skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
With India, China and Russia launching their own positionning systems, I wonder if it would be possible to interpolate an even higher precision by listening to all 5 signals at the same time.

(I don't know enough about signal processing to know if that's a possibility or not.)
Most of the methods mentioned in the article seem half-assed to me, especially when compared to the "natural" Java 8 functionality that's commonly available on Streams, particularly .map() and .filter().

Maybe there are optimizations, but why would you have a custom signature to add a transformer (really it's just a map()) to forEach(), when you would normally just .map().forEach()?
Varies by state too. Not every state requires people to keep right.
A Story Of Starting A Business In Japan
Since the time companies started being held accountable.

Which goes back all the way to ancient Babylon in some form or another. There are countless instances in history of shady businessmen being taken to trial or punished by an angry mob.

(And the "Dutch East India Company" was accountable to its society -- and even nationalized at some point. It just exploited OTHER societies and countries).
For starters, the leadership has very little experience in innovating with tech product or business models. http://nytco.com/executives.

Another example is they claim reader engagement is important yet have made almost no progress on this front. Most articles don't even allow community comments. Rather than complaining about the quality of internet comments, they could use their influence to embrace new techniques that raise the bar for discourse.

Their selling of subscriptions is a mess. First the cheapest sub is $200/yr. They need to segment further and offer something at the psychologically important barrier of $9.95/month. This new tier could be made compelling with cannibalizing higher tiers.

The sell screen is a mess: https://www.nytimes.com/subscriptions/Multiproduct/lp8RX3Y.h.... It's confusing, not clean, has unnecessary messaging, and looks like it's never been through iterations of A/B testing to maximize conversions.

There are many more opportunities for improvement that are also not being taken up on. I wish I could meet with them for a couple days of strategy consulting.
I don't get why people are so surprised that this is the Apple we're seeing under Tim. Tim was the COO... he knows operations. He's not a creative, he's not a tech guy. He knows operations, and he knows them well.

While the creative/user facing side has been lack luster (depending on if you ask the average consumer or a techie), the operational side is booming. Their product line has slimmed, they have clear and concise build processes, they've improved their services roll out and are still sitting on a mound of cash.

I think Tim has accomplished what he was put in place to do. People act like Steve Jobs, the guy who put Tim there, didn't know Tim at all. Jobs knew Tim very well. He knew what Tim was good at, and I'm sure they talked about what Tim should do in the future. This is the established course for Apple. Take it or leave it.
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FWIW, there has been a thread-safe implementation of putIfAbsent(K, V) since ConcurrentMap was introduced in 1.5. computeIfAbsent just adds the additional property of avoiding possibly computing the value more than once if there is a race in

if (!map.containsKey(key)) {
V value = compute(key);
V existing = map.putIfAbsent(key, value);
if (existing != null) {
// someone else won the race
}
}
The problem comes if the sender has a DMARC reject policy, and he or she sends e-mail to a mailing list which then reflects the mail to a recipient which honors DMARC, the recipient will bounce the e-mail message, and never see it. In some cases this will cause the recipient to be automatically unsubscribed from the mailing list.

If you're not using DMARC, and you're not running a mailing list, then yes, it won't affect you. But it's no urban legend.
I think Zach Holman's post on 'Remote first' vs. 'Remote friendly' does a good job of explaining the distinction:

https://zachholman.com/posts/remote-first/
Working in an open space with people you are actually working with is different from being crammed into one space with people you have nothing to do with.
What the comment under is saying. The scale can just not be compared. The order of magnitude of complexity and variable in computer system are far bigger than in any other engineering discipline.
Not exactly, the DMARC policy is very flexible. Each server, after a period of monitoring when he receives a detailed report of what would happen if a policy is enforced, can define his own policies.
It really depends on your values and threat model. With a few thousand dollars and few weeks it wouldn't be that hard to flood the Tor network with enough of your own nodes to capture the routes of an appreciable fraction of traffic. It would be extraordinary to me if the NSA hadn't already done this.
The same can be said for the real estate used by banks. I guess they are used for meeting to sign paperwork and as support centers for people not comfortable banking online. In the future I don't see that need requiring a large building.
So the original exchange at the top of this thread was as follows:

"Would you swear in an interview? No."

