skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are there package repositories for DC/OS somewhere? I could only find these install scripts but I guess they are meant for demo installations.
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I was starting my day with a pot of coffee, and water/herbal tea throughout the day. I figured a pot a day wasn't good, so I went cold turkey after I ran out; had a horrid dull throbbing headache for the next few days (thought I was coming down with something till I realised).
Autism starts showing at about the same age that kids get vaccinated.
I remember a similar one with prostate cancer years ago. A significant amount of men will get it but only a fraction of the cancers will develop to be dangerous in a normal lifetime. Removing all cases early on would likely cause more deaths than it prevents.
>>Look how small this tiny $400 laptop is It’s really small

... and it doesn't really exist!

[<sigh!> Yet another crowd-funding begging bowl, reported as actual product]
Wow, Chez mostly beats out Stalin.
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I am curious as to what sorts of image processing and algorithms are used to analyze this data set. Anomaly detection in images? Classification of images based on known extrasolar planets?
"reached out" in the first sentence. That saved me some time!
Because it's better to wait for 2 years than to be excluded for the health care system because you don't have money?
My apologies if you find this harsh, but it's honest feedback.

My first impression of the site is that there's very little concrete information about what the product actually is. "Prototyping platform" -- is that like an Arduino? If so, why should I buy it when I can buy an Arduino for 1/4 the price? What are the tech specs? Is there any source code available? Who is my money going to, and how do I know that person is trustworthy?

Leaving aside the product itself, the website is pretty sloppy. For example, is the product called "BetaBoard" or "betaboard"? Are the add-on modules called "Grove", "Groove" or "grover"? (And where can I buy them?) Are those different from "BetaBlocks"? What is "Amteml studio IDE"? There are a bunch of other spelling, grammar and punctuation mistakes.

The "Buy Now" button on the top of the page goes straight to PayPal with no storefront or confirmation of what's being ordered; the one at the bottom doesn't work and just reloads the page. The wiki contains no content except for "Welcome to the betablocks wiki!"

To be blunt, if I stumbled across this page randomly instead of seeing it in an "Ask HN" post, the lack of detail would lead me to assume it was a scam instead of an actual product. I would recommend putting together some content that explains what the board can do -- schematics, demo projects, documentation, videos, etc. That kind of information is much more important than a fancy website template with fade-in animations and parallax.

I hope this feedback was helpful. Good luck with your project!
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Sneaky backdoors already exist!

http://manishearth.github.io/blog/2016/12/02/reflections-on-...

(Of course, that's a proof of concept and not actually in the released binaries :P )
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TL;DR;

Use some paragraphs, FFS!
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Fandalism launch in January 2012. Distrokid in mid-2013. Considering it took @Pud near 4 years to reach these numbers with DistroKid, the year and a half of building a user base with Fandalism is not that big a deal.

This basically would be the same as all the freemium companies out there that offer everything they do for free for a while till they build their product enough to start charging for it later.

My favorite line is in the original DistroKid TC article where @Pud says the goal wasn't to make money with this but to get more people to the social network.
Ask HN: Im planning on quitting social media. How do I promote my apps?
Hi guys,
Im planning on completely quitting social media. But i find myself quite worried on how then would I promote my apps? Its easy dropping a download link on your timeline and immediately gain engagement. Im worried that it wont be as easy once I stop social media. Sure theres Ads, but those need money to start
Wouldn't the $(nop) still have been better (more explicit, less likely to be accidentally removed) than the switch to blank lines?
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The answer here is probably "bootstrapped compilers are hard". Rust compiles itself thrice in a typical compile (most devs do fewer stages when hacking), and the makefile needs to distinguish between these, and it gets more complex while cross compiling where your host/target change halfway through the process. So it's quite possible that it's easier to make work in pure make.
A mostly off topic side note.

