skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Yet, nobody ever expects the CSV to be.

That isn't really true. Why does the intended format of the input matter regarding veracity?
> Extensions are the new "Let's play find the download button on a webpage" that's been around for years.

Chrome extensions are that. No other browser has this problem.

I think, it's necessary to be pointing fingers here, to get Google to maybe finally do something about it and so that people don't mistakenly limit their use of extensions on other browsers.
Are you familiar with the format in general? It's a left-to-right style of note-taking where points/ideas are written in a vertical column, with responses written to the right of the original idea.

As a former four-year policy debater (high school), I'd never thought to use this for an interview, but I see how it could work.
I know it’s not officially released, so I’m hoping it gets fixed, but FF57 rips through my Mac’s battery life and runs insanely hot on simple JS apps. I still use it daily because it generally works, but there are a few apps I just have to go to Chrome for.
Eric Holder: Jeff Sessions has an 'almost obsession' with marijuana
Here, I searched on YouTube for "1999 policy debate tournament" and found a typical one: https://youtu.be/5D20PppPIOc?t=2m6s
To provide a competing narrative, I spent my first year of high school competing in LD at a high level (broke at many national tournaments, qualled to NCFL Nats, etc.) working with captains who had won Harvard and were competing at TOCs from a small school in Florida. After my parents forced me into the boarding school system, I grew to hate the activity, since no one was serious about practice or skill and just using it to pad their college applications. I was on the board of Philo at Phillips Andover until in-fighting between the president and VP resulted in my expulsion from the team after refusing to vote to impeach the president over personal (bad breakup) reasons couched in procedural nonsense (a hallmark of these societies).

I regularly mopped the floor with the other prep school kids (including Hotchkiss and Exeter) in what I considered extremely basic rounds compared to what I'd seen (as a novice!) on the national circuit. The New England prep school league was more a club for lazy, privileged kids who didn't care much for working on cases or practicing delivery; the reasons no one on my team spread were because the judges were too incompetent to follow it and the kids were too lazy to learn how to think that quickly - not some noble principles or rules banning it, which I've never heard of. They were far more concerned with access to the team budget and the ability to establish a pecking order with associated privileges (like international travel) than actual skill at debate (which was totally orthogonal to one's ability to succeed socially on the team). Besides, the events were a joke -- after dinner speaking? After being exposed to LD and Policy? Give me a break.
I've seen this happen in Bahrain in the past, wherein the government relies heavily on selling oil and uses the profits to subsidize living costs in Bahrain, making Bahrain bearable so that people don't complain/protest all the time. I can see the UBI argument of tyranny.

However, I raise another point, wouldn't then these people who are made jobless due to technology, etc. be again powerless and unable to stop tyranny or autocracy in a without-UBI scenario yet in a much similar strain of a with-UBI world, isn't tyranny still inevitable because those that need UBI are powerless and hold no sway on opinions or even angry and gain enmity against those who hold power such as in the Tea Party and Alt-right movement?

(Recently, however with oil prices falling, subsidization isn't happening as much and Arab Spring has brought on protests and govt. repression)
If I had known there were role-playing elements to debate, me and my twelfth level fighter/mage would have checked out debate club back when I was in school. Looking at some of the other comments here, it looks like debate must have the rules complexity to be a proper RPG.
One of the things myself and others maintain about Python's Flask is that it's very easy to get up and running. I think ASP.NET Core really has nailed that same sort of streamlined approach. It's less confusing where things plug in and are extendable vs ASP.NET MVC (which I've had the fortune of using since version 3). The idioms make a lot more sense than they used to -- and it's great to see ASP.NET Core idioms expand to other .NET web technologies (e.g. Giraffe).
>Their speeches often exceeded 300 words per minute. (A conversational pace is about 60 per minute.)

Hm, that seems off to me. One word per second is slow! Just from eyeballing this Google search, I'm getting 110-200 WPM as conversational pace:

https://www.google.com/search?q=conversational+wpm+speed&ie=...
Who's Ryan?
A modern high-end GPU can draw upwards of 200w.

