skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the article created a lot of the confusion. Having access to cleared people is important to companies primarily for winning lucrative government contracts. For example, if a 3 letter agency wants to implement a cloud service on an air-gapped intranet, or award a contract to implement social-media algorithms to suss out terrorist networks, they'll look to companies with that sort of expertise. But if those companies don't have a corps of cleared employees, they're out of the running. Having said that, having trustworthy employees (which a clearance implies, but does not guarantee) might be valuable to companies not dealing with classified information, but the article left out the real reason that companies are heavily invested in recruiting people with clearances.
I wonder if sunlight / cloud cover negatively affects insect population.
Pixel is my last big brand phone. Next one needs to run Linux and not be tied to Apple or Google. It has all gotten a little too controlled and walled.

Pixel is an amazing phone and aside from the privacy aspects... I can't see needing more phone. The camera is better than any phone camera I have ever used.

We need to get away from the Android / iOS duopoly
doesnt work on FF either
Ariely was talking about free crapware, not community ware. But even opensource only works in the community. Once you go to apptore you get tons of derivatives of open source stuff, laden with crap layers
What kind of esoteric hardware can't do deferred shading? I really doubt that the switch lacks the ability, and I know it doesn't lack the processing power.
OK but no one else uses your idiolect, so it's just making it hard to communicate.
I just use Tabbed Postman https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tabbed-postman-res... which is a fork of the original in-browser Postman.
do people know why they need to strip the paint instead of painting over?
It all depends on how you integrate. I added Apple Pay to my site. Relative to PayPal, my conversion rate and AOV are higher. Relative to credit cards, only AOV is higher. In my case Apple Pay is a payment option on the checkout page. Apple and Etsy have a similar integration. Lululemon, on the other hand, puts the Apple Pay button right on the product page. Want some shorts? You can literally purchase them within seconds of having landed on the page!

Other factors that hamper wallet payments:
- We didn't do any marketing around the rollout. Those who ended up on our checkout page and happened to be using Safari...and happened to have device with a fingerprint reader...and happened to have a credit card setup, saw the Apple Pay button. Others did not. A small marketing push might have helped attract those curious to try out the technology.
- User input is still an issue. We still require users provided a billing address to help combat fraud. When I first created my billing address for Apple Pay, there was a typo in the country name. This resulted in an invalid country code being sent to my backend server, which rejected the request. The UI doesn't show the country at all, and I ultimately had to delete my own contact card to fix the address.
- Not all banks support the technology. I've seen payments rejected from Russia, Australia, Canada, and even Georgia (U.S.) because some banks simply don't support tokenization/Apple Pay.

You can see some of our initial work at https://openedx.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/LEARNER/pages/1615..., if you're curious.
Hahaha, thanks for the lols :-)

It's not the most bare-bones site I've seen. For a while there, http://www.israirairlines.com/ was rendered a single text line that just said "Error"
Such a dumb article.
In case of natural disaster, you might risk losing your cash in your house, something that can't happen with digital currency.
Also, the problem is not just the access to ATM or cellphones, but lack of energy and cellular data at all: by creating a more robust grid and connections you already solved all the issues related to them.
Having cash handy doesn't solve the real problem, only partially patch it up.
I fear anything involving putting on/taking off a helmet could dislodge these suckers. And any activity the helmet is used for: mountain biking/climbing/mountaineering, is not the right venue for them. Too bad, since the iPhone's water resistance would be a major upgrade over my current phone.
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Is there any way for me to start getting up-to-speed and possibly being hirable as an AI/Deep Learning expert (with alot of luck) in the next year or 2, without going back for a MS or PHD? Where should I start looking, in terms of guidance and discussion? I don't have a family yet, so I have lots of free time outside of work still.
Absolutely he should! De Blasio did sign off on some "conceptually" important legislation protecting tenants from landlord harassment. He even followed through in some egregious cases--a small but important conceptual step. But affordable housing that is safe for tenants to actually live in remains elusive because the penalties for predatory landlords aren't high enough and because a landmark case involving reciprocal financial responsibility on the prevailing party in housing court made it more precarious for tenants to pursue legal relief. (the case decided that no party thoroughly prevailed, so the landlord didn't have to pay legal costs for the tenant to defend their rights, even though the tenant effectively "won" the case- they came out with a net loss-- and now this case is legal precedent, and a powerful deterrent to tenants who fight for their rights in court)

