skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"It was a brave action. Had Allied infantry been ambushed as they advanced on Sansepolcro, his court martial would have been brutal."

Yes very brave. I'm sure his reputation might have suffered as his fellow officers wrote home to all the families of the dead who would never see their loved ones again. He might even have lost his rank! Thank God he knew better than his superior officers. /s

I understand people can come down on both sides of this issue based on their priorities, but praising him for risking a "court martial" is silly. Considering what was at stake he barely risked anything at all to himself. The real risk was run, unknowingly, by the infantrymen tasked to take the town. He gambled with their lives, not his own.

It worked out this time, and maybe it was a good decision, maybe not, but he is certainly no hero.
All true! I agree, and hilly is a problem.

I could see cities easily changing though, by slowing the outward growth and becoming more dense... and more bike-friendly in the center! ;)

The city I live in has been growing outward, but that's coming to an end now that the expansion in the valley has hit the mountains on every side. The good news is my downtown is getting more bike friendly every year, I'm just looking forward to bikes being a majority. (Which might never actually happen since it snows where I live...) :)
iFixit’s iPhone 8 teardown shows hard to repair glass back
Spain ramps up efforts to quash Catalonia referendum
Oh it's here! :)

My goal with Serpent.AI is to lower the barriers to entry when it comes to using games as sandboxes for code experiments. It unlocks your entire existing game library (Steam, DRM-Free etc.) to be used as potential game agent environments and it does so natively! No Docker containers, No VNC. It is simple enough for beginners & hobbyists to dabble in, but also powerful enough to drive serious machine learning and AI research. The framework provides structure and conventions so you can focus on your experiment exclusively. It also doesn't try to dictate how you solve your problems. Your game agent is your canvas!
Good idea. This will work for me because I'm just backing up what are essentially archives. Thanks!
From reading the Wikipedia page, it seems that Highland Park had some great economic prospects in the 1910's - 1920's (Chrysler was founded there) and wanted to self-govern.
Maybe the length of brain development evolved to be longer due to pressures selecting for /what/ the brain would be capable of doing, and then further evolutionary pressures compressed the time frame?
I wonder if they fixed the admin internals. When I looked (years ago), it had many sins, such as outputting markup in the the code.
The third molars are the wisdom teeth. The first molar grows around 6 years of age. At 7-8, kids only have the four first molars (molars only grow once, no tooth fairy for them).
> Previous versions of Celery required a separate library to work with Django, but since 3.1 this is no longer the case.

Source: http://docs.celeryproject.org/en/latest/django/first-steps-w...
How smooth is to upgrade your app to every future release of Django? Starter here, on Python and then Django.
Daylighting
Large files / sets of files with 7zip means you can use all files as a dictionary for the compression. (across-file compression, called "solid compression")

However, zip does not supports solid compression. Which creates the oddity of zip'ing twice can reduce your file size because multiple duplicate files may have the same compression but they are stored separately (and the second pass then notices the similarity).

The downside of solid compression is you have to extract any files related to that block. But with modern computers that's not as bad as it used to be, and modern 7zip doesn't extract "all" files, only the ones affected by that block.
Agreed. Most people doesn't even know what mining is and won't opt-in even if the cpu usage was only 5 or 10%. Ads doesn't ask the visitors to opt-in, why should it be any different with miners?
I think there's many outright lies about decentralisation told in crypto circles. So many ethereum contracts turn out to have a central override that one party can control. 'Decentralised' systems often turn out to have a company in charge so that they can make money off of an app. Even blockchains are allegedly decentralised, and yet all it takes is a couple of mining pool owners to collaborate to gain overall control of the thing.

Are there any real decentralised systems out there that couldn't be controlled or overruled by a few well-placed individuals working together?
Well I'd hope for a slightly better range than 20Khz and maybe resolution. Also I'd imagine the noise level wouldn't be very satisfactory.

With a 3.5ghz oscilloscope you could work on Mhz order chips, power supplies and who knows what other fun stuff.
First article written, published on TNW (Alert: It's a controversial topic.)
"The Orroville" is also a (very good IMHO) Trek knockoff that dispenses with the transporter.
It definitely can be, but for myself I find it easier to use Flask for that particular case.
No one can prove them wrong.
All the confusion from Americans is totally understandable. That being said, the title addressed his audience...Londoners. Comments suggesting a title change, so that people he wasn't intending to talk to can understand, is expecting too much. If the topic interests you, take the time to read for more context, maybe even ask, or research it.
GPS is better in that there's accountability. For complex cities, as a driver you can really screw over a passenger by taking a convoluted route. As a passenger, you can watch the driver leave the GPS route (or get a trip report) and know that you've been (or are being) screwed.
Makes sense. Any links relevant to how they can be so precise using the first molar?
http://standardhearth.com/

It's a Hearthstone reference site for what's in standard rotation atm.

