skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I take my watch off when I go to sleep

This is where you differ from many (probably most?) watch wearers.
So, here's where I mark myself as a dinosaur: why are you trying to set a specific font for a web page? Clients select fonts for a reason.
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“AV is my single biggest impediment to shipping a secure browser.”
we have private sector running trains here in the UK and they seem mostly incompetent
Absolutely agreed!
Bypassing CSP using polyglot JPEGs
R vs. Python for Data Science [video]
Aaron Kozak, the Digital Marketing Coordinator for ForgeRock, has released the following statement (see: https://forgerock.org/topic/where-has-the-trunk-gone/#post-1...):

"We apologise for any inconvenience our recent changes may have caused. We are preparing for the next major release of the ForgeRock Identity Platform and as part of this process, we are no longer providing public access to our nightly builds and source code for the upcoming platform release. Open source downloads are still available via https://backstage.forgerock.com/downloads."
IMO the X5000 is kind of a joke. It doesn't even have USB 3.0, for instance. I really don't understand how A-Eon or Hyperion stay in business. Why the entire Amiga community, including the commercial interests, don't get behind AROS is just insane.
Would you mind providing a source for 2)?

In my experience you couldn't be more wrong.
I like the styling. Clean, readable, works on hi-res screens and small screens like mobile. What would you want more? 3MB of CSS?
I agree. I backed pebble each time on kickstarter, and bought some of them for friends, too.

They are by far and away my favorite smartwatch. The others have just no appeal to me at all.

Fitbit, however, makes awful devices, IMO. I really hope they don't kill the Pebble magic.
The things my eyes have seen – PTSD in First Responders
There is absolutely no way Uber will have fully self-driving cars in a few years (a car that picks you up without a driver). If anything is going to save Uber, it's going to be Otto. Self-driving trucks are a much easier technical problem and the market is the better part of a trillion dollars just in the US.
Oh yes, I can thoroughly recommend that book. The author's dry descriptions of things going horribly, horribly wrong are extremely amusing. I found the second half to be a lot more chemistry and a lot less accidents than the first half (which is definitely the more amusing one). It's long out of print, sadly, and used copies go for obscene amounts (there's one on Amazon for $2099, and no I didn't forget the decimal point), and it seems to be in the public domain anyway (at least the science madness library claims so), so you probably don't have to feel bad for just grabbing the pdf.

Here's a nice teaser quote from Chapter 3, "The Hunting of the Hypergol":

Came the day of the first trial. The propellants were hydrazine and
WFNA. We were all gathered around waiting for the balloon to go
up, when Uncle Milty warned, "Hold it—the acid valve is leaking!"
"Go ahead—fire anyway!" Paul ordered.

I looked around and signaled to my own gang, and we started back-
ing gently away, like so many cats with wet feet. Howard Streim
opened his mouth to protest, but as he said later, "I saw that dogeating
grin on Doc's face and shut it again," and somebody pushed
the button. There was a little flicker of yellow flame, and then a
brilliant blue-white flash and an ear-splitting crack. The lid to the chamber
went through the ceiling (we found it in the attic some weeks later),
the viewports vanished, and some forty pounds of high-grade optical
glass was reduced to a fine powder before I could blink.

I clasped both hands over my mouth and staggered out of the lab,
to collapse on the lawn and laugh myself sick, and Paul stalked out in
a huff. When I tottered weakly back into the lab some hours later I
found that my gang had sawed out, carried away, and carefully lost,
some four feet from the middle of the table on which the gadget had
rested, so that Paul's STIDA could never, never, never be reassembled,
in our lab.
I was waiting for my Pebble Time 2 from Kickstarter, but seeing the comments there I guess I'll never get it
Android phones seem to have issues with Bluetooth LE connections especially when other non-LE Bluetooth devices are connected to it. Listening to music on my Bluetooth headphones was impossible when my Pebble Time Round was paired with my old Galaxy S7 Edge or my Galaxy S6 Edge. Audio quality would degrade significantly.

Disabling LE on my Pebble worked (sort of) at the obvious expense of higher battery consumption.

This doesn't seem to be the case on the iPhones I've had, though my Pebble is much less useful on iOS than it is on Android.

Every smartwatch at the moment has compromises.
I think the better way of phrasing this is that the growth of data vastly outpaces our ability to implement advancements in speed technologies.
Off topic here. I am a grad student looking for an internship in India, I tried as many good companies I could but sending emails somehow doesn't feel right. I would like to try amazon India. Can you point me in the right direction? I am kinda lost.
Personally I suspect it was from earlier than that. I think you can trace it back to Nixon at least who fully severed the dollar from gold and thus removed the last bit of restraint that countries had against the US from inflating too much or too quickly.

This was a huge hit that helped to spark runaway debts and inflation, to be sure.

