skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wouldn't all random methods with some reasonable number of bits of randomness (eg 256) be unable to create all permutations of a sufficiently long playlist. The number of permutations of the playlist would be greater than the number possible random seeds. Eg a playlist with 60 songs has more than 2^270 permutations.
>gentoo to arch

He's already too far gone lads, just let him go in peace
To compute a delta, you need the previous version. If this previous version is computed from a single file - the previous snapshot - then that's actually less data and effort than if its computed by taking an old snapshot and replaying all the deltas upto the current time.
Scientists: Suck CO2 out of atmosphere or face the consequences
Interesting. I haven't used JSON-stores because in my mind it always boils down to the question of how you would link entities together. I can't seem to get a good answer... so let me put this to you:

In a standard RDBMS I would probably have a custom datatype for LatLon (or MGRS):

create custom type LatLon(...)
create table Person(id as int, name as string, location as LatLon)
create table Shop(id as int, name as string, location as LatLon)

Find everyone 10k around Macy's:
select p.* from Person p inner join Shop s where s.name="Macy's" and with_distance(p.location, s.location, 10km)

How would a JSON-store be better at managing this, given that with RDBMS systems you have indexes to help speed such cross-table looks?
I almost tried accept and live with my loneliness for years as I thought I would need practice later on in life. It actually wasn't _all_ that bad, but I'm probably not a normal person. What got me a bit out of my shell was going out on dates from tinder or other dating platforms, and really you should venture into it as "I'd love to go to {XYZ} and check it out, I just feel weird (tons of anxiety) going by myself. It'd be great to just meet someone else there and try to enjoy the place together, regardless of whether or not it'll go anywhere relationship-wise."

I find it still really hard to make male friends as a male. I've even gotten numbers from other guys who I've met at a bar and had a blast with all night, but it's still just a little bit weird to call the guy afterwards. In order to make male friends, I think it takes a shared interest in something and repetition. Maybe through a meetup or a weekly rec-league dodgeball game or something that you wouldn't hate dragging yourself to.

Making that first step _is_ tough though. Good thing is that it's usually the toughest.
I would consider any device that's been through an inspection as potentially compromised as they could theoretically install a backdoor and access ur data later.
Maybe just using some kind of a burner phone is better.
Kindof. It could evolve into something like a forum (presuming that's what you're meaning). Right now we're focused on strictly getting the end-users problems solved as fast as possible by connecting them with freelancers via screenshare.

Does that clarify?
I couldn't care less about cell phones as long as I still have to provide my finger prints.
It's not anonymous. The end of the article says

> For more details on the work we describe in this article, see our CVPR paper “Learning from Simulated and Unsupervised Images through Adversarial Training” [10].

And the citation is

> [10] A. Shrivastava, T. Pfister, O. Tuzel, J. Susskind, W. Wang, R. Webb, Learning from Simulated and Unsupervised Images through Adversarial Training. CVPR, 2017.

So it looks like those are the authors.
That's awesome! No scrolling is what prevents me from using alacritty. Hope this gets merged!
Yawn. Yet another millionaire who lucked out dishing his share of "wisdom".
That is a justification to continue using it. Sure. But that isn't the justification for shortening mathematics to maths.

All I'm saying is that it was shortened to maths due to a misunderstanding of what mathematics is. And all I'm saying is that when british people saying the "correct" way to shorten mathematics is to shorten it to "maths", I'm saying their JUSTIFICATION is wrong. Because mathematics is not a regular plural.

Okay? I'm explaining it as simply as possible. Use maths if you want. If that is what is used in britain, fine. I'm just saying the JUSTIFICATION for why british people say it is "correct" is wrong. Okay?
If you want to wipe your phone as a protest, fine. I am just pointing out that it is not good practical advice if you just want to avoid trouble, which is what most people want to do. For the majority of people, a wiped phone will trigger much more suspicion than their emails or Facebook messages would.
Uber did in fact have a doc with 14 key guidelines, but with drastically different contents. "Step on toes", "always be hustling" etc. The harassment issue wasn't so much a cultural value as an organizational failure that partially resulted from not valuing general respect for other employees, which when carried to its extreme means tolerating behavior that would be unacceptable at other companies. It also reportedly had a general culture of looking for ways to circumvent government rules, which is also going to undermine your ability to discourage harassment.

