skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A couple weeks ago I helped my nephew with a project he was working on using gspread. I haven't programmed in Python in years but was able to make it all go in an hour or so of poking at the gspread docs. It's pretty neat. I've often thought spreadsheets should be more commonly used as the UI for software. Lots of business folks have a good grasp of spreadsheets, but not of programmer-y or database concepts. I dunno how I'd integrate spreadsheets into anything I'm working on, but if I were doing enterprisey stuff, I'd be trying to make it fit.
If you're going to go against the conclusions of the accident report, which is very thorough, you'll have to do more than just assert that the side sticks were responsible.

Check it out here: https://www.bea.aero/docspa/2009/f-cp090601.en/pdf/f-cp09060...
This guy just created “The Uber of Everything”
Hi, it's Trent here, I'm CTO at BigchainDB.

BigchainDB targets giving the following benefits beyond traditional database as a service:

1. decentralized - no single entity controls it, which means tolerant to malicious / Byzantine faults. Benefit: groups that don't necessarily trust each other can share infrastructure.

2. immutable - which practically speaking means more tamper resistant, e.g. it's append only. Benefit: well-defined provenance for history of assets, data, etc.

3. assets - you can create and issue assets, where you own them if you have the private key. How: each tx is signed. Benefit: moving around assets on a substrate that no single entity owns or controls. Lower friction in exchanges. And the digital signatures gives cryptographic proof that about who did what.

These are the targets. We're not fully there yet. Most notably, we still need to address some Byzantine faults as our docs ([1] above) mention. This will come in an upcoming release. We are also working on improved scalability while maintaining the security guarantees [2].

Re consensus: BigchainDB has a two-layer consensus, as follows.

* The lower layer directly uses MongoDB's consensus (which it builds on) to agree on whether a transaction should be stored.

* The higher level has federation-style voting on whether a transaction is valid or not.

Our documentation describes this further.

BigchainDB is explicitly not trying to do Bitcoin-style proof of work. PoW solves for an additional problem: (theoretical) anonymity of servers. That additional goal compromises scale. And, in practice you know who's running the servers anyway (ie big Chinese Bitcoin miners), which is why I say "theoretical". BTW I am a fan of Bitcoin, it just has different goals than BigchainDB.

[2] https://blog.bigchaindb.com/bigchaindb-developer-update-2d32...
This really won't die. It's clear if you read the accident report (linked in another comment) that the plane was already doomed by the time that conflicting inputs were potentially a factor.
Most of China doesn't have internet. I don't know what your definition of sophisticated is.
That's not an inherent limitation of the web or web forums, though - I've seen those features implemented in a lot of them.

And of course, there's nothing stopping anyone from building a web forum and offering an endpoint for third party clients, they just don't, mostly because web forums themselves have more or less been superseded by Facebook, Twitter and Youtube, and no one seems to care about them anymore.

The only pre-web feature that web forums can't really implement is decentralization.
There's a lot more money and power in the first group of industries than the second group, so I can't take that as a fair equivalence.
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At Giza? No, the burials were long since disrupted by the middle ages. I don't think there's even much solid agreement that there ever even was a burial in the Great Pyramid.
It's possible to argue that, but I'd argue that being dependent on the goodwill of others and charities for your sustenance means you're not actually independent.
Eh, he could also use Firebase functions to accomplish that and again for free with CDN without worrying about scaling issues.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOeioOKUKI8
Given that it's illegal to retaliate against employees for unionizing, would shutting down the business entirely in response to unionization trigger legal liability?
IIRC, that's is already accepted by most scientists, as the Paris accord takes in to account CO2 sequestration as part of the solution to limiting warming to 2 degrees.
For anyone considering buying this (which was me until 5mins ago) read https://www.reddit.com/r/steroids/comments/6477mr/compound_e...

The important bit:

> In animal trials, there are dose equivalence calculations you have to do first. Since rats were used in the study you have to divide their dosage by 6.2 for the human equivalence. So the 5 mg/kg/day for males and 3 mg/kg/day for females works out to 0.806 mg/kg/day and 0.484 mg/kg/day, respectively. For example, a 115 lb female would have an equivalent dosage of ~25 mg. That's a whole lot closer to the doses some of you are taking.

>
In the study, cancer was seen even in rats on the lowest dosage. For all we know, they could have gotten cancer at lower doses too.
Just imagine what the developer thought when his boss said "we don't want to buy an actual certificate, find something that works".

And now this developer is learning on HN he should remove that line in his resumé.

Or maybe he thought it was a clever idea... Let's call it a learning experience.
Your last five stock picks were winners. And yet strangely, every academic study done on this indicates that the chances your sixth pick outperforms the market is the same as someone whose last five picks are losers. I know it seems strange, but you are a living example of the lucky coin flipper analogy.
With linked controls, the sane pilot at the controls would have immediately realized that the crazy one was fighting him, and it would have been brought to a swift end.

