skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>People expected wingsuit BASE to become safer with experience;

And I'm sure safety does improve with experience. They're still rolling the dice though. Some roll it with better odds than others sure but ultimately:

>On a long enough timeline the survival rate for everyone drops to zero
I agree its important to know what the government has done in the past. What I disagree with is making all of that available to anyone with access to the internet. I just imagine 11 year old boys trying this stuff out on the school.

That is what you learned from the last election? What I learned is that people can be fooled very easily. And that they can not differentiate between a qualified candidate and a pompous narcissist. But that is just my opinion.
You know it goes away right? For all the hate in this thread, I am still in love with my vive. The motion sickness is a problem at first, but your body eventually adapts- took about 2 weeks for me, now I never get motion sick what-so-ever.
[Podcast] PodCTL #3 – Making Sense of Container Standards – OpenShift Blog
People once coded in ed and it is kinda like coding blind. You don't have a display, instead you can move to specific line numbers and print or replace them. It sounds impossible at first but you get used to it if you only use ed.
the article goes on at some length on the role of coporate sponsors of jumpers.
How Does Intel Achieve the 40% Gain in Its Gen 8 Core Processors?
That's an unfortunate example. What you described as `newState = func(oldState)` is (conceptually) how practically all of this generation's state management libraries are modelled.
But 99.9999% of that drivel does not teach people how to disrupt society.
What? Of course it's not critical, especially not the paid subscription. You can get by just fine without it with a good textbook.
The fatal attraction of lead
It's interesting; none of the 'speed reading' wisdom has worked for me. When I 'skim' I seem to be way slower than most people who 'skim' - even though I'm quite competitive when 'reading' - but I also seem to usually have some idea of what the text was about, while I find it is quite common for people skimming to not have absorbed much at all from the text. That's interesting too, because I find that in 'reading' my reading comprehension is not better if you compare me to others who have the level of education implied by my profession.

When I skim, my focus is on reading faster, pushing myself through the document, and I let my unconscious deal with what information is dropped. It does move things along much faster than 'reading' at regular speed, and it does lower comprehension, but it does these things in a sort of incremental way.

Most of the time when I've read about 'speed reading' it talks a lot about consciously managing that information drop, and managing where your eyes go, which for me, slows me down quite a lot, and usually ends up making my retention all but useless.
Perhaps the server isn't returning the proper status code (I didn't check), but I have seen plenty of pages come up with just a page not found or a 403 message.
I get where you're coming from and mostly agree, but I had to chuckle. House of Cards is a remake of an 80s show of the same name :)

It's also worth a watch if you enjoyed the remake.
Depending on how you define productivity, holding a job causes a huge loss in productivity.
Microsoft’s ‘mixed reality’ headsets are a bit of a mixed bag
I don't know how many times my colleagues and I have half-jokingly suggested just throwing out most HTML and CSS and just draw everything to a canvas.
UNICAF- Study for a British Level 6 Diploma and Receive 9 ACCA Exemptions
SLIME does let you redefine functions and restart a stack frame (assuming the Lisp implementation supports that). You can even do it without using Emacs/SLIME, although that's not very convenient of course. A silly example with SBCL,

~ $ rlwrap sbcl --noinform
CL-USER> (defun foobar (x y)
(if (evenp x)
(/ x y)
(* x y)))

FOOBAR
CL-USER> (foobar 10 0)

debugger invoked on a DIVISION-BY-ZERO in thread
#<THREAD "main thread" RUNNING {1001BB64C3}>:
arithmetic error DIVISION-BY-ZERO signalled
Operation was /, operands (10 0).

Type HELP for debugger help, or (SB-EXT:EXIT) to exit from SBCL.

restarts (invokable by number or by possibly-abbreviated name):
0: [ABORT] Exit debugger, returning to top level.

