skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I seem to recall that certain types of plastic that are regarded as biodegradable will only biodegrade in particular conditions, such as with heat or UV exposure. I've no citation for this, it's only a vague memory from something I saw years ago. (YMMV, it's worth what you paid for it, all that kind of thing.)
iOS 11 is the buggiest I have ever seen any of my iPhones
Scala is a relatively simple language in the end of the compiler pipeline. We just take lowered ASTs and emit our SSA representation from there because it’s easy it to implement it this way. You can totally do something similar from the bytecode.
Back up to ~$5,600.

But if you don't like the price, just wait a minute.
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Ha! Thanks for running through the numbers, very interesting. The air in that 15 mile ball is almost transparent to infrared, though, so I'd probably assume that the surface area of the sphere would receive the lion's share, rather than the volume within it. So the energy delivered should fall off roughly with the square of the radius rather than the cube. Might be enough to give a sunburn, if nothing else.

Edit: On my phone I'm getting ~5.8 joules per square meter. Google seems to be mangling the units, though, so I can't be sure it's not dropping or adding in a factor of 1,000, though.

Edit 2: assuming that figure is correct, unless it's released in <1/200 of a second, it's not competitive with the sun at the equator (>1,000 Watts/Joules per m^2 per second)
He's asking why, if you only have a 2^-730 chance of generating one of these primes at random, would you care about that risk? Single-bit memory or computation faults can devastate the security of cryptographic operations, and they're multiple orders of magnitude more likely to recur in a single computation than generating those particular primes.
I think those are good too.
I'm a happy CKEditor 4 user, but let me know when this gets to 5.1.1. With so much rework, I just can't see myself rolling the dice and rolling this out right away!

Congrats, though. Seems like an ambitious three year long project that you actually pulled off!
I think the point was made at the end of the previous post that pine (or other non-deciduous) forests are being planted there. I think it's a similar story across Europe, but I'm most familiar with Ireland where modern forestry has used Sitka Spruce which is non-native and impacts biodiversity.
But were they as bad as they were?
Egalitarian Paxos (EPaxos) has much better WAN performance than previous protocols.

https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dga/papers/epaxos-sosp2013.pdf

Most real-world Paxos implementations, like Raft (what etcd uses), simply use Paxos for electing a leader. Afterward, all updates are serialized through the leader. This was a performance optimization, but it works well only on LANs; it sucks for WANs because you've at least doubled the round-trip time for every commit and the leader becomes a bottleneck, so it's especially important to have low latency.

EPaxos was published before Raft and I couldn't find any benchmarks comparing them directly, but in the paper above EPaxos outperforms Mencius (a rotating single leader design) even within a single EC2 cluster. And EPaxos maintains much more consistent performance during latency spikes. So EPaxos may help close the performance gap between LAN and WAN clusters. In the context of IRC where you're geographically distributed _anyhow_, something like EPaxos may impose no appreciable penalty at all, at least if there's sufficient redundancy to ensure a quorum.
The goal of keeping the open web “competitive” seems a little dubious, however, considering who’s favor shall ultimately be competed for, no?

Offering up every last conduit one could possibly expose on a general purpose platform, so that competing interests on the other side of the wire are all fighting on a level playing field to harvest all the imaginable minutia of every quiver of flesh (whether voluntary or reflexive) against a piece of smartphone glass, in an effort to line pockets, starts to feel a little obscene after a while.

And if any quarter should be given, the big bad companies will pack up their wares and refuse to conduct business in the commons, leaving the web to disintegrate and decompose back unto what geocities, myspace and aol used to look like? Not sure that’d be so terrible, tbh.
Blue Apron lays off hundreds of employees
You won't see a lot of people talking about this on YCombinator. I think Apple is in control here.
It doesn't. Intel-compatible TPMs do, and Bitlocker will take advantage of those to get a hardware root of trust for the volume master key. Without it, it'll use AES.
So... like this? https://www.theverge.com/2017/8/9/16117850/deepmind-blizzard...
People occasionally contact us wanting us to waterjet cut the parts for the Precious Plastic shredder. Unfortunately, the designs on the website require metric thickness metals, and that's just hard to obtain in the US.

