skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
OP here. I'm planning to write something up on the most-viewed articles as well, but maybe a day or two after January 1st. I wanted to be able to capture the full year, unlike here (where we had to cut off half of December). Keep an eye out for it!
For the first part it matches Australia. You are required to have an ABN to reclaim tax on anything. Of course most people would just handle things via cash payments.
or just post a snarky reply that adds completely NULL to the discussion...
Firefox: Trouble managing your addons? Here, have this other addon!
I'm not much of a hardware hacker but it'd be interesting to work on a wet food cat feeding machine.
Is Clojure an acceptable Lisp? [video]
Ha! Yes they do - I just posted an anecdote describing this very behavior https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13233945
There are three known potentially problematic areas and they are well documented.
apple stuff,
wifi cards,
laptops and their custom sleep code.

aside from apple stuff (who have made it quite clear they believe their users want a totally walled garden and are not interested in compatabilty with the rest of the world), the other two are now rare afaik.

so if it happens to you regularily, then yeah, very likely it is nothing more than your distro sucks.
Uh... no. HIPAA might be an imprudent bear of a politician's bad idea masquerading as pretending to help, but it isn't that specific.
Do you have an example of an OEM or insurance company that will provide that policy?
I remember noticing Vuejs using the issue tracker for documentation in the lead up to their release of 2.0.

FreeBSD also does this, which will surprise no one who has ever read the FreeBSD docs.

Also, one of the reasons I asked this question in response to antirez is because the Redis docs are excellent and have been since I first set eyes on the project three or four years ago. I don't know what he's doing or how he does it, but whatever it is, it's working.
Actually, it's more a question of history; history shows that it's too easy even for very, very smart people to think they've come up with something tough to crack that's actually quite easy to crack by an avenue they hadn't thought of. But there are exceptions, and Thomas Jefferson was one. He rolled his own and it was very, very good. Yes, the authorities are fallible, and frequently these days deliberately corrupted. Now I'm contemplating whether I should say more. Stopping here for now.
At least with the AMD 67X0 models of the MBP the problem isn't the chip itself, but the solder connection (or lack thereof). Same issue as the XBOX 360 RROD. So just replacing from lead free solder to lead solder does the trick.
It seems that you made it reverse of what you wanted. As far as I understand, data scientists should start the exploration and developers should finish exploitation.
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I read the code roughly. It seems that this project is just a wrapper of git commands :)
Meta- reinforcement learning could prove to be such breakthrough, see [1],[2].
Also next generation ASIC accelerators (Google's TPU, Nervana) can give 10x increase in NN performance over a GPU manufactured on the same process, with another 10x possible with some form of binarized weights, e.g. BNN, XNOR-net.
There are also interesting techniques to update the model's parameters in a sparse manner.

So, there certainly is a lot of room left for performance improvements!

1. https://arxiv.org/abs/1611.05763
2. https://arxiv.org/abs/1611.02779
Thanks, feels like the nitpick, but I gave it another go, and I see some other changes now? Seems like a great amount of information.
Binding as Sets of Scopes: Notes on a new model of macro expansion for Racket
Personally, I do tend to think the difference is much harder to distinguish than tradition would dictate. These studies are evidence in that direction, in fact. But simply sampling 10 people is about as good as 10 anecdotes.

> Also known as ...

Please. What I've just written makes the rest of that sentence silly. There is no need to jump to conclusions.
I don't know what the exact process would be, but I think that the key would be to focus on process. Start treating each patient mishap like the FAA treats every airline mishap, take steps to ensure that each doesn't happen in the same way again, and I think you could improve things a great deal.

I think doctors focus on, and are very good at, doctoring. A little more focus on process and the totality of the hospital experience could bring big gains relatively quickly.

That's just an outside opinion though, my wife would probably disagree with me.
I'm the dev who is responsible for the Windows implementation. It has been quite the... gnarly experience to say the least. We were shooting for 52 for enabling a11y+e10s, but it is increasingly looking like we're going to need to slip to 53.
Will they get the same attention?

