skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a book I reread in sections without ever having read it in its entirety. It's among the books I can open up when I want something to read and be satisfied reading five to thirty pages because any rereading provides a new experience ...that's what makes rereading a good book interesting (or maybe what makes a good book): it is a different book because of how I have changed.
This reminds me to try using change.org to petition Google to fix a bunch of stuff...
That's true, but no book can cover everything about every topic. Even if they put the disclaimer that examples are not to be just copy&pasted, superficial people will still do exactly that. Because that's what superficial people do. And IMHO it's not up to book authors to fix the flows in human nature...
Mozilla is open, and they can simply join the bug tracker to talk with devs. They are doing the wrong way.
How long before github takes it down? Not trying to make fun of Github's record of "censorship", just that the Tetris Company is known to be active in protecting the game. Even mechanics, which is weird, but they are pretty successful.
> Linear is not a colourspace.

I never said so. I said it gives >> a << linear colorspace. There are many such color spaces. Some are linear in different aspects (better at close or far away colors), and some only preserve some aspects (linear in brightness, or chroma, etc). I didn't intend to fully go into color theory.

I'm not even certain how well defined the color space is, and how properly linear it is. I do know that it accounts for gamma correction though (at least on my machine).
not sure if they had it in mind, but immigrant coming through a struggling school outside of Detroit has a good story behind it. And you have to admit, after scanning thousands of applications Oxford will draw your attention even if for a second. Good SEO
Firefox-now: TreeStyleTabs + ok browser
Chromium-now: fast browser
Firefox-future: ok browser
Chromium-future: fast browser

As long as TreeStyleTabs > (fast browser - ok browser), then Firefox is a better choice. Without TreeStyleTabs, Chromium (or Chrome, or whatever fork is better at protecting privacy) is the better choice.
Why doesn't the Amazon Echo respond to advertisements or reports about Alexa?
I perceive it as more polished, and think it is more secure (built-in Flash that gets extremely fast updates, and I believe more/better sandboxing).

With the key advantage of Firefox (customizability) gone, the question turns into "why NOT drop Firefox for Chrome/Chromium".
Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War
Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett. The Guards is my favorite arc in Discworld and Samuel Vimes is my favorite character among all the fiction I've read.
Hey, Australia is developed nation as well! Maybe not as much as Canada, but more than Mexico or the USA.
The difference is that Mozilla seems more likely to listen.
Wouldn't a guy like Mao coming along render this saying even more true? But to be clear, the saying has nothing to do with government seizure or anything like that - it's about the nature of mankind.
For an alternative experience, having read the book several times, I just finished the HPMOR podcast (audiobook):

http://www.hpmorpodcast.com/
We use to have drive through convenience stores in Florida called the Farm Store. They were useful, but impractical for any big shopping. I just can't see someone trying to hand over a gallon of milk, 4kg, through a car window. Beer, cigarettes and junk food were their forté.
"especially on a circuit with already a lot of load on it"

That's basically my point: sure, plugging something in can blow a fuse, but either the device is faulty, the circuit itself is faulty, or the circuit is already near capacity.

If it's a laptop, a docking station, speakers, multiple monitors, all plugged into a socket extension, plugged into a single outlet - even then, I wouldn't expect it to trip the fuse unless the circuit was already well on the way to overload.

If a circuit is so close to overload, it could be tripped simply by plugging in a phone charger, so the super-expensive mega-powerful laptop isn't really relevant.
A2k17 hackathon report: Antoine Jacoutot on syspatch, rc.d improvements and more
Companies don't offer perks out of the kindness of their hearts, they do so as an investment out of which they expect a greater return.

The cost of things like "free food" is usually paid for with lower salaries, longer work hours or cuts to benefits. In other words, if the value of a perk is n, then the company offering that perk is extracting a greater than n value from their employees elsewhere, without compensation, or else passing the cost on to customers, or both.

