skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What problem are they solving? That facebook and twitter can delete and alter your messages?

that using those services for one's communications places too much power in the hands of centralized authority. (I speak just for myself here).

https://www.scuttlebutt.nz/stories/design-challenge-avoid-ce...

> Meanwhile I'm in search of a long-range, wireless communication system that can function like a network without the need of an ISP. Anyone know anything about this?

On SSB we have discussed doing gossip connections over long-range wireless connections: https://viewer.scuttlebot.io/%2547H0BQQHAXvvqf8K3ngdeMtAHQdP...

Of course if you are looking for a network in a more traditional sense, something lower-level may be more appropriate.
I'm going to go ahead and ignore something so incredibly biased that it places Barack Obama and Joseph Stalin on the "far right". That's la-la land extremist.
What is the relevance of libreboot anymore? Why not just focus instead on librecore?
Noob question: Why? Do you think Wayland is better? Or is it more efficient to have everyone working on and things being written for one protocol?
If you have a feature branch with multiple commits signed by multiple people, does rebasing that not invalidate the signatures (changes the parent and thus every hash)?
I would guess that doctors have better career stability.
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For an entertaining, yet thoroughly researched account of the history of the home (including the story of arsenic and lead in paints), see Bill Bryson: At Home.
and it would be even better if you could scan UPC and know how much of what you bought with expiration date included. Expiration date could maximize meal planning to minimize wasted food.
I believe this question is as valid today as it was in 2000. From the beginning of my career (in 1993) everyone company I have worked for has used source code control. Not to do so was even in 1993 a huge red flag. Sadly there were companies in 1993 and also today that don't.

The tools have got better in some ways and also worse (e.g. complexity of git). But before subversion there was cvs, rcs and visual source safe.
An interesting problem is that constructed languages that avoid syntactic ambiguity by having a formal grammar with no unambiguous parsing (like Lojban and, I think, Ithkuil) can still have semantic ambiguity. In Lojban there is never a syntactic ambiguity about what the asserted relationship between concepts is, but the language community readily admits that the underlying concepts themselves still contain cultural and other ambiguities, in terms of whether given language users would agree to apply those concepts to particular things, situations, or people.

It's very possible that conlangs like Lojban and Ithkuil still contain concepts about storms that don't require a speaker to indicate what kind of precipitation the storm produced.
Maybe it would be useful and clarify the landscape if the client and data/reporting API channels were separated.
Yes, the 19th very same century where America went to war with Britain and later itself.
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The criteria "Do new candidates write code during their interview?" is something I consider pretty important. I would say it makes more sense if rephrased in a less polite way: will all my peers be able to write a working line of code.

Overall I have to say I'm really impressed with how the list has held up. The questions are pretty specific, and reasonably diagnostic of common issues that create spirit destroying dysfunction.
This isn't a "spread." This is Uber charging the passenger one fare and paying the driver as if the passenger paid a smaller fare, without telling the driver or the rider that it is doing that. It's more like a broker quoting two different spreads to either end of a transaction and skimming off the top.
This seems like a pretty unreasonable conclusion to draw. We don't know what happened with the FSF, and I think that Leah is entitled to her own view. Her resulting behavior was what caused damage, and she's apologized for that.
(Apologies for the slightly incoherent post below)

I've been noticing a lot of work that digs into ML model internals (as they've done here to find the sentiment neuron) to understand why they work or use them to do something. Let me recall interesting instances of this:

1. Sander Dieleman's blog post about using CNNs at Spotify to do content-based recommendations for music. He didn't write about the system performance but collected playlists that maximally activated each of the CNN filters (early layer filters picked up on primitive audio features, later ones picked up on more abstract features). The filters were essentially learning the musical elements specific to various subgenres.

2. The ELI5 - Explain Like I'm Five - Python Library. It explains the outputs of many linear classifiers. I've used it to explain why a text classifier was given a certain prediction: it highlights features to show how much or little they contribute to the prediction (dark red for negative contribution, dark green for positive contribution).

