skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Anyone else going to the DeepRL Bootcamp at Berkeley in August ?

I was really looking forward to it, especially because among other things, I wanted to discuss the very arguments of the absence of true randomness in simulations that you mentioned below in context of RL -- it seems there hasn't been a lot of work in analyzing the situation with simulations lately because everyone tends to get excited upon seeing the algorithm figure out bipedal movement in a variety of simulated environments et cetera. Out of sheer bad luck, I have something else scheduled around the same dates that I cannot skip :(. Oh well.
Clones/derivatives of which are available from dozens of companies.
Sorry for the late response. I get BDs from Netflix, not DVDs (when possible). And I'm already pushing my bandwidth to its limit at home, so it's much easier to get the BDs delivered. Also, for a lot of the films I want to see, I can't find full-quality BD copies anywhere online, only recompressed rips.
... except "Blows to the head" has everything to do with this from the article to OP's point.

When you have a number of HN commenters correcting you, it's not them it's you.
Discord uses it for message passing.

Other uses where Erlang shines are a great fit for Elixir too: WhatsApp, Goldman Sachs uses Erlang for Trading, Heroku's routing mesh, ...

I think with Nerves, Elixir fits well on embedded platforms. Its supervision trees make it easier to create fault tolerant systems, and the actor model is great for concurrency.
Products for the sake of art will not make you a business success. You have to ship and you have to sell. Tinkering and producing products for yourself is very satisfying but don't expect to have a killer business out of it. If that's what you want to do then get a job in a research lab or a product development company. It will be a dream come true. A perfect example of someone that loved to tinker and research but could not produces a successful product was Tesla. He invented mind blowing technology but was never able to create a successful company out of it. As a matter of fact the Google funders learnt from him and decided to put business and profit above technology so they could have the money to produce and finance the tech they love.
Why shouldn't a nation protect its citizens' wages?
The complexity of any embedded software and IC is enough as lock in.

It doesn't justify why they make it so hard to set an IO pin or to load a program on their chips.
>I think the immigration that is critical to the US is the high end immigration, not the low end stuff like H1B.

High-end immigration was the original purpose of the program, no? But it's since been abused.
...which you can opt out, and contrary to what you might believe, it doesn't send every site you visit to google (it queries a local bloom filter first)
I LOVE VueJS. But you're right- nowhere near as easy as Flex Builder with AS3.

I built an app with Flex Builder that got me my first job. The application is still in heavy use every day, and I've never even once had someone report that something went wrong with it.
Thanks for the hearty laugh.
BigCommerce, GRPC, and Gruf – A Ruby GRPC Framework
Something similar happened to me on Christmas night (on a 4.5 star place no less). The place was practically a shack and couldn't house more than 2 people if we crammed in. We called them for about 2 hours and finally got a person who told me that as long as the place existed, there was nothing that they could do that night. Never using them again.
What an ignorant, obnoxious reply. HN isn't for you.
Regarding the graph of perception, it shows "% saying there is more
crime in the US than a year ago." That's more like an estimate of
slope than an estimate of number of crimes.

Also, if you drill down to the Pew image, and count years/tick marks,
the year perception turned from downward to upward was 2001,
which I believe is not a mere coincidence.

Increasing awareness of more distant crimes through social
networks and the aging of the baby boomer generation may
also contribute to the increased perception of growth.
Figma Wants Designers to Collaborate Google-Docs Style
Definitely, both sizing and layout - On paper we thought we'd be able to design our current product in a reasonable form factor with a symmetric layout.

During the modeling phase we quickly switched to an asymmetric layout to maintain the form factor we were going for.
social media, too
I suppose it is possible that a critical mass of people will give up. That seems unlikely to me, too many care for better or worse. The people that care will either remain poorly informed for gradually get more informed and by our electing of Trump it seems quite likely misinformed with reign for some time. (I am not trying to politicize this, but trump got huge help from crazy news sources like breitbart)
Walmart just lightly threatened carriers & owner operators that if they work for Amazon they can expect lower priority from Walmart in the future (1)

Walmart presently represents ~14% of the total capacity of one of America's largest carriers - Swift transport - and likely similarly important elsewhere. (2)

Obvious outcome down the road is that one of these behemoths snaps up a convoy / other plays in the space to secure capacity.

But would they rather buy an "asset light" business like Convoy, that has no actual trucks / drivers / or control, or will they be more interested in an "asset heavy" carrier that has technology / driver / and trucks?

(1) http://www.dcvelocity.com/articles/20170627-wal-mart-warns-m...

(2) http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-06-28/it-begins-walmart-w...
>I have no faith that my incognito efforts are all that incognito.

