skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The choice of 320x240 resolution with 256 colors on the VGA adapter is a pretty strange one. I would think that 640x480 with 16 colors would be a much better choice.

- For a card game, you don't need much colors (white, black, red, background), but resolution is critical, as there are many fine details.

- 16 color mode has a special mode where one byte access can write a color to up to 8 pixels. If you get this trick right, then filling large areas with solid color or simple patterns (such as mostly-white card faces) will be even faster than in 256-color mode.

- Subjectively, high-resolution mode with almost square pixels is what makes VGA special compared to EGA. How are you going to brag about you new shiny VGA card if you cannot even show it off? :)
Emergency services vehicles run so much equipment they have isolated power from engine power.
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https://www.getharvest.com works well for me. Web plus a native osx app and ability to log and remove idle time in case you leave it's timer running.
China has clearly shown a capability to govern reluctant populations. I'm not sure why occupied NK would be different.
Not necessarily true -- failure modes aren't great tho. You can run off and also can do a controlled fall. If you go over your handlebars on a bike you are probably in worse shape (but going over handlebars seems less likely than having to run off the wheel.)

I am looking forward to next gen wheels which will offer more redundant components. I've been lucky to only have had a few falls during learning phase where I was padded up. Once your muscle memory is set basically hardware failure seems the only way I could imagine taking a huge spill. Generally speaking obstacle avoidance and so on is subconscious, you can get yourself out of a lot of bad situations due to tight turning radius, responsive speed control, offroadability, etc. For example going off a curb or onto grass or up a hill is no problem vs a boosted board.
Of course. But it is precisely this "trigger-happy" nature which makes an introducing a system with an appreciable error rate dangerous. This at least partially (partially) accounts for higher costs.
Underclass

LOLWUT?

Firmware pays pretty damn well. If you know what you're doing.
Ask HN: How would tracking illegal streams via watermark work?
I see this [1] article re: identifying & tracking individuals watching illegal streams, but I fail to see how it could work technically. Wouldn't there need to be something installed &running locally to identify & report the watermark?

[1]:

https://www.google.com/amp/www.foxnews.com/tech/2017/08/28/mystery-code-appeared-in-pirated-mayweather-vs-mcgregor-streams-report-says.amp.html
Yes but at this stage they're really toy examples. IIRC the best sklearn result they showed on this benchmark had 20% error, whereas the little WRN network was 4%.
One extra consideration here is that as power centralizes, the costs of individual mistakes increases.
Emacs Startup: Speeding It Up
This seems like a painfully slow and complex way to do event processing.
It's a population of 24 million, which is comparable to East Germany's population of 16 million at the fall of the wall and reunification.

While the situation in North Korea is certainly more dire, East Germany's economy was also largely incapable of competing and summarily shut down over the next few years, being replaced by new businesses to varying degrees of success.

NK is currently capable to feed itself under normal conditions, and to provide some basic necessities of life. Without a doubt, South Korea would have the means to provide what is missing to get to a basic, yet dignified, quality of life–especially with the certain help of the rest of the world.

I wouldn't worry too much about indoctrination. Look at Germany after WW2 and East Germany after reunification, or Russia after Glasnost, and you'll see that such top-down ideologies have limited staying power once they're no longer enforced. With the sudden availability of sandpaper and toilet paper distinct from each other, it'll be incredibly hard to continue believing in the old myths.

North Koreans probably lack the education to compete in the South's job market, but with an influx of cash, and an economy unshackled, the first years would see a boom in agriculture and construction–industries where North Koreans should be able to participate since they already exist. Some new techniques or materials appearing should increase productivity, but won't be impossible to learn for someone who has experience in those fields.

The structure of North Korea as a police state should actually work to its advantage in the first period, as well as the connections Koreans still feel for their relatives on the other side of the border. I'd be extremely surprised if there were any opposition to new leadership, or any violent or destructive trends.

The real problems will happen after a decade or two, when North Koreans have gotten used to a new standard of living, yet still lack the economic structures the make the South successful. Resentment might grow, in both directions. There'll be "stupid/lazy/obedient North Korean" jokes in the South, and impatience with the continued flow of money required to prop up the flagging economy. Meanwhile, the North will resent the arrogance of the South, start being envious of the success across the former border, and possibly start a long process of making sense of the rapid changes, their identity, and the historical injustice that randomly plunged them into darkness, while others, completely indistinguishable from them, got to enjoy their lives.