3. FairML: Auditing black-box models. Inspecting the model to find which features are important. With privacy and security concerns too!

Since deep learning/machine learning is very empirical at this stage, I think improvements in instrumentation can lead to ML/DL being adopted for more kinds of problems. For example: chemical/biological data. I'd be highly curious to what new ways of inspecting such kinds of data would be insightful (we can play audio input that maximally active filters for a music-related network, we can visualize what filters are learning in an object detection network, etc.)
Totally agree. Although offering "simpler" functionality, the oldschool menu and UI system on the Xbox 360 was LIGHTYEARS ahead of anything the Xbox One has put out. Everything was fast and easy and as expected, from lobby systems, profile viewing, and party chat/party lobbies. I feel like the One was a major step back, UX wise, from the 360
Ya you're not the only one, I see a person coerced into making a statement.

But I'm glad the project is still out of the FSF.
I agree that the quiet working environment is still important, and the research that suggested the open office was better has largely been superseded. (Google, who started the trend, has moved away from it.)
But this generally provides a much-needed update, and I'm going to put this on my "ask in the phone screen" list.
OK so I guess the VM outputs a virtual DOM tree from a handlebars template, rather than text? I don't really see why you can't do that with a simple tree interpreter, but sure why not.

I've implemented template languages in multiple languages. I've also thought of compiling different languages to the same VM with string instructions (IIRC the old Cheetah template language compiles to Python bytecode).

I sort of see where this is going but the docs weren't particularly clear to me. If anything it sounds like there are a lot of other components besides the VM, which weren't really described in the blog post, and I couldn't find any links.
I'd think he'd want some ducting on that fan; maybe a bit of foam on either side of the GPU, to help force air through the heatsink.
> The fact that I can't run these products locally on my dev machine is another major downside unrelated to the philosophical aspects of free software.

You can't run a full spanner cluster unless you have the Google Hardware. Spanner needs to have an accurate clock with a known error bound. This makes it difficult to open source without open sourcing a bunch of hardware.
The Office 365 admin panel is also a piece of shit.
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No worries, I'm probably overly sensitive to people extrapolating the performance of their burnout Theater teacher to the profession as a whole.
I'm guessing it comes down to "writing docs takes lots of time, and when you're a lean operation priority goes to making stuff work."

I'm sure once the project matures it'll get a documentation pass, but the project is quite young.
I still dont see this as a red flag. Even if source control isn't used yet, you can add it once you start - it isn't expensive or complex any more. That's what makes you a valuable hire.
They give you the option when you sign up, of retaining your sample for later sequencing runs on newer/more comprehensive hardware, or discarding it.
It's pretty funny because of the stereotype. On the other hand, it makes sense that someone dedicated to improving the state of privacy and personal data ownership lives on a boat. If he decides the government becomes too authoritarian, he just leaves with all his stuff. No go-bag needed because he has a go-house. Lay low in SEA near a wifi hotspot or something. You can't escape the reach of corporations, but he (and others) are working on it in the form of scuttlebutt.
I just bought my second Dell Precision pre-installed Ubuntu machine yesterday. I loved my first one (which belonged to my previous employer). And I'm considering getting a System76 desktop later this year.

So to me, the check and egg situation is already solved.
a very interesting innovation.
Looks like it solves a bunch of verification issues in a clever way.
The modular approach where the same data storage is used in different ways by the modules according to their purpose almost appears if some genetic algorithm were used to do optimizations.
Replacing one-step builds with CI isn't a good change. As someone who's having the pleasure of getting test environments up and working stably for several different large startups let me just say: having a one-step process for doing this helps immensely. Forget CI: if you can't get your project up and running, you can't confidently make any changes in it to begin with. I think that Spolsky rule is more relevant now than it was when he wrote it.

