skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Mainstream smartphones are that way because that's what the mainstream market demands. There are smartphones that put function over design (typically marketed as outdoor smartphones). You can absolutely get smartphones that survive falls, have replaceable batteries and sacrifice thinness and screen resolution for better battery life. But thin, magic rectangles that are all screen on every surface sell a lot better.
Don't think so.

Open issue "Browse Other Instances' Public Timeline" -
https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/issues/1053
There's quite a lot of news sites whose in-line static JPGs all vanish with NoScript. I really have no idea what people think they're doing these days.
Organisations that use violence to advance their cause would include any army and armed forces, sometimes even posting images of things like drone strikes.

I doubt they would be banned though, it would make it very difficult to keep up to date with international conflicts such as the ones in Syria and Yemen.
Common in Britain and Ireland, at least - in context it just seemed like it might be a variation on the same idiom!
Probabalistic data structures and counts/sketches are well-known in the field and if you do not know what the trade-offs are then you probably should not be using them. Perhaps you should start by reading up on how a HyperLogLog and count-min sketch works to learn about the compromises being made and why.
From their website: "Our goal is to make papers more open and accessible and to foster discussions around their content."

Does anyone have an understanding of the copyright issues involved here? Do they have (or have to have) permissions from arxiv and the journals to reproduce these papers?
Thanks for the insight, Melinda.

I really needed it, considering my former Microsoft manager personally laid me off because he just didn't like me.
well the intro line says "extremely fast probabilistic counting of item frequencies"

further down, "Such memory vs. accuracy tradeoffs are sometimes desirable in NLP, where being able to handle very large collections is more important than whether an event occurs exactly 55,482x or 55,519x."

if you are on github, perhaps raise an issue to add an example similar to yours as well
> + Spider routers: https://www.theverge.com/ces/2017/1/5/14182306/asus-rapture-....

I wonder if the author thinks those antennas are purely decorative.
The tradeoffs themselves I think are fine. If I have an issue it's that the three different use cases outlined have _completely_ different tradeoffs using completely different data structures, but are presented behind one API differing only in boolean flags.

I don't know about you, but a boolean flag completely changing the behavior of a collection definitely violates least surprise to me. They should be different classes with descriptive names, IMO.
Debate: “Does AI Need More Innate Machinery?” (Yann LeCun, Gary Marcus)
Google plans to sell the TPU as a cloud service. It's also their secret weapon, so to speak. They don't need people to buy it in order for it to be an asset, they mostly want to give themselves an advantage. That is, all the people at DeepMind now have access to faster hardware with more memory. They can run bigger experiments than everyone else.

As for memory hierarchy, in hardware, there is always something to gain by specialization. Something like a convolution in a CNN is going to have very predictable memory access patterns. It's possible to take advantage of that. Google claims to already have about 10x speedups over GPUs IIRC.
How to Spoof Your MAC Address in Windows 10
Brain exercises to find a Billion Dollar idea
How would I be able to earn off it ? I considered the option of "donate something button", but I haven't seen any projects where the developers were able to live comfortably on the donations. Plus donations isn't stable.

Hoping to find balance somewhere.
Southeast Asia gaming and e-commerce firm Sea ends first day on NYSE up 8%
Does anywhere in the world have venture capital the way SF/SV has? No, and suggesting otherwise is absurd. Boston has the best research institutions, but cash is king.
Level Set: Amendment 1

Freedom of Religion, Speech, and the Press

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,
or abridging the freedom of speech
or of the press,
or the right of the people peaceably to assemble aAmendment 1

Freedom of Religion, Speech, and the Press
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof, or abridging the freedom of speech or of the press, or the right of the people peaceably to assemble and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
And to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
Performing and Preventing SSL Stripping: A Plain-English Primer
Most states reserve the right to seize property involved in the commission of a crime. In this case, that could potentially include all their servers and data backups.

Not that I expect that to happen, though.
I'm a self-taught programmer.... and approximative algorithm made perfect sense to me. I think the description is pretty upfront.
This, this sums it up perfectly.
This Techie Is Using Blockchain to Monetize His Time
Toyota Altona workers were on 11 day fortnights. Were the workers at the international factories that their Xmas holiday time was compared to also on 11 day fortnights?

If I was doing 11 day fortnights I might want an extended holiday period over Xmas to get reacquainted with my family.

It is sad to read so many comments blaming the workers, their union and the quality of the cars.

Australia, a country of 24 million people, has more car brands competing for the customers dollar than any other country bar China.

"The flood of imports has given Australian car buyers more choice than ever before — and more than every other country on the planet except China.

Australia has 64 automotive brands, the US has 38 and the UK has 42." [1]

Why? Well Australia has extremely low import tariffs for cars lowering the barrier of entry for foreign car companies to compete. All while the countries from which Australia was buying these cars maintained import tariffs protecting their domestic car industries.

