skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Afraid I'm going to be contrary and old-fashioned and say I prefer JSON.

history is completing full circle. Before JSON (HTTP REST) there was RPC. JSON was a new and shiny thing while the RPC was for the old-fashioned. The JSON took over exactly for all the great advantages over RPC that you listed (and a bunch of others) and despite all the advantages of RPC that people in this thread tout today as the gRPC advantages. I suspect that in 10-15 years some young guys at Google will come up with gJSON, and their arguments for it will look like your comment today.
I'm more likely to get killed by a fall in the tub than by a terrorist, yet I don't fear going into the shower without my phone. Fearing terrorism is a consequence of innumeracy. Do you carry your cellphone in case you or a nearby person get struck by lightning too? More US citizens get struck (and killed) by lightning every year than die in terrorist attacks since 2001.
> "an invitation to mortal peril"

There have always been people with (physical and mental) health concerns or disabilities who need to be able to get hold of a caregiver on short notice.

In the age of cell phones, it's much safer for them to go someplace crowded with their caregiver even if there's risk of being separated.
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Just curious - why is looking up yourself an offense?
Forgot to mention that it is learning from raw pixels!! No other info is passed to the agent, except the screen frames :)
Sorry for being unclear. I'm talking about the consultancies (like my former employer) fleecing their customers (hospital, clinics, agencies).

I don't know your country's system. Single payer? That'd be nice.

In the Freedom Markets™ loving USA, most everyone exchanging medical data are antagonists. So all the incentives encourage hoarding and obfuscation.
> “Linear” means continuous

No. As in G. Simmons, the two pillars of
the field of 'analysis' in math are
linearity and continuity. The two are
quite different.

Linearity usually has to do with numbers
and vectors. The numbers are usually in
the set R of real numbers or the set C of
complex numbers. Commonly the numbers are
called scalars. Then, a function f is
'linear' provided for scalars a and b and
vectors x and y we have

f(ax + by) = af(x) + bf(y)

The role, utility? It's an enormous,
powerful simplification and, in
particular, is crucial to systems (high
school style) 'systems of linear
equations', linearity, essentially 'super
position', in quantum mechanics, and
linear operators, as in the classic
Dunford and Schwarz, e.g., as in the
results of S. Banach. In calculus,
differentiation and integration are both
linear operators.

And, in particular, linearity is crucial
in both linear programming and integer
linear programming. Local linear
approximations are crucial in non-linear
optimization, e.g., the Kuhn-Tucker
conditions and their associated constraint
qualifications.

Continuity is also a biggie, e.g., for a
function to be continuous on a compact
set, e.g., [0,1], means it is also
uniformly continuous, bounded, and
achieves its greatest lower bound and
least upper bound. Continuity,
compactness, and uniform continuity are
the standard assumptions that guarantee
that the Riemann integral of freshman
calculus exists.

Maybe what was meant was usually when we
mention linear programming we have, say,
find x to solve Ax = b, x >= 0 where x,
where for positive integer n, is n x 1
and, thus, for the set of real numbers R,
in the set R^n. Here the A is a matrix,
say, for some positive integer m, m x n.
Then from the beginnings of the start of
matrix theory, for real a and b and n x 1
y we have

A(ax + by) = aAx + bAy

which says that A is a linear function
(operator, transformation, etc.). That's
the 'linearity' in linear programming.
And it holds in linear integer programming
where we ask that some or all of the
components of x be integers.
This was how it worked when I worked in admissions during college. You had access to every applicants' information, grades, essays, etc., as well as counselor feedback. But you were told that if you looked up yourself, someone you knew, or any celebrities, then you could be fired.

I don't know if there were automated checks for that kind of thing, but everyone knew there was a line you didn't cross.
Are asking why rules exist in general or
Unrelated to cryptocurrencies, did Robinhood ever managed to roll ability to trade US stocks outside US? From this [1] (almost tree years ago), looks like they started with Australia, but that is it.

Anyone can suggest sane brokerage with API access allowing trading US stocks, ETFs or options for non-US citizens, with minimal deposit? I'm aware of Ameritrade; how about other alternatives?

[1] http://blog.robinhood.com/news/2015/5/4/onward
I think there is a fair amount of interest in pozzolana type cements because it's becoming apparent that portland cement + rebar has a finite life.

> sand from different geologic deposits can show vastly different results

That's the other bugaboo about portland cement, Aggregate expansion/alkali-silica reaction/concrete cancer. They used the wrong type of aggregate and dune sand in the old foundation of my house (rental not my problem unless I'm in it during the next earthquake). So now it's crumbling.

