skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
SII last got an update a month and a half ago (https://download.cyanogenmod.org/?device=i777)
KFC website hack leaks details of loyalty scheme customers
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> Do you really get mechanical or civil engineers saying "yeah, we expect there are a few fatal flaws in the design, that's just how it goes, we'll build it anyway and ship a fix if customers complain"?

Heck yes! (Well, not fatal flaws.) Any product you can think of that has been popular enough to get a second production run probably has had some design flaws corrected. Some of which were probably already known by the time that the first version shipped, and some of which were probably only discovered after real users had it in their hands for a while.

> it's part of the engineer's job to trade off reliability and cost.

Correct. But the cost includes not only the cost of the artefact but also the cost of the design. The difference with software is that design costs dominate in a way that isn't often the case with physical artefacts.
I can personally recommend Montfort & Bogost's book: Racing the Beam for this exact topic :)
Looks neat. It's also worth you looking at CES (Customer Experience Score). CES feeds into NPS... eg NPS is a result of lots of CES's, so to improve NPS you actually need to look at the core issue(s) that may be impacting it. You might be able to build CES into your offering as well.
Developer time is not a finite resource. People contribute to projects that they are passionate about. Fragmentation can encourage engagement. It's not like unpaid xfce and kde developers would start kernel hacking if everyone converged on gnome, even if it would benefit the ecosystem. Many would pursue other hobbies.
When radio mediates sounds of "I think, therefore I am", there's nothing more than sound and electrical currents correlated with waveform of that sound in it. Source: I can build simple radio.

Why brain is probably not like that? Because there's no single experimental result pointing in this direction, while there's nothing contradicting the idea of brain producing mind.

I know, philosophers are arguing both pro and contra, but they unlikely to come to agreement in nearest 100 years. Thus I need experimental results that brain is somehow communicates to something, to take this seriously.
I'd like to learn EcmaScript6. I'm pretty proficient at 5 but 6 has really evolved the language and made it a more functional language. It seems promising!
What does he mean by dates? Girls? Is it humor? Sorry, I don't really get it but I'm interested to understand. I only know he unlocked iPhone and was sued by Sony...
The awareness of all sensory or data input, internal processes, as well as the system's dynamic conceptual models and their change over time. This includes an awareness of the system's conceptual model of itself.

I don't think any chips today have awareness. But it seems to me that you couldn't have general, adaptable intelligence without it.
Have you tried using ReactJS?
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This would be really cool and fun for children if it worked on an iPad
Nice to see some focus on this, as I believe so many of the ills of the present days has been caused by this mathiness. I don't think math or mathematical models are bad per say, but they have clearly been used in the wrong way in too many instances. Ones has placed far too much faith in simplified models of the real world.

We don't like the messy world of human interactions and so we have tried to turn it all into math, while overstating the utility or applicability of the models.

It is a bit like trying to create a mathematical models for determining the quality of a persons character rather than simply relying on people's subjective characterizations. We forget that humans have brains which are very good at processing massive amounts of messy data. Instead of relying on human brains why have outsourced the task to mathematical models which can't easily deal with messy data, and thus simplify the world to the point where quite essential characteristics are lost.

Also as a software developer I think we could gain a lot by employing more agent based simulations to the economics field. I think too much of the dynamics of a system over time is lost by relying so exclusively on mathematical equations.

Too much of economic science also seems to have turned into a political ideology for many on the right. The fact that a mathematical model predicts inefficiencies from taxation in a free market, seems to make some people believe it is inherently bad with taxation and it must be limited at all cost.

Such models should always be compared with real world data, where there has never been found a clear evidence that higher taxes really retards economic growth the way a simple model predicts. Naturally because an economy is extremely complicated with many interdependent variables.

Higher taxes might cause worse allocation of resources but it might also allow for better schools and thus better skills among workers increasing efficiency more than is lost through distortions of taxations. Not claiming it is like that, but giving food for thought about the idea that it is hard to look at these models in isolation.

Mathematical models were used in the late 70s to argue in favor of high CEO salaries. We know today that there is no empirical evidence that it worked. Western economies are not growing faster and companies are not better run. There is no provable difference between highly paid CEOs and lower paid CEOs.

This shows the danger of such mathematical models. They become self fulfilling prophecies. Once people start using them, they keep using them because of inertia and the tendency to conform and stick to traditions.
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always easier to deal with code than bureaucrats.
If 100k lives are at stake, then a $175 permit is the kind of pocket change you can work out after the fact, not a reason to uproot and relocate.

