skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
DCS World is fantastic!

But you're right, it's more military oriented, and I don't know just how realistic the realism is in that game (as far as flight mechanics go, etc). DCS World isn't certified for FAA simulators, for example.

X-Plane is another great flight simulator as well. The siming world is alive and well!
Risk of rapid N Atlantic cooling in 21st century greater than previous estimates
Livestream: TensorFlow Dev Summit 2017
Another less 'relevant' result:

- acceptHandshake = params.pass == PASSWORD
+ acceptHandshake = true//params.pass == PASSWORD
And now in your current job how often are you evaluating the complexity and implementing specialized algorithms?
You have to squint pretty hard to see VR today as any sort of success. It's mostly the province of a gamer niche that's willing to overlook shortcomings, some of which will be inherently hard to overcome, and general lack of content.
He works for the university; he's not the one getting ripped off. Top Hat might make his life easier because they have simpler contracts and are nicer when it comes to customization, but in the end the students are still getting hit with the bill. His perspective is irrelevant to the problem. Until the point where colleges have to actively recruit new blood and aren't bursting at the seams with applicants, the kickback partnership between publishers and universities will never go away. It makes way too much sense to stick the student with every bill, because the system knows they will pay it.
According to the README it is based on unreal...

"AirSim is a simulator for drones (and soon other vehicles) built on Unreal Engine."
Spanner, the Google database that mastered time, is now open to everyone
It was pandering to big stakeholders. That's the problem with all cryptocurrencies, they don't solve big players having huge influence over the underlying currency. It is still very much a "who you know" and "how much profit is at stake" kind of game, which is one of the main reasons people hate state-run currencies. The little guys lose thier shirt and get a "too bad,so sad" response. A big player losses thier shirt and they go cry to thier dev friends who fix the boo boo with a fork. How about we fork on every compliant of someone making a mistake?
It's unnecessary. The current emergency spillway is already on the other side of a hill made out of bedrock from the dam itself.

All of the concern about the 'failure' is a matter of loss of control of water release, not of breach of the main dam structure.
I would like to try that instead of a Linux implementation - it would be a great help if you would like to link to some (working) tutorials... of course I found something on search engines, but I expect to find many outdated things (as always with these kind of knowledge), so a link to THE right thing would be a very lovely shortcut. Thanks!
VR sales aren't just lagging, they're bad enough that no company will give official numbers for sales. The current estimates for sales are roughly an order of magnitude less than the previous expectations (admittedly dictated by analysts and media), and there is a lot of obfuscation from companies to make it seem better. They will tout the Samsung Galaxy Gear numbers, but what they won't tell you is how many of those were given away (probably the vast majority) vs how many were sold - and that's at a $100 price point.

I really, really want VR to improve and become a commodity in the near future, but most people I talk to think it's dumb even after they try it. I think VR is at least 4 years away from being a serious part of gaming (and that assumes a lot of things go right), and I honestly don't know how many years before it finds other consumer applications.
I recently had to undergo an appendectomy after drinking 5 cups of black coffee straight (no cream or sugar) on an empty stomach followed by a very spicy (and questionable?) burrito. Would not recommend; I have made it a point not to drink so much coffee on an empty stomach again.
Agreed. That's why I presented numbers for running the language specs. It was something I could easily and fairly compare MRI vs TruffleRuby with. And it's representative of what a typical RSpec suite will look like.

With the SVM, we're now at 1s (MRI) vs 9s (TruffleRuby/SVM). Previously, we were at 1s (MRI) vs 68s (TruffleRuby/JVM). There's a lot of ways to look at that data. You could say TruffleRuby/SVM took 9 times as long as MRI and that rules it out. Or you could say it took 8s longer and that's acceptable for my entire test suite, especially if I don't have to juggle multiple versions of Ruby. I really can't say -- that's for each team to decide on their own. But, we're looking to make the decision easier by further reducing that run time.

It could be possible to save the state of the parsed AST and embed that in the binary. It's actually what we do for the core library to help with start-up time. I'm not sure you'd really want to do that for individual codebases though. You would need to rebuild the static binary every time your code changes, eliminating a lot of the benefit of using a dynamic language is the first place. It would be far better if we just make TruffleRuby and the SVM faster, which we're working on.
4? Your trade fee will be so large that you might as well hold onto it indefinitely.
You use the one labeled "sort" and trust the standard library chose reasonable defaults. It's not like the standard lib is going to use bubble sort.

If the reasonable defaults aren't good enough... you're in the 10%.
It's by far more than just language.

Cultural norms, customs, and the fact that on many campuses, there are quite a number of foreigners, making it more difficult for the social scene to absorb.

US/UK and Australia are all basically the 'same culture' as far as people outside the Anglosphere is concerned.
It's 2017 and people still prefer to look at the world through someone else's lens.
Yup, it's the most actively maintained branch of all the XXXswan projects.

