skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree, but they've certainly come a long way. When I started with Red Hat 6.2, the dependency hell of installing RPMs from random websites and using the (almost never functional) up2date left me with an awful taste in my mouth as I jumped ship to Debian and the "just works" experience of apt-get.

After switching to Fedora because we're using CentOS at work, I've come to like it. DNF and yum are fine replacements for APT. A PPA analog (copr) is just a 'dnf copr enable user/project_name'. 'dnf history' shows every transaction on my system and makes it easy to undo installations.

The only things I don't like on an out-of-the-box Fedora installation are the stupid, touchscreen sized title bars in GNOME 3 and SELinux - which is fortunately easily disabled.
Inference only, 8-bit integer won't work for training without bad accuracy degeneration.
Are you familiar with streetcar suburbs? They'd have a streetcar running along a commercial street, with residential streets branching off from it; typically one would have a walk of a few blocks from streetcar stop to house. I don't know if a return to that pattern is the future I expect, but it's certainly the one I'm hoping for.
I'd suggest the best remaining option for a FOSS-driven phone (now that Canonical have dropped the ball) is Tizen. It's got the backing of a large phone manufacturer (Samsung) and the Linux Foundation, and seems to be actively developed. It'll probably end up being used on low-end devices at first, but is likely to be more open than the two leading platforms, so hopefully they get some traction amongst tech community.

It's also worth pointing out that Samsung has been investing in Servo, and that Tizen has good support for HTML5 apps, so hopefully we can see mobile web apps increase in popularity to get us away from the walled garden approach.

https://www.tizen.org/
I agree entirely, and I'm not happy with the current state of the smartphone landscape, but I was trying to illustrate the difference between 'user hostility' in Android, for example, and downright 'user evasion' in Win 10.

Not that I think Android is on a good trajectory in terms of user control, but hopefully alternatives such as Sailfish gain traction.
In the past, the hardest thing about learning CSS had little to do with the language itself, but in dealing with inconsistencies for specific browsers (like "Firefox", as mentioned).
Recent efforts by browser manufacturers to render CSS in accordance with standards, along with the advent of pre/post-processing tools, have made it easier for developers to focus on the language.
I'm convinced that flat got popular because it was cheaper than creating textured graphics. The endless fawning over flat on HN was extremely obnoxious - back in 2013 you couldn't go a day without a "flat design is good design" post ending up on the front page.

Glad to see that there are other people out there who hate it. If there's one example of comically dumb flat design patterns right now, it's that "filter" icon you see around the web that looks like a solid-colored upside down triangle and nothing like a filter.
> Things that can't go on forever, don't.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Stein
Hackers Hijack entire operation of Brazilian bank
So those are the actual messages?

I've seen GnuPG-encrypted conversations in "private" Craigslist channels. But no background images, of course. So exchanges are public, but only readable by participants.
GDDR5: Getting the controller and PHY is difficult, not many companies have them and the ones that do (NVIDIA etc) don't have a strong interest in licensing them. The PHY is a mixed signal design so requires specialized expertise and likely some debugging on the target process so not only would it take a long time but it'd be expensive and very possibly flaky in rev 1.

HBM: The interposer means you get a complex, and risky manufacturing process.
Spending most of my time near the JVM, the work they've done with Shenandoah (and previously Netty) has been really incredible.

Love Redhat's OSS work.
Sounds very interesting. Can I please ask what sort of games you play and what FPS you're getting?
How's Adobe CS support?
My not-so-perfect heuristic for eating - if it's marketed and advertised at least in 2 forms of media, I don't eat it.

Malted beverages, sugary cereal, refined-flour cookies, take-away pizzas and of course, the great big marketing machine - the sodas. All of them meet this criteria and I don't consider any of these healthy.
I've helped organizing the last two editions of the FIESP Hackathon in Sao Paulo, Brazil. It is a big event for Latin America standards: 3 days, 40 teams of 5 hackers (200 contestants total).