TANSTAAFL.
A suborbital flight that brings you all the way across the Atlantic will have almost the same speed and energy requirements as an orbital flight.

Just take a look at the typical orbit of a SpaceX second stage over the Atlantic: https://youtu.be/zBYC4f79iXc?t=32m13s - A suborbital flight that just barely goes back deep enough into the atmosphere over Africa to slow down would look almost exactly the same and wouldn't even be 100 m/s slower.

Compare that to the tiny ballistic arc of the first stage. That's how your suborbital flight would look like if you want to hit the atmosphere at a speed that doesn't require a heat shield.
That seems like the thinking of someone with their head so far up their ass it's trying to come back out the other side. You're suggesting that Firefox, a free, community-supported, user-driven software, ignore the desires of users in favor of whatever the programmers think is cool or whatever will make their lives simpler? I'm sorry, I don't understand how you can think like that. The customer (the user) is always right. Mozilla has made several moves since the introduction of Australis which seem to be for no particular reason except to spite long-time Firefox users. I only use Firefox now because I will not use any Chromium / Google software; even so I have been moving over to Pale Moon more and more.
Thats pointless. They are aware. It has been discussed thousands of time.

Either they'll postpone the deadline until they can accommodate the bigger add-ons, or they won't and the users will vote with their feet (to chrome or to firefox 52 lts).

Mozilla have usage statistics for add-ons.
I just re-read Righteous Indignation by Andrew Breitbart -- Fascinating in retrospect as it accurately describes so much about the emergence of new media and what manifested itself in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
Great work and thanks for sharing the source! I love when I can see the output from someone's program, get the source code, compile it myself and then get the same results! :)
I use one yubikey to login to LastPass and to login to production servers, and a yubikey neo to provide OATH-TOTP codes.
When I get a chance, I'll write up a PR for Crobots:

http://tpoindex.github.io/crobots/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10331849
How to Explain Threads
has any change.org petition ever accomplished anything?
Thank you for the answer.
Do you know any current iOS/Android application for data visualization, for example for simple line/scatter/bar plots where I can load .csv file and visualize data ?
P.S. You answer about analytic sources is very interesting :)
How do people know where to find/make the things they do have an innate need for without advertisement as you seem to define it?
I need to make a change.org account to sign a petition? That's stupid.
If you like that thread, I can really recommend this book: Concorde New Shape in the Sky by Kenneth Owen.

There are two editions of the book. The first edition is super cheap (eg. 29p + postage: https://www.amazon.co.uk/d/cka/Concorde-New-Shape-Sky-Ken-Ow...). There was a second edition written after the 2000 accident in France, which is supposed to be a better version, but I have not read it because it's out of print and considerably more expensive.
What shall we do about it, comrades?
it trickles down, slowly. Facebook does it, then SV companies do it, then tech companies globally do it, then everyone else.

Always goes that way.
You're being naive at best here. The state CP today is essentially pay for tourture using bitcoin and tor. If there's anything that's going to ruin the Internet it's not understanding that not everyone wants this nihilistic future forced on them.
Thanks for the comment, I really should and I will try to do it sometime before it all falls out of my head any further. I miss doing it, I've just been burned out on trying to unsnarl legacy outsourced Java code for the past 2 years.

Like I said, I was actually really jazzed about trying to implement another model in GPU. This model basically consumed zero SRAM, I think I could easily extend it to a fine-grained temporal model like EpiSimdemic, and I had a neat model in mind. I even documented the idea on my IP agreement on my current job, I just got burned out by not being able to get a disease model for validation and having to do actual work. Especially Java.

Also, I just wanted to chime in here with a compliment for past-me. I tried to comment throughout, and I made a big push to document everything before I handed it off. I've spent the past couple hours looking back through that code, and even though I haven't touched a lick of C code in almost 2.5 years and between the README.md and the comments I feel like I am doing pretty good comprehending past-me's code.

Document your fucking code, people. Future-you will thank you. Especially if it's C.