Yes. And if someone held it against me it's unlikely to be a place I want to work.

You were not the person who replied this way. My reading, at this point, is that your answer would be "maybe, but only if my read if the circumstances lead me to feel it was justified".

And on this you and I actually agree!
Intelligent apps are the future… and the tech is within reach
Show HN: Stock market simulator to test your trading skills
+1

Thanks. I'll have to give it a try.

If it supports images I may well switch.

If you wanted to import notes from Evernote, what would be the best strategy for that? Are there any already written tools for that?

I think I'd basically have to convert my notebooks to tags for it to make sense in this app.
I never thought Mozilla required a new brand identity, there wasn't anything wrong with the old one. As others said, Mozilla has been doing projects that seemed a bit off, like the phone OS.

Honestly they just need to focus on Firefox, Thunderbird, MDN, lobbying for a free Internet and help design open standards.

Mozilla has a great, trustworthy image, their management just needs to focus on the things Mozilla does well.
Uh, did you miss the part of Sweden being one of the largest consumers of anti-depressants? Remove those drugs and retake the survey and see how well Sweden does. Of course, that's not practical, but dismissing the effects of these drugs is being disingenuous here.
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> (no MNIST anymore in papers, please)

If you have a breakthrough in transfer learning then you will be able to very effectively demonstrate it with MNIST.

The race to the bottom is essentially over, but that doesn't mean MNIST can't be used to demonstrate learning.

Regarding setup and parameters. I hope AI researchers move toward something like pachyderm [https://pachyderm.io] -- providing a single docker image to completely replicate their work. However, I sincerely doubt that will happen. As "open" as research is the details are almost always obfuscated to prevent competition with the spin-out company (or other researchers).
7 more votes to get it done.
I read Paul Krugman for being mostly correct about things economic (and often political) for the past 17+ years.

Except he's not. Krugman is no longer an economist, he's a commentator. And with that comes his slant. From the "Mises Wiki" [1]

The Economist cites critics of Krugman stating that "his relentless partisanship is getting in the way of his argument". In addition, a website (titled "Lying in Ponds") that tracks partisanship among public intellectuals rated Krugman second in the overall partisan slant of his columns, behind only Ann Coulter ... The Economist magazine supported the finding, noting the vast majority of Krugman's columns feature attacks on Republicans and almost none criticize Democrats, making him "a sort of ivory-tower folk-hero of the American left

As he moved from Nobel-winning economist to the political realm, he also left behind many of his economically sound ideas. For example [2]

Would cutting the minimum wage raise employment? - New York Times, Dec 16, 2009

...the belief that lower wages would raise overall employment rests on a
fallacy of composition. In reality, reducing wages would at best do nothing
for employment; more likely it would actually be contractionary.

Training touted to close widening wage gap - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, page 8A - Feb 6, 1996

Stanford University economist Paul Krugman, however, said raising the
minimum wage and lowering barriers to union organization would carry a
trade-off --- increased unemployment.

...Deficits and interest rates - New York Times, Aug 14, 2009

It turns out that there's a strong correlation between budget deficits
and interest rates - namely, when deficits are high, interest rates are
low ... On reflection, it's obvious why...

A fiscal train wreck - New York Times, Mar 11, 2003

But we're looking at a fiscal crisis that will drive interest rates
sky-high. A leading economist recently summed up one reason why:
"When the government reduces saving by running a budget deficit,
the interest rate rises."

