skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> On the one hand, there would be merit in requiring a professional license for programmers like in other engineering fields - a lot of the mess in our industry could be removed if at least some jobs would require a license

Right, and we all believe that the Volkswagon debacle really was some nefarious programmer doing it without any knowledge of management.

I'm tired of developers getting blamed for this shit, put the blame squarely where it belongs, on the people with the money who are making such decisions.
Ummm... What? I don't consider $80/year free.

Maybe it's just me but I can't imagine getting​ a shot of dopamine from paying money to shop. $80 is pretty pricey at that.
Upgrade to RS2 and select "pause updates" and just check for updates yourself as you're finishing up schedule it at your own time.
Agreed, but we have a system in place for lobbying the government via our elected representatives. It's not always effective, and it has its problems, but it exists and it works for many cases. If Amazon changes their mind on this, there's no recourse.
If you can easily get to a Kroger or Walmart and don't mind this errand, I don't think you're the target market for Prime Pantry. If you live in a city without a car, lots of things are either less convenient or more expensive. The grocery stores themselves are expensive, and if I'm going to have to walk or Uber home with my groceries that adds an extra hassle or cost. At that point something like prime pantry can be very worth it.
(Gross) margins were never razor thin - this is a myth.
No, the worst is when someone posts their bug and then others start asking questions or trying to figure it out, then the original poster says "thanks guys, I was actually able to figure it out". And doesn't post the solution!!! Just so infuriating.
> "And the reality is, the overwhelming majority of IT people have no training or background in risk assessment,..."

But in this case, as in the case of credit card hacks of Target and Home Depot, it was simply a matter of following manufacturers maintenance instructions and upgrading the OS version from an unsupported version to a supported version.

As many have pointed out, in the case of Windows 10, the upgrades had been free at no charge from Microsoft.
It's probably the same socket as Naples (=four die MCM with 128 PCIe lanes and 8 DDR4 channels).

This would mean that this is a two die (active) MCM with a maximum of 64 PCIe lanes.
OCaml in ring 0? Anything can be done if you try hard enough I guess.

MS had a research project to rewrite the NT kernel in a C# derived language at one point. It worked, but they decided not to go ahead with it.
> Most of those are products that are not expected run over night in batching mode.

I'll be sure to let them know that long-running computations deskside are now only an experimental feature /s

In all seriousness though, we've managed over a decade without the need for dedicated compute nodes along with the costs that would entail. The only case I can make for that right now is that current Windows now ships with unpredictable uptime.
How Nvidia 's Automotive Neural Net Makes Decisions
There's an app for that :)
THE BIG PLUS SIGN IS USED IN MATHEMATICS! It has an entirely DISJOINT meaning from simple summation...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_sum
That might be it.
Except that there is a sensible answer: you physically force the two controls to synchronize.

Once you settle on a design where the two controls move independently of each other, then yes, there's no sensible answer. But, don't do that.
interesting. thank you.
I'm generally in favor of everyone's computer working but I think it would be wonderful if the WannaCry malware infects the NSA to the point they're shut down for a week or two. I don't know if I'll call it karma but they should at least share some of the pain. If it hadn't been the health-care system, I would have been cheering for the compromise of any of the five-eyes partners as well.

Note to the NSA/CIA - I want to cheer for my government, to be proud to be an American (even the U.S. variety) and it would be wonderful if the U.S. could return to being viewed as "the good guys". I'm not sure that type of patriotism will ever return.
Please don't start flamewars like this.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> The Air France flight

More information for those interested. It's a long read.

http://www.popularmechanics.com/flight/a3115/what-really-hap...
> If all light from the "focal line" gathers at the focal point on the other side of the star...

It doesn't - the light on the focal line may be from any source that falls on the same line on the opposite side of the star. But since the chances of more than one light source (distant star) falling on this exact same line are pretty minuscule, it's still a (potentially) useful lens
Counterpoint: I'm AOK with these ideas.

I love take-home style interviews. They're without exception the most informative for both the interviewee and the company: much more can be conveyed than in a hour face-to-face, and it's less stressful both to produce and to review, and just plain less painful to schedule.

Doing it before the in-person stage is a little unusual (maybe after the first phonecall, to confirm it's not a waste of time for a position that's already filled, etc, would make more sense?), but I respect the idea.
> Unfortunately this would mean such services are segregated by race, religion, culture, and location.

These services are already segregated by race, religion, culture, and location - yes, even in Western European countries - both explicitly and implicitly.

In fact, pretending that these problems don't exist and that the government effectively supports and protects all citizens equally is exactly how systemic racism, sexism, and bigotry persist and propagate.
They often forget to mention, that WebAssembly is just a low-level programming language (much lower than C), it has extremely simple syntax (it has just four data types, no system calls, the specification takes 5 pages instead of 500 pages of C spec). You may call it a "bytecode", but typical bytecodes also have around-500-page specifications.

