skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What is wrong with Yoda conditions?
The very name is giving you a hint: they will feel natural only to Yoda.
To humans, they will feel as they're written backwards.
This is the winning comment for me.

You won't have as much time. But you will learn to make that time really count.
You were relying on a huge loophole. The code runs inside JavascriptCore but it injects native code into the app.
The emergency spillway operated for a day at 5% of design flow, and that minor flow caused enough erosion to threaten to undermine and collapse the spillway structure.

Higher flows, like 100x higher, would have cut a deep channel where the emergency spillway was.
It's possible there just aren't Russian leakers though. Russia can do some shady things to retaliate against leakers US not so much.
Doubt it.

They made angular and they didn't some how proprietary it.

The more worrisome stuff is when they close shop on services or completely change a framework.

TensorFlow isn't a service so we don't need to worry. And I doubt they would change TensorFlow so much like angular 1 to 2 to 3 kinda deal. If it does happen Keras library abstract it iirc.

I think their goals is to get people to use their cloud services imo. They do the same with their nexus without the SD card to push people to the cloud.

Also I think it's almost like the idea of controlling a framework instead of being on the whim of some other company. I'm looking at Oracle and Java here.

Facebook have their NN. Google have their owns. So they don't have politics to deal with.
Aldi sells a clone for around $40.
I have had one for some years.
>This whole narrative of Wikileaks not being neutral is a very weird story, because they've never published anything that wasn't verified to be true.

Note that "being neutral" is not at all the same as "publishing only things that are verified to be true".

What you choose to publish still has a lot of impact on whether you are neutral or not. Even some of the worst propaganda sites publish true things. The propaganda is in which part of the truth they publish and which not.

In Russian, the truth is "Pravda" and you know what it was. It was propaganda. Mostly it was quite true, just with a very specific view on truth.
> Right so that land becomes unproductive land

Why? It's perfectly productive once you let some goats on that land and then eat the goats.

> And that is fine since we don't need as much farm land to sustain a non-meat society.

Should we switch to a completely potato agriculture then? If your argument against meat is waste, then we should go towards whatever crop has the highest yield per acre. Why waste all that acreage, water, and fertilizer on kale and broccoli?

> You're intentionally confusing waste material with primary purpose. That's dishonest.

You're missing the point, which is that we're by necessity creating all this other material that can be used to feed animals as a necessary byproduct of creating the grains to feed the animals. The proportions don't work out as neatly as you think.

> If we could feed all the livestock we need with waste material we would since it would be a lot cheaper for the producers.

Incorrect. On a grain diet, livestock fatten more quickly and are ready for the market sooner. Pasture raised livestock is a thing, and requires less capital and investment. It just takes longer for the livestock to be ready for market and the meat is tougher and gamier.
James, do you know if they're going to go agains the Exponent app per-se?
We've got 3: 4,2, and 9 months. Thank goodness they all sleep (relatively) well.

The baby goes down at 6 and the older ones go down at 7:30 (really, we start the process at like 7, targeting 7:30). We're also incredibly lucky that bedtime isn't much of a fight, it goes pretty smoothly so we're not all ragged for the rest of the night.

I usually don't count on doing anything beyond trivial at all after they go to bed- it's full on cleanup and relax time unless there's an actual work emergency. Or, usually a couple times a week when it's above 30 degrees in the garage, I'll be out there doing some woodworking or wrenching on the motorcycles.

We've started watching a lot of Netflix stand up specials because a) we just wrapped up a day in the life of three kids under five and two startups and b) they're just long enough to watch one and decide to call it an early night.

I don't even try and squeeze in code or learning during the weekend when the kids are awake because I'll spend the entire time stressing about when they're going to interrupt me, that they did interrupt me, or that I should be playing with them instead of [whatever].

I get up early just about every single morning, usually before 5, and I get my time in then. On the weekdays that buys me around 4 hours every morning before I have to start my 'real work', on the weekends it gives me a couple hours. I try to make my hay during the week as I've got my own office outside the house, and I get a lot more done a lot faster there.

