skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can you hire temp work to do data cleaning? (Aka, solve it with money? with mechanical turk?). If so, don't waste my time. If the data cleaning requires judgement then that's fine. Every job has dog work. I have to chase references for the papers I read which takes days of effort. But doing it right (aka "providing quality") is important here. Quality matters.
Shouldn't we expect life on Enceladus to be different enough to tell the difference?
I'm the same way, if I open my manager on a public pc, for all I know every single password I have is compromised.
I saw it reported first in conspiracy sites citing also very doubtful news sites.

The typical conspiracy theorist goes from "wow those f* commies" when such story appears, to "false flag" when it gets to big news. It has some logic, considering last 100 years.

Personally, I just entertain my self, as I don't have the skin in the game and I am not paid to give opinions.
The only way it would help is if we had some other way to rule out asteroid impact ejecta but not probe contamination. So we'd have: 1) Life on Enceladus that's 2) genetically indistinguishable from Earth life, which 3) we know didn't travel on a rock, but 4) could have travelled on a probe. We're getting into teapot-orbiting-Mars territory.
> }))}`] } }

Yet only things called Lisp ever get flamed for this.

If it is just )))))) you only have to just auto-repeat ) until the editor indicates a match to the one you are trying to close. It's only "how many you owe", not "what kinds do you owe, in what order".
Ask HN: Best way to manage a single server from Git in 2017?
I'd like to run a single, small VPS for some personal projects. I want the configuration of this server to be entirely driven from a git repository. What are the simplest tools for doing this in 2017?

Puppet? Chef? Ansible? I'm only running one server so I don't want to have to think about separate coordinator nodes, puppet masters or anything like that.

For any suggested solutions, are there rock solid tutorials on using them to manage a single instance?
Then have government provide an "official" email/youtube platform or hell roll your own, which with email at least is perfectly possible.

Using these services is literally a choice, it is in many ways the best choice, but it's not the only choice available.
Everything Hinton says echoes strongly Kuhn's philosophy on the scientific paradigm. I guess it's not too much of a surprise that he thinks this is the case, but it also shows how intelligent (and shockingly humble) he is to make such a statement.

I wish I'd heard of the conference, dammit!
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There are still plenty of legacy green-screen (text based) applications alive in the corporate world that need to be accessed with an ssh or even telnet client.
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I think it was the X-37B
http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2017/09/06/us-air-forces-x-37b-s...
In that set of hypotheses you laid out, you're right. My point is that observations tend to prove the predicates necessary for your model are not verified in reality.
It's usually a topic on the first computer architecture class. It's a mid-of-the-book topic on most computer organization books, the classics like Hennesy Patterson or Tanenbaum have substancial portions dedicated to it. Both are books for a first course on computer architecture and design.

It's very important to understand it so that you can understand why sometimes pipelining is difficult or impossible.
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You're missing the network effect. With Patreon you can see who your friends are supporting and use the network effect to influence or signal to your friends who you're supporting, kind of like Kickstarter. Conversion rates are higher too because chances are your would be supporters already have an account on Patreon.

It's like anyone could write a Facebook clone, the hard part is cloning the community.
I fail to see any advantage in ditching YouTube? On private videos for Patreon subscribers Youtube supplies free video hosting with a decent and familiar experience for the content creator. For public videos (or videos that become public after a delay), Youtube offers free hosting and lots of discoverability.

In both cases I only see Patreon having additional cost with little to no upside by ditching Youtube (especially since Youtube policies are already very lenient on non-monetized non-public videos).

Maybe I'm missing something obvious?
Yup, that does it.
Wow, the old-time KGB would have loved this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thing_(listening_device)

(A passive resonant bug presented in a gift to the US Embassy in Moscow in 1945, designed by Léon Theremin, ancestor of today's RFID devices.)

The modern bugging applications don't even bear thinking about ...
I've never met anyone who voluntarily enjoys working 70-90 hours a week.
That's just not true. A secure enclave could, for example, wipe old keys when adding new keys; a physical attacker might succeed in adding his new key, but my data would be secure. That data could include whatever mechanism the phone uses to authenticate itself to me.

I don't trust Apple to be good from now until I replace my phone. I don't trust Google to be good from now until I replace my phone. It's my phone, not Apple's and not Google's.
Would you trust using a potential "data-slurping" add-on at all? I honestly wouldn't, neither for my bank info, nor for my search queries.

Just be mindful of what add-ons you install.
It was FUD before Apache Foundation placed React's license as Category X.

Now, it is not.
> There aren't frequent cases […] Since they do get switched so often

They don't. In fact they almost never do.