But in this topic in NYC and in the US in general, there is a real lack of effective, job-getting education, as you of course already know. And then these for-profit ed institutions claim to be solving this problem. I'm not sure oversight can be the way forward here. There is just too much political interdependency here. Perhaps the way forward is for people to speak out about their experience with bold honesty. This is difficult for students to do at these schools, and therein lies the dilemma, because they don't want devalue this $$$ education before it even helps them. What many realize later is that this idea of "culture fit" in every sense of the word will bar many of them for the field. This is why people need to start speaking out about diversity in tech. Well, it has started, but we need a deluge of truth here. We need real reporting on this false idea of a skills gap that isn't real if it doesn't admit members of certain groups unless they are the next Wozniak on crack.
Same here. I have a pair of AirPods and the whole setup is so much more elegant now. I really don't miss them wired headphones, or the headphone jack. Now, I just pull the AirPods case out of my pocket, pop up the lid, insert the headphones in my ears, and everything just works.
It's in the manpage.
Yeah but you gotta have a beach house and a boat and a cabin in the mountains and take trips to the Maldives every summer... That stuff ain't cheap!
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Parsing binary formats in kernel mode isn't more dangerous than text. Taking user input as executable instructions in your host computing environment is dangerous.
Great tool for mobile! Have to say I'm too used to PDFs on my laptop, although I can see this replacing it. Two suggestions-

1. Center the text to the screen
2. Justify the text

(I'm not sure how difficult these are though)
Well, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expensive_Typewriter came out in 1961. Cool name also (because computer time was expensive back then!).
Amazing! This more than anything else seems so sci-fi to me. Reminds me of the Diamond Age somehow. In the US we have so much space we take for granted building a new road a new subdivision a new 5acre parking lot. Imagine if there was no more space. Cars now become a whole lot more of a questionable use of space.
Let’s Enhance: how we found rogerkver’s $1000 wallet obfuscated private key
Note that these only work at the beginning of a "line", so you may have to hit enter before the tilde.
I haven't used Google's previous implementations, and I'm bummed I still can't use this one. I have high hopes for this implementation because it is written to comply with the W3C Payment Request API (https://www.w3.org/TR/payment-request/). Microsoft and Mozilla are also working on implementations. Apple Pay for Web follows a very similar API. As a developer who deals with payments this makes my life a lot easier as I can create a single implementation that enables users of almost every major browser to take advantage of speedy checkout.
I’m in Wilsonville, moved from Seattle (but I grew up in Portland).

One thing that WA has over OR is no income tax. I’d gladly have sales tax again to not pay the income tax.
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Try jslinux

https://bellard.org/jslinux/
Unfortunately, ~? is two characters too many for me to remember a year later :|
deep learning and the hearing aid
https://spectrum.ieee.org/consumer-electronics/audiovideo/de...

why you can't just turn up the volume
https://medium.com/@AMP/cant-you-just-turn-up-the-volume-4ec...
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Service looks awesome, but I wish you guys would use HTTPS on the checkout page (or even better, the entire site!). Let's Encrypt can give you a certificate for free: https://letsencrypt.org/getting-started/
You could also just run tree on your computer instead of navigating directories
Well I just found out that I was grossly underestimating the danger of handling Cf-252, given its half-life.

Look what ORNL used to transport 1g: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Californium#/media/File%3ACf...
We’ll see how long Washington can maintain its income-tax free environment [1].

