skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> So when authorities get involved, I'm sure Snap says "sorry, can't do anything for you"?

Why not? Obviously it's nonfree software so neither of us really know, but the alternative is that they're simply lying. Maybe they are, but that sounds like a ticking time bomb that would destroy them when it gets out. And it would absolutely get out, especially if they try to monetize it as an above poster suggested.
In my opinion close-captioning the courses wouldn't be enough. A lot of people, including myself, lack the requisite education to appreciate these courses, or to benefit from them. It's extraordinarily frustrating that they exist, and that tens of thousands people can benefit from them, but I can't.

If Berkeley isn't going to educate me to the point where I can take advantage of these free videos, it's not right that anyone else should get them either.
The point is that all advice from a lawyer is advice from a lawyer - the same way that an NBA player is still an NBA player whether he is in a playground or on a pro-sports stadium. The point is not what you call the game, it is that the service he is providing - professional level sports ability - remains the same. As in, he is not rendering a different type of service because he is on a playground as opposed to in Madison Square Garden. He is doing literally all the same things, with all the same risks - but for no money. And, importantly, he can still get injured, which would prevent him from doing the thing that makes him all the money.

> Indeed, by analogy with any field whose practitioners tend to be passionate about it, I would assume that it is quite common for NBA players to play pick-up games with one another.

I would be surprised, specifically for the 'injury' reason above. They don't play pick up games - they go to practice - which is supervised and has medical personnel right there. But who knows. That is speculation.
I don't have anything to add other than to say thank you for sharing this with us, and I wish you a speedy and full recovery.
Everyone in Ireland and the US says Rachel is a damn saint.
It's not that people expect ethics and morals from startups. It's that people expect their ethics and morals from startups. To some people, not allowing the NRA to advertise in this context is the only ethical choice. To others, the very question is horrifyingly unethical.
I don't know how far I'd want to go down that path. Cochlear implants aren't risk-free. I'm also curious about the implant's ramifications if other interventions (e.g. stem cell treatment) become possible.
Thanks, I understand.
Jeez, some of those movies are dreadful, and there's almost nothing on the list from before 1990.

1954 - Gog (robots that look like robots and not people in metal suits)

1957 - Desk Set (non-stupid treadment of an early computer)

1970 - Colossus : The Forbin Project (how is this not in there)

1971 - How to Frame a Figg (silly, but it's got a computer hacker)

1975 - Three Days of the Condor

1990 - The KGB, the Computer, and Me (PBS doc about "The Cuckoo's Egg")
Chaitin's constant for Turing Machines. Also note that I mentioned the cardinality of all representations in the next sentence.
As much as I like competition, I think Wikipedia (in terms of Wikis) is as close to Google (in terms of search) as it can get to having a monopoly. And I am more OK with Wikipedia having a monopoly than Google since it is a non-profit. The closest true competitors to Wikipedia are Everipedia, Infogalactic, and Wikia (sort of..kind of) and they all have a fraction of a fraction of Wikipedia's total traffic combined. I am fairly active in Wikipedia's editor community and although there are some issues in the community and real toxicity sometimes in there between different editor factions and deletionists etc, I have met very few people who think Wikipedia has a net negative impact on humanity. It is truly a force for good, so increasing their impact on impoverished areas of the world can only be a good thing.
Completely off topic, but this thread is a bit old anyway. Did you use the this nick on #linux.is@ircnet a "couple" of years ago ?
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The correct answer is 1,065,353,216.

This is easy to work out yourself if you remember one basic, handy property of floats: adjacent floats are adjacent in bit representation, except -0.0f and 0.0f.

For example, 0x00000000 is +0.0f. 0x00000001 is the smallest non-zero positive float. 0x00000002 is the second smallest.

The only exception to this is -0.0f and +0.0f, which are 0x80000000 and 0x00000000. The rule works with denormal floats, normal floats, and even right on the line between the two. If you want the next positive float, you always just add 0x00000001.