I know a lot of pilots and I don’t recall ever hearing one express the opinion that non-linked dual controls were anything other than idiotic. I’d personally be quite wary of ever flying such a machine. (Although of course the stuff I fly uses purely mechanical controls so there’s no choice in the matter.)
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We can easily add this feature. So you'd like to pass a single HTML file?
One week after employees voted to unionize.
It's more than just accepting the current data.

In order to verify if the current data can predict temperature or other key metrics accurately, more data needs to be collected, which needs time, in the order of a few decades. But a wait of that long, may bring more changes, which would render the model inefficient or incorrect. A very tricky systems optimization problem!
Let me clarify - you don't need electronics that are effective forever. You would store the data in an analog format.
The major trust stores partition their trust of a root by purpose. So Microsoft's trust of a particular root for signing certs that are used in driver code signing is separate from not only Apple's trust of same but also Microsoft's trust of that root for signing TLS certificates. Let's Encrypt doesn't ask for any "trust bits" besides the Web PKI, ie TLS certificates and that's completely deliberate.

Purposes other than TLS server and /maybe/ S/MIME are not subject to any meaningful public oversight, you are entirely trusting Microsoft. Which for drivers, or Xbox games is probably fine but it's worth keeping in the back of your mind.
Effective counterexample: the USPS.

http://www.cedar.buffalo.edu/~srihari/talks/Telcordia.pdf
Unless the US faces an actual challenge globally from China and/or Russia.

One day we will wake up and the US Petrodollar will be the emperor's new clothes.
Some info I gained from when I last read some of Buffett's annual letters:
(1) He said he likes the insurance business (Gen RE, Geico) as it gives him money to use;
(2) He doesn't like to use that money to buy shares, he likes to buy the whole of solid, multi-million family businesses e.g. furniture businesses;
(3) He encourages the previous owners & management to stay on and run the business;
(4) He doesn't pay dividends - so you aren't going to get that regular income by investing in Berkshire Hathaway;
(5) If he buys shares, he intends to hold those shares for decades, e.g. American Express and Coca-Cola (he now owns about 10% of each);
(6) He constantly warns that he might lose substantial amounts through insurance payouts. How much will he lose through the damage done this hurricane season?
A list of his present holdings: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_assets_owned_by_Berksh...
Not for a Plain Old Data (POD) type. You need to think about the latter if you're manually managing memory or OS resources in your class (which should be rare) or you're trying to optimize performance when you have members that can be moved more cheaply than copied (usually because they manage memory) which should also usually be rare and the result of identifying a performance issue through profiling.
Apparently, one of the main changes since the talk, is that then he used a "probabilistic unit" next to his "property vector". Now the length of the property vector indicates the probability.
The sane pilot realized this anyway. Check the accident report.

(Or rather, the captain realized once he entered the cockpit. Neither of the pilots in the cockpit ever figured it out.)
Poll Everywhere hiring a D3.js engineer to build visualizations seen by millions
It sounds like the same publisher is shutting down a bunch of non-unionized publications as well, so maybe not related.
I started research on making of an alternative search engine. It would not index sites serving ads and possibly e-commerce. I would like to also penalize JavaScript use at least as an option. At the beginning I would use Adblock rulesets like the Easy List - if there is a match I do not index the site. I named it Abracabra.

I hope that this would remove most crap out there with some minor collateral damage. Also that the index would be small enough that a little fish like me could do it without massive cost or infrastructure.

Regarding JavaScript use penalization I have in mind at least lower ranking. Probably for the first version not including them at all would be the simplest thing to do. Some later version could attempt to classify used JavaScript.

I would like it to index information first and not care much about web apps. Sometimes within the information only site there could be a link to a webapp. I’m wondering if it would make sense to distribute whole index via torrent. Then search could be done locally. But for this too make sense it would have to be in an order of, at most, tens of gigabytes. The problem would be to make updates as small as possible and also to not use prohibitive amount of CPU time.

I don't have any monetization in mind as you probably should have guessed at this point. Probably if it would be frugal enough it could run from my pocket and hopefully some donations.

However I’m almost totally green in this area. I started a bit with learning how to index and search with SQLite's FTS5. I don't like dependencies too much and would like to keep the local version option available. So probably typical ElasticSearch and other Java apps are probably too heavy. You can safely ignore technical side of my comment if you know better. If someone is more capable to do this than me, please make it instead of me ;)
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And how would they do that? There is the Mac App Store and Windows Store, but most apps are still installed without using them due to their restrictions.
When your company loses money every month and is being kept afloat by a single rich guy, probably unwise to vote for the union.
The problem is how do you educate users on these prompts.

