skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why is this supported through a Chrome extension?

Google is tracking everything about me. So I expect that certainly they can track which sites I don't like, especially when I mark them as such.
California man accused of being D.B. Cooper: A life ruined or a case solved?
Are there any good comparable alternatives?
"Edit: In other words, how could it fail to grasp and obtain our very basic level of consciousness?"

"Argument from incredulity", among its many other flaws, has never in human history been a good guide to the future. Many, many things that people would find non-credible (since "incredible" has sort of wandered in meaning in the last century) have even so come to pass. "Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
Yes, but if you are in those jobs then 5pm is a normal meeting time and the folks in the Paris office are going to be there - like it or not.

There are two real reasons this no longer works; first the international travelling class has turned out to be far greedier and care less about their lives than anyone imagined, secondly Skype.
Kotlin Census 2017
When I was a noob, w3schools was far more useful. I learned HTML and CSS on w3schools. Now I'm more of an expert, I need the detailed documentation that MDN has. Each site has its niche. Still sometimes reference w3schools because it's easier to read, though.
IBM launches cross-border blockchain payments to grease international commerce
"Observation" in the quantum-mechanical sense, i.e. "interaction with the state of the outside world".
Business class was not originally lay-flat. What the NYTimes reference used by that Wikipedia article says is that El Al assumed the Concorde would take away most of the real first class flyers and all that they needed was basically something like domestic business class today.

Business class mostly started up as an offering for, well, business travelers who could give the appearance of being frugal relative to first class while still traveling comfortably. What's happened over time is a lot of dedicated first class seating has gone away and business class has been incrementally upgraded to something that's mostly much better than old-fashioned first class ever was.

> Relatively few people are really in a situation where the few hours in a comfortable plane are worth $$$$

Business class is where airlines make the bulk of their profits.

I wasn't clear. Yes. Lots of people will pay extra for business. I was saying I'm not sure how many of those will then spend 2x or more for a bit more speed when they're already comfortable.

ADDED: This article suggests lay-flat came in during the 1990s which sounds about right to me: https://thepointsguy.com/2017/05/evolution-of-business-class... I definitely remember flying business class transatlantic in the early 90s and it wasn't lay-flat.
I think that’s actually the key difference here - OS X apps very rarely make use of the function keys, instead preferring Cmd-letter combos (which to my mind possibly make a bit more sense as you can remember e.g. R means Refresh). That means that doing away with the function keys is probably a much smaller deal for Mac users than Windows users, as on the Mac they were pretty much just used as media keys anyway.
You can say that about literally anything and have it be false. Simply because someone/some company is amazing at what they do, does not mean they are priced out of reach or otherwise unavailable.
It's nice to have the context of past discussions.
Xenakis
I like YAML and do find it slightly easier to read than JSON. But it hasn't won the popularity contest (yet), for whatever reasons.
Microservices in Java – A Second Look
> Which is why people like Harvey Weinstein can call up the NYT and get a disparaging story erased.

I thought the NYT was the outlet that broke the Weinstein scandal?

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/15/insider/sexual-harassment...
No I am asking a genuine question. My experience is all buyers want to pay 1x to 1.5x of the after tax profit after some massive owner salary has been subtracted.

From a financial perspective it almost never makes sense to sell unless you have to get out today. If you have a good business that is earning good money then just run it out for cash. At worst take your best employee, give them 10% of the business, and let them run it.
You are planning to make custom hardware or custom models? What sort of thing to you want to get machines to learn? Where are you getting training data from?
You are both right. It is worthwhile knowing that something has been posted before, in order to review old comments if interested and good content is always worth repeating.

In any case, reposting is allowed, for several good reasons, which have been discussed in the past.
^ this is a fair re-phrasing that I'd agree with.
They do pay taxes - and don't collect on them...
This isn't that different from Einstein's take: "Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen."

Keeping one's eyes open to contradictory/heretic/... evidence seems to be a common trait among the giants.
Supporting open web is not altruism. Proprietary standards on web is pure evil even for companies: see what happened to IE or Flash.
It's a consequence of northern America.

Did you know that other countries don't allow ISP to do that.
Maybe "Building Microservices", by Sam Newman. It's an architect-y point of view, but it's definitely got some examples of coupling-via-database and how to deal with it.

It may be that a monolith is just fine, nothing inherently wrong with monoliths in many cases. Not being able to change anything... less so.
But going to w3schools is like trying to kill a fly with a flyswatter with a dashed red border of weight 2px. Their examples are so basic, pre-canned, and repetitious between pages that you rarely see useful options and intricacies that each tag/property may posses.

