skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had a watch with Tetris on it about 25 years ago. My wife reads while walking(!). I don’t think this is a new technology problem
Git's issues with game dev isn't just because of large file size though. Binary files are hard to control in a DVCS because if two people spend 24 hours to modify a binary asset at the same time you can't just merge the changes together like with source code. Someone has to manually go in and replicate both changes together.
Decertification is certainly a violation of free speech. It's a way for Twitter to de-legitimize people who'd previously proved their legitimacy the Twitter.
Microsoft Surface Book 2 Teardown
As a fellow sufferer of this years ago (we've been over this before here on HN) I'm happy to reach out and strategize. My email is my HN handle at gmail
The results are a massive gain in performance, availability, and durability, that seems worth added complexity.
Or rather reallocating money, when you really think about it...
Why shouldn't Brave adopt this exact model?
And SQL!

The problem is that it turns out most human beings don't actually think in a clear and logical manner, and thus there's a need for someone to translate unclear and illogical statements into clear and logical instructions for a computer — that someone is a programmer.
Chrome OS and the 90/10 rule
It’s a toy.
Dog ownership and the risk of cardiovascular disease and death
What I read from this: Lots of image and javascript-laden webpages are leaving people out in ways their developers may not be aware of. Why should you need broadband to pay your credit card bill? You shouldn't. Yet when I think of the heavy web UI I see when I pay my cards, yes, it's not surprising.
SmartThings recently announced support for some local control of devices even if the internet is down, which is a good step from a big player.

In the current IoT landscape, I feel like you have to either go with the biggest players that have the best chance of surviving or hack everything together yourself to work locally.
The Laurene Jobs (1) is a bit dumb since she was raising the family, but whatever.
>The idea that "telling people what to believe" is a phenomenon unique to one side of the political spectrum is absurd. What's been the most watched cable news network in recent years?

This is true, but there's an asymmetry here, and it's best summed up by Conquest's Second Law: any organisation not explicitly right-wing will become left-wing. So in the US nowadays we have right-wing media outlets, which are right-wing, and we have everything else, which is left-wing.

Breitbart is right-wing, and Salon is left-wing, and that's fine -- people go to those sites explicitly because they want news from that perspective. It's what the readers want, and it's what they provide. But GQ is a magazine, dating back to the 1930s, ostensibly about men's fashion and suits and watches and cars and things... so why is it filled with left-wing political content and Trump bashing? It doesn't seem to be a sensible business decision, it just seems to be driven by the personal opinions of the editors.

That, I think, is what the OP means about people not being told what to believe. They don't mind it when explicitly political outlets push a political point of view, but when neutral territory (like GQ or football or Entertainment Weekly) gets politicised then that really turns off at least half the population.
Right, CFGs are insufficient for most languages, and yacc is also insufficient for most languages. Yacc is simultaneously less powerful and more powerful than CFGs. Less powerful because it uses the LALR(1) subset of CFGs, and more powerful because you can embed arbitrary code with semantic actions.

I think the OP is looking for something more like this. This paper is from the same author as Nix, so he has some credibility. But I think this paper is not well written, and I'm not sure about the underlying ideas either. (The output of these pure declarative parsers is more complicated to consume as far as I remember.)

Still, the paper does shows how much more there is to consider than "BNF". Thinking "BNF" will solve the problem is a naive view of languages, and as you point out, is very similar to the problem with not understanding what languages "regexes" can express.

http://eelcovisser.org/post/135/pure-and-declarative-syntax-...

