skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Node/Express, I love me some JavaScript.
Did you create this account only to comment on this story? (just curious)

> NASA would have had the means to eliminate most of those sources of errors.

Yes. NASA as a whole yes. One group researching something that may or may not bear fruit no.

So it's natural they try to eliminate easier errors first. But (as an example) it's one thing to have a good vacuum, another one to have an excellent vacuum for testing. So first you test on the good vacuum.
> Isn't it interesting that time and again every online forum with moderate affordances for anonymity quickly degrades into name calling and other generic abuse?

Happens in systems with Full Real Name policies as well.

IMO Full Real Name policies only deter people who 1. Have something to lose 2. Have a dissenting view 3. Does use a fake account with a Fake Real Name.

I.e. IMO a Full Real Name policy alone just sets us up for an echo chamber situation.
The amount of unused land in the world is mind-boggling. The amount of unused land in the most populous countries in the world is mind-boggling.
This is really not the right way to think about it.
Related project:

https://pyra-handheld.com/
Antarcticans Database Project
Why bcrypt is not optimally secure
> I also, of course, salute Hayao Miyazaki: Farewell, and may your legacy live on.

Er… he's not dead, and was only semi-retired. Semi-retired because he's been working on a Ghibli short of an old idea of his (Kemushi no Boro)[0] and "was" because last Sunday in an NHK special he announced he'd started working on a new feature film[1].

[0] http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2015-07-10/hayao-miyaza...

[1] http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2016-11-13/hayao-miyaza...
Don't miss the full list of organizations with access (pages 210-214):
https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachm...
I have to say I agree very much with Chomsky's view on the US foreign policies. They are absolutely appalling, and very egoistic (see for example en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_731#American_grant_of_immunity). No other country think it has the right to drone other countries citizens; America even thinks it does the right thing when they do it. This is very well demonstrated by Clinton's quote "Can't we just drone this guy [Assange]?", which was not meant as a joke at all (if you're having a problem with this, imagine that some country would drone a US citizen; this would be absolutely unheard of). This is probably a result of massive propaganda. In every US series or movie, arab countries are portrayed as hateful terrorist nest, in a subtle or less subtle way. The US has a tradition of glorifying war and US soldiers, while ignoring the politics of the conflict.

"Returning to the United States, where the situation is not quite that bad, there’s the same disparity between public opinion and policy on a very wide range of issues. Take for example the issue of minimum wage. The one view is that the minimum wage ought to be indexed to the cost of living and high enough to prevent falling below the poverty line. Eighty percent of the public support that and forty percent of the wealthy. What’s the minimum wage? Going down, way below these levels."

I would say the situation is much better in Western Europe, so I don't understand why he states that the US does better on this respect. The two-party political system just doesn't work.

In the last elections, the Democratic officials favoured Clinton, which might have worked against them in the long run. This is btw exactly what Nixon stimulated, and what he has resigned for. As a result, the US voters were forced to choose between two candidates between two candidates, which both have proven to have no troubles with dirty policies.
Well no one think of the coffee?
Sorry for being snarky but you mean like a Chrome extension that does your thinking for you?

Such a tool might end up doing a disservice. People arguably already don't think enough about the stuff that's presented to them as facts. I'm not sure outsourcing critical thinking to machines would really help in that respect.

As for the technical aspects, checking multiple sources helps little with regards to the veracity of an article. Many news sites just regurgitate news from other sources or remix previous articles.
Presumably, it's not required to record "particular pages" because

- It sounds reassuring

- It's not possible to record, for instance when someone accesses secure sites (the majority of time and pages)

- It's not necessary, since the a server's logs can easily be cross-referenced to the TCP connection logs

- It's not necessary, since plenty of insight results from knowing who, when, how much, for how long and how often everyone communicates with everyone else.
Farewell may be premature: "Guess what?: Hayao Miyazaki returns for his final movie" http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2016/11/19/guess-what-hay...
An OS without FOSS targeted at routers is a total meme.

the security problems with linux I wouldn't want to dismiss though. I evangelize FOSS since the mid 90ies and we had a good laugh for 20 years whenever Windows messed up (remember trustworthycomputing.com ??). It is hard to dismiss that being accused for 25+ years for insecurity has nothing but boosted their situation. Whatever the perceived quality of Linux, security is currently not it's strongest feat.

