skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good old negligence, never fails to amaze me what people let happen.

Did they digitize any of this? is the information lost, not just the artifacts?

The original article[0] is much better, and should ideally replace this thin Gizmodo rehash.

[0]: http://www.pressdemocrat.com/business/7559762-181/hewlett-pa...
Also the Mini and Rolls were successful sellers for many years, the DeLorean less so.
Has there been much progress towards making AMD cards work with popular deep learning libraries?

There's https://rocm.github.io/index.html but it's not quite clear to me how far they got and how usable it is today.
"Results from our implementation highlight the use of the techniques to translate applications from legacy languages such as Ruby on Rails into more modern Python implementations "

Python: 20 February 1991; 26 years ago

Rails: 13 December 2005; 11 years ago

Whoever is spreading the lie that Python is modern is doing an amazing job.
> These are often master-planned communities, often built in isolated semi-rural areas,

Worth making the distinction to non-US readers that exurbs might be in semi-rural areas, but they might have much different values than traditional rural (small) towns, where it's not abnormal for kids to behave as the ones in the article.
Original article linked from Gizmodo: http://www.pressdemocrat.com/business/7559762-181/hewlett-pa...
Yes, its good to have a closer look at the numbers involved :-)

I found the habitual part of Earth to be 24,642,757 square miles [0]. A square mile = 2589988.11 square meter [Google].

So that comes close to 7.1 trillion locations. It results in 7000 Gb for each byte stored.

This makes me wonder if there is some kind of algorithm is involved. The location names seem randomly but might not be. Maybe its only random for the superficial observer. Which could mean with a sufficient big enough sample the algorithm can be found. Maybe even a relative small dataset with locations close to each other could work already.

[0] = http://www.zo.utexas.edu/courses/THOC/land.html
Let's wait until a smug haskeller one-ups you with language snubbery.
If someone informally visits a company and brainstorms business ideas, it is THEIR responsiblity to ascertain whether they will be compensated somehow. I doubt at any point that someone led him to believe he would be, and it's his own damn fault for not voicing his thoughts and concerns before offering his expertise.
I'm just saying it's very hard to proceed without some idea of what the work is, i.e. the task, the goal, the central thing you'll try to accomplish. It seems you're trying to build the team without knowing that yet, whereas I'm saying you might have to know it in order to build the team. Obviously it's a chicken-and-egg problem, and I also could be wrong, or even if right, it's not the only possible truth. But at the very least I can say that in my experience, once you know where you're headed, the team almost seems to build itself.

On the other hand throwing a team together and collaboratively seeing where it wants to go, can work too... so long as no one involved hangs onto any of their preconceived notions and can get behind the group's new common direction. And hey, deciding that (i.e. the direction) can be more of an exploratory/creative thing, which as you say, also involves some work, but can also be fun. Here's hoping you do find some fun in it, like it's a rebirth process rather than something with a crisis-avoidance flavor, which is the effect of thinking about age discrimination and poverty and the like! Anyway good luck!
And that system maintains a hierarchical relationship, you and your neighbor share the first n words. Makes much more sens e
Another way is to legislate net neutrality.
better link IMO: https://gizmodo.com/researchers-uber-s-ios-app-had-secret-pe...
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Sounds like someone wasn't following the 3-2-1 rule!
MIT’s AI bot Shelley writes horror stories collaboratively on Twitter
Wikipedia Zero isn't about making the internet exclusively for Wikipedia. It's about putting the site into the ISP's no data charge area. Yes, it does mean that you end up with a two-tier pricing scheme ('free' and 'not free'), but to classify it as 'subsidising an internet plan to make it exclusive for wikipedia' is a gross mischaracterisation.
Demand-Driven Architecture (2015)
I've done all of these things since it's my job. I haven't tried Facebook, because I don't have any confidence in the surveillance hypothesis, but my first guess being inapplicable doesn't change the fact that root access would allow people to prove this is happening, and that hasn't happened.

