skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Functional but fairly buggy still. For example it misses a lot of button taps because there is a universal move threshold of about 2mm. And if you want to do anything other than display widgets in the app (e.g. display notifications), you're going to have to write a plugin for it.
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I believe he exists.
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In my day job I have simulated the effects of segregated cycle infrastructure on demand

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0966692316...

(above is out of date, more recent work under review:
http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/sdna/european-transport-conference-... )

So far I have shied away from simulating on-road cycle lanes, e.g. where motor vehicles and bikes are separated by a line of paint.

Firstly because the quality is so variable - hilarious examples about on the internet, and many cyclists would argue that a bad cycle lane is worse than none at all as it creates an expectation they should be riding in it rather than sharing the road.

Secondly because data on what's there - width, quality, obstructions - is so thin on the ground. (any time anyone wants to use deep learning to harvest this from streetview please go right ahead!)

Where am I going with all this? It's heartening to see a case where lines painted on the road actually made a tangible difference. I wonder how much came down to the temporary nature though - like some kind of campaign - as cultural effects are known to have a huge impact on cycling as well.
Indeed - I've been using the Internet since the early 1990s and I'm constantly amazed that I can be playing a multi-user game (e.g. WoT) with tens of people in multiple countries and get sub 50ms ping times.
I'm looking forward to the first library/tool/support project called Shy
IMO GitLab should seriously stop with the features and spend more time in making the UI look decent and aesthetically pleasing.
It's a classic distraction tactic. You create some big visible threat/situation to focus their attention on. While your real threat is happening unnoticed as they are too busy dealing with the distraction.
The NSA hoards vulnerabilities for the same reason
the military has guns.

Vulnerabilities are fundamentally unlike guns.

Because vulnerabilities can be independently discovered or accidentally released, then reproduced in vast quantities and used against the public and civilian infrastructure of both us and our allies - largely with impunity.

If wannacry was a gun, it'd be a gun that fired backwards and sideways at the same time as forwards, and you can't stop it firing once it's started, and sometimes it starts firing on its own.
You said, other languages can't really directly be transformed to graphical luna nodes, can you say why?

Because I gave this some thought as well and don't see why not in general, but I don't know how luna works .. or if there are some restrictions I did not encounter yet ..
But you could serve more ads in the same time!
The idea that browsing the modern web transfers "tens of kilobytes of data" is pessimistic. I think you can argue bandwidth constraints in the real-world are real. Improving the underlying stack is one thing and would obviously bring improvements, but browsing speed won't be one of them. If you make responses faster, they'll be able to stuff more garbage in those responses.
It's hopeless. Google has already given up on a bunch of end-to-end encrypted projects, and now I've noticed they've added automatic backups of messages to the cloud for Allo, which may include the messages in the "Incognito mode" (I'm not sure, but I wouldn't be surprised if they did that).

I've already moved on to ProtonMail. The days of Google being the "good guys" that will fight for you are over.
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> But that also might be the real problem for Uber's future...

Thats fair. But it's also possible that a company can succeed with values that don't match yours, the vocal minority, or even the majority. e.g. Comcast.

Arguably in some industries companies do better with values that arent the majority.
Why would allowing only https result in a speedup in network? I experience that but I'm still curious about the reason.
> Get every single employee involved.

So naive. You have 12k employees and loads of business problems and you want to get 12k employees involved in some culture bullshit. Most of them will probably not even care about such event.
The example of dictatorship with a rule of law is Singapore under Lee Kuan Yew.
A lot of latency inflation over past 10 yeara came from increase in L3 switchings over L2. Nowadays, you can have over 10 IP switching in DCs, and within the last mile.

You also get more hops thanks to some backbone networks abandoning MPLS in favour of native routing/packet labeling.

In Romania, as I understand, networks are largely free of L3 switching overhead thanks to large portion of networks running pure L2
The initial design severely limits the improvements you talk about. Sure, you can add better stuff like the === operator, but the crappy old == is still there. However stellar a work TC39 has done, they cannot fix the language without breaking everything.
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Correct me if I'm wrong but WannaCry used vulnerabilities that already had patches. How does reporting these vulnerabilities earlier instead of keeping them fix this situation? You'd still have the problem of slow updates regardless.
My years of toil with Java Swing makes me shudder every time i hear its wretched name.
The floating 'open in app' on this page is really bad. Please stop doing that. For fucking crying loud, don't mix text with bullshit.
Good question! By forcing HTTPS you're garunteed to get the speedups because most browsers require encryption:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP/2#Encryption
saw that too... confused me at first
Encryption can't save you entirely, there is still a ton of metadata being produced which is most of the time at least as interesting as the content [1]. Avoid the cloud and decentralize as much possible. As a bonus decentralizing helps to avoid oligopolies and monopolies.

