skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That can be done easily enough with @media queries, I suppose. It's possible to send a table-less, fully responsive, modern HTML email that is invisible for less-modern clients. It doesn't require anything special and is possible today.

The problem is that people who send email need it to look a certain way, and leaving older clients behind, just like you'd have done in IRC/mIRC, is not an option. So having the option to use modern features doesn't change anything, at least for email.
I have long since offered to volunteer myself to be able to have a direct brain interface with a computer and the Internet. I'll even shave my hair and let them install a wireless nub on the back of my head.

In my imagination, this means everything from authoring my own custom programs to thwarting hackers using the power of my mind.

I'm pretty sure this would be just about the most awesome thing ever created. I'd be surfing at brain-speed and able to access all information that is out there.

Trivially related: I'd want an ad blocking mechanism, but I might be able to just will it into place.

Yes, I'd be willing to take the risks if someone had a reasonable plan to trial this.
Looks exciting. I'm interested in how this might relate to the following use of generators from Python:

def gen(*items):
for x in items:
if x > 5:
yield x

for y in gen(1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9):
print(y)

Should print:

6
7
8
9

Does this new RFC support that kind of usage? I guess I'm not clear enough on how Futures work to figure it out myself.
Well-educated...it depends. Many have impressive sounding degrees. However, an extreme anti-intellectual bent is very common.

Do you know the people who studied for and aced all exams through brute force memorization, promptly forgot all the material or never understood how it would be applied, but now have the certificate that says they know X? That was 90-95% of Naval officers.

I had a one week class in digital communication, as part of a nine-week introductory class for new officers. They go over basic information theory as it applies to naval communication systems and encryption. The valedictorian of that class, who had just aced the test on digital communications the week before, raised her hand the following week to ask a clarifying question about a follow-on topic: "When you say everything is just ones and zeros...what does that even mean?"

That sums up naval training. I realized then that this person, despite all appearances of knowing the material and being an excellent student, had NO clue what anyone was talking about and hadn't for the entire class despite having the highest grade of anyone.

So you'd have an aircraft carrier CO with a Master's degree in chemistry who didn't really understand the concept of vector addition as it applied to calculating relative wind. He'd be yelling at subordinates for not being able to calculate (improperly) wind vectors and distances. All subordinates were clearly confused by this, felt like the CO, being highly educated and the CO of the ship, must know what he's talking about. If you'd ask the CO to explain what he meant he'd become irate and tell you you were stupid.

The nuclear officers/enlisted knew their shit, and those were some of the smartest and best people I've ever worked with. They'd nod their heads at the aforementioned CO and then ask, "he really doesn't understand vector math, does he?" when he was out of earshot. The rest of the crew would assure the nuclear guys that they must be wrong.
I may be missing something, but how do you prove that an app is running a trusted codebase? I know of no PGP clients for instance that sign messages to try to prove that they were sent from a trusted app (as opposed to a trusted user). The only way I know of to do this would be to hook into a trusted execution environment of some flavour like Intel's SGX or Apple's Secure Enclave, to let effectively the chip vendor sign off that you are running an official app installed by official means. You /could/ do this, but you are putting a lot of trust in the secure enclave implementation and those controlling it, and essentially putting all your eggs in one basket. It might also lure users into a false sense of security: just because a user is using an appstore signed copy of an app doesn't mean that app is actually trustworthy or bug free. And it would also artificially discriminate against legitimate apps which aren't part of a trusted execution environment, which seems dangerous - and effectively promoting DRM at the expense of FOSS.

This certainly needs more thought :)
One interesting thing about these Myriad chips is that they use Leon- an open source SPARC-V8 core for their main and "real time" CPUs. It's odd to me that it's not using ARM...

http://eyesofthings.eu/wp-content/uploads/deliverables/EoT_D...
There's open BMC, which I think Facebook uses. Google has its own thing from a recent thread.
This does not at all explain human behaviour: Most people would not shovel all the snow themselves while their counterpart chills in their car. And many people cooperate in prisoner's dilemma situations.

