skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know its a faux pas, but really? Downvoted for saying more hate isnt the answer? Are we anti-MLK jr here? Is police letting in armed masked people buisness as usual? Please gratify me with a response, as it is worring as hell for a comment like this to be dismissed in a place like HN.

What are the possible issues you could even have with this?
This post is completely unsubstantiated, if if it were true, the NSA would be swimming in false positives with the "trillions" of writings they supposedly analyzed.
The crypto space is rife with inside jobs, but I think most of the ICO hacks are real. There's not a strong incentive to run an ICO hack when you'd otherwise just get the money without much accountability.
Source of article: http://www1.ece.neu.edu/~naderi/Claude%20Shannon.html

It's a transcript of a speech Shannon gave on creativity.
Turns out the 'red devils' you are referring to are squid not octopuses: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humboldt_squid

It's OK -- I didn't know either, until right now. Thanks for the tip!
So that would be six volts or something like that? ;)
you mentioned seeing your shadow in your vision, what does this mean? That the way the sun was oriented compared to where you were in your fall, that you were close to the ground?
The reason for not checking malloc is that it's most likely to kill your program instead of returning a failed allocation
> can also cause motion sickness

This is a real issue, and was my exact experience with VR. I know VR devs are aware, and have addressed it in some ways. But, idk. I was ready to plop down the cash for a Vive, but decided against it after a test run.
I suspect the Waymo business was a bigger deal.
Individuals on H4 can go watch Indian TV channels in their apartment and try new dishes. They can also occasionally dust their degree certificates once in a while. OR they can use Express Entry of Canada and move to Canada. Like I did.
I guess technically everything physical is an FSM with enough states, but that wouldn't be a particularly strong statement. That being said, I'd argue a lot of such posts are of that form (one big idea that's well-known in TCS) modulo some amount of additional cool/novel/well-exposed/interesting stuff I didn't know before (the latter of which is what I really read the post for).
It could just be the non-linearity inherent in flight. Or perhaps being in proximity to the surface causes the Reynolds number to be more variable, meaning 10 experts could do the same maneuver and have different outcomes.
Oh, that's my current project! Unfortunately that cannot be made mass-market, because you can't get any decent trackpoints (except from IBM and Lenovo keyboards).
Web scraping and data mining services
We do have programmer, developer and engineer. I assume the framework developer will come in league of developer while the user is programmer

http://chrislema.com/programmer-developer-engineer/
This. I will pay a subscription for the actual ongoing use of someone else's resources, i.e., their computing capacity, their storage space. I'm not about to pay a subscription for code sitting on my machine. And I'm especially not about to pay a subscription for something I already paid for when it was a one-time payment.
From here [1] in case anyone is wondering. There is an option for "local" vaults in the advanced settings.

[1] https://agilebits.com/store
Chrome to improve privacy with per-site sound muting
Black-clad antifa attack peaceful right wing demonstrators in Berkeley
Why hasn't web security still been tackled?
NYPD Said to Replace Windows Phones with iPhones Starting This Year
Not looking forward to this at all. I trust Whole Foods--it's highly transparent. If I want to know what kind of oil they use in their prepared foods, they have a blog post on it. I don't trust Amazon, not even a little bit. I used to, back when you ran a search and it would list stuff sold by Amazon. These days, who knows what you're getting. I can deal with that for USB cables, but not food.

There is also the issue that Amazon is big on wage theft: https://www.google.com/amp/s/thinkprogress.org/the-supreme-c... https://consumerist.com/2015/10/28/amazon-prime-now-drivers-... http://gawker.com/true-stories-of-life-as-an-amazon-worker-1...
Complex series with ongoing storylines can be great but they also get a bit exhausting after a while. There is a definite limit to how many Game of Thrones or Lost plotlines and character backstories one can keep in one's head when you just want to sit down and watch some TV.

