skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think that's true. Switching to another messaging service means you lose all past messages. It also means you need to integrate all other services (like Github, Google Doc, Travis, and many others) to this new messaging service. That is a lot of friction!
Yes, you're right. The silicon giants decided it was cheaper to fund that testing and verification work than to break backwards compatibility.
Interesting. That strongly implies that RSA has a flaw, which is news to me.
Tell that to email.

Don't get me wrong, I'm a huge cryptonerd. But open source is not a panacea against monopolization.
This is for a home setup for sharing the family media file collection with the devices on the local network. Having the GUI just makes it simpler. I also own a FreeNAS mini so...along with a few TrueNAS at work.
Very very fun.

You don't get paid like an ultra rockstar that lives in a different strata of society than other people, but it being Montreal where rent is affordable and events like the International Jazz Fest, Tam Tams, or drinking wine in one of the many parks is free, and you move all over the island with high quality public transport, it's for the better.

However, it feels a little bit hollow sometimes and like not a lot of real tech work is being done. Lots of stuff geared towards yuppies and going to coffee shops and renting pads and shopping, not a lot of really groundbreaking stuff.

There's gaming companies (eg: Ubisoft), old ex-startups (eg: Shopify), new startups (eg: Transit), Google and Microsoft have offices here, big investment into machine learning research in local universities, etc. It's a college town... for 5 universities... in the downtown of a great city.

There's probably better places to go if you want a super prestige-track career, but I doubt there's many places that are more fun or better balanced.
This is an oversimplification. Some compute intensive parts can get significant speed ups through careful use of data parallelism (such as SIMD). Others needs parallelism at the thread level. Etc. Optimizing for memory patterns is important as is trying to keep the working set within a near-level cache.
I assume they mean the startup scene. OpenText are great, but they were founded pre-dot-com...
Ask HN: How to preserve my Flickr, including metadata?
With the uncertain future of Flickr and Verizon, I no longer want to stay with Flickr. I am wondering if there is a way for me to download/transfer my photos to another service AND preserve comments, text, etc attached to that photo?

I have many many photos that I've painstakingly written notes about so I can remember the details and I would hate to lose all that effort.

If there is no solution anyone can point me to, I may just take it on myself as an opportunity since I know i'm not the only one that would be happy to make a clean exit from Flickr.
Toronto is a major Bitcoin hub.
The prison system is a crazy, privatized torture system designed to keep the poor incarcerated to increase profits for all the contract work related to running the prison system.

Rikers is a great example of a clearly flawed jail system, with inmates getting stuck for years without trial and sometimes killing themselves after losing hope.

Having recently gone through the judicial system as a white male, I can't image being a black man going through the same thing. I was able to buy my freedom, buy excuses, buy a lawyer to get me out of everything. When an oppressed people who already starts out behind falls into the same trap, there's little left for them to do.

Interesting read: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/05/nyregion/rikers-island-pr...
In literally every single scenario? It should never be illegal to conceal your actions. Yeah, this makes prosecutors' jobs harder. That's the cost of a free society.
> Didn't read the link, but could a mod please change this title, which is obviously false?

The title is taken from the paper. Whether you agree with the paper's title is not really relevant to the question of what the HN title should be. Because the guidelines expressly state to not editorialise titles.

> I skimmed the paper. A better title (for HN) would be "No correlation between frequency response and price quartile in 283 headphones".

I don't understand what your point is. Should the paper have tested literally every possible headphone in existence?

Also, the paper is actually _not_ comparing price quartiles (though you could be excused for believing that if you only really read the first graph in the paper). The other graphs in the paper are comparing the price of each headphone separately, and show from PCA that the shape of the distribution does not show any correlation between price and deviation from the target frequency response.

I actually don't like the way they display distribution data though (just dumping it into a single graph and calling it a day). A much better way of testing their hypothesis would be using GP or similar to try to model the distribution and see whether there was any correlation that way.
Rather than "Already Solved" I'd prefer "Potential Solution."