Further: I don't think Spolsky missed CI so much as that he predicted it. So, maybe, if you wanted to 2017-ize the Joel Test, you could say you should have hourly instead of daily builds, or something like that.

Spolsky was, I think, pretty far off the mark about hiring. I'm fine with keeping a bullet in the list about carefully-designed hiring processes, though; striking that, because "everyone does this right", would be lunacy. Virtually nobody hires right.

The Hallway Usability Testing thing always seemed to strike me as Spolsky promoting an idea he'd been talking about with CityDesk, putting it on par with "having a bug tracker" and "using source control". Losing the rule altogether would be fine with me. Suggesting that every team have dedicated UI/UX people is silly: many good teams don't, and even the teams that I work with that do don't engage those people on every (or even most) UI/UX changes.
the term Free software has nothing to do with Money. "Free speech, not Free Beer"
This makes me very uneasy.

If their field equipment is anything like SCRAM bracelets (same basic technology as a Breathalyzer) they're cutting all sorts of corners (demanding precise readings out of sensors that are running well outside their recommended operating environment with less calibration than recommended) and throwing false positives left and right.

Drunk driving penalties are too stiff to play fast and loose like that.
Charts like this always get brought up, but I'm not sure there is much rigor in creating them.
Seems a bit high horse ish
It's funny how quickly that's gone from, "Oooo I can help you!" to "you guys are helpless."
Copy/paste fail... Thanks for catching
If I understand what Glimmer is proposing, they want to slice a long update process into a set of batches, so that they can pause in the middle to let the browser render a frame. My points were that a) they don't know how long it will take the browser to render that frame, so it's hard to say when to cut off the batch, and b) rendering intermediate states might increase the overall work, sort of a classic throughput vs latency tradeoff.

Paint and composite are usually fast, but calculate styles, layout and hit test may not be. It totally depends on the complexity of the DOM and CSS, of course, but as an extreme example, the js-framework-benchmark tasks are often 90+% time in render. That's why the results converge on 1.00: 0.95 of that is time spent in the browser rendering the DOM, and the time spent in javascript between a framework at 1.00 and one at 1.05 may be 2x difference (0.05 vs 0.10).
Can I get a copy of the results of the study if I participate?
>Can you explain how "native" solved the problem of performing minimal MVC-style updates to a UI "decades ago"?

That's not an actual problem people have. Nobody says "what I want is minimal MVC-style updates to a UI". What they want is a fast UI.

So an actual problem is e.g. "having a slow UI" -- and native GUIs solved it "decades ago" by being able to do stuff faster and with less memory and power compared to the web stack.

That said, there were several frameworks that allowed that, especially since MVC didn't magically appear with the web -- the concept originated with Smalltalk. And even "dumb" native GUI frameworks were much closer to the metal than the DOM, and knew how to repaint e.g. only the area of a widget that changed.
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High for what barrier?

200µg is certainly enough to perceive the world radically differently—so, very high to a sober person. However, it's very low on the scale of LSD you can safely ingest.

Either way, the dude had more going on than an acid trip that day.
What's murky to me is how to tell whether I'm affected. I have a BLU R1 HD from Amazon which GSM Arena reports [0] has a Mediatek MT6735 SoC. Does that mean I'm in the clear? I don't see any mention of Broadcom components, but I guess there could be one packaged into something on the list.

[0] http://m.gsmarena.com/blu_r1_hd-8171.php
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That's the liability component. The collision / comprehensive / underinsured / medical do not seem to be included, perhaps the article omits them, but actual survey does not?

Here's the more or less full list of auto insurance components http://www.rmiia.org/auto/steering_through_your_auto_policy/...
I ended up canceling my account because of this reason. That and the fact that a bunch of random people started trying to hit me up because apparently we were "linked".
Be thankful you have that option. Comcast is the only real broadband provider in my area. My only option to avoid caps would be to switch to a Comcast Business account.
The main difference is that it is a hand-made rewrite, so the code is readable and improvable, so performance can be improved and optimized even if it is not fast enough in some cases. Also see my other comment about comparison with emscripten port.
Just technically?
Would be great to have Lightroom / Photoshop CC work on Ubuntu. Not as interested in Premiere, as DaVinci Resolve comes in a Linux flavor.

