skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure what's your point.

You A are getting content from server S.
B is getting the same content from server S.

With this CDN, what changes is that A is now sending content to B. Content that may be illegal. The fact that would mean A was accessing illegal content doesn't change the fact that this CDN moves him from a downloader to an uploader, without his content nor telling him, something that has legal precedent for leading to convictions in europe.
There's a longer explanation on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caret_notation
Silicon Valley billionaires prepare for the worst
Just for fun I'll go ahead and translate how this article reads in my mind- since thankfully I don't naively believe that I am of a singular race or ascribe my personality to some form of nationalism which has only existed for a little over 200 years (here is how we seriously talk in my house). Monoracials continuing to divide themselves into imaginary compartments have discovered that thinking too hard about a society of pro-inbreeding (we don't use the word 'racist' just 'pro-inbreeding') can cause auto-immune disorders. The antiquated pagan-but-not-pagan work ethic is what typifies the monoracial experience as most of their life is based on overt simplifications. Just for fun we will bring up the current political climate where most Americans have chosen a single race for the outgoing president and have applied it's meaning into somehow being contrary to the one born with a silver spoon in his mouth- who happens to be very pro-inbreeding. When we look at things like pure-bred dogs which are born with a gamut of mental problems and physical deficiencies- its easy for any group of monoracials to say 'That's how I want to be like a crazy pure-bred dog that's me!'. The 'Blacks' (the author doesn't specify here if black means African, West Indian, Hispanic, Moorish, etc..) as this expert points out are the only people worth mentioning because if you are not of a singular race (in your head of course no one is of a singular race) than you don't exist and nobody cares about your troubles.
Touch pads in general on laptops have got to be the worst UI ever tolerated in the history of computing. They are horrible. Something as simple as click-and-drag either turns into a cumbersome operations (with some kind of click-lock procedure) or a painful experience when done in repetition.

Disagree? Just try to run Solidworks with a track pad on a laptop for a view into just how bad this interface element really is.

Why are they still around? Because it is the easy an laziest approach to a no maintenance (no moving parts) low cost device to put into laptops to move the pointer around.

Nobody is interested in innovating because people tolerate the things and they are cheap. Move on, focus on pitching more pixels or touch bars. Nothing to see here.

Nearly 15 years ago I went through a period of intense work that led to an extremely painful carpal tunnel condition. It didn't get to the point of requiring surgery (I knew people who got there) but it was debilitating and it made work nearly impossible.

My solution was to take the bull by the horns. I designed and fabricated my own desk to address the ergonomic problems of standard desks. I also switched to a thumb operated trackball. Within about three months the soreness was gone, the inflammation receded and using the computer ceased to be a painful experience. I have not had carpal tunnel issues for fifteen years. Notable, when you consider I typically put in twelve hour days in front of the computer.

The very first thing I do with a laptop is disable the touch-pad and install a thumb operated trackball. Touch-pads are worthless as far as I am concerned. They might even be dangerous in terms of repetitive motion injuries due to the way they work.
It is, but should we really count a laptop with a horrible looking TN panel, 1440x900 resolution, and a processor two generations behind that costs $1k to be a viable option for people? That laptop should cost $700 max in 2017.

The only reason they have it is likely for education sales, since they have no other reasonable laptop right now.
I read the description and the blog post but I'm not totally sure what your product does.

What are "true odds"? It seems like its calculated based on gambling meta data, not actual analysis of the sport matchup itself?
http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2017-01-26

I don't know if you actually want to use this phrase...

But to me, it's like this: If they guarantee, in writing, in a contract that gives you recourse if they fail to perform, that they will hire you, then it's reasonable for them to ask you to give them, in an enforceable contract, your promise that you won't look elsewhere. If they're not giving you that kind of guarantee, your answer should be "no", however politely worded.
Hydraulic muscle makes for tougher, stronger disaster-site robots
the vision is great, but last time I checked (september) it was dependency hell.. definitions that didn't fit the actual code, definitions at npm, github, definetlytyped and so on.. will be great once the ecosystem stabilizes
if youve not read it already, here is an excellent interview with Andrés Sepúlveda who has helped to "rig elections throughout Latin America for almost a decade" partly through using twitter bots and similar techniques. https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2016-how-to-hack-an-elect...
Ask HN: Tech thought leaders, who is on the list?
Reading the commentary of top tech thinkers is extremely helpful. Let's compile a list of the best.

