skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually, the solution to this sort of problem is well understood: it's a combination of Bayesian probability theory and decision theory.

First, you define a Bayesian model for the system. This includes discrete propositions such as "sensor X is not working" as well as things like a description how the craft's velocity, angular velocity and displacement at t0 can evolve to at t1, expressed as a continuous probability distribution. This takes into account the prior distribution for altitude.

All sensor inputs have distributions -- generally gaussian -- describing what values they could read given the "actual" value they're supposed to be measuring if they're not broken and giving completely erroneous results.

Feeding sensor inputs into this model as they're received to produces a posterior describing the craft's physical state probabilistically. Dimensions which are relevant only insofar as they affect knowledge of the craft's physical state (such as "sensor X is not working") are marginalised out.

Secondly, you define a utility function. This function takes some definite physical state of the craft's and a possible control output, and describes how "good" the outcome of that is. Then you choose the control outputs that maximise the expected utility, integrated over the craft's posterior state distribution.

If sensor X started giving results unlikely under the time evolution model, P(Sensor X is not working|inputs,control signals,prior information) would start to increase very rapidly.

If, somewhow, this probability was only 0.5, but the sensor was showing results that the craft was below the ground, the decision process would "decide" that "if sensor X is telling the truth, firing the landing thrusters will not lead to successful mission completion; if sensor X is lying it is too early to fire the landing thrusters" and not fire the thrusters.

In reality, such a situation is absurd because sensor X showing the craft below the ground would lead to an extremely high probability for "sensor X is not working". However, the point is that even under extremely pathological conditions decision theory will continue to give reasonable results.

One important consequence to note is that the sensor readings and state estimate do not matter in themselves, only as inputs to the decision theory process.

To answer your specific question: if sensor X is determined to be, with high probability, faulty, its inputs aren't "discarded" per se, but will have a very small contribution to the state estimate. If sensor X is only believed to be faulty with moderate probability, both possibilities are considered and the optimal decision will be made given the information available and utility function.

For more information, I recommend reading chapters 13 and 14 of "Probability Theory: The Logic of Science" by E.T. Jaynes [0].

[0]: http://www.med.mcgill.ca/epidemiology/hanley/bios601/Gaussia...
A particularly relevant note from that: Shultz emailed Holmes directly, blowing her plausible deniability right out the window, probably.
Three words for you:

Law and order
As another random anecdote from another random developer, I find the site's content far outshines any purported credibility loss - which just seems like a very silly argument to make.
UX wise, a radio button that hides that section labelled "same as John Doe" might have given that flexibility without the pain of rewriting a dozen things again.
A Venture into Enlightenment’s Gadget API
Hard assets are always worth money. Real estate, durable machinery, etc. The inflation lets you erase the mortgages on them.

Many of the early backers of the Nazi regime were people who were able to get control of valuable industrial property and manufacturing equipment during the Weimar hyperinflation. Iirc, it's detailed in Albert Speer's book.
Quick question: this refers heavily to Flexbox, which as someone who has only a tangental interest in CSS, I don't know much about. Is it the standard way of doing positioning now? Care to explain it like I'm 5?
Various companies in China and Russia will read locked MCUs for a fee. Search for "MCU Break".

I know someone who uses one of these services to get the firmware for old industrial equipment whose manufacturer had long gone out of business or stopped providing support and replacing would cost far more. Total cost was <$1000USD, although that was an older MCU.
In Canada, after you fill out your ballot in secret, you fold it up and hand it to the poll worker, who tears off a stub and then hands the ballot back to you, and then you insert it into the ballot box yourself in plain view.

I don't know if this is the current case (or perhaps your scenario is one of the reasons for the current procedure), but they can just put a serial number on the stub so that the poll worker can verify that the ballot that was handed out was the one just filled out.
Media activist separated from his family by US State Department
Terrible site. Plays music and won't let you through with ad blocker.
We requested paper forms long before census night, because we were pretty sure this was going to happen. Didn't put our names or any other personally identifying info on them, either. (Never received a fine.)
Why not?
It has a WAL persisted to disk at a desired interval. It provides the same durability levels of most databases.

http://redis.io/topics/persistence
Maybe your startup just sucked at Cassandra?
I think we can adapt to whatever is available. I guess one could even manage software development with just a single line (320x8, 40x1 characters) display. It'd certainly be far from optimal, but you could do it.

Or even a dumb terminal (TTY) that prints to physical paper.
The point is the risk is the same as it's always been and the mitigation steps are the same. And that git mitigates some of the worse effects naturally.
Do you honestly believe Chavez would not be in this position? Seriously? (de pana?) Venezuela was doing 'great' because oil prices were soaring, which in turn made dubious economic policy affordable. Chavez did enjoy massive political support, mainly because venezuelans do enjoy their free rides (just look up how many pensions and public jobs Venezuela has, which, by the way, are now the ones being affected the most by this crisis).

