skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well and perhaps even more interesting is the effect on delayed fixes has on TCO and safety of aging roads. Not to mention reduction in jobs sites across the Nation also reduces the individual performance of infrastructure construction companies except for a lucky few. Lots of push and pull from all directions.
You can assume that they just repositioned any three of Hubble, the Russian satellite, ISS, and Tiangong into inaccurate (for the things that are real, like Hubble and ISS, and maybe Tiangong, if it's a further development of the existing station of the same name) or improbable (for those that are fictions, like the Russian satellite or Tiangong, if you assume it's a complete fiction that shares the name of a a real station) orbits, or you can assume they got physics wrong. I don't think the movie provides enough information to make clear where the error is.
It's a symptom of captured large government in the US.

The smaller 25k person town I live in doesn't nearly have the same issues. We've managed to put up new school buildings the last couple of years with not too much fuss and on budget. On the other hand, the town is relatively well off and there is seemingly good community participation.
target for static languages that do manual
memory management

So I will have to do all the garbage collection myself? Isn't that a huge burdon on the programmer? And will this lead to lots of apps with memory leaks that needlessly eat up my resources?
> SHA-3 did introduce something useful: extendable output functions

Much more than that!

Keccak (SHA-3) introduced the Sponge construction. This goes _way_ further than extendable output functions: It allows you to build all the symmetric cryptographic primitives from one basic element! This means: hashes, PRNGs, MACs, encryption, AEAD, etc. The only thing you need that looks like crypto code is a single permutation function. This significantly reduces the amount of security critical code to write. If you talk about hardware implementations, the permutation function takes less die space than SHA2, and optimizes all these primitives.

The sponge construction and all it's derivatives are proven secure assuming the permutation function is. And assuming SHA3 is secure, the permutation function is too. The alternative, the Merkle–Damgård construction, has a bunch of known problems. It's also used by pretty much every thing else, so it made sense to diversify.

Honestly, I'm a bit sad by the reputation SHA-3 is getting. It is an eye-opening elegant design that makes all previous crypto look overly complex.
Totally agree with you.

During the height of my KSP addiction, I wrote a binder for Orbital Transfers.

I can basically lookup the required angle and dV for a transfer from any orbit to another orbit between any two planets and if not in the table, make a good approximation (and then just eyeball it from there)

It's probably my #1 Game that I would have my kids play, if I ever have some, just to teach them what real space physics are.
THIS IS REALLY HELPFUL.

Thank you!
Madison discusses factionalism in Federalist No. 10, and as I read it, basically concludes that all these competing desires/interests and/or beliefs would be best served by a federal republic where locals would be able to solve their problems in the appropriate way for their constituents. So, decentralizing power away from Washington D.C. and putting it in the hands people more directly. Some people cannot accept this and would like to exert control over people living +1000 miles away. There is just too much diversity to manage 300M people from a central authority without sacrificing liberty. Absolute power corrupts absolutely, and authoritarian ideas of governance must be vigilantly opposed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federalist_No._10#Madison.27s_...
Amusingly, we sort of get this by proxy by being owners of (significant) capital.
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Hmm I would refrain from saying DL is useful only when approaching 1 megapixel images.

State of the art performance on MNIST is held by a 6 layer convnet (4 layers convolutional, 2 layers FC). MNIST is just 28 x 28 grayscale images, so 768 dimensions. There are many more datasets on the same order of dimensionality. CIFAR 10/100 (32 x 32 pixel images) is also dominated by DL convnets, AFAIK.
Maybe, but I've got hundreds of hours of KSP under my belt and thought Gravity was fantastic. I'm a proud science and gamer geek, but feel that the urge to nit pick is the scourge of the geek community. I'll happily engage in a conversation about the compromises made in Gravity, it none of them spoiled the movie for me and I'm very glad it exists. If it makes movie goers more interested in Space and feel positively about space research and exploration, that's a wonderful thing.
I mean, you should have done that when many (most?)of the core staff left. Or the lead dev before that.
The people onsite know the codes as well.
A Major Step Towards Scala 3
I don't see how that in any way suggests what you are saying. There are a lot of people who currently feel forced into long commutes who hate them. There are a lot of people who are trapped in the situation of they need a car to get to work, they need a job to afford a car because a car is often the second biggest household expense after housing itself.

I am talking about opening up options, not putting a gun to anyone's head and forcing them to give up their car. We currently have many people who feel they have a gun to their head in terms of being forced into needing a car they don't want. Where is your sympathy for their right to choose?
Oh, don't mind that... How did they maintain acceleration around that planet near a black hole for 7 years? And who the hell would think that was a good idea? (Wouldn't it be passing under the ship nearly the speed of light, and thus every few seconds anyway?)
rant: why care about debugability and testability
Mitigating offensive search suggestions with deep learning
The same author has other blog posts regarding organizations and teams that place too much value on "putting out fires" and not enough emphasis on avoiding situations that cause fires in the first place.

