skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First, not all western names are "English", come on.

Things are complicated:

- A good chunk of Koreans are Christians (either Catholics or American style Protestants), and get a biblical name at baptism.

- Many employees at those high-profile companies have studied or even lived abroad, and might have used another first name there. Some dual-citizens (which is a fairly new thing in Korea) even have different first names on their respective passports.

- There are many reasons behind using nicknames for correspondence with foreigners, it's not necessarily to make your company look more global than it really is (even though yes, that's also one reason). It isn't specific to Korean, but a lot of "first names" (typically the middle and last character) are not clearly associated to a gender, especially to foreign ears. Also, the romanization of Korean is a pretty confusing mess overall, unlike with Japanese for instance. There have been several systems in use, and names show the biggest inconsistencies (for example Lee, I, Yi, Ri, Rhee are all the same family name). Does "Yuna" mean Yeona like the skater or Yoona like the K-pop singer? You cannot know.

Now back to the policy discussed, I left Korea before it got introduced at my company, but I always found stupid to force people to pick another name. Lots of Koreans really don't want to. I called my VP by his real first name and he was fine with it.
Honestly, when the big bad comes around, any loophole will be used, the eternal classic being a state of emergency.

If everyone abuses these loopholes anyway, then maybe there's a chance that they'll be closed in time. One can dream, right?
> Is enthusiast the right word? I always thought I was an enthusiast, but I've got no need for 16 cores.

Enthusiasts also don't need enthusiast-targeted gear, just like people who are into tuning don't need their fancy car gear.
I actually came across your site a while back and really like it. That method of grouping verbs is very interesting. Thanks for sharing! I definitely need to think about how to group verbs, e.g. by most common and similar stems.

I wanted to avoid multiple choice as I think active recall of the answer is quite important, but I agree it's a trade off as input on mobile for my site feels pretty slow.
Perhaps they'll submit a microcode update which does that. (assuming they can do that with microcode, but can't fix the problem with it)
Flight crews and ship crews will be enhanced by automation, thus reducing those jobs, but they won't be replaced completely. The liability, safety, and economics situations are completely different from drivers. The cost of a crew to ferry an oil tanker around the world is a rounding error. The cost of two pilots on your flight is similar, and in both cases, you want someone there when things go wrong anyway.
This is where I've found Lynda's tutorials great. They align the text to the video so you can see and read at the same time. I was able to get pretty far by reading Unity In Action though, which was purely just a book tutorial and I really enjoyed it. So I don't know, I would attribute it more to a younger audience who is more receptive of videos over written tutorials.
It’s Way Too Easy to Hack the Hospital (2015)
Or Lolita ;)
read the right hand side as roughly:

func(func(a): b): b
Could it have been spillover hype leading up to the activation of Segwit on Litecoin?
Here is a plausible explanation: People can't convert to local currency so they are investing in anything to diversify.

https://www.reddit.com/r/BitcoinMarkets/comments/6a0cyz/when...

>>> why Bitcoin has been soaring:
>>> Chinese exchanges are temporarily banned from margin trading, which has significantly cut down on the number of people shorting. (which is what held Bitcoin's price down for so long)
>>> Bitfinex, one of the most high volume exchanges, lost the ability to withdraw fiat. This literally meant the only way to get funds off of it, was to buy Bitcoin.
Thanks! Great shout on the hint mode.

I don't quite understand the bug - could you post steps to recreate? For me submitting a wrong answer shows the conjugation table, then takes you to the next question :/
I've never seen a case where outsourcing of general-purpose IT things saves money over the long-term. It might make the budget look better for a year or two. Which, I think, is the motivation for a lot of the people making decisions to outsource. It is cheaper right now, so who cares about later?

Special-purpose stuff can still be cheaper to outsource, though. If I need something to work next week and it would take my staff a month to get up to speed, I'd spend the money on outsourcing it.
What you described seemed pretty common when I visited Japan. For those in the Bay Area a Japanese chain Yayoi opened in Cupertino and Palo Alto.

