skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And yet relatively speaking, it works a lot better than PABT. Penn Station has its short comings but it functions well enough that I can still say it is more convenient to go to Penn Station than it is do drive to NYC.

I have been using Penn Station since 2010. The first problem that started was trains backing up because of tunnel traffic. The second problem started happening in 2014 where trains were backing up in the tunnel because of platform traffic. The third problem started coming when the tracks (not trains) started breaking down and then you had derailments, collisions, breakdowns, etc.

Penn station just never got a break in usage. And never got a reprieve with accidents. It always worked at 110% and whenever repairs were being made, travelers complained because it caused daily delays.

What we really need is a whole brand new station, a whole brand new tube, and a whole bunch of brand new trains to put the other ones out of service and under repair. Only then will commuters and NYC goers be happy.
I could think of plenty of reasons how it increases likelihood if survival, but that's beside the point.

There is apparently a lot of evidence that the neural activities that underly the experience of pain in humans happen in much the same way in fish. No matter why this is so, it makes the hypothesis that fish do feel pain more reasonable than the opposite.
Show HN: Nerv – A fast React alternative, compatible with IE8 and React 16
Why Do Women Bully Each Other at Work? (2017)
A correct title would be:

Apple sold out all China iCloud accounts

I guess I understand. It is either the market or the privacy and security of their Chinese user. They chose the market so all of our retirement funds still hold their face values.
Given China's history I would expect them to be very, very upset by this public criticism of their government. Especially on every iPhone.
> why do you think Bitcoin is undervalued

I see it as a variation of a tontine. But instead of people increasing in value when a member dies, it does such when a member loses access to a coin. Once that coin is lost, it can never be sold, thus cannot drive down the price.

But the interesting thing about this is, AFAIK, there's no way to accurately determine if a coin has been lost permanently or not, so the the true value of all accessible coins will be completely disconnected from the market cap. So people using market cap as a valuation metric will always be considering at a wildly optimistic one.

For example:

Coin A purchased at $100.

Coin B purchased at $120.

Coin C purchased at $130.

Current bid price $150.

If access to Coin B is permanently lost, then one of two things happen, A) the market cap falls from $450 to $300 to reflect the reduced number of coins, or B) the market cap is maintained at $450, and the "real value" of each coin is $225. Because it's impossible to know which coins are lost, the valuation metric will always be B.

Essentially, the owner of Coin B lost 100% of their investment, and the paper value of his asset was invisibly transferred to the owners of the remaining coins.

My opinion is that cryptos will be undervalued until one of two things happens, A) coin management becomes more robust and they stop being lost permanently, B) people realize that investors realize that there's a very real risk of their investment going to $0 (without the market crashing) and begin to price in that risk (much like unsecured v. secured credit pricing).
> To my knowledge, Damore has not been accused of any crime.

It's a figure of speech; I wasn't referring to a legal crime.

> No, only an employer can do that. Damore might have engaged in actions in the workplace that, in context, made it an unacceptable risk that by continuing to employ him Google would risk creating a hostile work environment for women and/or other protected classes.

I agree. I'm just trying to make sense of the parent's claim that Damore's behavior constitutes a "hostile work environment".

> Advocating change to corporate, rather than public, policy does not seem to be even remotely “political activity”, which is what California law actually protects.

My argument is that Google made inferences about his public policy beliefs based on his "memo", and fired him for those inferences. In other words, they inferred that he was conservative, and fired him because they felt his conservatism was too much a threat. Whether or not his speech is protected under California law is up to the courts.

Never mind that firing someone for innocuous (if misguided) corporate policy improvements is still morally indefensible.
PiTubeDirect: A Raspberry Pi as a BBC Micro Second Processor
My guess is that the App Store preferences isn't even meant to have the padlock. iCloud prefs doesn't have it, so I can only assume it's there by mistake.

