skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is pretty damn cool. Slack integration and team member delegation would be good too. Makes you wonder about its lifespan though
Solve what problem?

If you make something gimbaled on a ship (pool table, for instance) you can prevent rotation, but not translation...at least not without some complicated active motion compensation system.
You can get rid of solar shade any moment you don't like it, in this respect it's an awesome solution compared to anything we do on earth and then stuck with.
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That's probably so however Siberia is contributing much more. The whole of subarctic tundra is at risk for rapid melting and co2 and methane release as trapped ancient organic material decays. There are also other major, imminent issues: the uncertain liability of the ESAS clathrates, zero summer sea ice (arctic ocean heating) and jetstream abnormalities (hence more variable weather day-to-day).

Anyone whom wants actual facts ought to watch Paul Beckwith out of University of Ottawa on YT for detailed updates and analysis on climate change.

https://youtube.com/user/PaulHBeckwith
Simple - autonomous vehicles. It's the single largest line item of COGS. Reduce a COGS line by let's say 25% for revenues of $10B and you all of the sudden have another $2.5B in extra profit.

EDIT - I totally simplified that math (and it reads odd as stated), but you get the point.
That's not really true. If you maintain the same level of spending but cut taxes, you're going to get money going into the economy. When those government issued securities are bought, for instance, there's someone on the other end of that transaction that now has money.

The real problem with the 2008 recession is monetary stimulus doesn't really work.
We will almost certainly be spraying sulfur dioxide (and dealing with the acid rain) in the next few decades. It will be too little too late though.
CFC ban?
> Is there some universal convention I'm missing?

Tuples are always compared lexicographically, is the universal convention. Not sure if that's what you might be missing?
The comparison is not great for objective comparison—the metrics of Interface have been changed so that 11px =/= 11px from one to the other… this was the best approximation that I could get in-browser. Usually you'd want to set the two typefaces up so that the x-height is the same, and in this case Roboto is probably slightly larger still, and hence a bit darker in overall color.
Someone like Joel Spolsky would likely stay the hell away from the dirty game that is large-scale consultancy.
Living in a 4x6 concrete cube would be much more of culture shock for me.
"Research in the family and twin studies indicates that geneticists account for 33% of the variation in body weight among individuals." -- those damned geneticists.
When a country really wants to get you, there aren't many safe places in the world. The terrorist Carlos got abducted by the French intelligence service. Eichmann by the Israeli services. There are less famous cases (like the Kalinka Bamberski case). What's interesting in that in all of those cases, these illegal means of grabbing the suspect abroad didn't invalidate the case against him and in all of those examples the suspect was then charged and sentenced.

So yeah maybe, but only for some petty crimes.
Save your outputs in the cloud. There is zero cost to access S3 object storage from EC2. Its only if you insist on pulling down 1TB files to your local workstation that you run into this. This seems like a self-inflicted problem.
Docker container to tweet at your ISP when your speed drops below threshold
I got pretty fed up with my ISP giving me substandard speeds (usually 10 to 15mbps) than what I pay for (30mbps) so I build a docker container that runs a speed test and if its below the level you set it will tweet at your ISP with the speedtest results, go to sllep for 15 minutes and run another speedtest, if the speed is above your threshold it will simply sleep for 5 min and run again.

You can see it in action on my twitter: https://twitter.com/monoxane

And of course I believe in OSS so its all available on my github: https://github.com/monoxane/docker-speedtweet
I've switched across the board to wireless for the most part. I use a number of different headsets based on location, so here are my choices for various settings.

Work:

Bose QC35 -- sound quality is somewhat compromised but the NC and comfort levels are second to none. Bose customer service is also excellent, particularly if you buy (and therefore can return/exchange) through a branded store.