From what I've been told, it's much more practical to buy a used Chinese made plastic shredder off of eBay.
Bet on it happening in another continent? Bet on a precursor?
How we found exploitable zero-days in the open-source GlassFish server
The recent Infineon weakness is not a flaw in TPMs in general or Bitlocker. This is a flaw related to certain TPMs, and is only applicable to Bitlocker if you used those affected TPMs with Bitlocker. FWIW, this same flaw could relate to PGP keys generated with the affected TPMs. This same flaw was related to PIVs issued on Estonian IDs, which I doubt are commonly used for Bitlocker.
>The university system in the US is the envy of the world right now.

Not really. It's built on a unsustainable model of student debt. This bomb has been building for generations and when it goes off who knows what it will wipe out.

Meanwhile, a lot of public universities have dipped in quality and don't seem as focused on education. Classes are run by adjunct professors or grad students while the students pay far more than other students in other counties.

The massive increase in price and decrease in quality will eventually cause some kind of reaction--probably either fewer people going to college or colleges being forced to cut tuition to keep their current numbers.
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Personally, I hope it drops so it validates my decision to not buy it when it was worth pennies... gahh!
> I'd like to see that study, and I bet digital books will blow everything out of the water.

I'm not so sure. Static, printed 2D paper isn't nearly so limiting as you'd think. The time dimension is one of the hardest ways to convey information, and often times it ends up being used merely as animation gap-filling while you're waiting for slow narration to catch up. Auditory information could help people who process it better than written information, but outside of some rather limited scenarios where specifically auditory knowledge is required (such as language learning), it's not really providing anything useful for other people. Interactivity too is overrated: its biggest utility is in allowing people to explore data, whereas the main goal of textbooks is to convey information [1], at which point a well-chosen static snapshot is sufficient to direct people to the important information.

The aspect of quizzing students and automatically grading is possibly beneficial, but it's really orthogonal to the question of digital or print textbooks. Indeed, textbook manufacturers already have embraced the online homework market, since a one-time-only key to access the site is an effective way to kill the used textbook market. But other than saving TAs the burden of grading assignments, it doesn't add much pedagogical value; the real pedagogical value would be in using such assessments to figure out what the student's internal memory map is and where it is going wrong, but that is not yet possible with our technology and I doubt it's on the cards anytime soon.

[1] One can argue that it's better to let users draw conclusions for themselves so as to challenge the author's viewpoint. But that's not the metric that's going to be selected for in textbooks, which is to measure retention of information, and it's probably going to be somewhat counterproductive of the desired metric.
> we really should support capture fisheries, fish farms, and captured game

I guess if you HAVE to eat meat that is a better option, but we don't need it anymore. Its such an inefficient way to get calories and its not as nutritious as plant substitutes.
Sadly this will impact the states that are suffering the most and all voted for Trump in the election. The liberal elites on the coasts will be fine, with their Silicon Valley institutions, giant tech companies or Ivy League endowments. The midwest, who already took a huge hit in their economies by losing manufacturing, is losing their one competitive advantage. The inequality gap, already an issue for the midwest, will widen.
Most of the devices out there could be equipped with write-on feature should the owner install required app for it. I'm a monthly subscriber to Adobe Creative Cloud and I must say Adobe Acrobat DC is the only reader that you'll ever require. You can do almost anything that is digitally possible using the app. I can even write Javascript over my PDF documents.
Factorization Flaw in TPM Chips Makes Attacks on RSA Private Keys Feasible
GM will be the first company to test self-driving cars in New York City
True, but it doesn't scale. Good luck if you live in a metro area.
AI Experts Want to End 'Black Box' Algorithms in Government
Read up on what the word regressive means in this context before going off on your anti gub'ment rant
Microsoft wants to reimagine VR
CI Edit-a text editor
Intel unveils new family of AI chips to take on Nvidia’s GPUs
I suspect that any medium-large company would simply spin off a tiny firm that solely works with the government.

