skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Classifying White Blood Cells with Deep Learning
Serious question--for some reason, I've always believed that previous employers tend to avoid saying anything negative about their former employees. Is this not the case?
No, clear it's orbit relative to similarly sized objects. The earth is more than 10^10 times as large so it's in no way comparable. It's like saying you don't live alone because there are single cell organisms in your house.

Pluto is less than 1/500th Neptune's mass, like having a rat living in your house.
You're getting downvoted but what you said is the truth.

All of this marketing around the miracle of investing small amounts (if you invested $100 into the market 20 years ago it'd be worth $1M today!) is just that, marketing. It's a way for brokerages and mutual fund salesmen to get more people into the game.

The brutal reality is that you need at LEAST $10K to ever see an appreciable return from the market. Investing $500 is a waste of your time unless you go into it with the understanding that:

A) You might make $50 a year from it

B) You're going to make an effort to actually learn about the stock market, fundamental analysis, etc with the aim of better knowing what you're doing when you have a bigger bankroll to invest.
Eris is slightly smaller but more massive than Pluto. The discovery of Eris lead to the reconsideration of the definition of a planet.

There's a choice to be made, either Pluto, Eris, Haumea, Makemake and Ceres are all planets or none of them are. And any new discoveries will be planets too. Or we come up with some kind of non-scientific arbitrary choice that Pluto is a planet because people on the internet got mad when it was changed to a dwarf planet.

Out of the dwarf planets, Ceres is my favorite because of the ingenious mathematics that lead to the determination of its orbit and thus verified that it's a planet. There was only a week's worth of observations before the planet went behind the sun and Carl Friedrich Gauss invented a method for initial orbit determination from three observations and pioneered the method of least squares to further refine the orbit to match the rest of the observations and the planet appeared where predicted a year later.

At the time of discovery in 1801, Ceres was considered to be the 8th planet (Neptune wouldn't be discovered for another 70 years). I don't know what eventually caused Ceres to be demoted from its planet status (perhaps because it's in the middle of the asteroid belt).

I think that dwarf planet is a suitable label to give Pluto. It's an insignificant blot of dirt in the outer solar system, and there are probably dozens like it waiting to be discovered.
It was the only thing that worked without lots of physical redundancy in high reliability. It's only thing that worked against good pentesters in high security. It's widely deployed in embedded. The monolithic OS's started copying some of its traits for their benefits but kept things in kernel mode for performance. Why? They're running on CPU's optimized for monolithic instead of microkernel designs.

So, I'd say evidence leans in favor of microkernels being better. The cutting-edge isn't that, though. It's hardware/software combinations that give more reliability and security with better usability & performance than microkernels. Lots of work in languages, compilers, and CPU extensions. CHERI and CHERIBSD is probably top example with Spin OS, JX OS or Redox OS on something like Watchdog-Lite CPU being representative of language-oriented work.
This should be the top comment in this thread. A lot of garbage comments overall.
Customers want it. I like Java myself, but the Python ecosystem is similar in scope and quality. There is nothing really wrong with Python.
> it's the library in Tim Berners Lee's hometown, and even has a big WWW plaque outside it

It's on shared copper, just like most of us were when www was invented, for historical accuracy.
In practice "little tolerance for bigotry" means you might get fired for supporting a viewpoint held by the majority of Californians.
I know, but almost no one uses it.
Anyone can, that's right ;)
Every Windows Store(UWP) app that isn't a game* is automatically pushed to Xbox devices also, except if the developer opts out.

* for games, it's separately handled for validation
When debugging in production environments (which is always a bad idea) I use a technique where I always work together with a coworker and before I'm about to do something destructive I say out loud what I'm going to do and ask for agreement that I should continue. I started this after reading what happened at Gitlab a month ago.
This is very misleading, and it looks to be intentionally so. The author pretends that "cleared its orbit" means "cannot share its orbit with any sort of rock". But that's not at all how "cleared its orbit" is defined.