Mainstream parser generators pose restrictions on syntax definitions that follow from their implementation algorithm. They hamper evolution, maintainability, and compositionality of syntax definitions.
Well, there are more engineers working in tech than in finance. The relevant question is the odds of a particular engineer winning the options lottery than 7 figures in finance
"With a combined worth of $2.34 trillion, the Forbes 400 own more wealth than the bottom 61 percent of the country combined, a staggering 194 million people. The median American family has a net worth of $81,000. The Forbes 400 own more wealth than 36 million of these typical American families."

http://www.ips-dc.org/billionaire-bonanza/
Reminds me of that time Mark Watney used a similar method to patch his rover’s comms to connect to an old radio system.
Meet SAM, the artificially intelligent politician
Projection mapping. It seems like a natural step between standard interfaces and AR. We've had the tech for a while. I want devices that use projected touchscreens. I loved the idea of Augmented Reality Sandbox as a type of toy for my kids. It seems like the tech got skipped over in anticipation of an AR tech that has yet to hit market.
1. Exploitative actions taken by individuals and companies are nothing compared to the ones taken by your governments. Europe is running cheap education improvement programs here as we speak, and other such show-tell crap, but they also sign exploitative deals and house corrupt blood money of my dictator in your banking systems - giving him free-pass to do as he likes, as long as the deals are signed and people are silenced. It's realpolitik all the way down.

2. We do want interference, interference against your current interference.

3. Just let us establish our own instutitions, stop helping and making deals with criminals, stop putting on the mask of being humanitarian and then exploiting the living shit out of us.

4. Work visas - please make them available for the skilled and offer us some channel for escape. We are majorly landlocked because our passports don't even grant us a tourist visas to anywhere other than bumhole Somalia or Afghanistan.

I could go on for ages but you people have so vastly different view on these issues I don't even feel like it would be worth my time.
@leashless has a very good talk about this. His thesis is basically that even when Westerners talk about economic collapse they are talking about living in the same conditions that the people that grow your coffee currently live in, and refers to "militarized islands of prosperity" that came out colonialism, etc. A great talk.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EkQCy-UrLYw
Have you looked into e2e tests? They verify that the system works as expected - so they should catch those areas that you are not testing for in your unit and integrations tests.

Check out TestCafe. You can see an example of TestCafe in action with a React + Python/Flask app -> https://testdriven.io/part-four-e2e-test-setup/
Three Years In, Modi Remains Very Popular
It is still a waste in the sense that productive people spent their time building and maintaining a boat for the benefit of a few rich guys. It would represent reduced waste if the money was instead spent to hire those productive people to build infrastructure for their own communities.

Not trying to argue that luxury goods are pure evil, but there is a degree of selfishness in having luxury goods for yourself when there are people who lack the basics.
The whole thing where they collect money on behalf of someone who may not have an account and may be completely unaware of it seems unethical. It reminded me of a similar snafu with a project called tip4commit, which allows users to give bitcoin to projects they like. It also collected the money for any project on github, without an opt-in (or even an opt-out) mechanism for the project maintainers. Here's the issue where a lot of this got brought up: https://github.com/tip4commit/tip4commit/issues/127
The wording also (deliberately?) suggests that "they" in 1980 is the same as "they" in 2014, which of course is far afield of the truth.

Americans enter and fall out of the 1% all the time. Some significant fraction of 1%'ers are there for the one and only year they sell their home, for example.
quant at a quant shop, first year made 200-250; expect to be at least 50% higher this year.
You're absolutely right. I'm sorry. What can I do?
Yes, but step back and consider the immense intellect and creativity being devoted to getting laid, or speculating about what's going to happen on Game of Thrones, or thinking up clever things you should have said half an hour ago, or complaining about what's wrong with Star Wars these days.

Or arguing on the internet.

Just a teeny portion of our species' intellectual output winds up creating or discovering anything of real value, but that's fine, we muddle through nonetheless. The finance industry has its role to play in ensuring the lights stay on and there's food in the supermarket.
There are several statements you could pick out like that in this article. Like

> There is a chord called "C major", but it's totally different to the note called "C".