He also writes about teams that reward and entrench tribal knowledge but have no notion of designing systems (when possible) such that even new hires cannot misuse them. http://www.daedtech.com/tribal-knowledge/

I'm sure it is these notions that the author had in mind when writing this article, and not just people who want to skirt unpleasant/difficult tasks.
I would be okay with Valve Time. This isn't them being slow, this is them not making games anymore. There hasn't been a Valve-developed game since 2011 (that's when Dota 2 was released as a beta).
If you are Google, Amazon, or Facebook and have near infinite data it makes sense to deep learn. But if you have a more modest sample size you may not be buying any accuracy

The author explores sample sizes up to 85, and then suggests this is the relevant range except at Google, Amazon, Facebook, etc.

But the VAST majority of people considering deep learning have sample sizes between those extremes. Results on small samples are interesting, but it's disingenuous to market this as typical of the world outside Google.
I think I see what he's saying.

In some places, there's a gap between open-source libraries that I can find, and services that Do One Thing.

Recently, I dived into the available options for online document signing.

I needed one thing (document signing) done well, with a few variations based on the few different integration situations I had.

Almost everyone had the same offering, which wasn't programmatic or flexible, but was drop-in (iframes). I could only do what they'd though to make possible.

On the other hand, I have trouble imaging what, say, a ruby gem for this would look like. Seems like it'd be pretty involved.

Compare this to, say, SendGrid, and other email providers. I get a lot of flexible functionality around one thing (sending emails), but the interaction is very much on my terms (via their API) rather than theirs (dropping in an iframe).

The only exception I found in the document signing world was HelloSign, which has a lot more in common with SendGrid than, say, DocuSign or RightSignature.

I don't think this is quite what he's talking about, but I do think it's indicative of the direction and forces in play.
> He threatened to not pay my hotel and per diem as i walked out

Wow. Not only is that deeply unprofessional, I can't even imagine what he hoped to gain by that.
Who doesn't like a little quackery and bullshit to liven the day?
Well then we should sell off PSU banks.

Private banks are doing fine.
Part of the rule might be an incentive for developers to keep size under control.
Why restrict it to those limited OSes? Seems like an ARM64 laptop running Linux ought to work just as well as the AMD64 laptops running Linux I've been using for the last few years.
It's not exactly the same, but still similar:

1. This is something

2. Something is better than nothing (is it?)
> The Tiangong in the movie isn't a real space station

It's a real space station name. The one they use is much bigger than the real station with the name, but it might be intended to be a future development, or it could be a fictional station with the same name (a city called New York, but with a population of 200 million and located in central France, to borrow your analogy), or they could have just intended the existing station and not bothered to research anything about it besides it's name and nationality.
I do find it hilarious how we always defend our illogical likes whenever they are pointed out directly.

There is a very slight product difference in any luxury experience. It adds to the experience after all. However this is meaningless in the overall comparison. You don't drink drip coffee anymore because you love the other experience. It's obviously not "gross" because you were drinking it just fine before you were exposed to espresso. Maybe at some point you'll become disillusioned in being a coffee snob and then go back to drip. It happens.

This isn't unique to you or coffee. You could say pretty much exactly the same thing about whatever brands/hobbies I'm into and I'd feel exactly like you do: that my preference was justified by more than pure emotional connection. In reality, our choices as consumers are 90% emotional, which is why advertising works so well after all.
To continue the metaphor, the actual Dead See does still have some water in it.
>Ant that seeing it done wrong is like a false note in music?

No, it's not the same because most movies are not meant to be a reproduction of the real thing.
A poet (Polish?) once said that "one million and one is still one million" (IIRC he was talking about Stalin rulings and the number of victims, and that a single life does not weight much in such times, but I am not sure)
All kinds of other structures also do that - for example, the "family" of recurrent networks in many non-visual problems.
Why is data wrangling easier in FP? Is it because of functional composition being like using Unix pipelines (inside the same program)? But one can do that in a procedural language that has functions too.
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God, I had to look up the quote I think you're referring to with 'that if' and now I want to read the book again even though it took me three years the first time around!

