skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It becomes entirely a brand thing and is the original value proposition for brand names. By offering trade mark and trade dress protection for brand names it allows a manufacturer to make available test results, and to periodically inspect/test product for compliance with those results, so that the customer's expectations will be met.

These days people buy the "kirkland signature[1]" product and two things are true, the person most responsible for putting that product on the shelf in front of you is motivated by cutting manufacturing cost and maximizing profit above all other concerns, even whether or not the product resembles at all what the packaging says it does. They are not aligned with your desire for a quality product.

If you are a discerning customer you will find that the actual ingredients of, and quality, of a product with a house brand varies from state to state and year to year. That is an effect of the 'buyer' shopping around a contract to manufacturers, domestic and abroad, who will maximize their profit.

Of course that doesn't mean that if you buy a "brand name" that you are getting the best product. But at least the manufacturer is invested in the quality when it has their name on it and reasonably aligned with the consumer's interests. That goes out the window when it is someone else's name on the end product.

[1] This is the CostCo "house brand" for products they have sourced through a variety of manufacturers.
I don't know, as a Kid all we saw was games, games, games. As soon as the machine was unboxed, we inserted the disk and type RUN. We never heard the name BASIC anywhere, except maybe in passing while booting.
> theoretically capable of supporting even banks

https://scala.epfl.ch/

> The examples you mentioned are relative small. You know what's big? Walmart. WellsFargo. Honeywell. Novartis.

https://www.lightbend.com/resources/case-studies-and-stories...

https://www.lightbend.com/resources/case-studies-and-stories...

https://medium.com/@kvnwbbr/transitioning-to-scala-d1818f25b...
I understand what you're saying here. But the baseline sanity set is pretty fixed. Localhost, RFC1918, IPv6 link local, etc. I'm not advocating folks blacklist every bad actor on the internet - that obviously cannot work - but there's some simple things you can do to prevent a malicious user from configuring webhooks that attack your internal services.
I tried that at the Apple Store.

It's an option.

But there are so many programs that require ESC, so it's only a half-way solution.
...Which is why nobody actually knows x86. Yet another reason it sucks. Also the reason I'm not trying to write x86 code.

I mean, seriously Intel. Memory Segmentation? Yuck. And that's just the tip of the iceberg.
There is a huge distributed performance advantages vs TensorFlow. You can get a hint from Prof. Carlos Guestrin's keynote talk at Data Science Summit 2016. Also, CMU CS Dean Andrew Moore cited MXNet as "is the most scalable framework for deep learning I have seen"
On several social engineering calls I've had reps who were happy with just "it's just a bunch of random characters, would be a little silly if I tried to read it out"
You could do the same as many OSS projects - offer an up-to-date version and an LTS version, both with clear schedules. If the LTS is stable - nothing except security or crucial bug fixes - hopefully you won't lose much time supporting it.
Makes sense. Thinking about it maybe the movements of the right hand also require more strength.
>> one by one my dear, one by one. atleast you'll agree that this move makes most of the cash traceable, right?
> Last time I checked its still legal to trade in cash. They didn't ban cash, they just swapped notes. And bulk of the black wealth isn't even in cash.

And How are they going to acquire the swapped cash? by declaring the assets and income so they's come under IT radar, right? isnt that the core reason behind doing this? to connect money with individual. Once the money is 'whited' how willing do you think after this they'll be willing again to turn it into black & go through this ever painful cycle again?

What do you think happens to the 60/40 real estate transactions after this? why do you think real estate prices are falling? Its because its pricing in the writing on the wall. So if you take away real estate how many major avenues are left out there to park black money? So ya you can have your dark cash you cant just cant buy a whole lot with it.

In fact I thought as a side effect this would be great time for cryptocurrencies in India.

>> That's really some strange definition of getting fleeced, because salaried classes don't even contribute to the bulk of the taxes.

Ah yes, the romney 47% argument. the problem with these arguments is it conveniently ignores the actual portion of overall income that goes to salaried class. and do this over decades & you've got massive wealth inequality thats baked into the system where if anything is done to reverse it quickly gets labeled as socialism/populism.

