skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"I think it leaves no doubt to the viewers that that's Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan,' Henry told NBC News."

Really? Because the only thing I see no doubt of is someone who has reached a conclusion based upon scant evidence, attempting to prime an audience to accept that same conclusion as fact without independent thought or verification.
Android Crypt-Ransomware activates after victim tries to uninstall it
There are many Walter Mittys out "playing restauranteur" and no, I don't think the government should be in the business of telling people they're bad at business and stopping them from doing it. It's not like the local restaurant of the day is going to dump food on the market in mass quantities hoping to create and exploit a monopoly later.
That's why you can count on the annual "France faces power shortage" article around November/December.
I love regexes. In addition to doing cool things and saving time, I feel like I'm a "real programmer" whenever I write a good one.
This was exactly what I did for a while, and I was able to tie up tens or hundreds of SPAMmer connections without hurting myself, on quite a small mail server.
She's generating it from noise:
https://github.com/AlexiaJM/Deep-learning-with-cats/blob/mas...

Also, you could verify by writing unit tests with OpenCV to look for similar sources. Since it's all headshots, it will find matches for sure, but it would also find with human faces.
Wait, you think LGBT sex requires different sex education?

When sex education was taught to me, sexual preference wasn't assumed or implied. The parts worked the way they anatomically do. STDs have no gender preference.
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sure. happy to chat. ping me at austin [@] initialized [.] com
FYI, from Wikipedia:

>For electrons or electron holes in a solid, the effective mass is usually stated in units of the rest mass of an electron, me (9.11×10−31 kg). In these units it is usually in the range 0.01 to 10, but can also be lower or higher—for example, reaching 1,000 in exotic heavy fermion materials, or anywhere from zero to infinity (depending on definition) in graphene. <
Isn't secure random number generation a problem immediately after boot? Curious what arc4random is using as an entropy source.
> and there's a >50% chance that it will suffer some damage to some major functional component

What if the chance is actually 1%? What if the cost of repairing it is bigger than a new car? What if, as you said, cars got cheaper, but not so cheap to be disposable? What if making if repairable has the side effect of making it less durable?

Just nobody upthread is asking any of those questions. It's not circular, it's a plain old and boring cost vs. benefit assessment to be done over government intervention.
It was the standard IR Roku 2 remote. Behavior stopped eventually for whatever reason.
Completely ignoring for a moment the parallels and long established links between hacker/tech culture and libertarianism, you don't need to be seasteading, Ayn Rand worshipping Peter Thiel protégé to see something wrong with the idea that the State outright banning a product that contemporary society uses every single day, that many people need to survive for which there are currently no affordable and/or reasonable alternatives. Sure, maybe in 20 years battery tech will have improved to the point where cost won't be an issue and maybe we will have charging stations everywhere, or maybe not, maybe the innovation plateaus as happens often.

My point is, these things are unknowable and uncertain and the state should stop issuing these authoritarian decrees and let the technology catch up and work itself out and then maybe we can collectively as a democratic society vote on and decide what we want the laws to be in 2040.
source: Friends in the industry. One friend moved to UAE for a private-sector job, making tons, doing less actual security work.
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They're not cutting the wage rate. They're cutting the number of hours of work demanded per unit of output.
Worse it puts the secret into the process table where any user with ps can read it.
They learn their tools really well. I can't tell you how many good professional programmers I know that are utterly handicapped in their speed because they navigate the code base in an inefficient way, can't rename things quickly, can't catch something with the debugger, etc. Once a lot of those inefficiencys are gone it makes more mental room to think about the problem without distractions.
The "Alien Ray Gun" we used to call it. The rotating back was nifty, but in the end I prefer the square format. I did get to shoot a dozen or so rolls through a Mamiya 7, that camera was a joy to handle.
WordPress: easy to use, documentation and tutorials are available everywhere, you don't generally have to train clients to use it, etc.

You can go with a niche CMS if you want, but WordPress is the most popular for a reason.
True, code quality is not the right measure but I wasn't really making that argument. Staying power also implies a lively community and one that can take over maintenance and further improvements once the original team stops working on the project. Any project that is still under 'original maintenance' is as far as I'm concerned a large uncertainty.

One of the ones that I'm particularly worried about is the Linux kernel, if and when Linus gives up working on it there will be a period of some uncertainty.
Superb and comprehensive response, thank you.
I'm quite certain the GP was a joke.
Reminds me of the cleaning lady who tossed an installation in the trash because she mistook it for garbage. [1] Apparently, they were able to re-create the installation before the trash was taken out, but I believe leaving it would've sent a stronger message.

