skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would appreciate any additional pointers to resources available in plain text demonstrating its effectiveness - the future predicted here should be readily evidenced by the past!
Yeah, this is the same with me. The last game I bought at full price was watch_dogs, and I felt ripped off that most of the season pass content was the same copy and paste missions as the rest of the game, with only one proper DLC.

Last month I bought Dishonored 2 for £10 and Deus Ex: Mankind Divided for £8, roughly six months after release (when they were £60).
Strict standards and certifications that make it hard to make changes are one contributing factor to how we ended up here.
That would assume it always gets back.
I hear you on changing it out. My house was built in 85, with 100A service, only about 20 circuits total. Going to put in a 200A box before I finish the basement and slowly re-allocate to separate circuits over time.

I haven't gotten bids yet to know for myself, but assuming you feel confident enough to do the wiring after the new box install, it shouldn't be outlandish price-wise, even in CA.

I'm only doing that because I don't want to mess with the live feed from the street, though I did watch some electricians replace my mains breaker. Their solution was being very careful with rubber gloves and rubber-handled-pliers, but I just don't think that's for me :).
Makes sense, thanks for taking the time. The inference mentioned here is indeed nice. Hopeful nnbd will get in at some point!
Cyclists call it 'the bonk' and it's fucking horrible.

It's like been incredibly drunk and tired at the same time.

Happened to me the first time I did a 60 mile ride in winter, wind back was brutal, I got about 10 miles from home on the outskirts of town, found a petrol station ate a cornish pasty and two mars bars and it took about 30 minutes before I could summon the energy to get on the bike and coast home.

I learnt the lesson the hard way that day.

I've found it relatively easy to avoid since mostly by drinking at least a litre of isotonic an hour on the bike (adjusting for climate) and eating reasonable amounts of carbs the day before.
A described in an above comment, my recent experience was different from yours. It was however an online service, and I did initiate dialog with an email support agent who claimed to be 'resolving the issue', but then did not respond to follow up emails for two weeks. I wonder if mentioning the merchant had already claimed to be cancelling the service, then continued to charge installments made the difference?
Not sure i get involved but here goes.

So apparently it is officially called pistol, yet most seems to represent a revolver, and the guy insists on calling it the gun emojii, even though the word gun can be used for anything from a bb to .50...
Uber CEO Travis Kalanick takes leave amid sweeping changes at company
i don't know about machine learning our jobs, that sounds futuristic. but machine can be set up not to require 1 specific manager to oversee it. it can hire whomever it chooses. that means machine is in control of its workers. and not the other way around
Plaintext / basic Markdown with an "organizer" like Ulysses [0] or Quiver [1] can serve just about all needs.

[0] https://www.ulyssesapp.com

[1] http://happenapps.com/#quiver
Ask HN: Why is LinkedIn's website so slow?
Since LinkedIn launched its new website, it has become unbearably slow — especially in Firefox, but also in Chrome. Even simple things, like clicking on the notification icon (which lights up for the dumbest things) takes many seconds to load a new page. Of course, checking notifications should probably be a dropdown instead of taking me to a separate page. But regardless, a new page load should never take this long.

How is it that such a well-known tech company can have such a slow website for its main product?
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Patches for many of these issues have been public already for a few weeks, so waiting another day or two won't cause much additional harm. The CVEs do not contain test cases.
I thought the title said middle class. This is worse
Hopefully he moved his money away from mtgox.com
Your observation is equally pointless. You're the one using it as an argument though.
The support tech seems like she was being genuinely caring, even if she shoved her foot in her mouth a bit. Thanks to this poster, she'll lose her job. Good work, lady!
> Isn't the whole point of catered dinner to give people an incentive to work longer hours and have them be taken care of if they're staying at work pretty late? It's not a free meal, it's an incentive to work into the night. It's optional, you can go home if you want.

I take it as a signal that you're only perceived by the company to be "working into the night" if you're physically in the office at 8:15 pm. If you're the parent that gets in early or logs back on remotely after putting your kids to bed, you might be working just as much, but your efforts will be less visible to managers who won't see you putting in "face time" by staying for dinner.
If I want to change my number to a new SIM, my telco requires me to log in, and fill in a form. If I forgot my password their email it to me.

They don't have any offices open to the public, nor any hotline, and are really the cheapest alternative where I live, but it seems that their attempts to save money have resulted in them ending up with a securer infrastructure than some notorious ones from very advanced countries.
> There are other easier features that have more impact

Which features?
Show: XXE Injections in JAVA
It means governments are exploiting the OS instead of random hackers.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14545456
"Activity" = codename for hacking
This looks awwwwfully nonfree...
A nice tidbid for CSS developers:

<input> elements of types checkbox and radio with -moz-appearance: none; set on them are now non-replaced elements, for compatibility with other browsers

This means that checkboxes and radio buttons can finally be styled like regular HTML elements. Goodbye label hacks.
It's a seductive argument, but how much of the AI R&D in an autonomous car would be 1: truly unique 2: transferrable to other projects?

