skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ways People with a Purpose Live Differently
Polymorphism in Scala
Cable price? Not sure.
Sounds like you need exposure to a wider variety of Chinese literature and film...
How fast does it work? Is the video “real-time” detection?
I'd caution anyone who applies to this role that you will be a contractor forever with zero chance of ever being full-time.

Throwaway for obvious reasons.
Yeah, the touch screen works great (with multi touch in apps that support it, e.g. chrome). The only thing that's not supported is auto inversion of the screen when you fold it over 360 degrees to use it as a tablet. I set up a shortcut key combination to do that, so it's not overly cumbersome.
WOT Extension Spys on Users
Couldn't find an translation of this report, so here is the link to the German version: http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/web/web-of-trust-browser-add-on-spioniert-angeblich-nutzer-aus-a-1119236.html

Here is the gist of the article: WOT collects and sells user data to third parties that is not sufficiently anonymized, thus allowing to identify individuals and making them susceptible to blackmail.
I don't disagree with you, but this is the first time in history that ML(deep learning in particular) has become useful due to hardware and software availability. I can now buy commodity hardware and run ML experiments.

Additionally on a theoretical level there are new things being discovered every day it seems. I mean, batch normalization wasn't even discovered until 2015.

There's a long road ahead, but I believe it will be filled with better and better inventions.
If there's a serial killer, even if you put a person accused of being that serial killer to death, you can't be sure that serial killer won't kill any more people. This isn't just an edge case: serial killers often claim credit for any and all crimes that might be attributed to them. Kill them off, attribute all the murders to them, and the actual serial killer is more likely to stay in the wild.
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How about OVH, online, GoDaddy, Digital Ocean, Linode???

That's a naughty article ignoring all the old players.
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What Vine Could've Been
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"I'm happy to answer any other questions you have."

How much did you grow since now, last acquisition and first acquisition?
I love instapaper! I hope for years and years of service. Thanks for making mobile reading of websites easier.

Thanks
Tech Transformation: Real-Time Messaging at Walmart
Stop Pushing Pixels
I think it's the fact that RStudio's notebooks are well-integrated into the IDE: so debugging, profiling, the panel listing the variables in the current workspace, and all the other niceties of the IDE still work with the notebook interface. I don't know of any equivalent to that in Jupyter.
I think research shows, that what people care about is the likeliness of getting caught. The length of the sentence doesn't really have that deterring effect. If it did then the US with each extremely long sentences should not be having magnitudes higher homocide rate than European countries with rather mild sentences.
>That is bad, but you can compensate an wrongfully jailed person afterwards.

How do you compensate someone for being imprisoned (and likely raped) from the age of 28 to 45?

In many cases, the death penalty is more humane.
Can someone explain to me the following

1) Why did it take so long for an open source version to come into existence ? (there must have been some serious hurtles Let's Encrypted had to overcome to do this)

2) Given that you can get LE certs for free and use certbot for auto-renewal, why is anyone purchasing certs anymore ?
UK IPv6 Council Meeting, October 2016
I need to preface this by claiming I have no idea what I'm talking about, but please bare with me:

The startup I perviously worked at paid around USD 2000 for 5 wild card certs from GoDaddy.

if Let's Encrypt charged even 10% of that, it's about $40/cert. Based on your estimate of 10 million certificates issued (and assuming that 90% of the users leave because it's not free)...that's ~1 mil certificates @ $40/cert => $40 mil.

Am I calculating this wrong somehow? (or how it this possible?)
Death is final, everything else is on a gradient, death is an absolute. So yes, it's fundamentally different. That's why we hold parties on New Years Eve to mark the passing of time but we also hold funeral wakes when someone dies.
I wonder if we're going to read titles like "Global warming solved? We're going to send heat to Mars?".
And let's not forget all the torturers and their enablers and protectors. Torture is a very serious crime. But will the people who commit it and those who order it ever be held accountable? Nope. The US government just stamps "legal" on it after it makes a splash in the press, and then people mostly forget about it. Now Trump is promising to "bring back a hell of a lot worse than waterboarding".

