skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Doesn't this require separate gmail addresses?

It probably should, but I somehow ended up with two Amazon accounts (retail, not AWS) with the same email address. Changing the password I use changes which account I log in to.

Presumably it's a bug, but it's certainly confusing.
Some mechanics charge you $120 literally just to plug in their OBD2 adapter and read the code, so yeah, even if it saves you one diagnostic fee, it's a bargain.

Note that Hotz is claiming his readers will do a lot more than the conventional ones you've seen before. Whether or not that's true remains to be seen.
Well there's still a lot of back and forth on this from my understanding. Earlier this year some emails came to light from Monsanto regarding ghostwriting some research, aka they wrote an article and more or less had some scientists sign off on it as though they had done the research. They were also tipped off about the International Agency for Research on Cancer's determination for being a probable carcinogen so they were able to "prepare a public relations assault on the finding well in advance of its publication".

Relevant Times Article:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/14/business/monsanto-roundup...
And always recently! LOL
> As another responder astutely pointed out below, services like this aren't contractually-bound, they're subject to TOSes.

Yes, I did say it should be expected, not that it is :(

This is where large companies are most to blame -- they sell products and services, but have no support unless you pay extra. I can understand out-of-hours or technical support, but basic accounting and account issues (e.g. account lockouts) should really be unethical to not support for a paid service. (I don't quite want to say illegal, but it shouldn't be the norm like it is now.)

I've had significantly better dealings with "smaller" shops with this kind of thing. Basic account support always appears to be the first thing to the chopping block as they grow :(
> a sufficient number of email recipients classify you as spam

From Google's end, I can understand this decision. But from the consumer end, I only want that logic used for de novo email sources.

Even if many people think a newsletter is spam, I'd want my personal patterns to override that. If I've opened letters from the same sender repeatedly and never marked one as spam, it shouldn't much matter what other users have to say. If I've ever explicitly taken a sender out of spam and not put them in spam, that should basically settle the matter.

I regularly lose emails I've requested to Gmail spam, and even when I've un-spammed the same sender multiple times. I appreciate that Google achieves pre-emptive blocking via a large userbase, but I don't appreciate when the wisdom of the crowd overrules my own behavior.
aren't they read only sensors anyway ? no outside agent can fiddle with your car through OBD2 .. I hope so
Jenn failed my test.

Me: what are some good tourist destinations?

Jenn: I am not sure I understand your question.

Me: where can I fly to cheaply?

Jenn: I am not positive that I understand what you are asking.

Me: do you have any package deals?

Jenn: Takes me to deals page; but I was looking for package deals including hotel and car
I use NetVibes - I jumped to it when iGoogle shut down: https://www.netvibes.com
So in your mind it's just flat-out impossible that the decision-makers here didn't fully grasp the complexities of the arena they were entering into?

The linked article says that the most we know for sure is that "an expert on cultural property law retained by Hobby Lobby" warned the company of some things and the company ignored those things. It doesn't say who heard the warning, who called the final shots, or what their motives were.

Do you know something these we don't? Perhaps you read a source that I didn't here.
I think we should learn
Good post with loads of valuable points.

This document clearly shows that "master" programmers focus on very different things than a beginner might expect. A beginner can get really excited and proud making something complex work without noticing the flaws. After years of debugging your own code you'll find out that getting complex things done is not really the issue, it is HOW it's being done that makes the difference.

Beginners tend to focus on new language features, premature optimisations, having unnecessary strong opinions about wether using a for loop or map or reduce etc.., using too many and buggy libraries, literally copy and use code from others without noticing it's flaws, getting pride from writing complex code that almost no one can understand, trying to beat the calculator, trying to beat Google with your own memory, over estimating the value of linters, CI, TDD, agile, what editor to use, etc.., etc...

All these things take up so much space and energy at the cost of what really matters if you want to do what a master does: write bug free code that is easy to maintain and a joy to read.
Wait until you start getting physical mail based on your DNS entries. :-)
exactly. Even with meetup, its not perfect for 'I want this specific group to come over.'

