skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
d love to not even have to go through YouTube at all

Agreed! I already back many of the people I watch regularly on patreon and am sick of all of the irritating adverts, so I'd much rather just download the videos and watch them directly.
> They effectively KabyLake'd it. They released a slightly better (5% quoted from Anandtech article) for the sake of a seasonal/yearly release cycle.

No, it's the same chip, just different clocks. This is nothing new or out of the ordinary.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14140412
Has this data always been publicly available? Get job by the guys at usafacts.
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Ah, thanks - the Halifax Clarity card seems like it would be the best for me, especially as it's from a company I recognise.

I previously tried Revolut (https://revolut.com) to avoid fees, and from having to apply for another credit card. Whilst great in theory, and it works fine for in-person purchases abroad, too many online services decline it.
> Pre-existing ethnic tensions increased, creating fertile grounds for violence and conflict.

Indeed. We have no shortage of reasons to bash one another over the head, but this one is surely one of the most prevalent. Diversity (of fundamental values and identity) breeds distrust, and distrust erodes social capital and institutions.*

What these doomsday articles don't discuss is what exactly the West collapses into? I mean, we're still going to be here among the ruins even if the pillars of society collapse. What then?

Perhaps we'll collapse up, into a more equitable, fairer society.

* http://archive.boston.com/news/globe/ideas/articles/2007/08/...
She could take a look at the most hyped startups of 2008 (when the book was published) and see where they are now. Most will probably have failed by now, and there will be some interesting stories there!
They're not interchangeable. They're not even particularly related.

And almost nobody is using ReactVR, for the simple reason that almost no browsers support it yet.
I wanted to cut meat for environmental purposes, so I've started only eating it on holidays - turkey on Thanksgiving, fish on Christmas Eve, a burger/barbecue on 4th of July, buffalo wings on my birthday. I don't describe myself with the "V" word, and usually just say I "avoid eating meat".

People are usually critical when I opt for vegetarian options, and then completely lighten up when I describe that I do eat meat. It's strange how defensive people get about eating meat, and how quickly they lighten up just because I eat meat 5 times a year.
"When reacting to an attack the scripts are chosen based on something called a yoke. Each frame of animation for both avatars and projectiles contains a value for the yoke in the metadata, which the AI peeks at to select a script suitable for responding to that attack. The computer sees the yoke of your move as soon as you have input it, before the first animation frame has even displayed. As such it gets one more frame of advantage on top of your reaction time."

I KNEW IT!
It seems like a sensible line would be, not being under the influence while in court. Additionally not being hungover in court. If you are drinking or hungover you are unable to properly focus on your tasks as a juror.

Additionally limiting discussions of the case with other jurors while drinking seems like a good idea. The Ouija board seems highly inappropriate, since I believe jurors are instructed to not use outside research or experiences in rendering a verdict.

Outside of that these are adults, and the should not lose all agency because they've been picked to serve on a jury.
>Most of the time, when you are working using functional programming you are implementing the business vocabulary.

>Here is where building a vocabulary that represents the business subjects pays off. Change now is a definition-change and, unless the business is pivoting, definitions rarely change; instead, they have constant adjustments. Functional shines in creating a vocabulary and having this adaptability.

I tend to use the same arguments to make the case against FP for business modelling.

I tend to say that FP is good at adding new operations to existing things, while OOP is good at adding new things to existing operations. However when Software Development is used to model a business - as it should be for reasons you accurately explained - the reality it meets is the one of the business world in which business needs evolve and requirements get added. You start by supporting local groceries and then you grow to support global supermarket chains. OOP is more suited to model business because you can naturally extend existing types and apply existing operations to them (ie. pass a supermarket everywhere a shop was expected + things such as polymorphism). In FP, every time you add a type, you need to add switch cases to your existing operations (at best), or redefine them create / new ones (at worse), since the ubiquitous assumption of FP development is immutability and known types.

