skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most Americans would never pass that test. It's a wonder we can even figure out the gas and brake pedals, and even there we frequently get confused, and then sue the automaker for "unintended acceleration".
Yes, and even after the Pinto fiasco, people still buy Ford vehicles in large numbers today. Their F-150 trucks are actually pretty solid.
Amazing. Make sure to scroll through the whole README to see voxel models. Rendered using http://ephtracy.github.io/index.html which is in itself pretty cool too.
And here is the amusing context for that particular example:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psEomYrj30U
Knowing what you're talking about is not a binary proposition. People's internal models of reality have varying correspondences with actual reality; the fact that all of them are inaccurate does not preclude the idea that some are more accurate than others (and almost certainly in different areas).
Yeah, but that is just how people are. You can huff and puff but clearly the design and format of HN is largely to blame.

People whining about down votes and then complaining about it only makes the discussions worse. Your comment is going to be seen by maybe .1% of HN. There are better avenues to raise this issues.

If you want to change how down votes are handled going off topic in a discussion is not how you do it.

If you are complaining about down votes you are polluting the discussion even more than the erroneous down votes themselves.

People are people. It takes more to change behavior than complaints.
Show HN: I'm learning VIM and making a game out of it
So, I'm learning VIM and made this yesterday, I pretend to increment it as I learn new stuff. You move with HJKL and that's it for now. Don't let the sublimes consume you.

http://worms.io/vimwarrior/
What I find even scarier is that, with computers and mobile devices, at least someone might notice when they're running slower than usual or consuming more data than usual. Most people have at least heard of computer viruses, and antivirus vendors have been trying pretty hard to get their crap on Android phones as well.

But would you notice if your thermostat was running a little slower than usual? Would it even occur to anyone that their dishwasher might have caught a virus? These things could participate in DDoS attacks all year long and nobody would suspect a thing. And even if someone did, fixing them would be much more difficult than taking your laptop to the nearest Best Buy (or even impossible, thanks to DRM).
The point of the Turing test is for an AI to pretend to be human so well, humans can't tell if it's human or not. The bots in the Alexa Prize do not have to pretend to be human, and can be very different from humans. The point is just to make bots that are interesting or useful to talk to.
> The Hague authorities said they had been trying to contact Niantic since mid-August but without success. “We had no other choice” but to go to court, they said.

Well, alright then. I've had a lot of luck influencing outcomes by sending legal sounding cease and desist letters from legal sounding domain names I own.

But that was last decade, now I just complain on twitter. Super effective.
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/vimium/dbepggeogba...

Link for the lazy.
$1,596/MRR in 48h
`Ctrl+Shift+C` to select the element, `Delete` to remove it :)
Sounds like a great way to build a custom render farm. My home comouter has a dirt cheap GPU but it works well enough for basic modeling & animation. Terrible for rendering, though. I've been thinking of using ECS to build a cluster of renderers for Maya that I can spin up when needed and scale to the appropriate size. I don't know for certain if it's cheaper than going with a service, but it sounds like it is(render farm subscriptions cost hundreds), and I would get complete control over the software being used. I am glad to hear that Amazon is doing this. Granted, I'm more of a hobbyist in this arena, so maybe it wouldn't work for someone more serious about creating graphics.
> People need to strive for modest salaries

So true. In today's US economy just simply having a salary, period, is something one must strive for. Continuity and regularity of compensation has become difficult to obtain.
>unless IoT manufacturers...

>encouraged by aggressive government actions and fines...

Funny, I just replied to another comment that it seems near hopeless to expect this of manufacturers.

Seems that ISPs, on the other hand, might be able to play a more pivotal role.
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I'm no physicist but wouldn't you lose a bunch of energy running a condenser?
It's the cost to change the factory line processes. If you're set to pump out 10mg tablets, and it's cheaper to just use more product than recalibrate your machines, then . . . there you go.
Crossrider Extension shutdown
This way, the DLL will be somewhere (usually a "Bin" subdirectory) within the application's own subtree rooted at "\Program Files\company\product\".

This plainly shows just how poorly thought-out Windows is, to paraphrase:

we didn't design a directory tree like UNIX, and we don't have a proper runtime linker like UNIX, so we are going to swipe using the bin/ directory like on UNIX because we don't know where else to put stuff, and while we're at it, we will rename bin/ to Bin/ because we don't know any better, and also while we're at it, we'll dump all the dynamically linked libraries which the application needs into that mis-named Bin/ directory.

Because Windows doesn't have a proper operating system structure, nor does it have a clean structure (case in point C:\Program Files (x86)\, even if your Windows is 64-bit), nor does it have a runtime linker with the functionality equivalent to ld.so.1 (the only way to get anything close to -Wl,-R/opt/local/lib/64 out of LINK.EXE is to use an XML manifest(!!!), and $ORIGIN keyword's functionality of ld(1) is science fiction for LINK.EXE).