In a lot of ways, mid-2000s evite would be perfect -- but there's the spam / nagging side of their business that spoils it.

To be fair, I have no idea how one would monetize my dream events platform.
"When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure." - Goodhart's Law

Hiring a minority individual because they are a minority individual and it makes you look better, marginalizes everything else that person is. Which only serves to exacerbate the issue that this action is supposed to be solving.
My parents used to make me weed our yard as a chore and a punishment. I still harbor an irrational contempt for the sow thistle you see all around southern California.

I heard someone, a successful ecologist or chef or landscape artist I believe, once say their parents wouldn't let them pick a weed unless they could identify it.

That struck me as a truly brilliant idea. I think it also helps combats that fallacy you've pointed out.
That looks great.
Then why not live somewhere else?
Microsoft Orleans v1.5.0 (Distributed Virtual Actor Framework for Dotnet)
OK, so now there is a "fitbit for car".
Yesterday it was "Uber for Garbage".

Service X (where X is an existing hit) for Area Y is getting popular.
Time to contact your solicitor chap.
So... the good old "if you build it, they will come" approach.
The level of naiveness in your comment is off the charts.
Another data point:
MATLAB, glnxa64 AVX2, 12 core

>> maxNumCompThreads(1);

>> im = randi(255, [2560, 1600, 3],'uint8');

>> timeit(@()imresize(im,[320,200],'bilinear','Antialiasing',false))

ans =

0.0083

>> timeit(@()imresize(im,[320,200],'bilinear'))

ans =

0.0301

>> maxNumCompThreads(6);

>> timeit(@()imresize(im,[320,200],'bilinear','Antialiasing',false))

ans =

0.0062

>> timeit(@()imresize(im,[320,200],'bilinear'))

ans =

0.0113

Oh, missed that lanczos2 part:

>> maxNumCompThreads(1);

>> timeit(@()imresize(im,[320,200],'lanczos2','Antialiasing',false))

ans =

0.0146

>> maxNumCompThreads(6);

>> timeit(@()imresize(im,[320,200],'lanczos2','Antialiasing',false))

ans =

0.0049

Since MATLAB tries to do most of the computation in double precision, its harder to extract much from SIMD.
FoodSpect app brings Restaurant Inspection data to over 1000 cities in NA
May the most efficient vertically integrated conglomerate win then.
Just a anecdote, but this month there was a significant phishing attempt emulating an Australian electrical provider which got through Gmail's spam filter. Gmail has now updated their filters to detect it, but it's now catching genuine email as well.

That said, it's been a long time since Gmail has had a false positive that I was surprised about (i.e. not a spammy newsletter that I subscribed too)
we need to learn 'the basics' and survive without tools to some degree.
I had 2FA activated, changed phones and lost it. I couldn't log in to my account, so I contacted support. Within about 30 min they had put me back into my account.

The dude who helped me was super chill and understanding as well.
Reducing friction. At the time private zones in Kops were more of a PITA to setup and I would have had to explain a bunch more stuff in the article.

I might look at that again when I redo the guide. Also considering switching to the new Gossip based discovery mechanism so that Route 53 isn't even a requirement. I was recently setting up a cluster for a customer and they complained about having to use Route 53.
Those are the three players with actual networks of deployed self driving cars today. Granted, we are in third with 73 cars (and 1000's on chffr), but well ahead of every other startup. Waymo has around 200, we expect to pass them by the end of the year.

In addition to this interface, we also give away source code to a driving agent: https://github.com/commaai/openpilot

Looks like this when running (video from a user): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VN1YcC83nA
The problem is that not all math problems are worth doing. For instance, when I took Calculus 2/3, some of the homework problems weren't usually hard per se, they were just arduously long. And honestly not really worth doing by hand. If I misplaced a single number and didn't realize it immediately, I would spend the next 10 minutes solving an integral that had no use, plugging it into Webassign for it to tell me I'm wrong, backtrack until I find my issue, and solve the corrected integral. I would usually do this at least once per problem (but usually more like two or three times).