But incognito cookies are isolated from normal browsing cookies?

also,
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/self-destruct...
There, but for the grace of God, go I. (And I repeat that I don't know of an instance where Yudkowsky has ever expressed fear that he will be revived by a future AI and tortured. This sounds like it's referring crudely to the memetic hazard known as Roko's Basilisk, which he has explicitly stated he doesn't believe in.)
Why is the total population deceased players and not all players?
Even if none of these were a commercial success, it's quite a resume and shows an ability to bring an idea to life. I think what the author needs to do is look for a business savvy partner that can focus on making a viable product. They're different skill sets. The Jobs/Wozniak kind of synergy.
Is the next step generating adversarial examples and injecting them into the training pipeline?
The Earth weighs a good deal more than a 300lb lineman, and it's the Earth that skiiers are repeatedly running into while carrying an enormous amount of inertia.
I would suggest that you're only getting the facts that align their chosen narrative, and the facts are being presented through a lens that limits your understanding of the world.

An example I like to use is minimum wage. The very term "minimum wage" on it's own pulls you towards a certain conclusions. Who the heck doesn't want minimum wage? But what if I asked you "Should it be against the law for low skilled workers to get jobs?" you would likely say something like "Hell no!", but they are both the same policy but presented through a different lens. If you're only getting your news from left wing sources, then you would almost have to conclude that conservatives are heartless. But if you read from both sides, you might conclude that maybe there should be a minimum wage, but we have to be careful not to exclude too many people at the margins, or find a way to help those at the margins.
>"but today might give me a mental disorder in 20 years" then I'd be much less inclined to participate in the sport.

what if you were paid millions of dollars to do it and treated as a living god? i think a lot of people would still take that deal even knowing the risks.
Is it correct that the betted value doesn't influence any winning chances?

Also, is the last byte of the blockhash function return value guaranteed to be equidistributed?
>It just means you think that people from other countries are less deserving of job opportunities than people from your country.

What's the point of even having a country if citizens aren't prioritized over non-citizens? What's the point of banding together as a nation if you don't engage in policy that helps one another? I don't feel just as entitled to a job in Japan as a Japanese citizen. Do you advocate for one world government or something?
The problem though is the central control of info, WHO says something is a valid and trusting source, WHO determines what people should be lead to, there are several different sides to the same story, some are "right" and others are "right" as well. WHO is right. It would also need to be a decentralized system, otherwise it can be manipulated just like everything else, but then how do you properly agree on things to be trusting.
With that percentage - which is considered the unlikely minimum - there is at least one player developing CTE on the field for every team in the league right now.
I think it means this [1], which is a screenshot from Opera 12 in 2011, but looks pretty much the same as I remember the tab sidebar working in 2004-ish.

I haven't used Opera for a decade, so I don't know if the feature still exists.

[1] http://forums.opera.com/discussion/1866076/tab-stacks-in-sid...
I know this is off topic, but why the heck is it called Dharma? Just a cool sounding eastern word? It's like calling something 'The Gospel' or 'The New Testament' or the 'Quran Protocol'. I get that it's hip for westerners to yank Buddhist words, but this one really pushes my East Asian buttons. It doesn't even semantically make sense--in fact, it's a total antonym in many ways.
This single extension is most of the reason I use FF as my daily driver. Can't live without it anymore. Being able to build out a tree, rearrange the subtrees, close out whole subtrees at once and have history maintained on each tab has ended up being central to my whole browsing flow.
No, what they see is that he looked at x, y and z and didn't buy anything. Why would it nudge the next guy towards z? "Other people who did not convert also did not convert after seeing THIS!"?
I'm wondering if "Convoy" could ever become a trademarked name, since it is so generic.
Just a quick note: competition should not deter you but empower you. Any successful product will bring competition. Your job is to make sure your product is better and sell better than your competition. Giving up is not an option.
Hex runs on 1 small Heroku Dyno? That's amazing.
The dystopian part is that as private corps build up psuedo-private squares it reduces demand by the people for actual public areas. Eventually you just end up with streets and nothing else being public, because the private landowners provide all the "public" pedestrian areas.
The Gard case didn't have anything to do with limited resources. The parents, doctors, and courts were arguing over what was in Charlie's best interest. There was no argument that his care had become too expensive.
No, you're just being obtuse for the sake of making an argument.
Is working from home really more productive?
I think that i'm only as good as i'm right now because i do things like side projects. Or i'm good because i'm someone who is doing side projects, whatever :)
What Fourth-Grade Archaeologists Have Found in Their School's Closet
Kinda cool but it depends on you trusting the central mailer since it does decryption and reencryption.

I suppose if you know about that then it is ok.