It's fine that there are TV shows that are basically crafted for uber-fans who want to carefully watch every episode multiple times but these shows often aren't for the casual viewer. And there's nothing wrong with being a casual viewer.
LibreSSL is a fork of OpenSSL that declared it was worthwhile to remove a bunch of legacy code to incrementally fix OpenSSL. It's not a rewrite.
A Mortgage Monopoly the U.S. Government Wants to Keep
Ask HN: Math?
I am new to programming, and learning python and django for web development on my own. I am not from technical background. Is math necessary for web development?

Need suggestions for successfully learning python and django.
I'm in the process of doing this with Rancher -- is it worthwhile to use both to see the difference, or go with Kubernetes?
That's fine when you're on a niche site, but most people don't spend most of their time on those. What about a site - like Facebook, like Google, and so on - that covers every topic under the sun? If they limit themselves to ads that even the most hardened skeptic would agree are relevant to the content currently being viewed, they will be showing far fewer ads. That's what leads to their being more intrusive. Would you still be as happy about only seeing ads for a new NAS box if every such ad forced you to wait for 30 seconds before the content you came for was actually delivered?
Agreed. I feel like I've missed my retirement date
because I started professional IT late (97) but started
coding in the 80s....

There is a train wreck coming|ongoing for this industry that I don't think will be recognized by current practitioners as anything other than the 'failure' of older technologies. That is sad but it is by corporate tier design to replace the irreplaceable and make change and breakage a commodity and measure of progress.
Original article: https://www.fastcodesign.com/90137157/the-hardest-working-of...

How hard is it to link to the original instead of the short summary article on a site designed to turn clicks into ad views and nothing more.
the post wasn't about arkit, it was about coreml.
Seattle has valve nearby. If anyone ever buys some expensive gem and jams it into exotic machinery.. my bet is on these guys. So very dangerous place to live in..
I need mapper support first
Game dev is built on the backs of people sacrificing salary for "working in games". You really can't compare it to any other job. All my friends who worked with C/C++ in game dev that moved out of game dev, but still used C/C++, at least doubled their salary.
How the fire-breathing dragons on 'Game of Thrones' are made
Show HN: CloudBoost – Open Source Parse,Firebase,Algolia all combined into one
The reverse is true.

I meet quite a lot of low to middle level programmers that stick to what they know because it's "the basics", and hence completely lack in experience in:

1 - Writing elegant modern code

Working with experienced C / Java coders to write proper Python is a challenge. They tend to use twice to many lines, ending up with slower and less readable code. They don't use the additional productivity to produce cheap goodies like generated doc, more unit tests, etc. They over-engineer stuff, but let the user experience down. And don't ask them to setup a server without the help of a sysadmin.

2 - Trading efficiently machine time for coder time

Aka you cost 100 $/h, a bigger server cost the same amount a month. Keep the double nested loop and go code something else.

And please setup code auto reload and preprocessors. Because THAT will save time and money down the road.

3 - Knowing the modern ecosystem and how the stacks fit together

No you don't need share this across threads and set a mutex here, put that in redis.

Don't write that in XML, you have JSON/YAML/TOML for that.

Actually don't write that in a file, you have sqlite.

No, you don't want to JOIN that, you have Arrays and JSON types in PostGres. If you got a lot of those, mongo or elastic search will do.

No you don't write sockets manually, you have http, zeromq, wamp and the likes to do 99% of the jobs.

JSON is too slow ? You have bson, msgpack, protocol buffers...

Yeah, this ORM is slow. But it generates the entire validation system, including HTML forms. And it allows for 12 plugins to share a common API to provide auth, history, permissions, registrations, a REST API, security measures, sanitizing and data validation for free. Plus the server has 32 cores so just go with it.

4 - being able to keep up with user expectations

No I have no idea how to code in assemble. I can tell you however that the search completion you don't want to add here because it's too much work would prevent the user to think your app is from 2004. And I can get decently performance version of it for tomorrow at a cost effective price.

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Bottom line, everybody has limited time and resources and can only learn so many things at once.

Also different industries have different needs. And sometime you want low level programmers, sometime you want high level programmers.

