skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It seems silly now that they'd see WP as a threat at all

It seems silly now partly because they fought it back then. Microsoft had their fare share of blunders, but they would have likely done better if Google did not act -- possibly much better.

> MS released a great yt app for about a week and google changed the T&CS of their API and issued a take down (or maybe even blocked the app) because MS was suddenly in violation, even though their own ios and android apps also were.

That's not what happened. MS's app was always in violation of Google's terms of service, and google indeed blocked them -- but there was no "sudden" violation. MS was using the same API that Google was, except it wasn't a public one -- and MS did not display ads on that app, a condition that Google actively enforced on every 3rd party YT app.

Yes, Google's iOS and Android apps used Google's non-public API, and the iOS app at the time did not display ads (the android one did). So? I do not know what kind of agreement Apple and Google had in place at the time, not was one made public -- it is possible that Apple paid for the no-ad experience, and it is possible that Google forgo iOS ad revenue in return for access to iOS users. Whatever - Microsoft was in no position to demand favorable treatment with respect to YouTube, but they gave it to themselves anyway (and suffered Google's hand as a result). Google never was under an obligation to give all 3rd parties the same API they use themselves.

One should also note that the website version of YouTube was perfectly serviceable on iPhones and Androids at the time, but was horrible on Windows Phone because the MS browser was not implementing neither standards or de-facto standards at the time; if MS invested in a reasonable moble browser (or allowed 3rd party ones), their users would likely have had a reasonable YouTube experience.

Another thing that happened more or less at the same time, which I am sure is intimately related: Microsoft asserted patents to make Google pay to make Exchange protocol available on gmail accounts, and threatening Android manufacturers left and right on infringements. Then, more or less a week after Windows Phone came out, an capitalized on the Exchange protocol (everything else wasn't as well implemented or executed -- but who cares, Gmail, Exchange and outlook supported it), Google announced that "due to Microsoft's licensing fees, users of the free tier of Gmail will no longer get Exchange protocol on a new device" -- meaning that no Windows Phone user could get a proper gmail experience on their phone. Microsoft immediately replied with "no no no, please, have it free for all users", but Google did not change their stance.

Microsoft made the bed, completely on their own.
somebody still using this outdated pos?
can they kill pdf too?
I use Insteon. About 100 devices. Plugs, light switches, HVAC, leak sensors, motion sensors, cameras. Their support sucks when you have to deal with them and the programming of this then that is nowhere to be found. On the other hand I have had to deal with support twice and after pulling their heads from the ass they fixed the issues. Otherwise it pretty much just works and works as scale. These guys started with the X10 stuff in the 80s and are not going anywhere. So if you want something that will just work it is the best bet. They have a hub with HomeKit integration but I am not using it as they do not support some of the older door sensors with it yet.
For some context, it appears that the minimum salary in 2007 was $275k/year nominally ($325k/year inflation-adjusted) for rookies, increasing by $75k/year each year until the fifth.

My research suggests that the minimum salary first hit $50k/year nominally in 1988 (which is $100k/year inflation-adjusted). The minimum salary has always been at least $60k/year inflation-adjusted since the first collective bargaining agreement in 1968.
Quite true...and I think my point largely concurs with yours, in that it is the scholastic content, instead of the administrative formalities, that should be valued...

I am not complaining about the giants are dead; I am complaining that the spirit of pursuing something truly great in academia seems to be fading out -- but of course, different people are most likely to see the world differently. Perhaps you still can enjoy that great atmosphere of pursuing truth rather than profits, which I feel really really glad to see and it helps me to restore some faith...It is just that perhaps these days I have seen a lot of dark lunatic side of academia that makes me feel pessimistic...
Please follow your bliss... if it's in the Bay, I know people will go. One thing... use Mu-metal and RF-impedance matched materials! They'll work a lot better than a Faraday cage.
> The validators are known, so any risk of a 51% attack arising from some miner collusion in China does not apply.

