skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
it was ultimately canceled in 1994 by S.Amdt. 2127 to H.R. 4506, at greater cost than finishing it.

I suppose the article is written from a pro IFR pov, but assuming lobby powers at play I'm sure it could have been worked around for everyone to benefit from a cleaner energy source.
It is probably also a violation of your employment agreement, which almost certainly says you can't send trade secrets to random Microsoft engineers.

I suspect it violates Sarbanes Oxley and various insider trading statutes, assuming you work at a publicly traded company and have access to non-public information that impacts financial results.
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> It just seems like the right time to step away. I’m ready for something new.

The something new here is retirement? The article doesn't seem to describe any details on what retirement means to Walt.

Walt, Kara and Recode -- ignoring Kara's Yahoo obsession -- is the only tech popular news I read where I have regularly have confidence in the reporting.
Ahhh, it seems I should've read the entire comment thread. Thanks to both of you for the notification!
Thanks, it's just the default theme from ghost.org :)
This [0] is an F-4 hitting a concrete wall and was used to inform the design of containment walls around reactors.

Would there be some shitty days for people and things outside the containment wall? You bet! But there wouldn't be any shitty nuclear days. In fact, I suspect radioactivity release would be worse with a coal plant crash as it would release the nasty stuff that we do manage to scrub out of the exhaust.

[0] https://youtu.be/RZjhxuhTmGk
* Have used a computer for 18+ years, never gotten a Virus

* Defender slows my compile time down by a good 30-50%

* No interest in providing contents of my files to Microsoft.
It's also scary how easy it is, on any version of Windows, to make a keylogger. Any application can log keystrokes with ease... It's like 20 lines of c# code.
I'm not a lawyer, but I strongly suspect you have a fiduciary duty to all shareholders. If you are director-shareholder, you cannot act in the interests of your shareholding alone. Also, the idea that you can put any condition into a contract is naive. Many such conditions are legally unenforceable because they are incompatible with the corporate law framework.
How so? If you buy a device from a manufacturer that doesn't care about security, why is the OS to blame?
Are you actually threatened by these comments?
I would imagine the vetting process is rather extensive.
Depends how effective the investment in each will be.
I doubt that knowledge of a carburettor transfers well into understanding of sophisticated injection systems.
The API era
It's also an anti-pattern to not have an err as the first argument in an async callback.
This is the future. The value added by investment banks does not justify 10's or 100's of millions in fees. It's one of the biggest remaining inefficiencies in company growth that needs disruption.

The reason it hasn't happened yet seems straightforward. Companies are hesitant to be beta testers of a new model where so much is at stake. No one ever got fired for running an IPO through Goldmen Sachs.

The principle of people making obscene amounts of money doesn't bother me one bit. It would be nice if teachers had higher salaries, but NBA players make more money than teachers for many objective reasons. This situation is different.

Does anyone think this is the best we can do? One quick example:

http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2013/03/11/where-banks...
They're using old, barely-supported (Or is 7 even supported at all anymore) versions of Windows that don't phone home.
Or ... return the promise in `fetchFirstUser`?
So the higher energy fusion neutrons can then split Thorium 232 and U-235?

But high energy means the container vessel degrades faster too, doesn't it?

I just think we need a design like LFTR standardized in a size that can just be "stacked" for more power, and then factory manufactured.

When one of the "cells" degrades or hits end of life you replace it, and recycle the old one for new production materials, and any transmuted elements that can be reclaimed.

LFTR style reactors burn all isotopes and some (?all?) radioactive waste from older generations. I just don't see why those aren't pursued using the small ORNL design, and substituting evolving/continuously improved designs as they are manufactured.

