skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I guess that we are transitioning to a time where our digital identities are owned and operated by private companies. The afterlife aspect just makes more scary what is in a sense already a reality.
I guess it depends. In some cases, it's easily obvious how software matters, as was the case with Visicalc, but with something like cars or aeroplanes, it's mostly been about the hardware. With self-driving cars, the software is again going to be of massive importance, but up until now, it's the hardware that's mattered.
Ask HN: Could I get some help getting unused computers?
Hello, I'm building in Mali (West Africa) a sort ou hacker factory where people can come to learn coding and solve problems or just work on their own project. It's called "Les ateliers du Sud" which would translate to something like "The south factory".
I need help to find computers.
You can email me at msl.diarra@gmail.com if you want more info.
Thanks.
That costs a combined 6% of the property in brokers fees alone. That's like, $30k every time you move.
I did this at a previous company, and got blackballed for having a "negative attitude". 6 months after I told my manager and the technical architects that it wouldn't scale, the project got cancelled because it didn't scale. No one suffered except for me because I had the balls to open my mouth.
If you lived in Europe, most of the films you've watched on TV were in the (when insisting on the exactness) "wrong" pitch: recorded with A = 440 Hz, but played at A = 458.3 Hz. Have you ever noticed?

http://www.michaeldvd.com/Articles/PALSpeedUp/PALSpeedUp.asp

And the 432 Hz tone became exactly 450 Hz using the same transfer.
I read all of the tweets back-and-forth between milo and leslie jones (and I would encourage anyone to do the same).

Now, I do like milo (I find him hilarious), and I'm not such a fan of jones but I do understand he exists to be a provocateur so I knew that it was highly plausible that he was did really say something that was inappropriate.

After having read them all, I came across strongly with the opinion that while supporters (probably a lot of sock puppets) did say really terrible things about jones, that nothing milo himself said was inappropriate. Also, at no point did milo incite his followers to attack or otherwise harass jones directly. To the contrary, jones was the one who said things to the effect of telling her supporters to "get him".

Ultimately I think it came down to the fact that twitter is making money off of movie studios and celebrities being on twitter (not just jones) and twitter realizes that most of their users are there (and probably an even larger portion of their growth) comes from the presence of people like jones and other celebrities on twitter. Remove them and you remove users who are looking at paying ads. Its a very big stick for a PR agency or her agents to wield.
Doing

du -ch ./babel*

from my `node_modules` directory yields

3.2M	total

so I'm gonna need a citation on that 600MB claim.
Why is there room for rents to go up? Why aren't they in general already around the maximum the market will bear?
Source?

Housing has driven US GDP growth since WW2 or earlier, so that's a pretty big leap.
I don't actually know the answer to this, but wouldn't you expect everything you say to be true in a society where ownership is the norm and not the case in a society where it isn't?
Short answer: yes
Longer answer: yes, and it can wreck you

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2016/10/18/ghost-pepper-p...
You forgot the link:

http://boardgamegeek.com
My bank (ING Direct) had that. And then they were bought by Capital One, who removed it.
ARTFINDER+-+Lee+Clement+The+Illusion+of+Reality+/+Le+Réel
I'm very interested in health and fitness and often lose hours at Mark's Daily Apple (primal lifestyle and health blog): http://www.marksdailyapple.com/tag/dear-mark/

