skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is similar to what Whatsapp (and some other apps) are doing. The only difference is that they are using phone numbers.
Deep learning (which is just a particular configuration of backpropagation in neural networks, which in turn is just a particular statistical learning algorithm) is an algorithm for statistical classification. Whether or not statistical classification is at the core -- or even plays a significant role -- in any kind of true conception is unknown.
I think MS should buy LinqPad and give it away for free. It's just an amazing experience (having the full version is critical though).
This is great. Lets you run a full time server for free. Display a hobby website or a development site or whatever. Thats amazing! No one else offers this "always", right?
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1€/month?! What kind of performance are you getting? Is it usage for a web server?

Would you mind sharing the VPS provider?
> I would be laughed out of the room if I went to my investors and said we were putting everything on Vultr.

For reasons better analyzed by anthropologists than technologists, but all I would really like is for HN to not be constantly bombarded with not-news GC marketing spam all day.
I wonder if you can get away with depth interpolation - I mean CRT TV's used to do pretty OK with wide pixels, maybe the same is true for depth?
Well go builds so fast you wouldn't be waiting.
You know you can just untick the checkbox that's enabling this feature on the window properties.
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In Sweden, dental is treated separately. There are public dentists, but they're only free of charge up to age 19, and after that there are only a couple rebates available (IIRC the government will pay 30% of procedures over a certain cost, and every other year you get a check that covers one checkup)

In Japan, basic dentistry is covered the same under national health insurance, but for instance if you want a ceramic crown instead of metal, you have to pay for that yourself. Dentists and general medicine are completely separate institutions though.
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Definitely a fair and salient point. Though I would argue turning a profit and acting ethically aren't always conflicting concerns.

In fact, ethical behavior is just another knob in the machine that people running a company can turn either way in their quest to maximize profit.

Erring on the side of too much ethical behavior can certainly impact profit in the form of lost efficiency and market opportunities, but we have to recognize that companies' customers are people too, and people generally have a distaste for unethical companies, and a fondness for ethical ones, that may influence their decision do business with them.

So turning the knob too far to either side can have direct and indirect implications for profit, and it's up to the people running the company to calibrate that knob in either direction.

Oftentimes the courses of actions a company can take on any given issue will not be a simple sorted array of choices with an obvious straightforward relationship in the form of less ethics -> more profit, but rather a complex decision matrix of causes and effects for which the outcome of any single option will be impossible to fully predict, and investors can generally see that too. So the people running the company will usually have some degree of freedom to experiment with which direction to turn the knob on ethics, and how far.
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It is still slower than Turbo Pascal (MS-DOS). :)

In any case, I appreciate that Go at least supports binary packages, but Go isn't a language for me, given the type system decisions.
So, the flexible GAE environment has finally a free starter quota?
I think the key is "most people who have a choice". That translates as "most people who can afford to spend a few grand per year on dentistry without really noticing".

I guess parent is a bit more upper-middle class than you.
Cloud SQL runs on Google Compute Engine nodes so it would be too high for the limits (considering they only offer an f1-micro in this tier).
the moment I saw the edge ad sneaked as chrome popup I knew I made a terrible mistake upgrading :(
RedCarpet is partly written in C.
You mean like igoogle? They killed it even though it had decent number of users.
What wordpress theme is this?
Those alone are not enough, a compromised database storing hashed passwords behind a service that uses TLS would still allow the attackers to try common passwords and hashing algorithms to see what passwords were used.

Password simplicity and reuse (especially across lots of people) is a major problem with password security in data breaches.
This implementation is just skipping the charade that passwords are where the security happens.

With almost all current systems the place security really needs to happen is at the email provider. If you can hijack/intercept a users email or hack their account then it's game over with a password anyway, thanks to password resets being (almost) universally done over that channel.

There's an argument that this is no bad thing as security focused email providers could potentially provide very secure access as part of their core business (unlike a startup just trying to get going).

But there's still something bugging me about this implementation I can't put my finger on.
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C++ is used heavily in backend web development. NodeJS uses all kinds of native modules written in C++. Also, many people write micro services that require high-performance intensive CPU usage in C++, then interface with them over something like Kafka.

