skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is also a framework by this name that is (was?) being developed by Asana.

Naming is hard in the global namespace!
An that's a problem which legislation can remove or at least ease.
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That looks great! What are the export formats? This would be a fantastic way to create TikZ diagrams.
Fun fact: The Nazis looked to American Eugenics and race purity laws as an inspiration. It was only after the horrors of WW2 came out that the US rejected these policies.
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I recommend beginning at the fundamentals. For example here's a video that walks through Diffie Hellman, so that anybody can follow, you can probably sprint through it, but by taking it slow they avoid accidentally forgetting anything important.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEBfamv-_do

Grasping the fundamentals means that when it comes to policy decisions (e.g. in the management of certificates) you can see what the consequences of a particular decision are, rather than just hoping that whoever proposed that policy knew what they were doing.

For example, I think a lot of people today use Certificate Signing Request (CSR) files without understanding them at all. But once you have a grounding in the underlying elements you can see at once what the CSR does, and why it's necessary without needing to have that spelled out separately.

Or another example, understanding what was and was not risky as a result of the known weakness of SHA-1. I saw a lot of scare-mongering by security people who saw the SHA-1 weakness as somehow meaning impossible things were now likely, but it only affected an important but quite narrow type of usage, people who understood that could make better, more careful decisions without putting anybody at risk.
Wow, interesting stuff. I have not used Uber for a long time. Lyft is my goto app.
As minor counterpoint: Firefox is not strictly speaking developed "by Mozilla" but by the community. Mozilla's the curator, and has a fair bit of staff also working on it, but vast swathes of the codebase are community contributions. If you need FF to do a thing, and you think you have good enough ideas to contribute the solution there, then rather than upvoting a bug, or bumping it to ask what's happening, be the person to make the happening happen =)
I ordered a pump typically used in dialysis machines for a project that happened to require a pump of that nature. It came from some former Soviet republic and had been opened and examined by customs in a handful of countries (as evidenced by layers of cut tape and identifying tape and stickers placed on it when it was deemed passable). I wonder if after the first customs official inspected it all the subsequent countries decided if it was good enough to be of interest to the prior country they had better open it up and take a look as well.

I'm not sure if stuff like that is highly regulated but I was able to just buy it on eBay and it got to me no problem so it was pretty painless.

Based on purchases a friend of mine alleges one of his friends had made the really shady "somethings" go through .onion sites using bitcoin.
If they were just as skilled, they'd not be being trained by the people they are replacing.
I'd just like to note that instead of creating additional animosity between SVMs and deep nets, you could use both together. SVMs with hinge loss can be Yet-another-layer (tm) in your deep net, to be used when it provides better performance.
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I thought that at first - but what if you want a digital copy; what's the plainest, whitest thing you can find to draw on, and do you have a scanner?

Obviously a lot of the time if you're going to the deliberate trouble of creating a digital image, you'd probably prefer it didn't look hand drawn... but I can imagine seeing it in repo readmes; that sort of thing. Actually that's quite appealing - because you could source control the ASCII too.
That's because D's standard library doesn't use templates in the same way as the STL (No iterators, less policies). Also, D has is actually vaguely modern and has proper static reflection, static asserts and static if: Writing template constraints is easy, unlike C++ (even with Concepts/-lite)
Beautiful book, my copy came folded in half (I really appreciate what I hope was an ironic FU from the Amazon drone).

It would make a great book around computational art, rapid prototyping, kinematics, etc. The nice thing about origami is that it adds a physicality to mathematics that makes it tangible and approachable.
> I wonder if any of these shops regularly measure the performance of their custom containers

You don't know? Maybe you should find out before slinging around accusations of cargo cultism.
LabVIEW is great, however I'd love to just roughtly outline some important differences:

- Luna works in a purely functional environment, which allows for much more clear and easier to understand graphs. Moreover it enables us to run computations in parallel automatically (without any input from the user, however we will be supporting it very slightly during the first OS release).

- Luna allows you to convert between textual and visual representations - in both ways, always.

- Luna is a real programming language, so it is not just a pack of predefined components. Every component is created out of other components (or functions, you name it), so you can always go as deep as you want or just connect functions from other languages.

- Luna allows you to collaborate in many people on one, visual canvas.

And much more! :)
This seems like no better off. Documentation is historically always out of date the second its written. The same would be true for annotation.
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testing - couple of postings haven't worked

this doesn't show up in the hn/yc freelance/work wanted section/page

not sure why...
if someone has a soln, feel free to add it in the comments.

thanks!
Here's a whack-a-mole game, derived from a fiddle from Julia Evans: https://flems.io/#0=N4IgzgpgNhDGAuEAmIBcIB0ArMIA0IAZgJYy6oDa...