What has been helpful, though I'm certainly not over it yet, has been to just not try and cram things in during the day between naps for the kids. It just wound up with a lot of anxiety and clock watching. Instead, when I'm at home I'm trying to be present, trying to stay off the phone or computer, and just trying to quiet my mind by being busy with the family until bed time. Once they're asleep then I can do whatever I want with whatever energy I have left.
People with leaks about Russia don't need Wikileaks. They just go to establishment media.

Also, US responses to Manning and Snowden seemed rather shady.
See I do trust that - but only to an extent.

I always wonder when seeing one update, if there is a 0 day that can bypass that. On a technical level I know I run the same risk with my PC, but at the same time, it's more difficult for me to examine processes and startups in my android.
Starting from the other end, who would use a DMOZ successor?

Clearly DMOZ hasn't been getting a lot of real user traffic, which I think is because newer users (that's most users) have only ever used search, never been introduced to the concept of a directory.

So, the focus should be on who it's being built for, and how they would find and use it, rather than just replicating something from a different era.

For example, it could be a blog where guest bloggers (or blogger teams) each submit a carefully edited post describing the top sites (and perhaps apps) in a niche, and what's good about them. And then keep the posts up to date.

Quality could be maintained by a moderating team that only accepts the best posts, and ensures that they are maintained (otherwise deleted).

The resulting post when found in a search engine would be more readable, and probably more useful, than a directory listing page.
Well, we do all live here. And I want my children's children to have somewhere to live as well.
Oh, no, I don't have reason to believe so.
Unless it is an interesting algorithm or contains well documented optimizations. (with reasons for them, preferably grounded in measurements)

Rules of thumb only go as far as your thumb. Sometimes a clever abstraction makes everything clean and obvious, as opposed to a dumb abstraction.
The accepted demonym in English is American. I don't go around dictating what inhabitants of other countries are called in their language.

In the English speaking world, North and South America are considered 2 separate continent, and the single word American is universally understood to refer to citizens of the United States of America.

We have referred to ourselves as American for over 200 hundreds years and we are the only country with the word America in the name.
Reality is: these guys are early stage, and they need to do whatever it takes to ship and find their feet. They cannot afford to work less as a team - it will not slow down.

So, 2 options:

IF you believe in the team and the market and are convinced that this is worth slogging for 2-3 years, then negotiate a better equity deal. Tell them you want all in and are willing to work your ass off, but you need more upside than just an "engineer cut". If the company hasn't raised money yet you're equivalent to a founder. Make a deal.

IF not, i.e if you don't believe in them 100% or are not in a position to work your ass off, then quit. Find a job that offers good salary and work life balance. A growth stage startup, or a large company if you're up for it...

Hope this helps.
Announcing Visual Studio 2017 General Availability
As a client I'm pretty baffled that some developer had specifically bypassed something that I see as a security measure.

If an app is modified on the fly to use an undocumented and maybe "forbidden by apple" method in order to bypass security features or worse spy on me I'm clearly not ok.

Do you really think the apple ecosystem work because clients see AppStore as a evil cage and that the external developers are all angels with good intentions?
Use Facebook emoji like button in Android
Poor Gustave Whitehead. Overlooked yet again... maybe.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustave_Whitehead
In a place the size of the US and without wanting to sound callous to those injured or killed, that really doesn't sound too bad. Presumably there have been a lot of other less headline worthy incidents?
>In Sweden a vaccine for the pigflue caused narcolepsy in completely healthy young individuals.

And just to be clear, narcolepsy wasn't caused by the "additives" in the vaccine like anti-vaxxers claim. Narcolepsy was caused by the pig flu protein itself.

Thus, if there had been no pig flu vaccinations and people had been exposed to the real thing, a number of them would also have got the narcolepsy, in addition to the nasty symptoms of the pig flu itself.
Well the CIA can legally spy on Americans "incidentally" when they communicate with foreigners. See Flynn calls with Kislyak for example.
Currently our national interests can be defined as whatever the latest talking head Trump was watching on Fox News said they were.
> Code Complete is an old book now. Is it still good advice?

