skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Frame your problem as a game, let AlphaZero take a shot. Now we just need the AlphaZero part.
10 companies are responsible for 57% of the changes to Linux. This is better than the typical 1 company responsible for the majority of changes in a browser, but it's not remotely close to "hundreds and hundreds of independently working engineers". Volunteers only make up ~8% of the changes.

What we don't have is any browser that's a multi-company project, though. WebKit used to almost be that, but then the blink fork happened. The closest currently would I suppose be Chromium as it's also backed by Opera.
Connecting Pandas to a GPU Database with Apache Arrow
Memoize – Learn foreign words by searching for them in movies
I agree the Robin Hood case was stupid, but that was widely condemned.

Do you have any more details about the kid?
Stockfish developers point out the issues in the match between AlphaZero and stockfish.
Ah Christmas, the time of year to snuggle with a cup of cocoa and play games of Phantasmagoria and Leisure Suit Larry.

In all honesty thanks so much to all the people that work on this project.
The women complained that the toilets were always messy and the men complained that the toilets were always occupied

I've worked in a gym and bars, back when I was a student, so I have been in women's changing rooms/bathrooms regularly, when we closed up, to clean. Not everywhere has dedicated cleaning staff; sometimes the lifeguards or the bartenders do it at the end of their (our) shift. It's true that men tend to miss and pee on the floor. Alot. But good God, the state of the women's...
Object Oriented Go – The Basics
5 Big Banks Currently Testing Ripple's Blockchain Technology
That's not the reverse question. You stated that we should use the innocent until proven guilty standard everywhere. I'm claiming that that's not good. There are alternatives to innocent until proven guilty that aren't "fire someone because of a nasty rumor."
The State of Software Engineering (2017)
From the site guidelines:

> ”On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.”

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Looks like it uses GloVe and not word2vec. They're both algorithms for generating word vectors but they are different.
Different tools have different advantages and Java is as suitable as many others. IOTA needs to prove that protocol is sound, so it doesn't matter if it's in Java, Rust, Go, Python... This point makes the author much less credible in my eyes.

That said, I steer clear of IOTA too. Relevant search terms for me are "IOTA roll your own crypto", "IOTA ternary logic" and "IOTA hash collision". And their whitepaper is indecipherable. Red flags all over the place, IMHO it's a scam.
Every crime can be solved via a false confession.
Scandinavian "equality" is a lie.

"Nearly two-thirds of all university degrees in Sweden are awarded to women." Obviously unequal. But they brag about it and call it equality.

https://sweden.se/society/gender-equality-in-sweden/

And when that inequality was noticed and affirmative action began to benefit men, affirmative action was outlawed.

http://arhiva.dalje.com/en-world/sweden-to-abolish-affirmati...

Their definition of "equality" ignores vast inequalities favoring women.
Probably something to do with the transaction costs and margins that can be achieved.
the problem is that this is recurring and the apologies are now mostly meaningless. action, not words are needed.

i would have been happy to write this one off, but the ship has all but sailed. the ice is so thin that you guys are one PR disaster away from a mass exodus of people who trust you.

if mozilla learned anything from the Pocket disaster, it would have immediately made it a removable addon and genuinely apologized. instead, there it is in my toolbar on nightly. i know you guys bought them, but that's a solution that only addresses the privacy aspect - you went from nonremovable Pocket to nonremovable Mozilla/Pocket.

every misstep that has happened with "enhancing the user experience" is an affront to the brilliant engineering you guys are doing. you're literally shedding user-engineers - not unlike yourselves - over these user choice, bundling/marketing double-speak, viralgrab and privacy fiascos.

i'm reasonable. i understood the DRM situation. the content providers make the rules and the consumers make the choices based on where they can consume the content. many people went apeshit with ideology. but mozilla is in full control of everything that is going on right now.

> This meant that they bypassed the usual processes by which Firefox engineers would have had the opportunity to (a) raise concerns about the deployment approach, and (b) suggest other mechanisms that would have achieved the desired experience while keeping deployment appropriately scoped.

i don't know what's worse, that users don't know what's going on, or that the engineers don't. here's an apt description for this: rgba(0,0,0,1)

rather than being delighted to discover features i didn't know where in there, i'm now horrified to discover them. i'm becoming mozilla's unwitting social testing platform and this is unacceptable. it is not what i signed up for with firefox 1.5. there's a reason that Tor's browser is firefox; i think this reason is ripe for re-evaluation.

mozilla is long overdue for automated regression tests of their core values.

plz don't take this comment personally. i have huge respect for the work you do. it's a shame the engineers are not in control of their destiny; they rarely are.
The computer has 360 vision. It should be easy for it to see the child and notice it jumping onto the road.