[1] The site isn't working for me, so I can't get a link

[2] http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2010/06/paul_krugman...
Coded – New series about hacking and privacy stuff
These days it seems that big name FOSS projects are overrun with "social"...
I have had (and continue to have) perfectly innocuous emails land in the spam folders of others with gmail.
Huh, I thought this was the val salva maneuver.
Why couldn't CPU RAM be used as well in a GPU database system?

There is no market demand for this currently. GPU's don't need advanced MMU's because nobody wants them. The same is true for PCIe data loading.

CPU vs GPU performance you are neglecting the fact that GPU RAM can be an order-of-magnitude faster than CPU RAM,

No I'm not. If your data set can remain in GPU ram long term yes there is a big performance speed up. The problem here (as I outlined before)

1. GPU MMU's are less advanced, so they don't handle transactions well (see above comments).

2. As you can't perform transactions efficiently, you need read only data. Which is possible but many databases aren't read only, or databases NOT being written too are rare.

3. Ensuring your full dataset can fit in GPU memory (typically <20GB) is a damning limitation. Streaming data into the GPU is rather sloppy and limits compute though-put.
"Java isn't perfect but it's the defacto language for anything that doesn't need to be compiled"

Java is a compiled language.
(warning: armchair expert, I've just read a bunch of wikipedia pages)

I believe there's still sources of systemic error that would affect all the signals similarly, such as atmospheric interference, so even taking (for example) the average of the reported position from all the services may not improve accuracy that much.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Error_analysis_for_the_Global_... is a good read.
Spot on, minor add:

I start with #4, it gives many clues about #3 and may reveal things about #2. For #1, don't ask friends, ask prospective customers.
yoodenvranx Ghost Browser (disc: I'm the founder) has a Projects feature that lets you do that. And within each Project you can have multiple isolated browsing sessions which makes web dev and QA go a lot faster.
ErlangVM's GC does exactly this. Memory is scoped in a closure around a process, and any time the process goes down all its memory its thrown away.

Also anytime a functions scope terminates, all its memory immediately goes away.

This can be done because its a functional language with immutable data structures.
this :// reminds me of :-/ or the shrug emoji. not really the happy face they are aiming for. OR did I misinterpret it?
I hope this continues to be developed. I love coding in Racket. I remember when I first started coding in Python years ago and then I ran into Racket (Wanting to learn Functional programming) and I even liked Racket coding even more.
https://www.amazon.com/Pointers-C-Kenneth-Reek/dp/0673999866
1/ How do you think you or others can build an advantage if everyone is playing almost the same game? If I understand well, the arbitrage opportunities you are seeing, are seen by almost anyone.

2/ What tools/APIs/etc do you think are interesting to build? Since I am a cofounder of a softwae development company in the cryptocurrency space, I am looking for new insights but not have experience in the HFT space.
Wait, it had a concurrenthashmap but no way to "get or add"? Is a concurrent hash map even useful without that? (I suppose you could always write your own with some read/write locking but...wow)
Jeepers these comments are pessimistic. Am I the only one who actually likes what they went with? I think it's cool, does a good job of differentiating from MS, Google and Apple's respective styles, and reflects Mozilla's less "corporate" nature. There are some solid ideas in the other concepts as well (although I will admit some of them are a tad underdeveloped, and the all-seeing eye probably projects the wrong image).
Buyers of such devices don't seem to care.
For me, one thing is the feeling of being constantly watched (even when you're not) that's detrimental to both health (stress) and productivity. So even if I'm less likely to browse HN when in an open office (compiling!) my productivity is much lower compared to a private office. Of course this is also due to audio and visual disturbances.

Interestingly one of the pros often mentioned for open office space is that it enables collaboration, I've never seen that work out in practice very well, though. At least I'm much less prone to start a discussion with someone in an open office because it will disturb everyone else who are not interested in the topic. More often than not other people will hush you and so on.