Out and about:

Airpods, with foam covers. Without the covers, these were very convenient headphones that wouldn't stay in my ears for the life of me and so sounded thin and leaked noise. Then I added old-school thin foam earbud covers; Amazon sells some that are donut-style with a hole that exposes the light sensors, and they still fit in the charger. They don't compare to my audiophile headphones, but they sound "pretty good"--about on the same level as my SoundMagic E10s, maybe a little better. More importantly, now I actually will use headphones for 20-30 minutes at a time on walks, whereas before it was too much of a hassle to carry a fat case around, wedge them in my ears, etc.

Home, in living room:

MDR-1ABTs. I don't actually like these as much as I should for what I paid for them. The pads are thin and hurt my ears. But they do connect to my Sony sound bar using their LDAC low-latency/high-def protocol, so I use them for late night viewing.

Console:

Playstation Gold or Platinums. I have both. The Golds are more reliable about connecting to the dongle. The Platinums fit over my PSVR headset. Neither sounds great for anything but games, but they integrate tightly into the OS.

PC/Mac:

SteelSeries Arctis 7. No blinkenlights, and they sound very good for pretty much everything. They're comparable to my wired Sennheiser PC360s (basically a 55x/59x with a mic) but even cheaper. That said, buy the add-on leatherette pads from Steelseries--they make a world of difference for isolation and sound quality. They shouldn't sell these without those pads TBH.

Audiophil(ish):

Keeping in mind I like "fun" headphones and not monitors, I oscillate between Plantronics Backbeat Pro (one of the best sounding BT headphones I've heard with a phenomenal range and hellaciously cheap, but fugly and with round pads that don't really fit anyone), V-Moda M100s (add the fat pads to these too for comfort and sound; they'll last forever--built like a tank), and Master and Dynamic MH40s. (by far the nicest pair aesthetically with real leather pads, and they sound great if you can get a good seal, but I'm not a huge fan of cables anymore).

Gadgets:

I do have a JDS labs O2 amp+DAC setup. I use it with the M&Ds and the M100s sometimes since those are the two cabled headphones still in rotation. However, Apple headphone outputs have historically been good enough to not really benefit that much since all my headphones have lowish power requirements. Planars or some other "need a bunch of juice" headphones would be different.
Computer approaches human skill for first time in brain challenge
It depends on the Tesla.

the Model S and X use induction motors. The Model 3 uses a permanent magnet motor:

https://www.edmunds.com/car-news/auto-industry/2017-tesla-mo...
All things being equal yes, but they're not equal.

The Holocene Climate Optimum is the nearest thing in the last few hundred thousand years and it wasn't anywhere near this warm globally. What it did do though is melt the Laurentide ice sheet, dramatically raising global sea levels. But the ice sheet protected the North American continental tundra. Nowadays there's no ice sheet there any more to absorb the heat and stop the tundra melting and releasing its CO2 and methane.

Look up the Paleocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum though. That's the nearest equivalent episode to what's happening now.
The Montreal Protocol was a successful international treaty to protect the Ozone Layer, so there is some precedence for countries coming together to protect our environment:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montreal_Protocol
You can't build "dyson swarm big" without a whole lot of cheap energy, though. It's a chicken and egg problem.
The actual solution for the population which spends significant money on scratch cards, of course, is to invest in social care and support for people who are obviously very vulnerable. They'd be vulnerable whether the scratch cards existed or not.
Crazy that people still believe this stupid lie, easily debunked by 30 seconds on Wikipedia.

Even crazier is that the people who really wanted to string Snowden up by the neck were the conservatives, because they love law enforcement and are willing to give up freedom in order to fight Islamic terrorism. In other words, supporting Big Brother despite ostensibly wanting less government.

Crazier still is that those same people, the ones who were demonizing Snowden for ending up in Russia, are now in love with Assange and Putin because Trump.

"Two things are infinite: the Universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the Universe."
How does junk like this ever get into a standard? Didn't a whole committee of very experienced systems programmers have to sit down and say, "yes, these are routines that i think people will find generally useful"?

