skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Meh. The site's up again already on a .ru domain https://dailystormer.ru/a-tale-of-true-friendship-trump-call...

It's not being censored, it's just reputable companies don't want to deal with them. Fair enough I say.
An analysis of Chubby Checker's 1962 smash hit, “20 Miles”
Interesting you say that Jonathan. As someone who you would identify as part of the left, I noticed the pro-diversity posts were always flagged. I assumed it was by the right or whatever group you identify with...or maybe people on HN want to avoid the shouting matches that always come with these topics.
When people wave Nazi flags, chant Nazi slogans, perform Nazi salutes, etc. it is not unreasonable to call them Nazis.
Ditching scrum for kanban
It's sad that tomatoes have gotten so bland that nowadays I instinctively correlate ugliness with good taste.

When I see an asymmetric tomato, in both size and color, I think, "Hey I bet that tastes good..".

EDIT: s/funny/sad/
What if the DNC Russian “hack” was really a leak after all?
Do you know the story of LTCM? If not, do not lecture me on this subject. I'm sure in time I'll be proved correct. I'm sure you've heard of Bernie Madoff and how he "beat the market" for so long, yes?

I don't have to "back up my claim" the math does it for me already! You're asking me to prove a negative--instead, show me one example of a firm that has beaten the market without resorting to funny business and I'm all ears.
this was considered, long discussion here https://github.com/WICG/interventions/issues/18
Oh, I thought this was a political article with a geeky pun on alt-right and alt-left...
https://linkurio.us/try/ should go straight to a demo page, not some signup popup
They might be playing it safe letting the calls still ring your phone, instead of auto blocking. I've had a call show up labeled Telemarketer, but I actually was expecting that call (from Dish TV billing), so I just let them go to voicemail and if they do leave me a message then I know it was a legit call.
Deep Learning: Things to keep in mind
Can this be used to reasonably run Chrome with DRM plugins on the RPi3? I would like to profit from the Amazon Prime subscription but sadly Google does not publish their plugin for ARM (outside of ChromeOS and moving the plugin from there no longer works)
Exact Step by Step to Building a Web App [video]
https://www.fcc.gov/document/fcc-warns-can-you-hear-me-phone...

>The scam begins when a consumer answers a call and the person at the end of the line asks, “Can you
hear me?” The caller then records the consumer's "Yes" response and thus obtains a voice signature. This signature can later be used by the scammers to pretend to be the consumer and authorize fraudulent charges via telephone.

In other words they splice together "do you want to authorize these charges?" And your "Yes" and present this as "proof" to the credit card company you authorized the charges you are disputing.
I see -- checked the paper. I knew they were using maps data for the routes and assistance (and that would extend to traffic lights) but I'd expect them to be able to spot all kinds of movable traffic lights (e.g. when there are works or an accident) by pure image recognition/AI.
Russian (and a good deal of other Eastern European) tech scene is certainly not less discriminatory than the Western by any imaginable metric.
One of the main things I ran into when migrating from MySQL to postgres was that the default text columns (TEXT, VARCHAR, etc) behave differently when searching. MySQL matches text case insensitive, while postgres matches it case sensitive. This resulted in searches for content suddenly not returning data. Luckily there's an official CITEXT extension for postgres [1], which matches text case insensitive and adds the correct indices for doing so efficiently.

[1] https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/static/citext.html
Use raw socket to bypass UDP firewalls or deal with UDP unstable environment.
Tiny robots crawl through mouse’s stomach to release antibiotics
The 4 Hour Work Week Sock Company... That Failed
> don't answer

Plausible, and kind of works, except when you get regular phone calls from real people whose numbers you don't yet have in your phone. Luckily, this would likely work okay for my mom.

> register on the donotcall list

Which I'm sure Indian call-centers respect.

(Sorry to keep harping on the Indian call-center thing, by the way; I don't mean to show any disrespect to any Indians, but these things do seem to operate largely out of India, much like the 419 scams seem to be forever embedded in the cultural mindset with Nigeria.)

> Why not just switch?

Two year contract that's expensive to get out of.

My advice to her was to report the calls as harassment to Verizon every time; I believe they can't charge you to block harassing calls.
> What it did not do was claim that his female coworkers were inferior. I feel the need to reiterate that because that seems to be the disinformation that many take home with them and use for their arguments against him. With it, they vilified and ousted him.

He didn't say it directly, but he strongly implied that female coworkers were inferior. Among other things he claimed that women were less able to handle stress and have a harder time speaking up.

The document claims a lot more than just "women aren't interested in tech".
This is a special level of hell.
We never had a date for Ice Lake. I think we only started hearing about it this year.

It's Cannon Lake (Intel's first 10nm chip) which is supposed to come out this year.
The Problem with F# Evangelism
Lightning is 5 different working codebases, developed by different groups of developers in different languages under the same protocol specification [0].