Will the nation ever upgrade and repair ancient and disastrous infrastructure?
I don't think this qualifies as FUD, nor misinformation. If this is FUD, then all of DefCon is also. This is simply pointing out the onboard capabilities of a device people are indeed installing in their homes. Clearly this is a microphone-enabled wifi-enabled device. State actors use passive bugs [1] with vastly fewer internal capabilities, so I think it's foolish to discount the possibility that it could be misused. Especially when it's so readily available.

Given the use of passive bugs, it's pretty obvious that zero onboard storage is required for a listening device to be useful to those with resources to collect the information real-time. It's healthy to understand the inherent trade-offs you're making by installing such a device, and make sure you can monitor its usage appropriately if you choose to keep one in a place you presume is reasonably private.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thing_(listening_device)
>I'm using Firefox, right now -- 273 tabs open

no, you have 273 labels displayed in your browser UI, not open tabs. Opera 12.x can hold >100 real loaded and rendered tabs open at 1-2GB ram with ZERO influence on browser responsiveness.

Nowadays every single tab in Chrome/Opera 40.something/Vivaldi progressively slows down UI. ~50 tabs means about 1 second UI delay when going fullscreen on YT. Not to mention the most trivial website takes ~100MB of ram, while Opera 12.x was somehow able to do the same thing in ~10MB per website.
We detached this flagged subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13232393.
Yawn.. people who only know about 4'33" should not attempt lazy critiques of John Cage.
I've replaced Bootstrap with Milligram (https://milligram.github.io/) on all of my projects.

Yes, it weighs far far less (which makes it suitable for inlining directly in the head tag), but mostly I just find the source far more readable.
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Yup. That's the answer - that's what XOR is for, so that you don't have to encrypt twice (or more) serially, but in parallel. Note too, that encrypting a pad can be done in advance, with spare cycles, at both ends, for many methods, then XOR with the pad extremely quickly to communicate.
In the Vietnam war the North Vietnamese army used both a one-time pad layer and a book code layer. But without computers it was too cumbersome a method and most messages therefore went out in the clear.
on second thought: https://medium.com/@boxed/followup-to-my-disillusionment-wit...
Right.

I've actually never worked at a place with a large number of devs under the same roof.
> So I know firsthand what an impressive feat it is to cat-proof anything.

The fact that it took 1/8" steel plate to cat proof it is an amazing testament to the ingenuity of those little serial killers.
Is there a source to that? I seem to remember quite a lot of excitement as a proven company bought the OS.
The second point is obviously true, and always will be. Stated more generally:

"There are limitless things we would like to do, and limited time and resources with which to do them"

The definition of a featured article is quite rigorous, and there's zero expectation that all wikipedia articles will hit that bar.
How great would it be if that add-on were incompatible with multiprocess?
Heads up your gcp-icons.zip file contains .DS_Store and _MACOSX folders/files.
Feedback for Promise App – App for creating and achieving goals successfully
Guys, Looking for feedback on mobile app (Promise) idea we are working.
It’s simple way to create, share, track and achieve goals. You create a promise (Goal) and share it with friends, family so they will be rooting for your success. They would be able to send messages to you for motivation and we will send you daily motivation message customized for your promise.
Promises can be anything, as simple as walking around a block everyday to running a marathon this year or new year resolutions. Study shows promises are kept compared to wish list of resolution. You make a promise and we will help you to keep it. Also there is higher chance of keeping your promise if it’s shared with well wishers.
Here is link for demo app: https://leapforwards.wordpress.com/2016/12/20/promise-makepromise-keeppromise/
Gridual: flexible grid system for react apps
That was a great discussion. As someone said below, I agree if it is independently deployable, it should be in its own repo.