Please comment one name per comment so crowd can upvote.
That's true for most universities. Some universities get billing in the headline, most do not. This is not a function of the press department, but about the editor's perception of the public's perception.
"Frees up" sounds nicer than "let go" which in turn sounds nicer than "laid off".
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Agree that Azure AD is the magic key to get more businesses to adopt MS cloud solutions. I'm also seeing a lot of large businesses covering their bases by using Azure for Corp IT and dev/test environments, but set up production with AWS instances. Of course, this is only when they're used in a Infrastructure-as-a-Service setup, not if their apps consume platform-specific services. In addition, services like SCCM Cloud Gateway (for managing and patching remote users) only work through Azure.

No doubt MS will continue to grow in this space, since it offers stability, support when things go south, as well as easy onboarding with various developer focused initiatives. While the variety of services doesn't match the AWS catalogue yet, they also offer a marketplace where 3rd party services can be purchased and integrated.
Also found recently in a Finnish population (skimmed through the end.)
Huh.

The landline telephone business has, for a long time now, been compromised by spammers and bots (telemarketing calls and robocalls). I canceled my land line about four years ago after going for three months without receiving a single call I wanted.

It seems the commercial social networks are headed for the same fate. And, they're headed for hardnosed and unpleasant regulation by governments. They probably need to clean up their acts.
It is a great counter, but sumo is a sport where acceptable behavior, inside and outside of the ring, is bound by strict rules.
But that 1-based array indexing. It's like the 60s never ended...
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I hear this all the time as to why comments are "bad" (and I'm not suggesting that's what _you_ are saying, btw). Comments need to be kept up-to-date with code changes. The same way unit tests are kept up-to-date, and everything else around your code is. Comments are no exception.
The rest of the government already is governed by remits. To quote Wikipedia:

> As the upper house, the Senate has several powers of advice and consent which are unique to it; of these include the ratification of treaties, the confirmation of Cabinet secretaries, Supreme Court justices, federal judges, other federal executive officials, flag officers, regulatory officials, ambassadors, and other federal uniformed officers.

These people, once picked, "answer to" the Executive--because the function of the Executive is to coordinate the running (execution) of government. But they're picked by Congress, and thus the "character" of government--defined by the beliefs of the people who run it--is in large part up to the legislature.

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Also, if I can make an analogy here, I think there's something important to understand about the role of the President within the executive.

The President's role is basically equivalent to, and in large part historically "derived from", the role of a military flag officer (e.g. a general, admiral, etc.) That is, the President is someone who:

1. coordinates a number of units that have been temporarily assigned ("attached") to them, directing those units "from above" into a strategic configuration, without knowing much about their internals; and

2. keeps a "flag staff" who are there to manage each part of their job and liase with the individual units that affect their focus, representing the flag officer in that aspect.

Each unit under the flag officer's command, though, is independently headed by someone else: someone who is part of that unit rather than imposed on it from the outside; someone who was was hired by someone else long before the flag officer got there; and someone who is just temporarily serving the flag officer because they are the representative of their unit, and their unit is currently "attached" to that flag officer's command, rather than because they consider themselves to "work for" the flag officer themselves.

This is an exact description of the Executive branch. Congress hires the people who head the "units" (departments.) The President then comes in with their staff and those "units"--and their representatives--get attached to the President, who gets their staff (e.g. the Secretary of Defense; the Finance Minister) to liase with the unit heads (e.g. the Joint Chiefs of Staff; the Chairman of the Federal Reserve.)
Does FB really have an incentive to care though? Obviously it should dilute the effectiveness of their advertising system, but if people still keep throwing money at them...

I'm not in that industry , so I'm genuinely asking
And what would be a better measure?

I don't know, right off. May well be there isn't any such "measure", for the higher end. Especially none as highly contention as that provided by so-called IQ tests (which in any case were initially intended to sift out mental retardation or developmental disabilities -- not for stack-ranking cognitive performance in upper-tier adults, for which their applicability is even more suspect).

The bigger point is that it doesn't do much good to just pretend that it's a valid, object measure of "brilliance" when most likely it isn't.
> Your twisty logic here

Which part of my logic is twisty?

> Where do you draw the line? What's too invasive?

The line is draw by consumers, marketers, consumer protection agencies and the legal system. If marketers are being deceptive, that's a legal and moral issue. Marketers have stepped over the legal line and they've been sued for deceptive marketing practices. Setting aand enforcing a moral line is a whole other discussion :)

In the case of the article, I haven't seen any indication anything deceptive is taking place. The price to receive a big mac seems clear: allow McDonald's to send a tweet. People can either choose to pay that price or not. If that price isn't clear (eg. McDonald's asks for Twitter permission, but doesn't tell you they'll send out a tweet) and McDonald's is being deceptive, then they should be punished by the legal system.