LFTR is also hard to "boot" since you need a fissile plug to start, but all the forces in control of that fuel are the incumbent designs, the fuel rod reprocessors that make money off of the solid rod designs, and the military that likes the old designs because they produce weaponized isotopes for their nukes.
Mocha has support for returning promises in it() tests, so there's really no need to use callbacks.
This appears to be an unsubstantiated list of extremely common, core software (and file formats) the author deems "harmful things" and "less harmful alternatives". There's a complete lack of substance to this. If you're going to make a list such as this, at least explain why each item is "harmful" and why the "alternatives" are better.
> The root cause of this incident was a engineer-driven configuration error. A process performing automated testing was misconfigured using production credentials. As such, we will be drastically reducing access to the primary system for certain actions to ensure this does not happen again.

Classic. Someone manually ran the test automation while pointing at production including its cleanup routine of DROP. Very foundational access control was not in place.
Solomon might be.
I am betting on Microsoft Publisher. Isn't it hard to get the template right using LaTex?
Just curious, why one page? It seems to compress a ton of information into a small area, which I would think makes it less appealing. If I were looking at the example resume, it would just be too much. I always heard 3 pages was the right length, first one for the hooks, and then the other 2 for the detailed history. Is that different from others experiences?
The darker take is that olds end up completely capturing the economy.

(Like the Meths in Altered Carbon)
While I don't know how far your advocacy will go in business environments for which nearly every actor - applicants, employers, customers - in the majority operate on pragmatic considerations, and in markets which destroy any non-pragmatic actors for them; but I applaud your efforts and look forward to hearing about any progress you make on this issue.

You've still failed to convince me that there exists a "morality" mechanism that failed in Microsoft's case, per my original question, by the way. The simple fact of the matter is that they're not concerned with morality, and so long as you continue to believe in it as 'existing' in a corporate world without being able to point to 'where', you'll find that shock you felt in your initial comment more often than you'd like.
Zipp is coming soon
There's definitely some examples of useful ops here:

# 1. Define our computation as some op
def useful_op(input_a, input_b,
use_clipping=True, remove_nans=False, solve_agi='maybe'):
# ...
How do you suspect they suggest typing mistakes? :) (ps chrome does this too)
Thanks for the suggestions. I don't think PyMC3 and Stan are less known, hence did not suggest to add them in the list.
Dimple and Church look good additions. Will get them appended.
Anylist was made for this. It's a YC funded company, but it's great because the sync is perfected, it has a calendar meal plan, recipe lists, those recipe lists can be populated from most recipe websites, works great on mobile and desktop, etc.

The biggest reason I used this over Wunderlist (which also has perfect sync) is there is no way to make two separate lists in Wunderlist and then combine them. This is important because like me you might try to make a separate list for a separate recipe, but it's a no go unless you are making and modifying one grocery list anew for each trip.
With all respect possible, that's a terrible thing to be telling people. There is no creator, there is no "meaningful death", and, most importantly, that's 100% ok. Life is far too beautiful to immediately discount it in favor of invisible sky-grandpas and metaphysical meaning. A person's purpose is the sum of their experiences not anything more or anything less.
While the last named author is usually the "CEO" of the research, there are 3 other researchers on that paper. The first author, a woman. Damn, the research findings, if replicable are groundbreaking. But the "trending-topic of the moment" is the author's advanced age. It's just poor journalism.
While I appreciate the higher throughput, this is yet another reason to take the stairs. Unfortunately these are reserved for emergencies in some cities / stations, or hidden in areas that are well out of the way. I really loathe standing still on an escalator.
You don't need to pull someone over and do something which is illegal for a civilian. If you just modify a car to look like a police car and driver around with it, then that is likely enough. Similar, even if you only walk around in a police uniform with a fake badge and don't do anything more, it will likely end up badly.

Context matter, which is why intent and result are part of the equation. If people are being fooled into thinking someone is a police, and someone had the intent to fool others (maybe with the intention to create false association), then that is likely fully enough to get a person charged with impersonating a police officer.
Not just foreign governments, but what about highly regulated industries like healthcare or finance.

