skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That seems like a kind of double-think. The race is important or it isn't; its meaningful to ban her or it isn't. If the race isn't that important, then 'banned for life' is a symbolic gesture only.
Just in case, Rust integration of Sciter is even easier:

extern crate sciter;

fn main() {
let mut frame = sciter::Window::new();
frame.load_file("minimal.htm");
frame.run_app();
}

Result: https://camo.githubusercontent.com/b7d9438384930801ba15d027d...

Rust/Sciter integration:
https://github.com/sciter-sdk/rust-sciter
Providing extinction risk assessments for biodiversity with Elasticsearch
Actually pretty major release. Hopping on javascript's crazy train. It was expected anyway, there are no way to ignore js-crazyness anymore (most of the frontend toolset exists only as js implementation).

Also, Phoenix (ideological successor of rails) took this approach from the start
Free Netflix Login and Password
> The micro energy cost at the individual level

The impact to people won't be the cost but rather the decreased battery life.
Here's mine:

Visual Studio > XCode > Notepad > driveway chalk and a hose > Android Studio > Eclipse
You have your personal annecdotes and I have my own. We will have to agree to disagree.
Well, supposing they're not scams. :)
Taxi medallion regulations and others were not put in place for reasonable reasons. They were put in for crony "government-granted-monopoly" reasons.

They maybe "flouting" laws, but they still follow taxi laws, in that they can't be hailed by hand. They are electronically ordered, which the law categorizes as something different. They're lawful, they just made the taxis look really stupid. :)
Ah, point. I had totally missed that upside.

I do share the article's vague irritation at trading user convenience (the dispenser works) for owner convenience (the dispenser doesn't break), but it's hardly a huge deal.
Ditto. Those who ignore history etc
After a holding period, they get auctioned off.
The article seems to posit that Facebook is structured in a way to much more quickly implement advances in the field into production than Microsoft. Microsoft attracted a lot of talent in the area but said talent gravitates towards whichever company is best suited to use their skills.
> but I can't deny that there's something more meaningful about space exploration

Exactly, that's you - but others are completely different. There is no absolute ranking. Individual meaningfulness is all that exists. You might be in a group of people that all believe the same but that's about the extent of it.

I personally see space travel as just another step in the growth of technology. It's definitely exciting but not some grand journey towards meaning. It's just science and tech and progress.

And there are billions more who couldn't care less for space. Many say we should cure cancer first before spending money on space because it's more "meaningful", yet it's clear that both are important pursuits to the people involved in them and that there is no right or better thing for an individual or society to do. So why is advertising somehow beneath that? Is allowing efficient commerce and communications to build the economy and wealth somehow not up to the same standards?

This letter from 1970 by Dr. Stuhlinger of Nasa is an incredibly reply in defense of space vs feeding the hungry, switch out space travel with anything else and it still holds: http://www.lettersofnote.com/2012/08/why-explore-space.html
The concept of segwit is fine. The problem is that the implementation of it as a soft fork is questionable, and trying to position it as a capacity increase is even more questionable.
I think its similar in other areas, like storage... Lots of former Microsoft people at FB. Wondering how that impacted their culture, etc. over the last 3-5 years. They just recently opened a brand new office in Seattle also AFAIK.
Diversity and inclusion are dog-whistles -- it automatically implies unconditional pandering to people of color and women. Frankly I find it offensive that we have stopped judging people based on the quality of their character rather than their skin color and gender.

I would get behind this effort at reform but the progressive extremists need to get off their high horses and advocate for simple and straight-forward policies -- advocate for respect and intelligent hiring practices regardless of gender and race.
lol you'd expect a drug bust because witnesses saw someone doing cocaine in a bathroom in Vegas....?
Firefox users can be Fingerprinted due to Certificate Cache Bug
There are also a large number of Q codes that cover practically everything related to communication and also naval, aeronautic and rescue concerns. Today much of this isn't in use, but amateur radio operators use a subset of these routinely; a typical fast Morse code exchange is often composed almost entirely of Q codes and call signs.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q_code
"Signal does a better job of practically everything PGP does with regards to message encryption."

Except for endpoint security. The ultra-portable, self-contained implementations of PGP can run on countless configurations of desktop or embedded system. Transport methods also vary if they're funning messages or files through other apps. All sorts of hardening or isolation techniques can be applied. Remote attackers have a lot to look at trying to break or bypass GPG for an arbitrary user. Whereas, vast majority of Signal use relies on one app with two OS's.

The extra security tech and obfuscation you can layer on PGP/GPG is still an advantage in its favor until competition gets that.
It tells you not to buy and hold, not because of the volatility but because of the leverage. Leveraged ETFs are rebalanced daily and designed to offer 2x or 3x returns only on a daily basis, this is why they say:

>...should not be expected to track the underlying index over periods longer than one day.