Big, purely money driven cooperations will follow the path of the least resistance so it's no surprise that they automate LE requests away in the long run. As most of the "internet giants" essentially make money by spying on their users they have the basic infrastructure in place already.

[1] 'We Kill people based on metadata' some former CIA/NSA director once admitted.
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I agree, if you're going to the trouble of modelling then a stochastic matrix (markov chain) is a much better model. You can model it as a markov chain where each month there's a probability of moving to age + 1 or a probability of becoming 'ex-sub' (general population).

You also have a transition from 'general population' to 'month 1' to represent new sign-ups.

That has the advantage that you can still find the stationary distribution (steady-state) of the chain without simulation and it doesn't treat churn as being the same for each subscriber age. (It still has it time-homogeneous for a given age of course).
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If you don't see the article it means that you probably already read 10 other NYTimes articles this month at which point they require a subscription.
I think it's just lack of basic algebra skills. If you have never been taught to think about math in an abstract way, you will naturally approach problems this way instead.

In Ancient Egypt for example when they needed to explain things like the Pythagorean theorem they would give examples, because there was no concept of abstract variables yet. I think this is similar.

In the same way, many people are comfortable working with vectors, transforming them with matrices etc but they have never been taught to think of transforms in an abstract way. So if they want to check if a certain matrix actually performs the transformation they want, they apply it to a bunch of random vectors to see if it's reasonable instead of just checking what it does to the base vectors, because they have no real concept of linear transforms, and only vague ideas about dimensionality and degrees of freedom.

To some extent it IS phobia, because if you just want to rotate a vector 90 degrees you don't really need concepts of orthonormal transformations so you might be reluctant to look at it that way, but if on the other hand abstract algebra is very natural then the abstraction is trivial to do, it just makes things easier.
AFAIK (and I don't know much), c is also a huge limiting factor in processor design, since high-enough clock speeds put a hard cap on how far a signal can travel between ticks, even assuming perfect components. Agree that c is too low and we should attempt to simulate a universe in which it is higher and go live there instead.
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Those are probably caused by an issue in your project setup, but I don't think that this is the right place to go into details. If you like to investigate, please send us an e-mail!
You're saying that achieving 2.7% of the theoretical efficiency is good?

Many car engines have an efficiency of around 20% for example, as compared to the maximum theoretical efficiency of 67%. If car engines performed only well enough to meet your standard of amazingness, your gas costs would be 7 or 8 times higher. Or if you used a modern Toyota engine for comparison, something like 14 times higher.

Obviously I took an example from a different sphere for comparison... if you really find this to be an astonishing result can you elaborate?
Well, the internet essentially was born from scientists displaying their research and papers, linking to other scientist pages, experiment data, and so on. The early internet was essentially a fancy FTP server with a bit of Times New Roman paragraphs in. That's why web-servers were originally called Internet _Information_ Services (IIS). Because it was designed to be essentially an online library.

Then of course commercial, social, political, and many other areas jumped on board. People found out that sales (if you was commercial), views (if you were political or social), and whatever you were aiming for essentially, magically increased if you made your website _look_ better. It's how humans have always worked.

This gave birth to an arms race where the weapon of choice was including increasingly advanced ECMAScript code into your website.

From this the modern web was born. (i'm simplifying a lot here, but that is generally the very quick overview as to how I experienced it over the last 2 decades).
When I first watched the Hobbit, I didn't really notice any difference other than pan-intensive scenes didn't look as washed out. I don't recall thinking it was too lifelike or realistic. When I heard that it was because it had a higher framerate, I decided to start using frame interpolation via SVP[0] on my video player to artificially create more frames between each original frame, and I'm really happy. It isn't perfect, in some scenes there can be artifacts, but it mostly looks great. In action-packed fighting scenes you can finally see what's happening, and not just one big mush of colored abstracts.

I liked it so much that I even went out of my way to buy a TV that had a built-in frame interpolation that's been said to be better than most other high-end TVs.

[0]: https://www.svp-team.com/wiki/Main_Page
Not a false dichotomy at all. Ignoring that the size of the team is exactly two (and there's only so much you can keep in your head), when you have a metric, you optimize for it. It's not even a conscious process.
You really shouldn't be complaining about the speed of light. We're leaving a lot on the table by sending the data along the surface of earth instead of through it.

With neutrino-based signalling you eliminate both the lower propagation speed and the suboptimal path.
Crab buckets? Terry Pratchett fan by any chance?
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I think it'll be both. First huge life improvements, then someone will mess up..
I wonder if it has infected any critical military infrastructure at US? and any real way to know about it?
RWD Weekly (http://responsivedesignweekly.com) has two advertising spots in each newsletter. The primary spot runs for $450-500 and promoted link runs at $130 a week.

