skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
there seems to be a misconception that a geodesic is a "generalized straight line". That is not remotely true. Geodesics, in mathematics, are "shortest paths".

Geodesics being generalized straight lines is exactly true. Also note that they are not necessarily shortest paths: In the framework of affine connections, they are defined as autoparallels.

Earth, for example, is travelling along a geodesic. But it is clearly accelerated towards the sun.

Earth is in free fall around the sun, so accelerometers will read 0. That's the whole point of General Relativity: Geodesic motion is not a consequence of Newton's second law, but the first one.
The guy at work who causes a complex IT problem and fixes it by working late one night: team player doing what he can to support the company.

The guy at work whose work doesn't cause a problem and things keep working fine: why aren't you as much a team player as that other guy?
Implementing the practical considerations sensibly is political, though - see TEPCO's out of date contingency planning for a clear case of regulatory capture.
What you write doesn't bother me. What bothers me is that it's not OK for me to tell you that what you wrote is garbage.
Here's what I emailed Hello in December 2016 (twice, tickets 45372 & 47913). No reply (https://twitter.com/troyd/status/814588368814125057), so I didn't buy one. Sounds like my statement "Sense is very well capitalized right now" was wrong.

If you're considering buying a device that depends on a service, send an email like the one below first. And if you're starting a hardware company, start thinking about this from the beginning. Even just explicitly stating that the device will stop working if the company ceases operations is better than not telling consumers anything.

Separate but related: https://twitter.com/hello/status/603941261201043456 was someone requesting an API back in May of 2015, then many more responses requesting the same thing.

Subject: Provisions for Sense devices if Hello fails

First off, congrats on making a fantastic-looking device. I have a somewhat unusual question about Sense devices, in the wake of Basis's failure and shut down.

Obviously Sense is very well capitalized right now. What provisions has Hello made for the continuation of the product if Hello the company fails?

For example, have you committed to at least open-sourcing the protocol specs, if not necessarily your implementation of the server? https://twitter.com/hello/status/603941261201043456 doesn't inspire much confidence that the device is meant to survive Hello's failure, nor that Hello is considering this at all.
You took a command from a comment which said they use it to "bring their system to its knees", ran it, and then complained?
Feigenbaum was running around telling Congress that the US would "become an agrarian nation" unless they funded a big national knowledge system lab headed by him.

At about the same time somebody was running around telling people we were going to be in a whole lot of trouble if we didn't train a bunch more physicists. A few years later we entered the era of the 40 yr old post-doc.
My favorite has always been Serpinski curve - the math behind Philip Jose Farmer's Riverworld :-) Here, you can print one yourself :-) https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:622627
"harsh soaps, detergents, and perfumes, [...] tend to dry the skin"

https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/encyclopedia/content.aspx?con...
This assumes a linear margin on units of stolen cars to value. Smaller ticket items are easier to fence specifically because they are common. It's hard to sell the Mona Lisa. It's easy to sell a mass-produced TV. Cops would spot a stolen Lamborghini as soon as the APB comes in. Not so much for a Toyota Camry.
Just through observation. Breakpoints just started to work and a pesky race condition between isolates became reproducible.
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Almost their entire profit comes from iphones. I think it's fair to refer to it as "the iPhone maker". Most people have heard of Apple only in relation to iPhone.
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I'd be curious if this holds true across state lines. For example, if I'm hired by Amazon in Washington, then go to work for Google in California, is the no-compete recognized as valid? I'm sure the answer is "it depends", but I think that's why it could come up in the higher courts. And since appeals will go up to those higher federal courts, which would have to make a more broad-reaching decision (even if it is simply "the lower court's ruling stands").
I found it easier to view after I added `border: 10px solid #111;` to the `.flexer` class
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You're exactly right. I think the thing you said that people can't get their head around too is that you sometimes have to decide you are wrong and start something over. Learning from failure is the hardest thing to get right. The missing piece is usually having enough data to know if you have failed. With that, going deeper and better feels like an improvement not a reset.
And? Don't leave us hanging! Who wins at FizzBuzz? Also, surely 10k is just getting started?
Wow, these libraries are way too large

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siteground shared hosting - you get capped at X number of executions per 2 hour / 24 hour period / month. If reached, they shut you down until your quota refreshes at the end of the month or if you contact them to get your account reinstated. On the plus side, their tech support is helpful and hands on. Op should probably upgrade their hosting plan.
> the Nordic nations being —theoretically— less business friendly.

I've seen plenty of reports that listed the Nordic countries as the most business friendly. Taxes are only a tiny part of the equation, and the tax differences are not as big as often believed.
Audited UNIX tools - does such a thing exist?
Fukushima:
"As of 2014, a peer reviewed estimate of the total was 340–800 PBq, with 80% falling into the Pacific Ocean.[8] Radiation continues to be released into the Pacific via groundwater."

