skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Counterpoint:
As Taleb points out, car accident deaths are 'thin-tailed'; that is, the rate of car fatalities is essentially fixed (and predictable by looking at past data), while terrorism is 'fat-tailed', and the number of deaths that would be caused by a dirty-bomb in Manhattan does not appear in historical data, and so it can't be 'priced' in the same way.
Right. This is the core problem. Most people who wind up in HR are rule-followers who are acutely aware of the legal risks associated with harassment culture.
I have switched to IPv6 at home for a few years now. I love it. I wish my work supported IPv6. The ability to have multiple VMs be able to have incoming connections is great. No more having to do wired ports for NATing reasons although an IPv6 firewall is a must.
This MIT Robot Could Build Your Next House Completely Out of Local Materials
Someone did the same with top downhill skier Aksel Lund Svindal last year, with the same conclusion. They also attached a pinhole camera inside his goggles to study eye movements, and found that he never blinks for the full 2 1/2 minutes of a race.
What would a 64bit address space solve that a 128bit would break?
I should say - that's not to say that the technical content isn't very interesting. I just think that the solutions to violence are better considered from the perspective of preventing people from becoming violent people, rather than preventing violence from occurring. I think there's significant evidence to suggest that there are very powerful yet unused paths forward in that direction.

There are other applications that such a system could be interesting for, though. What about determining interest rates on loans for people and small businesses? Small businesses could benefit greatly if lower-rate small loans enabled them to grow. Maybe insurance rates too? Etc.
Because employers prefer to hire from the abundant pool of adult workers who need those jobs, I would think.
Completely eliminated - of course not. There will be the odd medical device, a couple labs, or "grandma" with old hardware.

However practically eliminated is possible, even likely. ISPs are moving that way, we are out of IPv4 addresses and all. Eventually penetration will be large enough that some smaller servers will decide that having an ipv4 presence isn't worth it. Probably because the ipv4 static address costs money and ipv6 is cheaper.
In the early 2010s there was another site called Svpply that did the same thing. eBay ended up acquiring them. My impression was that all these sites were inspired by the original idea of ffffound.

https://techcrunch.com/2012/09/06/ebay-acquires-style-focuse...
I have an iPhone and use Onedrive for photo and video storage. Apple can do one with their greedy fingers. Besides now i get added functionality that iCloud cannot match:
Share video and image with friends. Quick browsing on Desktop with folder like structure.

Added Office 365 ++ much more
Open encyclopedia of formal specs for many file formats and network protocols
It's only too big if you consider they would all be used. The large tracts of open unused space allow you to subdivide networks many times over - simplifying routing. If you just made the space bigger and expected to pack it very full, the routing would be very complex - worse than now.
The people being murdered would not enjoy it. Jesus. Please just stop, you're making a terrible argument.
Please do your client a favour and find a way to use an existing CMS. There are countless options available.

Building something custom effectively means you are stating that your requirements somehow happen to be so unique that somehow all the existing solutions are not adequate. Otherwise it can't be justified.

And the chances of that statement being true is astronomically low.

If you think of it as a spectrum,

One one end there's the "shitty 50 line python script I created for my own problem in an hour in an afternoon".

On the other extreme end is "new CMS we are building to challenge all the existing ones because we are in the business of making a new CMS and we have raised millions and millions".

Everything else in between (where the CMS itself is secondary to a different primary problem being solved) does not justify the creation of the CMS.

It's like deciding to first manufacture a cook-top because you want to cook a really tasty dish of scrambled eggs.
> I've seen numerous discussions about integrating WebAssembly with the JavaScript heap. That might not require full GC; ownership semantics might suffice (such that either wasm or JS can own the object at any given time, and within the wasm world it can use wasm memory management).

Those discussions have not resulted in a proposal.

Ownership semantics are most likely not going to work. The options being considered are:

- WebAssembly has strong or weak handles to JS objects. That's not ownership.

- WebAssembly can allocate GC'd objects. That's not ownership.