My pet peeve was always make the event more about "the hacker experience" and less about "the best PPT wins".

Things we did:

* PPT-free event: a team must show something working.

* Startup teams trying to pitch an already working product were kicked out.

* Each team must name one PR member, mentors and other staff should not interrupt anyone except this PR guy.

* Ingenuity and implementation completeness were the main criteria (the least mockups the better).

* Zero tolerance for antisocial behavior.

We strive a lot do make sure "the best hack" wins.
I don't think privacy and business mix. Personally, I have switched to uBlock Origin.
Question: many people prefer the A-10 Warthog for ground support, and argue that the F-35 is both overpriced and insufficiently capable for the task. A big part of the reason is the A-10 cannon, which can be used to great effect on enemy targets very near friendly forces, and in a timely manner.

During the Iraq War I remember reports about about AC-130 loitering in circles above a battleground, presumably just out of the effective range of shoulder fired ground-to-air missiles. More importantly, a gunner would use a side mounted cannon on ground targets.

My question is: could be we replace the A-10's (and even the F-35's) ground support role with a similar gunship, but with much a much more accurate cannon; one that could reliably and consistently hit with, say, 1 meter accuracy. Do the existing cannon mounts on the AC-130 utilize accelerometers and mechanisms to compensate for the movement of the plane? Is there existing technology to use, say, lasers to measure wind and air turbulence to improve projectile accuracy? How high could a gunship theoretically loiter with improved technology? (I assume ground-to-air missiles will only get better, and cheaper, and more portable with time.)

Theoretically, such gunships could be flown fully autonomously, with a remote human doing targeting.
They don't have the signup until it gets closer to the season, but the app is here: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/nfl-sunday-ticket/id32724336...
YouTube TV is now live in select markets
This is perfectly targeted to today's readership and, simultaneously, not at all about the core of philosophy.

These tips are generally about logic. Logic is necessary but not sufficient to derive truth from the world. Philosophy is the search for knowledge, which is much broader and deeper than logic.

Meaning, purpose, ethics, knowledge, and truth (to name a few) can't be picked apart or pieced together with proofs and syllogisms.
The software is free. CentOS is a testament to that.
I'm going after anybody that wants to lose weight safely and consistently, the people that don't know how much of what to eat every week and the people that get stuck after using other calorie counters. Simply put Poundaweek works and continues to work - It was built out my own frustrations with the other calorie counters that stop working or never worked at all.
i think all package managers (not just redhat's) have come a long way since then.

Take a look at the zypper SAT solver (from opensuse) that powers Redhat's DNF package manager today - https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Libzypp_satsolver

The package management of today is a very different beast altogether. And we are on the cusp of the next generation - snap and flatpak.
Political decisions based, as always, on political pressures.
But atleast they made one product from ubuntu mobile: snap (ubunto core)
No rest for the aged: As people get older, sleep quantity and quality decline
Tesla has already figured out how to mass produce cars. The move between 200k cars and 200,000,000 cars is hard, but not rocket-science hard, and they can always hire the right people to help. But can Ford figure out how to make cars that drive themselves at 80mph on highway? Having driven in Ford cars, I don't believe they can. They can barely figure out how to make a radio control panel that doesn't suck.
My favorite probability paradox has always been the Monty Hall problem[1]:

Suppose you're on a game show, and you're given the choice of three doors:

Behind one door is a car; behind the others, goats.

You pick a door, say No. 1, and the host, who knows what's behind the doors, opens another door, say No. 3, which has a goat.

He then says to you, "Do you want to pick door No. 2?"

Is it to your advantage to switch your choice?

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monty_Hall_problem
Dual-Core SoC Utilizes FD-SOI for Low Power and High Performance
Most sci-fi writing—even the greats—doesn't reach the minimal level of writing quality to get much attention from Lit Fic people. Flat, cliche-filled, inefficient, lacking the insight and turn of phrase needed to make simple stuff like scene-setting truly good. All of the above, often enough. One level up from bare quality of craft, you have obvious themes and motifs handled poorly being a common problem. At worst they blend into bad allegory or morality tales.

