skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Straight Dope forum [1] has a number of comments indicating it's not unusual given circumstances.

[1] http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=840124&...

Thread has many interesting insights and links. I've previously bought into the full blown planned hoax explanation but it seems like 'Appel was completely incompetent as a sailor and more than a little bonkers and a huge bullshitter' is perhaps more likely.

She crashed her previous boat on the rocks at Magic Island [2] (Ala Moana Beach Park). Daily Mail (ugh) ran a (NSFW) article [3] that focused on her BDSM activities but also gives some relevant background on her general sailing incompetence and perhaps impairment of her judgement due to a previous motorcycle injury. Apparently she also had no experience in open ocean short of taking her new boat from Kauai to Oahu

[2] http://www.kitv.com/story/30425516/sailboat-runs-aground-off...

[3] NSFW http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5063707/Bungling-yac...
I'm actually happy to be out of the situation. It wasn't good for me, and I'm glad to have the opportunity to hopefully move on to something better. On the other hand, I'm pretty angry about how it went down. I moved my family 900 miles, and sold my house, to take this job, and was sacked over something extremely trivial, in a casual manner. The whole thing is a massive inconvenience to me and I can't fathom what goes through someone's head when they treat others this way.
Thanks, that's a useful additional link.

In Drivers -> Graphics, I see a lot of AMD GPU listed, that's expected given what I read about Nvidia and Linux story and my personal experience trying to get my Nvidia Optimus setup work on my laptop...

But this makes me wonder:

What are the most compatible laptops on the market these days for running a Linux distro? Any brand that's famous for good Linux support? I heard Lenovo Thinkpad were pretty good but I've been disappointed with my w520 and its Nvidia Optimus setup...
Blind Empiricism
Let’s improve commuter rail service between Providence and Boston
If you use the Android app, just pop the site into original text mode and it will attempt to prefetch the un-truncated article.
The Intercept [1] is arguably British. It has a focus on UK/US/BR, with a Brazilian version as well.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Intercept
Up until a week ago, I had an Amazon banner on my blog. When I set it up (about a decade ago), you had the ability to specify a search term in the URL of the banner, and I used this. For each post, I would have a targeted search term to use to display the Amazon banner.

Sometime in the past month or two Amazon got rid of that feature and so I was only getting a generic Amazon sales banner. I'm not sure why they changed, but they did, and I removed the banner. Thanks Amazon.
I'm posting this editorial because CalTrain riders need to know that commuter rail in New England faces many of the same problems. CalTrain also has the additional challenge of eliminating its grade crossings. The cost of that improvement would probably bankrupt CalTrain, but it needs to happen.
Beaker Browser now has a Windows build
Unless you're living in a reinforce concrete bunker with no windows - like a bomb shelter - 5w is good for about a mile or so - considering that the beacons go skyward, its worth even more.
I would even go as far to say that quantity in and of itself is negative. If you only get more quantity and no more quality, then you have more noise. More papers to wade through to get something useful. Meaning that the quality papers presented by the well-meaning Chinese researchers will more or less likely not even get read, because they're buried under a pile of horseshit.

This is why I would never hire Indian software engineers. There are a few good ones, like in every country, but they're hard to find among a sea of terrible software engineers that went into software engineering, because everyone does, and that went to a school only teaching with rote memorization.
doesn't really work with a proportional font.
I may be missing the point here, but can't you make the config object immutable? val instead of var?
> Hams, for example, often use CW (Continuous Wave, aka Morse Code)

Morse code can be used to modulate a continuous wave, but they are not synonymous.
She Warned of ‘Peer-To-Peer Misinformation.’ Congress Listened
What do you feel is the core problem you are trying to solve? And any concerns about whether the effectiveness of student learning might be affected by using an electronic tool instead of pen and paper?
[1] https://www.npr.org/2016/04/17/474525392/attention-students-...
My wife and I's friends all have children the same age as ours and they are toddlers. Dinner parties are right out, but Sunday waffle brunch is on point. It is a fun affair with everyone including the kids. After everyone eats it becomes comically victorian. The Sober Dads and Friendly Neighbors drink coffee, BS, and supervise the kids (Out of Earshot, of course). The cocktail crowd will relax into an adult conversation as much as any dinner party without the urgency of a baby sitter or the guilt of leaving ones partner at home to enjoy an evening out. I enjoy our brunch with friends as much as any dinner party I can recall.
Xlib is trivially easy to use if you're willing to use C. Slightly harder (but also satisfying if you have serious NIH) is the /dev/fb interface.