The excellent Wikipedia page [1] on what "cleared its orbit" really means should tell you enough. Firstly, this asteroid would be several magnitudes below the amount of mass necessary to strip Earth from its status. Secondly, due to this body being in orbital resonance with Earth its mass would not even count towards the mass that Earth has not cleared out of its orbit. This also counts for 3753 Cruithne, one of Earth's other known co-orbitals [2] which we've known about for years without making a fuzz, also because it has insignificant mass and is in orbital resonance.

Given the tone of the article and how easily it can be falsified, it seems to me the author is deliberately misleading his audience to push his nostalgia for Pluto's planethood.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clearing_the_neighbourhood

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quasi-satellite#Earth
Or download FreeSWITCH and roll your own. :)
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I know that word: gnir (I am rubbing). Gnirehtet could mean I am too rubbed -- in other words chafed.

That would be in proto-norse. And it rhymes nicely with hiertynyt https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hierty%C3%A4
It makes me sad that fame and celebrity, no matter how it is acquired, equates so directly to money-making and power now. Sad because I don't think it is encouraging the best parts of our nature. But I don't know what to do about it.
It's a simple concept whose flexibility & performing implementations can be hard. Usually takes geniuses to come up with one that works well in concept and practice. It's why Butler Lampson always thought they were a waste of time. I don't. So, here's some examples of successful application. :)

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/security/ctsrd/cheri.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EROS_(microkernel)

Note: Definitely see KeyKOS as it was commercially deployed with both POLA and persistence of app data.

https://www.combex.com/tech/darpaBrowser.html

http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/levy/capabook/index.html

Note: Especially see System/38 which became AS/400 & IBM i. Still selling. And they run and run and run. Architecture & POLA go a long way there.
This also applies to aviation. While pilots execute the same checklist several times each day, year after year, it is still required to verbally call the items on the list. It feels a bit strange doing it when you're sitting in a cockpit alone, but it does really improve accuracy and ensures you're following the same procedure every time whether there is a co-pilot, instructor or nobody sitting in the other seat.

I've never learned actually pointing at the instruments, but I can imagine it helps to focus for example very clearly on doing a check of a specific instrument instead of just saying "checked" out of habit. The problem of course is that you need your hands for other things at the same time, so pointing would be unsafe to do at the controls of a plane.
Fedora/RHEL yum has a much better solution: installonly_limit, defaulting to 3. Kernels which have been updated will only be kept up to this depth. The excess are automatically trimmed during update.
I believe you, I just think you're misreading, or reading too much into, the GP's statement.

Morals are statements, not actions. The actions of China that GP is opposed to are clearly against (stated) western morals – hence all the outrage in the comments on this article, and in the GP's own comment. You are right that the US state habitually violates those morals. That doesn't change what the morals are, that just makes the state (and individuals who support the state's actions) hypocritical. To rephrase your summary:

GP: "Country X has these strong morals but isn't following them." Your reply: "Country X hasn't followed those morals for a long time."

Which are statements that are not incompatible with one another.

To put it another way – I'm a US citizen. I share morality with many/most in my community. To support China's human rights abuses violates our (my community's) morals. (So does detaining individuals at Guantanamo Bay.) But my/our state is too blinded by greed/capitalism to do anything about these travesties (and has been for a long time, as you point out). That doesn't mean that my community has no morals. It just means our state is hypocritical, and my community is not sufficiently empowered to change that (possibly because of other communities which are hypocritical, or because of longstanding power structures).
And any scientific writer. Even with a single author you would still write "we" everywhere.
http://www.cs.cornell.edu/home/chichao/sip99.ps

http://www4.cs.fau.de/Projects/JX/

Note: JX takes a different route but shows POLA can be done simply and performant.
Write big, read small.
My dad's side of the family are a bunch of sailors, and there's a lot of verbal clues you give to other people on the boat when you're sailing. "Ready about" means we're about to tack.

