skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I suspect that it's a lot like building your own PC these days.

Around the end of last year I decided that I needed to replace a couple of very venerable DIY Windows boxes I had for gaming and other purposes. I started pricing out CPUs, graphics cards, motherboards, and so forth and I ended up just buying a big Alienware laptop. It fit into my environment better, was certainly fast enough, didn't cost much more, and was just less hassle.

I've spent many, many hours building PCs but I was sort of "been there done that" about doing it again.
This book I'm reading discusses the ill-effects of stock ownership by huge hedge funds. The authors call it grey capitalism where nameless, faceless money managers deploy huge swaths of capital to own companies but don't actually participate in their running.

It's hurting innovation because now the company is beholden to these owners who never show up or look at the big picture. Their window of caring about the company is a quarter to a year at best which is reset after every earnings call.
I think the author meant that we was abusing it:

x = x ? (n ? m : w) : (b ? c : x);

This doesnt seem too bad with variables, but now imagine this.

int killMe = Factory.Omg ? (isFuckedUpped ? Leet.YES : Leet.NO) : (youGetTheIdea ? yep : nope);
This is approaching Star Trek levels of medicine. Congratulations to the team who discovered and pull this off, and of course my heart goes out to the family and their child. Drowning is very serious and very scary.

Edit: somewhat unrelated since this girl fell into an unattended pool, but it's important to know the signs of drowning, which are not what you see in movies: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/how-to-spot-signs-of-a-child-dro...

Edit 2: I get that people have a right to downvote whatever they want, but seriously, did I say something wrong here?
My dad grew up on a tiny rock(just a few square miles) in the Caribbean. He had to "raise" his fish pots every morning before school(primary school at that) to get fresh fish for breakfast and the day's lunch.

Fish was plentiful then and so was lobster. In fact the lobster was a nuisance because it would sometime get into their fish pots and they had little value to locals or people of the surrounding larger islands.

This one time he and his cousin caught a few in the pot and had them in him small row boat, his cousin forgot to carry a bale to bale out water from the boat.
There was a yacht anchored nearby and my dad went to ask for a container to bale out the water. The french owner of the yacht didn't have one so be opened a big can of baked bean, quickly tossed its content overboard and gave them the can.
My dad and his cousin could not believe what they had just witnessed; To them it was such a waste. Baked bean was something you get from the mainland and it was not easily affordable to them.

The french Yacht owner then asked if he could have a lobster and said that him and his wife loved it so much. My dad was taken by how the man spoke about his love for lobster and just gave him all they had in the boat.
One man's trash is another man's treasure.

I grew up a fish snob living in the Caribbean unfortunately and most of the fish served in the U.S at chain restaurants(and even non chain restaurants) I would consider trash fish.
Tab Center (the extension for sidebar tabs from testpilot) is already down, with no replacement. For existing users, it will stop working with FF56.
Amid a Tough Field, Vyking.io Wins the TechCrunch London Pitch-Off
The opposite side of the problem is that sometimes people continually tell you you're exceptional, talented, capable, and driven, while you point to your record of actual accomplishments and proclaim your mediocrity.

And by "you" I of course mean "me".
So, as long as I hold on to the bitcoins I bought before all this madness started I should be safe? Like when in a few years some fork is the declared winner, I can still just sell my bitcoins on that winner network? (assuming bitcoins will be worth anything after those shenanigans).
Exactly if cops aren't held accountable they're just another gang.
Dark net guns shipped in old printers
> Why do we even allow cops on duty with the camera off? Why do we give them the choice of when it will be turned on?

Presumably argued as concern for the privacy of the police themselves. I can imagine the police unions fighting tooth and nail to maintain the right to decide when cameras are recording because otherwise there is going to be a lot of crap like this for them to deal with.

Personally, I think they should always be on, always be recording both audio and video, and continuously uploading the footage to servers controlled by a third party agency that is not in the direct or indirect control of the local police or district attorney's office. Footage would be archived for a preset amount of time (1 year? 5 years?) and then destroyed (by deleting the crypto key that's used to encrypt it). During the "active" window either the prosecutor or the defendant could request access to any or all footage of the police around the timeline of an incident.

Outside of that, it should require a warrant to view the footage. The goal isn't to turn this into a fishing expedition to turn over prior dirt on the police that apprehended you. An investigation like that by internal affairs would require a warrant as well.
You could have used five.high() here ;)
Dr. Hassabis is awesome, but that video and the language is misleading to a layman. He is distinguishing between expert driven systems that rely on heuristics/feature engineering and between systems that learn from raw input and derive their own optimal set of features (unsupervised learning).

This is a far cry from AGI. I think Dr. Hassabis rather in a tongue and cheek manner played with the terminology in the video. Deep learning and all the modern AI stuff you hear about is within the realm of "narrow AI", or more formally, applied AI. In his video, he uses "narrow AI" to define systems that rely on expert based heuristics and feature engineering, and general purpose AI to be what they are currently doing with reinforcement learning.