They could then contract out as much as possible, including some of the development, back to the parent company.

The net effect would be that you have a handful of project manager salaries in the public eye at the cost of an additional step in the procurement process.
20 Years of Locus Online
Uranus at opposition on October 19
What's wrong with Taleb? Not arguing, just curious.
Bigelow Aerospace to put an inflatable space habitat in orbit around the Moon
The problem is browsers are deprecating feature if not https so those devices can’t use the features without https but there is no solution for them to use https
Volvo's electric car brand Polestar unveils first model
Ryan Dahl wanted Node apps to use a multi-process model. Hence the name. The vision wasn’t as evolved as Erlang, but conceptually closer than what Node looks like today.

“I believe this to be a basis for designing very large distributed programs. The “nodes” need to be organized: given a communication protocol, told how to connect to each other.” ttps://www.americaninno.com/boston/node-js-interview-4-questions-with-creator-ryan-dahl/
I can luckily do everything I need to on the same laptop I cut my teeth for my degree on. Thankfully no chiclet keys and I have a working track point. It's even easily user servicible, I have replaced the keyboard once already with cheap parts from eBay. I guess I'm lucky I don't need massive power to still run most things I work with natively, but if you mostly work in the commandline it wouldn't be a nightmare to ssh/mosh in wherever you need to. After that I get to enjoy working in a Linux desktop environment with all its programmability and keyboard shortcuts go a long way.

I've never known an environment like the one you describe, but it may surprise you that a relatively luddite setup can go a long way once you're accustomed to it.
Man, sites like this make me nostalgic =) https://kevinroth.com/projects/ gonna have to check out that ASP 3 stuff..
I doubt facts have much to do with the rhetoric. It is about having a tiny kernel of truth with lots of veiled racism.
As a student of Science/Mathematics, I often make the most out of my E-books by writing out the exercises/problems/principles on my notebook and repeating the process (mostly for the Mathematics). I think the flexibility that E-books offer regarding it's digital existence is the pillar of my bias towards eBooks.
Use qutebrowser, and you'll never need the mouse again!
This is some weird kickstarter hybrid analogy... Basically you can fund a kickstarter for some reward (typically the product), say a sous vide machine or an oculus or a video game.. Maybe in the future these will be worth more than what you paid. Nominally if you et a sous vide machine for $50 but they sell for $200 later, then you could make $150. Now you could say here that you get a set of bits that might be useable in some network and might be worth more later? I dunno. Clearly the sous vide machine is not a security.. I guess b/c it has utility for heating water.. even if a limited amount of sous vide machines are ever made. The tokens have no utility until some other product/platform/network exists in which to use them? It is a weird argument.
Yes. It'll be interesting to see if their starcraft project uses the same algorithms or not. Note that the link merely describes software that could be used for feature engineering. It doesn't describe what NN architecture or tree search algorithms deep mind is using.
>I'm not so sure. Static, printed 2D paper isn't nearly so limiting as you'd think.

The real benefits of e-textbooks aren't little interactive animations, but substantive learning-by-doing. For example, having a real interpreter or simulator built into the learning software. A good example of this concept is Resig's advanced javascript tutorial (https://johnresig.com/apps/learn/), but you could easily see something similar for learning accounting or other areas where software is integral to the concepts.
Don't bore the recruiter: how to write a technical work history that matters
How are you posting on HN from vim?
Night Vision for Self-Driving Cars
Is this sarcasm? The war on drugs is the exact opposite of how you should handle public health crises, like how he handled mental health issues by closing numerous mental hospitals, whose occupants are now homeless and wandering the streets.
Haha no worries. Don't hold back on the feedback.
How  to Troll Your Neural Network
I don't tend to believe people who say that everyone working in a particular field are crazy and stupid. Wrong maybe. Whole fields are wrong all the time. But not because they're all crazy and stupid.
Your understanding of what occurred in the acquisition is incorrect. (Source: I am a former FoundationDB employee.) Unfortunately I can’t say much more than that.