Writing your basic request handling middleware app code is rather pointless in C++ though. You don't really gain anything over a scripting language like C#.
I stand corrected. Java 8 has everything you could expect.
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I read an interesting article about Singapore, that claimed that was their approach. Lots of people live in social housing blocks, and as time moves on entire blocks are demolished and rebuilt to better suit the needs of the city. They appeared to consider the human side very well, by guaranteeing that people would remain in the same area as friends and family as they moved to newer housing stock, but I did wonder how the actual people felt about this. I've heard good and bad stories of similar things in my own country.
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>One of the things that my daughter pointed out about 3D movies is that because they are 3D your brain thinks it should be able to shift the focus but it can't and that 'fight' gets in the way of enjoying the content.

My two grown daughters and I avoid 3D movies. We have all come to the conclusion that the 2D versions are more enjoyable. Plus our local theater is now digital in 4K. We love that theater experience.

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>two monitors and are moving your cursor from the left monitor onto the right monitor near the top of the screen, it will be "blocked" at the rightmost edge

You have windows 8 to thank for that, they figure this out designing their "hot corners" feature. There's a 5px angle at each corner to catch the mouse. This idea is users learn to hit the top and slide across to get the corner, rather than try to nail the corner perfectly all the time.

near the bottom: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/b8/2012/05/21/enhancing-win...
If you replace all the pieces in a boat, is it a different boat? You suggest that it is, but I think it's pretty much the same boat.
For WordPress:

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I would say the performance is quite good for the price, I use it as a web dashboard/alerting server with InfluxDB+Grafana and it is quite snappy when browsing the graphs and so on. No problem sharing the provider, ArubaCloud, I just didn't want to sound like an advert.
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I have seen some things like this before. For example, in .NET there is Console Framework[1] which allows you to define TUIs in XAML or code.

[1] https://github.com/elw00d/consoleframework
You mention the word "batch" when talking about models. Also "BI/Analytics". Since Django/Rails applications do not support any of the two, another sort of system would be needed. This is the point where, having built everything on Django, with no foresight whatsoever about future requirements, we would have ended up creating DataFrames from SQL tables in Spark. Our BI guys have no experience with Spark, so we would need to load data to a DW-like solution, like BigQuery/Redshift/Impala/Presto/you-name-it. Instead of another sink in Flink, we would need to implement and schedule ETL jobs.
Even at our current load, computing counters (eg likes) at read time would be slow and inefficient. Which means we would need a way to pre-aggregate them. Maybe another service, possibly behind a queue?
You can see where I am going. As requirements evolve, systems evolve, and with no planning before hand, people end up with spaghetti architectures.
We knew we were funded enough to run for a couple of years. We knew the site would have traffic. We were tasked with delivering an algorithmicly-driven product, and this is the solution we came up with.

I really do not understand how such a strong set of conclusions can be drawn out of so little information.
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This is probably not a popular opinion, but checked exceptions can actually be used for good as well as evil.
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Typical acquisition also includes an employment contract, and a significant portion of that settlement is paid upon the contract's completion.
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Note that the Always Free offers includes only a small amount of egress traffic per month per service. e.g.: 1GB for GCE/GCS.
Perhaps go with AWS and not Google then - let the market speak.
Feel free to upvote the stuff that you do find interesting, and encourage others to do the same.
The only thing that's bothering me is that it is done through e-mail. I would prefer the token to arrive as a text message to my phone number. I feel like it is safer and faster. However, I understand that it is more expensive option, especially for services where you need to log in multiple times, compared to mobile apps where you log in only once.
You keep quoting that sentence, but it doesn't even imply, much less outright say, that the evacuation was "almost certainly overreaction".

Both well justified and poorly justified evacuations come with mental health impacts. If our house burns down while we're in it and we get out in time, the mental health impact would be the largest health concert; that doesn't mean we should stay in it.

You can argue that the Chernobyl evacuation was an overreaction, but not using that paragraph or the enclosing section in that report. Yet you persist in doing so.
You might want to reconsider. http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/news/media/releases/hearing_l...

Its been great for me. I've had mine for 6 months. They are not perfect but they are a big improvement. See my other comment above.
Non-compete is a standalone agreement; if it is signed, it is valid. It's probably also structured as part of his employment agreement, and independent of the acquisition settlement.
Have these limits increased or decreased? What were they before?
If people in companies were literal straw men, your straw man would have a point.
The title is not bait. It describes the post correctly and does not mislead you. Just pointing it out; I did not change the title.
That is true, and some companies (e.g. amazon) will not own any of your IP created outside of the office (they don't even mind if you use company equipment (e.g. work laptop)), but the contract states that you cannot be employed by anyone else while you are employed by them. This way they ensure that employees aren't tired from working a second job which as you pointed out is a problem.