How amateurishly bad can one get? Wintendo is a gift that just keeps on giving...
We bought a Samsung fridge and while we didn't have the serious issues you're experiencing we did have a problem with Samsung's warranty policy. Within a month of owning it the freezer handle started to crack, Samsung claimed that it wasn't covered by the warranty. We contacted them several times hoping for a different customer service agent with a different response, no dice.
Curiously, though Pinto is a synonym for unsafe car, it was almost exactly as safe as every other subcompact at the time. They were used as a test case for car safety. Ride in any tiny, cheap car and get hit by a truck and it isn't going to be pretty. Kind of unfair to Ford but that's history.
This is obviously horribly illegal and unethical, but it does sort of appeal to that same small part of my brain that longs for things like violent proletariat revolution. Imagine if some greyhat security outfit intentionally bricked tens of thousands of these devices. Buyers would be pissed, go to the manufacturer for recompense, possibly to the level of bankruptcy, and there would finally be some incentive for taking IoT security seriously.

I'm not saying someone should do it... but I'm not saying someone shouldn't do it.
Its even scarier when someone takes one of your IoT devices and intends to harm you. Like making your fridge's ice maker flood your house. They talked about this at Defcon 24.
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I'm not convinced that all of those responsible for dragnet surveillance did so because of terrorists.

I'm convinced some of them, most likely those who gave it the green light in the first place, did so because they recognised what an incredible effective implement of population control it is.

It's less about the terrorism and more about a safety net for the entrenched and privileged in a future of massive civil unrest.
No, lol. The license stipulates the conditions, and the common licenses only have the condition that the code or final product make the attribution somewhere in the GUI.
I recommend Speed Queen washers -- they are the closest thing to a tank in washing machine form these days.
Congress overrides Obama's veto of 9/11 bill
> facts and data are objective

Sure -- it's just a pity neither you or me or anyone will ever come in contact with them. Everything we think/write/read is based on assumptions/axioms. You don't even have to "dig" to realize that, you just have to scratch the surface.
Is it possible to replenish the water reservoir from the exhaust vapours? Ideally it would never run out, if the water that gets injected comes out the pipe anyway gets recycled plus what gets generated from combustion.
I like the `git grog` command, I might actually use that.

The idea of `git please` is not bad but it made me wonder if it could be possible to go even further.. a variant on --force that only force-pushes IF NOT ONE HAS PULLED YET.

I can see why this wouldn't be built into git core however, as it's quite stateful and depends on tracking other people's fetches, which probably isn't easy.
Binary file formats visualized
Priced this config (or close enough) on http://www.thinkmate.com/system/gpx-xt24-2460v3-8gpu

Comes to just under $50,000 for the server or roughly 4.5 months @ $14.40
That statement is overly vague and sounds like marketing BS.

I worked on a project where we scored streaming data in R. The biggest bottleneck was getting the data into and out of the R session. We started out using disk based I/O and ended up using using rJava so our streaming system could communicate with R. In that case we did get a 100X speed up between our first iteration and the final version which used rJava to serialize the data.

So basically, the major bottleneck was not R. It was the communication with R. In the article R is installed on the same hardware as SQL Server, which should automatically give it a speedup with streaming data.

If Microsoft also has an optimized way to get data from SQL Server to R I can see how they got a 100X speedup. In certain cases using the MKL libraries can give you that as well from faster scoring, but I suspect the speedup just comes from improving the data transfer method.
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Standard is a very nice style and makes for very readable code, especially for those with more of a functional background. (Standard makes JS [and TS too with tslint-config-standard] feel a lot more like the OCaml relative that it is.)

Just because you don't like the name, don't think it is "popular", doesn't mean that no one is using it or likes it. (I like it a lot, personally.)
You don't understand it.

Mine other cryptocurrencies that are profitable, or may become profitable. It is VERY, as in EXTREMELY, profitable to mine large stakes in cryptocurrencies that the market hasn't discovered yet.

Especially ones that aren't even listed on an exchange yet and mining is the only way to earn it.

The Darkcoin (now renamed to the politically non-threatening name DASH) instamine was a notoriously profitable use of GPU clusters on AWS.
We seem to be at an inflection point with AI -- companies across the board are investing billions of dollars into AI R&D and I expect that we'll start to see some really amazing products and services coming out of this in the coming decades.
This is something that has occurred to me too. It would also -hopefully- result in large, class action lawsuits against the manufacturers for producing products so insecure that they got mass bricked.

I would be all for such... preventative action... if it wouldn't also hurt the consumers. Unfortunately it is the end users that would lose.
This system would probably be great for high-end BMW owners (not the regular ones, just the really rich ones buying $100k models), who can be counted on to get their car serviced at the dealership very frequently.