See: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/mar/07/uber-work...

Yes, it's possible that guidelines misrepresent a company's culture. But it seems unfair and arguably, unproductive, to presume that. It's an open statement of what they want their culture to be, which seems a lot better than simply not having any goal at all.

Are you really saying you'd prefer to work for a company that doesn't think about what its internal culture and values should be?
Yeah, I've seen what they do. I like it in some ways. But with user-submitted input, their recipe card system at some point will be insanely wide/large/unwieldy.
Google Inbox initially did not support Firefox because "Firefox was too slow" [1]. Inbox hit a performance problem with Firefox's Array slice() implementation, but Google didn't report the problem to Mozilla. Chrome's slice() was fast, in part because it was not handling some corner cases correctly. Once Mozilla engineers were made aware of the performance problem, they fixed it in one day [2].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8495498

[2] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1087963
Oil Prices Drag Down Global Design Market
> I cannot promise that doing a tech startup will make you rich (in fact the odds are against you becoming rich), but I can promise that it is one of the most challenging things you can choose to do. It will push you past your limits, force you to learn faster, and maybe show you that once in a while the impossible is possible.

Couldn't have said it better! Bookmarked, thanks for explaining it in simple terms. I find myself fumbling to explain this to my non-startup friends.
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Those are tech-y reasons that might have repelled tech-y users like us on Hacker News, but the bulk of the market are laymen who don't know the difference between a browser and a search engine on whom marketing is very efficient.
Well if you use antibodies, they should be able to slowly be excreted and broken down after a while. I don’t believe antibodies undergo any memory effect. If you use a specific form of T cells, they should undergo the same degradation, although I guess there is a possibility that in some unknown cases it might revert to a memory cell, although to my knowledge this doesn’t happen. Lastly, since the virus used to express the receptor should only infect the cells extracted from his blood, any autoimmune response shouldn’t last (since cytotoxic T cells don’t last forever). The virus isn’t self replicating, and isn’t used to infect any other cells.
No but we should - we are actually building a lot more data collection in the next year
None of your points are derogatory to MongoDB in particular, any more-so than any other database.

Your points are wholly reflective of bad implementors and their implementations, not to the underlying technologies.

If one misuses a tool, that's on them, not on the tool. Further, I think it's pretty fair to say: if it's as easy to mis-use something as it is to use it, then you have a very powerful tool that should be used carefully. If it's hard to mis-use something, then it's probably not a powerful tool.

Basically, to use an analogy, don't use a jack-hammer to re-grout delicate tiles. A chisel and hammer work better, and you definitely wouldn't want to use a hammer and chisel to break up a concrete slab. Similarly, you wouldn't use a handheld rotary tool to cut a concrete slab, but using it to remove grout is perfect. Misuse of a tool leading to damage doesn't mean the tool is flawed, bad, or broken, it means it is being used incorrectly. Can you use it that way? Sure! Should you? Probably not.

ORMS are indeed slower than straight SQL, period, always, 100% of the time. This is not opinion, but hard fact of simple logic. Generally speaking, it is rather silly to expect a complex abstraction to be faster, leaner, and more efficient than a lower level one. Adding more code and complexity will never make things execute faster. (Caching does not count, obviously, that's not the point here)

That F500's total lack of effective systems architecture is the problem, not the database they used.