Chernobyl:
"5.2 EBq (5,200 PBq)"

From:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Fukushima_and_Ch...

So it's a magnitude (though still in progress) and "luckily" most of the damage went to the ocean. Now how much sea life and derived food is contaminated is anyone's guess and what the long-term consequences on ocean ecosystem from continuous flow of radioactive particles will be is an interesting question.
After reading all the speculation about Apple's car project for so long, I'm actually a little underwhelmed hearing their plans. I'm not surprised at what they're doing, but there has been so much secrecy over nothing. I wonder why they kept it so close to their chest.
How is success rate measured?
I tried it and got an empty answer.

> Informal name:
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> Full name:
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> Hope that it has worked well!
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Meghan from MongoDB here.

Agree that eventual consistency is inappropriate for the majority of database workloads. This is why we has always defaulted to strong consistency, by reading from primary nodes in a cluster. (Because eventual consistency is sometimes useful, MongoDB offers eventual consistency, too.)
One simple way is to just have an idea of what you can do with it. Doesn't mean you have to do all of it, but having an idea of the capabilities is a good place to start.

Outside of that, there's a lot that you'll just pick up through usage. Get comfortable with basic SQL and then everything else in Postgres is a bonus.

I attempted to write a high level capability overview for that exact purpose. :-)

http://brightball.com/articles/why-should-you-learn-postgres...
Derren Brown - a stage hypnotist that is quite well known in the UK - actually specifically wrote in one of his books ("Tricks of the mind" at least includes a part on this) that he too is not sure whether or not his subjects are actually under his control, or even whether or not that is a question that makes sense, in as much as they do what he asks of them.

He makes the point that a lot of people "wants to help" and play along, and some people are easier to get to play along than others, and it is hard to decide where someone wanting to play along or being easy to convince crosses over the line into someone who is "put in a trance" and "compelled". Not least because the appearance of altered states/trance as well can be a result of someone "playing along".

Further, he makes the claim that what matters isn't the rituals, but making the subject believe. He recounts a story of someone who came to him when he was learning hypnosis. Brown believed he had hypnotised this person before, and when he did he would leave a "trigger" to make it easier to hypnotise the same person next time. He claims he simply snapped his fingers and went "sleep!" to the person in question, who then apparently immediately closed his eyes and appeared to go into trance, before Brown realised he'd never hypnotised him before: What mattered was that this person came to him thinking he would hypnotise him, and either this was actually enough to bring him into a "trance", or it was at least enough to make him believe he was going into a trance and act accordingly because it was what he believed would and should happen.

The entire chapter on hypnosis in that book is full of doubt and questions about whether or not he is actually causing something, or whether people are simply doing it to themselves. It's one of the things I like about him - he's a sceptic who is open that what he is doing is tricks, and that he doesn't even really know for sure exactly what goes on with some of what he does - just that it works in the sense of creating the show he wants.
They had meant to give him the lowest aggression rating possible, but accidentally inputted -1, which then looped back the other way to the highest rating possible. Nukes soon followed.
That kind of media did not happen back then. The 1st was really the OJ thing really. By 9/11 it was already in full tilt 24hr news mode with cnn and multiple others churning it out.
What do you mean by destructive by nature? A resource will only be destroyed if:

1) You remove it explicitly from your configuration; which should be the intended result - it's no longer a "part of your infrastructure"

2) You've change some attribute that requires your provider to replace the instance entirely - Trying to think of an example off hand... While not applicable anymore as AWS now supports applying/changing IAM roles to running instances now, had you done something like that in the past, that would've forced a resource replacement.
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Have you checked out FE International?

https://feinternational.com/buy-a-website/
Maybe because everything is bundled and platformized. If Google release self-driving car software, they may force to use their entertainment and UI systems for cars too. Then it means better integration with Android and Google cloud services (i.e. maps and related services), interoperability with Google's home automation. At some point iOS may become isolated from this infrastructure completely.
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You gave no reason at all to reject the offer. And I cannot think of any too.

How an offer for something not even you believe it is worth something can be "low ball"??

Unless you have strong signaling that working at the acquiring company would be a nightmare (more than your current one), sell it now. And consider it fair!

My impression is that your only hesitation is because you are comparing your situation to an hipotetical one where you can cash out a huge payoff of "fuck you money". The situation you dreamed when you founded the startup. Well, forget it and deal with the facts in front of you. To me, the decision seems obvious (and I believe you have a great deal of self-awareness to notice it by yourself once you pass this denial phase of griefing for your business).

