skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Microsoft, for marketing purposes

If Microsoft does something in the interest of their users it is suddenly "for marketing purposes"?

> While I applaud the goal of assuming people don't want tracking

Of course people don't want tracking. I'm not going to argue everyone agrees with GDPR, but that sets the trend further.

> Because many users showing DNT settings had not explicitly meant to do so.

Just because someone doesn't explicitly agree with something, doesn't mean they disagree with that.
If this helps the housing problem then it is a great idea. I have seen a few of these type ideas. There is something similar down the road from me in Mountain View.
Here's what New College had to say about the story - https://web.archive.org/web/20000817213605/http://www.new.ox... (the rest of this comment is a complete copy of that text. NB: it looks like "JCB" = Junior Common Room = undergraduates; "SCR" = Senior Common Room = faculty/fellows):

This story regards the replacement of the oak beams in the college dining hall, and is occasionally given as an example of admirable forward planning. In its mythical form the story is often attributed to the anthropologist Gregory Bateson and may be found in a number of places:

* Brand, Stewart "How Buildings Learn" Viking, 1994
* McDonough, William "A Centennial Sermon: Design
Ecology Ethics and The Making of Things"

To summarise, the story relates that at some point in the 19th century the oak beams in New College's dining hall needed replacing. Since these beams are (it is claimed) approximately 2 feet square and 45 feet long the purchase of new timber was prohibitively expensive. When the college forester was asked for suggestions it transpired that a grove of oaks had been planted when the hall was built (some 500 years previously) with the specific intention that they would be used for rennovation.

When the college archivist was asked about this story she came back with the following information.

In 1859, the JCR told the SCR that the roof in Hall needed repairing, which was true. (As an aside, at this time, there were few enough people that Hall contained a grand piano; this can be seen in the Joseph Nash watercolour of the hall illustrating the Introduction to the Treasures pages.)

In 1862, the senior fellow was visiting College estates on `progress', i.e., an annual review of College property, which goes on to this day (performed by the Warden). Visiting forests in Akeley and Great Horwood, Buckinghamshire (forests which the College had owned since 1441), he had the largest oaks cut down and used to make new beams for the ceiling.

It is not the case that these oaks were kept for the express purpose of replacing the Hall ceiling. It is standard woodland management to grow stands of mixed broadleaf trees e.g., oaks, interplanted with hazel and ash. The hazel and ash are coppiced approximately every 20-25 years to yield poles. The oaks, however, are left to grow on and eventally, after 150 years or more, they yield large pieces for major construction work such as beams, knees etc.
> I will interpret this being the first idea floated as the use for some IoT tech as "we have no f'ing clue what we're going to use this for".

Refrigerator with a Twitter account is my personal favorite https://techcrunch.com/2011/06/21/samsungs-lcd-fridge-with-a...

It's like they have two wheels one with names of household appliances on it, the other with popular online services. Then they spin them and build the resulting combination: "toaster with a Facebook Account", "shredder that talks to Instagram", "lava lamp that posts to Reddit" etc.
That's a kind of odd use of “non-partisan”—both (a) and (b), actually, since (a) would allow a commission entirely of political appointees of the sitting governor, without in-law specification of partisan makeup, to be a “nonpartisan” commission, and (b) allows a commission where appointment is specifically slots by party and most seats assigned to the two major parties to be non-partisan.

But, yes, by that odd definition, the California system is non-partisan under (b).
I don't know how someone can say "this promising therapy exists only in Tblisi" and not be immediately suspicious...
I think of ICOs as prepaid gift cards.
Agreed, it does need a better README. Checking the code, it seems the metrics generated are defined here:

https://github.com/klittlepage/chatty/blob/master/chatty/ana...

So it's mostly character analysis (word and message length, emojis). The interesting two metrics, in my mind, and the percentage of positive and negative sentiments in the messages.
> So far, the government has pledged just an initial £5.7 million of the £500 million needed to fully realize the project.