(SB-KERNEL::INTEGER-/-INTEGER 10 0)
0] backtrace 3

Backtrace for: #<SB-THREAD:THREAD "main thread" RUNNING {1001BB64C3}>
0: (SB-KERNEL::INTEGER-/-INTEGER 10 0)
1: (FOOBAR 10 0)
2: (SB-INT:SIMPLE-EVAL-IN-LEXENV (FOOBAR 10 0) #<NULL-LEXENV>)

0] down
(FOOBAR 10 0)

1] source 1

(IF (EVENP X)
(#:***HERE*** (/ X Y))
(* X Y))
1] (defun foobar (x y)
(if (and (evenp x) (not (zerop y)))
(/ x y)
(* x y)))

WARNING: redefining COMMON-LISP-USER::FOOBAR in DEFUN
FOOBAR
1] restart-frame

0
The difference between a tiny tornado and a big tornado is immaterial when your house is in the path.

There were at least four times in the twenty years that I lived in upstate NY that snowstorms caused power outages and impassable roads at the same time.

You can't just name one place as safe from natural disasters and then explain that the two natural disasters that they get there don't count.
The difference would probably be that while anyone can add (or update) a package to the AUR, the xbps-src maintainers have to explicitly allow this. On the one hand it makes it harder to start contributing, but on the other hand, there is a minimum level of quality that is maintained. After a while you get used to it though, and ultimately updates are processed pretty quickly, especially if the submitters know what they're doing.
> 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

I went to a school that is very far away from CMU, MIT, Stanford, Berkeley, etc and my core requirements were A LOT more than 4 or 5 courses. I'd have to check by I can name at least 8 core requirements off the top of my head.

> which you can for sure cram into 6 months if that's all you're studying

So your suggestion is for people to look at a CS syllabus and find a way to teach themselves all of the core courses?

I have my bachelors in CS. I never really programmed until college. 6 months into my BS I had barely wet my feet with Scheme, learned a little bit of discrete math, and had a VERY basic introduction to formal logic. I knew exactly one programming language.
Given the current value of bitcoin, I think we'd need to put a satoshi in the jar (I'm personally not swimming in bitcoin)
Houston's third “500-year” flood in the past three years
As far as I know it is literally the same thing as sea-sickness.

You get over it eventually.
I agree completely.

The sad thing is that this is actually very cool technology and I bet there are real use cases out there that could benefit from them. But the ones I have seen are not it.
I wonder if Ethereum itself will also be punished when all these tokens come crashing down...
For the interested Plan 9 from User Space/plan9port is presently maintained at https://github.com/9fans/plan9port

More acme info at http://acme.cat-v.org

Acme has a cousin, sam: http://sam.cat-v.org
You Don’t Need a Technical Co-Founder for Your Startup
Why can't you learn to sail a small boat properly after learning to sail a big boat? I don't see how the example works in the first place.
Great suggestions! We’re planning on improving the format
Rather than assume anything nefarious on the part of the USG, I'm willing to bet a buck that someone in the USG asked the right questions during contract negotiation, which is why this kill switch was added but not publicized to anyone outside participants in the HAP Program.
A stupid gaming site. It wasn't that great I also live a rather simple life. Best month this site was $1900 or so, usually less.

Also i dont know either. It really still bothers me. We can't fix the ad industry if we just turn a blind eye.
They've been around for a long time on OS X.
There was a Hackernews thread a while ago [1]

Basically, KeePassX is maintained by one person and hasn't seen activity in quite a while. keepassxc is a community fork, they continue development, and merged various bugfixes as well as new features.

Additional Features according to project page: [2]

* Auto-Type on all three major platforms (Linux, Windows, macOS)

* Twofish encryption

* YubiKey challenge-response support

* TOTP generation

* CSV import

* Command line interface

* DEP and ASLR hardening

* Stand-alone password and passphrase generator

* Password strength meter

* Using website favicons as entry icons

* Merging of databases

* Automatic reload when the database was changed externally

* KeePassHTTP support for use with PassIFox in Mozilla Firefox, chromeIPass in Google Chrome and Chromium and passafari in Safari.

* Many bug fixes

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13468261
[2] https://keepassxc.org/project
Link Building Strategies – 25 SEO experts share their best tips 2017
This sick and hateful person participated in the harassment campaign against Rod Vagg.
On Remote Teams
People were white-lining with their crotch-rocket motorcycles at 135 mph before cameras got small enough to mount on their helmets.

