skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just invented a different snowdrift game, modeled on something that happened to me a couple of years ago.

You live in a townhouse next to another family that shares a driveway which turns onto a medium traffic density one-way street (there are traffic lights a few hundred feet away which control flow). Gaps in traffic tend to exist around when the lights change.

The frequency of snowstorms this year is higher than normal, and the overworked snowplows have made a snow bank too tall and wide to see around in your car. The only way onto the street is to turn blindly and hope that either no one is coming, or that they see you in time to stop.

Your salary is $x/hour, and it would take two hours to manually trim the snowbank to the point where you can see above it. Thus, it would cost $2x to remove the snowbank (assuming you could work overtime and earn the money).

Each party makes a choice if they would shovel the bank alone, with help, or not at all. If they both do it, they both lose $1x in OT wages. If one does it alone, $2x. But if neither do it, the hazard remains and each party rolls a 6-sided die. Anybody rolling a 1 loses $kx (where k is larger than x), and no longer have a car to participate with.

That covers one day. It will take 7 days for the city to remove the snow bank if no one else does. Any parties with a car will repeat this 6 additional times until the snow bank is removed.

Then rank the dollars lost and award real world prizes for the top positions. If there are 10 people and the top 5 get the exact same prize, shoveling might become attractive (through co-operation, as it is extremely likely at least one of the two parties per trial will be eliminated).
Sometimes a bad location really can sink you. A new restaurant with great food at reasonable prices also may not catch on soon enough for a number of reasons and get dealt a kill date.
It is hard to see how the mouse enhances textual interaction. Contrasted with GUI interaction like Starcraft, where it is kind of a clear win.

Similarly, using a pen is a clear win for artists, which is why wacom and now surface are such successes in their fields.
I see, it appears ME 11 was introduced in September 2015, which means this discovery came about in less than two years.
Last time I encountered this on the network, the hot thing was self-contained 55-gallon plastic drums, with integrated thermal signature hiding and odor control. You plug it in, add water and hydroponics chemicals, and mostly leave it alone until ready for harvest. But at the time I saw it, the electronic control systems were largely do-it-yourself, rather than turnkey, off-the-shelf control units.

By this time, there should probably be a package targeted for Raspberry Pis, and the ability for your cannabis plant to text you via Signal if she wants some attention.
The biggest fake news story is that all of my news is true.
It was a major eye opening experience the first time I saw My Neighbor Totoro. There was a charming and wonderful film that was completely devoid of conflict! Yet, it worked and worked well. It went against everything I had been taught in every English class in my life.
If you're going to claim something is fake news and elude to 'high def video' proving it, then why can't you provide that video when someone asks for it?

I'm beginning to agree with you about this being "a clear-cut case of people being willfully ignorant."

Edit: The video you linked in your edit does not show the crowds. Why did you edit that video link in? Where is the high-def video you eluded to proving the NPS photos were fake news?
I don't think they are nearly as bad as they used to be - pretty sure the "I don't want to buy travel insurance" is no longer half way down a list of countries!
I think that audio recognition is an order of magnitude less complicated than fully autonomous driving. The world is fully contextless outside the road to an not-even-at-insect-level brain driving two tons of metal, and anything can happen.

Voice recognition is getting just barely tolerable. If you have tried to do something important using voice recognition you'd probably go bat shit crazy after a while. If it had the potential to kill people no sane human would allow it.
Why wouldn't a grant agency get acknowledgements if they provided funding?

If you look at the winning pod, it is covered with logos of sponsors as acknowledgement.
Ask HN: When does it make sense to use a 401K to fund a startup?
It's just been brought to my attention that one can use a structure known as ROBS (Rollover for Business Startup) to invest IRA or 401K money into their own business.

Has anyone had experience taking this approach? If I'm planning on launching a bootstrapped startup in a year does it make sense to max out my 401K now and invest it via ROBS to bypass income tax?
Bear in mind the camera is close to the ground (not to mention in a very narrow tunnel) which exaggerates the feeling of speed.
#deleteUber happened weeks before Susan Fowler's blog post, was accelerated because TK was on the Trump business council at the time (assumed connection between the two) and had a much larger impact on the business metrics. A more "woke" CEO would have been able to stem the bleeding from that situation or have avoided it all together.
I've been consulting for 17 years...

Even though the company is just me, I approach it as a business and do a mix of hourly projects and fixed fee projects. At any given time I have 1-3 projects going on at once.

What I work on depends primarily on the client. With some clients it is all about the 'why' and we do real business analysis. These are massively rewarding.