The newsletter fills probably 3/4 of the placements and then I use the other placements to promote conferences that I love. This is usually in exchange for a ticket (which I give away if I can't attend) and media sponsorship which gives the newsletter some extra exposure.

I only introduced advertising after the subscribers reached over 5000 and the Mailchimp costs became a little too much, now it's sitting just over 29k subscribers. It's a great side project that I'd love to invest more time towards but at the moment it makes enough to cover mailchimp, servers, cloudflare, speedcurve and allows me to patron a couple of other newsletters that I love.
I recall the driver change was because under XP, drivers ran under kernel privileges.

Moving them out of the kernel is a great engineering decision, infinite backwards compatibility isn't feasible. Sometimes breaking changes are needed.
Python and first checked the previous result
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A compromise to make money. Gitlab keeps features it thinks that really only enterprise users need restricted to the EEP, on the basis that enterprises really should be able to afford to pay, and their payments improve the product for everyone.

Gitlab seems to be pretty open to discussing the possibility of moving features into CE. I don't not for sure, but my guess is that they try to keep a certain number of EEP-only features to make sure that sysadmins can justify the EEP on the balance sheet, and then move as much else as they can to CE.

If you really think a specific feature is of interest to non-enterprise customers, you should go to their designated feedback location (don't know what it is) and make a reasoned argument as to why that feature is needed by non-enterprise customers.
I perhaps misread the article - I didn't see the part where it said these people were paid? I was under the impression they were all volunteers, no?
America is a continent, nowhere near a country and definitely not only the United States of America.

Why being picky? Because referring to, say, Europe as a unity is questionable and definitely is, were you to intend Scandinavia.
I was referring to results, not predictions. This election is in the past...
Practical waterholing through DNS typosquatting
Lots of browsers force HTTPS if you want to use HTTP/2. The speedups are because of http/2 and not solely because of https.
I just feel like this project has lost track of priorities, or doesn't want to be a credible alternative OS anymore. As a long time fan of the project - who cares about Swift? Where's the next release?
4K is about 25MP. That's around the resolution limit of 35mm film in still photography. The exposed area is considerably smaller in movies as the film is run vertically rather than horizontally.
Solving equations with circular references is a beautiful hack!
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My dad passed away suddenly 6 years ago and I was in a similar situation - I the eldest child, and had to care for my elderly mom in fragile health. To top it off I was in the midst of a startup and in severe financial stress. Wait there's more, I also had a nasty breakup due to all this stress. So I hope my story gives you some comfort.

My advice is likely contrary to what others have posted and I really don't have any fancy <n> step process, the one thing I did was to take one day at a time, and threw myself into work. (Luckily my startup got off the ground and is running smoothly)

But I never showed grief or weakness to my family, comforted my siblings and being a pillar to the family, even though I was shattered inside (I LOVED and ADORED my dad). I gained comfort in seeing my mom & family heal and laugh again. I also started doing mindfulness meditation during this period and it helped calm me down a lot.

tl;dr: everyone has their own way of dealing with such events, mine was to hunker down and immerse myself into work & meditation. Hope that helps and sorry for your loss. It will heal over time.
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>People were coming up with dozens of unnecessary variations on them, everybody in the world was trying to shoehorn the word "kernel" into their paper titles, using some kind of kernel method was a surefire way to get published.

I took Andrej Karpthy's tutorial on Nueral net and learned
that an SVM is basically one neuron.

http://karpathy.github.io/neuralnets/
Healthiness is a factor. I wonder if they would be more successful if they delivered less often, say once every 3 months.
This was the AES implementation this was tested against:

The trace below shows our signal for one block of AES-256 encryption running on a
SmartFusion2 target. We use OpenSSL's implementation of AES on the ARM Cortex-M3 core
of the SmartFusion2. There are clear, distinct patterns for each stage of processing. We see I/O
to and from the Cortex-M3, calculations for the key schedule, and the 14 encryption rounds.

So it was a software implementation.

I wonder if and how effective this attack would be against devices with hardware implementations of AES.
I don't think Github are looking to implement the whole CI process.

They want to host code and integrate neatly with other CI providers.

I think that makes much more sense (why abandon Travis or Heroku for the sake of having "one" platform to rule them all... ?)
Back in 2014, I worked on an in-memory DB API that handled 1m http requests per hour with ease on a desktop machine with 10G card.

DPDK + DMA aware programming in C++
It's not a technical argument they make, it's just a gut reaction to 48fps looking different. The fact that it's more lifelike can actually make it feel fake, because it can feel like you're watching actors on a set.