And there's sixel if you're using a terminal like mlterm.
SA is a blogging platform. SA does not write these articles, independent contributors write them. Forbes and HuffPo have a similar system.
> the "clickbaiters" from Buzzfeed and friends also do some high quality investigative pieces, financed by the mentioned clickbait. Makes me wonder if this will be the future of journalism...

In a way it's the history of journalism. Much of what we take for granted now has long served the same purpose. The NY Times added op-eds in the 1960s as a way to drive readership with provocation.[0] They added many of their non-news sections in the 1970s, IIRC the history, as a strategy to drive readership and revenue in order to fund hard news - the click-bait of the time, now normalized and therefore invisible to us.

For most newspapers, classified ads long served the same purpose; craigslist and other Internet resources are possibly the leading reason for financial troubles in journalism today.

[0] A Profitable Public Sphere: The Creation of the New York Times Op-Ed Page by Michael J. Socolow, U. of Maine: http://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/cmj_facpub/2
The NSA are habitual liars. Of course this is what they want you to believe. It makes their job easier.
Tell them there will be copious amounts of alcohol, no kids, and maybe mind expanding drugs. They will come like Zombies.

Uber them home.
Moreover, async/await allows you to preserve multiple intermediary results between async steps - which is awkward in both promises and un-nested pyramids like the OP's:

(not even starting with conditions, loops and recursive calls that contain async steps...)

Async/Await:

async function f(a) {
var b = await foo(a);
var c = await bar(a, b);
return baz(a, b, c);
}

Promises:

function f(a) {
var _b;
return foo(a)
.then(b => {
_b = b;
return bar(a, b);
})
.then(c => baz(a, _b, c))
}

Callbacks:

function f(a, done) {
foo(a, b => bar(a, b, c => baz(a, b, c, done)));
}

Callbacks untangled:

function f(a, done) {
var _b;
foo(a, step2);

function step2(b) {
_b = b;
bar(a, b, step3);
}

function step3(c) {
baz(a, _b, c, done);
}
}
You can make almost any space work if you make it a priority.

As a broke college student we’d have people sitting on the floor in the living room and at random small tables or standing all over the apartment, with guests serving themselves from off the top of the stove. In tiny NYC apartments we’d pretty much do the same thing. In my current apartment in Brooklyn we have a table that can fit 6 in our living room and a kitchen big enough for one is all it takes to prepare a meal.

As an adult I’ve always made it a priority to never have a TV and always have space to hold small dinner parties.
What the Nazis of ‘Wolfenstein’ tell us about the futurists of Silicon Valley
Looks great. Aside from ideation and execution, presentation was great too.
I've got relatives down South who bought my cousin a pink .22 rifle for Christmas at around 8-10. Not sure if I would do it for my kids but I didn't hear of any problems.
Well it certainly won’t work with that attitude.

Advertising makes me regret the internet.
You got what I was going for :)
What the hell is a relatable advertisement?
The larger point still stands. China needs a high rate of grow just to be able to catch up and afford things taken for granted in the developed world.

In an example related to the parent, China's cold chains while rapidly improving are well behind what would be acceptable in the developed world:

> While between 85 percent and 100 percent of fruit and vegetables sold in the U.S. are transported in refrigerated conditions, in China, only 20 percent of those perishables are shipped in such a manner, resulting in a high spoilage rate of up to 40 percent. In the U.S., that rate is closer to 5 percent.

http://www.livingstonintl.com/freight-transportation-updates...
Firing up the beacon doesn't come free. It's possible they were hoping to get rescued more cheaply.