So Australia lets everyone import but everyone doesn't let Australia export. Sounds fair.

It is sad that politicians dogmatically denied car manufacturers the support of the state while these manufacturers are competing in an international environment where every other country is subsidising and supporting their local car manufacturers.

We see a similar ideological approach with Qantas. A lot of the major international airline carriers are de facto supported by the state but in Australia subsidies are a political no-go zone so we leave them to the dogs.... and blame the workers and their unions.

I'm as opposed to subsidies as the next man in the long term BUT these industries employ huge numbers of our citizens and foster unique and important skillsets. As a nation Australia should work towards the ideals of removing subsidies and trade barriers but why do we martyr ourselves for the cause while every one else is ignoring them?

[1] http://www.heraldsun.com.au/technology/why-australian-car-ma...
There is a difference. In the old days for boomers and ww2 generation, you had constant growth and improving conditions.

Now, you have displacement, but few people feel prosperous. You also have old signals of nice neighborhoods disappear as people don’t marry, push back having babies, and utilize daycare. There is zero new construction, zero, that is with reach of a median income family. The old ethnic neighborhood where you knew your neighbor is dead. But we have that image burned into our consciousness.
Progressive Web Apps – A new way to deliver amazing user experiences on the web
I think the question this raises is : Knowing this, what might it say about the city Anazon picks next?

That is, for example, will it be "established" or more on the other of "we can impose our will on this area"?

Time will tell.
Hi there, thanks for the constructive comments!

They actually are completely different classes internally. The ‘bounter’ function is just a convenience wrapper (factory). For power users, the internal classes offer more control and parameters.

If you have any suggestions / concerns, please raise an issue on github. It’s a new library, we’re looking for feedback!
The two staves used in piano music (tend to) represent the two voices of the left and right hands. In fact, notation for any pitched instrument uses a clef suited to its register, or interval of notes it is capable of playing, so that they are centered on the five-line staff. It wouldn't make sense to notate music for every instrument on a single expanded staff, where each one only utilizes five lines.

This ends up being particularly helpful when reading scores, because you can see at a glance where each instrument is playing in their register. Who's playing the melody? Just look for the notes that are highest up on the staff. Notes that are high in an instrument's register tend to have more high frequency partials and stand out in the mix.
3OM IDs, personal and financial data revealed in South Africa's biggest breach
Good luck at preventing all transactions with that PayWave reader being flagged as fraud. You'd need to somehow launder the reader by using it in large amounts of legitimate transactions.
Rest in peace: Australian auto industry dies at 69
Wonder if Zoosk in light of this article will check their audit logs and see who accessed Roya's profile internally then cross reference with employee onboarding dates then fire the employee.
I didn't mean a touch screen. I meant those glowing surfaces you have e.g. on appliances. Like these:

http://www.rapidkeypads.com/img/uniform-led-lighting/selecti...

They are popular primarily because they're as cheap as they can possibly get - they have no moving parts. It's a combination of worst aspects of physical buttons (non-reconfigurable) and touchscreens (no tactile feedback).
But you can forbid any government body to do business with them. And you can extend that by forbidding government bodies from doing business with any companies that in turn do business with the particular bad egg.

In case of Equifax, that would probably amount to a public execution.
I don't believe he moved the goalposts at all, he made a valid point. The argument that you have made about staying "competitive" IMO is a classic example of bandwagon fallacy. Just because other countries allow companies to treat their workers like shit does not make it ok for our country to start doing it.

I also disagree with the way you phrased your point, on one hand, you mention that the unions would not budge on conditions, but then state that they should have because "no other company that you know of" allows 21 days of holiday over the Christmas. First of all drawing to the fact that the Union represents workers, not companies, it makes sense why the companies have an interest in shortening the holiday break of the workers. It is not in the interest of workers however. To counter your point that their breaks should have been cut in line with that of other countries, then we should keep in mind that some Northern European countries are going further in terms of workers rights, in the opposite direction, so all of us a sudden, your advice that we should follow the lead of some countries leads us to question which way we go.

I would also like to highlight that the CFMEU (Construction) enforces a 17 day shutdown over the Christmas break, so there are other's who do lengthy breaks.

I also struggle to understand your last point about bringing conditions in line within the country they live in, Australia has Union representation across most industries. If you wish to do business in Australia, then you surely understand this, I would hazard a guess that given this, then good conditions and decent pay is the typical situation. Why would anyone want to degrade that?

Winning a race to the bottom is a zero sum game.
Mine just come from seeing predator/prey graphs https://duckduckgo.com/?q=predator+prey+graph&t=ffsb&iax=ima...

and a really weird feeling that, indeed things do roundabouts, but it's not a perfect back-to-start revolution, the soil was raised but the people on it not so much (but they do feel they progressed). A circle that doesn't close properly is a bit a spiral.