The UX is really nice. Open a link modify it a bit, <cmd> + L, <cmd> + C (or <ctrl>), and you've got a new URL ready to share your version.
If you have black and white views of the world, you're unlikely to live a nuanced life.

Accusations of shillage without evidence also isn't allowed here, for what it's worth. You didn't accuse, but the sentiment is annoying. I think "apologist" is the word you're looking for.

Your comment is like fallacy bingo. E.g. false dichotomies are rarely enumerated as "1" and "2", but I suppose that makes it easier to call out.

The most straightforward third option is that it's very hard to manage 14k employees or be aware of what all of them are doing. It's not a minor thing to overlook, but again, the information flow stopped at HR.

As for Greyball, it's possible that some lieutenant got it into their heads to use that program to evade regulators, rather than Kalanick himself. Remember, the program was developed under false pretenses.

The "Hell" program was developed to get insights into their competitor. Contrast this with their "Heaven" program which is a god's-eye view of every Uber on the road. They pushed it much too far by abusing Lyft's API, but collecting info about a competitor is a pretty standard thing for a startup to do.

The list goes on.
Ask HN: Development laptop MacBook 2017 vs. MacBook Pro 13"/15" 2017?
I'm in the market for a new Mac laptop. I use Xcode, Terminal, Docker (MySQL/Rails/nginx/Redis), Sublime Text, and Chrome. Occasionally I use Creative Suite and virtualize Windows 10 in VMware.

I would like to balance screen real estate, weight, power, battery life, and overall value. As I'm also using Docker on OS X, virtualization concerns me on the MacBook over the MacBook Pro.

Would someone kindly help me narrow the field?
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You can always have a USB-stick with the IPFS repository on it, and travel to china, setup your node within and start sharing it. People can trust the data is correct as they request the data based on the hash.

Another way to distribute once the data is within China is to do it via private networks built with cjdns or similar
Fantastic! Will do. Hopping on a plane now but will be in touch.
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Lots of talent (technical universities, emphasis on science and maths in general), undercompensation at local companies, and inability for international police reach (extradition from RU for "cyber" crimes is not routine).

So a nice opportunity for hackers so long as they don't bother the local state and act outwardly.
>>Had Uber not have done that, the lobbyists for the Taxi industry would have kept the status quo.

Uber has lobbyist now, working to change laws to benefit what they want to do, i.e. no fingerprint background checks for drivers in Austin
see: https://www.curbed.com/2017/5/18/15657684/uber-lyft-austin-t...

From the above article
"nonprofit Texans for Public Justice says the companies has spent more than $2.3 million on an army of 40 lobbyists."

Is it right for Uber to use lobbyists to push for laws that limit background checks?

>>It was Uber, pushing hard, that changed the world, for the better. That's how the world changes, people pushing hard and breaking the rules when they know the rules are wrong.

No, Uber does not care whether rules are right or wrong, does not care about making the world better, it only cares about how things will affect the bottom line, case in point: Uber's behavior in NYC.

We should know by now, that Uber had to make payments for short-changing drivers on pay, companies truly interested in making the world better, don't mistreat their partners see: https://theoutline.com/post/1780/uber-hasnt-changed

In regards to rules, Uber did not pull out of NYC, yet NYC has tougher regulation than Austin. It rarely get’s reported but the only NYC regulation that was changed that helped Uber was allowing drivers to use smartphone apps for ride hailing. The other more expensive regulations remained. Not only do drivers have a relatively expensive background check process, but they also have to pay to register as a driver. All potential drivers are required to take several classes and pass several tests to become professional Taxi drivers. There is literally no legal ride sharing in NYC, all Uber drivers must be professionals.
An important part of Uber strategy is winning NYC, NYC does not need Uber. In the end Uber is like most businesses, it is not about making the world better, it is about making lots of money.
Not saying it's an easy calculation, but as "a legal solution" it already exists.
If you're willing to accept some slightly more amount of native code for booting, you should be able to setup the loader to work entirely as a bimfmt_misc setup. This'd also let it be distributed to other distros easier.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binfmt_misc
I don't know if I would say it's just because people are used to it. 24 fps is highly stylized. Movies are shot in 24 fps, wide aspect ratio (often much wider than 16:9), heavily color graded and often have film grain applied to them. It makes them feel quite distinct from normal digital video.

