skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you make the penalty for burglary the death penalty, then any burglar will kill anyone they can to avoid being caught. I.e. why rob a house with an elderly occupant who might identify you when you could just kill them? Escalating penalties put more things on the table, too.
Integrative-AI [video]
i think OP is calling the process phony, not the conclusions. the government theatre that acts like it's learning something new about the benefits of these drugs so they can palletize their legalization. (palletize -- to make palatable -- can i do that?)
You don't need to shoot to kill. You only need to disable a attacker, not kill him. "German Police shoot a knife wielding man in the leg in self defense"

https://www.liveleak.com/view?i=cfe_1440199540&comments=1
Netanyahu Vows to Never Remove Israeli Settlements: 'We're Here to Stay Forever'
Where I work we prefer jQuery to the native DOM API for scraping. It really speeds up the process of extracting data.

For example with Puppeteer you can do page.injectFile("jquery-3.2.1.min.js"). I think that would simplify your evaluate() calls.

It would also be easy to speed up the whole process by doing a single evaluate() call per page with all your scraping code in it.

BTW we just released an article with tips & tricks for Headless Chrome: https://blog.phantombuster.com/web-scraping-in-2017-headless... What do you think?
It's probably still cookie based.

If one logged into Amazon in both browsers then it is really just linking to the account (even after logging out).
Really? It's almost like they want it to fail.

As far as I know, Jolla has completely stopped selling their hardware. I don't know if you would be able to buy a used one. A quick eBay search didn't bring up anything.
DeepL back to German: Angela Merkel widersetzte sich dem Vorwurf, der Bundestagswahlkampf sei spannungsarm.

English again: Angela Merkel opposed the accusation that the election campaign in the Bundestag was not tense.

German: Angela Merkel wandte sich gegen den Vorwurf, der Wahlkampf im Bundestag sei nicht gespannt.

English: Angela Merkel objected to the accusation that the election campaign in the Bundestag was not tense.

German: Angela Merkel wandte sich gegen den Vorwurf ein, der Wahlkampf im Bundestag sei nicht angespannt.

This is a fixed point (the translations no longer change).

The quality and stability of the translations is impressive, but the final German is a bit off, it seems to be confused between "objected to [something objectionable]" and "objected that [some counterargument]", mixing both in the same sentence.

EDIT: I tried going through all languages, German->English->French->Spanish->Italian->Dutch->Polish->..., after a few iterations, it settled on "Merkel wendet sich gegen die Vorwuerfe, der Bundestagswahlkampf sei nicht gespannt." (Merkel is opposed to accusations that the Bundestag election campaign is not tense.)

Things that got lost in translation: Merkel's first name and the past tense (EDIT: and the subtle distinction between "not lacking tension" and "being tense"). The pluralization of accusation(s) seems to change based on the language. Really quite impressive to maintain the meaning over so many steps.
You MUST close a big client in 3 months or your business dies. How do you do it?
We see many epic stories about entrepreneurs that had their back against the wall, they persevered and succeeded.

In the 90s Apple fired Steve Jobs, then it was going down, Jobs made his comeback and miraculously turned Apple into the most valuable company in the world.

We all heard those stories, and we also know that the likelihood of that happening is VERY little, most startups die when they are in that tough spot.

Now I want you to picture yourself in a similar situation. All the odds are against you. You MUST close a big client in 3 months, or you'll have to close your business. How do you do it?
Of course plants exchange signals with their environment. And of course they are alive. Of course they behave with purpose (they do things which further their cause of reproducing, as is expected of evolved organisms).

This doesn't imply at all that they are sentient or have feelings, which is what we care about (or should, in any case) when we discuss harming or protecting other living things.

Of course, there are other considerations such as ecological, but that's not what we're discussing here.
I wish there was something I could do like this on mobile. I've given up trying to read these pages on my phone now, it's just too distracting to have all their UI clutter in the way.