Software isn't a mature, rigorous field relentlessly marching forward into the future. Silicon engineering is, sure. But our field is constantly constantly rediscovering stuff from the 60's and 70's, and going through fashions and fads.

A software book being old really doesn't matter to me IMO. We still don't really know what we're doing yet.
I think this may have something to do with Jeremy Howard's time as president there - I remember watching a few of his tutorials a couple of years ago when he was still at Kaggle and he was really into C#.
I just signed up for "curlz.org". All they have right now is a forum, with a total of five posts. They don't even have a snapshot of the DMOZ directories. They need to at least host the DMOZ dump.

The entire content of DMOZ, in XML, is at

http://rdf.dmoz.org/rdf/content.rdf.u8.gz

It's about 250MB. Save a copy, just in case. I just downloaded a copy.

Archive.org has a copy, at

http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://rdf.dmoz.org/rdf/content.rdf.u8.gz
Google Cloud supports Windows, right? What would be the problem? (Honest question)
My guess is that somewhere in the giant dump of CIA malware there is an exploit that uses this to hijack an iPhone. They are pretty explicit about what they don't like and how it would be exploited.
Do you have any usecases for OCR in your app? I have been working on an offline OCR library for reading bills.
All of the hacks are for older versions of Android and iOS. Specifically Android version 4.x and iOS version 9.x.

"Apple says most vulnerabilities in Wikileaks docs are already patched"

https://techcrunch.com/2017/03/07/apple-says-most-vulnerabil...
Whenever I go to LA, it seems like an urban slum with no significant development of note (above 6 story) in most of LA. Its as though the land is worthless, even Oceanside has taller buildings than Long Beach or Riverside, and Oceanside is literally the middle of nowhere California!

With that low density style of development, your not going to be able to justify a rail line that can move 20k people an hour, as there aren't enough people who can get to a station to feed it.

I blame LA's zoning that keeps it as an urban slum. Dezone the city and you'd see areas around existing mass transit densify over the next decade.
Discovery of giant neurons could help explain how brain creates consciousness
6-8 inches is terribly wasteful and a bit of a nightmare for anyone following who wants to fix a pipe. Obviously a thick path is needed sometimes, but 8 inches will take a 10 ton truck just fine.
1. I see nice cars in the carpool lane with one person daily. Why are they breaking the law? Because they can afford the ticket.

2. We don't need tolls. If we do decide to have tools; the toll should be based on income.

3. We been to base fees/fines on annual income. As a poor person, I am tired of being nickeled and dimed daily.

4. I honestly wonder why so many foreigners want to live here. It's not the greatest anymore.
Best of luck to the Kaggle team. We attended a data scientist conference they presented at in 2012 which led to our YC application, and formation for SimpleLegal. Hats off...
> These days I'm pretty pleased when I can say a piece of code utilises only syntax and statements taught in an introductory programming course.

Why?

Shouldn't you be building up from that towards the problem you are actually trying to solve? Is it reasonable to expect someone to understand every single bit of code in a large project without reading documentation of the components below it?
RethinkDB guys are great, but not the only reflection of what is happening in the DevTools space.

I was interviewed on The Changelog[1] podcast and JavaScript Jabber[2] about some of this stuff, and wrote a follow up piece published on hackernoon[3] about it. It is a good space, it is just shifting in its needs, and I was able to raise just fine from big names like Tim Draper and Marc Benioff of Salesforce for our Open Source Firebase - https://github.com/amark/gun .

[1] https://changelog.com/podcast/236

[2] https://devchat.tv/js-jabber/mjs-002-my-js-story-mark-nadal

[3] https://hackernoon.com/the-implications-of-rethinkdb-and-par...
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> war [can] be waged for justifiable and morally good reasons.