But I'd go further back and say The Fed. It did more than anyone to give us the roaring 20's and the great depression.
Fascinating!

The methods are very interesting -- a threshold (similar to "just noticeable difference" (JND) used in cognitive/perceptual science); an attempt at estimating the size of the space; an attempt using Hausdorff dimension to approximate the number of dimensions (one could consider a multi-dimensional scaling approach to this too).

But the choice of data and features means the results shouldn't be taken too seriously:

> We have implemented such a capability using feature counting, where a feature can be a word or phrase with statistically significant frequency, or the author’s name, or specific text from popup-menu selections, or if available, background database demographics about the author (his or her department, location, title, etc.).

If you use e.g. author's name and demographics as features, then this will contaminate the features that describe the ideas themselves. The rest of the results just aren't worth reading about until that problem is fixed.
How is a tourist supposed to know this and avoid getting ripped off?

My brother lives there and explained to me how they can be identified, I otherwise would not have known.
Escaping the South Indian Monkey Trap
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This is great, and perfect timing too (considering proximity to holiday shopping)! Also, the minimal styling keeps things running faster, and in a non-obtrusive manner.

One small/tiny recommendation: you may want to add a little more content as to the background on this...so visitors understand where the data comes from (mentions in reddit forums, etc.), and that while this doesn't encompass everything on the internet, it skews toward mentions from tech-centric websites, etc. Again, don;t need to go crazy, just expand a tiny bit more on the data background...and hey, might as well insert something about you (which might help you get more coverage for future jobs! ;-).

Otherwise, kudos for shipping this! Cheers!
Well there you go. It's not a decider for you. But for me, I camp, hunt, hike, fish, and travel constantly.

I spend more often than not 3-4 days away from power in a given week.
I imagine surprisingly many. I have operations that are not remotely on that scale. 8 employees with total data on the order of tens of terabytes. I found that to be a surprisingly heavy density of data per employee. A 1000 employee company with the same density is on the petabyte scale.
> Rust feels, looks, and probably is, quite complex. As opposed to, for example, Haskell

Do you really think that Haskell is less complex than Rust, or am I just reading your comment wrong?
That's a good point. I wonder how things will shake out for Uber if NAFTA is renegotiated.

In any case, one game-changing regulation or political event could wipe out tens of billions in perceived value. If, for example, a small cluster of European countries banned Uber for whatever reason, it could make the entire house of cards collapse if they don't cross the self-driving car chasm fast enough.
I'm not sure if you meant just the communication system was underground but some sections of the routes go overground (e.g. a large section of East West line is overground).
Instead of five, don't you mean "two to three"? And under that comparison, isn't it scary how much it does sound that way? Like a kid who hears words together but don't know what they mean yet? (and doesn't really get the cultural things around it.) To me it sounds like a quite musical 2-3 year old stringing words together. Doesn't it strike anyone else that way?

These things are going to grow up very, very soon! We know that. It's scary.

You're watching a two-year old. It's interesting to think about what it will be like when it's ten, sure.

But what will really blow your mind is what it'll be like when it's 23. This is happening right now, before our eyes.

I cannot overemphasize that any large server farm at Google or Amazon is doing more, and much faster, processing than a human brain's neural net. Human brain is 86 billion neurons with an average of 7,000 synaptic connections each. That is a huge number. But they are firing at 15-300 herz (because they're at biological speed, instead of lightspeed like our CPU's) - which is 7 orders of magnitude slower than our silocon. Our brain is about 3 pounds (1,300-1,400 g) and uses some 20 watts.

It's not a question of "if" a server farm will have as powerful neural nets. It's a question of "when".

(Also although we won't be using it, the entire source code for the human brain has to be strictly less than 700 MB, because the fully sequenced human genome which obviously encodes the full human mind is less than 700 MB uncompressed.)

Guys, we are at an incredible pivot point in human history. We are coming up with computerized brains with in some ways comparable architecture to humans, and they are doing human activities.

Today, in 2016, there are thousands, perhaps tens of thousands, of server rooms all over the world that have more than enough computational power to do in real-time what a human adult brain does in real time - but we lack the software.

when we see advances like this in artificial intelligence, this is scary.

We're all but looking at the intellectual output of a two year-old in the field of music.

every single day AI results are astounding. this is it.
But that's not a web page, it's a web app! I want full control of it!

... I don't even know myself if I'm being sarcastic or not ...
In fact most christians are not creationists , and most christians have more modern views of the world than that and also about LGBT rights and evolution, most of the groups that support middle age views are evangelical from the USA, the ones that twist the bible and pick what it interests to them, which happens to be the ones that promote most lies about climate change and i can't hear/see the others groups trying to stop them.
Reddit CEO who altered comments apologizes, unveils subreddit filtering
Perhaps it's because most people buy said laptop at apple.com and not amazon.com
Do you live here in Scandinavia? Because the comment on entrepreneurship sounds VERY odd for me living here in Stockholm. I've literally never seen an instance of that, quite the opposite. Being a business person is just an occupation as any other, what Swedes are quite against is for you to make 100x to 1000x what your workers earn just by being the owner or CEO of the company.