You order entirely on the iPad. You do have to pay at the desk on your way out, but they just type in your table number you pay with Square. No tipping allowed so it feels so smooth and simple.
Apple maintains a strange relationship with the Israeli firm Cellebrite who are known for breaking into iphones for law enforcement. Apple definitely has their machines in their stores because I've seen them in use it to unlock a lady's phone. This was approximately 3 years ago so things might have changed but it struck me as odd that they were buying machines from a company hacking them.
What you're describing is formal verification. While I agree with what you're saying, I'm not sure if you're just understating the the complexity of formally verifying systems or if you're implying that "being really careful and doing your due diligence" is practically invulnerable.
>First, not all western names are "English", come on.

Indeed. But the thing that raised by hackles was:

>“Using an English name even though you are not American is a little bit strange. Your name is from your own mother and father.”

America is not where English comes from. I mean I understand that America's influence on South Korea probably can't be overstated.

But that sentence just pushed a button I wasn't aware I had, not least because while I'm British, I'm not English.
> What's the point of discussing criminality?

Well, for one thing, we could try to think of ways how to catch these criminals, how to help law enforcement.
>I'm a professional

Nowadays that is no guarantee of respectability! Seriously, I think the typical professional carries a substantial psychological load due to the conformity and personal constraint entailed.

>I think we'd all be better off if we talked more openly about it

Well I tend to classify unwanted thoughts as the purely mental equivalent of chewing on chilli. Why would I think unwanted thoughts? The answer is similar to why would I prefer foods that cause pain to my tongue and mouth.
Is it just me or did anyone feel like this website was trying too hard to "create a reading experience unlike any other" of their own? It's like a no-name comedian introducing a world-star comedian for tonight's show, and trying to one-up him (and miserably failing)

They had one job: convey the story of how "J.J abrams created a reading experience unlike any other"? They failed, because I got motion sick and just closed the browser. I would rather read this through some other website when it resurfaces.

These hipster UIs for the sake of themselves need to stop. I thought this was only trendy for a year when NYTimes did it and died off, but apparently some are still doing it.
> there are periods that are artistically more fruitful and interesting that others,

Sure, but the claim was just that there have always been bad movies.

Here's a test: If there's some year you know of where bad movies were exceptionally rare, let us know. Then we'll see if we can provide counterexamples.
I didn't actually look into this or any of the references but I suspect the half-life model is not appropriate in the extreme case. That is, it's an approximation that works on a certain non pathological scale like newtonian physics. Probably need the quantum mechanics version for this.
I'm seeing this more and more for other things, programming and non-programming, like "How to do XYZ with a Raspberry Pi". I'll generally try to skip the videos because they are almost always awful in terms of time efficiency. Instead of what should be a single page of text with 8 written steps, we now have all these 5 minute videos that start with a 20 second spinning logo intro, then a blank desktop and someone saying "Hey guys, today I'm going to..." It's halfway into the video by the time he's even gotten the subject matter on the screen. Then at the end there's a 30 second outtro with "Hey, guys, if you liked this tutorial, go ahead and like, subscribe and comment below! And check out my Youtube channel and like and subscribe! And if you didn't like this tutorial, go ahead and like and subscribe anyway! Catch my other great videos on my channel and of course like and subscribe!!"
VTRK (https://github.com/thestonefox/VRTK) will almost certainly make your life better. It's (well done) implementations of (most? all?) the core AR/VR interaction patterns that have been worked out so far.

I might go so far as to say it's the ActiveRecord to Unity-as-Rails for AR/VR, although the analogy is really flawed.

While I like your overall approach (a true, comprehensive intro to Unity), I would have liked to see more about, I guess I'd call it, the philosophy of putting code into Unity, covering (specifically and, IMHO, most importantly) the type of component system they're using, and type of event system they're using. The equivalent of describing a new language in terms of which features from the language grab-bag the authors decided to use.