If you try the same thing with say "Time & date prefs", it pauses with an incorrect password for a few seconds, then visually shakes indicating it's a wrong password. With the App Store prefs, it just instantly closes the authentication dialog, even with a blank password.

I don't really understand the logic as to why some panels in preferences have padlocks and others don't... Why does date/time need admin rights whereas Network (delete/add/reconfigure networking), Internet Accounts (delete/add any accounts?), iCloud (do all manner of things), Time Machine (back a machine up elsewhere?) don't require it?
Call me old-fashioned, but the only thing necessary for turning a side project into open source is to grant anonymous access along with a license. Well, that, and either too much disposable time or a strict policy how to deal with users or contributors. Making
this policy clear to your users/contributors is IMHO the most important thing - it allows you to tell people to GTFO if they disagree; after all, they already get more than they paid for.
The main disadvantage is that their growth rate is uncontrollable. If it's possible to add billions of tx to the DAG in a day (possibly with some custom hardware for solving simple PoWs), and a node needs to process those billions of tx to have absolute confidence that some payment it receives is not double spent, then the system breaks down.
The big difference between them is chemistry. MicroLEDs are using inorganic semiconductors, which are supposed to give it better lifetime performance.
Silver corrodes quite readily. That's why you've got to keep polishing it if you want it to be shiny.
"When you divide the state up geographically instead of by population, it's way red (as is with every state in the union)."

So don't do that. Land doesn't vote, people do. If you give every 600k people a congressional district, the state is slightly more red than blue.
Hell, when I was living in Portland the public transit was totally reasonable. Getting to the airpot was a peace of cake, taking the bus from North Portland to my job on the other side of the river was easy, my coworkers who took light rail in from the burbs rarely had issues. Overall it was pleasant experience.
I tried nvm and it didn't even install correctly. I tried n just now and it works beautifully! thanks for the ref. Nice that it is from tj.
What about using white noise?
If the goal is to recreate the layout of a site then the context text isn't really important. You could represent each letter with a filler character e.g. . Then, you only need as many tokens as you have words with distinct numbers of characters. This approach (similar to how we use lorem ipsum for prototyping) would dramatically reduce the complexity of the model.
But affine transformations are indeed not linear. The augmentation trick creates a new, linear transform in n+1 dimension, which is related but different to the affine transform in question.

The categorization in the article seems correct.
Thanks for the info, that makes a lot more sense. I suppose I was under the impression that bitcoin exchanges would be under the same regulations as regular exchanges, considering they are operated by the same large american companies (e.g. CME)
I have worked mostly on frontend development and have to say that the quality of pixel perfect code being generated will make many a designers happy!

Super awesome!
Dilma was caught in a letter trying to buy the Paraguay Congress to add Venezuela to Mercosul.

Although I think this had nothing to do with the impeachment.

> without proof of any crime

Is misleading. She deserved to be impeached, and so does the current president, mostly likely so will the next one.
I hate to say it, but I'm also finding myself scratching my head at this one. I've randomly chosen 3 separate Xeon E5 family processors that are in production, and _each time_ I look at the intel-ucode files, _absolutely none_ of the family-model-stepping outputs from lscpu/dmidecode match.

I'd guess that the format above (using HSW-ULT Cx/Dx as an example), that 01:72 means stepping 1 through 72?
Actually, once you have the iCloud accounts, you can bypass the Secure Enclave chips.
I think renting homes can be just fine, but there needs to be savage, almost draconian punishments for not acting as a good landlord. Do 3 strikes: On the 3rd strike for not fixing things up, you straight up lose the property to the tenant.
Tank Man (2016)
It's a f...ing gym! If people can't deal with the sound from other people working out they can get earplugs or get a headset.
I am familiar with Parliamentary systems of 5 countries (Britain & former colonies) and they are mostly geographic, to my knowledge. Each Members of Parliament is voted in by voters residing within a geographic region/ward.
You don't have to use a cycle lane here, but there have been cases in recent years where police have incorrectly stopped/charged someone for not using a cycle lane.
Indeed. I think it was JED that I worked with! UnrealED was a definite improvement.
Condos exist and charge HOA fees to maintain the structure and common spaces. The fee is a condition of moving in; if you don’t want to pay it, you don’t buy that condo.
> any evidence that chat as an interface has failed?