My experience has been that it's trivial to setup for site-to-site IPSec tunnels using PSK. It's literally install the package, copy a config file from the docs, start the service, done. I've been using it in scenarios like this for a while, works great even when the remote ends of the tunnel are something else (Cisco appliances, AWS VPN endpoints, etc).

I'm a little less sure how to implement it as a VPN endpoint for employees. There are two main issues here:

1. Having to support a variety of clients (Android, iOS, Mac OS X - perhaps also Windows and Linux)

2. Doing multifactor authentication in a way that works well

Especially when considering #1 and #2 together, it seems difficult to meet all demands. How to do multifactor in a way that works with many different clients? I don't much care what the "factors" are as long as they are "multi". E.g. certificate + individual password.

If I only had to support, say, user/pass authentication, I think that would be somewhat easily doable.

Any clues?
These may be issues for smaller projects, but I don't feel that either visibility or community is a problem for a project like Python. They have the luxury of going wherever they want and people will follow.
Morepath: Super Powered Python Web Framework [audio]
Amusingly, significant whitespace is the one reason I don't like using Python in whiteboard interviews - my handwriting is far from excellent on a board, and I don't want any ambiguity when reading my control flow.

I'll definitely second the list comprehension point, though. Between that and pleasant string support, a lot of standard interview answers are maybe 50% as long in python as Java. Not easier, necessarily, but faster to write and cleaner to read.
I think you've written an accurate description of what happened, doesn't really conflict with my comment.
> anyone can create a fork - though it takes hashpower to protect a fork from hashpower attack.

Minor aside, unlike Bitcoin, Ethereum doesn't use hashpower (proof of work) as its voting currency, it uses proof of stake.

So in order to convince the network of a lie, you need to be willing to put up monetary bets against the truth, and then pay them.

This is very unlike Bitcoin, where you buy your mining rig, and then own it. If you pay to fork Ethereum, your real money is at stake.

And the financial incentive for people with even more money than you is to call your bluff and put up a bigger bet against your lie and get the cash and get your lie taken off the books.

Although they have the price structure set up so that calling a bluff is much cheaper than lying. So really even someone with a tenth of your budget can afford to call your bluff.
You've perfectly summed up my thoughts on pg's (and increasingly other people) "acknowledgements" in articles - thanks.
https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/standards.png
The Root of the DNS
The devs didn't reverse it by themselves. There were multiple independent client teams who all agreed to code the change, then they had to convince the community to run the altered software. Not all the official devs were even on board with the change, some stayed neutral, and some of the community refused the change so now we have both ETH and ETC.

So yes, it's possible your transactions will get reversed, but only if you've done something so horrendous that you've pissed off a large majority of the entire community, and in that case you'll likely still have your valid transaction on a working chain, it's just that a lot of people will have gone elsewhere.
Google (and others) gave them so much money because ML is aiming to build a platform that is not only the thing after smartphones, it's the thing after the Web: spatialized information seamlessly interleaved with reality, everywhere.

At that time (>2 years ago), Magic Leap seemed to have achieved the holy grail of Mixed Reality: optics that selectively block out light in real-time. Combined with demos, mockups, and sketches of real-world applications, this tech provided compelling evidence that ML was going to unlock true Mixed Reality real soon.

As erikpukinskis commented, even if Magic Leap fails to deliver, it will likely end up with an extremely valuable IP in an emerging space. Magic Leap did not invent Mixed Reality, but they filed patents on many first-order applications of the tech (there are countless others).
Ethereum lost all my trust when they hardforked over a contract mistake. They are never getting that back. I'd recommend rebranding the project to focus on the community-driven aspect. They are no better than our current legal framework.
Options window – Advanced panel
"That lead architect was:"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7614808
The StingRay Is Exactly Why the 4th Amendment Was Written
I would pay if it would speed up the recruitment process, as I hate not having an answer to my applications. The 'We will contact you within 7 working days' or 'If you haven't heard from us in 14 days consider your application unsuccessful' automated responses have to end.
Visualization of AI 'brain' – What does machine learning look like?
I agree with what you're saying 100%, actually. Egalitarianism in the blockchain world remains an elusive goal, just as it does in other fields.
Not all the water (normally!) makes it to the lake, and the average rain over time is probably less than that. Otherwise, no, the math looks fine, but this is why the reservoir is useful as a flood-control system. It can take the fairly large flow caused by even moderate rain, and spread it out over time.

Things get iffy once you have heavy rain for long enough that the soil saturates.
Would love to find the original french.
Without any authority or credentials in this space you are going to face a very rough time with sales. The kind of startup willing to hire a random "general startup consultant" without a proven track record is also the kind that will fail and leave you with an even worse reputation.