The Getting Stronger blog is another wonderful health and fitness blog which focuses on training the mind to thrive in difficult conditions, though it has really amazing insights on diet and training as well: http://gettingstronger.org/about-this-blog/
I haven't read anything this interesting since the Milw0rm days, post more from that perspective
Remember doing these tests on codility. I failed. If anyone wants to try these tests, there are some samples: https://codility.com/programmers/lessons/1-iterations/
lmao. the whole library is worthless then?
How kicked? I remember a big internal uproar when I was at one of the big tech companies about cutting some benefits, and one of the explanations was the cadillac tax.
“Mathematics is the purest of arts, as well as the most misunderstood.”
It's also useful if you want to call break or continue.
That's incredible. Not sure if I underestimated hackers ingenuity or underestimated how gullible people are..
Official Tensorflow binding for Rust
My parents are MDs, and they hate this stuff. Mostly because the onus is on doctors to perfectly use the correct code or not get reimbursed. (Or more realistically, waste time arguing with insurance companies/Medicare to get reimbursed.)
It's disappointing the article doesn't give any actionable detail of the recall. From what I can see, Hangzhou Xiongmai is a components manufacturer, not a retail brand, so there's no practical way to identify an affected device with the information here.
> in which case nylon strings would be a bit strange ;)

Not at all, there are nylon wrapped strings for electric now too! [1]

[1] http://www.daddario.com/DADProductFamily.Page?ActiveID=3768&...
>Take a look at S&P500's profit margins. They are at record highs and not coming down as economics teaches us, meaning new entrants are not coming into the market.

It's not possible for this stuff to adjust instantaneously. The economy takes a long time to move. Profit margins are cyclical; they will decrease as inflation creeps in and wages and capital costs rise at a rate higher than prices can increase. Input costs are extremely low right now.

Take a look at the data; we have 10 years of above average margins following 10 years of below average margins.
Have more sex, eat garlic and don't sleep too much
I too want to get paid for being irresponsible.
Eh, try it across a range of different tunings and see if there's a peak in the effect around 432. If there were, it would be easier for me to believe it's the 432 that's significant rather than "normal - 8Hz"
So instead of spending time with the family, friends, and hobbies you'd rather slave away in front of a stove to save $600/mo?
This is one of the best articles I've read in awhile.
I use Icomoon extensively, it works great.
Anywhere in the USA where there's electricity, the frequency we're hearing the most is probably 60Hz and a couple harmonics thereof. It's between B and B-flat. I've been curious for some time now what it would sound like to perform in a scale tempered around that, such as B = 480 (and 60), which translates to A = about 427.6 by my rough calculation.

60 Hz is everywhere, often at a subliminal level, sometimes at an obvious/conscious level like when you walk underneath powerlines or use a garage-door opener. In any case I suspect it's a lot more obvious and perceptible to most people than any cosmic vibrations. I bet fixing your music to resonate with THAT, would (perhaps sadly) feel a lot more "cosmically in-tune" than what they're proposing with 432 Hz.
> got a major release of Windows out without the usual trauma

I haven't been following the Windows world closely when Windows 7 was released - but wasn't that the least traumatic OS release in a long while?
> Google's own Search has always been a limited form of AI on which most humans with access to the Internet have come to depend upon. And it is tough to beat them because they not only have 20 years of accumulated knowledge and talent, but they also have a lot of data on users and haven't been afraid to break users' privacy in order to get that data.

This is a tech industry shibboleth. Internet search is not particularly good for anyone, and it was better for power users when it wasn't much more than web-grep. Google's innovation was to count the links pointing to a page in order to determine its quality, and once Google became dominant, that technique had been gamed enough to be virtually useless. As far as I can tell, the only algorithmic improvements they've had since then have been net negatives for one's ability to search for things that they haven't searched for before, and the only effective improvements have been from manual tweaking to weed out content farms. Every search I make on Google brings up the same 80 companies that choose to spend most of their effort on SEO, but actually have a business (usually selling me something) rather than copying low-quality content. Google's image search has aggressively gotten materially worse. They've gotten so desperate for improvements that they've been systematically dismantling ethical barriers in order to squeeze out a few more dollars.

I have no idea what product establishes Google as significantly ahead of anyone in AI. They're all just a day ahead of some mathematician who has a sudden insight over her first coffee of the morning. In this, Tim Cook isn't missing anything other than a slight increase in the probability that that mathematician will be working at Apple that morning rather at than the University of Arkansas.
Thanks for helping me along my Christmas shopping! This is great for those who work in healthcare...
Small companies access credit in all sorts of ways.