I love chat as an interface to deployments! Hubot is a great framework/bot for hooking into your own environment. Typing deploy prod master in a Slack channel is great. Why is that better than ssh'ing into a jump box and typing cap deploy prod? It's multi-user! Everyone else can see what's going on.
Google PageSpeed Insights Now Includes Real-World Speed Distributions
Those rackety automobile contraptions! Don't get me started! :)

I am half serious though, cars are annoyingly loud and (obviously) dangerous. I'm loving the eerily quiet electric vehicles. And cities creating carless areas of town or carless days.
It's like an episode of HBO's "Silicon Valley". I honestly laughed out loud when I read "Kik pivoted to blockchain technology".
Thx for the suggestion, I have actually done this in the past
I just think you'll have to go quite a bit farther to convince me that using a USB key fob in an existing USB port, which I can probably find and buy at a 7-11 down the street, is the same as acquiring a spring loaded JTAG pad or soldering a JTAG connection in place to a device I have opened to expose the circuity, and then configuring the software required to interface with it.

In one case, I plug a USB stick into a working computer, which virtually everyone has already done at some point before, run a utility included in Windows[1], and maybe download and drag some files around to copy them. In the other I do a whole bunch of stuff that isn't common to any neophyte or even most advanced computer users.

1: https://www.google.com/search?q=how+to+make+a+bootable+usb
This is assuming "you can't get into iPhones" was not a poker face while they were passing information.
You're totally right — it doesn't make sense for every DApp to run on the mainchain.

There's an inherent tradeoff between performance and decentralization. The major blockchains like Ethereum focus on decentralization above all else, because it's extremely important for a cryptocurrency where there's a real financial incentive for someone to attack the network. Performance is important, but shouldn't come at the cost of decentralization. There's a ton of smart people working on scaling Ethereum, and they will scale, but not to the level required to run WoW and Twitter simultaneously on the mainnet.

Which is why we think scalability will be achieved through sidechains. A sidechain can play by its own set of rules. Something like an online game or community on the scale of Hacker News needs to optimize for realtime performance, but can make reasonable tradeoffs for security — on a blockchain data integrity is already ensured by cryptographic signing, and you can't "double-spend" a comment or post, so there's little financial incentive to attack the sidechain to delete a historic comment.

I'd say the motivation for learning to build blockchain-based games now is because the infrastructure for this tech is coming very soon. We're in the process of building out one game as a demo to showcase Loom Network, and are talking to a couple other game studios who want to build games on our platform.

Things like CryptoKitties may just be a novelty right now, but they're paving the way for new types of game economies that that we've never seen before.
>Thought experiment: if you didn't have any motorised vehicles on the road, would you still want cyclists to have a licence?

No. Why do you think this is relevant? It doesn't seem to have anything to do with the rest of your argument.
The assessed value is $61k, the estimated value (according to zillow) is $480k. Property taxes in 2016 were $640. There is a law where 55+ can transfer valuations if they move within counties that participate. https://www.ocgov.com/gov/assessor/programs/55plus#2179
Show HN: Kroo Sports app – Play trivia/games, get FREE sports tickets
The basic premise of Kroo is to reward users with free tickets to sporting events.

Users earn credits by reading bite-sized sports news, answering current/historic trivia, predicting game outcomes, and playing player-based fantasy games. Users then can turn in those credits for free tickets to the game of their choice.

Please download and try it out. I'd love any feedback (positive or negative).

iOS - https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/the-kroo/id1075791213?ls=1&m...