One could hire somebody who has the skills of both, but you probably can't afford him or her. And he/she is probably not interested this mission anyway
"Charger" would of course also be for discharge. "Sense" can either be charge sense, but that's not very common (due to CCCV charging), or monitoring. In either case, in this way of wiring things up the uppermost cell has a lower resistance connection to the charge/discharge port compared to the lowermost cell. So that uppermost cell will handle higher currents and overall will degrade more quickly. (This frequently applies when connecting "identical" parts in parallel in power electronics, e.g. capacitor banks).

If the voltage feedback (assuming there is any) is taken from the lower side, then a reduced voltage (by U=Rbus×Ibus) will be measured, which is lower than the voltage present at the cell terminals. Siblings mentioned that you want protection against internal cell shorts, using fuse wires or similar.

A better configuration would look like

+ Charger
|
|- Cell -|
|- Cell -|
|- Cell -|
|- Cell -|
|- Cell -|
|- Cell -|
|- Cell -|
|- Cell -|
|- Cell -|
|- Cell -|
|
Charger -

As you can see the total length of wire/bus between the pack's poles and each cell is the same length, so has the same resistance.
> My point is, I don't think a lot of you are being totally honest when you say you'd be willing to pay if the site removed advertising.

This is quite an extreme conclusion to draw, as you seem to be overlooking one very large assumption: value.

If I say "I'd be willing to pay if a site removed advertising", that statement is still contingent on that payment providing me with value in return. I do pay for many sites and services on the internet. Reddit is not one of them. It's not a bad site, but for me, it's largely served as a distraction and hasn't really offered me anything I consider worthwhile enough to pay for. This does not equate to me being dishonest because implicit in that is your (incorrect) assumption that Reddit offers every visitor significant value.
This video made me realize I don't think I understand how nuclear war is supposed to work. Why is a thermonuclear bomb necessary to take out an air base? Why are battlefield nukes a thing at all? The only use for nukes that I can imagine is true total war. I suppose total war would be necessary against a large country with diverse infrastructural elements, like the United States.
I don't think the article was that bad for "junior-JS-to-JS-dev talk", which I think is clearly the main audience. Yes, I'd agree, for any seasoned dev, an article about the basics of functional programming, state machines, and the basics of unit testing and API design is a tad boring ;-). But that's no reason to get that upset about an article that clearly wasn't written for such an audience. Rather, such a response is not exactly encouraging those "kids" to learn complex programming concepts/languages in the first place, I think, and instead seems a bit offensive, to be honest.
Ask HN: How to alter big table?
Hi,
I have MySQL cluster. Some tables have ~8m records. Alter process made downtime.

What is your solution?

Example:
Blue/Green
create table instead of alter.
horizontal scaling
etc.
Thanks.
Your First GraphQL API – Introduction
I really miss iCal, which Apple killed off several years ago.
PyDev of the Week: Shannon Turner
I don't think, in general, that self-respecting white Americans are going to fall for this attempt to connect Trump to white nationalists. I also don't think white people need to feel ashamed because it's just another angle of attack by followers of a dead ideology who can't seem to offer any new or better ideas. It's just "racist racist racist" and you know what? I don't care what names you call me anymore. I don't give a shit--about name calling, about identity politics, civil war statues, or any of it.

You either support civilization and building a future for everyone, or you don't and what I see here is an attempt at shutting out whites in some misguided "turnabout is fair play." Maybe that works in South Africa, but it won't work in the United States.

Racism is a bullshit accusation put out by people whose only goal is some kind of very cynical "get Trump at all costs" type of agenda. Instead of realizing what the American middle class is trying to tell DC, they dug in their heels and commenced fighting for their piece of the pie. But what the entrenched politicos in DC don't seem to get yet is that their cushy style of politics as usual is over. Marxist progressivism is over as well, because regular people are not only fed up with how high taxes are, they can't afford the high cost of living anyways, so it's over! It's not as though the country can just dispose of Trump and everything will return to 'normal'--the norm that was Obama's America is unsustainable and failing before our eyes. That path is simply over and you can see the puzzlement in the eyes of certain Senators and Congressmen and government functionaries who can't come to terms with it and are doing their best to gaslight anyone who tells them the truth.