The benefit of this approach over the alternative (making people encrypt and sign with a lot of keys) is that once received, the content does not give away the key names of the other mailing list members.
I'm a dinosaur with 20 years in infosec and interested in the same thing. The role of the defender is going to become very interesting very quickly.
Parents, perhaps?

I've seen plenty of articles headlined with something along the line of "should my kid play football?" If you knew your kid would have a 10% chance of developing CTE by playing the sport... well, I would think many parents would pause and reconsider. Certainly I would.

It's still a free country. Football is nowhere near the state of being "banned" or anything close to that. Plenty of other sports with probable worse concussion issues are also popular (see: MMA)

American football's huge prominence merely puts a bigger spotlight on this issue. In my opinion, the most likely outcome is equipment and/or rules changes. American football has changed rules and/or mandated equipment in the name of safety before.
I said nothing about corporations being evil. I'm only talking about wasteful use of resources.

There's nothing socialist implied here either. This is classic welfare economics.
The problem, I think, is that there's aggressive cost-cutting by large players who have experienced teams of EEs working on the projects and are willing to spend a lot on NRE costs if it means they can save pennies on each piece. This does not create a friendly market for self-taught start-up hackers.
Lessons Learned from Benchmarking Fast Machine Learning Algorithms
The inverter is doing all the work - the circuit is essentially a strange shaped buck controller. What it's doing is building up energy in the inductor and dumping it all at once into the LED.

The microcontroller is there as a programmable pulse-width generator. Yes, you can do this with a NE555, at the cost of much more power and more components, and they don't like low duty cycle and are less temperature-stable.

Having put the microcontroller on there, you must also put on its required decoupling capacitors. You might be able to remove them in a situation this simple with a bit more testing.

MOSFET Q1 is required because the peak current is quite high in the inverter, more than 20ma. It also helps to steer the inductor current into the LED rather than the protection diodes of the PIC. Note the LED is "upside down".

MOSFET Q2 and the resistor are a convenience to prevent the circuit being destroyed by inserting the battery the wrong way up.

More at https://hackaday.io/project/11864-tritiled/log/62875-v22-rel...
So I could replace the history search backend, add tab thumbnails and colorized tabs, and add finally working HiDPI support for Firefox on Linux/X11 by parsing QT_SCREEN_SCALE_FACTORS with that?

As long as I can still do that, it should be acceptable. Ideally this would be in the main version, though.
because you can't test the living ones
Looks like Baclofen is a muscle relaxant. That would explain why it's not broadly used.
I have often thought it would be brilliant to have more of an objective source and to have this in the sparsest text format with images optional, all downloadable to your phone each morning in a small archive for browsing during the day. No ads, no ridiculous bandwidth consuming formatting, just the simplest usable hypertext format possible. I also think the media seems to have lost the plot over the last couple of years over Brexit and the US election for example, and there seems to be relentless and unquestioned promotion of certain ideologies over others. Whichever side you are on, I'd hope you would agree that it cannot be healthy to have the media controlled by a group that is overwhelmingly pro one side or the other.

I think there is a desperate need for a news source that communicates the facts, comprehensively in breadth and detail, and in an unbiased way, but I think the chances of us getting this are slim to none. How is a new entrant to discover what is being suppressed by the MSM? If discovered, how will it be gathered if no other organisation is prepared to cover it? How can seeded stories be identified?

I think there are serious problems with the idea. In consolation, I like to think that the general population are far savvier and less susceptible to manipulation than those that would try to manipulate us think. Going back to Brexit and Trump for example, the overwhelming majority of the media seemed to be anti-Brexit and anti-Trump - certainly in the UK the media spoke virtually with one voice warning us about the armageddon that would inescapeably follow a Brexit vote, and yet look what happened. I think the media have burned through people's trust with their bullshit.
Do you have any empirical evidence that H1B is an effective "weapon against high tech salaries" in the income range that Google pays?

I think that whatever is going on in the lower end of the market, there is still a substantial shortage of labor in the higher jobs that cannot be made up domestically anytime soon. Higher end jobs tend to have a much less elastic labor pool because fewer people can do the work.

Whatever the impact is for tech workers, for the general public it is definitely a bad outcome to have perpetual labor shortages at tech companies; it just means that they get their products/features/bug fixes/other improvements more slowly.
SiteLock Extends Web Security Leadership with Acquisition of Patchman
An extraordinary truth? The Ādam “suicide” notes from Bangladesh [pdf]
Well sure, a hardware company isn't going to buy this. Check their pricing page.

http://www.thingsquare.com/start/

This is the Arduino business model-- easy introductory hardware for beginners. An actual hardware company wouldn't buy these for the same reason a router company wouldn't buy Cisco hardware and tape over the logos: there wouldn't be any margin.