Take retail for example. Quite a lot of small to medium retail operations do not (cannot) afford to pay upfront for all their inventory--especially for seasonal events. A retail store might double or triple their inventory on hand during November, in anticipation of the holidays shopping rush in December.

So the stores buy on credit. The credit comes from their suppliers, not a bank--usually some type of payment terms like net 60 days.

Of course it's not like manufacturers or suppliers have giant piles of cash sitting around either. Often they are also accessing credit themselves, in order to provide these terms to the stores which are their customers. If they are bigger than their customers, they might have more options for accessing credit from banks or other financial institutions. But it might be that they are also receiving credit their their upstream suppliers, who are themselves accessing credit from financial institutions.

All this is to say: even small firms might be affected by the ease or difficulty of accessing credit from financial institutions, even if they are not accessing it directly themselves.

> and perhaps the odd bank loan secured by the personal assets (read: homes) of the founders?

Consumer credit has also changed. It's harder to extract value from your home now than it was 10 years ago. Banks have higher underwriting standards and are themselves subject to more regulation (from the CFPB for instance).
I have seen the infosec future and the future is going to be domain whitelisting. Banks are already doing it.
I heard interesting argument against const, it went like this:

Const very rarely saves you from bugs and the bugs that saves you from are very easy to find and fix. On the other hand the time wasted by thinking where whether to write const or let and the time wasted by switching consts for lets (and other way around) outweighs the time saved by potentially preventing these easy to find bugs.
To sum it up, if consts does not really provide any extra value, why not make your life easier and just use let everywhere.

It was from very senior c++ programmer, so I am not sure how well that translates to JavaScript.
Show HN: Clone and share databases with Snapps (free blog template)
I think it's 2018. All of the fancy benefits, like infertility, durable medical equipment, etc will probably get axed in most big companies.
Please read the post title again.

A minimal version would be more like:

# REPL

def interpret_lisp():

while not control_C_pressed():

print(eval(read()))

where those functions would have to be defined, of course.

:)
Yes, true. But I also think Rao is incredibly self-aware of this. Interact with him. Very strong opinions, gingerly held.
Even if that were true, how's that treason again?
We prioritize based on number of upvotes. Most everything in 4.7 was over 100 upvotes and some even almost at 300.

In FA5 we're adding a good number more brand icons. Entirely possible they make it in.
The UK doesn't have tax incentives for mortgages any more, but they're still popular.

I think the big distinction is that -- unlike nearly anything else you might buy on credit -- houses don't really depreciate. Even without the overall rising house prices, relatively few people value a 20 year old house at a meaningful premium over a similarly-sized 40 year old house. So it's comparatively easy to justify as an asset counter-balancing the debt.
Not in the slightest. The iPhone's UI was far superior, as was its hardware.

What's special about the Mac Pro other than its case design? And what would change in how the Mac Pro functions if its guts were instead in the old Mac Pro case?

All of the guts are just an Intel processor, AMD video cards, etc. There isn't some custom magical chip in there.
Why Brogue? I haven't heard much about that game.
Only if you use a U2F hardware token. 2FA using SMS or a smartphone app merely raises the bar for phishing: the attacker can forward the password along to the real service, prompt the user for the 2FA code, forward that along too, and then get a session cookie which they can use to access the account later.
For anyone interested, David Belck has some good lectures on how medical procedures get billed and how insurance (doesn't) work in the United States: https://www.youtube.com/user/davidbelk46/videos
The display I'm looking at now 163 PPI and I wish it were sharper.

My phone is 424 PPI and that feels about right to me.
Several of my previous team members compiled a list of satire principles for application developments.

