skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"closed as no longer relevant ", I find that is a growing problem with StackOverflow. My colleagues and I personally asked several relevant questions (like this one, that has many upvotes on HN), that were shut down or deleted by StackOverflow heavy-handed mods as "off topic" , "not relevant" etc. This made me give up on contributing and treat it as a read-only resource.
> There really needs to be a version of the Feynman lectures for mathematics.

I asked the question on math.SE:

https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/62190/mathematical-...
Sounds like spanner can't tolerate much drift: "The most serious problem would be if a local clock’s drift were greater than 200us/sec: that would break assumptions made by TrueTime."[1]

[1] http://www.bluetreble.com/2015/10/time-travel/
Yes. They make money on all the Raspberry Pi sold.
The surprise to me is the craziness of that valuation to begin with. And if they were able to make "fundamental changes", why wouldn't they have done it by now? Seems like the path to change will be more difficult with the loss of top execs, low internal morale, and difficulty hiring top talent moving forward. Maybe out of business in 2 years is agressive, but 5 years? Wouldn't surprise me at all.
Could the 51% "bug" in bitcoin actually be used to an advantage here? A 51% vote to invalidate all these transactions? I assume it doesn't work like that but figured I would ask.
His core base elected him on a platform that explicitly refused to touch entitlements. Didn't matter.

> Net Neutrality isn't partisan

Sorry, that's just wrong. This is one of the most partisan issues where actual policy is being changed. There are near zero crossover votes on either side. There are good guys and bad guys, and your refusal to actually put your support behind the good guys is absolutely infuriating to those of us who can see the truth.
Also odd. I'm in San Francisco and I've found most drivers that only drive for Lyft too. When I talk to drivers (now I talk with every driver out of curiosity), they genuinely hate Uber. Maybe they were once Uber, but they've moved networks.
Another option is just to use an old laptop. This is what I tend to do for media servers, TV computers, and the like. People give away or throw away perfectly usable machines all the time.
What drove the decision to forgo a recipe tester? Is it at all driven by the target audience? Will the new book have a professional tester, or does the subject matter make a tester even less necessary?
Is there some philosophical principle under which you believe that companies must "cough up money" for services that they have already ostensibly paid for? That sounds remarkably like extortion.

If Windows XP is proven to be untenably insecure, anyone who bought it should receive a refund.
I'll back you up on that one, even though a few of my posts pointed out some things that I think you should have also considered in your analysis.

The reality is that this little PC is a solid choice to consider for a low-end home server -- especially if you have a particular need/desire for x86[0]. They're different platforms that serve different purposes and a micro-desktop like this has a lot of good uses. I used to use a similar device as my playback PC and loved that I could play back every format without having something have to transcode it for me[1].

It didn't even cross my mind to think of that post as 'advertising' or that you might be the actual seller, and I use affiliate links any time I link to a product where I have an affiliate account. I think I've made $5 over a few years, so I wouldn't be inclined to think the inclusion of an affiliate link causes a post to be considered spammy or a motivation to spam. For me, it's just easier to click the associates banner at the top and get a short-link that way.

Personally speaking, I enjoyed the post and think it had plenty of value even though I didn't agree completely with the conclusion and decided to pull a 'Someone is Wrong on the Internet!'[2]. So to offset this small amount of grief you have received, consider this my 'Many Thanks for Sharing' and encouragement to continue to do so.

[0] Personally, I reload my computer enough and it's always painful for me to go through the steps of setting up my environment for cross-compiling to ARM. I never quite get it right on the first try and often give up half-way through, delaying getting things done that I want to do. If it's x86, I can compile locally and cp away.

[1] I'm not sure if that processor could handle H.265, but at the time I was running this device -- which later became my Plex server -- H.265 didn't exist. If it can play back h.265, that would make this quite a solid product for that purpose.

[2] And this being 10:30 PM, my time, I'm literally: https://xkcd.com/386/
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I saw the formula in Abu-Mustafa's Learning from Data. I don't think it only applied to single hidden layer networks, but I may be wrong. Additionally, the book said the VC dimension is infinite in the general case.

I asked the question on CS stack exchange and no one took issue with the statement that DL had such a large VC dimension. The only counter response was that it didn't matter in practice due to DL's good error scores. But, that still doesn't mean DL is generalizing. Good error is only a necessary condition for generalization, not a sufficient condition.
I'd say most of the important government regulation comes in the form of procurement requirements.

It's far more politically tenable to suggest that "here is a quality that needs to exist in a product the government buys" than "here is something everyone needs to do."

And it just so happens that the US government is a huge buyer, so the market adapts.
It used to not matter so much, often it was possible to replace them with SOP PLC like devices without much work so it made sense to think of them like hardware.
First things first: You talk as if I am just starting out my career. I don't know how you arrived to that conclusion about my job experience from my my last comment- I didn't even state my experience there. I simply stated that my network is lackluster.