I am absolutely sure that Maduro, while incompetent, is in the same kind of problems Chavez would be, and is pushing the same agenda Chavez would have. Let's not get confused by personality cult here.
Ask HN: What business would you do if you had $100 only?
Fans of Bosch might also enjoy this 2d animation inspired by the painting, created by Yoji Kuri in 1972

https://youtu.be/mKdcQK2v3JQ
NET Patcher library using dnlib
Sure. I did consider the scenario if the kids had a friend sleeping over that night or something, or if the respondents had adoptive or foster children etc., but I think when I traced back the line of questioning in my case there seemed to be a logical thread link there that could/should have negated asking for the same information again.

I am relying on my memory here from few months ago, so I could be wrong, but I did feel at several points during the session that quite a few questions could quite possibly be chained together in better fashion. Perhaps not so much a failing of the actual site UX designer, but the census analysts who designed the questions in the first place?
> For one thing, supporters of the sustainable information society ignore the fact that we have moved most of our manufacturing industries (and our waste) to low wage countries.

This is a common myth about the US economy, probably spread because it's useful to both the right and the left. In fact, the US manufacturing sector produces $6.2 trillion/year, exports $1.1 trillion, and imports $1.9 trillion. So about 11% of our net manufacturing "footprint" is overseas.
I actually think there's still potentially room for a new phone OS, though maybe only just barely.

iOS is in dire need of new UX patterns. Take the text selector for example, which felt like a stopgap when it was made and hasn't been changed since its release. There a ton of papercuts like this in iOS.

I don't use Android regularly so I can't speak as much to its weaknesses, but I believe there's a lot of room for improvement there as well, e.g. app discovery and distribution

There's a photo floating around of Paris Hilton holding 5 phones. It's comical but I think it also shows what's lacking. It'd be great if phones had sandboxed profiles, completely isolated from one another in true multiuser fashion. There are a lot of opportunities either for greenfield ideas or adopting existing computing ideas to phones. You might find at least enough market for a niche use capable of supporting a small to medium business
Your counterpart is probably thinking of NSW's iVote, intended for people who cannot otherwise vote at a normal polling booth, which was trialled in 2015.

It was embarrassingly insecure.

(Doesn't change the annoying niggle of conflating a state with an entire country, but I guess Americans are all Alabamans in that regard)
Sounds like you're really unhappy about the lack of type safety, but using the opportunity to vent about other irrelevant chips on your shoulder.

npm install works millions of times (If not tens of millions of times) daily. If there was a 30% failure rate, it Weeknd be way more apparent.

Obligatory left-pad mention too. Forgive me for not taking the bait. Which brings us back to type safety.

I agree type safety eliminates a certain class of errors, but here's two things to keep in mind:

1. Are type errors the most prevalent type of errors that "bring disaster"?

2. Is it possible to build great systems without type safety?

See: http://learnyousomeerlang.com/types-or-lack-thereof
it is my perception that McDonald's has been struggling because it can't decide what kind of menu it wants.

It's not healthy enough to be healthy, and it's not unhealthy enough to be delicious. The patties are dry and flavourless because they're so devoid of fat. yet it's not low-fat enough to fit in most people's diets, while the high sodium content (across everything from burgers to fries to drinks) is also problematic.

A good patty needs to be juicy, dripping with grease that soaks through a thick slice of bread and some more that you can sop up with fries already rich with tallow. mcdonald's is not that. few burgers are that.
All of the other positioning systems are still completely valid, it's just that some people (myself included) find it easier to center things horizontal + vertical and distribute items on the page.
Why would you like to be proven wrong if you think the charge against her would be "dubious?"
The Prime Minister is correct in saying that it was a predictable debacle.

Because it's bloody hard to DDoS paper forms. Widely distributed atoms are curiously disinterested in IP packets.
A ChipWhisperer and some boring winter weekends, probably. I don't break these for cash or fame; it's just for fun.
I recommend listening to all 200+ episodes od the Russian History Retold podcast, by Mark Schauss.

Here's a link to the Rasputin episode

http://podbay.fm/show/370995272/e/1387515600?autostart=1

Unrelated: Stalin's granddaughter runs an antique shop in Portland Oregon.
I get this conclusion from over a decade of add-on development, and many years of volunteering my time to/for mozilla in various capacities incl helping other add-on developers, reviewing add-ons for AMO, fixing bugs within Firefox itself, during which I became quite familiar with the code base and development process of Firefox.

PS: As to maintaining XUL vs WebExtensions API, they always maintained XUL/XPCOM themselves because that's what Firefox itself uses, meaning the entirety of Firefox developers "maintains" that "API". They regularly broke stuff for add-on developers, which was sometimes annoying, sometimes avoidable, and other times just necessary.