Amazon isn't always thought of as the nicest of companies, but in terms of employees I.P. I'd say they are one of the fairest companies.
I am pretty sure, if smoking wasn't allowed for historic reasons, it would be impossible to sell tobacco as a new product. And as you said, some people are tolerated in the exclusion zones. As it is impossible to "see" radiation and few own decent measuring devices, it totally makes sense to me, that the authorities mark those zones. If this marking is done wrongly, one can criticize them for that, but there need to be some official guidelines. Especially seeing how bad people are about making judgements about smoking :).

But some of it is happening even here in Germany. Some of the Bavarian forests are still contaminated by the Chernobyl incident such that it is not completely safe to east mushrooms from them. Having a few dishes of those mushrooms per year is most likely safe, but the authorities are having warnings (but no bans) out. And the mushroom eating wild boars have to be checked for radiation before their meat can be eaten.
Let me add an Australian voice to the "Yup, there's a dental divide" cacophony.
It is because the lawyer exists in Common Law and there are people who read who exist in Common Law and may be in the same jurisdiction.
Tariverdiev's score of this film has recently been released, and it's really nice:

https://tariverdiev.bandcamp.com/album/the-irony-of-fate-ori...

I think my favorite track is "Along My Street for Many Years."
There was a discussion on the frontpage which can basically be summarized to "fuck classes, prototypes ftw!". It's like people haven't worked on big projects ever.
Without comment on this specific article, there was a video of this doing the rounds last year using a FLIR ONE on a card terminal. I subsequently saw another video debunking it. It only worked if you super cooled the pin pad, there was evidence of that in the original video; it was totally un-workable with a normal room temperature keypad.

I imagine though it's likely highly variable though depending on the thermal conductivity and emissivity of the surface being touched, as well as the actual room temperature and the quality of the thermal sensor.

EDIT: This random video seems to agree with the above, again, no idea how credible. Highly variable on factors. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Vc-69M-UWk
You seem to be confusing Google Cloud Platform with Google services. AFAIK there have been no GCP features removed after they have gone into General Availability.

Bet hey, keep the uninformed meme going if you like.
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> Could be a redirect from a regular URL: Gmail -> Attacker's website -> data:text/html

Sure, I agree it's a game of cat and mouse. But GMail's spam filter in my experience is pretty good, so if Google started flagging these messages as spam based on the link contents/website it would help reduce the success rate.
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> locking retail investors out of many of the highest returning investments

maybe there's a narrative that by preventing retail investors from investing in high return investments they have also protected retail investors from high-risk investments (if we believe the returns are proper risk premia!)
This is correct. One of the things I miss coming from C++ is the ability to pass const references. Then you have the advantage of passing a reference instead of copying an object, and the compiler enforces immutability in the function using the reference.

On a similar note, I also really miss the ability to define const class methods (i.e. instance methods which do not modify the instance on which they are invoked). Although, perhaps get-only accessors fill part of that niche in C#.
Say what you want about the soviet model, but with an ample, cheap supply of housing stock you could just buy a new flat from the house next door
I imagine we'll see an increase of these stories from the apparent mass exodus from macOS to Windows.
I bought it through the Window's store after I bought one of the first Dell XPS 15 Windows 10 models. The only reason I needed pro was to enable HyperV to use with Vagrant.
Is it really necessary that the email link is clicked on the same device or to use a typeable token? Clicking the link on any device is enough to confirm to the server that the login attempt should be granted access. The server can then send and authentication token to the browser where the user is logging in.

The downsides I can think of in that case are an attacker attempting to log in at the same time, or -- more generally -- a user thoughtlessly clicking the link when an attacker is trying to log in.

The first problem can be addressed by displaying a second readable token on the login screen which the user should verify is present in the email before they click the link. That is how banks and other high security systems do it here in Norway now when you select authentication via mobile, except they use some sort of mobile communication tied to the sim card instead of email. You get a popup on your phone containing two random words from a dictionary. You confirm that the words match what the browser is currently displaying and then tap "OK".

The second problem can probably be reduced by short token timeouts and using appropriate language in the email to emphasize the implication of clicking the link uncritically.
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You can make Powershell your default now, iirc. Also, have you tried the Win+X power user's menu?
SMS (in it's classical form) is highly spoofable as has been proven with TAN codes time-and-time again. It will work most of the time (sms has no guarantee of delivery as far as I know) and is somewhat secure but by no means good in any way.

