung product offered the Internet plenty of fodder.

I don't find it useful to reproduce sarcastic tweets in the middle of a Washington Post article. I believe it does not add any information to what the article is describing, and actually makes it look more like infotainment. The issue is already serious and interesting enough.
I never realized Amazon was so consistently late in deploying current-gen GPUs. How lame. Sounds like an opportunity for a competitor to beat them.
Because the American dream is to reward merit, ignoring provenance. The American dream says nothing about providing good lives to those without merit.

Also normally merit is defined to include "hard working", not merely "talented". I think there's less sympathy for lazy talent than vice versa.
The code duplication is not necessarily the result of using two different languages. On the other hand you can use for example clojure for the whole stack (Clojure for backend ClojureScript for frontend).
Project home: https://monod.lelab.tailordev.fr/
This is where you need tests. Leaning on the type system can take you further, but at some point you're going to need tests with Scala too.
The point is that most folks that "make it" have some advantages from the start. Their parents might not have been rich, but decently well off. Went to decent schools, were able to make business contacts and network. Might not have had to work while in school either. If their business failed, it didn't mean they were sleeping on people's couches: They had a room at their parents if it got that bad, but they could usually weather the storm.

Again, contacts help with that.

The folks growing up in poverty don't have much of that. Schools are by chance, and often folks work through college so there isn't as much time for networking. Besides, networking costs money. If this person fails, they are simply homeless.

Simply moving up to lower middle class takes some work.

Sure, they are possibly "self-made", but they weren't fighting lack of opportunity.It is simply easier to make it if you have a good foundation.
> it will jump around and make loud banging noises long enough for you to notice and stop it. It's happened to me once or twice.

My first thought was https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2WmpsrVrTg

I'm surprised there's not a regular event.
The code is short enough that what I did was actually just go through every line of code and try to assign it to a category. It did have some which were hard, such as the import statements you mention that multiple parts might use. But I figured being off by a few dozen lines wouldn't be that important for seeing the bigger picture.
I see. I will improve.
Pokémon Go maker taken to court over players on beaches
> why should I read?

I find this an odd idea given that you're a lawyer. And an appellate lawyer at that. You have to have read to understand how to frame your cases, how to argue effectively by being knowledgeable about other relevant cases and law. Did you learn these things by osmosis?
This is great!

It would be interesting to apply this concept to wavelets (instead of pixels or voxels) in order to work on real-life pictures.

Also, 3 dimensions as in X, Y and time, to work on animated GIFs. Think about an infinite, never repeating Blue Ball Machine! http://m.imgur.com/5Flh68G
It's missing a loop, and the primes are hardcoded into the source code (see the similarity?). You might be mislead by the fact that you also find 'span:nth-child(4n+8)' or 'span:nth-child(6n+12)' (which aren't primes) but those are redundant, and an efficient sieve would skip non primes.
[meta]

But does it really need it's own thread?

I don't think it's really out of topic. People linked to the blogpost. The service in question is used on the blogpost.

We are a technical bunch. It make sense to comment on the technologies used in a link rather than only its content.

Exemple: candyjapan has this nice comment at the top of their pages sourcecode.

"Hi,
Thanks for reading the source.
If you would like to start your own subscription box, buy my book!
https://www.candyjapan.com/book
It contains information that will honestly be useful to you, such as different
platforms for running box sites like these and even some sample marketing campaigns."

It's only mildly interesting, so you don't create a thread but make a comment about it. It's still relevant to the discussion because the link was to the website. It is however irrelevant to the content of the article that was linked, but that shouldn't matter.
Very cool algorithm, and impressive visual results. Thanks for sharing.
It wouldn't be impossible, but probably less work overall just to continue to write little Python scripts for my reporting purposes.
It' not really a blackout if all that's happening is that it's not interesting enough for people to upvote it...
People had long predicted that in a world full of competing ideas, many will just take the easy way out and declare that the truth is simply unknowable, and no one knows what they are talking about. Your comment is a perfect example of that.

Yes, the world is still a mystery in many ways and no one has cracked the code. But the ideas put forward by kooks like Trump, anti-vaxxers and creationists are still idiotic and vastly inferior to the general mainstream ideas advocated by serious scientists and researchers. Just because there's a possibility of being wrong, isn't a reason to succumb to defeatism or paralysis-by-analysis.

There is a wealth of knowledge out there that can help you better understand the world and live your life. Yes, finding and vetting this knowledge is hard work, but it sure beats watching The Jersey Shore.
I can't speak for the others but I'm very wary of "too powerful" languages and language features. They lead naturally to technical debt and security vulnerabilities.