What I don't understand is how they let it get this bad?
For $6k, I'll turn your idea for an app into a clickthrough prototype
For $6k, I'll turn your idea for an app into a clickthrough prototype, in 14 days.

- All I need is a rough outline of the app
- I'll improve the UX
- Design the UI
- Turn the UI screens into a clickthrough prototype

Deliverables are: Production ready Sketch files, UX wireframes as well as the clickable prototype.
Integer division will give a rounded result instead of floor
Bitcoin's Unconfirmed Transactions Drop, Crypto Market Cap Rise to $160B
While I applaud the effort, I think you should vote with your X button and stop reading articles that have a hostile UI.
You can also use uBlock (or any sufficiently sophisticated ad/content blocker) to block certain elements just by pointing your pointer at them. See: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Element-picker
I believe the US was also oil rich during this period.
Makes me think of Kill Sticky [0], a small Javascript thing that attempts to remove all sticky headers on a page.

But really, any sort of thing that blocks, as the Github README says, "annoying, user-hostile software", is a good piece of software in my book.

[0] https://alisdair.mcdiarmid.org/kill-sticky-headers/
I don't know how much does it have to do with advertisers choosing profiling criteria and profiling itself, but often it feels like ad targeting is actively trying to teach me to ignore the ads.

Not really technical friend gets a smarthpone. We check specs on gsmarena, then check few other phones, read a bit more. Lots of hits over short time. Ad targeting: you must be searching for a smartphone, here get some ads for smartphones! I check various pages over few weeks, compare phones, check availability. Ad targeting: very rare hits, must be accidental.

For the past few weeks I have been selecting a pair of products. Watching youtube, reading various forums, browsing manufacturer pages, browsing stores, comparing prices, usual stuff. A single ad for at least one of those two product categories? Nope, instead I see ads to subscribe to my current carrier.
You're forgetting that this is feminist/gender theory. So logic/reason/facts/data do not apply, they are just tools of the oppressor.
Roamer: The Plain Text File Manager
[I'm not a microarchitecture expert]

I've read that x86 has multiple registers (eg, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9264195, http://blog.erratasec.com/2015/03/x86-is-high-level-language...). "You want to do something with rax, so the processor grabs one of its 168 internal registers to play the role of rax for a moment" sounds like a type of register-window implementation to me. Or I'm completely misinterpreting the term.

Note that my sentiment/tone in asking this is "huh, if that's the case then POWER and other architectures could really compete with x86!". (Assuming POWER doesn't use that approach.)
Maybe the tracker did not track your purchase and still thinks you are looking to buy one.
The core of the disagreement seems to be the view that I'm not wealthy, yet I'm sure there are many who would trade parts of their life to have what I have. I can't save millions, but that excuse me from not saving the dozens I could've?
As others mention, there's a big push towards checklists. (Note: they only work if they are bottom up, not top down.) But aviation mechanics work on something that is heavily standardized, and they get to shut down the thing they are working on, which eliminates a time dimension to the problem. Neither is true for people, so checklists aren't really the solution to the information-handoff problem in medicine.
FYI, this led to the creation of https://www.reddit.com/r/nosyntax/
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> The really interesting thing is that these effects somehow persist beyond the acute trip

This is why I am so glad to see this approach tightly coupling carefully controlled monitoring and talk therapy alongside administration of the drug. I myself had a great experience of 'opening up' at a rave once upon a time, but the comedown was horrible and I felt much worse afterward than before. It was like rising out of purgatory, getting a glimpse of heaven and then having to go live in hell, with a strong sense that heaven had only been an illusion.

A later experience was better. Which reminded me that as with anything else that's strongly psychoactive, set and setting are absolutely key.
The Eclipse Megamovie Project
Again, there is literally no way for NK to fly the missles to the water WITHOUT going over populated land. Study a map for god's sake.
I did something like this in Go: https://godoc.org/github.com/lukechampine/randmap/perm
The high rate of chargeback is to a large degree to do with customers, not the providers, as far as I'm aware. "That wasn't me, honest guv, I'll do a chargeback".