You shouldn't hold a leveraged ETF for very long because it will become unhinged from a layman's expectation of performance. AKA if I buy $SSO this morning and sell it this afternoon, I will get double the S&P's returns. If I buy $SSO this morning and sell it in June, I may get 1.5x returns or 2.5x returns or anything in between.

This bitcoin ETF won't behave like that so it should be fine, it's a volatile investment, investors should do their DD.
When you send Bitcoins you are not really sending them to any recipient but you place them in the block chain and attach a challenge. Everyone who can solve a challenge can spend the coins associated with this challenge.

Usually the challenge is to prove that you have the private key to a public key included in the challenge so that the public key can function as an address for you and only you can spend the coins because only you have the private key.

But in this case Peter Todd placed 2.48 BTC in the block chain with the challenge to provide two different but otherwise arbitrary pieces of data yielding the same SHA-1 hashes. Someone now used the collision generated by Google to spend those coins.
Please don't post overheated rants to HN. It's bad for discussion quality even when there's a correct core to what you're saying. Actually, especially when there is.
Thanks to all our early adopters and beta testers for making this possible.
In my experience, people don't actually have "contradictory definitions of the words being used". If they are mis-using a word, that's simply wrong.

But you're welcome to quote me an example from, say, Politifact or the Washington Post fact-checker or Snopes....
USPS is especially bad. Google 'how to talk to a human at USPS' for an illustration of their approach to customer service. Then know that the advice on the first page of links is all obsolete. USPS is plugging the 'security flaws' in their customer support system as quickly as people can find them. However, there are other options. When I recently had a problem with a package, I was finally able to talk to a person by first calling Amazon. The Amazon employee connected me using a secret number.
The Internet Archive Pushes Back on “Notice and Staydown”
Or people that value strong privacy + will tolerate using a command written down on a piece of paper.
You mean slow, expensive, and complicated.
Finding out about this a few months ago was enlightening. Entire classes of messes I've seen in public restrooms that were previously inexplicable short of deliberate action became comprehensible through a combination of stand-to-wipers plus carelessness.
> If our drugs, for all intents and purposes, are the exact same

This include the above. The point was that the drugs are the same in every way possible. Although this is most certainly not the case for drugs x, y and z, our example hinges on them being the same. Otherwise the doctor always should prescribe the best medication for the given situation.
My time commitment varies, early on it's high, but then it's gone down to saner levels as I've used it more.

For purchases, I put in less than one minute per transaction (for data entry). For bills, I set them up as recurring scheduled transactions on the same day of each month. I then verify them when they become current, shifting the date or the amount as needed, takes a few seconds for each one. I've done the same with my income (reliable, salaried, paid bi-weekly).

I only track cash assets and CCs. My investments, retirement accounts, and other assets don't get tracked because I don't consider them part of my budget (though contributions to them are). So once a week (more early on, getting the hang of things), I go to my bank and CC websites and make sure I haven't missed any transactions, clear all the ones they show as cleared, and reconcile all accounts. This takes less than 5 minutes per account if done this frequently.

All told, I'm probably spending less than an hour a week in YNAB, and half of it is updating the budget itself as income comes in and needs to be allocated, or verifying that I have the money before making a purchase.
I could type faster using T9 on a 10-key flip phone than I can on an iPhone today. On Android I used SwiftKey for many years and would bet I'm fastest on that, but I decided to try an iPhone 6S and it seems like a huge step back regarding input. I still can't believe they don't have a swype-like input method.
Fellow FTC Coach here.

Couldn't agree with you more.

Point 4 - Remote Debugging is an especially important one. Not only not having to connect using the cable but saving the tremendous amount of wear and tear on the phone USB connector. This is usually a big factor in robot failure due to loose connections during a competition. Thank God for inventing Duct Tape.

If I didn't personally use Android Studio before it would have been a huge hurdle to teach my team to use it. Too many moving parts, the android ecosystem and the wide variety of SDKs and tooling. What would be considered as a great selling point otherwise is a burden to get setup for a bunch of middle and high schoolers.
The problem for me isn't really $20/mo. It's $20/mo for 50k views, which is nothing.
Why You Need to Love Your Job… and Not Accepting Less Than That
In short, drink when you're thirsty and you'll be fine
Are you aware of this library in a very similar space? https://github.com/quilljs/quill

Not trying to put you down, just want to make sure you are aware of the potential naming conflict (both things are for authoring content) in case that creates a legal headache for you one day.
MSR let go of one of their major AI/ML groups IIRC and they promptly joined FAIR, plus Kaiming He and his group (one of the best) left for FAIR.
Interesting. I am on Linode as well, that sucks.