Whilst it's wonderful that their advancement in reinforcement learning has been applied to various different problems successfully, it shouldn't be confused with AGI.

AGI is on a totally different playing field. I don't think we are substantially closer to AGI than we were 50 years ago, and I would be very interested in anyone arguing the opposite.

I think at this point the only company trying to seriously tackle AGI is: https://numenta.com/
Supporting promises would maybe be one level too meta since they are a prime example of what this library is making fun of.
Yeah, I think that's definitely part of it.

https://www.heart.org/idc/groups/heart-public/@wcm/@sop/@smd...

http://www.kff.org/other/state-indicator/opioid-overdose-dea...
Can't you just use Cannabis Oil? I heard it works 100% from my aunt on facebook. /s
Are you saying you never want to flush?

If flushing after every line is good enough for printf then it's gonna be good enough for me~
To Cloud or Not to Cloud: No Longer a Question
The Neurodiversity Case for Free Speech
A tour of d3-geo’s new command-line interface
Researchers Ran SR-71's Manually Designed Plans Through a Computer
Also, looking at accidents per distance driven hides hides the fact that more time spent on the road is a societal choice that also leads to more fatalities.
US lifts laptop ban for all remaining airlines and airports
But it also has a statically checked type system.
I'll see your web and raise with a blockchain
"Sure, I might be deep in debt, I'll never afford permanent housing, the government's gone fascist, and the biosphere's ability to support human life is rapidly collapsing, but at least I've got a scone while the world burns."
What does:

a -= a *= a;

Do?

Looking through C# docs (which I assume this is, but don't have experience with), it seems A's value is changed to be the previous value of a, minus itself (ie 0) multiplied by a? In other words:

a = 0

?
IMO Python would be 'safe', but not 'sane'.
Styled console.logs with modern JavaScript
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For some definition of real, all these internal experiences are real. Not interpersonal, maybe, but they will have an effect on the person and on how they interact with the environment including other people.

Accounts like this also tell you what's possible. It might and probably won't be true for everyone, but nobody is unique enough that it won't be encountered again.

So even if it's just one author telling you about his internal world I'd say there is a little more to learn from this.
For an uttering to be sarcastic it needs to have been intended to be so.
Servers for hackers
Every single one of these threads or news articles blathers on and on about how all these clueless/evil doctors are hand-in-hand with Big Bad Pharma just tossing opiate prescriptions at everyone who walks in the door. At this point it's ridiculous, because the few outfits who did anything like this stopped or were shut down years ago.

The pendulum has swung in the other direction-- doctors have been inundated with the 'crisis' message and are terrified to prescribe any strong pain or anxiety meds to anyone. It was once routine for me and others I know to be prescribed hydrocodone for conditions like painful seized muscles, root canals or severe strep throat. We were apparently all in the ~80%+ who used it as intended and stopped. It worked great! No one I know has received an opiate for those conditions in a very long time. They all tell you just take ibuprofen now, which is completely insufficient. So what to people do instead? They drink or turn to illegal drugs. Functionally banning drugs does nothing to fight addiction, and in some cases can make it worse.

Sorry to rant, but I have both seen and experienced the hell of untreated pain due to skittish doctors. The cowardice and misinformation resulting in such direct harm really angers me.
A different article says that the city issues about 10 permits a year for new homes.

This isn't going to have much impact on the solar panel marketplace, those homebuilders will probably be able to scratch up more than 1 bid.
> but it says very little about life in general.

But you said it yourself, we can never know the absolute truth value.

I say let go of what life truly means, and enjoy the process of iteratively improving your own perspective. Humans always seek closure though - that's religion for me (!)
"Elvish" is Quenya; Sindarin is unrepresented. This must not stand.

https://github.com/jackdcrawford/five/pull/332
Why not just make them out of recyclable plastic?
I was like, how bad could it be. Loaded up the page and it also made me dizzy. Such an awful load screen.
And that's why you don't trust random strangers spouting wise-sounding sayings.
No, not really. You're making a hyperbolic statement. I've been watching Star Trek for 40 years. We're definitely still in the Dark Ages:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMaGnpVaSGQ
Cricinfo design from 1997 to now
> Everything depends how the course is taught, not on the language used.

Usually this statements holds true, but not in this case. I mean, after all we are talking about language where `'0' == false` is `true`.
15 common KPI questions: Quick insights on the basics
From most police camera trials, people are much less likely to escalate situations when they know they are on police camera. This includes both the cops and the suspects.
I think asking why something is a joke, or why someone could possibly find a dumb thing funny is pretty similar to asking people to justify why they enjoy some type of art.