Furthermore, this could be proven with some fair reliability using correlation only. Is more encrypted data sent when you're speaking? Is more encrypted data sent when the microphone permission is enabled? Does the app access the microphone while sleeping? Nobody has presented anything _close_ to evidence.
What about storing it in fat cells? Bio chemistry storage. Is this possible/advantageous?
There's a difference between understanding QM and doing QM. (See the preface of Griffith's book [1] for an explanation of what I mean by that distinction.) Doing QM is indeed hard. But it has been claimed by many (with again Feynman being the canonical example) that understanding QM is hard too, so hard in fact that one should not even try. That is false. Anyone who understands high school algebra and what a complex number is can understand QM.

> I meant that all of the predictions are identical

That depends on what you mean. Formally, yes, all the predictions are identical. But informally, the Copenhagen interpretation predicts that the EPRG experiment should yield FTL communications.

> If that is not true, either I have been terribly mislead or you have a groundbreaking result in QM.

I don't know how groundbreaking they are, but QIT has led me to profound insights that Copenhagen could not, e.g. [2] [3].

It also leads to interesting questions, for example: on QIT it is immediately obvious that it is not possible to undo an entanglement without bringing the entangled particles physically back together again (because if this were possible that would lead to FTL). So it is a deep mystery why the two-slit experiment works at all, because every photon must be entangled at a minimum with the particle that emitted it. I don't know, but I suspect that if you pursued this line of thought it would lead to some insight about how lasers work.

[1] http://www.fisica.net/mecanica-quantica/Griffiths%20-%20Intr...

[2] http://blog.rongarret.info/2014/12/quantum-teleportation-dem...

[3] http://blog.rongarret.info/2014/10/parallel-universes-and-ar...
some prices go up, some others will have to go down, assuming that the profit margin remains the same. Diversification, how is that not obvious?
That's weird, shouldn't that be a responsibility of your router? Or did you roll your own?
Superman is pretty much Hercules for the jet age.

Born special, good at trying, wildly powerful, noble, etc.
Sounds like PJAX.
> NYCStyleCheesePizza

> ChicagoStyleCheesePizza

Chaining M by N adjectives together to form a type hierarchy is a design smell. Odds are, you just need to add 'toppings' and/or 'style' members to your structure.

But, to praise the Factory pattern, you can walk back your gratuitous class hierarchies if the concrete class name is an implementation detail of your code.
Well, you have to make some prior assumption, and the uniform seems intuitively reasonable. But I don't think there's a theoretical justification that says the uniform is an inherently better choice than anything else. It's still an arbitrary choice.
He was very wrong. The sedition acts made it pretty clear that without explicit protection, the government can and will abuse its powers.
There are very few apps I trust enough to install anymore. If a service I want to use has a somewhat decent mobile site, like Uber and Facebook, I will always use those instead.
This sidesteps the fact that informed and responsible citizens should have access to opiates even if they are not ill, much less terminally so.

I get that it's a compromise, but it is still a morally reprehensible position to believe only terminally ill patients should be allowed the choice to put opiates in their body.

The real problem is a mixture of Big Pharma propaganda, kickbacks, lack of proper education, deep socio-economic troubles, depression, and need for escapism. The solution is not to limit the freedoms of responsible citizens but to address each of those concerns in turn.
Why is Elm more popular than PureScript?
Kotlin is an irrelevant language with no future.
I always wonder: these 'patterns', do they simplify programming for beginners? What are they for, really? Why is there a whole set of standard patterns even with standard names that people find useful? Do they really find them useful?