What explains human behaviour is that with every action we program ourselves to follow certain strategies and rules and that others can judge to some extent which strategies we programmed ourselves to follow. Thus we have an incentive to follow strategies that lead others to trust us, so that we'll have more opportunities for cooperation in the future.
Personally I think you can extend this to (almost or all?) any sport.
* 0 deaths... as far as you know

cue Twilight Zone theme
Goodhart's Law, "When a measure becomes a target it ceases to be a good measure."
>“We put a premium on being good inspection takers and admin weenies.”

such a shift is natural and necessary in the context of the future warfare being completely robotic/autonomous. People role would be exactly inspection and admin. And as preview of the future - we've just had 2 people driven destroyers lose to the most probably autopiloted a cargo ship and a tanker.
Ashleygwilliams and zkat have been harassing other node contributors
"Watching people discuss BASE on a tech forum feels like watching technology being discussed on a knitting forum."

I'm not so sure: BASE is expensive. Think about the demographic in here: tech workers, probably a lot of them doing reasonably well financially, and probably quite a few are outdoorsy.

Any of these hobbies is expensive when you really get into them: BASE, mountain-biking, motorcycling, climbing, skiing, snowboarding, paragliding, skydiving. Yet you find lots of techies doing all of them because they can actually afford to.
This might help. Their academic paper is basically a description of how they made the dataset (and why) and includes a great example of the steps they went through to convert the images.

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1708.07747.pdf
Personally, if the car isn't going to drive significantly better than a human, I'd rather drive myself. I prefer to be responsible for my own safety.
The QPS is just a number, that doesn't say much. Impressive or not, it's still interesting to read stories like these. My nit pick is that they, like many others are only using one cloud provider, don't put all your eggs in the same basket.
I am by no means an expert on this subject so correct me if I'm wrong but....

The exception that I've noticed from the airline-industry, is that they actually want to solve problems systemically and don't care who has to take the blame.

For something to go wrong, multiple failures have to happen, and there's not a lot of blame put on individuals, as much as "the process".

In most other organizations, IME, fixing "the process" is expensive. It takes time, and effort, and it's quicker and easier to blame "those idiots in IT/accounting/HR/etc". Most of those types of organizations don't actually want to solve problems, they just want the problem to go away. So they end up choosing the easier option, rather than dealing with the problem systematically.

/bitter rant
Alternatively, do you know of a good place to ask questions of the type?
> When management finally released that the said deadlines could not be met, they hired really fast, and not carefully, a bunch of people [...] In the end it put us even more behind schedule than before.

Nothing new under the sun. This is from the Tao of Programming (1987):

A manager went to the Master Programmer and showed him the requirements document for a new application. The manager asked the Master: "How long will it take to design this system if I assign five programmers to it?"

"It will take one year," said the Master promptly.

"But we need this system immediately or even sooner! How long will it take if I assign ten programmers to it?"

The Master Programmer frowned. "In that case, it will take two years."

"And what if I assign a hundred programmers to it?"

The Master Programmer shrugged. "Then the design will never be completed," he said.
I think "shuffle" is the obvious choice to be used as a verb.

As you mentioned, Alexa already understands shuffle (though I don't think it does for Spotify's integration).
Open source works without ads cancer just fine, thank you very much.
I get why game theory is an attractive model to explain human behavior. But I always wonder why they invent the game, and try to explain behavior in terms of a particular model, rather than using real behavior to fit model parameters, so you could get (pseudo-) empirical numbers for "payoffs" etc.

Or maybe another way of putting it is that clearly rational and human behavior varies with the payoff structure, so it would make sense to include that as another variable.
see also:

https://github.com/nodejs/TSC/issues/324

https://www.reddit.com/r/node/comments/6whs2e/multiple_coc_v...

https://archive.is/YnGGz
That is 100% fair, but not an easy question to answer!