Need to flesh them out..

https://github.com/eugenejen/enterprisey_mantras
Isn't this "helicopter money" but regardless if it is or not, why is it considered a bad thing?
So, 60% of small companies are out of businesses? I think not. What you need to ask yourself is: what is considered a 'cyber attack'? Is spam a cyber attack? What about phishing? What about your DNS provider being DDoSed? Ransomware? Macros? -- Companies are hit by these daily, and not only do they stay in business, many times (most?) they don't even notice the 'attack'. As it turns out, almost NO companies have ever shut down because of a breach. DigiNotar did, as did a couple others, but it's rare.
The weird economics of Ikea
...You seriously made an account just to post a joke that awful?
https://www.are.na/chris-sherron/feeling-futuristic

https://www.are.na/damon-zucconi/worldmaking

https://www.are.na/john-michael-boling/fictional-fashion

https://www.are.na/nick-demarco/yuppie-dystopia

https://www.are.na/sam-hart/knot-theory

https://www.are.na/lukas-wp/arrangement-collage

https://www.are.na/dena-yago/language

https://www.are.na/david-hilmer-rex/hybrid-organizations

https://www.are.na/zach-rose/stoic-electronics

https://www.are.na/morgan-sutherland/diagrams--2

(disclaimer: I work on Are.na...it still contains my favorite internet rabbit holes, though.)

Related, for maintaining a path during rabbit hole seshs: https://pilgrim.are.na/
> It is awful but the alternative is adverse selection. That is, healthy people see high prices and drop out, leaving the prices to get higher for the sick.

Not exactly. Obamacare has other provisions that make this much worse. For example, Obamacare only allows insurance companies to charge older people at most three times as much as younger customers.

"But it’s worth noting that prior to 2014, there was no federal standard in terms of how rates could vary based on age. It was common for health insurance companies to charge older applicants five or six times a much as they charged younger applicants." [1]

This is a way of subsidizing the old (a better organized interest group), but it makes health insurance massively less cost effective for younger customers.

[1] https://www.healthinsurance.org/faqs/why-would-congress-let-...
How does it help? Can't the attacker make a query to Google for the user image and display it on the phishing page?
Those scenarios aren't comparable. For gun manufacturers, you need a person choosing to use a gun irresponsibly or maliciously to cause damage. Car liability is more complicated, but in a lot of cases it's the driver that's held at fault, and rightly so. In the cases where a defect in the car causes a crash, car manufacturers typically are held responsible.

IMO a better metaphor would be to car manufacturers being held responsible for undue environmental degradation, something that does happen to a degree already. (Hello Volkswagen!) The manufacturer should be held responsible for damages to common infrastructure or resources caused by design flaws or deliberately negligent design.
My bank card in Slovenia is contactless. This has nothing to do with it being a credit card or not, although some bank only offer contactless credit cards.
Knox Avenue out of Los Angeles. Imagine getting a Sandwich Video made before they were astronomically expensive.

Ping me over email and I'll make an intro. Amazingly talented and honestly my favorite human beings I've met in the past month. CANNOT recommend them highly enough.
Apple's take on that Pro machine was to give it an absurd amount of GPU power, and for Final Cut that's all you need.

It's terrible for rendering on CPU. It's limited in terms of expansion. It will never compete against a self-built machine.

Maybe they will kill it, but it'll be a shame if they do. The Xserve died for the same reasons: They couldn't field a competitive machine.

At some point maybe Apple will offer their OS for use on non-Apple hardware under some kind of "if it works, great" type basis, you know, for enthusiasts and people who need way more power than Apple can deliver. Maybe it'll be called something other than macOS, just like NeXTStep's OS became OpenStep?
Yes I'm sure the tech is not there yet and I'm not saying make a hard copy and send it to space.... but how far are we off? Hundreds of years or decades? Is there an iterative process... perhaps satellites at first (since landing is generally complicated).

I guess it also depends on what you want to store and what you use to store. There are crystals that could store data for pretty much eternity [1].

The problem with shoving stuff in a hidden salt mine is that no one (ie aliens, future people etc) will know where it is where as on the moon or satellite you can effectively have a much more salient sign of here is the data (ie what is worse the data is destroyed or the data is never found?).