Systems should become more resilient under pressure over time. But in the case of Linux the problem was lack of external pressure and increasing arrogance and dismissing many of it's shortcomings. People still are way too touchy whenever somebody picks on Linux. The 0day window of vulnerability is a pretty good indicator over how it compares. Thegrugq's comparison of OS security (slightly NSFW) https://grugq.github.io/presentations/COMSEC%20beyond%20encr...
This is kind of true, as much as this tech is fascinating, I can't help but feel trains and better planned cities are the real solution to the car problem.

Even in parts of Europe I noticed they put big trucks on trains to automate a large part of the journey and a driver finishes the last leg of the trip.

Trains are also much easier to automate, I also imagine a train track costs less to maintain than a road.
You could argue that this is another unfortunate consequence of brexit. Theresa May is now prime minister, which she wouldn't be if it wasn't for brexit.

The only thing we can do now, as developers and creators, is to create simple and easy tools, softwares, systems for the general public that make this kind of surveillance difficult or impossible. We need to work together to conserve and expand what little privacy we have left.
> Frequentist methods are not dependent on the researcher's state of mind, but on what actions he would have taken if things turned out differently.

That's exactly what I had in mind. It amounts to the same, really.

Granted, the researcher's decision process is bloody important: it determines what the researcher will be doing. But once you know what has been done, that decision process has no further influence over the experimental results —only the actual experiment does.

Of course, this is all knowing what priors we had in the first place. Since one's priors tend to influence one's decision process, one may chose to ignore one's own priors, and deduce them back from one's decision process. In that narrow sense, different decision processes do yield different conclusions. Going this route amounts to ignore relevant information however, and that would be stupid.

> Frequentism isn't stupid, but you do need to be really smart to use them correctly.

I believe the "you have to be smart" argument have also been used to attack Bayesian methods on practical grounds. It's a valid attack either way, but a bit weak for my taste.

When you apply probability theory, you have to make a logical error to draw the wrong conclusion. The only problem left is prior beliefs, and I don't believe we can escape the need for them.

I'm not sure mucking Frequentist methods up requires a logical error. If it indeed doesn't, then we can safely declare Frequentism "unsound" and move on, don't you think?

> [VWO slides]

Hmm, so Bayesian methods are easier to explain… interesting, thanks for the link.
That is why professional software usually has two stages- First the UI, designed to be used by everyone with little training and not demanding from everyone to become a Renaissance level expert at everything.
Second stage are short-keys and creating your own tool additions.
And that is where blender falls short- the first stage is the second stage.
Can someone articulate the theory of harm here? How would consumers be worse off than in the counterfactual world where this practice is banned?
why not vowpal wabbit? fast text is practically a ad-hoc version of mathematically proven vowpal wabbit?
They were guilty of being white.
Well, if I see one more utterly fake story passed off as news, and if the horror show of disgusting comments e.g. "Obamas are apes" infects my stream, I'm going to go elsewhere. Let FB turn into 4chan if it wants to, without me.
Do you carry around your ergonomic keyboard and mouse and use them when you're sitting in a hospital waiting room?

Laptops are useful because you can use them places other than desks. Places where you don't have room for an external keyboard and mouse.

Yeah, laptop ergonomics suck, but they suck less than being unable to use your computer at all on the go. And that doesn't mean that one doesn't hook the peripherals back up when one returns to one's desk.
Classic Grauniad
I was configuring a 15 inch Gazelle: i7 6700HQ + 32GB RAM + 250GB SSD comes to around $1300. Good value.

