skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's an unfortunate situation and city must do something about it. I think of small businesses that may be losing a lot of customers because of this. This is also related to SF's homeless problem. On three separate occasions, I saw homeless people holding smooth running of restaurants hostage to get food or money from the them. In one case, the person walked in and started eating from a customer's plate. The cashier had to intervene and handle the situation (those customers end up leaving and the restaurant didn't charge them).
The first design of global agenda has a similar system. Everyone had 40(?) equip slots, that's it. Each item is level 1-4 of power. It's your choice to rock a top level shield but lowest weapons because you can't fit both.

I can't remember what levels affected in that, maybe playzone access. It's nice because your skills as a player were you not the hours in the character.

They ripped that system out for a traditional system.
Neato! I'm surprised they went with a JIT compiler over a full-on compiler, but that might just be me not understanding:
a) Compilers
b) How a JIT compiler would apply to this situation

My lab-mate Jan Gosmann recently did something similar for our spiking neural network software Nengo [1]. Although it isn't Deep Learning, it also builds a computational graph of operations. He ended up optimising the layout of the operations in memory to increase the efficiency of Numpy operations and reduce the amount of time spent in Python. He's in the process of writing a paper about it.

[1] https://github.com/nengo/nengo/pull/1035
Everyone was told to see if they can find cost savings. This just wasn't one though in the bigger picture and even after being told it wasn't one, even by their line manager and separately the CTO, they pursued it over and over. I don't believe anyone else was directly involved further up the food chain on their side.

All it needed was for the question to be asked on the company's internal board and listen to the answer. Even trying it once or twice and I'd probably have forgotten about it in short order. This went on for a couple of years though!
I don't quite get what the point of this is. Could someone explain?
> Even the richest persons on this world would not be "allowed" to "buy" their freedom from the "social contract".

What do you mean by buying your freedom from the social contract? The US, at least, allows people to renounce their citizenship after paying exit taxes and then they're free to choose citizenship in any country that will have them (and abide by that social contract instead).

Other than it not being practical to choose statelessness (so you have to find some country's social contract you're happy with), I don't see what is missing. It's true that you still have to follow US laws (and pay US taxes) if you want to conduct business in the US (and similarly for other countries), but those are voluntary choices, at the gain or cost of some business opportunities.
That jumped at me too. A pointer to a pointer to a struct is not a very common error code strategy.
interestingly this is similar to how Rust does it: it has a Result<Type, Error> trait.

https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/result/
Also it helps that it is not a US company.
Artificial Addition (2007)
That is always being repeated, but I wonder if it still holds up with modern systems like the iron dome, and especially laser weapons that are being tested right now. A combination of pre-emptive strikes on NK's artillery, combined with anti-artillery radars and a laser weapons air defense network could render NK powerless.

Edit: that assumes that SK would be the 'liberator', but chances that it would be China are probably higher.
Title should include Marketing tools.
This person could have and absolutely should have ran this past some other people before bringing it to the upstream PostgreSQL developers, not just wasting their time but putting them in the awkward position of having to respond for an audience.
I think there is a twin problem of too many convenience features added, and the advent of Youtube and community wikis.

The former has turned the process of getting from one end of the map other, and that of forming groups for dungeons and such, virtually effortless.

As best i recall, if you wanted to travel to another city without doing it overland in EQ, you had to locate a player character wizard with the right spell unlocked and the right reagents on hand. Similarly if you died far out in the wilderness you had to rely on a PC necromancer services to recover the corpse and gear.

These days you can just click a npc, pay some in game currency and presto, either problem solved.

Similarly you can these days just put a checkmark next to the dungeons wanted, hit "find group" and be teleported to the entrance.

The other issue is access to outside information.

Just about every puzzle and dungeon will have multiple video guides up on Youtube etc within days of game launch or update. And most games these days have wikis that are either officially or community maintained.

These things kill all sense of wonder and exploration, as one can always alt-tab to the browser to tell what one need to do next.

edit:
Never mind that most overland areas are specifically designed to be soloed no matter what class or gear one have chosen. Just follow the virtual breadcrumbs of quest markers and you will be max level and can start on "endgame" before you know it. At that point the MMO turns into an overly elaborate lobby game, as nobody ventures out into the overland areas ever again.