I'd be curious to know how you approach this conflict in a way that makes FP work in real world business modelling which needs to be extension-oriented. It seems to me that the more operations using a type you have, the more you will be screwed when you want to extend this type. The only reason I can see this wouldn't be the case would be to say that I approach FP with the wrong philosophy and that there is no such things as extending types in FP. But in this case I'd question if FP modelling really is the best tool to model real world business for which it is natural to define things as extensions of other things.
This. Eating indian food is the only time I don't miss meat. There's delicious (authentic) meat-less Mexican food too, but it is so freaking high on carbs that I just can't.
> Lastly, it seems that Government revenue for Federal and State/Local has actually increased pretty linearly with the population. Despite all the different changes in the income tax rate/other progressive taxes. This supports an overhaul to the tax code to a more simple, flat tax system. From another data source outside this report, I'd have to find it, but historically, no matter the top bracket tax rate, the Federal government collects about 15-17 % income tax. Including when the top rate was 90%+.

This seems like a pretty poor argument for a flat tax and in fact could be seen as an argument against it. If raising top end bracket taxes didn't increase overall income, then it must be the case that it reduced the tax burden on lower incomes -- which is the entire point of progressive taxes. So progressive taxes work, let's keep them!

I view this as mostly orthogonal to the issue of tax simplification, however, which I think is probably a good idea.
I don't really see what the benefit of JavaScript app development is. You don't need to use electron and JavaScript for portability, as far as I'm aware. For example, I know of Qt, and I'm sure there are other toolkits in other similarly mature platforms.

This seems destined to go the way of emacs. This is always what happens when an idealistic perspective wins out over a practical one in a development team.
> Isn't it funny this thread is dead/flagged?

Isn't this the pushback you were talking about? That something is flagged means it's trash that doesn't even warrant the effort of discussion and definitely doesn't belong on the front page.

In fact we're discussing it right now (you can still post in flagged threads, can you not?)
B2 is a competitor of long-term storage solutions like Glacier or TarSnap, not virtualized storage like S3. It's meant to be almost 100% write-only. Basically, you pull your backups down in case of disaster.
Or how about this gem: “If you look at these tax deductions for employer-provided health or for state and local taxes or mortgage-interest deductions, they’re really subsidies to the affluent, which I guess I hadn’t thought about them.”
Because the whole point of the editor is the web stack.

The fact that it's built on web technologies, and web developers can make plugins easily and quickly and can hack on the core code is the entire reason for it's existence, and why it's so popular.

If you rewrite it in another stack, you basically just created an entirely new editor which isn't compatible in just about every way with atom.
This is very important. India probably has more vegetarians than the rest of the world combined. If you are culturally vegetarian, born and raised in a vegetarian household, had vegetarian meals your whole life, and surrounded by vegetarians, there is little chance that you would start eating meat anytime soon. However, in the US where almost everyone is non-vegetarian, it is understandable why people who convert to vegetarianism might convert back.
You can get full quality on google but you have to be on an unlimited plan for it to make sense. Despite their marketing, a single account gsuite account doesn't appear to have a cap.
It's a benefit if your engineers already know JavaScript, obviously.

Also, emacs is one of the most successful text editors so I'm not sure I get your comparison.
My guess is intergalactic warfare. They can keep their magnetars, my explanation adds intrigue!
Wealth redistribution: a solution in search of a problem. The article does nothing to link this supposed solution to the world's problems​; it merely asserts this dubious connection.

Of course the article shows its bias more clearly here:

> Whether in the US, UK or elsewhere, the more dissatisfied and afraid people become, Homer-Dixon says, the more of a tendency they have to cling to their in-group identity – whether religious, racial or national. Denial, including of the emerging prospect of societal collapse itself, will be widespread, as will rejection of evidence-based fact. If people admit that problems exist at all, they will assign blame for those problems to everyone outside of their in-group, building up resentment.