Anyone have experience with System76 laptops recently? How is the build quality, battery life, service? There are not many reviews about the laptops.
Automation will eat the 'good' jobs in that it creates bad ones.

For existing Factories, the trend is to slap Automation on the cheap bits. And leave the harder bits to Meat.

So you'll put in a machine or computer that reduces work by 33% and remove 1 of the 2 workers on that task. That one worker now needs to pickup that new slack. And now for less money than his retiring coworkers and building a weaker retirement with a worse pension plan.

Not every plant is Tesla on the cutting edge of automation. Lots are barely getting by and can't afford Automation.

They make more Monkeys every day.
You may be aware of this already, but for anyone thinking along similar lines... make sure your VPN client guards against DNS leaks. Using a VPN does not automatically mean your DNS traffic is obfuscated, it's necessary to configure the VPN so that your ISP does not see your DNS traffic.

https://www.bestvpn.com/blog/5184/4-ways-to-prevent-a-dns-le...

https://www.dnsleaktest.com/what-is-a-dns-leak.html
Good article on getting started. I think the initial switch is the most daunting part but once you do it, you won't look back. If you currently use a mac and work primarily in a *nix environment then making the switch from OSX -> Ubuntu should feel incredibly natural.
It seems that zero-rating of third-party services is considered different and is under review [1]. Zero-rating your own products is illegal.

Also somewhat fascinating to me is that the CRTC did a public consultation on reddit.

[1] http://crtc.gc.ca/eng/internet/diff.htm
Go and Javascript/Node.js are quite different languages in their feature lists and main implementations.

To mention a big one, Go is mostly statically and strongly typed, in stark contrast to Javascript. Also it has significantly fewer misdesigns (such as the equality operator being weird). Are you claiming that such features don't matter for the effectivity of the platform?
Are you implying timelapse format is intentional?
> How will the manager be able to get things done and report success to their boss, if all the good people are gone?

Eventually all people are gone. Would be good to know when, so you can plan ahead.
In Western Europe, you'll especially get the latter. And be glad it doesn't result in an HR complaint. Or at least a permanent distrust of that creepy invasive manager.

But the worse would be a truthful answer. As a manager, I know some of my people well enough to know what kind of painful shit that would dredge up. It's impossible, and even downright undesirable to have a relationship with all your team members in which it is okay to discuss such things.
deflation is tricky... if oil gets 10x cheaper because there's lots of new sources, it's great. if oil gets 10x cheaper because after the nuclear holocaust people are living in caves and don't have the refineries or machinery to make it useful, not so great.
I love claws mail, but have to switch to thunderbird because it doesn't work well in a 4K monito.
Technical methods are part of a response, but shouldn't be the only part.

We can also write to our MPs and lords, support organizations like ORG and Liberty who may challenge this law in court, and educate less-technical friends, relatives and colleagues.
I really dislike this kind of articles who portray someone as a god. This enstranges people, and this is not what fields like STEM need. At the same time, it glorifies the few people who actually achieved something that is noticed by the general public, while putting down the numereous hard-working mathematicians who have not made contributions. In the end, a mathematician is just a theorist which applies clever algebraic tricks.
IP-Secrets – What is my IP?
Multiple accounts and GPG support
Is that a real custom theme for Windows or a mock-up of sorts?
Cantonese in video games
Just because it's unused doesn't mean it's not owned by someone. Besides, what happens when all land is owned, what about the generations that follow?
As far as I know, he can accept CG, but keep it on minimum.
> We may well get a cert for UEFI SB,

As long as the vendors cooperate you will be fine. We will see how it works at Win 11+.

> and if we don't, then someone will crack it sooner or later.

Other people may be able to live with it but for me this is an unacceptable option. Either a system fully supports Linux or BSD, or I take another one.
I make decent but not insane money and feel zero need to budget because there is just not all that much stuff I want to buy. Unlimited wants is really an unproven assumption not reality.