Granted if you keep reinforced portland cement dry, it's fine. Otherwise eventually it'll fail.
There's evidence that the Mueller investigation began with materials shared by at least one other foreign signals agency.
> It's beneficial for security

... and for RAM usage. Java applications all have a tendency to bloat the longer you keep them running.
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In fact this has happened multiple times in Mexico where a private militia created to protect people from cartels simply takes over the drug business.
"the minimum-wage employees that checks those"

Does anyone even look at them? I just assume most video gets recorded and then recorded over or somehow discarded.

Outside of situations like say an airport or casino I doubt anyone is actively watching most of the cameras unless something happens after the fact.
Are Facebook groups a radicalization machine?
Generally speaking, it is Buddhist meditation; Buddhist meditation texts talk about dhyana (or jhana in Pali; where most of mindfulness sources come from) which is another word for proper concentration. All Buddhist meditation is about entering/achieving dhyana as far as I can tell, although I believe the Chan meditation system puts more emphasis on this.

Of course, mindfulness meditation nowadays means many different things, but if you go to the Buddhist sources you will find information about this.
They have a system in place to deter day trading.
RMI = remote method invocation
Doesn't Kant go against your example of Anne Frank? ("To be truthful (honest) in all declarations is therefore a sacred command of reason prescribing unconditionally, one not to be restricted by any conveniences"). Surely a teenager telling white lies to pushy peers is preferable.
I’ve heard similar stories and seen it mentioned on cop show. It must be pretty common.

What about a device like the emergency buttons for elderly but it checks vitals? It could update loved ones daily. I bet you could use an Apple Watch.
No, the medallion owners just lived in deluxe apartments in the sky.
> C can definitively be mastered.

If that's true, how come there are almost no widely used network facing C programs that didn't have plenty of security vulnerabilities?

(Anything written by Daniel J. Bernstein doesn't count, because there's no way he's a mere mortal. :))
Not a robot. However, definitely potential for a micro touchless manipulator .

"The scientists use external magnetic fields to exert torque on magnetic particles embedded inside the soft elastomer body of the robot to change the robot's body shape and steer it around."

https://phys.org/news/2018-01-nature-inspired-soft-millirobo...
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This is amazing and I was looking for such analysis for a long time. I only wish it included more information about the actual programing language of DNA.

>Now, DNA is not like a computer programming language. It really isn't.

Maybe it would be interesting to talk about how it differs and what programming paradigms do not have analogies in the genetic code.
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That's an interesting position. I wonder if the opposite is also true: that the more principled and morally righteous the organization, the less it attracts such people and the more it attracts more morally upstanding and intelligent people who like the challenge.
Mister White follows up on his ideas, but this seems to be unnecessary, at least from what I saw at his concert in Prague, Czech Republic, last year.

Before the show one of his crewmen said to all the people to keep their phones in the pockets, that the show will be profesionally photographed and the photos will be on the official Jack White site for everyone to download.

This helped immensely, and I'd guess 95 % of the people kept heir phones hidden and enjoyed the show. Yes, there still were some who recorded alllllll the songs, but that's their apparently their thing afterall, isn't it? I think this approach was nice, human, and worked very well.
Uber had the kicker that invasion of privacy was a top-down policy explicitly used by management.

Lyft still done fucked up, but not to the level that Uber did.
You don't really own your medical record, also doctors add notes to your medical record that you may not like. For example your medical record may say that you don't follow up with medication, abuse drugs, have psychiatric/personality problems, etc. which patients could be sensitive about.
I think it's more that the absolute "need" has not been demonstrated.
Great to see. We actually ended up using Redis for our event stream after trying Kafka and the rest. Using the list extension module multiple list pop functions lets us get to 2gbps of throughput on a single redis node with AOF persistence. Using streams would make things even simpler and faster.
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Considering the few other comments about pets eating their dead owners, this plan about getting help if you die needs a bit of thought. Would you train your pet to use the phone? Could it leave your house whenever it wanted? How will you train it to get help? By playing dead a lot?

I'm in favor of pets as companionship, but an emergency button around your neck seems like a better way to get help with the exception of dieing in your sleep.
Incredible--was everything written with C++? What was the process like for rolling a new release out to production trading?
I'm stuck on the revelation that the stock markets high valuations was driven by cartel money needing a place to park.

I now assume every bubble serves a similar purpose.

Knowing that, a person smarter and braver than me could be skimming off some of those narco dollars.
And “anti-trust action” fixes this how? We’re going to start having government come in and tell Google what is acceptable content?
This was exactly my feeling. Especially so given that licenses for ERP software often include some form of source code access for the purpose of customization to organization needs. It's not open source, but much of the source is readily available.

At a quick check, I have ready access to much source code through my support portal for the system used where I work.
Hence being a 'naive' implementation. You can replace that with something like `deepClone(value)` + implement copying for different types, ultimately you'll end up with code like lodash's.
Perhaps not actively, but I bet in case of a hot woman or something weird going on they'll know where the monitors are.