I have worked in multiple small (~20 employee) companies, most for over a year and a half. I have 8 years of total experience as a web developer. During that time I have not made any reliable long term contacts that can refer me to any relevant work.

Second, ALL of my past jobs have paid 40-50% of the local market rate. Each one I have earned more money, but it's still well below average for the large Midwest city that I'm in.

Every few months I return to Facebook, post to my feed so friends can see, announcing that I'm still looking for work and if anyone knows someone looking for a web developer. Usually I get no replies.

So you see, even with my years of experience, I have been unable to rely on a network for jobs, and recruiters have also been ineffective.

Now, with this new information I have given you, I am more curious to see what you would suggest, as something more tailor-made to my career experience.
No thanks. I'll take new over used.

Just just got a W zero for $24 CAD shipped (Vancouver)
The hackability of the GPIO pins is what keeps me going back to Raspberry Pi.
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This is a pretty sweet deal on a Pi 3:

https://www.wdc.com/products/wdlabs/wd-picompute-centre.html...
This might help:

http://researchcenter.paloaltonetworks.com/2017/05/palo-alto...
True, but FreeBSD can't guarantee perpetual security for releases. It also doesn't provide warranties, like the majority of software out there.

FWIW, I do hold FreeBSD in high regard. It's just that expecting perfection security-wise from complex systems is a fools errand.
I already have held four different jobs as a web developer and still have no good network. See my reply to "developer2" for more details.
Great point. Also, the Pi can be powered off USB batteries, so you could run it basically anywhere for a non-trivial amount of time, really easily. The Pi's lack of reliance on wall power is one of it's neatest features, I think.
And the article said it would be a pretty good Plex Server as long as you don't care about transcoding. Doesn't that kind of defeat the purpose of a Plex Server? If I wanted a small single use, flexible, media server, I would get an Nvidia Shield for $200.
RPI has hardware mpeg decode
I can see that having a small command would make it easier to give positive feedback (which is important, since negative feedback has a much heavier emotional weight), but have you noticed any devaluing of positive feedback due to how easy or common it is to give it?
If it doesn't serve use-cases you're interested in, it shouldn't exist?

EDIT: On the other hand, is leasing out space to a commercial coffee stand a revenue stream that libraries — particularly smaller, less well-funded ones — might consider?
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It depends on values. Many of a certain age grew up in an environment that placed less emphasis on benefits to an individual and/or their employer and more on "gettin' it done".

Not endorsing either POV, just noting that one's formative era affects one's behavior.
sounds like you did a pretty scientific study of liberals. come on, mudil - you can do better than such weak stereotyping.
The emoji-scale 1-5, how exactly do you define that scale? Do you give feedback on a per-person basis or company wide? Say I have a team of 3 engineers, all with "Senior" title however I expect one to naturally outperform the other two.

This quarter s/he's slacked a bit, maybe s/he's not as driven or it's something personal - but s/he's still performing just as well as the other two engineers who've both performed exceptionally well and I'm giving them both a 5.

Do I give the engineer I expected to do better a 5? Or a 4? I mean I expected them to do better but I'm still really happy with their work.
I have an old Core 2 Duo 2.66Ghz laptop that can handle 2 streams transcoding at once with Plex. You can buy a refurb Core 2 Duo for less than $200. Why bother with an Atom?
Maybe "selfish" isn't quite right. More like self-interested. Or not community-minded. I'm guessing that those opposed to public services would prefer private services. So perhaps a subscription-based library system. With free services for the poor, funded by donations. But would that provide as much social benefit as a public service? I tend to doubt it.

Maybe libraries are a moot point, given the Internet. But the same issues come up for schools, police, fire, roads, bridges, etc. I mean, I have no children, so paying for schools seems like a rip-off sometimes. But on the other hand, I like living in a society that's at least somewhat literate.
The problem I see is that businesses are not agnostic to the lifestyle choices of their employees.

The parent comment said:

"As long as they are offer equal pay for equal work they should be largely agnostic to the lifestyles choices of their employees"

But that's the rub: in many jobs you can actually accomplish more by working long hours, and often those are exactly the jobs that carry prestige and high salaries (banking, surgery, etc.) So employers can't be agnostic with respect to that particular lifestyle choice and still offer equal pay for equal work.

If women are trading off work hours for free time, what people are really asking for is increased pay for women and decreased pay for men, based on faulty understanding of the marginal value of free time.
Studio 360's latest episode is about Twin Peaks
http://www.wnyc.org/shows/studio/
Carbon Saturated Caused Jurassic drop in ocean oxygen lasted a million years
Read quite a bit about it over the weekend. For anybody else who's interested in it:

- South Canyon Fire: https://youtu.be/ZzGTjfTHihU

- Yarnell Hill Fire: https://www.outsideonline.com/1926426/19-true-story-yarnell-...
Lyft barely exists outside of the US. Uber is still on top if you take a global view.
It's not as simple as saying a given program is a waste. The government procurement system is incredibly wasteful. Instead of actually going with the lowest bidder they intentionally order parts from lots of different Congressional districts. Otherwise funding won't get approved. A prime example of what happens when you can escape government procurement is SpaceX.

