skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, a communication barrier did. They didn’t call it the iron curtain for nothing.
Apple commit in Darwin XNU calls vim swap files “vim turds”
> People want SD card slots, they keep SD card slots.

Wasn't really a fan of moving it to the SIM tray. Too easy to lose your SIM card that way. Then again, they did make it tougher to remove the SD card, since you need the tool/paperclip handy (as opposed to the easy-access removable battery cover)
Books and magazines are portrait. My phone monitor is portrait in the OS. If it was a better experience to go landscape on phones, Apple and Google would have made that push.
Stevey's Google Platforms Rant

https://plus.google.com/+RipRowan/posts/eVeouesvaVX
Nope. 10 mins drive to train here, so with margin of safety that's 20 mins. 50 minute train ride. 10 minute walk at the other end.

So 13+ hours each week.

As to being able to do stuff on the train - Maybe on some of the longer haul units coming from further afield where you get a table, power point, and elbow room, but on the commuter trains there's not enough room to work. There's a reason few people try to work on the L or London underground.

Best I can do is scan a few websites on my phone for 40 mins, and catch up (read only) on email.
Not necessarily… all life works without a cloud doesn’t it? You can certainly realize your example with a completely local AI. You may need the cloud for training (at the moment) but not for day to day execution!
If you prefer Java over Python, some of the other more popular frameworks also have Java bindings. E.g. TensorFlow or CNTK.
> I'd argue I'd rather a doctor save my life that day, than do a great job and make sure I never scar over two days when the option isn't there.

> What knowledge are we gaining by these discussions?

Sure, if that was all there was to it, then you'd be 100% right. The knowledge we seem to be gaining from these discussions is that a programmer who works 6 hours a day is overall more productive than one who works 8 hours a day, let alone one who has been on a 16 hour death march for 6 months. The same idea applied to the doctor example may mean that your doctor is less likely to save your life if they're on the 28th hour of their shift than one that wasn't.

Yes, there's a time and a place for burning a candle at both ends, but we seem to think that this is OK to do in the long term. So sure, if you need to pull a rare 20-hour marathon to fix an urgent problem, do it - the value might well justify the cost. But don't tell yourself that it's sustainable or even optimal in the long term, evidence seems to suggest the exact opposite.
API Call as CURL Request with Chrome Developer Tools
Fast JVM startup with JDK 9
Start Now. No Funding Needed. by Derek Sivers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KLnXjqKL5g
> one controls the lives of their owners and one helps their owners to control their lives. What does Android want?

I think you answered your own question in the first paragraph.

Don’t give google any data, other than maybe your searches.

Instead of working for google, let google work for you. Only searches and in a different tab container.
> It takes just 10 seconds to swap it out and put in a fresh new one.

Just don't be too fast if you have an S7 or S8, lest you lose the SIM in the integrated tray :-)
Kinda a hard angle to pursue given the name of this site.
Britain Moves to Criminalize Reading Extremist Material on the Internet
Let's Build a Compiler by Jack Crenshaw.[1] It's not really the content that I enjoy, rather the form of instruction. To exaggerate, I'm sure that someone who had never touched programming in their life could learn how to write a compiler from this work.

[1]: https://compilers.iecc.com/crenshaw/
> They have veto power in UN a[n]d that makes them powerful.

I'm interested in this idea. Obviously, they have veto power in the UN because they are powerful. But if they weren't already strong, how would the veto power help?
And then you wake up to the fact that most programmers are really bad at higher abstractions and especially mathematics. They start off way better than general population too...

But they can deal with nested smaller abstractions or impure smaller abstractions just fine.

It is easier to think of a set of logic properties than essentially equation describing construction of an object with such properties. And that is the difference between the design pattern and a category.
To put something in a mathematical category you have to actually prove it constructively or you're doing adhockery.

And due to so many levels of abstraction nesting proving anything nontrivial in maths is really a chore at times.