So by the end of the course, I would just figure out the integral (or rather, the triple integral), plug it into Wolfram, plug the outputted answer into Webassign, and if the answer was wrong I'd backtrack until eventually the answer that Wolfram outputs is correct. At which point I'd solve the integral by hand.

---

There was one time when the homework problem asked me to find the intercept of this obscenely complex trigonometric equation. I tried for a solid half hour and couldn't solve it, so I went to the math help room to ask the TAs for help. I ended up stumping three of the TAs. A few days later, I went back to see if they had figured it out. Turns out they hadn't. They said we should just use Wolfram to get the answer.
GP's point is that those places still relied on power and networking from other places.

It's a counter to the broader point of not relying on others. You simply can't. Are there better ways to rely on others (e.g. specific contracts)? yes. Are there ways of not relying on single providers? yes. Are there ways of relying on no one? No.
He did just that though.
Look into PLX Devices Kiwi 3 - probably one of the best out there, if not the best. I tried the el-cheapo interfaces, and it was hit or miss with my vehicles.

So I said "f-it" and dropped the coin for the original wired Kiwi, and that worked perfectly.

When they announced the Kiwi 3 kickstarter, I jumped on that with funding, and it works great - but with Bluetooth; it's a quality device. You get what you pay for.
> I discovered that the students really don't understand the concepts and more importantly don't want to.

The problem is that you are forcing people who don't care about it to learn it. Ofc they'll take shortcuts.

> Plug and chug is their true desire.

I mean, most tests are very plug and chug so it's no surprise.

Also note that it might be unreasonable to expect students who never used these tools to use them for the right purpose. Mathematica is a complex tool but I can't imagine that much class time is dedicated to the tool itself.
> Facebook notes

Stopped reading right there. My experiences have led me to believe that 9/10 Facebook posts of this nature are purely for publicity's sake and not being taken seriously by the author.
That makes no sense. Say 10% of unprovenanced sales go to funding terrorism. In that case, it's vastly more likely than not that any given sale does not go to fund terrorism. Moreover, you're not willfully blind as to the risk of funding terrorism if you do buy unprovenanced articles, because statistically speaking it's probably not funding terrorism. Willful blindness doesn't just require ignoring a risk, but an unacceptably high risk.
Show HN: Ritoplz – A League of Legends rankings
Glibc Enables a Per-Thread Cache for Malloc – Big Performance Win
I'm doing this as well, the python whoosh library is doing a reasonable job there.
Fear porn designed to induce feelings of helplessness in guise of revelations.
What have passwords anything to do with this?
As I just said, back-links will come naturally and organically if the content is good and then it will have authority. Good things get found, again and again, it's what Google exists to do and they're pretty good at doing it even for sites that don't try and artificially pump up their back-links. Most sites don't get natural organic traffic because they suck, not because they don't rank high enough. Authority doesn't come from back-links, back-links come from Authority. Don't confuse cause for effect.
Expected from the earths most customer centric company. Here in India, my first order at Amazon was a fraud done by Amazon with its JV firm CloudTail.
tl dr: Amazon Fulfilled product sold at fake discount and MRP mentioned on site was higher than printed MRP.

https://medium.com/@snaushads/my-first-order-at-amazon-in-5c...
Mailchimp does not care at all. I unsubscribe daily for lists never subscribed to. They come back and spam again...
I feel tips should be in the Uber app. They should have been there form the beginning. But of course Uber opted to say no tipping ever. Ha! that is old news .. they are driver and should be tipped for god service .. but only for good service. The driver should not be allowed to see if you tipped before they rate you.
Yes, according to the Bible, God clearly wants his followers to be closeted.
I am planning on getting 75 yards of wood chips delivered to mulch an orchard we are putting in. For me the mulching robot will be a bobcat I rent to help spread it :)