That's just wrong. Dangerously so. Maybe I'm just missing something in his protocol spec and he didn't really mean mining...

I've discussed this attack vector in more depth here[1]. Even if you made the mining function signing the block with your sk it'd still be wrong. Even if you forced the sk holder to have that same sk protect something really valuable, it would still be wrong... just have a larger disincentivize.

The whole point of mining is that it's non-auditable (w.r.t. who is physically mining) -- the only real metric you get is the speed of success which you can always mask by not releasing a block immediately. That's why PoW is a cockroach of a consensus protocol.

In the "we roll a dice to see who gets to append to the ledger next" metaphor for consensus, deterministic and PoS both require you to know the number of sides the dice have before you roll them. In PoW, you don't figure out the number of sides until after.

[1]: http://kadena.io/blog/MiningInPrivate.html
Careful with that kind if talk here. In this kind of social political climate logic does not always prevail. Just go look at some past HN threads regarding sexual harassment.

The sheer number of people who react emotionally to allegations of sexual harassment is truly astounding. All rationality goes out the window with men throwing themselves over each other to proclaim "I BELIEVE YOU" instead of asking for the least bit of corroborating evidence.
Odds are high that GP's router is configured to give out addresses sequentially, with a fairly short lease and the wireless ap is configured to disallow communication between wireless hosts.
I'm thinking the odds they'll change the configuration vs yell about apple devices aren't so high.
Is it possible to pump your product thinking like muscles?
ahem.

Visual Studio Code.
Web Core Fonts.

"ever" is a strong word.
* reads wiki, dissapointed

anyway, favorite quote

They would work side by side. Betty looked up references, took down Claude’s thoughts and, importantly, edited his written work. She offered her improvements and added historical references. As Betty put it, “Some of his early papers and even later papers are in my handwriting...and not in his, which confused people at first.” And not just his papers: Betty was a full partner in the gadgeteering, too. In fact, it was Betty—not Claude—who completed the wiring for Theseus the mouse.
As far as I can see from observing the market, the expectation that literally any token will rise in price is evidenced in the market. If you doubt this just go to https://coinmarketcap.com/all/views/all/ which lists over 1000 different tokens, the first 300 of which have a market cap of over one million USD (e.g. HTMLCOIN). In other words, tokens do tend to increase in price after their launch, but only because people expect that their price will increase after launch. It's like the housing market in 2005, except the investment sums are relatively minuscule. It's a self-fulfilling prophecy, for the time being, and the issuers have nothing to lose. Only the buyers risk a loss.
Note this has been a problem as long as Wikipedia existed though.
Arcade emulators emulate the arcade hardware itself, not any bytecode which the arcade games may be written in (such as the TI-99/4's GPL [1]). For preservation purposes, it is likely that Flash is preserved likewise (by emulating the PC platform, rather than Flash bytecode). This is the easiest way to ensure exact reproduction of the original execution.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Instruments_TI-99/4A#VDP...
Pharo 6.1 released
> the idea that more is always better is the common misperception that i'm addressing

It's not a misperception in the case of machine learning. The system can easily discard data that isn't useful at a given point in time. When it is determined to be useful, it's great to have it there.

I'd suggest trying out some machine learning yourself to get a good understanding of why more data is better. Tutorials for Kaggle's Titanic competition can be a good primer.

> if you've ever tried to design a system with multiple, sometimes conflicting inputs, complexity is a real cost to think about (not to mention financial cost).

Not when the system is using machine learning, particularly neural networks.

All the self driving car systems are using deep convolutional NNs, so the complexity of more data is helpful, not a hindrance.

> machine learning is cool, but it's not a panacea. there are plenty of meticulously trained AI's that fail comically in novel situations (like the example in the original article)

The failure in the article was due to lack of diverse sensor input, not because the system was built using machine learning.