Leftism is America is about to get flushed because Americans woke up to how bankrupt and empty-headed the whole thing was. Identity politics sucks--it is a cynical attempt at dividing and conquering and filtering all the wealth to the top, which is exactly what the Clintons did all these years, they aided and abetted the fleecing of America top to bottom and finally, finally, a decent enough voting bloc got their heads out of their asses and said 'enough of this!' and sent a clear message to DC that this behavior will no longer be tolerated on their backs, and yet all we get now is more divisiveness, more cognitive dissonance, and more stupidity!
That's the average. Anyone reading hn is probably worth rather more.
Actually, it's 64*3/8 = 24/1
WebAssembly support in Magnum C++11/C++14 and OpenGL graphics engine
Well, for that matter, VCRs weren't available. Also syndication was an important revenue stream. As a result, outside of miniseries "events," you mostly couldn't do shows that wouldn't work if someone weren't in front of their TV at a particular time slot every week. (There were somewhat exceptions like Dallas but they were rare.)
> I don't know how many people are doing it for the "internet fame" (my gut instinct is that it's a small percentage)

I don't have any numbers, but as with anything else (e.g. Russian dash cams) I don't feel that the behaviour of people has really changed.

The difference now is everyone has a camera strapped to them, and with social media it's much easier to hear about someone who died doing X than in previous decades.

BASE jumping is a dangerous sport. The advent of live streaming and HD cameras small enough to strap to your helmet and hand haven't changed this, but rather raised the profile of a failure.
For anyone interested in building a text editor, I really enjoyed working over this tutorial:

http://viewsourcecode.org/snaptoken/kilo/

The author builds a terminal-based text editor in C from scratch. It's very well written and the incremental diff-style format makes it easy to follow along.
It was discussed in theory; now we have actual numbers.
Also not C, but closer: https://docs.rs/xi-rope/0.2.0/xi_rope/

This is a rope implementation in Rust with lots of features useful for text editors.
Considering many were doing it long before YouTube and Facebook existed, I'm not sure I'd blame the delivery platform.
Dat JavaScript coding style
And everyone think EOS.io are doing ico

They are not, Dan bytemaster was around when Satoshis was active back then
Thank you, for this! I could not say it better/nicer.
I was getting upset with the overwhelming negativity here. Monday morning syndrome?
Why would a system do that? Either it overcommits, in which case the malloc won't fail (programs get killed only when they try to actually use the memory) or it doesn't, in which case there's no reason to kill it.
I don't necessarily disagree with what you said, but the variable "reasonable" here is of course up for debate, since suspicion is very easy to have.

We don't know the specifics, yes, but the evidence presented in these types of cases is not exactly compelling.

MalwareNews kid made a tweet about some malware.

The Temple professor who was also a Chinese national was wrongfully arrested while "trying to flee the USA with trade secrets." He is now suing the FBI.

BTC-E guy was snatched up in Greece after traveling from Russia for vacation. We don't know the details, but presumably if he really thought he was a truly wanted cyber criminal, he would have never left.

And Gottfrid Svartholm was extradited from Cambodia to Sweden, without an extradition treaty!!!! All so he could be tried for copyright crimes against US corporations.

So, for these reasons, I am hesitant to say that this Chinese guy in particular without a doubt is guilty, just because he was arrested (snatched up.)
Fascinating.

In a comment elsewhere on this page capncrunch suggests downdrafts[1]. Seems like the kind of thing that could randomly strike novices and experts alike.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15114380
Most people are pretty set in their habits when it comes to groceries; I'd be surprised to see that happen.
Met billionaires, actors, famous people. Saw places I'd never have seen that are some of the most beautiful on Earth, and even got married at one of them.

Talking about all the things around the experience. In fact most of the reason I still continue to do it is the people.
Which part of http://smarden.org/runit/ and its sub-pages do you wish to be better? And how?
FEDAY – WebAssembly在白鹭引擎的实战（PDF）
Reading through I surprised to learn that both novices and veterans of the sport are dying. I suppose that's just how dangerous it is.

