skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Eliza was beating that since it showed up. I've seen people talk to similar programs for hours.
$35,000 for a ‘Commode on Legs’. I wonder what it looked like?
TL;DR - Validation<- ->expansion treadmill.
If you quit, as opposed to being fired, you have to wait three months before being able to apply. You have to prove applying for jobs as well.
Lol, I had an answer all written out, then read the last few lines of the article. Nice bait and switch, I actually enjoyed it. I agree, to make money, learn about money. Otherwise you'll always just be someone else's worker/slave... I also enjoy the answers here by people who obviously just read the headline or first few paragraphs, as I did when I formulated my first comment. Well played.
How to Increase Your Chance on Plus Size Dating Apps
Ask HN: What is your self teaching process?
I'm an avid autodidact, I've just recently learned Vue and node, and was thinking about building a crowdsourced, curated learning application where users can up vote learning guides, so you can see what learning resources are worth putting the time into.
What are the MUST-HAVE WordPress plugins for 2018?
Have you considered Skylake? The 6 memory channels should easily put you above 100Gbps now.
The deadly germ warfare island abandoned by the Soviets
Humanoid social robot is customizable via Android/ROS SDK
Did someone also inject 4.5T dollars into the finance industry of Sweden?
If someone were really hard up, ie became homeless, there is Medicaid. It's free but not nearly as convenient or good as Medicare, which older citizens and disabled get (which has some costs). Medicare for all (single-payer) but with no copays for broke people would be ideal.
Optionally yes, but EtherDelta specifically does let you instead use it in a normal browser if you give it an Ethereum private key. The hack only affected people who used it that way.
The World's Future MEGAPROJECTS (2017-2040's) [video]
Well, yeah. When you have high marginal tax rates, people try to relabel consumption as a business expense. Was practically an art form in the 50s before the IRS cracked down on it.
You're being down voted? Jollies? What?

I don't think he had more technical capability than a typical SharePoint administrator at the time of his leaks. Setting up a VPN is pretty much sysadmin work. Digital Ocean had excellent guides on setting up OpenVPN and IPSec tunnels on CentOS in 2012.

SharePoint administration is credible tech work, it's just unrelated to programming and crypto.

He has had time to learn about any subject he wants to since. He may very well be a privacy or crypto expert now. If he wants to become an authority on any of that knowledge, he'll need to write about it with justification. Otherwise, why would anyone take him at face value?
The link doesn't work in expo
Maybe try some of those programmable toys, like LEGO NXT or simpler ones like Sphero?
There's "dating" for sex and dating to get married. People in the former mode are pickier, and the latter are more nuanced.

PS: Ben Franklin's advice. Older chicks whom are in-shape are animal, bad bitches in the sack.
> If, for example, the State Of California, in the US, were to organize, without constitutional mandate, an "official" referendum calling for succession, Federal Marshall would be all over that in a blink of an eye.

It would not be illegal under federal law for California to hold a referendum on secession. It wouldn't mean anything at all. It would be legally equivalent to my planting a big red flag in the turf at a National Park and claiming that land in the name of Portugal. (it's a crime - littering - if you leave the flag there when you leave) The Federal Marshals could watch if they wanted to.

A number of actions taken by the state of California after the referendum would probably be illegal under federal law, unless the people of California held the referendum and passed it and the state officials in California simply ignored it. You'd expect that to cause a constitutional crisis at the state level in California, and that might eventually bubble up to the federal courts.

If the referendum passed and the state actually started to behave independently and take liberties with federal property, all sorts of things would start to go wrong for them. You don't really need to get heavy handed with federal law enforcement in that case. Not when you control the Federal Reserve Banks and pretty much everything else. There's a whole path of escalation you could follow in the courts before federal agents would start arresting people, but even if you want to get right to that you have to wait for them to commit actual crimes.
Re. that being worse than Brexit, I definitely agree.