This is like building a treehouse with nails driven at 90 degree angle, and then blaming the hammer when it falls apart. Totally, man, you definitely shouldn't have used screws, or driven your nails at an angle converse to the lines of force. Keep blaming your tools...
"distributed, scalable, redundant" describes AWS pretty well, and if I can pay much less for a faster more reliable service but sacrifice "trustless and anonymous", I'll stick to it.
Five years ago, I had my own immune system rebooted to (so far) eliminate my Stage IV melanoma cancer in a trial at the National Institutes of Health. At that time, without further treatment, I probably had six to twelve months to live.

In essence, the tumor infiltrating lymphocytes (TIL) adoptive cell therapy was as follows:

1. The doctors removed a melanoma tumor that was growing in my neck.

2. In the lab, white blood T cells (T lymphocytes) that were attempting to attack the cancerous tissue in my tumor were isolated into at least five different petri dishes. The white blood cells' growth was stimulated using IL-2.

3. Those samples that grew the most and attacked the cancerous tissue (2 of the samples, in my case) were then expanded to a total of 130 billion lymphocytes in the lab.

4. I returned to NIH for a week of immune system preparation, specifically the almost complete suppression of my own active immune system using harsh chemotherapy. This was to allow my body to accept the new lab-grown immune system.

5. Once my immune system was sufficiently suppressed, I received all 130 billions of the lab-grown lymphocytes. The immune system was then stimulated by having five large doses of IL-2 every eight hours over a two day period. (Note: This was hellish.)

6. After a week or so, my immune system had recovered and I was released from the NIH Clinical Center to return home. I was given an anti-biotic to take for 4 to 6 months to reduce the possibility of contracting a specific pneumonia (PCP).

7. I returned to NIH monthly for scans monthly for the first three months. After month one, my tumors had shrunk 33%. After month two, 66%. After month three, they were almost complete gone. My immune systems had essentially been immunized against some of the mutations contained in my cancerous melanoma cells.

8. I was declared NED (no evidence of disease after 15 months) and a complete responder to the treatment after 21 months.

Now, almost five years post-treatment, I have had CT scans and brain MRIs every six months with still no signs of melanoma. My doctors have told me that I'm likely cured.

Immunotherapy works. I chose this trial because the I liked the fact that my own immune system was being boosted to fight my cancer.

Further info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tumor-infiltrating_lymphocytes

My doctor is Dr. Steven Rosenberg of the National Cancer Institute.
Given that you're talking about an object in our solar system, I think almost all astronomers would not use "mere" or parsecs.
No one ever asked about my grades - coming from Yale probably helped a bit - but more importantly, Yale allowed me to meet my first co-founders.
I wonder which will make more money, the cheap car sold by the millions or the (relatively) expensive car sold by the thousands.
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for the purposes described in the comment - I was quite clear that a certain level you get down to quantum effects.

But for the context of the physical processes the OP was talking about those effects are not significant and so I excluded them.
What's the point of OV certs, seem pretty much the same as EV except you don't get that green bar? Why would you ever want that?
With 13x arbitrary code execution, being 5x with either kernel or system privileges.
Looks to be back up: "Monitoring - The issue is resolved and Bitbucket is operating normally again. The team will continue monitoring to make sure it remains stable." Jul 19, 20:07 UTC

Significantly faster time to recovery than most Github/Assembla outages I've experienced.
Finally, Spotify's shuffle algorithm can be fixed! Thank goodness you created this.
Because I realized that I could be better
Great, yet another source of leftist propaganda designed to guide the masses toward the globalist agenda.
This was the big part of why I dumped firefox. Others included pending depreciation of addon apis, screwy behavior with dark gtk themes and unreadable text, issues where video would straight on skip or freeze max headroom style, yahoo partnership, addon signing requirement, failure to add synced reading lists to desktop browser in favor of pushing pocket.

In short screw you too mozilla.
Show HN: Safeharbor - 64 lines of code to download all your Github stars offline
Yea but having a hybrid doesn't just take care of that 1.3%, it tremendously helps those that are blind [1], the huge smear with different versions of JS, those that come in on mobile with JS enabled and then flick it off because your site broke for their random configuration of screen size and mobile browser, etc.

