skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What type of actual crisis are you talking about? The UK has one of the finest professional militaries in the world, amongst the finest special forces, some of the best cyber capabilities, and nuclear tipped ICBMs lurking beneath the waves at all times. Other countries send their soldiers to us to be trained for gods sake! I'd imagine we could take care of any serious threat to the realm pretty easily.
You rarely need to pay if you work at a university. When you're on the school network or VPN there's a way to bypass the paywall because the uni usually buys subscriptions for most journals. That does not work if you are not working in a university.
Technically, election cycles may be aligned or foreign vote may be indirect - there are ways to improve voter experience. But I would agree: public opinion will be strongly against it, because these 5% of votes would for example play definitive role in last German election.
Most of life's time on earth was single celled (life started ~4.1 Billion years ago, multi-cellular ~1.7 Billion years ago). If the world wasn't filled with O2 or sexual reproduction didn't start life on earth could still be single celled.
Cool Website
This is one of those cool websites that when I open for the first time I usually say : "Oh that's awesome, I should bookmark it and use more often" and then after 1 hour It's totally forgotten until the next time I clean my bookmarks.
Anyway TV Shows episode calendar is really useful and I think it's a nice idea to have this information arranged in this way.
http://www.untildays.com/
That sounds no less fair than someone who bought a home for $100k in 1980 who's seen its value appreciate to $5mm, and now has to pay $50k a year in property tax.

That sounds no less fair than a family liquidating its estate because they can't afford the estate taxes.

That sounds no less fair than a health-conscious person taking care to never drink or do drugs paying 10x more for socialized healthcare to pay for the ailments of an obese alcoholic.

I doubt I need to go on, but the point is that taxation sucks. And it's completely hypocritical of someone to want to levy these burdens onto someone else while they themselves become indignant over a tax loophole of theirs being tightened (not even closed). It's even worse that the people who are getting indignant over it are some of the wealthiest in the United States, while at the same time, you want to stick a guy who earns $50k a year with an extra $3k with the ACA.

I do admit that the story you provided sounds like it sucks more than average, but in reality, a bank will just give you a loan to cover the taxes. No one is going bankrupt. And if the shares end up going to zero, you get to have capital carryover losses just like everyone else whose investments lost money.

But the point is that taxes, when you actually have to get down to it, suck. And if you're being truly democratic, you should try to empathize with all taxpayers in the same way that you think about your own taxes.
He’s essentially saying “this userland code is beyond stupid, but we don’t break userland so here’s how we can keep it working.”

The comment is neither aimed at the contributor (who works on kernel code) nor the reporter (who did not write the code). In fact if you read the rest of the thread you can see them concur and joke about it.
So, I tried to see if I could read some of the articles marked "paywall" and I had no trouble. My methodology: Google Scholar search the article title, and click the direct "PDF" link on the right side.

Eg: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Tissue+sulfhydryl+group...

EDIT: My point here is that the statement in the article "the world’s most important research is inaccessible from the majority of the world" isn't exactly true. This isn't supposed to be an endorsement of academic publishing practices: if anything the fact that these publishers are effectively trying to scam readers out of money is all the more evident.
Boeing 757 Hacked by DHS in Cybersecurity Test
That, or Beren and Luthien, or the fall of Gondolin, which are the most fleshed-out episodes, as far as I remember.

The exile of the Noldor could be interesting, but iirc, it's really in the form of a Germanic saga, so it would really need a lot of filling out of details and characterization.
Octopuses have been observed using tools, and we're very quickly determining that they are extremely intelligent. If they had longer lifespans and weren't solitary, who knows what they may have become.
Reminder to donate blood, this is what allows medical professionals to save lives, be it in dramatic incidents such as this one, or in more mundane settings.

UK: https://my.blood.co.uk/

US: http://www.redcrossblood.org/donating-blood
How did you do water in the demo gif? It's not listed as one of the available textures...
U-M, Cavium partner on big data research computing platform
Hmm i'd say for me, a lot of searches involve how to do x within Angular. The API is so large and pretty decent. However it takes some effort to read through so I just find myself searching ad-hoc questions.

What breaking changes are you referring to? Ever since it Angular 2 Final, the API has been pretty stable, I've been able to pretty seamlessly upgrade to angular 4+
I remember quite correctly the "don't be evil" motto and I remember it having a very different meaning than "do good". I also remember that it was among the most misunderstood things at google and that it served google well.

I do not remember a time when google listened to the users but I do remember when google went from being a search engine to an advertising network. This is the point in time where the downhill slope started.
I have to disagree on that. Hinton without a doubt has made major contributions, but he's nowhere near a Nobel equivalent. Plenty of researchers also aren't given nearly enough credit for deep learning research, so don't let Schmidhuber hear you saying that ;)
345 x 27 = 2415 + 6900 = 9315

You don't need a calculator. Use your brain and show your work.
Ta-Nehisi Coates: why white people shouldn’t use the n-word
Since anything created for work belongs to work in most cases unless waived in your employment agreement. It is always best practice to keep work and personal accounts separate, even when you are the owner of the company for liability reasons.
Ofcourse the US is whining, they are selling most of the arms too... Increasing defense budgets is good business for the US.