I'd argue it is color grading and wide aspect ratio more than anything that makes movies feel like movies, but 24 FPS and it's less lifelike movement also does make them feel distinct.

On the other hand, no one argues that sports look a lot better in 60 FPS. For home movies I take, I also want at least 60 FPS, because it preserves reality better.

But movies aren't about preserving reality.
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Thank you, I will! If something happens and after the release I will accidentally forget about reaching you out, just write me an mail to wojciech at luna-lang.org. I'd be more than happy to collaborate with you! :)
This is incorrect. Ask anyone who has had an insider peek of any on-demand company's finances. The largest cost to all of these companies is employee acquisition, which continues to rise.

Take your own advice and do the unscientific thing of talking to the drivers. How many of them are new? How many are old? Surprising how many of those fall into the first category.
I want a pony.

No, scratch that, I want TWO ponies.

Direct democracies like this are a recipe for disaster and no "politician" taking this pledge is going to get any kind of help from the entrenched system which will be quite hostile to this "radicalism" of listening to the electorate. It doesn't make the currency of politics visible: money, power and intent. Even if somehow, somewhere, a politician who took the Sovereign pledge was elected, they would fall in a blaze of shame when a scandal derails their brand.

You cannot delegate your desired leadership to a third-party that cannot be "instantly fired" from the office---this is the formula that for decades, even centuries, enables systemic corruption. These ideas come and go cyclically, but the corruption and power always remains with those who play the game the way it has been played.

So anarchists will always continue to sit back and watch the trains collide on time, as the State intends.
The correct figure is 10%.
Sounds like job security for me.
You could use shape memory alloys to control join orientation, have one per orientation at the joint and have the correct one "remember" to allow a structure to reconfigure itself.
> Today though, I think that rushing to an IPO would be completely irrational and end with Uber trading at a small fraction of their most recent private valuation.

I tend to agree. I don't think that at this point they would try to IPO but if the numbers circulating are correct they will need cash in less than a year time and it might be tricky to raise this.
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Guess you could have some assertions together with the annotations to make sure things are up-to-date. Then integrate those tests with your CI of choice and it should be a bit easier to keep up-to-date.
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Well, lots of people do prefer vinyl. One of the things that soured me on the whole "audiophile" thing that I did for a while was the fact that some of my favorite music sounds worse due to the high quality of the playback. Prince's 1999 does not sound good on high quality headphones from a digital source. That and the money and snake-oil.

I think some of this will change with time as people get more used to the look and the production gets better (effects, costumes, etc.). Music is also an artificial construct from the get-go, even live, but most narrative film is meant to reflect real life in some way, shape, or form. That means that anything out of place is caught immediately by our expert eyes.

All that said, when I was in the industry, one thing I noticed was how easily you could gloss over minor visual details like set dressings or small props (think food on plates), but even the slightest error in sound production was enough to destroy the effect.
Bingo. Designing a game engine that has no dogfood project(s) just portrays it has no applied use, and hasn't ran into issues with its own design before.
I don't think this is a good reply to what the parent asserted.

> What? China's economic boom has little to do with their view on education.

It most certainly does. You need to be educated to manage all those factories that make everything from toys to factories. You need educated engineers to design and build those factories in the first place. And you need educated people to engage in scientific research in your universities. In other words, a country doesn't simply become economically developed without having a culture of valuing education, and China has definitely been helped by its society's emphasis on getting an education.

> The real reason some cultures obsess about education is because there are severe and very real penalties if you fail some exam in middle school.

This is definitely not true. You can't coerce people to be educated by penalties. The simple fact is that even the poor understand that getting an education is one of the most reliable (and often only) paths to wealth and a better quality of life.
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One of the reasons for higher FPS is that it gives artistic freedom to make panning shots etc. High speed panning in 24fps is horrible.

Maybe it would be possible to shoot at 60fps or even higher and then dynamically adjust the frame rate to keep the 24fps but smooth some scenes as required?
> Put another way, even if Uber drives every competing taxi/limo operator out of business, as soon as the company raises prices to cover costs -- vehicle, insurance, maintenance, fuel, credit card processing, license fees, and (at least for now) labor -- new entrants (and revived old entrants) would quickly come into the market, preventing Uber from keeping prices up.

Not true -- Uber has a permanent moat, which is their steadfast, solitary willingness to be a no-tipping oasis, which others equally refuse to replicate.

Oh, wait: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14596529
IMO, Go is not sane.