Edit: Not sure why I'm being downvoted for stating a simple fact. The top-of-the-line AMD and NVidia cards have TDPs of 200-250w.
Well, sort of, given equal/lesser preparation.

What goes missing from your analysis is how much of the round is won before it even starts. A team coming prepared with well-organized files, "answer-to" blocks, recently-cut politics blocks, etc. will destroy a team using rough-cut cards and analytics.
Full page crypto ad in the WSJ
We've banned this account because, although we've asked several times, it seems you won't stop posting like this.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Another great source of network data: https://icon.colorado.edu/#!/
A big problem is that once being a bulk attention merchant isn't appealing, they'll double-down on finding ways to creepily invade your privacy, profile you, and resell that profile to companies you'd rather didn't have your information.
I guess I was a much shittier debater than I thought, and I absolutely was not a good debater. I don't think I ever saw this type of thing work - maybe our schools were just in completely different skill tiers.
OP here. Thanks for responding promptly. To be clear, letting third party JS run in a trusted environment like a dashboard is an industry wide problem. If we assume CircleCI is the only bad actor we're kind of missing the point of the exercise.

CircleCI is a notable example, due to the fact it hosts source code and secrets for so many different companies and loads so many third party scripts in its dashboard context. But they're not unique in this regard. I hope everyone reading this is reconsidering the scripts that have access to their dashboard and pushing for changes at their company.

If CircleCI was immediately vulnerable to injection via the scripts above I would have used the private disclosure route and I encourage others to as well. But I don't know that there is a "vulnerability" here so much as a discussion that we need to have about what and how much third party code we let run in a trusted context. I wrote a little more in the thread below, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15442988.
So, did it mean that Mozilla has implemented Core Animation counterparts in each and every platform they supported?
> I imagine no one has explored the security implications yet.

I bet they have. Especially insurers.
We don't even have autonomous street sweepers (well defined environment, not allowed to run over stuff) mining dump trucks (not as well defined environment, few things it's not allowed to run over and most of them have reflectors on them) or forklifts to unload trucks (well defined environment, nothing to run into).

I'm not holding my breath for automated trucking.
Apple Strikes Deal with Spielberg’s Amblin for ‘Amazing Stories’ Reboot
Bing isn't that inferior these days. Arguably their video search is better than Google's.

Their main search results are plenty good enough for most normal use cases.
I do believe that the core idea of emacs textual "application" dired and the likes are similar to this.

A text structure, some regex, some keybindings
>Here it is again 'CP isn't wrong'. Yes it is, I don't see how you can think it's not.

You haven't defined any criteria for 'wrong'; the person you are replying to is taking issue with the fact that the harm principle (a commonly accepted ideal of what is 'wrong' in individualist society) does not apply to any given instance of viewing or possessing child pornography. You have to define your criteria for 'wrong' rather than simply assert it. By defining criteria, only then can you be refuted in any meaningful sense, rather than a rally of "it's wrong" and "no it isn't wrong".

So if you say that it is wrong, please back up your meta-ethical position.

>It's not a kink, it's not a fetish, it's not a sexuality

Pedophilia is a fetish; it may be other things too, but it is a fetish for children, this is even in the 'plain' sense of the word fetish, which is to concentrate on a particular aspect above all else. The pedophile, rather than fetishising say "normal" features like breath, fetishises extreme youth.