I curate by hand using a custom tool that helps me search/filter articles and basically find a mix of things I like along with things that subscribers tend to click on. I tend to avoid "click-bait" type articles with little substance and try to get a good mix of things that were popular with things that should of stayed on the home page more. I've been doing this for seven years now, so I feel like I have something that works... but ultimately you'll have to see if it fits what you're looking for. :)

A recent issue just so you can see an example:
http://mailchi.mp/hackernewsletter/360
I'm not sure I'd make absolute statements based on arbitrary birth dates. Some of us have created the very things you use and are well aware of the implications. I'd also make no such assumptions based on someone being younger than myself.
I've been thinking about this a lot lately--I'd really love in-email applications, especially with Web Assembly working its way into viability. Being able to act on stuff without leaving my inbox would be fantastic. Unfortunately, lots of potential for abuse and also the fact that email protocol is so entrenched.
How long does it take for the typical company to go from 20 to 40 employees?
That's complete nonsense. Once people grow older (the one's who have the money for your product), email is the standard. No one sits on text messaging all day to communicate any real business.
Engines are generally too wide to fit between your knees, since an engine is usually a vaguely cubic shape. In early mopeds the engine was below your feet[1], so there was no point in having a crossmember where your knees would be.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:ZweiRadMuseumNSU_Hildebra...
Sharding data models
Every day Bitcoin survives proofs that it works.
You're right. I'll fix this later this afternoon! Thanks. /\/ick
I've been subscribed for a while, and I think this approach works great! There's plenty of links and sections to click on.
I worked in State/AID around folks doing commodity exports. Never underestimate the amount of sheer inbound "order taking" from endlessly needy Congressional staffers living on trading favors. I later worked around "developers" whose only Fu was tricks for passing lie detector tests to screw up projects in lead lined bunkers. I suppose the dress up, TV pageantry and fancy looking machines make disorderly bumbling infinitely costly operations look orderly. Our trade presses are mostly very open about the dysfunctions, but few waving flags pay much attention.
Yes they do. They take over steering, automatically drive around obstacles, etc. And this is already deployed in production vehicles today.
Is that a joke? Show me the USD swinging as wildly as Bitcoin does in any time frame. There's a reason it's the standard across the world.
Ask HN: What are some of the heuristics you use for hyperparameter search?
This is specific to manual experiments in building a deep learning model for finding good hyperparameters. What are the heuristics you use and any good resources available online?
>with a promise from the west that we’d protect them.

Well actually, with a promise that the USA and Russia would protect them. So it's not quite so clean cut as saying no one came to my aid. When infact, they were attacked by the people who were going to come to their aid.

They could have joined NATO to get the backing of the full NATO Alliance, but they failed to get that done in 20 years because they didn't want to assure human rights for LGBT community which was a huge wedge issue (probably with massive help from Russian astro-turing). NATO will not allow a country to join that is currently involved in a border dispute. So they are in a bit of a pickle, though not one that should have been too hard to see coming.
I understand that medicine is tricky because the handoff from one doctor to the next can be dangerous for patients. You have to balance continuity with exhaustion. That's not to say that they necessarily have the right balance now, but it's a hard problem.
> Last time the US Navy was in that position was in 1941. They were complacent and convinced that they were the best at everything.

Your example of 1941 doesn't make sense. The US Navy wasn't lacking for competent potential opponents in 1941, not in any regard. In fact it was inferior to several other navies at the time. The US Navy didn't believe it was the best in the world at the time. It was universally understood the British had the best navy. Pearl Harbor didn't happen because the US Navy thought it was the best in the world.
I do this today with Terraform. If you have any existing cluster, disaster recovery is as easy as swapping the name in your tfvars, then running a new apply. [1] All new infra + kubernetes is set up. I then have a very simple bash script that is just ~30 `kubectl create` lines. I executed this when our automatic clean up script nuked my cluster due to incorrect tagging on my part. Time from monitoring critical alert to back up was under an hour.

