skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I could suspend pretty well up until the point where the dude just had to nobly sacrifice himself for no reason. All I could see at that point was the emergency drama screenwriter shooting a blunderbuss filled with space station shrapnel into the unsuspecting back of the realistic physics consultant.
Tmux 2.5 released
English spelling is horrible, but I feel that the number of English heteronyms is not notably high, especially considering the state of the spelling system.

I think heteronyms are bound to arise in most languages with Latin-based orthography, because they tend to borrow words from other Latin-alphabet-based languages without changing spelling. Some words are bound to collide with an existing word with the same spelling.
If the % of ad blockers is high enough, the content providers just switch over to paid subscriptions. E.g. Youtube Red.
first of all, mass contributes more to escape velocity than density. V_e=k*(m^(1/3)d^(1/6)). (scaling the mass is quadratic compared to scaling the the density). Second, the density of rocky planets is bounded from below pretty close to the density of earth.
Just canceled too and was surprised how friction free it was. They sent just one follow up email so far trying to tell me about all the "benefits" I'll lose (which were things I never used anyways).
They did not lose that much data, only a few hours.
To be fair, houses and engineering projects in the olden days probably suffered from exactly the same problems. I've read multiple accounts of people complaining about just this in the late 1800s in the UK...
On my Nexus 5X, I can choose to type into the google search widget. Entering "when I get home remind me to take the trash to the street" will create a reminder, same as if I had spoken it. It's even pretty forgiving about typos.
Show HN: Hide downvotes on HN
I disagree with you here. I think it's the physics that are "good enough", and the graphics are what really need improvement. I'm playing with lots of graphical mods now, and the game is just more fun. Going to different planets is more meaningful because they're just gorgeous. Landing on Kerbin is more fun because it isn't just a flat green plain with a repeating background texture and a limited number of different biomes. Better graphics also help to widen the appeal.

Say what you will about No Man's Sky, but that game was gorgeous, which contributed in no small part to its widespread interest. Now imagine how fantastic a game with those graphics but with KSP's mechanics would be.
How can BA's CEO blame a power failure?
Does he even realize how much this message screams incompetence? They have been in business 43 years (with this name - they existed longer than that).

Are we to believe that they didn't bother engineering an absolutely mission critical system (which just proved its criticality beyond doubt, having paralyzed the company) to survive a datacenter failure? Is he so utterly blind to the facts as to point to an issue which should have been addressed in the 80's and imagine this puts them in the clear? He is not merely likely to be lying on record (in case said redundancies do indeed exist, and the new staff, 12 months after taking over, still doesn't know what to do ), he is actually making things worse by implying a colossal negligence in not addressing something for a generation. This is incredibly damaging to the company - it erodes trust in every aspect of their operations, even those likely not impacted, like passenger safety and plane maintenance - and completely uncalled for.

Or am I wrong in my assumptions and perspective, and the general public will simply accept the story acritically, and move on with life, unconcerned?

Sorry for the absolutely loaded questions - didn't know how else to formulate my thoughts. And no, I have absolutely nothing to do with BA, other than having occasionally been their passenger (my god improve the food).
I wrote this Tampermonkey script to modify HN in two ways:

- Hide your comment scores

- Scramble your karma counters

This prevents you from knowing immediately when your comments have
been upvoted or downvoted. Your submissions are left alone.

Here's what that looks like: http://i.imgur.com/vPjC0uk.png

To install:

1. Install Tampermonkey.

- Chrome: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tampermonkey/dhdgf...

- Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/tampermonkey/

2. Click "Create new script": http://i.imgur.com/OycraO1.png

3. Copy the contents of https://gist.githubusercontent.com/sillysaurus/4d917e925548e... and paste it into the new script.

4. Click the save icon in the upper-left.

Why?

HN downvotes sometimes feel like a slap in the face. This was ok when HN was small, since downvotes were used judiciously. Now that HN is very large, I find it's much more pleasant to browse HN with this script enabled.
Did anybody but me notice that neither the word "privacy" nor "encryption" or "cryptography" appear in the 350-some slides?
I agree. It's weird as f* having every word spoke in my home recorded. I guess they say they're not recording, but you know they are or will soon.
Yay ncase did it again! Don't forget to (re)view his project on The Parable of the Polygons: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8716538

Playable posts are amazing. Interactivity in texts is amazing.

<3
Why are there so few computer science majors?
A mature framework should not have this kind of problems https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/12115
Can someone summarize the promises? Specifically, would NSQ work well as an easier-to-operate, Kafka alternative, or are there low-throughput use cases it's just not suitable for?
If using fb for all these use cases is _working_ for people, why would they switch? It's free and ubiquitous, there would be no reason to use something else unless fb fell out of favor en masse.