Just because a solution exists does not mean that it's a suitable one, or can't be improved upon.
Copyrightys aims to open a new way to copyright
I'm keenly looking forward to that, I've been looking for something like this for a while. Lucida looked nice on the surface, but once you get it running there's not a lot there.

I'm part of the "privacy and security" demographic. The thing you've got to understand about us is that we've been burned before, many times, by closed source products that are allegedly local only, but are secretly snitching behind our backs.

Market penetration may be difficult until people can see the source. If you're looking for a business model to attach to this, I recommend holding the training data in reserve as your paid product, and open sourcing the platform.
Freedom Markets™ don't have rules.
SHRDLU has fallen.
Oakleys are more scratch-resistant and comfortable than the checkout counter sunglasses. It's probably cheaper to just buy 15 pairs of the checkout counter sunglasses if you only care about durability.
M50x is bass heavy. 7506 are flatter/more accurate.
Calgary's a city to keep an eye on too. Companies like IStock photo and SMART were built here. And now Benevity's a big up and comer.
Well, yes and no - I can see the argument that it might be nice to test them locally before you expose them to the world (and I suppose you might also have them on a private LAN permanently), but otherwise, they will be tested, by someone, and soon...
Well........

- no control by stock owners

- no immediate plans to produce profits

- whistleblower lawsuit in the works by former employee who claims they seriously inflated user metrics

- a shitload of shares about to become free trading, with a declining share price, you've got to think alot of employees are going to go stampeding to the exits rather than holding

- record short interest by the street

- one of the main IPO banks (JP Morgan) just cut their target from $20 to $18 for the stock,

- The same bank doesn't have an almost guaranteed BUY rating on the stock, and has rated it as a HOLD/Neutral, which is the equivalent of a sell in sell side analyst parlance

- a miss on their first earnings

- their biggest rival, Instagram, is doing well in competing with them, and they have Facebook's large pile of money and audience behind them

- and the macro climate of people expecting a market cooling coming soon, in those cases people tend to flock away from speculative companies to the old fashioned kind that make money.

SNAP might be a long term good company, but its going to be a rocky ride in the short term.
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I dont have experience working in Montreal(only spent a summer there few years ago), but it shouldn't be too hard as an Anglophone. Its a fairly cosmopolitan city.

I'll be happy to answer any queries re: Vancouver/Toronto - which I have direct live/work experiences.
Interesting comment from a different angle. I guess what set me greatly opposed to the author's article was "There is zero need for a Safety Check feature." quote near the end of the essay. I disagree with him entirely, and for the reasons I originally stated.

After reading all the comments my observations kicked off, your's actually caused me to think outside of my own set of experiences. I kinda see your point. That said, I still stand by my original position that FB's service fills a purpose at the Katrina / regional earthquake & tsunami level. However perhaps they need to work on the fine tuning. Personally glad I don't work in this area inside FB! They are going to be criticized for setting the threshold too high or too low regardless.
Even American conservatives haven't actually been in favor of small government for a very, very long time. Roughly 40 to 50 years as a majority position (some of them still lie and pretend they are of course; they always flake when it comes to actions & votes).

George W. Bush nearly doubled Federal Government spending and built numerous massive new bureaucracy agencies. Reagan before him did likewise in regards to spending. They're almost all big government conservatives now, the only question is what they spend on.

There few conservatives in the US holding the political position of cutting government spending, and almost none in favor of cutting entitlements. The tiny wing of the Republican party that actually favors the free market heavily, is irrelevant and has zero power or influence.
> The Jaunt by Stephen King

God, that story. Such a simple plot, and yet the existential terror of what it describes is beyond comprehension.
I always buy studio oriented gear for listening to music. If it's good enough to mix the record on, then probably I'll hear enough detail as well. Speakers, headphones, amps. Still there's a difference between regularly priced headphones and the really expensive ones. They tend to be a bit too "honest" for some people, more tiring to listen to. They also might hurt your fashion senses.
You might not need jQuery or JavaScript
One thing that annoyed me when I looked at Go years ago was that it seemed like strings where basically the only data type of unlimited size that was supported as map keys.