This sense of equality is well ingrained in society and it's one of the reasons I wanted to live here (after living most of my life in Brazil).

Like another comment in this thread said: Uber can still operate here, you just can't disguise a service making profit as carpooling. I've used Uber quite a lot here and every single time it was just a taxi also running with Uber, I don't think this ban will affect Uber at all.
I understand that when telling a story, adding details and texture is necessary to immerse the reader, but parts of this article broke my immersion

> Besso was short with narrow, pointed features and a thick pile of coarse black hair on his head and chin.

That's a fairly objective description - there's even a photo of him. Moving along.

> ...Einstein had a look of cool detachment. Besso had the look of a nervous mystic.

Come on! We need an "artist's impression" disclaimer here.
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I don't think it's a bad thing. It's a dangerous thing, but not bad per say.

The last years everything is changing to a "ME"-culture, of which this is also evidence. Respect for teachers is disappearing, and when a child gets bad grades, the teacher is the bad guy or woman...

I am a firm believer of a safe environment for children. But I also believe that complete freedom is not the solution.
I've had cable internet for nearly 20 years without cable TV. I suspect that bundling effect won't be enough to slow down the hemorrhaging.
Do any of these support North American GSM bands? I remember looking through them last year some time, and every one I looked at only had 900/1800.
Basic Meteor Authentication in Phoenix
> However, customers with exabyte-scale on-premises storage look at the 80 TB, do the math, and realize that an all-out data migration would still require lots of devices and some headache-inducing logistics.
Why I wrote a book about interpreters
Benedict Evans got the cost of driverless cars to something like 0.40 cents/mile if I'm not mistaken.

Also another option for Uber should have been shared trips, which should have(?) network effects , but they don't seem to do very well at that , compared to the competition .
How physics falls apart if the EMdrive works
I and two good friends of mine all had experiences like this interviewing for Amazon internships. I got this prompt, one of my friends made it as far as the on-site. All of us bailed because things got too Byzantine to look worth engaging with, and other options were pretty available.

I didn't take up SDE time, but my friend did. I'd be curious whether it's costing you more time because you need more candidates to fill a slot...
The "asshole" advising the president on education is generally a teacher. People don't magically become terrible just because they work for the government.

It's healthy to be skeptical of the government. It's not healthy to always assume malice, because it makes you so biased that you do things like assume your mechanic knows more about the safety of cars than the people whose only job is to determine the safety of cars.
Even then it depends on medium, an LTO-7 or HDD can store ~26GB/cm3 while an SDXC tops out at around 1TB/cm3.
It would be hard to argue that Bitcoin transactions are concealment since they are completely public and very hard to transact, purchase or redeem without linking a great deal of personal information to your identity.

There are ways of buying and selling Bitcoins that do not require you give all your personal information (for instance localbitcoins) but you will likely pay a markup (33% was a number that someone quoted to me) far greater than your taxes and you will only be able to move small amounts of money.
And taxis sometimes are cheaper than Uber here. I just moved apartments and paid 400 SEK for a taxi van to carry most of my boxes from one part of Stockholm to another, Uber XL was quoting a fare between 550 and 620 SEK.
please add option to filter by max ram capacity, and whether the hdd is upgradeable. I just started to look for a ram and HDD upgrade for my 3 yr old ASUS zenbook prime, only to find out neither were upgradeable. I wish I knew that before I paid $1100.
A surprising number of comments are questions that are answered explicitly in the article.

PSA: consume the full content before you comment on the content.
And they cost a smartphone / month. AWS has a 40$ dev support package which is great.
You hit the nail on the head. People always assume my Pebble is just a watch. The absolute best reaction to a smartwatch, IMO.

It's just a watch. That does neat things if I ask it to. Period.

That's what Pebble delivered for me - the watch experience. I didn't want yet another OLED battery sucking device to monitor, I wanted a timex with adjustable features that I could code or change on the fly. If Pebble dies, that's probably what I'll go back to.
We will look back and marvel at the myopia of the global "boomers".

All the while suffering from the exact same myopia.
For sure. I love my Time Round. It's almost exactly what I've been looking for in a smartwatch since day 1: round, light, reasonably long battery, supports rich notifications and is cross-platform. Nothing else on the market comes close to it. The Apple Watch is amazing but only works on iOS and the data it stores isn't easily exportable to other services. Android watches are still too beta for me and their round offerings are way too bulky. Both have pretty bad battery life; I was lucky to get a day out of either and have, more often than not, had them die on me mid-day.

