skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Each problem in the exam is worth some number of points (20), I think that the aim is to ensure that you can't pass by mediocre performance across many problems, that a bare pass indicates that you have retained enough knowledge/ability to get basically correct answers on two problems.

Explicitly the aim is to eliminate students who haven't deeply understood some aspect of the curriculum, so accumulating lots of partial results is exactly what they don't want.

It's worth noting that out-right failure is extremely rare and subject to an appeals process etc. Partly this is because this is a set of exams at the end of each year of instruction with no mechanism for a re-sit, so a student who fails will not graduate (the system isn't totally barbaric, there are mechanisms in place to handle health related concerns etc.).
That's a shame.

Will have to pass on it for now. Good to see a lot of growth in the FinTech industry though, with banks like Monzo popping up and all these smart investment sites like Nutmeg.
https://reddit.com

Thanks.
"Most of the upsurge is occurring outside the city’s Central Business District (Manhattan below 60th Street), Schaller reports."

Also, the overall increase was 3 to 4% according to the report. In NYC we keep hearing how subway ridership has been increasing every year. At any rate, a decrease of 10 million trips per year out of 1.7 billion is hardly significant.

Also, this simply states that perhaps we should be regulating private vehicular traffic in these areas, not restrict traffic that helps the public (and provides employment for low-skilled people).
Read "immoral" as "immortal". Maybe that's more accurate.
Care to elaborate? As a patriot I think it is more disgusting to have no consideration for my fellow countrymen.
May your descendants regress to the mean.
They should hire Marissa Mayer. Awesome track record at Yahoo. /s
It's against the law to street hail an Uber as well. Uber works because hailing one with your phone is legally equivalent to calling a cab company, not sticking out your hand.
strange, but true: bought a tv on amazon, came delivered in a giant sam's club box. walmart/sam's club are current amazon merchants.
I need a job where one day I can say "No, you're paying me enough."
>Tencent has the power to singlehandedly kill off Apple in China, as a Chinese, I really wish they had the balls to do it.

Your comment is fairly funny too. Tencent's balls are in Chinese government's hands. You are wishing the Chinese government had the balls.
There's more than 10k lines of C in the repository, 8200 lines of assembly, and almost three thousand lines of headers. Your kernel module is definitely smaller than the whole repo. I feel like I've just called you fat. ;- )
Just tried it out, wow does that feel slimy. The waiting queue felt totally fake and the "while you were waiting these sold out thing" was obnoxious.

Of course the psychological aspects might have worked differently if I were actually there to buy tickets for an event I really wanted to go to.
That's my take on the mobile phone market. Pointless money and effort wasted every year rather than keeping the current perfectly good phone going with further OS updates.
Perhaps forcing governments and corporations to share more will be explored if it seems that this publicly documented baseline is far from the state of the art. Impossible to gauge, perhaps, but even realizing that highlights the risk of public ignorance.
And where is stated mraleph codebase to go from ascii to an image? I'd like a command line tool to convert locally, or this open sourced so I can host a local version.
> I'm 100% in favor of increasing all immigration to the USA

Why? What's wrong with the current level?
>I get that big companies are not your friend, but is it really necessary to wage total war by using all possible legal advantages and issuing ultimatums?

Yes it is. Why? Because they won't hesitate to do exactly that to you in the reverse situation. In this (almost literal) prisoners dilemma, the corporation has already defected. You gain nothing by cooperating.
With Uber Pool you can have both. People can choose to use Uber pool and in exchange for a bit of additional time for transit, save both money and save the environment. Win Win (lose as far as time).
why not stake with bitcoin or ether?
Either the human or the computer has to drive. Throwing control back to the human on an automation failure and expecting a correct response from the human takes too long. This has been well-studied. It takes at least 3 seconds for the driver to take control at all, and 15-40 seconds before human control has stabilized. I linked to some studies in an earlier post.