Personally I do think people will get over it eventually, especially for less "cinematic" stuff. Or possibly variable framerate will become a thing, and directors will choose different framerates for different effects.
At this point we should probably make a framework for implementing the native features in these systems, so the next Cordova/Ionic/Xamarin/React Native/Flutter doesn't have to start from scratch every time and take 2 years to re-build nearly the exact same ecosystem for native features.

As a plus we could consolidate all that brainpower spread across different cross platform native feature libraries to make these native features less buggy, more featureful and more maintained.
You should check out "spark gap radio".

Basically, lightning causes ripples in the Earth's electromagnetic sphere. Those ripples travel across the surface of the earth at an apparent speed that's faster than light, because the actual path is through the earth.
About startups:

1. "How I Built This" with Guy Raz https://www.npr.org/rss/podcast.php?id=510313

2. "Startup" by Gimlet media http://feeds.gimletmedia.com/hearstartup

3. Stanford's DFJ ETL: https://web.stanford.edu/group/edcorner/uploads/podcast/Educ...

4. "This week in startups" http://feeds.feedburner.com/twist-audio
If you're thinking, "it's fast enough!" -- remember that a system's performance determines what you're able to build on top of it. If GPU designers had said "it's fast enough" ten years ago, for example, modern neural-net AI may never have happened. It's easy to imagine doing the same things faster, but it's harder to picture the new things that a lower-latency Internet would make possible.
NPR's podcasts:
- How I Built This
- Planet Money
- Ted Radio Hour
- AltLatino

- 99% invisible
- Hanselminutes

- GoTime

NPR's podcasts (and How I Built This especially) is of incredible quality - they even write music for each episode.
Thanks for linking to this. This guy is extraordinarily thorough.
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> "styling" is a concept that games don't have

I disagree. Look up how modern material systems work. There absolutely are analogous things going on to CSS in PBR rendering, shaders, multipass compositing etc.
Ugh too late to edit, but that was supposed to be tends.
What a fascinating man.

I'm slowly starting to fantasize about having a job where I can create actual objects myself and my work has a tangible effect rather than some zero-sum value shuffling.
Has neutrino-based signalling been achieved or is it still a research topic? Last time I read about it it was more a case of "if we could do this it would be great, but we have no idea how to do it" and a quick Google search only brought a Forbes article from 2012 which had a similar sentiment.
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I love this post - it gets across a fundamental concept that pretty much anyone can understand, which is non-obvious.

What I love, that other's here seem to grumble about, is that he's not using any specific terminolgy. He doesn't mention 'churn', he doesn't mention 'geometric' series, he only has one '=' in the whole text.

You can print out this article (ignoring the python bit) take this down to your local baker/cafe/<insert non-tech business owner> that's full of stupid marketing billboards but sucks at customer service and show it to them. There's a good chance they'll understand.

Frankly I liked it because I could easily follow his logic without slowing my reading. There was parity between my understanding speed vs my reading speed.

Plus no-one here seems to be grumbling that he's wrong, just that they can say it in a different way.
So I'm more of a machine learning / cyber security guy than a sys admin, but with that proviso, here is my understanding:

Of course you'll have to check your own site for your own performance issues, but while travelling from Toronto to Vilnius I found our site much slower and investigated why. We have a webapp running Ember with mix of largish assets, like images, and smallish assets, talking to a JSON API standard API written in rails and proxied through nginx (responses are usually around 1kb of JSON, but this gets compressed with HTTP2).

In reality waiting 200ms is an enormous cost and carries a hidden cost: Larger packets are easier to lose. If you're going mostly to browsers that is more and more often going through wifi or cell tower networks with at least 1% packet loss and when the resend happens you're stuck with that 200ms delay again.

That's my understanding, but the real truth is "it just works for me when testing around the world with real-world use cases, try testing it out yourself and please let me know if you learn something new".
Yeah I do realise that - however so many NYT links appear in ycomb every day, it doesn't take much to hit that limit, especially since I launch articles through that 'Panda' chrome extension, so you don't really get much chance to screen the links other than the small link preview in the bottom left.

I was wondering if people go through an alternative site/app to serve the articles - bypassing the paywall - or if everyones just in the same boat as me? Some other forums I'm with tend to make note of a paywalled link.
Aside from the typical specs, note that for a similar price the MBP brings a higher quality screen (bette color gamut, brightness), a 720p webcam and Thunderbolt 3.

So even if you don't care about these things, you're getting a much better value for your money if you go with the non touchbar MBP. If you buy the MB, you'll be paying a lot for a 2015 chassis with some CPU/GPU updates.
Critical military infrastructure isn't connected to the Internet, so it's unlikely as part of this regular epidemic.
Cutting competitor's wires feels like mafia tactics.
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