For super quick syntax checks ("Is it fill-opacity or opacity?") MDN might be a little overboard, but as any sort of reference beyond 3 line snippets it is the link that I always look for. I usually append MDN to the end of my searches for HTML/SVG help.
Integration Testing React and Redux
The examples they give are periodic so removing the periodicity is the big win, not removing the noise.

How did ASAP perform better than ARIMA and other similar algos should be the main question, not how does ASAP compare to nothing.
Yes, algo ships with an option to setup Privoxy and dnsmasq for just this: https://github.com/trailofbits/algo/issues/14

If you look at the commits, it regularly downloads and concats a large number of host files that track ad/analytics/malware hosts.
With Weinstein, he was a successful serial abuser because he had both carrot and stick. His power meant he had leverage on everyone around him who might speak out, and his money and connections meant that he could buy silence if that didn't work.

I believe that this happens on a smaller scale with other serial abusers, they seek out situations where they have leverage so it's harder for someone to speak out.
Soup?
eh, i think technology can erase some of the need for human trust. Checksums, public/private keys, blockchain, etc. should all be able to handle verification of authenticity.

As a result, i'm sure we will soon have CAs for more than just https.
NAZIs were not socialists. They just co-opted the word.

http://www.snopes.com/2017/09/05/were-nazis-socialists/
Google Fiber launches in Louisville
The transmission facilities that broadcast VLF to submarines do so in the 100-1000 KW range, with the facilities' actual power consumption likely being at least 150% that value. On the assumption most of this power is derived from fossil sources, such facilities may still retain a carbon footprint.
How are they targeting location at such a high resolution? IP targeting is usually only accurate at the whole city level. In this they show tracking across a bus path. That would require GPS. What am I missing?
I don't think that there is much client-side protection against ads on mobile devices (outside of Firefox's browsers), at least on Android.
People go with what they know.

Makes sense to skew towards industry where one has acquired lots of information.
Thinking about how a friend of mine was assaulted at work by her boss, who was a very powerful person at her place of work, I wonder how it would have played out if she had stabbed him instead of punching him in the face. I don't think he would have been deterred by a hat pin, no more than he was deterred by the threat of ruining his career by assaulting his employee. (It is clear this was not his first rodeo)

In the stabbing scenario, he probably would have filed charges, and the police would have taken his side when he claimed she was an unhinged employee.
It's a very complex issue hidden under a very basic mask. It's targeted at the readers. If you're reading a medium post, chances are you can at the very least afford internet. If you can afford internet, the opportunity is there and it's just not being taken. Maybe you don't like working on the internet and you'd prefer to have a job because that makes you happier. That's fine, too. Also, you're assuming that everybody who doesn't have money "truly" wants it. I disagree.
This is not true. Java and Golang can use asynchronous IO and maintain thousands of concurrent connections. It's just another case where slow languages are... Slow
That moz://a logo still throws me. It's just too much. Too much.
If I have to use Windows, I can't do it either. But give me virtual desktops, a tiling window manager and (sensibly laid out) keyboard shortcuts for everything, then I'll often even forget to use my second monitor.
They aggressively create separate pages for every element and attribute, each full of ads, but hardly any containing substantive descriptions of the things they document. At worst they just restate the name of the attribute in different words. And the examples, while sometimes nice, often just show the effect of turning a property on or off and don't really demonstrate the different things you can do with it. If they focused more on substance and less on SEO, they could be a much better resource.
I think to a degree there's some equalization happening that small towns can't handle. I can't buy a gallon of milk for under 4$ anywhere in the urban area I live. Even if I drive up to walmart on the edge of the city. When I travel to smaller towns (which is a lot - I'm gone almost every weekend camping, exploring, biking, what have you) I'm often shocked at how places so far from transportation hubs can have goods so cheap.

I don't believe it's sustainable, and the more the economy becomes de-localized, the less it can be realistically sustained. I think small towns like this are in for further decline the more centralized commerce becomes. It saddens me to say this, but many of these small towns don't provide much for the current big company driven economy, so why should the big companies care?
Focusing for Skeptics
"The end result being people ask me either to do the stuff because "I am the expert" or resend the document link for them to study."

This is the most frustrating thing. If you can't even save the link or search your mailbox then I no longer WANT to help you. Figure it out.
>one of those smokey camera housings

Sometimes these are empty, designed to create the appearance of an all seeing eye without having the overhead of storing data, wiring, etc.
Garmin Vivoactive 3 In-Depth Review
One of the most common articles posted to HN:

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=nomography&sort=byPopularity&p...
better, with graphics: http://myreckonings.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/Journal...
Wc3 is good as a reference to html or css syntax but I feel it's spread it's tentacles to far and wide. It's the first result when I search for a php method, and I don't feel it's nearly as good as the php manual
Hey, so the idea behind the app would be that users would constantly upload photos of themselves, thereby generating a lot of data, that includes their personal information, time of uploads, and hopefully lifestyle information, which would make the images generated by the model more realistic.