Those problems won't be insurmountable, as long as there's some leadership that doesn't budge from the necessity of the process.
That's what BMCs were like 15 years ago; they're much more sophisticated now.
The flight tracking sites doesn't use radar, they use ADS-B and a network of internet connected receivers.
I can't claim to be an expert in this field because I gave up years ago. Back when I was actively trying to prevent spam from entering my mail servers I would use:

* Fail if no SPF record

* Fail if DKIM record present in NS & not-present in message

* blacklists (DNSBL)

* heuristics (SpamAssassin)

Back then, not everyone published both SPF and DKIM. I would only fail a message if it did have a DKIM record and the message did not have the matching DKIM header. If I recall correctly, I failed everything that didn't publish an SPF record.

Blacklists are tricky because they are outside of your control. You are relying on a community of folks to tell you what is best. They are still extremely useful but use them with caution.

Heuristics need to plug in to your mail clients' "Mark as Spam" feature. There has to be a feedback mechanism.

There are a number of other configuration settings that control what can and cannot get through like requiring reverse DNS to accurately resolve sender ip = domain name.

It is a wicked problem and a game of whack-a-mole. I found it better to pay dedicated experts to handle it.
You can't say it's expensive without knowing the requirements - this is not only misleading, but it says something negative about the overall level of discourse we have.

"Why did this system cost 86 million dollars" would be much more informative. It could be that the whole thing is a waste, but that would require an actual analysis.
> I promise you - it is supported.

For a general purpose consumer chip, "supported" generally doesn't carry the implicit caveat of:

"... if you bring your own hardware engineers, pay enough $$$ to be worth letting your hardware engineers talk to our hardware engineers, and coordinate with us so we can test your very specific hardware setup(s) instead of trying to verify compatibility with a wider range of motherboards etc."

You're of course correct that Intel is supporting it for $BIG_CUSTOMER that meets this exacting list (and likely more) of requirements. But I'd say codezero is just as correct in saying "it's not supported [for general use.]"
You can't talk about explaining Prisoner's Dilemma these days without mentioning Nicky Case's excellent "Evolution of Trust". My 5yo simply loves the game.

Btw, if you are into data viz or simply enjoy Bret Victor-inspired interactive programming, Nicky has tons of similar experiments worth checking out [2].

[1] http://ncase.me/trust/

[2] http://ncase.me/
Hacks for Training Deep RL Systems
because they're biased, of course!
In my view, hand-in-hand with measurement is the proliferation of stuff to measure.

It occurs to me that at some point in the history of navigation, the skipper was probably the only literate person on the ship, if that. His log, if he kept one, was the only source of data. And you couldn't get his account until he got all the way back to port, assuming he survived.

Today, the ship (or business) is a floating, real time data acquisition server. Folks all over the world are analyzing the performance of the ship from every conceivable angle. They are literally gathering and processing more data than the skipper herself can even comprehend.
In terms of getting the best information out of the session, come armed with questions about the specific areas of the plan that you're least confident about. Also bring a few vaguer overarching questions - such as about what mistakes people most commonly make when doing such migrations; or about what the consultant sees as the highest risk component of your plan as currently formulated. These will allow you to get information about items that you may not have thought to ask about but that your expert can leverage their expertise to recognize as potential issues.

If you have time (as in hours, not seconds) to review the feedback and process it thoughtfully before responding, that can help a lot in terms of overcoming knee jerk emotional or defensive reactions.

I also find two distinctions important to make.

The first is between critique and criticism. That someone has suggestions to improve your plan doesn't mean that the plan was bad in the first place. It just means it was imperfect - as is everything humans do (yes, even you) - and has room for improvement. I think many of us in the tech community have a perfectionist streak, but when accepting feedback it's very important to forgive yourself for not being perfect.

The second is between critique of your work and critique of you personally. For those of us who take a lot of pride and invest a good deal of ourselves in our work, when someone points out its defects it can feel like a personal attack - even when the critique was in no way intended to be directed at your person. It's very important to remind yourself of that as you read or listen to feedback.

The part of accepting feedback that I personally find hardest is overcoming the sense that it means my initial work wasn't appreciated. Knowing what your own personal pitfalls are for feeling crappy about feedback can help you look out for them and catch yourself when you begin to fall into them, so you can step back and consider the situation more rationally and less emotionally.

Finally, in the bigger picture think of this as a learning experience. Imagine the work you've done so far as a school assignment to practice what you e learned so far. You're turning it in to a teacher who is going to point out areas for improvement so that you can level up the next time and do it better on your own.
CDOs helped to usher in the entire collapse of the economy in 2007. I find it hard to believe that the reemergence of these financial instruments which function largely in shadow banking are going to be a good thing long-term. It took several years for the previous CDOs to implode and did nothing but transfer monies from the middle class to those who could afford to bet on CDOs. If the same happens again, more will lose their retirements and the middle class will shrink even more.