[1]: https://coreos.com/tectonic/docs/latest/install/aws/manual-b...
Intel Core 2 Duo P8600? That has the ME.

Intel's ME was first available in 2006, and by the end of 2008 it was on every CPU they produce.

According to ark.intel.com, the P8600 chip was produced Q3'08 so it's in the right timeline for having the ME. But the giveaway is that the chip has "Trusted Execution technology".

Intel® Trusted Execution Technology for safer computing is a versatile set
of hardware extensions to Intel® processors and chipsets that enhance the
digital office platform with security capabilities such as measured launch
and protected execution. It enables an environment where applications can
run within their own space, protected from all other software on the system.

On the bright side, older MEs are easier to de-fang. The 06-08 versions can sometimes be removed entirely.
FEMA Director is not "the media", dude. Seriously.

I live in Austin. Got many friends and coworkers in Houston. Three of them lost their homes, and they all said the same thing: this is by far the worst storm Houston has seen in their lifetimes, and the city is getting absolutely devastated.

Rescue teams are rescuing people and taking them to shelters... in garbage trucks. And most shelters are full and no longer accepting people.

Houston may have experienced flooding in the past, it may even be built for it, but it's definitely not prepared for something of this magnitude.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/08/2...

I get that the typical Texan attitude is to shrug stuff like this off like it's nothing (trust me, I know: I live here too), but tens of thousands are in shelters as we speak and hundreds of thousands have evacuated. This isn't your run-of-the-mill hurricane. It's the strongest Texas has experienced in recorded history, and National Hurricane Center says there's the possibility that it will go back out to the coast, re-gather strength and make second landfall some time on Wednesday.
> The problem is that people who send email need it to look a certain way

I think it's fair to say that actual people don't need any of this. It's businesses and advertisers that would be the overwhelming consumer of these abilities.
I served on both a FFGs and DDGs as a BM. This is pretty much a normal routine out at Sea. Doesn't matter if it's a week, month, or year. It's fairly similar sleep and work schedule. Combine it with other collateral duties, Flying Squad, SAR Swimmer, LSE, Boat Coxwain, etc and it just slowly erodes your time away.

It's not all doom and gloom though. If you properly communicate with your chain of command, and slowly train junior personnel into the proper qualifications, the problem starts to go away. Though, you're not looking at more than 5-6 hours of sleep straight on a good day.
Why driving through even 6“ of water can cause your car engine to blow apart
There is a hidden factor here that I don't think is being taken into account. Accidents vs Recklessness.

Let me explain:
When you do a risk activity, the way to mitigate risk is to bound the situation to keep all variables within safe margins.. For example, on aircrafts we look at the mean time of failure on a part, then you replace the part before it gets there, so you reduce the chances of it failing..

On adventure sports we do the same. When Skydiving, Rock climbing, Paragliding etc.. you keep looking at accident causes and develop a plan to avoid those situations.

So, If you do follow all the existing safety procedures,and still get in trouble, it is probably an accident, something you could not prepare or account for. (procedures are then created to mitigate its repeat occurrence)

On the other side.. if you disregard the safety procedures (push de envelope, as we say) and get in trouble, then you were reckless, and you paid heavily for it. That is NO accident. (if you get away with it.. you were just dumb lucky)

My point is.. I bet the micromorts computed here are based on "all" accidents, not on accidental vs reckless deaths.

With all due respect to the death.. if you seen a cluster of 20 deaths within a small group, you need to look closely at the reason why those deaths happened.. Where they trained properly? Where they at the appropriate experience level to engage on the type of activity they where doing? (RW, CRW, fast landings etc) Where there other external factors involved? , was there a single significant accidental event that affected many members of the group at the same time? (Aircraft crash for example..)
Right. And the context for that:

> For nearly 30 years, all new surface warfare officers spent their first six months in uniform at the Surface Warfare Officer’s School in Newport, Rhode Island, learning the theory behind driving ships and leading sailors as division officers.