This relies on email, which is highly secure, smtp is not spoof-able, server and mail origins are traceable and verifiable and there is no way to intercept the message on a malicious router/switch whatever.
Ow wait ...
Must be as I'd certainly notice a few grand per year being spent on dentistry ; )
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very cool! I stand corrected, I didn't think of this when I considered it. Sorry for the mix-up
I don't understand why anyone is surprised by this. When I think of Microsoft, I think of the Halloween Documents:

http://www.catb.org/esr/halloween/

I've not seen anything to suggest they've fundamentally changed since then. The Microsoft that wrote the following in 2002:

"Messages that criticize OSS, Linux, & the GPL are NOT effective. Messaging that discusses possible Linux patent violations, pings the OSS development process for lacking accountability, attempts to call out the 'viral' aspect of the GPL, and the like are only marginally effective in driving unfavorable opinions around OSS, Linux, and the GPL, and in some cases backfire. On the other hand ‘positive’ OSS, Linux, and GPL messages are very effective - both across geographies and audiences."

... is still with us today, and their current strategy is merely a reflection of their assessment of their marketing.

The 'nice' Microsoft you see today is a PR exercise based on their discoveries, 15 years ago, about the (in)effectiveness of FUD tactics against open source software.
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>>And yet U.S tech industry is not dead.

Well not dead, but definitely lost out on total world domination.

There isn't much difference though. If you settle for a draw after once being in a unbeatable position, its as good as a loss.
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People can't invoke the name "Linux" and exclude Ubuntu when it suits their narrative. So what I said is perfectly reasonable.
As someone that is look for jobs right now and talking with a lot of tech comapny in the US on the side, they just hold all tentative to get visas. O1 are still doable, but all H1B are on hold. If you are canadian, it is not a problem.

But all Europeans that would like to get visa are on hold right now. People that already have one are in limbo, worrying about how the coming ruling will affect them.
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If you look at the XP legacy problem that makes sense these days. If you want MS to support your snowflake of a system then that costs money.
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I'd love to have thermal camera on my smartphone. My application would be that when I come to a bakery, I would like to know which pastry was just baked and is still warm!
Thanks. Wouldn't this have affected the previous lawsuit? Maybe Facebook is trying to set up testimony under oath for the lawsuit that Zenimax is threatening with?
Joel's article does have a lot of very good points, but some larger corporations (such as amazon) do not require you to assign the IP for things that you do in your spare time. (Just a data-point in contrast).
I wouldn't say they had no clue about email. The NYT did in fact publish an article about email in 1990 [0].

[0] http://www.nytimes.com/1990/05/13/us/some-computer-conversat...
Even further on the fringe of medicine: opticians.
Thanks for the link - that's a useful read.

So I signed up as indicated - but perhaps this free tier thing doesn't really work for accounts outside the USA either - as when trying to fire up an f1.micro instance it still says it's going to charge me (albeit out of the $300 free credit), so maybe I misunderstood something about the article.
Except for children. And I've seen that in other European countries as well. Children dental care is always included in public health care, and even the dentists share clinic with other doctors.
Whitespace-as-syntax is something that I really disagree with (and I don't think I'm the only one). Once you become proficient in a language, the braces, semicolons, and parens become almost invisible structure, involving no cognitive overhead. This is one reason why I've never understood the objections to Lisps with respect to their use of parens.
Though I learned in my "Physics of Sailing" course that it would be technically possible to sail with the current instead of the wind by putting the boat upside down in the water.

I had the impression that this was the epitome of the way of thinking thought in a physics degree.
"as STL isn't really important to the solutions."

Sure it is. It's as much as showcase of practical applications of the STL as it is of algorithms. Any algorithms book has implementations, the great thing about this site is that it shows you how to use the STL in real world applications.
This is commonly referred to as OTP and I have implemented it on a few recent projects. It is very common in Asian countries.
i'm 35 and i've got HAs for 20 years now. my hearing loss is quite severe (without aides i don't understand face to face conversation without the other person being close to shouting).

modern devices employ another trick: they "compress" frequencies you're hearing less into a spectrum that's not as damaged (this is mostly done if your hearing loss affects the frequencies used for speech).

the side effect is that music i knew from before my hearing loss got so severe sounds strange now, but the aides also got a "music" mode.
I'm about to have to switch from 7 to 10 at work. I haven't used 10 before. What's going to piss me off most?

(You'd think there would be an answer to this somewhere, but I haven't found one that is more than a puff piece.)
dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13829925 (296 points, 18 hours ago, 18 comments)