The set that manages to overcome those hurdles and achieve the sublime—feelings of awe, of sudden revelation, of such beauty in the use of language that you have to stop reading and just absorb it for a minute—with fair frequency is much smaller still.

But hey, it manages to produce good (in a literary sense) stuff at a better rate than some genres (ahem, fantasy) at least. In fact I can't think of any other "genre" fic that beats it.

I don't mean, of course, that deliberately "literary" work, especially of the last few decades, doesn't have its own problems. Lit journals often read like self-parody, certainly.

It is true that if your fiction has more to do with sociology or political philosophy than individual psychology you're already fighting an uphill battle if you want recognition from academics. It's been decided, rightly or wrongly, that the proper place for those topics is in works of history—plenty of which end up as honorary entries in the canon of "literature", even! The strongest reason I can think of for this (in the whopping few minutes I've been thinking about it, just now) is that the personal perspective on which fiction thrives isn't nearly as useful for revealing insights about objects of that perspective—especially the more distant and abstract they become—as it is the subject in relation to those objects.
A wise and decisive decision. Unity did not revolutionize Linux desktop usability, and the phone business was never within reach. Stop trying to make happen what you can't make happen.
Some parts of stats (esp. classically) do use "inference" for the whole process of going from data -> result, especially when doing descriptive rather than predictive statistics. In most of ML the process is split into two phases, training a model on a data set, followed by using the trained model to predict labels (or whatever else it's predicting) for new data. Training is an implementation of statistical induction, from data to model, while model "use" or "evaluation" is an implementation of (probabilistic) deduction, from model + query to result. In ML, "inference" is usually a synonym for the "deduction" or "evaluation" portion. It makes sense to me intuitively if you think of it as learning things vs. inferring things from learned knowledge.

But you do find constructions using it as a synonym for training too, as in phrases like "model inference" (which means inferring models from data, aka model induction or training). Inferring things from other things is a pretty general concept, so it can be slippery without context...
Right now nuclear waste can and should be recycled which would reduce the amount of waste:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioactive_waste

Soon it will be possible to use most of the waste as fuel:

"...Fast reactors can "burn" long lasting nuclear transuranic waste (TRU) waste components (actinides: reactor-grade plutonium and minor actinides), turning liabilities into assets. Another major waste component, fission products (FP), would stabilize at a lower level of radioactivity than the original natural uranium ore it was attained from in two to four centuries, rather than tens of thousands of years"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integral_fast_reactor

The worry people have about nuclear waste is greatly overblown. The amounts generated are small and in a relatively short amount of time we can use most of this "waste" to generate electricity.

As a comparison, how does coal waste compare to that?

"Coal ash – the waste material left after coal is burned – contains arsenic, mercury, lead, and over a dozen other heavy metals, many of them toxic."

http://www.psr.org/environment-and-health/code-black/coal-as...

"The study found that levels of radioactivity in the ash were up to five times higher than in normal soil,"
https://phys.org/news/2015-09-radioactive-contaminants-coal-...

How much coal waste is produced per year? Is it small enough to deal with easily?

"According to the American Coal Ash Association's Coal Combustion Product Production & Use Survey Report, nearly 130 million tons of coal ash was generated in 2014."

https://www.epa.gov/coalash/coal-ash-basics#03

Has any of the general public been killed though coal waste disasters? Lots of times:

http://www.catawbariverkeeper.org/issues/coal-ash-1/coal-ash...

NASA has estimated that using nuclear power has saved an estimated 1.8 million lives that would have been lost if the power has been replaced by fossil fuels:
https://climate.nasa.gov/news/903/coal-and-gas-are-far-more-...