It's amazing to see a game with the roads of half continent. I've been playing driving games for so many years that I become fed up with all the grinding (licenses, career path, races blocked by other races, etc) so I'm not buying those games any more. I want all the cars, all the roads, no traffic, no police, only driving. I could pay an extra for that. I wish there is something like Euro Truck with only roads, some fast car and curated lists of interesting road to drive on.

And kudos to the authors of ChosunTruck, obviously.
WordPress is my choice, and it is probably the most popular blogging software in the world.

That said, it isn't blazing fast (although you can get it really fast) and tends to have some security holes.

Easy workarounds: cache the hell out of it, daily incremental backups, update all plugins and framework updates, keep a secure server in general, reduce footprints (wp-admin, rename db prefixes, etc) and simple stuff like not using bloated themes and plugins.

I love WordPress, I've been using it for 11 years now on my main money making website and as per my website speed checker it is faster than 90% of the websites out there.

I've only been hacked once, and that was when that huge XML-RPC attack came out, and that basically got everyone. I was "down" (I took myself down) for about 1 hour, and didn't lose any data.

This fits your exact needs: custom domain, free, can handle a lot of traffic, and is pleasurable to use.

If you want to learn programming sure, write a CMS. If you want to start a blog, install WordPress.
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Any technical tasks estimation is usually 3x of the intial. So let's just put 3-6 months there.

Then imagine talking to lots of 'stores', contracts, legal stuff and so on.

Just reading about what this is, I think even one year is quick.
I'm not sure if the engine of ETS lends itself to "fast car", but you could check if there are appropriate mods for it.
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I'm onsite here in Palermo! You have no idea what you're talking about and your absurd hypothetical bullshitting is actively harmful. Please don't speak on this topic again.
They would likely keep a lot of the gnu userland.

There's nothing to keep, Android already doesn't use the GNU userland. They built their own libc (bionic) and the commands are all using busybox, IIRC.
The process of putting the CRISPR genes in a cell and making them target a given gene is trivially simple and undergraduates around the world are doing it every hour (if not more). The Broad group did a little more than that, but it's nothing compared to UC's group's pioneering effort, and amounts mostly to breaking a certain part of the functionality and doing some very standard tests.

The tool is extremely effective, as you say, and was primarily "designed" via natural selection. The researchers (1) discovered it, teased out its mechanism of action, and its programmability, and (2) did standard molecular bio techniques to show that it works across several oragnisms.

This ruling is based on the fact that the original inventors didn't throw the genes into cells, publish, and (most importantly) apply for patents before the Broad group did. Whether it would work in those other cells was a crapshoot and doesn't represent any significant creative work, and a minor work of science. The importance is the result - we know it works in those cells.

Source: I also work in this field. This ruling is absurd.
I do. He sucked as an engineer. Went back to being a manager in a different company claiming he was an architect in my company... Smart fucker
Maybe because most virtues make sense from an individual perspective rather than a group.
You don't seem to have actually explained what's wrong with that color scheme...
It's just a netbook with more modern hardware, hardly ground breaking. I think I would start a crowdfunding campaign to resurrect those digital organizers from the 80/90's next.
Success can be determined by many different things; but pretty universally in programming not getting the job done correctly (the expected inputs and outputs just aren't there) is an issue.

Which confirms your interpretation and labeling of the 'midwit egomaniac'.

The sad part - it is not usually immediately clear which kind of jerk your dealing with, since they behave the same!

Secondarily, it is not immediately clear to an outsider upon observation which is which either...

Summary I drew: There are genuine mental health related conditions that can cause someone to be a jerk AND still be brilliant. When you find that, you have to first separate them off so as not to detract from others work. Secondly if they can't cut it then let them go.
Firefox is/has been faster than Chrome for a while

Why do people assume Firefox is insanely slow like general knowledge, solely based on what? benchmarks from 5 years ago?!?

Time to wake-up, Firefox is as fast as Chrome and in some cases 3x as fast. Skeptical? well I bench-marked all these browsers and see for your-self, there is more to a browser than Java performance solely in Octane!