The argument is disingenuous on its face.
I've been in sales 15 years now. Check out these resources and they will give you a GREAT foundation:

Read the challenger sale: https://www.amazon.com/Challenger-Sale-Control-Customer-Conv...

and read SPIN selling: https://www.amazon.com/SPIN-Selling-Neil-Rackham/dp/00705111...

Listen to the advanced selling podcast: https://advancedsellingpodcast.com/

Cheers
Link for the lazy https://www.tradingschools.org/reviews/fractal-alerts/
Less can be more: On the merits of simple museum displays
> I believe that "no permit required" is for the permit office and the legislature to decide.

Yes, but importantly the legislature overrides the permit office. The permit office has the right to decide in some situations, but in others situations their decisions can be objectively correct or incorrect.
I'm curious about your NBD performance issues. When you say large number of blocks, are you talking a large filesystem? The free space cache tends to be a performance bottleneck for large filesystems, you might want to try out space_cache=v2.
Rice often has arsenic in it.
Career: Transition from engineering to product management (starting mid-January so getting that one sorted early)

Personal: Mastery in something non-computer related. I've spent my twenties building a career in software, have built a startup, etc but want to end my twenties and begin my thirties with something new to "master" (even though we can't ever fully master something). Increasingly fascinated by freediving and reconnecting with nature and what the human body is capable of.
I can't fathom why Google would buy them. Why not make a version of AOSP that people can actually use, like Cyanogenmod?
Partly correct imho. These arent dead boombers but people who boomers care about. As news these days is generally aimed at boomers, we hear more about these deaths than the deaths of celebs that appeal to other generations. When a reality tv or twitter superstar dies, and the do, tv news wont even mention it.
Compare death rate of celebs to population would account for growth in % celeb. You might want to create other cohorts out of population to compare, e.g. age range buckets, lifestyle buckets, race, geographies, etc.
I have built three houses (designed and served as my own contractor). My homes were stylish, innovative, and a delight to live in. I'm a scientist not a builder, yet I did not find the building codes to be a burden. Indeed they kept me from making dangerous mistakes. It's a complicated world and the building codes made designing and building a home practical.
Because you can divide your runtime in to multiple stages: if program A runs and outputs program B, then from B's point of view A was able to perform a static analysis of B's behavior.

You can always view the term and type levels of a programming language as two separate but intertwined languages. In this case, both the term and type level would be identical instead of the type level being specialized with logic programming-esque constructs as usual.
Travel! I wish building codes actually mattered in my country.

Seriously, just travel. I think its the easiest way to appreciate what human beings end up with without controls or even the threat of control/speedy justice.

do note that this in no way is meant to relieve your angst, just contextualize it and make it easier to bear.
Every few months I ask it the mass of a proton.
No, not really. He's got no one to blame but himself for that one.
George, file paperwork? lel.
In 2017 I want to move my digital electronics skills from "patching together 30 years old ICs on a breadboard while playing with devkits" to "designing a simple board with modern components". I'm finally taking the plunge to SMD soldering, and the ultimate goal will be to make a fully functional JAMMA game board using a decent FPGA (a project I left incomplete 10 years ago, which has always bugged me).
A possibility to break these might consist in using Google's image reverse search and check whether the word which you are supposed to identify images for appears on the result pages.
However, the Google search is protected by reCaptcha - so you could build your own image reverse search or you use one implementing captchas which are easier to break.

Otherwise, if you own a highly frequented website, you could ask your users to solve the captchas for you by proxying the challenges to them.
Also like Soxhlet extractors. That is the coolest chemistry glassware.
I'd be interested to read a blog of your progress, especially if it includes mistakes you made and what you learnt from it.
TiDB RC1 is now released
Yes, I sometimes cynically think of that generation as a parasite sucking up the life and resources to make up for their bad choices and unmet entitlements.
It is not about the 175 dollars. It is about all the other rules and regulations that come with being a "self-driving" car.

And the law doesn't apply to situations where a human is at the wheel, so the extra rules and regulations shouldn't.
Do you honestly think a state actor doesn't have Linux zero days coming out of their ears? You're talking about a government entity that created stuxnet by stealing driver signing certificates.