I think that only types for which equality is defined in the language could be used as keys. Those types where numbers, characters and all other "small" fixed-size types, structs all of those members had equality defined, arrays of a type with equality, and strings. The size of an array is part of the type, so in that list of types with equality the only source of unlimited sizedness are strings.

I guess that cover most cases where you want a type of unknown size as a key, but I found it pretty annoying. If you want to use, say, polynomials with integer coefficients as keys in a map, you'd have to either choose a fixed maximum size (degree, for example, or number of monomials) for the polynomials or convert back and forth between strings.

It's not the only language that forces you to convert things to strings and back for use as map keys (AWK and Lua come to mind), but I wish it didn't have that limitation.
Public keys are open, they can be distributed any way (they could be published to a hosted directory a shared wherever). Only the device that owns the private key could decrypt the message.

In fact encrypted messages could be stored publically anywhere and only the intended recipient could read them.

The flow of messages is not encrypted, the system only encrypts message contents. (However, there are options to make it very difficult to trace, but that is a different issue.)

Trust is up to the user to decide and is always necessary.

Multiple devices is easy enough, a device can encrypt its own private key and send it to another device (using the target devices public key). The target device would now have 2 private keys for decryption.
I Open Sourced My Business Ideas
The flyback transformer sound from CRTs used to drive me absolutely nuts. Fortunately now we have flatscreens, besides that if we'd still be using CRTs I would no longer be able to hear it.

But that was proof to me that whoever picked that frequency didn't have children or dogs.
I'd love to say it's the only kind that's effective on me, but obviously that's not true. I do believe it's the most effective on me though. If nothing else it's the only kind I intentionally engage with on a regular basis.
I was a software engineer who became a strategy consultant and part of my role is to communicate ideas back and forth between business and technical audiences.

Short answer: Lots of dialogue, feedback, listening and visual communication (i.e. whiteboard)

Long answer:
It's more complicated because the person impacting you is your boss. Ask if he can involve you in the design process next time and let him know that if he can, you'll be able to understand things more efficiently and there's less risk of doing it wrong. When designing, share ideas but avoid directly saying he is wrong. Ask thoughtful questions like what is the business trying to do and what are they trying to solve? What will they eventually do with the database/system?
I wonder if Facebook going to repeat that.
I hope you've got a good story about that.
To echo my point above, Fox Engine runs like a dream and looks fantastic. It's one of my few go-to examples of a one-off/scratch-built custom engine working out really well for a game, along with Witcher 3/RED Engine 3 (which also looks/runs great but is definitely slower).

It's a real shame that Konami is probably going to euthanize it after a few quickie moneygrabs from the handful of interns they have left from Kojima's team.

A lot of open-world engines have pretty severe stutter problems (examples: Fallout 4, GTA:V, etc), and Fox Engine's performance is fantastic. With MGSV I get 60 fps locked with 1440p and 1.4x DSR at max settings on a GTX 1080. And it actually does look really good too - a chopper extraction with a sunrise over the desert will startle me every now and then with how great it looks.

I have a few complaints but they're fairly minor.

* Some weird bayer-mask alpha blending effects (example of a similar problem in Witcher 3: http://i.imgur.com/8neiqOg.jpg ), which are solved by running at 1.4x DSR, which is easily doable with this engine

* 60 fps locked physics - c'mon, really?

* Clipping planes cause bullets to abruptly stop working at 250m range, which MGSV tries to hide with map design by breaking line-of-sight, but it's noticeable in some desert/plains areas with longer sightlines

* Online play has rampant cheating. Gotta design in security from Day 1 if you're going to do it... and FOB combat was obviously hacked in by a couple interns way after the fact as a money-grab.
But all of these ELNs are targeting replacing wet lab notebooks. I tried many ELNs and even wrote one, but I don't think there is any replacing paper notebooks for wet lab research. Even when you have some computational aspect, you can print out a figure or table and attach it to a page in the notebook.