For regular Americans, it'd be a disaster. The tanks would run out and the engines would fall back to their "limping" mode (the safe mode that doesn't need water injection), which would likely have even worse fuel economy than if they had just stuck with regular gas-powered engines without water injection. This would cause the fleet fuel economy to fall greatly.

EVs can't come fast enough. At least almost every American seems to be able to handle plugging in their phone regularly and keeping it charged up.
Protocol for bypassing challenge pages using RSA blind signed tokens
I'm contemplating this metaphor, and it really works well. Basically, the driving range is capacity and the acceleration/low end performance is access speed. The only problem is that the kg/kJ stored is not accelerating at the rate that bits/um^2 is accelerating, which makes the time to market domination by the new technology less than stellar.
Right, well I don't know what you mean, leaking it back out. Surely not atmospheric carbon dioxide. At any rate, bamboo also.
doesn't Bloomberg have a custom, in-house R IDE?
If you buy sorbothane pads and put them underneath the washer's legs, they will dampen the vibrations and prevent it from walking.
Ssh, the worldview of half of hacker news depends on believing that such neighbourhoods in Paris, or any other European city, are inclusive and tolerant, as opposed to the violently racist attitude you find there in reality.

After all immigrants good, "that" religion good, it's all the fault of Mr. Trump, capiche ?
I can also imagine that the microchips and their connected components wear out faster because they are under high load and therefore become hotter than usual. So after a few months your fridge is mysteriously dead just because of malware and you won't even know about it.
I'm missing a lot here. How does this equate to wave function collapse?
Make the manufacturers of these faulty devices liable for the damages.
> If Microsoft also has an optimized way to get data from SQL Server to R I can see how they got a 100X speedup. In certain cases using the MKL libraries can give you that as well, but I suspect the speedup just comes from improving the data transfer method.

The optimized method is that you can run R inside the database in the latest version of SQL Server.

I've actually installed Windows again, just to play with this feature (though I cannot make claims to actually putting it to good use yet).
I'm really having trouble finding a use case for connecting some of this stuff, especially one that merits the risk.
Not saying it's impossible, but there is much less water in the air at cruising altitude.
Im assuming most machine learning researchers who have big computers with expensive graphics cards for research wouldn't have it in a personal computer they can easily game on.

While I'm sure your statement is true for persons, I doubt its true for the computers themselves.
Can you feed it something other than bitmaps? Like its own source code?
Are there consumer routers (that are relatively easy to use) that can alert you or shut down a device, when all of a sudden your thermostat is making tons of network requests?
Where does personal responsibility come in to play? Seriously? Why does Niantic need to tell me not to trespass?

I could see this being a problem if pokemon ONLY spawned on these beaches that would be targeted sending of players to restricted zones. I just don't get how it's the Niantic's responsibility to control their users.

Lawsuits like this just bug me, I do recognize that this is what courts are for. AKA filing a law suit when you feel like you've been wronged to get a judgment from a third party. Hopefully the court will not place liability on Niantic because that could set a bad precedent.
wow, such a hated comment.. I don't get it, I guess that there aren't many fans of the show around here
How about the rule that if you change religion, you get executed ? That one applies in Iran, doesn't it ? What does that say about muslim tolerance - in Iran and elsewhere ?
capitalism: an economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state.

That's the dictionary definition. What you're talking about is "the free market" - which is not the same thing as capitalism.
Quick Javascript Switcher (turn off JS by default and only enable for the few sites needed).
If it's abstract, why does it use a real place in the question? Answering the question correctly is in fact predicated on a sophisticated assumption of how this particular type of question is constructed: using metaphors of real life to construct abstract scenarios to test arithmetic or logical predicates. You need to know that it's abstract, and that the construction of the abstract scenario is by metaphor with reality.
The ONLY way I can see this working is if your parts can ALL be 3-D printed in their entirety or milled in under an hour. That then relies on a very very good printer set-up, likely one that you own and have used for at least a year (temp/humidity issues). You can do some electronics and PCB design with a mill and a copper plated proto-board (mill away copper plate and you can make crude PCB 'wires'), but you still need a fully functioning and stocked components chest or you have to wait a week for Digikey. If the zeitgeist is going towards IoT stuff, and I think it is, then you must wait for electronics parts to link the 3-D printed gizmo to the hackers waiting to make it a spam bot.
3 months is unlikely to be enough time to really get anything working without a well stocked lab.
NAT is not a firewall. Full stop.

Many home routers are horrifically insecure with numerous remote vulnerabilities. Many IoT devices have vulnerable and accessible interfaces locally and externally.
University students can afford $700 graphic cards?

