skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You sound like an excellent candidate for an SWE position at quite a few cleantech companies "as-is".
Is this a correct summary?

USA

150 deaths/million/year

Portugal

3 deaths/million/year
How to get an A+ rating from SSL Labs
Agreed. I'm not a fan of web apps/wrappers in general, but they're here and they're clearly not going away any time soon, so it's important that they don't become steeped in a Blink-based monoculture. Competition is healthy.
So, backup to tape... Story there. I did a backup system on the mainframe to tapes. The first issue was that the machine room operators would 'recycle' the tapes they dismounted. So while we thought we had backups, the operators just assumed they were 'scratch tapes'. Second, after having solved that problem we found that a tape was giving us hundreds of thousands of duplicate records. When I visited the actual tape drive I could see that the drive found a bad spot on the tape, did 'auto-recovery' to reread the tape, rinse and repeat. The end result was a physically transparent section of tape. I used to carry it around in my wallet to explain that even backups fail.
this is what I am wondering, why smart knowledgeable people are afraid to try, it costs nothing, but time... There are many international brokers, you don't have to live in the god old USA to trade the stock market...
10 years, at most. Google is seeing to production-ready QC within the next 3 years for specific applications. Factoring elliptic curve point multiplications is log(n) with QC, so once the cat is out of the bag decrypting a large dataset should be trivial.
Why should we trust you? Sure you set the mirror to rackspace but easily things can go wrong and if your competent enough to get iPXE running you should be doing the job your damn self.
They're common in base model economy cars.

Not a good sign if the 3 is competing against the 3-series.
Alpine linux is smaller than this.
Legalize It All – How to Win the War on Drugs (2016)
First step is to develop an edge, after that if you don't have access to capital, you can raise money, same as having a successful startup with traction...
The problem for product companies is that the secondary market still exists, and people's perceptions of a brand can be affected by its secondary market just as well as they can by its primary market.

If Apple isn't in China, that doesn't mean that nobody will be able to sell iPhones in China. That just means that Apple won't be selling iPhones in China. But someone, somewhere will still be importing iPhones into China, and people will buy them, and people will associate the resulting product experience with Apple. Those people will then blog about that experience, putting their perceptions on the world stage, where people in other countries' perceptions of the product can be affected by that conversation.

Which means that, if Apple has no Chinese app-store, then people in America will end up thinking worse of Apple. The American zeitgeist will be touched by Chinese-Americans who read Chinese-language blogs written by people living in China, where the experience of having an iPhone will suck because Apple "doesn't support China."
The only other language where I’ve seen this is Factor, with its “undo” word. I presume they work similarly, so I can speak to the general idea.

It’s not that the compiler can invert a hash, or automatically derive a logarithm function from an exponentiation function, or anything like that.

Essentially, if you have a composition of functions in a “pipeline” (h ∘ g ∘ f):

[ f g h ]

Then to get the inverse of the composition, you just invert each function and reverse the whole thing (f⁻¹ ∘ g⁻¹ ∘ h⁻¹):

[ f g h ] undo
[ \ h undo \ g undo \ f undo ]

“undo” is defined for a set of primitive words. If there isn’t an inverse defined for some function you used in the composition, then it fails; however, you can just define a custom inverse for your function. And obviously this relies on having some kind of reified representation of functions available.

“undo” can be used for things like pattern-matching: a destructuring function, which takes some value and produces its fields, is the inverse of a constructor, which takes the fields and constructs a value.
The Bushmen who had the whole work life thing figured out
You are right, but only if you discount the more extreme solutions to those tragedy of the commons/power broker problems.

There is a historically effective solution to those problems, the one we all hate to think about, that has a high likelihood of failure, causes massive amounts of suffering and has multi-generation length unintended consequences: violence.
One difference (Don't know if its a benefit) is that it uses a common runtime. Two qbrt apps would use the same installed version of Firefox Nightly, so app download sizes would be smaller. If you read these electron threads this is something that comes up a lot.

Firefox's latest build made significant RAM usage improvements [1], leapfrogging Chrome when it came to multiple tabs.

[1][http://www.techradar.com/news/firefoxs-blazing-speed-with-hu...]
Mistaken Maps
That's the opposite of what puranjay said. Your scenario is claiming to have paid lower than the real payment (to save on taxes, which is logical). Puranjay said that people claim the value is more than the real value.
Actual title: "How We Really Tamed the Dog"
Amazon's balance sheet lists $7.7b of long term debt. This increased by $5b between 2013-12 and 2014-12 [1].

The total number of Amazon shares has been slightly increasing over the last 3 years [2]. I wonder why that is? If Amazon management believes their stock price is overvalued, it could make sense to issue new shares to take advantage of that.

[1] http://financials.morningstar.com/balance-sheet/bs.html?t=AM...