Also any chance we get solid support for Wacom on there as well?
Updated description for a start-up: "We are like Uber, except for the lawsuits."
Yes, I'd get rid of our phone equipment if I could. It has been a hassle. I just wanted to get everyone Skype accounts with dial-in numbers years ago.

Well, even if you wanted to cloud-host authentication, what easy solution is there for Linux? Where I can create directories on a local file server and assign groups for restricted access?
1. Chip-sellers want to have chip-eaters to purchase from them. Chip-eaters want to have chips of known characteristics readily available to purchase. The more chip-sellers of Doritos, the easier it is for chip-eaters to reliably get Doritos, and the more chip-eaters will become Doritos customers, which in turn incents more chip-sellers to carry Doritos.

And, I mean, that's true. It really is an advantage. But it is again, obviously absurd to describe Doritos as having a network effect. A network effect means a scale advantage over-and-above the effect that is enjoyed by everyone with a big brand and built in demand.

2. Uber Pool and Lyft Line have a genuine network effect, that's true. But as far as I can tell, they're just not compelling products.
The article discusses surrogacy in the US which is one of the few countries where it is legal. It mentions 3 potential mothers: egg donor, surrogate, and the mother rearing the child. But with today's technology, mitochondrial DNA can come from a separate maternal donor as well, so in theory 3 biology mothers are possible as well as a different mother rearing the child.
There's also this mentality among Marshall/Fender that the 1960s-1970s were the only way to design guitar amps. Very few amp makers have diverged very far from their designs.

Among players, there's a lot of cork sniffing and brand worship unfortunately. I feel like "weight" is something tangible that anyone could measure: Saving 5-6lbs, running cooler, and being more portable are things that would appeal to a lot of people.
Maybe I could put it another way. September 1993 ended, just not the way some people would have wanted it to.

The net has become a medium for everyone, not just a small enough group that this group could become acclimatized to a dominant discourse style (whatever the virtues might be of the Linus Torvalds "I will call you a fucking moron when you fail" school of discussion for a rarefied group). And given that, it is now necessary to have the standards of discourse for the net be the standards of discussion for society as a whole.

And sure, maybe being nice can produce a series of problems of its own. But it's now necessary to solves those problems while being nice.
That's seven years out of a hundred, though you missed a few.

The point was we were never on a wartime economic footing in the same way were were in WW II.
WTF is Artificial Intelligence?
Yeah this is a real pain in the ass of the Blogger® platform. Not sure there is anything Dustin can do about this, other than move the whole blog over...

Nice find of the about:config setting though!
http://breakingintostartups.com You can find both alumni and founder interviews on this podcast. Hope this helps
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>>>Sentimental neuron sounds fascinating too. I didn't realize individual neurons could be talked about or understood outside of the concept of the NN. I am thinking in terms of "black box" its often referenced to in some articles.

Yes, I agree. I recall seeing such individual neuron analysis before in Karpathy's "The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Recurrent Neural Networks". He takes a char-rnn that was training to predict the next character for source code and finds neurons that have learned to do paranthesis/bracket opening/closing.
btw, the first question made me laugh at myself, lol
Lots of doctors operate their businesses as sole proprietors, and not all firms that employ doctors provide malpractice. (Granted, that's a shitty policy, but it happens, and it's even a bit theoretically justified since it might cut down on moral hazard.)
> Yes! If you interview for a company and they don't use source control that is a giant red flag.
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Hallelujah!