The aviation people hit this problem in the 1990s, as autopilots got more comprehensive. Watch "Children of the magenta", a talk by American Airlines' chief pilot on this.[1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pN41LvuSz10
Mind And Nature - A Necessary Unity, by Gregory Bateson, and I Am A Strange Loop, by Douglas Hofstadter. They're a great combination, as they're both attempts to define the concept of "mind" through patterns. Bateson is one of the early thinkers in the field of Cybernetics, which I've been meaning to learn more about.

Here's my (unfinished) reviews of the books I've read so far this year: https://github.com/bcbrown/bookreviews/tree/master/2017. At the end of the year I'll flesh them out a little more.
IoT Security Through Open Certification
> and they are not looking for a better C++

And that's precisely why D fails. D was marketed as nothing more than C++'s successor, right down to the naming choice. No one is looking for a better C++, therefore no one bothers with D.

Meanwhile, those who have to work with C++ keep their eyes in the C++ standardization process. Since D's inception, the C++ standardization committee already produced three standards which oddly enough do include stuff that is sought after by the C++ community.
Driverless shuttles to debut on UM campus in fall
It's simple: keep taking a cut otherwise WeChat will make iOS irrelevant in China like the article said "...as WeChat becomes more like an OS..."
We run many microservices on Lambda and it has been a pleasant experience for us. We use Terraform for creating, managing environment variables, and permissions/log groups/etc. We use CodeShip for testing, and validating and applying Terraform across multiple accounts and environments.

For logging, we pipe all of our logs out of CloudWatch to LogEntries with a custom Lambda, although looking at CloudWatch logs works fine most of the time.
That's interesting. But, paradoxically, I stopped using eBay when it stopped being an auction site. The possibility of getting a rare deal, plus the "game" of bidding, was what made it attractive.
Alex Halderman Testifying Before the Senate Intelligence Committee
It's much more anti-fragile to have corporations who sponsor projects (as do we) than one or two key official sponsors. And it suits D's breadth too, because there's no single company that uses D for everything that's possible to do with it. Makes sense for Google to sponsor Go. Who is supposed to sponsor a language with versatility that encompasses C,C++ and Python and runs on the gamut of platforms. A single sponsor using D on Linux might direct energy away from Windows and embedded...

https://dlang.org/blog/2017/05/31/project-highlight-excel-d/
> Donny boy should spend more time seeking advice from foreign leaders and less time pushing and arm-wrestling them

This statement's only value is political, and is irrelevant when it comes to the issue being discussed.
The use of "literally" is only necessary in contexts where it is in question whether the meaning is literal or not. So it's hardly sufficient to say that we can infer from context whether the speaker's meaning is "clearly figurative", since that is exactly the ambiguity that the word "literally" is used to resolve.
> I'm a strong proponent of open <EVERYTHING>. If shady behavior arises in business, government, public services, and even public discourse, I'd love to see a moderated form of public disclosure become the standard way to reveal and address such 'discrepancies'. Now that the 'net is ubiquitous, I don't see why age-old small town arbitration principles can't be applied to redress virtually all forms of grievance, as long as the public exchange is conducted decorously, as a judge or strict moderator rules could ensure.

The problem is, there is no such thing as a moderated public exchange. Everything can be bought off, be it a journalist, a policeman or a judge. Mass media outside of countries with well-funded public media stations (think BBC or the German TV/radio stations) is always aligned to corporate interest, not to public/journalistic interest. And for what it's worth, state-funded journalism is often enough also subject to meddling by politicians.

> IMO, the state of AI is getting pretty close to enabling this sort of moderator service

lol even Facebook's content AI, which may very well be the strongest in moderating (Google's strength is lying more in content comprehension!) is not able to distinguish between an iconic Vietnam picture and child porn or remotely good at detecting propaganda. I certainly would not want the Facebook AI as a political moderator.
The latter. Visas could cost something, to create an added value, like $10K to filter out some people.
To be fair, Monzo isn't either. They don't have any of their own infrastructure yet, it's just a third party rebranded prepaid card.
Canada is very different than the US - Significantly because it's much easier to buy a home as a foreign national, which has made cities like Vancouver attractive investment spots for Chinese businessmen who want to get some of their money overseas.