I am fairly sure that's not true. A real war, where both parties have a fair chance of winning, only has losers. Or if one side is much bigger, like the Netherlands against the Germans in 1940 or the USA against Iraq more recently, it's more of a coup.
HPE buys Nimble Storage for $1.2B
This account was created 3 weeks ago and this is the only comment with no submissions or other favorites stories. This is not a lot of info to go off but i'd be willing to bet it is a schill.
>The purpose of moralizing is to shame those that ignore our struggle as living organisms.

So how is that working out?

Think of all the campaigns that have effected change. How often did shaming work? Sure, you have a few cases like the fight against Apartheid, but in general? Not effective.

Here's the thing. I'm as pro-science as they come. However, I've been blessed to come from communities that fall prey to anti-vaccine and other "nonsense". And one thing I know is that fact based ridicule and moralizing has a low success rate.

As someone who somewhat understands both communities, I am already not on your side. If a pro-vacciner like me is turned off by such rhetoric, imagine it from an anti-vacciner's side.

Think I'm an outlier? I'll hazard a guess that most pro-vacciners are close to someone who is not (family connections, etc).

There is comfort in being "right". But being "right" does not in itself translate to right outcomes.

The Righteous Mind (https://www.amazon.com/Righteous-Mind-Divided-Politics-Relig...) is a very worthy read. A few things it points out:

1. On a polarized issue, facts will increase the polarization (and I'm guessing justifying shame with facts will exacerbate the issue)

2. To persuade someone, you will have a lot more success appealing to emotions than to the rational mind. This does not mean playing games where you manipulate people.
Highlights:

> At this point, the only responsible course of action is for the CIA to notify equipment manufacturers and software developers of the exploits they are aware of, so that the software can be secured.

...as well as:
> The CIA chose to stay silent about vulnerabilities that could be used by hackers from other countries or governments.

and:
> Unfortunately, the mainstream media's coverage of this event fails to mention an important consequence of the leak. While its technical disclosures only confirm what industry professionals long suspected (Matt Green, a cryptographer at Johns Hopkins University, said that the list of cyberweapons was "impressive" but not unexpected), they also reveal that details of the cyberweapons circulated among unauthorized individuals, and the existence of the leaks mean that the technical details surrounding the cyberweapons themselves could potentially be in the hands of foreign adversaries.

and to close:
> The Vault 7 leak is empirical proof that a backdoor for the government is a vulnerability regardless, and that these tools will inevitably end up in the wrong hands.
Microsoft is closing the social network you forgot it ever launched
I'd push back on this idea that there are only so many to go around.

My bet is there are a lot of potential "Gregs" out there with the qualities Sam describes, but wasting away under-employed as Mid-Senior individual contributors at BigCorpXyz, like the stereotypical Oscar-capable actress waiting tables trying to get discovered. All it takes is the courage to recognize potential--they can be found!
Don't give references to recruiters. Give references to hiring managers only.

Once, I had a friend and former employer call me and ask if I was looking for a job. I told him no, I wasn't.

Turns out, the recruiter was using "checking my references" simply as a pretext to call my former managers to ask if they were hiring.
Well, consider the Panama Papers. John Doe leaked stuff to Bastian Obermayer, not Wikileaks. Would Wikileaks have released more or less from the Panama Papers than we've seen? That's impossible to say.
I'd rather be anywhere in Seattle or Portland trying to use mass transit rather than in LA, its so spread out due to zoning (requiring abundant, unused parking, and limiting building height) and all of my past experiences there have been piss poor with mass transit in LA. San Diego is slightly better, but it has the same issue as LA with zoning.

