skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Russia/"hacked election" meme is amazing. With very little actual evidence, careful use of linguistic framing, and a lot of angry rhetoric on all sides, the public was successfully scared into wasting their time and energy fighting among themselves over hearsay and rumor, instead of addressing any of the numerous actual, known problems that are already known and far more likely to impact the average citizen.

If there's actual evidence of an actual crime, then present it to the public and the court. In the meantime, healthcare is still a huge mess, regulatory capture is keeps getting worse (an isn't limited to the FCC), systemic corruption continues to erode the public sector as politicians - regardless of party affiliation - spend increasing amounts of time "dialing for dollars"[1], wealth inequality continues to get worse, and the military-industrial complex is still a money pump that starts the occasional war.

There is a lot of important work to do, but this denial of service attack against everyone's political time and energy has been a very successful distraction.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ylomy1Aw9Hk
As a step before firing for a junior employee that shows any sign of promise, a 3-6 month performance improvement plan with regular check-ins and measurable progress points could make a world of difference. I currently have multiple juniors on PIP's and they are taking them very seriously and improving less than acceptable behaviors.
Good call! That's changed then since I last looked at the license (probably about four years ago or so when I purchased version 2 and version 3 was going to be the paid upgrade).

So they dodged my point two. I hope they don't amplify point 1 with that move.

[Update] Actually, this is not fully correct in regard to my point. I re-read your link and this is the key bits.

"Until such time, upgrading is not required, as Sublime Text 3 will accept Sublime Text 2 license keys during the beta period. [...] For customers who purchased in the 90 days prior to the announcement of Sublime Text 3 [Jan 2013], we are reducing the cost of upgrading from $15 down to $11. Customers who purchased Sublime Text 2 before this time period are still subject to a $30 upgrade fee when 3.0 is released."

So version 2 subscribers are not automatically grandfathered into version 3; there is a class of version 2 users that are, but not all. Apparently there is a time at which they considered licensing to be version 3. http://www.sublimetext.com/blog/articles/upgrades.

So for example, I bought a version 2 license in 2012, have been using version 3 since 2013... an automatic update to a full release version would force the update issue.
"democratizing the IoT with AI" thats buzzword bingo.
Perhaps. However, it is also likely that technological advances will make the level of quality of life quite close whether you are wealthy or not.
This [unmanned cargo applications] is assuming you're flying it over uninhabited areas the Hindenburg was fortunate in that when it came down it wasn't over, say, Manhattan or over one of the many areas highly prone to forest fire. However I do like the idea of an unmanned airship doing long haul delivery over calmer parts of the ocean.
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The supercharger network is impressive, for sure. But here in the Northeast there are enough CCS DC Fast charging stations available for use and more on the way, making the couple of times I do 200+ mile road trips each year not a big deal. 99% of the time I will be using a Level 2 EVSE at home, just like the Tesla folks will. Appearance-wise, I just don't care much because I've never been into sports cars. I think the Bolt is cute and the hatchback style makes it a good family car which is exactly what I was looking for. For those that like sexy sports cars and wouldn't be caught dead in a car that might as well come with those stick family stickers on the rear windshield, Tesla is the clear winner.
I personally had invalid dependencies generated with shrinkwrap which did not work with a "npm install" after and had to edit the file manually so I would say it's not yet there.
Rather BSOD. BSD stands for a certain unix-like distribution, and has little to do with Windows ;)
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Insofar as a political party is benefiting from the bad actions of members, I'm not going to feel bad about it at this point.

If you look at individual actions only, it is easy to write things off. But I am not a prosecutor, and when we cross some critical mass of "isolated incidents", I start thinking the "bad apples" have spoiled the whole barrel, to actually use that cliche correctly for a change.

I'm sure there's a member or three of the Penn State frathouse recently in the news who weren't culpable in that kid's death, too.
That's a great question.

It currently happens in the cloud (purely a software design decision), but we could probably do it locally as well since the NN is already trained.

We were thinking of having similar TOS as normal note editing software (Evernote, Dropbox Paper) to mitigate security concerns. What do you think?
I wonder if it can read my handwriting when I can only read it about 95% of the time :-)
That seems like a wierd expectation for evaluating peoples home side projects.

One reason people do side projects to develop and demonstrate effectiveness with technologies they don't use at work.

If I saw someone using a familiar and established stack to build fininshed, highly polished applications as side projects... I'd assume they were trying to make a product. That's what you do when you are making a product. You'd need to bring it up because they might be more interested in building their own startup than working for me.
For those who want to try something like this with little fuss, check out Proof of Existence:

https://proofofexistence.com/
No however it is well known that the US and Russian missile projects benefited hugely from the knowledge and expertise of WW2 German rocket scientists.

