skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Doing anything large on a machine without CUDA is a fool's errand these days. Get a GTX1080 or if you're not budget constrained, get a Pascal-based Titan. I work in this field, and I would not be able to do my job without GPUs -- as simple as that. You get 5-10x speedup right off the bat, sometimes more. A very good return on $600, if you ask me.
Yup... all because they use super outdated packages
Second that. It also helps me unwind actually. I play this once in a while even though I am a decent touch-typist.
I'm pretty sure that an android wear watch I bought on Ebay was grey market. I bought it for ~65% of the suggested retail price. When it died ~9 months later, its SN was not recognized by Motorola, so there was no warranty.
It's a partial vacuum not a full vacuum. Stopped watching at that point..
Just a quick update.

I'm actually trying Brave now and am quite impressed. It's certainly got some problems (viewing SSL certificate is broken - https://github.com/brave/browser-laptop/issues/2611). However, it's pretty slick and the fact it's a real open source browser is quite promising.
15 under 15: rising stars in cybersecurity
Around 1982, I had an account on MIT-MC, an ITS computer. I was not an MIT student -- rather, a curious teenage hacker from DC. I'd found a text file with 'interesting modem numbers,' and one of those was to a DoD TAC (basically, a dial-in). I recall the text file had a note saying how to connect (via NCP, not TCP/IP) to MIT-MC.

I connected, and remember playing around (as we did) at the login prompt. I probably tried to login as 'guest' or something, and the result was basically, 'There's no user by that name. Do you want an account?' Of course, I said yes -- and shortly received my own account.

Stallman may have been sponsoring logins for folks like myself; he definitely was a little later when I got an account on MIT-AI (or was it MIT-OZ?), which was by that point a TOPS-20 machine.

ITS was a very bizarre system, really with its own social culture. Even in 1982, it felt strangely archaic. The debugger-as-shell was definitely an interesting concept.

Once I accidentally deleted a file. I felt awful, and emailed one of the admins, assuming they'd kick me off. He was like, 'Ah, no worries. We'll just restore it from tape.'
Hard evidence? Nope. Maybe it's only 1%. Or maybe it's 20%. No one knows!

My #1 frustration with the homeless crisis in Seattle is that we have almost zero data. In fact almost all of our numbers on how many homeless are in the area come from the annual January one night count! It's absurd.

How long have the homeless been homeless? When was their last home? Where was that home? How many times have they bounced into and out of homelessness? When was their last job? What was their job? Why did they become homeless?

We honestly have no idea. Solving a problem is particularly different when you don't even know what they underlying source of the problem is!

Now gathering this data is actually pretty difficult. Many homeless don't have formal id. And many others have a justifiable distrust of the government and organizations which make them not want to use their real names.

In Seattle it gets even more complicated. Different groups don't like to share their numbers as to how many homeless they shelter or how many services they provide. Because if they all start sharing their numbers some of them are bound to start losing their funding. And we wouldn't dollars to be spent more efficiently by another organization now would we?

So why is Seattle's homeless population so wildly disproportionate to our city size? <shrug> No one knows and we're just guessing.
Someone with a failing business is going to be the prime suspect when it burns down, a researcher whose project appears to be going nowhere will be the prime suspect when their samples are sabotaged. It's fairly straight-forward reasoning.
I guess my point is that I don't see Elementary as doing anything that really requires an entire new OS. If they did enough special things it would be worth it.

I totally agree on Global menu. I use Gnome and I miss global menu dearly
It's not a free (libre) software.

