skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Couldn't have said it better! They want to place stupid games? Then watch their relevance dissipate into nothingness. Science doesn't need the current research system in order to survive and thrive.
I agree with a lot of what you're saying. There's a lot of important discussions to be had to figure out a better way we can agree on and get implemented.

There's also a lot of anger and frustration which can be reflected in how we talk about it. Unfortunately sometimes that can sometimes get in the way of having the constructive conversations we need to move forward.

As for choice made by the US as a whole, I don't agree that's the case, at least not directly. The lack of transparency into relationships between regulators and the industry makes it difficult for the citizenry to make informed choices. We might get bits and pieces, but lack of trust in both each other and sources can make any discussion devolve into a "he said/she said" argument. Indirectly we've made this choice (as a populace over time), in that we've allowed things to get this far.

And yeah, direct incentives in the case of health care research would be much more transparent and likely less susceptible to abuse. That said, I freely admit I'm not a public policy expert. Like anything else, there are differences in how things operate when the scale changes.

I've found this article useful as providing more ideas on how to think about the health care situation:

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2009/09/how-amer...

I'm glad we're seeing more articles in this area, and more discussions. Thanks for being a part of it!
These papers are not very theoretical at all. You can get lucky if everything you need has been implemented in your library of choice, but most deep learning papers are highly practical engineering-driven affairs and brushing them off as unnecessary theory is just doing yourself a disservice.
This is not exactly news as this is being for quite a while now and the code artifacts have been visible as well.

But given Apple's experience with their A-series CPUs it could make strategic sense although it might certainly hurt them on many ends, e.g. possible loss of Bootcamp functionality, inefficient virtualization for VMware or Parallels, loss of many old and loved / needed but unmaintained applications, maybe issues with Docker (?).

Not sure that the developer community (one of their key target audiences) would love to digest this at this point in time (possibly later). We have had this issue already when Apple made the switch from Motorola's 68k to Intel.

So I would give it a 50% likelihood for a switch in the next 12 months but not more at this time.
There are still behind NAT so they are using the address assigned by the ISP. UPnP sets up the forwarding rule it's doesn't give direct access.
I'm generally critical of companies which have high valuations yet continuously lose money, but in the case of Musk's ventures, I think what he's doing is so genuinely innovative that I would be more inclined to put the blame on the system than on Musk himself.

Elon uses long-term thinking but unfortunately our economic system tends to favour short-term returns. In my mind there is a huge difference between Tesla losing money versus Twitter losing money - But to an economist, it's the same kind of beast.
If we're going to hunt all the witches, may as well practice on the little ones.
Bill Gates: He eats Big Macs for lunch and schedules every minute of his day
Well, it’d be less of a nightmare than returning it in a random locale!

At least when it’s locale-dependent I can use a look up table and parse it somehow, but getting it back in MM/DD YYYY?

I’d love to just get ISO8601 ideally, btw, but who knows if that will ever happen.

(Also, you should check out Microsoft Excel, its date type and CSV converter are both locale-dependent. Locale of the program opening the file, not the file itself. A file created in de_DE will be unusable in en_US)
This used to be the basis of Siri I think. Not sure it is any more, and not sure it's state of the art of speech recognition, given what neural nets can do.
Illustrations of Madness: James Tilly Matthews and the Air Loom
Sorry for the downtime, took me a while to correct the post. It's now up again.

As some commenters have pointed out I had a stupid bug in my sample code where I misused the static object creation counter as an object instance identifier. Hence some very strange results I couldn't explain. With that bug fixed, method references now behave as expected (which is still notably different from lambda expressions).
Corporate analogies don't really translate well to academia.

There's no corporate equivalent to "Tenure" whereby a company says "We guarantee you a position for life" (Fellow roles excluded).
Indeed. Searching on https://hn.algolia.com is an integral part of my workflow. When I read an article I often want to see:

a) What did people say about it on HN? Because the comments there are often superior to the comments on the site itself. If there are multiple threads on it separated by years, it's often interesting to read them all and reflect on how opinions of reasonable people have drifted over time.

b) Did I upvote any of the threads? (i.e. Have I read this before?) Did I, perchance, leave a comment?

Often this process adds a few more favorites to my list (https://news.ycombinator.com/favorites?id=akkartik&comments=...), which is also growing to be an integral part of my workflow.
I think that's an important distinction though, and it doesn't mesh with what I thought you meant by

> since old content remains visible and online but if the private key is leaked or the node is malicious, it has exactly 0 protection

The old content remains visible and online if the private key is leaked, afaik.