It seems simplistic to me to cut the world into pieces of 'if you have this problem, you solve it with this pattern, dude.' Isn't this missing the point of really understanding the problem? Especially because (a) the problems are usually not exactly like (so often applying a standard pattern makes the code overengineered) that and (b) the proposed pattern often more reveals the limitations of the underlying programming language, so why is that not mentioned in the motivation of that pattern? Like the 'visitor pattern' -- does any pattern intro tell people that this exists only because Java and C++ have no multiple dispatch? Does is not just awkwardly implement what is naturally expressible in, say, Julia or CommonLisp. Yet I've never seen this as an explanation for that pattern.

For the excessively applied 'factory pattern', it even has it's own jokes: Java, the language without verbs (or, only with 'run()' and 'do()').

Instead of having a simplistic cookbook of patterns, would it not be wiser to teach programmers about problem analysis and programming languages?

TL;DR: I don't understand 'patterns'.
No, this is the point of the Granholm case mentioned in the article: States can’t apply restrictions on imports they don’t apply to in-state products.
Murders his family in a rage and tries to earn penance through acts of strength and valor... no, wait...
Naturally, I just stay away from it since it can't seem to give me results that are as good as Google.. unless it's all just in my head.
Was this slogan used by an actual facist party or am I just missing some joke?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascism

One might dislike Trump, but calling something facist just because one doesn't like it is a bit of a stretch.
Do other programmers use this at work? We started pair programming in 2016 with Extreme Agile programming. I'm curious how widespread it is outside of the large midwestern town where I live.
Well no, Apple (in an unprecedented move), granted the Uber app the com.apple.private.allow-explicit-graphics-priority entitlement.

"Apple gave us this permission because early versions of Apple Watch
were unable to adequately handle the level of map rendering in the Uber
app," an Uber representative, Melanie Ensign, told Business Insider.
"Subsequent updates to Apple Watch and our app removed this dependency,
and we're working with Apple to remove the API completely."

Uber was doing other sneaky stuff to read the devices serial number (or other unique identifiers) and evade Apple's countermeasures, but that's seperate from this.
At least right now, I do not know of a way to break out of a Docker container and the last bug I know of was fixed in 2014 (https://blog.docker.com/2014/06/docker-container-breakout-pr...).

The only ways I know of that can be used to jailbreak are, as documented on https://security.stackexchange.com/a/153016: kernel vulns (which are not inherent to Docker, and can hit you on any kind of Linux environment as soon as you achieve RCE in a hosted application), running a container with --privileged, and being careless with bindmounts - either by bind-mounting /dev, /proc and friends which you shouldn't do in any case unless you're aware of the pitfalls or by bind-mounting the Docker socket file.

The latter is something that I see far too often (especially with docker-in-docker setups for Jenkins slaves), but if you're avoiding this, you're safe from that vector.
The VTOL aircraft would be cool if they get it going.
I just thought of a concept of using a water fall to fill a tank that gets lifted up and then when gravity makes the lift fall to the bottom, water is dumped by opening a gate. Something near the top blocks the water from refilling it while the lift moves back up. This is more efficient than moving a rock up and down, given the gate opening and water blocking is energy efficient. You can put this under hydro dams for extra energy after it passes the turbines. Why waste right?
Well, what happens if we adopt alternative axioms (e.g. some sort of assumption of a normal distribution instead of a uniform one)? Are those alternative axioms consistent?

Maybe we might be able to show that agents adopting the uniform axiom make better (more rewarding) decisions in practice than those who adopt a competing axiom do?

I don't have a proof, but my gut says yes.
>This has been a half formed thought bouncing around in my head, but I think part of the reason for the resurgence of comic books and superheroes is the simple fact that we live in a complex world where there are very few instances of Good and Evil. We live in a subtle, complex, and nuanced world, where if you take the time to dig in to an issue, you find more complexity...and a lot of really morally compromised people. We don't live in a Good/Evil world, but we want to. I think that comics are a retreat from that, a mental/moral bulwark that gives us an outlet for our need for Right and Wrong. We might not be able to figure out <insert political issue> without coming to blows, but we sure as hell can agree that Thanos is a piece of shit, and that Batman is wicked cool.