(AFAIK the handoff never actually happened though, my advisor just had a baby, and this is now officially dead code, so if you want to do a thing, by all means go for it!)

If anyone else has questions, by all means chime in on my gigapost, I'll try to answer.
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But Mozilla claims that it's exactly the old add-on system that keeps Firefox from being more secure. What if they were just as secure as Chrome after giving up on the old add-on system? Wouldn't it make more sense for them to compete without the disadvantage of being the less secure browser?
The only reason I use Firefox over Chrome is Tree Style Tabs. I'm using Firefox since the first Mosaic/Netscape days, this is not the way to get new users and have a comeback.
Then he can go to the Michigan Institute of Technology and put MIT on his résumé?
His high school professors?
I did this a few years ago. My suggestion is just to create a CV that showcases your experience, and then start applying to jobs. Definitely try to apply directly to companies rather than through recruitment agencies (as they won't understand), but I can't imagine you will find it too hard to find a job. Developers are in high demand.
Thanks for that support, I suppose I should just keep trying. Realistically perhaps I should do GPU code for vector problems rather than trying to do it in anger on "hard" problems with tons of branching.

I think part of the problem is also that I don't know C++ (and more or less refuse to learn it, old dogs etc...). Usually I have some higher level code and wish to speed up parts of it.

You should clean up that comment and add some code and make it a blog post about converting a non-trivial algorithm to CUDA. A lot of the tutorials show the tools more than the craft and just do a matrix multiplication or something similar. Your blog post would reach HN front page for sure.
I love ML languages, my first was Caml Light, OCaml wasn't yet born.

Also share your opinion, and go even further, for me personally IT projects should be accountable just like in many industries.

However my experience in enterprise consulting, with applications written in Excel, or languages that allow for "replaceable programmers", is that business doesn't care if software is the same quality of 1 € shop items, as long it generates the desired output.
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, William Shirer. Many arguments about why and how are answered in that
For context: https://probmods.org
"In this book, we explore the probabilistic approach to cognitive science, which models learning and reasoning as inference in complex probabilistic models. In particular, we examine how a broad range of empirical phenomena in cognitive science (including intuitive physics, concept learning, causal reasoning, social cognition, and language understanding) can be modeled using a functional probabilistic programming language called Church."
1984, followed directly by Brave New World. Our world resembles a lot from each of these books. Much like in 1984, we have devices and companies constantly monitoring us (iOS, Android, Facebook, etc.), we have “news programs” and websites seemingly modeled after the “two minutes hate”, and we clearly have some Ministry of Truth-like misinformation getting spread around while accurate information gets lost or ignored. Much like in Brave New World, we have soma-like drugs, distractions and trivialities occupying people while they accept the world as it is and even shy away from wanting to change things. Really, we live in a world that blends together much of what was described in 1984 and Brave New World. Neither book predicted the future accurately, but together the picture these books painted is pretty damn accurate, and disturbing.
I think you're overlooking a few key differences here (between CP and copyrighted content in general).

For the former, viewing or downloading it encourages the sick individuals making it to create more of it, since it brings them hits for their sites or (in some cases) literal money from paid purchases or subscriptions. In that case, consuming it any way encourages the more harmful production. It provides an incentive to create this stuff.

That's not true of standard copyrighted content. In those cases, distributing it (legally or otherwise) is not encouraging something illegal to be done since producing said content isn't illegal to begin with.

TLDR:

Distribution or downloading illegal content is bad, because it encourages people to do something illegal to provide said content.

Distributing or downloading legal content isn't bad because creating said content isn't bad to begin with.
Dang, that sucks. Thanks for the update.
That doesn't have the same effect. The bug tracker doesn't get articles shared across Facebook & Twitter. The bug tracker doesn't engage those users who don't understand that their extensions are about get taken away. My 70-year-old mother, for instance, who uses Firefox, doesn't know what they're doing.