This sort of explains how I feel: http://lukeplant.me.uk/blog/posts/less-powerful-languages/

That's why my reactionary instinct to "neat hacks" like this is usually one of revulsion (at the language for making it possible).
That must make it difficult to understand other people.
Spoiler alert, that's why they track how it's spent and where it's sent to. Turns out that "anonymous transactions" thing opens up a whole giant can of black market worms.
The negativity probably comes from the fact that people expect to find high quality content on the HN front page. Pet projects like these are not impressive enough to be featured.
I find it more readable than lambda function syntax personally. And still way nicer than messing around in JavaScript.
> But then, as the article notes, if IQ is so reliant on genes, then why the Flynn Effect? Why are IQs collectively rising year-over-year in our society [2]?

Compare the increase in e.g. height, which for some reason people seem much happier to admit is mostly genetic.
The British driving test contains questions with the hood/bonnet up 'where would you add oil?' etc
JavaScript does not have an Integer primitive, it only has Number which is floating point. http://www.w3schools.com/js/js_numbers.asp
Lenovo has a bad track record with all things touch. For example, I have a w530 and the trackpad is terrible. Apple, on the other hand, has a history of well engineered touch hardware, especially the touchpad.

Maybe a touch strip will be great or maybe it'll be rubbish, but don't pre-judge the feature based on Lenovo's increasingly shoddy engineering.
Interestingly, the article supports that hypothesis.
Yea, and i can imagine image quality is a big issue. I want images, but at the same time i'm scared to even use my own, because i don't want just a ugly boxed image. It feels like it would require an artistic hand... which i don't have.

What i love about this app is an unartistic fool like me can make a shirt in a few minutes. So while i want images, i can't imagine what the UX would be like.

Anyway, appreciated!
Embedd.io is nice, take a look at the code snippet for importing it. I think it's neat how they embed the configuration options inside the script tags.
"You'd have to be a pretty incompetent automotive engineer to inject enough water to cause hydrolocking."

Ever hear of a shadetree mechanic? I've had to fix up after many of them. Two hydrolocked engines, rusted out radiator (they put deionized water in the reservoir, straight up) and plenty of failed turbo modifications.

I would not be surprised to see someone try doing this themselves and failing miserably.
To reinforce:

You'll usually not be led too far astray if you read works (fiction, poetry, philosophy, non-technical nonfiction) that are widely agreed to belong to some kind of Canon. Odds are if you think one of those books is crap, you're just not ready for it.

(There are definitely truly great books that don't often make those lists, though.)

Reading (non-technical writing) well is a skill (just like reading technical works is) and it may take time to develop it. Pretty much no-one starts off their reading career getting more than a fraction out of most books they read than they might when they've had some more practice—practice, not just thoughtless experience.

If you want a utilitarian reason to read: reading improves one's writing.

One widely-agreed-upon effect of reading good writing is expanding one's sense of empathy. A good book will often give it a workout. Books can also reduce feelings of isolation and loneliness by exposing us to others' intimate thoughts about life, some of which will match up with things the reader may have thought were unique to them—and here's proof that those thoughts and feelings aren't just not unique, they're probably not even rare!

Books can be a mirror to one's self. A gut-punch just when we need it. Inspiration when we're down. Something human to hold on to when nothing else is there.

But they don't give you all this for free.
Poetry is a lot less about form than most people think.
It's actually the opposite if you think about it, poetry is to write freely.
They would have to do that for each language (or language pair), but they can afford it. I think the training the network is cheap compared to running it for user queries, at Google scale.
Both are absolutely scientific: they provide good test-retest reliability and correlate with other measures.

Maybe they are crude. Maybe there are better alternatives. That doesn't make them unscientific.
I think timing the market doesn't work, when you look at short term. Short term is hard to define. But say, a target from a few months to even 3-4 years is short term. And long term say 10-15 years or more.

After seeing a few crashes, eg. one in 2000 (dot com bust) and then later in 2007 (real estate crash), and you go back in history and see some more. But after living through a few crashes, you can draw the common trait of them, and that is market wide gloom and doom. When the sentiment is very low.

So, IMHO, its not bad to wait for those kind of crashes, and then invest. And the market does bounce back in a few years (if we look at history). Of course there's always a first time for anything, and its possible that it never does come up. But then you are screwed anyway, if you invest by any strategy.