Some add-on developers learned to adept to that, other add-on developers switched to the add-on SDK (which like WebExtensions is a limited API, just not chrome compatible) if it was feasible, and a lot of developers will switch to the WebExtensions API if feasible in the future or even now.
You should look for the archived Instagram pages of his and make up your own mind.

Neither NYT article that I found, directly address what the innocuous meanings of hash tags like #killroom (with pic of enclosed windowless room) and #chickenlover (pic while holding a young boy) are. Like I said, I found this unusual.
Just to be clear the prices are not per book. I don't know if anyone else here stood dangerously long in that misunderstanding, almost preventing them from pulling the trigger. It's $1 for all the books on the first tier, $8 for all the books on the first and second tiers, or $15 for all of the books on the page. At first I was like, well maybe I'll get this book, this book, and that book. But then it was a no-brainer. In fact on the recommendation of a couple of posts here for DNS & Bind, I bought the whole hog.

---

$1:
Unix in a Nutshell (4th ed.)
sed & awk (2nd ed.)
lex and yacc (2nd ed.)
Learning the bash Shell (3rd ed.)
Linux Pocket Guide (3rd ed.)

$8: (all of the above, plus)
bash Cookbook
Classic Shell Scripting
Learning GNU Emacs (3rd ed.)
Unix Power Tools
Learning the vi and Vim Editors (7th ed.)
Bash Pocket Reference (2nd ed.)
Learning Unix for OS X (2nd ed.)

$15: (all of the above, plus)
Essential System Administration (3rd ed.)
TCP/IP Network Administration (3rd ed.)
DNS and BIND (5th ed.)
Network Troubleshooting Tools
iOS is in dire need of new UX patterns. Take the text selector for example, which felt like a stopgap when it was made and hasn't been changed since its release.

I'm not familiar with touch alternatives to iOS' text selector. Do you know of better ones, or have ideas how it can be improved?
I had a Moto X Play where a bug ended up just totally disabeling the lock screen. You would turn on the device and land on the home screen even though you had set an unlock pattern.

This bug was triggered by using Google Drive while the internal storage was basically full. The day after that the phone got stolen, so I couldn't take a closer look. :(
I think you misunderstand the phrase. It's a euphemism, relating to people and crimes about as far removed as possible from Holmes and her fraud.
Giving up NET profit for a single day is still huge.

That being said, the hyperbole doesn't bother me. Voting with your wallet is the single most important thing an individual can do (akin to reverse Citizens United). Giving consumers this clear cut prospective is an important function of that model (rather than crossing my fingers and hoping they don't invest those net profits in a sweatshop). My hope is that more business will follow suit.
"Zen is commercial software sold to people with a normal PC"

Note, it looks like only version 6 is out:

https://book.mynavi.jp/ec/products/detail/id=62646

It appears that DeepZen would be a new version that is not quite yet released to the public.
With a name like that, and a description like that, you gotta tell us more.
Yes, it is. I want to understand the excitement over this ruling and I want to understand the purpose of the zoning violation.
Well, if the charge is dubious, that's fine. I don't want to be proven wrong. I want the courts to work. I don't want someone prosecuted over a half-case.

Emotionally, I'd like to see a smoking gun, and I'd like to believe that corporate leadership will be held accountable for misrepresentation of their company. I don't believe that it's good for society that you can gain financial wealth or political influence by selling people nothing more than a lot of hot air, and startups/entrepreneurs have enough snake oil as-is. Theranos being able to succeed at this type of behavior gives others the incentive to attempt the same behavior themselves. I believe that companies should have to provide social value for success, not promise everyone a lot of social value with no ability to return. I don't believe that "fake it til you make it" shouldn't be a viable corporate structure for any startup. Take VC with an idea, execute on your idea, profit. Steps 1 and 2 should not be able to be easily inverted for as long and as far as Theranos has taken it.
Once there's no longer trust in the system, you're right, secure voting is no longer a problem.

Which is why it's important to fix this earlier rather than later.

If it's your goal to cast more FUD on the issue, that's your choice. I can't even ask to you be honest about it because that wouldn't be congruent with spreading FUD.
"Sometimes the only thing for a collapsing economy to do _is_ print money. It's what a failing state will do to prevent itself from becoming a failed state. "

No, this is upside down.

Printing money to pay debts, salaries - is what a 'failing state' will do to absolutely guarantee they will fail.

Central banks don't print money - they trade bonds or other assets in exchange for currency, and they do so at a rate to allow monetary expansion as the economy grows.

Cynically, you could say 'government issues debt, which is bought by central bank in exchange for $' which is very much like printing money, but it's not quite.

And 'gold' ... the amount of gold is so small it doesn't really affect anything.

A 'failing state' needs to restore confidence in it's institutions in order to get out of the hole, the last thing it can do is print money willy nilly.