They're one config error away from having insider trader information or someone's STD test result in a log file that might live forever and be accessible by dozes if not hundreds of in-house devs tasked with improving parts of Windows. Or, even worse, a 3rd party dev given access to the crash reports for their app so they can fix a problem.

I'm sure lots and lots of safeguards in place to prevent the above, but just not collecting the data would be the most comforting approach.

All this on top of the fact that you can't disable the Store unless you have an Enterprise license. I am forced to spend money on a product for employees that includes advertisements for games and other huge distractions. Not to mention all the preinstalled stuff for small businesses who don't buy imaged machines.

There needs to be an "Windows 10 Actually Pro" level that is below enterprise but is what Pro used to mean.
Are New York's New Cybersecurity Regulations a Sign of Things to Come?
I just use `git show stash` rather than `git stash show`.
This looks like a good addition. Will suggest to add it.
If (unlikely outside High-Energy Physics) one is using ROOT, TMVA is a good option.
It isn't really an either/or sort of situation. The question is more that are we actually doing things to help?

It seems that having some border control is prudent. Just having it in place reduces violence, if I remember correctly. It is kind of like closing your front door and having a lock does quite a bit to reduce property theft.

Outside of taking prudent measures, I'm not sure it helps at all, especially considering most terrorism is homegrown. In fact, there is a chance it makes some relations worse and more likely to produce radicalized individuals - at least as much chance of increasing other terrorism if we stop the screenings completely. If terrorism is indeed the evil we are fighting, perhaps some of the money might better spent to take care of some of the social ills. After all, these are the things shown to help reduce homegrown terrorism.
I would like to ask walt if he thought this could happen today: a 23 year old waking into a newspaper and start a career. (I assume no would be his answer but that's why I ask)

Q2 for walt: What would the name of the office/company be today that you think you could walk into as a 23 yr old and start a career?
White middle class non-dissident man with a wife and kids here. I have had my hands swabbed for explosive residue on multiple occasions for domestic flights. We were also pulled aside for additional screening once (the whole family), but it went fairly quickly. One time I forgot a pocketknife in my carry-on and the TSA agent found it. We laughed about it and she confiscated it, no further action was taken.
I personally have to refrain from commenting a lot of times - the arguments that happen tend to be the equivalent of video game console flame wars.
Here's another example: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1419877. live-restore works well on Ubuntu 16.04, afaict.
Snapchat Is Growing Up
i can tell you that your ROI (saved lives) on addressing homelessness and drug overdose will be a lot higher than chasing some boogeymen in the desert.
Why is this not a crime under fair housing act? At best this is a loophole which will be closed via precedent. A quick google shows that it looks like some Airbnb hosts are already being taken to court over violating the fair housing act so it sounds like the loophole is already being closed.
I think QUIC would be simple to integrate and you'd get most of the benefits of mosh (roaming, intermittent connectivity) without having to change the architecture to do state synchronization like mosh uses.
It doesn't matter. The problem is that `callback(null)` throws, and in the `Promise` land this will never result in an uncaught exception. An exception directly inside any `Promise` callback produces another `Promise` in the chain instead.

You could at best use `setTimeout` or `nextTick` to escape from `Promise`'s call stack and throw there.
Well it's actually pretty simple.

They created grids and coordinate numbers that told the groups what each and every pixel should be colored.

Then all anyone that wanted to "help" had to do was just look at the grid, and pick a pixel that was wrong to fix.

Like you said, each user had plenty of time in between pixel placements to look at the map and choose their next "fix".
I think Cassidy would agree with you. I think it's strategic wording to sell his mission and motivation better.

It also potentially engages people who continue to think it's a subject of belief. That may provide an opportunity to educate them.
Go performance playground
I don't take my American simcard overseas, it's useless and I don't want to lose it.

Also, frame your vacation as a "getaway from technology."

Partner that with a candybar phone -- which you're going to buy a SIM card for in your destination country -- and you have a perfectly reasonable story.