[0] https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lightning-rfc
Being pro-Uber here is like being a downvote magnet so yes I do maintain an account for non-technical comments. Also I do not try to condone their bad behavior; I am very amazed by what they had achieved by disrupting the taxi industry. I sometimes feel people have such knee-jerk reaction to certain things which are not really that scandalous or incriminating.
When you're defending white supremacists, it's time to take a step back and reevaluate your perspective.
In Chrome on OS X it differs whether I'm casting my screen or not, whether Ctrl+←/→ move me to the start/end of a line or document. (I can't figure out how to move to the end of a line while Chromecasting. It is beyond frustrating.)
They couldn't, their logo colors doesn't match.
A more accurate idea of what a computer sees is actually that ML models figure out what parts of the signal to throw away and pay attention to. This is why you can slightly perturb the image so that humans see a picture of two hot dogs while an ML model can be confused into two different things (hot dog and an egg plant).
I'm running com.android.dialer and I've never seen this functionality.
iterm2, at least that's what it defaulted to for me, uses ctrl + direction instead of alt + direction.
Electrolasers kind of seem slightly light saber-esque. I'm assuming miniaturisation of them would be tricky though, as i'm assuming ionization with a laser requires a lot of power.
Was it a European phone number?

I think you might be too paranoid, and the explanation is simpler: if you dial enough numbers, eventually you'll find some idiot willing to hand over control of their computer, or their credit card number, or social security number.
A UK Woman Has an Extra Cone Cell in Her Eyes and Can See More Colors
There was a thing on NPR a while ago about billions paid to scam therapy centers. They would prescribe useless therapies to people with chronic back problems and other injuries. Without quality control this happens in every industry.
Why is it impossible to beat the market over long term without insider information?
Improving the Enum Class Bitmask
> If you purport to be a (competent) scientist in the 21st century then personally I expected you to be highly aware of biases such as publication bias & confirmation bias and act accordingly. That speaks either to his discipline/understanding or his honesty, I don't know which.

I've never been on a discussion board where this was the norm. More importantly, and to repeat my earlier point, this isn't even the norm for well-regarded, published content on the subject. It appears the standards are very high for dissenting opinions.

> You may have read a selection of counter-arguments, some of which will be less "metered and reasonable" than his. Unfortunately the emotional tenor of an argument is not the measure of its merit.

Maybe, but given that Damore's memo is largely criticized for causing offense (despite doing more than what is reasonable to avoid it), it certainly seems pertinent that other points of view aren't held to the same scrutiny.

> Damore was metered, but understandably triggered a threat response in the people who his memo targeted as being below "the bar".

Probably, but he did a much better job of mitigating it than I could have, and we never, ever hold liberal viewpoints to this standard. In particular, it's positively mainstream to publish absolutely brutal criticisms of men; we don't even feign sensitivity.
I didn't interpret it as an accusation. I interpreted it as he wrote: a suspicion that something other than RT's algorithms is a non trivial contributor to their success. He gave an example of insider trading, but it could be something else ranging from the equally sinister lying about outcomes (e.g. by creative accounting of what counts as a return) to the less sinister better access or timing to information anybody else has that makes the algorithms more effective and far less relevant, and many other things.

His other point about the rarity of regularly beating the market certainly supports some amount of skepticism of RT, in my view. It's extraordinary, and it's an extraordinary claim that suddenly the particular talent at computational trading at RT is better than the legion of super genius other quants and techies who have been doing this for years.

Disclaimer: I haven't a dog in the fight with respect to supporting or taking RT down. As I see it, being a small time player, my trading strategies are necessarily constrained to the point where RT's methods, legit or not, aren't applicable. So whether they win or lose doesn't make a difference to me.
> Passing data to a function when it's not a reference means that you're giving ownership to that function.

Only in Rust, but there's no apparent reason to move ownership. If Rust didn't move ownership during pass-by-value, it would still be trivial to prove the following code correct:

fn main() {
let x = String::new();
foo(x);
bar(x);
// x is destroyed
}

> Maybe I'm misunderstanding the problem you're having. Do you have an example of another language that lets you do what you want?

Here's the equivalent in C++:

int main() {
std::string x = "";
foo(x);
bar(x);
// x is destroyed
}
Google AMP is bad for e-commerce
I've used SVG to design custom PCBs using traces as magnetic coils, something that, surprisingly, doesn't have a good industrial software package for. Everything in PCB design software is geared toward routing wires conveniently between components, but if you try to actually use the wires as actual components, it's almost impossible to freely design. And even regular PCB design software feels almost unchanged since the 1980s or 1990s. Incredibly clunky.

