skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very nice! I actually read the FAST '17 paper a while back.

I'm curious if HopsFS has any support for partition-pruned secondary index scans? (If not, is it on the roadmap?) I feel like the lack of it in many current big-data systems is a major bottleneck to adoption for many kinds of workloads.
To be completely honest, as someone in medical school right now you definitely don't "need" the structure and materials that medical school lecturers and courses provide for those first two years. I however needed the structure and did not have the work ethic to do it on my own. Additionally the next two years of clinical learning most definitely require you to be at the hospital.
The first person who starts a SnapChat and Patreon for a famous working animal, and uses it to defend their legal right to minimum wage and some degree of autonomy will change the world, regardless of the outcome of the case.

The first egg farm that pays the chickens a wage, and lets them choose between different "jobs" will make a huge splash. Once consensual animal products enter the free market, there will be a fascinating forcing function on animal welfare, possibly leading to legal personhood for some animals.
Allam cycle power plants. I love the idea of turbines that continue to burn in the middle of a giant fire extinguisher.
Just open any TTF or OTF up in FontForge (free software) and have a look!

Look under Element » Font Info, and then Lookups. All tables under GSUB deal with glyph substitution. The liga table is the simplest, and it can be used to replace a ligature like 'fl' with a glyph that combines the two letter forms.
Which of the two outcomes do you prefer to happen:

1. True malware creator and seller is sent to prison.

2. True malware creator and seller is not sent to prison.

Whether he pleads guilty or not has nothing to do with him being a security researcher. I'd much rather have more false positives than false negatives. You, and the rest of Europe, would too.
You lol. I took that as incredulity.

Is there such thing as a perfectly competitive market irl?

There's a canonical example used by the Mises Institute -- water after a hurricane. I watch a lecture half a decade ago. I don't have perfect information. Far from it. It was convincing. A stripped down model which made gouging look ridiculous. I think it's debatable.
"Please don't insinuate that someone hasn't read an article. "Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can be shortened to "The article mentions that.""
Ask HN: Handling Pathologically Nervous Interviewees
We've been interviewing for an embedded SW position for a few weeks. Our interview process includes a code review of code written by the candidate as homework. All candidates exhibit some degree of nervousness during the review, however, there have been a couple who virtually shut down and basically stopped being able to think. In one-on-one discussions, these same engineers were more or less fine and expressed a high level of competence. But the code reviews were just really painful: Stuttering, perspiring, unable to process even rudimentary responses to questions that you know they know the answer to...

Have you had this experience and if so, were you able to mitigate it and if so, how?
Debugging ReactJS applications
Up until relatively recently, there was an iOS tweak (if you were jailbroken) that would inject status signifiers into your Delta/United/America/Airline app. Or something. Via the "Flex" jailbreak app, you could tweak and change all sorts of flags in your current apps – e.g. "Infinite Skips" in Pandora, or "Remove banner ads" in Candy Crush – and one of the most widely abused one was a tweak that would put, say, "Diamond Status" on your device's boarding pass.

I don't know if this got you into lounges, but users reported it did at least get them into expedited security lines.
If disassembly will cause the company more harm than benefit (e.g. consequences of inept repair attempts, or even just idle curiosity), it makes sense for them to put up a toekn barrier of some kind.

I think that as far as the actual repairability of Apple devices goes, focusing on the screws is bikeshedding. The screws are trivial to get around. Why not talk about the glued-together, soldered-on parts instead? Those seem like much bigger issues to me.
Yes, and am I correct in assuming that once the transactions.txt is copied to transactions2.txt, they are same only till that point of time (or block), and can have totally independent and different entries from that point onwards?

If copy was made at block 55, 55th block is same in both branches. 56th and such blocks can be totally different. Imagine it like a literal branch of tree. Both branches share the same trunk, but are unique once seperated into unique branches.
> Historically, Lisp programmers weren't the biggest proponents of OOP

Yes, this is totally misleading... Lisp had OOP before Common Lisp existed, for example the Flavors OOP system through the '70s. This, of course, is before C++ was even a thought in the mind of Bjarne Strostroup.

Also, interesting fact: Common Lisp was the first Object-Oriented language to get an ANSI standard.
3.9 and 4.1 are actually based on the real Amiga sources AFAIK.
Just curious -- what other MPP engines are you currently considering, and what are the criteria?
What about someone who manufactures guns and knowingly sells them to street gangs without registering them? That's closer to what Hutchins is alleged to have done.
I've been interested in learning WebGL but have been hesitant to take the time to learn it because it didn't seem like a skill companies would hire for. Do you think it will become a marketable skill in the future?
I have no sympathy for him as he appears to have lied to his investors and moved money around, which seems to be outside the law.