It looks like the same header, search.h, also includes functions for working with binary trees, where the user passes in the root pointer, and so which support multiple trees:

http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/ts...

So this committee must have signed off on the hashtable stuff even though they had an example of how to do it properly right next to it!
Buy index funds and live off the proceeds?
Check out crossbar.io, it's a broker from the authors of wamp.
Yeah, reading through that jumped out at me.

Also the use of strdup, while a reasonable choice, should also come with caveats about ownership and copying

I stopped at the use of pow for exponentiation in the hash function. Just iteratively multiply your factor and take the modulus on each round.

This would handle utf-8 just fine if characters are cast to unsigned in the hash function and a larger prime factor is used

None of these are real criticisms, I'd just love to see a pointer to more in depth information on how to really write hash functions

I hope that i missed it, but this definitely needs a clear statement that this is a pedagogical exercise and not a production ready implementation
$20M – Mark Cuban Is Funding a Cryptocurrency Startup
The book you want is David Graeber's, but it will not confirm austrian leanings, nor the history of money you present above.
> fool the on-board cameras

Those kinds of situations can be solved by training on adversarial examples. It's easy to fool them now, but perhaps not after they've prepared for that possibility. Some years ago, one could fool a web search engine by repeating a word dozens of times on a page. It's not so easy now.
Yeah, as long as you have the polymer as dependency - it should work, you can mix it with vuejs, preact or angular 2+ already.
Genome analysis with near-complete privacy possible
You can make similar statements about Tesla.
> Does C++ Pair<> define operator< and operator>?

It does.

std::sort(pairarray.begin(),pairarray.end()) works about how you'd expect, as long as operator< is defined for the constituent types of the pair.
:-) Well Bezos is a genius, perhaps he will figure out that mom and pop businesses are the backbone of the world economy.
Desk lamps are an interesting sidestep of the issue!
If the cost of editing is not exorbitant (i.e. is lower than the average per-capita cost of paying for the condition being edited away), healthcare providers would be incentivized to pay for the editing to reduce their costs.

The incentives are obviously stronger in single-payer countries, but even in the US you could imagine an insurance company that competed on lower premiums conditional upon certain gene edits being applied to covered children.
Silicon Valley siphons our data like oil but the deepest drilling has just begun
A US location will be welcome. Might have to start using a real server for a change.
Some people think and others just react, it's good to know that the majority of people on the Node.js technical committee are thinkers.
Where is the mention of scientific peer-review? Where is there mention of FDA interaction? Uploading brain scans for "diagnosis" sounds an awful lot like practicing medicine to me!
>> We want them to be diagnosed early and get cured
This statement does not match up with the reality that there are NO validated "cures" for Alzheimer's (or any other dementia).
I would stay far away from this.
Based on how the AWS services look, I somehow doubt it. Cloud Formation, RDS Oracle, to name a few thing, seem quite enteprise-y :)
Hi Jason!!! Still a Ruby fanatic over here although I do a lot more JavaScript these days
Ok if the goal is to give people hope, just allocate a fund every 3 months from the state and enter everyone who is reported a tax income less than poverty level in the pool. And there it is, automatic hope and dreams for a while for all that state's poor.

The lottery though is not hurting a middle class programmer who buys a ticket for fun, it is hurting the poor who possibly don't realize how unlikely it for them to win and _time_ and money spend on the lottery might be better used for something else.

It is not unlike the liquor stores and payday loans popping up in more poorer areas of town. From a cold rational point of view one can say "ok, if they rely on the lottery to give them hope, they are just as likely to spend that money on drugs or alcohol" and indeed they might however it doesn't mean the states should encourage that and act in a predatory manner towards them.
I'd like to see a tool like this, that could be used to adjust books to movie script format. When scenes are taken off a book, sometimes the implications and ramifications of that scene aren't taken care of, leaving holes in the script. For example, the Half-Blood Prince movie has a couple of moments in which, unless you've read the book beforehand, you're like "wtf are you talking about?"
Yeah, sure, that's cool
I never really understood this argument. I mean, you can daydream for free about Warren Buffet choosing you at random to give $300 million to, or inheriting a distant relatives belongings and finding a Pollock in there.