>> This is also known as 'slowing the growth'.

yes, I agree in short term, but look at multiplier effects in longer term. if most transactions are white there is less chances of money getting parked into rentseeking assets like realestate. realestate falling is good for economy as one mans income is another mans expenses otherwise. more productive assets & more vibrant economy. Do think about this.

>> But none of this fixed any problem.

Not yet, but its only been a week. these are the birth pangs of a new India. the real question is will you start seeing things turn around before the next elections or not. I think so ;-)
If you need 1 engineer available 24/7, you need 3 teams of 3, one each in APAC, AMER and EMEA, at minimum. You can't sustain running with less, otherwise people can't ever take vacations or get sick... if you need 2 you need at least 12 and so on.
I do this. I told the CS rep that my password hint was "just random characters mashed on the keyboard" and she accepted this and moved on. I'm not sure what to think of the security implications.
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A great introduction to Socket.io
Nope, that isn't a good start. I'm looking for examples that show the US has a bad working environment. You providing a wiki link to "unions in the USA" does not address the question.

What is bad about our labor environment and why? And compared to whom?
The PC Mag link claims that this is alleviated on routers with shielded USB 3.0 ports while using shielded cables. Are the ports unshielded on the new Macbooks, or are the people reporting the issue using unshielded cables? Is Apple shipping these with unshielded cables?
We aren't computer scientists either. There is a mismatch between what we call ourselves, what we're trained as and what we actually do.
>There is nothing in agile which prevents upstream / downstream teams from working in parallel and iterating on components.

a task (for example acting on a feedback, fixing a bug, etc.) can't be taken in mid-sprint because it would affect the sprint's deliveries and thus a replanning mid-sprint would be needed which thus makes all this ritualistic sprint belly-dancing pointless. So, the downstream has to wait until next sprint for any actions by the upstream wrt. the feedback while that downstream is still responsible for meeting its current sprint deliveries which it has hard time to satisfy given the unsatisfactory delivery state from the upstream. After being burnt this way several times the downstream team finally learns from experience and refuses (or fights pretty heavy against management pressure) to take on in a given sprint any tasks which depend on components which haven't reached deep maturity by the sprint's start or any maturity at all and hell no to any promises that that upstream is coming down mid that sprint (any deliveries from upstream, even if scheduled for mid-sprint actually almost always come at the end of the sprint). And if it is the first version or a major change you can't even seriously plan on working with it next sprint - see feedback sprint cycle above - the best you can hope is the end of the sprint next after the next... That makes even idea of iterative parallel process pretty much impossible, a bad joke slow as toothache.

>Again, if your project is organized in component teams then you're likely to have those problems regardless of methodology.

Agile worsens these issues couple orders of magnitude compare to traditional relaxed [i.e. we aren't coding F-35] waterfall.
Improvements in AI, but no "general AI" or "human-equivalent AI", and no real clue on how to get there.

No singularity.

Human-equivalent or better speech recognition.

Display resolutions have stopped increasing, because they're as good as needed. (For example, audio topped out at 44.1 ksamples/second x 16 bits, stereo. That was enough for almost everyone, even though a few fanatics say they can hear the difference. Video will top out at something like 4000 x 6000 pixels, 48 bits/pixel, 60 frames/second.)

Self-driving cars may be so dominant that you will need a special license to disengage the autopilot.

DRM will be clearly recognized as a failed idea.

Privacy will be in your own home only, and not even there for your online actions.

Moore's Law will be stone-cold dead.

Solar energy will supply at least half of electrical load, at least in the US and Europe (maybe a quarter of world load).

In 2050, someone will resurrect this thread so that people can laugh at all our mistakes.
The last line of the article is a summary

> The bottom line: Elon Musk attracts a wide array of real and fake online antagonists criticizing his work on electric cars, rockets, and solar panels.