You should focus on a single area or niche that you can do very well and has direct monetary value to a startup. What that area or set of skills turns out to be is for you to decide. It is better to be loved by a handful of people than try to be "maybe helpful" to every startup.

Personally I have been getting into the business of Pre-Launches for startups and programmers who are still working on finishing their MVP's. These programmers don't want to spend dozens or hundreds of hours learning about cheaply finding their customers online, building landing pages that convert, or growing their email list of future customers. They just want to be able to launch their product and acquire their first batch of users. Taking this headache away from them gives them the validation and encouragement they need to finish their MVPs and the time they saved by not building and marketing their pre-launch landing page can be used to instead finish their core functionality.

Thats just my 2 cents.
Yahoo has a "concierge customer support" team for exceptions. (No, I can't/won't refer you.)
Amazing couple. Hard to believe they'll ever get off the ground. Musk has a real chance to make it happen.
No. You would need to anchor the metal plates to something, which means you'd need to drive spikes down into bedrock and then weld things to the spikes.
Most of them, [Sons] said, "are older than my father....

Eric S. Raymond, who seems to be behind the "young" fork, is 59.
I understand that the focus on sorting is to have a simple application that everyone can understand. But I can't seriously expect people to get that excited about sorting. I sure didn't. It's not like we don't have tons of other applications that demonstrate the same principles.
(2) seems to be also true for VR. Business people when introduced to the current VR hardware often react enthusiastically and easily figure out compelling applications of VR technology to their businesses.
What baristas can teach us about the future of work
We're "happy" to create balance, check this: http://polygraph.cool/films/
Humor is the best way to learn. One side learns about the world by seeing memes, the other side by watching SNL. One thing is grassroots, the other one is paid propaganda.
So you stole their idea
We hugged it a bit hard, anyone got a link to text?
I've self-hosted wordpress and it's fine, does the job, and there are a million and one free resources as well as paid ones out there. Can be a pain to maintain and there's always a risk of things going sideways with a bad plugin install or upgrade.

If you are OK with self hosting then you are probably going to be OK with Jekyll & hosting on GitHub Pages. That's free, you can use a custom domain, and it's fast. There are a lot of Jekyll themes out there to make it look good too.
I thought the main danger, and reason for evacuation, was a potential uncontrolled failure, due to headward erosion, of the emergency spillway dam structure. (Thats the structure between the regular spillway and that parking lot)

https://twitter.com/TaberM_PE/status/831149440262164480
> and the harsh truth, coffee lovers, is that the top feature of green tea is that it is not coffee

Indeed, which is why I don't bother with it =)
It freezes just fine, just at a lower temperature of -2C.
Apparently https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Virtual_Boy&oldid... Yokoi didn't really choose to ship the product that actually came out: like many another long-drawn-out, ambitious project Virtual Boy ended up being basically thrown out the door as-was once senior management lost patience with it.
This is an article pointing to the difficulties of culture hacking: i.e. assuming the culture of one that's non-native to you. As an American engineer working in an Asian country, it was interesting to me to hear about the difficulties in cultural adjustments going the other way. It was also interesting to read about the stories of other people whip have had similar experiences. Both give me ideas on how I can better bridge the cultural gap that I experience in my everyday life here.
40% of US students in the US have no close American friends on campus too. We all went to college. Come one. That is how it is. I wouldn't call the dude saying hi to me everyday the room next door ma friend. They are all just living around me. We all have to pretend to be nice to each other because none of us wants trouble. Sure we do hang out or get drunk at the party. But we are not friends.
The only true friend I got is my college sweet heart.
JavaScript is the archbishop, evangelizing the holy trinity of React, Node.js and MongoDB.
It's not just raw skill but fatigue from the mental exertion of using a foreign language all day. You take classes in a foreign language all day and it's very hard to spend the evening hours also exerting yourself linguistically. I can empathize with the desire to just take it easy using your native tongue after a long day of keeping up with academics in a non native language.
Implementing: never.

Evaluating: occasionally.

In my opinion, an understanding of data structures is _much_ more useful for a data scientist than algorithms.

Why should data scientists know about algorithms? Because data scientists are typically interviewed by computer scientists/software engineers, and that's what they tend to ask.

I recently conducted many phone and on site interviews for a data scientist position. I didn't ask about algorithms.
I'm not going to cover it in detail in my talk, but the code with some barebones documentation is available at https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/tree/master/tensorf...

One thing to note is that this isn't available on production phones yet, because we need a signed driver to run within Android. You should be able to run this on a Dragonboard 820 development board though, using the instructions in the README.