A safeguard for that is classic not all eggs in a basket. So what's wrong in timing this way? And this heuristic matches with all the classic investment advise buy low and sell high. My personal translation to that is buy, when all the TV channels are saying it will never come up, and don't buy when most TV channels are saying its going to go up. The latter has been the case, for past 2 years, in my geography at least.
Plot twist: zzzcpan was the interviewer.
> What exactly is wrong with the current setup?

What exactly was wrong with the 1998 setup? ISI and Jon Postel were managing fine back then.

I also don't recall a "US control over ICANN" that could be "relinquished" being part of the original ICANN proposal. I don't think that would have gone over well with the European operators at the IETF meetings. If it had been they probably would have stuck with the CCITT's x.25 networks, Minitel and such.
Manufacturers solved that problem. Now what about the typical mom and pop shop that might try making such a modification or installing such an engine into a vehicle?
If I understand the diagram in the README right, this one is no different. It just analyzes changelogs of not-yet-updated packages, which are in turn prepared by distribution maintainers. NVD is just used for adding details of the CVEs that has been found.
Why the hell is this flagged?
For questions like that, it's less that it's a trick question (unless you're familiar with the Munich Zoo), than that you are only supposed to take the constraints of the problem as presented. The situation is presented as a hypothetical, it's not a trick, it's an abstraction that (many) people have trouble with. Like getting students to understand that a figure in a geometric sketch isn't precise, it's just representative, look at the numbers included to actually understand it.
See debsecan for Debian

https://packages.debian.org/jessie/debsecan
Thank you for the link. Lisp-y things have a soft place in my heart, although I must say I never did any productive with them (Python happened to be our software stack back then). Neithertheless, they gave me interesting insights into CS. I dabbled with Chicken Scheme, but the difficulty to run an IDE (there is Emacs, but is not so trivial to get it running) gave me lots of headaches.

DrRacket seems to be a refreshing alternative.
Many astronauts report a similar feeling.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overview_effect
It's not easy to draw a line and determine which banks pose systemic risk. A bank that poses no systemic risks today may do so in three years, because two of its similarly small rivals are a little weak at that time and might fall over if this particular bank does, and the loss of all three would be bad.

Difficult to judge, and the Swiss have permitted giant banks to survive with fairly small problem... I can see why regulators choose not to set a limit.

What I don't understand is why most bailouts are so gentle on the banks' shareholders. Why doesn't the state tell each shareholder "you may provide money to help save the bank or let go of your shares, your choice, please decide by the end of next week"?
> Why do the journalists don't share the data with the governments for free?

Funnily, the second largest media network responsible for this leak belongs to the German government (NDR). They cooperate with SZ all the time. So, a branch of the German government actually already has access.

That leads to the question: Why don’t the governments share the data with each other for free? Or, as not even the German government itself gets access: Why doesn’t the government share the data with itself?
That's very interesting; basically a reverse lottery. What are examples of such a bet?
> Something you are (i.e. fingerprint)
> ...it can never be changed

well, we should change the Minister
Sorry, I edited my comment and you may have missed it. How would you emulate multi-line closures in Python? A free function which you can pass to a higher order function is not a closure. I think you would need to create a functor, and that becomes even more verbose.
Excellent. Don't take the comments here too much to heart. Off the top of my head, a couple of things you could look at:

* Don't use root where you don't need to - can you parse package lists / vulnerability databases as a normal user?

* Would the design be better inverted? Systems push their list of installed packages / versions to your application to be checked.
The numbers are not correct or even science.

Its one dude who uses that number to sell his pop psychology book.

Heres a blog from the author about where he gets his numbers:

'In my thirty plus years of surveying and studying millionaires'

http://www.thomasjstanley.com/2014/05/america-where-milliona...
I'd be interested in hearing more about your Rust pain here; we're working a lot on ergonomics and productivity.
It's a simple finite differences discretization on a rectangular grid. The computations are horizontally explicit and vertically implicit (data dependencies in the vertical direction).

Here's the scientific description of the model: http://www2.cosmo-model.org/content/model/documentation/core...
AFAIK, in case of criminal charges, the bank license could be revoked as consequence; that would match the fact that [AFAIR] there are often N zillions of dollars in fines, but never charges against the executives.
Does anybody use R in production services or just for exploratory work?

It seems that once you figure out a good model in R, its almost always rewritten into either Scala or Java for real production work.
It's perfectly scientific. It just doesn't mean what people think it means.
Says who? - "a senior lawmaker in Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservative bloc". Germany will do what it has to do to keep its economy afloat. If they have to bail out their banks, my bet is they will.
> You're probably being down voted because your comment doesn't really add anything to the discussion

Clearly, you're incorrect, because several people have explicitly stated that they appreciated the mention of this site (and probably there are more who were glad to find out but didn't comment). `bemmu`, Candy Japan's founder, also positively responded to the comment in question.