Linux would provide exactly 0 additional protection over embedded Windows if China or the US decides they want what you've got.
Needs a 2015 in the title. An oldie but goodie!
Serious question: how many years old are the signals estimated to be?
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I'm arguing that the statement I quoted in my above comment is incorrect; closures are implemented with functions, not the other way around.
Or, perhaps younger people just arent watching as much tv/radio and so news in those media doesnt target them.
If you fail to insulate a wooden wall from a chimney two feet away, in twenty years the wood would now be baked so dry that it could easily ignite and burn to death someone who bought the house. A building inspector stopped me from making this mistake.
Percentage of what? If you can show that the rate of people attaining celebrity is outpacing the rate of population growth, I will accept the claim.
> I don't want to be picky but if you're writing something public

Neither do I, but there should be a comma before the "but" there.
That's not what's happening in this case. You're fixing a program that has just run if it doesn't pass certain validations. This is pretty much by definition not possible in a static analysis, whose purpose is to determine whether a putative program is in fact worth running in the first place.

On the other hand, in a typed language, when you check whether a term “t” has type “T”, it's a precondition that “T” is a valid type. If you haven't established that “T” is a type, you have to establish it first.
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> nobody is going to look twice at a storage shed.

I'm reminded of Honeycrock farm, where he built a mock-tudor mansion and hid it behind a haystack for six years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honeycrock_Farm

There have been a few similar cases in England of people converting farm buildings to homes but without getting planning permissions.
This might sound stupid, but do you ever feel like when you learn something new, you forget something old?
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I have been reading alot about Machine Learning and I want to get into the practical application of it. So I will begin with learning Mathematics and then some Machine learning code for training a basic model for NLP or Facial Recognition :)

Any suggestions on how to go about learning Mathematics requires for Machine Learning is more than welcome
>though at least if you have a bad Linux driver you can hope it's open source and fix it yourself.

IF you're the US or UK governments, you can get access to pretty much any driver or OS source you want.
Children's voices are a surprisingly tough problem in speech recognition. Mostly because there isn't much labeled data with children's voices- ASR follows the trend seen in other deep learning fields of working best for North American adult males.

When children talk, it's a significantly different pitch than any adult (male or female) and their enunciation is usually poor. Being robust to that range requires a ton of data and a very deep neural network. It will definitely be solved earlier on the cloud: don't expect super-adaptable speech recognition to be available on your phone any time soon.
Just had one at Jardiniere (SF), it was perfectly decent, stunning only in its banality. A little softer, and a bit less chewy. Still good with all the usual toppings. Not as runny as I was told, but on the whole it was very easy to forget you're eating plant matter. I could eat it everyday.
My goal for 2017 is
1. Deploy my application
I learned IOS develop in 2016 and building my own app, One is for unicooo which I already build a website. Another application call Cherry which is for finance.
2. Learn a new languages.Computer one and Real life one.
I learned Swift and Japanese in 2016, Now I also wanna learn Rust/Go and Spanish in 2017.
3. Learn more math, when I start learning machine-learning, I know I have to learn more math to make myself better.
I'd like to learn some basic physics, up to the stage of understanding electromagnetism and other magnetic phenomena. I've got a notion about how to design a more efficient coil-gun, but can't find any electromagnetic simulation software that I can use to test my idea. So my plan is to build a basic simulator from the ground up, learning in the process.
I have these same exact goals myself. Happy learning!
Read the story, not the headlines. It was a human driver, not the car, that ran the red light.
Desktop GUI Gis programs like QGIS are pretty fun and there are tons of resources for learning the basics. You can download elevation raster data and highway vector data for the area around your city or somewhere more topographically interesting and start making maps or just some armchair exploring. Topography and hillshade data are gorgeous. And it's pretty easy to play around with projections, especially changing parameters on standard ones like Lambert.
Same here! A software dev getting into freediving. Also thinking about how to apply my skills to solve the hardest problem - finding buddies.
The Haskell community identifies "no documentation" as a key flaw of their own community? I was going to ask why there hasn't been more uptake of Haskell for all of the apparently cool ideas that are there, but nevermind, I don't think I need to ask now.
Learn top-to-bottom of how an OS works. Any recommendations?
The arrow keys move it. Not quite automatic but easier than the mouse.
Since when is the DMV "a politician?"
Thanks for the tips! I read and enjoyed SPIN Selling.

I love podcasts so I'll give that a listen.
Electronics. I'd like to make my software more physical.
Do you guys hang out in the makeup department and talk about your disineterest in lipstick? Why is every thread on this subject loaded with peanut gallery comments from people who aren't interested in autonomous cars. If you don't like them don't use them. They still stand to address the needs of 10s of millions of commuters in America, and far more worldwide. It's a huge addressable market.
(Uber employee) Read the story, not the headlines. The $175 permit only required verified insurance and training for the drivers. That's it. It wasn't a safety inspection at all. They didn't ensure that the cars were safe. It was simply bureaucracy.