For reference, 75 yards of wood chips (3 tractor trailer loads) + bobcat rental to spread costs $1000 in Bay Area. And provides years or weed prevention, water retention, and soil improvement.
A Tale of the Mirror World, Part 4: A Different Mirror
Plug and chug with Wolfram Alpha is very similar to plug and chug Stack Exchange answers in your code base.
>However, the ancap vision of no government and everything done by "voluntary" contract has no meaningful basis in reality at this point

What about tribal societies?
There is a TWIST episode with this guy on it, and he comes of as a massively arrogant prick. The dude who created the first iPhone jailbreak in his teens and got famous at it.
U am a new developer who is being thought Object oriented design. What is the alternative approach to OO? functional?
I used this trick for years. However, there are downsides.

For example, sometimes a service will let you sign up with this just fine, but later when you need to do something else (such as password reset) or a phone agent has to enter it... it chokes.

Not to mention after some time passes you may forget what the special bit was and have to fall back to searching your email. Being regimented about the naming system helps, but it's not foolproof.

I'm using this trick less and less nowadays and just entering my plain email to avoid these hassles... especially for things like real life accounts. For possibly shady characters and account email consolidation, still a great trick!
A clever solution that would work well in the right scenarios. Nice work.

I was left looking for a replacement when Searchpath.io closed shop. It was the simplest static site search I was aware of. Just add a single JS script to your site ($75/yr for full version).

Google's search widget is next best thing. The results are obviously good, but now you can't opt out of ads, so you may be serving up ads to competitors.

There are some nice search tools out there, but they are overly complex and too expensive for small, static sites.

I played around with lunr.js, but ended up settling on Tipue Search (http://www.tipue.com/search/) Once the index is created, it's pretty good.
I watched this documentary and I actually disliked the perspective he gave. As a person with an Bachelors Degree in Computer Science and I took an AI course I came from a position that for the most part Computers Improve society. While I was watching this I started to pick apart his viewpoint.

As I have been to more AI ethics meetups I now think of ways to democratize data / AI instead. I may have forgotten his viewpoints in the documentary since it was awhile ago but now I am more inclined to agree with him.
> But that is not what your post did.

What did it do instead? That's exactly what it said. It's your assertion that the comment was "dismissive".

> Now you may learn

the post ended up around -2 which is not "the community"; The remark "like that" was fine in my own judgement, and that's what matters to me, not the handful of internet points I might lose to people who care for no dialogue at all.

The comment was constructive as far as I'm concerned, and my "rationalizations" are clear - I think you've jumped the gun in assuming your opinions here.
> This should serve as a warning to anybody else who has an Amazon account that is shared between retail and AWS.

So much this.

I had such an account and neglected the retail side (it was linked to amazon.com as well as AWS) as I was using a different account for retail (linked to amazon.co.uk from the days that these were separate systems).

Logging on to amazon.com one day I noticed LastPass suggest I log in, so I did. To see that I hadn't ordered anything retail for 5+ years. So I requested deletion of the amazon.com account (good hygiene, delete unused accounts).

Retail happily obliged... and a week later when payment failed and dunning started I realised what I had done. The account did not exist any more, I could not login to resolve this.

This was entirely my mistake (and quite funny as well as terrifying), but the risk is real.

Should anything happen to your retail account then your AWS account can and will suffer.

I managed to resolve this, I was only using S3 and I wrote a migration tool to remotely move S3 items from one account to another, using only the auth keys that were still active. But woah... if I'd been using EC2 or anything else I would have been in a lot of trouble.

Keep accounts single purpose and obvious. Use an account that only handles your AWS purchases.
What’s All This Switch Stuff, Anyhow?
follow this guide: https://github.com/kelseyhightower/kubernetes-the-hard-way
Students could not do the computer based problems. Save for a few. More students get through with the old paradigm.

Old paradigm problem. Here is f, using the definition of derivative find f'.