My uncle was sailing a multi-day solo race, and he felt like he was just getting scattered. He started saying everything he would have said outloud-- saying "ready about" to no one, ordering himself to raise the spinnaker. He said everything ran much more smoothly once he started doing that. :D
Richard H. Battin Oral History
My Treadwater Desk
How exactly is giving a third party access to your plaintext passwords "on the pareto frontier"? There are numerous options which do not involve doing so, some of which have better convenience than pass, so I'm genuinely curious how distributing your plaintext passwords more widely could possibly be at the frontier of security...
Sometimes if I find myself task saturated, I'll say to myself something like, "OK, what am I doing. We need X, Y, and Z. X is most important, so let's do X," as a way of regaining focus. Then again I work from home, so if I didn't think aloud from time to time, my vocal cords would rust from disuse. :)
I tend to agree from the naive Java approach, but with Java and multiple processes on the same machine they really should share a single JVM. Many people end up having one JVM per process. But the go runtime is less greedy and supports that logical thinking much more obviously.
Yes. Network Manager is horrible.
When 100% jet lagged traveling with a colleague we setup the "coat, phone, creditcard" check as a joke whenever we were walking out of a place. Surprisingly it saved a phone twice and a coat a million times because the destination had great weather.
I completely agree. It's so silly that I chuckle every time this argument comes up. Then again, people are so attached to their definitions and classifications in a way that it becomes part of how they define themselves, and therefore any suggested change is considered a personal threat. This of course is not limited to planets...
One could defend the Earth-Moon system to be a double planet. The Moon is much too large compared to other satellites in the solar system.
I'll never not be amused by how salty people get over Pluto being stripped of its planet-hood.
It's a little late in the game to get this seen, but they do this in the NYC subways too. It made for a great video!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9jIsxQNz0M
Found the Oracle lawyer on HN!
40 years later and the kids just never learn...

http://www.theverge.com/2013/11/4/5063258/ponte-tower-africa...

Oh but that would never happen here, Bay Area landlords and developers are all on the up and up, yada yada...

Full disclosure: I lived in a great little 3-bedroom in the mission from 1999-2001 where we each paid $650. And it was fuckinh awesome. The place "mysteriously" burned down a few years later, coincidentally releasing the owner from rent control. Who'd a thunk it?
Virgin Atlantic new Dreambird 1417: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_ob-5eC8uw
Since all other things are equal, the solution is simple. The person with the degree is more likely to have student loan debt, so a salary of X dollars per year will go further in the case of the one without the debt. The person with the debt is more likely to require more money for the same level of satisfaction.

All other things being equal, of course.
First Co-Working Space for Dogs Only
What makes this so scary, is that it is so utterly believable. I mean, how many of us would be utterly stunned if the FBI did seize Phrack?
xwallpaper: A wallpaper utility for X
Dope Discoveries – Issue 5
Easy to read, easy to write, great high-quality libraries for pretty much everything.
Literally almost everything that happens, and everything in the past few decades of tech anyways, is "one for the history books"

History books contain a lot of inane details no one besides readers of history books are ever charged with knowing. (Then there's the important big-picture stuff and sub-arcs that we're supposed to remember lest we repeat them, but most people have already stopped caring by that point because of the inane details)
For those unfamiliar with the author: he is one of about a dozen people I can can remember, where I immediately knew "wow, this guy is smarter than you, and almost as funny. Let's enjoy this"[1].

He's also a good example for the yiddish concept of "Mensch".

continue here: http://raganwald.com

[1]: Bragging not intended–it just seems to me like the difference must be fairly large in any direction before I consciously notice it.
Dart is moving away from optional typing towards static typing with inference. (It's useful for ahead-of-time compilation.) Take a look at strong mode. But since you can leave out the types in simple situations, it often looks the same.
This is very much the case. When employees/employers broadcast negative info about each other, both parties suffer. Obviously, the accused suffers because all this negative info about them is now public, but the accuser also suffers because they look like a jerk for publishing it. Who would want to work with a person/company that is known to talk crap about people they work with?

