skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also, in general when a story disappears while not being a dupe:

> Users flagged it. That's nearly always the explanation.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14337524
> one of these issues is a matter of life and death and the other one is not

Saying the wage gap isn't a matter of life and death is dishonest. It absolutely is. The worldwide life expectancy gap between the sexes is about 5 years; the life expectancy gap between the richest and poorest Americans is 15 years[1].

[1]http://news.mit.edu/2016/study-rich-poor-huge-mortality-gap-...
I'm of two minds about WASM.

There's the Alan Kay attitude that we can build entire systems on top of minimal VM's, rather than sacrificing power to bake in more facilities. But even he says that too much time has been wasted by teams reinventing the wheel (or flat tire) who didn't really have the chops to do it.

The other side of that, then, is the great potential for interop that Javascript offers. We now have a worldwide platform with a built-in presentation layer and a highly-optimized interpreter with useful, reflectable data structures out of the box. (edit i.e. it's a viable platform for metaprogramming... the endgame of which is JS-in-JS (see "prepack")).

I would love to see a future in which the browser (and "personal" computer generally) remained a locus of significant computation. In practice, I suspect that highly-intensive tasks (mostly AI stuff) will continue to be done on servers, not because we lack the processing power, but because end users will have signed away the custody of all data worth processing. If that is the case, then WASM's role will be to fill a fairly marginal gap, between what JS can do, and what has to be farmed out anyway.

So ultimately I hope that WASM offers a lifeline to the computing power that individuals still have. But given the state of JS (after huge investments), it feels like starting over again.
I believe this is solved by NixOS, by the way.
I spent $300 on a refurbished 3ghz HP tower for my HTPC. I don't understand why everyone wants to run Plex and do all that downloading on toy hardware. The time saved during setup and operation due to it being a faster machine pays the difference.
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Webscale? I don't know, and I am really unclear as to why people are already writing about webASM, there is hardly an agreed-upon standard so far. In my professional opinion as a Computational Scientist, I believe a LISP-like graphically-enabled DSL for the Web that worked simply and easily with: Web Forms, Graph Query for endpoints, and had a sensible GUI layering would be perfect for the next 200 years of screen.

I think that the issue comes in when people call it WebASM. ASM had different aims in 1960 than in 2017. In 1960 ASM was about minimizing register overlap and utilizing max CPU efficiency reels. Now, you have no idea what hardware your Web-whatever is going to run on, so how could you possibly optimize for CPU? The only real optimization would be optimizing software-engineer/developer attention+visualization and that would only come with an incredibly elegant breakdown of what screens need for a coder to be happy long into the future.

If there were some easy way for manufacturers to add "component" definitions for hardware devices, perhaps WebASM could become something amazing. However, the name ASM is likely to throw off too many would-be devs. At any rate, it's not meant to be assembly for the web, it's meant to be skeletal scaffolding for your amazing, native apps. Why else even bother.
By "mathematically neat" I mean what you said; periodic function composition which is a nice general model in the mathematical sense but not specific to audio synthesis like the "ADSR" model is. So we may be singing from the same hymnbook here.

What I meant by advanced digital techniques is I suppose anything that takes things into the frequency domain, manipulates and converts back. Physical Modelling, Impulse Responses and Digital FM are all fine things but not in this category. I used to have a plugin that did weird things like let you stretch or clip the frequency domain for example. i.e. a 1-2khz bandlimited signal would become a 0.5-4khz signal. Some of the effects in Razor also do things in frequency domain that you wouldn't really do in the standard subtractive model.

My personal perception of Razor is that if you don't use those effects then it just sounds like a subtractive synth (same as before), while if you do use them it sounds a bit lo-fi (undesirable in my book though I appreciate that can be an artistic choice). Digital FM on the other hand sounds very clean to me.
It doesn't look like that particular link has been previously posted though.
I would have put two more pins and made it an integer power of two. And it would have looked nice on the bottom! (64 x 64)
... of a submission which got flagged and disappeared
Two years of Rust
Literally every republican with a stake (i.e. the FCC board, and those responsible for nominating/confirming them) endorses this policy. It's literally the party line position.

