skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The majority of the population lives near the coast, and this percentage is increasing.

Those people (billions of them) will either be displaced, resulting in a huge humanitarian crisis, or spend enormous amounts of money and effort to create dykes and levies. Remember Hurricane Katrina's effect on New Orleans? If the world went the latter direction, such disasters would be a risk for every coastal city. And climate change will likely involve more frequent and intense storms...
If only! I could have played Granny's Garden at home then.
Whoa. So many comments. Don't know where to start..

I was definitely not commenting on Twitter's action on this order, though I am glad that they're fighting for free speech. That doesn't mean I agree with all of Twitter's past decisions, and I don't know enough about Milo Yiannopolis's case to express a strong opinion about where I stand on the issue.

As with a lot of things in life, I think there's a huge gray area in this spectrum of freedom vs security debate, but I hope that we can all agree that being prosecuted for criticizing the government is past the gray area, as is citing freedom of speech as the justification to tweeting out a bomb threat. (I would put harassment that incites fear in others in this category, but whether to penalize those who encourage harassment or just those who actually do the harassment seems to be a matter to debate about.) And this particular case seems to be in the former bucket; even though there may be some parts of the law that allows the government to order the identity of the account, making use of that is abusing its power with bad implications.

Someone in the thread pointed out that the white house may not have known anything about the order (~10th paragraph in the article), and the article might be part of the fear-mongering happening on the leftist news. While I hope that that is the case, I think we should all still be vigilant to these signs of threats to freedom and our rights. I did not grow up in a dictatorship so I can only guess at how it starts; I don't think it happens overnight, I think it's a gradual process of taking away our freedom, spreading only their version of the news as truth, then more and more until we are that boiling frog in the pot that did not see it coming. But we can be vigilant and fight each time anything like this happens, as Twitter is doing now by fighting and publicizing this case.
I find that usually the people checking one side's arguments are their partisan opposites. It makes for pretty comprehensive coverage given the adversarial nature, but it also leads to stupid shitflinging when they just cant resist inserting their own opinions into it.

Which the other side checks, and does the same thing.

Basically, politics is an ouroboros.
> Bash-on-Windows subsystem which has no updated to a recent version of Ubuntu

This statement is wrong since yesterday. (2017-04-06)
I hope you realize that you are arguing against an explicitly subjective statement.

Nevertheless, please elaborate. What do YOU think is the difference here between feeling and looking? Do you mean that your favorite editor (or the majority of editors) better supports outside parenthesis?
n-gate.com
The Bible comes across as better English, but that is a bit unfair, because the King James translation must initially have sounded awful too.
Except Trump is a corporation[1], which now gets federal money funneled into its pockets every time the president golfs at Mar-a-lago.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Trump_Organization
Only the flack from big companies is what should matter to the ISP?
Mark Andreessen: Get ready for White Flight 2

So much for the short-lived renaissance of the city. Will millennials still want short commutes when they can pass the time in their cars?
No it's an ecosystem thing. Linux distro upstreams are source compatible but not binary compatible. You can compile any combination of applications and libraries together, but you cannot expect a compiled binary from a completely different environment to work in your environment. It's just a coincidence that major linux distributions are similar enough to USUALLY be binary compatible with eachother. What an open graphics driver would allow, for example, is the use of a busybox and ulibc ultra-compact linux environment to be a tiny control node to command the much more powerful GPU. That just can't happen right now with binary only drivers that expect to live on a very specific binary stack. If you change the stack, you lose everything.
Besides political debates, anyone else thinks this 'ClaimReview' schema put to use by Google is one step towards the application of Semantic Web? There might be something more than just a 'new app by Google' here.
you guys are a little too serious sometimes. it was a joke. he looks like an ego with that scowl, like the critic from Ratatouille.
Most of the ladies in my life wear what we in England call sensible shoes, however most will wear heels on special social occasions.

A podiatry lecturer that I briefly worked with used to give a superb short illustrated lecture on the importance of your heel and its role in walking and in maintaining blood circulation in the leg. He had side swipes at high-heels in the process. Perhaps there is stuff online?
Go 1.8.1 is released
Two problems:

1. Suppose two funds compete, and the both partake in a Dutch auction. They end up with having the same stock at the same price at the dutch auction, and so the same income. However the free-rider gets fewer expenses so his profits are higher. The diligent fund is losing to the free rider in profits. After a while there are no more diligent funds.