At Cygnus in 1991 an employee named Rich Pixley tried to convince us to adopt source control (CVS was the state of the art at the time). John Gilmore and I were staunchly opposed, and I think Michael Tiemann was neutral. I don't remember what the employees thought. In any case John and I finally acquiesced in ill humor and only under the conditions of a number of absurd and nonsensical requirements (e.g. "must integrated transparently with emacs"). IIRC Rich simply ignored our bullshit and set things up and John and I realized we had been idiots.

Eventually we had to write the client/server CVS implementation because of a source control horror story. And I think as a result the FSF ended up adopting source control too.

I don't think I would work with anyone who doesn't use it any more, at least for software. On the CAD side (Cadence, Solidworks etc) the situation is still dire.
Overall I like our title (currently "Android devices can be fatally hacked by malicious Wi-Fi networks") but "fatal" has a specific meaning (causing death) so isn't there some other word in place of that one that could be used here? It is certainly evocative of how dire this is but I feel like a different word might be more specific without losing gravity.
Here's a link to Sailfish devices on the market: https://together.jolla.com/question/136143/wiki-available-de...

It looks to me that all Sailfish devices that have ever been available are not compatible with 3G/4G US carriers (but some are compatible with 2G).

It seems that if anyone in the US wants to seriously use Sailfish, they need to flash a community port of Sailfish to a US-sold Android device. Not a huge deal - it looks like a few manufacturers are actively supporting this ports (e.g. for the Fairphone 2): https://www.fairphone.com/en/2015/10/22/jolla-community-work...
MS's original reveal event focused a great deal on making the Xbone the hub of the entertainment center. It's why I bought it over the PS4. Only to suffer all the same frustrations as the parent to your comment.

If they had sold this as a gaming console that also does a few entertainment center things, then fine. But they didn't, at least not originally.

And the (almost) worthless Kinect acts as the IR blaster for control of other devices. And mine shuts down intermittently since one of the updates a year ago. That's the only thing I use it for since they changed all the voice commands to 'cortana' from 'xbox'.

And those 30 minute updates to unbrick the device. Inability to update all apps/games at once. Inability to have automatic updates without keeping the thing in "jack up your power bill" mode and "keep the fan in turbo mode".

And the useless review system. Who buys games without reading reviews? Not on the xbone. You get star ratings and that's it. So instead of being a hub, you still need your laptop (or phone) on hand.

I dare anyone who's never tried to setup a child account using only the xbox controller. I'm pretty sure MS has never done any usability testing on that. It's nigh unto impossible.
> FWIW, I too would like to keep the DE experience of Unity, and especially the Dash panel and shortcuts. If that expose-text-search could scan non-focused browser tabs that would be a killer feature, but that's for the other thread.

Maybe switch to KDE’s KRunner? It’s the most functional and extensive search framework yet.
To put her issues in perspective, suicide rates for transgender individuals are around 45%.

It doesn't excuse her childish actions but it helps understand the burden and stress transgender individuals are constantly under.
They have the design expertise they need to compete. They're definitely behind, but they will respond. Besides, at least for awhile they have a quality advantage and they don't have such a huge backlog you can't get your satellite up for years.
Those are changes to internals, there are only few API differences which are explained on readme page. Anyway, I agree with you, a new API doc would be very helpful.
FreeIPA (https://www.freeipa.org/page/Main_Page) is an LDAP+Kerberos+other stuff implementation which is available in the Ubuntu repositories and is probably a good target for this. If it was easier to set up, I think it would become apparent to more people that it is useful outside the enterprise.

For example, if you have a laptop and a desktop, you can set up SSO and an NFS automounted home directory, so you don't need to maintain two (or N) home directories/sets of dotfiles/etc at the same time.
Career options for positively shaping the development of artificial intelligence
The 90's definition of Open? ;)

Although in this case, they did post the weights quickly.
My mistake, you are correct - plurality is the correct word here.

In my example the party with plurality can capture the majority of the vote, but that doesn't necessarily mean the party itself is a majority.