Raising the price of a drug though, as long as he can get away with it, is no crime, no matter how big the increase.

This makes me question though, did he raise the price of Daraprim so he could return money to the investors of his hedge fund?? If so, his entire defense (from his videos) of raising the price to meet his fiduciary duties to Turing's investors falls flat.
I create video training courses on tech topics and one of the metrics I use to determine "is this performing well?" is the completion rate of the courses and individual videos.

I started taking communication and story telling pretty seriously about 9 months ago and the data on my 2 latest courses (where I tried to create a cohesive narrative of the content) shows the completion rate being quite a bit higher than my older courses.

Are there other things at play? Maybe, but I'm 100% convinced it takes more than "raw programming talent" to be a good programmer in general.

When it comes to designing library code or public APIs, I would rather use code written by someone with 5 years of writing / story telling experience and 2 years of coding experience vs someone with 10 years of coding experience but can't communicate well at all.

Chances are the 2nd person wouldn't be able to see the "big picture" stuff when it comes to designing APIs, and when it comes to API design, the big picture is the most important thing. The implementation details of each function is the easy stuff (since you're a Google search away from solving most technical problems).

There's also many other factors that matter besides your code. For instance, if I can't even find your project, or your documentation is lack luster then it doesn't matter if you wrote the most elegant code in the universe, I'm not going to use it.
I love my S2, but I have a hard time seeing why I should pay the cell phone company $120/yr to connect my watch.

I don't go without my phone and I don't think this would change that. For people who want to run and listen to Spotify in sure this is great.

But that stupid cell company fee will keep me away. Just like it keeps me off cellular iPads.
We were excited about VRML in the 90s...
> We'll be deciding that for future generations.

Isn't the premise that they can decide for themselves?
> Dumping that into your battery without wrecking it is much, much harder

Use capacitors?
The UK government doesn't collect the BBC license fee.
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Sure, but you can't disassemble a tennis ball without destroying it.

The ability to disassemble something has nothing to do with its durability.
I love my S2, but I have a hard time seeing why I should pay the cell phone company $120/yr to connect my watch.
I don't go without my phone and I don't think this would change that.

For people who want to run and listen to Spotify this may be great.

But that stupid cell company fee will keep me away. Just like it keeps me off cellular iPads.
It will be interesting to see the sentence. He definitely seems to disagree with you: https://twitter.com/SamTheManTP/status/893552820548403201

Q: How much time do you likely face?

Shkreli: Uh I'm guessing none on the short side 6 months long side
Crystal & Julia 1.0. Crystal because it's a blazing fast, compiled and statically typed version of Ruby (or 80% anyway), and it's web server is awesome. Now it just needs full concurrency.

Julia because it offers a nice, performant alternative to Python & R in data science, while avoiding Java & C++. It has some really nice features like multiple dispatch and the ability to run R, Python, Fortran and C code inside of it, so you can use libraries like Numpy in Julia.
>He wasn't convicted because he was an asshole. He was convicted because he broke the law.

Well, yes and no. They only bothered looking for his other crimes and prosecuting his because he became unpopular. That's disturbing.

What if I'm the victim of financial crimes by someone who didn't piss of Congress and the public? Where's my justice?
Your comment makes no sense. Of course it will allow you to use multiple languages. That's the point! Like how you can implement any language using assembly.
This problem was that the fraud wasn't big enough that he had powerful enough people in his pocket.

If you owe the bank $1 million, the bank owns you. If you owe the bank $1 billion, you own the bank.

They only convict the Martin Shkreli's and the Martha Stewart's. The people with real money are completely safe.
I can open 1-2GB files with Sublime. I can't with Notepad++

But most of the time I use Notepad++ for quick notes, dumping clipboard contents, parse logs, ... Pretty much everything except coding (I only do small scripts and the odd tiny utility).
The upper part of the door in the background doesn't fit to the lower part.

Addendum: I was wrong with my accusation.
Yes, and that complaint is specific to Unity's current GC. They will update it eventually, and it will no longer suck.

Does the GC in Unreal-mono have the same problems? If not, it's a non-issue.
I doubt the type of bug will matter unless people need license to sell trojans by law.
His argument was that juries prevent "arbitrary court system to throw people in jail who are innocent and removes other protections like jury nullification". There is nothing observable that would confirm that.

They don't do that, they prevent pretty much nothing.
Yes, but business tickets often are 100% refundable
Actually no, the internet is just where many people realize that the things they think are OK sometimes aren't, because on the internet they're telling the whole world what sketchy stuff they do, instead of just their buddies that they do sketchy stuff with. You're much more likely to interact with people you wouldn't normally cross paths with on the internet, and the audience is much wider.