>being a paedophile is totally fine then you need to get help

Nowhere did the poster say this.
The Radeon Pro 560 on my MacBook Pro can draw "up to 75W". I don't know anything about how it manages power, but I do recall that Apple recommended in a WWDC session on writing energy-efficient apps that one should be careful to not trigger the discrete GPU when the integrated Intel GPU is sufficient. So that leads to another question: on my machine, which GPU would Webrender be using? I suppose I could find out experimentally, but I thought I'd ask in case someone here knows.
This is fantastic (for me)

I'd largely forgotten what pixel shaders actually were, so it was nice to get a high level understanding through this article, especially with the drawings!
Well, I hesitate to get too strict on definitions, as I genuinely am just curious about the differences in terminology and I'm not trying to be the #vanlife police. For instance, that first picture in Wikipedia article you link to, you can buy something similar in the U. S. built on a Sprinter chassis (Winnebago Navion/View). Technically, yes, it's probably a "camper van" as it's built on what was once a van chassis. Most folks in the U. S. would not call it a "van" probably because the only difference between a Navion and a traditional Class C RV is the chassis it is built on (a Class C uses a truck chassis).

To me personally, and I'd extrapolate to the U. S. population, a "van" or "camper van" is a camper that kept the original body. For instance, classic VW Westfalia, Chevrolet/Ford 1/2 ton conversion vans (RoadTrek), VW California in Europe, Sportsmobile in U.S./Canada. But the instant the original body comes off (or more accurately, never had a body to begin with) and a new one goes on, it's an RV. To put it another way, when Westfalia received VW Vanagons to build out, the Vanagon had a full body (just stripped). When whoever built your camper received the vehicle, all it had was a frame and a drivetrain, with no body.

But, again, you need not answer to me, call it whatever you want. :-)
Welp. Wanted to write quickly and made a stupid mistake. Sorry about that Kevin!
> I mean, if you want to hear the same music on your stereo as your headphones, find a radio station you like and leave the stereo on while you go for a run.

So you agree that there is no point spending $500 here and the watch should be returned?

> maybe you don't actually like exercise and you should stop

What.
My career's doing just fine, thanks.
This is really on the coaches. (Yes, high school debate teams have coaches.) This was supposed to build useful skills -- public speaking, research, analysis, formal presentations.

It reminds me of that scene in the "Bad News Bears" where the little league coach realizes the grown-ups pushing the kids to win win win are the bad guys.
> “For the most part, the Very Short Introductions range from worth reading to wonderfully appealing.”

Cannot recommend this series enough. If you want to know the best way to be a good citizen, to cut through the shroud of fake news, opinions, and context lacking information, this is it. Any time I hear a term I’ve never heard before on the news I go straight for these books. It started with “neoliberalism” a couple of years ago, and recently “hermeneutics”. Also, I began to wonder what does “Citizenship” actually mean? Not surprisingly these guys have a book on it.
How does ML help in that regard? I don't understand exactly what you're saying by "ML software". How does the regular user specify what he wants? By writing it in plain English with all its ambiguities, turning the "ML software" into a very fuzzy compiler that constantly tries to guess your intentions? Through some GUI or visual programming language, like we've had for decades but which have yet to cause a shortage of programming jobs?

We've been automating programming since the very beginning, moving from machine language to assembly to high-level languages to using libraries and frameworks (although making different libraries cooperate is sometimes just as labor-intensive as writing the functionality from scratch).
In healthcare software development you do risk analysis as a daily exercise. Mitigating this is so easy.

In this Github comment the only issue is a scared customer management (how I read it), which in my opinion has no experience in handling audit findings or software development. Stopping CIL (or CLI) projects because of this is ridiculous and shows a lack of professionalism.

I am in healthcare with multiple active development stacks (Java, Node, .NET, Python, ..) and in this regards I worry more of the Cordova/Node apps with their 1000s of npm dependencies which some of them do not even have a public source code repo and/or intentional anonymous author and/or without a license. Analyzing who is calling home there is a monumental task compared to the pretty uniform .NET or Java stacks.
alaska is typically in the top 10 of most corrupt state indices.

http://fortune.com/2014/06/10/most-corrupt-states-in-america...