The anti-populist measure would be to cap/cut government salaries, 'de facto' default on bonds - this is obviously a bad signal, but not as bad as printing money. A 'quiet default' i.e. signalling that 'there is no way we can repay so you'd better negotiate with us' is the pragmatic thing to do.
Step 1: have an actual passion for good music, weird music, music outside of the mainstream. Dance with it, vibrate to it, understand how it makes you and others feel.

Step 2: whatever. If you understand the music, the sound, the acoustics and the sensations it makes little difference what medium you choose.

Mixing and beatmatching are secondary to this. You should want to show people great music above all. The mix should just prime people to make them receptive to it.
Maybe the thief filled your Google Drive first :o
There is a major issue here where objectively false facts are presented and defended with a truly awful source and yet its uncorrectable due to the deeply unhinged individuals that present their opinions as fact on Wikipedia and have been promoted to the lofty heights that allow them to constantly undo any change you might try to make.

I long ago stopped contributing to wikipedia, its written by an ever reducing group of people who are not only uncivil but also quite often delusional. The system its designed has excluded normal people.
Federal prosecutors like cases that are easy or will win political points. There is no public outrage against unicorn biotech companies to cash in on, and it doesn't seem like there is a slam dunk fraud case either.
What's your source? The link says sales, as does the referenced letter from the CEO.

Edit: Their tweets further point towards 100% of sales, not net profit: https://twitter.com/themartincox/status/801097512622944256

But it does seem weird that they haven't come out and said "we mean 100% of the price our customers pay, not net profit."
Digg came out before Reddit, look who came out ahead. Being first gives you an initial boost, but what really will matter is who has the better product, and who markets those advantages better.
From Nils Maier, developer of some of the most complex and most popular extensions, DownThemAll! (+ MinTrayR):
Read my comments

That comment by Giorgio (nice guy btw, shared a room with him on at a couple of mozilla events) is over a year old by now and rather optimistic. So far, nothing of that happened, nor will it ever happened at a scale that actually accommodates most add-on developers.
Orange Is The New Black?
I know that it's different in every S. American state - but the fundamental divide is quite strong in most states.

Whiter = more power/status. Maybe not so much in Venezuela as in other places, but a better comparison would be Brazil or possibly Mexico.

Africa - it's black/white - not a lot of brown.

Mexico I think is 40% aboriginal 40% mixed to varying degrees and 10% white, and that's how the money/power is divided.
I thought about the conspicuous absence a bit and decided I probably would not notice the absence.

Unless I worked at a baseball factory or something where the absence truly would be conspicuous.
There was one about 6 months ago where there is a article about a books character and there were some facts about this character presented that came from no where with no source. The original author of the book came on to correct the page (being the definitive source on the character) and they could not get the article changed because there wasn't a written source and even when the author did create one it was rejected and the false facts remained.

Was frustrating to read about but it follows issues I have had trying to fix problems in some technology articles as well. Its not just an issue with biographies and politics there is basically a troll behind every false fact on wikipedia with power.
"Hard assets are always worth money. Real estate, durable machinery, etc. The inflation lets you erase the mortgages on them."

Inflation reduces the value of things priced in the currency, so the 'mortgage' is a financial product and so is worthless.

But try this: who is going to lend money to anyone to buy a home when the mortgage will be worthless in a few months?

Nobody!

The financial/credit system collapses so there are no real long term gains really.
and yet so many people think capitalism = evil and socialism = good. it's quite bizarre.
How big is the market for pre-installed Linux systems? I would buy one if they had decent distro selection. Being based in China I wonder if I should start an assembly shop for export. Custom-designed server business also appeals... but too high churn on parts to be possible as a now-and-then business.
I'm incredibly thankful for my education. I've had the privilege of being relatively well educated and looking back I am incredibly grateful that my parents were both willing and able to put me through decent schools.
> An admin played a prank on a bunch of insane, out of control conspiracy minded screaming blubbering trolls calling him a pedophile with a dumb silly find/replace rule.

"All Trump supporters are dumb racist bigoted uneducated white hick hillbillies, fuck them with a rusty rebar."
Wow, I expected a lot more from this forum.
Love this. I shall have all kinds of fun destroying various linux distros without a care in the world for the consequences. Looking forward to seeing where you go with this. I understand your reservations about building an API but is something I'll look forward to playing with when/if you do eventually provide one! Good luck with the project, I'll be watching this one closely.
I actually wasn't sure if i should even post the Google Drive part, because theoretically this might even be exploitable in some way. I also found other people with the same bug online, so it really was a thing.
I agree with scast.

95% of the issue is oil prices.

Chavez would be strung up just as bad as Maduro right now if he were not already dead.

The 'free money' stopped flowing, and the system fell apart.
My speculations on how ISPs may implement UK IP Bill requirements