> tl;dr Block scoping and constants are the exception

That's literally the opposite of reality. Constant bindings (single-assignment) and block-scoped bindings are by far the most common state of affairs even if not formally stated.

> What I meant here is that people shouldn't keep using var just so they can continue writing bad code.

Maybe you should tell the you of two comments ago who's apparently arguing for exactly that?
Found this[1] answer. Basically, each of them is watching/controlling a small part or a subsystem of a such mission. Some organisational overhead is possible ( dunno, chief scientist, mission director/assistant, etc ).

[1] http://www.slate.com/blogs/quora/2014/05/25/how_do_nasa_s_mi...
They were ahead of the curve with the open office plan. I always assumed each person was responsible for paying attention to or watching some specific system or stream of data to alert any possible issue.

I'd also be fine with everyone just showing up because they worked hard and long on the project.

Look at the CERN control room shots too
http://home.cern/sites/home.web.cern.ch/files/image/update-f...
http://today.slac.stanford.edu/images/2008/lhc-control-room3...

There are a lot of moving parts
Regarding the trustworthiness of 'three letter agencies', two of them (DoD, JCS) approved plans for another (CIA) to commit terrorism against American civilians in order to justify a war against Cuba [1].

They could ultimately have America's best interests at heart, however you can be certain that their public statements have no standard of truth and are made to serve a covert agenda.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Northwoods
I am inclined to try either FreeBSD or OpenBSD.

FreeBSD comes with the bonus that it is supported on some cloud and VPS offerings, so whatever I learn can come useful for practical purpose.

But OpenBSD also seems like a great idea because I have read great things about its security and documentation.

I am not inclined to try NetBSD because it seems to offer neither of these advantages.

Is my assessment right so far or very misguided?

Is there anyone who has used at least two of these three BSDs? What do they recommend?
Nothing beats good-ole 6x13 font in a terminal. :-)
Imagine if words in your dictionary wasn't sorted and you will have your answer.
Seems hardly legacy if it's the rendering pipeline used in all browsers' current release versions.

(and I say this as a WebRender enthusiast)
> I never understood the whole confusion about prototypal inheritance. It's not harder to grok than classical inheritance.

I'd guess, mostly based on my fuzzy memory of my first exposure to prototypal inheritance, that this confusion stems almost completely from the fact that prototypal inheritance is simply different from classical inheritance. Having come from a C++ world, I didn't realize there was another kind of inheritance, until I met JavaScript.
The PATENTS file refers to all patents granted to you by Facebook in any project, not just in React (or any of the other files containing the PATENTS file). I think it's scoped a lot more broadly than you seem to imply.
Maybe it just depends on the application. I've been doing frontend development with React and vanilla Javascript for the past 2.5 years, and I can't recall a single user-facing bug caused by improper dynamic typing.
This was a fascinating read.

Slightly more fascinating was that was sponsored by a Boston area tech company who I know a little bit about since I interviewed there years ago. They have a cool business packaging meds for patients, aka the "pillpack". Interesting to see this as a community service project.
In some cases we could still estimate a probable answer.

Biologists can separate two cryptic species of living beings placed into an species complex, just taking a look to its DNA. The mutation rate among two isolated bacteria from earth and saturn would be noticeable. Unless we discover an active saturnian's nano-turism to pass the holidays on earth's oceans, the only reasonable answer to explain two identical or almost identical bacteria in both planets is a contamination event.
Because the margin is so huge in healthcare products and services, especially at hospitals. Hospitals rely on astronomical margins on certain payer classes to subsidize uncompensated care costs.

The point is that providers are far more invested in maintaining the huge margins rather than minimizing the cost.

Problem is the payer mix has been shifting from insurance companies to patients via high deductible health plans over the past decade so it's starting to wreck their margins, even though the cost doesn't change.
Is that even legal to demand a 70+ hour 'work ethic'?
it probably wasn't.

yes, Theremin invented it, but the patent and production is from American firms. and cmon, if you're bugging a high profile country diplomat, you don't make a bugging device with a freaking opening mechanism!

if that were indeed from Russians, it would have been at least glued shut and not have a hinge.
I think that's fair; thank you. I still think it's untrue that an explicit license extinguishes an implicit one. Consider the two-explicit case. Let's say you and I have two separate contracts, both of which grant me the right to cross your land. If one of those contracts completes or is terminated, does that mean I can't cross your land any more? That would be even crazier than lawyers usually are. I'd still have that right under the other separate contract.

Now, why would it be any different if one of those grants is implicit? Again, that would be even crazier, etc. Allowing contracts to interfere with each other like that (in this case the copyright license being affected by a patent issue) would make contract law even more of a nightmare than it is already. I strongly believe courts would reject that not only for the sake of logic or justice but out of sheer self-preservation.

