skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's an announcement and some example code for building iOS apps with Kotlin/Native here, including reusing some of the code across iOS and Android:

https://blog.jetbrains.com/kotlin/2017/11/kotlinconf-keynote...
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I liked the Aeneid a lot and wouldn't write off the second half. But they can't all be my favorite.
Fine, call them supervisors.

99% of the companies can replace 75% of the managers with supervisors ( foreman in constructions/manufacturing ) and get a better result. Most of the "teams" inside organizations dont need managers - they need supervisors as organization does not need to have mini fiefdoms.
Silk to shutdown
The USSR was totalitarian because that is what you end up with when you follow Marx/Engels/Lenin on the way to communism. Large-scale communism is like the pot of gold under the rainbow, a goal which will never be reached. It can work to a certain extent on a small scale, up to the maximum number of people which a person can personally know - somewhere between 120 and 150 people. Anything more than that and communism will fail as it becomes easy for freeloaders to hitch a ride, leading to friction within society, which again will lead to 'strong men' to stand up for society and position themselves as leaders, leading to the dissolution of the classless society. Even small-scale communism - think monasteries, Quaker collectives, etc - is not really classless as there are always leaders and followers in any group of people. Communism is the right plan for the wrong species, it works wonders for ants and bees and other similar species but it fails when applied to competitive primates like us.

And socialism? State socialism is supposed to be the precursor to communism according to the troika of M/E/L. It has all the disadvantages of capitalism combined with all the disadvantages of communism. Social democracy - as practised in the Sweden of the '60s - can work to a certain extent: in a homogeneous society where the population is raised with something resembling the Benedictine work moral - ora et labora - and where slacking is frowned upon by the community. It is harder to make it work in a heterogeneous society with less social control as it gets all too easy for freeloaders to parasite on the work of others which will lead to friction in society.
Well also it doesn't have to be precisely the same story each time and in fact would often be changed around depending on the audience (emphasizing a local hero, for instance)
ADT wins temporary injunction against Ring’s new security system
> The world and your career are unpredictable, so you are better off learning subjects of permanent value.

I've been looking for a way to express this idea for years. Doing a core subject at University like Mathematics or Physics can be used in a million different careers.

In a similar way I'd recommend learning say Functional Programming over React or Scala.

Plus I guess learning Category Theory over functional programming too, although I'm not quite sure how true that is.
Maybe this guy should strip it for parts.
"Security via obscurity" is the popular phrase.
I don't have a source that explicitly says it has been cracked but I saw a reddit post stating that all episodes of stranger things 2 was available on torrent sites less than 10 minutes after it went live on Netflix and people commenting on how it was possible because the drm was cracked
Trespassing laws often require notification, so they are pretty good about posting notification. They aren't really doing anyone a favor.

(Michigan requires notification, with the exception of land clearly being used for agriculture, which does not require notification)

But yeah, there is lots of public land.
> Lesson Ten: Mathematics is still the queen of the sciences.
> When an undergraduate asks me whether he or she should major in mathematics rather than in another field that I will simply call X, my answer is the following: "If you major in mathematics, you can switch to X anytime you want to, but not the other way around."

You can argue that with Physics as well. However, I have learned in my life, that there is a value in not having the option to "go back". Flexibility comes at a price.
> In my opinion the scarcest human resource is nuance. So many heated breaths of online guff would evaporate in the afternoon sunlight if every netizen took a little more care when editorialising.

The author literally gives a definition in paragraph 2. You're free to discuss the hypothesis, but it feels cheap to simply call it editorializing.
Same thing happened to me last year. I got very hyped up on the switch. But then it turned into hot garbage.

Tried to get support on the firefox subreddit and they told me I shouldn't be using Firefox Beta if I'm not "technically inclined". Okay, so I switched to the normal release and it was too slow for me to even bother. Back to Google...

I'm wondering if their new quantum engine fixes issues. Are you on that newest version?
Because parent is a victim of the manufactured opinion that fake news is the main reason Trump won.

Whether Trump won because of fake news or because of Clinton's weaknesses as a candidate, or because of his own agenda, surely it must be interesting to ponder why Russia felt the need to expend so much effort in creating a sophisticated fake news operation to attempt to sway the election. They certainly thought they'd accomplish something by doing so, right?
There is no lassez-faire when it comes to Google, Facebook etc. For example i can not advertise guns or cigars on them.