More oversight may have been put in place but banks created instruments that were not regulated before and nothing will prevent them from creating more instruments that fall outside of the regulators reach. Finally, when you create instruments that bet on the dbt default, you are likely to achieve just that......default in large numbers. Without the success of CDOs the banks could not sell them and for them to be succesful, people must be defaulting on debt. It has been said that the next financial crisis will come from the higher incidence of default from car loans and from the burgeoning student loan default rates.

In my opinion, the increase interest and investment in CDOs spells economic trouble for all of us.
Imagine a passive system scanning fellow motorists for an abductors car that automatically alerts authorities and family members to their current location and direction.

That's the same argument that police departments use "Well we'll only use it to capture child abductors and stolen cars and stuff".

But the truth is that there just aren't that many real child abductors out there (especially with known license plates -- and when they are known, it tends to be a child-custody dispute rather than a stranger-abduction), and meanwhile a huge database of every driver's whereabouts is being amassed with no good controls over who owns the data or what it's used for.

I'm surprised companies aren't offering the service for free in return for the database. There must be huge marketing possibilities... John Doe drives past this oil change place twice a day, let's send him a coupon, or better... John Doe's car goes to Jane Smith's house twice a week and parks there for two hours, let's send his wife an ad for a private investigator.
> former US Coastguard sailor who said that his ship's captain tried, wherever possible, to not be the stand-on vessel in any encounter

That's terrible advice and as a captain he should know better. This is equivalent to giving everyone admin credentials because you can't be bothered to escalate privileges properly.

There are stand on and give way vessels and during a passage a captain should know which side they are on. The other skippers and captains are expecting certain maneuvers between stand on and give way and when you don't perform those maneuvers properly it causes confusion. I, as an amateur sailor of a 30ft+ sailboat, know when I am on either side of the rule. And I only know the most common rules as it pertains to me, my vessel, and the waters I regularly encounter (i.e. not oil fields). I fully expect a USCG captain, with thousands more sea time than I to know ColRegs completely page for page.
Run into this sort of problem all the time using Jira service desk, internal view of a ticket is new comments add to the bottom, customer view of the same ticket is that comments add to the top.

Results in everyone using 'please see below' or 'above' and everyone being confused
Register windows and delay slots.

These turned out to be not such a great idea.
There's some truth to that (see the recent Malaysian assassination under the nose of Chinese security), but China very clearly has benefited from the status quo and I would bet that there are powerful people in the NE region of China who do have influence and are pedaling it like mad right now.
Lack of sleep causes people to take risky decisions
Computer Basics: Why You Need to Take Care of Your PC
It seems to me that the alternate vendor argument does not make sense. If we do not trust Intel, then there is no reason at all to trust any of the other vendors. Intel might actually require infiltration or an order; most of your smaller chip would add backdoors for cash (and in contrast to intel, a little cash would make a huge difference in their bottom lines).
When behavioral economics meets a $700M Powerball jackpot
Not really. Preserving us is more important than preserving them.
They take the number of people from the same IP into account. IPs are broken down into public IPs vs private IPs based on traffic/timing of usage etc. There are research papers on this sort of feature contruction using only IPs. Cross device especially uses it extensively to be able to probabilistically ascertain if the person from your house who is checking their phone is the same person who checked smth on the Desktop computer last night based on your online timing, IPs, behaviour over the day. They can figure out, for instance, your office vs home browsing timing, interests etc with the same methods.
Doesn't PipelinDB limit you to postgres' scaling capabilities?
What precisely makes you think it will be 10x worse?
It's a pretty impressive video all right. Still, I have to think - presuming it's meant to be real-time, it could happen that fast, but I don't think it could happen that way that fast. I'm not a military logistics expert, but I'd have to think, to have that much movement and activity going in an hour, they would need to spend weeks, months ahead of time getting everything planned out and in position. Steps which would presumably be very obvious to the various NATO intelligence agencies.
The idea of NK dropping a nuke anywhere is just utter non-sense. It's obvious that all the threats, from both sides, are nothing more than sabre rattling and when you look at the actual actions of nations the US has done really terrible things, while NK has done very little, yet everyone seems to be OK with the US having thousands of nukes under the control of a psycho leader, but can't handle the idea of NK having some nukes to protect themselves.

What a load of malarkey.
I agree. DPRK should keep its nuclear weapons. I am more concerned about nukes in the Indian peninsula when it comes to world security. How good is Pakistan at keeping its nuclear arsenal safe? How good is India? Can we trust them to be competent?

What we should focus on is strengthening the democracy and the economy of ROK so when DPRK fails, ROK can be independent and strong like Germany was in the nineties in its unification. We are nowhere close.
https://github.com/hrbrmstr/rstudioconf2017
The Alpha AXP: Part 12: How you detect carry on a processor with no carry?
"I'm miffed that a single experiment gets described as 'this is science, dude!'".