Now, +1.0f happens to be 0x3f800000. Recall +0.0f is 0x00000000. The number of values between the two is 0x3f800000 - 0x00000000 == 0x3f800000. Write that in decimal and you get 1065353216.
Does anyone have a by country breakdown of snapchat users and growth? In Chile in my kids circle of friends, they used it a bit last year but have all deleted it now in favor of musically. Everyone here (kids and adults) also have whatsapp and I think the value of snapchat is even further diminished now that whatsapp is starting to clone some of the features.
Unlike VR, AR is going to be a lot easier for people to jump into. VR is disorienting and isolating and I can't imagine, like, my mom spending hours inside it.

But AR is a lot more straightforward. Put the headset on and hey, there's new things floating around in your vision. Simple as that. You're not locked away into another world. VR could be a great gaming and movie platform, but for day-to-day life AR seems so much more useful.
The title is really awesome!
Judging from the title, I was expecting something like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matryoshka_doll
Why is a company the size of Snapchat not using a CRM so that their various divisions can't step on each other's toes like this?

Apart from the highly dubious ethics being exhibited, it suggests it's a surprisingly unsophisticated organisation.
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Also remember that heart attacks in women can exhibit markedly different symptoms, e.g. without any chest pain or arm numbness, often misjudged until too late.

https://www.heart.org/HEARTORG/Conditions/HeartAttack/Warnin...
I've been using VSCode for golang recently and it's been amazing. It just feels faster and more responsive than Atom. I love how it suggested golang plugins as soon as I started editing a go source file- and they just work!

I'm hoping they add in support for multiple project folders soon [1]. It makes it a bit difficult to work with microservices since I need a few projects open at a time.

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Inconsiderate of people and the time they put into coding tests. Really disappointed and expected better, esp from SVB. Would not recommend applying.
How do randomize in [1,2)? You might as well just generate numbers from [0, 2^53) or [0, 2^24) and divide.

If you didn't do that on the way to generating in [1,2), you're going to have fine-grained non-uniformity anyway.
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>but in the land of the real, it is very difficult to say that vetting for refugees in the United States is not already an intensely strict process. The people asserting it's not are self-described nationalists who wish to stop immigration...or are sourcing what they're saying from them.

I see your overall point, but the problem with the assertion here is Suzy's opinion is WRONG, not just different and it must be wrong because of where she gets her information. So you take that and then amplify it a little and you get "Suzy is a Nazi" and that's where everything breaks down.

Suzy may not be wrong, and may have a valid opinion based on her own personal research or experience but that's unacceptable to the left of today. Everything is absolute and if Suzy doesn't agree with it, she is wrong and watches too much Fox News! Dog Whistles! Gaslighting! Facism!

It's not just the left that does this of course, but as a member of the team I feel disenfranchised when it happens.
I just assumed if they wanted him to move to VA is was likely for the pending build out of GovCloud east.

Edit: I found a map with the C2S region on it, and it does appear to be in the VA/MD area.
Basically, yes.
"anyone can buy them"

That doesn't make any sense. The only reason "anyone" can buy the ads is that Snapchat is letting them.
Jesus Fuck!
> long way of saying that no one knows what the hell they are talking about when they discuss these companies

And in some cases, they have vested interests in the success or failure of these companies.
That would be a decent lead indicator for a very narrow sector of the economy. I would love to see a count of hiring posts vs time.

Edit: Too good of an idea to not be done already
http://www.ryan-williams.net/hacker-news-hiring-trends/2017/...
"Does it work?" is generally the definition I use.
Yeah, it is a trade off. We're basically forcing content producers to subsidize access for the hearing impaired. This will make some content not worth publishing at the margin, while also forcing the clearly-worth-publishing things to provide access at their expense.

The non-obvious thing is that this compliance-by-force is non-local. If you only look at Berkeley's videos, you're giving up these videos pointlessly. You have to also look at the videos that are going to be published anyways, and whether they'd include access for the deaf if people weren't dicks about enforcement.
>I felt silly, but really everyone that I dealt with was cool about it.

Twice in my life I've presented at the ER with severe chest pain that I thought was heart-related, twice it turned out to be nothing serious (musculo-skeletal pain in one case, very bad indigestion in another), and both times I felt like a fucking idiot for even just showing up, let alone after being told I just need to eat more fruit and shit more often.

But at no point did anyone in the hospital, from the cleaning staff to the nurses to the doctors to the x-ray technicians to the people at the front desk, ever make me feel unwelcome or that I had wasted their time.