Free speech is absolute and should always be but I don't think Google or Facebook should be forced to provide platform for anyone either.
Besides the fact that nobody spoke English at the time, you think a lot of women literate in both Greek and Latin were running around Roman Britain?
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Relevant XKCD? https://xkcd.com/435/
My theory is that as a lot of people don't declare their full income in developing countries (and are quite tax-adverse due to a perception of high corruption), a way to redistribute is to tax "luxury" goods like vehicles or other visible stuff like the strata.
What? You don't need to know Greek to figure out what authors have published an English translation of the Odyssey.
I had a Nexus 4 from 2013-2016 (so three years) and now have a OnePlus One (for 1.5 years now), and I didn't observe any loss of battery capacity on either.
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The author was quite harsh on the soft sciencies and humanities and I'm going to attempt a defense. First, he characterises these subjects as merely what, facts to be learned, instead of how, skills to be mastered.

Let's take history, which seems very what, full of dates and names. A great course in history teaches you how to think differently and with deeper context about world events and your country's politics.

I suggest that a society only interested in the workings of machines rather than the workings of people will soon treat people as mere machines. Let the nightmare begin.
I bought a Nexus 5X (for 160€) and installed Copperhead OS on it. It's super nice. The battery life is excellent, I feel I can trust the OS and the apps, and they won't invade my privacy. The downside: There will be no more updates after fall of 2018. Guess I have to get a Pixel or a Pixel 2 then (with Copperhead OS) or hope that Google provides updates (and Copperhead keeps supporting the phone) beyond the guaranteed time period.
Mushrooms provide very little macro nutrients:

https://www.nutritionvalue.org/Mushrooms%2C_raw%2C_Chanterel...

~9 grams of macros per 100 grams of mushroom. Just a little better than leafy greens.
>>If it’s so easy to manufacture majority opinions, why didn’t the candidate with the biggest budget win? <<

She did win the popular vote. It is only because of the electoral college that the loser of the popular vote sits in the White House.
Yup pretty much, the phone seems to learn appearance changes when the PIN is used to unlock.

They also look quite similar except for 1-2 moles and the different hairstyles.
But they have really similar head shapes and facial structures, wearing the same brand of glasses certainly ain't helping either.
Pytest all the way.
For those who don't want to wade through the comments:

> We wanted to give an update on this, since we have had some time to play around with the phone a bit. And this is whats happening. I did not realize what exact steps we had followed until it happened again today. We have been resetting face id and doing it all over again. And this is what the steps are that makes it happen almost 50% of the time. Not sure if its intended or is a bug. 1. My brother(left) setup the face id. 2. Unlocks with his face. Does not with mine. 3. I entered the pin with the phone facing me. It it unlocked as expected. 4. Now I locked it again. 5. I raised it up to my face, and it unlocks. 6. It unlocks each time after that with my face
How is this a question? Pytest is so much better and more used than any other testing framework you don't even have to think about it.
The company I work for uses standard unittest [0] library from Python. This library helps you to test defined functions in your Python program. For each defined function, you can set different cases to test (positive and negative cases). We also use coverage [1] to see code coverage and report. Report is usually reported to HTML because we can check the missing part of code (the flow of our logic program).

[0]: https://docs.python.org/3/library/unittest.html

[1]: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/coverage
Just an FYI, normal fixtures can use 'yield', there is no need to use 'yield_fixture' anymore
Has the course number changed? It’s not on the Open Courseware list.

https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mathematics/
> "If you major in mathematics, you can switch to X anytime you want to, but not the other way around."

I hear people say that about mathematicians, physicists and even philosophers, yet I've never come across any of them in my career. I suspect it's wishful thinking.
Kids who don't read history become confident in poorly supported contentions.
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Here's a brick-and-mortar that successfully crowdfunded twice:

http://borderlands-books.blogspot.com/2017/10/haight-street-...
Nope, got released 9/25
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As a start: not spend 12+ years of their lives being told to regurgitate information by their teachers whether it is right or not. Not have them say a pledge every morning without thinking about it.

Teach the kids to question _everything_, feed them information from all sorts of different sources.
Vijay Mallya.

http://indianexpress.com/photos/picture-gallery-others/vijay...
So, uh, is this just a way to harvest phone numbers...?
It is 18.03. He may have just inadvertently flipped the 0 and 3. It is 18.03 now, and was in 2002 :D.
Great story, thank you for sharing! :D
Hah, good to know. Maybe I haven't bumped pytest in a while.
Will be interesting to see the resulting fork that keeps the MIT license. Looks like a few have already sprung up.
Indeed, what is it even supposed to mean? You can become a doctor or a lawyer or whatever just like that because you have a degree in math?
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One thing to keep in mind is that the AfD has considerably moved to the right since the 2013 election. While the "old" AfD under Bernd Lucke clearly stayed within constitutional boundaries, the rise of unconstitutional opinions within the party is a relatively new phenomenon.
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The site filters tweets from exchanges and lists tweets concerning new altcoin listings. Might be useful for some of you guys.
>Alternatively almost all volume of n-sphere is close to the surface.

How does this go against intuition?