It seems to me domestic/concierge/robotic/secure IoT AI is a much bigger and uncontested market.

What specifically does building an automotive AI give Apple that a more general robotics and/or concierge AI project doesn't?
Uber CEO takes leave, now the company must grow up
> What is the intrinsic value of ETH or Bitcoin? It literally has nothing to back it.

The brand and the places where you can pay or donate with it, or exchange it. The fact that it can't be seized by the authorities, the limit on inflation wired into the software and system. And thats most likely not all of it.
why would it trigger a surge in bitcoin's price? The event is unprecented, and will happen during a time of uncertainty in BTC's future, due to the impending hard fork. It would seem to me that the event would cause ETH to surge instead.
On a related note, offline pages on Firefox Android finally work again!

At least in the Beta release; https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1358946
Sure, and if the quibble was along the lines of "You never explicitly said boys and girls are 50-50 distributed! You never explicitly said elder and younger childrens' birth genders are independent! You never explicitly said birth-days-of-the-week are uniformly…", then that would be fair, if pedantic.

But this "You know what Mr. Jones has told you, but you don't know under what circumstances he would have told you this" objection is objecting to some other problem than the one posed; the problem posed had nothing to do with Mr. Jones saying anything.

I understand the reason for worrying about this, because many probability riddles ARE poorly worded or presented in such a way as that this becomes an issue, but it wasn't the case here. (Note: I haven't watched rest of the video and have no comment on it; I'm just considering the wording of this individual question within it)

There was never any claim that Mr. Jones said anything, and no one was called to infer anything from any actions taken by Mr. Jones. He could be a lifelong mute. Rather, the fact that Mr. Jones has two children was presented, by an omniscient narrator, and then a counting question was asked.

(Indeed, Mr. Jones himself is completely irrelevant to the problem asked, except as a way of framing the counting question to be about two-children families. The question asked might as well have been "What proportion of two-children families with a boy born on Tuesday have girls?". It was very slightly differently worded, but not in such a way as makes "We don't know what Mr. Jones was asked!" a relevant objection.)
Vendors who allow online or over the phone sign ups, but only in person cancellation don't tend to be relying on the quality of their product or service to keep customers.

ISPs are one where if you are not a savvy consumer you wont realize that when they say up to X megabits a second that its not only a different unit from megabytes, but that anything 0 <= (actual service) <= X is considered meeting the terms of the contract. ISPs are also the type of company where you call to cancel the service, as the contract allows because you are not locked in, and instead of letting you cancel they give you the run around and send you to person after person to try to keep you online.

While we don't know if OP was in the right here from this story, you must have at least _some_ ability to see where they could be at fault
> we have taken action to provide additional critical security updates to address vulnerabilities that are at heightened risk of exploitation due to past nation-state activity and disclosures.

It's state sponsored hacking or hoarding of vulnerabilities.
MIT Research Scientist Runs 580,000 Vcpu Mathematics Simulation on Google Cloud
His analogy was definitely bad, but he's right. Legality does not equate morality. However, I do find it weird that they would ask you to describe an instance where you broke the law during a job interview.
People look at you like your a damn wizard when you diff two texts to find the differences. I'm sure there are diff tools for Word as well, but almost no one use them, because they aren't aware that such a tool could exist.

The average person run around with a smart phone in their pocket, a marvel of engineering and yet they still don't know how to use their computer to do trivial tasks.
A plug but hopefully useful as it is basically the books read by the HN community - http://hackernewsbooks.com
It's the Unix/text fetishizing developers who aren't the smart enough ones I think...
no, it is not. The OP statement is about the probability of the event "{X in Q}" (equal to 0), with X a random variable uniformly distributed on a bounded interval. That even contains many points (infinitely many actually), but has a probability 0.

You are talking about the probability of a single point event, which is also always 0 on that same sigma algebra.

The OP point is not completely trivial because the event contains an infinite (but countably) number of elements. It is fairly easy to understand though since by its very definition, the P[{X in Q}] = sum P[{x}] taken over every rational number (since Q is countable), and each P[{x}] is 0.

A deeper statement is that there exists uncountable sets of probability 0.
Probably the 50 scripts that MS kicks off.
In normal use, GNU `yes` does unbuffered IO on stdout. However, it does use buffered IO for --help and --version messages; it sets atexit(close_stdout) to cover both of those cases at once, rather than handling them both separately.
Thanks for your input. Will definitely add these in the next iteration.
Only potential positive i see is that it allows us to curse like comic book sailors online...
Yea, that's clear enough. I think this feature just doesn't apply to our use case. Excited to see the growth though. Thanks.
That's not to say there aren't things NumPy doesn't do that it could. How about lazy evaluation or even just matrix chain multiplication? Either could save a lot of computation.
+1 for vimwiki. No embedded images does kind of suck, but it has an excellent side effect: even if you use the wiki a lot, it never consumes a lot of space. That means it's perfectly reasonable to store years and years of data and have it all available, locally, on every device.