Apple could have done the same thing with an automated vending machine which dispenses new Macbooks to evaluate consumer reactions to the touchbar. You get a new Macbook if you allow Apple to send a tweet out from your account. I'm willing to pay that price. You might not be. You are free to make that choice.
If you think Apple's actions are stepping over the line, then you are free to campaign against them to change laws or get them to change their practices so they reflect your definition of the line.

I personally don't agree with your definition of the line, so I don't feel motivated to change the laws to prohibit this behavior.
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But why bill based on the bandwidth at all? Is it just a matter of being easy to understand and will equate to more than request based billing?

With a P2P network the bandwidth isn't being paid for anyway as you're using the end user's outbound connections. The tech behind it does sound interesting but it sounds more like a library than a metered service.
"a dearth of yoga studios"
Automating power: Social bot interference in global politics
I find it kind of ironic that Priyadarshi predicts AI won't be making decisions based on "fear of things, phobia, race issues or anxiety", when the article opens with an example of an AI that did exactly that.
Maybe a dumb question, but why is porting it necessary?
Or you could be 100% satisfied with what's around you and still see a need for maintenance. Or you could be satisfied with the constant state of change things tend to be in and continue to contribute to that change. Or could see tendencies and desires in yourself as indications to continue to live as a human, to do human things, without attaching yourself to any specific outcome. Sitting still is one reaction to satisfaction, but far from the only one.
Other lock-in freaks aren't an excuse for being one. Apple and Sony also didn't try to claim they are "new".
The FIX protocol uses the SOH control character to separate message fields.
A clear, quick high-level overview is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmpDIaiMIeA
We recently had to deal with an issue like this. My decision was to just sort of punt on the issue, and just base-64 encode the text. So there would be no shenanigans with escape character processing and such. The loss in efficiency was considered acceptable.
Agreed, cs231n is a great course. For neural net information less specific to computer vision I would also recommend looking up video lectures from Nando de Freitas and/or Hugo Larochelle.

I also have to put in a plug for Geoff Hinton's Coursera course. It's not for the faint of heart. It's essentially a graduate level college course with the commensurate required time investment. It's getting a little old now but it was my introduction to neural nets and if you want to learn from a pioneer in the field it's still a good option in my opinion: https://www.coursera.org/learn/neural-networks
In that case, can things like universal basic income and safe spaces lead the humanity to extinction?
Can FPGAs meet market trading requirements?
Interesting. What is preventing them from upgrading? I ask because I was thinking of picking up .NET Core as a stepping stone to one day transitioning to a Microsoft-based skillset (I'm a Ruby dev). If it's proving to be unpopular within the .NET community then I may reconsider.
I was about to write exactly the same comment myself. Also, let me add:

1) how does this work behind NAT?

2) as someone else pointed out already, your logo looks like a cheap ripoff of HTML5 :)

Good luck.
Because one of the great viscerally satisfying part of watching a sumo wrestling match is the strong initial clash. Side-stepping the charge can be a thing that makes you more likely to win the match, but it makes the sport of sumo wrestling less fun to watch and less prestigious/important/etc.

Basically, it's defecting in an iterated prisoner's dilemma. "Considered beneath the dignity" is just shorthand for "there are social enforcement mechanisms aimed at preventing this behavior".
Fake News Is About to Get Even Scarier Than You Ever Dreamed
This is a reason to check comments in code reviews not to avoid comments completely.
Google Cloud is half the price, double the performances, and it has many major products/capabilities that are light years ahead and have zero equivalents in the other clouds.

They're the unexpected player and they suck at marketing though :D
It's interesting to see this analysis a year later. The article posits that possibly "Hakuho sees his skills slipping and is resorting to dirty tactics in a last-ditch effort to stay on top of a sport" and since then Hakuho has been reprimanded for other actions in the ring, faced serious injury, and gone into the longest losing streak since becoming a Yokozuna. If this turns out to be the end of Hakuho's career, it's interesting that this article picked out a possible beginning of the fall
Unique Identification Authority of India's Developer Portal
https://thepul.se/ also uses an algorithm based on nltk to summarize general news. (It also includes a nice speed-reader.)
>Comments are no exception.

but they usually are.
2 valid points

1. We suggest a snippet today for our customers to notify their users.

2. https://www.peer5.com/about towards the end of the page you can see the attribution.
Ask HN: Benefits of circular images with css?
I see a lot of images styled to appear circular. Many times you see this around a blog authors picture. I see it on Medium etc.

Are there any benefits to this type of image styling?
They never should have switched from their "Supercomputer" Power PC to that slow-as-a-snail Intel chip.
I'm pretty sure the communications and hiring freeze is across the board (with a national security related exception). It's not specific to one department.