The most prominent example been
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wernher_von_Braun#Involvement_...

Also do some reading around Operation Paperclip.

The Russians had similar programs.
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Yeah, you're right. Their guide even has screenshots for each step, which I hadn't noticed before. Anyway, the purpose of the article was to increase awareness of those amazing tools. I find it surprising that many people are not aware they can recover their data without paying for a commercial application.
I'm not so worried about a near browser monoculture if Chrome is the dominant browser.

With IE Microsoft was originally driven to use the web to maintain Windows lock in, to control the platform.

Google (I would assume) is driven by the desire to keep the web as desireable a development platform overall. Web usage means ad sales. Google has knocked it out of the park on this one. Chrome really is an incredible piece of software.

IE by comparison has always been a piece of shit because it never mattered. Microsoft was leveraging it for OS adoption not a successful web.

Today it's the web vs. apps and who knows what it will be in the future. This may sound crazy to some but the web will become a "truck" to some other technology's "car". Sort of how desktop office productivity apps are a monoculture and no one really cares.
Well these are the hurdles that Clojure needs to get over. And it's not good enough that Python fails because R and Julia are competing with Python. So is Matlab. So to take the ML pole position, Clojure would need to gain traction beyond all of these.

So I don't have a reasonable doubt when I say "Clojure will take not the machine learning niche from Python."
Just close down the place leave absolutely no markings outside. Probability that somebody will just start digging in some random place is quite low.

Also the waste is stored several hundred meters deep and all the tunnels will be filled. This means accessing the waste later will require significant effort and reasonably advanced technology (which means those doing the digging would likely be aware of radiation).
I use Chrome begrudgingly at times because I value its security record. The fact that in 2017 you still can't do tabs in a vertical row down the side, or the fact that when too many tabs are open (you know, like...always), you can't tell what is actually open in that tab...these are the reasons I'll never feel great about a full switch. Firefox makes similar things easy.

Oh, and I don't like that Google tracks everything I do while using it...

If you're looking for a Chrome experience without the privacy concerns, take a look at http://iridiumbrowser.de. It's Chrome will (supposedly, I've not personally verified) all the Google tracking stripped out to the extent possible.
Thank you for the comment!

We don't have a developer facing API at the moment but it's in the roadmap. Once our algorithm is accurate enough that it "just works" in an enterprise setting, we may open up an API so developers can build applications for their businesses.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konstantin_Tsiolkovsky
I wonder if Windows supports anything like REISUB I haven't ever heard about it though. No need for hard reset.
You mean q? Because g has that loop at the end.
Are we supposed to care about a lot of startups or whatever the big companies are doing?
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Yarn doesn't support all of npm's features. At least not as of a couple months ago when it 1) didn't support one of our needs at all, and 2) broke a couple NPM packages on install. This may or may not be part of why it's faster: it does less.
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"rarely done"? Has it ever been done??

Searching for "polar launch" found nothing. (There's actually a Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle [1], but it does not launch from the poles [see Launch History at 1])

[1]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polar_Satellite_Launch_Vehicle
Coming from Lisp background one would take this as pretty obvious approach.

In fact I somewhat suspect that CL's tagbody is explicitly designed such that every non-trivial control structure in the language could be expanded into that.
Can you elaborate on how does it improve on traditional OCR?
Other than that, pretty neat that it keeps (or even improves) on the existing formatting on the note.
Interesting level of precision used there...Nassim Taleb would hate it. Whom was whale counting back then?
Well, firstly, the ability to make rationally optimal decisions is not merely a matter of cultural preference. Promoting the ability to make decisions which marginalize errors generally - under arbitrary goals - does not inhibit anyone from having a satisfying culture. Rationalism doesn't choose your goals, it determines the optimal way to achieve them. Now, it does inhibit people from participating in a culture which promotes their death as some 'ideal' state of being, as most religions that promote an idyllic afterlife do.

I mean, if you put me on a raft out in the ocean and ask me whether we should shoot and eat the Christian or the Atheist, I'm going to ask "which one of them asserts their death will result in a state of unending glory and euphoria while preserving the 'existence' of their mental state?" Because that's the one that should be killed. And these kinds of biases pile up over the long term, leaving a distinct mark of fragility and unnecessary risk on the entire culture. You have ability to choose that, but I cannot advocate that you ever should.