The main thing I don't like about it is that there's no simple way to ingest data quickly from a mobile device.
Presumably it's another case where an intelligence agency lost control of an exploit they developed, the same thing that happened with WannaCry.
I just use markdown for what it's good at and 'drop' to HTML for the stuff I can't do in 'plain' markdown.

Python has a lovely library for it and combined with jinja you can get a hell of a long way in a couple of hundred lines of python as a static site generator.
I'm not trying to speak for the parent of your post. To put combat in perspective, it's hard to even convey what is "normal" to the military.

Some things which would be (more than) dangerous on a civilian level: helicopter dunk tank, boxing, climbing from a boat to a ship on a cargo net, working with a squad full of 19 year olds with live ammo, a lt with a map.

Going to the grenade range, pulling the pin and you're now holding a live grenade. The only safety at this point is an individual's ability to not freak out and remember what to do.

That's mostly infantry related dangers. The other branches and sections all have large machinery/vehicles ready to run people over or blast them off the flight deck. I know of a sailor who was flown out after a table slid across the mess deck and pinned him to the wall.

The list could just go on and on -- heat exhaustion, hunger, exposure, blisters, bites, infections in the field. All of this is the normal and doesn't even begin to touch on combat where someone is actively interested in doing you harm.

edit -- the point of the above is that first you have to calibrate from civ normal to mil normal before considering combat. Even military normal is so far removed from IT related stress it is laughable.
There are lots of flavors of *NIX that can serve this need.

The big fear shouldn't be that you won't have anything to run so much as the idea that popular general Operating Systems in the future will integrate too many advanced features and introduce hurdles to general interoperability that makes it harder for open source alternatives to be useful.

So far it hasn't been too big of a problem, but if operating systems start being augmented by substantial amounts of AI or machine learning derived efficiency improvements upstarts might have trouble keeping up, but I wouldn't count out the creativity of the Open Source community to address these issues.
No. That's what out of touch adults in tech thought.
> or UTF-16

Please no. UTF-16 needs to die a painful death.
Hundreds? I'd struggle to name twenty and I consider myself reasonably knowledgeable about the scene.
Tried Standard Notes? Not a user myself but I know people who are fans and it sounds right up your alley.

https://standardnotes.org/
Just download it normally and move it to your VM through network share or whatever.
How dare the customer have opinions of there own and vote with there feet and money for it! This is outrageous! Dont they want to go Hipster-Hyper-Heaven?
>The problem is not communication. To quote Paul Graham in a keynote from some years back: People have been waiting for "sufficiently smart compilers" to cut programmers out of the loop for 30 years. It is a neat idea in theory. In practice it is just very hard.

I don't see how it's "very hard" in the general case. Compilers have been increasingly cutting programmers out of the loop for 30 years now.

It's the reason we program apps and even games in C++ and not in hand-rolled assembly as we did in the 80s, and why we can use crazily high level languages like JS and still get within an order of magnitude of C with a modern JIT.
You're redirecting stdout to /dev/null and pv is writing to stderr. If you use &> instead, stderr and stdout will both be redirected to /dev/null and you will see no output at all.
Monetary Policies for Crypto Tokens
It seems that one could argue that the first single-celled organism has never died. Single-celled organisms reproduce by dividing, and there's no distinction between parent and offspring, right? So if any offspring survives, then the original organism arguably has not died.
Clearly they never wrote for the butterfly[0] ;).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBN_Butterfly
Windows already has several versions, adding a non locked down one seems like an obvious up sell on Microsoft's part.
Have you tried manually installing SP3 first? I remember an old PC I had to troubleshoot wouldn't install anything else until I had that.
Some more meta-questions: are there some HN-esque sites that are more popular in Europe/ Germany? Even between major cities in the US I've observed a lot of variability in job postings/ language usage trends, services used, etc. Has anyone found that to be the case in international work? How have you dealt?
Google must really be convinced smartphones are going to be turn-key for efforts in AR & VR because spending all this money on a product platform almost a decade old that they already have such a large presence in just seems odd on the surface.
Call 1-600-DOCTORB, the B is for bargain.
Every new grad: read this. Then file it away and review it as soon as you have people reporting to you. This should be required reading for every start-up founder and every manager at every mid-size and large org, and every person who criticizes the decisions of those people or hopes to be in those positions. Which means every creative, every knowledge worker, engineer, designer, lawyer, physician, all of them. And therefore, almost without exception, everyone reading this comment.