You haven't been very specific about your use case but it sounds like you may need some critical mass to be successful (chicken and egg problem?). Probably you need word of mouth from a core set of people that love the hell out of your product and will actively convince people to switch.
Not really. The HW design trade-offs would be very different, leading to hardware optimized for different purposes.
The iPhone is a phone, with all the space and power limitations inherent in that form factor. A standalone speaker is something else entirely.
> I mean, just for road safety you should take a 30 min break after every hour on motorway unless you're some sort of superhuman.

No need for being a "superhuman". All you need is plenty of Mountain Dew, a gas station burrito, a few No-Doz, the window rolled down and the music turned up!

The miles just fly by.

I've easily done 10 hour, 800 mile trips only stopping for gas once or twice. I'll grant that was in the past when I was younger, but even today two or three hours at a stretch would be no problem (heck, just to drive from here in Phoenix to Tuscon would take that long - why stop?).

> And you can spend that time just thinking where to invest all the money you save from oil changes.

I do my own oil changes, and maybe spend a grand total of a few hundred dollars a year doing them. Honestly, I probably spend more on fast food per year (now that is really something I would love to drop - if only it wasn't so tasty at times).
? what do privacy and AI research have to do with each other ?
Many many people will buy a Siri speaker. It's an ecosystem.
> adopted from Latin

Maybe just indo-european in origins? Yes, it looks like 'dec'. See singularity2001's answer.
I minored in German, so why not I'll have a go:

How about verb placement? Second position! Oh, except for questions and commands, then it's first position! Oh, except if you have a question word, then it's second again. Oh, but it's last in subordinate phrases. And I haven't even touched modal constructions or separable prefixes yet! Let's just put pieces of the verb all over!

And, of course, ablaut preservation in strong verbs: "singen, sang, gesungen". English somehow managed to preserve this particular barrel of fun.

Gender and plurals? Does it really make a difference whether I have to memorize how a word is spelled vs memorizing which gender and plural pattern it uses?

Let's also talk about weak vs strong endings. "Ein gutes Bier" but "das gute Bier".

And, of course, Mark Twain famously took an attempt at this also:

https://www.cs.utah.edu/~gback/awfgrmlg.html
> The best example is certain bridges are in certain places

And you cannot utter their names or locations because?
I am not familiar with skewed pipes, but nonetheless the properties of the belt and the special Mill instructions like retire gives the opportunity for a new class of pipelining not seen before and with a 3 times higher IPC.
That was in fact the point. Siri might work in a speaker orange a lot better than it works in an iPhone apple. ;-)
don't agree with my math? Show me your own numbers.

I feel you are just hiding your head in the sand instead of doing the sensible thing which is to ask apple to analyze this companys apps and report to public whether​ app store was affected.
I said it's not a reasonable choice in the real world. Virtually anywhere you could use it, you would be better off be using a SHA-2 variant instead.

Length extension attacks only apply in cases where you've chosen to use the wrong cryptographic primitive (a hash) for your purpose (a MAC).
Google data shows Wisconsin residents can't spell Wisconsin
You aren't the only person to have drawn this conclusion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14406678
Impressive. We've been steadfastly trying to move away from dev-environments-in-the-cloud (cost minifying) but here's a clean, abstracted way to pull it off without the same VM overhead.

Curious how you would handle a) making sure those dev pods die off, and b) collisions between multiple devs working on the same project.
GP disputed SHR is used in the snippet you highlighted.
Interesting. I wonder if it also works a lot better on an iPhone 7 than a 6.
Here is where Steve Jobs would have said "No". stay focused apple...
Does that mean in a few years we'll stop looking at "time on devices" because it's a useless metric and have "what do on devices" buckets?

I mean if I'm watching netflix on web/mobile that should count as TV watching time not as internet/smartphone time. Because who (with acces to on-demand video) even watches broadcast TV anymore?
This is vastly overstated by the way. Maybe to design a de-novo X86 competitor chip. ARM's entire operating expenses in the last 12 months are about $700mm, for every single bit of their company. No way that a single 7nm chip costs $270mm for design.
I have an unpopular opinion about Portal 2 that seems relevant here. I just don't think it was that groundbreaking. Sure, it was a fine game, but it felt more like Portal: Episode 1 (in the vein of the HL2 content packs) than it did a proper sequel. I don't recall it adding any truly meaningful/groundbreaking gameplay mechanics. Portal blew my mind the first few times I played it, and I couldn't get enough of it. The only other games within at least the past decade that also did that for me were KSP and Minecraft. Portal 2 just felt like a content pack, with admittedly well fleshed-out characters. Am I missing something? I mean, I guess the coop puzzles were cool.