Either way, your customers have to get the currency somehow, and barely any of them will be bothered to. I suspect a lot of porn purchases are "heat of the moment", so to speak.
Also lying. If there's no comeback, then there's no real downside to heavy exageration.
Because if they put more things on your screen, you'll click more things, driving up their revenue when you inevitably click an ad
Does anyone have a problem with Medium on Firefox? For me, it doesn't have the top and bottom bars. I've switched uBlock off and this is still the case. Is all of this extra chrome, a Chrome only thing or some A/B testing?

I do see the problems on Chrome.

https://medium.com/@andrey_cheptsov/making-java-code-easier-...
About the game:

One could back out their car and pretend to have dug out the whole thing :)
> Only to those not familiar with autopilot systems in aircraft.

Isn’t that most people?
An adventure in trying to optimize math.Atan2 with Go assembly
>> It's all about "solving puzzles" rather than making the world a better place.

How many people do go into computer engineering with an idea of making the world a better place?

Don't misunderstand me, I'm sure many computer engineers are nice, socially conscious people, but if your primary motivation in life is to make the world a better place through your work, there are many more direct ways to achieve this.

It's telling that the Gates Foundation, which has enormous resources, and which could build, should it so wish, the world's best-funded 'change the world with code' startup, instead chooses to allocate its resources on physical things such as malaria drugs.
Hacker news is easier to read on mobile than many so called made for mobile sites. It's as if made for mobile means: "abuse the small mobile screen to show as much as possible spammy bars and social network buttons on it and make them even bigger when you zoom in, while hiding actually relevant information that you can see on the desktop version of the site"

While IMHO mobile optimized should mean: wrap the text automatically at the width of the screen, in a readable size in portrait mode, don't hide anything that's visible on the desktop site (like dates, user comments, version history, ...), and support zooming in in a sane way

Even Wikipedia fails at showing the user comments pages and sane zooming in of pictures (it's always those sticky bars that ruin it)
Firefox for Android has both reader mode which works fairly well with Medium, and you can install uBlock Origin, which declutters most mobile sites from ads (not sticky headers though).

Not sure how it got this bad, but there are ways to solve it for all sites (reader mode)
A possible improvement: automatically remove all the f-ing animated gifs people think they really really must insert in between each paragraph.
There should be. Scams aside, so many of these ideas simply don't make any sense, especially for a token. What we will see, what we are doing, is to issue shares instead of tokens (token-shares). We'll payout dividends. But that's because we have a solid business model and will have very large revenues and profits.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15090156
What the hell is a "bookmark bar"? That's the first thing that goes away when I configure a browser. It's like a permanent sticky header.
Wow. On the one hand, this is really cool. On the other hand, it's 600 USD for a phone that might be delivered in a year and a half and will not be able to run Signal.
When you say talking do you mean you guys were physically close to each other then if your friends searched for Vietnam, FB will know that this group of people whose current GPS coordinates are the almost the same are interested in Vietnam.
Re-branding past sins is an essential part of the political process and community healing. It's also the number one reason why people who see the world in rigid terms tend to have a tough time understanding any political process, whether in an executive suite or Board room or Capitol building.
I'll do it for $5k.
Firefox mobile supports extensions.
I wonder if he got the idea from Japan Railways, which use a technique called "Pointing and Calling" to ensure every action is intentional.

http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/pointing-and-calling-ja...
Russian Burger King division has the wildest marketing department.
To me the problem is with out a true project plan and an extensive list of requirements it's impossible to tell anything.

Let's assume that your system is wrong 1 out 10 times or 100 times. And they're are 1 million scan a year. that's going to result in 100,000 people pulled over wrong. For a cost of let's say 860K(assume your outfitting the system, training people, data storage etc.).