I don't get the appeal of abstract expressionism and I feel like trying to make something in that genre would be a waste of my time, but I wouldn't go around criticizing it as stupid or vocally expressing my perplexity.

Different people get amusement/enjoyment from different things, and it often appears weird to others.
Useful for system without a package manager.
Tinfoil: TLS Is Not for Obligatory Interception
Does drowning not imply death? Is there different definition for drowning (or death) in medicine?

EDIT: I'm referring to the fact that the title says the girl drowned, not that she was at some point "drowning".
Depends how you are holding bitcoins. On another thread, it appeared that Coinbase might be doing something sketchy in the case of certain kinds of forks. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14806636
MIT is building a system that can identify a recipe using pictures of food
The people that would want a wiki program to work?

It only takes a few to start a culture.
Basically you're right but missing context. Small businesses for the most part are not technically oriented enough to appreciate or even know about the existence of EV certs. But I can guarantee you that through my years of working for a certificate reseller, those SMBs who adopted an EV saw a increase in conversion rate.

In this case the numbers do not tell the whole story.
GBPUSD: Extends Weakness, Remains Vulnerable
Way to put a spoiler right in the title. I'm happy to have read this before seeing the post here.
There’s Something Strange in Usain Bolt’s Stride
This was exactly the kind of thing I had in mind. I could easily imagine the Enterprise having some kind of special oxygen chamber that cures all sorts of maladies.
Same here. I like the idea of Firefox. Every few months I reinstall it and try it for a day or two, and it's always just painfully slow compared to Chrome. In most other respects I actually prefer Firefox, but the other differences are just much less important to me.

Ohh, and the Chrome dev tools are just better. So that helps. But if Firefox weren't noticeably slow I'd use it without hesitation.
Robot development made easy with Husarion CORE2-ROS and Ubuntu – part 2
Show HN: Snipit.io - Save and organize your code snippets in the cloud.
You may be right but I worked for a certificate reseller for years and those we persuaded to adopt EVs saw an increase in conversion rate, so theres that.
AFAIK you need to rent the Zoe battery either way.
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I think the idea is that she was more or less dead for a while.
> The World Health Organization in 2005 defined drowning as "the process of experiencing respiratory impairment from submersion/immersion in liquid".

from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drowning
With mesh network being shipped, I hope there is now time to develop an improvement to how bluetooth can be implemented into applications to allow better UX in handling connections/handshakes. It's fine when you only use one device, but when you start using two, man it's not user friendly
For context, South Miami is a small city (~12k population) in the Miami Dade Metro. It is pretty close to 100% built out. There are not large developable tracts for subdivisions. I suspect that most new homes are teardowns (and hence the 75% rule).

In terms of regulation, Florida has had an energy code for new houses since the 1970's. Florida has regulated windows by orientation (i.e. solar gain) and air conditioning efficiency and insulation for decades. This is just one small local addition to an existing regulatory framework.

In terms of politics, South Miami is not a libertarian paradise and Florida is not a do what you want with your land state. That's why its happening there and not in Wyoming.
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They solved that problem a long time ago by making the caps sealed on the bottle. They originally were not, and some of the liquid would get lodged up along the rim of the cap during shipment. That was the part that got moldy.
Formerly would be incorrect. While owned by Coinbase, GDAX is a different project, not a continuation of the original CB exchange.
"The anti-use would be in any sort of cryptographic implementation"

I'm not ready to disagree with you (yet) but I was thinking about the possibility of turning a pseudo-random number into a truly random number. If you generate a number using a PRNG and use that as a bit offset (via the timestamp), you might get a better string of random bits as an input to your cryptography system. Of course this relies on there being enough previously generated bits available.
Drowning is asphyxiation within a liquid (generally water).

It usually leads to death but not always. You can end up with significant brain damage, due to oxygen deprivation, and still survive though.
My analogy works just fine.

My point is that the fact that a good is necessary for life or mandated by a government has nothing to do with how competitive the market is for supplying it.

The original comment is nonsensical, supply and demand have different curves with different elasticities. A government mandate affects the demand curve not the supply curve.
No. Look it up
Obviously yes since they are in business and made a blog post about active development.
Yeah, I was wondering about the organic labelling. Also about the claim that there are "no pesticides or chemicals of any kind used in the cultivation of Plenty’s crops". Presumably they have to add nutrients to the water?
> Trusting governments has worked out so well historically though.

The absence of government, on the other hand, was even better. We have such incredible highlights as the dark ages, the Mongol conquest, islam's spread, ... each of which killed far more people than 40-45 including Japan and the Holocaust, when the total human population was a fraction of what it was during WWII. Collapses of government which are more recent, but on a smaller scale are currently used as laughingstocks for anarchists and ... sorry to say ... rightly so. Among such examples are Somalia, Ethiopia and Sudan as recent examples.