Also, its relation to javascript is not any bigger than the relation to any other programming language (i.e. there is no relation). A WebAssembly VM could be made as an extension of any environment.

I recommend reading the official paper https://github.com/WebAssembly/spec/blob/master/papers/pldi2... (I learned more than about 50 "essays" that I read about WASM in the past).
Even the ads will ask you if you want to disable them.. "click here to disable future notifications" or if you open notification center you can "click here to disable future notifications".

I am slightly bemused we're making excuses for people not trying anything.. especially when computers these days are all about "Expressing yourself" and "identity"..
Amazon is taking over the world either by AWS or by their stock investors.

In my intimate circle, nobody talks about Amazon and more about a local competitor. I'm not sure if it can be generalised ( Belgium). It could be that we just aren't interesting for Amazon ofc
Have managers at every level read Business @ The Speed of Thought by Bill Gates.
Cascara 'Tea': A Tasty Infusion Made from Coffee Waste
Seriously. Active Hours was such a terrible idea, how did it move past the design stage?

There were some hilarious hacks to disable the Update Orchestrator and prevent the reboots. They work well, although allegedly you should not need them any more with the new Creators Update OS refresh.
That's a good point, though it's still the closest to a quantitative number we have. I would love if the government actually forced some more rigorous quantitative testing on these cars, some way we can compare apples to apples. A lot of companies are making all sorts of crazy bold claims but I'd like more concrete evidence before I put my life in their hands.
Frankly, there is only one solution I can see anymore:

Laws must be passed to:

* Force the US government to report vulnerabilities to vendors

* Create a regulatory body to monitor the use of vulnerabilities in clandestine operations and ensure that mandatory reporting is upheld

I cannot see anything less working.

Get that through US and EU governments, and you'll likely have the vast majority of vulnerabilities being reported and patched.

Of course this is akin to asking the US and Russia to convert their nuclear stockpile into reactor fuel.
While negotiating employment, one would think it would be natural for prospective employees to engage the services of a lawyer to ensure everything is aboveboard. After all, the company sure as hell had legal draw up and/or sign off on their contracts. With freelance contracts, of course both sides should have lawyers signing off to foster a fair relationship.

Yet what does an employer think if a candidate indicates that they have involved their own lawyer during contract negotiations? Perhaps it's a normal occurrence in major centres (ie: Silicon Valley), or maybe even across the US. I have never heard of a single one of my 1000+ peers over 15 years of experience having done so in my country (Canada).

The very act of engaging a lawyer to read through one's employment contract here would be seen as an aggressive attack against the "integrity" of the employer's business. Red flags galore raised about how this person would be a risk to employ, should they go running to a lawyer over every little grievance.

If I had a lawyer make amendments to my contract and sign off on it, and slipped to my prospective employer that this act had taken place, I'm quite sure my résumé would hit the bottom of the recycling bin within seconds of my name being added to a blacklist of "never communicate with this person ever again; do not reply to their emails, hang up the phone the moment they give their name, call security if they show up at the front desk, etc.". I would be unemployable if I even mentioned the word "lawyer". I suspect cultural differences, with the US being desensitized to the presence of lawyers in an abundance of everyday situations?

So, no lawyer for me. I much prefer the idea of requesting that the company amend the contract themselves to accommodate me, rather than red-inking it myself. Maybe Canadians really are too polite? ;)

tldr; In Canada at least, red-inking your contract on your own has a chance to succeed. But involving a lawyer would make employers avoid you as a high-risk hire.
For Intel's Xeon processors, the more cores you have the lower the frequency you get. Quad core might give you an extra gigahertz, which might be of more value to games than 12+ cores.
Yes,it is not a solid white line.

There are a variety of lane marker styles and edges in the US. One is a solid yellow line with reflectors spaced every few yards/meters as you see here. More commonly, it's a solid white line.

My point is to show that there are likely many cases like this that can foil the autonomous navigation and lead to dangerous situations. What's interesting to consider is that yes, I accept that autonomous systems will reduce the number of accidents, injuries and fatalities on the roadways. However, the people who actually get injured or killed will be a different set of people than without autonomy. They'll want to be compensated.
The terminology can be a bit confusing. Database Management System is what people often call a database. Unfortunately, the storage engine is also called a database.

Badger, RocksDB, LMDB, etc. are storage engines. A process uses these storage engines to write data to memory (note: the storage engine may support persistent, volatile, or both types of memory).

A database management system (DBMS) is a higher level concept that often has multiple processes either on a single server or distributed across multiple servers. Simply stated, each process within a DBMS uses the storage engine to read/write to/from memory (persistent or volatile).