If you need to share code between repos you need to create versioned packages - in the c# world - Nuget.
Heh, I'm pretty sure I had this exact effect when I tried playing a $250k Pietro Guarneri violin. Only it was more like [+200% tone quality], and since my own violin is just a decent student instrument, a good chunk of that bonus was real improvement. But the emotional/"holy shit" aspect of it shouldn't be understated either :)
I didn't ask your opinion, I asked you to cite your statements with scholarly citations. I'm utterly uninterested in your opinion. If you are unable to back up your commentary with documented facts, please say so, instead of flailing around in irrelevance.
Hacker’s Keyboard for Android
I'd be interested to know how much potential advertising data is collected via these microphones.

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10562207
Lisp Is Not an Acceptable Lisp (2006)
FWIW, it appears that all of the i3, i5, and i7 Skylakes support both VT-x and VT-d.

I agree that this has been confusing in the past (as evidenced by the mix of Atom, Celeron, Pentium, i3, i5, i7, Xeon in your link), but I think at least in VT-* it's been greatly simplified.
Chrome was a greenfield product with no extension ecosystem to contend with.

Trying to overhaul the entire architecture of a browser with a huge extension ecosystem (and over a decade's worth of baggage associated with that) is hard.
Felt I should add that this cat also figured out how to operate a light switch, with similar motivations.
Hey there. CMB is actually one of my favorite apps. The have inspired me in many ways. However, their UI is a bit old school and Dine is a COMPLETELY DIFFERENT concept from CMB.

I still believe that Dine also does a better job in attracting people who are serious about going on a date...and I don't mean in a romantic way, I'm talking about people who enjoy good food and are single, open to meeting someone new.

Other apps that are doing something similar are like Hinge and Whim. (both good apps in my opinion for dating but they still have pros and cons as do all apps). It's all about finding which dating app is good for you personally.
Actually there are at least two decades-old branches of computer science/mathematics that have formulated precise definitions of AI, and proved many theoretical results that gave way to lots of practical applications. These branches of CS are called "Reinforcement Learning" and "Universal AI".

While Gwern has already mentioned Reinforcement Learning, UAI is a less known (but even more rigorous and well received) mathematical theory of general AI that arose from Marcus Hutter work [1].

My point here is how can one say that there is no definition of AI when there are several precise mathematical definitions available with many theorems proven about them?

1. http://www.hutter1.net/ai/uaibook.htm
You're right it does. In big cities, Dine thrives. But in small towns and remote areas..it's a bit rougher...but with that said we have users all through out the US and CA an you would be surprised where some of these people went on dates lol!
DoorDash Bayesian network analysis of delivery orders
Oh man, I hadn't seen those videos before. That's gold.

Off-topic, but your post popping up with the Hyperloop One name attached helped me decide[1] to sign w/ you folks instead of another company for Summer 2017, so see you in a few months!

[1] I was probably picking Hyperloop anyway, a cool Mars post + vague affiliation with Max just made it easier :)
The edge case could be mitigated by having a pre-defined development workflow and not seat-of-the-pants cowboy commits of "backend" and "frontend" changes that were in reality interwoven. Or even a basic code review where someone hopefully would say "WTF are you doing!?"
Wine-tasting: it's junk science
> Well, then, you wouldn't want what arch provides.

Sometimes, what Arch provides is "it works" as opposed to "it doesn't work". (This was the point I was trying to make.)

This is not a hypothetical. I turned a coworked onto Arch by this simply being the only Linux distro that would work on his Macbook Pro (ca. 2015, I think?). He tried Ubuntu recently (12.10)... still didn't work because it could not understand the disk on his machine.

This guy is a very competent developer. He's not afraid of a command line. It still took him a few hours (IIRC) to get it installed. (Including with my help + googling various things about how the Mac EFI thing works/doesn't. Incidentally he still has to press some magic key combo on every startup to avoid MacOS starting up. It's goddamn ridiculous.)
Having been involved in designing and building ultrasound systems for a couple of decades, I thought I'd comment on this in a blog post for those looking for a little more detail on the issues involved in building and selling ultrasound devices for medical use.

http://liesandstartuppr.blogspot.com/2016/12/why-are-medical...