The situation is super dangerous with human drivers anyway. Children are too small to be noticed and they don't hesitate to jump in front of cars.
Instagram-py is a slick brute force tool for instagram writen in python
This looks quite similar to Vassal - http://www.vassalengine.org/
Yeah this is a big factor.

Where I live everyone goes to school in their area. Dense population means kids can walk or at the most cycle to school. At least in primary.
Yep, if you make the tiniest possible cuts to our budget we will stop doing our jobs. As if they spent much effort on minor property crimes before.
Thanks, this does indeed look like exact issue I'm referring to. I don't think it ever made it in to release, though. Despite apparent agreement that it's a useful optimization, it appears the final result of the two-month 59-message thread is that after many reworks of the patch and lots of feedback, the OP eventually gives up on getting it included due to interactions with another feature: http://gcc.1065356.n8.nabble.com/Fwd-PATCH-Scheduling-result...
I'm not sure that the EU is known for particularly lax product liability laws either. Whether it makes sense statistically or not, I can pretty much guarantee that automated vehicles causing deaths as a result of stupid decisions (from the perspective of a human driver) will be shut down in a big hurry. At which point, it becomes public that it was known that the software had problems handling X, Y, and Z sort of situations but it was put on the road anyway.
there is so much unexplained beauty in this text!

notice that the unifying perspective depends on a continuous parameter p, which is 2 for the mean, 1 for the median and -infinty for the mode. Thus, there is a continuous family of statistics that interpolate between these three things!

he does not mention it neither, but this means that you can define modes of a continuous variable (without resorting to histogram bins)
Fascinating.

What's up with all the stuff like "if 81 - 81: ..."? Won't that just evaluate to false and never run?
Jake Adelstein's book Tokyo Vice was an eye opener in this regard. The amount of effort the cops put into a case has a lot to do with the victim. Non-white foreigners and gangsters aren't worth a lot of trouble, e.g. if they find a dead guy with yakuza tattoos at the bottom of a building it's a suicide. Case closed.
Uber Hacked and Surveilled Rivals, Alleges Ex-Manager in Letter
I worked for Google for a long time. I never had a problem working for him or "furthering their agenda" because back then they didn't really have an agenda, beyond doing cool stuff on the web.

The idea that these organisations are unethical doesn't stick. Here's the brutal reality - people care about privacy from the people immediately around them. They value Incognito Mode because they want to hide their browsing history from partner/friends/family/etc. They don't value encrypted email because they assign a value of near zero to hiding messages from Google.

And why not? Privacy leaks out of these organisations are so rare as to be non-existent. They control their employees access very tightly and I can remember exactly one case of a genuine scandal involving a Google SRE maliciously accessing accounts. For a company coming up to 20 years old that's a good track record. Moreover, it's convenient to trust a large corporation. They will help you if you forget your password instead of saying "sorry, no key no access". They back things up for you, give you magical search functionality, filter stuff for you, show you useful stuff. And it costs you nothing! It's a deal so great everyone takes it.

The day I really came to understand that whinging about online privacy was just a crappy form of journalistic champagne socialism was when I took part in a system that showed me how much money advertisers were spending in the auction to appear on my screen during an ordinary few days of browsing. I saw that data because I was interested in the idea of letting people bid themselves out of seeing online ads. It was a staggering amount of money. Many many multiples the cost of my cable TV/internet subscription. Even as a well paid engineer I'd not have considered actually doing it. And for people on a more average salary? Trying to get rid of online ads or making them less efficient would just mean they couldn't afford to use the internet at all. I came to realise that no people would ever agree to pay for the true cost of their own web browsing. It was well targeted ads or it was no web sites.

Since then articles like these moaning about the evil ad-driven tech industry just make me roll my eyes. Don't like it Ms Journalist? Get rid of all the advertising and sleasy agenda-driven copy in your own industry first, then lecture others.
What are good ways to acquire these game ROMs legally?

A google search brings up a lot of not-completely-legit-looking sites, and I'd hate to give money to some pirate. These games are amazing and I'd love to support the authors if possible.
> I spend so much more cash living in London

This is the weird part for me: moving into the city saved me money overall.

In the suburbs where we lived, every person needs a car. It was a 30 minute walk just to get to the nearest store. So we paid insurance, gas, maintenance, etc on two vehicles. In the city, we have one car that we rarely use. If it dies, we'll get a car-share membership. (Frankly, I'm not certain we wouldn't save money if we just did that immediately).

The commute wasn't just long before, it was expensive: $400 CAD or more per month. Inside the city, $140 has me covered. Utilities on the small house we rented were nuts, especially in the winter. We pay a fraction of that now.

Adding it all up, the increase in rent was less than the saved amount.

The only real danger I find now is that I can go out with friends. I have more opportunity to spend money- but at least I'm enjoying spending that money.
Yea, I guess.
Joel Test step 12 is more or less "grab random people in your hallway and see if they approve of what you're working on".