You're right that machine learning isn't a panacea. The limits aren't well defined. Still, in the case of self driving cars, deep learning is state of the art. Nobody is hand-coding rules for how to drive the car. It's all about having as much good data as you can gather.
Yeah, and also a huge damage to the lives of the people falsely accused of sexual assault, like Brian Banks (5 years in jail), Lawrence McKinney (31 years in jail) and many others who will never get their time back.
Blogger made up story of sexual harassment, say lawyers of San Jose CEO
Hobby developers (which were the vast majority of apps int the first days of the ios app store) were most definitely deterred. That was Windows 8, not even 8.1, which was a complete joke of an operating system.

The first wave of ios apps came from Mac developers; then people started buying macs to build ios apps. The first wave of WP apps didn't come .... because there were very few people who could build an app on their existing dev environment (win8 uptake among developers was abysmal).

Furthermore, the first ios wave actually came from the homebrew scene, which organically grew and produced ios apps even before Apple provided an SDK; There was never such enthusiasm for MS to build on. The WP8 requirement was just adding insult to injury.
Completely agree. Rape will land you jail for a long time (as it should) but rape hoaxing has almost no consequences.
The LightGBM implementation on GPU is based on this paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.08359 they use several smart techniques to make the computation faster. One is how they create histograms of features that are computed in parallel in the GPU
Yes, but did those users have 1,600 tabs open? That seems to be the use case Firefox is going all in on lately.
I think this is a special case of Gresham's law that bad currency drives out good. The problem is information asymmetry. You may be trying to buy SEC securities, but if they are swamped with fakes, it causes huge friction costs to figure out whether to transact and that hurts the market. Only experts (accredited investors?) have the resources to play.
Cost and selection aside,the no-way-out store layout (forcing you to traverse the entire floorplan) drove me away.
> bonus coffee over my screen

Why did you pour coffee on your screen? That's really quite strange behaviour.
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> But I'm sure sucking all our brightest minds into Google and Wall Street we'll innovate our way past global warming no bother.

No, we're only sucking the brightest of the "path of least resistance" minds into Google and Wall Street. Plenty bright minds to go about, and many have ideas of their own.
This is nice, but kind of useless when waking up from deeper sleep states, which prevent the password dialog from receiving keystrokes for a good five seconds anyway (despite teasing a blinking cursor).
:-) same here. Those are the few rules I shut off. TsLint really shines in static analysis.
It just did a few years ago.

So, yes.

It's easy to see why poor decisions repeat cyclically.
It's Paula's in Capitola (Santa Cruz).
I don't know how many people don't enter because they can't control themselves. They are usually very busy, sometimes line out the door, so it doesn't seem to hurt business very much. But I suppose the food is good so they have the luxury to set the rules.
> I'd like to tie your comment to an article that was linked to here the other day. It was to a paper by the economist Paul Romer on `mathiness'[0]. It is interesting to me that the standard bearers for progress and achievement (you and others select) are either mathematicians and/or physicists. Why physicists over any other natural scientist? Perhaps because physics is math-heavy and reliant on mathematical domain models to an extent that other fields and disciplines are not.

Sorry...no offense to other fields...actually, I myself really don't think there is a definite separation in many fields that are administratively regarded as different...I personally feel that essentially they are all languages, using their different description systems to rationally describe the world as it is observed by them and then to make predictions...

most of my study background has been in computer science -- although I really do not think there are much difference that makes it so distinguishable from math or physics...and actually, sometimes I could not tell the difference between math and physics...I feel they are merely terms (or identifiers) used to refer certain things; and as I already mentioned that quite often we do not need to manually put boundaries on those certain things, the differentiability of the different terms then does not really matter here...

and if you like, we could call it study (or X) in general,or any other name would do, as long as it does not generate too much ambiguity...

> I would place Brouwer ahead of Hilbert, and I wonder how one can speak of Turing and Gödel but not of Church and Russell.

Yes, I was thinking of Church and Russell (and I really enjoy his non-math writing too) while I was writing those words...but then I felt that I would have to trace back to Georg Cantor -- and then I realized that I just need a few examples to make my points, instead of enumerating all the smart guys that I heard about (and many I even haven't heard about due to my insularity as human)...so I have to find a place to take a break...