I think this citation needs to go the other way: which republican do you know who have come out in favor of the current net neutrality regime. I honestly can't think of one.
Which was flagged... Why?
Said dupe was ON TOP of the home page, whereas the other entry was definitively not popular.
Result: the news has been buried.
Am I allowed to say I smell something foul?
possibly, but I am just contempt on updating. I don't do anything illegal on this computer. I use it for browsing and playing games on steam, I think I am pretty safe.

You can really avoid like 90% of the shit by...

* Not going on shady sites

* Not getting scammed via Phishing

* Not pirating (you know, its really funny how most illegal 'patches' say, oh yeah patch is detected as trojan and its a false positive)
What about it? The money has been spent. Its not either or.

Also
https://www.logicallyfallacious.com/tools/lp/Bo/LogicalFalla...
BGR logic strikes again. There is a world of difference between a backdoor and an exploit...

Neither is desirable but one can at least be secured by a key or something.
Blocking / The cost of context switching
think it's funny you say that when the company I see the most employees from on HN is Google.
Sony has fairly unique system: Install an app, move it to the SD card, the update will install it back to internal memory. You have to move it again, manually. And again, and again, after each update.

Or just leave them all on the internal system, until a system utility wakes up to the fact that there is not enough space, and suggest moving apps to the sdcard. After few rounds of updates, rinse and repeat.
You spend a lot of money on consumer goods.
US and CA Millennials expect Tesla to sell the most self-driving cars in 10 years
"3 pages available to preview"

Man I hate Scribd. Why does anyone use it? No, I do not want to download your app to read a PDF, and I don't understand why CNBC published it through your service.
Frustrating because most searches would link to Experts Exhange - which looked like pretty much like Stack Overflow behind a paywall.
in my personal experience: no lawyer in NL will accept this. At least not for SE jobs where in doubt every other company could be in a similiar field.
so don't worry.
nevertheless, i wont ever accept such a clause again in any of my contracts
Supporting an infinite number of configurations has nothing to do with installing arbitrary apps that you never wanted, automatically changing your default apps and wallpaper, and silently turning back on various spying "features" that you had intentionally turned off.
The damages caused by US agencies* are easily underestimated. It's not just the equipment rendered useless and data lost due to their software. It's also the millions of hours spent by IT departments worldwide battling with infected computers and securing not yet infected computers. Damages are easily in the tens of billions of USD.

And then there is the loss of credibility of the US government and the companies involved.

*Edit: FBI changed to US agencies.
That's my thinking too. PCA completely ignores the phase shift symmetry and treats a phase-shifted sine wave as a different thing.

One could definitely get something better if they took the audio-loops as translation-invariant. I thought about trying to do a symmetry-invariant (or 'group-action-invariant') PCA but I could not find a good way of doing that. More advanced methods, e.g. 1-d convolutional networks, WaveNet etc. do have this translation-invariance built into them.

Interestingly, the second eigenvector is not just a phase-shifted version of the first eigenvector but contains slightly higher frequency information as well, but I agree totally with what you said.
Both Facebook and YouTube have very strong network effects protecting them from competition. A self-driving taxi service would have no network effect - a better analogy is to the airline industry.
Of course, this doesn't end the negotiations, it just means that that privacy advocates have just gained a bit of leverage. Now, how do they use it?
I guess it depends on your use case, but after years of running a couple ARM based devices as a home network/NAS server I switched back to an x86. Keeping the ARMs working is just to much effort, and the ARM devices with good support (rpi) don't have reasonable storage or networking options.