I think there was some discussion about having there be a chain, so each updated entry would point back to the previous one. I'm not sure where that is (and if it is) on the roadmap now, but that would also allow users to go back to a known good version. This mitigates some, though not all, problems.
Crystal Structure of the Human Cannabinoid Receptor CB1
Is CAE a major player among flight sim companies? Because in that case, there's clear economic incentive in making simulator training accepted.. first in Canada, with the hope that other countries will follow. Big company will get a good chance to export their product.
From what I can tell, Tesla doesn't offer extended warranty past 100k miles on the non-drivetrain components. The eight-year, infinite-mile warranty only applies to the battery, drive unit and drivetrain; it largely exists to reassure customers who are worried about their rather high drivetrain failure rate and the fact that lithium batteries often have very short lifespans.
Does anyone know why Google allows this?
My assumption is that commenting has the effect of reducing ignorance, even where ignorant comments are plentiful i.e. silent ignorance is more deadly than mostly-ignorant noise. This is because the very act of writing a comment, be it laden with misconceptions, causes its author to think, at least a little. Also reading different points of view helps people to identify common misconceptions and to make up their minds.

(This doesn't include disruptive comments like fluff, complaining and gratuitous humour.)
Scripting via the UNIX shell is a poor man's REPL.

Personally I don't remember the last time I used it for anything other than setting environment variables, for anything else there are better actual programming languages.
It seems to me that the #1 way to predict pilot performance in emergencies is whether the pilot has encountered the emergency before and lived. If so, running the pilot through the most scenarios possible in a given unit time would seem to be a good strategy to train pilots, and simulators would increase the rate of scenarios per unit time versus a real aircraft.

However, you can't get away from actually flying a plane. There's little things you don't practice in the simulator, like making sure you have your handheld VHF radio, checking for water in the fuel tanks, and how to balance cargo, that you'll never learn in front of a computer screen.

If it's anything like network administration, I'd say something like 20% real experience vs 80% simulated might be a good mix. People who favor just one or the other lack performance under adverse circumstances compared to admins who do both, I've noticed.
Probably because until the recent outage it worked well enough; and because a lot of the bigger providers encourage lock-in via their own geographical-options.

Uploading records to multiple providers, via APIs, isn't so hard, but it's something most people don't realize they need until it is too late - or viewed as something that isn't required due to end-user caches.
I don't have enough time to write a thorough post, but the most obvious flaw in their logic is that utilities and auto-makers are unlikely to be disrupted completely by switching from fossil-fuel technologies to renewable+battery technologies. Since the switch will take an estimated 20 years, they have plenty of time to invest in renewables.

A few things (like shale oil drilling investments) might be impacted in a "death spiral" way, but I don't believe that is anywhere near the 25% they claim by invoking everything that touches oil.

Also, bonds have a finite lifetime and are often for equipment with depreciation. Even if 25% of bonds today were for oil infrastructure, many would be re-paid before the disruption had significant financial implications.

TLDR: the headline is egregious clickbait of a regurgitated article.
I'm guessing here, but I imagine there's a clause like "recipient agrees to attend X training, and return bonus otherwise." Whether the recipient remembers seeing that clause is another matter.
Funnily enough, i find hn a lot more balanced than any other forum I've seen when it comes to finance in general and HFT in particular.
Here is the libertarian response, maybe: I'm not going to feel we should protect the oil industry because of potential economic disruption. Winners. Losers. Free Market. Credit markets are about predicting future trends and credit worthiness. If creditors do a poor job, so be it.

This argument is generally pursuasive to me most of the time. Should I be convinced otherwise in the present case.
-a layman.
Here you go: http://www.ucsusa.org/clean-vehicles/electric-vehicles/life-...

This is a short-sighted question, however. If I buy a new gasoline-powered car, it will pollute the same amount until it is crushed. If I buy a new EV, it gets cleaner over time as more renewables are added to the grid. It's not just a question of how clean the car is today.
> The proposed SolarCity acquisition illustrates this: by getting Tesla to buy the struggling SolarCity, Mr Musk can keep it alive and maintain control.

Why doesn't the author believe Musk's claim that Tesla<->Solar City are merging in order to produce a superior product/service?

One company comes and installs both solar cells and batteries. The batteries help you get more value out of your solar cells. You don't have to schedule installations with separate companies, or use separate apps to manage them, or worry about different versions of each product interoperating with the other. If it's not working, there's one number to call, and one responsible party. Sales and marketing can be unified. Looking from the outside, it makes sense...

Am I missing something?
Many, if not most, can not. Sometimes even if the user thinks they have.

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2016/10/hacked-cameras-dvrs-powe...

'That’s because while many of these devices allow users to change the default usernames and passwords on a Web-based administration panel that ships with the products, those machines can still be reached via more obscure, less user-friendly communications services called “Telnet” and “SSH.”

...

“The issue with these particular devices is that a user cannot feasibly change this password,” Flashpoint’s Zach Wikholm told KrebsOnSecurity. “The password is hardcoded into the firmware, and the tools necessary to disable it are not present. Even worse, the web interface is not aware that these credentials even exist.”'
Any publicity is good publicity so I don't think it will help.