1. https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/seattle-c...
This seems amazing but you need to have your order form automatically redirect to https. This is a really big deal. I almost didn't purchase because of this just so you know. Sure I can type the extra 's' in myself but 99% of your customers aren't going to do that. Even if you aren't worried about the security issues because you use stripe, your customers are going to get "don't enter credit card info on sites like this" alerts from most browsers (chrome told me not to buy). Please enable a redirect now.
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Headers/auth/other setup = trivial to config and save as persistent env.

Charles is fine (I prefer mitmproxy/mitmdump).
I have a friend who uses the bose headphones but when we go out to busy restaurants or other noisy places she tends to speak much to quiet for me to hear her...go figure the person without hearing loss ends up being the one having a hard time understanding!
South Korean banks sue online retailer Newegg for alleged Ponzi scheme
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U.S. Will Curb ‘Sneak-And-Peek’ Searches Microsoft Sued Over
I'm disappointed in the lack of innovation in the tech industry. Many people talk about many different topics, and come back to the refrain "Wait for Apple and Google to do it".

Why not make a startup?

Waiting for large companies to innovate is like saying "I won't build the Apple II because I'd rather wait for the IBM PC to be invented".

The fact that these market leaders (IBM and DEC then, Apple and Google now) have so much power to uproot industries means that people are afraid to pursue their ideas. I don't have a full solution, but investors like Y Combinator are certainly helping.
A great story. It reminds me of Southern Mail and Night Flight by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. A different era altogether. FWIW, the Oakland Air Museum has the City of Cardiff, a Solent which is similar to the Clipper.

http://www.oaklandaviationmuseum.org/solent_flying_boat_32.h...
Agreed. As a child of the 80s, one of my favorite things to do was have my mom drop me off at the local university library. I used to just sit in the reference section and devour information. Of course, I never had any mentors or really even anyone with a bachelors degree in my life. So, my comprehension was very low. But, it didn’t stop me from dreaming and reading and thinking. I can only imagine how amazing it must be to be a curious kid in the 2010s.

On the other hand, I think it requires natural and insatiable curiousity. For instance, myy kids, while quite smart, certainly don’t have the same thirst.
If you're hitting a single box, this seems perfectly possible - especially if the server or the network is poorly configured. This is what CDNs are for.
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Example:

(()=>{try {return 42} finally {console.log('you will see this')}})()

The fn body returns 3, but also the "finally" executes first and you get the console.log. Same with:

(()=>{try {throw 42} finally {console.log('you will see this')}})()
Rule #29: In the internet all girls are men and all kids are undercover FBI agents.
I saw this demo in 1975. But then it was Alan Kay and Adele Goldberg, neither of whom is presenting this time.

I've used Bravo on an Alto. It was a good editor, the predecessor of Microsoft Word. On the Alto, it was used for programming as well as document preparation. The file format was plain text, then a control-Z, then the formatting information. The Mesa compiler stopped reading at control-Z, so you could put boldface and such in your source code.

Those were cute machines. I used them in the 1980s, when they were obsolete, and Stanford still had a few running.
The iPhone X is coming though - aren’t many people simply waiting to check that out?
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Field Roast Vegan Sausages (https://fieldroast.com/product-family/sausages/) were temporarily banned a couple of years ago (http://fieldroast.com/blog/field-roast-coming-back-canada/).

I'm a vegetarian, not vegan, but I was pretty angry when they disappeared from our shelves. There was also some scuttlebutt that Field Roast was reported to the CFIA by a competitor.

As a left leaning Canadian. But don't tell me what to eat. On the other hand, please keep poisonous or otherwise dangerous foods off of our grocery store shelves. It's a fine line to walk.
Your very link shows a number of times the treaty was ignored.

The treaty you point out found its inception from a treaty that wasn't followed from less than a decade prior! This is even explained in your link.