The prime example was crashplan. Every year or so they would push a new package, and I would end up taking their jar files apart to replace the native x86 packages with ARM binaries. Then there was the ongoing problems with performance or running out of RAM on machines with soldered RAM. Today you can get low power skylake motherboard/celerons which are sub 15 watts in normal operation and and have very fine grained power controls which allow them to go into suspend or idle below 5W.
Half of my Amazon packages are now delivered by an Amazon van or by some guy's personal vehicle with an Amazon magnet on it. I believe they're a mix of the Flex[1] program the author referred to and private companies Amazon is contracting[2]. Not a stretch to see them adding pickup as a service and competing directly with USPS, UPS, FedEx etc. See also the companies they're acquiring in this area[3].

[1] https://flex.amazon.com/

[2] https://logistics.amazon.com/

[3] http://www.seattletimes.com/business/amazon/amazons-delivery...
This is really interesting. Firstly, I wonder how fundamental notebooks have becoming to the preparation phase in the last couple of years (to avoid https://cacm.acm.org/system/assets/0001/3683/long-filenames....).

It also strikes me that a lot of these problems in dissemination have been solved to a large degree in software development. I guess 'writing code everyday' and 'knowing how to architect systems and use software development principles' are getting increasingly less mutually exclusive, which lends itself well to further abstractions.

Distribution is one of the things we deal with most frequently at https://nstack.com. We let data scientists deploy their models into bit-for-bit reproducible modules which run in the cloud and can be composed with various data sources. Because these are semantically versioned and packaged on the server as bit-for-bit reproducible builds, this solves the fact that "one's own operating system and software inevitably get upgraded in some incompatible manner such that the original code no longer runs". Our background was in writing programming languages, so we took a lot of the ideas of type-safety and composition and applied them to this problem.

Actually the most common way we see dissemination solved in enterprises is folks writing back to the warehouse and using Looker / Tableau to visualise, with a workflow like:

import Redshift:0.1.0 as Redshift
import CustomerModel:0.0.2 as Classifier

def workflow = Schedule { interval = "Daily"} | Redshift.query("cookies.sql") | Classifier.predict | Redshift

Looking forward to jumping into his http://pgbovine.net/cde.html project. We explored a ton of solutions here (including Nix), but ended up settling on btrfs.
Returning the files proves he has them. This isn't restitution, it's a play for an employer to skirt the 5th amendment. While he will not be forced to testify against himself, his employment is now tied to his willingness to do so.
I use an iPad Pro almost daily. My experience has been that the high-productivity, specialty specific apps I would use haven't caught up. To a great extent, the IT departments are still struggling with the cloud-vs-local problem, let alone any serious amount of mobile, or mobile-ish, apps.
You shouldn't have to complain though. Amazon knows exactly when it was ordered, when it was delivered, and the delivery time frame they advertised.
Migratory birds bumped off schedule as climate change shifts spring
Usability testing from clickable prototype to product: Q&A WhatUsersDo
If two people know one secret is one to many. How many people in USA work for the FBI, CIA, NSA, police departments, have top secret security clearances? Millions of them. One is all it takes, as shown by Snowden, Manning etc.

So thanks, but no thanks.
> As for philanthropy, welcome to the US. It has always been a social quirk of the US for people and companies to step in. Its what they do. Its a social agreement built on history. It should be celebrated, not demonized.

That's hardly unique to the US. Many (most?) of the world's religions have a similar call to action, to give to people in need. Though some are more inclusive (anyone in need) and others more exclusive (members of the religious community).
Waste of money?

To have a constant high speed IoT-like connection to the web for real-time updating and such?

I am sure some sort of volume discounts could be negotiated as well.
This. Make some company out to be the boogeyman du jour, then tell that lie often enough until most people believe it and it has spread all the way around the world with no chance of the truth catching up. It's bullshit, and I'm amazed that so many HNers that typically express healthy skepticism fall for it.
Are you an Uber employee? Curious for full disclosure.