2. The diligent fund prices stock at "proper" value, the free-rider prices it higher hoping to pay the lower, "proper" price but getting ahead of the diligent fund in the queue. If there are many free-riders they all end up in the queue before the diligent fund, so the latter may get less stock, or no stock at all. After a couple of such experiences the diligent funds stop partaking in any new Dutch auctions.
Does that mean that techniques such as RNA-Seq ([1]) will fail on these species?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RNA-Seq
Don't want to set up container monitoring solutions for hours or even days?
Can you share some more with us, or is this a 'I've made $50k on insta this year alone - but I can't tell you my secrets. Unless you visit my website.'
You have the right to enter your own country.
How good is D for:

-iOS?
-Android?
-Windows?
Isn't that how ad-hoc standards are brought into existence?
That's right, everytime there's been progress there have been negative externalities of the tech produced for the progress.

It's nearly impossible to have both, ie, progress and no negative consequences. So which would you rather have?
That door combined with the airline allowing someone to be alone in the cockpit. I don't know if it's a regulatory requirement or just a practice but U.S. airlines don't leave a pilot alone. I think this practice predates the adoption of reinforced doors and is a sound one, whatever ability you might have to get through a non-reinforced door is going to be hard to follow if a suicidal pilot goes into a nose-dive.
go1.8.1 (released 2017/04/07) includes fixes to the compiler, linker, runtime, documentation, go command and the crypto/tls, encoding/xml, image/png, net, net/http, reflect, text/template, and time packages. See the Go 1.8.1 milestone [1] on our issue tracker for details.

[1] https://github.com/golang/go/issues?q=milestone%3AGo1.8.1
Yeah.. it doesn't work that way at all. The lie is usually bombastic and bite-sized, the debunking subdued and thorough.

Result: Most people won't even see the debunking.

Churchill had a great quote here:

"A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on."
If you can believe work will be increasingly remotely performed and that greater "commutes" will be tolerated, cities will need to go into sell mode and make policy changes.

Many cities have gone through drastic swings in population due to structural changes in the economy. Some, like Oakland, did not handle it well and paid dearly for it.

Long ~3 Hr RT "Self-driving" commutes already exist to some extant: FB, Google, etc, Oakland->MTV buses. People use them and they are required for talent retention.
What this article tells me is to not share data with foursquare since their priority is to sell that data and make money and not to help me make decisions on where should I be eating.
This is a good one, also probably because by "lifespan" it means life expectancy at birth, as many "statistics" do, which has pretty much nothing to do with anything that happens to people after 15 or so.
Those photos don't provide enough info to know for sure, but I'm more than just a bit suspicious of the claim the car arrived like this.

My hunch, based on my experience and those photos only, is that someone grabbed that trim piece and tore it, and I'll tell why...

First, let me point out that I am a former professional "Car Builder". My father was a very talented car builder, so I grew up building cars. I've worked with some of the most famous car builders on some of the most famous cars ever made. I've also been there when those cars were delivered, and did the final prep on many of them myself.

I have seen people intentionally rip and tear pieces like this for no reason at all. It's an impulse action. They look at it and wonder "What will happen if I pull on this" and then they do and it tears.

When you're the person who actually made that part it tears off a piece of your heart with it because you put your heart and soul into your craft right down to the smallest detail.

And people who do that will lie their asses off about it too. I have seen it happen with my own eyes more than once. And I have repaired those kinds of damages myself a few times and the entire time you're working on it you can't help but think "that lying POS does not deserve my efforts".

This time I get to just chuckle about it a bit...
AI is a very broad church.

The stuff that I use to make radiator valves 'smart' and save you money and carbon is not at all the same as the smarts in a self-driving car or automatic natural-language translation.

So I'm not sure that 'AI' is different to 'secret sauce' in your question.

Rgds

Damon
> https://blog.google/products/search/fact-check-now-available...

Didn't know Google has its own top-level domain oÔ. Previous HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12609551
> Most employers don't ask

In the UK, they don't need to.

> It's great that NYC is taking the lead on this, and I really hope the rest of the US follows suit.

There's a lot of positive remarks in this thread, that I don't really understand. I see the advantage if your current salary is unusually low, but it cuts both ways: without knowledge of the company, (and within an industry) salary contains more information than job title.
> My electronic device has a list of everyone I correspond with, what we type to each other, all the websites I visit

Maybe that's a problem we should solve.
> They will just as quickly dilute your quality of life as they will dilute the shares in your company.

Lol! I think this incentive-based version works better though. If the libertarian culture of Californian idealists is imposed across the board, we would probably witness the end of innovation (unless war and existential threats provide the incentive)

Even if it's broken, don't fix it.
Tell that to Broadcom, Intel, Marvell, Qualcomm Atheros, and Realtek. All of them released open source Linux drivers for their wireless network products and they're still doing good business. So I don't buy this line of argument.
This is fascinating! Are you willing to share some of the cost structure for buying Sprint bandwidth? Are there large fixed costs to cover, or is it more pay-as-you-go?
If you're already using TF, have you looked into keras? Does it not have the complexity or control you are looking for?
Crystallized intelligence is your accumulation of knowledge and skill. It increases until age 65 then slowly declines.