We need more people like Peter Thiel. With these many years of work, there must be a few dozen lawsuits that could be funded to take these shitheads down.
I took 213 at CMU. Can't recommend it highly enough. A lot of other intro systems courses are based off that. It is a prerequisite for most classes moving forward at CMU. The textbook is also available online as a pdf (Google it). First 2 or 3 labs deal with bitwise, assembly (buf overflow attacks - bomb lab), then cache lab (matrix multiply performance), then signals, then implementing malloc, and finally using pthread API / threads to create a proxy server.
Content distribution. Many people however don't even realise this is a problem, because they have been spoiled by free-as-beer services provided by Google, CloudFlare, Github and various other companies.
Hmmm, interesting:

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What are some tools you'd recommend running? I'd love to have more awareness as I passively browse.
Regarding /r/economics, if you find it bad now you should have seen it before. I for one doesn't miss the Austrian bullshit that used to be very common there.
>Why do they assume auto makers will just sit there and do nothing?

Because the hype will be with the new, and auto makers will be perceived as "old" even if they release electric cars, which will be tough because they're already behind Tesla.

Everyone wants to have that Tesla, and no one wants a Blackberry even if the newer versions have touch and have all the features of an iPhone.

It happened in the smartphone industry, with taxi apps etc. etc. It's hard to shake off widespread public perception short of reinventing yourself which is possible, but quite rarely seen.
Just to chime in, I too value when community members can provide more detailed arguments on things. There's a lot of very interesting topics on here that are simply WAY outside my domain of knowledge. The modern world is complex, and while I have opinions on a lot of topics I'm barely qualified to, there's a very real limit on how much we can even have any kind of view about.

I enjoy the comments on places like HN, because it provides a good accompaniment to Wikipedia: where Wikipedia is a summary of the topic, as it stands, comments on HN are a summary of the discussion about the topic, as it stands. (Well, when we get at least two different perspectives contributing and discussing, which is why we should be careful with groupthink and downvoting dissenting views.)
Not op but I'll chime in. My team uses npm for our build tools and bower for our frontend libraries (moment, chats, lodash, etc). Our re-write only uses npm but at the time (and possibly even now) there were frontend libraries that only provide bower packages and bower seemed like the right tool for the job anyways.
It's not anywhere close to what most pension funds actually do.
Where can I hire a hacker to recover my laptop?
I can probably get the mac address off my router... but what do I do then to get it back?
Trends in Air-To-Air Combat – Implications for Future Air Superiority
The internet may run on content (storage) and communication, but both those things run on computation. Until computation can be safely distributed real changes can't happen
I share your doubts. But not your suspicions.

You see, I expect univeristies to prefer boring, non rigorous courses, because more students can do them. When I was an undgerad, I could see that my own course was duller and less rigorous than that of my seniors, but more interesting and and rigrorous than those of my juniors.

Why should the trend be different now?
Ive been using IPFS to port and make serverless webapps.

http://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmbLPfyehFnViKZpU237P6a6DpjCfWFSoDBMQFGU...
Great story. I recently made my own tetris game, though since I wanted to put it on the app stores and not get sued, I had to come up with a "tetris without being tetris", which was a great creative exercise. In the end I made a more unique game with some gameplay that is rather fun (IMHO) that would never have come to be if I just made a straight clone.
One? LOL, here are some that I know require ~600MB of dependencies:

- http://rungoterminal.com/

- https://github.com/shockone/black-screen

- https://github.com/nylas/N1

And there are hundreds of them, specially if they require Babel which by itself requires a significant amount of disk space, but since you were lazy to find these projects by yourself, I will be lazy too and just list three of them, I will leave the rest to your imagination.
In addition to custom IDs as noted in the other reply, you can specify which interface to bind.
I wouldn't be surprised at all. Far more than most people realize, a lot of medicine today is focused on keeping people who likely have no hope of recovery alive for just another week.
What do you mean? It seems to me that the single largest destructive force on the internet is forcible content takedowns. IPFS is immune to those.
The issue is that Tesla isn’t doing something really new, and won’t be able to keep any advantage in the market in the long term.

Their reputation has also taken a heavy hit after investigations into their autopilot discovered major issues with it, and it was deemed unsuitable for even testing (For example, it will always stay behind the car ahead of you if it can’t find lane markings – even if the car ahead of you switches lanes, but you can’t switch lanes because the lane besides you is occupied – the car will crash).

Long-term, it looks as if the traditional car makers will win again.
I agree there are some smart Econ things here, but when there's a tech article that wavers into Econ elements, I find it all to be lacking, generally.

My point: HN folks are not thinking about market power, value chains, supply chains, forms of financing, currency markets - they're thinking about tech.