The VoltDB post is also wrong in many of its particulars, but I’ve gotten into that argument on this site way too many times by now (and last I checked John agreed that some of its claims were overly hasty).

If there’s a particular question about FoundationDB’s performance characteristics that you’re curious about, I can probably give you a straight answer provided that it was once public information.
Got it, thanks for the clarification
Every time this comes up as an excuse I have to ask: how is no regulation at all any better? Sure the regulation might get fucked up by "special interests" but at least you have some voice in it through the political process. Right now you have none.
Excelsior JET does it, and it works Scala. So you can already compile JVM targeted Scala to native code that way if you want to. JET is fairly expensive, though.
> When it comes to textbooks, our effort should be focused on books that are unencumbered by copyright and other such malaise.

The cost of copyrighted textbook can be substantial, but they are usually dwarfed by the cost of the larger educational undertaking. Open access textbooks is a good goal, but I'm not sure I it as critical to improving education.
Barclays’ former CEO is long Bitcoin and says big banks need to start over
The next phase of China’s offline VR boom is here: virtual reality cinemas
But that's my point. Often times you CAN very easily measure direct cause-effect relationships between ads and revenue. When you get into brand advertising territory it gets a bit murkier because of the data and modeling involved, but you can definitely determine this in many cases.

Where it doesn't work is when you have inexperienced people spending an amount insufficient to properly measure results, not implementing conversion tracking properly, using poor targeting, etc. Of course that's going to fail.

And I'll note that there are VERY technically-oriented people in the industry who seem to have no problem feeling confident that advertising works for them.

My problem is simply with people who have had a few bad experiences writing off an entire industry. All I'm asking is for a bit more evidence for such a sweeping accusation, which I think is more than a fair ask.
I went to law school. In school, I took notes entirely on the computer, and was convinced that this was the best way. Then, I started practicing law. In meetings and interviews, I took notes entirely on paper, and was convinced it was the best way.

It all depends on context.
All you have to do is take on less flight in your life to make a huge impact. The carbon output per person of a round trip flight from NY to Phoenix is 806 pounds.

http://gscleanenergy.blogspot.com/2013/04/how-much-gas-does-...
Nude is the next generation photo vault (UC Berkeley)
I'm actually describing the process, which is what OP asked. I figured that the SEC doesn't seek legal advice from randos on HN.
I remember that shortly after??? Scala native was first announced, Kotlin native made the news. How do these two compare today? Which one is better suited to create native executables now?
buy lots of land up there while its cheap. thats gonna be the only prime land in a few years.
funny, I started to post this as a response in one of those epic PR threads, but then deleted it because I didn't want to be inflammatory. Being new to the team and in this unfortunate position, I think it may be wiser to just roll over than fight. I'm in this unfortunate mode of minimizing the interaction if I can.
I agree, email sucks. However it seems like a reasonable goal to improve it.

Signal started out with SMS, which was quickly abandoned. Your target would basically get a SMS message saying something like "someone is sending you an encrypted message, please install signal to read it".

Seems like a imap proxy could do similar. Use a DHT to track who has a public key. Send anyone who doesn't a "please install this plugin/proxy/whatever to read this message". Have a signal like autogeneration of keys tied to an email address instead of signal's phone number.

Could even have a service like <username>@whisper.com to allow people to use their favorite email client (like thunderbird) to send/receive email and leak less metadata. The imap proxy would use a signal like transport for anything matching @whisper.com.

I seem to recall a project like this mentioned, even a thunderbird plugin or some such.