This is all very new though, so apologies in advance for any hiccups getting up and running. My email's petewarden at google.com if you are trying this and hit problems.
As a meteorologist, let me offer this apology on behalf of my field: Predicting rainfall is really hard, especially in a particular location. Unlike dynamic variables like temp, pressure, or wind velocity, rainfall depends on just about every term, including sub-grid scale topography. We can have a good idea of how much total water a storm has to be precipitated, but when, where and how it falls is harder.
The 1997 flooding in CA was mostly due to this issue of warm rain + snowmelt, so searching around for information about that might be good.

This guy seems to have testified about this flooding damage and claims 30 inches of rain around Oroville, with 18 inches of coincident melting, thus exceeding their worst-case scenario.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_fOdaNTppI&feature=youtu.be...
OP Here: For the record. Corey an myself have reached out to each other and are getting along great. We've setup a call that we're both looking forward to having. We already learned stuff from each other.

Regarding privacy: I deeply screwed up on this. Somehow I just assumed because Corey was so radically transparent that it was ok. That was my error and I apologize. Also I guess since the only identifying data was the domain name, which is public, I also somehow thought that was ok. I was wrong.

Regarding intent: It was not meant to come across as mean spirited. It really was just meant to be a good blog post. I missed the mark. Obviously my authorship screwed up on that point.
Questioning liberal ideas in a liberal place; try asking a question about anything related to gender, "born this way" narratives, third wave feminism, and you will be called a bigot.

I'm not even talking about making an assertion here; asking a question about these politics sparks huge responses in people.
If you are getting the database error:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:oh3mPHO...
I can't generalize for every school, or everyone at every school. I attended an engineering program at one of the top 5 schools by total international student population.

Honestly, international students are cliquey. Many of them that I talk to openly admit to cheating on their english proficiency exams universities require you to take before you can attend. Meshing with local students is nearly impossible if you don't understand the language proficiently.

I'd expect you'd see roughly the same numbers if you looked at American students in Chinese universities, or elsewhere. But we have to make this anti-American because its Quartz, and Trump is bad, right?
>My US friends who moved to the UK or Australia had no problem making friends.

us, uk and australia are identical cultures. us and india or us and china is not even comparable.

Its not just language, its common cultural memes that bond people.
It is quite a bit off. The Upper Butte Creek Watershed, which is the watershed that drains into Lake Oroville, is 3200 square miles. Much of this watershed is mountainous. The amount of water that will flow into Lake Oroville is heavily dependent on temperature (what forms snow vs. what melts snow), the existing snowpack, the ground saturation state, and precisely where in that 3200 square miles the rain falls.
> Plus, soon Google will open-source code that will multiply the speed of TensorFlow — specifically version three of Google’s Inception neural network model — by 58.

Uh, nope, that was speedup on 64 GPUs (or CPU cores, can't remember). i.e. it scales linearly, something that TF hasn't always been good at v other frameworks. I'm amazed a journalist with (I assume) basic technical competence could make this mistake.
Though industrial applications 'seem' like a natural choice, it's a really tough market.

Mostly because the numbers just are not there.

Specific industries will want specific versions, specific apps - and without the scale ... it's hard to make money.

And although it may 'seem' rational to want to production line workers into a HUD ... the actual, tangible and measurably improvement in productivity may not be that much. Today, if workers need 'data on the fly' they can ref their tablet or mobile. Does a HUD really make such a huge difference that it's worth the cost? That's a real question.

So - I think you're right, essentially about the application opportunities, but the business case is really hard for that. The numbers just don't work out very well.
But single node with unlimited room to grow is always a good value prop. Cockroach can market that, but Spanner can't.
I think his comparison is perfectly valid. It's not one of East Asian vs US culture; it's one of coming from one culture to living in a very different one.

He's discussing the same situation mentioned in the article, but in reverse.
You don't look like a very useful one
Forking to add features and expand capabilities is great. I'm not arguing against that. I disagree with forking to undo the effects of a hack on a contract.
Has the primary language for writing Ethereum contracts been improved? Or is it still a poor language with respect to its type system and other features?

I wasn't that interested in it, but the idea of programmable contracts was intriguing. The main issue is that they should be declarative/logical in nature, as that's what most contracts are, instead the primary language was imperative and had a weak type system (inexpressive). Has this situation improved or are all contracts written in it still destined to have many bugs due to the poor language design?

EDIT: Had to look it up, forgot the name, it's Solidity.
That's the thing - I'm not talking about using any mechanical checkers. I'm talking about using a language definition that makes it easier for humans to prove things about their programs.
You should install lineage nightly to get most up to date security: https://download.lineageos.org/i9300
The term expat is almost synonymous with "not integrating with native residents" to me. Otherwise imo they would be immigrants!
It's true.

But one 'killer app' could change it all.

VR needs it's 'Halo' :)
Melonport tokens on Ethereum sell out in 75 seconds, 227K ETH (~$2.9M)
Donald Trump quotes read out by a posh British man named Richard
My suggestion is to try DataFlex, it is better.