For this to work, the generated images would need to be already realistic enough. I think one way to "fake it until you make it" would be to interpolate between someone's picture and a fitness model, in the method introduced by the paper "Generative Visual Manipulation on the Natural Image Manifold"
That doesn't mean that we should avoid all regulation - government action is sometimes the only way forward when dealing with certain situations, especially given the industry's reluctance to self-regulate. Regulatory capture is a concern, but it's something that we should be actively trying to fight, as opposed to avoiding regulation entirely.
I'm not convinced this is a solution to the problem though.

As you mentioned with traditional IRC during actual netsplit (not single node disconnecting, but two large networks separating) you will see two networks that will get out of sync with time. In this case (assuming it is implemented correctly) the etcd will just shut down and not allow anyone use it until netsplit ends.

Another issue here is that consensus protocols (raft, paxos etc) expect to have low latency. It doesn't make much sense distribute them geographically, and that will only result in a bad performance.

The biggest issue with Netsplits is getting out of sync, and the syncing back. Many networks solve this by ownership and channel/nick services.

I kind of like how IRCNet solved this problem without involving services:

- nick conflict - each user gets an unique numeric ID based on server id and connection id, this ID is guaranteed to be unique even during netsplit. On nick collision, servers just reset the nick to that ID

- channels - they actually had two solutions !channels which are designed in somewhat similar way, where it receives an unique ID and after netsplit one might end up with 2 channels with a different ID. Second solution is +R flag, which only works if there's no netsplit and if no one has an operator status it will grant one person matching one of the masks there.

I like that approach, because it tries to solve the problem without central authority, it's still arguable what is better.
Let's say you have an utterly amazing chip, that can solve any n-bit problem in a single second.

If n is 20, you're not really beating a 6502.

Being quantum lets a chip scale its speed better. But that's about it. At this size, it's worse in every single way than a normal processor.
120 fps is a measure of throughput, not latency. A high frame rate is good, but it's no guarantee that you're not going to drop a frame. Dropping a frame kills the experience, especially in VR.

In any case, .Net (and I gather Java) games typically go to considerable trouble to reduce GC pressure by pre-allocating memory pools and reusing them during execution. For certain kinds of games, like where you load everything in a level up front and don't deallocate until you finish, that can be fine. For other kinds of games, that's a nasty constraint to try to deal with. It ends up bending your architecture in ugly ways that make it hard to develop the game.
Why do you think they're orthogonal though? Empirically, it seems like smarter humans are more ethical. Same seems true of high intelligence vs low intelligence animals too.
Libraries are absolutely filled with distracting noises. I have always had trouble in a quiet library. Every pencil drop, paper shuffle, and so on distracts me. I need headphones with music in a quiet library.

Home can be the same - I have neighbors. I can hear them from time to time. Headphones, though, are a solution, but so is just general background music. Some times of day/night are much better than others, but I don't always get the luxury of doing stuff at those times. All this said, I like working at home.

On the other hand, a coffee shop is filled with near-constant hums of noise. Park, restaurant, etc are all the same. Since no one noise jumps out to grab my attention, I'm actually less distracted. No one cares I'm there for the most part (libraries aren't so good at this bit, but are better now that I'm older).

The other positive of working at a coffee shop is the change of environment often brings a sort of creativity. I find this especially so if I've walked a bit to get there, and even more so when I'm out of town or out of country. Granted, I'm generally working on artwork instead of "real work", so maybe this bit is just me.
These days the sequential execution of instructions is a convenient lie at most.

BASIC is one way. But you can also start with 'How to Design Programs' approach and start with Racket (http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/matthias/HtDP2e/Draft/index.html).
I will be interested to see what kind of algorithms they have used to allow AlphaGo to learn from its own moves. Are these pretty generics algos or are these very customized and specific ones that only apply to AlphaGo and the game of Go?
You're absolutely right. But sometimes it's just the confidence and competence. If you're actually good at your job and you know that, you can push back on insanity and not panic if you come up craps.
Absolutely amazing. I'm dying to see the game records!
The problem was also connected to latency vs. bandwidth.

Since the Concorde was a luxury airliner, it couldn't fly as often as a regular airplane.

If you're in London and you find out you need to be in NY right now at all costs, it may be faster to hop on a business jet or even a commercial flight rather than wait for the next Concorde.

And as first class (and business jets) got comfortable, the need to get out of the air ASAP is much less than it used to be.
Maybe you've got a nicer (quieter car) =D.