So in the end an open office is detrimental to my health, happiness, productivity and (surprise) collaboration but hey I'm saving the company some thousand $$ each year, or am I?
https://github.com/pycket/pycket-bench
"Every single line of code I add to codebase, creates lots of bugs/crashes"? I feel you are either exaggerating the damage you think you are doing, or the system itself is really messed up. Is it a legacy system? Does it have too much technical debt? See if you can find a systemic solution for those bugs/crashes. More unit tests, more automated tests, better simulators, something... There is always some systemic improvements possible with any system.

If it's deadline pressure related, then you may have to try to convince your management that extending a deadline to deliver tested code is better than sticking to those deadlines - which are usually artificial and heavily underestimated anyway - only to create extra unwanted work for everybody.
>So I guess that's progress.

No it's not, because scripts are better to debug the problem when (invariably) all goes to shit.
Thanks for writing this, and writing it with candor.

What do you think of Spolsky's "Good software takes 10 years"?

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2001/07/21/good-software-take...
Works on my updated Android 6x, latest chrome.
NumPy Cheat Sheet for Data Analysis
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The Windows Admin, DBAs, even networking guys. For awhile I was the only network tech for four hospitals. Every job since then networking is just something that was tacked on to my list of duties. Networking is just another field that does not need to be fully staffed out when most of your software is running offsite on someone's cloud
Do Programming Languages Matter?
What's the fear with more accuracy?

From my (completely layman) perspective once you've got a meter or so of accuracy, you've got what you need for weapons.

What's further accuracy get you that some nations are against everyone having?
The unfortunate part of this is that while a crazy product-driven visionnary needs a solid Operations leader to deliver the product, an Operations head will not suffer having a crazy product wildcard among his ranks. So this is a one-way transition from creative chaos to predictable stability.
Reliable, innovative. Pick 1.
I stopped reading when it referred to SPF as "Sender Protection Framework." As usual, the discussion on HN is far better than R'ing TFA.

We recently had a collision between the practices of one of our vendors, the silly way that .edu's tend to forward mail, and Gmail's DMARC policy. The vendor is doing everything "right" in terms of their own (completely transactional) mailings on our behalf but some still want to blame them for poorly forwarded messages sent to .edu addresses that subsequently get swallowed up by Gmail and are never seen by the authors or referees.
The video leaked ahead of the formal announcement (which is coming in the next hour or so).
While things could get complicated, it seems worldwide, STEM careers, especially IT, seems to adhere to a more-friendly policy for foreign workers.

Besides, it is UK, not some unstable, backwater nation that would rush to cancel work permits and kick out foreigners.
I'm not sure that is the definition, I believe it's: to make a conclusion based on a premise that has no more support than the conclusion.

i.e to introduce a premise begging to be questioned - that includes, of course, the assumption of a conclusion, (isn't that a different fallacy though? - circular reasoning) e.g.:

> bitcoin is profitable, because bitcoin traders are doing well

It pushes the argument somewhere (sometimes to a new claim; sometimes a consequence-of, or paraphrasing-of the original claim) but provides no argument for that direction either, begging for the new premise to be question just as much as the old, and otherwise providing no new clarity.

This being abstracted to any obvious omission of information, or even abstractions such as situations themselves "begging the question" as if personified, is just an extension of the same semantics.
Compiled to bytecode, I'm guessing the GP meant compiled to native.
13M Pages of Declassified CIA Documents Were Just Posted Online
> I use AirVPN because to me it matters the client is open source.

Don't most VPN providers offer OpenVPN as an option? Private Internet Access does. I always assumed that the client offered is to have an easy setup method for users who don't know how to configure a normal VPN client safely.
These books on the subject of term sheets are solid

https://www.amazon.com/Term-Sheets-Valuations-Intricacies-Bi...

https://www.amazon.com/Venture-Deals-Smarter-Lawyer-Capitali...
Th elevator pitch – always at hand
Now the people who I don't agree with will have my data!!!