PS - Pluuuuug, because dealing with JSON/YAML in C# suuuuucked: https://github.com/narfanator/maptionary
Yeah, modern CPUs have tons of bugs in the obscure corners of the architecture. The x86 boot process is an amazing amalgamation of all the legacy CPUs of the past two decades. This does seem fixable in microcode though, so presumably they'll just do that. I very much agree with the other comments though that at some point we should just get rid of all of that junk and use software emulation.
Why don't telecom providers help remove devices who are requesting an exorbitant amount of requests? Wouldn't this kill bot nets, if the exponential growth effect became impossible?
What you are describing would be great for chain restaurants like Chile's or Olive Garden, but for something sufficiently high end the people involved really matter. If you shift your view up a few notches there are many places where real intelligence and dynamicness is required that we can't yet automated.

Having a wine expert or a unique expert chef as part of the experience is part of high end dining. Consider one of those mid to high end Japanese steak houses where there they throw shrimp across the room into someone's mouth. Or a more midwestern steakhouse where you can talk with a person who butchered the steak. Or one of the new microbreweries where can can talk with the brewer about some new experiment has has and look at the brewing equipment right there. None of these make sense to automate, until we get strong AI.
> I would attribute it more to a younger audience who is more receptive of videos over written tutorials.

Is this really true? There's some inherent advantages to words and pictures vs video and audio that can't be hand-waved away as 'preferences' or 'learning styles'. Has an entire demographic really chosen a medium that nullifies such powerful techniques as skimming, copy/paste, seeking without laborious workarounds, variable speed of consumption etc.
Most poor people's work (or habits, or family and friends) tends to be very location sensitive...
> The relative importance of all these pathways depend on the environment of the DNA, which obviously changes for each and every fossil you have.

And I guess it might for every cell of a single fossil.
Ask HN: Globally Unique OS
I don't have a strong enough security or low-level OS background to know if something like this would be feasible, but with the ransom-ware case today, it got me thinking about the problem.

Shouldn't there be a way to take a base image and obfuscate or otherwise rearrange the base system in a way that all the code compiled on the image would work but any new code that is introduced would not work?

Obviously, there are many limitations to this, but wouldn't having a "globally unique os" protect you from malicious code infecting your system?
Perhaps it's a Firefox problem? I'll try it in Safari (EDIT - seems to only trigger in Firefox, so might be a plugin conflict or something weird - probably wouldn't worry too much).

1) Load site, play

2) Get verb wrong - shows the hint table

3) Get to next question, first character entered into the box submits the form (usually incorrectly, of course!)

4) Normal behaviour resumes if I hit quit and play again
Stagnation of income and living standards is probably the leading cause. It's not so great being in your 30's and barely affording to buy a house if at all.
I am using Celery workers which run a single tensorflow model in solo concurrency mode. The current workaround is to keep track of per process gpu fraction and then incorporate information about Total GPU memory available when assigning workers/celery process to individual GPUs.
Why Silicon Valley Is All Wrong about Amazon’s Echo Show
And it follows that anything that can create such harm CAN and eventually will "leak" or fall into the wrong hands.

Maybe one day, as a species, we'll learn not to create this kind of devices.

(sorry if the message seems too exaggerated)
I feel like this is more about how you see life in general than about your job and work.

Quite simply, I love life. I know this isn't true for everyone, but it is for me. I find a lot of things meaningful and exciting. I love watching people on youtube excel at their random hobbies, I love seeing people compete in sports, I love talking about random things with friends and coworkers. I love the feeling I get when I stretch my legs out, I love walking outside and feeling the breeze on my face.

I love watching my daughter learn to walk, I love cuddling with my wife. I love fiddling with computers and getting them to do stuff.

Yes, maybe my job isn't 'meaningful' in some abstract, deep and profound, sense (I work for a large CDN owned by a giant corporation), but I think it makes the world a little bit better for people to be able to stream silly videos, watch live sports, and surf the web faster. I enjoy my coworkers, and look forward to going into work every day to see them and talk about random things we see in the world.