It usually works for me too, but sometimes it doesn't, now I know to retry.
> One test subject's commute across Seattle that the researchers tracked with ads in the app Talkatone. The dotted lines show the subject's real path, while the red dots show where the ads were delivered to the subject's phone to reveal his or her workplace, bus stop, home and local coffee shop. (The subject's actual home location has been somewhat obscured for privacy.)

It's not tracking across a bus path; that's their actual path. The red dots are the tracked locations.
>The funny thing about BASIC is that it's MUCH closer to assembler (and, by extension, the logic of the CPU) than any other language.

I agree that flow control with GOTOs, GOSUB and CALL is the closest to assembler, as well as line numbers slightly resemble how you place machine language code in memory (sequentially), however there are things in which BASIC (the classic line-number basic) deviates significantly:

1. Memory management is automatic in BASIC; in particular strings; string variables have automatic memory management; they can grow or shrink with no problem, you don't need to manage the memory.

2. The only way of allocating memory in basic is when you DIM an array; and then this memory block can't be FREE'd, because there's no "free" instuction, nor the option to DIM another array in the same memory location. (Typical BASIC gives no pointer manipulation facilities).

3. BASIC is often implemented as a strongly typed language. Even the syntax requires differentiating strings from numeric variables by virtue of the first character ($). There's no option to do declare a (void * ) variable and thus operate with total freedom from type checks, as it's possible in C. C is notoriously weakly typed, just as machine language is!

4. BASIC data types are higher level: Strings aren't really a data type in K&R C language -- what you have is character arrays that with some functions can be interpreted as null-terminated strings. Then you have integers and floats whose length (bit-width) or sign (unsigned, signed) you can't specify at all in BASIC.

There's also another significant deviation, if only for theorical considerations:

5. Machine language is arguably homoiconic: It is concerned with manipulating binary data (words), yet the language itself is made of such data (words). So machine language allows, for example, writing self-modifying code, code introspection, etc. BASIC is far from homoiconic.

I, personally, find C much closer to machine language (and thus, Assembler) than BASIC, for the reasons above, basically: manual memory management (via pointers), weakly typed and optionally untyped (via void* pointers and implicit casts), and it is geared towards manipulating data in the format that the CPU likes to (i.e. 32 or 64-bit integers, floats supported directly by the CPU, etc.)
Never pregnant is a superset of virgin. According to most
The same NYTimes apparently was the voice of American establishment at that time, as usual: http://fair.org/extra/the-year-of-dangerous-reporting/

Not that it's not that same voice today, as US "stands by", err, actively aids mass killing of Yemeni civilians as we speak.
Things seem to have gone downhill since the purchase last year - I remember they laid off a bunch of people earlier this year since they weren’t very profitable. Probably a maneuver to try and turn the money ship around.
Well, this isn't a VPN service, but this app (combined with a hosts file) does ad-blocking.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.github.xfa...
In general I like that Google and others are doing this. The web is so complicated, so overwhelming, that a central source of documentation is needed. This "blog posts as documentation" culture is not healthy.

However I think we should all be skeptical of any actions corporations take today until proven otherwise. When 60,000 Americans are dying of opiods per year (that's all the deaths in Vietnam per year) and drug companies will reject calls to regulate them and pay off members of Congress, some constant skepticism is called for (who could of believed they would do that??)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2017/investigations/...
I'm Indonesian, from what I learn, the communist party was considered rebels and they tried to overthrow the government, they killed generals and other important figures of the government. My grandfather is also assassinated by them. Not that I generalize and hate all communists, but Indonesia just got Independence and it is important to maintain the stability by fighting rebels, and sure war crime happens, from both sides, to both sides. I just hope we all learned something from it and find a way to keep this from happening ever again
Just become a consultant. Much more lucrative and much more freedom.
That's exactly how we had the app work in the demo. The "facade" part of things is that our trained model was not used as the backend or exposed on an API in any way. We used it to generate our best transformation on an image I took of myself, and hard coded an Android app to always return that transformation.

You can see that demo in the facebook live video, or check out the code here: https://github.com/rayheberer/burda_hackday
probably says more about our collective perception that anything near the median, even above it, is low-end.
C only has a few parts, but their interaction is tricky. That relates also to C's lack of (non-leaking) abstractions.

At the very least, you want something with friendlier behavior in the face of errors than what C gives you.
> On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

> Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Ideological or political battle or talking points. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.

This post seems off topic to me. There are a lot of these stories floating around (sadly). They're all over the news.

I also think your suggestion is silly if meant to be taken seriously.
Google Maps ditches misguided walking calorie counter