But one of the requirements for entering the EU is unanimous approval from the other countries. That is not going to happen for Catalunya.
Is 2fa that big of a deal to a dedicated attacker who gets the victim to enter their info into a phishing page? (Just thinking of passcode-style 2fa, not usb key 2fa.) The attacker just has to forward the victim's login info to a login page, and then if the attacker gets a 2fa prompt, they prompt the victim with a 2fa prompt and then forward the victim's answer immediately.

I understand a lot of attackers don't bother since there's plenty of easier victims without 2fa, but if they're targeting a specific individual, it's not that much more work to make their attack work on 2fa too.
oh, i see. so you were pointlessly making a some kind of fallacy argument. no "true" systems programming language, indeed.
It's fun. But question is what can I do with this?
I have built a MMO game with HTML5 canvas API but I still don't know how useful this library could be other than casual gaming. Perhaps they are encouraging me to apply for a job in shopify?
History demonstrates that government regulations have never prevented every financial crisis.
https://github.com/xem/sheet/pull/7 :D
The pictured control rooms are mostly just control rooms of power plants, not levers for adjusting the Soviet economy. The paper is not really about these control rooms.
Install Linux and attempt to do advanced stuff that just work in Windows and Mac but requires tweaking Linux. Spend hours looking for solutions on the Internet. Then brag about your achievements online.
Sorta like a distributed watchdog or HA failover.

(Btw my favorite acronym is STONITH.)
as someone with a degree in math, this is the funniest thing I read in a while.
> That's your "mountain of evidence"? It's moderately better than fuck all?

No, that's the conclusion. There's mountains of evidence indicating it's moderately better than fuck all. And there is, really, if a review of 39 studies reaches this conclusion.

Same goes for other physical factors like sleep, light, diet. They each contribute a bit. As can medication, therapy, healthy relationships.
SpaceX hasn't done any manned spaceflights and hasn't flown anything to Mars.

NASA, for example, has done that multiple times.

So why exactly are SpaceX odds better (@ succeeding)?

That rocket landing to the platform flying backwards looks awesome but I don't think it significantly increases their odds for Mars flight. Will they fly there backwards with a similar platform waiting?
An example that demonstrates the difference compared with a place like Sweden is that if you are a pennyless student, you can't afford $360/month. That would make it hard to do a startup and still have health insurance.

As a student I would would have 10000 SEK / month ($1200), in grant and student loan. [1] You would expect to need nearly all of that in any of the town Universities [2] leaving nothing for healthcare. But in Sweden healthcare is nearly free (maxed at $120 for a 12 month period).

[1] http://www.csn.se/lattlast/studiestod/studiemedel/hur-mycket...

[2] https://www.kth.se/blogs/abhineet/2016/05/livingexpense/

[3] https://www.1177.se/Stockholm/Regler-och-rattigheter/Patient...
I felt guilty choosing Chrome over Firefox, but it was just so much damn faster. Writing from Nightly now, glad that I don't have to sacrifice performance to switch over.
Doesn't google have more than one failed social network?
Is that really how the law is technically phrased? I doubt it. You're telling me that if Jose does an ITO (Initial Taco Offering) to open his new taco joint, selling 1000 tacos to anyone that wants to eat one, and I complain to the SEC that I thought Jose's tacos would be worth more if I resold them tomorrow, then his tacos fail the Howey Test and are classified as securities? Obviously that's not the case, but are you saying that's only due to selective SEC enforcement, not because the law has a higher standard than "Even one investor complaining they thought they were going to make money"?
Maybe or maybe not. I waited and got 10.3.3 -> 11.0.1 as a single OTA update.
It would be perfect except it plays sound when I'm not expecting it to and that's an instant navigate away for me.
Instagram works on android app without internet connection
I'm surprised nobody has mentioned react-dnd (http://react-dnd.github.io/react-dnd/) in this thread yet. This library being 'modular' or 'extensible' has nothing on what you can express when you stop dealing with the DOM directly, which is the real definition of 'modern drag and drop'. The demos on Draggable JS, while pretty and colourful, are not nearly as cool as the GIFs in this collection of real-world react-dnd uses - https://github.com/react-dnd/react-dnd/issues/384 - particularly note the comments about the right level of abstraction, and being better than an 'awkward combination of isolated, one-size-fits-all drag components' like we see here.