(And yes, I know the people who oppose nuclear power usually will say they don't like coal and natural gas either, but we are going to need a predictable, reliable form of base load power for a long time. One of these three ways of generating electricity has much fewer health consequences than the other.)
One major issue for me is copying with mouse select + middle click, which is unfortunately not solved in this release. Ah well. :-/
The Real Threat to National Security: Deadly Disease
Save PBS. It makes us safer
I'm a bit torn. I like the design of Unity more than I do that of Gnome, but I think that less fragmentation is extremely desirable.

Ultimately, I think it's a good, necessary move. Linux on the desktop will only happen when the environment is at least as uniform as that of Windows—from the perspective of application developers, at least.
Complete Python Web Course: Build 8 Python Web Apps
There are a lot of good software engineers in Warsaw, working at various companies. However most of companies here doesn't care that much about top talent. They just want to pay an average salary and that's all.

It is very rare that Warsaw devs that write good quality code are compensated appropriately.
LoVe HAte, the order of pseudo classes:
:link
:visited
:hover
:active
Berlin-based esports startup DOJO Madness raises $6M
A single cassandra node can probably do 100k writes/second.

We ran hundreds of machines (per cluster), and multiple clusters.

We don't use Scylla for dozens of reasons, including (but not limited to):

- The product was written before Scylla existed

- Our benchmarks didn't show Scylla as being 3x faster, let alone 10x faster

- Our machine count wasn't based on Cassandra limits, it was based on the amount of data we were comfortable storing on a given machine

- We don't throw shiny new tech into a critical stack just because someone says it's faster. I'd rather run code that's tested at scale. ONE of my Cassandra clusters there would have been 10x larger than any known Scylla deployment. At the same time, that deployment is at least 2 orders of magnitude smaller than other published Cassandra deployments (meaning largest known Cassandra deployments are 3 orders of magnitude larger than the largest known Scylla deployment)

The one thing I agree with the author: databases aren't where you want to have hipster tech. You want boring things that work. For me, Cassandra is the boring thing that works.
Good luck to them.

I can only hope they manage to get people into paying for content and finally giving us alternatives to the terrible Ad based business model
I’ve participated in three hackathons in Puerto Rico and have the same experience. My advice is to just go for the sponsor challenges.
Red Hat or the Microsoft of Linux is the face palm of linux distros, forget dependency hell, how on earth someone choose rpm over first class Superior Debian package system or distros like Ubuntu? People just buy it for the support even if the Red Hat they use is Gnome 2 and Firefox V.3.0. Then finally RHCA/RHCE courses, i should get certified from this distro to prove my Linux skills for the companies even though i am a debian guy? No Thanks.
This one isn't actually /too/ complicated. It certainly uses some advanced techniques -- transitions, clip-paths, nth-child -- and I'm not sure (haven't checked) if or how it works in browsers other than Chrome, but the fact that you _know_ you'll have 30 shards greatly simplifies everything.

If you can have a designer draw up the basic design, then you can one-by-one take the shards & put them into place with CSS. From there you can set up some animations on specific shards to make it seem like everything's moving together. From there, you basically have one animal. It'd be time-consuming, but would work.

The css selector for a particular animal's shards start with a `.<animal>` class selector, so that you change the animal class in a parent and all the shards move into place.

It looks like they're still using some javascript to set "states", which seem to trigger animations. I'm honestly not sure why they decided to do that rather than just using keyframes with animations, though I imagine that it may have been that animations were firing before the transition between animals finished, which would have caused a little bit of weirdness.
It's fine as a modifier ("it's a delicatessen salad") but not on its own ("it's a delicatessen")
> you never tried making it available to customers, on regular hardware?

I'm pretty sure they tried very hard indeed. They just didn't succeed.

I say this as a long-time user of Ubuntu Touch. I don't love it, it is not without its flaws. It's just the best mobile OS I've found, primarily because it doesn't nag you with privacy-invasion at every turn. I'll miss it when it's gone.
But they can change their minds, as they show in this post
VC-produced movie shows H-1B visa holders in limbo waiting for Green Cards
yep. Or you could get it with an extension, if you wish. :)
"Killing a pig because you felt like having pork rinds, and then leaving the rest of the body to rot because you'd rather have steak is immoral."