- WebAssembly exposes enough stuff so that you can write your own GC. That's ownership, sorta, but doesn't allow wasm to access JS objects. Wasm would simply own objects it allocated in its own heap and would never be able to claim ownership of JS objects or relinquish ownership of its objects to JS. By itself, this means zero GC interop with JS.

Most likely, we'll end up with all three options.

It sounds like you're proposing that WebAssembly can somehow come to own a JS object. That's not practical, since it would imply either eagerly ref-counting all JS objects (that's a 2x slow-down), or it would imply full synchronous GC every time you share any object (totally impractical), or it would imply pretending that WebAssembly can own an object without first proving it (then wasm code could create use-after-free bugs to escape the web sandbox).

> What we have today seems very close to that in practice.

You have to use JS API to load wasm, so we're not close to this at all.

> A combination of a fast bytecode interpreter and compiled code caching could probably manage that. Or a fast, targeted JIT.

So long as WebAssembly is a low-level compiler target, that implies that developers shipping WebAssembly will also be shipping a userland for whatever their source language is. See emscripten for example, which has a large userland (the "emsdk", which includes libc and other things). So long as this is the pattern, WebAssembly will necessarily take longer to load than JS because the same program written in wasm will be bigger than its JS variant.

> Still an improvement, but also see above about ownership semantics.

I don't think your ownership idea will work, see above.
I'd say it goes hand in hand with the bit about "terrible food". OK, "terrible" is hyperbolic, but I'm specifically avoiding places that are as white as snow because of food.

I'm looking at moving, and one hard requirement for me is that the suburb I'm moving to have an Asian population of at least 15%, specifically for food-related reasons. I live in the northern suburbs of Dallas, which have fairly high Asian populations. I want a large amount of Thai, Vietnamese, Japanese, Korean, regional Chinese, Indian, etc. food wherever I live, and if a place is 90% white, I'm not going to get that. I'd also like a Hispanic population above 15% too because I love me some tacos, but I'm willing to forego that as long as a nearby suburb is >15% Hispanic.

I've narrowed down my search to the suburbs of Los Angeles and Las Vegas; specifically, Torrance (or Irvine) and Spring Valley, respectively, and ethnic makeup is one of my most important criteria.
As somebody with an interest in the space I appreciated the honest breakdown of the challenges and failures, 100% agree that this is a tough market.

But this part stood out:

"We were charging clients 30–40% less than industry average, and we were paying caregivers 25% higher than industry average. Both sides were winning."

Both sides were winning at the expense of Homehero's investors and the viability of the business model.

It is damn easy to grab market share in nearly any price-sensitive marketplace by underpricing service or over-pricing HR but it will ALWAYS ALWAYS catch you.

And while the W2 math / wage wouldn't be completely solve by bringing pricing to parity, it certainly would have had a huge impact and maybe provided enough runway to drive the scale efficiency.
These are not names designed for people who understand linear algebra from an undergraduate mathematics course, they’re just names taken from BLAS, which were chosen based on the conventions of Fortran code.

There’s no particularly good reason to shorten `norm` to `nrm` except to be cryptic.

Knowing that `mv` means “function that takes two arguments and multiplies the matrix in the first argument by the vector in the second argument” and that `axpb` means “takes three arguments, and multiplies a scalar by a vector and then adds it to another vector” and that `scal` means “takes two arguments and multiplies the scalar first argument by every element of the vector or matrix in the second argument” requires familiarity with BLAS. In general the names are fairly un-systematic. Once you’ve learned them reading code is reasonably straight-forward (albeit much less clear than code written using more explicit syntax like you’d find in Matlab or similar), but writing code is going to require either frequent trips to the docs or some time spent on memorization.
Is there any about:config flag in Firefox to disable WASM all together?
Because high quality jobs for adult workers have disappeared, so those adult workers are taking jobs that teenagers would have done in previous generations. There's massive under-employment in most western countries at the moment.
It's so bizarre, seeing how pinterest screams for some sort of machine learning image matching ad system, combined with direct buy buttons for the stuff in the pictures.
"Parents are pushing kids to volunteer and sign up for extracurricular activities instead of working, to impress college admission counselors."