Plus, based on the actual law written, Uber's implementation wasn't covered under the permit. Uber has hundreds of lawyers, I'm pretty sure they know what they are doing. Why should they get a permit that they don't need to?
Read Modern Operating Systems by Andrew Tanenbaum. He builds an Operating Systems from scratch in the book.
Assuming you know the basics of calculus: learn lots of linear algebra, lots of probability theory, mathematical statistics, and optimization.

But you don't have to wait to learn all the math to get going
For the "which image is..." type captchas, there is always an option to "refresh" the captchas and get a different challenge. After 1 or 2 refreshes, you almost always get a street sign challenege. I was playing around with breaking Google's captchas a few weeks back and tensorflow's basic image recognition demo is actually already good enough that it too can almost always correctly identify which of the 9 or 12 images contain street signs. So I think that's a good start- exploiting the fact that Google favors showing street signs, and that in many cases you can already programatically identify street signs with image recognition. Obviously it's not perfect or Google wouldn't need to farm users to aid in improving image recognition , but it's good enough where you can break the captcha roughly 50% of the time.
> This hardly inspires me with confidence.

Maybe it depends on location, but here, saying something was built 'the old-fashioned way' generally does mean massively over-engineered and structurally solid. I can only assume wood and concrete were a lot cheaper in the past.

It's all good until you go to do some major renovations and discover that the concrete footers you need to remove are ridiculously deep...
The Arcade Learning Environment
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I don't think economist always are that frank about the limits of their models. E.g. Milton Friedman I think seemed to think that the world worked mostly has homo economicus. He had some rather ridiculous examples. E.g. he was touring a factory in Hong Kong and claimed workers had picked noisy and hazardous work environments over more pleasant ones, because it paid better. That strikes me as a guy with the head in the cloud lost his his theories.

Jobs don't exist in endless varieties like that. If I'd rather have a better health insurance but lower paid job, I can't easily change to an almost identical job, with just those differences.

I also remember him arguing why it was rational for Ford or GM to install a cheap fix for dangerous fuel tanks. His straw man argument was that an infinitely safe car would cost infinitely amounts of money. With such arguments you can argue in favor of no minimum standards for anything. Never mind that he failed to see the blindingly obvious problem. It simply didn't make any economic sense because any car company making such a cynical calculation would severely damage their reputation and thus their sales. It only works for companies who manage to cover up.

And Milton Friedman is one of our most celebrated economists. Sure he create some great theories, but he seemed also to not heed to typical advice of not taking models too literal. He basically advocated policies based on rather fundamentalists interpretations of economic models. If he could do that, then surely lots of other economists would fail in the same manner.
You didn't bother reading the article. It was a human driver, not the car, that ran the red light.
Can you sue the city & the builder then for not actually inspecting properly and not building a house that was supposed to be built to code?
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Numerical weather prediction. After I finish up my data science bootcamp, I'll be dusting off the old undergrad aero textbooks.
The news biasing coverage based on ratings?!?
xv6!
https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.828/2014/xv6/book-rev8.pdf

https://github.com/mit-pdos/xv6-public
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Wirst guards and a helmet are a worthwile investment.
Trees are not covered under building codes. They are covered under city ordinances. And I cut down 3 trees on my property because I wasn't going to spend $150 per tree so that city hall could get themselves a nice Christmas bonus for doing nothing except filling out paperwork.
As an American, I think that this year feels more significant because there are more names recognized by Americans. That list is very UK-centric, which isn't a surprise considering the source of the article.

Of the list, for years 2012-2015 I only recognized around a third of the names but for 2016 I recognized about half.

Americans have a very disproportionate effect on the internet as a whole, so I'd expect that having more American-recognizable names would distort impressions about the celebrity fatality rate.
>the Google Self Driving Car Cheaters

How is the Google self-driving car team cheating?

Or is he just being a sore loser about how his own self-driving car venture didn't work out?
I don't think the term real-time has changed. Some people misuse it but it's still a very well-defined and strict term.
Recently on HN there was a story on complicated grief

https://mosaicscience.com/story/complicated-grief-bereavemen...

Maybe someone will find it helpful.
Developer time is finite. Fact. There's no basis to question this. There's limited numbers of people on the planet and they have limited time. Sure, the number of contributors can grow (we haven't reached peak-developer numbers), but it actually grows more with success than with failure. Fragmentation is fine if there's actually enough resources for at least one project to really succeed. In most cases, and probably in the case of community-centered free/libre/open Android variants, there's a shortage of developer time and a real worry about it being fragmented into multiple projects instead of being more cooperative.