I think angvp is only publishing this because it's entirely anonymous -- he hasn't named the two employees in question or his company.
Split Stories by Splitwise
Largest flying birds are right now are:

- In the west it's the Andean Condor

- Globally, the african Kori Bustard.

Now, birds can be tough. The prime example is the conflict between the Australian Army (including the Royal Australian Artillery) and 20,000 emus known as the Great Emu War. The outcome was a decisive Emu victory.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emu_War

Some people argue that this was not a conflict as it is frivolous to consider Emus as a military force.

However the fact they were capable of the formidable achievement of defeating a regular army proves they can, and this is also not the first conflict involving animals (e.g: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gombe_Chimpanzee_War).

Note that emus cannot fly.
Procurify's IPO Makes Companies Rethink and Transform Their Spend Culture
This is either a clickbait article or a weak April Fools' joke.
How to sometimes complete your side projects
Good readable syntax, strong built-in data structures, good libraries for just about everything, less "magic" than other similar languages, moves at a deliberate pace and values backwards compatibility (minus the 2->3 thing).
If you back tested and you re confident in your analysis, more power to you! I am yet to find a truly diversified portfolio that can generate good returns for me...

My back tests and analysis are showing that I am not OK with buy and hold, because I don't want to stomach 50% draw downs or to wait 15 years for the NASDAQ to bounce back...

I am not that risk tolerant and I might need to sell some of my investments for medical, travel, even early retirement...

That's why I like to buy when the market goes up and sell when it goes down and be cash during crises like the dot com bubble and 2008 financial crisis... you can always buy them back on the way up when the trend changes...
For me, entirely because of python's large, referenced, and well-documented numerical libraries (e.g. scipy and numpy).
The old kernels should be purged automatically on desktops. That really is an annoying issue.
Interesting. Yeah, I definitely think that generally parent's are much more at fault than they want to admit. Blaming the teacher is an easy way out.

I'm not knowledgeable in the industry, which is why I'm asking. I know that for most industries, standards and structures are in place to protect damage from the worst people, but can definitely inhibit the best people.
Deep Stubborn Networks – A Breakthrough Towards Adversarial Machine Intelligence
Ah yes, scientific writing and making sure your bodily ecosystem don't feel left out. :)
"A blegg by any other name..."
Thanks for the link.

Btw. one of the subway drivers explains in the YT comments that NYC had this gesture first, Japan copied it in the mid 1990s.

Conductors point at the board because it is required by TA
rule. This idea was adapted by the Japanese subway in the
mid 90's. We point because if the window of your cab is
somewhere within limits of that board, it means the Train
operator, the one who actually moves the train, has stopped
at his/her mark for the correct number of cars the train
has. We also have to point because supervision does move
around in the field and yes they actually WATCH us to make
sure we comply with this rule. If we don't, well then its
not going to be a good day at work...﻿
Indeed. It's hard enough convincing family members to use a password manager in the first place. Getting them to shell out $60/year to do so on top of that is a non-starter. Unfortunately, it falls in the same sort of category as paying for backup solutions in my experience. The cost is high enough that they're willing to roll the dice.

That's not so say 1Password's pricing model is wrong -- they need to run a business after all. But LastPass makes for an easier sales pitch to family members, particularly those that need to share credentials and thus would fall into a family plan.
If true leaks came out by other means with proof they were rejected by Wikileaks after being offered with validation.
Thanks. Yeah, they really could not be more transparent about that. Most of the bring-up is on mobile + PC silicon as well.

There's no need to kill Chrome OS for the education, mind.
For server side Dart, http://stablekernel.github.io/aqueduct/
yeah, that's the thing, they're putting in so much effort on these - it's like a PR thing.
In the days before cell phones the common check-list was 'testicles, spectacles, wallet & watch'
> And will potentially cost more lives in the long term.