Since it's built on an abstraction of HTML5 drag/drop ('backend') and an isolated state manager (dnd-core), I implemented the frontend again in Angular in the last two days. Just wires things up in an almost-compatible way. Will publish soon.

Nobody has really put their mind yet to multi-touch and force-touch on it, but I can't see how that's really useful on the web where you can't pick and choose your user's device capabilities and nobody expects to be able to do it.
I would love to see a world where a bunch of bots just come and fix everything destroyed by a disaster. Basically inverse entropy.

In this case, it's awesome that Tesla is stepping in with resources.
Amplifiers that can power loudspeakers without sounding terrible take up a certain amount of space. That said, many smaller/cheaper alternatives end up getting packaged in larger form factors than they need so as to avoid looking cheap.

A powerful receiver is the backbone of your audio system, though, and so if you want good sound, eventually you'll just have to give in and buy one. Get a nice shelving unit to put it in and make it part of your room, not something to hide.
Restaurants, too: https://www.bostonglobe.com/lifestyle/food-dining/2017/08/07...
Hinton's quote is taken a bit out of context though. I just watched his interview on Andrew Ng's "Neural Networks and Deep Learning" class on Coursera and he seemed convinced that the next "breakthrough" will come from (a variant on) neural networks.
The iOS 11 leaving the Wi-Fi on but unassociated creates a privacy vulnerability because the chipset will broadcast all of it's known SSIDs. Plus, whatever vulnerabilities remain in the chipset. This is terrible. When Wi-Fi is "off" it should be off.
Instagram is ruining food
That's because if they did you wouldn't know it. If a certain regulation prevented a certain action that would have caused a recession, you would never know it helped.
Very few enjoy the privilege of being treated like a magician. Practically speaking, workers are treated like cogs in a machine whose labor buys them another day’s survival. It’s difficult and painful for people and it doesn’t have to be that way.

Furthermore I have no qualms against treating machinery as a tool. There is no exploration of intelligent beings when you take advantage of the output of a tool. I want to end exploitation of living things.
> It seems really important to learn how to build evolution into attempts at AI

Genetic Algorithms is what you want to study.

In particular, a good, easy to read book on the subject (almost in "novel" form) is "Blondie24: Playing at the Edge of AI"
I'm currently building something very similar.

The stack is very similar to what you're proposing:

S3, Route53, Cloudfront, with a Django backend running on Lambda (using the great Zappa! framework for this), and a very basic CMS built with React. Django and React apps rely on a Graphql implementation (Graphene + Apollo) for data transfer.

For a short while I considered using Google's cloud offering due to S3 having a 50 bucket limit but they have since dropped that limitation.

I've been jumping back and forth between the infrastructure and apps solving each problem only when necessary but would be happy to share what little experience I have with you.

You can PM me if you like: mail[at]woven.website
Yes, the 4.5T quantitative programs by the US gov pushed down interest rates across the entire globe. Financial markets don't exist in isolation.

It's not like money injected is debt free.
These are really bad ICOs (even calling them that is weird because of how bad they are). I think other ICOs aren't likely to succeed for other reasons, but I could say the same thing about most startups. I think it's obvious that an ICO is a more-entrepreneur friendly financing path when compared to really almost any other capitalization method. That doesn't mean it's the right answer, but it is obviously the path that an entrepreneur should choose right now if they can. This is because ICOs are the cheapest cost of capital of any funding source available today.

I am not good at predicting how the SEC will act, but I expect this action is a good thing over all. If people think twice before doing an ICO it feels like a step in the right direction. I do think there are some company narratives that make sense as an ICO, but maybe that's just survivorship bias. It's really too early to tell in the lifecycle of crypto.