On smartphones permissions are pretty obvious (Camera, Contacts, Location, Pictures) but even they sometimes have consequences beyond the obvious.

How would would one even begin to word a certificate store permission so that the average person would understand the consequences of it?
And this..

The websites' archives have also been completely wiped, leaving no trace of past articles.

There should be clear outrage!
> I'm led to believe there must be a deeper root cause that prevents someone from objectively looking at data

Because almost nobody does this.

Most people want to feel smart so they read science journalism, which isn't the research conducted by climate scientists. There is much that gets lost in translation. Consider the following:

* "Humans are primarily to blame for global warming". This means the majority of blame falls to humans. Majority is 51% or more but not necessarily 100%. There is more that happens in the world than people driving cars to work.

* "The primary cause of the problem is CO2." That doesn't necessarily mean atmospheric composition, but rather a huge host of variables to include feedback mechanisms and cycle durations. You could easily argue humans do more to change the surface of the planet (and oceans) than they do to change the composition of the atmosphere, which in turn dictates the frequency at which feedback mechanisms collect CO2 from the atmosphere.

* "CO2 is the worst greenhouse gas." No, the science doesn't indicate this. CO2 is a primary concern because it has the greatest ratio of cyclic duration in the atmosphere to the percentage of atmospheric composition. Water is a more effective greenhouse gas and, in many parts of the world, a larger composition of the atmosphere than CO2. Water's feedback duration is about 8 days (speaking liberally) while CO2 sticks around in the atmosphere closer to 72 days, though.

* "A primary cause for alarm is rising oceans." This is a cause for alarm, but one among many and likely not the most important. It is just something clearly visible for simplistic commentary.

* "Summers are going to get warmer." This goes without saying, but it isn't complete. Weather will likely become more extreme in many areas, which means warmer summers (actually median average temperatures for most seasons) and likely also cooler winters in temperate areas. Global warming isn't as simple as turning up the house thermostat a degree.

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Bottom line is that most people don't read science. They want to feel informed and smart, but cannot be inconvenienced to decipher facts and analysis written for experienced meteorologists. Most people need the real work dumbed down (substantially), which is what feeds the absolutely unscientific personal belief systems that many people cling too (both for and against).
ZenUML has just been featured on https://modeling-languages.com/zenuml-drawing-sequence-diagr... (the No 1 independent blog on modeling and MDE).
Fair comment - but I'm not using HAProxy anymore at my current job, so my use case has passed (for now).
Probabilities can be so small they are only possible in a mathematical sense, but impossible practically speaking. When faced with such small probabilities we can use Bayes theorem to infer a better explanation than chance, such as a two headed coin.
You’re more or less describing Qubes, which also does this in a way compatible with full user control (unlike smartphones).
Java saves me time and tends to make more correct programs, compared to C.
Being undiscoverable is a big help. For our ancillary services, we're taken to using Tor2Web to auth mode HS servers because some random domain is less likely to look interesting for people to poke at. Publishing a .onion, especially with some general-purpose software hosted on it screams that there is something of interest there.
A final exam task for my high school informatics was to find coordinates of a cat in a picture within bounding box of that cat.

We weren't given anything to refer to except that the picture is 1000x1000 rgb array, and that the cat had stripes on the body.

I wonder, if the brain has no specific function to recognize geometry first, and then deduce the object further by secondary characteristics as in today's computer vision, but it synthesizes a resulting decision in reverse from many nearly independent "circuits" (people can guess that a cat is a cat even if they look at its partial image, or even if the cat is painted purple and the person has never seen a purple cat in real life)
The real cause of the collision was poor seamanship and failure to follow the COLREGS on the part of the bridge crew of the destroyer. Most specifically they were seriously in violation of Rule 6: the Safe Speed Rule

http://navruleshandbook.com/Rule6.html

Every vessel shall at all times proceed at a safe speed so
that she can take proper and effective action to avoid
collision and be stopped within a distance appropriate to
the prevailing circumstances and conditions.

The USS McCain was traveling at over 20 knots at the time of the collision, through a very crowded area at the entrance of a traffic separation scheme. If they hadn't been traveling at this obviously excessive speed they would have had the time to think, and to work through little UI issues like the one described here.
Twitter and reddit drive me up the fucking wall. Twitter removed most functionality if you aren't logged in and hits you with a popup about once every 0.1 seconds as you scroll but gives up when you close it about 6 times. The mobile reddit site is just straight broken. Images disappear if you click in the wrong place, video doesn't work, can't change search options, posts act like they fail resulting in duplicate comments. Yet they have the audacity to push their shitty app down your throat every other page which is just a webview of the mobile site with the same problems.