It's shortsighted to point to one item as being "the reason", but it's equally shortsighted to ignore major American cities (Let's be real - This is HN, we're talking about SF) shortsighted development policies as major contributing factors.
i think he meant insider trading the numerai contest, not the stock market itself
We should put boats off the coast of San Francisco like we talked about a few years ago.
This comment contributes nothing, but insults another for their worldview.
Voting in agreeable societies (2008)
The comfiness of the flight is the reason for taking the photo that was then used in court.

Yes, it is relevant.
Right, and that isn't what they told the police, the first time. Only after court when it was clear that "it didn't happen" will never hold water, did they go back and amend that record with them.

This is literally how you get charged with "obstructing justice" --- you shut up or you tell the truth.
You may be interested in this recent HN discussion on converting ASCII drawings to SVG: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14422777
I've heard that the golden post-copyright era ushered in by the internet is coming for a long time, but all I've seen is indie game companies going out of business, games/applications including online features no matter how unnecessary, and much of Hollywood switching to a spitfire methodology. Not exactly advances for culture.
It works with JS disabled if you also disable CSS.
Based on the keynote presentation schedule, I'm guessing the exact announce date will probably be on the 2nd day, July 31.[1]

[1]http://s2017.siggraph.org/schedule-glance
Whoa - this could be really interesting.

Imagine a hybrid x64/ARM system where you could run simpler, low-intensity tasks on your low-power ARM core (Twitter clients, Facebook, etc) but more intense tasks or entire applications (Photoshop, development IDEs, etc) on your x64-compatible chip.

Or a system where you take your ARM core + storage with you in your phone and dock it with an x64 core in your desktop.
why not stake in BTC or ETH?

IMO, creating a new deflationary currency skews incentives towards hoarding the coin.
Aside: is there anything to be said for doing well in lots of countries vs a monopoly in one?

It seems to me that to be successful in certain countries requires skills that don't translate internationally - for example, understanding the quirks of one big country, or negotiating the political situation.
With absolutely no evidence to support it. On the other hand, we do have concrete evidence that the intelligence community can make their own attacks look like they came from Russia...
"Simplification 2: Streams Meet Tables":

https://www.confluent.io/blog/introducing-kafka-streams-stre...
Don't buy an expensive car. After a while all cars become a means that takes you from place A to place B. Save that money and invest it wisely somewhere else.
They're also forcing all adult-oriented content on Tumblr (which isn't limited to porn, although porn makes up the majority of their userbase) behind a logged-in-users-only wall, blocking it from non-Tumblr users and in turn, external search engine results.

https://techcrunch.com/2017/06/20/tumblr-rolls-out-new-conte...
Error by me in the last sentence, I meant to say "former", not "latter".

> It's infinitely more efficient to build and ship 1 VirtualBox OS Bundle, v.s. building and maintaining at least 3 different cross-compilation toolchains (one for each of: Windows, MacOSX, Linux). With limited developer resources, I'd choose the latter route too.
Because "losing jobs to foreigners" is a political nightmare, especially to the current administration, whose base cares for something like that.
> No money would make most of Americans working 110F strawberry field for any prolonged period of time.

Anecdotal counter-point: there are plenty of Americans making decent money in similar conditions working marijuana farms on the West coast during harvest seasons. I have met a few and they do not complain about the work.
What I have said is logical and true: Uber Pool saves greenhouse greenhouse gas because instead of having separate vehicles people are sharing the same vehicle. What people seem to be arguing is that because taxi (or taxi equivalent rates) are more affordable for low-income people and are no longer taking inconvenient mass transit, then that is some sort of negative, which is terribly elitist.