Of course, we're all speculating until this exact issue is tested in court. I just think the people assuming the same as DannyBee are leaping toward the least sane and least likely conclusion, and asking others to do the same.
Seriously, I enjoy having my comics supported by my fans there and I'm not looking forwards to them having to Make A Profit.
We are pro business here, but I took that comment as sarcasm.
> The data we have, which look at how plants would respond to the kind of CO2 concentrations we may see in our lifetimes, show these important minerals drop by 8 percent, on average. The same conditions have been shown to drive down the protein content of C3 crops, in some cases significantly, with wheat and rice dropping 6 percent and 8 percent, respectively.

I had the same gripe. 6%-8% change doesn't quite seem insignificant, but this is under CO2 concentrations that "we may see in our lifetime". So how much more CO2 were these plants exposed to than the controls, and how strong is that "may"?
The human element will always beat technology, cheaper simpler and more effective.
It's far simpler to just sent in some dude, who pretends to be a common burglar should get caught, instead of building super fancy nano-drones which could fail/crash, then serve as evidence and would be studied for their technology.

It's the same reason why social engineering is one of the most common attack vectors for high-profile breaches, some persuasiveness can go a long way.
We learned about in Computer Architecture (EECS 314).

We used the textbook "Computer Organization and Design" by David A Patterson and John L Hennessy. Branch Prediction comes up on page 341. I have it sitting on my desk here at work because it's such a useful book.
Currency exchange is too high of a barrier for supporters.

A large portion of Patreon is artists asking for support for content they offer for free, with only token benefits for the supporters. Making the act of giving money as simple and convenient as possible is key in that scenario. Using a crypto-currency is pretty much the opposite.
Why would you care, if you were reading them sequentially, like the code here is doing?
Our school introduced it in a year 2 computer organization course that was required for all CS majors. It went into how the processor converts assembly into instructions for the ALU, instruction pipelining, branch prediction (though only qualitatively), and the instruction and data cache, amongst other things.
> I never understood the whole confusion about prototypal inheritance. It's not harder to grok than classical inheritance.

In theory no, but Javascript has such bad support for it that it's syntactically inconvenient and you have to understanding significantly more details of the implementation to manage it than just "you add the other class after the extends".
Incredible. It's easy to forget that it's not so long ago that our not-too-distant ancestors looked up at the sky and noticed that these stars wandered in the sky a little bit differently from the others. What they would have thought if they'd have known that we would be sending probes to these places and sending images home.
Don't get me wrong--I feel for the kid(s) who are ultimately the victims of their parents' narcissism and callousness. But is this any worse than drugging their kid because he won't sit still and focus, or abdicating their parental duties to a full-time nanny (both of which are, these days, not considered shocking or taboo)?
I've met several people who work even more than that
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The rules are very clear and very simple, you pay for the domain it's yours unless there is some form of trademark dispute. You can pay in advance, you can pay 10 years in advance, you'll receive numerous reminders that your domain is going to expire.

At a certain point there is an element of personal responsibility involved, if you can't manage to pay $10 for a domain every year or so then that's kinda on you.
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Here's something that contributes to typosquatting: the lack of responsiveness by package management organizations to claims on orphaned or unmaintainable packages.

People who upload packages often leave organizations, who are then stuck with a package they can't update because the password went with the person, and the email reset link points to a now-defunct email address.

Petitioning the package management team is sometimes fruitless, forcing a needless new instance of typosquatting.
Of course irc doesn't, though your preferred one might not be available everywhere. But also, irc is dying a slow death in terms of user base - it's not exactly a good basis for making decisions about how to keep/attract users.
This is just a simple example for this kind of situation.

Of course, you could make it faster by removing everything under 128 from the array before starting the loop, but it's not really the point here.
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The back and forth between Elon Musk and Rodney Brooks is interesting - who has the most sway? Is it long-term experience in AI or is it someone spend a lot of money and building businesses in this space?
If you are a wealthy (compared to the average world) western person, they this is not a big issue as you can compensate. If you depend entirely on locally grown plants (most of the world) with barely enough to eat less nutrition is a big problem.
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Wait I'm confused. When you say p and t are different, you mean they are cardibalities of different sets but still equal in "size", right? Because I've understood they've proved p to be of equal "size" of t, which I guess means they have a one to one relation? Fuck this is confusing
why don't they just hire 2 persons instead of 1 and split the work?
let's put an end to this toxic behavior from companies. working 70+ hours per week doesn't make you a better employee or the world a better place.
It refers to all patents as potential triggers, not as potential consequences, and that still doesn't allow a patent license to nullify a separate copyright license. I think it's scoped a lot more narrowly than you are trying to imply.
I've provided detailed reasoning for my position. Feel free to reciprocate.
I'd say when we can ensure no contamination there isn't any reason not to ensure no contamination.