Now, I always think this, but I think we also need some amount of moralizing mythology to remind us that, at the end of the day, when the time comes to act, there really are such things as good and evil. My favorite superhero movies tend to be the ones that show it, rather than trying to add "complexity" by actually removing the mythic content by invoking gray-vs-black morality and calling it "complexity".

Captain America: the First Avenger did it well, though I'd have liked them to have kept the Red Skull as a loyal Nazi. Let Hydra genuinely be portrayed as a Nazi cult, carried from its origins in WW2 to the modern day. It's mythically important that a Nazi piece of shit gets punched in the face by Just a Kid from Brooklyn.

It's mythically utterly unimportant that one manic-psychopath and another brooding, resentful psychopath "can do this forever" (The Dark Knight).

It's moral complexity when a fortunate kid from Queens tries to find some responsible way to deal with a working-class villain just trying to make it good in a world dominated by the Tony Starks and Thors (Spiderman Homecoming). White versus mid-light gray (with a good reason to be gray) offers us a compelling conflict, in a way that "two pieces of shit fight each-other" does not.

(Yeah, Marvel > DC, and holy war upon anyone who says otherwise.)
Williams F1 did the most recent relevant work on flywheel energy storage for F1 KERS Kinetic Energy Recovery Systems.

They dropped it from the original F1 application in preference to the batteries that the other F1 teams were using. A few Porache 911 GT3 cars were modified to use the flywheel. These track only cars didn't have a passenger seat, instead the flywheel was there, spinning round at tens of thousands of revolutions per minute, just next to your 'privates'.

More recently Le Mans cars have had the flywheel although nowadays the business is owned by GKN. Williams sold the business after it was not found to be what they needed for F1. Lots of London busses have the flywheel, it has found its application in stopping busses and getting them back up to speed quickly.

How much power does the flywheel give out? The peak power is about 3/5 of a Nissan Leaf. It is designed to be used in series with the main engine or in parallel. In this way the vehicle can be designed to have a much smaller engine with the flywheel taking care of all acceleration. Multiple flywheels can be used.

The applications the flywheel is sold into are specialist where things get serviced properly. I don't think it will ever be in mainstream automotive because we are giving up on ICE cars and if you have got batteries on the car anyway then you might as well use them for the regen.

Now where I think Williams went wrong was in not making a flywheel that happened to be made from some lithium-ion batteries. So that metric tonne of batteries lugged around on a Tesla, imagine how much potential energy you could store if you flew that around at 36k RPM. You could spin the thing up before leaving the house and not have to use the battery for your first few miles.

I would like to see a purely mechanical version of flywheel, so just gears and a clutch to transfer energy to the flywheel when braking and accelerating away.
‘I Forgot My PIN’: An Epic Tale of Losing $30,000 in Bitcoin
From the Article (and a few other sources):

The access was used to allow uber to display maps on the apple watch, which was a blocker for the iOS watch app launch. Apple wanted uber as a launch partner so they have uber the permission to do this as a hack/workaround to hit the launch day delivery deadline. They do not use it anymore. This isn't about "uber/apple wants to spy on you and suck up all your data all the time" this is about "Uber/Apple will compromise your security to hit their milestones and/or engagement metrics".
It doesn't quite fit into the black and white mold, but most modern action heroes are 100% righteous, which is a similar thing.

Take the incredible scene in Iron Man 1 where Tony Stark flies halfway around the word, kills a bunch of men (probably for good reason) and then almost kills an allied pilot. These events weigh so heavily on him that he cracks wise with his buddy on the phone while they are happening.
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They frequently are, but F# definitely falls into the functional category, unless you only consider pure functional languages like Haskell.
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This tantrum is fairly warrented TBH. Nvidia has been hostile to the linux world for as long as they existed. That they've been in a monopoly situation means that the community had no choice but to take the pain in.