... the E and G of the C major chord are prominent overtones of the note.
Back in the 1970s, I was once sailing back from Catalina Island on my little 22 foot long sailboat after spending a week there. When I was about 5 miles off the California Coast, a Orca jumped out of the water as high as the top of my mast (or a little higher) and crashed into the water rocking my boat. I sent my girlfriend down below and I lay in the bottom of the cockpit holding the tiller and trying steer. The Orca repeated this three times. It was unnerving.

Good times. Not.
> The doctor at the Orangevill hospital earns over a million dollars a year, and he works from home. Swipe, swipe, swipe, swipe - done.

What kind of doctor is this, radiologist? I'm not aware of any mobile apps in use clinically, but a radiologist's job is to look at images on a computer screen. It doesn't matter where they do it from. Very little of it is automated.

> One would think a private system would be more efficient ... but it's probably just as bad in the US.

Canada is one of three countries in the world in which the government has a monopoly on healthcare payment. The other two are Cuba and North Korea.

The United States has the least efficient healthcare system in the G20. Canada's is second least efficient. All of the others have two tier systems.
> ...unearned rents and inheritances are a big problem

The Walton fortune was earned... by Sam Walton. If he wasn't allowed to leave it to his family, what does property even mean?
FWIW, all of the hypercars on the market have custom compounds, so the fact they're both called "Pilot Sport Cup 2" by Michelin doesn't really matter all too much.
It'll always hold a special place in my heart for being in the James Bond movie Goldeneye.
There are specific populations of dolphins that exhibit complex hunting behaviors that have to be learned and are exclusive to those in the community that have a chance to learn the skill.
I'd say this is a great tip for a candidate who isn't underrepresented in tech. I just came from an interview at a conservative midwest company that isn't technically a "tech" company but has a huge tech dept. Got to the end of 5 interviews at breakneck speed and with lots of acclaim from the team about my speed and competence...that is until they saw me. Everyone, and I mean everyone in the engineering dept., save one woman (she must be a 20Xer) was firmly within the typical tech demographic. I felt I did quite well despite suddenly being asked CTO-type questions. I was told there would be whiteboard algorithms and questions about the company itself. They knew I'd never worked at a big company with a giant code base before, and yet they were enthusiastic about my ability to contribute-- it had come up and was not an issue. They wanted to fly me out and put me up in a hotel. It turned out I didn't need it because I happened to be there, but they offered. They even talked to me about salary numbers. When I got to the on-site, I got questions more fitting for a candidate with many years' experience with a giant code base at a big company. Still, I felt I answered well. In the end, they told me I didn't answer those questions quickly enough (not correctly enough-- just quickly enough). I'm fairly certain that If I were given the chance to actually work at a large company, I'd know the answers to these system design issues without having to think to arrive at the correct answer. I'd know from experience. If I'd looked like more of a "culture fit" let's say, but still over 40, I think it might have been fine. By the way, the city that this company is in is 82% African American. Its tech department was 0% African American.
Motley Fool seems to be the leaders in this -- if you search google news for any stock you're interested in then you'll find that Motley Fool seems to be cranking out largely-boilerplate articles about it; sometimes they seem to have had some human intervention, other times they seem to be fully computer-generated.
I think so if you want to quant..
they probably are all scams but people still make money on them and thats why they are popular
Great. 35 points and no discussion. I’d say that tells you SOMETHING about type theory.
Yeah. Some of the stuff said in this is stated very poorly.

> A machine learning program is also called a "neural net".

A neural net is just one example of a machine learning model.
Depends. What do you mean selling to teachers? Are they getting the school to pay or paying out of their own pockets?
Why would an appliance vendor prefer Linux over FreeBSD or Illumos?
Flat $100 per month per person. It's like UBI except it's tax.
They decided to go with mercurial because it was possible to monkey patch its guts from extensions written in python.
They're now talking about implementing parts in rust, which, ironically, would have prevented them from doing what they originally chose mercurial for.
Life inside North Korea
How opening city data can support racial justice
I'm not sure why that quote that people keep bringing up is so outrageous to people. In my opinion, it's a pretty factual analysis of the political climate; in which the voter demographics have shifted in a way which makes it tough for libertarians to win elections. Welfare recipients, for obvious reasons, are anti-libertarian. Women, supposedly, are also less libertarian than men? I don't know if that's true; but regardless, what's wrong with stating that fact.