A simple example: prove some operation is a Strategy morphism compared to describing it as an object with a set of properties.
https://signalvnoise.com/posts/3972-reconsider
> Apollo 17

Jeez, 45 years since the last person walked on the moon.
Show HN: CSS3 transform example
So you agree that if it is done in person, it'd be difficult to fake?
Based on this[1] it appears to be running this[2] bootstrap script, which I believe uses make.

[1] https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/master/Formul...
[2] https://github.com/golang/go/blob/master/src/bootstrap.bash
It's much harder to be an accidental fatality in a gang knife fight. Things are safer when there aren't 8g chunks of supersonic lead flying around.

There's still as much gun crime in the US as there is —even where there are regulations— because there are still guns. In direct circulation or coming in from other states. Criminals tend to not care too much about restrictions. If they want a gun and can steal a gun, they can have a gun.

Gun control works elsewhere because we do it nationally and then get rid of all* the guns. It takes decades and insanely strong punishments. We still have criminals, we still have knives and acid and lorries and explosive precursors. All nasty stuff, but a power of magnitude when it comes to general safety of the rest of us.

* Most guns anyway. I have a shotgun but you can have rifles and there are a very, very few handgun exceptions for the right people. With all of these, there are restrictions on things like barrel length and magazine size on all guns and even more restrictions on types of ammo, and how much you can own. Not to mention the interview and home office check you get before you're allowed anything.
All of my audio is bluetooth (car, AirPods, Bose noise cancelling headphones, LG Tone headset). I don't have them on as much as I used to, as I've become a bit more aware of the risk of damaging my hearing as I get older.
Yes: IP address.
because that is your package managers job
Same here, I read it at least once a year.
Recognizing a design pattern saves you the time and effort of having to independently invent it.
I would have thought at the very least it might say where they are.
Courtier, implying well spoken andamusing
But does it run Linux?

Jokes aside; what's the bootloader like on these things? Can you install anything you like, or are they kinda locked down to ChromeOS?
The specs look nice, and are good competition to anyone in the market for a plain ol' notebook PC.
Depends on the audience, really. You have to already know a fair bit before you can critically evaluate the speaker.
In Fred Brookes' classic "The Mythical Man-Month", he extols the virtue of having a single architect:

"Conceptual integrity in turn dictates that the design must proceed from one mind, or from a very small number of agreeing resonant minds."
Not just Americans, Australians too.
I worked with the Assembly team that basically did this, without the complications of smart contracts/etc involved.

This is a hard problem for a number of reasons.
Bliźniak w każdym dachu
But memcpy(0, x, y) is illegal for any x and y.

In mathematics, this is called a discontinuity. Google the value of 0^0 for comparable discussion (it ‘is’ 1 because that makes more formulas look nice)
A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be patched up to make it work. You have to start over with a working simple system

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gall_(author)#Gall.27s_la...

People like analogizing blockchain development to the development of the world wide web.

Tim Berners-Lee launched the first website in Dec 1990, Google launched in Sept 1998. And in between there were many companies founded that did things that lots of people liked. These companies found widespread use and patronage.

Satoshi Nakamoto launched bitcoin/and the blockchain idea in Jan 2009, it's currently Oct 2017.

What besides trading cryptocurrencies, and endless(half-bakedly) pontificating on, are people doing with blockchains?

What simple, functional, useful blockchain systems are people actually using today that have potential to grow into more useful and complex systems later?
HTTP headers still say "Server: Cowboy" and "Via: 1.1 vegur", so vegur+cowboyku+custom code.
Many roles are open at http://jobs.zalora.com/.
I directly handle only one of them though.
Not sure what countries you're referring to, but I haven't had any issues throughout my travels, and when I visited Vietnam then I didn't even bother to buy data (I believe it only costed about $10 for unlimited data for 15 days) because the WiFi at the hotels was sufficient for me.