Now an actual Half-Life 3 in VR, on the other hand ... if executed properly that would literally go into the history books as launching the entire next generation of gaming, more different in kind than even the original transition from sprite-based to truly 3D-rendered environments.
This is a symptom of David Graeber's phrase of "bullshit jobs". Capitalism and the government work together to create unnecessary work (often through regulation and oversight and middle management stuffing) to maintain "safe" employment levels to keep the economic system working. If we were only hiring people to do productive things, and considering we saw a 75% productivity increase between 1975 and 2005 with all the bullshit jobs, while domain-specific productivity figures hit the 300% or higher ranges, you could maintain the same GDP at 40%+ unemployment. The only problem being the country would collapse with that much unemployment, so the private and public sectors respond by fabricating things to do that don't actually create goods or services.
Ethiopia shut down its internet to prevent exam cheating
It also seriously discounted how destructive the focus on short-term gains can be for a firm, without ever fully addressing that influence from the market.
So I really have tried to use Siri. Really. I want it to work. My home ecosystem is all Apple (for the user facing devices). However most of the time with anything beyond "set a reminder or set an alarm" I give up and just do it the old fashioned way. Part of the issue is that the backend search results are just no where as good as Google. IIRC Apple is using Bing for that..Ugh.
A-Star an interactive explanation
1) Who the hell is "Hacker Monthly"?

2) I wouldn't call Dr Dobbs a hacker rag. That'd be 2600, or PoC||GTFO, or Phrack. Dr Dobbs is a trade journal.
Maybe it's time we stopped doing things simply to become better at them?

That's like focusing on the spelling or formatting instead of quality content.
You're Good at Your Job
I also took a similar stab at next-gen of SaaS few months back:

http://www.laktek.com/2017/01/11/end-of-the-first-wave-of-sa...

http://www.laktek.com/2017/01/12/next-wave-of-saas/
Paul Allen's new rocket-launching plane
SiriKit only supports a limited number of domains and intents, of which playing music is not one of them.
That's only google's search ads, though. DoubleClick does a lot more than text ads on google's search page.
I think in the show they are 'flying teakettle' which means flying on steam exhaust. That is to say, there was some thrust.

Reversing to hide behind a moon seems dodgy though.
True, but I speak directly into my phone, which I assume is a big advantage for the phone?
Prey: the Real and the Symbolic
debating whether to go from ubuntu-mate 16.04 to 17.04
I think you're reading too much into our comments. From your parent comment:

> most service industry workers

Those are folks that predominantly need to be physically present. We weren't assuming anything about your membership in a privileged elite, just pointing out that lots of people still need to transport themselves to work.

Good luck with your writing! I agree that we need better business models to reward it.
I have no idea where one would listen to baseball, but Home has the ability to play radio stations at least through TuneIn and iHeartRadio: https://support.google.com/googlehome/answer/7071793?hl=en

One of the examples is playing ESPN Radio.
Does getting the down vote privilege change how you use HN?
I don't understand this focus on speech-as-interface.
Same here! I use Siri on my watch all the time. Turned off hey Siri on my phone because it would activate both
I think the example works more quickly than it should due to the line "if(ff.clock>1) ff.clock=1;" Every time the clock goes over 1, wouldn't you mod the clock value, not set it to 1 exactly?
Macrumors says they are going to differentiate themselves by deeply integrating with the Apple ecosystem and having a better speaker.

These aren't real selling points.

Google Home integrates very well with Google products (out of the box I thought to try asking it to 'play the latest video from [youtube channel] on my shield', and it worked, exactly as expected.

As far as speakers, Amazon started with a device that had very good speakers, and has since downgraded to a puck.
they are recording, there was a murder case recently that used the alexa voice recordings as evidence
There is no growing inequality. There are more one person househols and immigrants with lower wages.
Heh, cool. Note that my variant doesn't un-grey comments, so you'll be able to apply corrective upvotes to them.
Ah yeah that's a good idea. I unfollowed a fair few during last year's election cycle, could probably stand to lose a few more.
I cock an eyebrow at the car haters too, especially these days.

We're on the cusp of autonomous self-driving cars! A transport revolution, lives saved, traffic optimized, pollution reduced, etc, etc. Why all the drip-drip-drip poison words about cars?

Does GP and our numerous sibling commenters have a case of the premature sour grapes? Are they wrong even after all the pot banging?

Consider cars today: polluting, wasteful in time/money/energy/lives, loud, dangerous killers ... transformed into cars tomorrow: a nimble, safe, convenient, "zero-carbon" (battery-powered), direct and fast conveyance! The old arguments evaporate in a cloud of red smoke!

We who are so blessed to own (or hire) cars can all feel GREAT about avoiding the urban density, travel villages, inconvenient bus routes, foul smelling light rail cars with their stabby/gropey fellow passengers, etc! Soon, we'll travel in comfort, productive and safe in our cars, as we merrily scoot from our far-flung, clean, beautiful, sprawling suburbs to our glittering commute destinations on the other side of the map forever! Smiles everywhere you look!