> I also see a population who comes out to vote, especially when anything dividend related is voted on.

that's exactly part of the point of the aricle.
Accidental Dow Jones News Report Claims Google to Buy Apple for $9B
I used to worry how incorporating is almost an inescapable need if you want to be taken seriously. Surely, you want a professional company label when a customer goes to bill his subscription. Right? Learning more, I have realised that you can either chose to build the right thing and try hard to get your first customer, or fuck around with these pointless tasks. It's possible some customer may balk at a one-person business but most find it perfectly acceptable and have zero-issues in buying from you.
Certainly. And we'll support the drooling infants and feeble elders.

And we'd also provide the opportunities for people to learn what is necessary to move from the 75% to the 25%.
Don't worry, your default browser is safari and will always be safari. The chrome browser isn't really chrome, just a reskinned safari. Apple doesn't permit any real browsers except safari.
I once got a call from someone with DBA privileges: "I just ran 'SELECT table_name FROM user_tables' and it says 'no rows selected." I logged in and checked, and said, 'Yep, you have no tables.' Fortunately, Oracle by then had the RECYCLE$BIN, and the interruption in service was minimal. I'm not sure how he dropped all the tables.

And let's not talk about my own (mostly minor) disasters.
>Oh, all these people on NextDoor have carefully built validated statistical models based on clean, individually gathered data?

Take a look at FBI crime statistics by race and gender sometime. Witnessing a Asian woman committing a property or violent crime is statistically speaking like winning the lottery. If I was to assess the risk of an Asian woman walking down the street I'd rate the risk as lower than any other demographic group, is that racist and sexist?
That's certainly not the case in California which is what the article is about.
Jeremy Kun also has a couple good articles about SVD:

https://jeremykun.com/2016/04/18/singular-value-decompositio...

https://jeremykun.com/2016/05/16/singular-value-decompositio...

The first one is particularly helpful for understanding SVD conceptually.
What about the teamsters union?
Do you not have fingers? Or is there some other good reason not to use TouchID outside of the lock screen?
I was incredulous that someone could be so obtuse, so I went and eventually found the quote. You've done a really poor job of paraphrasing him.

He reorders his clothes on what we can presume is a similar time scale to normal folks', and he washes them with "less water", "thanks to synthetic fibers."

It's interesting that you've included your source and managed to totally misrepresent it.
Bringing in outside CEOs (like at Uber)
What serious business hosts their proprietary, mission critical code on someone else's computers? Isn't that like Coke or KFC putting their original recipe on Google Drive?

Edit: Okay, I get it. People like convenience over security. I'll stick to self-hosting a Drone-CI instance and only deploying binaries.
Kit Fine – What is metaphysics? (2012) [pdf]
Americans Claim Role in Yeltsin Win (1996)
Show HN: La fabrique (fr)
Fake headlines claiming Google bought Apple made it to a Dow Jones newswire
Dialogflow (formerly API.AI) Integrates with Firebase Functions
everything is political
Show HN: Bing Wallpapers for Mac
Lots of good points, but one thing still keeps me off this particular train:

.NET does not (yet?) have the same level of availability of high quality free libraries that other major platforms do. Things like image processing, database DSLs, etc. I think this is in part because Microsoft provides such a comprehensive stack that it kind of discourages the kind of diversity that leads to the proliferation of libraries.
That's to Lin Clark's credit.
Since the 15" MBP charger can deliver up to 87W, if you have full power draw on the MBP will you actually not be able to fully supply power over AC? I assume that the CPU also takes up around 20-30W.
Migration Story: Moving High Scale Data and Compute from AWS to Azure
Thanks for the answer. I guess I'm not really wondering about the "being taken seriously" aspect. More when it comes to managing taxes and liability. A LLC would protect your personal assets in case something goes wrong with your product (let's say you leak the information of your 255 million users), but when is it worth it?
It'll be either ML or nuclear winter. Heck, maybe both.
http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1424

I want Sven's life. But most of us don't live like that. We have to work at figuring out how to make money.
> so they race through their arguments at 350 words per minute like meth-fueled auctioneers

Honestly, it kinda seems like they need a rule that forbids speaking faster than a certain rate, say 150 wpm or whatever a comfortable speaking rate is. I assume the debates have time limits to limit argument size, and speaking fast is just a cheap way of gaming that system. I'm surprised they've let it go on so long.
Your browser is doing ~60fps rendering on the GPU already, it's just doing it much less efficiently. This does less work on the CPU _and_ less work on the GPU, for the same result.
"The whole article is based on the assumption that once basic necessities are covered, huge numbers of people are going to call it a day and cease economically profitable activity."