This is using a lot of loaded language to suggest that it's primarily the right guilty of these things, but identity politics is a mainstay of the left, at least in the US. Could it be that eliminating identity politics is more important than redistributing wealth?
Interesting, I am very mobile but have never done van/rv lifestyle "yet". I have no issue with people doing this but for me its more about escaping the grind. I would not want to be encumbered with posting etc, defeats the purpose for me. Although I do see how it makes it affordable for some to be able to live that life so kudos to them.
You're mistaken in saying that it is most likely that the actual note is the most recent one for Zcash. The figure gives a slightly misleading impression because it has to show few enough inputs to fit on the page. The number of possible inputs is the total number of previous shielded notes (before the JoinSplit anchor) that the adversary does not control or know to have been spent. There have been around 129000 JoinSplits so far, each creating two notes; I'll get back to this with a more precise number. In any case, the probability of the actual note being an output from the most recent prior JoinSplit is extremely small, even taking into account recency bias.

Another way of saying this is that in Zcash, the content of a fully shielded transaction does not give an adversary any more information about the possible input distribution than they could guess without seeing the content (i.e. only based on the timestamp and the number of JoinSplits in that transaction). In Monero, the adversary can refine their guess of the distribution based on the inputs that are actually mixed in, and that is what creates the privacy weakness.

Figure 8 does not apply to Zcash, it is specific to Monero, as the caption states.

-- Daira Hopwood (Zcash developer)
Tracking is not difficult for groups of amateurs with telescopes. Considering that you are up against large foreign states with extensive radar and optical detection facilities, it is mostly a lost cause. Satellites have enormous solar panels.

Elliptical orbits still require station keeping. Elliptical orbits tend to circularize over time from the drag they experience at the closest point to the Earth.
Designing the Toyota FT-4X Concept
They campaigned on a promise then bailed on it and the electorate punished them. If you don't get this line of thinking then I don't know what to tell you.
Here is them together at the marathon 5 years later in 1973

http://www.gettyimages.com/license/515108138
Some of it is the school's fault. Some of it is the fault of the particular student culture at the school.
An Engineer Is Painting Surreal Scenarios That Confuse Self-Driving Cars
- For profit healthcare
> ...to sustain non meat cuisines...

I am under the impression that anywhere you can raise animals, you can grow vegetables for fewer resources. There isn't anywhere that can sustain raising animals for slaughter but cannot be vegetarian instead.

Consider it this way: the animals you're raising for slaughter still need something to eat. Work your way down the food chain and you have to hit plants at some point.
excerpts from the speech: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/18/world/asia/north-korea-so...
Is anyone considering doing a fork of the Riak repo, or considering starting development outside of the Basho fork?
They only have 50 employees, https://www.linkedin.com/company-beta/2749627/?pathWildcard=...

I really wonder if you'll get the same level of reliability as the leading providers.
Unicorns Looking Less Magical Through IPO Lens
Also, many more tasks are now economically feasible whereas before, the high fixed upfront cost of programming would have made them never done. In other words, we're making more programs now to do more more-trivial things because the cost of doing so is lower, and that's more or less a good thing.
I worked for 6 years in a 100% remote position, 3 timezones away from my employer, so as such, I kept a loose schedule. Eventually, I adopted the practice of just going to bed when I was tired, and waking up whenever I woke up. Sure, sometimes I was woken up by noises outside or what have you, but when I'd wake up on my own, usually it was between 4.5 to 5 hours from when I went to bed.

I wasn't going to bed at regular hours, and I wasn't waking up to an alarm, so I guess I am in that group (also, I don't have increased aggression or impulse control, but I don't know how I'd measure empathy). That said, I did not realize that I was statistically rare, so thanks for pointing out that maybe my 5 hours a night advice isn't applicable to others. Regardless of the amount of time involved in sleeping, I still would prefer not to have to take it, if that were an option.
Ask HN: Any body know of simple live editable HTML pages?
I saw this post about slate.js [https://docs.slatejs.org/] a couple of days ago. A decent live editable web page/blog has been on my wishlist for years. Seeing slate.js in demo feels very close to it, but I don't know how I can make it just save the edited content onto a live HTML. Could anyone who knows JS and is aware of slatejs show me a bare-bones layman's example of how I can use it for my blog?