Here's the full quote (or an entirely different, but equally great one:

“If, by the virtue of charity or the circumstance of desperation, you ever chance to spend a little time around a Substance-recovery halfway facility like Enfield MA's state-funded Ennet House, you will acquire many exotic new facts [...] That certain persons simply will not like you no matter what you do. Then that most nonaddicted adult civilians have already absorbed and accepted this fact, often rather early on [...] That sleeping can be a form of emotional escape and can with sustained effort be abused [...] That purposeful sleep-deprivation can also be an abusable escape. That gambling can be an abusable escape, too, and work, shopping, and shoplifting, and sex, and abstention, and masturbation, and food, and exercise, and meditation/prayer [...] That loneliness is not a function of solitude [...] That if enough people in a silent room are drinking coffee it is possible to make out the sound of steam coming off the coffee. That sometimes human beings have to just sit in one place and, like, hurt [...] That there is such a thing as raw, unalloyed, agendaless kindness [...] That the effects of too many cups of coffee are in no way pleasant or intoxicating [...] That if you do something nice for somebody in secret, anonymously, without letting the person you did it for know it was you or anybody else know what it was you did or in any way or form trying to get credit for it, it's almost its own form of intoxicating buzz.

That anonymous generosity, too, can be abused [...]

That it is permissible to want [...]

That there might not be angels, but there are people who might as well be angels.”
The source document doesn't mention it: http://www.governmentattic.org/5docs/NSA-TheLongestSearch.pd...

However, this site spells it all out: "Radio systems of Soviet Mars and Venus probes"
http://www.svengrahn.pp.se/radioind/MVradio/MVradio.htm
What the CEOs are really like
Its likely the lack of excessive monetization and the lack of pay to developers are not unrelated.
You are correct - any voting process will sometimes produce results you don't like. I simply took umbrage with nostrademon's assertion that Trump was democratically-elected. Your comment that the founding fathers thought that "true" democracy was more likely to produce bad results is duly noted, that's why they setup the electoral college in the first place, even though today's electoral college has been perverted from its original intent. Sigh. That's part of why this problem is so complex!
How the Frankfurt School diagnosed the ills of Western civilisation
Expecting Washington to determine who is a serious candidate (and then policing their use of federal funds) is a major conflict of interest, because policymakers will almost certainly set standards that benefit the two entrenched parties. I've toyed with an alternative concept, though, that might achieve the same effect with less required oversight.

The idea is a sort of non-partisan "un-PAC" -- a fundraising organization explicitly dedicated to combating corporate political donations. If a presidential candidate or his affiliated PACs recieved eg. $5MM in fundraising from oil executives, the un-PAC would spend $5MM on negative advertising linking him in the public's mind with that industry. If the un-PAC raised enough money, eventually a large multiple of corporate donations could be spent counteracting them, and at some point it would become uneconomical for politicians to accept those donations at all.

We spent about $6B on the 2016 federal elections (https://www.opensecrets.org/overview/cost.php). That comes out to about $20 for every American. That's a big number to beat, but not impossible, and every bit along the way helps.
>I think this is actually totalitarian left

You're absolutely right. There is only one side organizing at grassroots level (indicating that these are not isolated occurrences, but rather are coming from the groups shared ideals) across the country to shut down the political speech of the other, violently in many cases, and that is the left.
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"In other words, the ability to write and deploy code is no longer a core value driver" - I do not think it ever was, it is always what that code solves for customer. Ability to write and deliver code is just a way how you can get money out of core value.

Nitpicking, how SaaS stocks could plunge?

I think the good point is:
"The monthly contract value is often far less than the customer acquisition costs (mostly sales and integration)"

You do not price your SaaS based on hosting costs, if yes then those SaaS solutions will simply run out of money.
You cannot run growing SaaS on 1/10 slashed price, you have to fix bugs, add new features and evolve.
I can build clone of some SaaS and run it on Linode with 1/10 of costs but I am not sales person, and not marketing guy.
I would not have money to evolve and it is not fire and forget running on cheap hardware.

So article is not worth reading, nothing exciting.
What an unnecessarily cruel thing to desire
Interstellar had really bad orbital mechanics. You remember when they used the staged rocket to get off earth? Do you remember later, when they landed on that other planet with 1.5 times the mass of earth? Do you remember the machine that they used to leave that planet?
Elon Musk will leave Trump councils if US pulls out of Paris accord
I'm familiar, thanks. Keeping both ops and app in the same repo is one thing, but combining parts of them in code is a pretty amateur Separation of Concerns flaw and will inevitably break. I'm not sure what you're defending here.
Design-Build does not necessarily cost more, because each entity carries the same risk as if they were separate (architect and GC). However, with a Design-Build GMP, which is what we typically use on our developments, that costs a premium, but its a cost we can be comfortable with on the front end, so I will (and do!) gladly pay a premium for a guaranteed cost of construction, particularly since the contractor has the significant information advantage on dealing with problem that arise.
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I think they were saying that Gravity, Interstellar, The Martian and The Expanse are all good examples.
This felt like a pretty weak argument. Oversight will help you? Okay, then, we'll just do as the quoted examples of Slack and AirBnB, and regularly perform rigorous 3rd-party audits.
Why? Because Markdown parsers are large (35 to 40KB gzipped). The idea is to create a format where the parser can be easily incorporated into single page apps so the raw string can be loaded from the backend and rendered into HTML on the frontend by the app. The format can be used for user generated content (posts, comments, etc...), and can be created using a GUI text editor or written directly.
How to run Logentries in a Kubernetes environment
Operator agnostic call barring?
Hi there,
[contextual prose]
I recently had to fetch my then-gf to a psych ward.
To help her take her mind of this mess I want to supply her a smartphone with which she can stream some shows and movies.
[\contextual prose]