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/08/09/the-joel-test-12-s...
Totally agree re: Netflix recommendations. I rarely ever review/rate, but Netflix should still be able to easily figure out what I like based on the genres I watch most and shows that I've watched more than a few episodes of. Instead, I mostly see what's popular on Netflix plus a bunch of recommendations that look like they could've been selected by a random number generator. It seems the best Netflix can do is to recommend the next season of a series I've already watched the rest of, which is definitely helpful but pretty disappointing given the amount of data they have available.
Oh man that's interesting. Clearly a WIP, but there's a lot of potential there.

If the person who made this is around: I'm the author of Fireplace (https://github.com/jleclanche/fireplace/), a Hearthstone simulator, and I worked a ton on the Hearthstone game state protocol (docs: https://hearthsim.info/docs/gamestate-protocol/). Hit me up by email (profile) or Discord (jleclanche @ https://discord.gg/hearthsim-devs), I bet we could have a really interesting knowledge exchange :)

This is making me want to try to implement a Hearthstone prototype in it to see if it's feasible. I've been dying to implement a copy-on-write Hearthstone simulator. Although this seems to tie the game logic with the protocol quite tightly, which hopefully is fixable or can be worked around; one of the designs I worked on with my simulator was a pluggable game state protocol to allow separation of a game state server that dispatches the gamestate data from the simulator itself that could then be implemented in any language. Incidentally, this allowed our Hearthstone replayer (written in React: https://github.com/HearthSim/Joust) to connect to "real" games and be a live client, in a way that is eerily similar to this project's showcase.
I think their software has gone from great to "okay" in the last 3 years. I'm not talking on features per se but on usability and stability, and as a developer, that matters A LOT. I also think that management is failing, I am not sure why it has yet to be addressed. I feel very frustrated and considering making the leap from Apple (my goto for the last 12 years) to Android (for mobile) and Linux (for development).
80° Apple invests $390M in US-made iPhone lasers
Math does not render unless I allow cloudflare.com to execute scripts. Why can't we just self-host scripts, is it that hard?
IANAL, and certainly not an American one, but it seems to me that your problem in this hypothetical case, is the criminalization of common human flaws. Let's dissect the case:

1. Assuming all prosecutor's pretenses where true, the man was never seen using a gun while intoxicated, merely owning one where you are disqualified. A proper penalty should be the seizure of your gun, plus a heavy fine for lying in your gun license application, which should also be cancelled until you agree to go to a detox program. Penal justice should not even get involved in the case.

2. Even if you had somehow managed to fire your gun while under influence, unless you have caused injuries or property damage to someone (in which case, there are already separate laws to deal with that), 10 years is also way too much. I'd do much better to society if you were given a 6-12 month sentence that can then be commuted for community service, preferably in some area of your expertise that can help make your town a better place to be. No point in dragging you to jail unless you further violate your parole/community service deal.

3. What's the point of seizing people's children? Millions of kids have idiots for parents, becase there are millions os idiots; and yes, some of those kids will end up injured because of their parent's idiocity. There's no way around that. On the other hand, it is evil to take into custody a felon's child because said child probably has another non-felon parent, or other close relatives that can take care of him/her. Decisions to make a child a ward of the State should be a slow and deliberate one, and kids who end up injured because of this hesitation should be considered the less of all evils, because there's so much potential for abuse otherwise.
I’m no longer a Scrum Master
One of the most fascinating aspects of the video is that the thing rotates.

As others have noted, the camera is auto-centering the object. If you look at the object's movement relative to the clouds in the background, it seems that the object might be turning and exposing its broader side to the relative direction of travel as seen from the camera. And then slowing down in the plane as viewed from the camera.

Note, this movement is relative and it's very hard to get a sense of perspective. So rather than slowing down, this could be the object banking and changing direction to move towards or away from the camera?

Maybe it's just a foreign aircraft with some kind of wingless shape like the B-2 bomber? I can't find a good source, but it seems there are blogs talking about new foreign stealth drones that could look like this. (http://defence-blog.com/news/new-stealth-bomber-spotted-in-c... -- not sure if this source is legit)

P.S. This is all assuming that this is indeed some kind of flying thing and not some kind of mirage.
perhaps that's how vulnerable devices were bricked?
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Sam Altman tried to destroy a Pando writer for writing an article critical of a portfolio company's valuation. He then made spurious accusations and moved the goalposts when they proved he was straight-up lying about his "evidence".

Sam Altman has threatened other people's entire livelihoods as well, threatening to use his connections to blackball them from all of SV because he was unhappy with their decisions.

I get it: you're paid to be the PR guy for him, so you make your money by pretending he's a good dude. But he isn't. He's a rich bully who is comparing himself (and other bigoted trash) to galileo.

