skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I knew this reminded me something, it's Chomsky (I had to google it):

'The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum.'
Ask HN: How to clean Mac firmware?
Given the news release today about Mac firmware being infected, how would you go about detecting this and cleaning it up?

Is Apple going to do anything about it?
One thing that I discovered recently which surprised me (while taking the Udacity SDC)is how effective and resilient these "older" ML algorithms can be. Neural networks was always my go to method for most of my classification or regression problems for my small side projects. But now I learned with the minimal dataset I have (<5K samples), linear regression, SVM, or decision tress is the way to go. I got higher accuracy and it's about 10X faster in terms of computational time!
I don't know the city well enough to be sure, but traditionally it's transportation - back in the day as a link between the Mississippi and Great Lakes systems, then as a huge rail hub (cattle from the west would get repackaged and shipped on to the East), and most recently O'Hare (busiest airport in the world).
For me the distinction is that news organizations do original reporting while blogs usually do not.
Doesn't Nix offer at least an attempt at this?
The problem is, as often in economics, defining the terms and building a model that approximates life. It's not as trivial as a sorting algorithm or a simple 1 parameter regression.

How do you define wealth concentration, for example? If your definition is flawed, you can throw out the entire model.
I keep backup codes for my account in two places: My wallet (which I always have on me, so I won't be locked out if I'm traveling), and at home. If you're really paranoid, you could also give backup codes to a friend or relative, or put them in a bank safe or something like that.
When the choice is between getting $0 in rent a month and getting 10% less than last month, most will take the later option.

Occupancy is a make-or-break issue in real estate. Dropping your rent by 7% is better than having a single month of non-occupancy.
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Five Reasons I Want China Running Its Own Software
Easy one: the village should pay zero and the factory should sort itself out.

Pushing costs onto other people and then asking them to pay to mitigate them is extortion.
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So why are you even comparing the two and not e.g. working for Google in San Francisco and Zurich?
> It sounds like you can adjust the update period only

and the location technology to use:

- GPS: best accuracy, bad battery life -- best used outside cities
- Network: decent accuracy, decent battery life -- best used inside cities or areas with lots of WiFi AP's
- Passive: variable accuracy, best battery life -- best used when you have another location app already doing location requests (like Waze, Google Maps, etc)

> but no feature to (only) provide location in response to a request-for-location from the far-end?

That's correct, it doesn't cover your preferred "click to request updates" use case as I'm not a fan of things happening to my phone by outside requests :)
>was favorable compared to farm work

This, I believe, is a misconception. There's only so much farm work and population increases means work had to be found elsewhere. On top of automation lowering the number of farm hands one needed, and worse, a lot of that work being temporary seasonal work that paid very little. The Grapes of Wrath and The Jungle show the brutality of this period from both urban and rural perspectives.

A lot of urban dwellers in that period would have been fine with farm work. If anything, it was safer and healthier than factory work.
I think you are painting with too broad a brush.

But even within that framework, there is room to have things that one 'imagines' about God, that one doesn't necessarily 'believe' as a part of ones core beliefs about God. Certainly various religious sects have core beliefs about the human-divine relationship- however, within most belief systems, there remains a great deal of speculation and room for 'imagination'. For example, within the LDS(Mormon) sect, a core belief is that this life is a testing grounds- and a place to learn. That would fit very well within the context of this life being a simulation, of sorts.
While there's certainly some true to that statement, I think you're being overly cynical. People congregate in cities to be near _people_. For sure with a good internet connection I could do all my work from small town america living in a mcmansion at a quarter of my rent; instead I live in nyc. Access to artistic communities, robust public transit, diverse food and culture, and a fluid job market makes the value add for me a no brainer. Im sure for different people the economics don't work out so cleanly, but online I feel like discussions on rent and technology tend to gloss over the things you're actually paying for.

A successful startup isn't going to be in the cities you mentioned because you have to convince people that they find the non-work related amenities they've gone to SF, Seattle, NYC, etc to find. Or go full remote, which has its own set of challenges (though I'd posit a full remote company really isn't in any one city so it doesn't really matter where the founders live).
TL;DR: It seems to be a problem in Chromium, the relevant CSS (one second change) results in a 60hz animation cycle.

Workaround:

"editor.cursorBlinking": "solid"
Hey, the worst graduate from Stanford is better than the best graduate of Ohio State, right?
This isn't about negative lookaheads or lookbehinds. It's about negation proper. It is perfectly declarative: the language matched by (?~E) is the complement of the language matched by E.
Boeing planes are assembled in Seattle; their HQ is in Chicago.

Do people aspire to work in health, energy or finance, or even software aside from the money? If so, what difference does it make?
I like how you managed to throw in a blow on Trump there, nice!
This is incorrect... there are many examples, the light bulb is just the best documented, partly because of it's historical timing.