Secondly, it is not a historical accident that this issue has been decided by force. It is not even really true; far more violence has been carried out in the name of spreading religion than has been in the name of eliminating it. And again, this is of little relevance anyway, because the past has been more violent in general, and we have better understood and more widely available means of achieving goals through peace today than any time in human history.
yes, it seems to me people starting businesses in this space are trying to solve the wrong problem. do we really need yet another really cool small home concept that will never be purchased or installed by anyone?

the market needs a service that will undertake the arduous and confusing task of navigating the political process of actually installing and inhabiting a small home in a place anyone would want to live. but i guess photos of that product don't look cool in an architectural digest.
"I definitely run into sites that only work on chrome and not in any other browser."

You spend too much time working lurking around HN sites and young web developers.
Yes, Brave [0] and Irdium [1].

[0] https://www.brave.com/
[1] https://iridiumbrowser.de/
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too bad they are taking this out for Model 3.
>Or multiple of his campaign advisers (not to mention his pick for NSA) having deep Russian ties?

On this note, I just want to point out that Russia is the only European country in the world's 10 most populous countries, and that Russia controls more land than any other country on earth (almost twice as much as the second-largest landholder, China).

It should be no surprise that Americans involved in international business will have substantial connections to such a significant world entity.

It's really kind of silly to hear people holding any previous dealing in Russia against anyone that has a remote connection to Donald Trump.
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It sounds like you have no need for their service. If you had a need for the service, their pricing model is very good.

Since you have no need for their service, not having your account on their system is best for Twilio.
The USSR's nuclear espionage helped their bomb project, but it was not essential. They more used it to check their own work, and likely stopped some detours on the road. And if their space technology was "borrowed" from the Germans, so was the US's.
The question was "What portfolio items are most impressive" not "What portfolio items are required" :P

Infinite disagree on the "they might want to work on their own thing more than my thing" angle

They're keeping their skills sharp on their own dime and that's a bad thing? Many employees only stick around for 2 years or so anyway who cares whether they move on to the next 9-5 or their own thing?
When anarcho capitalists make the jump from the non-aggression principle (NAP) to property rights, they invariably switch from using deontological arguments to consequentialist arguments like everyone else:

"Look communism failed, capitalism produces more wealth"

"Well if everyone has everything they need, who's going to work?"

It sounds like the music industry asking who's going to record songs if copyright isn't strictly enforced.
Take a trip to the doctor, get some antidepressants or anti-anxiety medication prescribed. They'll level you out so you can focus rationally on getting stuff done without the anxiety. I never had much luck with therapy, but meds worked phenomenally. (And I was very very reluctant to start, fearing long-term effects, but after a few months I was able to come off of them with no problems).

This project sounds like not a big life goal for you, so once you're stable, plan a nice end game. Plan for it to happen sooner rather than later. Think about other life goals you have, and how you can pursue them afterwards. Try to make time for these things. Anti-anxiety meds will help you do this. You regain a lot of time that unconsciously allocated to fretting.

Let good enough be good enough. Try to get the company into a reasonable position but don't feel like it has to be perfect. Downsize a bit if need be. Learn to say No. People's lives are not dependent on your ability to do stuff for them. Focus on those things that create the most value with the least time/stress.

Once you get to this point, you may even decide you like the company enough to stick with it.
Oh no. Now we get to look forward to colorless, contrastless art as well.
We did two things to train it (1) scraped the web for photographs of handwritten notes with known transcription to build our training dataset (2) had our university friends / students write out training examples by hand to get more realistic data on what modern handwriting looks like

Scribble currently only supports English, so it does poorly with other languages, but is pretty robust to poor handwriting in English (such as my own).

It gets about 85% of my handwriting correct (my handwriting is abysmal), so there's definitely room for improvement.
Also note that C++ needs the curly brackets because, differently from python, lambdas can contain arbitrary statements, not just one expression (one would use a local function in python).

There have been discussions about adding a lighter syntax for single expression lambdas that doesn't require the curly brackets and the 'return' keyword, but so far no actual progress.
The fact is that there nuclear reactors in Finland, they have limited life span and there is (and will be) hazardous waste that needs to be handled somehow. Just putting all that to some temporary storage and hoping future generations will figure out what to do with it is not a good plan.

Storing the stuff permanently under ground may not be perfect solution, but to my knowledge it is the best one we have (not producing the waste is not an option, as it has been already done). The plans also take into account that the waste can be recovered from the storage if we later figure out a better way to handle it.
I think that although handwriting won't be going away for some time, I've come to find that I'm using digital mediums for note-taking more often and it's becoming more popular (see Apple Pencil, Surface Pro Pen). If this service were coupled to an app that supported writing with a digital pen, it would be more appealing to many; it would mitigate the need to snap a photo, mitigate the need to have paper, and still allow for someone who wants to jot out their ideas by hand to have a digital text copy in the end. Any ideas for going down this route?