In short, I think ICOs are the cheapest cost of capital so doing one makes sense right now. That might not always be true, which may or may not be a good thing depending upon your perspective. I think it's nice to see some action from the SEC that's clearly aligned with the interests of the public.
This isn't about best choice for Uber. This is about best choice for Travis and maybe Uber. You put your buddies in board seats.
From a technical perspective it might not be that hard given the depth of existing capabilities, but from a risk standpoint it would probably be a terrible idea.

Recall Stuxnet and some of its successors were partially reverse engineered, and just recently Intel's Management Engine is being torn apart.
Now more than ever, I would actually prefer to be running a Mozilla OS phone. The reasons why it was important are even more relevant today with vendor lock-in and the continued flow of out-of-support devices.
> I complain to the SEC that I thought Jose's tacos would be worth more if I resold them tomorrow

They would dismiss your complaint as silly, trivial, and obviously frivolous. That is, your complaint would fail the test of common sense.
My quick answer: 2/3, all the resident citizens, only the people in the region, any size (too small gets impractical and won't happen, if it does ok, good luck to them).
Supposedly "not just for his office, but also included two conference rooms and a reception area". But yeah, unlikely to have been a frugal renovation.
Build a prototype. Aim low. Get some basic functionality sorta-working with shitty, hacky code. Throw it away. Rinse and repeat, learning on each cycle.
So how come google doesn't have to opensource chrome?
Try qutebrowser?
This is one of my dreams. Helping myself with the udacity nanodegrees
Ask HN: What's a modern equivalent of QBASIC?
I loved QBASIC as a kid. The ability to write a few lines of code and get something as simple as a word on the screen, flashing in a variety of colours was like magic. What's a modern equivalent of that that kids could play with and get excited about coding (I'm not talking about drag and drop platforms like Scratch)
Sounds like AI behaves similar to TDD where you blindly refactor until green, except AI have like a zillion more test cases(training data) to pass?

Is that really a better way of writing code? (for example compared to being able to reason about the code to create something provably correct)
That's what I understood from my call with the SEC. That if anyone could reasonably expect a profit it satisfied that bullet in the Howey Test.

For your tacos to be securities, the company would have to be working in some capacity to give those tacos more value in the future. Since tacos expire, all reasonable taco investors know that their investment will go to $0 in the near future, therefore no expectation of profit.

It's amazing how broadly security is defined and enforced. The only examples I was able to discuss with the SEC that were not securities were when the asset being sold could not reasonably generate a profit and could not be transferred. Basically like selling a product or accepting a donation.

There is also securities case law where a company sold a security to a single person or very few people and they were sued successfully.
Actually, in stock chrome, it's much easier to install 3rd-party extensions than in stock ff.
Basically only those rich enough to buy Google devices every three years.
Maybe donate it? A school, library or student may need one.
Three recent and well known high-profile failures at the SEC and books or articles covering them:

0. Enron - Senate committee concludes Enron was enabled by a systemic and catastrophic failure at the SEC[0]. Smartest Guys in the Room[1] is one of the better books about it

1. No One Would Listen - book from Madoff whistleblower Harry Markopolos[2]. He spent years laying out the entire Madoff case for the SEC yet their investigators kept signing off on Madoff. He has a lot of good detail on why the SEC are a bad regulator.

2. Financial Crisis - SEC chairman concedes the oversight program was fatally flawed in monitoring Bear Sterns and other hedge funds[3] - plenty of books on crisis, "After the Music Stopped" was good[4]

[0] https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB1033944629262271233

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Smartest-Guys-Room-Amazing-Scandalous...

[2] https://www.amazon.com/No-One-Would-Listen-Financial/dp/0470...

[3] http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/27/business/27sec.html?mcubz=...

[4] https://www.amazon.com/After-Music-Stopped-Financial-Respons...
Haskell People
These people in my country are called just fascists. Or retards, realistically.

Because the "batua" is based on the Navarrese-Gipuzkoan subdialect. Kinda like "castellano normativo de la RAE" and "castellano de Castilla".

Inb4: a Basque here.
Yes, different levels of abstraction but P4 is not a foundational beginning of SDN like this post makes it out to be.