Do you host an https site on the same domain? Is your mail server responding to ipv6? (I hear this can be a problem)
Im getting this all the time
This site can’t be reached

txt.fyi took too long to respond.
The most wonderful thing about Eclipse was how much its name annoyed Sun.

If only Google could come up with a name for Android Studio that annoyed Oracle that much.
"My package was sitting in Atlanta, GA for well over a month with my address clearly visible right on the box."

WOW, and they would just put that up for auction. That is the definition of theft. Don't apologize for that.
Because you can't substitute Sir Isaac Newton.
> Welcome to a future where only voices that broadcast their grievances loudly over social media get answered.

It's not exactly new. A prime example of that is Apple who tells you that it doesn't help to go to the media with a story, but time and again complaints go un-answered until somebody manages to hook in media attention (either through dumb luck or through their pre-existing clout).
This is really neat! It took me a while to figure out what it is though, the README should have a better explanation of what it is and some use cases.
A dispenser that has broken also doesn't work. I think the trade-off with (poor, I've seen good ones where this isn't the case) automatic dispensers is reduced median performance in exchange for reduced frequency of total unusability.
The whole idea of digitizing humans is silly. It would lead to spooky action at distance. For example what if when humans are digitized you send it to two different machines? Which one would be the real you?
Agree. The fact that IoT's are dependent on the most fragile part of my home, the wifi, makes me lose interest in all of it.
Tell HN: Stripe no longer returns stripe fee on a refund starting April 30th
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To put that into context, your business refunded 2 transactions in the last month. The cumulative Stripe fees we returned for those transactions were $4.
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I don't think I have that many interesting stories, it was just the time involved with dealing with emails from irate individuals, companies, and (occasionally) law enforcement agencies!
We've also got a pretty extensive documentation site, as well: https://cog-book.operable.io/
Original paper here: https://openreview.net/pdf?id=ByldLrqlx

This is more likely to vanish in the flood of AI-based applications, before reappearing as a tool for coders akin to code snippets plus, or boilerplate generation 2.0.

> and third, the neural network’s predictions are used to guide existing program synthesis systems.
Is there a serious Wordpress/Ghost alternative written in Go yet?
So who is this mitch and has he invested in uber? If so, why doesn't he pull his investment unless they do something about this that he can agree with (like fire the CEO, the buck stops at him, right?)? Instead of just you know counting his money (he's probably rich?) and writing on blogs.

I mean nothing will happen to uber, you just wait and see. People want their cheap rides. People are in such a shitty place that they need to work for uber. Investors want their money back x10. Etc. Nobody cares about some ranting in "teh social media", what a joke.
Since I had to click through 2 links to find this, I thought I'd save others the time:

"Cog brings the power of the command line to the place you collaborate with your team all the time -- your chat window."
So 1 second is slow now? That's faster than most web pages I visit. What's the actual problem here? Because I don't see one.
But there are ways to build/architect home automation so that it's an "addition" and at worst will go back to "dumb switch".

Most of the light switches in my house are wired up through Z-Wave. Those z-wave boxes are in the electrical box in-between the normal, everyday, traditional light switch and the power.

100% of the time, if i flip the switch a direction, it changes the state of the light. It never fails. Power just came back on? still works. Z-Wave controller down? Still works. Internet out? still works.

Then, I can "add on" automation using that zwave network to do things like turn lights on/off from my phone.

If anything were to cause issues, have bugs, have problems, etc... I can unplug the controller and it goes back to fully functioning light switches.
Memorize this table of offsets:

0 Oct, Jan
1 May
2 Aug
3 Feb, Mar, Nov
4 Jun
5 Sep, Dec
6 Apr, Jul

Precalculate the offset for the year (2017 is 117 + trunc(117/4) == 146 == 6 mod 7). Then the day of the week for, say, today, is 6 (for the year) + 3 (for Feb) + 23 (day of the month) == 32 == 4 mod 7, which is Thursday .

Other examples: D-Day, 6 June 1944, was (44+11 == 55 == 6 mod 7 for the year) + 4 (Jun) + 6 == 16 == 2 mod 7 == Tuesday.

The only twist is needing to subtract 1 from the result for dates in Jan and Feb on leap years, since those dates precede the leap day.
Well they have to pay Jim "King Slayer" Keller.
Lot of memes, but a little more facts, statistics, links to bug reports etc would have been nice. It may all be true, but how can I decide if I believe it or not? It's not that I know you, dear author, and therefore could trust your personal judgement. Make your point a little more clearly. Please.
With many image formats, you can just concatenate whatever you want at the end of the file, and the OS and programs will obliviously read and copy the whole file, while the image libraries will happily ignore the extra data.
US government should not be able to make decision like that when it comes to data of foreing citizens on foreing soil.
> I was under the impression that working memory is one of the most difficult (if not impossible) things to train or improve.

I'm not a psychologist, but the way I understand "improving your working memory" is that it's not the number of units in working memory that increases, but the conceptual complexity of each unit.