Rust, however is great.
Flip a coin 100,000 times. Make a list of the results. Now go to someone and say, "what's the probability of me ever flipping this sequence?" It's quite close to zero. But you did flip it. Calculating probabilities for things that have happened by asking what's the probability of it ever occurring again can be misleading.
Linus never ceases to inspire me - he says so much so casually: "If you can be part of a community and set up patches, ... You’ll have to spend a certain amount of time to learn a project, but there’s a huge upside -- not just from a career aspect, but having an amazing project in your life.”
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Given that both authors are pure mathematicians, rather than engineers, I don't have the impression that they really care to monetize this. MIT could possibly claim patents on their behalf though.
Not sure if anyone is using it, but there is this: https://macchiato-framework.github.io/
You could also install X server and run tests with an entire graphical stack. But if you don't have to....
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In the tweet Bezos wrote [0]:

> This tweet is a request for ideas. I'm thinking about a philanthropy strategy that is the opposite of how I mostly spend my time - working on the long term. For philanthropy, I find I'm drawn to the other end of the spectrum: the right now.

Perhaps, the focus on right now is to find cool ways to end up with a lower tax bill?

Bezos recently sold about $1billion worth of Amazon stock [1]

[0] https://twitter.com/JeffBezos/status/875418348598603776

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-05-04/amazon-ce...
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This looks really beautiful: what's it written in?

Also, "Num in IO", nice. Now we wait for someone to write a "(Num in IO) in IO" action.
Ask HN: 1 US 1 Polish founder legal structure
Hi there,

We are 2 people looking to start a company, 1 person's residence is Poland and 1 person is the US. Before knowing where customers would be, what is the best way to form an entity/agree on equity and start selling a product?
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Nice try, tax code may not be the best, but they're not playing a game with unfair rules anyhow. It's just that they have the manpower and financial mass to step on the line.

A citizen trying to "play" the same game who be hit hard by the system. Here's the issue.
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The (delay in) legalization of gay marriage is actually an example of the decline of our institutions, not a reason to be hopeful. When the Supreme Court struck down bans on interracial marriage in 1967, more than 80% of the country opposed the practice. It would be 30 more years before a majority of the public would approve. With gay marriage, the Court cowardly waited until more than half of Americans already wanted it legalized. There are very few instances in which the Supreme Court has a mandate to override the popular will. Enforcing the letter of the Equal Protection Clause is one of those. The fact that the Court waited until it was politically acceptable to do so is an indicator of infirmity in the institution.
Had there been no Uber, there wouldn't have been Lyft. Uber is not just the first-comer or pioneer but it also fought most of the first-fights with city officials and Taxi unions which actually gave confidence to Lyft for their survival!
>The essence of programming is being capable of constantly walking up and down the abstraction ladder ... it's good to be able to step down and verify what's going on.

Good, yes, desirable, often, but I wouldn't call it "essential" to the art of programming.

I once worked for a company whose data was managed by a COBOL application on a mainframe a couple hundred miles away; there was no walking down that abstraction ladder (without shelling out a five-figure support fee), so our in-house IT department had to take advantage of the fact that the 3270 terminal emulator we used to access the mainframe, could be driven through a COM interface.

I'm sure there are lots of other examples of jobs that don't have the luxury of being able to step down and verify lower-level code, and I wouldn't characterize them as missing out on some "essential" aspect of programming.
All of Manhattan would just be labeled "Garbage water smell" for the summer months.
You're no longer making any sense. I still believe the media is terribly biased. And this is Waymo's own testimony that Kalanick asked to destroy the documents once he found out about them. How could there be a conspiracy?
We would do everything we can to support such use cases. In fact we believe in the same things TFortunato. I would like, however, to emphasize some things. After the first release, connecting to foreign languages on the lowest levels (like C++ foreign interface) will be possible but very hackish. Connecting using serialized data will be of course very easy. Moreover Luna's backend to compile to machine code needs still much love and this is our biggest milestone after the release. I'm writing it just to ensure that I will not "overpromise" anything, however the described use cases are very important for us and we will support them as much as we can. Again, feel free to help us and contribute :)
Gah, I won't even read it. I was thinking about that for a while, I don't want to spoil myself. Happy to see Demaine at it again.
Ages ago...

I wrote print production (prepress) software. One of my inventions was an algorithm that converted book binding steps into impositions, as needed. (All previous solutions relied on catalogs of manually created "templates", for reuse, customization, etc.)

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

I'm now very curious if this general purpose origami algorithm can be used for the same purpose.