LINK TO PDF FOR EASIER READ:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/58doo8csebp9l62/Bench.pdf?dl=0

Browsers:

Firefox 51.0.1

Chromium 58

Chrome: 56

Safari 10

Opera 42

Test Machine:

OSX El Capitan 10.11.6

Intel i5 Haswell 4440 3.1 GHZ

16GB Ram

Crucial SSD

MSi nVidia GTX 560 Ti 1GB

Benchmarks listed from fastest to slowest

Google Octane 2.0 Java:

Chromium V8: 29,615

Opera V8: 29,371

Firefox SpiderM: 27,273

Chrome: 27,191

Safari Nitro: 21,219

JetStream JavaScript:

Safari Nitro: 189

Chrome V8: 182

Chromium V8: 173

Opera V8: 171

Firefox SpiderM: 154

Kraken SunSpider Java:

Safari Nitro: 916

Chrome V8: 953

Chromium V8: 954

Firefox SpiderM: 1029

Opera V8: 1032

Speedometer Webapps Response (“To-Do” list Item interaction) Facebook Heavy:

Safari: 119

Opera: 111

Chrome: 106

Chromium: 97

Firefox: 52

MotionMark (Animation of complex scenes):

Safari: 454

Firefox: 175

Opera: 67

Chromium: N/A (1st test; Crashed, 2nd test; tab froze)

Chrome: N/A Froze twice

Google RoboHornet “All-Aspects” Real World Dynamic Living Benchmark:

Firefox: 68,580

Opera: 41,392

Chromium: 29,647

Chrome: 16,860

Safari: 29,241

Futuremark Peacekeeper Real World Benchmark:

Firefox: 5802

Chromium: 4632

Chrome: 2872

Opera: 2728

Safari: 1259

WebXPRT HTML5 +Java (Encryption, Photo & Spreadsheet):

Firefox: 567

Safari: 516

Chromium: 484

Chrome: 434

Opera: 364

Unity3D WebGL:

Firefox: 93,663

Safari: 44,176

Opera: 25,277

Chromium: 21,693

Chrome: 20,215

Adobe Flash Ultra Gaming Test (3 Pass, Medium, Heavy & Ultra)

Firefox NPAPI: 19,913 FPS: 60-57-23

Opera PPAPI: 19,000 FPS: 60-50-17

Chrome PPAPI: 18,525 FPS: 60-46-16

Safari: Not Tested

Chromium: Not Tested
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The fact that people have to do this to get that team's attention is ridiculous.
Coders are not idiots, they know that possibility and still use the license for their open source code. So, "danger" is a silly word to describe this.
Interesting, especially because I think most people in the field expect the Nobel prize to contrast this decision and go to Doudna+ and not Zhang
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It is interesting that it is so much easier to make friends with someone where they is sexual interaction (not necessarily actual sex right now - can be the possibility of sex in the future). It's not something conscious but the attraction/chemistry seem to smooth over the cultural and language barriers.

Source: my own life and similar anecdotes to yours.
Where do you find this to be the case? I'm in California and both times I've had an MRI, I had an appointment within a week (non-emergency) and while I don't remember the cost for the first one, my most recent on last month cost me around $500 - that's not a copay, that's total cost, no insurance.

It's not exactly $20, but I'd hardly call it prohibitive.
Doubt it will happen with authenticator since many of their other services would be dependent on it unlike some of the services they have shut down?
This is true for GPL too if the copyright holders (authors or rights holders if signed over) decide to relicense. It has happened many times before. An example would be Nessus.