Hmm. This sounds like the new "garden bridge".
Lots of these mixed-use real estate developments in the South Bay now. South San Jose has some apartment developments (Charlotte Park for example) that look almost European.

Sure, it's a Safeway, Five Guys, etc. across the street and there's little you would want to walk to or explore in the area but it's a start.
The flight tomorrow is $59. January 11th. I only looked because the entire spiel ran counter to my prior experiences. Direct on Delta, Virgin America, Alaska, etc. Oh wow the same day ones later today are the same price!

I know we are splitting hairs because this isn't always the case, and what you offer is intended to always be the case along with being possibly shorter flights with quicker checkins.

I just think the messaging is a little off because the way it is described doesn't really solve people's problems, especially when they will be so often debunked.
Tech companies are building housing in cities across North America
True.

I read that someone builds a Reason/OCaml library with Node.js like API that compiles to native binaries, but uses OCaml standard libary functions in the background, which could probably get much smaller than Node.js.
True, I wasn't precise enough. I was referring to the earlier comment "Buffett has always said he purposely avoids most of them because he doesn't understand them well enough.", so I mean the has no opinion on most of them, and avoids them (neither buying them nor shorting them).

That goes to show that he's aware of the limits of his expertise, and clearly he has an opinion on bitcoin, so presumably he considers them within his range of expertise.
It's not even based on a fork of React, either.

I took a quick look at some of the earlier commits... and if there's any underlying React code there, then it's either been hand-written or hand-copied.
I'd like to encourage you to take a look at the Fukushima Meltdown area now, year+ later, because the forest reclaims what man tries to tame.
Depends on how comfortable it needs to be.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fulton_surface-to-air_recovery...
That wasn't always true. During the New Deal, the U.S. built the Great Plains Shelterbelt:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Plains_Shelterbelt
I preordered it so its sitting on my desk. Just trying to find time to read it. After skimming through it, I suspect it will address a few aspects, but the overall goal of the book is so different it likely won't address most of them.
There is a native port to the Pi of RISC OS, the ARM-based operating system that ran on Acorn's successor to the BBC (the Acorn Archimedes). The BASIC on that is also BBC Basic, including inline ARM assembler.

https://www.riscosopen.org/content/downloads/raspberry-pi
GPU - backed by something physical.
New Malware Dubbed LockPos Introduces New Injection Technique to Avoid Detection
P2P content distribution for info-beamer, a Pi-based digital signage platform
Please file an issue at the github project, ideally with an image that always crashes.
I would do this in a heartbeat if it weren’t so expensive, just for the magical day when I can print “YOUR LEFT BRAKE LIGHT IS BROKEN” on someone’s rear view window (and then get pulled over while the cops try to find a law against it).
By threatening to pull manufacturing.
This is happening in Austin, Texas as well. The development known as "The Domain" in North Austin first had malls, but also has residential apartments close by. There is also a street filled with bars and restaurants.

I was amazed at how it seemed like a different world when I was there for an a event last week. Does seem pretty artificial (i.e. man made), but hey, many people seem to love that.
Stay hungry (e.g. On low calorie diet) for few days and then watch yourself more nerveus and making dumber decisions.
Having written both (albeit only at a hobby scale), I'd argue that the control software for a collective-pitch helicopter is substantially more complex than for a quadcopter, and especially this style of over/under counter-rotating octocopter. To me this almost seems like an effort to simplify the automation and control software at the expense of safety and efficiency.

I do agree that the mechanicals are much simpler. I can see some maintenance and inspection safety gains but the airframe as a whole seems more dangerous. The over/under counterrotating prop design is both inefficient and prone to cascading failures mandating deployment of the airframe parachute.
It's not so much deliberate as it is inherent in the system.