A quick summary - they're not expensive, in fact for what you get they are remarkably inexpensive. There's a huge amount or work that goes into them, and the author of the original piece simply doesn't even know enough about the subject to realise he doesn't know what he's talking about.
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In my area (Western PA), the water authority is working to replace lead service lines, but only to the curb. Unfortunately, it is up to the homeowner to replace the line from the curb to the house. This is quite expensive, and depending on the topography, requires a significant amount of digging.

This is not an excuse, but I think it's important to point out in some cases, the issues with lead are on private property, and some municipalities just can't afford to fix everything.
There's no evidence that Quinn wasn't feeding her cat well,
before or after getting the robo-feeder. Many domestic animals will search out food when bored, even if they're not hungry. In this case, I think for both Quinn and Sprocket (the cat) it was all about the puzzle, and the food was just incidental.

Edit to add: despite my disagreement, I appreciate your concern for the cat. My dad's a veterinarian and my mom rescues feral cats, so I've seen a lot of malnourished and mistreated cats. It's heartbreaking how some people neglect the animals in their care. In this particular case, however, Sprocket looks very healthy.
Blind tests seem to disagree. New but very high quality instruments vs. those considered exceptional and unmatched.
If a singular visionary is what Apple needs, may be Tim Cook should give a call to Elon Musk :-)
That's unavoidable. The second one in the list was very much avoidable.
If anyone from LaunchDarkly is reading: any plans to add Elixir?
Finding bugs for something you wrote yourself is easy because you WROTE it and can easily reason about what each method does, what data/methods does it have access to etc. etc.

Anyways, I unfortunately work with Rails and I hate it. To me Rails stresses and encourages bad practices, everything has an implicit environment inherited from a massive hierarchy of classes with their own implicit environment that will only work if the current state of the app matches what each classes assumes it will be.

Data changes and morphs during the initialization and creation of class instances causing shitty bugs. EVERYTHING needs careful consideration of all of these relations and class hierarchies before writing simple things.

Everything is highly coupled and interwoven making a change one place break something somewhere else. Rails should be taught in Universities as a case study in the pitfalls of Object Oriented Design

Also essentially all of the major players have left and moved on to new things. Most Ruby Gems haven't been updated in years!
Spot on. Mastering for a wider dynamic range on vinyl makes sense. Not only because of the inherent physical limitations, but it's also reasonable to expect the listener has a decent sound system to go with the record player. It's also common for level to vary between records. Wider grooves allow for more loudness, so it's a tradeoff versus running time and playback speed.

Fortunately, the shift from CDs to digital as primary target has brought an end to the Loudness War. The various services have standards for perceived loudness, so there's no incentive for the mastering engineer to squeeze a few extra decibels out of the mix - past a certain point you're accomplishing nothing but killing your headroom margin.
Agree - this should have been a single push and dev should have squashed commits together where it makes sense to. I get in the dev stage you might be all over the place but a well-designed codebase with separation of concerns should have allowed the dev to group like commits into single areas and brought it down to something more manageable like 20 commits instead of 400.
Ok, I'll put it this way:

Saying

> when you call "print", it returns a "new world" that is the state of the world after printing

makes no sense, since the word "state of the world" will be interpreted completely differently by the receiver of the explanation. State of the world = a large state object with lots of fields describing every single thing in some "World" (what world: program world? computer world? network world? all the world?). Thats what people hear.

The name of the type is horrible, and the world-passing intuition is also horrible. "Token" would've been much better, but its still not clear how to implement or why its even necessary (in a non-lazy language)

On the other hand, a tuple representing the current action and the function that will return the next action (or nil) is fairly clear, easy to implement an interpreter for, the pure/nonpure distinction becomes obvious (the runtime interpreter is the impure part), and laziness doesn't even need to get into the mix.

oh, and also regarding FFI: {type: 'FFICall', fn: string, arguments: [...]}
I've never heard something so absurd. Next you'll tell me that they'll fire you for punching the CEO.