Android -https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.thekroo.ap...
I share this concern, and it will probably be awful in the beginning. However, that being said, I thought i'd hate living next to an airport, and I live by one right now. The sounds of planes over my head are often ignored and I enjoy looking up and seeing a plane coming in for a landing. So what I thought I would hate I actually grew to enjoy. People adapt, that's actually what we're really good at.
Sorry to be that guy but this kind of "elitism" seriously bothers me. I've seen this thing in almost all of the fields related to CS like "you have to spend 16 hours a day for 10 years to understand assembly" when I know a guy who became a malware expert in 4 years ( winning world class tournaments with his team ).
This thing is very discouraging, and it is false. You stated a problem which is hard to solve, but 99% of problems are not like this. Like:
- tell what kind of mineral deficiency a plant has?
- what kind of bug do you see?
- what kind of plant do you see?
- is this thing broken ( MRI or X ray )?
- what kind of musical notes are in a waveform?

See how far they get. A talented guy can solve these within one year.
Fine them all you like - the result of this will be less affordable housing. Landlords who don't want to invest in or can't afford the upkeep will simply sell to someone who will.

And with that investment comes a more attractive property which commands a higher rent. And that means the housing becomes less affordable for the low-income renters.
My gym has TVs with sound muted, and subtitles enabled, and the music is heavy-metal. It works just fine for me, on those rare days when I forget to pack my headphones.
That's just the telco taking credit for what microchip manufacturers have achieved.
Many stop signs are placed such that stopping for them prevents you from safely observing oncoming traffic. So after stopping at a stop sign you still need to slowly inch forward checking that the path is clear making the stopping portion of the exercise absolutely pointless.

Further my habit of actually stopping has gotten me rear ended and tossed into an intersection. Doing things unexpected can be very hazardous.
Yes, I did say healthy, which a good half of the USA isn't.

but that still implies a 100m person market, just in the USA, and people in other developed countries tend to be closer to the "healthy" range. There are lots of healthy people out there.

In short, I don't think this will be the make-or-break for flying cars...
Not changing your angular momentum around the Sun limits the usefulness of this drive by a lot. Sure, you can change the shape of the ellipse that you travel. But anything that you encounter far away from the Sun will be going very fast compared to you, and you'll go very fast compared to anything that you encounter near the Sun, making actual visits very unwise.
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Building a statically compiled, PyTorch-like autodifferentiation library in Rust
Addictive personalities can be good and can be evil. I have one and I’m usually okay at recognizing that and when it’s kicking in and not losing self control, but I’ve never had an opportunity to easily spend my cryptocurrency before and so I completely let myself fool myself about what I was doing when CK launched. I fell into a cycle of buying and breeding kitties at market rates, not wanting to sell them, finding “great deals” on the marketplace, buying and breeding those... Of course the “great deals” were really a crashing market after an unsustainable bubble right at launch. I was destroyed by incorrect mental pricing models and easy access to a source of funds. And what’s more, those funds were internet magical funny money that I’d gotten for free anyway, so it was really hard for me to see spending $40 worth of Ether as losing out on the opportunity to buy $40 worth of real world goods. And when the thought crossed my mind, I hand waved it away with the thought that I could always sell the kitties and get my ETH back, with no critical thinking attached.

All of which begs the question, why am I a fan of the game? There’s the fact that I feel now like I’ve invested a couple grand in the game ... but that’s my irrational brain again. Some slightly more rational reasons include that working with the community to crack the genome and build tools to help make smart breeding and buying/selling choices has been a ton of fun and very educational. Also just deep diving into the game mechanics in a way I couldn’t have truly appreciated from the outside looking in has been a revelation: many people complain that this is not much of a “game,” and of course they’re right, but there’s still a ton of careful consideration that went into developing each aspect of what exists, including how new genes are gated through release of new kitties and a breeding algorithm with special mutations that require particular gene pairs to breed. And then there are fancies, which a cat becomes when it meets certain minimum requirements such as being Cloudwhite, with a Scarlet pattern, and having a beard along with a hidden “wild” trait: all of which, when combined on the same kitty, produces a (relatively) valuable Santaclaws kitty.