Is "the bottom line" a thing Bloomberg has started including with some articles or is this a bizarre one off?
>In many places, employers are also setting wages too low, defining qualifications too narrowly, or not recruiting widely enough. Many people who are eager to work can’t because they lack transportation, or don’t have anybody to watch their children during the workday.

Well, I think that's a perfect summary. Employers either need to pay up, or pony up taxes to local governments to pay up. A competent, polite, punctual workforce doesn't happen all on its own, and trying to dragoon people into one through poverty mostly just leaves you with unusable, crappy labor and low productivity growth.
Yes, except in the Swedish phones, where the numbering starts from 0. So dialing 0 would make 1 pulse, dialing 1 would make 2 pulses, and dialing 9 would make 10 pulses.
The relevant issues:

apt: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/2973
yum/dnf: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/229
That's true, but I'm having hard time thinking of a use case where a sustained, hidden compromise is 'worse' than a one-time compromise.

I mean, I guess they could login to your bank every week and transfer out $50 instead of just transferring out all your money on day 1, but... ?
Point 1, can be a little more tricky than it seems. At first you'll think, I'll just use a regex to match known local addresses to protect again evil callback urls like http://127.0.0.1/status.

You'll realize though you have to actually resolve hostnames, because users can just create an A record of foo.bar.com that points to 127.0.0.1.
Those time tacking features are really great. Is there a way to aggregate the spent hours over a day or week?
No, nene no. Statistical techniques start from hypotheses and are validated by tests and confidence intervals.

Here we basically don't care what's our chances of getting it wrong. It's a marginal feature in some email client, not quality control in a brewery.
If all you found was an old API from half a decade ago that doesn't even exist anymore, than I think that's a pretty good case for Scala.
Please help us get SwiftAutomation into 10.13 by taking a moment to duplicate the two following Radar tickets (include their rdar:// numbers to help Radar maintainers determine they're dupes), and telling everyone you know to do likewise, and so on:

http://openradar.appspot.com/29329704
http://openradar.appspot.com/29363517

More duplicate requests = more likely to get Apple's attention.

See also:

http://lists.apple.com/archives/applescript-users/2016/Nov/m...
ramzi bolton like this! kudos for the fuckers who did this!
Found it, thanks :)
How does it require ffmpeg?
Awesome!

In the next release we'll hopefully have the "hot-exit" behavior like Sublime, where you can close the editor without having to save files, and they're back where you left off when re-opening.

Apparently, the PR for this got merged only 2 weeks ago [1]

[1] https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/101#issuecomment-...
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Yes, I know that Otto is Italian for 8. But even if I convert the italian word to the number, it doesn't make sense, because "8" doesn't have digits on either side of the digit so there's nothing to sum up.
Well... the original BBC Basic was originally hand-written in 6502 assembly for the BBC Micro; it's a 16kB application ROM. Later versions were rewritten for the 65C102. The extra opcodes available freed up some space and they added a few more features, and made it even faster (and BBC Basic was already one of the fastest 8-bit Basics around). I don't believe that any of the 6502-era Acorn sources were ever released, which is a shame, as Acorn's MOS was one of the best 8-bit operating systems around.

Basic V was a complete rewrite for the ARM. In hand-tooled ARM machine code, also by Sophie Wilson. The source for this is available from the CVS archive here: https://www.riscosopen.org/content/downloads/cvs-access But trust me, it won't help. I've debugged my way through it. It's very... hand written.

Oh, yes: there are also ports of BBC Basic IVish to the 8086 and the Z80 by R.T. Russell: http://www.bbcbasic.co.uk/bbcbasic/bbcbasic.html He wasn't associated with Acorn, as far as I know. The 8086 version (for Windows and DOS) is commercial, but the Z80 version (for a variety of CP/M machines) is a free download. Not open source, unfortunately. His version even includes 80186 or Z80 inline assemblers, depending on the version. His Z80 port was licensed for a variety of machines --- Amstrad made a range of Z80 notebooks with his Basic in ROM. I've used all his versions, and they're superb.
If you use the right random word combinations for the class name generation, and the code actually does something, this may be near-indistinguishable from a real Java codebase.
This is where we hit some ideological barriers. As a leftist, I can see the perverse incentives that many to most reporters are working with (helping friends, trying to please execs for promotions, not upsetting sources with good info), but I don't see them as affecting everyone in the same way. The Intercept, with its ties to Snowden, would happily declare Wikileaks dead and lead the charge for a replacement. Aljazeera would probably love to paint their satellite news rival as blatantly dishonest. Breitbart prints anything that makes Clinton look bad (Assange dropping dead as he threatened to sink her campaign would do the trick). And that's just the organizational component, a CNN reporter with internal clout and incentives to do so might be able to run this story.