My cell contract includes zero-rating on some streaming services and I can get a multi-sim (several sims all related to one contract and phone number) from my operator.
Now, I don't want her to get calls destined for me (trust is not the issue, rather avoiding remembrance) but call barring is not supported by my operator.
I would supply her an old android handset of mine (rooted Samsung G800F sporting a 5.1.1 Android).
All the apps I tried so far either use call barring or auto-blocking calls, which would presumptively lead to me not getting any calls on my handset.

Do you got a solution for this? I thought about "uninstalling" the phone app, but got no more than a basic grasp of Android.

Appreciate your thoughts and ideas!

(I wanted this in "Ask HN" but do not see an option in the submit screen..)
They have right to choose to limit their standard of living, as you have done, and move to an urban core and be completely dependent on transit for transportation.

Only one of us wants to "change this substantially."
Transportation, Logistics, Supply Chain Management, (physical) Operations.

I suspect the reason why deep learning has done so poorly in my domain is that the underlying data is a result of things that are very poorly abstracted as a "function". We have lots of discrete events, stateful buffering, hard non-linearities, discontinuities, numerical bounds, etc. It's more like learning business rules and physical process design than learning a mathematical function. This is part of the reason I don't see deep learning being a holistic solution for self driving cars...once you get past sensory perception and simple 2d path planning, driving is more of a rule based process than anything.

That being said, ML tends to be a pretty niche technique for us anyway. If a process and its components are well known and understood, we tend towards solutions that come from Operations Research over Machine Learning. It is only when things are poorly understood that we use ML (example: predicting product demand fluctuations based on media coverage or predicting truck arrival times given severe weather patterns and traffic backups). PGMs do really well here, but are far more difficult to understand, formulate, and train...for most tasks Random Forests are almost always Good Enough(TM).
>I would encourage you to stick with F# as you will be further along in not only understanding FP, but other modern programming languages, including ones that haven't been invented yet.

Interesting. Why do you say "including languages that haven't been invented yet"? Does F# have some features that are modern / good, but not common in some other current languages, but are likely to be there in future ones?
Because it is a matter of original message. The Ethereum devs have had one mantra from the start: code is law. What is written in the code is what the developer means. There's no room for interpretation.

But, somehow, when someone did something allowed by the code, it turns out it wasn't in the spirit of the law, and so should be forked.
Robotics Summer Hackathon by Collaborizm is one of a kind
Pub/sub service which runs and auto-scales on Kubernetes
The idea isn't to stop people from doing something stupid but to stop people from trying to get people who aren't in a position to weather risk to do something risky to increase their own likelihood of profiting.
America is pretty great and I criticise it because it is my home and I wish it to become better. It became great by allowing immigrants in; not just the smartest defectors from China, Russia and Germany but regular people.

> 1 Million uneducated people

If they offer education and are successful; someone like Elon Musk is 1/1 Million. Many will contribute; and some might return home in large enough numbers to bring some German culture back with them
without something liked ranked choice though more parties usually means more radical parties getting power.
Ah,

The whole article is based on this document, which about as informative as a series of photographs taken as Roswell ... with the lens cap on.
Ask HN: So C will be the new language of the web?
Webassembly is coming. So I looked into it. It's a language nobody will ever want to look at or write directly. Just check out the syntax here:

https://wasdk.github.io/WasmFiddle/?ttxwx

(Click "build" and the wasm source code will appear in the lower left)

So will we all be writing C in the future?
also, how would GSAM look if they didn't let their clients buy this? they may lose those clients and their own reputation.
Realize that sometimes you miss out on high returning investments and sometimes you miss out on BreX.
The guy who was getting paid $2400 wasn't a developer- he was basically their community manager.
These abortion rights opponents derive their arguments from the bible (for the most part). The same bible says that judgement is the domain of god, not humans. In other words, cherry-picking the ideas that serve their own goals.