Also, I really don’t need a new crappy old car. I’ve already got one of those. And man those kitties really are adorable sometimes.
Same here. It's a separate application from the non windows versions though. I seem to remember having to search explicitly for the windows version.
Small "personal" helicopters like the Robinson R22 are quite difficult to autorotate safely in a real emergency, due to low rotor inertia. [0]

For the SureFly, Hypothetically if loss of several motors caused the aircraft to be unable to maintain altitude, the aircraft would not suddenly drop like a brick, but drift down to a controlled landing.

[0] http://philip.greenspun.com/flying/robinson-r22
Wow, I knew it was a limited beta, but I didn't know it was that limited. As one of the lucky few that had it, I now feel both special and sad that it's gone.

But not that sad -- I didn't use it once after a few easy questions the first day I got access. It would occasionally pop up some suggestions as I was typing messages, but I would always ignore them as they were irrelevant.

I think the biggest issue is that they weren't up front about it. They tried to make it seem like it was an AI doing all the work.

I think if they had straight up said, "this is a human and we're training an AI", it would have been a lot better. It would have allowed them to do things to get stronger feedback, like asking, "was this the right suggestion?" Then when I got irrelevant suggestions, I could give them feedback as to what was wrong and why. But it never asked me for that so I never gave any feedback.

I thought I was just one of millions training the AI and that they would get plenty of signal with all those users. I had no idea it was so limited -- I definitely would have been much more active in giving feedback had I known.
> eliminating tax breaks for home owners

You mean making them equal to people who can't afford to buy?
It would be great to have a filter by continent. Travel within Europe is really cheap and it makes tons of sense to look for conferences in Spain/Italy/France/Germany/etc at the same time
It seems like a tremendous amount when you consider that the amount of prestige "BigLaw" jobs that can shoulder that debt burden are a fairly small portion of the average graduating cohort's employment.

In contrast, I completed my professional degree and a masters in law at the two best universities in my country for a total out of pocket tuition cost of approximately $9,000. That's around 1.3 orders of magnitude apart.

I'm sure there will be replies about the quality of the alumni networks or the level of scholarship (which would be very poorly founded), but that misses the point: the magnitude of debt is shocking.
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IBM leads on patents for 25th straight year
>I'm honestly curious about this: I've gone from very bullish to very bearish over the last 5 years or so, while I've watched the population at large take an opposite course from indifferent and unaware to very bullish, and I'd really like to understand what I'm missing.

The number is going up and there's a fun tech-beats-banks narrative. I'm as bearish as you.
It's not. Compare the budgets and ridership of MTA versus Transit for London. Similar cities, similar riderships, and MTA has a substantially bigger budget.

We're underfunded in the sense that "it costs us 5x as much to do the same thing, and we're only allocating 1.5x as much money to it as European countries." Kinda true but not really the root cause.
I'm not sure what distinction you're drawing, but sure. The idea of the tax breaks is to make home ownership more attainable.
How Being Busy Kills Productivity
I don't know if gated communities have an HOA by definition but if you don't pay money you owe to your HOA depending on laws of the state and HOA agreements, they could put a lien on your property as well.

However, it's possible to have an HOA that just doesn't give a shit and does no enforcing.

It's already illegal to not do certain maintenance on your house (blight, etc.) especially if you have tenants living there. (tenant protection laws)

So enforcement is the key.
HOAs essentially operate similar to governments in that regard. The HOA can fine owners for failing to comply with community rules, place a lien on the property if they don't pay, and eventually get a court judgment to foreclose on the property and sell it to pay the debt. But that process typically takes years. And it's a huge hassle and expense for the HOA, so most will let things slide for a long time before taking the nuclear option.