I think this is one of the reasons I see most often (I graduated from high school 2 years ago). Many students think that taking a minimum wage job for the summer won't do them any good, and their parents push them to believe that "education is their job", so they opt for things outside of working to fill their summers.
On the subject of maintaining a route like this, it is dangerous to remove loose rocks since there is a reasonable chance that there is someone below you. As a result, some loose rock is still present on these routes.
Been 5 years already ?; still not a word from my ISP :/
The possibility of remembering addresses.
You sound like someone who's never been on a jury. Jury gets very exact instructions from the judge before it makes a decision. In these instructions judge interprets the law in a way that the jury will understand. She doesn't tell them how to vote, but in a clear cut case like this one someone who has been selected for impartiality will almost certainly make an accusatory decision. Jury is not a get out of jail free card.
CAN is just the communication protocol. The diagnostics just ride on top of it.
http://imgur.com/a/ZtJIW I can't add a birth day of a person.

Chrome Version 58.0.3029.110 (64-bit) OSX

Looks nice though!
It is probably logically unnecessary but I think it's best to have experience with the "computational" aspects of linear algebra before diving into Axler's book.
The real tragedy is that pure mathematics is hidden from students for too long and many opt-out of that path in favor of "Actuarial Science" and applied maths.

Real talk: pure maths was way more fun, interesting, and applicable to my life as a software engineer than all the applied math and modelling that I wrote/learned/etc. Pure mathematics expanded my mind unlike any other subject matter.
Just enumerating the publicly-known and publicly-alleged activities of Uber:
(WARNING to the humor averse: this is part true, and part tongue-in-cheek)

1. Running a rideshare app.

2. Customer Service.

3. Union Busting

4. Autonomous Vehicle Development.

5. Misappropriation of Trade Secrets.

6. Developing systems to deceive government regulators.

7. Figuring out how to cut the throats of other department heads aka "always be hustlin'".

8. Poaching drivers from other rideshare networks.

9. Subprime auto financing

10. Techblog rants about tech that breaks when Uber breaks it

11. Rental/leasing programs

12. Generating bogus ride requests on other rideshare networks.

13. Getting dates for CEO ("Boober", lest we forget)

14. Getting CEO invited to celebrity parties

15. Flying Cars.

16. Food Delivery.

17. Autonomous LTL and Truckload carriage.

18. Innovating new ways to break laws.

19. Fending off unwanted sexual advances.

And no, drivers are not included as they are not drivers. Also, there are a lot more than 12,000 Uber drivers. There's probably at least half that in California alone, possibly more.
But that wasn't your argument. In your argument no one cares. Even the people murdered.

The argument is sound.
Thanks—added above.
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Or a new type of actor for hire that gets people to inadvertently commit crimes on cameras. Same reasons as 10,000 years ago: angry spouses, jealousy, political assassination etc.
British Cops Make First Arrest Using Facial Recognition Surveillance Vans
Be Careful Celebrating Google’s New Ad Blocker
> by experts

Experts in what? Security research or PR?
It's not just this season, though. For many types of baseball statistics, full records are available going back decades, and for some statistics there's literally a century's worth of information. Which allows us to ask questions about trends over time and be pretty confident that the answers are the answers, and not just misinterpreted noise.

People tend to underestimate just how much information there is on baseball, and how well-kept it has been.
Sikuli vs. Kantu – Alternative to Sikuli/SikuliX for web test automation
> I finally turned off suggested pins, but ads aren't optional.

Well, technically you can always install an ad blocker.
True, but bear in mind, the dashboard CAN bus port itself provides almost no access at all, and Tesla actually monitors their cars so they can call and threaten anyone who tries to connect to the actual diagnostics ports, which require a bit more work to get into.

http://jalopnik.com/the-tesla-model-s-is-basically-a-good-lo...
- "No knowledge" (e.g. decrypted on the client) data storage. Very very difficult to do well.