Other clients treat me like someone who "Shovels poop for money" and just want me to do whatever they say. These are not as rewarding--but are often profitable.
The dilation of your pupils is actually only responsible for a small portion of your eyes' ability to adjust to ambient brightness. The rest is your rods and cones adjusting their sensitivity biochemically.
Intel ME is not an effective DRM scheme. You need to be exceptionally careful when you mention DRM, because if it becomes commonly believed that Intel ME could be used to implement DRM all of a sudden the DMCA comes into play. Research into Intel ME vulnerabilities becomes a federal crime.
There's a series of courses on Coursera, part of a Specialization from Duke titled something like "Statistics and Probability with R" or something like that. I've taken the first few classes in that series and have found them pretty good. The class on Bayesian Statistics is a little more difficult, but not too bad. I'll just say that you might want to complement the class with another book or other references on Bayesian stats. I've used this book:

https://www.amazon.com/Bayes-Rule-Tutorial-Introduction-Baye...
Note that the SD is not actually a dilemma. The PD is a dilemma because you ALWAYS do better for yourself in any given iteration by defecting no matter what your opponent does. In the SD, if your opponent defects, you still do better for yourself by cooperating. So of course people will cooperate more under those circumstances. The only thing left to argue about is what the payoff matrix for real-world situations looks like.
To anyone who loves Star Trek, Firefly, BSG etc: I want to highlight Blake's Seven for you as a really great series that's well worth a watch:

Imagine a gritty British version of the original Star Trek.

In this story, the federation are evil, and the crew aren't all that nice either, and basically just want to survive having lucked out on finding a ship at the right moment. They're forced into cooperation by necessity.

It's not about exploration or Tribbles, it's about a bunch of people just trying to stay alive and eventually organise a rebellion.

The primary antagonist (Servalan) is a) female b) fairly competent at her job

Two of the characters in the series are artificial intelligences.

The ending of the show is excellent.

There are audiobooks that tell further stories in the Blake-i-verse. Amazon has most/all of them. There seem to be quite a few episodes on Youtube (Blakes7Movies) if you're curious to watch.

If you like the genre of 'space warship crew on the run', you may also enjoy LEXX and The Expanse.

It's hard to believe that B7 hasn't been rebooted.
If you want to think clearly about these issues, you need to be very careful to define "altruistic" and "selfishness" for yourself properly. It seems to be a common temptation to assume as you implicitly do that an altruistic or selfishness-free act must net harm at all time scales the person so acting, but if you try to map that definition back to the real world, you find that it doesn't isn't as useful a model as you'd like for the behaviors you care about. I have phrased that very carefully; it is not as if it is an objectively wrong definition, because it's pretty hard for such a thing to exist. It's just that it's not exactly what we're trying to figure out here.
Of course there is, that is why they added it (and made it unstoppable) in the first place.
I miss Karabiner, and regretted upgrading to Sierra as soon as I found out Karabiner wasn't supported. I miss the ability to map both Escape key and control key to capslock key, which is essentially the greatest thing for my Vim productivity.
Image and Video codecs come under attack quite often see https://blog.sucuri.net/2016/05/imagemagick-remote-command-e...

In this context the image manipulation they do with pillow and the underlying libjpeg would be a potential source of vulnerabilities.
Recommended reading: Forty Signs of Rain by Kim Stanley Robinson, plus the two other books in that trilogy: Fifty Degrees Below; Sixty Days and Counting.
> It'd be nice if the author gave examples of significant plots using the structure, like a novel or a film.

Indeed; I found a lot of pages talking about this concept, but almost none mentioning any examples of its implementation. In fact, the only long-form story (not a four panel comic strip or poem) I saw brought up as an example of it was Kiki's Delivery Service, which has plenty of conflict.

It seems more like something that people theoretically like the idea of. It's also interesting the way it's presented as an Eastern vs. Western dichotomy, with Westerners supposedly viewing conflict as central to a story and Easterners not viewing it as essential. I don't see any indication that Eastern stories are less conflict driven than Western ones (most of the major ones I'm familiar with, such as the Four Great Classical Chinese Novels, have plenty of conflict).
It's not true that you don't perceive the darkening of the sun until just near totality. Instead, what you get is a really weird subliminal creepy feeling that something is wrong.

You're seeing things with the brightness of a rainy day, and then with the brightness of sunset, but the color balance is that of full sunlight. For me at least it's very unsettling, and I wonder if other people experience it that way.

The uncanny feeling is quite visceral and a big part of the reason I think eclipses just have to be experienced. All kinds of alarms go off in your animal brain when the moon eats the sun.

This is not to take away from the author's very correct observation that the light effects only really kick in close to totality, I'd say with over 90% of the sun covered.
This is the only one of the bunch that I've been able to install some packages on RHEL5 and RHEL3 that I'm stuck with. (And even then, only with too much effort bootstrapping.)
Wow great to have a Pathologist in the Room.

I think this device is super awesome and I was trying to come up with something similar a few years back.

The primary concerns is that one of the first things I learnt in Med School is that capillary blood is way less reliable in compare to venous blood for something as important as CBC.