The now unemployable portion of society involved in transportation that will be replaced by self driving robots are going to potentially cost more lives in the long term.
Who’s Worth What at the White House: The Financial Disclosures
Using this article's logic, Jupiter is not a planet either (it has two swarms of asteroids hanging out around its L4 and L5 lagrange points).
Interesting that Regina is queen in Latin and Vald is ruler in old Germanic. (Ragn apparently means judgment or advice in old Germanic.)
People are people, they are greedy, selfish and they scare all the same no mater if it was the tulip or the dot com or the financial bubbles, that's why I am confident in my back tests and that's why I am investing and trading successfully and I am happily waiting for the next bubble to shake things up and present even more opportunities...
yeah, but that's revenue, not the same thing.
Can we just clear this up now? You're just paying wider spreads and they're making money that way. So no, and if you want low execution fees, you're up against the hedge funds that are members of the exchange. Talk about low fees per trade
Transferring Ourselves to Our AI Pets
> doing rituals is more important than believing.

Erm, catholicism?
I'm not sure Plan 9 was first with it. It was inspired by UNIX which was a watered-down version of MULTICS. That was a microkernel-based system with generalized I/O with open/read/write:

http://multicians.org/rjf.html

Now, the question is when was same concept applied to user-space servers? It was possibly Mach that was UNIX-like with all processes communicating through ports that were like standardized pipes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mach_(kernel)

You got user-space components to open them, read them, write them, etc. That was 1985 whereas Plan 9 hit universities in 1992. Both models had security and performance issues that led reliability- and security-oriented OS's to go different routes on purpose. Plan 9 was a step up from UNIX but a step down from high-assurance (eg KeyKOS, NonStop) and high-flexibility systems (eg SPIN OS, LISP machines).
Strict evaluation is a synonym for eager evaluation.

In Haskell, the primary mechanism for inducing evaluation is the case expression (if/then/else and pattern matching are syntactic sugar for case).

Thunks (lazy expressions) in Haskell are created with let and then forced with case. It's very straightforward at the most basic level, there's just a lot of abstraction built on top of it that can obscure what's going on.
On the Impossibility of Supersized Machines [pdf]
Ah, interesting. A colleague had a similar experience to me getting an Audi (his lease doesn't extend beyond the H-1B expiration) so I wonder if the regulation is tightened up by now.

Then again, maybe statistically people on fiancee visas are more likely to end up with permanent residency than people on H1B?
Url changed from https://phys.org/news/2017-03-proton.html, which points to this.
The entire repository on Google Drive:

https://drive.google.com/drive/mobile/folders/0BwDYM_Qm5fLWe...
It might be worth pointing out that as part of the joke they did actually make the app. You can download it, and it does have a convincing Windows 95 GUI.
Will bear that in mind for next time, thanks! My other consideration is I am still trying to build a credit history, and don't really want more hard hits on my file than necessary...
> First of all, if you know how Wikileaks operates, you know that as well as the leaks they generate content and opinions. They are not merely a funnel.

Yes, but that opinion is that powerful, unaccountable organizations shouldn't be able to keep deep secrets from the general public when they do things like manufacturing consent for war.
I doubt that is true. Per the article, it goes back to the Meiji dynasty in Japan, which ended in 1912.
Not true. It depended a lot which newsgroups you frequented. There were some where pseudonyms were common and conduct was civilized. There were some where flaming trolls roamed freely.

Generally things get worse - ask your parents. Crime is on an all time high - just ask Sessions. It always was getting worse ask people from the antique. I someone asked me these days the getting worse is getting worse.
Once people find out their beloved Sweeden and Norway are also doing it, they will start scratching their heads.
I have quite a few sites I need to share credentials to with my wife, but we each have other credentials we don't need to share. Is there straightforward workflow for that with any of the KeePass variants?
strict is same as eager
and
non-strict is same as lazy

https://wiki.haskell.org/Lazy_vs._non-strict
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