I think people are upset because they assume that it's implied in Thiel's statement that he believes women shouldn't have received the right to vote. But it's important to note that he has never advocated for that. Not in this quote, anyways. He was merely pointing out a few shifts in the past century that have made it extremely hard for libertarians to win elections.
The 2007 Financial Crisis: An Inside View [pdf]
We're not talking about backdoors. We're talking about stuff that's exposed up front before the user can even install the program.

The EC is a statistical anomaly. One agency out of how many out there?
Amazon makes Cambridge heart of Alexa and drone innovation with new offices
> Have you also checked the source? It's not a scientific publication

That's probably something to do with Wikipedia's editing guidelines these days. They have a rule against using primary research citations. Only literature reviews, books, and other secondary sources are acceptable.

I found the original source for the claim, which may be no better for supporting the claim for a number of reasons (why has this not been replicated, or did replication fail?):

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/05315565739...

Effect of dimethylaminoethyl p-chlorophenoxyacetate on the lifespan of male Swiss Webster albino mice, J Exp Gerontol 8: 177, 1973

Author: R. Hochschild of "Microware Instruments Co" of California.

doi (for sci-hub): 10.1016/0531-5565(73)90024-7

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/05315565739...

Note: If anyone is actually interested in the field of biogerontology, I recommend following the https://www.fightaging.org blog for editorialisation of news and research papers coming out of the field.
Did you ever look into whether the orcas' behavior might have been an attempt to knock you off the boat? Your story reminds me of this video of seal-hunting orcas making waves to knock seals into the ice. [1] I assume you weren't dressed as seals :)

[1] https://youtu.be/jhzfVnwx8cA
The "S" in "IoT" stands for security.
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> There is also no E#. It just doesn't exist. Get used to it. Those are the 12 notes.

Whoa... Plus, they're identical only in equal temprament
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."

I don't see anything about Twitter in the 1st Amendment.
Dang, it's people like you that are the reason we can't have nice things. I am pretty bearish on BAT's system myself, and I wouldn't use it personally, but it's your attitude toward this stuff that makes me not want to try to come up with ideas to help content creators or the "advertising problem" on the internet. Stuff like this is why advertising still exists and is unfortunately the superior choice still in monetization even though it is beyond shitty.
Judge Finds ‘Stupid Patent’ Web Story Is Protected Speech
> No, he didn't. Gawker died on its own merits

Just-world fallacy. If I had an axe to grind with you and had unlimited funds - how many of your negative interactions with (contractors|coworkers|neighbours|acquaintances) in the past couple of years could be escalated to financial ruin? If you survive the first suit, how many more could you stomach before declaring bankruptcy?

By accident or design, the fact that legal action is expensive acts as a brake on suits without much merit (to a degree).
What are you using to backtest? Data you gathered yourself?

Hardest part with backtesting in my experience has been trying to simulate successful buy/sell orders and the fees.
Twenty years ago, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hospital_Corporation_of_Americ...
Idk, I had a free open source command line project that scraped flight data and that got shut down. It might have been the particular airline, though, because they specifically disallow scraping from all third-parties including eg Google Flights, SkyScanner, etc.
The fact that Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg aren't 5 or lower means this scale is not credible. Both of these individuals had access to substantial capital and social connections, well above any meaningful definition of "middle-class", to jumpstart their businesses.
I am interested in the problems of the entire ad bubble, including Google/Facebook as well as the rest of the digital media. Google and Facebook for example drive up house prices in Silicon Valley.
This is nice as a diary of some hacking, but much of the musical commentary is misleading. Basically the author has enumerated all the unique ways of selecting the numbers 1..7 four times with replacement, and then done various mechanical translations on the results. Ostensibly this is done to enumerate all possible four-bar chord progressions, though in practice the results are highly redundant (i.e. many results are musically identical) and incomplete (many possible chords aren't included - e.g. secondary chords).