Workers are poorly paid and don't have any real incentive to care. The process is byzantine and form-dense because it's the government: bureaucrats don't have much else to do but create and update processes and policies, and the politicans who make the actual laws are always doing favors for one group or another, which creates complexity and need for excessive documentation about which group you fit into.
"Tim Hortons Inc. (known internationally as Tim Hortons Cafe and Bake Shop, colloquially known as Timmies or Tim's) is a Canadian-based multinational fast food restaurant known for its coffee and donuts." -- Wikipedia

Most ppl go Tim Hortons for coffee, not donut.
As long as they're all outfitted with transponders, and piloting is automated, I don't see that being an issue.
> End users don't care if content is encoded in a patent free format. They just care about the content being available on their platform.

End users do care about the cost of their devices. Patent-free formats lower that cost. And patent encumbrances just make it more difficult and costly for manufacturers to include support; sometimes some formats get left out due to cost.

I certainly agree that end users don't care about patents, but they care about some of the practical problems that patent-encumbered formats cause down the line. These are usually not showstoppers, but they help cause customer confusion and sticker shock.

Having to support both formats in the short- or medium-term is definitely annoying and costly for manufacturers, but if we do actually win the open format war (I think the OP is a little overly optimistic there), that problem goes away.
Now that’s what I come here for. I had a Master with 65C102 coprocessor (internal one) and I still claim to this day that it was the finest machine I have ever used. Rather cool what you can achieve with the tube even to this day.
Amen to this. A stickler for me personally is the universal menu bar at the top of the screen rather than separate menu bars inside windows.

I know that older versions of KDE could be configured to do this, but not sure if more recent ones can do it, or if other DEs can do it. Every now and then I do some research on it, but the results are never promising. (From what I remember, the Ubuntu/Unity bar gets close but still feels weird.)
I usually don't trust people. More than one have we found things improperly secured and/or exposed to the outer internet, or otherwise at risk.
We also run black-box software from third party vendors that provide compiled JAR files which is directly related to this fuss. Last thing I'd like to have is another attack vector at home.
And you think they'd honestly and with a straight face tell you what they're using ephemeral pictures and self destructing messages for?

Lets be real here.
I'm guessing they are working for a company that was using this and allowed / encouraged the authors to make it open source.
> That means the people who have the best information about mitigating this issue have a fix that apparently has minimal performance impacts on their cloud workloads

Could Google not just have found a mitigation with non-negligible
performance impact, and made a behind the scenes change to the actual hardware resources assigned at each vCPU level to mask the average impact, eating the cost in the short term (while evening it out in the long term by delaying price decreases they would otherwise implement)?
Thank you sir, I'll try that out!
Doesn't sound like you need to incorporate in the US given your bare-bones fact pattern (non-US company selling into the US) but you'd need to hire an accountant or tax lawyer to provide advice specific to your circumstances.
Extending Alexa’s AI with Microservices
"more deaths per capita in horse accidents in NYC in 1900 than in auto accidents today"

https://legallysociable.com/2012/09/07/figures-more-deaths-p...
ALISEI MEU CABELO CACHEADO DEPOIS DE 3 ANOS – #Beltododia – Bélit Araújo
I just did a 11.2.1/11.2.2 benchmark of my iPhone 7: https://browser.geekbench.com/v4/cpu/compare/6303880?baselin...

The result is that 11.2.2 is slightly faster than 11.2.1 (around 2%).

And here’s one of my iPad Pro 10.5”: https://browser.geekbench.com/v4/cpu/compare/6304146?baselin... (0.9% increase in performance).
I don't disagree; my suggestion was tongue-in-cheek. There is no value in optimizing an application that is so flawed that it shouldn't exist to begin with.

Those flaws derive from a wildly optimistic use case for the technology, though. A much cleaner use case would have been a bot intended for Facebook Help (instead of, or to complement, a KB -- assuming people still need that).