[1] https://munchies.vice.com/en_us/article/8qkvab/a-janitor-thr...
I'm glad I'm not the only one that read that and was like ...'wait, what?'

Sometimes log debugging is about the only thing you have to go with, depending on the language and tool set you are using.
Can you elaborate on point 3 ( Music part).
Indeed. This article describes things further:

http://www.startribune.com/scientists-think-they-ve-solved-t...
Like Ubereats?
That sounds bad.

Generally, someone at the company should be saying no to these rewrites unless they have a very clear business motivation. Total rewrites easily spiral into being costly disasters, and usually don't solve a customer's problems. If nobody is at least trying to say no to these things, that means your company may have other problems with defining business objectives and fulfilling them.

Even if nobody understood the Java app, that itself is not a good enough reason to rewrite it in another stack. Actually, not understanding the current implementation is probably the worst reason to do a rewrite, because the team likely doesn't understand the problem well enough to successfully reimplement the solution.

The fact that they did this in nodeJS and now someone is talking about doing it in Rails makes it sound like there weren't strong reasons for choosing nodeJS established up front. It sounds like people are deciding these things based on hype and not actual technical merit, because the "sweet spots" of the three stacks you've mentioned are all quite different. There are good reasons to choose Java, nodeJS, or Rails for any given project, but there are generally not good reasons to bounce between them for the same project. The only case I can think of where that would make sense would be to move from Rails to Java due to scaling issues (e.g. if you are Twitter). I don't think there is much compelling reason to go the other way, unless your legacy Java app is super-dooper legacy like the FactoryFactoryFactoryFactoryFactory stuff people used to write in the early 2000s. Which itself might indicate an entirely different set of problems.

I'd bail out if I were you and try to work at a company with better engineers working for it. Even if this job is stable you will become a better engineer by being around better engineers who aren't going to be proposing giant rewrites.
Many-worlds has a concrete, physical, simple explanation for quantum effects. The other interpretations are based in the abstract, and are incredibly difficult to understand. That's all I'm saying.
This is pretty awesome. As someone who makes pizza at home about once a week I have a few minor observations:

1. Only flour and water in the dough? What about yeast and salt?

2. Whenever I make pizza the dough is rather sticky. I wonder how they keep the parks from being clogged up by sticky dough.

As a complete aside, having tried both Italian pizza in Italy and americanized pizza I actually prefer American style with it's more cheese, more sauce, and diced meets instead of whole slices. But I'm sure it is also way more calories.
There is definitely an advantage to hiring people you know but...if companies hire a freelancer to save money maybe that's the problem. Don't conflate, "I hired cheap developers and got poor results." with hiring talented developers who freelance.
My question though is what was that data anomaly? Also was it the same thing both times? Just curious really.
Both ZIP and GZIP file formats store the uncompressed filesize in their headers. You could stream and check for these headers to determine if the a zip bomb is being delivered. Obviously something script-kiddies aren't going to do, but the scripts they use can be improved and redistributed fairly easily.
> Volvo doesn't plan to build any of them starting 2020 by the way

"Around 2024" is what they said yesterday.

"Volvo’s transition will be gradual. It plans to still produce existing models with conventional engines after 2019, but it will no longer introduce new models with the older technology. Depending on demand, Volvo will completely phase out cars powered solely by gasoline or diesel by around 2024."

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/05/business/energy-environme...
Most of my 2FA is via Google Authenticator or Authy.
The wavefunction is exactly the same as "infinite worlds". The essential aspect of the Everett / many-worlds view is that the wavefunction is the complete description of reality.

The "worlds" are just approximate ways of slicing up the wavefunction which correspond to our sense of classical reality. They are clearly (and uncontroversially) identifiable if you run a simulation.
i agree with you here but sounds like you are mostly talking about "Early Adopters"?

Power users of a product who get deep recurring value from your product are get to analyze. they may be mostly earlier adopters at first but hopefully will grow to be your core customer.
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Not at all. There are about 250M cars in the U.S., each drives about 12K miles per year. Tesla makes 400 miles on a 100kwh charge, add 86% charger efficiency, 115kwh. That makes 860 TWh per year to replace all U.S. cars and light trucks with electric cars. U.S. produces 4060 TWh per year, so that's just about 21%. Sizeable increase, but that's fine: most of the charging will be by night when the car is parked at home, and by night, there is a big drop in electricity consumption so grid won't be overloaded at all. It will be the cheapest electricity in the world - just adding the variable cost.

Same thing now, with about 24 average mpg an existing car makes, eats 10 million barrels of oil per day (counting 81.5% average oil refining efficiency), or more than 20% of entire U.S. energy use - all kinds of energy, that is 7x more energy (ok, about 3.5x more given average efficiency of electricity production).