Then rather than distributing the scripts the author presumably used to do the enumerating and translating, they are distributing the outputs of the scripts, as a huge tarball full of midi files. Not sure what the motivation here was.
Hastily gets nonexistant wallet out to go buy one

I like how Ubuntu and Red Hat are in the officially supported list of OSes.

Why didn't you go for 64GB ECC DDR4? :P

I couldn't see a smartcard slot on it, and then I learned that the smartcard reader is contactless.

And it supports SD cards up to 2TB in size even.

The GPU only supports 4GB RAM though.

---

So I just found the order page and have been having a bunch of fun speccing out the most expensive possible device.

After wading through the comedy of

- LINUX/RED HAT Operating Systems are not available with Dell Threat Protection and Endpoint Security Suite option. Please change one of these selections.

- The Operating System you've selected does not support the ENERGY STAR Energy Efficient Option.

- The LINUX Operating System is not compatible with the Processor.

The absolute winner of

- The Operating System you've selected does not support Office Productivity Software.

And the (easily fixed) legacy annoyance of

- The Ubuntu Operating System does not support the Wireless Card you've selected.

I finally reached:

Starting at Price: $8,383.58

Total Savings: $3,005.11

Dell Price: $5,378.47 <-- the actual cost

Niiiiiice.

I added absolutely everything but kept the screen at 1080p (which adds capacitative touch!). So it has 64GB RAM, two 1TB SSDs, a 4GB Quadro M2200, a 3.9GHz Xeon E3, and an IPS display.

I like how vPro can be left unchecked :>

I'm confused why it's still saying Linux is incompatible with the processor though. Why? :(

Let's see if this URL breaks Arc: http://www.dell.com/en-us/work/shop/dell-laptops-and-noteboo...
This is simultaneously what I needed to hear and what I didn't want to hear. You pretty much nailed it all for me.
> To be more clear, programming for the most part is easy.

I vehemently disagree with this. Kludging together an unmaintainable codebase that barely meets the spec might be easy. Aiming for a notably higher level quality beyond that is NOT an easy thing at all.

Obviously, the nature of this discussion depends on the complexity of the task at hand. There are many profitable ventures with low levels of complexity in the software implementation, and your comment may hold true for such scenarios.

However, there also many ventures that require significantly complex software to meet their goals, and will require skilled developers to have any hope of not collapsing under the weight of shoddy implementations and impenetrable abstractions.
What makes you think the conditions in your country don't exist here?
Remember there are different scales, too. Those 12 notes aren't the only notes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scale_(music)
It would be interesting to see how the sets overlap from year to year.
Google kicked the Echo off of YouTube for TOS violations. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/09/youtube-is-no-longer...
Chuwi CoreBook brings the fight to the iPad Pro’s doorstep
I'm coming back to NYC....
It's a heck of a lot simpler than a brain autopsy, or a spinal tap.

And the real breakthrough isn't about people being able to know their demise, it's that they're are a lot of things that we suspect from a epidemiological perspective lower rates of alzheimer's but which have no effect once the disease is progressed.
It's normal for articles like this to conflate income and wealth whenever it's convenient to whatever point they're trying to make.

For example, one might see an article complaining that some percentage of wealthy people didn't pay income tax last year. But an income tax is a tax on income, not wealth, and it's commonplace for wealthy people to have a bad year and lose money.
I've been in some newsrooms where this becomes a slippery slope... they're saying the small daily articles are just there to fund the rest, but those get sensationalized headlines, misleading social images... but it's okay because it's just paying for the real journalism... which somehow just never seems to get prioritized.
Flexed arm-hangs