When I apologised to a nurse for taking up space in a bed that should have been put to better use for someone who was actually ill, she sat down next to me for a moment and told me that she would rather I was wrong a thousand times and "wasted" a thousand beds in hospital, than right one time and dead at home because I was trying to avoid embarrassment.
Site of Amazon's cloud glitch made it especially disruptive
Techniques for investigating untypical Go memory leaks
It's been warm here in Michigan also, but there were also record lows just 2 years ago, and while this year as been extraordinary, there are years in the late 1800s with big melt ups and so on.

Which I'm just saying that it is difficult to take a season of weather and be sure it fits into a broader context. I'm arguing against drawing conclusions from short periods of observation.
> There can certainly be reasonable limits (for example, noncompliant buildings that predate the ADA were not torn down).

And yet, here we are, with a building build after the ADA, that is noncompliant. It's too expensive to make it compliant, so the only legal option is to tear it down.

While I understand the strive for equality, the destruction of information is a price that should not have to be paid in today's world.
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Sneakers is such a great movie, particularly the scene using sounds heard to track the route of a vehicle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KuIheGaiFLM

Obviously watch the whole movie, but the clip gives the gist of the high quality of the script.
Yep:

1,056,964,609 - 1,065,353,216 = 8388607 = 2^23 - 1

because the denormal that is all-zero is already present.
This list should have been posted weeks ago, when the StackOverflow's 2017 survey asked us about fictional characters and I wasn't able to recall any particular title...
Fastmail can send emails up to 70MB (which due to encoding usually means the attachment can be 50MB).
> In my mind, Microsoft developed WSL to try to keep developers: if you grew up on Linux but are now employed maintaining Windows servers, WSL gives you a way to get to your shell of choice

IMO Cygwin did that well enough before WSL.

I "grew up on Linux" (starting back in the day when it came on a stack of floppies and nobody knew what it was) and I've always installed Cygwin on all Windows systems where I had admin privileges. It worked fairly well for command line stuff.
What product?
No, democrats using a shooting event to blame guns and call for bans and stricter gun control causes gun sales and membership to go up. Obama has been the best gun salesman for the United States ever.
I think there's a perceived difference with non profits. E.g. I enjoy alcohol but would still feel the same way if this happened with MADD vs Jonny Walker
I'm very pleased to see a comment repping Sneakers on the top of the pile. A highly underrated true hacker classic!

Ghost in the Shell rather than Patlabor?
Yes. That was, in fact, the entire point of the blog post.
Everytown did not refuse to comment; they did not respond to multiple requests for comment. There is a huge difference between the two.

Several years ago, I became embroiled in a local controversy. A journalist reached out to me via Facebook messages. As she was not one of my friends, the message went into the abyss. When the story hit her publication it contained the same "Greg Hluska did not respond to a request for comment."
hah, you jest. The rich will simply appeal to local, state and federal levels to ensure backstopping of any property damage reinsurance claims for "acts of nature".

You and I will foot their bill because they have more representation than we do.
> We have not provided any additional good/utility for those that were not able to benefit from the service.

If you insist on looking at this incident in isolation, yes. But if you look at it like that, there's no reason to imprison murderers, because it won't bring the victim back to life.

If there were no requirement, very few things would be accessible. As a minority, the deaf will always be irrelevant to the majorities' utility calculus.
> it costs $180-$600 to close-caption that video

It's a public university. They could pay a grateful student a federally-subsidized wage to transcribe 5 hours of video per week, and have it count toward the University's community service quota.
I had a similar question a while ago: how many decimal digits does it take to represent the smallest possible 80 bit float. The answer is ~16000:

#include <stdio.h>

int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
unsigned long long int mant, exp ;

mant = 0;
exp = 1;

typedef struct _bitfield80 {
unsigned int sign:1;
signed int exp:15;
unsigned long long int mant:64;
} bitfield80;

union {
long double a;
bitfield80 b;
} union80;

union80.b.sign = 0;
union80.b.mant = mant;
union80.b.exp = exp;

printf ("%0.17000Lf\n", union80.a);
return 0;
}
Yeah, "now" seems a good answer. A couple decades ago, I would have said "no clue, really". But now, it seems pretty clear.