Even the horrible things that go on in the world don't get me too down. Yes, suffering is awful and I want to do everything I can to alleviate it where ever I can; at the same time, it is amazing that we do as good a job as we do. I am always gratified when I think about how many people live together in this world, and we get along remarkably well when you think about how we are really just randomly evolved animals. I mean, look at the complex society we have built! When I drive down the freeway, I can't help but be amazed at the things humans are able to build.

In short, things are fucking amazing. Life is pretty awesome, if you choose to focus on the awesome things.
Just ask the NSA to send you the un-encrypted files - they probably have them in their database anyway.
Given that there are now like 7 billion people on the planet AND we can make indie movies cheaply, home movies, etc. probably at least 99.9999% of movies today are crap.

It used to take a lot more resources and know how to make a movie. Today, any hack can do so. Gawd.
If I want a deep technical analysis of what we know so far, where do I go?
meanwhile in finland: http://yle.fi/uutiset/osasto/news/three_finns_party_politici...
Eventually the last "why" you get to has the answer: "The biological machinery that comprises my body receives incoming stimuli and the laws of physics causes a cascading chain reaction which changes my internal state. Thus, I'm basically a series of recursive analog state machines and free will is but an illusion." At that point, you lose all motivation for asking any further "why" questions.
I think today is my bad wordsmith day.

I was so detached from feeling reality, I felt jealous when I saw scavengers in Nigeria finding 'treasure' in the junk yard that they can fix and sell in the market. And when I was in a not so affluent area at one time, and guys in rags gathered around a trolley were chatting away happily. And when a shopkeeper of a small booth looked so relaxed, watching the world go by with his shiny eyes and small smile.

These people I felt was really experiencing life. They're on the knife edge, yet they seem ... I don't know, they had something which I didn't have at that time.

I'm sure alright now. But till today I can't feel sorry for disadvantaged people: they are not pathetic masses, they're people who happen to be born in unfair circumstances and something's gotta be done - and pity is not one of them.
Rarely a secret, yes. But it's not like there's a public database of composer:song mappings anywhere†, for you to easily feed your ML algorithm; you'd have to do a bunch of original research to build that dataset. If there's some statistical way to infer the data with nearly the same quality, so that you don't need to go to the effort of building the dataset yourself, that'd be nice.

† An assumption on my part—is there, in fact, a place where you can look up who gets each portion of the royalties for a given song?
The vulnerability is already patched, it is not a 0-day. Regardless of the leak, anyone could have reverse engineered the security patch to see how it worked.
Then you're not talking about a UBI, you're talking about a negative income tax[0], which IMO is a lot saner than a UBI.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_income_tax
For some restaurants, unveiling the food is a big part of the experience and photos would ruin a lot of the fun. E.g. Atelier Crenn in SF
The storage media was a floppy disk (literally) for all three sizes
The casing was either flexible but not really floppy (for the 8- and 5.25-inch versions) or rigid (for the 3.5-inch version) and square (not a disk) for all three versions.

So the only thing that "floppy disk" ever made sense for, even for the 8" ones, is the storage media inside the casing, not the casing.
Free Idea: News with indications/rankings of relative significance vs. other news
Why now?

Today we process more data/news than we ever have. We need new ways of dealing with this.

One way of dealing with this - software to help us process/put things in perspective.

Example:

https://twitter.com/upshotnyt/status/862431071752916992
Clickable example: https://twitter.com/upshotnyt/status/862431071752916992
I would say that it's probably smart to occasionally purge all your content from online services and keep your data in cold storage you physically control.
>a million eyes on it and open communication about findings

That's what the Chinese government does internally. Ba-dum-tssh.
Areas this would be useful for: geopolitical news/risks, anything related to democracy, news on specific issues (e.g. criminal justice)
Approximating sin(x) to 5 ULP with Chebyshev polynomials
Not if this really is well-described by independent probabilities, i.e., a chance of being preserved that falls exponentially in time. Even if after 1 million years only half of the strands of DNA have had all their info destroyed, and even if (very unrealistically), the ones that haven't been destroyed are completely intact, then after 100 million years you would need to start with 2^100 = 10^30 DNA strands to have a single one last. And there are < 10^18 cells in a land animal.