They used to just be a page 3 story in the local newspaper. Now their final rides are re-posted to every "rekt" thread.

Perhaps eventually, enough people will absorb the lesson that doing a dangerous thing is dangerous, and will stop trying to make the "oh shit" glands above their kidneys express their "we're about to die" juice.

I have seen enough of those videos that I'm pretty sure that the way I will die is by my tiny commuter sedan being forcibly disassembled by a heavy tractor-trailer or large SUV that crosses the center line. Humans are such fragile things. Why would you intentionally do things that might get your brains splattered across a rock, when we only have another 40 to 60 years to go until you can make a backup almost as good as biology provided?
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Flooding from Harvey Closes NASA Center in Houston, but ISS Operations Continue
> But they HAVE this privilege (installing packages) normally in Fedora, so it isn't privilege escalation.

They don't have permission to write files as root without the help of polkit and pkcon. They can write files as root with the polkit policy's help. Broadly, or not... intentionally, or not! As an outsider coming from another distro, I would argue that policy does not follow the "principle of least surprise."

Maybe long-time RH users are already not surprised, it looks like this is in no way a recent change.

> Or just create large empty files??

If you set up sensible per-user disk quotas, you will prevent this. But if the user can write new files to the disk that are owned by root via polkit, then that would enable them to circumvent your per-user disk quotas. They will not own the files that pkcon writes via polkit.

(For a second I was going to suggest it would be worse if they did own the file, because of setuid bits... but then I remembered where this conversation started, and what side of this debate I'm supposed to be on. ;)

Also a setuid bit on a file that you own would only enable you to escalate your privileges to... yourself. I'm sure any packages that have setuid bits are at the top of Fedora's security audit list, though... if you installed a package that installs a binary with setuid bits, that's another possible avenue for privilege escalation vulnerability that you did not have before PolKit opened the window for you.
Deferrable Postgres Constraints in Depth
For me it was mainly package management, and the unwillingness to get acquainted to a new userland.

But it has to be said, that void is pretty BSD-like, in some ways, and maybe someone will port pf one day (although I don't even know if that's possible at all...)
Not throwaway 'cos I'm in Vermont :D

That's a really good point. To the extent that power is the accumulation of capital, and gaining dominance in free services to produce lock-in and monetization in other ways, this is an obvious insight.

Also, it's been Google's business model this whole time, which suggests that it works really well. There's a conversation worth having about the balance between the benefits we get from natural monopolies of this nature, and the power traded away through enabling them.
Ask HN: Reorganization and productivity
Have you experienced loss of productivity after going through a corporate re-organization in a reputed big company (Microsoft/Google), and made you quit the company?
Same thoughts! It will take some time before Apple eventually reaches there.
It is closer than it was 50 years ago! The way I see it, I need it working in 30 years. I'm confident it will be here by then.
LinkedIn announces open source tool to keep Kafka clusters running
That's very interesting, thanks.
The system seems cool but the UI's insistence on mouse usage is a non-starter for a lot of people.

If you look at some of the white papers, Pike starts with assertions that the mouse must be a front and center input mechanism. I reject the premise.

I'd argue pushing as much functionality to the keyboard and using natural language to interact is more productive in the long run.
Making a Helm chart available is planned, should subscribe to this issue to get a heads up on when its ready to consume.

https://github.com/alexellis/faas-netes/issues/10
Show HN: Open source Deep Learning Background removal service
Me and my colleague have been working on a small POC for Background removal. We used semantic segmentation trained on selfies, and documented the process of training and deploying a Keras model with Docker, Heroku and a Gitlab CI in 3 posts:

https://greenscreen-ai.boorgle.com Server side implementation
https://greenscreen-ai-client.boorgle.com Client side implementation using KerasJS

Training post
https://medium.com/@gidishperber/background-removal-with-dee...

Deploying Keras model to Heroku with Gitlab CI
https://medium.com/@burgalon/deploying-your-keras-model-3564...