[1] http://money.cnn.com/2016/02/17/technology/5d-data-storage-m...
The phisher can just relay your token to establish a login from their end, and still have access to your account. In this article, the attacker created a filter to move all incoming messages to Trash (that doesn't require a token to do), then they deleted the contacts (I don't think that requires a token), and kept an active connection to the Inbox (also doesn't require a token).
>1. A paid off home is a social safety net against homelessness for an entire family and many of their social circles. Even if all of them are unemployed, all of them have a roof over their heads.

Until you can't afford to pay the taxes, utilities, insurance, and maintenance. My grandma bought her house outright with my grandpa's life insurance money. No mortgage ever. It was a terrible choice because she didn't have the money or wherewithal for maintenance or utilities. 30 years later the house was literary falling apart. As you can imagine, the utility bills for a house with gaping holes in the roof were astronomical. It was a positive feedback loop. She lived with massive anxiety about shit getting old and breaking. We all really hoped her house would stay upright until she died. It did, thankfully. She would have lived a much better quality of life in an apartment.

>2. A paid-off home frees up cash flow. It allows the owner to divert his earnings into other activities or investments or reduce the amount he has to earn monthly.

Renting frees up cash flow sooner thus allowing interest to compound much more.

> Real estate can be borrowed against. Try that with stocks. If you are an entrepreneur, your home is likely the asset you will use to acquire bank financing for your business.

You can borrow against your 401(k). Then there's the people who borrow against their 401(k) to buy a home, yes, those exist... I personally know some.

Anyways, I own a home, I'm not anti-home ownership. I just can't stand the myths about home ownership.
Tetris is my go-to learning project as well.

I can read all the tutorials in the world, but I don't feel comfortable with a new language/platform/toolkit/etc until I've ported Tetris to it.

I go as far as making every implementation replay-compatible for ease of testing (and also because it's just really satisfying watching half a dozen entirely different implementations of the same game running in frame-perfect harmony).

Right now I'm working on a Haskell port, and as a beginner to FP, it's quite a mind-bending experience trying to implement something so familiar in such an alien language.
Oh wow that's a huge deal. I remember seeing posts on ToyTown about people buying washers/driers with cash because CC wasn't accepted.
Whilst conversions that speed up video do happen, It's not really intentional or desirable.

A friend of mine bought the DVD of 'Rent' when it first came out in our region. A month or two after it came out, the DVD got re-issued because it's a musical, and people had been complaining that the conversion had been messed up. I think she got the re-release for free.
The beginning of the story is missing. PZ clicked on the link in the email because it was "received [...] from a familiar mailing list".

Did PZ trust a mailing list where anyone could post? Or did the attackers spoof the "from" field? The former may have been prevented by employee training, the latter by SPF or similar technologies.
Well obviously we are supposed to deregulate the financial sector so Goldman Sachs can rake in the big bucks and collapse the economy again
Still heavily lacking in documentation (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12769039). Come back once you write some.
Is it written in React?
Interesting. This is not something that has a simple fix and can be patched. The arms race continues.

Or we could end it and give users (limited) root access to their stock phones. Let us run OCI containers with restricted root user accounts. Bind mount certain filesystems given the correct Android permissions, such as the SD card or internal storage, or the user's emulated root. Or supported nested ARM virtualization.

Modern Linux supports a uid 0 with less than complete access in a cgroup, using the LSM to regulate specific capabilities, or creating the cgroup with limited caps to begin with.

Make access to areas the carrier considers sensitive conditional on a capability, or limit access to the full video decode hardware or shared memory from this root jail.

I have been able to compile but not run the runc binary from OCI/docker/rkt. Nested cgroupfs would solve a lot of these restrictions.
gwern. He hits the sweet spot and all topics are worth reading.
http://www.gwern.net/
Negotiation is not Psychological Manipulation
Row hammer – Wikipedia