Sway is a WM, and wlroots is a new library that should help in creating Wayland WMs (similar to wlc). SirCmpwn has to maintain all of that, and it turns out it's a fairly big task. Realistically, his WM will run on hardware running Intel for the most part, with AMD or Nvidia way behind. Optimizing for Intel is fairly simple, and it turns out it gives AMD support for free, since they use the agreed-upon APIs. His choice makes sense.

The thing is, people are going to always ask why that choice have been made. And I can understand this being super-frustrating, hence the post being so harsh on nvidia. But really, nvidia deserves it. Wayland wasn't designed in a vacuum, and nvidia took the wait and see approach. Once every bit were put in place, Nvidia came up with the EGLStream proposal. Not during discussion. After everything was said and done. Adding a codepath for EGLStream is really non-trivial, and I hope nobody does it because it really adds additional complexity.

Really, that AMD is getting more competitive is going to help the GPU world a lot. Nvidia has always been a bad citizen there, and oh boy if AMD ever gets in a position where they can compete on compute, that'd be great.
> a sufficiently advanced amount of data and analysis will be indistinguishable from surveillance.

What’s surveillance if not “sufficently advanced amount of data”? They’re indistinguishable becaus they are the same.

Facebook isn’t “collecting data”. It really is following you.
how is it not related? It's literally in the title of an article talking about a company offering more options to its users.
Man of Steel (the movie) kind of writes that in, his earthly pops dies so that he can stay hidden.
I thought The Traitorous 8 were generally considered the beginning of Silicon Valley.
> as if it was serious art

When you start talking about whether things are "serious" or "real" art or not, you've lost sight of what art really is.
But it's not clinical. It's splitting hairs and in some cases clearly biased against him. They literally call a piece he wrote as "agenda driven" and "proofless" based on their own personal opinion. Also just because someone knows someone doesn't mean that they have a "personal relationship". That's like saying every time one recommended software to their boss they should discuss everyone that they know in the company because you couldn't possibly deliver a valid review of a product if you know someone there. They also don't provide any context, don't provide how many "non-biased" reviews the person has done for contrast, in short, it's nowhere near clinical or data-driven. It's written like a high schooler out to prove to their love interest the reasons that they should drop their current significant other and date them instead.
How about a system that loads springs as mechanical energy, do that have those?
I'd argue that the vast majority of superhero movies are engineered through focus-group testing to be as palatable to as many people as possible that they become bland.

Logan was the only genre movie in recent memory that eschewed this formula and confronted the messy topic of the senescence of the age of the superhero.
If we (theoretically) assume that Facebook actually does listen and use the data for advertising: what would be the legal consequences?

Could this become the next Volkwagen?
That would be incorrect grammar, like saying "St. Louis Missouri" instead of "St. Louis, Missouri".
Developers Are the Most Underrated Designers
Perhaps security isn't as easy as (often self-proclaimed) security experts think it is. Unlike them, developers don't devote 100% of their time to security. I couldn't care less about people standing on the sideline yelling at me what I can't do. How about proactively seeking out and suggesting meaningful improvements which actually help increase security?

Security in big corporations often boils down to a unit of people ranting about everything and nothing, and telling people what they can't do, while in fact, they should be doing the opposite.
who is subsidising what?
The front page has a link directly to the F# website: http://fsharp.org/, which has a bunch of resources to learn the language.
Ok wine, beer and cider certainly are treated specially in parts of Europe. In Denmark for example you must be 16 to purchase low-ABV alcohol and over 18 to purchase anything higher (4% if I remember correctly). As far as I know no such restrictions apply to other food, such as coca cola.

You can also safely ship liquor in the U.S. I like to ship back liquors from distilleries, but want to avoid airline baggage fees so I ship them via a shipping service. The booze has always come through fine.

Also in the U.S. you can vote at 18 (in some cases you can even vote at 17, as long as you'll be 18 by the first Tuesday of November of that year).