I also feel some of you really underestimate just how many photos/videos you can store with 15-20GB. Speaking of which, with my iPhone I was always struggling with storage because I wanted to keep some pics/videos on my phone, and I was often too lazy to transfer to my laptop, which would just cause storage issues there.. with the Pixel I've never had any trouble staying above 15GB out of the 32 (24 including system) GB available. In most cases you would likely run out of battery multiple times before you managed to capture 15-20GB worth of photos/videos throughout the day.

I also never worry that any of my photos/videos will get lost/corrupted thanks to Google Photos; this has always been a major issue for me when I relied on external hard-drives (I've probably lost hundreds of thousands of pictures throughout the last 15 years because a harddrive broke, or the pictures got corrupted for no apparent reason). It was also always a pain to deal with duplicates, to deal with identical image names (if I recall correctly then iPhone would have name clashes whenever you reached 9999 photos), etc. And relocating a specific picture/video meant that I had to look through thousands of photos in countless poorly named/organized folders (and always bring the hard-drive(s) with me).. With Google Photos I can just search the name of the place, or only search for videos, and locate what I'm looking for within a few seconds.
not for long, hopefully :)
Transform JSON against a template
I always find it stimulating to read

How to do Research At the MIT AI Lab [1] and Where's the Passion [2].

[1]: https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/41487
[2]: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3093808/
I'm keeping my eye on Colony's progress for a while now. I cannot wait to get involved.

I see a lot of similarities with https://dogezer.com/

Colony seems better though in terms of design from what I can judge right now.
Define huge. He still owns something like 2.5% of MSFT according to Forbes.
Open Notify has an API for this and some other space data.

Here's a few more APIs I've collected into a small R package:

https://github.com/phillc73/rinspace
Check out this
http://www.aauthespian.news/2017/09/new-music-m2-who-are-you...
Android wants to make money for Google. It sounds like what you want is a pocket-sized computer that can make telephone calls. Shouldn't be so difficult, right? But maybe it would be twice the price if you want to pay with money and not your data.
(NSFW) "The Others" I keep it in a bookmark with the title "never forget". It is in French but it is mostly for the pictures of civilian victims in Syria.

https://making-of.afp.com/les-autres

Remember how privileged we are. Remember how quickly these privileges can go away. Remember how unfair the world is.

Focus on what is important. Focus on life. Yours and others.
Army Spider Hero Training Camp
NIECIERPKÓW 2
> What I'd love to see is something which says "hey! Here's ML technique X and these are the areas where X or something similar to X can be used."

Something like

http://scikit-learn.org/stable/tutorial/machine_learning_map...

or

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/machine-learning/stud...

then?
Samsung hardware is awesome, and Android OS is not too bad either, if you manage to get rid of all the privacy invasive Google apps.
You have to take births and deaths into account, which is not straightforward. Assuming fast interstellar travel, "loss of simultaneity" causes the number of people in space to depend on your reference frame (your speed and location).
Do you need a Microsoft license to use this? Like a SQL Server Enterprise or something like that?
The new information is that it was bigger than they revealed/knew/said/whatever before. Verizon's discount was based on the earlier, smaller number.
How does Colony differentiate itself from Aragon?
For me, the most significant part of this announcement is the breaking out of this feature into an extension. Some interesting questions

- Does this represent a deprioritisation of the feature by Mozilla (it would seem not, since there's an explicit WebExtensions API just for this, but I'm curious to see how the level of maintenance of the extension UI keeps up with browser changes going forward)

- This seems like the first major WebExtensions API that Firefox has added post 57 (though it was available with a flag before) that no other browser supports[0]. Does the represent Mozilla's future policy w.r.t. WebExtensions in general - i.e. building out the API with Firefox-specific features? This could be good for differentiating Firefox again, but probably more work for devs creating cross-browser extensions.