Not sure how they are accounting for the issue that the sample they have isn't the best one to get started with.

ps: killjoywashere how do I get in touch with you ? Am at Asingh [at] healthenclave.com
Is there an option to install a fisheye mirror so people in the driveway can see perpendicularly down the street?

https://www.reflectionproducts.com/images/View-car-200-feet-...
Ask HN: Evolving from freelancing gigs to a consulting company?
I feel like i am stuck in a loop, I see a lot of folks struck in this as well, I started a freelancing account on upwork/freelancer/similar site, a year or two later, I have an established profile, I want to build a company instead of getting gigs as an individual (because of the securtiy net / the prospect of getting paid even when i can't work etc). But the gigs I have as yet, don't convert as they insist I be the one to write the code instead of someone I hire. Any advice on people who have been through this problem? how should i address it?
everything that "came out against uber" had little impact on the business metrics. The bad event for uber was a widespread campaign to delete the app that started in january when Tk was on trumps business council and uber caused some outrage when they turned off surge during a "muslim ban" strike by taxi workers at JFK.
I think you might have better luck posting this at stackoverflow https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/sql.

However; since "DROPS" is not an SQL reserved keyword (check the list here: https://www.drupal.org/docs/develop/coding-standards/list-of...) you should be fine.
Ooooof course the Godwin Law's still a thing...

Totalitarianism has emerged in societies lacking free speech as well. it's usually a lot more complicated than that.

Regulating free speech is indeed a slippery slope. But it might need to be regulated, I don't have no idea to be honest. A free market works best for the common good when it's regulated though, and I could see it being the same way for free speech. But a slippery slope it is.
Note that only MacKay (that’s the correct spelling) and Hastie/Tibshirani/Friedman are legally available online.

edit: Goodfellow/Bengio/Courville, not mentioned in the previous comment, is also available online: http://www.deeplearningbook.org
Intel Announces Movidius Myriad X VPU, Featuring ‘Neural Compute Engine’
San Jose’s land use rules may keep the city from meeting its housing goals
One neat engineering trick in tesla battery packs is that the last resort fusing is part of the battery pack construction itself (the spot-welded connection to the actual cell is intentionaly surprisingly weak to act as a last resort fuse)

On the other hand, the difference is in that for the mains there is always going to be some kind of fusing, that is not part of what the tinkerer owns and probably does not even know where it is located. For solar and huge battery packs you own the whole thing and can mess with anything in the system, even more so when you build the thing from individual cells instead of buying COTS solution with bunch of "no user servicable parts inside" labels.
This is the part that gets me (you beat me to the reply, heh): So you buy a skateboard; then suddenly, your pages are full of skateboard ads. Then you buy a new set of wheels; ok, now your pages would likely be full of parts for a skateboard. Then you buy a ramp or something: Now you get all kinds of skateboard paraphernalia, safety devices, hell maybe some scooters.

Given these generous assumptions:
* That all these purchases are trackable, by the same advertiser, with definite certainty
* That you're even buying online in the first place, so you can advertised to
* That you'd respond to advertising at all, because thus far their recommendations have been purely reactive, not predictive of what you'd buy
* That an eventual purchase could be directly tied to the advertisers work

After all of that investment of time, money, and energy, if they somehow managed to secure a sale of say, knee pads, how much do they actually make? And how much did the knee pad company pay to acquire that lead which led to a sale?

My basic question is: How is any of this profitable? It seems like an absolutely massive ecosystem of enormous firms all trading money back and forth and trading data back and forth, to at best, make marginal bumps in otherwise happening sales.

This boggles my mind and I would love an enlightened HNer to weigh in if they happen to read this.
They say right in the article that they're doing image resizes on the server, for instance. With a customized library too...Hope it's sandboxed well!
That's odd, crunchbase says their IPO was in July of 2005.[1] According to Expedia's website, IAC acquired Expedia in August of 2003[2]. It looks like between 2000 & 2005 Expedia/IAC had acquired a number of online travel companies. My thought is that when IAC purchased Expedia it was no longer being traded publicly. In 2005 IAC rolled in the additional travel companies and put Expedia back on the public markets.
[1] https://www.crunchbase.com/ipo/7451f106bd9bae69f9eb02a69f8c4...
[2] http://www.expediainc.com/about/history/
The main source of light during totality is the ring of daylight around the horizon. It looks like sunset in every direction.

I wonder how dark an eclipse could get under optimal conditions (wide track, and heavy overcast all around except in the path of the shadow).
That's a great read. I've always been interested in learning how such tech-oriented companies found their initial traction. Are there any blog posts / articles / podcasts about Uploadcare's early days and the search for the product/market fit?
systemd by default limits programs to a certain amount of memory (this bit me in the ass while working on getting OpenStack running on Ubuntu 16.04, and MySQL would get killed because of memory usage).