Even if that electricity was produced from oil on old-style single-stage thermal plants (a crazy idea - that would be the most expensive electricity in the world and no one is going to do that for sure), it would mean 2.7x savings. In reality, because most of that will be cheap coal and natural gas and renewables, there will be more than 10x savings.
They're still around and still offering free dial-up!

http://store.netzero.net/account/showService.do?serviceId=nz...
And they are using this as a definition for the unity of atomic mass.
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I agree this photo is silly but that’s not quite true - we have partial plane wreckage, of either the same or similar model of plane, and a woman’s bones (now lost).

It’s likely she crashed, and likely died on an island. The evidence is extremely suggestive. Not conclusive by any means but more than simply conjecture.
Right - can somebody explain how this unit of kg-m2/s (weight diffusion? work-seconds?) can be used to define weight? Seem circular.
I'm suprised "Using debugger for daily coding" is an anti-pattern.

Using the debugger and variable watching much more has been the most productive change i've made in my workflow in the last 5 years.

In fact if you get good with a debugger, you don't need to log anything, as you can just view it's value at any point in the program. And with a good system in place you are seconds away from inspecting any single part of the program state at any moment, even being able to edit it while the program is paused to force the program to be in the state you want to debug.
Authy can be used instread of Google authenticator and backups up an encrypted copy of your secrets.
You are correct, but that's kind of my point.

To me, a website is a tool to get something done. I don't want a website that "wows" me. If you really want to wow me, then you are likely trying to sell me something that I probably don't want.

Accessibility is about letting people get shit done, not marketing to them.
But what's her alternative proposal - that we say, accept pull requests from someone because of their race or sex without critiquing at all? Based on the way she responded to some stuff in this job... maybe that's actually what she wants, but it's not what I want and it sounds like a terrible idea in general.

Meritocracy is still the best we have. It may be flawed, yes, but there exists no superior alternative. It's likely possible to get away with a few minor tweaks - but there doesn't seem to be anyone looking into what exactly those could be, instead they shit on the concept without providing any viable alternative.

It seems like many of the things she and others mention are not necessarily bias in individuals in the workplace, but "resources, free time, life experiences" - which seem much easier to attack and if done fully I think could help make up for other biases too. I think the best bet honestly is stuff like Black Girls Code where they try to get people up to speed in order to compete successfully by merit.
Did anyone try this yet: http://kde.slimbook.es
I remember the early games on Amstrad CPC464 were pretty easy to copy. Then game makers started compressing the signal heavily in order to shorten load time, which at the same time made cassettes much harder to copy due to increased sensitivity to errors.

The sound was pretty different too. I still remember the sound of the Sorcery tape which was a lot more distorted than the early games :)

Good times!
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As someone that eats their pizzas weekly, they are way better than "supermarket pizzas". In my opinion, they taste better and are significantly less expensive than local competition.
so, your argument has finally boiled down to:
ALL statutes should be repealed.

Every statute impinges on conduct that could be voluntary agreed among some set of parties. You might actually knowingly want my cheap deathtrap car, or want me to pay you 50c/hour without workman's comp and unemployment insurance. You might even voluntarily want me to murder you (easier than suicide or some ritualistic purpose).

There are lawless societies that exist, and they do not work well. They are usually called "Failed States" for a reason. If you really want that, it is relatively cheap to go there. But, do not expect much of a future for yourself or your family. Yes, you are nominally more free in the sense that you can do anything you want. But you are actually substantially less free because there is little or nothing in the way of resources, infrastructure, societal conventions, laws, etc.

To build and maintain a complex society, there must exist some significant regulation of markets, including some voluntary activities (start with managing the Commons Problem). To say otherwise is merely spouting a useless ideology that will actually harm growth and the availability of freedom.
I have seen well north of $200k.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swanson%27s_law
That seems to be about right. I really wish there was a decently maintained, open source, apl derivative with the source on GitHub. The nearest I could find was Kona but it looks like that has pretty minimal activity. It seems like anyone with the ability to make this a reality just creates a new variants , closes the source, and charges for the tooling (like Kerf).
Search algorithms kept this family apart
There are four of them. Tate owns two; one for display and one in case of any 'accidents'
mm_set in memory.c won't actually do what you want, the asm statement needs fixing and it can be implemented in terms of memset.
One thing that emojis cannot convey is unconscious body language. There are many subtle communications that can bear influence in empathy, love, trust (or distrust-- i.e. catching someone in a lie). Unconscious body language isn't required, but you can't ignore the fact that it is missing.
The neural network is starting from noise, but that's not the only input, it was trained on [0] and I think it's arguable that the NN is "reproducing" the images from its training dataset in some sense.