But it's source code is available.
Taxi trips are down 10%, not fares.
What does competent execution mean? Execution of what?
So who here never learnt how to touch type at school?
Silicon Valley was too busy inventing the gig economy that has people turning towards trump.
One more point -- although I believe your statement that ITS did not initially use passwords, I'm almost positive that the policy switched around 1982, and they did require passwords after that.
Latex source for the book on github shows what & when:

https://github.com/fabriziotappero/Free-Range-VHDL-book/comm...
JIRA Jr. Project Management for Kids
Just because a single food or spice hasn't shown to promote health doesn't mean that the overall diet doesn't play a significant role in health outcomes.
Keep at it -- places that don't have a thoughtful enough interview process to ask you something practical and relevant aren't companies you probably want to work at anyway.
Most Chinese political leaders have an engineering background, yet if you asked me what's the main characteristic of Chinese leaders when compared to leaders of other countries, "critical thinking" wouldn't be among the first definitions coming to me.
Not all terrorists are muslims, just a majority of them in our current time. This is due to the destabilization of the region more than their religion, although the more radical versions of the religion certainly play a part. Similar things occured in Ireland back in the day: terrorism created by destabilization and fueled by radical religious zeal.

Edit: my auto correct sucks
> There are a significant number of programming tasks where the typing-to-thought ratio is relatively high. Refactoring is one. Debugging is another.

I might agree for a few cases of repetitive refactoring, but debugging? Definitely not, that's really something where you spend 99% of your time observing, conjecturing, thinking.

Edit: Oh, I had not read the following sentence with care:

> In my experience, the faster you can type, the more likely you are to solve these problems by trying things, rather than attempting to guess what is happening in your head.

That's not debugging. It's just trial and error until the output randomly happens to be the expected thing. That's a terrible way of doing. Gee... if you don't understand what is going on, you cannot consider the bug is fixed. You may even have introduced more problems than you corrected. What's wrong with thinking to sort the problem out once and for all, instead of rushing anywhere like a headless chicken?

But it seems to be the current method, especially in web development. It probably explains a lot of things about the sad state of those applications.
Thanks. Am I correct about FDE and sleep mode? Does anyone know?
We're planning to do a follow up blog post with some analysis of the data -- comparing the interesting results.

We'd be happy to share the data with anybody that is interested. All in all, there's the sounds clips + the game data + the results data -- I think it all needs to be considered together in order to draw any good conclusions.

If you are a researcher or are just interested in what comes out of the game, we'd love to compare notes with you! (And I'm sure we can stick some sort of license onto the data if that's useful.)
> At one point after days of training, my agent actually had a 90% LOSE rate against an opponent that played totally randomly.

Nice! You should have just added a bit at the end to invert whatever answer it got, and you would have had a winner.

But more seriously, I think that we will become more clever with designing genetic algorithms to evolve the neural networks as part of the training process rather than trying to build our own from scratch every time. I vaguely recall there is some research being done on that front already.
Ohh thanks for this, I'll definitely play around with that: Main website appears to be down, GitHub repo is here: https://github.com/bohoomil/fontconfig-ultimate
A few years ago I was in my room late at night. Everyone else was asleep in the house. The AC unit in that part of the house was really loud. At one point, the noise began to sound like ambient chords resonating in a cathedral. It continued for almost 30 minutes. To this day, I can't explain it. My only guess is that my mind was taking the white noise of the AC and mixing it up somehow, allowing me to hear music. I wish I had a more scientific explanation.
Delete Uber
I think blame on Citizen's United is misplaced. Even without it, rich interests can (and do) simply buy media companies and promote politicians without any regulation at all.

In theory at least, the pooling of money into PACs allows ordinary people with small donations to make a dofference.

Maybe we should encourage ordinary citizens to put some money into PACs, which will have a greater impact than trying to prevent rich people from having influence (which doesn't usually work).
18 billion is the correct amount

https://www.google.ca/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&rlz=1C1C...
The key difference is that you can still read/post without ever paying.
Life ain't fair, I don't see why Uber should be immune to this. In another context we would say they misjudged the market.
Also I think the processors ran different, independently developed software, the idea being that it would be unlikely for independent codebases to have the same bugs.
> true generics, type inference

This has absolutely nothing to do with functional programming.

> delegates, lambdas, list comprehensions, anonymous types

Syntactic sugar.

> higher-order functions, true closures

Java has them too. They're called “objects”.