Readers should be careful not to interpret this as meaning you're washed up at age 66. It means you're still close to your peak.
Foursquare honestly has some of the best user location data you can buy on the market.

The only companies out there with better historical data are Facebook, Apple, and Google. And as far as I know, I can't call them up and start buying from them within a few weeks.

I've seen hedge funds right now making millions off of Foursquare's data as they can build algorithms around it quite easily and there's plenty of history to backtest off of. The great part is that Foursquare's previous money maker was selling their places database so they've already done a great job mapping GPS coordinates to businesses and it's pretty easy to map that further to a ticker symbol. Perfect for quants.

By combining Foursquare data with anonymized credit card data from Intuit or Yodlee... you've got the ability to predict retail sales on a DAILY basis rather than on a quarterly basis. You might even be able to a better job than that actual business in predicting their growth if you've got a whole team of quants working on creating the data models.

This is the start of a shift from the market at large relying on quarterly earnings for these types of companies and instead being able to track performance on a daily level. As far as I can tell, there's nothing companies can do to stop this either.
Trivial example: Debian vs Ubuntu, when Ubuntu used upstart. Now I don't need to worry about process management anymore and can provide better Ubuntu support.

Although I'm speaking with my sysadmin hat (I have a few hats). I have a lot of software deployed/managed through Ansible (from node/ruby/python apps to proprietary apps). They might not provide a unit file, so I have to write my own (and I might send it upstream).

The main pain point I encountered regularly, was making sure that the process starts at the right time, has proper stderr logging and monitoring. I rarely bump into kernel or library problems (but that's just me, I'm not denying the problem). I understand what you mean though, systemd is just one of the base components. It doesn't fix everything, but it helps.

On "write once": I feel bad for people who have to read the shell scripts I've written. I think they're good and I'm a fan of keeping it simple, but my scripts don't come with a manual. Any junior dev can understand my unit files (tangential: that's also why I like Ansible/Puppet/etc).
The problem is when it warms as fast as it has.
And that's where you're very wrong. Large portions of a trial require judgements to have already been made, even if they've not been written down in a definitive 'judgement' yet. Alsup has made it clear that he's decided that it is a 'matter of fact' that Levandowski stole documents. Now they're arguing over who's responsible and liable.

IANAL, so I might be way off base.
Is that after or before you have a finalized offer in your hands?
It depends on what sort of business you are trying to form. A group of people can form anything from a traditional partnership (hire an attorney) to a Delaware C-corp (there are substantial risks in not hiring an attorney) to anything in between and lots of other things that are not based on US practice.

Which is appropriate really depends on what type of business is really under consideration. If the plan is to build a company attractive to Sand Hill Road VC's [0], then a C-corp that owns all the intellectual property and has vesting schedules and pays everyone a legal salary is appropriate and that's the basis for much of the 'standard startup advice' that circulates around Hacker News.

But people call lots of other things 'startups' and many of those are small businesses and other forms of business organization are often appropriate.

Besides legal complexities, the problem with a contract for sweat equity is that it is premised on adversarial interests rather than mutually aligned interests and incentivizes meeting the letter of the contract rather than building the business together.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sand_Hill_Road
It's got 256KBytes of ROM. If that's memory-mapped, the 16KBytes of RAM is much less of a limitation. Most data and virtually all code - especially on ARM - is read-only.

Python might not be the easiest way of working with this setup though...
You would be entirely wrong.

A trial like this is not a single giant evidence dump followed by a giant decision. It is a series of hearings. After each hearing something can be ruled on. You can issue a subpoena to collect more information about A, we have settled B as a fact, you are misreading the law so you have to drop that line of inquiry, etc.

Each hearing is impartial. But impartial decisions come at many points. In fact some points will be appealed to a higher court which will make a ruling and then send it to a lower court again with instructions about how to proceed.

This sort of thing can take years.
They don't sell a product connected to the article so I don't really see the comparison.
"It's not meant to be literal, but anyways the fact that you are prevented from working because you have so little money available says enough."

Wait, if he got that money in basic income then he wouldn't have to work his day job as much, giving him both more time and money to bootstrap his business, yeah?
U.S. has withdrawn its request to identify a Trump critic
Not sure. I think Keras is more meant for education and off-the-shelf models, not so much for research due to its abstraction. Or in other words, its less customizable. I think the probably best trade-off between low-level code and coding productivity would be tf.layers, which is also in tf.core now.
I have a device in my pocket with 1 billion transistors switching on and off a billion times a second. I couldn't possibly check every single one of them, or all the steps that went on its production.

I can, however, check the results it gives me and have a degree of confidence based on its accuracy and consistency.

We do just that with climate data and models.