I'm an Alphabet employee but not one working on Waymo-related projects, nor am I a lawyer who feels qualified to comment on this situation. Wish Groklaw was still around to interpret these rulings for us :(.
Author here! This post goes over using Assertible to run automated smoke tests after deploying an app from Codeship.

Do you or your team have a similar approach to deployment testing?

The code for the tutorial is on GitHub: https://github.com/assertible/ruby-example
Ok, I'd love to understand why a perfectly regular piece of news was flagged, then.
Definitively something not transparent going on, on a very sensitive subject for the community.
No, I do not. It helps to remember that "Communist country" is an oxymoron; a Communist society is a stateless one.
You had to spend many hours reading lots and lots of other people's code. You still do, but many people seem to find that distasteful. I don't know what they're bitching about because it's MUCH easier to find and read other people's code these days than it used to be, with github search and google.
Developing Human Connectome Project is scanning the brains of babies UK
DocumentCloud version (posted by Forbes): https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3720936-Unsealed-Ord...
You probably wouldn't believe, but we used to read assembly code in books and magazines and wrote resident programs for MS-DOS, used to load custom bitmap fonts to imitate the Norton Utilities fancy UI and stuff like that. I'm an oldfag, you see.
As a side note, the delay to release PDB symbols on MS's symbol server after a Patch Tuesday has been at least days and sometimes more than a week for the last two months (at least for the Win10 symbols I tried). I use them a lot with WinDbg.
It's not a word in common usage.
Neither me, nor anyone else here that I asked had ever heard of that word at all.
I had to google for it.
Honestly, do you believe your complaints will get passed the call center worker in Banglore who doesn't even understand the problem up to someone who can do something other than give you a free movie rental to shut you up?

Hint: the answer is no.
What Heroin Addiction Tells Us About Changing Bad Habits: Shots (2015)
Show HN: Machinery – asynchronous task queue (Golang implementation of Celery)
"I still sort of regret installing Windows 10 to this day because of the obnoxious Cortana bar it foisted upon my start menu that I can't get rid of. And yet not installing Windows 10 would've left me less secure with an OS hitting EOL for security updates much sooner."

Running an MS OS has been a one-way ticket to owned for roughly 18 years now.[1]

You are fragile to these things because you choose to be - not because this is a necessary condition of participating on computer networks.

This ransomware attack was based on an SMB vuln. One of the stuxnet vectors was an autorun vuln.[2] Would you wake the fuck up and see that it is 2017 and you're getting owned by SMB and autorun vulns ?

[1] Melissa virus was 1999, BO2k was 2000.

[2] Has any single file caused more mayhem in the world than autorun.inf ? The net negative effect of autorun.inf on the world must be in the tens of billions of dollars by now.
Intent matters. If your intent was to trigger the destruction of data, you'd probably still be slapped with the obstruction of justice charges.
There's an interesting inflection point when it comes to age and politics nowadays. Ossoff is 30 and is now the best hope the Dems have at picking up a seat in suburban Hillary country. Macron, at 39, is the youngest French leader ever elected (emphasis on elected) and the youngest head of state.

Granted, both had deep experience in politics before cutting their skin in the game and staking themselves out in a major way. But I no longer see age and perceived experience as a major obstacle to policy-making and electability -- especially in an age where most people are yearning for a different kind of politics.
His point stands. You might have 3 uses, I might have 5. But what's likely is that neither of us are going to benefit too greatly by upgrading to the latest and greatest. So we stick to what we have.
> one can at least be secured by a key or something

Which can be leaked.
> In Airbus planes however, the input is merged together instead. If one pilot pulls up, and one is pushing down, nothing really happens.

Which is just crazy! I wonder who the product manager who thought "what should happen if one pilot is pushing on the stick and the other is pulling? I know, just average them and fly straight" was. There are various things you can do in that situation that would kind of make sense (the Boeing design being the best), and that is not one of them.
I don't think this is the reason why most people (non tech savvy) look to turning off Windows Update.