Tangentially, I really hate buying good seats and getting to a show to find some cheapo sitting in them because they're proactively hoping no one shows up. If you want good seats, buy good seats. Lots of people in the real world feel that way, and respecting other people's wishes (even, and especially, when you think it's unreasonable and can't relate) is a basic part of being a grownup.
New Bounties for McCLIM (Common Lisp Interface Manager)
My own!

Should I ask HN to help with the beta test?
>There is a reason he's known as the "most hated man in America".

Because that title sells clicks, much like every other piece of hyperbolic clickbait spewed onto the internet these days?

If he truly is the most hated man in America, by fact, then it's simply further proof that Americans, as a collective entity, are willingly at the highest extremes of ignorance.
Solid. And you feel like you still learn a lot? I've run into the same issue. Where the papers are super interesting, but I can't spend 2 hours per day reading them.
Some cellular companies allow you to get multiple SIMs, specifically for this purpose.

Maybe it isn't an option in your area, but a lot of people do have the option.
OMG WHAT DID I CATCH?
But "It's a Unix system" ... and Unix did have log-on passwords. That said, what's on screen in that movie actually was a Unix system.

* https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/9745/
WannaCry Researcher's Arrest: Is it a crime to create and sell malware?
I have two HomeKit temperature sensors, and a humidity sensor from the Ecobee thermostat I have (we have central heater, but not central AC).

But you can just pick up a standalone sensor like: https://www.apple.com/shop/product/HL232LL/A/ihome-control-i...

For the two dumb window AC units, I plugged them into a HomeKit smart plug like: https://www.apple.com/shop/product/HKEH2VC/A/elgato-eve-ener...
With that plug you also get actual energy use and cost in real-time/historical as well.

Since they are all HomeKit all that sensor and state data is shared with all other HomeKit devices. So I created a HomeKit Automation that triggers the start of the window A/C units when temp triggers a certain threshold and during a certain time of day. Similar trigger to turn the AC off.

I found this HomeKit app to offer much more fine grained automation rules: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/home-smart-home-automation/i...
Not that I think OJ is innocent, but that can't be treated as a "data point"; based on public record he did not murder anyone.
Correct me if I'm wrong... I thought this particular court case had very little to do with the pharmaceutical industry. Also, that's a bit of a stretch. It's not like the government has a 'white collar crime prosecutions quota', and the general public doesn't overlook wrongdoing if similar crimes have been prosecuted recently.
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The real key to weight loss is a non-insulin-stimulating diet in conjunction with strength and cardiovascular exercise. Even with minimal exercise I lost 7 kg since March. My weight loss hits a plateau when I am not exercising. It is essential to move your ass or lift things if you want more gains. Weight loss is not practical without some exercise.

A lot of Westerners are rediscovering amazing gains from the ketogenic diet, a low-carb diet. Foods with a very high glycemic index are the most commonly available foods in the Western world. These foods are largely responsible for health problems in the Western world. One has to go out of his/her way to avoid foods with a high glycemic index whereas it should be the default.
No doubt they would. Just like some people will base jump and put magnets under their skin.
It's been years

Question: can a member bring in a guest?

I assume yes as my spouse accompanied me.

So? Why not create a way (app) to have members already in the lounge come and let in their "guest/SO"?

"Im available / not available for "guesting" flag
maybe all homeophaths :)
People are competing in the Amazon Picking Challenge too! But the picking prize is just $50,000. If it were $1,000,000 like the Netflix prize I'm sure there would be more competition.
His advice reminds me a lot of things Mr Berkham has to say over at leangains.com. IF, multivitamin, fish oil, cutting/bulking phases - those are not all things exclusive to advice given by Berkham, but it's a quite similar subset.

Here's a post from another software developer having similarly spectacular success: http://merowing.info/2014/02/fit-geek/

I lost ~20kg myself by following Leangains loosely over a period of 18 months, but in the end I seem to have worn out something in my endocrine/metabolic system, from which I've been slowly recovering for most of last year (having regained a lot of the weight and suffering from fatigue). So.. just be careful, your body might not like rapid weightloss, everybody is different.

Ah and one tip: If you cannot lose weight even if you try really really hard, inflammation might be the culprit. Lots of fish oil, grape seed extract, magnesium etc should improve this a lot, and as a side effect might also save you from having a heart attack or cancer in your 50s. DHA (eg from fish oil) has a lot to do with mitochondrial function in the body, thus affecting all organs and energy production.
The criminality is putting a program on the internet which you know is full of security holes.

It's not legal for me to set up a shop selling known faulty electronics, or even give them away for free unless I make clear I know they are faulty. I wonder if this should be extended to tech.