> Did not know about about the age of the 25-page PhD thesis containing only 2 references (a slight exaggeration?) though. That is indeed a loss.

I did not know that either...I was looking for a 3-page PhD thesis, but did not find one (-- and also did not want to spend too much time on that)...then I came across John Nash's thesis -- so the act of ranting and complaining turned out to be a good learning experience as well...
Every place has this feature already if you're on T-Mobile.
Without reading the OP, all we knew about the alleged victim is they are an anonymous blogger making claims of sexual harassment against Uzzaman.

Having read the OP, we now have actual evidence submitted to a court of law, in the form of Comcast resolving the IP of the "anonymous blogger" to the home of Brandon Katayama Hill, a business rival of Uzzaman's.

I'm not sure what doubt is left to give to the "anonymous blogger" -- unless you are thinking either the evidence submitted to the court is fabricated (a felony) or somehow an actual anonymous woman who was harassed by Uzzaman just happened to blog about it from Hill's IP address?!

The victim in this case is Uzzaman.

Moral of the story -- be highly suspicious of anything claimed by anonymous bloggers (or, by the way, anonymous sources).
This is a great starter list, and I agree with most. A multimeter with an audible continuity checker is an absolute must. It gets used more than any other tool. For bonus point, get a multimeter that can take a thermocouple probe. Not a necessity, but very nice when you need it.

I disagree about home made pcbs. Its just too much fuss and mess, and there are a lot of places that can give you cheap 4 or 5 day boards in small Quantities. AP Circuits usually is a good deal for my hobby stuff, but I always price out others, too.

One word for PCB beginners: DO NOT obsess over making every board perfect. It wont be. For one-off hobby quantites an x-acto knife and some wire will fix most basic mistakes in a few minutes. PCB design is like golf, low scores are better, holes in one are rare. Too often beginners fear fabbing a board because they think it is cast in stone. Mistakes just arent that costly at low volume.
Pretty good, I'm really happy to see the added focus on Ethereum here :-)

Since you are building a private network, you may also add a small script so your nodes only mine on demand (i.e., when there are new transactions) which will reduce the power usage on your machine and avoids having the difficulty increase too quickly.

Save the script below as mine.js (for instance) and then in your geth startup command, include it as `geth --networkid <your_networ_id> ...other params... js ./mine.js`

`var mining_threads = 1

function checkWork() {
if (eth.pendingTransactions.length > 0) {
if (eth.mining) return;
console.log("== Pending transactions! Mining...");
miner.start(mining_threads);
} else {
miner.stop();
console.log("== No transactions! Mining stopped.");
}
}

eth.filter("latest", function(err, block) { checkWork(); });
eth.filter("pending", function(err, block) { checkWork(); });

checkWork();`

I picked up this "trick" from Embark framework (https://github.com/iurimatias/embark-framework)
> EBS volumes are lazy loaded

TIL, that probably explains other weird performance issues I've seen.

further info: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/ebs-initi...
Nanocore Coder Pleads Guilty to Aiding and Abetting Hackers
Yes, it was initially forked from an internal boosted trees library from Microsoft. The guys who created it are Microsoft Research Asia
Why not use an ephemeral volumes for the docker data. This is a CI system, so the docker images are all transient anyways. Seems like an easy way to avoid the I/O credits.
That probably doesn't even begin to scratch the surface of the sneakiness that goes on.
No here is the actual quote:

> connect girls to favorite science topics like video game development
I also imagine that people's behaviour would be very different if actual sexual harassment carried a twenty-year jail sentence.

It doesn't, though. Those cases are all civil.
A nice project, but I didn't find the license for the source code. As without one no-one can really legally use parts of it for anything that can become serious.

