skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't get the context for this paper. Normally in a mission/safety critical system you're looking to determine the worst-case latency from stimulus-response. This means you:

1. Determine the worst-case execution time of the software on your system (all components, including ISRs)
2. Do scheduling analysis (e.g. construct a static cyclic schedule, use a priority preemptive scheduler and do Response Time Analysis).
3. Do scheduling analysis for the network (e.g. using CAN you can apply Response Time Analysis to get worst-case latencies).
4. Do system-wide analysis (e.g. using Holistic Scheduling) to get the end-to-end latencies. Then check these against the requirements. This is particularly important in TMR systems where you need all three channels to produce results in order for voting to take place - a late result = a serious fault condition.

So I don't get why there's this focus on average performance of this algorithm rather than looking for a deterministic algorithm with good low bounds. It also seems that the message sizes depends on the algorithm itself: that also needs to be bounded to be able to analyze the communications system to determine worst-case latencies (this is of course crucial if a static time-triggered communications bus like FlexRay is being used).

The paper mentions that Linux is used to conduct the tests. But what's the actual target platform? A microcontroller with a cyclic schedule or an RTOS with priority pre-emption? If the latter, what does the schedulability analysis look like? If the former, what does the cyclic schedule look like?

What's the communications architecture look like? Is it switch-based like AFDX? Or a CSMA/CA bus like CAN? Or a TDMA bus like FlexRay? What's the timing analysis look like for the communications?
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Helmet to helmet hits are illegal but the dynamics of that play are repeated almost every passing down. Receivers running ten to fifteen yards down the field, basically defenseless at the catch. Every single punt and kickoff only exacerbates this with people sprinting down the field in body armor, with plastic shells on their head that turn into weapons.
I agree with AbenezerMamo that you should build something new with some hot hyped tech as opposed to a side project with revenue generation goals. It is very hard to generate revenue that fast, stay where your expertise is.

Build something that will work as a portfolio for your agency, a showcase of your skills. That's why I think it must use some new hyped tech. You want to build something that the press will pick up. PR is much easier when you are building something free, cool and using a new tech.

With 4 iOS people, I would definitely choose to build something using Apple ARKit. It is among the most hyped things right now, everybody that tries it loves it and it still with very little reach, meaning there are not many products out there using it. If you build something really cool using it you can get enough attention from the press and fill your pipeline with prospects to build something with ARKit (doesn't matter if in 5 years AR will be the new forgotten tech like Google Glass, until then, big companies will be investing a lot in it, just in case).

That way you keep making your business stronger, not starting another one from scratch.
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> and concussions

Scare mongering. Concussions don't happen at the high school level. I played high school football, my brothers played high school football, cousins, etc. There is no helmet bashing. It's illegal and it hurts, so nobody does it.
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I hate to have to say it, but besides the 3-letter agencies, all countries and many global companies are spying. Even if the US agencies fixed their behavior, the is still the problem of the rest of the world.
I guess quite likely? In this scenario, it sounds like the goal of Series C was just to get some, any return. And getting back your initial investment sure sounds better than getting nothing back.
> Although the host brain isn't invaded by fungal cells, previous work has shown that the brain may be chemically altered by the parasite, Hughes noted.

I think it's much more probably that ants have some high-level chemical signals that the fungus uses. One to climb, and another to bite maybe?

Ants already use pheromones to communicate.
The article specifically mentions the positive outcome of the arrangement - the young woman's confidence has improved, destructive behaviour stopped, bullying stopped, and she has the father figure she obviously needs at this critical part of her development. And from all appearances he is genuinely doing his best to be that.

It's very hard for me to condemn this when the outcome seems so inarguably positive. Truthfulness is important, yes, but so is outcome. And if this woman after ten or twenty years, when she is well-adjusted with a career and family of her own, finds out the truth, would she be angry with her mother - or thank her?

Ethics is not black and white. It can often be a struggle between multiple competing imperatives. This is a Trolley Problem for the human soul.