People choose to challenge some aspects of science when it clashes with their interests or system of beliefs while completely relying on others when it's convenient. Even though the process by which scientific knowledge is produced is the very same. That's not only illogical, that's hypocrisy.
In most roles of federal law enforcement and/or the intelligence community, you aren't allowed to speak to the press or make public statements without express consent of your communications team. You don't get to "talk negatively about your employer" and you sign agreements to that effect going in.

And it doesn't take sharing classified information to get in trouble. Pointing someone to public information validates them as accurate - including whatever conjecture included - and counts.

I spent time in the intelligence community. Your opinion and my opinion don't matter.. only the law, the agreements in place, and the tenacity of those who choose to enforce them and to what degree.
I would kill for a 12.1" 16:10 eink panel for my x201.
I enjoy sitting in the garden at work in the summer.
There is actually a C/C++ layer that supports the higher level languages known as the micro:bit runtime[0], which means you can also program the device using C/C++... Another level of progression for children.

[0] https://lancaster-university.github.io/microbit-docs/
> a relatively slow compiler

Well… it's relatively slow in release mode, but C++ compilers can often be slower. GHC is always slower :D
If it is based on Javascript running on the page, then it is an application bug/feature.
This is exactly my thought. I was really excited about D1 at the time when there were no Go/Rust/Swift/... I called D the C++ should be. I recommended D to almost everyone. They liked it. Some of them even wrote non-trivial programs in D. However, all of them went back to C/C++ later during the painful D1 to D2 transition amidst unnecessary clashes. It was a mess IMHO, which deeply hurt D's adoption. D2 managed to reach a consensus among different parties in the end, but at that point, Go was stabilized, Rust started to look promising with more exciting modern features. D is not the shiny and unique language any more. D had a chance to gain popularity, but now it has lost the momentum. It is a pity.
I was asked in my last background check, and the proof (of that and employment) was my tax forms.
its a "reject this subtle advertisement for Instagress as you saw how effective it is despite the criticisms"

when there are obviously other competitors that don't take a bot approach, shouldn't be that hard to accept
Life isn't a competition.
My mom bought a Nokia Windows RT tablet a few years ago — without expecting to run x86 software.

It still sucked.

You're stuck with Windows 8.x, Office 2013 and IE 11. The Store actually has some useful apps. But, like, there's no Firefox, even.
I've read both. Yes, similar in laying out God's vision of morality and justice through parables and stories.

This is the goal explicitly stated on the website:

The mission of BibleOrQuran is to educate people about the true nature and content of the Bible and Qur'an. False statements such as "81% of the Qur'an is about killing infidels!" and "The bible teaches only peace!" are commonly thrown around with little evidence to back them up. Despite their lack of credibility, however, they still continue to polarize and cause irrational hate and fear. We hope that by showing random Bible or Qur'an passages, we show how similar the two texts are and allay many of the fears of Islam and its teachings.
That original, pure form of "fake news" held onto the label for about 24 hours before the definition started expanding to include all this true-but-deceptive stuff we're talking about.

Nobody's defending "true" fake news like that, but I think that kind of fake news is actually a very small part of the picture.

The much bigger problem is the subtler dishonesties we're discussing here. Because they're more widespread, harder to catch, come from sources that are regarded as reputable, and thus ensnare smarter people in their falsehoods.

Honest question - has there been any research on how much reach and effect "true" fake news actually has? How big is that particular sub-problem, in reality?
Gov. Brown declares California drought emergency is over
This was my jam for all of middle school. Thanks for posting this article!
Perhaps, if they did, Silicon Valley would be in the UK.
I'm a big fan of these posters! I even made something similar to show the format of the Tor consensus [0]

[0] http://jordan-wright.com/blog/images/blog/how_tor_works/cons...
Troy Hunt: Crafting a Brand for Growth and Prosperity
Do you mean like this kind of registration decorator?

https://github.com/rejectedsoftware/vibe.d/blob/master/examp...

Decorators (in D, 'user defined attributes', or UDA) work differently. It's not a function-composition feature, but more of a tagging feature. You write a class, function, etc., tag it with custom attributes; and then have a separate compile-time function walk over your code, find the decorators, and augment the code based the meaning of the tags. (I used to wish that D had adopted Python-style decorators, since they are easy to reason about and implement, but I can see the logic of the more general UDA system that they adopted.)

In practice, though, you would often use templates to achieve the same effect. Given a memoize template (really, just a memoize function), and an expensive-computation function,

auto fastComputer = memoize!expensiveComputer;

produces roughly the equivalent of

@memoize
def expensiveComputer(): ...

but with opportunities for compile-time optimization.
This doc is amazing!

Thank you!

I am super inspired to go there... I have a product I want made, that I want to find out how much it would cost to make. It would be wonderful to go to Shenzen, but I found a place in Fremont CA that is a mfr of the component I need with offices in Shenzen. so trying to contact them.