And yes, even without positive feedback, it would take several decades for forcing to relax after carbon emissions ceased. Which is very unlikely.

So I really do think that it's time to consider active mitigation. But I'm not even very optimistic about that, given the likely positive feedbacks. Requisite mitigation requirements would also be going exponential. And where will the energy for that come from?
the question is [0, 1] so wouldn't that include +/-0 and 1, so 3 more?
> What is the threshold for a reasonable impression of the relationship

"Reasonable belief" is the threshold. There's a whole bunch of case law, of course, on how that applies to specific circumstances, but you aren't going to get a short answer other than the actual standard.

> Could random advice on an internet forum really trigger it?

Maybe; lawyers tend to be fairly conservative about the risk, because the consequences of professional misconduct are potentially quite serious career impacts.
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I did the Fuhrman diet for the better part of the year. It was so labor intensive-- cooking+shopping was essentially a full-time job. I will admit to feeling much much better on the diet and losing weight, but there are intractable problems with the diet.

It got to the point that I hated the food so much that I simply skipped meals when I prepared food and threw away anything my wife made. I remember crying-- and Im not kidding-- at work over some soggy lettuce wrapped bullshit that, I just couldn't stand anymore. I didn't cry when I snapped my ankle in half or when my grandparents passed. I didn't cry when my wife left me or my father was diagnosed with terminal cancer... but Furhman's diet-- wore me down to nothing.

It's a one size fits all solution, with no allowances for individual tastes or nutritional needs. Ultimately the advice is driven by an ideology rather than science. Small changes to the diet would make the food vastly more palatable (namely more oils) and not comprise its integrity... but ideology is inflexible.
Monzo bank crowdfunding pledges surpass $10m (£8.2m)
But he's talking about exit and not control after another round.
>To use a hyperbolic example: you can see that "Free meals (NO GAYS)" would be discriminatory.

Yes, I can. And if that situation modeled the dynamics of the current one, it would change my mind. But I don't see how it does.

They're not denying the free meals/course materials to gays/vegetarians/the deaf. They're giving away byproducts that, by their nature, gays/veg's/the deaf cannot use, which came about as an incidental product of legal, non-discriminatory behavior.

For an analogy that does capture the dynamics: imagine if some factory's production process spewed out a waste product that happened to be perfectly usable as an STD prevention device for hetero sex but not homosexual sex. So the owners shrug and say,

"Hey, anyone who wants these hetero STD prevention devices, feel free to take them away!"

Would you say they're violating the spirit of such anti-discrimination law if they didn't also pay for the manufacture of gay-optimized condoms at a 1:1 ratio?
If you want to know where all the data centers are in N. Virginia just fly into Dulles and look out the window. The approach into Dulles is usually long and low from the west and the data centers are the low large buildings with big generators and lots of chillers outside.

There's a fuck ton of them.
Were that true, we would expect Switzerland (3rd highest number of guns per capita in the world) to have a higher murder rate than the UK (82nd in guns per capita), but it does not. This lack of correlation continues with other European countries: Serbia and Sweden have a fair number of guns, but not much murder, while Ukraine and Lithuania have few guns, but some of the highest murder rates in Europe.

If you're about to point out that social, economic and political conditions are very different in Switzerland and Ukraine, you're probably on to something. Murder rates of various countries do correlate with several measures of social, economic and political stability, but not with gun ownership.
This is already a thing apparently (I never tried it so I cannot vouch for it's accuracy/reliability):

https://www.amazon.com/AliveCor-Kardia-Mobile-Android-device...
Eval-when is harmful to your mental health (2009)
The NRA doesn't sell guns.

pre-emptive edit in case someone finds some place where this isn't true: I mean generally. They are not a gun manufacturer or seller generally.
Learn Unity (if you don't know it already).

Don't spend too much time on Windows holographic, as it won't become the defacto standard in AR

Create some pass-through mobile games/experiences with Vuforia or Kudan. Hand-held AR isn't that compelling IMO, but many of the lessons you learn from it will be applicable for headset AR
These are almost certainly just Google training its car AI.
NRA is also a non-profit :)