It's important to note that storage engines are a specialized area and require different skills from writing a DBMS. It's a big deal when other people write high quality storage engines because it makes it a lot easier to write a DBMS.
I really wish I could find a book (or series) that started with explaining the (non-)results of the Michelson-Morley experiment, and traced through the major experiments that underpin modern theory. Just picking out the major quintessential experiment (types) -- things like the Bell test.

Much of science is really just subtle modifications or tests of major theories, but I feel like you could write up... say 12 keystone experiments in 100 page summaries and publish it in 2-3 volumes, (eg, QM and relativity volumes).

The problem I have with only presenting "polished" results is that we lose the context of our modeling -- eg, QM seems to have included non-determinism in an effort to preserve locality, but locality couldn't be preserved in the face of other results, so is non-determinism merely an extra assumption included for legacy reasons (eg, technical debt because no one wants to clean up the model/people forgot why we included it)?

You'd never even think to ask that question if you only saw the cleaned up model of QM divorced from its (philosophical) roots.
But can you get the shipping service separate from the video? I am not interested in a lackluster library of videos, not do I need access to yet another cloud backup, I would gladly spend $40/year on only 2 day shipping membership.
It is interesting to compare WannaCry to the Google Phishing Scam that was going around a couple weeks ago [1]

Obviously really different issues, but the resolution was that the phishing scam was shut down in short order because it relied on Google for OAuth and they turned the app off and revoked the credentials.

1 - http://gizmodo.com/a-huge-and-dangerously-convincing-google-...
Individuals and corporations voluntarily using their resources to help others _is_ general human decency. If they're instead being forced to help against their will I find that to be a much less desirable circumstance (though perhaps still preferable to those in need not being helped at all).
When to use containers (and when not to)
According to an NHS blog post about the matter, the NHS corporate (or whatever) had been warning hospitals, etc. that Microsoft was discontinuing maintenance of XP and to upgrade. They purchased an additional year of coverage giving hospitals yet another year to upgrade to a supported version of Windows. Many ignored the one year time they had as well as the earlier warnings.
Why do you think Tesla is able to collect all or any of the camera and steering input data? And what proof do you have that the little they are able to get off is actually at all valuable.
I started teaching myself HTML and CSS (and shortly after PHP) in high school, maybe around 2003 or so. At the time I had a computer in my room, but was not allowed to have internet access on it (a wise decision by my parents that I want to implement for my own children to the extent possible these days).

My method of learning was to save web pages to a USB flash drive on an internet-connected computer, and study them, or copy them, or modify them on my computer until I understood and was able to create my own documents. Learning PHP was a similar exercise, augmented by a downloaded copy of PHP's documentation manual.

Stackoverflow definitely made answering questions much quicker, but I also think that it made it so easy to quickly get things working that I lost the practice of having to understand and fix things through deep study.
Lucky I only had an Atari 400...

The hours I spent trying to learn basic with no book and no internet on that thing. Just typing random things into that blue console trying to figure out what secrets it held.
The problem with the internet is that when you post about a subject you're not an expert in, some jerk with a PhD in the area is going to come in and rain on your parade. Today that jerk is me.

I'm not going to comment too much on the deficiencies of modeling (physiology is hard), except to say that a game engine is probably going to spend time doing game-enginey things that aren't relevant to running your model. More evaluations is always better.

The pure-mutation approach is fine, this is how Evolution Strategies work, but you might want to consider both (a) using a really good ES like CMAES and (b) double-checking that your solutions are actually better than random sampling.

Alternatively (w.r.t CMAES, which is single-objective) you may want to consider using a multi-objective evolutionary algorithm like NSGA2. The article comments on the difficulty of choosing a fitness function. This is exacerbated by the need to choose only one fitness function. Multi-objective optimization is a natural fit for population-based search, because different population members can represent different points in objective space. You could for example have an objective for distance traveled and an objective for speed, to prevent slow, stable solutions from completely dominating.

Finally, proportional selection is generally bad. Use tournament selection instead to avoid premature convergence.
the point of amazon is the customer service.

i buy a TV at a random retailer. the tv breaks. i need to take the TV there, they send it to the manufacturer for repairs, 6 weeks later i maybe get my tv back.

a tv ordered at amazon breaks, they collect it, bring a replacement and deal with the problem themselves.

for me, and a lot of other people, amazon has quit competing on price. we buy there for the convenience, not because its "cheap".
I agree, but at the same time I look at the Webassembly web page, and they explicitly state that replacing Javascript is not their objective. Why is that?
It's not even got anything to do with patriotism. If the US government can legally mandate companies to put back doors in devices in US markets, then foreign governments can mandate the same in their markets. Of course they could anyway, but the US and other western governments should be setting a principled example here and diligently pressuring other governments to adhere to the same standards.
In the long term, I'd hope that charged batteries are just driven to the car to be swapped in, when the car is in use, instead of the car having to stop and spend time charging itself when you want to be driving.
> For now, WebAssembly does not support garbage collection at all. Memory is managed manually (as it is in languages like C and C++). While this can make programming more difficult for the developer, it does also make performance more consistent.