[2] http://financials.morningstar.com/ratios/r.html?t=AMZN
I actually ran this distro to do nodejs development for a while in a VM before they had windows support. It beats Cygwin and still is fast.
> I've often heard wisdom like "it's irresponsible to use Kafka when you could just use RabbitMQ" but why does that statement not work equally well in the opposite direction?

It could, in some circumstances. Generally, though, the two have only a very small overlap with respect to messaging use cases. One was designed to be general purpose and solve a variety of MQ use cases and serve even "dumb" clients. One was designed very specifically to impose a high burden of state tracking on clients for a very specific paradigm.

> It seems like some "you don't need this fad technology" sentiments don't provide a whole lot of justification for sticking with the unfashionable choice.

The "unfashionable choice" that works doesn't need justification. The new shiny one does.
All true.

(My opinion on where are all the aliens is that collectively speaking, we're little more than ordinary jungle beasts with baseball caps (quote by George Carlin) and we're monitored and evaluated on when is a good time for a first contact. Let's just say we're easily at least a millennia away from that point.)

My point in my parent comment was that the overall schema of assertions like "breakthroughs are incoming" and "we just need to do X" are overly optimistic. So I gave an exaggerated example to demonstrate that point.
Most digital ads are direct response, so i am sure digital ads are profitable otherwise direct marketers will not spend

BTB, Average ad click thro rate is 0.05%, its 1 in 2000 people. So obviously clicking ad is a rare event but it do happen
my thoughts exactly. mozilla arguably set the ball rolling on this stuff with the Prism project, which allowed turning web-pages into chromeless browser window apps, with their own desktop icons and everything
> doesn't the critique boil down that ANNs are orders of magnitude simpler than the human brain

No, it's not a difference of scale, it's a fundamentally different learning algorithm. Human brain trains interactively. From birth you being experiments controlling the environment around you. Your ability to perceive the world and your ability to control it are one in the same.

You can't understand the world without participating in it. And if you are participating in it, you're stuck on the same slow timeline as every other animal. No more "train on 1 million hours of data in 30 seconds". You poke a quantum field, you wait for your bit of information back. There's no possible speedup because you're up against physics. Want to integrate the experiences of 1000 remote AIs? Fine, that'll be 1000 quanta please. In order, one at a time.

And you're going to have to relearn all of the trillions of models our genes already learned over billions of years before you even catch up to a human baby.
Brilliant idea ;)
Nah, I was charged with other crimes (none of which had a financial incentive, according to LE or the courts).

While at it they "subpoenad" my bank account history, saw a bunch of wires from normal European exchanges and then one wire from a Chinese account. Never cared to ask about the European ones (I verified that they didn't ask the exchanges directly either.), but the Chinese one was apparently particularly interesting.

They asked me a few questions, I explained the (legal) source of the money, few years later the thing actually got to court and I was found guilty with the only evidence against me being the country where the funds came from.

Not worth it to appeal, I might get my 6-7k euros back but would probably end up paying more than that for lawyers.
We need to live in a country where the law enforcement agencies are above reproach. There are 3 things we can do for this.

1. Pay for officers should be high without overtime.

2. Stop militarizing everyday law enforcement.

3. Body cams on at all times. Cameras on police cars should be on at all times.
Build an 8-bit computer from scratch
I welcome the up voting of these sorts of things. It's great to see projects with new eyes, and be reminded that not everyone has the same historical experiences that I've had.
You may be interested in some recent research[1] on “static rank polymorphism”, a way of statically describing & enforcing the implicit structure in an array language.

[1] http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/5329
undefined is not a function!
IDEs don't compile - compilers compile

IDEs just call them
It's 8mb in a container, which is crazy good.
Another way to make fast cash is hackathons, but you'd need really good presentation skills.
Benchmarks of PHP 7.2 Beta: PHP Is Still Getting Faster
That doesn't mean they don't have off switches and it does not mean they can't be turned off. I guarantee you the fire department knows how to switch any and all of those off in such a way that the diesels and the no-break PSU's all don't matter one little bit.
Even the best conversationalists of yore would be hard-pressed to provide temporally scalable entertainment on demand 24x7x365 with personalized attentiveness, then momentarily fold down in to a pocket-sized container when no longer required.

It's no wonder that mobile devices are harvesting brain time ... people on the whole are still mentally weak, predictable, ego-first primates seeking the next neurotransmitter hit: anarchist theory be damned.
Combined with a large subset of people that have a bootlicker mentality, you end up with those that want power and worship those in power planting drugs and instigating crimes that would otherwise not have occurred.
You're right that a clear dividing line is needed here. To be fair to Apple, though, they have given this official statement on the matter:

"As we have stated before, Apple has never worked with any government agency from any country to create a backdoor in any of our products or services. We have also never allowed access to our servers. And we never will. It’s something we feel very strongly about."

https://www.apple.com/cn/your-location-privacy/#english

It is perhaps notable that Apple is not trying to hide or deny this removal of VPN apps (not that they could really do that effectively). As long as Apple is open about its policies, then we have our clear dividing line (and it would be unreasonable to expect Apple to think of every conceivable future technological/policy question in advance).