Yes, some of it is justified, and NATO countries have agreed on non-binding spending targets for 2020: To be fair, many of the Eastern European countries have hit said spending targets ahead of time too.
React is definitely the "big new thing". Angular is nice if you're starting a new project and you don't want to have to think about setting up all the little details because it's a huge "all-in one" kind of platform, but React seems infinitely better if you're just trying to add a better front-end to an already existing stack or building your own stack a la carte.
Depends on what you mean by Intelligence. We see tool use in many species, yet none of them are sending space ships. Maybe we should include an "industrialization" or "super-organization" to the criteria of aliens we'd want to trade with.
D-Wave 2000Q Now 150X Faster for Some Types of Problems
I am sure somebody said that about photography, when it was first demoed to the public.
Credit card concierge services might fit the bill here for some of these things.
Berkeley has an free videos/slides, combined with exams, projects, and homework.

Link:http: //ai.berkeley.edu/home.html
I'm making some assumptions about the contents of the article, but there's a certain delicious irony to the fact that I can't get past the first paragraph due to the WSJ paywall.
Dell EMC Wants to Take AI Mainstream
Blockchain Cryptocurrency Is Gaining Traction and Fintech Giants Want In
With the question posed that way, my top choice would be to wait for the 2018 MacBook Pros. Or if it works for you, an Air or simply a MacBook.

But maybe you mean non-Mac alternatives.

Purism is intriguing. I don't have personal experience with their stuff though.

If I really didn't want a MBP, I'd probably get a MacBook or a Chromebook and then lean on a Linux desktop system for heavy duty number crunching type stuff. That's similar to what I do now except with an older MBP.
Why LiteCoin is better than BitCoin
The TOP500 Is Dead, Long Live the TOP500
I'd rather have one-hundred-and-twelve-thousand-million-dollars. Deal?
Decentralized does not mean guaranteed availability; however, this failure shows that the internet is somewhat fault tolerant since most packets on the net were routed to the correct destination during that time.
Cooperative military operations will be great for shoring up European unity and validating more integration in due course. The UK being out of the picture should help (as does the existential threat that Brexit has painted) but the system of half-measures too well suits Germany to make it easy. This has all been true with a fiscal union too.
A couple months after I stopped smoking - and this was years ago - I believe that I got a contact high. It was not like a normal high, it was more like a subtle body-only high. But then if you're sitting in a room with five people smoking steadily for a couple hours I doubt you're really worried about second-hand exposure.
Why Nobel and not a Turing award?
Don't just whine about bad programming interview practices. Suggest something better that wouldn't have more false positive hires (i.e., candidate can't program, but can pass interview), and maybe fewer false negatives (candidate can program, but gets filtered out anyway).

This is a hard problem. Kindly think about it from the perspective of a technical interviewer who really has no idea whether the candidate on the other side of the table can program a computer or not and has to make a hire/no-hire call in 45 minutes.
>Why am I paying for a game if it doesn’t have dedicated servers?

Do you think the game code and artwork is donated gratis by developers and artists? Fuck no.
PAUSE IT no 2
"Calling ideas "a dime a dozen" massively overestimates their value."

Absolutely true.

Forming a team is my first problem and priority. As I said, I live way out in the boonies here.

"It's not like you're likely to make money on even a good idea anyhow"

That true too, but it is likely this idea will make money. I understand enough to know that, and that is where I am right now.

It's also true that very few ideas are unique. If I saw the need it's very likely others have or will too. So it's a race to see who gets it done right first.

I cannot do that myself and I am very well aware of that.
Yea but good flower is just so beautiful and smells great (or horrible depending on if you like MJ). I don't think it will ever go away. I recently moved to a legal state and it is nice having access to extracts, but herb seems to always be more cost efficient and usually tastes better.
Client using API (irrespective of languages used) is about dogfooding. And, actually prevents the "one bug = two updates" scenario you suggest.
It's a huge mistake to do nothing because you can't do everything.
We've updated the URL from https://www.axios.com/missouri-ag-starts-antitrust-consumer-..., which points to this.
I don't have source for this claim no. I was just observing that huge swaths of the southern part of Africa and South America face tough economic circumstances that may have a direct impact on the ability to live in "caloric security".
How (and why) to create a good validation set
Uh? You should also avoid memory (de)allocation in 'realtime' part of your code even in languages without GCs!
Probably ended up on EA PM's presentation justifying current practices.