Packet injection, etc were already possible with OpenFlow and this article pretends P4 is the first thing to enable that.

P4 can certainly allow much more than openflow, but some of the use cases this article pretends like
P4 is the first to solve were already solved by openflow, etc.
Great question... Probably processing.org
Cameroon Government shutdown social networks. Facebook, Whatsapp, Twitter cutoff
I woke up this morning and discovered Internet Services in Cameroon have somehow been limited. I am suspected the regime of Paul Biya have tampered with the internet service and Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp, VPNs, Vcontact aren't working. I am sure many other social media have been cut off as well.
I am sure you guys are aware of the ongoing crisis that have rocked the "English speaking regions" ( Former Southern Cameroons) of Cameroons since November 2016. There have been plans to celebrate the symbolic independence of this region " The Former British Southern Cameroons" on the 1st of October 2017. That is on Sunday and the region have been heavily militarized by the Biya regime, Homes of people invaded, beaten , some killed, many kidnapped and with this shutdown to major social media to which it is where most of these crimes are exposed, many have been fearing a total Genocide that can be perpetrated on the people of that region. There were rumors that, the internet will be shutdown come 30th September. The Minister of Communications made a public communique two days ago to say, the internet won't be shutdown but I guess it was just a ploy as through some websites are working, major social medias ( Facebook, Whatsapp, Twitter) have been cut off. Please, make the world know what is happening in this region. This is a sly move to blackout to the world what atrocities the Biya's regime is/will be perpetrating in these regions. Thank you.
What happened in the city that banned Uber
My shop has seen failure to black screen since migrating. Anyone else?
Make FireFox work with FaceBook's Live Video feature - as in both viewing and broadcasting. You'll have me switch back from Chrome in a heartbeat.
I suppose it's because the power is in question, and is being challenged in court by Benchmark as we speak.
People forget that VCs also raise money. Setting up a venture fund that is backed by an ICO token would be a good way to give public accredited investors access to the private market.
At least the UK gov't wasn't banning Scottish referendum websites.
Well, no. It's possible that a tree could fall in the forest and make any number of different sounds the specifics of which are impossible to determine until observed, though.

Keep in mind, too, that "an observer" includes basically anything interacting with an otherwise closed system, not just a thinking creature.
I wonder how much of all this is just lust for drama. What are they actually fighting about?
That wasn't the Spanish flag until 70 years later, in 1785.
I don't understand why would you need to know a person's details to tell where he should vote. In Czech Republic, you can tell just from your address of residency. It's usually the closest one to your registered address. Therefore, it should be enough to publish just the list of locations and the areas they serve.
Yeah, this is basically the IT version of those TV ads for some tool better than a standard tool where it demonstrates the "normal person" using it like a complete idiot to show how much better the new tool is.
The product is different. It’s been said before but with Google, you are the product. Not so with Apple. The difference is huge and significant.
Smalltalk (pharo etc.)? E.g. Squeak has/had some special widgets for small kids. IIRC they also used it to teach programming to kids.

If they're older, I would probably go with javascript. The browser is the new terminal.
Did you forget about the Firefox OS for mobile phones?
Nice post.

A monoid is an interesting and underrated
"pattern" for objects where you can have a "nothing" and an operator that smashes two values together. The operator may be 'lossy' as in 3 + 4 = 7, or it might preserve the originals to some extent as in "3" + "4" = "34".

I realized the power of this when working with a new library and thinking "how do I concatenate these", all I had to do was check that the data was a Monoid and used mappend. There is something very satisfying about that.

Plus if you build some utilities on monoids, they'll work with lots of distinct objects, from parsers to numbers to lists to all sorts of other things.

What Haskell lacks in the community is people blogging about how to get more mundane things done like setting up a CRUD website, API, or desktop app. I have a site in my profile that attempts to fill that gap.
Why? In Debian conflicts are usually only used to remove obsolete software from old releases.

Conflicts between packages which are both maintained should not happen. If two packages want to provide the same file, Debian can install both and has tooling to switch between them.