Most people don't know/care about Windows Update pushing features.

However most people DO care when their computers spontaneously reboot themselves with no warning (sometimes even in the middle of "active hours"!) which is what msft has set by default (and indeed has/had no UI to modify in some versions of Win10)
This is a lot of sturm-und-drang over nothing. These arguments aren't "vague," the meanings of the words involved are pretty clear. People routinely offer suggestions about how to deal with emotional and physical issues based on anecdotes or claims that a few studies here and there offer evidence that maybe there is something to it. Lots of things people do to handle their issues, especially emotionally, wouldn't pass a clinical trial because those standards are extremely rigorous (and they should be) and it can be impractical or unethical to perform a sufficiently well controlled test.

But just because it's not adequately supported to pass a clinical trial doesn't mean there isn't something to it or even that claims are "unsupported." You can support a claim lots of ways, including with anecdotes or even just inductive reasoning. It's one thing to say that it doesn't clear the bar for proof we expect of the FDA or to establish a scientific consensus, but that's different from intimating that they're liars.

They made a mistake in their ad copy, that's clear enough. But mistakes like these are common when amateurs try to start up a business or pursue an interest. Claims that they're snake-oil salesmen or frauds because they spoke colloquially, rather than couching terms in the vague messaging of people steeped in the business culture and lingo of health supplements, pharmaceuticals, or medical device manufacturers is really excessive.
I think for better or worse, a lot of HN users don't like seeing politics on the homepage. Similar posts about other polticians get flagged quickly as well. I don't think it needs to be any more complicated than that.

I do think politics has some place on HN. Some of my favorite threads last year were after Brexit and the U.S. presidential election results, and I was disappointed to see that two of my recent submissions about the middle east were flagged as soon as they began to gain traction.
I wouldn't ever bet against Musk, but Musk says a lot of things. Yes we should be able to make self driving cars with just cameras because, after all, we do it with just two eyes. But in what world is computer vision perfect? Tesla's Autopilot already has a fatality on its record because it couldn't differentiate the color of the sky with the color of a truck.

LIDAR solves a lot of problems.
Of course you are allowed to say that, but at the same time, I would have totally flagged that story if I had seen it for the same reasons I flagged this one: I don't live in the US, I don't care about politics, and I have no interest in random rumors.
There's an even better breakdown here that has graphs showing the submission times of the comments. There is suddenly 15 thousand identical comments submitted in 1 minute before "turning off" the next minute.

https://medium.com/@csinchok/an-analysis-of-the-anti-title-i...
Eh, it's not that bad, just do it before or after the flight.

Source: Did it as a child twice
I believe many in the military would simple say that Total War doctrine, present since perhaps the US Civil War and definitely by World War I, would argue bombing patents to get at command-and-control would be acceptable during times of war.

Now before everyone buries me, total war is a rather rare military state, and probably only present a select few times in the 20th century.
EmojiOne is probably the best... depending on how you use it, there's a free license.
Disable updates then you can use http://www.windowsupdatesdownloader.com/
But it's not a perfectly regular piece of news. It's a rumor. Hacker News isn't a gossip site. If/when Sam announces he's running the announcement will not get flagged.
A hoarded vulnerability and a hoarded backdoor key are difficult to distinguish is this context, ie, leaking of either results in the same catastrophe.
So every time a pilot wants to use the restroom and return, he has to wake up the whole plane and ask them to vote him in? I feel like your proposal addresses the one-in-a-billion case and doesn't think at all about the multiple-times-per-flight case.
For me, which was just before stack overflow, it was dodging and weaving through forums and getting grilled on rather it was a homework question or someone copy and pasting the forum FAQ about searching the forum, etc, before posting.

Also, one big reason I think PHP was my go-to was the easiness of the manual (http://php.net/function_name_here)
Maybe now that I'm older I notice it more than I did when I first joined.