> a sprinkle of monads

Every higher-order language with strict evaluation (which includes every object-oriented language) already has at least one monad, whose use is pervasive and inescapable.

So, unless you have user-definable monads, where is the improvement?
Did you actually have this made ? How do you produce devices like this ?
A lovely piece of fiction?
That's what I guessed. I have seen some very smart individuals lack empathy for people that weren't as smart or otherwise capable, or undercommunicate because they thought more things were tacitly understood than really were. I have no idea if there's a negative correlation there.
Or a clever fishing expedition!
Corn turning French hamsters into deranged cannibals: research
Radiation, I believe. Mars has barely enough atmosphere to protect from the various things Earth's atmosphere protects us from, so we have to go underground (or come up with some hefty structure) to not get gradually scorched.

Also, my guess would be that 5m of rock probably isn't good enough at trapping gases.
Kelly, another dev here at Signl.fm, also wrote a blog post describing what we are doing with this over at Medium:

https://medium.com/@TheMindWright/helping-robots-learn-to-sp...
I use linux's control groups with very satisfactory results.
This page is unchanged since 2004: http://web.archive.org/web/20040205045023/http://www.c4i.org...
Atmospheric railway
You can always apply for compute time on a large research cluster. It's rare to not be associated with a university or national lab, but I don't think there's anything prohibiting an individual from getting time with a good enough proposal application.
How could a market like this work? They get to decide how much your information is worth... after you sent it to them? Or you send them a teaser and they make an offer for the rest?
I come from an immigrant Catholic background as well. Personally, I'm mildly pro-choice (I see first-trimester abortions as necessary but distasteful).

I think that the populist conservatism I see and largely subscribe to has the following features:

* a concern with upholding abortion as a woman's right and morally unambiguous (this is a peripheral one but relevant to our discussion)

* a hatred of the New Left's hair trigger accusations of bigotry and hate speech, and the censorship that political correctness affords them

* a frustration with the denigration of Western society that is becoming the norm in our education system

* a deep-seated respect for the individual, his agency, and the importance that he take responsibility for his actions

* a recognition that much of the rest of the world doesn't like us and wants to eat our lunch not because we're bad people (i.e. not because we deserve it), but because that's how tribalism works

* a respect for cultural diversity in the sense that sovereign nations are entitled to do things differently (e.g. guns in America)

* a recognition that no matter how much the New Left bashes colorblindness, that's the only way a multiethnic society is ever going to function

* an appreciation of both masculinity and femininity, and a belief that modern feminism and gender theory is based heavily in man-hating and biological denialism

* a frustration with the increasing integration of iffy and controversial progressive goals into so many aspects of corporate and academic life, and a frustration with the hegemony that threatens our livelihoods and reputations if we question these goals

* a heavy suspicion that -- although most of us wish this weren't the case -- culture and genetics play a large role in the relative success of races

* a disappointment in the mainstream media for so thoroughly strawmanning and denigrating right-wing thinking that people are sheltered from basic facts of reality (e.g. the relative tolerance of the US, the senses in which transgenderism may be a mental illness or a symptom thereof, to give two randomly selected examples)

* a distaste for the fetishization of protest culture and the idea that any right-wing or traditionalist policymaking needs to be met with autistically shrieking hipsters and burning cars

* a preference for facts and logic over feelings when justifying beliefs

* a sense that "multiculturalism" often just means culturelessness, and that there is a real benefit to making sure people who immigrate are willing and able to integrate and arriving in small enough numbers to avoid major cultural disruption

* a concern with the absolutist and marauding culture of the Muslim world, its resistance to Westernization in Arab immigrants, and the New Left's refusal to acknowledge this problem