Intuition from 1/2/3d tells me that the volume of an N-ball is O(r^N), and indeed it is the case in higher dimensions. Therefore it’s easy to see that the difference between the volume of an N-ball of radius r and an N-ball of radius (r + epsilon) will grow exponentially with N.
There was a project for chess, called giraffe https://bitbucket.org/waterreaction/giraffe whose author shut it down after joining google deep mind: http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=59003

He thinks it's only a matter of time till machine learning beats hand crafted systems like stockfish even in chess.

http://arxiv.org/abs/1509.01549
I don't think that's very likely, since they would do that right now given the value of personal data.
I don’t know how much you know about Facebook marketing, but organic reach from pages is non existent. Facebook pushed for paid ads a long time ago. You’d be lucky to get just 5% of your followers to even see your free posts, not to mention to engage or act on.
For open-source projects driven mainly by one contributor, I think the model employed by Sidekiq[1] is better than this one.

There is a base version with the MIT (or similar) license. Then there is a PRO version which adds some enterprise functionality + premium support.

But still a good thing that Ungit is trying this. There is value in experimentation!

[1] https://github.com/mperham/sidekiq
"Begin"? The prior century is replete with horrific examples of societies, spanning - perhaps defining - the modern ideological spectrum, which behaved in precisely such fashion.

I agree that the study of history is the best method yet found for recognizing the errors which produced those enormities, in order to avoid repeating them. But I'm not sure how effective undergrad history courses, or even history specializations, are likely to be in equipping their students with the tools for such study. Granted I've never taken such a course myself and so cannot speak with authority on even one example of the type - but I have found it not at all unusual for people who do have such education to be surprised in even so elementary and recent a matter as the American origin of the eugenic idea. Quite aside from being in my opinion a necessary antidote to the idea that the United States are somehow blessed with a permanent immunity to such enormities as we here discuss, such ignorance, on the part of so many supposedly educated in history and - if you're to be taken at your word - historical analysis, does not inspire enormous confidence in the value of such education.
Yeah. Too many steps and too much financial overhead. On the other hand, if you could "deposit" say $25 to your account then the transaction fees only occur once.

Moi? I'd be willing to pay that (as opposed to sticking GH or GL with it). A dollar here. Two bucks there. Couldn't hurt.

Plus, the number of donations could be a public signal. Stars? They're like Likes (easy and free). Helpful but not as good as how many put their money where there mouse is.
It seems like it is.

According [1] a 1080 Ti can produce about 675 hashes a second for Zcash. Using [2] we can see that one card would net him about $2.5 per day. For six cards we get ~$450 per month which is enough to pay his electricity bill and probably internet costs.

The graphic cards are quite costly and the payback time for the card thus pretty long.

[1] http://zcashbenchmarks.info/
[2] https://www.cryptocompare.com/mining/calculator/zec?HashingP...
I disagree. I've worked with a sizable number of people whose training was in mathematics or physics. I've never worked in an organization dedicated to either field; my surmise is that a high level of facility in those subjects demands an activity and agility of intellect which lends itself well to almost any complex and primarily mental pursuit.
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This is true, but after studying physics you find that you have a lot of catching up to in comparison to the computer scientists. Maybe you will have more insight in understanding some complex linear algebra concept, but it's not of great use if you can't debug a docker issue or get a database working.
Yes and no.

This isnt about jobs per say. It's about the perception that coal has a place in US energy future.

A real energy policy and real leaders would have delivered that message a long time ago. They have not. Why do you expect the miners to be any better than the highly paid and highly educated W.DC elites?
Facebook says one in a million people will match (vs one in 50k for fingerprints). I'd guess that close family generally have a better shot of being that face match compared to a complete stranger (unlike fingerprints which don't seem to have familial features).
Not the person you replied to, but your comment was both rude and incorrect enough that I feel the need to reply. See for example http://www.offconvex.org/2016/03/22/saddlepoints/ for some discussion on this.
Are you allowed to cancel orders that haven’t shipped?

I hadn’t thought about not being able to unlock when it’s in a car holder.
One time I was biking behind a man who flipped off a pickup truck after it did something inconsiderate on the road. Then driver of the truck tried to ram him and almost succeeded. That really brought home to me that there are contexts where expressing your anger can be really counter productive, no matter how justified it is.
Now I'm at a desk, I can say start looking at the FrameState class.

https://github.com/graalvm/graal/blob/cd655e1df4f388c78364f0...

And that's the beauty of it! If you were interested in frame states, typing FrameState into Eclipse will have found this, and then start looking at what calls these methods.
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Ask HN: How do you manage multiple learning projects?
Hey all and happy Sunday,

I have a lot of learning projects in the pipeline, and selected three for this season (3-6 months.) I don’t aim to master them; I just want to have a good (non-superficial) understanding of the overall picture, and to be moderately proficient in applying the principles/tools.