But when does that happen? Wouldn't the butcher or supermarket usually sell most of the meat and the rest of the carcass is used for dog food or whatever?

I suppose there is probably some waste, but I find it hard to believe there are animals left to rot as you describe simply due to economics.
> Here's Hayek's formal paper on a lot of these ideas

Hájek, not Hayek. Not trying to be pedantic, only reassuring people that The Austrians are not threadcrapping.
Canonical ”raised" like 20 million USD to create a converged phone but the "community/market didn't want it"?
Sure, I agree, s/no one/most people/.

The "threatened conditions" is a bit more debatable, e.g. the minke whales that are being caught today by Icelandic and Norwegian whaling are of the same endangerment status as e.g. moose and wild boar - "Least Concern". Also Greenpeace et al. use quite a bit of disingenious reporting, e.g. talking about Icelandic fishing of "endangered whales" when those whales aren't actually endangered in the oceans where the Icelandic vessels fish, but literally on the other side of the earth. (I'm not particularly pro-whaling either, just food for thought.)

Octopi are even less endangered, the two large species are not on any conservation list.
Good question, I don't know. I remember hearing something just this morning about CS5 working well, but I don't know if that was with some internal hacks or with our public product. We offer a free trial if you'd like to try it out.
The store is usually shortened to deli where I live.
CUAL ES TU FANTASIA SEXUAL
I love that we can experiment more with work and each company/employee can choose what works best for them.
I heard a story about an applicant who got to the final day of a multi-day interview for a major tech company I can't mention and was ultimately denied because he ate a piece of candy they offered him.

Irrationality is a virtue for "prestigious" organizations.
Yes, exactly. The goal is to emphasize that two people in a relationship share something that cannot be understood by others. It's not very deep :)
Interestingly enough, there's also a doctor of a sexual health clinic that also provides online prescriptions for Viagra called Sean Cummings.

Somehow delivery of order confirmation emails have never been an issue!

Edit: eeek I don't order from there, I just work with the website's host!
Just my opinion: It will be Chromebook+Android or more the mixture of both. Google is playing well by saying: "The time and technology is not yet ready for this to happen." But I'm also convinced it will happen sooner or later. And I'm sure Apple has some experiments in this direction... iOS and macOS are technically more the same than Android vs. ChromeOS.

I just hope I get a good usable *nix terminal with the laptop mode ;)
I think Horlicks with milk is far better than a glass of OJ. Also considering milk has proteins which are otherwise not ample in Indian food, its not abad choice if it leads to higher milk consumption.

Though even as a kid my family pediatrician recommended coffee with milk over Horlicks/Complan, can't thank her enough for that :) .
What you describe is smoke testing. However, taking money and not having a product is considered fraud in the US. The way you get around this is that on the final confirmation page where you would normally take payment details you instead say the product is on backorder but that the person can enter their email to be notified when it's available. That'll give you the stats you need without running afoul of the law or dealing with payment gateways for payments you are not really accepting.
I thought those 3rd-party links are just to make it easier to get started. I've been checking Javascript files into my project repository, since it seemed unwise to add N different points of failure for no reason.

And anything important like your financial provider is usually very risk-averse to breaking changes, and should give plenty of notice for an update. And if you're including a hash, you don't care about automatic updates anyways.

I can understand trusting one CDN for performance reasons. But do people really add so many different dependencies on their sites? Should I be doing that instead?
DO is the most expensive now compared to other VPS providers like Linode and Vultr
I think the norm is the current surroundings, not wherever the subject is from. Dr. Smith is Smith-sensei in Japan. The New York Times is known for its use of courtesy titles, and it calls knights "Mr.".

Pope is a high office, and Francis is his chosen name. It would be rude of you to call him by his birth name; it would be rude of him to insist you call him "Your Holiness", although you probably should if you're visiting the Vatican.