I wouldn't really give a shit if he just embraced the fact that he's a rich evil bully who does whatever the fuck he wants... but now he wants us to pretend that he's flawless as well? Screw that. Dude is fucking evil. He should just admit it and own it.

And if you had a single ounce of courage, you'd just admit that you're a fucking proto-fascist who despises freedom; and whose major contribution to the world is that fewer people hear mean things about Paul Graham and Sam Altman because they pay you to silence the voices of critics.
Words are words. They can’t hurt unless you let them. If you don’t want to hear them get off twitter. Prison isn’t a reasonable response. Sad that George Orwell being proven right in the UK of all places.
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-leeds-19883828
I don't know where else to post this question, but why can I not reply to some comments in this thread? For example I can reply to this comment, but I cannot reply to gozur88's comment beneath yours.

To gozur88 if you see this, I am pretty worried about this too, and it seems like a huge violation of our rights that charges can be placed on individuals simply for leverage in a negotiation between the state and the individual. It is actually pretty absurd that we allow any kind of negotiation whatsoever in criminal courts because the usual principles of consent that are usually prerequisites to legally binding negotiations are absent. An individual is threatened with violence and then from that position are not on equal footing with the prosecution.
> As stated by others, Hacker News doesn't have a team of psychologists working to addict you to its content so they can then gradually replace that content with ads.

I dunno, this feels like more of a difference in degree than in kind. HN does have secret content-ranking algorithms (that are clearly optimised for engagement in some capacity - don't tell me it's not addictive!) and opaque moderation. Periodically, hiring "ads" for Ycombinator-funded companies appear mixed in - indeed, in a sense the entire site is an advertisement for Ycombinator.

And it does punish you for using a pseudonym, after a fashion - new accounts are flagged green, and comments are ranked not just by vote but by the user's accumulated karma. So there is an incentive to have just one "main account", which naturally compromises anonymity in the long run, effectively by "hosting their life stories" (you can extract a lot, I imagine, from years of HN postings). Nor can you delete content, unlike Facebook I might add, and also unlike Facebook it's publically hosted forever. In real terms, HN is more hostile to user privacy - it's just more transparent about it.
GOG and Steam sell many of them legitimately: http://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php/Where_to_get_the_games

The publishing rights for some games are stuck in limbo though, so you just have to dig up a used physical copy or pirate them.
This is a really great read. I wrote about my experiences with this and although I don't go as deeply into detail, and although I wasn't as low as these ghosts she talks about, I did see and feel some terrible things.

I'll never forget the feeling of being treated as a resource over a person.

http://russell.ballestrini.net/how-to-work-from-home-the-roa...
A few years ago, serious people mocked those who proposed to use only static linking.

Today, serious people mock those who refuse to distribute a whole operating system along each program.
No need to go to china. We let our kids roam pretty free in Finland :)
I've bought a lot from both gog.com and Steam. Even in the latter case, you can just point ScummVM to the game data.
Simply buy the games: the raw game files is used by Scumm.
Holy obfuscated Python, that's quite the jumbled mess. This is going to be a fun one to pick apart.

I don't think the string is .. worrying on its own given that, you know, this thing is meant to kill IOT/etc devices that are insecure. I'd argue that just given the source (the internet) is enough reason to be wary.
Do you mind sharing in what state you live? I wonder if there’s a cultural difference between the West Coast and other parts of the country when it comes to calling CPS on people.

We live in WA and our 9 year old daughter walks back from the school bus stop alone everyday, then stays alone at home for 3-4 hours until we come back from work (we let her because we deem her mature enough for that, before age 9 she went to an after school program). A few of our neighbors and even the building management people know about it, and don’t seem to take issue with it. The building administrator actually said something like “ooh she’s a big girl now! :)” when we requested an extra key for our daughter.

So there’s that, and also that every CPS story I’ve heard or read on the news seems to have happened in the Midwest or the East Coast.
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I have a hard time imagining a kid asking an adult for help. "Never talk to strangers," was the takeaway I got from elementary school. "Never tell an adult who you don't know where you live unless they know your codeword your parents shared with you" (in this case, the password was 'skateboard'.)
No it's not, but most people don't think about it. Mathjax used to have their own CDN by the way. Not sure why they pulled it.
I think there is no doubt we will get closer but I feel that we are 10 years away from general AI. I think blockchain projects will on some level help nearly all general software.
By and large, there's no particular reason to think purpose-built highway infrastructure is needed for autonomous vehicles. Maybe to alert for construction zones but we're pretty close to having autonomy on limited access, well-mapped highways today.

The problem is that, while this would be a really nice car feature (and probably great for safety), it does nothing for the people who don't want to own a car and just want a car and computer driver at their beck and call. Unfortunately for these folks, the autonomous highway driving is relatively near-term while door-to-door autonomy is probably decades away.