These companies will do anything to inflate their user count and get more access to more data to sell. Instagram is particularly egregious about inflating user count. You can make an account without even verifying your email, but you can't log in again or even delete your account without linking a valid phone number. There is probably a 7 figure number of abandoned accounts like that.
Some suggestions:

Colored Coin- A type of token
Token - a currency or asset that exists on a blockchain, created by scripting.

The entries for fork, hard fork and soft fork don't make a clear distinction between a network fork and a software fork.
no need to guess now that they're in plain text on a popular website. lol.
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Research is needed in that area, but surely adding some noise / blurring to sample during training and during recognition should help reduce the feasibility of the attack. Isn't that the case?

Adversarial attacks seem to point to overtraining in some sense.
Nothing I see in that article (or anything else I've seen about the incident) attributes it to a UI issue.

Not all errors made by users are the fault of the UI.
I never understood the logic of this issue. If a fetus is human, then both male and female fetuses should be protected. If a fetus is not human, then this can't be a women's rights issue because women are human. If abortion is acceptable, parents should be able to choose to abort for whatever reason they want.

Also if you withhold the sex of the baby in case some parents may abort due to gender, why allow screening for down syndrome since this is a much more common reason to abort?
Watch the Republicans claim Wikileaks is anti-republican, the democrats claim they're anti-Democrat...

Yet when the entire primary source is published the only bias is between your own ears.

Corruption on all sides is rife. You should be worried about that.
If you're stuck in the middle, check out VIC (vsphere integrated containers) for a best-of-both. http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7bmigfV0EqTsggWvOpPWY...
Here's the other thread, also on the front page:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15614310
But at that point, it's no longer "purely a document," it's still an app, just one that runs entirely on the server instead of partly or mostly in the browser.

For the web to be just documents, you have to go all the way and remove state entirely. Idempotence all the way down.
The comparison in disingenuous. This illusion has nothing to do with image classification and heavily relies on adding misleading context to the object to alter the perception of one of its properties. Most optical illusions are like that. That is not what is being done with adversarial examples.
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> It wasn't some trick pulled on them by corporations or Russians manipulating social media. I realize that may be hard to understand, but it is the truth!

As much as I agree with that statement I don't think it's necessarily framed like that in the essay but is rather used as a case in point example with quite some validity.

Social media and the whole "attention economy" have become quite influential without people even noticing that influence.

This might just be the culmination of a trend we've been seeing for quite a while already. Afaik Obamas campaign also was quite big data and social media driven, but when he did it that was somehow something "positive" to show how "in touch with the Millenials" he is.
The same way we taught them about the admin dialog ...

> " Mom, just click OK whenever this box pops up"
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It looks in line with what I would expect. I’d bet it’s younger folks.

The interesting part is the fluctuations in the past years. Looks like people are buying when new hardware is released.
At some point someone who was not billionaire owner Joe Ricketts had to actually type the commands into the website to entirely remove the old content. I don't think that person should have done that, especially because the writers rely on those clips to show new employers to get hired. At the very least that person should have pushed back and allowed writers a week or more to download their best articles to show to new employers.

We need to think pretty hard as an industry about the ethics of the things we are doing and the consequences of our actions on the real world.
For big companies thousands and possibly tens of thousands of professionals around the world are putting in long hours thinking about what the correct stock price is. They are meeting with management, buying proprietary research, and hiring PhDs to analyze quantitative data. Despite all that the market makes mistakes a lot, and sometimes a perceptive amateur might even be able to pick up on those mistakes. Still, I really doubt that many people are good enough at spotting trends to generate market-beating returns. If they could do it reliably they'd be billionaires.
System call returns an error code if you lack permission. The default handler could be to ask, but if the user says no then the application has to handle the error or crash.
That's a tricky one. I'd say it's more important to clarify the significance of the permission. For instance:

> Do you trust this program to make security changes to your device? [More details]
I'm struggling to think of a suitable "analog format," maybe help me out? Silicon tablets of runes? Analog is unscalable here, no matter how cheap launch systems are.
Ask HN: Programming – what changed your mind about a language or feature?
It could be anything, for example:

- a language you never thought you'd like but now you happily code in it. What won you over?

- a change of view regarding weakly typed languages vs strongly typed languages? Maybe you favoured one over the other but now your preference has changed (or opinion softened). What caused you to change your view?

- a different style of programming or problem solving after discovering a programming feature or pattern. How did that feature influence you?
No - iPhone X did not sell in Q4 and is not reflected in these numbers at all.
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Did you try stuff like airtable or maybe even use spreadsheets with zapier? They "seem" pretty powerful alternatives