O righteous crusaders for truth, if this girl was put in front of you, would you tell her?
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I'm just stating my own experience. Take it or leave it. Don't play victim man.
Oh really? You can't move a virtualenv folder around on a single machine. If you move it to the same location on a different machine, does it work?
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Whats the added value of sendgrid over gmail api? of zencoder over ffmpeg? you can do everything on your own, of course. All depends on your abilities and resources. This is something I found myself doing in many apps, and thought to spin it off to a separate and independent service for the joy of others. It can save them from [usually] ugly coding, it adds a central and single place of mngmt for all this notification management, both for events and for recipients. IMO its useful and worth it but I'm of course totally biased.
You've never played football, have you? Or rugby?
>What is proof of residence?

At least within the Netherlands, your residence is officially registered with the municipality. This is tied in with your Citizen Service Number (BSN). Without this, you cannot open a bank account.
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You probably ended up with some kind of crappy "starter" not-really-a-credit card due to a lack of credit history in the relevant country. Those exist in the US too. It's odd that you call it a "European visa". Different European countries have different banking systems. In the UK at least, credit cards work the same as in the US.
> Can you please talk more about this?

Average Joes want spinners, buttons, draggable stuff, toggles etc. that don't lead to a page load everytime you press them. Sure, you can say that "well just make a multipage app with some jquery". But at some point you're just approaching a SPA with SSR support.

Imagine facebook's chat but everytime you hit enter you had a full page reload :D

> In reality, multipage applications are faster than single-page ones.

I agree. They are faster for a single user when the usecase is a semi static page like a forum. However, the SPA + API model makes stuff easier for the backend side and allows that average Joe UI stuff. It scales well to millions of users.

The thing is, it's not about you. It's about everyone. We want to build services that please the majority and backends that stay up when the majority is logged in.

Also, it really isn't possible to build realtime/dynamic stuff with a "let's render some HTML on the server" mindset. How do you do realtime chat? Realtime games? How do you do a collaborative text editor? and so on.

JSON/SPA/AJAX are not there to so your static forum page loads fast. They are there because of the next generation of the web.
It does work, AFAIK, but you can also move it around on a single machine if you rerun "virtualenv <dir>" on the env (it fixes the links). It's been a while since I've done that, so I'm not sure if it still works, but it should.

EDIT: Yeah, just tried it again, it rewrites the shell files so everything works again. It even uses the same python version as you used.
Btw, note for those who use ovh ISP like me (this is a thing in France): your connection works, only the DNS's do not.

Fix (debian-like):

sudo apt-get install bind9

Then put in /etc/resolv.conf, if it's not already there:

nameserver 127.0.1.1

This runs a local nameserver that you use directly for resolving.

Oh, obviously, you need resolving to install the resolver :) Hope you have a 4g connection available.

Alternatively, you can just use google dns:

nameserver 8.8.8.8
nameserver 8.8.4.4
just in case you followed the wrong devops borat, it's @DEVOPS_BORAT (the other one is a spam bot).
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What kind of question is that?

I played tackle football from third to 8th grade, fullback and middle linebacker. I've been watching it for 25 years.

Don't assume things about people when you disagree?
Looking at the documentation I would have to figure out who a VIP is. Then call an API method. The service converts the payload I send into an email. The example in the documentation looks at the last name of the user ("Zuckerberg") only. I don't think the service solves the use-case described in the title.
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> (…) It’s required but many people don’t do it (…)

Not in general.

In Germany you just have to own an ID be able to produce it when legally required. However only under a very narrow set of circumstances it is legal to ask for an ID.

The police may ask for an ID only during a "Identitätsfeststellungsverfahren", which is only legal to do if you're suspect of a crime or if you happen to be within an area of specific public vulnerability, i.e. crime hotspots designated for vetting operations. Other than that it is in fact illegal for the police to ask for your ID. But even under that circumstance it is absolutely lawful not to carry an ID with out; worst case scenario is, that the police has to escort you to whereever you have placed your ID and you be able to show to them there. Depending on circumstances this might create (major) inconveniences, but has no legal consequences.

In addition to that there are certain business transactions where an ID must be produces. For example when checking into accomodation, closing a contract with a telephone company (that's new since this year, and totally ridiculous) and opening a bank account.
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> as we seem to be able to do even as non-subscribers

This one article is available to non-subscribers, for some reason, and indeed some others are too, but many aren't. This one about Dante for example isn't:

https://www.newcriterion.com/issues/2017/11/dantes-curse
> they're just regular people who are in a privileged position

Literally the argument the article is making!
> No experience with French credit cards.