MTG version: http://whatsinstandard.com/
Good idea, have to research for that.
...what? Why would that be illegal? You realize we're talking about EU member states here, and what that entails, right?
Or someone could just put them all into a central torrent.

Edit: Why not provide a method of getting all the torrent files for the associated songs then bulk adding to one's torrent program of choice?
Cannot access the article with cookies disabled. Not even bothering.
I cycle and yes a few red lights get passed. Generally I stop but that is not a golden rule.

I also do a little bit of dog walking and have to cross the road with my sister's dog. Like yourself I was of the opinion that only cyclists jump lights, however, those same lights that I normally stop for (or perhaps not!), get routinely jumped by cars. I don't normally notice this when on the bike, but when waiting to cross with the dog I am surprised at how it is these motorists that do the light jumping. They also tail-gate each other through the lights after they have gone red at considerable speed. If they hit anyone then that would be a proper accident.

Ultimately it is human nature to want to jump lights and how educated someone is.
What would likely happen is that a society that invents a transporter would be forced to redefine their cultural parameters for concepts like "death" and "self" because the device is just too useful to ignore, despite any existential ramifications it may present.

So the answer to this perennial Trek puzzle depends, ironically, on a certain point of view.
Is there a Rawlsian argument for redistribution as a form of social insurance?
>This is no different than Github scanning for AWS creds or MongoDB passwords in repos.

But Github doesn't do that either.

Amazon pays a contractor to scan Github repos for keys.
I was in lower manhattan during the huge northeast blackout 14(?) years ago. I can confidently report that turning off all the traffic lights in the city did not lead to improved traffic flow.
Where I lived in a suburb of Los Angeles, we’d have inexplicable traffic light outages. Well, some times it was due to rain. Invariably traffic would be backed up for half a mile. It was terrible.
> What I meant is that Facebook could just have used BSD without a patent grant.

Ahh, I see. But I think if they were just using BSD instead of BSD+Patents no one would have had any issue with it.
> A long overdue outcome of this new W3C disaster is the realization that the consumer or the general public doesn't sit at the table when it comes to shape the Web's destiny.

I wouldn't assume the "general public" cares at all about DRM/EME on the web. Given the choice between being able to watch Netflix and not, I think the vast majority of people would like the web to be a platform enabled for copyrighted content, including myself. I was happy when DRM came to Linux browsers, not because I am a fan of DRM, but I am a fan of being able to legally pay for and watch copyrighted content. Before that the options were piracy, or not watching content I was interested in. There is no 4th option at this point in time.

I think if the general public had a seat at these negotiations, there would be more support for EME, not less.

I find it odd that for a community that largely works in software or other technology, many HN commenters are so hostile to DRM. Where is the outrage to software-enforced licencing for copyrighted software (much of which is trivially bypassed, like current media DRM)? Its more or less the same, to me. If you want to take a hardline Richard Stallman-esque philosophy, thats perfectly fine, but dont claim that your beliefs represent anything resembling general public sentiment, or even the general sentiment here.

Controversial opinion, flame on.
A much better title would be: Post a boarding pass online, get your identity stolen.
> I'm not sure why you think that an article about one city, Highland Park, should have been about a different city, Detroit, that while it is close by, operates at a very different scale?

Well, I did ask the question and not state it as my opinion, didn't I? And I read the article, and already explained my take on the arguments you're making. Are you asking why, or just making a point?

The Detroit native in this thread agreed that Detroit natives think of Highland Park as part of Detroit.

Highland Park is entirely contained inside the Metro Detroit boundary. Use of the word "city" here is overloaded. To an outsider, Detroit is a city and Highland Park is a neighborhood within Detroit. To the Highland Park government, "city" has a technical boundary meaning that is not necessarily relevant to people outside Highland Park, and especially to people outside Michigan.

I'd speculate that most people who don't live in Michigan reading an article about a city in Michigan would assume or imagine something geographically distinct from other cities, with fields in between them, as opposed to a continuous metropolitan area.

My question is whether there might be some political context to the way this article is written. Do you know of any?
I can understand that, and you're welcome. And I did warn you about it eating up your time. Before you know it, the dog has forgotten his name and your spouse has gone to Baja Mexico.

Meh, it's probably worth it.

Do not click the second link. No, don't do that. The second link is an index of other online SDRs. There are quite a few others and they are geographically disparate and offer different frequencies. Do not click that link! Do not bookmark that link! It is very, very bad for you.

I haven't tested these, but someone down the thread linked to some other software. By following that link, I found another site. That site, being evil, is an index for more online SDRs that use the other software.