I mean, taking photos and rendering paper notes to digital has definitely been done multiple times already. This other approach would become a must-buy app for anyone who uses their ipad pro or surface pro for notes.
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Actually it struck me in the original article how it could also apply to any relationship.
Hey, Grey from Dependabot here. Happy to answer any questions people have about the data or the analysis we've done.
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In which declares whether variables are passed by value(=) or reference(&).
I paid for a license already, and I'm not sure where I fall in the timeline of being eligible for a free upgrade, or not. That said, I'm happy to pay for a license for the upgrade.

As a longtime customer, I wish there was more communication about the state of things, and plans for features, things like that.

Basically, more communication, and less radio silence.
I think the whole point of it is to say "The Model 3 is NOT the next-gen Model S." The problem with the naming scheme (that Elon admitted was dumb) is that people assume it's the next version. In reality the Model S is a BMW, while the Model 3 is a Ford. They aren't even the same class of car.
1. Lasers? Invented by Soviets?

2. Vladimir Zworykin was a Soviet scientist? Really?

3. First soviet nuclear power plant was highly classified. First commercial nuclear power plant was created in US.

4. Artificial heart - for a dog. Not for a human.

5. And as for microwave oven in 1941 - is this another Russian myth?
That's a huge step. Lots of data to save for the input, lots of diff output, and you have to look for all details of the output, since many of them are desirable. Then you would automate the output processing, and a wrong rule would miss the new bug (because it was unexpected, so the automation would account for it).
Or a service that sends you a box where you could use your records, send it to them to digitalize.
This is a great question... I've come to really like Yarn because of its caching. Much like HHVM was great for a time though there is no point in using "the feature rich alternative" when the mainstream system finally adopts all those features that pulled you away. Aside from syntax is there any reason to keep using Yarn?
Extensions for tree style and vertical tabs:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tree-style-ta...

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/vertical-tabs...
Any examples of code bases using these modern features like co-routines? I'd love to see an example of it being used in real code.
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Is intuition infallible? I want to hear stories about people who followed their intuition on staying or going (or keeping or firing) and it ended up being the wrong decision long-term. Falsifiability is IMHO an important element of arguing for "intuition"

And yet, I look back and I can't think of a single example in my own life where "listening to my gut" seemed to lead me astray. But I also don't trust my own brain to remember such instances...
great suggestion! We love Rocketbook
That seems like more a trademark issue than the issue itself. I think they have to sue you to defend a trademark, and their lawyers are just overly conservative. So I don't really blame them for this, though they probably won't take it all the way to court and fight hard.

The company that sent the notice looks like they have some shell scripts running in cron that send out scary notices whenever they see a domain that matches a regex for a client that pays them money:

https://www.lookingglasscyber.com/products/machine-readable-...
If you can figure out how to create a an extremely rigid extremely lightweight material you could also use a vacuumed out area instead of gas bladders. The trick would be that the marerial would have to be non porous and extremely light and strong.
Not in every case, you're right, but it's something to keep in the toolkit. Sometimes it's easier to just check the DOM after its fully rendered than it is to explore all of the calls made by each individual site you're scraping.

What you're saying makes sense if you're looking at a handful of sites, but it doesn't scale very well compared to a universal solution for monitoring several retailers at once. It's definitely the more wasteful solution, if you are concerned about bandwidth and resource consumption, though.
Both, since browser these days don't even show the number of connections and download speed for a loading page, much less an indicator for high CPU usage. I'm not saying displaying this stuff would be enough by itself, but hiding what is going on just so we can have a slightly bigger viewport into unicolor surfaces with huge padding and line spacing certainly doesn't help.

I know there are all sorts of flags etc, but consider old Opera, where switching the status bar between none, simple and advanced was right there in one of the main menus. That was a good start, that stuff would be compact and super useful by now if we'd just keep going.
$150M is actually pretty cheap compared to some of the most expensive luxury yachts out there.
So the blue whale got big to eat more krill- does that mean that there's no other animal than the blue whale that can eat as much krill as a blue whale?

In that case, what would happen to the krill if the blue whale went extinct? Would its numbers grow uncontrolled until it took over the oceans? Or is other predation enough to keep its numbers down?
Not artificially, but to keep the cost of the car at target. Nobody makes a car cheaper by removing the wheels, you have to nickel and dime where you can. A single display saves money.

Lest we not forget, Tesla is likely to lose money on the base Model 3.
A list of major providers that support inter AS flowspec would be nice. My understanding is that the list is empty.