Still, this is assuming that we can trust Apple to admit its policies, and moreover to consistently follow them, which even governments seem to have trouble doing. It would be nice to instead have technological ecosystems where end users and citizens didn't have to trust the policies and promises of powerful organisations.
Why is the assumption that when a political party hates something, it's because the opposing party did something wrong?

I know a lot of over-zealous liberals who have definitely misrepresented facts, but honestly I don't think I've seen anyone ever do anything that made me think "oh ok, science must be fake"

It's just willful ignorance.
I remember reading about the MUSL RNG fraud recently (1-2 years ago). Interesting that they are tying state lottery frauds to that malicious insider from as far back as 2005 (or so the slides suggest).
And DSL itself hasn't been updated since 5 years ago (the most recent release candidate was in 2012).
I didn't understand your Google hardware comment. Google search in China predates any hardware by years. Google search(Google China) is 2005 and the first Android phone, the T-Mobile G1 isn't until 2008.

Apple isn't dependent on the Chinese for manufacturing they are dependent on Foxconn, a Taiwanese company. And China wants Foxconn there. They greatly incentivized Foxconn to set up shop there.[1]

There's no reason Apple with its' hundreds of billions in cash reserves couldn't finance an "iPhone City" like China did in Zhengzhou and put it elsewhere.

And seeing how Foxconn is looking towards automation which isn't dependent on human labor, they could set it up an automated iPhone City anywhere, including the US.[2]

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/29/technology/apple-iphone-c...

[2] http://fortune.com/2016/12/31/foxconn-iphone-automation-goal...
As I mentioned in another comment, by the time it is clear to the common person that their immediate suffering is due to climate change that could have been prevented by political means, it will have been too late. Mass uprisings typically do not overthrow governments until immediate survival is threatened.
In addition to the trust factor, what happens when this service dies? Netboot.me offered essentially the same service years ago, but disappeared and stopped working, with many guides written for and around their service.
This is not true. There simply doesn't exist any court that'd accept your justification that your service is only intended to conceal the origin legitimately obtained funds.
DSL hasn't been updated since 2012. But even when it was still under active development, they made the controversial decision that they would never ship 2.6 because it was just too big and bloated; and that all of the important bits would be backported to 2.4, because surely there were enough people sticking with 2.4 that it would be supported forever, right?
This setup often gives APL-family languages a curious performance advantage, even though they’re largely dynamic & interpreted. All of the hot loops are in the implementation layer, and the surface language just glues them together, just like how Python can “be” fast by acting as glue for C and Fortran.
Horizon Zero Dawn Livestream
Comparing cats torturing other animals to systematic genocide, using nuclear weapons on others, starving whole populations, and other atrocities committed by humans is what lacks perspective. Another big difference is that we are capable of knowing what is right and wrong and choose to still hurt and torture others en masse. We are now close to choosing to likely cause a worldwide extinction event, but somehow a cat torturing a mouse is comparable? No other creature even comes close.
Looks like you are right, I was wrong - the non-autopilot versions of S come with plain old cruise control, not the "adaptive" one.
Promises are not going anywhere.
This is absolutely not true, at least in the US. If you are a business that transmits even 100% lawful funds without registering with FINCEN and registration as a MSB in your jurisdiction, you can and will be charged with money laundering.

Also, using your argument about money laundering, what about a restaurant that serves mostly mafioso, but never engages in any unlawful activity themselves. They are providing food to criminals, which is even more critical to their criminal enterprise. After all, the mafia can't commit crimes if they can't eat, right? And they are paid with funds that result from crimes. By your analogy, the restaurant owner is assisting in a crime. So should that restaurant owner be charged with some kind of new crime? (like money laundering is a relatively new crime that has been created over the past 50 years) Like, criminal gastronomy, feeding in the 3rd degree, or something?
How do you distinguish between a "natural monopoly" and just a "monopoly"?
Neat! I'd love to see your work, as I'm working on something very similar right now. Maybe we can collaborate?
The first field says 'your name' but doesn't accept a name which contains space. Is that supposed to be user name? If yes, the text box should say that. Other than that, it worked great.
So theoretically, 36 bits at a time vs 1 bit for today's serial optical? Or is that overly simplistic?
I am sure you misunderstand me but I gladly take the blame for it. I am all for people doing experiments just for the heck of it and being paid for it -- we as a race need a lot more leisure and discovery time. We're being robbed of leisure and discovery time more and more with each passing year, we always owe somebody money, there's always something else that is urgent to do, and in the end we never get to just slack for a year or two, especially after a burnout -- something that was deemed very normal even only 50 years ago. This is an awful period of human history and one I am sure will be remembered with great deal of shame one day. But let me not digress a lot...