- Make it easy for people to host data independently of you. Either by running your app on thier server (related to discussion above about for Heroku/Sandstorm, but a regular VPS is probably preferable), or using your client to read data stored in some generic format, e.g. an existing CardDav server, or even just Dropbox, with the web UI running locally, or as an extension.

The most important features for self hosting are probably maturity and stability, and signed releases via an up-to-date PPA.

For using some generic back-end you'd need to support it.
Ask HN: Relaunch my website in Ruby/Python or continue with PHP?
Hey All,
My site http://LetsLunch.com is written in PHP - YII framework - we are looking to relaunch it with a new angle/pivot. Any ideas on should we continue to build on existing PHP or switch to more modern languages like ruby/rails, angular etc.. is switching over and rewriting worth it?
Well unless you plan to have a Startup that sells Time, the scarcity of time is rather irrelevant to Capitalism, no? It has to be something a business can solve for you. Time Travel seems unlikely but treatments to extend the life of a human being so they have more time? Absolutely within the realm of possibilities, but where the first round of those will likely cost thousands if not hundreds of thousands and be newsworthy, centuries from now when those treatments are commonplace, they'll be getting cheaper and cheaper too just like aluminum did.

And again you're not addressing my raw point: that scarcity is the basis of Capitalistic goods and businesses, and that once scarcity is made obsolete by the unstoppable march of technology, once material goods, everything from toilet paper all the way up to time-defying treatments comes out of our Replicator, then what is left to be scarce? The only way at such a time to maintain scarcity and therefore capitalism is to impose it artificially, and if you knowingly withhold things that could be made free, realistically and practically, for everyone simply to continue making money, I'm sorry but that is the height of evil.
In the example of the dirty bomb, I'm not sure that the number of casualties/cancer incidences is especially high, based on some brief search. Sept 11 seems like it was a more damaging attack, for example, and that seems roughly as difficult to replicate as a dirty bomb. Especially given the trade-off between payload and shielding your substances enough to prevent detection by the myriad of radiation detection systems I'm sure DHS has installed in major cities.

But you are certainly correct that statistically these events are more difficult to interpret, and raw averages are not a fair comparison.
The two points, vaguely, seem to describe thoughts I've had, but lots of your brief statements are either over-simplified or outright wrong:

> USA completely moved their means of production to Asia
> These jobs are just missing
> Until the lenders crash, because they can't pay back
> Needs to, because he doesn't get payed well
> Companies aren't borrowing
> It's like capitalism forgot how capitalism work.

We live in a time when consumers have been trained (err brainwashed) by corporations, which have the advantage in the information asymmetry of sales/marketing/behavior. Consumers are saving more than $2k a year on cheaper goods because of globalization, but they only look at one side of their ledger. They didn't bother to save more, to reinvest in their own skills/education, to start their own businesses. Instead, consumers are increasingly spending more on personal entertainment, squandering that savings generated by a global supply chain.

Companies are borrowing and spending MASSIVE amounts to repay their investors. Some companies have made huge capital investments (Amazon, Apple, Nvidia, Microsoft, Samsung, Intel, AMD, Tesla/SolarCity, pharma, and all of their supply chains). Even fintech is making big investments (feature-filled ATMs, check scanning, Visa/MC/AMEX machine learning of spending behavior). The problem is that all of these companies are huge, which means that they are already very good at optimizing and scaling their growth. This means that productivity rises, so the employee headcount rises less than linearly with product growth.

Looking at more traditional types of manufacturing: Caterpillar, John Deere, Polaris, GE, Boeing, etc are all more productive than ever. But their businesses are also more susceptible to changes in the value of the US dollar, or geopolitical events which may close borders or affect intellectual property enforcement.

And (non-Tesla) car manufacturing left Michigan for better markets. In the beginning, the South was advantageous because of weaker unions and lower cost of living. Later, Mexico was superior because of the low labor costs matched with superior export market (lower peso value and large number of free-trade countries to export to). In that market, the US was at a disadvantage because it was such a strong and mature/developed market.