KerasJS client side post
https://medium.com/@burgalon/deploying-your-keras-model-usin...

Server side source code
https://gitlab.com/fast-science/background-removal-server

Client side post
https://gitlab.com/fast-science/background-removal-vue
> A comparison to bars of gold is OK however since that is money and not a representation.

Bars of gold certainly are a "representation" of money. They are only worth something so long as we all say they are. (Besides the little bit of intrinsic value from electrical wiring.) If people stopped saying gold was worth anything, it wouldn't be.
I disagree that you need a solid founding in information theory. Almost all that I've seen about IT in ML is minimizing the KL divergence, which can be learned by browsing the wiki page.
You can actually get the latest edition of Elements of Stastical Learning for free as a (legal) pdf from the author!

https://web.stanford.edu/~hastie/ElemStatLearn/
This is very enlightening, and great work with Fluture!
It also creates large swaths of potentially lucrative revenue opportunities based on the size of the Uber user base, without the quantifiability of those swaths that you would see in core-product market expansion, or core-product optimization.

The cynic in me says that you can juice Uber with a bunch of these tie-ins, box out competitors by creating these partnerships, and IPO at a valuation based on aspirational performance of these partnerships that would make most people happy.
you'll never really learn to sail a small boat properly

This analogy lost its sway for me with the word 'never'. It's not impossible, in either case.

Perhaps working with a small boat / low-level language is indeed 'harder', so you may be better equipped to deal with the higher-level easier language, after learning the low-level language. Teaching high level languages down to low level languages would be an increase in difficulty, and thus that becomes one logical path for learning. I'm not saying this path satisfies all learning use-cases, merely perhaps the majority in 2017.

I'm not familiar enough with sailing to say whether the same principle transfers to boats...
I personally don't like subscription pricing for desktop software. I prefer a fixed price that I can pay up front. I like having control of when I update and if I update.
This uses systemd-containers, but can fall back to using a chroot, which requires root.

Usermode linux involves running a linux-kernel as just another piece of software under linux. By telling software to access the usermode linux, you can give it a different "view" of the system. That linux kernel process must communicate with the real-kernel, doing things like forwarding network traffic to the "real" kernels network devices. It introduces overhead.

A chroot interrupts one system call (or set of system calls?), making any program you call think "/" is a different directory. It literally changes root. That being said, all it changes is where programs think the root dir is. If you have software in the chroot that runs as root, it actually runs as root on your entire system. It can do things like load custom kernel modules. It can't break out of the chroot, chroots aren't a security feature.

Containers, like systemd-nspawn, use cgroups along with a more-aggressive chroot-like thing, that gives programs a different view of all system calls, not just calls to the filesystem. This means you can run software as "root" in a container without privilege escalation.

Of course it doesn't need to be a full container. Firejail can use those same mechanisms to do things like isolate just your web browser. https://firejail.wordpress.com/
I'd not come across the different levels of autonomous driving before.

0	No Driving Automation

1	Driver Assistance

2	Partial Driving Automation

3	Conditional Driving Automation

4	High Driving Automation

5	Full Driving Automation

From https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonomous_car#Levels_of_dri...
What doesn't work is actually Groups which my coworkers use (https://askubuntu.com/questions/573620/how-to-activate-group...).

But I will try again because maybe they did it.

--edit--

Yep, this now works.
Interesting thought. Does that mean that we will have to program against multiple universes when quantum computers will be a thing? That does sound like an engineering nightmare.
Athelas launches a new type of blood testing device for the home
I don't think any *BSD uses xbps - sadly.
It depends on how deep you want to go and what your goals are, but I'd say that CuriouslyC pretty much nailed it. Multi-variable calculus, linear algebra, and probability / stats are definitely the core.