Why not argue for doubling taxi fares and banning Uber, equivalents altogether and force anyone without a private vehicle (which is the majority of people in Manhattan and perhaps even NYC) to take mass transit? It is a silly argument. Because Uber is provider better customer service at a lower cost, that is a bad thing? Really?
Honest question, I apologize if it's stupid...

But how do you guarantee encryption at all stages such that Amazon cannot snoop it when you have to do final mile encryption on hardware controlled by Amazon?

I mean encryption for messenger services where each end is not controlled by a third-party is one thing...but how do you guarantee the third-party in control of the hardware responsible for performing the encryption isn't snooping?

The only thing I can think of (and again this isn't my strongest area) is to not handle any data on an Amazon server that isn't already encrypted...but how does that work if you are using a service like RDS or Redshift?

And even if you could work out a super complicated security-conscious solution...is it unreasonable for Walmart to not trust all it's vendors to take such extreme measures and therefore just create a general policy against the use of AWS?
Snapchat acquires social map app Zenly
Sure, and then the price of strawberries goes up, and grocery shoppers complain and don't buy them.

The US is addicted to cheap goods. In many sectors cheap goods can't be had without cheap labor.
It would be interesting if there were a way to run a local client that holds your credentials and does the screen scraping to send back to this API (or others).
!code seems to go to searchcode.com for me.
I'm sure you'd also be totally ok with the _much_ higher prices this would cause?
Ready for some wine and some code!
The native app gives you a red badge when there are unread items which I find super useful. I also like that I can cmd+tab to it without having to fish for the right tab in Chrome. Sometimes I completely close Chrome and forget that Slack isn't open anymore and I wont be notified when people are trying to reach me.
I'm confused (and have never really heard this theory). Is there anything to support this from Apple or Jobs?

Plan A (at least publicly) was that web apps were the only apps on the iPhone. Were these rules and the App Store a reaction to that or would have Apple kept web apps crippled in Safari?
> The bad guys in David Weber's Honor Harrington novels are based on this idea.

Pedantically, the obvious “bad guys” in the earliest few, not the (so far, at least) principal bad guys of the whole series, who it turns out were also manipulating those obvious, early ones.

> It's an interesting take on what might happen.

It's kind of a shallow throwaway regurgitation of a standard argument without deep exploration or novel insight (which is okay, because it's not like Havenite society under the People's Republic is all that central a focus of any of the books, so shallow cartoonish broad strokes are fine.)
You should consider the political aspect. Why should anyone rely on anything the government promises, if the next government will likely just scrap it?
But it is not the Unions' fault.
A) I think you way overestimate the security practices of most companies. I have no knowledge of WM's practices.

B) That's likely still going to be a large amount of very usable data
For ease of reading/UI, I think they should use a different color for the bars that represent "human score" and those that represent "excellent performance" - so that someone doesn't skim and assume they are the same thing, given that currently both are represented as red dotted lines but mean two different things.
Is that a Sierpinski's triangle kite almost ten years before Sierpinski wrote about it!? Regardless truly awesome.
If you read a little further, they were important details because the author used them as evidence in court to show he had his bag with him on the trip.
Why shouldn't we insult myopic, damaging worldviews like the OP's?
That's just trading one problem for another. Vancouver has a very serious affordability problem. Not only are you going to be paying a lot more for office and living space, you're going to have far fewer opportunities for funding.
How about b-schools working with creditors to establish a new kind of student loan where first payment isn't due until 5 years following graduation? Financial constraints are life limiting. If a student attends a top-tier program, student loan debt could easily reach mid-$100k
I expect to see little 25MPH self-driving cars running around senior communities quite soon. At 25MPH and below, sensor range required is low, data quality is good, and most problems can be dealt with by slamming on the brakes. That seemed to be the target market for Google's little bubble car. The problem there is price, not capability.
The question that immediately came to my mind was, "why not NNTP?"
Lessons from the Internet Bubble: Growth vs. Profitability
The text is there. You can see it if you disable CSS.
In the U.K. Studies have show an urban can will dispatch 300-400 birds a year.
> I think it would be important to tie UBI to key economic indicators