Here's a good Hackaday article on converting SVG to PCB file formats:
http://hackaday.com/2016/01/28/beautiful-and-bizarre-boards/
PCBModE is one package I tried for a while:
http://pcbmode.com/
Boldport uses this toolchain to make beautiful PCBs relying heavily on SVG: https://www.boldport.com/

I had a hard time with all these packages, however, and ended up just hacking it together by hand with python code and outputting in KiCAD format. I wasn't even able to get KiCAD to read/render it properly (too many weird elements), but since OSH Park (where I got my PCBs from) takes KiCAD format directly and gives you a preview, that all worked fine, and when I ordered my PCBs, they arrived in working condition just fine the first time.

https://oshpark.com/

So yeah, SVG can do a lot, including make funky PCBs.
I agree that packaging such a solution has 10's of dollars worth of value. What I wonder about is their trying to license it for a single device. If it's just OSS software they can't really make that restriction.
Well, that's a convincing setup.

I still think that peers and media consumption could explain the development but I don't have any data to back that up.
A piece of advice they don't mention: use an alternate number for registering websites and/or hide your WHOIS data.

I have a Google Voice # I used only for domain registration. I let the WHOIS guard expire, and I now get regular spam calls to that number daily.

I'm sure they source the numbers from a lot of places, but from what I've experienced and read this is a big source of them.
I think this is generally the correct direction for education to take. The dissenting voices mentioned made some good comments though. But I think each of those concerns can be addressed through proper program design. Learners should practice skills they have already learned, and they should be re-assessed on those skills periodically. Some topics, especially in the humanities, will require classroom discussions to really master. And if it saves money, all the better- as long as it works :)

However, I will echo the common sentiment that college readiness for 100% of students is neither achievable, nor a desirable goal.
Where in his memo did he say that? From the memo:

Many of these [biological] differences are small and
there’s significant overlap between men and women, so
you can’t say anything about an individual given these
population level distributions.

That would imply that there will be women at Google who are more inclined towards software engineering than some of the men.
VSCode isn't similarly slow. Weird.
"Given the choice between trial and error engineering and science backed engineering I much prefer the latter."

That's not the question; the question is, are we forced to give up engineering if we don't have "the science" yet?

And the answer is an objective "no", from abundant past human history. There's this myth sold that science always precedes engineering that is very, very popular. I'm not even sure where it's coming from. Oral history in primary education, maybe. But it's a myth that engineers themselves can ill afford.

The vast majority of practical programming is programming running way, way ahead of the "science", which occasionally takes point samples of how 10 college sophomores behave under a certain limited experiment.
To me this seems like it would enable the deployment of some sort of autonomous infrastructure that would function completely off the grid.

The data rate might not be very high, but it might suffice for simple messages.
Doesn't happen on my LG V20, but I just got a car that plays bluetooth and MP3 USB sticks
> This also assumes their stated goal, a more gender diverse workforce, is actually their goal.

Well.. if I genuinely want to help you, and you misstate your goals, for whatever reasons, you are only hurting yourself. Here Google probably lost a decent engineer.

This sometimes happens in authoritarian organizations, where people who genuinely want to follow the orders from the top will misunderstand the indirect meaning, causing more harm for the organization (and sometimes it can be exploited). Actually, I believe that's why authoritarian organizations are less effective than democratic ones.
I'd hardly call this feature pointless. Scroll events, with cancellation support, have been a thing for well over a decade. This solves a very real problem of having to execute single-threaded application code that blocks scrolling. Particularly on mobile where resources are constrained and scrolling is smooth, this is a big problem.

Having developers hint to the browser that the event will not be cancelled solves it very simply. Far more simply and predictably than any kind of static analysis could.
I create companies, managing them until it's the right time to sell. AMA
To clarify, it all stayed on mysql — just pulled everything into a single db.

I can't remember exactly but the whole project was done in a real hurry, about 4 weeks I think. It included a rewrite of the application / website (about 20k lines of backend code, html and js / css), migration of all the data, creation of new transcoders, migration of a lot of data asset/video data from another server.

No idea how we got through it all in retrospect, but I had to. A few days after we finished I got married and went off on my honeymoon, so I guess I decided it was stable enough the day I released it...! :-)
The ultimate guide to bike-sharing and the future of “China to Global” exports
It was a screensaver that I wrote between tech support calls. The CEO asked me about it, I told him I wrote it, and he put me on the dev team that afternoon. It was C and C++, drivers and apps on Windows.
The Chicago City Cemetery and Lincoln Park
> To me this is not that different from state censorship I experience in Russia.