(Now reproducible dry lab notebooks are a whole other matter)
When I know a subject well and then read a consumer report article, I'm yet to agree with them. Their other irritating trait is the strange battles they pick that seem aimed to get them in the news.
New Computing System Takes Its Cues from Human Brain
http://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Flickr#Backup_Too... ?
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I bought a DSLR and almost never use it anymore. (Obviously not a photographer.) Should've bought a mirrorless with a pancake lens and WiFi/BT so I wouldn't have to juggle cards or cords.
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Question: when checking the reference output, do you sit in the Subaru, or do you just have the speakers in a room with you? I would imagine the acoustics are fairly different.
Snap hedged their existence on the Spectacles/hardware (https://www.spectacles.com) to the point of rebranding themselves as a "camera" company in the SEC filing.

Has anyone seen/heard about the Spectacles used since the initial hype?
It seemed appropriate, given the inanity of the parent comment.

The United States: a human-rights-abusing farce of a country that is such a hellhole that over a million people from other countries legally immigrate to it every year, half that number are estimated to illegally immigrate to it annually, and the country's judicial system takes a stance to prevent its President from stemming the tide of inbound visitors and prospective residents.

It must be a horrible place.
Obviously, it's because programmers who use spaces work four times as hard.
I'm from the area, not even in the city itself, and we have no issues with Anglophones at all.

You are expected to at least try to learn french, we are a bilingual bunch and expect others to be, but nobody has any issues switching to english to talk with the Anglophone coworkers.
It can be illegal doing things even with less than $10K at a time, due to structuring laws. Your business insurance only covers up to $10K cash, so you make deposits of $9500 each week? Cool, enjoy your legal problems.

And you should not have to report the money you carry if you, for instance, travel.
The difference in both syntax and type system is vast, unless you are coming from, say Fortran or APL.
Image quality is extremely subjective. We don't shoot test patterns. We photograph the real world. And even within that ground, the basics of exposure (aperture, shutter speed, ISO) matter tremendously. The same subject, shot at f/2.8 and 1600 ISO, can look very different when shot at f/5.6 and 6400 ISO.

And if you're relying on "program mode" or "scene mode" to automagically compute your exposure for you, all bets are off. The sensor doesn't matter nearly as much as the decision-making software.

As a mostly-manual shooter, what matters to me is good ergonomics. One of these days, I'm going to bite the bullet and invest in a new Fuji rig, just for the superb manual-shooting ergonomics. But then I'd have to switch my brain from its familiar Nikon-shaped ruts...
> It employed various techniques that prevented cheating ...

Now I wonder if Third Planet from Altair did that. As a kid, I was frustrated to never get to the best ending, so tried to backtrack the references. I was stumped to find that no page seemed to take you there.
Since it's a Z-80 which is a primarily 8-bit microprocessor with some 16-bit features and no MMU I'm going to go with no Linux.

However, microcontrollers and game systems have been using more than 64k with it for ages now. It's all done with bank switching. https://www.retrobrewcomputers.org/doku.php?id=boards:sbc:z-... explains how Z-Berry does its bank switching.
> Since tab indenters have characters indistinguishable from spaces

Most editors can be made to highlight it

> that are a different width from any other character on the screen

Yes, and? That's its purpose and it can be configured to your preferred value (beyond unicode)
How would you deal with an inmate that murders or rapes another inmate?
Why not simply run a Z80 emulator on a raspberry pi?
We used Bouncy Castle and Microsoft CryptoAPI for our RSA usage, who knows if RSA, CryptoAPI or others had trapdoors but they can neither confirm nor deny.
Why and when would you pick the 880's and when the 240's? I have the 880's and they're pretty good so far, I compared them to a few AKG's in the store and I liked them a lot better for mixing.
> that the right click is soo far off to the right bottom

Why are you not using two finger click for the secondary click instead of the area click? With new force trackpad you can click anywhere your fingers are it's so much more convenient in my opinion.
Why use encryption if not hiding something?
Slack is reportedly raising another huge $500M round of funding
Facebook is playing pretty vicously - adding stories to three of its apps, when realistically the only app that is similar to snapchat is Instagram - but I'm happy for it either way.