I do not think I could reliably take the bus to work in LA or San Diego, whereas in Seattle or Portland I grew up riding it and I know I'll get there reliably.
I'm 25 and a father of a 5 yr old and a 8 month old. It can be tough - your relationship with your children is just like any relationship: you have to put time and effort in and you have to remember to balance what's best for you as well. For a long time I didn't take care of myself and swung too far the opposite direction - I sacrificed my performance at work, my friendships, and my hobbies until one night of drunken craziness where I put my relationship with my wife and children in the backseat for a night. I realized I had been neglecting what makes me, me and at the first chance to let loose I took it too far. I've since learned (and am still learning) a better balance. Some things I've learned that are invaluable in keeping that balance are:

- A work relationship that supports your personal growth and family. I am extremely lucky to have a job that actively encourages me to take time to learn and skill up while on the clock and also engages me in planning my long term career growth with them. They also really care about my family and make sure I have the ability to take care of them with things like good insurance and the ability to leave with a short notice for things like sick kids or other personal emergencies. I know not everyone has that opportunity, but if you do, think twice before skipping over it.

- A solid support network. I wouldn't be able to function without my wife's and my parents. Got one sick kid but the other still needs to go to school? My parents come in clutch every time. Again, we're very fortunate to have them but we've taken it for granted in the past when looking to move cities and being near a strong support network is always a positive with kids.

- Friends/Hobbies. I haven't quite figured out a good balance with this one myself. For a long time I never made time to hang out with friends or just do something I liked because I felt like I couldn't afford that luxury. If I get home by 5, that only gives me a couple of hours with my boys before bedtime. The time after that I want to spend with my wife. If I go out with friends, I'm missing that small window of time to be with them. But as I mentioned earlier, that's not totally healthy because if you keep that up too long then when the time comes to let loose, it happens in a big way. For now, there's a small bar/restaurant between work and home that I've taken to knock off an hour early every few weeks and spend a couple hours with friends there. It's on the way home, so the commute doesn't cut in to how much time I get to spend, and I still make it home only a little later than normal. My next step is probably to start going in to work earlier so I have a little more free time in the evenings for something I miss dearly: reading for pleasure.

I envy those who manage to find a good balance and routine, but it's just a work in progress for us all. If/when you become a parent, you'll have to find what works best for you.
I'm wondering if one route to preventing this being an issue is to prevent any hot code fixes to specific devices. If you have to hot code push to all devices running a specific version, I reckon that would put a damper on the actions of an institution trying to target a specific person. It's a lot harder to try and be sneaky when a change has such a large impact. That said, I'm not sure this restriction alone would be enough.
UN experts denounce 'myth' pesticides are necessary to feed the world
The Illuminated Sketchbook of Stephan Schriber (1494)
The IP of kaggle.com reverse DNS is cloudapp.net which is a Microsoft Azure domain so I think that this makes sense.
Google rolls out free Data Studio globally, improves filters and other features
Without reading all the comments (I'm sure there is great advice).

The older you get the more structured your life gets. Startup cofounder, husband, dad of 2 (10 & 7 now...), Ironman, runner, endurance cyclist. Focus on the important things; you can't do everything so do what matters most.

1. Your kids will only be kids once. You will never get that time back, so figure out what's most important.

2. Get them involved. Young. There are opportunities for kids to learn. Teach them. Get them involved. My kids are startup kids. But their fun times include coming to the office evenings and tinkering with a raspberry pi or doing some kodable stuff

3. Prioritize. Things change. I used to be a gamer. And tinkerer. And... other things. Now, I work (SimpleLegal CTO. I'm a husband and father. And I race my bicycle (train 10-15 hrs per week). That's pretty much it. There is plenty of time in the day, and it's easy to waste.
So strange enough that route made no sense (it made a Y). What options did you pick? Switched to the train and it said 36 minutes. Switched back to car and it was 35 minutes (18.5km) and the route had corrected itself. You did something wrong. I lived in Tokyo and the routine in the link you shared is not correct.
There's certainly significant efforts intended to dilute and distract discourse in reddit threads and infiltrating influential moderator positions on the main subreddits.

/r/undelete logs many instances of some of the weirdness.

Check any popular political tweet and you'll likely notice the first or top replies are coming from trolls pushing empty narratives.
It's legal in many cities.
you don't need a blockchain for computations; only for transferring value from buyer to seller.