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20150703060412/http://137.189.35...
Debian 9 installer is broken (still not fixed yet)
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> The pizzerias that are thriving right now are the ones making neopolitan style pizza in wood ovens

Right now in NYC the going price for a Neopolitan-style Margherita pizza is something like $14. If you could get that down to even $8 for the same quality then that would be a huge win. Even if the robots couldn't make the dough, just getting them to the point where they can make the tomato sauce and put the sauce and cheese on the pizza and manage the cooking would be a substantial improvement.
Dang, please help me understand. I was responding to the thread in the comments. How would have been a better way to express my thoughts in a HN appropriate way?
I think cost is going to be a problem. If you want a team of good people, it will cost $100,000+ per individual. That's before benefits. With benefits, it will be well over $200,000 per person. For a team of five people, this will run you over one million dollars per year.

Now, if you have a lucrative opportunity, and you hire this team, then either the team will figure out they can take the opportunity without you, or the opportunity is only worth slightly more than $1 million per year, so it isn't worth their time to cut you loose (since you, in effect, will be getting a "finder's fee" for finding the opportunity for the team).
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Well you don't know it's a real problem umntil you try it.

You may need to try many things to find something that people actually want. There are ways to try and mitigate this risk i.e. perhaps it solves a problem you already have.
Ask HN: Anyone know what it takes to become Hacker for FBI/CIA/NSA?
Another thread showcased how much they earn... now I'm curious how one becomes a hacker for these agencies... as it seems pretty lucretive.
Similar thoughts: How do I verify what I read isn't just technobabble haha. I don't think I understood much of it
Seems pretty reasonable to compliment a UBI with something like an EIC.
Something that I don't get about this article is why she keeps implying that a merit based system is so bad. It behoves a company to hire and fire based on merit, while also rewarding and encouraging those who are skilled at their job. That is how you create a top notch product.
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"Many worlds has a physical basis to it" has no physics-meaning that I can discern. In order to have one, it would have to deviate from the other isomorphisms and cease to be an isomorphism, and thus somehow be testable, which it isn't. (My previous post is word salad to some extent too, since I'm jamming it into an HN post. But the core insight there is basically, let the math be the math and stop imposing your globally-based ideas on the local world.)

It would have a "physical basis" to it if you could visit the alternatives somehow, in which case they could be demonstrated to physically exist and all doubt would be removed. But so far that is not on offer.
confirmed:
https://www.reddit.com/r/debian/comments/6kofbn/root_passwor...
https://www.reddit.com/r/debian/comments/6j4kni/debian_9_roo...
Power-users are not good proxy's for broad markets. But then aren't there markets where power users are the bulk of users and are actually willing to pay?
Will you consider overseas remote employees?
I think a simpler answer to the others given is because we can, and don't think it'll make the cars less safe.

We add ultrasound range sensors for parking because it helps, even though it's possible to park despite not being bats. You also could still drive with reduced vision, but it'd be better if you didn't.

Would we drive better if we had accurate distance sensors?

So we theoretically may not need to, but they help with the current problems we have.
Yeah I've always thought that one was unbridled grief. Disappointed but relieved? How? How is that in any way disappointed but relieved? The face is sweating, which people do when they are nervous or anxious. The mouth is frowning, which people do when they are upset. The eyebrows are curved downwards which people do when they are sad. And in a lot of the representations, the drop of water is under the eye, signaling that the face is crying. There is not a single emotion that face is expressing that could be interpreted as positive like the word "relieved" indicates.

That face is not disappointed but relieved. That face is 100% stricken with grief. That's the emoji I send to my wife when she texts me and says she's having a bad day.
>to other e-commerce platforms

Which platforms? What was different about them that made them better than WP?

>because the only content it handles well are blog posts and basic wall of text pages

Unless you use post types. Now since 4.7 post types can apply to everything, including page templates. Have you tried using this and failed before you made your comment?
I'm running a fully specc'd Dell XPS 13 with Ubuntu on it, and it's been amazing. My only quibbles are battery life, which is acceptable but not as good as I'd like, and the screen, which is fabulous - but I have the touch screen (I got this option by accident) and the hidpi resolution isn't supported by some software. It's not enough of a problem to limit my workflow so I kept it.

I'd say it's a great laptop, just don't get the touch screen. That'd probably help with the battery life as well.
A lot of folks are kicking the author whenshe's down. Read this as 1st person field notes from an engineer with mental illness and the story makes sense. No need to say "but she is irrational" - of course she is. We shouldn't hold the ill to the same standards.
That's like saying WordPress is a great CMS to manage the content for your forum, using a plethora of great plugins or custom post types to output the content in a forum-like view.