What if it turned out that the DNA found was similar to ours? Now think of the difference in chances if we'd dropped Cassini on the surface or if we hadn't.
Pretty simple really: lots of people learn Java or other languages with similar inheritance models in school or very early in their careers from books/peers. It takes a while, and it's used in a lot of places.

JS style inheritance is a bit more unique (compared to other languages commonly used on the job). Even though its arguably simpler, it's not something nearly as many people know, especially relative to how many people know JS.

Thus it becomes this big scary thing. A bit like Monads that take minutes to learn but are scary because no one knows them.
Well, the suit only has merit if hiring is broken in a way that unfairly disadvantages a protected class. (In this case, women.)

I think the poster's point was that hiring is broken equally for everyone, which is inefficient but not illegal.
Pretty sure he was referring to the Google Play Store, where Google takes 30% of everything (including in-app payments)
It is perfectly named.
> The biggest challenge as a country is retaining and recruiting the best people to build industries in Canada and not lose them to other jurisdictions

I'm so tired of hearing this complaint.

This is often stated as a problem, but the simple fact is that people can move to almost any other developed country and make as much or more than they would make in Canada.

Canada doesn't have a problem with talent exodous, they have a problem that Canadian employers are stingy and then complain when all they have left are people willing to settle for half they'd make in the US, or 2/3rds of what they would make in Europe. [0]

Here's a free tip for any Canadian employers reading: want to have Silicon Valley level talent at your company in Canada? Open your wallet. People are more than happy to stay in Canada if you pay them what they're worth.

[0] Anecdotal evidence, I'm Canadian, living and working in Europe. I make as much as people 10 years older than me make in Canada. Taxes are similar, cost of living is similar, social benefits are similar, and 5 weeks paid vacation (real vacation, not PTO).
That's true. However, for better or worse, FB knows a lot about me (and my friends) so it can recommend somewhat related events to me without any effort on my part. There's at least some value there.
"BlackBerry inventor says Canada's challenge is keeping techies, now read a few paragraphs of speculative quantum computing bullshit and look at Taboola headlines so we can get paid."

There, now you don't have to read the article.
This smells fishy.

Given that the same materials are used in SD cards, thumb drives, cell phones and TV remotes, these dogs are mostly going to find lost TV remotes, IF they can smell this stuff at all.

The USA press about these dogs has been just this side of utterly disreputable, suggesting (but not stating outright) that the dogs can smell the difference between a thumb drive with your resume on it, and a thumb drive full of child p0rn, which is just a fantasy.

I don't know about the UK's legal system around search and seizure, but in the USA, it's pretty clear that Law Enforcement is using these dogs to provide the probability of guilt, so that a human can do some searching that would otherwise be illegal.
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If they do (I haven't verified if you're right) then that's an implementation issue. Twitters API returns rich information about every mention that shows they very well could store an association to the internal user id if they want to.

But it may very well be for good reason. E.g. lets say an account is taken over by someone who changes the account into something suitably offensive after obtaining a lot of mentions. It would seem that treating a change as basically "this is a new account now" is the safest alternative in some respects.
It could also be someone lifting it off through software on your phone if you had a device with a terrible implementation for handling fingerprints. See this piece about the HTC One Max from two years ago - the fingerprint was stored as a bitmap image in a "world readable" folder and refreshed with the image from the latest touch!

[1]: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/08/10/htc_caught_storing_f...
Yes it shouldn't be used for privacy-sensitive identities. Right now opening a new link in a new tab will use the default profile, this makes it super easy to link profiles. Even if that was fixed, all the tabs have pretty much the same browser settings.

The main use-case is when you have home/work split with multiple accounts.
Seems that some new coins such as Ethereum have relatively different designs than those of the old coins. It would be great if you could explain those a bit more.
guess: the branches in the python VM are more accurately predicted than branch on the data. The data is going to be random and thus unpredictable, but the branches in the VM are probably pretty predictable.
Doesn't this kind of fall in line with with a previous discussion? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15244596
NASA does things this way but SpaceX explicitly does not. Rather than using 1 space hardened part, SpaceX usually uses 3 non-space hardened parts (processor, memory, bus, etc) that all do exactly the same calculations simultaneously and then compare every single answer and ignore it when one out of 3 parts disagree. This allows them to be both cheaper and much less power hungry because they operate at least 2 process nodes smaller than NASA hardware. I've seen data that says that while each individual processor will experience space related errors quite often, the whole 3 part voting system is at least as accurate as the way NASA does it.