PS: Planned obsolecence for example is a direct result of limited wants.
The other peerless Miyazaki's are Princess Mononoke (the only other work with as much depth as Spirited Away) and My Neighbour Totoro (avowedly a children's film). Nearly all the others are also very very good.

And if that's your only exposure to anime then you should at the very least checkout Satoshi Kon's masterpiece Paprika.
Three vegetarian-friendly and affordable restaurants in Belgrade
A stop sign is paired with a stop line in the road which can be seen. It will also see other cars and react accordingly if they are not following their own stop signs. An SDC doesn't really need a stop sign.
Any management advice that consists of a one-size-fits-all approach is by definition bad advice.

Every member of my team is an individual, and they all deserve an individual approach. Also, I find this particular approach rather condescending, and assuming the employee in question needs handholding and psychotherapy.
When I think of event loop blocking, the first thing I think of is GC. I find it strange that the author doesn't mention or consider GC. They might easily have been creating too many closures in a loop (a closure per data item, instead of a single handler for all data items), or millions of long lived pointers (using a Javascript object as a hash table for caching, instead of a flat buffer-based hash table).

Did the author tune the size of the libuv threadpool or did they leave it at the default of 4 threads?

Also, the response times given both for Node and their new system in Go are really not that great. The results for Go are an anti-climax considering it was a rewrite. They could probably undercut both times with a better design, regardless of language.

Node is a great control plane, and you can always use C++ as your data plane.
Yep thats what it looks like.

So the take away is Go is better at handling massive amounts of open outgoing network calls.

In Node.js you want to restrict this to prevent the server from choking. If they did that I bet performance would be very similar.
Watch out at regular speed. Ashley consider the acceleration power a Tesla has. It can get into a tight spot quickly without altering traffic.
Actually they've released Xamarin Forms Previewer - https://developer.xamarin.com/guides/xamarin-forms/xaml/xaml... It's still a bit buggy but does the job in most cases. Also the latest version of Xamarin is way more stable.
Naughty Dog still does so, just usually for game logic, tooling etc. with core engine in C++ (reasons are afaik language-unrelated). Some presentations about uncharted and other games they did recently describe how they use it
Go 1.8 toolchain improvements
Making community generated recommendations accessible to everyone
the barge names also show this
Community moderation is no joke, but the gold standard for sustaining an incredibly civil, intelligent community is probably Metafilter. Then again, their size is tiny fraction of Twitter's or Reddit's.
That's more a bunch of edits than an end-to-end demo.
Show HN: CHARTIFY – ultra lightweight and customizable React.js chart component
Exploratory Haskell (2015)
Is all machine learning called "deep learning" now? Where is the line between "normal" machine learning algorithms and deep learning?
Actually, i think in AP 1 they used MobileEye and Tesla has their custom software to compliment it and with the switch to AP 2 "It runs a Tesla-developed neural net for vision, sonar, and radar processing." https://cleantechnica.com/2016/10/25/inside-nvidias-new-self...

I also read another quote from the Tesla engineering team that "nearly all of it" (the data collected from AP 1) can be used for the new AP system https://electrek.co/2016/11/07/tesla-bought-1-million-data-s...

So it seems like the analogy is more akin to Xbox 360 and Xbox One, hardware got an upgrade but they were able to run Xbox 360 games on it with some work.
I did it. Once. Friday evening in Milan.

Something you wouldn't wish on anyone who is even remotely your friend.
GitHub for Chimpanzees (and a short rant against scientists)
Having a work computer that had Ubuntu pre-loaded I must say that Ubuntu almost hits the mark on being a competitor in user friendliness. There are only a few things that I think needs improvement. For me it's configurability of the mouse (in particular cursor acceleration) and dual screen high-dpi support (which is partly on app developers). Most other things seems to be there when using a laptop with supported hardware. But supporting the hardware has been the main hurdle for a long time so having more alternatives that ships with it would probably solve that one.
Ask HN: How should I prepare for an upcoming Google TPM interview?
Cleared the 2 phone screens. Have an onsite interview in about 2 weeks.
My background - Over 7 years of experience as a TPM. Been a Programmer before that for 4 years. Don't code exclusively anymore, but can if need be, so not a rockstar coder. University drop out, so no stellar educational background.