As for myself, while I'm sure these are incredible experiences, there are other amazing things I can experience in life that aren't nearly as deadly. I'll stick with those and optimize for total volume of as incredible life experiences as is possible before I (hopefully) die of natural causes at an old age. Having a kid on the way changes my perspective as well.
1. Most westerners born outside the USA. And in the USA anyone willing to take out a loan.

2. The core requirements for a cs major at a typical university (read: not CMU,MIT,Stanford,Berkeley) and especially at a non flagship is basically 4 or 5 courses, which you can for sure cram into 6 months if that's all you're studying.

Personally, I'd rather work with people who learn some part of that on their own (or even not at all) but have a stellar education in reading, writing, and math. The former are often provided by good high schools. The latter not so much. At least in the states.

But if all you want is just the core fragment of just the cs, six intense months are enough.
> we've lost a chapter in human history as to how Vedic structures were created with such elegance.

Just to be clear, this knowledge wasn't lost accidentally. It's part of what was contained in the books and manuscripts destroyed intentionally by colonizers.
Hit App Sarahah Quietly Uploads Your Address Book
If true, this is concerning. While many of Paul's views are not popular, I certainly wouldn't say they are harmful.

On another note, this seems like a questionable source. It looks like this is just a rehash of a Zero Hedge article. Zero Hedge has a clear bias, but perhaps is a better source?
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-08-27/youtube-economicall...
Most of the safe wingsuit flights are in national parks. The Perrine is fun but it's not a 3000 ft mountain with waterfall views on the way down.
> I trust Whole Foods

After the systematic fraudulent overcharging and false “all natural” labelling of their in-store products, why?
That seems like a bad example, since those tables are objectively correct and do have quotidian use, rather than being a falsehood of which knowledge is actually harmful.
> You can also set up sudo so that it does not require your password for certain commands, that does not mean you are not still getting root to do a thing that requires root permissions.

The difference is, that this is configured by default on Fedora.

> Why do you need root access when you could just write the package contents out to a directory you control, and run them without any signatures or policy?

Because applications have their paths hard-coded all over the place. Also some packages (e. g. webservers running on port 80) wouldn't work without root anyway.
Does experience grow the margin of error? Do "incidents" become less fatal? Like in Russian roulette, its possible that experience doesn't improve your odds when something bad happens.

Sky diving is a little different, if a chute fails to open, your ability to remain calm and deal with it and deploy the backup makes a difference. In a lot of extreme activities I could see experience making a huge impact during incidents, flying suits might not be that forgiving.
I love JavaScript but agree with your point about hype fatigue. At some point, you have to ask yourself if you're using JS to solve your problems anymore, or if you're just allowing yourself to be nerd-sniped by all the trivial choices you can make.

It's like [Obama's suits][1]. JS gives you all these little decisions you _can_ make, which wear you down. As soon as you stop caring and decide to "just pick one", you'll generally be fine.

[1]: https://www.fastcompany.com/3026265/always-wear-the-same-sui...
Ask HN: What maths are critical to pursuing ML/AI?
What maths must be understood to enable pursuit of either of the above fields? are there any seminal texts/courses/content which should be consumed before starting?
Why is it not a good idea? If I know that no one pulled my commits, then what is the downside of e.g. erasing the latest commit?
What the heck? Ron Paul? The man was actively censored by Fox News when he was running for president.

He's the only person who's run for office in my lifetime that was legitimately inspiring in a substantive way; explaining policy in detail while diving into the years of policy that have come before to bandaid issues without addressing root causes and then creating bigger problems longer term despite good intentions.

He's the only politician I've ever seen that's run on a platform of root cause correction instead of "I will spend tax dollars on popular bandaids to the latest crisis" policy.

What...the heck?!
> but only if resolutions don't increase at a pace that nullifies cheaper performance

The implication being they will increase, but the cost of computing power to drive higher resolutions may lower faster than resolution increases