And for the treaty itself, this is mentioned, "It was superseded by the 1750 Treaty of Madrid which granted Portugal control of the lands it occupied in South America. However, the latter treaty was immediately repudiated by the Catholic Monarch. The First Treaty of San Ildefonso settled the problem, with Spain acquiring territories east of the Uruguay River and Portugal acquiring territories in the Amazon Basin. Emerging Protestant maritime powers, particularly England and The Netherlands, and other third parties such as Roman Catholic France, did not recognize the division of the world between only two Roman Catholic nations brokered by the pope."

There is also this very important point about how this treaty was followed, "It did not specify the line in degrees, nor did it identify the specific island or the specific length of its league. Instead, the treaty stated that these matters were to be settled by a joint voyage which never occurred."

You are confusing the self-interest of countries with a non-existent requirement to follow words on paper. Countries follow treaties to the extent of alignment with their own interests. If treaties were always followed by countries, then this world would be a far different place than it is today. There would also have been far fewer agreed upon treaties.
Do you never have to terminate a stuck session? <enter>~. to do so is practically muscle memory. The other sequences I cannot remember either, since their frequency of use is several orders less for me, but ~? is pretty intuitive to find out.
We see a lot of SSD errors that turn out to be problems with RAID controllers. The lost drive rate dropped quite a bit when we started using OS-level RAID functionality rather than whatever the heck is in the firmware of Promise / LSI / Adaptec / etc. cards, and we were able to return a bunch of drives to service after we started using those cards in a simple pass through mode.

Raise your hand if you've lost data that was RAIDed eight ways to Sunday because of a RAID controller failure that turned out to be unrecoverable because of crappy decisions in the firmware, or rebuild times equal to the number of days it took to order, rack and configure a competitor's product.
OK, then. Give that GUI to patients, and let them tune it themselves.
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I often use ~C (to open the ssh command prompt) and type (e.g.) “-L 80:localhost:8000” to set up forwarding via the same ssh session.
A lot of talk about pricing here, so I add my favorite www.thum.io - charging $2 for 10.000 with first 1.000 for free.

What I like about them in particular is their buffering: once a screenshot is made, it can be served from their server 'unlimited' times without counting as a new screenshot.

A real improvement on their service (worth paying extra for me !) would be a way to dismiss the banner on github projects for new visitors. Obviously their browser is not logged into Github at the moment of the screenshot, so those screenshots mainly shows a general Github welcome banner :-(
That looks interesting!

I quoted UNIX to show how primitive technology was at the time, rather than say he could've possibly used a computer. With ALS, using a computer would as hard as writing I would presume.
I'm having a hard time finding it, but I learned a while ago that the Cochlear implant system went through a stage where the coil went to a small box worn as a small harness/backpack on the back.

One set of keywords that seems to turn up some of the limited info out there is "cochlear body worn processor".
Yeah. I can understand where they are coming from, at least with tilde as the escape character it would be highly inconvenient if it happened all the time, but I still a bit unhappy about having to press enter before being able to terminate a stuck session. That's usually not something I want to actually send, should the session not be as dead as I thought it was.
If you're considering Java, you might consider a Java-derivative like Kotlin. It's similar enough to Java that it's suitable for basically any task where Java will work. The IDE support is great and the learning curve for anyone who writes Java will be quick. After having used Java for close to 20 years and now having tried Kotlin, I see very little reason to start a project from scratch in Java these days.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15529236
If you're flying 70m/s at a stable circular orbit then you need to accelerate to 100m/s in order to escape. That's an increase of 42%.
So you're saying we can't just do it with a 555?
To detail: I think these code schools should be transparent about the race, gender, age, prior experience, previous degrees/where they were obtained, family connection to industry, and their relationships with hiring partners for those who get each job. That would be impressive transparency. There is a reason why this kind of transparency isn't available, but it should be. I'm not sure that hooking up with WeWork is going to head in that direction of radical transparency. I fear that it will just contribute to the further ossification of current closed circles of job entry and keep it even more "in the family" than it already is, while not expanding that family and appearing really "exciting" and bursting with possibility for cross pollination. But appearances seem to be everything.
This is almost certainly about false claims/marketing based on usage of regulated industry terms. Simply removing the offending labeling would bring them into compliance.
As the thread says, I can confirm this bug, the answer: 24

:(

iOS 11 must be the buggiest piece of s I've ever tried. Stuck animations, apps that take ages to load, widgets not working, more stuck animations, text overlapping everywhere.