[0] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons/WebExtensions/AP...
I used to love this answer but after I realised that it's same irrational peddling of best practices as "don't-use-goto". There can be many cases where parsing HTML with Regex is abuse, but equally others where it's the best available solution. I wasted countless hours in working with lame HTML libraries, their limited options for selectors, their frustrating failures with invalid HTML, all because of this advice. Looking back, I think Regex would have worked just fine.
I was hoping that the voice in the video was created by Polly. That would've been amazing but the samples they provide sound quite robotic.
Brendan Gregg's [linux perf](http://www.brendangregg.com/linuxperf.html) posts.

They a great reference for linux tools and how to use them.

They are also a great guide to deductive reasoning when spelunking through a system to find issues.
There's also a 23.0 MB app (iOS only) that you can download and install — just to display a single number.

(It actually does a little more than that, but still, a perfect example of an app that should be just a mobile web page.)
That website seems to be under construction but I found an alternate link: https://libcom.org/library/phenomenon-bullshit-jobs-david-gr...
The technology behind Google's new 'Clips' AI-powered camera
You should add a typedef for numbers. That would make things easier if someone wants better precision than float.
David Chapman, the author of "How to do Research at the MIT AI Lab" is currently writing a book on meta-rationality over at meaningness.com. Highly recommended.

A taste from the blog outside of the book: https://meaningness.com/metablog/stem-fluidity-bridge
Did you decide on this based on his lack of good arguments or your sense of personal morals?
spoiler: 6
Multisignature funds are used by almost all blockchain project organizations and companies. That's a simple system that's extremely useful.

So blockchains give you the ability to open a secure account of valuable digital assets and authorize spending via cryptographic signatures and business logic.

You couldn't do that before blockchains, and it's not hard to imagine interesting variations on the theme: for example the Colony project that's on the top of HN right now.
Destroy every sin but not greed, that one is fine right?
Web and Mobile Prototyping for Microsoft Office with Justinmind’s Fabric UI Kit
So, let's say i want do to something on the blockchain that looks like this.

Where do i start ( in the context that i can program)
And when you turn it into a more realistic scenario (~1 hour video/day - something I'd almost never do with my iPhone but often do with my Pixel), it's hard to imagine not having access to WiFi throughout the week. Even the hotels/apartments with really poor connection seem to have no trouble uploading the photos/videos throughout the night.
Wow, real human interaction is so rare these days that it makes a large impact when you see it.
Second that, one plus for the last couple of years, good balance of price vs quality and no worse update policy than more expensive phones.
I know smart contracts are based on being able to prove that you solved some given task. The task can for example be to find a value which hashes to match the one in the contract. However, that task is not so interesting within an organisation.

Can someone give an ELI5 of how I can prove that I did a job which is more complex than the one above? For example, to implement a new feature in a software system, sell a product, design a product which the colony is happy with...

Essentially, I want to understand better what are the limitations of these smart contracts.
This concept seems interesting, and great at first glance, but the more I think about it the more I’m skeptical as to whether it would be a fair system.

It looks like a true meritocracy, but a computer does not fundamentally understand merit, which I assume means that it is left to people to recognise the merit in others. I can imagine this would lead to the same politics as you get when peer feedback influences bonuses (which is relatively common now).

I also worry that it would be too easy to game for certain people. We already have the case that men are more likely to ask for raises, which is a contributing factor to pay inequality. I can see there being other places like that here which would allow for gaming the system.

I’d love to read a blog post on these sorts of concerns from Colony. It’s a fascinating concept and I do hope these aren’t issues with the system in practice.
And Breivik only legally got guns after trying, and failing, to illegally get guns in Prague.
>>I don't understand why anybody cares that Google is doing this.

Because I wanted to buy a Pixel, and now I won't because of a decision they made? I can of course go and buy something else, but I'm just voicing my displeasure with this.
I think hacker is the right term to use for someone who can pick up existing systems and modify their behaviour to suit other purposes, be it for fun or profit. Think back to ESR and RMS type of hacker.
> The main finding of this paper is that none of the existing mitigations is fully adequate, not even ECC.