Without the government, can you really vouch for all 7 billion humans alive, even for basic things, such as that no group of them would commit mass murder, just because it would provide a better meal tomorrow evening ? How about all 300 million Americans ? I don't think so. How about 10 million New Yorkers ? I wouldn't take that bet.

The bet that they wouldn't band together and steal whatever they can is so ridiculous it's barely worth thinking about.
People working in software field are extraordinary and deserve extraordinary perks is held as self-evident truth in modern world.
Machine Learning and AI: Revolutionizing Physician& Patient Relation
Mexico City May Abolish Its Parking Minimums
The article says the USDA would make a decision on April 19th of this year but I can't find what that decision was. Do you know?
Instagram tops cyber-bullying study
Parking minimums are a pernicious cost that raise the price of housing: https://qz.com/1029925/if-youre-renting-a-city-apartment-wit...
This must be somewhat related an idea I read about recently. Indexing a binary heap other than the natural way can avoid cache misses and increase priority queue performance: http://playfulprogramming.blogspot.co.uk/2015/08/cache-optim...
Your cloud service does everything except for file backups, load balancing and can't handle huge file copies. And for reliability and responsiveness, requires a hybrid private-public cloud. Which begs the question as to what's the point of moving to the cloud in the first place.
Ask HN: How to tell someone they are not doing well at work?
What is a good (or the least bad) way to informally tell someone who does not report to you that they are not doing well at work? Should one even try?

On the one hand, I would like to limit the coming pain -- I myself was once in a situation where I thought myself a star team member only to find out later that I was not helping much, and that is putting it mildly. I wasted 12-18 months before I figured this out and moved on. I wish someone gently helped me, although it would not be easy -- it was my first job after grad school and of course I knew myself what I was doing better than some dude in the next office.

On the other hand, it is a minefield. I am high enough in the food chain that such talk, even informal, could be seen as an interference; he may also decide to shoot the messenger, complain to HR, etc.

Thoughts?
You are right. People tend to think of these unfunny things as funny. That's why 9gag and other services are crowded with people making and sharing mostly idiot jokes.
I think a better but os specific alternative would be to simply have an elf section in a binary per 'container' technology (mounts, unshare, seccomp, etc) that is simply a called at the earliest .ctor. State would be per binary and could potentially be per application as well in say /state/$prog/$app.

The upsides of this is simplicity, permanent 'containerization', better handling of state, automatic updates if all this is handled with a package manager and finally the potential to have more locked down containers via analyzing the dep chain.
Wouldn't the weak point in that system then be the PRNG? If so, doesn't that require the use of a crytographically secure PRNG in the first place?
I would hope it's equivalent to

a = a * a
a = a - a

That would be the "least astonishing" outcome for me.
NASA is uploading hours of aerospace history on YouTube
Other front page stories from New York Times.

-How Fear of Falling Explains the Love of Trump

-Trump is his own worst enemy.

-If Dr. Trump were your surgeon.
If you are doing slides, then I'd strive to avoid scrolling. Either you scroll or your swipe, but doing both is kind of difficult. But I like the idea of small contained slides of content and graphs.
There's a Tree Style Tabs-like WebExtension. It has a few quirks, though. It runs in the sidebar. It doesn't hide the top tabs (though you can do this with Stylish). It has its own menu for tabs which does not include some options (like send tab to device).

There was a very good non-nested side-tabs extension in Firefox Test Pilot, but it has expired.
I'm not 100% sure, but I believe there is a catastrophic situation that could leave Bitcoin fully stranded.

Because that difficulty factor changes over many mined blocks, if the ASICs all suddenly stopped mining that chain, there might not be enough hash power to ever find another valid block.

And until so many blocks are found, the difficulty won't change, so the chain will be fully and completely dead (at least on the scale of months)
My first project with React was a mess, mostly because of Redux. Not because it's bad, but because the lead dev was adamant about using something Flux like. First we had Flummox, than he rewrote everything in a week with Redux, that was 2 years ago, before Redux had sane async helpers.

In my current project (where I'm the lead, haha) I'm trying to got state/props all the way.

I think for most apps it's more than enough AND it's easier to get started for new devs.

React is really easy. I mean coming from Ember and ExtJS, its API is a walk in the park and you can get really far without extra state management.

One thing that is important for this approach, minimize nesting.

You don't want to pass down everything from the app, to the screen, to the list, to the item. etc.

Instead of doing:

<List items={items} />

do it like that

<List>
{items.map(i => <Item item={i}/>)}
</List>

No nesting of screens (top-level components), no (hidden) nesting of components. This may seem kinda strange, because the first example has no dependency to the Item component, but it gives the component that uses the List direct access, which simplifies props-passing immensely.

This doesn't work for all apps, but it's a good starting point.

I ended up with 2 folders, screens and components, that are both simply flat lists of component files.