I'm not saying they have to take the code down entirely, but they could pop a big warning on the download page at least. They are knowingly having thousands of downloads a day of software they have known is dangerously broken for over a year.
Wouldn't a simple mitigation be to limit the number of recipients allowed in the 'to' and 'cc' fields? 'Bcc' can be used for the mega mailouts. That way, a user hitting reply-all sends to a much more limited set of addresses.
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Sounds like a good answer to "When have you most successfully hacked some (non-computer) system to your advantage?"
No theoretical reason, if manufacturers thought there was a market for the larger devices that repairability would imply.
Just be aware of the caveats of the IRC gateway - it's somewhat frusrating trying to use both it and the web UI at the same time since messages read on IRC aren't marked as read immediately (it's the nature of the medium). There are also plenty of reports of messages on the web UI just not appearing at all on IRC, or vice versa (depending on the origin of the message).

So it can certainly hold you over, but just beware.
The concurrent GC in the latest .Net still requires pausing (though the time is less), because the heap still requires compacting, and no code can run while that operation happens.

Invoking the GC constantly on a frame by frame basis can quickly lead to heap fragmentation, resulting in pausing, because that is considered 'working against' the GC (both stop the world and concurrent). This is where custom solutions, such as pooling, should be used to mitigate these issues.
And still, the net promoter score for lenovo is 23 while for apple it is 88.
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It's almost every country these days, see e.g. https://www.amazon.com/Three-Felonies-Day-Target-Innocent/dp... - which has a slightly clickbaity title, but worrying content.

But it seems Shkreli's transgressions are not of the "three felonies before breakfast" variety, but rather things that are indeed often prosecuted (though, it should be noted, as everyone wronged was made whole, it is likely that he would not have been prosecuted if he had not been in the media spotlight as a villain; other remarks here mentioned that the founding of Fedex had a similar fraud committed, for example).
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It's a combination of things. Many (most?) of the people want to be there and are passionate about what they're doing. Financially it's still a great job by normal standards and once you have tenure (I think they may call it something else) it's an extremely secure job.

I have a friend who works there - brilliant guy who went to school for physics but is also very talented at low level embedded systems type development. When he graduated with a physics masters he turned down a six figure offer to start at NASA at around $60k. From what he's told me though, he's essentially guaranteed to hit the six figure mark within 6-8 years. Last time we spoke he had just started his PhD (paid by NASA) and was working on the Mars 2020 rover.
ARKit.

Apple has solved few real world AR problems, which were usually hard for an average app developer to get started with. But with ARKit, apple, is "trying" to do the heavy lifting in terms of plane and object recognition etc.

Another thing is the platform of distribution. People will use AR apps, which will hit the app store after September like crazy. And these same people, will be primary audience for Apple headset.

It's like, before releasing headset, Apple is proving people that you really need a headset to overcome the pain of "continuously" moving your phone in the space.

Also, other OS and vendors will follow the trend and release AR compatible phones/hardware early. The only potential pitfall, I see is, battery usage. If it's properly optimised, I think a large AR wave on smartphones is about to hit.

Just my 2 cents!
to us as well! We couldn't access our own bank account but would be able to access random ones. We could download some sensitive user data
hand over the wutang
That is awesome! Can't wait to see this stuff get released.
Honestly, aren't you underestimating your own intelligence?

Plenty of things can be simplified for non professionals, but the nuance of certain topics is then often lost. A single word in a written law can matter a lot.

No disrespect to anyone, but can an average career teacher understand the nuances of securities law? Can (s)he understand the actual difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion? Some can, absolutely. Others definitely can't and are operating way out of their league.

Lawyers and prosecutors are great at creating stories, but isn't what matters or not whether the law has been broken?

As an example; I had a tax issue (different interpretation of a certain law) but retained an amazing tax lawyer. He was _great_. The way they juggle the story around without lying, yet drawing the line very close, is amazing. Based on personal experience, I just don't think it can work without subject experts.

Amazing charismatic lawyers (or prosecutors) will be able to bend an outcome, and that is just not right.
There is the possibility of editing the germline so that all future generations will have the improvement.

Now imagine parents deciding this for their future kids, grandkids, etc.
Well, the difference is still there. You can switch to a different social network without too much difficulty (you miss out on that platform, but that's as far as the cost goes); You can't just declare yourself as part of a different country without actually up and moving there, changing your job, getting the new place, and rebuilding most of your connections, and potentially learn a new language depending on where you move.
Don't they transport you and your luggage safely through the air at high speed for a sum of money that you agreed to pay? Where is exploitation coming from?
Please read his indictment application, there is clearly a reason why he was arrested. If 'researchers" are allegedly selling malware then yes they should worry. Simple
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Not to mention that their "questioning" was not even questioning, but instead exactly what you say - grandstanding. They basically unloaded uninformed rants on him while he was forced to sit there.