Another poster mentioned the DRAM case, this is one of a fairly good number of examples of collusion. When you are talking about a type of behavior that people will generally go to good lengths to keep under wraps, a better conclusion would be that the known cases are a fraction of the actual cases.

If we had something closer to perfect competition there would a lot less of this... but we don't. Many of the cases where antitrust action has been deemed necessary by governments were IMO caused by government interventions in the first place.
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If a password reset is allowed by pin that's not two factor authentication, that's SINGLE factor authentication. I know we tend to think of 2FA as anything involving a pin sent to your phone, but it does require two factors.

GMail, for instance, will not allow a password reset with just a phone pin.
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That wasn't my experience. I knew several renters who renegotiated their rent down around 2008. We're taking knocking off 10%+. With rent control in SF that's locked in inperpetuity.
It's precisely the update of Abramowitz and Stegun.

I believe the book version is this:

http://www.cambridge.org/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=978052...

but they occasionally still find mistakes to fix online.
HN would be just like Reddit or even NYT without the fantastic moderation keeping everyone in line. It's not easy maintaining a positive culture in an online community, even in places like this.
Agreed, I submitted the same link with the title "Semantic Analysis of Donald Trump Sub-Reddits," but even that leaves out the fascinating idea of "subbreddit algebra" that the article goes into. Articles like these are why I love 538. It's like popular science for statistical analysis.
It isn't a market failure if it is a result of regulation
Qualcomm Has Made a New Chip for Feature Phones
I was in the London office (until a year ago) and led an engineering team spanning London, Zurich and New York. The majority of Google Zurich's engineers are not Swiss—elsewhere from Europe, from across Asia and many from the US.
Linus Pauling's probably throwing a party in his grave.[0]

I've recently been working with a team at Duke building sepsis prediction models. If this proves to be effective, it'll be really interesting to see if it becomes a routine preventative treatment as well.

Does anyone here know whether Dr. Marik is using this treatment in isolation or in tandem with the existing sepsis care bundles? While I'd imagine so, I haven't managed to find anything conclusive even on the East Virgina site.[1]

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitamin_C_megadosage

[1]: http://www.evms.edu/about_evms/administrative_offices/market...
From my own estimation, and my current boss, I'd say am a competent Software Engineer, so with time I would be very productive in this job. I've also been curious about machine learning and this could be a potentially good opportunity.
All scripts should be run with "-eu". This prevents unbound variables from ever being used and will end the script on a failed command. If you want commands in the script to fail, just drop the "e" and run with "-u". At my last job we put "-eu" in literally all of our scripts to avoid this very problem.
You think this is gonna be fixed in Chromium, fixed in VSCode, or working-as-designed?
No, college tuition will rise with middle-class incomes.

This is a cultural phenomenon. We're "supposed" to get our children the best education we can possibly afford, otherwise we are bad parents. Since colleges don't have price discrimination, this essentially means tuition is set at the absolute maximum that the middle class can afford - squeeze every penny out of them. This is why aid won't reduce the burden of tuition on the middle class (tuition will just rise to meet the aid amount). It's also why tax breaks won't help the middle class either (same idea), although the tax breaks can help those above the middle class (since they have a higher tax rate, and the tuition rises to match exactly the effective aid for the middle class).
Market growth is showing that you are not correct. Market is going up all time, S&P 500 even if bubble burst around 2008 and 2000, now we have prices almost twice as high. So it is true that more and more money will flow to those places.
Reminds me of this ancient Firefox bug about the performance cost of the throbber: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=437829
Oh great, what are they trying to distract us from this time?
Well the stats aren't talking at all about success but about persistance and self control
"different interpretations of the facts" may be true sometimes but not in this specific example. Denying climate change makes as much sense, factually, as claiming the world is flat. As xkcd would have it, "Science. It works, bitches."
I've had this happen a number of times but I always go in and report a issue with the ride and click my driver canceled and they credit my account with $5 right away. They don't even look into it they give it to me right away. It's not ideal but I think its their way of dealing with this easily.
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Local automation makes no sense.
.. but larger turbines are more efficient than vehicle engines. I think Derek MacKay has some numbers on vehicle vs centralised generator, but can't find it right now.

(CNG has been an option for vehicles for ages, but for some reason never quite took off?)
The thing that really rams this home for me is pictures of Teheran before the revolution:

http://www.vintag.es/2014/09/pictures-of-tehran-iran-ca-1960...

The problem with all this is if it achieves escape velocity then it can take a long long time to undo the damage. We're almost four decades into Iran being an Islamic state and I wonder how that would have all ended if there had not been so much meddling in Iran and Iraq (and less money flowing to the house of Saud).