This is just the tip of the criminal iceberg in the US. But crime is really the wrong word when the people who commit and order the crime and those who protect them are the same people who write and enforce the laws.
I believe the question was "how do they form text messages from believable senders", not "how do they hijack the phone signal".
I think that viewpoint was already covered elsewhere in this thread.
+1 this would be great for our team. Things get lost in chat, and email really isn't great for group discussions. Plus most email has a bit of a formal tone in our company, but Async looks like due to the reddit style people would be a bit more relaxed and we could develop some culture that way.
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There is a minimum amount of energy required to flip a bit. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landauer%27s_principle for details.

This corresponds to a minimum amount of energy needed to transmit a given number of bits.

We are nowhere near this limit. However it is an upper bound that guarantees that Moore's Law can't possibly continue for classical computing to the end of this century.

(Part of the interest in quantum computing is that it has no theoretical upper limits at all. However this comes with some very weird restrictions.)
Okay, for higher resolutions that may be a thing. I have only seen one 27" display, and it was "only" 1920x1080, with one VGA, one DVI and one HDMI input. :-/

(Also, I have seen many PCs with builtin graphics that have no DVI output, only VGA and HDMI (and sometimes DisplayPort).)
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Can't speak for OP, but I take it to mean what Jane Jacobs was a proponent of, and what has been the opposite of modern American urban planning until now.

The general trend in American urban planning has been highly prescriptivist and precise. Suburbs often have bylaws that prevent "too many" businesses of a particular sort in an area. It's based on a very centrally-planned vision for cities where you get your groceries from there, your haircuts there, and entertain yourself at that entertainment complex.

Using a place against its original planner's precisely envisioned purpose is verboten. No, you can't have another supermarket in the neighborhood. No, there is already another coffee shop too close to this proposed one. No, you can't repurpose this land for a playground, because the children are supposed to play over there.

Urban areas experience it too - if you've worked in a modern American downtown you've no doubt walked by the countless plazas that are deserted. Benches and tables that looked real good on the architectural renderings but are severely disused. Big office buildings fronted by "public space" that not even its own tenants use regularly.

This has been especially severe in public housing projects - they were designed with idyllic parkland and courtyards, which their designers envisioned as isolated utopias, but ultimately ended up being deserted, dangerous, and hotbeds of crime, because they were never where people wanted to be, and was just void space.

The opposite of this is something that resembles more of the free market - mixed use, relaxed zoning, so that the community can decide the amenities and businesses it needs. Maybe there should be a second supermarket, maybe that empty lot could be a playground.

The struggle between top-down prescriptivist and bottom-up market-like urban planning is a huge one. In many ways Americans crave the efficiency, character, and benefits of living in the bottom-up neighborhood, but also crave the precise, reliable, and ordered nature of top-down cities.
The downsides are:

1. Director generally implies a manager of managers. If your title is "Director" and you're actually a team lead, it makes your company look like it doesn't know what it's doing. Specifically, the leadership.

2. If your resume goes from "Director" to "Developer" people are going to wonder what you did. It will cause people to take a second look at your resume in a negative way.

3. So at the end of that job, you've got someone who isn't qualified for a job with that title anywhere else and who will need to actively harm their career to take the jobs they are qualified for.

I'm sure I've forgotten several, but they've built a $600M GIF search engine so what do I know.
The devil's in the details. Exception handling and garbage collection are different enough that a straightforward adaptation won't cut it.
It is a fact that Charles Mason was relieved from execution. Just like it is a fact that because of the court rulings around 1972 he became eligible for parole.

Charles Manson and other 106 inmates on death row in 1972 were all convicted killers who were relieved from the death penalty.

Many victim's family members were upset by the courts decision.
That doesn't explain how the SMS message comes from someone the user knows. I would assume (and I think this is what GP was getting at) that the fake tower snoops on outgoing messages in order to collect numbers that the user has in their address book, and then spoofs a message from that number?
Thanks, great writeup - I bookmarked it because my 5 1/2 year old MacBook Air is literally wearing out. I really like Mac laptops but the closest match to my needs now is a MackBook which is probably about as fast as my 5 1/2 year old laptop. Our local non-official Mac store tech guy was telling me that the MacBook is surprisingly fast and since he knows me and my habits (I tend to develop on large memory, multi-core VPSs) he was recommending it highly to me. Still, it seems expensive for what you get.
same here. i have a video/article on it (single page, no docker thrown in because whatever "not-so-well-sandboxed third-party code on your server" means): https://serversforhackers.com/video/letsencrypt-for-free-eas...