You definitely don't want to click this link either:

http://sdr.hu/

I am going to make some lunch and then click that link. I'll do it so that you don't have to. I want to see what those radios offer and I want to see how well the software functions.

Remember, don't click the second link in my original post. In fact, you should probably burn your computer to the ground, it's the only way to be sure.
>Holding money allows others to use their money to invest,

That's not holding money in this context.

Hoarding money is keeping cash in your house or bitcoin in your purse. The money is separated from the economy.

Holding money normally means keeping it in the bank account or in cash like instruments. That's fine. Bank loans it to others who use it. You receive interest for contributing capital.
The Natural History is great, but can be horribly full during school holidays. But if you cant get in just around the corner is the Science Museum which is also excellent.

Especially relevant for this audience is its Information Age gallery which covers "6 networks that changed the world", telegraph, broadcast radio and tv, telephony, satellite (including GPS), the web, and cell phone networks.

Best of all both museums are free to get in (donations welcome).
They were showing off their nice apple hardware and international plane tickets. It's the standard "my life is perfect" instagram user.
>That European chocolate in American supermarkets is quite often the lowest-quality stuff from here.

I guess this is somewhat universal: the only Brazilian cachaças available here in Germany are the worst ones in Brazil, but they have insane prices (e.g. 12€ for one that isn't worth the 2€ it costs in Brazil).
1) -> Yeah sure. Without knowing what the project is about, this approach will surely cover all bases. /s
Also, all programmers have a burning desire to build stuff from scratch,

I don't think this is true at all. 80%+ of software work is maintenance related. People who have a burning desire for green field development won't last long so they are few and far between. In fact, this is one of the biggest differences between real projects in industry and fake projects in CS undergrad education.
I've always thought that strong AI needs to model emotions, and that for emotions you need biochemical modelling.

It reminds me of what happened with analog synthesizers. After many years of a divide between digital and analog synthesis, in the 2000s they started making virtual analogs (VAs), which are analog synths modeled in software and available as plugins for your audio software or as physical keyboards with VA insides. (You probably know all this.) For many people these were/are good enough but a purist could always tell the difference. Less warmth, character, etc.

In the end I think a Turing test-passing emulation is possible but it would help a lot / be necessary to model the substrate. However since you know yourself better than anyone else I'm not sure if you could pass your own Turing test. Probably there are lots of things written about this too :)
You deserve at least one comment. This is pure evil!
I was also hoping anyone who has gone through this could share their story.
Ask HN: Is the Free “Masters in Financial Engineering” by WQU Worth It?
I would like to know if HN thinks it is worth to go through WorldQuant University’s “Masters in Financial Engineering”.

https://wqu.org/

The two-year program consists of 14 courses and is offered by the philanthropic arm of Worldquant, an investment management firm.

What do you think about the course content? Is it practical and how useful it is in the age of Machine Learning? (the courses has ML courses and primarily uses Python).

I believe, courses like Stochastic Calculus, Derivatives are not covered, does this omission misses important topics from the perspective of the job market?

What do you guys think?
I swear something like this has been posted here before... and it had the exact same confusion...
IPO market could be slowed down by revenue recognition rules
They're very common where I live, but to the best of my knowledge they're weight-based so I'm not sure a cyclist would trigger it.
These type of articles are always shit, I expected it to be shit but clicked the link anyway. Imagine my surprise when it wasn't shit.

Now if only implementation didn't terrify me.... hah...

The big "trick" described seems to be an instance of: You are the product of your environment if you like it or not. There is very little you can do to fight its influences. The environment is there and you are becoming it. The only conscious remedy is to make the environment into what you want to be.

I think the article provides the means to do a check list that could convince companies to allow remote work.
That applies to costs in general though. Prices are noisy signals. But there is price information available in co2 credit trading systems.
The best way to get to a new scripting language/framework is by doing. In spanish we have a term for this: "Hacer camino al andar", which translates to "By walking you make a path".

Grab a small project(like a todo list), modify it and try to enhance it. I guarantee you will learn more from this than a thousand tutorials.
"You didn't know that was a scam? Don't you subscribe to Offshore Alert?"

There are still people putting money into MMM, which is a long-running scam with its own Wikipedia article.[1]

The binary option industry, run out of Ramat Gan in Israel, was a whole industry of bucket shops pretending to be brokers. It got so big it was 40% of Israel's financial sector. About 95% of binary option investors lose their entire investment. Turns out it's legal in Israel to scam non-Israelis. Once that came out, it became a political embarrassment.[2] “Binary options is causing anti-Semitism around the world.” - a member of the Knesset.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MMM_(Ponzi_scheme_company)
[2] https://www.timesofisrael.com/unhappy-with-bill-israels-coal...
Can someone recommend a learning path for building Django sites/apps to someone who has no web dev experience but uses python for scripting and workstation utilities? In particular, I use python for VFX/CGI scripting.
What does bitcoin cash have to do with a 51% attack? Forks are a different type of thing than 51% attacks.
MathML is a failed web standard (2016)
What happens is heavily dependent on relative traffic flows.