I would characterize GGP's argument as more that this isn't unprecedented, and again, sure. Lithium cell-powered electronics have been around for decades, adding wireless isn't new. The point is that thingsquare is supposed to be easy. You buy their kit and press a button. You don't need to buy individual parts, or do assembly, or write glue code, or know what I2C is.

This is a common disease of the engineer's mind. "Why does anybody buy a car new? Just buy one used, and replace parts yourself when they break! Heck, why buy parts, when they're just metal and electronics? It should be easy enough to do your own aluminum casting, and wind your own electric motors." "You fool, you buy aluminum? Bauxite is everywhere! Just smelt it yourself, it's not hard." Etc etc.
< Yes, people committing crimes like buying illegal weapons and drugs ARE criminals.

A crime is a crime only if some authority says that it's a crime. Why should everyone on the Internet be subject to US law (and law of subservient US client states)? There is no law on the Internet except for the raw exercise of skill and power. Consider the NSA, for example. Or the Russians. Or Google and Facebook, for that matter.

There's a revolution going on. Freedom is coming, perhaps. Or failure and subjugation, if the kleptocrats win. Time will tell.
It is much easier to build a business around a product if you start by solving a problem that people are actively searching online about -- rather than building whatever is exciting you at the moment.

For example, what questions are you seeing repeatedly on StackExchange or Quora? If you are a developer, what issues do you see other developers continually asking about?

Could you build a solution to meet that need? If so, marketing that solution to the first 100 users becomes so much easier. It just about answering those questions as they come up.

Suddenly though, you are not building something to satisfy your curiosity but you are building something to satisfy someone else's need. Is that something you want to do?
As is common, Apple uses the term “panic” to describe the OS itself failing. “Crash” is reserved for applications.
Is it robust? I help my mom with genealogy stuff from time to time and the gedcom file we got from some cousins was, let us say, a mess.

I agree it is widely supported.

One thing to watch out for with export is whether you are working with data that doesn't make it into the gedcom file.
OOC - what value "built with React" brings to the thing you have implemented?
Google can't throw you in prison if you make up an identity and use that for all the info you give to sites
Ask HN: Should I quit my job?
Hello

I'm recently out of High School, and I've been programming for most of my life. My current situation is that I need extra money for college.

I recently started working a contract for a friend of a friend. It's paying me $3500, and $100/month through college.

The only issue is, a couple of weeks before this was a sure thing, I started working in a cafe - to make sure I had money in college.

Right now I'm working on both, and it's exhausting. I'm concerned I won't be able to complete the contract to the best of my ability, but the cafe is a small business and it would be shitty to leave. I'm spending most of my evenings stressed and tired, and I'm worried about burnout.

I don't need the money from both, however it would be very helpful. The contract is also pretty great experience, and I'd like something decent on my resume for when I want to find an internship next summer.

What do you recommend? Quit the cafe, or try and stick it until college starts? I'm contractually obliged to give a weeks notice.
Please enlighten us why.
> The really important kind of freedom involves .. being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them over and over in myriad petty, unsexy ways every day.

Are we not reading the same thing? Is this sentence not the crux of the entire message? It seems to me - by the word choice used - that DFW finds sacrifice to be "petty and unsexy" - yet does it to a repetitive extent for the sake of real freedom. I'm making the observation that that also sounds like a type of worship. Maybe it's totally off base, but I don't see why the point is confusing. It's pretty simple actually.
I use docker and docker-compose for sideprojects that don't need zero downtime deploys. Installed on a tiny digital ocean droplet.

A multistage build makes it easy to compile a release on a macOS system and create a minimal alpine docker images with the unpacked .tar.gz release. (My app is an ~84MB docker images)
This sounds great. I'm not sure how it'd work exactly though. They just have a list of everyone's public keys?
Football does have lateral passing, but yes, tactically it is much rarer.
Bitcoin Segregated Witness Activation. What's Next?
Verizon Now Says That Throttling Video Is Totally Cool
How We Implemented View Hierarchy In Instabug
The security argument was convincing.

The battery argument was weak and I'm sure Jobs knew. Video was a significant chunk of flash's use case, but not the only part, and flash was much more battery efficient than HTML5 at all the other stuff it did. Even today you can't do buttery smooth flash-style animations in javascript without some major hacks (like using webgl). Even simple effects like full-screen fade-in that flash could handle on a pentium can't be done smoothly at all in CSS.
It seems to me that the solution is not to ban advertisement but only certain kinds of them such as ones containing strong emotional (Ads guilting people into buying insurance) or aspirational content (won't you look so cool if you lived 'The Marlboro Life')