Various other systems also limit with things like /etc/login.conf on FreeBSD. There is also /etc/security/limits.conf on Linux for non-systemd stuff.

Limits for memory usage/open files/things of that nature are natural. You don't want one runaway process to cause the rest of your system to OOM.
I knew a location where in the 15 years I lived in the area 10 restaurants remodeled the building and then failed. Apparently no one data mined the history of the building. There are lots of reasons why a restaurant go out of business; often decisions made before the first customer even shows up will kill it.
This is anecdotal but I've noticed my time online is more 'productive' since quitting facebook. In places like waiting rooms, public transportation or general boredom the precise parts of the internet you use to waste time all serve a similar purpose (e.g to keep from staring into space mindlessly in the absence of other stimuli).

The greater productivity enters the picture because now I read things like hacker news and look up random things on the internet. This has lead to me learning useful skills and enough general knowledge to be helpful with different courses I've taken and small chat with people about their professions, interests etc.

Granted, there's the whole issue of people choosing their smartphone over interacting with the equally bored stranger next to them, but thats an entirely different problem.
German nurse suspected of killing at least 90 in bizarre game to test his skills
An MNIST-like fashion product dataset
UWP and .NET Standard 2.0: A preview is now available
I'm taking a measure theory course right now, and we primarily use some set theory and some topology of R^n.
I concur with the "creepy" feeling. I wasn't in the path to experience the full eclipse and it was slightly overcast, and wasn't even aware of the exact time of peak occlusion where I was. However, I still noticed that something wasn't quite right. Noticeably peculiar.
Except that apart from AWS Amazon is still not profitable
Reductive. You seem to be searching for a reason to disagree. He/she stated his point crudely, granted, but he/she did have one: There are certain forms of speech that are outlawed in certain places in the interest of preventing harm to people. For instance, countries with anti-Holocaust-denial laws. Yet they remain reasonably free and tolerant societies. CP is another example. Many governments and people operate without the idea (delusion?) that all speech should be allowed. Fetishization of free speech is a uniquely US-centric phenomenon.

Your faux outrage is irritating. You're really going to debate that fake news on FB and elsewhere has had a real impact shaping beliefs and attitudes?
It's funny, I never bothered much analyzing these photos but now that I have it's obvious how much the Gigapixel backs up the WaPo photos.

And yet the parent seems to believe that pointing out optical perspective differences means we're calling those pictures "right-leaning".
I wish the people who answer this question are people that are current deep learning engineers or data scientist that use deep learning in real world settings,

Why do you want answers only from people doing deep learning? Deep learning is just a subset of the overall field (albeit an incredibly popular and useful one).

Anyway, the simple solution is just to use some simple machine learning of your own to analyze the data set which these threads constitute. Look for patterns... are certain answers being repeated over and over again, by different posters? Then I'd argue that your Bayesian posterior for "this is legitimately important" should go up.

Take Linear Algebra for example... given the sheer number of people saying "linear algebra" in their answers, it seems a reasonably bet to me that LA is really, truly useful. Either that or there's some really freaking group-think shit going on. :-)
No, that isn't a problem. JSM also defined the Offense Principle, which doesn't trump freedom of speech. You're free to whinge about future hypothetical scenarios of you crying in front of liberal leaders so long as it doesn't cause harm.
"while our worldview is "everything is a competition" that is how we will interpret what we see."

If you think that the idea that competition is rife is merely a product of our world view, stop competing for a while and see what happens. You may have to think carefully about what all constitutes "competition"; you come from a very long line of survivors and there's a lot of competitive behaviors that come naturally to you. Squeezing them all out may take some work.

Competition is a second-order effect; the primary cause is the limited nature of desirable resources, and the ability of resources consumers to step up their rate of consumption exponentially in the face of an increase of resources. Unless you can prove that resources are not limited here and now, you're going to get competition.
As a reformed government executive, I really hate to see matters thrown to the government to correct. Having said that, there is a huge disparity in power between a VC and a founder(s) seeking funding. No founder should be subjected to unwanted advances in order to have a chance at receiving the funding they seek.

I wish we would see a group with influence come forward with a means for holding VCs accountable rather than resorting to seeking government protection. Personally I do think that if a founder is sexually harassed they should be able to sue the offending VC/company, but I fear this will only widen the cavern between women seeking funding and those actually receiving funding. And by with a means, I mean something like what YC did with VCs who were taking advantage of founders with very Unfriendly term sheets not being invited to Demo Days. Maybe something like that could help to keep the VCs in line if their actions kept them from access to deals. Please do not misunderstand, I am not saying that YC should become the gatekeeper/investigator of these issues but maybe tech businesses could come together to form an alliance that would hold VCs accountable for their actions. Although that is not likely to happen I just wish we could find a way that does not involve handing more power/oversight to the government.