(sidenote: Would be interested to hear if there's actually any security issues with putting the certbot client on your machine)
Imprisoning a killer will not undo the damage they have done, but that doesn't make imprisonment revenge.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8502284
8 Ways to Stay Positive Regardless of What Is Going on Around You
These are mostly slide decks at the moment with videos to come later on IET.tv, as far as I know.

I found the presentation from Imperial on their deployment to be pretty interesting. There's no mention of Virgin Media, though a representative (Daryl Tanner) was scheduled to speak according to the announcement post for the meeting. I can only speculate he wasn't able to make it.
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What Is Linux Kernel?
I have an XPS 13 at home from several revisions back, and at work I have another XPS 13 that is current_revision - 1. In Padova, we had an Inspiron from ~10 years ago that had been turned into a computer for the kids to use, and was still working well. My wife is using another Dell Latitude laptop I got a while back, before the XPS 13. All with Ubuntu. It's probably time to upgrade my wife's computer, but the others are all working great.

I've continued to update Ubuntu on all of them without reinstalling.
Industry funded studies don't find sweet drinks linked to obesity, diabetes
I see two solutions to that problem. 1) Don't vote for Trump. 2) Have a considerably more or entirely anonymous voting. I don't know the specifics of how UK does it, but it's simpler, less tracking without fraud.
Is there a document somewhere that summaries the proposed changes from HTML 5 to 5.1?
When soda makers fund studies, links to obesity weaken
It's not, of course. But the irony is that it frequently acts as if it's in the pay of some malignant entity or another.
In theory this risk exists. If you (the owner of the corporation) behave as if it does not exist, then the tax authorities will likely see it that way, too. If this happens (the U.S. corporation is disregarded) then the Canadian corporation will be treated as doing business in the USA via its agent (the employee of the U.S. corporation).

This is why corporations are expensive. "Meh paperwork". But the first thing the IRS asks for when they start an audit is the minute book to show the meetings of the Board of Directors and the meetings of the shareholders.

Moral of the story: if you're not willing to pay for maintenance, don't buy a Ferrari.

Moral of the story: OCD and anal-retentive behavior are rewarded in TaxWorld. Pragmatism and "good enough" are punished. :-)
I'd love to see the bill of materials for that.

Its _only_ running 2 PHP instances + 2 RDS instances + EBS storage costs + S3 buckets fees + ELB fees + CloudFront fees + traffic costs.
Service Discovery at Stripe
Paper ballots works well in every European democracies and is far more transparent and secured than the electronic machines we have today. As a matter of fact, Germany has tested electronic machines but went back to paper ballots to preserve the reliability of the vote. The article doesn't just cast the doubt on electronic voting machines, it shows they are set-up to enable election fraud. How many more proofs is needed to convince voters that sadly, elections results can't be trust?
Failure of the prison system to protect its inmates should not become a factor in deciding whether or not it is more 'humane' to kill them outright.

The you might as well kill all prisoners because it is more humane, after all where would you draw the line, 5 years, 10 years, 15 or 20, it's all time that has passed.

Compensation should be of such a magnitude that it incentivizes society to make sure it happens as little as possible.
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Great information, thanks - and I have a question: have you had issues with S3 being only eventually consistent for some usage modes [0]? If so how do you work around them? My first intuition is that this property of S3 could cause occasional problems with plugin upgrades, file changes, etc.

[0] See "Amazon S3 Data Consistency Model" on this page: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/Introduction....
Geoff Nunberg certainly sounds like he's prescriptive in at least some ways: http://www.ling.upenn.edu/courses/Fall_2016/ling001/Nunberg....

Granted, it's from 1983, but Dr. Nunberg is still alive & writing.

My own thought is that the question, 'is linguistics descriptive or prescriptive?' is as wrong as the question, 'is salvation through faith or through works?' Linguistics can both describe language as she is spoke and prescribe the best ways to speak. There's nothing inherent in describing current practise that obligates one to applaud that practise; nor is there anything inherent in prescribing better use that prevents one from recognising that other uses exist.

The logical end of stating that all that matters is describing language as it's used, and not bothering to prescribe the best ways to use it, as to both not end up meaning-stand @talk.
I have been using raindrop.io for the past 6 months. I have nothing but good things to say about it.

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I don't thing WebAssembly can do anything webapps can't currently do.
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