The above is all just theory. I mean, who knows what is really behind peoples' complaints these days.
Is excessive profit taking eating up the productivity?
I am close to getting the number of up votes on my comments to be able to down vote other comments. There was a point that I really cared about it because, well I am human and there are comments that I just want to rage at (or are just off topic, lame, etc). Does having that privilege change you see HN? When you have that right are you less likely to use it?
Thanks for the link. That was well awesome. I withdraw my criticism.
You are confused. That is not from any of my comments.
Christopher Nolan seems like a pretty smart guy. It must have crossed his mind at some point.

Plus, the ship's engines don't appear to use propellant - they use the standard sci fi "eeire blue glow" trope. Seems like antimatter is the best explanation to me.
How a 1980 letter fueled the opioid epidemic
does apple still innovate anymore or just follow trends that are already on their way out?
Meh, public transport also sucks. I have a daily commute a bit over an hour each way on a tram. I'm near the end of my line, so I'm 'lucky' enough to get a seat for that time. I'm not the one who gets squished in during peak hour, or has to watch overfull trams just pass by. If they're not overdue, that is (a famous problem with public transport). I'm also lucky in that where I live and work are on the same line. I do, however, have to walk a moderate distance at both ends - it's not end-to-end transport - and I'm limited to having a small amount of things I can personally carry; no carting much extra stuff to work to do things afterwards for me. I'm also tall, which means that public transport vehicles aren't built for me (seats too small, hit my head on things if I'm standing, etc) and there's nothing I can do about it. Then if it's raining, not all stops have shelters for the proles, and the floors can get slippery. Or perhaps its winter, and that press of people on the vehicle is a haven for colds and viruses to spread.

Public transport is a good thing overall, but I do get tired of people talking about it like it's heaven 'if only it were more available'.
Hey if they can bring something that truly differentiates from the other two that would be awesome.
Home kit doesn't give much hope.
What an extremely nice interactive read. Works good on mobile. And it applies the biological lesson to human life, which is a nice way to finish a sermon. Article. Well done.
I think the strength of the C# language vs. Java is a factor in this.
But all those contractors on the death star... /Clerks
Pure UI (2015)
I've had a hard time finding much useful with these devices - anecdotally even my friends have been ditching their Echo's.

I've ended up dropping my usage to setting timers and turning on/off lights, both of which don't work with Siri in MacOS.

I'd hope that they'd get their own ecosystem in order before adding yet another gadget, but that's not happened time and time again under Cook's leadership.
If your dataset is small then there are techniques to handle it. I bet author was never enrolled in a deep learning class. He just came up a title borrowed from 'don't use big data if your data isn't big'
I fail to see how you couldn't specify a pure language using a pure subset of a sufficiently expressive impure language.
Gee, optimization sure is hard
Last I heard (a month or two ago) he was making a pittance (like ~1-2k/month or so).

Sad considering how sweet the app is.
Privacy in the sense that you can train better AI systems when you have more data. Apple has many self-imposed and restrictive policies around collecting data and what type of data they collect, so they inherently have a disadvantage when it comes to building better AI systems.
Nice, thoughtful designs.
I'm extremely hesitant about installing random non-sandboxed applications. A Chrome app comes sandboxed with well-defined permissions. It's rare for native apps outside of mobile to come sandboxed or be easy to sandbox.
This is an argument for vertical integration in the construction industry, which I suppose might even include state-run construction companies. If the architects, engineers, and construction workers are all working for the same entity, then there's no troublesome legal issues to deal with at the boundaries between entities, and everyone can simply do the right thing as efficiently as possible.

In summary, end contracting and subcontracting.
Mutual intelligibility between Danish and the other two Scandinavian languages has declined over the 20th century. Danish has undergone some striking phonological developments (compare modern pronunciation to that of reference works written before the war) that have made it extremely difficult for Norwegians and, even more, Swedes to understand Danish without prior experience with the language. Nina Grønnum's 2003 paper titled “Why are the Danes so hard to understand?" looks at some of these quirks in detail.

It is interesting to attend international events and watch the Scandinavians in their 60s or 70s speak among each other in their own languages with seemingly no problem, since their generation was pushed to overcome any hurdles to understanding the neighbours, while a group of younger Scandinavians that includes Danes is likely to switch to English because it just feels easier.
Can't get past template page on mobile. Android chrome.
In that case it's because they are both relatively analytic languages.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analytic_language
A rotate operation is invertible, a logic shift by itself is not.

Another fun one is x ^= x >> n with n some strictly positive constant, this is also invertible. It's used a lot in the murmurhash family of non-cryptograhic hash functions.