Is there some reason to think otherwise? This is already a prevalent phenomenon in generous welfare states.
The sign will increase the evidence of traffic by making cars stop and start. It will, on introduction, give rise to some non-adult acting out by people who find the existence of the new stop sign frustrating.
over the long span of history (things may have changed) reproductive rates are chiefly driven by whether not having children is a economically a liability.
I know a little about pacemaker software. They are super conservative and very reluctant to change. For a good reason! But it's certainly not an area where you will get much innovation from. I bet there would no AWS or cloud if they had to file every incident and environment change to an FDA equivalent.
Also, building a 1KB Docker container: https://blog.quickmediasolutions.com/2017/09/28/a-1-kb-docke...
Haha, this is definitely a satire article about the kind of people the author judges customers of 3G watches to be... but it's a bit harsh.
"Windows Application Packaging Project" is a huge deal. I looked at how to install/distribute some code of mine and realized Visual Studio outsourced all of their installation tools to InstallShield... which isn't included or supported in Community edition. And the Desktop App Converter for UWP is meant to work for apps which are installed with a third party installer like InstallShield.

So Centennial was super hard to actually publish for if you didn't pay for Visual Studio and InstallShield. This sounds much easier, and I'm excited to give it a try.
Personal auditing doesn't really solve the problem because extensions update automatically, and there are numerous cases of the authors of popular extensions being approached to sell out their userbase in exchange for cash, providing a motive for formerly-audited extensions to go bad. Here's some basic tips at defending yourself:

1. Minimize the amount of extensions you use to the bare essentials. If you can live without it, uninstall it. If you rarely use it, uninstall it.

2. Prefer extensions from well-known organizations rather than unknown individuals. Example: there are plenty of extensions that force HTTP requests to HTTPS when possible, but I exclusively use the one from the EFF. Organizations have less to gain and more to lose from breaching the trust of their users in this way.

3. Prefer extensions that multiple software developers have recommended personally. This won't itself protect you from malware, but it does increase the likelihood that emergent malware will be discovered promptly and loudly publicized.

4. If you absolutely need an extension and none of the above apply, download the source code of the extension yourself and manually load it into your browser, to keep it from being automatically updated. (Part of me is wary to recommend this, as software that never gets updated is historically prone to being exploited by lingering unpatched flaws, but I'm having a hard time coming up with an attack vector of this sort for browser extensions.)
Author here. Apologies for the confusing "portability" section in the article. I've fixed it :)
I went through this same thought process a few years ago. I basically gave myself a crash course in CS and engineering and "reinvented" / positioned myself as a software engineer.

I left my data science job and spent a couple of years as a "pure" software engineer and now am a "research engineer" which is basically a software engineer who understands machine learning and deep learning.

By and large I'm very happy with the move (other than that the company I quit as a data scientist got acquired and I would have made more $$$ if I'd stayed).
Us debaters are jealous of your nicely-defined rulebooks.
Are all truckers in that union? I thought a lot of truckers are small businesses that contract with large ones.
Makes sense. IIRC smart thermostats also have this sort of feature to prevent excessive cycling of home HVAC.
I am very happy with Apple's restrictions. It's the only large IT company which cares about my privacy, and I don't want to have any apps which do whatever they want on my devices.
I’m only a couple years younger than you, but I definitely experienced a significant “trying is for white people” attitude when I was in school in LA.
Right. I've mentioned this in the article now.