Not as secure as signal, but better than today's default.
Is the output just a giant blob of HTML? If so, I don't see what this does to solve what I see as the main problem of WYSIWYG editors... a terrible end-format for stored content.

I got my hopes up when reading the intro that we would see a more structured output (not just the underlying in-browser data model). I would love to see a WYSIWYG output a JSON structure with markdown content.

Not to minimize what appears to be a massive and successful effort! I just feel like HTML is a completely inflexible and rigid way to save content.
To be clear (as the guy behind these efforts), what was merged was a PR to let Neovim handle Ex-commands. This by itself was already pretty cool. In <200 lines of code, we were able to obtain full Ex-mode support, an aspect that had already taken 2000+ lines of code for much more limited support.

The PR for full neovim integration is the one you linked. It's more than just making it work with your existing .vimrc file: it's making it work with most vim plugins, leveraging the neovim runtime to make macros run faster, etc.
aaaaaandd as usual the inevitable fan boy down votes ensue.
And criminals don't get caught and fires don't get put out. SF is not quite there yet, but already most emergency responders live outside the city. (Article is from 2011. I'm sure the situation is worse today.)
http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Most-S-F-firefighters-...
At 10% incidence of dyslexia, wouldn't it be possible to survey whether people blind in one eye for a long period of time or from birth have a lower rate of dyslexia?
Salaries are public in Finland. Fines are based on your salary, which is how it should be. Making a lot of money affords you many things. Getting out of feeling the pain of wrongdoing should not be one of them. Just one of the many benefits of public salary data.
The second line was factually incorrect, the first was click bait. Did it get better after that?
One of my passengers pointed out that old people have a tendency to drink a lot of alcohol. Future passengers confirmed this again and again... One woman told of how old people get away from the care facility (for lunch with family, etc) she worked at and came back smashed.

Edit: many people have a problematic relationship with alcohol. I know some people who aren't at all truthful with their doctors about their alcohol use. Any effort to figure out dementia needs to figure out how alcohol fits into the patients' conditions.
Then be comforted that the argument here is not actually about the science, but rather about its interpretation or about the philosophical assumptions underlying the interpretation.

Dr. Hossenfelder is not arguing against the mathematical theory of inflation, or about its observational evidence. It's about whether there is any metaphysical problem if a certain parameter turns out to be much smaller than one.
What makes it worth it for you to keep working there?
And exactly like the situation at newspapers 2005-2015
I found these bullet points from the article pretty insightful:

> - Reading was significantly faster online than in print.

> - Students judged their comprehension as better online than in print.

> - Paradoxically, overall comprehension was better for print versus digital reading.

So with digital reading, you feel like you've learned more than print, but you've actually learned less. This seems pretty dangerous.
In particular, publishing executive salary information has been blamed for fueling an arms race in executive pay [0], and by inference, inequality.

As a thought experiment, if we were to add everyone else's information, it's not clear to me that everyone would come out as a winner.

[0]: https://dealbook.nytimes.com/2014/11/10/more-transparency-mo...
Vim is the best lightweight single file editor there is. That’s all it should be. If you’re heavily configuring it, you should be able to answer “why is this better than an ide?” Without saying “vim makes me cool”. Also, if you can answer that, please let me know! To me, an IDE is better for everything but what default vim is good at.

And if you tell me that typing is faster, please also tell me why that’s relevant!
Seriously... surprised there isn't a tabs or spaces diatribe in there.
There needs to be an intro or it sounds very weird.
QZ got really creative with that headline. The article is primarily about new fintech companies forcing big banks to re-invent themselves. Bitcoin only comes up in the last question, and Mr. Jenkins responds with a carefully hedged answer.
Large areas had been meliorated (in 70-ties in my country Poland) so the meadows are gone for good outside of some protected areas.

All these wild weeping willow which had been a signature of Masovian landscape and which I still remember from childhood visits to family farm died soon thereafter. So did the frogs. It is like coming to different country now.