Finally, that's the UK. Students in India trying to learn about space may not have the internet speeds we're used to, and might browse with JS disabled because that's the literally the only way they can afford to without blowing data caps.

Anyway, you'll never catch me doing it unless I'm testing my own site, but it's definitely forward-thinking and kinda polite to have SOME sort of fallback for people without JS enabled.

[1] https://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/57340/percentage-of-s...
Yes they did :) - I became friends with Justin during my second senior year
Creating a Beautiful Overview of Your Test Suite (using Report Unit)
For me Chrome and Firefox feel the same performance-wise. Are you sure you don't have some add-ons or other changes in your Firefox profile?
The point is most people have a bunch of free space on their hard drive they're not using anyway. I've got a few hundred free GB on my desktop, and a couple more TB on my home server. The physical hardware for those drives is sunk cost, and I'm already paying for the electricity to run those machines all day. It doesn't cost me anything extra to merely have some data sitting on the unused space on my drives, so why not make some money off of it?

On the other hand, if I wanted to create a dedicated machine just to farm filecoins, that _would_ cost me extra for hardware and electricity.

This is why decentralized storage has an advantage in this regard. Unlike mining, storing files incurs almost no extra costs for the average home user, but does incur costs for dedicated storage systems.
I completely disagree; Renault when buying Dacia, bought a company capable to produce a compact car at a ridiculously low price on an industrial platform that was proven (Clio) and on a market segment that is the bread and butter of all major European car manufacturer. However the same car was sold at almost twice the price within the EU single market as it was outside it.
Before that, you had the experience of FIAT with a single platform produced in Europe (FIAT Uno) and South America (Fiat Palio). It was a commercial success for the company. However, the price for the Palio was lower than the Uno, as it was targetting developing market.
The more mature market are not benefiting from technological development from those cars, as they are based on proven platform (read already paid for), or from the price reduction, as the competition is locked in place, and an aggressive price politic might actually be detrimental to the product perception. This is without even mentioning the cartel like behaviour or European car manufacturer.
There's likely something on your phone that some government agency could find useful, whether or not you consider it sensitive.
There was a time when web developers went to great length to make their site compatible with every browser. Now they just make it work on Chrome.
Pretty much this drives my Firefox usage... I use it on mobile because I can still use various adblock/privacy extensions without trouble. Use it on the desktop, too, because Google being deeply linked into my browser creeps me out.
It's only odd if you're worrying about it outside of the context that the parent comment was talking about.

Which I wasn't. You clearly are. Yes, quantum stuff exists. At the scales the OP was talking about though they are mostly insignificant therefore I hand-waved them because they were not relevant to the discussion.
Agree here, I don't understand why arch users would be the target of that comment.

I switched from Ubuntu, and I find the experience pretty similar, by and large. Nobody screams about Ubuntu users.

If anything, by stereotype, I would expect Arch users to be "do it yourselfers". They are the "5%" of users by choice, and they figure out a way to make it work. In contrast to the GGP comment who wants everything to "just work" for him even though he's chosen to break things.

Seems to me like they're exact opposites.

I also don't think the arch stereotype holds true, anymore. I haven't had to fix a broken system or do any manual-update stuff in the couple of years I've been running arch. I think it has much broader appeal at this point.
Also, besides the overall success of my treatment, other than regular followup scans, I don't require any further medications of any sort. It's a one-and-done treatment. I'm certain that Big Pharma doesn't like these treatments.
Court order bans ‘memes’ that use photo of local community activist
Adobe pro has this built in, or am I missing something...?
By your definition of substantial.