> But that changed in 2003. The Navy decided to eliminate the “SWOS Basic” school and simply send surface fleet officers out to sea to learn on the job. The Navy did that mainly to save money, and the fleet has suffered severely for it, said retired Cmdr. Kurt Lippold.

Six months of training vs a box of CD-ROMs. Amazing.
Portals main mechanic is movement, portals are created to enable new venues of movement. If portals were simply point at somewhere and click to teleport there the game would hardly be portal anymore and probably not fun at all.
I was replying that LISP doesn't have immutable data structures.
Flock (YC S17) is making their first hires: Software, hardware, and ML engineers
>> Movidius ⸺ Legitimately I have no idea why they paid so much for a glorified DSP. But then again, so are most "Deep Learning Processors" right now.

Curious, do you know alternative "DSPs" able to achieve similar results for Deep-Learning, Computer Vision or Machine-Learning algorithm acceleration?

I would highly appreciate a real answer, because I intended to buy one of these movidius "sticks". And further accelerate the Laptop with an eGPU.
> You just said that speech recognition doesn't work in general.

I replied that the accuracy is high. It turns out, in retrospect, that accuracy and usefulness are two different things.

In regards to automated driving, achieving better than human isn't all that hard. Heck backup cameras with little "warning zone" lines on them are better than human for the one particular task of backing up. Cruise control systems that maintain distance are better than humans. We are incrementally getting there. The progress is much different than with voice reco.

The problem with voice reco isn't recognition technology, that works fine, it is with having computers understand what the hell to do with the voice. Contrast that to driving, where the end goal is easy to list - Rule 1: Don't hit anything. Rule 2: Get to the destination. (Rule 1 is the hard part, Rule 2 99.9% solved!)

With Voice Reco, we got the transcription part down, but... now what? In the example I gave up above, knowing how to make a reservation is painful thanks to market fragmentation (not everything is an API), and people generally don't go and tag all of their contacts with their relationship status. I happen to have my wife under "wife" and my mother under "mother", that simple step alone gives me much more natural usage of voice input.

Then when I saw "OK Google, directions to my Mother's house", well, that still doesn't work for a thousand little reasons[1], even though each and every word was correctly transcribed. (I get a nice Google search instead!)

The set of situations that can happen while driving is far smaller than the set of interactions that can happen over voice when users expect a natural interface. Yes driving is really complicated, but it is possible to get a group together and after a day or so, brainstorm everything that could happen on the road out to 2 standard deviations of likelihood.

It might take an hour+ just to list all the ways someone might ask for directions.

[1] Mainly because no one programmed it to understand that particular way of making a request. It is annoying because I can ask it for directions to home, and that works fine, so I just figured directions to "Contact Name's House" would also work. Of course if I lived in NYC I'd expect "Contact Name's Apartment" to work!
Know what's even crazier? If the CPU has the "Intel® Anti-Theft Technology", then the Management Engine has 3G built-in.
In December 2011, TripAdvisor was spun off from Expedia in a public offering. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TripAdvisor#cite_note-16]
I'm one of the authors of Kafka. I've outlined some differences between Flink's support for streaming SQL and KSQL in this Twitter thread -
https://twitter.com/juliusvolz/status/902283513382051840

Here's a summary:
- KSQL has a completely Interactive SQL interface, so you don't have to switch between DSL code and SQL.

- KSQL upports local, distributed and embedded modes. Is tightly integrated with Kafka's Streams API and Kafka itself; doesn't reinvent the wheel. So is simple to use and deploy.

- KSQL doesn't have external dependencies, for orchestration, deployment etc.

- KSQL has native support for Kafka's exactly once processing semantics, supports and stream-table joins.