Maybe with the lottery its easier for people to deceive themselves about the actual odds?
Computer Science – what it is and why I study it
> and we're stuck in 1980-and-earlier carriages for anything not an ICE or regio trains.

Actually, the InterCity and EuroCity fleet was just entirely replaced.

This means the entire fleet – S, Region, InterCity, EuroCity, InterCityExpress – is now replaced, or being replaced, with modern stock.
When you say MH do you mean mental health? If not, please ignore the remainder of my comment. If so, I don't think so. It's just name calling, unless you're referring to specific clinical issues. I doubt you're attempting to attribute particular diagnoses here. If you don't mean specific issues, then it's so broad as to be meaningless, and that goes back to name calling.
Well, there are some situations in which it's a good investment. http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/08/07/how-mit-students-scammed...
Meet Mappy, a Software System That Automatically Maps Old-School Nintendo Games
It is very common in C code, where for most of its history you hadn't any explicit boolean data type but used int, following the rule that zero is false and anything else is true.

The '!!expr' is the idiom most people use whenever the need for a canonical 0/1 representation arises.
Perhaps a singular consciousness could evolve that wouldn't have the inherent game theoretical problems that groups of conscious individuals have.
He would have had to get there. He was stuck behind customs in a Russian airport and the president's plane had already been grounded looking for him.
Very similar thing is happening with 'digital agencies' being bought by larger advertising agencies and big international consultancies, like Accenture.
Expect is perhaps too strong a word, the calculus would be the cost burden of providing services and treating the diseases in the uninsured to the cost of providing the genetic services at the start.
Those scripts were different per distribution. Sometimes shared, but then had to be copied basically manually from one distribution to the other. With systemd it's just a configuration file shipped by upstream. Any fixes automatically get reused by all distributions.

The init scripts differed way too much across distributions. This including pointless differences in where various files are located. All of that has become way more standard, thankfully.

I did have various issues with a few init scripts of my distribution. It didn't happen often, but nowadays you usually can do with a config file, way easier.
>There's really no other way of getting into that "fusion" area of the plot.

not true. Fission primary :)
Nothing wrong with that. In fact google releases quite a few projects like that - the important thing is what is inside the patents clause. Apache 2.0 also has one and no one argues against it.
Personally speaking, I find the lack of relationship between manuscript "pages" and published pages a more solvable problem than it ever has been historically. WYSIWYG visual editors for different ebook and print formats and page dimensions would at least give a working approximation for those who wish to self publish and exercise some degree of QC over the eventual reading experience.

My wild theory is that the reading experience, or RX if you will permit my being cute, is going to become An Official Thing in the ebook era, especially as authors play with the different narrative structures theoretically unleashed by the medium.

Totally agree with your comment about the scene as the atomic unit of the novel, however. Or at least the molecular unit, if you consider the beat to be the atom.
The only way this is an advantage is if Uber themselves are the only ones with autonomous cars. With the number of other companies working on this that seems unlikely.

Autonomous cars will be a commodity, I think it's unreasonable for Uber to point to that as their competitive advantage.
Documentation sounds like it would do very little to deter rendition by a nation-state.
I read the Game of Thrones subreddit to spoil myself every single episode before I watch it and it's quite pleasant. Guess it really depends and it's not black and white.
I've bought lots of books through HN recommendations, more often than not they're great. I do always check a bit of the poster's submission/comment history though, because people definitely do try to pitch their eBook or SaaS here.
Seems very much "back to the future." Systolic array processors were used to accelerate neural networks in the 1980's. Great for matrix math too. (ref: http://repository.cmu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2939&c...). These aren't quite the systolic array processor of old, but too close to be considered new arch/micro-arch. The formula is simple, have low precision MM to accelerate, drop in a matrix multiply unit that can be blocked for and high bandwidth memory to feed it and let it go. I'm waiting for more new takes on old arch....as fabbing chips becomes more economical, I hope to see more retro chips. Especially things that didn't quite make the jump from research to production b/c of scaling (or other reason), might now make sense.
I can only imagine the posts if people with NBN use this
> looking at driving the bottom line and creating a long-term relationship