</math-envy>
Toronto couple takes up #vanlife as a way around skyrocketing rents
We dont hate the police, but have no method to keep them accountable and awful behavior has been proven endemic in police forces around the country.

Why is it hateful to the police to actually ask for their interactions? As the modern authoritarian state asks its citizens, what do you have to hide?
Ask HN: Second-thoughts about accepted job
I have recently accepted a remote position and will be starting next month.

I visited their offices to pick my laptop up and meet the team.

A few things were raised that seemed odd to me or may actually be warning signs.

I requested a ThinkPad and got no answer. Yesterday they presented me with a Dell, which is fine, though the screen resolution is 1366x768. I am not really comfortable working with this since everything is very bloated, and I know that it will annoy me long-term.
My work is very detailed, so higher resolution does a lot for my ability to work optimally.

They do not cover travel expenses. When travelling for them it would likely be in excess of about $100+ a week, though this is in my local currency, which is worth a lot less.
Their excuse was that it will be on my tax and that I could claim it back from there, but that puts the burden on me to cover expenses up-front, which they do not make provision for in my salary, and also puts the burden on me to claim it from our slow and shitty tax system.

The company is very small but leaders very resistant to change. They currently communicate via e-mail and WhatsApp (???), though I wish to get something like Slack in-place to aide us that work remotely.
I asked about this and the leaders were very hesitant and did not know what or how Slack works in the first place.

They are slow in setting my company facilities up.
They use G-Suite, so creating me a mailbox should not take days.

They do not have any formal or even informal onboarding despite existing for 16 years.
Nowhere is it mentioned how one can apply for leave, and I had to ask. It's a form on G-Drive somewhere that you need to submit.

These things might seem small or petty though they do give me a general feeling of uneasiness.

The team is very, very small, and equally junior, meaning that a mid-level employee like myself would actually be one of their more senior employees.
> There's a lot of room for improvement in this field of software!

That's what I was thinking. If it takes a lot of CPU time, it seems that there is likely a huge amount of optimization that would be useful to the people using it.

> it's pretty hard to give a single number.

I wasn't looking for a single number in the sense that it encapsulates everything I was looking for at least one number to see if the run time of these processes is a hindrance. What you have here is very interesting, thanks!

For the 6 to 8 week analysis, how many cores is that typically running on?
Proof That the Xbox One X Is a PlayStation Pro Killer
Implementing Clojure-like Transducers in Idris: definitions and main concepts
The Youtube video[1] linked from the article is pretty wild - describes how they built the van and what materials they used.

[1]: https://youtu.be/obQt4WxTYV4
I guess Open Firmware is the canonical answer. This of course compiles for x86. But it's massive and sprawling and not really designed for "can be easily grasped while leaving mental room to actually learn something" but rather for wide-spectrum support.

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You of course already know about ColorForth (confident guess), which of course fits the bill here. Not quite "build an OS" and more "finished thing", but certainly hits the mark of "rapidly bring up new hardware functionality".

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I just found 4os (article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12709802)

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I found http://forthos.org/drive.html a little while ago but completely failed to get it going in QEMU (the CD image boots GRUB, but promptly hangs on loading). I haven't yet tested it with any other emulator, and haven't fed it to any actual hardware yet either.

HN article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2973134

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There's also gfxboot, SuSE's approach to bootloader management.

This is a scary pile of assembly language (https://github.com/openSUSE/gfxboot/blob/master/bincode.asm - warning: 16k lines, large webpage) that parses an equally scary script grammar (see .bc files in https://github.com/openSUSE/gfxboot/blob/master/themes/openS...) that is heavily inspired by Forth (the stack/RPN grammar is right there) but also reminds me of Tcl as well (it uses a { } block syntax).

AFAIK this ships on the install media, and I also vaguely recall building it from scratch being very easy (I used SYSLINUX to bootstrap it).

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This isn't quite an OS-dev thing, but I think it's fun: http://phrack.org/issues/53/9.html
Chip and pin should be supported everywhere in the states that takes chip now. It’s been a weird transition that’s for sure.
In Russia, a Bribery Case Lifts the Veil on Kremlin Intrigue
I doubt that Milo's ban was worth it in the financial sense.
I know which of the two we stand more chance of resurrecting after a nuclear war.
Except nothing will save you from the "one true way to write C" when you try to write a declaration of a pointer to a function, for example.
In Mr. Ulyukayev’s telling, he had accepted the gift basket of sausages and a bag of wine only to later discover, to his surprise, $2 million in cash tucked in among the other goodies.

I am sure that has happened to all of us. Personally I always hated it, those 5-6 times it happened to me, the sausages smelled like $2 mil in cash...and ruined the experience :)
Ive heard there are a lot of suspects accusing officers but body cams reduce the average amount of those accusations.
So, what's your question?
If you don't believe her that she was hired, why believe the rest of her story?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15517497
It's fashion and about styling, not usage and design. Most schools where you learn design are actually about styling.