Meanwhile right-wing news outlets sell themselves with the "media is corrupt" line so heavily that people on that end of the spectrum seem to think serving Soros and the Clintons is something they teach at journalism school. "Free and independent press" in scare quotes is probably a message in itself to most readers of r/WhereIsAssange, but it doesn't convince anyone who doesn't already believe that a global conspiracy controls everything from the BBC to the newest online newspapers.
awesome. Thanks. Have bookmarked this for the Christmas break. If you don't mind me asking - how old is the content? And what did you teach at GA?
That's what you get when the reps can see the answers. The only working solution is to have the reps "log in" to the users account by entering the security question answer.

If the reps can see the answer, it's far too easy for the attacker to turn the verification process into a game of twenty questions.
> That's not how immune systems work. This isn't just a round of going to the gym. Getting a vaccine also gives your immune system a chance to learn and react, but without the severe degradation of your condition and the significant risk of secondary infection.

Citation please. I'm somewhat skeptical about GP's viewpoint, but equally skeptical that you can so confidently dismiss him, given the number of things we still don't understand about the immune system. For example, doctors still haven't managed to cure any autoimmune illness, even though we've studied them for quite some time.

Full disclosure: I suffer from autoimmune illness, and every time I ask me doctor about my condition, the answer is often 'we still haven't figured it out'. The sheer complexity of all the different immune cell types, cytokine signaling, antibody production, etc. is mind-boggling, and is the product of millions of years of evolutionary arms race.

In particular, vaccines predispose your immune system towards an immediate Th2-type (humoral) response, while acute viral infection prompts first a Th1 (intracellular) response, then a Th2 response during recovery.

A strong Th1 immune response is generally more effective against viral illnesses, so it's possible that if you had a different concurrent viral infection, getting the flu could encourage your body to clear both at the same time.

Also, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hygiene_hypothesis

> you run less of a risk of getting secondary infection when your immune system is weakened

That's true, but you haven't shown that getting the flu weakens your immune system.

> While your system is focussed on fighting off one infection, it's less able to deal with secondary infections.

Your citation doesn't actually support your claim. Latent subclinical infections are real, and it's possible that acute febrile illness can stimulate the immune system to go after other bugs that have been hiding or dormant.

There is some evidence that ongoing viral infections can weaken your bodies defenses against bacterial illnesses and vice versa.
If the SPA is large, server side rendering is faster. Users get the first page in milliseconds, whatever page it is, then the SPA loads and takes over. I would do that for a few entry points to the site, for example the ones that get into the sitemap in the Google results page.
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Kinda like how Apple's USB3 ports are not colored blue, for aesthetics... ?
I keep telling people in my profession who didn't really learn important things in school: "regression" should really be called "iid regression".

For example: time-series econometrics is a whole field dedicated to try to squeeze iid information from stuff that's not iid. So you can use regression.

But they're receptive to my message because they were repetitively warned that curve fitting was not regression analysis. Somehow this is lost in our "data" culture.
> The accessibility of [cars] does not affect its impact on society.