This wouldn't retroactively change already released code however.
A few comments below disagree with you, but my experience is exactly as you described it, and I am a native English speaker in Norway, where everyone speaks English (although not nearly as well as the media or the locals wold have you think). When it comes to following along at a noisy social event or when there are many conversations happening simultaneously I fall somewhere between 3 and 4 on the list. Cultural references and expressions can easily boot me from a conversation as I lose the thread and have to start thinking about the conversation instead of partaking naturally. There is little in the way of real cultural differences between the UK and Scandinavia but enough to make a person feel like an outsider. This often leads to me abandoning social interactions.
Amazon S3 is a cheap option for file storage. I don't exactly understand why you would store files in a database.
The thing I actually kind of think is amazing is that someone said "This isn't working... why don't I try putting in a $(nop) here...?"
Not if the choice to pay out of pocket for earlier treatment or better insurance is denied to you...
The problem is that free market is not meritocracy, and in fact it cannot be. The free market cannot impose any kind of moral values on people, because it is at its heart a symmetric game between people.

Let's say there is some job (like engineering) that society considers valuable. So the people, who do it, can be proud, because they are doing what is considered to be a valuable job. Then free market can deal with the situation in two ways:

- These people are valuable, so they should be paid more.

- These people already intrinsically prefer doing work they consider valuable, so they can be paid less.

So you see, it's perfectly symmetric; free market cannot enforce any sort of moral values that people already don't have. That's why it cannot be meritocratic, unless the underlying society is.

And in current U.S., the underlying morality is very much based on hierarchy in companies, which actually seems to be pretty default human behavior.
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Have you used Tizen at all? How do you like it, if so?
the link is not working, it's actually http://selfracingcars.com/event I think
Okay I see, so somebody has to keep a massive database of all the fingerprints and constantly keep trying to cross reference every browserprint with every other browserprint. Doesnt seem like an exact science but I get that it's technically possible to find some matches.
More like 6%
Again, don't put all your eggs in one basket. Store them somewhere else - there is plenty of providers: Dropbox, Amazon, Microsoft, Backblaze, ect.
I always find this kinda shit happening, something amazing happens like drones, people get desensitised to how actually incredible it is, and soon enough everyone's complaining about it.

Like can you just step back for a second? This is actually a dataset of 16000 stars. Free. For anyone to look at. Stars. I can't understand what your problem is.
Where I work it is kinda similar, but the fact still is that becoming a manager is often faster way to get promoted. Partly because, exactly as you say, not many people want to do it.

They recommend pay drop in the article as a solution, but nobody really wants that, despite the fact that it would often be meritocratic. I think human societies ultimately do not want meritocracy too much.
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It's a good analogy. Setting up the three-node cluster is an awful lot more work, and if you don't do it right there's a real chance that you'll end up with lower real-world reliability than the single node.

That said, I can understand why large companies worry about single points of failure. What perplexes me more is that the you-always-need-a-team mindset is filtering down to smaller and smaller organisations.
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I still remember vividly the day 5 years ago that I found http://www.esquire.com/print-this/robert-caro-0512?page=all on HN.
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ClojureScript compiles to JavaScript and you can have the exact same CPS style programming, with the exception of missing parallelism of course.

Async/await are not really what you want either. There is no fundamental reason JS could not have added a CSP model.
+1 It also teaches the receiving end how to receive, and work with sensitive materials in a more secure way. That has actually been the hardest part of the implementation we did; teaching the journalists how to treat the material received. We also tried to create a fairly informative page for the tipsters https://www.dn.no/staticprojects/2016/12/securedrop/ (in Norwegian)
well yes, the year is in the title of the post.
Russia is an Empire though.

Its Multiculturalism has always been about hadling Subjects who could become Citizens by Russifying.
I have no idea who is correct but this is not the right way to respond in any case.
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You don't really give reason why you are quitting social media. Right now it looks like you benefit from social media instead of it harming you?
Why would you need voice search in a TV though... I can't understand ... I don't understand which everyone is going nuts for IOT either!? Why do I want a web browser on my fridge really
Well this is quite a silly discussion then. If the author is using a title to mean something other than the words in the title in a manner such that the author still protects the veracity of the title, then what is the point of the title? All I can tell it is just a clickbait title.