And we can see this in how more recent MMOs are set up with quite elaborate shard/instance load balancing. Meaning that they can scale the server farm up or down without ever taking a whole "realm" or named server offline.
For general introductory material in this style from Stanford, CS231n (fairly general but specialization in vision) and CS224d (specialization in DL for NLP) are great. The material for both of these are online for free and the video lectures (taken down due to legal challenges regarding accessibility) are available if you look hard enough ;)

If you're particularly after unsupervised deep learning, I'd recommend you do one or both of the above (or equivalent) and then read relevant recent papers.

http://cs231n.stanford.edu

http://cs224d.stanford.edu
Neat! I stand corrected. I wonder if the map data they have all over the country/world/wherever is comparable to the cities they test their cars in. If so, that would be fantastic.
When did the future switch from being a promise to being a threat?
Have a look at this talk of the latest CCC at 13:11 https://media.ccc.de/v/33c3-7904-software_defined_emissions

He talks about how it is possible that the cars achieve the low results in the testcycles but produce much higher emissions on the real road. The reverse engineering in the beginning of the task is also very interesting.
Yup. Just don't do what I did earlier and `pkill -USR1 -f dd` if your desktop session is currently being provided to you courtesy of `sddm` …

As a programmer, it usually pays off to be on the lazy side, but every once in a while it comes back and bites me in the arse ;)
As is reproduction, in general. Of course, there's little point in pedantry.
Honestly in JavaScript there's very little call for it because the language is so flexible, and you can't really build anything that's unmockable.

C# is a very, very different matter, and that's the perspective I was initially commenting from.
`choco install VisualStudio2015Professional`. ;)

After all--we're all developers. Automate!
I think the idea is that you can start by having complete automation (without requiring driver attention) on highways, before enabling it everywhere else. Tesla's current autopilot is neither.
See my reply to technics256 and feel free to ask other questions :)
True, probably should be an and/or, but almost certainly you'll have a better time using both - RADAR's spatial resolution isn't nearly as good. Also probably because if they tried to put a LIDAR rig into a consumer car it'd push the price considerably. Unless they could magically get the price down (as Waymo claim) it would be a healthy fraction of the cost of the car. The Velodyne x64 unit cost about $75k not too long ago.

You can do weird tricks with RADAR though, like the two-car lookahead thing that Tesla has implemented. You can do that with LIDAR if you're looking at a mirror (you'll measure the distance to thing in the mirror), but typically multipath returns don't have a high enough SNR to be useful.
I added tier's and prices for the ones I know the prices of. It's just a nice list of all the code schools and what tier they are in. Like http://law-schools.startclass.com/saved_search/Tier-1-Law-Sc...
ReactNative release cadence slowed from fortnightly, to monthly
struct Error **error

This is the most asinine error handling strategy I ever met. I'd choose C++ exceptions over it any day, no matter if exceptions are slower.

On the other end of spectrum is using good old error codes, not reinventing exceptions on your own.
No, I have not (only anecdotal evidence) but getting odor free is a matter of getting an active carbon filter (big enough, 3-10 kg) and a good ventilation system (required for cooling anyway). This ensures that the grow space is slightly underpressurized and all the exhaust air is odorless. Without these measures, it will stink.

It needs a bit of investment and some time to get the build right, but it can be done.
There are some MMORPGs out there that have attempted to innovate by introducing elements from other genres. Some names off the top of my head, Starbreak, Steambirds alliance, Blade & Soul.

Also, maybe those .io games, where you can just pick up and play have gotten the attention of the younger generation? Especially since they are easier to access and dont require downloading of a client nor signing up for an account
Set DuckDuckGo as your default search engine and you don't even need to do any configuring. You can then just type `!wiki India` or `!gi birds` or any other !bang: https://duckduckgo.com/bang
MyTomorrows raises further €10M to help access drugs in development
Link to previous HN article+comments:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8571717
God is perfectly just.

A CIA dentist ruined a tooth. God said it counted as a sacrifice.

God says...
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So, like terminology, but with less features ?
Isn't it supposed to be available in all of (or most of) Europe as the Opel Ampera-E? Various German e-mobility sources have published more than a few previews and stuff, would be surprising if it doesn't arrive here.

edit Opel also has a German preview page up on their website: http://www.opel.de/fahrzeuge/neuheiten-uebersicht/opel-amper...
I am glad to see this. I hope react-native becomes more mature soon!
The impression i have of WoW is that over the year it has become IRC with colorful avatars. People i used to do LAN parties with etc are virtually impossible to reach online outside WoW.
You can buy bitcoin with cash via localbitcoins.com in most countries except Germany (or at least, with a German IP address).

In China it seems the preference is to buy bitcoin mining equipment in yuan and generate bitcoin to sell, taking advantage of the cheap electricity available in China and writing off some of the capital investment via tax. Although there is significant trade on Chinese exchanges much of this is often thought to be suspect due to the lack of trading fees which means fake/self trades are available at no cost.
Pretty Url in AngularJS and Loopback. Drop the ‘#’
Using lisp always seems attractive.

However, in Bioinformatics, the reality is that many users are still using Perl. It would be get to have them migrate to, modestly more readable languages.