But she won't switch to Ultron for the same reasons I won't. I showed her how to use Exalead search, she has a Yahoo email (like me), watches stuff on Dailymotion and Vimeo rather than YouTube, etc..

She's not about to join their bug tracker. But she will see a Change.org petition and sign it.
Homo Deus - A Brief Bistory of Tomorrow
How else would you propose they give any level assurance that it's real users signing them?
The Dune series. The Lord of the Rings. All the Amber books, by Zelazny. Pretty much the same books I read every year or two.

I'm going to start re-reading the Steven Brust Vlad-series, in the near future. Mostly to anticipate his forthcoming novel.
There are actually-good (-so-far) networks like Project Wonderful, but they're pretty small-time and don't pay very well compared to more crapware-saturated ad networks.
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami. I'm on at least my third reading and imagine I'll read it again.

Also re-listened to Getting Things Done by David Allen. This could also be any number of times.

Sort-of related, currently re-watching Westworld. I burned through ten episodes in two sittings first time around and wanted to properly appreciate it this time at a more leisurely pace.
Does anyone familiar with the state of GPU programming think OpenCL will eventually 'win' over CUDA? Although CUDA has more adoption, I don't like the idea of using it and being locked into a specific vendor. Of course nVidia is only supporting outdated versions of OpenCL for now. Am I a fool for hoping OpenCL eventually becomes the standard?
i see your point, a laptop or computer alone is not likely to trip a fuse, but when you got a 20 amp capacity and you plug in a 5 amp laptop system, thats meaningful.

after buying a new alien ware, I tripped a fuse that wasn't tripped in years with a 'normal pc'. one could argue it wasn't the pc's fault, as there was a lot of stuff on that circuit, but one could also just as easily say the opposite.
No, because when said non-profit is deaf to the complaints of users, we can't hurt them the same way we can a corporate entity of reasonable size.
Finite-State Machines at Luno
So if you lack the space, time or expertise to cover cryptography, you don't.

There is no positive value in that section. Readers will only be hurt by it.
2. Microwaves are 2.4 GHz, and phones (except their wifi) is nowhere near. This should not work.
Facebook sign-in works.
Better to develop some sort of awesome virtual reality so that people don't need to travel as much to meet each other. (Yes yes people will still travel sometimes, but there's a lot of low-hanging fruit like going to conferences and business meetings where travel is not really necessary)
Homeland Security suspends actions associated with Trump's travel ban
Early babies are also a culture thing. In China as soon as you get married you are expected to have a kid, and that you will go back to work soon and that your grandparents will help a lot.
How maths can help you escape a maze
are Tree Style Tabs an extension or now built-in.
8 Ways to Read (a Lot) More Books This Year
I can not recommend enough Mark Manson work. Also, if you are into stoicism, you may love Ryan Holiday books too.
A coffee machine that knows when you wake up
Yojee tackles logistics with AI and the blockchain
No.

Linear is not a colour space, as a properly defined colour space, as per the ISO specification, is:

- A well defined transfer function.

- Properly described primary light chromaticities.

- Properly defined white point colour.

Where you reference "there are many such color spaces" is the issue. Linear specifically relates to the first point, and even that doesn't properly describe whether one is speaking of display linear or scene linear.

The other points relate to perceptually uniform discussions, which would be a misuse of the term linear.

I agree that it is not a suitable forum for color theory. “Linear” however, is a much confused subject, worthy of explanation.
1% is a rather arbitrary division point. Even if you assume that there exists a stable cluster of wealth at the top, why would it be bounded around 1%? It is much more likely that the group is either smaller than 1%, or larger.

Suppose it's larger, then the group could still be stable, but the churn between people at 1.1% and 0.9% would still cause the arbitrary measurement of top 1% to change a lot.

Now suppose the group is smaller than 1%, and the churn is instead at the top of the cluster directly beneath the stable group at the top, but still causes the composition of the top 1% to change constantly.
It's the quality of the thought, not the medium for which it's conveyed.
Given the "archive and offline analysis" requirements, which are special characteristics.