More ambitious maybe, but perhaps not impossible, would be a bot that looks for signs of suicidal tendencies in posts or comments and engages the user in therapeutic conversation. (?)
Heh. "M" marks the murderer in this film I'd consider part of the Western canon. The cultural insensitivity!
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/M_(1931_film)
I'm used to BS mission statements about "making the world a better place", but that one honestly made me a bit sick.

With all the issues in American healthcare, the hot new $600m startup added nothing but more advertisements - and had to fake even that. It might actually have been better for the world to pay all the employees to not build that company.
Where does the article suggest the water is wasted? It seems to focus on the savings in terms of reduced demand on the municipal water plant- rainwater doesn't need to be treated- and in terms of changed behavior:

once they got that rainwater harvesting system, the way they’re irrigating is completely different, and they’re paying a lot more attention to how they irrigate. It really changes behavior. Definitely people are more careful with how they use that rainwater than how they were using the potable water to irrigate beforehand.
Unlikely -- remote X11 display performance for anything GPU-accelerated isn't great due to X11's design, not Firefox's.
One woman has a baby in 9 months. In how many months will 9 women have a baby?

Also: “Mythical man month” etc.

You do not solve your problem by having a bunch of engineers from a different domain and having different priorities.
google photos for photos, and tarsnap for anything valuable.
> No, LinkedIn does not "shows degrees-in-progress and completed degrees the same way".

It does.

> LinkedIn lets you type what you want.

It also does, it doesn't contradict the previous sentence. As I said, Linked in does not have data item for degree being complete or not (I am not sure how familiar you are with data modeling, but situation of having a model for some property and deriving it from ad-hoc texts in unrelated data items are very different). Some people do extra work by using degree name or other fields to work around this, some don't bother. Neither are liars.

> That is exactly what people do on paper resumes, which also let you type what you want.

No, that's a very different case. Paper resume is completely freeform. Linkedin has set of forms, some of which are free text, which you can use - if you want to - to cover for shortcomings in other places, like use degree or program name to express completion status. Some don't bother to because they think it's be clear from context. Sometimes it is not. It happens. It'd be good to recognize that.

> Because falsely claiming (or even giving the impression of claiming) an academic degree is a giant no-no. People get fired for that.

People get fired for all kinds of things, like expressing unpopular opinion, as it turns out. But there's world of difference between claiming the degree on resume (which didn't happen) and somebody misreading ambiguous output of a site.

> You repeatedly ignore that he also falsely claimed to be a chess master.

Why I should address this unrelated claim before we address the one at point? If you admit you were wrong on the Linkedin part - and recognize the fact both claims are personal attacks, since they have little to do with the claims Damore is making or you were making - we can consider the chess thing. Before that it's just a distraction - what about this? what about that? what about that third thing? forget that I didn't prove the first two, what about the fourth thing? Nope, won't work this way. You have to substantiate every one of your claims, not just bring a new one once previous one was questioned.

> I see your DARVO.

You are implying that you're somehow a victim here? Nice one. So far you are the one denying the facts (as in, ones about Damore's performance) and personally attacking him (as in, bringing irrelevant claims about his character to discussion about his factual claims), and of course claiming that somebody here is "offender", without any proof of offense made - unless you consider you misunderstanding Damore's Linkedin profile as "offense" to you and you being "victim"? That'd be rich.
The fact that you have a nice acronym in your pocket doesn't change any of that.
140+ Epic Examples of Car Photography
While theory indicates that many (or even most) published empirical findings are false [1], this doesn't make experimental science garbage in its entirety. Although the signal from individual papers is noisy, some results do get confirmed repeatedly by independent experiments over time. Those results are likely to be correct. Theory and multiple independent experimental methods should converge on the same result as work continues; if this doesn't happen, it's a red flag. Working scientists have to constantly estimate and re-estimate their confidence in a result, but progress still (so very slowly) gets made.