I want to be able to go to a url, edit the content, and see it published right away, without going to command line at all.
Did Population Growth Drive Conflict Growth After World War II?
You may already know both of these things, but due to your request for more info, I'll err on the side of overinforming:

> I have more problems with the consequences of the FAM argument - that we inexorably ought to use all our life for the benefit of others if we profess to care for others at all. This, to me, is such an absurd consequence as to throw the entire enterprise of morality as a chain of material implication following from axioms (very attractive to a computer scientist!) into doubt.

This line of argument is called "the demandingness objection". There's a decent bit of philosophical literature under that heading.

If one embraces the implications of FAM rather than rejecting them, that probably ends up looking something like "effective altruism". (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/22/extreme-altrui... is an article about effective altruism that seems relevant to your concerns)
I'm looking for the cheapest gigabit based NAS solution that supports B2. Any suggestions?

I'm thinking about replacing my aging Core 2 Duo laptop running Plex with an attached USB hard drive and BackBlaze with a combination NAS with Gig E and an NVidia Shield. I would use B2 for backups.

I have gigabit internet up and down and a house wired for Gig e throughout.
Hey! Co-founder of Mux here. Happy to answer any questions.
Same here. I disabled JavaScript on my phone browser.
Bleacher Report went from 150 servers to just five (yes, that is not a typo, that is a 1/30 reduction) moving from Ruby on Rails to Phoenix on Elixir (née Erlang, but we should just call it "BEAM" at this point): http://www.techworld.com/apps/how-elixir-helped-bleacher-rep... They also handle 8x as much traffic. With 1/30 the number of servers.

Ruby is OOP. Elixir/Erlang is purely functional (although dynamically-typed... some will prefer typed... but the results speak for themselves).

If you are a long-time developer like me and are just coming across this, this news should strike you somewhere between "astonishing" and "pure fucking magic."

Here's the deal- Paradigm shifts, most people only see them AFTER they've finished. If you want to be ahead of the curve on this one and you want to reap the benefits, go functional (Haskell, Clojure, OCaml, F#, Elm, Erlang/Elixir). Today. That is my #1 piece of advice right now. (Well, that, and to avoid Scala and Go. Scala is just too overly complicated to keep your cognitive load down as a developer, and Go... Well, the name even says it: "Go!" As in, "don't stay!" ;) Go will suffer the same long term problems that all OOP/procedural langs share, compounded by its idiotic take on error handling /opinion)

Elixir: http://elixir-lang.org/

Phoenix: http://www.phoenixframework.org/
SFTP/SCP/rsync support would be great.
Currently, only HTTPS are supported for B2:
https://help.backblaze.com/hc/en-us/articles/230383828-Suppo...
the OP misquoted S3s durability guarantee. Its 11 9s.
I think it's because not guilty verdicts cannot be appealed by the prosecution due to double jeopardy. So there would be no examples of cases of a drunk/under the influence jury that resulted in not guilty verdicts being appealed for juror misconduct.
Even if you are careful to remove all features you think could tell the race (let's say geographic location etc), it could still be giving harsher sentences to minorities if those are treated differently upfront. For instance, it would make sense for the model to learn that the more charges count the harsher the sentence. This sounds right: a bank robbery should be less punished than a bank robbery + a carjacking, at least in the US judicial system.

But now let's say minorities gets a "resiting arrest" charge on top of their original charge more often, because of many factors such as the police bias, the bias of the minorities towards police, etc. (By bias here I mean all spectrum : racism, but also fear of the police etc).