If it is a legitimate rescue then they probably won't charge you. If you called in a false distress, then they will charge you money and criminally prosecute you as well.
Apparently not. The US military investigated this pretty thoroughly, in fact!
I had to learn and use Bubble to build an application (no choice, per client's request) and as a programmer I found it to be a nightmare.

I can definitely see it as a great and useful tool for non-programmers, but having to go throw your entire skill-set and decades of knowledge out the window to use a tool like this was just a horrible experience.

Again, I don't mean to disparage it, as I can see the benefits, but for programmers, you're better off building an app with the skills and knowledge you already possess.
Interactive Charts with Go (GL)
The usual big names (Dell, HP, Lenovo) do fine but as you have discovered, you need to avoid anything with a Nvidia GPU (Intel and AMD are usually fine). Also avoid Broadcom WiFi cards if possible.
Björk’s cryptocurrency album project dissected (impolite ranty version)
Exfiltration is a problem. It's more difficult to exfil terabytes of individual citizen dossiers than ~2GB of malware, implants, tools, scripts, etc from classified and possibly even SCIF environments.

Or it could be more prosaic than that: Money. The market value of NSA tooling is likely far far higher than the threat assessments of Joe Blow Smith in Hoboken, NJ.
A license is an obligation the user falls under legally when taking official use of a software.
Couldn't get to the end. The guy is horribly annoying to listen to.
The UK was not a producer of cotton. They were a consumer. Of course the UK tacitly supported the South during the war, and it is no secret that had the right opportunity arisen, they would have openly supported them.
I used to to that with Amazon. About a decade ago, I added an Amazon banner, and the link included a search term. So I would add an appropriate search term (related to the top blog entry on the page, which is where the Amazon banner appeared). Sometime in the past few months, Amazon removed that and only allows generic sales banners to be presented.
I liked but didn't love mathematics in high school and as such I just did what I had to do and moved on. A decade later I worked through a CS degree and gravitated towards books about mathematicians and now I have a deep fascination with mathematics and I wish I read these books when I was in high school!
It's a great idea and I think it's much bigger than maths.
If you do not already know about it, searching around what
a "Dynabook" is cannot be a waste of time.

You may be interested in this kind of laying out a proof:
https://lamport.azurewebsites.net/pubs/proof.pdf
Pardon my ignorance, but isn't Flutter a little immature too? I remember playing with it and Dart a while ago, still didn't seem to have everything necessary to ship something to production.

With that said, I think Dart isn't really a language popular enough to replace JS in big projects right now.
I also thought it was beached/careened as soon as I saw the shape of the algae line. I haven't seen any pictures of it but I'll bet the other side is nice and sun-bleached.

Caveats: I'm not a "blue-water" sailor but I've got a small sailing yacht that's easily capable of coastal cruising. When I originally saw their interview, I thought through most of the points in this article and decided I wasn't qualified to write it all up. But just about anyone who sails will at least point out the most obvious five points.

My first thought was ... why didn't someone go up the mast in the bosun's chair and fix that spreader?
You're friends are not introvert, are they? I say "Yes" more to those who seem to understand an introvert more. I say "No" more to those I don't have much in common. In my case, I say "Yes" more to invitation from techies than from sport lovers.
> Federal pay sucks by design. If you want to work for .gov, you want state/local government

State and local government employees are paid well? Where? Which ones?
Having also chaired Engelbart's Core planning Committee (2001-2004), co-organized the 40th anniversary of the MOAD and the gathering 1 week after Engelbart's passing - I was there some of the time. I also got Bob Taylor's advice when we were organizing the www.TCPIP40.com 40th celebration. Sponsoring and funding and articulating the vision within the larger context of DARPA is what Bob Taylor did. He was only one of 2 psychologists who were the pivotal DARPA program managers for the most game changing funding by DARPA - the other was JR Licklider. Both understood the promise, and nurtured the "people centered" approach that allowed all who encountered it see the possibility of technology that could be of the people, by the people and for the people. It took 100's of 1000's of people to believe in this possibility of what computer networks could enable. All deserve credit, and Engelbart always freely acknowledged this.
You don't need to stop it everywhere and every time. If Bitcoin stops being the main cryptocurrency, the exodus will drop the value drastically. That means people will lose a lot of real money. Maybe the second major currency will be still popular. The later ones will be "why bother". Proof of stake will be more interesting, but there's nothing major popular yet.