Related: Flat design was supposed to make things leaner...

EDIT: Worst of all, every single operation is wrong:
7+8+9 = 96
4+5+6 = 60
As soon as I upgraded my 6s to 11, I saw performance seriously degrade. It takes -seconds- to bring up the iMessage editor.

My immediate thought was that Apple had liberally sprinkled wait() into the iOS 11 code base so that I'd feel like my ole A9 CPU just wasn't cutting it any more and I'd realize, as they do, it's time to upgrade.

Or... maybe they are running every key stroke through the new Azure-enabled Cray computers to better predict what I am going to type so that overall, my typing is more efficient and I'm actually spending less time typing...

Yeah. Yeah, that's it!
Thanks. Soon I suppose we'll be able to run a LaTeX->TeX rendering system compiled to web assembly!
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Some of it is just one's personal taste, but I would say that a practical difference is that I find it difficult to pick out details in the images called out as "bad". My eyes feel overwhelmed by the huge shifts in contrast and it's hard to visually identify objects in the very dark areas and the very shiny, bright areas.

I also get a very strange sense of depth from those images -- it feels like everything is either very close or very far away, without having a sense of how far apart objects actually are.

In comparison, in the BOTW screenshot, I can clearly identify objects of interest (a shrine, a tower, a volcano, a river, a bridge) and have a sense of where they are compared to each other and myself.

That said, I feel like it's not a completely fair comparison -- the "bad" images all seem to have the camera in a dark area looking out and up into a bright area, while the BOTW camera is on top of an exposed mountaintop looking out into the sunset. The lighting is going to look a lot different regardless. However, the HZD image after _that_ is really quite garish and harder to justify.
Or you could, you know, wear ear plugs at those shows. That’s what the musicians do.
Of the 5-10k CS professors out there , only a fraction are researching AI. There are postdocs, grad students, undergrad researchers. Students are not likely to make any ground breaking discoveries. So yeah, under 10k sounds reasonable. CS is not as big as some people think. There have been less than 50k CS pHd's conferred in all human history and less than 500k master degrees.

With AI though, the jobs probably pay $300-500k per year, so there are going to be a lot of people flat out lying about credentials and abilities.

And some people's idea of "research" is running scripts against Azure, AWS, or some grad student's thesis code. "Research" most likely does not involve a large amount of computing.
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Paint is surprisingly heavy.
There's a nice list here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12900448

There have been some great resources released since that list was written. For the courses, the exercises/assignments are the most important part.

- Deeplearning.ai's courses on Coursera (course 4 of 5 coming out next week)

- Practical Deep Learning for Coders Parts 1 & 2

- Book: Hands-on machine learning with TF and SKLearn (Aurelion Geron)

If you want a really gentle path, I'd start with 'Data Science from Scratch' by Joel Grus.

If you want to start at the deep end, buy the Deep Learning Book by Goodfellow et al. They review the relevant math at the beginning, but it's work to go through it. Perhaps if you recently got out of school you'll find it easier than others.
Not going to happen. Too large a pain in the ass for too little profit margin.
Vineyards and redwood trees are not found in suburban neighborhoods, and an apartment building next door does not threaten your yard. Nobody want to expand into nature areas, we want to build taller and denser where there are already buildings and transit stations.
Apple has really degraded with regards to the quality of their products with Tim Cook at the helm.