I would assume they have (or have access to) a computer fitted out in a research lab or something which would be seperate from their "gaming rig".
A Hoare Logic for Rust
98.6 F = 558.3 R;
1.02 * 558.3 R = 569.5 R;
569.5 R = 109.8 F
Perhaps, but even with acid burns, computers can still find enough commonality to link them. Fundamentally, a secret is something that needs to be changeable. Since you can't (currently) change your fingerprints on-demand, they can't be used as a good secret.
Excellent points in this article - another factor is they are often paid outrageous base salaries (plus options) for the success of a company, when the success of that company can often be in spite of the CEO, coming from within, and embodied equally by all of the collective employees.

Executive comp is a major racket, enforced by the standard that this is "what the market average is". Which is set by executives overpaying themselves.

Ask yourself if your CEO is really working 100x as hard as you, or 100x smarter than you. The answer is usually a definite no. I'd really like to see more fair pay in this area and a culture that treats contributions of all employees more equally.
Politically it's a lot easier to stop Comcast from altering through-traffic DNS than it is to stop them from lying in DNS responses and calling it pro-user.
Whatever. What's the worst that could happen? My dishwasher opening and spraying pressurized water at me?

In all seriousness, it could be a good niche market "not internet capable".
Ah that's why all the CEOs of failing institutions are scraping up spare nickels to pay for the bus!
Ars Technica has a pretty thorough overview. http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/09/y2k-2-0-is-the-us...

ICANN has a list of squashed conspiracy theories. https://www.icann.org/iana-stewardship-questions
>DrRacket seems to be a refreshing alternative.

Is DrRacket not the original IDE for Racket?
Microsoft has gone all in on R, excited to see where things go. Some cool stuff out of Ignite this week.
This title is just epic
Intentional holes in the NAT so they can review them remotely. Then there are security nightmares like UPNP where it automatically opens a hole in the firewall.

Lastly, even if you're behind a firewall you're still not safe. For example DNS rebinding attacks. The least secure device on your network gets hacked, the attackers then use it to scan and exploit devices on the LAN. In the enterprise I avoid this by putting different classes of devices on different VLANs, but this comes with the side effect of being very expensive hardware wise and not easy for the average user to manage.
What financial incentive?

I won't be surprised if we see, before the end of the year, news along the lines of "Toaster catches virus, leaves owner with $5K data bill." Why bear any costs when you can pass them on to your captive customers?
The way I see it, this would be the perfect way to produce semi-altered terrain sprites automatically. Right now,the textures are pseudo-randomly rotated for things like dirt blocks, grass tops, and stone. [1] However, with this you could create a multitude of different textures based off a single source.

Plus, dungeons could be a lot more interesting. It'd be interesting to see what could be done with it...

[1] - http://i.imgur.com/UJeLy.png
See, switches in git are there because git maintains backward compatibility. Sometimes a switch really would logically be better as a whole new command. But it's a common refrain to hear that git hides useful things in the switches.

This article is a great way to find those hidden things.
My personal favorite two:

jschroeder@omniscience:~$ git config alias.up
pull --rebase
jschroeder@omniscience:~$ git config alias.down
push

They can be used thusly:

git up && git down
With an internet connected thermostat, someone could turn off your heat while you are away during the winter, causing your pipes to burst and flooding your home.

Alternatively, in the summertime they could crank up your heat and potentially kill any pets you have at home.
Yeah but the point of the post had nothing to do with the difficulty of investing....what are you even going on about?
Water damage could run to hundreds of thousands of dollars in a few hours.
> Apparently that's a very normal experience for gay people.

Not to invalidate this but I was under the impression that this is normal for a large majority of people in general, not just gay people.
You can look at it from many angles. Maybe the game should not try to send players into restricted zones in the first place. The game is designed to lure people into different areas and trying to incentivise someone to break the law and cross a restricted zone could be seen as a legal issue itself. I would compare it to cases like where Google has to remove torrent sites from their search results.
ISPs should implement BCP38 (prevention of spoofed traffic originating from their networks, in short) but when a device is compromised, it doesn't necessarily have to spoof traffic at all.

ISPs have thin margins, and get paid to push bits. DDoS mitigation services are extremely expensive not because they are complex or novel but because they require significant resources (both in hardware and in software expertise).

If manufacturers are going to sling "shit" and we can't hold them accountable; consumers are going to buy the polished turds and we can't prevent them plugging it into their networks; and ISPs have little to zero incentive or ability to "filter out the bad traffic" then we're basically looking at a 5-10 year span of increasingly detrimental, expensive, and effective denial of service attacks.
Bonuses are not to be considered to be pay for performance.

They are to be considered as a part of pay that can be withdrawn if either the company does badly and can't afford it, or if the employee does visibly badly.

They are a good thing for the company because they can decide not to pay it, except in as much as they allow the company to pay more because they can withdraw it if necessary
This had a pretty extensive discussion a week ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12534296