A single data point is still a data point and this is still science.
Everything will be on the blockchain within 20 years.

Read Satoshi's original paper.

Imagine rebuilding the entire internet in a decentralized fashion.
That's assuming it can be traced to NK after detonation.
I think your examples actually proves my point: even though there are wildly different views on where the line should be drawn, we don't consider that to be a reason not to draw any lines.

So there's disagreement over the damage inflicted on a car by various actions: the car aficionado will consider it an assault on himself if you look at his car the wrong way, whereas the hippie will shrug his shoulders and bemoan the spelling mistake if someone tagged his VW Camper van with "I sukk". But even though these differences exist, nobody is arguing that setting someone's car on fire should be a criminal offence.

To get back to doping: you can reasonably argue that caffeine in huge doses is doping, and you can reasonably argue the opposite. But that's no reason not to limit EPO or genetic doping.
Oh dear. That's so creepy someone might actually do it!

I'm getting into home automation at the moment, so a use case that I think I deleted from the article was just letting you know that your mum or someone had pulled up in the driveway. License plates vs. a known list of visitors. Or as is happening here in some of our suburbs, "Alert: A group of 4 men have arrived in a stolen V8 Commodore"
Living in KS for 25 years, I have yet to see a tornado.
Well, let's see. I don't have much time to spend on this, and I'm well aware that I'm an amateur anyway, but...

One point, at least. I see no reason why a theory being difficult to test should count even slightly against the probability of its being true. Sure, it's inconvenient -- and there's something to be said for focusing on ideas that can be tested -- but since when was nature ever constrained to convenience?

As to your other questions...

I'm not sure where the 'infinite past' comes from. There's a single slice of space-time that needs to be constrained; everything else can flow from there, in both directions. If it's a low-entropy constraint then causality would naturally flow away from that slice. The two sides should be mirrors of each other, though.

As to the far future... that's harder.

- My intuition is that, when you're trying to guess at which of many possible universes you actually live in, the amount of "runtime" the theoretical universe spends on computing you (that is, some form of life, at least) should matter. But that's problematic, since it seems to predict higher complexity of the physical laws in exchange for a universe that's denser with life, and it's not what we see.

- More realistically, perhaps, the big rip might be a thing. Recurrence could fail to happen because the far future doesn't allow for structures complex enough to have thoughts, not even by random chance.

I prefer to punt on the question, though. I don't know enough to have an informed opinion.
"Hammock driven development" is the modern application to the software engineering (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f84n5oFoZBc)
Ask for time to process their feedback and schedule time days later to go over their feedback so that you can make sure that you absorb all the information provided. This will give a cooling off period and prevent emotional responses.

You may want to write down specific questions to ask as you process their report/feedback. Additionally, practice thoughtful responses that are not defensive but clarifying so that you get the most from the feedback and or clarifications.

Avoid the word "you" when referring to the developer who is doing the critique especially if you are taking issue with something that was reported. Instead, frame statements in a non confrontational manner, such as "I recognize the feedback given to mean that it may be better......". Or "for clarification, I could use some clarification for the statement/belief/finding.......". "I believe that their has been a misunderstanding/misconception when it was reported that....."

Such practiced statements will remove the defensiveness/blaming that can naturally occur when someone is critiquing something that we have worked so hard on. Time and practice can make this a good exercise for all concerned and avoid it becoming nothing more than what appears to be an attack on work that you were involved in creating.

Hope this helps.
I am from Australia, have been living in North America for 10 years.

I have also driven across the Equator twice - once in Ecuador[1] and recently in Gabon, West Africa[2].

It's funny to watch the guys standing on the Equator tricking tourists with a swirl of their wrist to supposedly demonstrate this effect.

I thoroughly enjoy watching the stars change as I progress from the Northern Hemisphere to the Southern, and the water direction slowly change.

[1] http://theroadchoseme.com/the-equator

[2] http://theroadchoseme.com/the-equator-gabon
My bigger question would be how much housing prices and rent would go down. They tend not to go down as much due to subsidies and stickiness. Absurd housing costs are the key thing keeping me away from the bay area, but it is so bad I'd need a 50% drop to make it close to reasonable.
Yeah, this is all Chinas fault. No matter what they don't come out looking good.
Particularly relevant now that the Australian Federal Government has come out and said that "the cost of Government IT has jumped to nearly $10 billion.": http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-08-28/federal-governments-$1.... And you wonder why?
A personal history of Apple Writer
Would you please not do this here? We're trying for at least a slightly higher quality level on HN. One thing that helps is not to assume stupidity in the other; we even added a new guideline recently to say that. More diplomatically though.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
i've heard the ME is not enabled in macs. for technical/architectural reasons. somebody please enlighten me if that is true.