That's the huge difference from things like piracy. Govs can't decrease the value of movies already out there, or make new ones less desirable. They can do that to ideas like Bitcoin though.
Big problem with the Guardian is not making clear enough visual differentiation between their blogs — where anyone can write any old shit — and their actual reporting and editorial
It's funny how this thread shows the exact problem identified in the article : a LOT of people have some basic idea of how to answer the question, and come up with strong opinions they "know" are right, and arguing with others.

Fact of the matter is that the question is too general, and there are no real answers to it that aren't extremely general themselves.

(One mistake in your response would be that obviously random numbers are taken from a particular distribution, and of course there is some information there about what to expect the next random number to be. Taken to an extreme you can take random numbers from the collection {1}. Can you predict what the next random number will be ? I think I can ... Too general questions means you have to take trivial cases into account)

I wonder how many of the posters into this thread would reject candidates based on the candidates strongly disagreeing with their statements. Especially because I've got a degree in statistics and I would agree with that this question can't be answered.
I've seen plenty of visual programming tools and lots of other things to help "non programmers." I've even helped build one.

The fact is that if you can think and communicate precisely enough to describe your ideas then you can enter them into a computer fairly easily in a language like python or basic. If you can't then no matter how fancy your tools are you still need something intelligent (currently a human programmer) to pull the idea out of you and encode it.

Stuff like this isn't useful to people who are incapable of programming and is just a highly coupled mess that can't be easily automated and version controlled.
Show HN: Python CLI for the Have I Been Pwned API (MVP)
I'm writing this on a laptop which has all video outputs on Nvidia GPU and Intel's card is disabled completely in BIOS by vendor (Lenovo Y500).
AMD had Switchable Graphics which had the same architecture choice as Optimus (MUX-less pain in the ass), but IIRC they've dropped it.
Yeah it will be interesting to see how it plays out. It also doesn't mention anything about clean energy now that I look at it again. If it's just a Phoenix suburb but with really good fiber internet, lenient self-driving car laws, and a bunch of software contracts for the city & county offices, that doesn't seem very interesting.

Another thing I just realized is that in my mind a big part of a new experimental "smart city" would be lots of dense, walkable and bike-able, mixed use neighborhoods (and public transit which also kind of requires areas around stations to be walkable). But it's way too hot to be outside for much of the year in that part of the country.
I was just thinking "Wow, that was a particularly information-bare article". I skipped over the embedded podcast because I thought it looked like some kind of ad.
Thinking that it's a historical accident that everything is async in Javascript is a fundamental misunderstanding of async-everything.
I'm very pessimistic of these types of products.

Mostly because there have been ideas to do this for around 40 years.

In the end any non-trivial business logic is too cumbersome to make in a GUI and is build much faster in text form ( programming language) or just can't be made with your platform. At that point it requires specialization and your need for a programmer is born.
Hi fellow HNers - OP here,

I thought it was about time I submitted something other than a story or a question :)

This project was born with Troy Hunt's Lenovo competition for Have I Been Pwned, but I think it's useful enough to show here.

It provides a (fairly minimal, at this stage) commandline Python script to check a list of e-mail addresses against HIBP, and report back any hits. It will keep tabs of what has been reported, and subsequently only report new items. It can also optionally e-mail affected accounts (useful if you want to monitor other people's addresses, or if you have multiple addresses that you don't want to sign up to HIBP).

The script can be run directly, or via a cron job. The outputs can be parsed to provide feedback on the commandline (or elsewhere) - see some examples in the README.