Hate all you want, "pay to win" model works for extracting as much value as you can from each user. Same concept as Tesla artificially reducing mile range. I heard from someone working in a game studio about a "whale" user spending $1M dollars on microtransactions for a mobile game.
I was surprised to see billboards advertising marijuana in my area (northern California). I know that tobacco advertising on billboards is illegal, and marijuana ought to be held to the same standard.
I'd recommend this Freakonomics episode that analyzes the impacts of alcohol and pot usage. [1]

I'm not arguing in favor of a "numbed population", but all things being equal, I'd honestly rather our numbed population be high instead of drunk.

[1] http://freakonomics.com/2014/04/17/whats-more-dangerous-mari...
Well, there are already 3-D renderers for DF so I'm not sure what another one will add just by virtue of existing.

(Not trying to sound like a dick here, I mean this genuinely.)
I think you are simplifying UK involvement in Libya, failing to mention that the EU is doing a reasonable job all on its own of restarting conflict in NI, and also smearing your fellow countrymen as racist.
> Think of it this way: A quantum computer could instantly crack the encryption that protects the world’s most private data.

How can they be so sure that no one uses symmetric encryption algorithms? I get that this article is meant for lay people but that does not make it alright to throw around false superlatives.
You will be pleasantaly surprised when you get updated to 57 :) Have been running the beta for 3 weeks now, very stable, fast, snappy. Amazing work.
I was surprised not to see React on these charts as well.
On the other side looking at StackOverflow Careers for the last 1.5 years (that's how far back my data goes) React had amazing growth vs flat Angular(ng + ng2)
http://www.reallyhyped.com/?keywords=vue.js%2Cangularjs%2Cre...

So it looks like Angular is more complex and has more questions asked and it is stagnating on the job market.
How exactly American military spending in Iraq or Pacific makes Europe more safe? Wasn't it that trillion USD spent to replace Saddam with a puppet state that pave the way for ISIS, which now attacks European cities?
Having watched the third one out of sequence, seeing the first two and then watching the third again helped me get a good understanding of the fundamentals. 3blue1brown as a narrator does a excellent job of allowing a rather tricky subject be more approachable, and inspired me to buy a course to allow a deeper dive into the math behind ML+NNs.
The real answer is that ideas are a dime a dozen and execution is everything.

When you proclaim a good idea, you aren't offering an execution plan to go with it, so people (rightfully) ignore it.
The authority on these is validation against a server for verification when it comes to currency/purchasing and important events like leveling. You might be able to fake one and get one through (though difficult without understanding the system due to crypto/signatures/timestamps/one-time use) but it will be reversed in most good online systems after verification or not allowed due to that. The server/data is still the authority on the simulation and progress of all actors.
I'd go with a beefy desktop, either an iMac or a beefier Linux box (I'd not bother to assemble one from parts - would probably order it from Dell, Lenovo or HP's line of workstations or smaller servers), and a thin MacBook/MacBook Pro for portability (because Macs are unbeatable laptops).

I also have a smaller laptop, for going to hackathons, an Acer "Cloudbook" that came with Windows and now runs Fedora. Very small, light, so-so in performance and cheap enough I don't care too much if I need to replace it.
Eh -

For a lot of marketing companies, fee is based on a % of ad spend. So increased CPC does increase the overall fee.
> Does anyone know who would be making the chipsets that come after LTE?

Even if some competitors will make 5G chipsets, they still will have to build in everything from good ol' GSM over EDGE over HSxPA to 4G in addition, because what use is a phone (or IoT gadget!) that only works in major urban areas where 5G deployments will happen first? All this will have to incorporate Qualcomm patents at the least, and most likely also Qualcomm chipsets.

Hell when I drive to the German country side I more often than not only have EDGE, and the situation in developing countries is even more dire.
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Whether or not that's true we need commenters to include substantive information when making such claims, otherwise we're just gonna have another tedious partisan flamewar.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I’m think the number of self-defeating replies, on this forum of high achievers, is sad.

What if I listed studies showing how hard it is to stop smoking. Would you say, “well, there it is — pass me the tobacco.” No — most of you would acknowledge that it was difficult, but you’d find a way to quit.

Maybe GTD isn’t your style of personal time management. But time management is an extremely important skill if you want to excel in life.

To dismiss it by pointing to failure statistics is sad.
The article is complete garbage.

https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/

"If you take just one piece of information from this blog:
Quantum computers would not solve hard search problems
instantaneously by simply trying all the possible solutions at once."
I think your (1) is mistaken, it should be something like google expanding its domination over the web by multiplying the places to show adwords and adsense (gmail, youtube, analytics, maps, android, play store, earth, docs, drive, etc.)
Which face recognition technology performs best?
When I say "across versions" I'm also including AngularJS in there (the differences between them are still a major point of confusion for a lot of people). Also, while 4 doesn't introduce any breaking changes I know of, it does introduce a lot of little details that change best practices.
Ideally, an application doesn't have to choose, but the runtime uses some good defaults. For example, let's have a look at the HotSpot JVM: A Java method first gets executed in the interpreter, then, if it's hot enough it will compile the method with the C1 JIT, and then later uses the C2 JIT to bring the method up to full peak performance. There is also some profiling going on that is fed into the JITs to guide optimizations. The transition between the execution tiers is based on some heuristics and is kinda complex.