This was not done by the United States government, but by private companies, that do not need to protect free speech. We just went through this with Damore, and the answer is no, companies do not need to respect your free speech.
TREZOR Firmware Security Update – 1.5.2
Related: interesting Econtalk episode with a sales manager at Frito-Lay about production, distribution (including stocking) and marketing of their chips: http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2011/08/odonohoe_on_pot.htm...
What are the job possibilities after a data science bootcamp?
It's the bulk enterprise purchases that they're worried about, not individuals. That may include bulk purchases to build laptops, but it's probably more datacenters and high-performance computing they're worried about.
Virtual means that the particle does not obey the Einstein energy-momentum equation: E^2 = p^2c^2 + m^2c^4 . You might recognize the shorter form, where the particle has zero momentum, as E=mc^2.

More info here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_shell_and_off_shell
Ironically, Vim IDE plugins often have slightly different behavior on seemingly identical key buildings...
I'm unsure what to make of this.
`scroll` listeners are not blocking, however `wheel` ones are. If you've tried to implement a parallax effect in JS you may have noticed the subtle differences on timing between these two (wheel fires before the scroll position is updated, scroll afterwards). That said, yielding immediately within a listener (like you recommend) is indeed a best practice.
If your embedded system only has 350 kB of space for your app how on earth do you fit a browser in there? Or do you only use the 'static' features of SVG?
>This is uncontroversial.

Have a look at the comments its being taken as an insult.
Single-Molecule Transistors Get Reproducibility and Room-Temperature Operation
Show HN: Sewer, a DNS Letsencrypt client
This is very much of how NNT taunts some reporter trying to explain the causality of Intra-day fluctuations of a Share. Humans obsession with establish wrong attribution in an attempt to express their domain expertise never expires! Now Data Science fuels it!
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What is the advantage of using cloudflare over only allowing port access through an aws load balancer?
From what I understand, Intel would only sue for hardware-assisted x86 emulation/reimplementation, not pure software emulation.
Learn Everything About Web Application Firewall (WAF)
Not to be forgotten:

https://addons.mozilla.org/nl/firefox/addon/firemacs/

Because even for things that are not text, there is no reason not to stick to Emacs.
> turn it off when people ask (via chat) to call.

May I suggest that you guys are in some sort of bubble?

My mom's a 60 year old with a flip-phone, and her husband's nephrologist, neurologist and audiologist isn't going to ask her via chat to kindly turn on her phone.
Sometimes if you are wrong enough and offend enough people you are guilty of violating a code of conduct. No one is sending him to hell or even jail. He just lost his job. We are not schoolboys. We are adults with a responsibility to follow the code of employee, or face the consequences.
It's interesting that the Medallion fund generated an 11.6 percent return during the first six months of this year, lower than the gains of 21 percent and 18 percent during the first halves of 2016 and 2015, respectively. It's also only marginally better than what a passive investment in the SP500 during that same period would have returned.
It's not about it being not worthy of a fight. It's about it being difficult to prove because the effects are so small in aggregate.
Microsoft’s autonomous gliders seek out thermal updrafts to stay aloft
One thing that Postgres lacks is accent insensitive collations. Having clients with databases in Spanish, this is one of the reasons I wouldn't consider migrating to Postgres. I know I can use the unaccent extension, but I consider it a poor substitute to proper collations. I guess this isn't a problem for most people because it's never mentioned.
No, it's only available to Google and Nexus phones. In fact, Google explicitly blocks non-Nexus phones from installing it:

http://www.androidpolice.com/2016/05/14/google-has-updated-t...

I would love to have it, but I'm not going to buy a Pixel strictly for that purpose.
see "eclipse attack" https://eprint.iacr.org/2015/263.pdf and https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=bandwidth&btnG=&hl=en&a...
Heisenberg principle is not magical, it's not just the way you are used to looking at the world.

CPU designers on the other hand really do need to pay attention as it's a significant real world issue for them. Past that, Quantium computing actually uses the Heisenberg principle while producing very consistent results.
Nice!

Movies and TV series is just something there's always space for more.

Suits Apple, they normally position themselves in a manner that nobody needs to lose for them to win.
Ah, good :) . No wheels invented today
They are! They're just only that good one fifth of the time.
Except that Renaissance trading doesn't really want to hire quants. They wish to hire scientists and mold them in the Renaissance way, which is something you'd know if you were a quant.

http://www.reuters.com/article/simons-hedge-idUSN21355752200...
Altium can do that sort of thing fairly easily. We use it for boards with waveguide filters, couplers, etc. (usually the geometry is designed and simulated in a field solver first, and then imported in, but you can do it straight in the software if you want).

The easiest way is to design the coil as a part, but you can use traces and arcs and stuff like normal in that.
"MySQL matches text case insensitive"

This is of course only when you set a case insensitive collation (_ci).

But I agree this can be a problem because case insensitive collations are used a lot in MySQL.

Also other collations can be a trouble. For example the collation that returns results for both 'ß' and 'ss' (German)
What's the point of blocking one randomly generated number?
> There is at least one

You can always find a quack. Science is largely about consensus, and the consensus is that Damore's memo doesn't even come close to science, even if it tries to be sciency.