That's always been the case for large-scale consultancy: land a gig and keep it forever, or as long as it will last. It's the small ones who have an incentive to leave quickly, because they don't have the manpower to keep shackled to a single assignment for too long; but the big ones are body-shops, they have a virtually-infinite supply of fresh graduates to place - they will pull all the stops to keep the gig running as long possible.
I would go for the contrary interpretation: he helped people become wary of lotteries and showed them beyond a shadow of doubt that they could be rigged even if they appeared to be fair. He did in fact damage the lottery, not the non-lottery winners (in the aggregate maybe, but not in a specific way) other than that he hopefully vaccinated them and caused them to bow out of playing the lottery altogether thus saving themselves money they could not miss.

It is more than just a little bit suspicious that in plenty of places where gambling is illegal the state owned lottery is legal. It's fine to gamble as long as the beneficiary is the state, never mind that on average only the lottery organizer gets ahead.
The problem is that will raise the price of agricultural commodities. I think we might be better off trying to genetically engineer varieties of Algae to be more efficient.
> Three hundred regular bits results in 600 possible states (2 x 300)

Wait. What?
What is rust?
Until they get introduced to Futuristic Sex Robotz...
> He puts printed pictures of Mohamed on the wall, and asks students to scan them via an app. A menu of items pops up instantly: Mohamed’s Twitter feed; a 360-degree view of an interrogation room (meant to simulate the one Mohamed was taken to); a SoundCloud song; a quiz; a hip-hop video produced by Mr Mims.

What was this a lesson for? (My knee jerk reaction makes me feel like that was politicized.. but I don't know the full story so I won't put that out there)
IE11+ will work and everything modern. If you don't have native support things get polyfilled. Youtube nowdays runs on Polymer, web components and they support older browsers.
Offtopic but this means I am totally heading back to ride the new trains :-)
Why would they not just buy autonomous Teslas? Or better yet, make their drivers buy autonomous Teslas.
Depends on the task. It's made to automate continuity for long novels, complex fiction/fan fic universes and complex investigative journalism.
> a randomly screened individual with a positive test will only actually have a 12.8% chance of getting Alzheimers

Darmiyan folks, is this correct? If so, what are the implications for the utility of the test?

(No matter the answer it feels like this research is important -- thank you!)
Upper case I and lower case l look too much alike. Letter O and number 0 need to be more distinguishable.
There aren't many safe places in the world if you're a terrorist or wanted for other types of violence, but financial crime is practically a national industry in lots of places.
Nah, depending on jackpot size, Mega Millions at least can reach a +ev state.

https://seekingalpha.com/instablog/957061-chris-demuth-jr/25...
We're not talking about terrorists or Nazis here. Do you really think we'd be sending Seal Team Six to get some guy who scammed the lottery? He didn't even catch federal charges.
Really can't see them profitable in 18 months. At least Musk's focus is on product for all parties. Uber only cares about scaling
I don't want to be rude, but are you looking for something more than a reply that just says 'Yes' or something? Searching for anything like "facebook php hip hop" would easily answer your question.
For reasons that escape me, what they did violate the law in three states; Iowa, Wisconsin and Colorado. They signed a multi-state plea agreement, probably to avoid being convicted three times.

https://www.doj.state.wi.us/sites/default/files/news-media/6...
Perhaps the DTMF chips were under some kind of patent/royalty and were being smuggled into the country?