Beyond that there's huge obvious ones that come along all the time like the F22s we keep buying more of even though the military doesn't want them. This of course is a jobs program for engineers and a way to again funnel money into the districts which all these random parts are procured.
There are no hard concepts, only bad explanations
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By the Curry–Howard correspondence, programming is in fact (formal) theorem proving.

Mathematics got a lot less interesting after I realized it amounted to a giant, informally-specified, mostly undocumented body of code designed to run on the human brain... from that perspective it's hard to see why one should prefer mathematics to a well-written software program that does the same thing.
I define something that is public as being available to use regardless of your standing.

If you have e.g. public health system, and public education, at high standards, your chance of success is to a vastly greater degree decoupled from the wealth of your family, or the suburb you live in.

The benefit is that society as a whole gets richer, you reduce crime, etc etc. Basically what comes around goes around.

To be opposed to having great public benefits e.g. just because you are from a family of great wealth and are unwilling to share some of that for the greater good is thus something I ultimately define as selfish. I also think it is short sighted, as no matter how well off you are the higher the chances you'll be affected by things like crime.

Hopefully this explains my thinking.
Much of the problem lies with future unfunded obligations in Social Security. When Social Security was enacted, the average life expectancy was 61 and the full retirement age was 65 - the average person died before getting a dime. This is no longer the case, and it's why the program is going bankrupt. I, at 35 years of age, am not planning to ever receive social security & am saving at a rate that reflects that (slightly over Dave Ramsey's recommended 15%). I will vote ASAP to raise the full retirement age to 84, which is 4 years after the national average life expectancy of 79. Doing this will fill in a significant portion of the hole that prior generations have dug.

I would also support raising the retirement age for women to a higher value than that for men, due to the difference in life expectancy. Equal opportunity to collect, and all (ducks head to dodge flying objects). OK, maybe I'm half kidding about that, but dead serious about everything else.
Valuation differs from cash in the bank.

Uber could be valued at a gazillion $, but if it can't make payroll in 90 days, it's got a problem that would be tough to fix, given the apparent lack of a profitable business model.
If you have a microcenter near you, you get the cpu / ASRock mini-itx mobo (with dc input) for < $50. I have a couple of these in tiny m350 cases and have been very happy.
yea it seems Z: is mapped to the root fs, so if wine has the right permissions it could cause some damage.
For the same reason that when liberals are in government they give you a right-wing healthcare bill and expand 2 wars to 7. Because as the now infamous Princeton study demonstrated, Congress doesn't care what voters want. http://www.upworthy.com/20-years-of-data-reveals-that-congre...
Sure, it is an easy process but you get a lower royalty from Amazon if you are not exclusive for them. My books sell better on lean pub, but I have also started publishing via the Kindle platform.
I really wish this were the case. It would be nice if more organizations were more action oriented against malvertisement. I seem to recall there was one blog / news site that got rid of Google Adsense from their website here on HN not over a year ago, and I'm sure others have. It's really sad that Google doesn't put any effort (that we know, though we would see less of this) against these advertisements.
Tesla has working, autonomous software running on vehicles in the real world gathering real data that can be used to improve. They're also a car manufacturer.

They didn't "just recently figure out factories are more difficult than cars" but even if they did the market is so immature for self driving that they would have several years to build up manufacturing capabilities. It wouldn't matter.
Actually, it's on a smaller scale but I was thinking a "Digg - Reddit" analogy was more appropriate.

Reddit was much smaller than Digg for years: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=2005-06-01%202... . Reddit was definitely "the little engine that could" for about 6 years, but it was really in 2010 when Digg imploded with the self-inflicted wounds of Digg v4 when Reddit really took off.

In other words, MySpace losing to Facebook seemed largely because Facebook just had a better product (cleaner, focused on real identities), while Digg, like Uber, largely was the victim of self-inflicted wounds.
Did anyone else catch Ajit Pai's first public comment since we flooded the FCC with pro-net neutrality comments? [1]

If he thinks that is hip or cool, he's completely out of touch.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBt84HNAGwU
Well, the locked-down nature of iOS and Chrome OS are what make them markedly more secure than a general purpose computer in the face of real-world threats. Just this week, my Mom's Chromebook kept her safe from what appears to have been a targeted attack (someone sent her an email with a link to a malicious .ru domain and my name in the From header). That locked-down design is also why I'm writing this response on a Chromebook.