I would think the accessibility of something is directly related to its impact on society most of the time. There is no doubt ml has already had an impact, but putting it in the hands of non-technical users opens up possibilities that the technical crowd is incapable of imagining.
so the whole thing was just an exercise in choosing a cut point? It would seem like you might want to revisit this sort of thing every now and then, what fer since both web "frameworks", your parsing code, and CPU hardware change over time.
If you tap the < button to expand the control strip, you get the classic volume up / volume down buttons. Also, as I just discovered, if you tap the volume button to get the slider, you can actually tap the icons on either end of the slider which will act like the classic volume up / down buttons too (even though they don't look like buttons).
If SMS isn't a recommended 2FA, do they recommend some other means of 2FA?
But what is equivalent After Effects tool for creating animated svg's? I'm not aware of any existing simple/robust tool to animate svg's in a traditional manner. And definatly not with a tool many already know how to use, as well as tutorials for accomplishing anything one might come up with. Is there anything?
Does anyone know if these in jeopardy of being reversed by the Trump Administration?
That definitively happens; it helps if your platform allows for dynamic translation (e.g. from the database), rather than static dictionaries.
I wish there was an option on HN to hide all paywalled sites.
Good question --- I just looked it up. Alas, no, it's not implemented at all. It doesn't even support CALL (but it does support BBC Basic's equivalent of PEEK and POKE).
His biggest (current) problem regarding SpaceX is that satellites aren't mass-produced.

If it was, buying a spot on a Falcon or on a Delta would be simple:

TCOFalcon = cost of launch + self-insurance-markup.

TCODelta = cost of launch + self-insurance-markup.

Falcon costs $1233/lb

Delta IV costs $8694/lb.

To compare apples to apples, to launch 50,000 lbs (a full Falcon FT 50,000 lb), a Falcon would cost 61,650,000, and a Delta IV would cost 434,700,000).

A Delta IV failed once out of 33, and the Falcon 9 failed three out of 29.

Therefore, TotalCostOfLaunch = CostOfLaunch+costOfSatellite * failureRate.

For TCODelta = TCOFalcon

CostOfLaunchDelta+costOfSatellitefailureRateDelta = CostOfLaunchFalcon+costOfSatellitefailureRateFalcon.

Plugging in Numbers,

434,700,000+c * (1/33) = 61,650,000+c * 3/29

c/33-2 * c/28 = 61,650,000 - 434,700,000

c = 5,100,126,428

Any satellite worth less than five billion (!! That's an _insanely_ expensive single mission) would be cheaper to launch on a Falcon, despite its failure rate

The only problem is that you have to wait for a new satellite
Doesn't hurt to have competing standards. Also the major issue with Flash was the execution environment, not the file format. Running Flash inside the browser opened up all sorts of security holes. This just uses javascript to manipulate shadow DOM elements. Pretty standard practices in a modern JS framework.
But I'm pretty sure hurricanes aren't HTTP/1.1 compliant.
> prove that a unit weighted linear model will get the same result as the optimal linear model 75% of the time on average

This is such an important result & yet doesn't seem to be a widely known result. Your proof is very well done. You should consider publishing it in CMJ. Or if you don't mind, I'd be happy to rework it & send it in :) Thanks for writing it up.
Blue Nation Review was a progressive news website. At the end of 2015, it was bought by Clinton surrogate David Brock (of writing The Real Anita Hill, the character assassination book to discredit Anita Hill so Clarence could become a justice of the Supreme Court). Staff of BNR were fired and it was turned into a Clinton propaganda machine with mostly pro-Hillary, anti-Bernie, and anti-Trump stores. BNR's 1 million subscribers on social media had no idea that this happened.
I work for a successful IoT company and my advice is: don't. State of the art in home automation is: impossibly insecure & rarely helpful. The so-called "smart" home is anything but smart; it takes lots of manual configuration to make it perform as intelligently as you'd wish (and if you have a knack for coding, you'll end up reimplementing your vendor's hideously expensive "smart home hub" that was supposed to do the work for you). The industry is simply too young and immature.

Speaking of security: You have no bloody idea how easy it is for anyone with some crypto/security background to break into an IoT appliance or its vendor's cloud services. In the era where an average web development Joe knows a lot about SSL certs, CSRF, XSS and all that stuff, the average embedded developer's idea of encryption is AES in ECB mode (but not too many bits - "our MCU won't handle that!").
Why every second article is about google ? Really not anything else ?