At least I hope it's reasonable because it's what I've been doing for almost a decade
Then you just risk of losing your smart phone. 100 - 200 bucks is good enough for thieves.
Moreover, it's not actually about fighting terrorism. I'm sure some individual TSA agents (the ones who don't get their jollies from groping ten-year-old boys [1] believe they're doing the Lord's work, but most of this policy is just about keeping people's necks under a boot and harassing minorities. People fleeing war-torn countries with suitcases are not going to fly planes into the World Trade Center, as certain media outlets or politicians would have you believe, but we keep enacting policy like that. Not because those in power actually believe it, but because they simply hate Muslims. They hate people whose religion is different, whose skin color is different, whose gender is different, whose sexuality is different.

[1] http://reason.com/blog/2017/03/29/tsa-punishes-boy-who-left-...
I dont have a job and never got one easily, so I have nothing to worry either.

Minimal income could only be achieved by more and more government intervention. Answer yourself how good that would be.
Twitter has access to a lot more than you guys do, that's for sure. Like his dms, his followers, and all that.

Second, his account was suspended many times. Repeatedly. Eventually they banned him.
Yes. We love PyManOpt here at ParallelDots (the startup which wrote the blog).
DeepMind DQN Implementation from Nature
The title seems to have been modified, probably by the mods? I think the old title was more appropriate because it is clearly posted for the purpose of recruiting help. I would suggest the old title, possibly prefixed with Show or Ask HN?

edit: Current title seems good.
Finding Holes Fast
In the tech industry, the recommendation unless you have 10+ years experience is a one page resume with all of your info. If you have 10-15+ years experience, you can do 2 pages but most HR departments won't read beyond the first anyways.
> In Scheme/Lisp, you write the function name before the opening parenthesis

after

> the second one feels better

Not really. Parentheses makes code manipulation easy. Thus it actually it FEELS better, though it may not LOOK better.
Eating Space with Software: Kubos Raises $1.65M for Satellite Software Platform
B-but muh video games ;_;
I didn't know that Mr. Mossberg lived in Maryland. I'll have to keep an eye out for that car!
From the Volocopter FAQ [1] (in somewhat charming Denglish):

> DOES A VOLOCOPTER MAKE LESS NOISE THAN A HELICOPTER?

> Yes, the Volocopter is much more pleasant in terms of its acoustics due to its design and above all much quieter than conventional helicopters.

Listening to the video [2], this doesn't seem altogether implausible - the sound seems ok, like a fan more than a chopper.

[1] http://www.volocopter.com/index.php/en/kontakt-en/faq-en

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OazFiIhwAEs
Why was the solution to fallback to callbacks instead of just using promises all the way through? (Edit, removed mention of bluebird that would not have helped)

The problem here isn't that they are being swallowed, it is that the tests have a constraint that the callback be called only once, which is conveniently the behavior of a then applied to the promise you would return.
Well for me React being just a library is the very reason to use it. Frameworks are constraining, you code "inside" them and can't get out. Libraries are giving more freedom, you code "along" them. For example, I was really hating react-router and wrote my own, with proper state and url injection, in one or two sessions. I guess it would have been much harder if I was "inside" a framework.
Thats not entirely true. Many of the art pieces changed over time, and when the reddit servers became overloaded, the bots broke for a while because they actually had to query the server for every single pixel. When I tried https://github.com/grind086/PlaceBot It worked for a while, but if you're trying to use multiple accounts, page throttling will get to you. I had to keep going back to each tab, and I had to use multiple browsers so they didn't share the login info.