As long as minorities are treated differently upfront, then the model would treat them differently.
Show HN: AI assisted tagging tool for generating RCNN and YOLO training data
Hubble was launched in 1990, is it surprising that 22 years later, NRO telescopes are substantially better ?
>No sysadmin should be using SMBv1 in the first place though.

Oh, I guess you need to talk to apple about this.

https://dpron.com/os-x-10-11-5-slow-smb/

I got bit by this last week. Got a new NAS. Windows clients work fine, OSX is slow and error prone. Solution? Disable SMB2/3.

Apple needs to get hammered for this.
> That's not true. The vast majority of convenient off-the-shelf meat substitutes use soy or seitan to replace meat protein.

Indeed. I've seen a trend in new products using other stuff though. It's getting easier. But lets not forgot you can just buy proper whole food instead like fruit, beans, grains, vegetables, legumes and so on.

> Staying vegan while giving up soy and gluten means committing to a massive amount of meal-prep, and vegan food is already more labour-intensive in meal prep than the corresponding omnivore meals.

I think it depends on what culture you are from. In Denmark, it's normal to prepare food yourself. Sure, some buy ready-made food in stores, but I've never grown up seeing my parents do it, and I rarely do it myself.

> It would mean basically giving up on all restaurant eating everywhere.

All vegan-friendly restaurants I've been at have also had non-gluten bread and dishes not containing soy at all.

> I'm not saying it can't be done, but you should not downplay that with "easily".

I think that's subjective. If you're used to buy food that's already made, well, then, it probably isn't. If you are used to cooking yourself then it is.
What's the online purchasing experience like? I previously tried Revolut, but too many payments were declined when I used it online.
I also ended up switching to CrashPlan. My reasons were Linux support, and the ability to back up to another computer running CrashPlan instead of cloud only. I hate their GUI.

However, we have a sizeable Elasticsearch snapshot in S3, and it's getting expensive. We'd love to use B2 instead, but there's currently no Elasticsearch plugin for B2.
> None of these systems scale up from a single 1 node system to a full distributed cluster

What do you mean? This is exactly what they do.
I'd say even in Java, infinitely adding elements to a collection is not a memory leak, but merely forgetting that memory is finite. No Java programmer I know would call it a memory leak.

A leak is when you think you no longer hold references to an object, but you still do, and therefore the GC cannot free its memory. An example is the accepted answer in the StackOverflow link.
Please explain how flat tax rate across any income level, while removing the current tax code, would be considered regressive? I have not heard that argument before.

The proportion of tax paid is the same at any income level. Anything that would counteract any "regressive" tax system would have to happen on the personal income side. Which means better education, opportunities, etc., to increase income levels.

I'd support a rule though that said if you make less than the poverty line (around 32k I believe?), you pay no income tax at the federal level.
The site says Pi 3 only.
Good Rants vs. Bad Rants
CERT C++ Secure Coding Rules
A judge/jury should never involve empathy for the victim, imo. Empathy for the victim should be baked into sentencing guidelines. Though I guess you could say the same about the perp.

Eh... don't practice any empathy. Practice rationality and common sense.
This reminds me of one of the very best pieces of television I ever saw: BBC's Horizon documentary about The Mystery of the Persian Mummy: http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/horizon/2001/persianmummy.shtml

The first half is breathless excitement on the part of historians who believe they've found an artifact that changes their understanding of an ancient culture, then it suddenly pivots into a murder investigation. Gripping stuff.
I started this issue a long time ago, and it's been frozen since: https://github.com/electron/electron/issues/3041

Maybe now we can have actual source code protection?
Anecdotal: I had a literature professor that would relate the time he was at the Louvre and a crazy guy pulled out a knife and dashed for the Mona Lisa (this is before it was behind glass) - they were able to grab the man before he damaged the painting. Since then he ceased to believe in the authenticity of the art in musuems.