I am 100% behind science, experimentation, and even silly / goofy discoveries whose usefulness might come centuries later (or never; I am okay with that). Please don't get me wrong. We need much more of that as a race.

I will also immediately agree that I am oblivious to what is happening in the AI area. But can you blame my cynicism? Everybody, their dog, and its butler are now claiming to do "AI innovation" and in the end 99% of them just swallow investment dollars, figure out a lucrative exit, and some even repeat that a year or two later. Naturally, people get worn out and start putting snarky remarks when they hear the now-meaningless term "AI" -- I am one of them, and I don't feel bad about it. I believe the sarcastic attitude is well justified.

Everybody keeps praising certain, very specifically tuned, NNs when they do certain very specific tasks. Fine. I will grant you that I can't code the algorithms needed to surpass human doctors in recognizing latent cancer or any kind of early signs of a dangerous disease. This is true. But the current way of doing things is like "input heckton of data, go to lunch, expect magic when you return". It definitely feels like it, even if I know that it's not factually true.

NNs show bias. Seems like nobody cares, they're like "yeah we know it's a problem, we'll get to it" and yet there are NNs that very likely already deny black families loans due to the inherent bias in the datasets they've been fed with. The concept of implementing a truly explainable AI seems to be very new when it had to be there right from the start and shouldn't have ever been missing; what are you people even thinking?! A driverless car makes a strange decision and what, "the NN worked perfectly"?! Bah.

To me, "AI" advocates are very content to deny very real issues that exist RIGHT NOW and that makes me cynical about that branch of science since you guys always seem to try and sprint into the future while blindfolding yourself about things that need attention here and now.

I admit I got off on a tangent. In any case, these are my collective thoughts on the topic.
Competition is very tough nowadays though, while in 1977, not so much. For every successful indie game on Steam, there’s dozens of unsuccessful ones.
Maybe also incentives that are something other than number of arrests or citations.
I lived a couple of years near La Condesa. Great food!

Best tacos in the area IMO are El Kaliman and El Farolito. There's a poblano called Las Chalupitas that you gotta try for authentic mole and such.

In El Parque Mexico there is a small place with no name that makes the best tortas de pierna in all Mexico.

https://www.yelp.com.mx/biz/tortas-jard%C3%ADn-m%C3%A9xico-m...

I moved outside of El DF but I loved living there as along as I didn't have to leave the zone (La Condesa, La Roma, El Valle, etc). Once you have to move to the South or North it can become a nightmare at peak times.
'2+34' is unambiguously different from '43+2' (the former evaluates to 14 while the latter is 24)

I really hope the markdown has mangled this.
A great collection, but I thought the final diagram of

http://www.datavis.ca/gallery/say-something.php

that illustrated the orders of magnitude of radiation dosage was a great use of visual presentation to illustrate scale - why is it in the hall of shame?
Ah, well in that case, property taxes in theory should be neting exactly $0! The government isn't supposed to be for-profit after all...
All libraries from Erlang can be used as-is, so the gap is much smaller than you might expect. Phoenix itself is based on an Erlang web server.
OK, so it's cool to see some of this background.

But far more important is the challenge of designing an exchange that can't be taken down.
The fact that they were easily able to buy them up and still have piles of cash is exactly the sort of thing that a natural monopolist is able to do.
what's the argument against not having body cameras on at all times?
This was written by a former DSL co-founder/developer. It's quite an interesting story! There is an interview with him here: http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20090323&mode=68#fea...
> If you are acting in a way that's indistinguishable from someone who is attempting to hide evidence of a crime, don't be surprised when people think you are doing something wrong.

Do you apply this kind of reasoning to encrypted communications? If not, why not?
I can tell you for me, that's exactly what happened. I flew Spirit exactly once. I couldn't stop telling people how horric it was for weeks and absolutely I would never even consider flying with them again.
This is absolutely not true, at least in the US. If you are a business that transmits even 100% lawful funds without registering with FINCEN and registration as a MSB in your jurisdiction, you can and will be charged with money laundering.
ESET NOD32 ANTIVIRUS / INTERNET SECURITY 10.1.219.1 (X86/X64)
Police are the good guys and can do absolutely no wrong
Privacy. That sometimes they go to the bathroom, or talk on the phone to their families.
Are they all that threatening if they can simply buy them?
This is great! Especially for utility disks like gparted.

No longer needing to make 30 different bootable CDs or bootable USBs is nice.
Welp, my mistake. Might have been me triggered since the term "AI" is practically meaningless nowadays.
My friend who wanted to become a doctor was blowing it in his undergrad science classes.

He took my suggestion to turn the music off while studying for his next test.

And got an A.

Just saying...