Let's say your going to need 4 to 5 sigma better performance to get that. Does that mean 10x more effort? 100x more effort? Think data collection, storage, possibly state of the art algorithm...

what if the data gets hacked.

All I got out of your article is there's already no way to tell the difference in cost between an toy system and enterprise, government system.

BTW, it was still a cool toy project...
This is awesome and will hopefully prod the developers at Medium to rethink the design (if your users need a Chrome extension to make your product usable, it's got some immediate problems that deserve a resolution). The sticky nav bars are really just terrible, and sometimes render parts of the page completely unreadable. It's surprising that these problems were not caught during basic usability testing. Thank you OP for fixing them!
Rick Doblin, founder of MAPS, talks a bit about this in his interview with Duncan Trussel: http://www.duncantrussell.com/episodes/2016/7/18/rick-doblin

(i'd imagine this information is available elsewhere, this is just the instance i happened to come across myself...)
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I had exactly the opposite experience. If you were having problems with temporaries, you were probably using Matlab style vectorized operations. Back when you tried Julia, explicit loops could avoid this allocation issue. Now, Julia has syntactic broadcast operators which will fuse loops for you. See https://julialang.org/blog/2017/01/moredots
> I have this terrible feeling that someday the only way to remain competitive in whatever you do will be to take performance drugs

Nicotine gum is pretty much the only reason I can stay focused at work.
Actual employee.
Write book is a hard work, even a good post will spend several hours. Maybe the book is ok, but not suit you.

Hope to give you some choices. You can find programing books, which are mentioned by people in stack overflow in this year. Hope you will like this.

http://toptalkedbooks.com/stackoverflow/2017
>It's not tax-deductible if someone pays directly

It would be an expense and would ergo be 100% tax-deductible (e.g. a reduction on $5000 of taxable income). There is another aspect relating to whether the firm gained an asset but that applies to both scenarios.

This makes no sense as a tax scheme.
Swedbank terminates the secure E-card service
Not in C..?
Thing is, OP mentions using two different browsers, which is why it's surprising.

I guess there's still the possibility that a cookie was added months before that and that "tainted" browsing was forgotten. But it's still worth wondering if some other identification mechanism could be at play.
Remember the good old days, when Medium prided itself on being beautiful and readable?
(x + 15) / 16
How can I mine WhopperCoin?
Google Maps will now help you find parking
The Best Push Notifications We’ve Ever Read
> Why does Swedbank remove service e-cards?
>The reason we choose to remove the service e-card is because the systems are getting old and can not be adapted to today's needs.
I have been this way for a long time as well, but I've started finding little uses for it. I think I will end up using it more.
The snag is funding. The level of resources they have is inadequate for the mission they are carrying out.
So I wonder how many of these issues have been fixed since then?
I see them in Firefox, with uBlock installed and active. This problem is easily solved by clicking the reader mode button in the url bar though.
Even better would be to write (see dot vectorization [1]):

C .= A .+ B

Benchmarks for 3 matrices of size 1000x1000:

julia> using BenchmarkTools

julia> @benchmark C = A + B
BenchmarkTools.Trial:
memory estimate: 7.63 MiB
allocs estimate: 2
--------------
minimum time: 2.359 ms (0.00% GC)
median time: 2.713 ms (0.00% GC)
mean time: 3.794 ms (28.81% GC)
maximum time: 62.708 ms (95.27% GC)
--------------
samples: 1314
evals/sample: 1

julia> @benchmark C .= A .+ B
BenchmarkTools.Trial:
memory estimate: 128 bytes
allocs estimate: 4
--------------
minimum time: 1.232 ms (0.00% GC)
median time: 1.320 ms (0.00% GC)
mean time: 1.356 ms (0.00% GC)
maximum time: 2.572 ms (0.00% GC)
--------------
samples: 3651
evals/sample: 1

Note that memory usage dropped from 7.63MiB to 128 bytes.