No, the only way for something to survive is if the half life model breaks down and the chance of decay during different time periods isn't independent. This would be the case if one of the strands was somehow preserved accidentally.
Don't listen to the haters. You launched, with pricing. I could see myself using the tool though not sure if I'd pay.

We launched brb.life last year, also a super simple app. No payments yet but we have about 70 users of all sizes. I even got an email from IBM asking about our data store methods because a team wanted to install it...

I think there is a case for a meta tool that includes something like draft + other Slack productivity tools in a single bundle where many different use cases are covered with a single price point
I disagree with you on almost every, but so much of it is soft and nebulous so lets you are correct for most of your comment. I just want to pick on tiny part:

> Talking to a single person whose opinion I trust

Why should we trust the person at the ticket counter?

They have no special knowledge or insight. It seems likely to me they will have below average insight otherwise they wouldn't be working an easy to automate job.
Rich people don't have most of their money sitting in bank accounts.

And even if they did, you think the banks just sit on it? No, they loan it out.
In fairness, massive over-investment in NHS IT infrastructure hasn't gone so well either:

https://amp.theguardian.com/society/2013/sep/18/nhs-records-...
I mean, seriously, why on earth would one be communist in the UK?

Communist project probably cost more to the lands of ex-Russian Empire, in lives, than the total population of the UK today.

Then there's all the crypto colony stuff.
In case anyone has been living under a rock for the past 3 years:

FBI's (recently fired) James Comey has been asking for an encryption backdoor for the past 3 years:

2014:
https://www.fbi.gov/news/speeches/going-dark-are-technology-...

At that time, he said unbreakable encryption should be illegal: http://www.newsweek.com/going-not-so-bright-fbi-director-jam...

2015 (asking for a backdoor): https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/jul/08/fbi-chief...

2016 (same): https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/03/fbi-is-asking-co...

2016 (tried to force apple to create a backdoor for the iphone): https://www.apple.com/customer-letter/

And then here recently, he's upped it to an international agreement to create a backdoor: https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20170327/10121437009/james...

He's not the first, only, or last person to ask for it.
Because yelp is horrible.

You argument is much stronger as "Why trust the waiter over meaningful online reviews?"

That argument is much stronger and I can only attack in niche markets like very high end restaurants.
This definitely wasn't targeted. Check here - https://intel.malwaretech.com/botnet/wcrypt/?t=24h&bid=all
Mine. I don't advertise through google and our SEO isn't anything special. Est 2010, thanks kindly.
I really don't understand your arguments, let alone the overt negative tone here?

>> 1. How will they maintain and extend that?

Umm just like how everyone else does it.

>> 2. H2O wrote its random forests and GBMs, neither of which show large performance gains on GPUs compared to neural nets.

What does your statement even means? [1]

>> And the neural nets in this initiative were created by Google, Berkeley, Microsoft...

You mean libraries?

Note: NOT an employee of H2O or anyway affiliated.

[1] https://devblogs.nvidia.com/parallelforall/bidmach-machine-l...
Knight Rider: The Knight of Reused BASIC Code [video]
No, the article claims the opposite of what you just said.
>Tai chi, while a martial art, is viewed by many today as a spiritual breathing and balance exercise enjoyed by people of all ages, usually performed in slow motion in a quiet park instead of a fight ring.

Tai chi is a martial art in the same way yoga is a martial art. I'm kind of surprised this gets more than a shrug out of Chinese people. I would be surprised if a practitioner of one of the more practical Kung Fu styles could beat a good MMA fighter, but it would have been a lot closer.
This is why the NCSC was split from GCHQ in the UK. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Cyber_Security_Centre...
I would if it didn't have a horrible UI.