They basically don't exist here.
I caught it late first time round so... just want to say this is awesome and made me smile, it feels like an embodiment of what hacking is all about (to me at least).
I didn't assume. I asked. In all of your time playing football, have you ever had a concussion? How about anybody you played with? Did you ever lead a tackle with your head? If you had, you'd know how much it hurts and how ineffective it is.
My country had a heroine epidemic in the 80s and early 90s. One of the root causes was a shitty economy and chronic unemployment.

All you can do in the end is try to keep things contained. They opened special places were junkies could use their drugs so that they wouldn't have to OD on the streets.

You can't fix someone unless they WANT to be fixed.
I doubt that was the goal of series C as any investor in that round would have been throwing good money after bad. If you're the VC in that case you're probably better off investing in a growth operation that trying to salvage a previous bet
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Like the old Red Dwarf episode:

Lister: What's the damage Hol?

Holly: I don't know Dave. The damage report machine has been damaged.
What I've noticed, and personally experienced, about these porting projects is that they're generally a premature optimization but are a great way to learn a new language. The gains from a port are largely intrinsic in nature, residing with the programmers. However, systems and operations largely carry on just fine with the original language chosen.

Only one story comes to mind where a programmer had a legitimate problem using a high-level language and solved it with a lower-level language, and that was Armin Roacher, who solved a significant performance issue using Rust: https://blog.sentry.io/2016/10/19/fixing-python-performance-...

Can you think of other stories? Please, share.

I encourage all to be more skeptical about potential gains and realistic about who is actually gaining.
This is a very "me vs them" individual bias vision. It assumes every individual civilization can take another with a "single" obliterating bullet like some street gang conflict.

In practice we are ant colonies in that dark forest. Unless you can understand enough the rumblings of another civilization, you don't know how far they've expanded. They may have fully functional, fast replicating colonies in one of the trillions of Oort cloud objects and you just pissed them off by trashing their historical sites.

We could go insane hypothesizing destruction on light-years bubble scales, but then you can rest assured other civilizations are now aware of your existence and will take note of your undesirable quality as neighbor.
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That's fine: They should own that, then. "We're Facebook and these are our values -- we trust the BBC and do not trust InfoWars.com"

These big tech companies are trying to be all things to all people, and they want to pretend that using algorithms means they're free from bias. It's just a different, more opaque bias encoded in the algorithms.

But users are inclined to trust it because it comes "from the computer". It's a Garbage In, Gospel Out situation.
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The problem with mining rigs is that they have high upfront cost AND a short life span. Once a faster rig comes out, NOT upgrading is effectively a tax against future profits
Their prices are pretty amazing for some of the configurations you can put together, especially since you can pay a large setup fee in exchange for a lower monthly rate.

Just the bandwidth alone would cost us 3x what we pay at OVH if we were with one of the big cloud providers.
I admit the title is a little scoopy but it needs to grab attention. As for identifying celebrity signups, if they sign up via facebook for instance, you can quickly count their followers count for instance and alert if it's >X.
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I'm curious. Is there anything preventing larger players from moving in on insurance?

I'm not familiar with the insurance industry, but announcement this has the gears turning in my head. It would seem like Facebook, Google, Snapchat, and Twitter have the data to determine if you smoke, drink or take drugs. Perhaps, they would be able to price risk more accurately that traditional insurers?

Thinking beyond health insurance—they know how often you lose, break or replace your smartphone. I'm both amazed and frightened by the opportunities.
I don't understand what this means. Results similar to what?
> Things that overcome and eat other things stay alive to reproduce and propagate.

It is our assumption that all "life" has to "eat" and "reproduce."

Life could get energy from stars or other ambient sources.

Life could be an entire "species" consisting of just a single individual.

Life could be an species whose members are spontaneously "born" or "created" at a single source, without requiring any action from each other.

Life could come in the form of a ..thing.. that converts other unrelated living creatures to become a part of it. Say, something like a virus, that imparts intelligence and a common goal to any organism it "infects."
> why are we trusting them with doing their jobs under such conditions?

Process, process, process. Or "train as you'll fight" in more bellicose terms. Drill and rote is the only way to get fallible humans to do the correct thing regardless of environment and conditions.