* and more

Hopefully that wasn't too long. I'm interested to see your list.
Proprietary hardware+software was the problem, proprietary software isn't much better.
Triples can have their own fun failure modes. Suppose a surge or the like fries two chips at once. It's rather rare, but it happens from time to time. The instructions come out and now you have three chips with different results. Which ones are bad and which ones are the good? More importantly, how do you recover without taking the entire system down. Redundancy in this way means you have the best chance of catching problems, and also recovering from those problems when things do go cactus.
A black market for buying and selling (illegal) information. I wonder why they list bank-transfers, cash and "CryptoCredits" which links to paypal, but not bitcoin as a payment option.
Protection from the Solar Wind (charged particles) primarily during solar flares.

http://www.caseyhandmer.com/home/mars
Yep, its in most Linux repos :)
> CPU check logic checks the results from each, and if there is a discrepancy, if one CPU comes up with a different result than the other, the system immediately disables that pair and uses the remaining pair.

how does this work? how does the system know which pair is the faulty pair?
Relating this back to the topic of OS history, it's interesting to note that PDP-11 was the original BSD UNIX platform, and that 2.11BSD for PDP-11 still receives occasional patches (the most recent one I can find is from March of last year).

And as a former "home" MicroPDP-11/83 owner, I can attest that it was indeed fun to put together and write code for.

With that said, while probably not what you have in mind when you speak of "single-board systems", the DEC Professional 3xx (325, 350, 380) is a desktop PC built around a single-board PDP-11 CPU. And most (all?) MicroPDP-11 systems are built around a Q-Bus CPU board, and, excluding bulky options like multi-port serial patch panels, open-reel tape drives, and large (around 150 lbs. and 6U for my 456MB RA81) hard drives, aren't much bigger than a modern full-tower or >1U rack server, though they require considerably more electrical power (generally not too much for a dedicated 120V 15-20A household circuit, however, unless kitted out with, e.g., more than one of the aforementioned RA81 disks).

Both are "single-board systems" in the sense that the CPU, and in some cases RAM, is contained on a single board, though you'll need one or more I/O boards to do anything useful with them. Which, depending on your idea of fun, you could, I suppose, build yourself — there was, after all, a time when PDP-11 CPUs weren't an unusual choice in larger embedded systems.
The page predates bitcoin by about five years
Thanks for taking the time to put this together. Points 2 and 3 are of particular interest to me. Are there references available to non-members to learn more about how these work?
Chrome holds up far better in the annual Pwn2Own competitions than any other browser. The Chrome team really goes over the top on security and sandboxing. Firefox is unfortunately a CVE-fest.
It is Earth's magnetic field that primarily protects us from solar flares.
More disturbing is the LCD font smoothing being applied when on the Mac you can shut it off when using a Retina display
Until 2014 (at the earliest, may have extended into 2015), the built-in ticketing kiosks at AT&T Park (San Francisco) ran on Windows NT PCs, with a 1999 copyright date on the boot screen (when it crashed).
Buying a counterfeit product on Ebay is exactly like buying a used laptop from someone on Craigslist, save for the buyer's perception of the seller. I don't see how the appearance of the counterfeit product, or the ignorance of the buyer, or the mainstream-ness of the seller is at all relevant here.

To complete your laptop analogy, this "new" laptop from Best Buy turned out to be goods ripped off the assembly line at the Dell factory before the unit had its Windows OEM license assigned or paid for. The software is unlicensed and therefore not genuine. It is not for Microsoft to offer sympathy and a blind eye, they are well within their rights to identify counterfeit installations of Windows and disable them. The remedy is for Best Buy to offer the customer a full refund.
SpaceX Hyperloop Pod Competition II [pdf]
That comment about an obsolete gaming system from the 90s caught my attention

"anything on "3DO"?"