Good luck anyway!!
> The tsunami killed two workers, but the nuclear incident as such didn't kill a single person.

The evacuation made necessary to avoid direct casualties from the nuclear incident killed 34.
The sensors cover about a third of the bed so theoretically you could start it and use it in a way that mostly tracked individuals. In practice? I leave that to your imagination and experience.
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But it's C, and they're on HN, so C sucks, C should die, C is not modern, C is scary, C is bad, C makes them think, C forces them to be careful.
Hmmm... in small a subset MORE prone to tornadoes in one of the of tornado alley states, pre-evacuate [cash for keys] 200 mile radius THEN build a test nuclear reactor UNDERGROUND, with the missing 'two days on 4 days off, nuclear of course' less-tired operators scheduling, etc etc.

More upfront costs but seemingly no multi-century accident to mitigate, vs multi-decade, if that...
Why is he using backticks to quote "yes" in the title?
Chess played on a computer fits the literal definition of a video game, and one that has near infinite replay value.
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2. How I Built This

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4. Bootstrapped Web

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Awesome! Any idea when this was added? I feel like this wasn't in the documentation a week or two ago; everything had still said "Use Hashicorp Atlas for remote state locking".
That would require major change in the psychology of car drivers not sure that's going to be happening any time soon.

Hint look at how Horse drawn Army's handled horses (read small warsthe USMC manual) individual troopers look after their own horse for a reason.
What is the oldest living organism on the planet?
Perhaps an embargo?
Apple typically doesn't announce that far out, though. They usually announce when their products are much closer to market, once they've got a device or two built and in hand that they can show off (like the recent HomePod and iMac Pro).

Granted, earlier this year we saw them meet with Apple-centric press to tell them "don't worry, we're building another Mac Pro, just not in 2017", but those present pointed out how un-Apple-like it was to make such an announcement.
Youngster!
I get that Apple has much more touch optimized software.

But aren't they effectively building the same toaster/fridge they mocked just a few years ago?

I was listening to a recent ATP podcast and they were going on about how nobody really wants to touch their laptop screen, but in order for an iPad to be a "pro" device you will realistically have to use it with a keyboard and...touch your screen.

The two companies are converging on the exact same thing yet one is considered ingenious and the other clueless.
All runtimes can run bare metal, it is just a matter how much Assembly they might require for the HAL.

Runtimes are a portable OS, that just by convince and practicability reasons happen to run on top of an existing OS.

That is the whole premise of Unikernels, to go back to the days when the language runtime was the OS, like on the Xerox environments.
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while(1){write();} is about as far away as it gets from actual application code. This topic may be fun, but remains an utterly pointless micro-benchmark.
Users are split on whether window controls should be on the left or right.

Hint: make it easily configurable.

Otherwise, you get to irritate 40-60% of your users.
A scientific hypothesis must be falsifiable, by definition. Some have tried unsuccessfully to argue this away, but it is still the majority opinion. And it's for this reason: once you open the "scientific" world to unfalsifiable hypotheses, you open it up to a bunch of bullshit.

That is not to say, however, that all important work must be scientific. There is a certain value to exploratory work, which can guide the direction of experiments in such a way as "if we could get experiment X then we could turn hypothesis Y into a testable hypothesis." In my opinion that is important work. You can see this in fields like psychology and such where the systems are just too complex to be easily testable (even medicine to some degree). But if we don't keep pursuing we will never get there.
yes will give repeated data though, not just zeros, seems like it's more useful here - as others have pointed out, also uses less syscalls than /dev/zero.
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Can anyone comment on the benefits of using the Goodreads API vs Amazon?
I think, the biggest latency hit will be from re-encrypting a symmetric key which encrypts messages, once in a while. This will result in occasional delays of ~0.25 ms (that's how much one operation with elliptic curve crypto takes).

The other bottleneck will be from the block cipher, when you actually encrypt/decrypt messages. Our open source version currently doesn't use AES-NI for that, so limited by performance of unaccelerated AES256 (few hundred k messages per second). This impact can be made negligible when using AES-NI (will come soon).

When using granular encryption, the performance bottleneck will shift to parsing messages (avro, for example), and will be limited by the performance of the parser.
Pretty sure none of your implementations will beat the FizzBuzzEnterpriseEdition [1].

[1]: https://github.com/EnterpriseQualityCoding/FizzBuzzEnterpris...
Practical PyTorch: Playing GridWorld with Reinforcement Learning
Why does Apple need to get into automation of any sort? As I see it, Apple is about making devices that consume your time, whereas automation is about making devices that free up your time.

More automation benefits Apple inasmuch as the less time people spend on tasks like driving, the more time they have to spend using their iPhone/iPad/Mac. But they are still very different problem domains, and it's not clear to me how most of Apple's strengths in creating consumer-friendly electronics will help it in automation, when the whole point is to eliminate human interaction.