Great sarcasm but the problem lies here:

The lawsuit says that Google’s Code of Conduct classifies confidential information as “everything at Google.”

So potentially if I disclosed today's menu at Charlie's cafe to an outsider, I could be terminated.
> When I was going to school and minoring in electric music there was a guy playing with "granular synthesis"; his result sounded like telemetry.

I actually have no idea what telemetry is supposed to sound like but I think this guy was just making bad music, with granular synthesis.
Granular synthesis can actually be quite beautiful and tonal if thats what you're looking for, see examples [1] and [2] just to dig up some quick examples.
Ableton's built-in time stretching uses granular synthesis.
One guy's bad granular music isn't really indicative of anything.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ne6BU18mP3A

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZ8zaGuaeBk
I live in Maui. You may (and likely) saw "Cane Grass" or Giant Reed[1] (and other varieties of tall weeds that look a lot like sugar cane).

This stuff is hard to get rid of; I've had it in my yards here and the roots are thick.

[1] http://dlnr.hawaii.gov/hisc/info/invasive-species-profiles/g...
I agree with your point, and to make it worse some of those 10 people were from a previous, discredited study by the same authors.

Funny enough two comments I made - on this thread, now dead - went from +2 to -4 very quickly. Another comment went from +5 to +2.

I've got a pretty strong feeling that people love telling this anecdote about "science over art!" and ironically don't like it when it turns out the science is actually bad science. As a result, they're banding together and simply mass-downvoting things.

There's an interesting debate to be had here, on the merits of the sounds of different instruments, and the linked NYT article is fascinating. Unfortunately, people seem to be caught up in a frenzy of linking bad science to each other instead of actually discussing violins, which are a personal passion of mine.

I went into more detail on the bad science in my other comment here, which is going negative now: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13233977
I was born on January 1, 1960.

So January 1, 2000 was going to be either my 40th birthday, or else my -60th. :)
Why would acting styles have to adapt to the frames per second? And how?
> The town is inherently bikeable, which in my opinion is much better than a walkable town.

It is your opinion that to get from your house to any other location, you need to use a bike, a task that many find more difficult (and dangerous) than walking in cold/rainy/snowy climates, and also results in having to pull out the bike (perhaps down some stairs) and find someplace to lock it up? That sounds like a lot of mental overhead for a brief trip to the deli.

I agree that biking is a wonderful way to get around (especially bike share, which I take advantage of regularly in Brooklyn for commuting and pleasure trips), but I also find it difficult to argue that it's inherently superior to walking in terms of community planning...

> the bike of tomorrow is really a light weight electric vehicle, perhaps a foldable scooter with a small Lithium ion battery pack that is charged with a solar panel.

This sounds pretty similar in concept to the Segway, and we all saw how well those worked. Not saying it can't work in the future, but there are certainly some challenges to solve before it can become mainstream (such as: what do you do in the rain? how do you remain charged in cloudy climates? how do they fit into existing traffic flow: with cars, or with bikes, or elsewhere? etc...)

> The result is a town that has culture, and restaurants and bars and a very usable public transportation system, along with scenic beauty and ample space so that one need not live packed into a tuna can.

You don't need Boulder-level (5k ppl/sq mi) density for this. Brooklyn or SF density will do, and will provide more reliable public transit than a bus network.

I personally find the Mission district coupled with Dolores Park and Bernal Heights to have ample space and scenic beauty for all my needs. Many cities neglect public parks, and they can make the difference between a dense but livable and a stifling neighborhood.
Internet Use in Class Tied to Lower Test Scores
I don't doubt the study that much but I think the point everyone misses in their contrarian zeal to say 'Strads are nothing special' is that there has been enormous progress in instrument construction in the last 30 years and the actual takeaway from "3 cherry picked $30-40K new violins equal/beat Strads in double blind study funded by new violin maker" is not that 'Strad's are garbage' but perhaps that 'new top of the line violins are effing great'.