Of course it might be that I have missed it or it is hidden somewhere. I hope it really exists somewhere in the repository, but I didn't find it. I might be too tired to find it and someone else has better luck.
Haha, that video is pathetic.

https://youtu.be/Z8zNsUTWsOc
Let's suppose that false rape accusations are a wide-spread problem. They aren't, they are far rarer then actual cases of rape, but let's suppose that they are.

How exactly do you propose to deal with them, without a chilling effect on reporting real rapes? It is a crime that is notoriously hard to convict, to the point where most victims keep silent.
I beg to pardon but I highly doubt that the level they will practice at is ever going to touch upon any advanced topic you suggest, and not all games run in 3D either. Science is about observation and deriving insights and rules from what you see, video games is largely more of an engineering problem that typical science/exploration.
I still don't understand why don't adobe open source the flash player, so that security team and browser teams can look into it and maintain a secure runtime.
It's open source, so it can be developed at any point. I have not looked at it recently, though.
Oh, you mean the Amazon searches that were disabled with one click? Win10 goes WAY beyond that. And Linux != Ubuntu as far as I know. Nice strawman.
Are you a lawyer? Because this sounds like fantasy.
How to Add Pull to Make Soup Animation in Android?
I am an extremely casual FreeBSD user. I also happen to be an obsessive compulsive software updater conditioned to systems restarting and coming back after a few minutes. So this hanging thing had me completely baffled. It was also my first time ever looking at the Digital Ocean console.
Why do accusations result in people automatically being labeled as "guilty" anyway?
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What came before Visicalc? My understanding was prior to that there were only custom build "finance" applications which were rather inflexible.
I've tried it. It didn't work.

Or well it did, but so poorly that it's not worth the hassle. This was a couple a years ago tho
So it can only play a handful of the most popular formats and it requires a metric ton of dependencies. Why are you not using ffmpeg? It can handle decoding, encoding, streaming, tagging, filtering and output without any external libraries.
I made a similar tracker, let me know what you think, and what additional features you think would be helpful for someone that is interested in lowering their caffeine consumption like yourself.

https://s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/cucuso/caffeine-tracker/i...
I have a copy of this book. My favorite bias from it is Mirror Imaging which I've never really seen covered anywhere else.
Good point, but they may be caching or storing results on the volume
Yeah, they're basically industrial-scale defamation without recourse, trial, or evidence. From a game-theoretic perspective, you would be wrong not to take advantage of it to burn your competitors.

If it hasn't dawned on you, this is a political strategy, not a tool for the downtrodden. I have quite literally heard people talking about these things as "the way we'll close the gender participation gap", as in, they'll burn men's careers until things equal out. As stupid as this sounds, the fact that people are thinking it is alarming.
Cool, but, as for your example, I didn't recognize those sounds as music and for a moment thought I couldn't play ogg after all. Try instead https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Mozart_-_Eine_kleine_Nach...
Got one thing to say.

I - I've

B - Been

M - Molested
Payment channels alone are only a good solution if you consider it acceptable to establish a payment channel with everyone you want to pay. So, in other words, it only makes sense for recurring payments to the same merchant, and you pay the blockchain fee once for each merchant you want to pay. Consequently, if you only pay once you pay the same fee as an on-chain transaction, and if you pay 1000 times you pay, in average, 1000th the blockchain fee per payment.
hmmm is this story legitimate or fake news?

Something seems off to me here
Speaking as someone with no legal specialization at all, I would assume it would only be for those cases where it could be proven that the false accusation was premeditated?
Yes, I am a lawyer. Succesful defamation lawsuits usually get multi-million dollar damage awards, most recent case was the Hulk Hogan case against Gawker where 100 million+ damages were awarded and Gawker filed for bankruptcy. Insurance doesn't usually cover liability due to defamatory behavior and in any case, it is rare for individuals to hold such policies.

Now I am not familiar with the US or Japenese Criminal Code but there must be something that criminalizes such behavior, but prosecution is at the discretion of the DA (or in this case where the incident crosses international borders even the US Attorney could prosecute)