For a list of planned updates, please see the README.

This is my first Show HN, so go easy, but I'd be very happy to hear thoughts and suggestions!
The fundamentals of the market demand for Bitcoin works, the liquidity is amazing
There are some laptops that come preloaded with Linux, those are almost always going to be a solid option. Aside from those, generally stick to devices with Intel or AMD GPUs if you want to use open drivers. NVIDIA is a good option if you're a gamer or doing stuff with CUDA, but you need to use the closed-source driver to get the best performance.

If you give a bit more information about what you're looking for in a laptop (portability, power, battery life, etc...) and/or what you're likely to use it for, I could give you some more specific recommendations.
Scott Aaronson is brilliant, he knows his shit, and he's very, very good at explaining it.

But, and I say this as someone who hates listening to my own speech, listening to him is nigh painful.

Is there a text version of this talk around?
I don't think any library authors care if you don't use their library.

But I feel bad for everyone that has to touch your code.
> I wonder why there don't seem to be leaks like these at other superpowers' intelligence/security organizations, like China's and Russia's?

I think we just don't know what happens. I would be surprised if an article like this one would appear in the Chinese or Russian press. And if you were an American journalist, would you really want to touch the leaked FIS material? The First Amendment won't protect you.
More generally, one should probably say that random numbers taken from a distribution match that distribution.

Taken to an extreme one might ask, can you predict random numbers taken from a collection with only one element. Obviously you can predict the next number. It'd be like a roulette wheel with only red numbers. The outcome is random, but perfectly predictable to be red.
This is true for the latest iterations, where MINIX 3 is embedded in the Platform Controller Hub (PCH). Earlier iterations were running on ThreadX RTOS embedded in the Northbridge.

To my understanding some systems, but not all, implement wakeup-on-LAN for the ME, even, when the system is shut down but is still connected to a power source (which is true for most modern machines).
I'd say stay away from Optimus like from the plague (Nvidia still doesn't support PRIME properly and I doubt it ever will). Upcoming Raven Ridge laptops should be interesting.
I wouldn't be that pessimistic. The key difference is that Firefox used to have a lot of market share that it lost to Chrome, whereas Opera never really had any to begin with.
I'm changing my pin to a better code again. Four fours, but I'm setting their sequence to be completely random !
Don't forget Zero Hedge
Google's approach to observability across microservices
That just "fixes it" with indirection, which is the only tool you have with callback style.
If you learn the technique you will learn this too. But I think we are mostly in agreement here. Nothing wrong with undertanding chemistry but cooking is more than theory it's a performing arts.
Won't their prices go up then? And won't that disproportionately hurt the poor people you're trying to help?
I'm amazed at how many people live fist to mouth, even in fields where they earn plenty of money.

I always dump whatever I don't spend before my next paycheck into savings and can almost always pack away quite a bit by the end of the year, and that's not including what automatically goes into retirement.
Speaking as a software guy, I love stories about hardware. :-)
Conventional probability theory, as commonly applied, seems to have some major blind spots. Using deep learning, Yann LeCun's team was able to find uniquely different sets of points that had the same statistical properties. They are calling into question the approach of throwing probability theory at every and any problem. Nonlinear systems in particular often exhibit behavior that is not easy to grasp via probability theory.
Good point. I was using the terms loosely - which is the wrong thing to do in a comment that attempts to explain some terminology! :-)
I'm a novice Linux user, and locales seem useless to me. Everytime I install Ubuntu locally, I have to reset the system locale to UTF8.en_US, because the default it picks (UTF8.en_HK) crashes a lot of programs due to "unsupported locale" errors.
Something's not right with that equation. You're implying that on average, each household is spending over $1000 per month on things they get via the online advertising that they would otherwise not get at all.

And that's just not realistic. One-off purchases, maybe. Sustained 1k/hh/mth avg - I'd love to see a proof of that.
You are correct about the physics of the radio modulation systems and frequencies, but I think that the article is quoting folks that are talking about common conventions of where SSB is likely to be used over AM.