Since the word has changed meaning, we need a new one. Usability has a different meaning again.
Wonder if a Zoosk employee will read this comment and proceed to doing just that because of it.
> Trump lies in order to get the media to cover the topic he's talking about

Sorry, I don’t think he’s that slick. People seem to give him the traits of a cunning cheetah. I see him more as a rich brat who lies constantly avoid injuring his pride, or reputation. Occasionally he says something so salacious the media can’t contain it’s self. But there is no rhyme or reason to the lies. They are constant, stupid, and easily fact-checkable. That’s a dumb person. Lie about something that can’t be fact checked, that’s smart. Look at the mess trump created by lying about the crowd size, wiretapping, firing the fbi director, calling dead soldier’s parents,etc. An example of this maybe ‘but the news moved to cover the lie instead of Puerto Rico’... in truth, PR’s story died to the news media a week ago. There’s nothing more to say about it. The lie about Obama not calling parent’s of solders was just a lie of a 5 year old intellect.
>If you don't believe her that she was hired, why believe the rest of her story?

As a matter of fact I don't believe most of the rest of the story, and - for some reasons - I have been downvoted for expressing my doubt of it sounding "too good/easy to be true":

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15517630

Maybe I should have called it "not very plausible overall", as there is IMHO too much contrast between the described "high security" context and the extents of what the pentester has reportedly been allowed to do once gained access.
> Well they didn't, capitalism pushed them into the grave. The Benedetti family, owner of Olivetti, did some stock acrobatics in the early 80s and failed massively

Sounds more like the Benedetti family pushed Olivetti into the grave than capitalism did...
Uber’s Whistle-Blower Is Developing a Movie and Having a Baby
But Italy is still very strong in interior design right? On the odd occasion I leaf through a fancy interiors magazine I often find myself lusting after a beautiful Italian sofa.
United becomes latest carrier to put economy passengers in rows of 10 seats -
I wonder if Zoosk has audit logs.
>There are so many more invariants [...] that you can't practically check with a static system

You can't statically check the invariants directly, but you can make types that statically enforce that the invariants are dynamically checked.

That way you can be sure your assumptions hold when the data gets to your code, and any invalid data will be recognised as such, rather than manifesting as weird behaviour.
Salesforce actually licensed the Einstein name from his estate for their new AI push[1], so it would seem that you can...

[1] http://www.adweek.com/digital/how-salesforce-snagged-einstei...
Ask HN: Any recommendations for hosting an online video training content
I’m interested in producing some training videos for my company’s products. I’d like for users to be able to log in, select video content and track their progress. Ideally I’d also like to be able to see metrics such as which videos did users start and which videos did they complete. It would also be great to have some sort of simple testing questions too. I’m imagining something like MOOC infrastructure but with much fewer participants. I don’t anticipate giant amounts of traffic/users. I don’t need forums or formal certification/completion documentation.

Before I build my own, does anyone have any suggestions of products that might meet my needs?
In London. The south doesn't have much in the way of tube trains.

Also, TFL has taken over some of the regular lines and re-branded them The Overground.
These run regular trains.

I've often commuted a couple of stops from London Bridge to Charing Cross, it's short enough that on the way back from work I would often walk or use a Boris bike.

I preferred that route to taking the Underground as it's just nicer travelling above ground, I can't say that it made a difference to the travel time.

These are regular trains at the end of longer routes to the South.
Is that technique really "greener" than cremation ? Maybe you're not generating as much CO2 on-site but sodium hydroxide is made by electrolysing salt so it consumes a lot of energy.
Y Combinator news has become trashed with Paywall links
Y Combinator news guys:

Your site is totally POLLUTED with NY Times and other PAYWALL links that should all be BANNED from Y Combinator news - - - Your site has become just a shrill for NY Times and other paywalls, you guys should BAN all paywall news links !
I am writing up an article about my system for filtering HN right now.

I wouldn't have seen this post if it wasn't an 'Ask'.
Well like I said I'm not from the US and have no answers to a system that seems completely and obviously open to abuse. I'm always puzzled why it's the way it is in the US, the whole justice system seems like a farce especially the way the courts work.

I'm all from transparency, not only does it keep the cops right but it also means cops are safe from fabricated complaints they are subject to. I just find some of the ideas here about how to do this ridiculous from a reality perspective. And to suggest that the police should be presumed guilty it actually worse than ridiculous.
Lyft Gets $1B Investment Led by Google’s Parent Company
Dunning, have you met Kruger?

I'm not sure how one could extract this sentiment from my initial comment and progress to such a patronising and paternalistic dressing-down, save for a thoroughly uncharitable disposition.
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