At the risk of getting 100 down-votes - this is best exemplified by Bitcoin. It's a very powerful, cool technology - but almost nobody seems to grasp what it means from a financial perspective, i.e. as a currency, as a store of value etc. etc.. HN readers see it in 'techno-social' terms, i.e. 'cool tech' and 'free from big banks' 'decentralization' etc..
Let's see:

Tesla: Growing rapidly, huge customer interest & pre-orders, positive margin on product, easy to see that it may grow big enough to overcome fixed costs.

Twitter: Not growing rapidly, hard to see that they'll become profitable without cutting out a lot of expenses.

Not at all the same kind of beast.
Crows are amazing creatures, but they lack the advantage of hands, and I think that really matters in the long run. If something is going to take our place, they probably need to be adept tool users, so the same issue is there for Elephants, plus they lack the ability to rapidly adapt to new environments and food sources. Maybe Octopodes will make a surprise "come from underwater" victory though, who knows?

I'm glad that I'm not the only one who thinks about this kind of thing by the way.
I have the same question. Countless articles explain these attacks are being carried out via IoT devices but I've seen no mention of specific brands/models. Are there worst offenders? Are common devices like Nest, Wink, etc vulnerable?
Kodak Ektra Smartphone to Take Down Apple iPhone 7 and Google Pixel Phone
Didn't pay $1000 and our channel got terminated by copyright strikes [video]
There's next to no ongoing interest in it and the market confirms that.
They probably set that LLC up themselves. It would have cost them at least a couple Grand to have a lawyer go over everything and make sure that the LLC is air tight, and they probably didn't figure the expense was worth it considering mixcrate didn't make him any money.
Ask HN: A copycat sells a rip-off using stolen sources, what do I do?
One of my customers has just showed me a 100% rip-off of our product.

Basically, some dude in India has taken our product, slightly redesigned the UI and is now selling it as a "saas" app. (we have an option to buy our product with the source codes, and he was probably working for one of our Indian customers and has stolen the sources).

He also launched a website where 70% of the text is stolen from our website.

He used a restrictive "robots.txt" so he cannot be found online, using phone-sales and marketplaces like "capterra" to acquire customers.

But he was dumb enough not to hide his "whois" and list his personal phone number on his website. I decided to contact him (probably a mistake), sending a scary "cease and desist" PDF-letter with screenshots of his website and everything, letting him know that this is copyright infringement, IP violation and my company is hiring an attorney to fight him.

He replied and even ADMITTED that he copied everything, but claims he used a freely-downloadable "trial" version of our product to build upon (which is not true, our trial version is a half-assed demo, not a real product) and this is his "hobby". After a couple of emails (I basically called him a liar 1-2 times, and he replied with a "go ahead, sue me").

So. What do I do?

My 1st reaction was to hire a US/UK lawyer (my company is in the UK) but then I thought of hiring an Indian local attorney maybe? And let the lawyer contact him and maybe file criminal charges/lawsuit etc?

I guess I will have no problem proving that my website IS the original one? ("whois" history goes back to 2005, "archive.org" snapshots etc, I also have all the source codes in an online repo that is several years old etc.)

PS. My product - https://www.jitbit.com/helpdesk/ His product - http://noveldesk.com

PPS. He probably rushed into changing the copy on his pages, but we made dozens of screenshots of the stolen content etc. Is that enough? What else could I do?

PPPS. we're a small bootstrapped company, so I don't have a zillion $$$ to spend on this, couple of grand tops :(
Most racing schools offer courses that are intended to improve street driving skill - e.g. winter driving is a common one, often with a "skid car" rigged with casters that remove much of the car's weight from the tires so that it will go into slides easily (as if it were on ice). There are also often "defensive driving" courses that cover swerving and fast braking under control. I've taken one of these courses and thought it was absolutely useful and improved my driving. That said, it was pretty expensive, and not well publicized.

Basic driver's education in the state I grew up in was state subsidized and offered through the community college so it was quite inexpensive. On the flipside, it was a terrible course, with minimal actual driving time and a terrible case of design for the lowest common denominator. I wonder if more advanced driving courses could be offered the same way, but perhaps they'd fall to the same problems.

You might look at motorcycling as a positive example. While many states require the Motorcycle Safety Foundation basic course for a motorcycle endorsement, MSF also publishes an advanced course and various skill courses that seem to be relatively popular amongst motorcyclists. MSF courses are developed by the Foundation and all the materials are licensed (I would assume at nominal cost) to various local organizations that actually teach them, in my area affiliated also with the community college.
Bloomberg's standards have dropped a lot in the last four years. I see a lot of confused articles with typos and misinformation.

Don't know if it is intentional.
FYI, despite the fact that you attempted to censure the guy's personal info, you managed to leak both his full name and email address.