In my opinion, downvotes on HN should be reserved for malicious comments like trolls, ad hominems, off-topic spam (real spam, rare on HN thanks to the mods. not just "I don't like this comment and think it's off-topic"), factually incorrect comments, and "reddit style" humor.

Users should not downvote comments they simply disagree with, on-topic promotional comments, and tangentially related comments. Tangents are a great way to discover new ideas.

However, there is a small cadre of HN downvoters who disagree with me, and who rabidly downvote any comment with a whiff of being off-topic or controversial. These downvoters must spend lots of time on HN, since their downvotes always come very quickly after a comment is submitted.

Luckily, they do not represent the majority of HNers who can downvote, since comments like this one typically crawl back up into positive territory after the first 30-60 minutes. Some of my comments that were initially downvoted for being "off-topic" even crawled back up to over 10 upvotes.

To the GP commenter, please don't get too frustrated. It's a relatively small number of people who downvote useful comments like yours. It's true that they are among the first to vote on comments, but almost always their downvotes are reversed after some time.
When buying a washing machine, there is really no point in buying anything other than a Miele or Bosch product. The same is true of most other kitchen appliances. They may seem expensive, but it's a false economy to buy anything else.
They do manage those - though mainly for protecting themselves, not the point customer being attacked. In AWS the people I've talked to recently as well as historically say you'll get pretty uniformly rate-limited? vs. actually doing per /32 DDoS mitigation type limiting. Has your experience been different (for volumetric attacks)?
Ah, I'm not that familiar with Clojure. Is that commonly used? Are there any good examples of complex properties you can capture with its type system?
But on average, the higher IQ group is more productive than the general population.
There will be a lot less mental overhead in statically typed languages, thanks to sane / functional autocompletion and a lot of information being abstracted away into types, so on that I agree. The other part may be that more loosely typed languages have a tendency to be less strictly structured, but that depends on the project.

The project I'm working in atm is neatly structured and at ±60K, but you definitely see certain team members knowing more about one part than the other. We've also started a POC to start moving to Typescript for the more critical areas of the application (services, data models).
The article correctly identified the most useful aspect of bitcoins - they're difficult to be seized by capricious governments.
This sounds like it would be a great movie plot.
This all seems so antiquated when compared with electric cars. They could be flogging a dead horsepower here.
HTTPS Everywhere, Privacy Badger, uBlock Origin
I'd call that a Seinfeldian twist ;)
I'm no expert either, but according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_injection_(engine), it actually reduces emissions.
Babies, Bathwater, and Software Architects
I'm sorry, I didn't mean to make it personal.
Dear downvoters, cool down. The question targeted the fact that most people do accept illegal acquisition of information as long as they agree with the purpose, but strongly object breaking the law if they do not support the purpose, like forcing people to pay taxes.
Can you do baby stuff? I really want to print some crazy stupid clothes for my kids.
Yes it is. Capitalism doesn't mean an absence of government or make any distinction between private or public ownership, it simply means that the way resources are distributed is through a market system. In order for the market to operate a means of exchange that we all agree upon and trust is required. This is money. Banks manage the market system's means of exchange. If something happens that impedes the exchange, the system is compromised.
Great topic. I have had this problem may times over.
> PROS has been using R for a while in development, but found running R within SQL Server 2016 to be 100 times (not 100%, 100x!) faster for price optimization. "This really woke us up that we can use R in a production setting ... it's truly amazing," he says.

WOW if this is even half true we have a new area of R.
Disagree. Effective use of types has a much better cost/benefit than tests, and it's possible to go all the way down to 0% defect rate using just the type system (by encoding proof of correctness into the type system) if you really need to.
There is no need for that if statement. Rosetta's antenna needs to be very precisely oriented to maintain connection, and it is attached directly to the side of the spacecraft (as in, it cannot be aimed without moving the entire spacecraft). The moment Rosetta hits anything, the antenna will be knocked out of alignment, and if a corner of it is resting on the comet, it cannot orient itself properly to establish a link.
The other kicker is that if 0.00001 (whatever the actual number would be) buys one cell phone minute today, it might buy two tomorrow, or one half. Short-term volatility makes it difficult to use as currency.
I thought it will generate a random StarTrek-esque story for me. What a waste...