So, lets say that I practice Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and have only 3 slots of working memory.

If I'm a beginner, each slot may contain such elements as "pull his arm across my midline", "pull his head towards me", and "post my leg on his hip". These units are only a few of the steps you need to perform a successful armbar from guard.

If I'm more experienced in the domain, each slot in working memory may contain such elements as "perform an armbar", "if that fails do a pendulum sweep", and "when I'm in mount perform an Ezekiel choke."

In each case, only three slots occupy the working memory. But the conceptual complexity of each unit is an order of magnitude greater in the experienced person's case. And the effect of the working memory is correspondingly "improved".

A consequence of this is that the power of your memory is domain specific (your memory is better in domains where you have more experience and interest).
Really? Apple? I've only interacted with Applecare a couple of times and had a great experience both times. And internet forums (Reddit, for example) are full of people singing the praises of Apple's post-sales support.
Okay, then let's get rid of wiping too. It's basically non-existent in parts of Asia, and after spending six months doing it their way, I'm a convert, especially when it's the integrated bidet rather than the hose. You just feel so much cleaner afterwards and the savings on toilet paper is an added bonus.
Upon reflection, I find that I don't believe machines can truly become conscious, but I can't fully articulate why.

I seem to intuitively think of machines as "bottom-up" constructs consisting only of smaller parts, whereas I view creatures as "top-down," that is to say that I consider the whole as the only significant part. I have a lot of preconceptions on this matter. Maybe it's because I know that all machines are deliberately constructed, whereas biological organisms develop organically.

To me, the ship of Theseus is a machine, which renders Theseus' paradox moot and purely semantical in the canonical thought experiment. But when Theseus' paradox is applied in the context of, say, brain cell replacement, I find it much more challenging and risky (and I'm afraid of the potential loss of life).
But does the host actually know what is an appropriate thing to swap? It doesn't know what is contained in that chunk of memory it just swapped. Although ideally, you would just build the system to contain enough memory for each VM so they can each run at full capacity along with whatever else overhead it may need for your hypervisor. You wouldn't want the host swapping out anything related to your VMs because it's just going to kill any performance of the affected VM. Give each VM its own swap space and let the guest figure out what needs to be swapped.
I found medical recommendations. Meat and dehydration can lead to development of urine crystals. Recommendation is to drink at least 1,5L of water in cold climate and at least 2L of water in hot climate. The easiest way to control that is by watching color of urine: normal urine is light colored.

Also, meat is recommended to eat with veggies, because of opposite effect on urine acidity. Good to know.
I'm a little confused. In the original story, they didn't mention that:

> Apparently, their machine ripped the shipping label right
> off the box. And so the USPS sent me just the label in an
> envelope, and proceeded to berate me to ship better next
> time, even though I was the recipient.

They just wrote,

> As of the time of writing, February 14th, 2017 — this
> package has yet to arrive. It has been stuck in the Jersey
> City, NJ 07097 bulk mail processing warehouse with
> absolutely no movement.

I was under the impression that the package simply vanished, rather than being given evidence that something else was up, like damage to the packaging.

Why not just tell me about the latter, first? It does shift blame a little...
What did people think of the price?
I just received this. This could be huge for businesses who issue a lot of refunds.
There's a difference between digital signatures and sha-1 checksums of the files, which is what they seem to have been demonstrating.

Mysteriously the text I quoted has now vanished from the original blog post.
Data Selfie – track and analyze your Facebook behaviour
I'm curious: Is this an effect of complexity in Android programming, or has IntelliJ gotten bloated and complex?
Wow, I think you just articulated something that I've definitely felt, but have a hard time explaining – I feel like I am some kind of traitor to open source software for feeling this way.
Ugh, yep. I totally forgot about how many machines come with entire parallel communication systems. The Intel Management Engine, for example, is horrific. It's a machine-compromising threat built into the CPU and (as far as I know) totally unremovable. I haven't heard about any kind of compromise, but it's far from impossible. Well-meant, sure (why make two production runs at higher expense), but that's not very comforting. We already know the US government intercepts some machines in transit; silently enabling and owning the IME would be an elegant way to beat a physical inspection on delivery. It's only reasonable to assume China and similar players do the same.

(If the IME is disabled, will the CPU still complain if you physically destroy the thing? Does anyone know?)

There's also the rather nasty proof-of-concept attack where air-gapped machines output audio data at ultrasonic frequencies to beat the gap. Sure, it takes initial compromise to activate, but that's a plausible risk for someone running nation-state defense.

Sneakernet continues to be a solid policy. I don't remember who, but some notable security researcher talking about Lulzsec summarized the issue with "If I were crossing a government, my opsec would be a stolen library card in a city I don't live in."
Missing Richard Simmons