It's for good reason that Tech Solidarity and other security-conscious organizations recommend using iOS and Chromebooks where possible: https://techsolidarity.org/resources/basic_security.htm

Of course, we must fight tooth and nail against any regulations that would restrict access to general-purpose computing, or put limits on connecting a general-purpose computer to the Internet. But it's important to remember that there are absolutely legitimate reasons to use and recommend locked-down machines, and that the most technically adept of us will use a combination of both categories of computing device in our lives.
That's an interesting way to put it. Facebook seemed destined to overtake MySpace as it provided useful data connections (college courses/networks) and a uniform design that MySpace did not have. Lyft has pretty much been trying to be a drop-in replacement for Uber (to be fair, Uber nicked a few ideas from Lyft), with no projects like automation or even Uber's attempts at being a delivery service. If Lyft ends up winning, it's going to be a much more unexpected win than Facebook over MySpace.

Edit: the innovation of the News Feed can't be overstated. IIRC, MySpace had nothing like it and it's hard to remember Facebook before it.
Yep, I was running a beaglebone black doing basic network services from the USB port on my DSL router! Very handy.
Cyberattack Aftershock Feared as U.S. Warns of Its Complexity
And so does infinity.
Used laptops are a great option for a home server. I think people tend to overlook them because it seems counter intuitive to use a laptop as a server. It's actually super practical though. Nice to have things like a built-in display, keyboard, wifi, battery, etc when you need them.
Many people agree with you, but I like the process. I do sometimes take a month off with no writing, but not very often.
I purchased one of these and installed CouchDB, Apache web server, and some webs I've made and it will serve those apps just fine to a small office full of desktops connected to a LAN.

I've made web apps for managing Contacts, Quotes, Invoices, Expenses, Income Reports, ToDo, Chat, and others. I can back up all my data to a remote server (IBM Cloudant for example), and to another Pi in-house as well.

And I've configured it to boot off of the Hard Drive. You don't even need an SD card in it to boot.

Plus, it comes with all the apps already installed on Raspbian so it works well as a desktop PC too. That's a pretty sweet deal.
No, no one will agree to reverse transactions in bitcoin. When half a billion dollars got lost in MtGox no one agreed either.
I've said this before, but there's something I don't like about this paper: it covers essentially 2 different things. That makes it confusing for people to try to understand or summarize.

One part is the Logjam protocol flaw in TLS.

The other is the mathematical precomputation attack against DH. It would cost $100M (well within NSA's budget) and matches capabilities show in Snowden slides. This seems to me like the more important half of the paper, but all the media focused on the Logjam half.
I guessed this would happen in a previous comment. Lyft being second fiddle in the ride sharing business has allowed them to take advantage of all of Uber's accumulating missteps. Partnering with GM and now Google it seems that this will be like android. Waymo provides self driving car software . Lyft is like a cell phone carrier providing logistics and the network, and GM provides cars (hardware) which would be like Samsung.

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14321265
I just wish this show was more realistic. Everyone knows you can't just fire the head of the FBI for investigating you. It would be way too obvious.
>> possible suicide, why not?

> Pills, gasoline, secrecy, destroyed evidence and fake foreign passports all sound like parts adding up to professional homicide.

Or just unmanaged mental illness, leading to suicide. A lot of the reason things are unexplainable or confusing might be that there is no logical or coherent rationale for them - they are simply the paranoid responses to delusional fantasies.
It's called an M.Sc.
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I've historically had the opposite problem. I find attempts in both science and mathematics textbooks to provide some sort of real world context to be distracting and wasteful. I remember that impression going all the way back to high school, but the most recent memory comes from early in college. My discrete math book had some chapter that started with a page and a half about volcanoes.

Volcanoes.

Why are you wasting my precious time with this nonsense before getting to the meat? There are other things I need to read and study. There are problems I need to use these ideas to solve... and not only the ones in the textbook.

But then, I can also recognize that such winding introductions to a subject or an idea might be helpful to people who "get bored" as the author describes. Though I suspect the remedy might be to acquire and deliberately practice study skills. It would be nice if publishers sold versions of their textbooks both with and without what the individual posing the original question would identify as "motivation." I tend to think of it as fatty prose.
A Reddit app is removed from Google Play for "content policy violation"
Assuming we class XP as a defective product, at what point do we stop requiring recalls? If there is a safety defect in a 2001 model car, will it be required to have a recall?

Given that MS even made a patch (which is generally equivalent to a recall), I'm not sure that your suggestion will be given that much credence. I mean, if we say that XP is an unsafe product, the government could stop them from selling it and to remove it from the shelves, but MS stopped selling the product in 2008 (nearly 10 years ago) and has repeated urged its customers to stop using it because it is insecure. This is all that the government generally requires in this situation as far as I can tell.

Edit: grammar