For background, the projects are art (moderately skilled), data science (only interested in foundation/background level) and reading (practise covering as much as possible, without sacrificing thoughtfulness.) There is also a new language but I’m keeping that very light (radio and penpal exchanges only.)

Even though they are meant to be recreational, and I have learning strategies for each of them, I sometimes struggle to juggle between them. I also have other commitments (I would say the ratio of commitment:recreational is 60:40). It’s a bit frustrating and I feel that it’s more of a personal flaw, as I know that many others have even less recreational time, yet successfully diligent with their learning projects. (I don’t beat myself too much though, haha)

So, I am interested to hear about your learning projects, how you manage them without losing your sanity, and how you maximise short time periods. Plus your own tips for learning. Thanks :)
I recently saw a video on YouTube and I think it was Michigan. It was about lakes and hunting rules if your property or public property touches the lake. They were saying you have about 5-10 feet to hunt around any lake even if it’s not the side you own or public land touches.

I’m not sure it’s like this in Georgia. Interesting though.
Definitely. And it would also help "real" states if they started to play nice, by paying their taxes where they're due.

But I think the over-the-top tax optimisation is actually what will ultimately cause them to lose their power (aka boycott by users, huge financial penalties from "real" states, or break-into-pieces scenario a-la-Standard-Oil) someday.
That’s something different, though.
I don't think he was that harsh, and he actually praised the "knowing what" subjects. He simply meant that at MIT, the "knowing how" is more important.
Yeah, that should be noted. It’s more interesting once you notice the note at the bottom, saying it’s 20 years old.
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Everytime i see one of those i always wonder if they heard of marshmallow. I mean it's like creating a requests competitor really. It's an interesting exercice but the chances to be relevant are very low.
I don’t think anyone is specifically blaming Russia. If they are that’s a pretty naive thing to do.

When I personally talk about Russia, I just point out that this happened. This being the rise of fake news, etc.

We should remember it was the United States and her allies that normalized this behavior. We should take a few lessons from this, when we do something unethical or questionable these tactics are going to be normalized and other countries are going to use them.

Another example is Trump ordering an attack on a sovereign nation without that nation asking or any resolution passing in US Congress or the UNSC.

We need to understand that this is the age we live in, and that we need to work around fixing these issues. Not blaming others or trying to reverse technological processes.
Most people in most jobs are doing work that's not directly related to their degree.
Getting ready for a backpacking venture in Tanzania -
IIRC, the actual reason fengari doesnt compile to webassembly is the garbage collector. You must use JS for everything if you want to avoid memory leaks when there are cyclic references between Lua and JS.
And the point of this is?
My town is on the list and still incredibly affordable. I guess it's time to buy up some properties so I can gouge these youngsters later. Not a bad retirement plan, actually. It will be nice to be on the other end of the transaction for the first time in my life.
How does it compare to established, actively maintained, projects like the following ones ?

- https://github.com/alecthomas/voluptuous

- https://github.com/schematics/schematics

- https://github.com/pyeve/cerberus

- https://github.com/fuhrysteve/marshmallow-jsonschema
I love the seatbelt on the double bed!
deadbeef is, indeed, heavily subsidized in the US: those $1 McDonalds hamburgers are a bit of an anomaly. When I was living in Kisumu, I could get a decent meal that wouldn't kill me for a few dollars; I believe there were cheaper options for people with hardier stomachs.

Meanwhile, US mobile data prices are some of the highest in the world. I spend ~$40 month in the US for 2GB of data (before getting capped to low speeds). The last time I was in Kenya, 1GB ran about $4-5, so about 1/5 the price of my US plan. India (post-JIO) is ludicrously cheap right now: I just today got a 1GB/day 28-day plan for ~$5.

But, of course, all of this depends on income as well. The Kenyan data tends to be more expensive for everyday people because they buy it in rather smaller increments than 1GB (250MB or even 100MB at a time), which end up being more expensive per unit.

Here's some data comparing monthly mobile phone costs across the world, with various kinds of normalization, for your perusal:
http://blogs.worldbank.org/opendata/where-are-cheapest-and-m...
I hope Damore wins.
Pretty much anybody with big modern project i know in the industry is using pytest.

It make the barrier of entry of writting tests much lower. Given how annoying it is to write test, i'd say making it even a tiny bit easier is a win.

Plus fixtures scale better than tearUp and down.
Bad timing, seems licenseyourcode.com is down and does not currently work.
True -- but those are hardly computer science issues. Some of the best computer scientists I've met were really applied mathematicians who were great at figuring out whether a problem was NP-hard but couldn't really program or handle sysadmin problems.
I don't have anything to add, but just want to say it's refreshing to see such a civil discussion surrounding a license change like this.
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At least Pop Tarts throw in "part of a". Meteor wants to be your entire stack, to such an extent that I'm honestly a little surprised they don't ship their own editor.
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