If you're interested in finding more "freely available online" maths references, check out:

http://people.math.gatech.edu/~cain/textbooks/onlinebooks.ht...

http://www.openculture.com/free-math-textbooks

https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/SearchResults.aspx?subjec...

https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/online-textbooks/#mathematics

https://aimath.org/textbooks/approved-textbooks/

There's also a TON of high-quality maths instructional content on Youtube, Videolectures.net, etc. For example, there's some really good stuff by David McKay (also mentioned in CuriouslyC's post) here:

http://videolectures.net/david_mackay/

Be sure to check out Professor Leonard:

https://www.youtube.com/user/professorleonard57

Gilbert Strang:

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=gilbert+strang

and 3blue1brown:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYO_jab_esuFRV4b17AJtAw

as well.
HelloGitHub 17
Yeah I have this sense that the hammer is hovering over some of these peoples' heads and we are about to see mass arrests. Some of these are flagrant scams with very identifiable names attached to them. I'm sorry but if you raise capital for a venture it is not your money, and if you behave as if it is you are committing a crime.

If that does happen crypto will crash. The crash will bleed over into Bitcoin too because sheep.

In the long run it might be a good thing. Maybe ICOs will get re-invented as something more reputable. I know Naval Ravikant (AngelList) is involved in a project to create a reputable sort of ICO vehicle patterned after the SAFE and he has an excellent reputation. I feel bad for the people right now trying to do legitimate work in this space and having to compete with a bunch of obvious cranks and fakes.
Expedia sold trip advisor few years back, now they own another Meta Trivago.
Amazon officially owns Whole Foods
You're absolutely right, that's a great point.
Sane defaults.
What is a trend?
GnuPG 2.2.0 released
I learned about Shannon about a year and a half ago. Very impressive figure, but it was clear that he wasn't in the popular consciousness at all. I have noticed a significant increase in the number of things being put out about him and had been wondering why. I'm not surprised a concerted effort is behind it. We're all the better for learning about him though so I welcome it.
I'm sure he's right, but then why is everyone joining the race now? Wouldn't it be way less expensive to wait until at least some of the problems are solved?

Also, it sure seems like level 5 autonomous driving is just a few steps short of general AI, which is still lightyears away.
One thing I would love someone to explain is how can people assume cars are going to be automated soon when both planes and trains haven't been automated for various reasons. They are different issues I have gathered but essentially shouldn't trains be dead simple but to this day at least the trains(not metras though) often have someone to stop the train in case of emergencies. Planes are more complex but have lower crash ratings and less obstacles but can't stop and still have 2 plus pilots.
> You have to realize though that as developers we invest a lot of time on learning a technology

But plenty of front-end developers have not developed in Vue. If I'm starting a new project and someone suggests doing it in Vue, and I have to learn it all anyway, I might consider this as an alternative.
> unveiled a new concept car, the Concept-i

Man sure would be cool if any concept car ever presented were actually released. They do look fancy and futuristic.
Statistics and Probability - For non-math background, Openintro.org with R and Sas lab is a good one. Khan academy videos on the same again makes a lot of concepts easier.

http://www.r-bloggers.com/in-depth-introduction-to-machine-l...
Introduction to Statistical Learning http://www-bcf.usc.edu/~gareth/ISL/ (Rob S and by Trevor H, Free I guess) for more in depth, Elements of Statistical Learning by the same.

Linear Algebra (Andrew Ng's this part in Introduction to Machine Learning is a short and crisp one)

If you're not scared by Derivatives, you can check them. But you can easily survive and even excel as a data scientist or ML practitioner with these.
I mentioned it 5 comments up…
Announcement for the previous version:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14971203

Rationale for reverting to --no-auto-key-retrieve:

https://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-devel/2017-August/03...
But maybe that contract negotiation also included a rhetorical question like "And you won't offer this option to other governments, will you?".
Wikipedia has examples of how Kishōtenketsu can be applied to fairy tales and arguments: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kish%C5%8Dtenketsu
If ME is not a backdoor then why doesn't Intel allow to disable it? Why don't they publish detailed descriptions? Why don't they allow user to run their programs on ME CPU?
vehicular traffic is a cluster.. esp with the variables involving non autonomous cars, non-vehicular traffic... random objects that end up in the road compounding the complexities of all other variables.