Edit: This is the executive symmary. It contains a lot of what to do. Going forward, you don't need to know so much how Uber got into the mess they're in. You need to know how to stay out of similar messes. This is a good plan for how to stay out of such messes.
A Turing machine can't pick random numbers of any kind.

Once you accept that you have an entropy source in the physical world, you can easily be injecting random real numbers (from some range) and in fact, usually are, which are then being binned into integers by ADCs.
Very cool congrats to the ArangoDB Team.
The NRA represents a lot more people than you think, even on this board. I've never been a member but reading your comments reminds me that I ought to purchase a membership and donate today.

My grandfather, father, mother, and myself have all used a handgun in self defense before. I would posit that I am existing to type this because of personal firearm ownership. Whenever I see comments like yours I empathize and remind myself that you are good natured but that you lack the background and context to realize why someone might reasonably want or need to arm themselves. Most of my friends here in California are like that, and they have no idea how nice and safe their environment and upbringing was in the pricy coastal cities and university towns of the West Coast. Some of us are from rougher places. Having lived in many different environments with different threat levels I understand the genesis of both viewpoints, but I know which one I'd consider right.

Our criminal neighbor tried to bash my father's head in with a tire iron on the front lawn - before you counter that we wouldn't need firearms to defend ourselves with if there weren't firearms out there in the first place.
So here is what Yahoo did: It "aqui-hired" a team of people, led by a 17-year-old living in London, that cannot claim to have invented a cool technology OR to have built a cool app. Yahoo does own the technology SRI invented for Summly, but it doesn't own SRI, so it hasn't acquired the team that can scale the technology for Yahoo.
>"Just rely on autovectorization" is what people have wanted to do for over a decade. We have yet to see satisfactory results for C.

That's because C is crap in that aspect and doesn't give enough guarantees and intents.

With a better language you could have great autovectorization in ever higher level code than C.
Me too. I know this is essentially his gig now, but I haven't seen anyone attack the science. If there's a reasonable refutation out there, I'm all ears.
Markdown is the new Cursive
What about PI? We can represent it in terms of "we know what we are talking about" and we can distinguish it from other numbers.
It is just as cavalier and anthropocentric to impose a deliberate ecological aesthetic based on the idea of preservation. Cyanobacteria oxygenated the world and caused mass extinction of most Earth species. Life moved on.
I think they thought they had a clever talking point that exposed hypocrisy or cognitive dissonance but failed to take into account that guns aren't dicks so the analogy falls apart immediately.
That's not quite apples-to-apples though:

cat /dev/zero | pv > /dev/null

uses a pipe like the 'yes' line above, but runs substantially slower on my computer than the redirect-only version.
The easiest way to fix this is also probably the most un-sexy way:

Eliminate the electronic aspect and go full manual records and tallying.

Essentially revert to a completely manual system.

Sure, no one would really like it. The logistics and storage needs would be immense. It would take a longer time to count the votes.

But if done right, it would mean a system secure from any electronic tampering.

Perhaps some of the records could be stored electronically - but all with a hard air-gap; I'm sure there would be a way to take some of the pain out of the system.

But even if not - even if it has to go back to completely manual, pen and paper, storage in massive warehouse of paper or whatnot - and all the pain that would entail - isn't it worth it to preserve what we have - our democratic and representative political government system?

I think many would agree with me; my fear is that far more would rather have convenience and shiny tools, and don't give a damn about possible security issues. Far more than that just don't care at all (which is endemic to the whole process, but is a wholly separate discussion of course).
>Why is it admirable to plug holes in capitalism?

Public education isn't a capitalistic enterprise. If anything, they're letting it collapse so that they can replace it with more capitalistic alternatives like voucher programs and charter schools (which is just a way for fundamentalists to have the government pay to support their indoctrination efforts).
There's been quite a bit of private funding, through Enthought and other companies.
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I feel like you're splitting hairs. If it's just a matter of terminology, what is there for us to discuss? I know that sounds blunt but I don't intend it to be rude. I feel like you can call it a work/rest balance if you want, but then you're categorizing a great many things that fall outside of "work" as "rest", while I might lump those things in with "life".
There is an error-diffusion dithering algorithm based on the Hilbert-curve called Riemersma dither.

https://www.compuphase.com/riemer.htm

I suspect that error diffusion along the long jumps of a z-order curve could create strange undesired artifacts.
> https://mona.co

Sound great, like most cryptocurrency marketing hype... where is the product? How do I get my hands on it? Let me guess "coming soon".

> http://www.coindesk.com/150-million-tim-draper-backed-bancor...

Ok, so a bunch of people spent their money on eth internet tokens... what exactly is the practical use case here?

> https://www.coingecko.com/ico?locale=en

So you've linked to a huge list of projects begging for donations. If you don't mind, can you pick just one project out of that list that actually has a product or service I can use today and explain to me why this wasn't already possible without cryptocurrencies?