Quite possibly Iran (then Persia) would have been a real powerhouse in the region, highly educated citizenry and vast natural resources.
...21st century desktop application development ladies and gentlemen (not that I'm proposing anything constructive).
Making university research accesible
Designers get lots of opportunities to work on stuff for free. Unlike programming, few of them benefit the designer's workflow in ways similar to how programming tools benefit a programmer. If a designer is working on something for free, it makes more sense to design something for themselves than people who want something for free...students in particular already have portfolios and a steady stream of non-paying work in the form of assignments (generally assignments will more directly benefit them).

Why not offer free programming for a designer who has an idea for a program? It might benefit your resume.
On the other hand SVM doesn't scale as well as neural networks do because it has computational complexity between O(n^2) and O(n^3) [1] where n is the number of samples in the training set. So if you plan to add more data later you may eventually encounter scaling problems with SVM.

[1] http://scikit-learn.org/stable/modules/svm.html#complexity
You call them rent seekers, but the vast majority of the anti-builders I see around the Bay Area are home owners who worry about traffic or some such. It's not some big conspiracy to increase profits. It's incumbent nimbyism.

Attend a town hall meeting where they're discussing a new apartment building and you'll meet them.
How you able to manage it? I mean after office hours I become so tired that, It is hard to focus on reading.
Sounds like this can be fixed by moving away from animating opacity to something more rudimentary like flipping the display property in JS. CSS3 animations from my experience are a bit taxing in general, and something you want to use only in small bursts, not constantly running in the background.
Okay, but checking at 60 hz if an animation needs to be updated is not relevant work. In no universe should that cause 13% processor load.

Sure maybe you can get smarter and realize that all animations run at 2 hz and then also only check at 2 hz, but it seems the root problem here is an entirely different one.
hah I emailed one of the guys on the team awhile back to ask him for help about how to dissect an iOS app after watching his video about reverse engineering apps. He was super helpful! Awesome to hear this!
A common refrain hurled by those completely ignorant of how historiography works.
BND Forensik Challenge
Is Daniel Haake a BND subcontractor?
http://pastebin.com/raw/DMngiU5q
That makes sense if the employer is OK with you learning ML at the company. It doesn't make much sense if they want to hire someone already experienced in ML.
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Hi, where can I see a list of all the operators that are supported? I tried "A nor B" on the web interface to try to make it break and was surprised that it worked :)
maybe i am just stupid, but I find that many texts in mathematics like to skip over details, or I get stuck because there is an ambiguity in the text and there is no one to ask about it.. What do we do in this kind of situation?
>seems to be that taxes are pretty much a black hole.

Our defense and war spending is very much a black hole. I'm sorry if I fight being taxed to death in regards to this. Not all of us have a tiny military like your country does.

Worse, federal taxes are just one piece of the pie for Americans. We're usually taxed heavily on the local level with property taxes, state taxes, etc. With those taxes we can certainly see providing value. What the federal government takes goes into a budgetary black box that pays for some pretty odious things. Currently my taxes pay for NASA to stop studying climate change and for the White House family to constantly vacation and live in places other than DC. Things like medicare and social security are taxed separately anyway. So I can see those as individual items and largely don't have an issue with them.

I think a lot of anti-tax attitudes here in the US aren't ignorance, but a protest against a corrupt system wasting money and using it for a net negative for us and the world (Iraq conflict, endless drone strikes, sabre-rattling with China, etc).

There's a moral position for the left to criticize taxation. Imagine if your country spent the kinds of money we did on defense. Would you be so happy with it?
Issues/bugs are filed, see https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/22900#issuecommen...
The proto-indo-European migration is thought to have been a cultural and linguistic migration, not a mass physical migration or a conquest.
Care to 'mentor' me ?Email on my profile.
Journalism is a discipline of verifying your sources. A news agency would be expected to do this but a blog may not.
I recently switched from Atom to VS Code and have noticed a considerable reduction in lag, especially when using CMD+D and searching through project files.
A Deep Learning Model That Sets Font Size for Web Page Texts
But why disable ads on a video that doesn't violate ToS? What they need is a "religious content" category, so people can choose not to have their videos there.
Architects Are Rethinking School Design to Foster New Ways of Learning
True, but the fuel to get up to that altitude is a significant cost that can't be ignored, and the mass must be carried at takeoff (unless you want to solve the problem the way the USAF does, but I don't even want to think about passenger-rating in-flight refueling). The design flaw that finally killed the Concorde was precisely related to that --- the need for large fuel tanks and light structures left the vehicle very vulnerable to hull damage. At the other end, you have to make sure you're taking sufficient fuel for diversion to alternate airports (and there might not be a lot of airports willing/capable of taking the vehicle---that also affected the Concorde) as well as time to orbit waiting for a landing slot (if LAX is your destination, that's non-trivial). This already affects standard passenger routes --- short hops are more expensive because the aircraft doesn't spend much (or any) time at cruise altitude, where they're much more fuel-efficient. Yes, obviously these vehicles would be more economical for long over-water flights, but the problem is only partially mitigated by a longer time in an efficient regime. Those takeoff/landing costs don't go away.
Why do you think other companies see your application?
FYI, the re-index API is awesome.
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>> Also included in this release is the manual for the CIA's "NightSkies 1.2" a "beacon/loader/implant tool" for the Apple iPhone. Noteworthy is that NightSkies had reached 1.2 by 2008, and is expressly designed to be physically installed onto factory fresh iPhones. i.e the CIA has been infecting the iPhone supply chain of its targets since at least 2008.