We can try to argue about the definition of "substantial" if you want, but in the end, the fact is that I can find you ten thousand young teens that don't give a fuck about politics and do give many fucks about a Kardashian booty transplant.
You probably commit a federal crime unintentionally every time you cross the border anyway :-/
I wonder if this is what the Soviets proposed right before their collapse. I guess when you're a hammer (Pentagon) you only know how to hit things (war). We may or may not be about to collapse as an empire, but I'm certain that if we follow the plan outlined here, we will collapse as a society. We've already been heading there for quite awhile now. Let's spend more on military while our citizens are jobless, homeless, and dying of sickness, then use propaganda to tell them they're living the high life. There are, unfortunately, enough stupid people in this country to keep such a charade going. The current leadership, both political and military, is just a reflection of that.
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> Don't start a startup if you have family that depends on your income.

This one deserves to be called out. You can make a perfectly respectable living starting a company (perhaps not saving as much), and if it doesn't work out and you're savvy you'll have a job in no-time. Especially if you're an engineer in the bay area.
Sorry for the delay. Here's some early work from Pieter Abbeel where a helicopter does aerobatic manuevers better than the demonstrations it received: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download;jsessionid=EAE...
The megacorp economy requires people to accept the likelihood of crushing institutionalized misery in exchange for a chance at being able to sustain a high salary long enough that the accumulated pile of cash after you finally quit will allow you to live a good enough life to make up for all that lost time and deferred happiness. I decided not to play along with that and will never again work for a megacorp, because life is short and I want to enjoy mine. It is, as you say, up to each individual!
They can already do this via singray and other cell tower acquisitions.

You don't own the baseband firmware, therefore do not trust the device.

The same is true of your desktop and likely router gear, but many of those at least require brief physical access to enable (however there's also in transit or baked in at the factory).

If you want a truly secure device demand fully open.
What apps do that, besides games?
How does it compare to maidsafe? https://maidsafe.net/

Maidsafe made some noise in early 2014 but I haven't heard much from them since.
Sounds like 1Password's new Travel Mode (https://support.1password.com/travel-mode/) is actually going to be effective.
> which requires additional data sources beyond the mobile telemetry.

So it really isn't technically difficult. It's just lacking in data?

In your original post, you made it seem like it was extremely difficult. From my perspective, it seems like child's play from a technical standpoint.

> It isn't that difficult technically, if you have experts doing it

But your top comment implied it was extremely technically difficult.
You shouldn't. Work in open source instead. If that project takes off, start a company. This way you benefit everyone instead of just yourself if you fail. Which you probably will.
> Are you religious? Go to church (or sangha or whatever). Got an addiction? Go to a 12 step group meeting.

That escalated quickly!

> Like board games? Find folks that like to play and hang out with them.

This one is definitely good advice. Introverts find it easier to mix with fellow introverts. I speak from experience. I can trace an awful lot of friends back to various magic the gathering sessions or lan parties
> After iOS 10.3.0 silently converted all iOS devices from HFS to APFS (!) (and not only was this not specified in the user-visible changelogs

Are you suggesting Apple didn't disclose APFS was coming to 10.3? There was plenty of media coverage ahead of time (e.g. https://9to5mac.com/2017/03/21/what-is-apples-upcoming-apfs-...), and it's specifically mentioned in the 10.3 release notes.
Honestly I dont have a good answer - I don't think I dealt with it in the most healthy manner - although my girlfriend (now wife) helped a lot!
I remembered when I joined, /r/marijuana was a default subreddit...
> I have heard designer friends say that Firefox is the new IE for them

Please tell them to report those issues? Either tweets to @bz_moz or email to bzbarsky at mit dot edu or just bug reports in Bugzilla if they're up for it and a cc; I'll make sure things get routed to the right place.
Maybe define who can patch the contract at time of creation. In many cases you are already trusting the developer not to suicide the contract and run away with the money so I don't see how that would change things.
Your list excludes what is probably the most common reason to start a startup, which is that someone thinks they're more competent than the 90% who fail, so they have a good chance of succeeding and making themselves rich.

There is uncertainty in business, but execution matters a lot. If you have good reason to think you can execute better than most, then a startup is probably the quickest route to financial independence.