It seems like Apple would be better off just investing some of its cash pile into a plethora of automation startups. Let those startups concentrate on automating everything, while Apple concentrates on capturing all the free time it opens up for people.
This is good advice. I grew up hunting and shooting, but in adulthood have come to agree that reasonable gun control is really something we have to do. However, the gun vs. anti-gun divide in the US is as pure a split as exists on any policy position. Few on one side know or understand the thinking or positions of any on the other.

People who don't shoot often don't know even the most basic things, like what differentiates a rifle from a shotgun, or what happens when a modern pistol runs out of bullets. They don't get the vast difference between a .22 and a 9mm on any level (size of projectile, powder load, etc.). And they certainly don't understand why pursuing something like a quote-unquote assault weapon ban is legislatively and logically difficult.
Graduating the incubator, paying back your investors and being acquired has good 'resume equity' - don't overlook the value of that. You can tote that out the next time you're looking for financing or shooting for a C-level gig. I'd take some time to recuperate, and figure out how you want to spend that extra 40 hours a week (suggest spending it on your health and with your loved ones).
Are you trolling? The commenter obviously meant the macOS version of "yes".
Good step in right way !
Yeah I am sick of the HEP people acting like they are the only game in town.
As the grugq has pointed out, incentives are not currently aligned properly to produce secure industrial systems:

"Firstly, a lot of infrastructure and data is in civilian hands. The people and organizations responsible for securing things are not the ones responsible for retaliating against attacks. They can’t do it anyway because they lack the resources, capability, and legal authority to do so.

As for investing in securing their systems, there is no regulatory requirement to do so. Indeed, for a board of directors, I’ve seen it suggested that they have a fiduciary duty to shareholders not to bear the cost burden of securing critical national infrastructure. It’s not their business to directly bear the costs of defending the nation, that’s what the nation state is for in the first place!"

https://medium.com/@thegrugq/idle-thoughts-on-cyber-82170b2b...
As tristanj pointed out elsewhere in the thread, studies have shown that chemical changes are happening. See the study tristanj linked, http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acs.est.6b01741
My impression is epicycles is to a fourier transform as string theory is to ___ . We don't quite know what that blank is yet, but it may be quite useful.
I'm not sure you actually read the article you linked. The focus is on delayed purchasing of cars, not an outright lack of ownership. There's no way I'll ever be using a rental service when I have to constantly worry about having a stroller, diaper bag, car seats, and so much more. I don't see the issue of family mobility solved anywhere in the horizon by "cars as a service."
One of the problems might be that humans tend to be not very consistent over longer periods of time. So choosing a set of tags which will stay useful for, say, 10 years is hard. Because of this "tag rot" is likely to happen. After a long time, when you're looking for a certain file you might not remember the tagging scheme you applied at the moment you tagged the file you're looking for.
Going to be interesting to see how the final regulations are written and which company benefits the most. By this I mean this whole area is will pretty much the Wild West. There are initial regulations governing the requirements of such work but they are by no means final. An example of how favoritism towards manufacturers works in this area is the 7500 tax rebate for battery equipped cars. It was practically carved out to meet the requirements GM had for the first generation Volt. GM also played a big factor in how DRLs were regulated, they wanted to save money on the the voltage converter so a higher limit was allowed.
> If there the acquisition price has a scheduled payout, don't put too much weight on any dollar amount that doesn't get paid out immediately as cash.

You actually cannot take this too serious. Often an earn-out depends on achieving certain revenue/ebitda/milestone targets. However, after the acquisition, you will find that someone else is in control over the resources you get (e.g., employees, budget, etc.). In other words, they control the input that you can use to achieve the agreed-upon output.

Thus the acquirer is frequently in a situation where they can manipulate the outcome by simply decreasing the input and thus driving you out of your earnout.

There's people who say that you should not rely on the earnout at all and make a deal ONLY if you would make it based on the immediate payout.
10 metre ISSF air rifle is easily the most zen form of shooting. It's a competitive exhibition of absolute stillness and calm. Modern precharged pneumatic air rifles are completely recoilless and astonishingly quiet:

https://youtu.be/uynTgIKh5Jo?t=14m50s
Totally OT, but there's a version of GoldenEye with mouse and keyboard controls so you can play it on PC at 60FPS with multiplayer.

I won't link to it here but I'm sure an interested person could find it pretty easily.
Eero releases new hardware and Thread protocol support
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Maybe because a few years ago this seemed unreachable, huge, special... (therefore secrecy). Today everybody knows it is reachable and near...
https://m.xkcd.com/619/