Capitalism isn't a person. It is an observation of a system, which doesn't really describe modern America and hasn't for nearly a century. We are far more of a hybrid capitalist/socialist since we have high taxes, high regulation, high barrier to entry in many markets (due to licensing requirements), high employee/labor protections, intricate zoning and NIMBY issues, etc. We live in a time when rent seekers and government regulation have largely skewed our markets. Lobbyists have extended Intellectual Property lifetimes and patent trolls have gamed our system to suck profits out of the more innovative companies.
I guess we will get there. But possibly in 10y. My home broadband in the UK is BT and they just switched on IPv6. Right now it is very unstable. Sometimes I am IPv6 enabled, sometimes not. IPv6 connectivity usually lags behind IPv4 (ie assignment of an IPv6 address is delayed by a few minutes). So it's all hacky and unreliable but it is making some slow progress.
Sure - those are good ideas, and they do (did) such searches prior to determining which sequence to look for in the genome. Just a few caveats off the top of my head though:

- When you are sequencing a genome how do you know whether or not the windowed sequence you have is found only once in the genome? A solvable problem for most sequences, but still not a trivial caveat.

- Organisms utilize genomic duplication in order to create backups/redundancies/variants of their most critical systems. These backups eventually 'drift' from their parent, but how much drift is required to know whether or not it will be accidentally 'found' by Cas9.

- Cas9, like squirmy biology, is time dependent. If you give it 100 years it will likely cut most any sequence at some point during the period. So how do you measure/account for the literal number of Cas9 proteins, much less the amount of time they remain in a given nucleus.

- DNA is relatively hardy as far as biological molecules go, but there are all sorts of different kinds of chemical errors (much less intentional modifications) associated with DNA that could make a given sequence more/less likely to be misread by Cas9.

- Are all your gRNAs actually the exact sequence you think they are? RNA is much less stable than the hardy DNA mentioned above. What if some of your RNA is being modified before it even gets to go homing around for its complementary sequence.

etc. etc. etc.
How would changes to word order or sentence form be imperceptible?
Can you believe the first comment 'Now let's see it done with Total Commitment' dude? My god there are some asshats in this world.
The DMCA is unlikely to affect a subpoena.
I see what you're saying and a lot of small towns that once thrived are dying but your argument doesn't prove the dream is dead because:

1) the American Dream has included a college education as a general requirement for quite some time now. People that live in small towns, esp. mid-sized ones that rely on Naval bases or other similar economic drivers as the example you provided generally aren't part of this group

2) it ignores that the Dream is alive and well elsewhere

Nobody should expect to get a college education and go live in any given town and be set for life. That's not practical. Economies change, but the opportunities are still out there.

If you believe people should be entitled to make a living wherever they grow up (or choose) forever, then yes the American Dream doesn't exist because your expectations are out of line with capitalism.

That's not fair; it's alive if you aren't stubborn with occupational choices and where you live. It sucks to move but people need to get over that fear.
Ask HN: Can Sia take business away from Amazon/Google/Dropbox?
I have stumbled upon Sia [0] some time ago and started doing my research on it. What they basically offer is "decentralized cloud storage". The selling point is that data is going to be distributed over many hosts, which eliminates the risk of single point of failure. While the concept itself seems interesting, can they actually sway customers from well-established incumbents?

Development roadmap - https://trello.com/b/Io1dDyuI/sia-public-roadmap

[0] http://forum.sia.tech/topic/106/what-is-sia
"gets()" "sprintf", "strcat", and the other buffer-overflow friendly C library functions should have been deprecated in the 1990s. It's not too late. Force maintainers to write

#include <unsafe-deprecated-c-library-functions>

if they really want them.
Thats way more than my usual 4-6 :-)

I guess I should but I also love to have some time alone before the rest of my family wakes up (and before people turn up at work).