It's not like people have argued the potential for a change in government as one of the reasons mass surveilance is bad, even if you happen to trust the current government, since forever.
>> Of those respondents that were dissatisfied, what did those workers who require private offices build that was great?

Clearly since we can't match these workers with a highly successful, innovative, billion dollar idea their opinions are worthless. After all, such things never happened until Mark invented the open office.
A non-profit has a budget for hiring, just as a scrappy startup has a budget for hiring, just as Facebook has a budget for hiring. The first two may try to spin a story about how they need to spread that budget farther because of $narrative, but really all they're doing is trying to pay you less money for your work.

Notice how they're not "not able" to pay market rate for things like power, rent, office furniture, and phone service to the building. Those things are only different from developer talent in that they are not willing to negotiate their rate down because of a story.

Developers should take a page from their book.
This seems like a great system to enable fine-grained micromanagement at a glance. It's got a weird mix of 'overbearing manager' and 'Orwellian employment coverage' that seems to primarily support over-involvement in your employees' minute-to-minute tasks. And that isn't even considering how "your outplanr task chart" factors into those yearly performance reviews. ;)

This would be a great way to manage a household chore-chart, though...
nope not universal.

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

my entire family does it on my mom's side. when you tell it to someone who doesn't do it they think you are crazy.
Are they burning the houses for insurance fraud, to cash out and essentially launder the money?
That's pointless. Netflix bans each and every VPN IP address they can get their hands on — they are quite thorough. You might as well get a cheaper VPN subscription with a VPN provider who condones torrenting and access the shows you are missing that way.
I think that Apple's lack of structure is why their software and services were largely lacking under Steve Jobs. Maybe there is a way to have your cake and eat it too. IDK, something like Apple Pay under Steve Jobs probably would've had a messy rollout.

Software and services require stability and predictability. Tim Cook is the yang to Steve Jobs' ying. I think TC is looking for the optimal balance.
You zone for multifamily which will raise the value even more. Then a developer will buy it and put up condos.
Matplotlib 2.0
Mounting challenge to brain sex differences
The India program only started launching a couple years ago. Galileo has been launching since 2006. Perhaps the clocks fail only after x amount of hours in space or some other condition based on age. The oldest Galileo sat clock has a decade of wear on it. I imagine there are some worried people in the Indian space program right now after hearing this news.
I would like to think that in ten years the overwhelming weight of opinion will be respectful of gender identity. At the moment that definitely isn't the case.

The consistent use of quotes around pronouns, as in "'she'", and use of 'they', as if there is confusion, is a subtle but deliberate way to indicate that the author thinks gender identity is all a bit fake. Its puerile behaviour from people who should know better.
I wasn't responsible for setup, but we've been using Buildkite (https://buildkite.com) for our CI and it's been very nice. We run it through a Kubernetes cluster of workers and as far as I can tell it's been very flexible as to what's in a pipeline.
> Since I've picked up mindfulness and become a more balanced, calm person

Where did you learn mindfulness from? A book, therapy, or something else?

Is there anything you wish you knew when you had just started getting into mindfulness? I'm curious as to what you'd suggest.
Not a scala user, but studied it.

Immediately off the type of my head: case classes, pattern matching, and maybe scala.js.

Pretty sure scala still has the upper hand in total loc vs corresponding java.

That said I enjoy Java enough so its no biggie I can't find scala positions worth looking into.
Just to put your rant on more sound statistical footing, there is the whole Replication Crisis issue:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replication_crisis
throw stone{1_st};

edit: now with parameters and custom literals
> But please strike that sentence about not wanting to pay a market rate.

I don't think I said or implied that, but if I did I wasn't accurate. Given the funding, grant-based model we have, we can't really pay for-profit tech market salaries without jeopardizing our whole mission. You can argue that then our model isn't right, and that's fine. I have a different opinion, but I understand what you mean.

That said, if you know of a funding structure that would let us do research work without worrying about profitability but rather on urgency and impact, I would love to learn about that.