Facebook apps do some stupid shit, like in Messenger, why the fuck does the back button take me into a camera looking at my ugly mug? Why does swiping down from the top to get to the top of my messages list sometimes again open a camera to my double chins? What in the shit is going on with the stupid circles smack-dab in the middle of my conversation history? And why on earth can't I swap the camera around mid-video in an instagram vid?

But it's nothing, nothing compared to the crime against humanity that is the Snapchat UX. It is an abomination, and a buggy one at that. I've heard it's at least more responsive on iPhone, fine. I've even heard arguments that it's esoteric on purpose - you have to be young and "with it" to "get it." Friends have to ask eachother "omg how did you do that filter" or whatever, which allows a moment of millenial smugness. Fine, that can be a reason, and we can lump it in amongst the thousands of other UX charges we should levy against Snapchat.
In 1982? Pretty sure it was more. Remember that the first Mac, a $2k machine, came with 128kb in 1984, and the IBM PC/AT (costing a wooping $6k in 1984) came with 256kb in the original base variation.
Though it should be noted that Quebec has much stricter immigration rules than most of Canada.

To elaborate, Quebec has additional requirements to verify your ability to integrate into society. Here's an article that explains some of the differences:

http://correresmidestino.com/immigrating-to-quebec-still-wor...
The T model thinkpads meet your criteria. If you want something cheap but works buy an older Thinkpad model(If you don't mind Ebay you can buy them really cheap there).

If you want future upgradability and don't mind spending more I would get Thinkpad p50. It supports up to 64gb of RAM(Yes I know you didn't say you wanted lots of RAM or a 15 in screen).
DeepMind's Neural Network Teaches AI to Reason About the World
While the author's main idea is good (it can be more complex to work around missing features than to have them designed in from the beginning), starting from an invalid premise really weakens the article.

Node.js illustrates the need for concurrency, but is even more single-threaded than Python.

Somehow, in spite of the GIL, Python has continued to increase in popularity, probably because the workarounds are pretty easy (use multiple processes or c extensions that give up the GIL or jython or...).

Threads are not the only route to parallel execution, just as templates are not the only route to generic data structures.
The politicians know that the media can take one criminal act and magnify it to the most important incident of the decade.

The most prominent example of this was the Polly Klaas murder in California in the early 90s. This one criminal act was magnified to the level of a major terrorist attack and kicked off three strikes and a major prison building and imprisonment boom that lasted two decades. It also led to a wave of "stranger danger" paranoia that ended the era when kids could go outside all by themselves and maybe even ride their bikes around the neighborhood.

Frankly, I blame the media for the whole prison thing. They don't look at statistics and instead blow everything totally out of proportion and make everybody paranoid. Usually there is a paper of record like the NYT or LA times that throws the pitch with some hugely blown out of proportion story and then it gets repeated by the rest of the media and then the politicians hit the pitched story with some ridiculously overreaching and draconian laws. For example there was a recent "Bitcoin kills children" story about kids dying from drugs they bought on the Internet with Bitcoin and voila there's an anti-bitcoin bill pulled out of the desk drawer and put on the agenda by the end of the week.
But when happens if the mortgage services doesn't process that payment and you begin to incur late fees and head towards preforeclosure through no fault of your own?
I agree. That has been my experience...
Candy Crush is compiled to more or less architecture-independent bytecode on Android and a dual (32/64bit) binary on iOS. So no worries wrt Candy Crush.