Any thoughts on study plans would be much appreciated. Thanks!
Great, just what I was looking for. Let's see if I can finally rid myself of the Apple Co. for good!

Although, no Google Drive... no Evernote...
There are a couple vaguely Rails like frameworks but Go definitely doesn't lend itself to immersing itself into a web framework like that. Overall they tend to be much lighter and sit closer the the Go core language itself.

Here's a good list of the major frameworks for Go.
https://github.com/avelino/awesome-go#web-frameworks

Also, the complete Awesome Go list is a wonderful resource for browsing some of the best Go libraries out there.
Has Unity stopped from being a slow and unresponsive mess?

My last experience with Unity was that it just lagged lagged on a machine that could handle windows seven with no hiccups.

Most people with whom I talked about this seemed to have had similar experiences. In truth I've never heard anyone defend Unity.
Brilliant write up
Despite the different codebases, they still have the datasets that they've collected over the years, and that's really what matters (for things like lane detection.)

It would be quite weird if they didn't retrain their new models with all that data.
Any chance this thing is using dark matter as reaction mass? We're confident that dark matter exists because it's the only thing that perfectly explains the evidence from gravitational lensing of colliding galaxies (eg. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullet_Cluster ). Finding a way to interact with dark matter sounds much more plausible than breaking thermodynamics.
> Eventually Go will also reach a point where it will start lagging and then some smart engineer will conclude that you need to switch to C++!

Go is much better suited for large codebases than Node.js though, so when it becomes bloated again, it'll be easier to fix problems with/optimize the existing code and rewrites can be avoided.
I had a similar idea but mine was just using a predefined list. I just added the domains to /etc/hosts and forwarded to a more pleasant site.
Ubuntu ruined it when they included their advertising and marketing engine straight up in the unity interface. Debian is at least not trying to sell all your info.
What happened to Pond? The domain is gone: https://pond.imperialviolet.org/
While I do believe you don't want more stuff, I have a hard time believing you wouldn't want more time, be it via a chauffeur, cleaning service, butler, cook, someone to run your errands or wait in line at the doctor.

There is also improvements you might want to have like

- a faster computer
- a bigger apartment

Now I know these options are not on the table today because you can get along without them but I doubt that if the price was low enough that you'd skip them.

But if indeed none of this convinces you, let me know your profession - my bet would be you are a well-earning Zen monk :)
The syntax of your language doesn't change its performance when running.

I can appreciate that not everyone likes JavaScript - it's all a matter of personal preference I guess - but saying that Go is a better language because of the syntax is like saying bananas taste better because of their color.

They are two very different languages with each their strengths and weaknesses. Does JavaScript have a few design flaws? Absolutely! More so than many other languages? Quite possibly! Does it make me write worse software if I'm aware of those quirks? Most certainly not.
Wow? I use Ubuntu for years because I had the exactly opposite situation, it runs smooth on the Linux OS, but Windows would get weird lags and with time the startup time got longer than 3 minutes.
I had a great landing page but i removed it because of some bugs, but you are right yes :)

and if they sell stuff i can remove posts or users and if alot of people do it i won't let use blogs for everyone just for a few people. I will add a live chat for them

thanks for the tips
hmm weird. i don't know what it is. thanks for the tip tough
I thought it was completely optional and you can turn it off if you scrub the settings for less than 1 minute.
Exactly. Deflation is not bad per se (though it can be)
I agree that the out of the box mouse settings are too limited. But if it really bothers you there's still the option to find the right driver and dive into xorg.conf any time. I spent an hour or two to tweek my macbook touchpad but it was totally worth the effort.