And then I read the article and see that it is a bunch of speculation and making inferences from puns.
I see this pattern in many successful products. As soon as you have a prototype, you should show it on forums and irc/chat.
What I think most people are afraid of though is that your idea will either be "stolen" or that noone will be interested in your product ...
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Well my reason is quite simple, its a huge distraction for me. And I dont see any personal gain from it
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Beyond the words: predicting user personality from heterogeneous information
I wonder if dumb TV's will disappear before long?
I'm not sure how much demonstration you could need. The page I previously linked to is thoroughly sourced to medical journals and the doctor even gives a balanced opinion:

> If I could sum up the aluminum controversy in three sentences, it would be this. There is good evidence that large amounts of aluminum are harmful to humans. There is no solid evidence that the amount of aluminum in vaccines is harmful to infants and children. No one has actually studied vaccine amounts of aluminum in healthy human infants to make sure it is safe. Should we now stop and research this matter? Or should we just go on and continue to hope that it is safe?

Regarding the aluminum in breast milk - I won't say its false because I don't know. But so far I haven't found that sourced anywhere. Just a lot of articles using it as a talking point.
That sounds so much better.
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I added it after...
that's funny, my dad says the same thing and he went to an American university
Ask HN: I work for one of the unicorn and I feel stuck. What to do?
I work one of the top software company and I feel I am stuck. I have been here for 8 months only. There are large opportunities within org itself, but I feel that my manager might revolt if I change the job internally. So far, he has said I am an outstanding performer on the team. But, I feel that I am doing mundane work. Mostly its closing ticket, doing stuff that I already know and taking punches for other people's mistakes no apparent reason.

I am not in Software Engineer but more like an indirect manager. I don't want to get into specifics about my role. It is still a tech role with high demand skill set.

I also worry that if I switch moving job internally, I might have to wait if I want to move the next level. What shall I do? I was very happy when I joined.Now, I am very skeptical.
I have added clarification to the post.
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I don't think it's a great article or that great a title. But the fact that it's speculation is completely obvious. And that bit of punctuation is used to change the literal meaning of words, yes. It's just how English works.
Suppose they have evidence that Person A very high in the admin is a spy for China and no one inside the executive branch cares what do they do? OK, go to Congress, but ultimately leaking is the lesser of two evils.

These are career people, they might have been chasing Russian spies for decades so they are not going to let something like this stand
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To be honest, I really can't wait until my fridge tells me that I'm out of eggs. I hate going to the supermarket and forgetting what's in there.
I mean, there was a nice 15 or so year period between the "new" post-Minsky-and-Papert Perceptron book connectionism and the current "new new" connectionism where neural nets were a definite backwater. Most of the PIs doing neural nets dealt with it by being sad but Schmidhuber seems to have dealt with it by doubling down on the weirdness.
Looks like Vizio got fined for doing something similar recently. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2017/02/06...
You'll probably turn it off after a few days. Stop reminding me about tomatoes, I don't want to buy them.
This is really old news, and actually, the text in the link was pretty much inspired by the one from Huffington Post from 2015 - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/02/09/your-samsung-tv-is-...
> If I could sum up the aluminum controversy in three sentences, it would be this. There is good evidence that large amounts of aluminum are harmful to humans.

That large amount is well above what's in vaccines.
It actually only contains a representation of the key roads required for the game; there's really not that much detail in there.
I've seen normal cars (not trucks) on some servers, so there is certainly an option to drive such cars, although I don't know how they handle.
I noticed that TVs nowadays come with an HDMI connector for their video (and audio) input. Could a computer monitor with speakers serve in place of the TV?

I suppose that leaves the problem of not having a remote control for the 'TV'. However, if the inputs are from a cable-tv box or a media-box, they should have their own remote controls anyway.

Is there some simple reason to avoid doing this, which I overlook because of my ignorance?