I know in the art that I helped draw around around Rocket League, we changed the art around and added more stuff to it over time, and using bots made it slower for us. Pure determination and account-hopping is what worked for us.
many people fear death by random, terrorist acts more than they fear death by any of the causes you mention because they feel they exert some control over those causes, but not over terrorist acts. many people believe terrorist acts are hard to understand, predict and avoid.

and, aside from that, many people really really really hate the notion that a terrorist, often from a foreign country, can kill people in their own territory, a place they consider "safe". people find this particularly disturbing because of the direct human malevolence involved. people are one of the scariest things people can face.

when we simply reduce these types of deaths into counts, we lose some of that human perspective and what makes people live their lives in fear and anger.
How to write good specifications
> Twitter has access to a lot more than you guys do, that's for sure

Then why not reveal this?
I lived through the 90s too. I think if you want to make this claim you need some actual evidence.
Yes, but if the success handler throws you won't catch it. For example:

promise.then(function(){
throw new Error('Oh no, not caught');
}, function(err){

});

But this will catch it:

promise.then(function(){
throw new Error('Oh no!');
}).catch(function(err){
// Caught it ;)
});

As will this:

promise.then(function(){
throw new Error('Oh no!');
}).then(null, function(err){
// Caught it ;)
});

Point being that your error handling need to be absolute last, and not paired with a success handler.
There are thousands of churches across the US who tell their congregation who to vote for. The IRS doesn't touch them.

The right has privileges the left doesn't have, too. Unfortunately things aren't fair.
This is my experience as well with Adobe CC. At least 10 different daemons, some of them instances of node.js constantly connecting to adobe-owned IPs. Some of them even using very high amounts of CPU. Turning everything off from the CC settings didn't even make a difference.

I don't want fucking software I paid for to make my PC a part of a botnet, so I deleted all their stuff and tried to cancel my subscription to CC. I couldn't do that because their terms allow them to charge your credit card for the remainder of the year, even if you receive no service. After a few angry emails with a supervisor they finally agreed to cancel my subscription.

What a shady POS company.
+1 If there were a list of tasks that needed to be done, it would be much easier to pick up something in my spare time. The closest I can find to a task list is here: https://github.com/shlomif/PySolFC/issues/11#issuecomment-28...
This is an article on Teslarati.com, what exactly did you expect?
Really? What about the checkpoints that are set up within this zone stopping and questioning people without reasonable suspicion or knowledge that person crossed the border at all.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ea_VMY0UnA
I don't think this is true. At least not in my experience.
There are coprocessors that run Java Bytecode directly. Is there actually an implementation of the machine outlined in the C standard? Clearly C is an abstraction while Java is a truly native language.
I don't know how it works in England, which could very well have substantially different labor laws, but in many major cities in the US the cabbies either rent the vehicle or rent the taxi medallion from the cab company. It's kind of like how the sometimes people who deliver newspapers technically buy those newspapers from the newspaper and then collect the delivery fee.
Yeah. This quora answer seems to cite some evidence to back up your implication: https://www.quora.com/Intelligence-and-Genetics-Can-does-IQ-...
Treating depression is guesswork. Psychiatrists are beginning to crack the code
How is market share particularly important when their overall subscriber numbers have rocketed? The entire streaming market is increasing massively atm and all services are growing (well, maybe not Tidal...).
A lawsuit is time consuming - and no promise you'll even get heard. I can't imagine that she'd get an apology without a lawsuit or public outcry.

And public outcry seems to be the best measure at this point. It wouldn't be this story in particular, but repeating of similar stories. Naturally, it can backfire.
You are always alone.
Always useful to see implementations of simple components, like epsilon greedy action choice:

function nql:eGreedy(state, testing_ep)
self.ep = testing_ep or (self.ep_end +
math.max(0, (self.ep_start - self.ep_end) * (self.ep_endt -
math.max(0, self.numSteps - self.learn_start))/self.ep_endt))
-- Epsilon greedy
if torch.uniform() < self.ep then
return torch.random(1, self.n_actions)
else
return self:greedy(state)
end
end
This is actually the reason I gave up on my idea of working with Gnome Shell. But as far as I can tell, most of the badness happens before you get to Shell. Basically, Canonical has had to deal with it in Unity anyway.
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