However it's when things occur for which there's no process in place that you need flexible, quick-thinking NCOs and officers. And that's achieved by constantly putting them into those scenarios, as the British Army learned in its 'small conflicts' since WW2. Analyse, assess, plan and react within minutes.

Unfortunately the higher echelons seldom retain that capability after years in stuffy corridors. It would be interesting to study the proportion of UFO "affirmations" originating from sharp-end military personnel versus desk-jockeys. I reckon the latter will be the vast majority.
You are correct; caching is always hard.

Load and bloat? Well that depends. If you're doing a realtime collaborative texteditor with a realtime chat, I just don't see how you'd get anything even remotely nice without what you call "load and bloat".

However, to return to the original topic. Which is simpler:
a) creating a performant data API
b) creating a performant server that handles data stuff just like a) AND all the rendering & UI stuff

Surely the latter is more complex since it has more responsibilities?
Its just another field of neuro-science, but- so fluffy.
What's wrong with that? Are you so attached to material stuff that you'd be devastated if you lost it all? Seems reasonable to me. Worst that happens, you go back to working like most people do.
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I wonder if anyone has tried to sue a bank for this?
How do they decide when the sheep gets a reward? To me it looked like it was quite ambiguous sometimes what the sheep was doing, it kind of waddled to the left/right and once it was at the right choice it got a reward... Anyone knows how the reward was determined? Was there a person observing?

It would be more convincing if the sheep had to commit to a choice by selecting a left/right door it needs to enter based on the information presented.
It may be a wonderful paper and discussion but the author seems ridiculously positive about IRBs.

http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/08/29/my-irb-nightmare/

HN discussion of the above

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15127271
OVH are very open about their outages and root causes. Even routine maintenance tasks are cataloged with updates at http://status.ovh.net

As a more technical user it's nice to have providers that give this information rather than the boilerplate "Issue with an upstream provider" over and over.
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I've read the article, it appears for the father role, the actor has some level of emotional investment. He enjoys creating happiness as the father, and feels guilty when he leaves her, and dreams about her even.
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The problem is that even some remote robots left alive guarantee a second strike on the attacker. So any dark forrest strike would have to be engulfing the whole solar system.
I think we would detect such events by now.
Unless you can manage to disguise your strike as a "natural" disaster. The Pulsars rotation angle just tiled and the rays emitted cooked the system.
A tragic accident in a unjust, unfeeling universe.
May they rest in pieces.
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How embarrassing (for Nintendo). As soon as someone threatens legal you just have to tell them you'll only be engaging via lawyers and you'll be seeking to recover your legal expenses from them once the situation is resolved.
Similar to letting them eat the bags.
the author of this review of Dennett's latest is a Notre Dame theologist. So he's naturally hostile to Dennett's reductive materialist position.
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Commercial JDKs, like from IBM or OEMs for embedded platforms, are the actual platform developers.
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I'm no lawyer, but at least in the US I was under the impression that once something has been mailed to you, it's yours. A company cannot send you something then require payment or for you to return it.
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I only post on HN about once a year. But I want to chime in on this topic.

At my current job we started a clean slate codebase (react/redux/webpack) beginning of 2016 and had everything typechecked by Flow from the start.

We found Flow to be extremely unreliable and cumbersome to use with not much apparent commitment behind it. As soon as Typescript hit 2.0 we converted the entire codebase (fairly easy to do since the syntax and semantics are very similar') and have been super happy with that decision.

I wholly agree on you remark about soundness vs. tooling. Flow tooling sucked, error messages were cryptic and unhelpful and we ran into obvious mistakes all the time that Flow did NOT catch, without being able to figure out why that was. Editor support was lacking and we just never trusted the typechecker.

Bolting on types to Javascript has tradeoffs and Microsoft did an amazing job of making the right tradeoffs.

There is noticeable effort and momentum behind the project that inspires a lot of confidence in the languages future. It has completely changed the way I write Javascript and I can't imagine going back to an untyped world.

That change was not in rock-solid confidence that TS catches all my errors (although it does a remarkably good job at that), but the sheer productivity improvement types enable (autocompletion, project-wide renaming, all that stuff users of Java or C# IDEs have available to them).
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Netflix has a new fungus documentary out called "Mushrooms" I think that shows this scene. This fungus is now being used for Cancer research.