> Apple portrayed itself as a guardian angel for keeping the FBI of our devices for the past two years, while conveniently forgetting to mention that it has been installing iPhone backdoors for the CIA since 2008 [emphasis mine].

I think that's a misreading. The article only mentions "factory fresh" iPhones, which probably means ones that have not yet been unboxed, not necessarily ones still in the factory. IIRC, the NSA was intercepting packages in transit to install implants, and I'd imagine the CIA followed a similar process. So they had the cooperation of the shipping companies (e.g. USPS or UPS), not the manufactures like Apple or Dell.

I mean, it might be possible that manufactures were working with them as well (or perhaps just individual employees), but I haven't seen the evidence. Keeping some distance from the manufacturer would make some sense, if they wanted to keep the vulnerabilities secret.
Wikileaks Reveals CIA's MacOS and iPhone Hacking Techniques
They lost at the Battle of the Catalaunian Plains and were driven from Roman lands.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Catalaunian_Plai...
You're probably right; I'm sure there were many different reasons for urban migration. And yes, undoubtedly safer.

I don't have a source handy, but I remember reading that for farmers who didn't own their land, it was really difficult when bad weather ruined the crop and you couldn't make rent as a result, not to mention the fact that you didn't have food that season either. That's what I was referring to.
Me too, too!

Not only is this a really cool and novel (as far as I know) use of machine learning techniques, there's a lengthy footnote that goes into some detail about the method. And the presentation is great, very slick modern HTML.

So it seems like an excellent fit for HN, apart from the title which will unfortunately put a lot of people off.
I've done a lot of experimenting with that. Here are some of the (surprising!) results:

- you only need one motor to aim a whole array of mirrors
if you're willing to make some exotic gears

- the lifespan of the cells will shorten measurably

- you will need to cool the cells if you don't want them
to die very quickly

- there will be a serious fire risk
Arctic sea ice maximum at record low for third straight year
In that same essay I think he also mentioned you can't know fully how good a hacker is until you've worked with them. I still agree that the best developers will be able to see talent.
Frankly, I trust the US government more than my local ones, to have this information.

What I don't trust is the neutrality regarding company sensitive information and competitors. (I still trust the US government more than I would trust most any other than that, but still not much.)
That is was written in the 14th century makes it very suspect.
Google Docs has the exact same behavior and has for years. I can hear my laptop's CPU whining when the cursor fades in and out.
This reminds me that as part of the Windows95 development effort, Microsoft disabled per-second updates of the taskbar clock to improve performance. Raymond Chen wrote a bit on it back in 2003:

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20031010-00/?p=...
Talent attracts talent. Wealth attracts wealth.

This cities work because there is a high concentration of wealth, talent and resources for them to produce big wins over and over.

Google and Facebook couldn't have been this successful anywhere else.

Pg had a nice article on how other places can become sv like hubs.
My impression was that the submission of the untested patch ("testing welcome") was that it was a fast first step in collaboratively fixing the issue.
> The tools and utilities for both Linux and BSD are GNU - so only the kernel is different.

All the BSDs have their own libc, so that is a big difference. There's more to a complete system than kernel and build tools.

But as far as tools, FreeBSD is nearing completion of removal of GPL licensed software from the base system, see:

https://wiki.freebsd.org/GPLinBase

Most things use clang now, and even in ports, only a relatively small number of things which require gcc still use it. Also lld, the llvm linker, is making great progress towards replacing gnu ld.

And OpenBSD has imported LLVM, see:

https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=147294297501630&w=2
I forgot to add a quote from an engineer I used to work with: "Safe enough for a test pilot is very different from safe enough for the test pilot's kids."
After tax pay better be higher in Zurich... it's one of the most expensive cities to live in, especially as an ex-pat, in the world (and considerably more pricey than SF.)
That and the random chance of having your writings preserved through centuries.

Burning down the libraries in not something unheard of.
Yes; I believe this is why jet turbine engines have blades made of single crystals of exotic materials.
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