Does this worry anyone else? Or I am getting worked up over nothing?
Ten OWASP Commandments: The OWASP Top 10 Set to a Beat
> It's a lot more than "simply pro-Islam" as you say http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/1098105....

So your argument is torture is OK because they are convicted terrorists?

Or that the US military is pro-Terrorist?

> For example, Cage is animated about the case of Aafia Siddiqui, jailed for 86 years in the US for attempting to murder US officials in Afghanistan and assaulting those who tried to stop her. Siddiqui had wide-ranging links to al-Qaeda and was married to a key plotter behind the 9/11 attacks. At the beginning of her trial she said that jurors should be "subject to genetic testing" to see if they were Zionist or Israeli. She is no terror suspect – her guilt was proved in a court of law. Yet Cage’s profile on Siddiqui – which misses literally all this out – says it has "dedicated itself" to freeing her.

> Aafia Siddiqui and her three children were kidnapped from the streets of Karachi in March 2003. Since then they have been subjected to enforced disappearances, torture and ill-treatment beyond measure. Cageprisoners has dedicated itself to campaigning for Aafia and her family in order to help secure their release and expose those involved in their abuse.

> Others that Cage support include Djamel Beghal, who, following allegations of a plot to blow up the US embassy in Paris, was jailed in France in 2005 for "belonging to a criminal association in relation to preparing an act of terrorism"; and Nizar Trabelsi, convicted in Belgium as part of an al-Qaeda plot to carry out a suicide attack against a military base there holding US soldiers.

> Le Point reported that the Emirati police had been sharing information with the French authorities since the beginning of August 2001. Questions being asked of Beghal confirmed for him that it was the French who were feeding information to the Emirati police during his torture and abuse.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/10/20/al-qaeda-terror-leader-...

> Anwar Al-Awlaki may be the first American on the CIA's kill or capture list, but he was also a lunch guest of military brass at the Pentagon within months of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks, Fox News has learned.
The other implication of this study is that technology doesn't contribute nearly as much to economic growth as many people think. Which also means that the 'normal' baseline for economic growth remains stable over long periods of time, and the recessions that followed unusual spurts of higher growth in the 80s and 90s may have been inevitable.
I feel like Amazon has gotten harder to browse, lately.

I'm moving and need to buy things to replace what I used to share with roommates in the kitchen (various utensils and tools). It's become extremely difficult to answer a simple question like "what's the best cooking utensil set?", due to shitty third party products, unclear descriptions, incredibly polarized reviews, and sponsored items taking the "top" listings.

I needed maybe 5 different products, which I reflexively assumed would take maybe 15 minutes of clicking around, but instead it took almost 90. Ironically, I would have been better served popping over to the Target around the corner, where at least I can see the size / quality of what I'm buying.
Don't use an outdated system with smb1 activated.
> That is simply irresponsible and should have been rectified in the purchase contract.

Have you heard the expression "captive market"?

It's not like they can buy equivalent software from a company that guarantees upgrades.
Effective communication is about far more than whether the reader/viewer can eventually understand the material. Even basic presentation skills can make a huge difference both to the speed at which someone can receive and understand new information and to how well they will retain that information later.

Unfortunately, many academics receive little if any training in good presentation before being expected to lecture or write at undergraduate or graduate level, and while some are naturally gifted presenters anyway, most inevitably are not. Consequently, many career academics have no idea how poor their presentation skills are, how ineffective their presentation is as a direct result, or how much better they could be. They just get stuck at a very low level, but without the kind of introductory/remedial training that would be given to someone whose career involved presentation skills in the professional world. And of course if anyone with broader experience dares to suggest that there might be room for improvement, the instinctive reaction is denial.

A little irony is that some of the most engaging and informative presenters I have ever seen or read come from that same community, but despite the emphasis on peer review in their research work, when it comes to soft skills the weaker presenters typically have no idea how bad they are and therefore make no attempt to learn from their stronger colleagues and improve.
> cut...that...shit...out

> I'm just as guilty as anyone

> trying to get better

> trying

Do as I say not as I do?
I hate to think what it would mean to be dependent on SO.

I think overall we are agreeing. USENET and various sites were a huge jump from the state of things before hand, when your available resources really depended on location. SO is a more useful interface on top of that stuff and easier to access, but the real innovation was made decades earlier.