Tracking research developments this way takes a lot of time and expertise. Sometimes unpublished knowledge or insider access are needed. Unfortunately, news reports about science rarely provide the context of prior work and competing hypotheses that is necessary to estimate the veracity of a result. Simple, sensational statements apparently get more clicks. This is not a good situation and leads to the impression that entire fields are garbage. Any effort to fix this communication problem is greatly appreciated.

[1] http://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/jou...
In the Hot Black Smoke video, how does the asymmetry occur? Is it due to imperfections in the calculations?
> All group members will see that the attacker has joined. There is no way to suppress this message.

The only issue that I see here is that a large group may not see the user joined. People can ignore those messages over a certain threshold.

However most large groups are not going to be as privacy sensitive so it is not really an issue.
Are these from somewhere? I might try to recreate this in Rust as a way to learn more of that language.
Ask HN: What has been your experience of selling AI to enterprises?
How do you convince them that deploying AI is different than traditional software and therefore, needs a longer timeframe to see results? How do you manage their superhuman accuracy expectations on their messy data?
It is use it or lose it flights. Flights don't role over. We're kicking around the idea of trying to make giving unused flights to friends or family work.
Companies have shown a lot of interest in this. Most beneficial aspect is booking late with paying a high fare.
Sick job, that's nearly 4 years of hard work there.
They would be prompted for the App Store password the first time a purchase was made after this is disabled so, no, that's not an issue here.
Well that's great. Give everyone an index fund when they are born; by the time they turn 18 they will have their basic income.
NZ has some of the worlds oldest national parks, marine reserves, etc. While the state of the rivers is particularly bad because of intensive farming there has been a concerted effort to improve that, and in fact the state of the rivers was probably the biggest political issue in the last election with all political parties promising to clean them.

NZ is not perfect, and the relatively good state of the environment is definitely helped by the fact that population density is low, espeacialy in the bottom 2/3rds of the country, but there is a strong desire to improve the situation by most, even most farmers are committed to improving the waterways and providing more green area.
From Geekbench knowledgebase: "Geekbench will use AES instructions when available, and fall back to software implementations otherwise."

I expect this test to use them.
I was sure that I had come across something but didn't know what to google! Thanks for the links.
The App Store would prompt them for the Apple ID password for the first purchase made after this change.

I fail to see how automatic updates would be "awful".
Where is my Clojure syntax highlighting?
Honestly, I don't object to muted sports in bars - even ones that aren't nominally sports bars. Sports-watching is more social than news, and less intrusive if you're not interested. Just turn the damn things off if there's nothing to watch, and maybe have a few bars without TVs.

I might be spoiled, though. In a city this size I can find most any type of bar I want - when I lived in a spot where Buffalo Wild Wings was considered a 'good' bar, I felt a bit differently.
That is interesting. I wonder if I update Sierra to the latest if it will show up. Does your lock work as expected?
Maybe the same people who gave GDPR teeth can give some teeth to the DNT as well...
> This "I don't have to learn anything new" factor is literally the only thing Electron has going for it.

Not completely, don't underestimate how hard it is to write a cross platform UI that runs on Windows, OSX and Linux.

Starting from a web framework not only gives you portability but also a common UI language(that may diverge a bit from native app conventions but that's a tradeoff you need to weigh).

I say this as a die-hard C++/native dev. I've done wxWidgets, QT and a bunch of others and it's never a trivial thing to do.
We've just upgraded from 4 to 5 and not had any major problems. Most of the issues we encountered were with the stricter type-checking in TypeScript 2.5, not changes to Angular itself. It took me about a morning to do the upgrade.

Overall, using the framework has worked out great. The other front-end frameworks we've used (including ng1) now seem rather toy-like in comparison. The biggest stroke of genius has to the hierarchical dependency injection. Letting a UI component provide injectable services to its children and their descendents instantly solves so much of the tension between integration and reusability that plagued us in the past.

And the template language is also brilliant. It actually understands the difference between binding to the string-based attributes of an HTML element, and the object-based properties of a DOM object.
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