Outside of scripting, alignment and other performance sensitive code is usually written in C (or C++). As with many academic projects, the code quality unfortunately is quite low.
Emissions from Volkswagen cats above those permitted by the Clean Air Act (enabled by cheating on emissions tests) are estimated to have caused a significant number of premature deaths in the US:

> According to the study, conducted by researchers at MIT and Harvard University and published in the journal Environmental Research Letters, excess emissions from Volkswagen’s defeat devices will cause around 60 people in the U.S. to die 10 to 20 years prematurely. If the automaker recalls every affected vehicle by the end of 2016, more than 130 additional early deaths may be avoided. If, however, Volkswagen does not order a recall in the U.S., the excess emissions, compounding in the future, will cause 140 people to die early.

https://news.mit.edu/2015/volkswagen-emissions-cheat-cause-6...
Feel free to write an app for non-Google Android users, but not many people will buy it or even encounter it

iOS apps generate more revenue than Android

http://www.businessinsider.com/apple-app-store-revenue-per-u...
This book is also available to read for free on http://chimera.labs.oreilly.com/books/1230000000545/index.ht...
You didn't just suffer a minor penalty on EXP gained and durability loss, you actually lost EXP (which was significantly harder to grind, losing a level could happen and could set a high level player back days).

Before some of the mid life expansions you also lost your gear and had to make the dreaded "corpse run" to retrieve it before it despawned (which took a long time IIRC, 24 hours or more). They later gave you the ability to have an NPC summon your corpse before removing the gear loss entirely.

Death in EQ was very serious in the old days as a result, and it was always wise to have at least one other player that could drag your corpse to a safe place if you were entering a challenging zone.
Ask HN: Any need for Windows two step verification?
Hello all,

I am asking this question to gain some feedback on a side/passive income/open-source project that i am thinking of.

Passwords are used to log into Windows machines (desktops, laptops, servers, Pos etc.); a compromise of the password means any unauthorized entity now has access to your machines. My idea is basically to enable Two step verification or Two factor authentication (2FA) to protect Windows login.

2FA would be in form of an One Time Password (OTP). The OTP is generated securely (e.g. on your phone) which only you have access to. Without a valid OTP, logging in is prevented even if the correct password is used. In the event of a password breach, your OTP will still be unknown to the attacker, thereby preventing unauthorized entry.

The OTP algorithm will use standard TOTP as deployed by Google, FaceBook etc. I don't plan to bring any new capabilities on the OTP side itself but rather develop a sort of plugin or middleware that will be installed on Windows to trigger 2FA during login.

I have seen a very few solution in the market, mostly aimed at enterprises. I envision my work to be used by security and privacy conscious consumers as well as small to medium sized businesses that operate Windows machines (on-premises or cloud based). The solution would work for both physical as well as remote login.

Do you think this is something you or people you know will use? Is there even a need for this thing? Your thoughts are most welcome.
GW2, innovative? GW1 was innovative. GW2 is as derivative as it gets.
It is one kind of regulation, but it is usually not enough regulation and sometimes also the wrong regulation (think about public roads, the right to cross the high seas freely, ...)
Is there any technical reason for this? Because as far as I know the keywords still appear in Webmaster Tools.
The list of things to learn is endless. The only way we can get anything done on a daily basis is to gloss over the magic being done somewhere else in the system.
Is that... a 40 Megapixel flag image, scaled by the browser to 380px width??
I love my chromebooks (I have two), plus I bought one for my mother for whom it is absolutely perfect - a laptop (i.e. with keyboard) that is fast, light and trouble-free.
One powerful computer, hooked up to 3 locations in my house:
1: a heavily modified recliner chair with a monitor on an adjustable swing arm, where I tend to spend most of my time.

2: next to it, a backapp chair coupled with a separate mount for the "recliner monitor" so I can use the same monitor but elevated.

3: upstairs, standing desk, where I don't spend enough time.

All keybords are in the 60% form factor. I don't use mice, in other words my hands never leave the keyboard. This coupled with heavy customization to keyboard layout and functionality (custom layout, Autohotkey, etc) has worked wonders for RSI.

Two monitors, Eizo 27" IPS 2560x1440 by the recliner, 144hz IPS monitor with same size and resolution at the standing desk.

I also have a separate computer hooked up to the tv, a laptop hooked up to another screen, a cheap chineese tablet in the kitchen keeping track of temperatures and misc news etc, and an "old" t420 laptop which isn't in active use. I only work on the one main computer though, and I only ever use one monitor at a time (personal preference).
I thought it's a common knowledge most/all are doing it in one way or the other. Same as professional athletes in many sports, ie cycling - you cannot be really successful without any hacks/borderline cheating, it's more a matter of being few steps ahead of doping tests and current rules, thriving in the gray area.

I simply don't believe anymore there are any clean athletes in first 3 places in any sport where there are significant money involved.

And most people are happy to support this indirectly via their support of things like Olympics which became lately just hunt for sponsors. (I don't watch those anymore, rather will spend the time actually training, with friends, in the nature etc.)