The "hacked" way is to go CSV files, store them on s3. It is very limited but it is also very simple. (Not sure what software can run queries on CSV files directly).

The "doing things right" way is to go for AWS RedShift or Google BigQuery. There is a learning curve at the start but it's really REALLY good and it will pay off by many folds later.
That was my immediate thought when I heard about this. Raise it up to at least 250k if you really want it to get back to being a program for the truly unreplaceable talent.
Are you saying companies hang a "mission accomplished" sign on the door and just close down? Is that the George W. Bush economic doctrine?

In any case: if you really want Amazon to shut down, the cost is the current market capitalization, plus a healthy surcharge to convince enough shareholders to sell. In practical terms, there may be large shareholders looking unfavourable on your plans such as Bezos.
But nodejs network, last time I checked, ran on one thread. Opening sockets doesn't run in vacuum.

What you said may be true for multithreaded apps, but resources are shared in nodejs.
Apple releases Pro Apps Bundle for education for $199
With only twelve operating aircraft, it's hard to justify substantial engineering expense for upgrades.
GPG keys and second factor auth.
Not always, hence why you get to situations like that car repair shop in Poland using a C64 to manage their businesses.

As language geek I dabble in every language I can put my hands on.

Yet when it comes to work, it is always Java, C#, JavaScript, C++, SQL, because that is what RFPs allow for.
Seveneves by Neal Stephenson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seveneves

One of the few books, that when I'm finished, I just want to turn it over a start again.

Covers a wide range of important and relevant topics in technology, biology/genetics, ethics. My only problem is it is too short! Could easily have been a triology like the Baroque Cycle (another favorite) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Baroque_Cycle
But some users don't care about fancy plug-ins and want improved performance and security. Since the users are always right, Mozilla obviously should do whatever is necessary to achieve that. That argument really only works if all users have demands that don't conflict with each other.

And yes, programmers should make their lives easier if they otherwise can't properly do what they intend to do.

(I personally don't know enough about Firefox internals to judge the technical merits of the decision, but what I know is that Firefox in recent months moved from "unusably slow" to "ok", and I thus started using it again.)
Personal Finance App with Fresh and Clean UI
"Flash Boys" - Michael Lewis
I'm on my phone right now so I can't post nice details, but the Wikipedia number for "Portugal" is mislabeled. Per the reference, that is just for the Lisbon rail system. The US DOE report the US number was sourced from averages all passenger rail systems in the US, and specifically notes significant system-to-system variance. The biggest variance is that the Lisbon numbers are based on an average of about 400 passengers per train kilometer, while the US averages only about 40 across all systems.
This is pretty great stuff. Please keep it up and don't pay attention to the naysayers. This type of optimization is great and will pay dividends down the road for a lot of projects if this can take off.
Git – Get good or get wrecked
"The Encounter", a National Geographic photographer's meeting with a tribe of telepathic Amazon Indians.
IIRC pressure loss incidents are common, but not newsworthy because nothing really bad happens. The air pressure is still high enough to allow people to breathe, so you just need to supply oxygen-enriched air while the plane descends to 10000 feet.

With suborbital flights, neither breathing nor descending more quickly would be an option.
If you are already invested in aws I suggest you to use the firehose + s3 to store data and use the Athena to query it.
Whoa I thought John Markoff retired? Is he still active? He's been one of my favorite NYT writers.
Just so you know, there are really powerful "classical statistics" classifier models! Like ordered or multinomial logit/probit which you can incorporate latent classes into, etc. Reference book for those is here[1]

[1] http://pages.stern.nyu.edu/~wgreene/DiscreteChoice/Readings/...
Check out http://lesswrong.com/

Also, Eliezer Yudkowsky wrote a book called Rationality: From AI to Zombies.

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25131230-rationality
Re-listened many times the audio version. He reads it himself in a nice consumable speed.