I feel like it's a reference/clue I'm not getting.
Agreed (and hoped for).
Sounds like a fun competition. From the PDF:

Competition Weekend II will be judged solely on one criteria: maximum speed with successful
deceleration (i.e. without crashing). This is different from Competition Weekend I, which featured
multiple judging criteria. In addition, unlike first Competition Weekend, there will not be separate Pod
classes (e.g. wheeled vehicles, micro-Pods, etc.); all Pods shall be judged in a single class with the single
aforementioned maximum speed criterion.
Qualities of a real leader
Here are a series of videos that explain the tab features in Vivaldi: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL72e6dBabYNVRfpvEUt-W...
Check out the size of that public key block - that's a blast from the past.
> This is true, but you make it sound like this is a response to and even a solution for my comment

I think it's a suitable response. There is enough allophonic variation among speakers of a single language that undoubtedly someone perfectly reciting a narrow IPA transcription could be taken as a plausible native speaker. Even for your purposes (though I'm still not clear on what type of task your envisioning) the IPA could still be useful as an intermediary layer of abstraction, as in storing a mapping by language of IPA vowel symbols to the exact formants required.
Now they jump in and intervene to play the role of hero, begging the question: why not sooner?

Rhetorically, the answer implied is that, had they made their voices and opinions known earlier, it might not have seemed as heroic as it does now. Letting circumstances become dire, when they could have been prevented altogether suggests performances are crafted and dishonest for the purpose of branding, marketing or personal fame.

Sort of like if John McAfee reared his head right about now, but with greater subtlety.
Flagging political threads isn't stopping that either

True. It doesn't stop it. I think it does limit it, to some extent.

a more proactive approach would be to better curate the comments feed.

Interesting. Do you think the community would bear more aggressive curation?
Exactly the reasons I can't stay switched. Too much drinking around. When I was younger I loved fiddling with Linux but I'd rather do other things with my time so I use a Mac.

Millions of people get their work done with Linux every day and it works great and people love it - but it's not the Mac feeling or way. You have to learn to like Linux for what it is, even if it's not perfect. You might miss a few features but it's easily ran on a variety of hardware these days and for the most part works great. The T450S I have Ubuntu on is the best it's ever been in my 15+ years of running Linux on laptops. Heck it wasn't even that bad back then with my Dell C600 and RedHat 7
Are you talking about this project or the IPA generally?
I don't think that objection, by itself, invalidates the the video author's criticisms. According to Wikipedia, the hyperloop is intended to have a pressure of 100 Pa or 0.1 % of atmospheric pressure[1]. That is not much different from a prefect vacuum for the purposes of an approximate engineering calculation.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperloop
You're trapped, and you don't know it
Coming for the tech stuff is a private agenda too.
This is the EFF's turf.

https://www.eff.org/
They should require larger vehicles. Cramming three people into the back of a compact sucks.
UE4 is massive and overkill for 2D games or low-poly 3D, especially if you intend to release on mobile (which Godot is designed to do well). It really depends on what you are trying to do.
A paper that covers some of the data structures used in editors is:

https://www.cs.unm.edu/~crowley/papers/sds.pdf

The gap buffer, in particular, is a great example of a simple yet powerful idea that is perfectly suited to the problem domain.
You're probably using the wrong dictionary
So there is this company that markets an "enhanced privacy" device and the marketing material shows a home screen with Chrome, Play Store and Google App.

Thank you for the laughs!
I have no issue with them disabling SilentOS if you can install something else. That's very different from "bricking" the phone.

> In conclusion: the firm has no control over its supply chain and embeds remote control into its devices.

Dirty secret: Nobody has control of their supply chain anymore.

There have been Samsung and Apple phones being sold on the black market before the real ones.

If you assemble in China, you can be cloned tomorrow.
In Venezuela, we couldn’t stop Chávez. Don’t make the same mistakes we did
"It is our goal to train a trillion-parameter model on a trillion-word corpus. We have not scaled our systems this far as of the writing of this paper, but it should be possible by adding more hardware."
More likely an ARG entry, or just some techno-libertarians fun experiment.
Keep up the good fight. Hell most would probably have given up by now. Do you have a portfolio or fun projects that you spend time on? Almost everywhere I interview asks for my github account. Also the book "cracking the coding interview" is awesome and only 30 bucks at Amazon.
https://medium.com/@thegrugq/operational-telegram-cbbaadb901...

https://moxie.org/blog/telegram-crypto-challenge/