Same for cars.
A Review of Roku Ultra Hardware
Ask HN: What should I do before building a MVP?
I have a rough idea about a product finder website I want to build as a side project, but I don't really know how to measure market interest.

I heard about strategies that include building a nonfunctional landing page and running a Google ad campaign for that, but I would like to learn about other options.

Are there any good resources on this topic?
The author says there is a big update and is going on a review process.

https://twitter.com/iamtrask/status/818114151339950081
Murder isn't the only "crime" that can result in your life being ruined if you're poor.
Why is it that we can accept expressive/cartoonish looking characters but need to have the most realistic environmental rendering (light, physics effects)?

I challenge the studios to be imaginative and equally expressive on the latter. Give us the miyazaki equivalent in 3d animated films.

Don't take fthe easy way out by emulating reality. Put true art into it
I agree. I am 56 and have used single vision glasses since I was 16. But recently I noticed my distance vision was poor and my optometrist recommended progressives. They're great for almost everything. But not computing! I just use my old glasses. I am lucky I suppose that they just happen to be in the sweet spot. I have a third pair just for reading, and they don't really suit programming either.
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Some companies have used it for language tutoring... What this change will do is chop off those offering free services at the knees and drive the premium services to Twilio, etc.

Google's a business. Why does it have the responsibility to pickup the tab for these businesses?
One thing I like about DevOps is never having to hear "it works on my machine!"
I've done the dual sysadmin/developer thing for a small company, and the problem I experienced there was completely incompatible working modes.

Sysadmins must deal with interrupts (requests, crises, things driven by external schedules etc) and then in the rest of their time build systems to manage or reduce the interrupts. Developers are expected to produce work on a predictable schedule. This is disrupted by interrupts and obliterates the schedule for proactive work unless your management is very good at making it a priority.

The "prevention of information services" problem is certainly real though. Perhaps it could be addressed by embedding the sysadmins in the dev teams rather than having a department of their own, but then you have to fight org hierarchy.
Yes, I watched the video. And to jog my memory I just watched it again now. Excatly as I described earlier: "a hacked-together mule loaded up with a pile of sensors on a roof rack."

That video has exceptionally high production values indicative of a carefully stage-managed performance on near-empty streets with exotic hardware that's never going to be used in any consumer car. I don't mean to diminish Google's achievement, but it's hardly the same as actually shipping hardware to customers.
Well, it is true that the Lua ecosystem is small, but I've been following it for years and it has been in a steady growth. Yea, it does depend on which problem you're trying to solve. I'm using it on Machine Learning now and there are many libraries available on LuaRocks for that.
Agree with most of the list but why is TCP important for frontend developers? I'm struggling to find the arc for that one that isn't abstracted away much like CPU pipelines are for back end devs.
I'd get rid of the manual process of driving to the office every day

Hmm. No one responded self-driving cars as a solution. Maybe with internet connectivity built-in so people can work en route.
Hm, can't this be circumvented by pushing towards a correlated equilibrium (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Correlated_equilibrium) instead of a Nash equilibrium?
A coffee shop just because it's Amsterdam? That's interesting prejudice right there. Everybody would be losing their shit if it was a black country and it mentioned something typical of there...
Without doubt do the Andrew Ng course on Machine Learning.

https://www.coursera.org/learn/machine-learning

It's excellent.
Interesting. I made it to the grass field and couldn't progress. What is the aim or theme of it?
South Korea sentenced a Volkswagen executive to 18 months in prison on Friday.

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-volkswagen-southkorea-idUS...
Measuring Capacity Through Utilization
Thanks for the reply Ben.

Regarding your question, I hate to say it, but out of my recommendations most of my clients are tending towards either Woo or Shopify. I actually personally prefer Magento for most reasons, and still have clients who are happily trading with M1, both OS and Enterprise, but the customers on M2 feel that they've been burnt by the constant show-stopper bugs (mostly in regards to integration with other systems).

I really hope that I'll be able to start recommending M2 to clients again, as I've worked with Magento for many years and I know the system well. I feel it gets a lot of things right, but the M2 bugs have been frankly embarrassing, and have led to uncomfortable conversations with clients where I have to explain that yes, the old M1 site worked perfectly, but the new site that they're spending money on still has 3 month old bugs that I can't provide an update on, or even an ETA for resolution.

I look forward to Magento hopefully fixing the major issues with M2 in the near future.

P.S. I realised that I didn't actually post the URL to the bug I mentioned in my previous post. It's https://github.com/magento/magento2/issues/6683 ("Products updated_at field is not updating on save") which seems related to a couple of other bugs pertaining to "updated_at" fields not being modified.
The thing is, that even if few % of their artillery/missiles get through, that can still mean hundreds of shots hitting Seoul and thousands of people dying. No one wants to take that risk.