That aside, nobody is preventing anyone outside of government from researching anything they'd like, publishing it, or shouting it from the rooftops. The only complaint I hear is projects and voices that specific people want heard aren't being promoted.
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Mark Zuckerberg drops lawsuits to force hundreds of Hawaiians to sell him land
really awesome that cutting edge crypto is being used by our elected officials & their aides to avoid public records laws!
I treat the comments in my code as notes... things future developers will need to know, TODO's, occasionally why I'm doing things a certain way, or other things that may be forgotten. I try to make the code as readable as possible so comments aren't needed. If you really want the documentation, look at the tests. My test descriptions describe what the code should be doing. The actual tests describe the API. Then there's actual documentation. This tends to cover more high level stuff. If the code provides an API others will be using then I'll provide documentation on how to consume it, otherwise my tests describe the API.

All of that being said, I'm not dogmatic about any of the above. I'd prefer my code to be self-documenting, but I understand it isn't always for any number of reasons.
The danger of stale comments is, I feel, overblown.

First, other developers know that comments can grow stale, so they're unlikely to treat them as sacrosanct, although I admit to falling into that trap.

More importantly, most of the types of comments that Eric recommends can drift out of sync with the code and still be useful. Why is this code here? What happened previously that is no longer in the code? What tradeoffs have been chosen?
Why not port WPF to the web?
This is more God/Bible than I think I've ever seen on HN
Oh, so that's why C-m and C-j make a line break in Emacs, and C-g will make a sound if you press it one extra time.
I think part of why studies like this are important is their relevance to political philosophies, like democratic liberalism versus fascism versus communism versus islamism.

A large part of why these philosophies differ is they have different views of human nature, starting with infant psychology. They were free to have different views because these matters are hard to get good information about.

But in recent decades there has been a whole lot of excellent research, and we now know a great deal more about infant and child psychology. From what I understand, what the scientists have found fits most closely with the psychological assumptions of democratic liberalism, at least a version of it.
Well this seems like a problem with code reviews (or lack of), rather than with the comments themselves.
I've heard ex-staffers say that emails are worthless but calls—in volume, as you say—have an impact.
The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) is a central government agency of India. Its objective is to collect the biometric and demographic data of residents, store them in a centralised database, and issue a 12-digit unique identity number called Aadhaar to each resident. It is considered the world's largest national identification number project.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aadhaar
Very cool and timely for me! Search is working super fast. Having some issues with overset text on mobile in the job listings though.
Does anyone know if any of the social media sites have release info on their relative bot counts?

I'm curious because I've seen the same posts in different places and now see a ton of comments boiling down to "Source?" again. The later used to be everywhere 8-9 years ago, but were typically people that actually wanted a source to read not just spam the question. Now it seems they are spamming it to distract from the real conversations.
You might not know what features you really want and writing it in microPython lets you try it out faster. I think that the chip they eventually might run it on might also be different.
I know this is said a lot, but who are the users asking for cheaper phones? Here on HN, where presumably most people are technologically inclined, the sentiment is "I'll take a bigger phone for large battery life." But all phone manufacturers are going the opposite. Are regular users asking for smaller phones? There must be a user group that wants it smaller and smaller (actually just thinner).
I'm also really happy with my Asus Zenbook ux305fa. The keyboard does feel familiar (replacing my 2011 MBP). And Ubuntu runs fine on it - no problems with wifi or anything else so far.
I have no idea how my car works.

I find this weird. As I proceeded through Comp sci in high school, going from Pascal to C to assembler, I was always troubled by my lack of understanding, "but why does it work?" That anxiety finally disappeared in college when I learned how logic gates are constructed and went through the exercise of implementing multiply as a series of logical operations.

Similarly, I find it strange that someone would be comfortable driving a car without fairly deep knowledge of how it functions and how to repair it. I don't understand how you're not plagued with anxiety.
Perhaps we should simply encourage people to view their internet as public unless they see that green lock in the URL.
GCE/GCP is really interesting, though I haven't had the opportunity to use it.

I've said it a few times, but I'd LOVE to see a latency graph/map of the major cloud providers and latency/throughput to eachother's different data centers. This way when you have some services/data in one, and want to do something in another, you have an idea of what the cost in terms of time will be.

ex: Compute/service/docker nodes in DO/Linode via Docker Cloud to manage the clusters, and use data services from azure/aws/gce. I mean, yes it's better to do in the same house/cloud, but for a hobby project where you'd like some redundancy 3x$20 nodes in DO + Azure SQL/Tables or AWS RDS/Aurora. So you don't have to manage your databases, but can save on the service nodes over EC2 or Azure VMs.
The 'almost human' gorilla who drank tea and went to school
IMHO, that's bad advice (see other comments about not burning bridges).
As a jobseeker I use this daily, thanks for a great product. The more data sources you can integrate in the future, the better!