I suspect AMD's new memory encryption would provide significant protection as specific bit flips in rows that do not share the same key would be totally unpredictable.
To anyone who was as confused as I, it is not the linked comment that is what OP is referencing, but a reply.
Are Space, Time, and Gravity All Just Illusions?
Yes, a thousand times this. First of all, regex in the wild (e.g. Perl regex) is much more powerful than the CS version (that can only handle regular languages). This point is often conceded though from the "don't use regex to parse HTML" side, but some don't realize this.

Another thing is that you don't really need to handle HTML at all, only a small subsection that might be totally fine with a regex, even a simple one, for a lot of cases.

The true enemy is parsing something that might change over time, and that's totally unrelated to the regex issue.
I don't think blockchains provide any anonymity. You can try to provide as little information as possible about yourself, but there is nothing in the blockchain that facilitates anonymity.
https://bitcoin.org/en/developer-guide
Rasa Core: Throw away your state machine and use ML-powered dialogue
I thought this would be about deleting lines of code instead of commenting them out "for historic insight". I'd like to see a discussion of whether the cleanliness or the "don't go here" is more useful.
"Just wait til the government bans this because people will store kiddie porn, terrorist communications, and copyrighted media into it."

More precisely, the government will claim that ...
Google Pixelbook with Linux
Google Pixelbook is nice, can I install other Linux and run Chrome OS together, means two Systems? I wanna ask some Google Staffs here.
What Sujan said (IP address), and also:

- Storing visits across the web on different sites that use 3rd-party Google/Facebook-hosted services against a shadow session. Google Analytics, Google Maps, Google Web Fonts, Google CDN / JSON APIs, share buttons.

- I presume you don't login with Facebook / Google on any websites? If you do, that would conclusively link the aforementioned shadow session with your actual account.

- Also, there are integrated browser services calling home to Google. Check about:config?filter=google

---

Edit: For an extra step to mitigate some of the above:

Install either uBlock Origin or uMatrix and painstakingly block all of the above-mentioned 3rd-party origins: analytics, web fonts, share URLs, login APIs, CDNs and JSON APIs. Blocking the last two will break some websites - e.g. Stackoverflow - but you can further mitigate this breakage by installing the Decentraleyes extension.
September news: catch up with the mobile industry headlines
The Limits of Privacy (1999)
Can you break down into the simplest language, what that actually means?

How is it superior to existing systems? For what applications?
> Do they have a website/server?

Not necessarily. I'm talking about people who want to remain anonymous (or pseudonymous) and might want to keep as low a public online profile as possible.
Yes, Bose QC BT headphones are good.
So now you need $300 headphones to solve a problem that didn't exist in the first place.

And 2 inputs are good but it's clearly a pain once you want to connect more devices, say a laptop, phone, ipad, TV...
You can't hide space launches but you can sure hide a person in of those classified satellites.
I can't quite tell from your comment whether you are familiar with this as an existing topic in economics - if you're not, you might find this an interesting intro to the area of study http://www.sjsu.edu/faculty/watkins/coase.htm
https://i.redditmedia.com/qkF5x4YvGmByK2jjWYbn56QolZTrvBK9Qj...
Being small definitely has its pros and cons, but consider that Singapore is a City-State in the same size class as Chicago (by Area, and actually a bit bigger) and the same population class as say Colorado or Norway (5 millionish give or take) and only one tier of government, the National tier.

They definitely lack natural resources and their tax base is that of a small country, but they don't have the usual 2-3 tiers of administrative overhead, the government is closer to the authoritarian end and any large capital projects they do undertake are largely going to benefit everyone to some degree simply because of how tight the nation is. Also being a nation that is one city does wonders for focusing on the habitability of that one city, and there's no other cities to compete for tax dollars there.
capital being slang for "institutional seat"