[1]: https://docs.julialang.org/en/stable/manual/functions/#man-v...
The Future of Office Life
Bitbucket is another option. Between the three, it is probably the one with the least incentive to monetize repositories in a way that leverages vendor lock-in because Atlassian has other diverse revenue streams and appears to have a fairly stable business and solid management.
Ctrl/Cmd+Shift+B. Or just make a bookmark instead of complaining about something that is 100% optional.
In case you don't know, Wayland is the replacement...
https://wayland.freedesktop.org/
In theory I agree, but reality makes that difficult to adhere to. To me, 15 minutes throwing a browser extension together is worth not being assaulted when I end up on a Medium-powered site. Same reasons I use an ad-blocker.
Ask HN: Best HN mobile client
Which mobile client/app do you use to read/use Hacker News?

Both iOS & Android ok
It almost makes me want to puke to think I wrote words that caused someone to think I would like to "sit on top...[while] those on the bottom [get] scraps". This is the opposite of what I believe.

The point is, everyone wants to charge forward without thinking about what are the solutions that will really work. This is a problem of economics and politics. The more that this problem can be solved by best economic evidence and theory (apolitical), the better. A solution based purely on politics gets progressively worse, all the way down to the level or torches and pitchforks.

I listed a few economic issues I see (as a lay person) that if answered could start thinking towards something that ends well. Shall we consider those, or shall we head to straight to the pitchforks?
During my time as a consultant in an agency I learned that human interaction helps a lot in the beginning of a new project. Getting to know all stakeholders and people working on the project fosters better understanding down the line and helps in achieving a way more smoothly running project.

I really like my alone time but I learned that the human element is not to be underestimated.
So I'm assuming that means the place to be is the somewhere near the Atlantic?

Given what seems to be is happening in the Gulf of Mexico and what happened in the Northern Pacific (i.e. Japan and the Philippines) less than a year, that suggest those are places you need to stay clear of.

That does raises a good question. Which part of the world is the safest?
Ask HN: How was your machine learning interview at Google/Facebook/Amazon
Looking for feedback from folks who applied for Machine Learning engineer or related positions at Google/Facebook/Amazon. How was your interview? How focused was the interview on ML topics as opposed to coding? How big was the emphasis on Deep Learning as opposed to more traditional methods? Was the interviews math heavy?
> These are pure Veblen goods

I collect and restore fountain pens, and I have to disagree. There is surely a segment of the market that this fits well (Montblanc, for instance), but the majority of the fountain pen market is < $100.

For example, I have three pens with me today: a TWSBI Vac700, a Pilot Falcon, and a Sheaffer Snorkel. The TWSBI and Pilot are modern and cost $70 and $110 respectively, but the Snorkel is vintage (1958) and I paid $35 for it.

Excellent modern fountain pens can be had for <$20.
Thanks! Like I said: I never truly dove into it, although I loved reading about the approach to the type system, and the multiple dispatch.

> Note that memory usage dropped from 7.63MiB to 128 bytes.

Which is important if you're working with large data-sets. Both for performance and for being able to run the calculations at all.
Interviews on Skype: Test candidates using a real-time code editor over Skype
Uber pulls U-turn on controversial tracking of users after trip has ended
Cucumber Tony vs. Cucumber, getting trolled. A lesson in Internet etiquette
My question is then, why bring up Julia at all? Of course, there will be nitpicking when you put two languages against each other, in a benchmark written for a specific purpose, and then start to modify the implementation for one of the languages. It seems like the goal of the blog post would just as well be achieved by saying "here are some ways of speeding up a function in Python".
We're animals too, mammals to be precise, sounds like an honest cherry-picked as it's literally the family of animals we belong to. Hard to fight one of our most basic animal nature: the defense of our body and personal territory and property.
I personally have boycotted Burger King since the day they announced their tax inversion with Tim Horton's.

They have the right to do anything they want with their corporation and I have the right never to spend another dime in their restaurant.