New paradigm problem. Here is f. Here is a Mathematica function defining f(x+h) - f(x) divided by h. Graph this function for appropriate values of x and h to show whether or not f is differentiable at 2.

The old paradigm problem you just proceed as in all the examples. In the new problem they get intimidated because it involves using a computer and not a graphing calculator. They don't understand that you keep x fixed at 2 and vary h around 0. When they start the problem they give nonsensical input to the computer, get nonsensical output and promptly blame the stupid program.
This is very exciting. I've used an Automatic adapter after seeing the HN discount and the data is very interesting.
Interesting. Seems to be more of an enthusiast data-focused product rather than something aimed towards traditional car-folk then. Might be interesting to play around with even if you don't want to contribute the data back to comma.ai
Not sure if you're interested in such things, but I've written a Python data acquisition framework (and a shitty GUI for my RaspPi) that works with those cheapo $10 dongles that I'll be releasing under the MIT license as soon as I can be bothered.

Main reason I haven't released it yet is that the connection management, while quite resilient, is so hackish that I am bit embarrassed by it.
Where/How do you get daily news after quitting Facebook?
> most computer-generated images are rendered as an average of point samples weighted according to estimated coverage of a square pixel

Or, in the case of fonts, they're rendered by computing the exact area coverage of the polygon over…a square representing each pixel.
More details: https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2017-01/msg00452.html
Dupe of: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14682274

Also, the remark about the redshift is not in the research article, it's only in the press release. So take it with a grain of salt. More details in the comments of the previous submission.
You should learn a little about the politics around the DSM before assuming that anything in the DSM is "real" (and everything not in it is "fake").
Exhibit A: flying cars, "yes, they suck now, but they'll get awesome Real Soon Now" - same core meta-issue: most of the problems are still unknown and haven't been explored yet.
> working with what I still think is one of, if not the, best language ever.

Really? Mathematica is amazing and uncontested for symbolic algebra, but writing anything more than a notebook/paper is a nightmare. In built stuff is good, but functions you have to define yourself instantly become an incomprehensible mess of parentheses. Leaving aside the fact that it's a propriety language and the many flaws of its eponymous founder.

I long for the day SymPy or similar gets good enough that we can dispense with it.
You can get the same behavior on regular ls using LS_COLORS environment variable like this:

export LS_COLORS='di=01;34m \033'

this is only for directories but... you got the idea.
It's gotten a lot better as everyone figured out the model, tooling and process. As long as you have someone onshore responsible for quality who doesn't let offshore get away with sloppy work, the model can produce high-quality products. The key is having stable teams offshore, and building skills in those teams in the same ways you would build them in an on-shore team.

It's all about learning what work to do on-shore (anything involving client contact / communication, like requirements gathering) and how to package and hand off requirements to offshore.

The big consulting firms will have an advantage over small ones in this model though, because hiring/training developers becomes an operational task that you're doing all the time. If you can grapple with the training and skills development you end up needing to do offshore, the model does work very well.

It will distance you from the technology side of the business, however... and soon enough you'll find that you're working in professional services rather than software development. :)
This link says transportation uses about 3/4 of petroleum usage in the US [0] (2015), so that graphic isnt too far off. About 50% of the total is just in motor vehicle gasoline.

[0]https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/index.cfm?page=oil_use
> My point was, if you use a single account, it's far less likely to get banned

Why do you think that? If anything, you have more activity you can be banned for...

And also, why you say it like gmail is the only email provider? You need separate _email_ accounts, not gmail. It can be some other service or your own domain. Google can be service provider behind your own domain, but you will control address space etc. Nobody will ban you out of your own email address (except domain registrar, but that's unlikely).
I recently managed to do that as well. This becomes very interesting if you try to recover a password, because apparently the password recovery only recovers the last account.

Eventually I got out of that by changing the mail of whatever account I could log into, using gmails feature of ignoring everything between the first + and an @ in the address. But most annoying, now my aws login is something silly like me+awsConsole42@gmai1.com.

Maybe I could change that back, but I'm too scared to touch that.