Better, just tie it to a defined relationship to a particular revenue stream; if it's capital-income-derived revenue, it's a good theoretical tie to the purpose of compensating for the displacement of labor in industry, and it's less subject to distortion than most economic indicators.
The problem in recent years was the project leadership. I'm not sure if that has improved more recently.
Last time I checked, Canada is still much stricter when it comes to work visas than the US, though I suppose much less of their capacity is getting eaten up by Infosys-like operations.
Some cursory Googling seems to reveal this as a controversial talking point.

The most balanced source I found was an NPR article that questioned the accuracy these claims, but not necessarily the conclusions.

http://www.npr.org/sections/13.7/2013/02/03/170851048/do-we-...

I'm interested to see what sources others might find.
A segment of republicans like high skill immigration

Democrats like all immigration, refuse to go ahead with high skill only immigration reform unless republican compromise

The end result is deadlock.
>I'm a rich white guy, if someone makes a false accusation against me and I have to leave a company, tough luck; I'll be OK.

Ah. Isn't that perfect. It's great you're rich and your life could never be ruined by false accusations. Screw everyone else eh?

>But if it's a he said she said situation I am going to side with the accuser

That's insane.

>The wild thing is that the situation you are describing happens literally weekly in tech - prominent women do shout about the unfairness of it all, about reporting harassment and having nothing happen, or being forced out of companies after reporting. Many women choose to leave

You keep saying things like this but at some point you may want to back it up with some real numbers otherwise I'll just assume you're making things up.
"people who just have a lot of money and want to live in the country"

What exactly is big problem with this?

Not speaking about becoming tax-resident of Monaco or similar, but your example or an EU country where you can open LLC and set up your own business and sort out residency paperwork in couple of years, for about that sum (5-figure USD/EUR) at the end benefits to the country budget and society.

Speaking from personal experience, and let me tell you we make sure we perform 100% of what government expects from us and pay everything that's due.

Also, in case of IT and startups, I feel it creates "cleaner" work environment and more positive and prospective work force than some other businesses (real-estate, natural resources, etc.)
Addicted to Porn: Chasing the Cardboard Butterfly
Technically, on paper, you may be right. Uber is categorised alongside dial cabs.

In practice, it has replaced lots of Yellow cab journeys too.

Straightforward evidence: the large drop in the value of a medallion in NYC.

But just talk to New Yorkers. Lots of people use Uber instead of Yellow Cabs.
As far as I'm concerned Netflix and Amazon Video are pretty much interchangeable except for exclusive content where Netflix wipes the floor with Amazon.

I've exceedingly rarely been able to find someone on Netflix I wanted to watch when it was not on Amazon. Amazon actually I'd say is the better experience for me, since they'll typically have an option to rent/buy content that they don't have in their unlimited library, where Netflix you're just SoL.
What could be better than pizza and beer?  More inclusive event food
That's a very good question that comes up quite often. Unfortunately, that's not currently supported :(

In fact, it's technically impossible to recover all the information that was originally present in the Monodraw document because the conversion to text is inherently lossy. Now, you can probably try to use some heuristics to recover as much information as possible (e.g., detect boxes, arrows). That would certainly work in many simple cases where there's no overlapping shapes.

Having said that, I've got other, higher priority updates planned in the pipeline before I can even consider whether to tackle this problem.
This looks like it uses a very similar algorithm to https://github.com/dbushong/shaky , which is a port of @mraleph's 2012 talk (@mraleph is cited in this site's about page)
Original source is more informative and has a video http://www.gereports.com/ge-building-worlds-largest-additive...