Do you need to care as an application? Ideally no :-) It should be transparent to the user and it's the runtime's job to do the best available thing for you. (Sure, the runtime can be tweaked for specific workloads etc.)

In Mono we aren't there yet: the interpreter is currently useful for restricted targets like iOS, where a JIT can't be used due to security concerns and AOT comes with certain limitations (that is, loading assemblies at runtime and execute them). If you want to use Mono's Interpreter to run roslyn, you can explicitly tell the runtime to do so, but it doesn't make much sense today, because it will give you less performance than the available JIT; we don't support switching the execution engine on the fly for single methods yet (it's also called tiered compilation).
Sounds like it solves exactly the opposite problem of what people have. People want more local control, not more supra-national control. (Although, if you want to see the EU fail, pushing for diluting peoples' self determination even more would be a great way to do it.)
A UBI scheme can't just create value from thin air; it has to come from either taxes or from devaluing the currency by printing more, which is basically a tax by another name.* Given that fact, there must be at least some class of relatively wealthy people who come out worse off, even after their UBI checks. The bigger the check, the larger that class of people. Since those people aren't idiots, they'll apply political counterpressure against raising the rate.

Because there's still the same total amount of money in the system, (inflation adjusted) prices can't go up too much. According to the Econ 101 model, goods with a fixed supply will probably get more expensive since there are more potential customers wanting the same amount of stuff, but goods with an extremely flexible supply will get cheaper, again, because there are more potential customers to spread the fixed costs over.

* There's also a sort-of-UBI variant where the funds come from monetizing some big nationalized resource and distributing the proceeds (e.g. the Alaska Permanent Fund Dividend). In that case the above doesn't apply, but neither does your fear. Since in that case the pool of money is dictated by the market value of the resource the voters can't directly impact how much they'll receive.
Hidden Tech Challenge, a Geo-Localised IT Game in Sydney
we are launching a free IT game with many prizes to win, the idea is to find geolocation points around Sydney and solve technical challenges there, it has been started few day ago. The game will last for 5 weeks, there are many prizes to win every week and at the end.

To play the game (from a mobile): https://hidden-tech-challenge.octo.com.au/sydney/
The landing describing the game: https://hidden-tech-challenge.octo.com.au/landing/

Hope you will enjoy the idea
Tangentially, is there a way to remove the &t=ffab query tag? Presumably for "Firefox Address Bar"

I noticed it on DDG searches and couldn't figure a way to remove it. The "App Store for Search Engines" seemed super overkill, I just want to specify my URLs without the indentifier tags, like I can in chrom{e,ium}.
It's not always that simple - in Dunedin, NZ, burn time can be under ten minutes. It's quite similar in Australia, too.
I completely agree. I wasn't commenting on the thrust of the article, which I agree with, but rather the distorting figures that were used to promote it.
I'm a Firefox or native-platform browser guy. Some sites are laggy on anything except Chrome. Browsing around Groupon causes periodic freezes for me in Firefox. I haven't noticed this particular case in Edge but it does lag over time on other sites.

The whole issue of sites freezing and lagging without using Chrome is concerning, and it's not pushing me to use Chrome. I think that's Google's aim by creating that situation but I'm not budging.

It's pushing me to more native apps in both the iOS AppStore and Microsoft Store.
please show me people who are not ‘emotionally detaching’ themselves with their spirituality/drugs/consumer habits/sex lives/coffee intake/soda intake/gum chewing/masturbation schedules/political positions/status coveting/condemning others for their emotional detachment/etc.
Well I upvoted this to read the comments that would be posted here, but I'm not enthusiastic about reading about most topics on the New Yorker, which always over-narrativizes and inflates the word count of its pieces.

Great publication, but I'm frequently interested in the discussion rather than the article itself.
That's a shame about Parse. I just started using it (the open-sourced Parse Server, anyway) for an iOS project I started, and it really sped up development time.

Is there a service that does something similar to Parse.com? I would honestly rather pay for that service than run an instance myself.
No, it was neither of those things. It was him being a jerk to someone who had the audacity to do something in a different way.
It's amazing: it is almost impossible to tell whether this is satire. I almost thought https://www.reallygoodux.io/about clinched it, because the "Submit" button had scrollbars in Chrome, but, alas, Firefox renders it without them.

In the final analysis, I find it hard to believe appcues.com would do such subtle satire.