I hope Fitbit releases something like this with their newly-acquired IP. I'm not counting on it, however.
The dollar is going up because of the prospect of a lower corporate tax rate and increased infrastructure spending. The first means companies will have more motivation to bring profits into the United States and the second is believed to lead to investment (though China is an example that shows this can be taken too far). As to whether this will improve the economy, I have serious doubts that US presidents have much ability to impact the economy barring very extreme measures, and those measures generally do damage, not good.
Similarly, people search questions in live phone interviews all the time. If you ask "tell me about UDP", they'll read you the Wiki page. If you ask "tell me about the best known connectionless networking protocol", they're not likely to turn that up in a convincing amount of time.
Github: https://github.com/DavidYork/SpriteGenerator
Great point, I have seen the same situation and we don't have cable as well. The other coach and I can tell the kids that do watch a lot of baseball. Their baseball IQ is a lot higher... but they've copied the swings and mannerisms of some pro players. Those little hitches in their swings or deliveries hurt them on the field. The kids that don't watch baseball have some pure swings... its pretty... but they are situationally clueless until or if they really dive in.
"One Snowmobile can transport up to one hundred petabytes of data in a single trip, the equivalent of using about 1,250 AWS Snowball devices." -- https://aws.amazon.com/snowmobile/

You'd have to find a thousand 1GBe ports in your data center (unless Amazon would ship an expensive switch along with Snowballs) -- that's about two server cages' (10 racks x42U) worth. You will have to find a lot of power -- while Snowmobile can bring a generator.

I doubt there will be a lot of demand for Snowmobiles, though.
I wonder if the dimensionality 14 is something intrinsic to idea spaces in general, or if they're actually measuring the dimensionality of the human brain's storage of ideas? Or something about the English language even?
This discussion should really come to the forefront of the energy conversation in the US with the Trump presidency. His commitment to ramping up oil production and reversing all of the initiatives to increase investment in alternative, sustainable energy resources will hurt the US' progress towards relying less on fossil fuels which are not sustainable. His motivations are obviously to prioritize the big oil companies making money.
FWIW, I believe outlets are shutting down (or have already shut down) the Google search loophole.
This is not even a proper song.
Because presentation matters a lot in a lot of cases.
But usually a lower salary than otherwise.
Ueber is using billions operating a model that does not work. This uneconomic model is heavily leveraging SV investment and vehicle owner investment. Of course one can postulate that Ueber could operate a driverless model an be successful with it. But where is any evidence for that?

Running driver-less would require a totally different company structure from head to toe - from vehicle financing to vehicle serving in the field. None of that is in place and one could justifiable argue quite a few other companies are better positioned if that should come to pass.
Same here, except I backed PT2 on KickStarter. I'm not having high hopes I'll receive it now.
Interestingly, in the new CBA which was agreed to last night, they have removed this.
Well, the problem is that for some reason Uber and its drivers do not think they have to live up to the same regulations that taxi drivers do, even though they provide the same exact service and compete for the same customers. That is called unfair competition.

So if you allow Uber to exist in its current form then you'd also have to waive taxi regulations, and I do not see why we would be interested in doing that.

Oh, and I have never experienced the hostility towards entrepreneurship and private business. But of course I wasn't born before the 80's, so can't comment on that :-)
http://www.macrotrends.net/1381/debt-to-gdp-ratio-historical...

you think leaders from the early to mid-80s are responsible for debt levels more than doubling over the last 2.5 decades? put down the partisan pills.
Worst case shipping is ~30 days (e.g. China to Hamburg), which is 38.6GB/s for 100PB in a container.

I doubt you have a permanent dedicated 40+GB link between you and the nearest AWS data center.

Shipping by boat would still be way faster than a network upload.
>You can't omit Bitcoin transactions from your tax return just because they seem anonymous

I agree if this is trading, where there are net gains (or losses) from fluctuations in value.

I assume, though, that a notable number of bitcoin transactions are just buying and/or selling merchandise. Buyers convert existing money that's already reported to the IRS (like their salary) into bitcoin, and buy something. Sellers get the money, convert it to dollars, and then deposit into their regular bank account, which then flows into their company books as revenue (again, reported to the IRS).

I'd be curious to know how much of the activity on coinbase was this sort of thing, versus buy/hold/trade speculation.
How do you know if a comment/link on reddit is positive or negative?
1) They are super, super aggressive when it comes to tax things. Cheating on taxes is worse than some major crimes!

Which major crimes would that be? I'm a Dane, and this sounds ridiculous to me.

2) They are culturally anti-business and anti-entrepreneurial.

That is way overstating it at best, and at worst just BS. True, we in the Nordic countries (or at least in Denmark), don't have quite the reverence for business men and entrepreneurs that Americans seem to have. But we do generally have a great deal of respect for our captains of industry and for people who've succeeded at building something.