If it's sparse, not much bad happens, there might be more bad accidents from people assuming right of way. If it's heavy in all directions, people going straight or turning to whatever side of the road they're on will be reasonably OK, while people turning across traffic will have a bad time. If it's heavy on one road and light on another, the light road will be starved of exit opportunities.

Turning off lights certainly isn't a panacea. Anyone who's lived in a city for a few decades will remember junctions that got much better with the addition of lights, and junctions that got worse. Some will recall bad accidents (T-bones and the like) that prompted their installation. Etc.
Is mining in a browser remotely cost efficient? Doesn't it end up costing the user more in electricity than just buying the coins directly?
Oh, I realize I misread what you meant there. Hmm. I agree that's not great but I'd have to think about whether to make it an explicit rule.
I use profane language since in my opinion the answer should still be hashed if I'm verifying it through the website.

Mom's maiden name: InfectedPussyPimple

How she got dad, I'll never know!
I wonder if there are novel shapes of bicycles that could be enabled by this; a triangle made out of tubes has a good strength-to-weight ratio, but perhaps it could be improved?
Django has a great ecosystem of addon packages covering all your needs:

Here's a nice grid of all these packages: https://djangopackages.org/

And a list of packages I use on (almost) all my projects:

* django-filter

* django-tables-2

* django-auth-ldap

* django-reversion

* django-compressor

* django-crispy-forms

* django-autocomplete-light

* django-extensions

* django-rq

* django-taggit

* django-rest-framework (if REST API is needed)

I always wanted to write a blog post about these packages but never have been able to find the time :/
a black hole might swallow the solar system and thus our ACID writer process lost a write? No, you get to choose how durable you would you like your D. Don't acknowledge the transaction as successful until you successfully commit to storage orbiting alpha centauri.

non-ACID writers like Mongo lose writes routinely, every day, often without anybody noticing. There are no guarantees whatsoever about data integrity. ACID writers lose data in 6-sigma catastrophic failures only, and you can control how many sigmas by tuning durability.

You asked a question about HA configurations so I answered in terms of HA configurations. Serving durable HA storage is literally what dynamo/riak is for. "The write operation is durable. dw (durable write quorum) is a configuration setting used to specify how many replicas to commit to durable storage before returning a successful response." https://stackoverflow.com/questions/22736821/riak-database-a...

Anyway I'm interested in continuing to discuss this if you are because this is a subject I am beginning to write about as part of my startup. so this conversation helps me. Perhaps there is a better medium though if you would like to continue?
No need to have every book loaded, only the top 50000~ read by people who would use that method of passphrase generation should work fine (and be feasible for almost everyone). Cryptonomicon would probably be in that list.
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We definitely don't see every comment. Though I did reply in that thread.

The way to get us to see the comments is to flag them. To flag a comment, click on its timestamp to go to its page, then click 'flag' at the top. Alternatively, email hn@ycombinator.com in egregious cases.
You need to have "things that can answer questions". I'd like to get the "right answer" when I ask a machine for someone's date of birth, and similarly I'd like to get the right answer when I ask for their age. It's quite reasonable that the syntax in English is the same.

? Alan's DOB

? Alan's age

Here "?" is a whole computer. We don't know what it will do to answer these questions. One thing is for sure: we are talking to a -process- not a data structure! And we can also be sure that to answer the second it will have to do the first, it will have to ask another process for the current date and time, and it will have to do a computation to provide the correct answer.

The form of the result could be something static, but possibly something more useful would to have the result also be a process that will always tell me "Alan's age" (in other words more like a spreadsheet cell (which is also not "data" but a process)).

If you work through a variety of examples, you will (a) discover that questions are quite independent of the idea of data, and (b) that processes are the big idea -- its just that some of them change faster or slower than others.

Add in a tidy mind, and you start wanting languages and computing to deal with processes, consistency, inter-relations, and a whole host of things that are far beyond data (yet can trivially simulate the idea in the few cases its useful).

On the flip side, you don't want to let just anybody change my date of birth willy nilly with the equivalent of a stroke of a pen. And that goes for most answers to most questions. Changes need to be surrounded by processes that protect them, allow them to be rolled back, prevent them from being ambiguous, etc.

This is quite easy stuff, but you have to start with the larger ideas, not with weak religious holdovers from the 50s (or even from the way extensional way math thinks via set theory).