I also have two separate family members that have businesses with cameras, and they both look at what's going from an app on their iPads while they watch TV in the evening (actually, having seen them do it is probably why I know videos at businesses are not handled properly).
You're also assuming that the populace actually wants tracking like that broken up, which is very far from a forgone conclusion.
I generally agree with you, but I think it should be pointed out that unauthorized access to that unlocked box carries severe punishment. A big part of the problem with things like this is that not only are there no controls preventing access to private info, but there are also few if any consequences.
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Uber's dumpster fire didn't need any fanning.
The fact you’re browsing HN and have read all those books probably means you’re not the average user (read more intelligent) of RH. Just read the RH subreddit and looks at all the novice questions the users there ask.
Not infrequently there are notes in patients charts that only care providers can see. This practice is becoming frowned upon in some circles however, in lieu of more transparency. I imagine it being really useful for certain scenarios (e.g. mental illness or documentation a sensitive domestic relationship, where you wouldn't want a potentially abuse family member to see comments about their behavior in a relative's chart).
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Waze Carpool has existed for some time in the United States too.

I have tried to use it plenty, I have only had it match me successfully once though. Which was amazing when it worked.
I'm curious about the robotic part of this farm. but only the produce is shown on the website.
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Can you actually refute the parent comment's argument? Because it seems more than reasonable to me.

Analytics and Engineering definitely don't need this level of data access for any sort of day-to-day work. I work on analytics tools, and at best, anonymized and generalized data is needed, but never specific customer data. We specifically strip out any PII on data that might reach developers and need to request permission to access any sort of customer data (and I haven't had to do that in a long time).

CS/T&S/Insurance might need per-customer data, but they also don't need blanket access to all customers' data. If they need to handle a specific customer's data, there should be a request made that is logged and audited, and ideally with customer approval.
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Plasma (Ethereum) and Lightning Network (BitCoin (SHA256), Litecoin (scrypt),) will likely offload a significant amount of transaction volume and thereby reduce the kWh/transaction metrics.
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Lots of specialty clean-up firms in USA could clean up such a scene. They also do indoor firearm suicides and motel room meth labs, which are probably less common in Japan than here.
In the same TV program it was suggested that the national benefits of working with the US have become much more uncertain: working with the FBI might anger the white house and damage trade relations etc.

I think Israel had an even worse leak happen, they'll be more careful too.
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> The government has a system in place.
"Corner the market, then raise the price. Simple economics" - Walter White #breakingbad
It's so normal that I'm actively looking for a new career. I'm tired of being paid to write and maintain garbage code for garbage people.
Would that have been MacBook/iMac/Mac Mini type models?

I have a first-gen Mac Pro (August 2006) and it's 64-bit.
I'd be more worried if they did not keep tabs on groups like these.
Good call. I've updated the post.
The standard metric for social media is average monthly users.

Sounds to me like The Guardian is shoehorning the facts to fit their narrative.
This is the fourth time a Tesla on "autopilot" has crashed into something partially blocking the left lane. The fire truck was, according to the Mercury News, stopped partly in the breakdown lane at the left and partly in the left lane.[1] Here's Tesla killing a driver in China with exactly that bug.[2] I've posted two other videos of crashes like this before, one from Germany and one from the US.

The Mobileye system just doesn't do well with obstacles on the sides. This was well known years ago; you can see Mobileye's videos with boxes around cars it recognizes. This is why you have to do self-driving as geometry first - if there's something there, you can't hit it, even if you can't identify it. LIDAR-based systems map everything out there. Understanding is optional. When in doubt, don't hit it.

It's no good expecting the driver to take over. The driver can reasonably expect the system to react to a clearly visible obstacle, but doesn't know whether it will steer around it or stop. By the time the system has failed to react, much of the driver's reaction time has been used up.

Tesla's system as shipping is apparently too dumb to steer around an obstacle. It's just lane-following and auto-brake. They don't mention that much.

[1] https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/01/22/tesla-on-autopilot-sl...
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fc0yYJ8-Dyo
First at all, something akin to Chesterton's fence applies. Somebody new to an organization rarely understands all the factors that go into a code base, and even if they're right that the code base is bad, they are generally not yet equipped to safely fix it.

Second, this might be a first for you, but a new person coming in and deciding that the current code base is unsalvageable and needs to be completely rewritten is pretty much a cliché in our industry.

So what would I do? Like cheshireoctopus said, you can leave each bit of code you touch a bit cleaner than you encountered it. You can also try to get approval to start writing tests — having a test suite in place will first help you understand the existing code through and through, and then provide a safety net once you get around to proceeding to the actual refactor.
Asking seriously: are there any 32-bit games so new that they wouldn't run just as well under VirtualBox?
Yeah, I don’t think Damore has anything to do with the topic of the wider thread, or anti-trust for that matter.
A very important aspect of DNA as code the heavy use of macros. The code itself heavily influences the expression of other parts of the code.
If you don’t care if you have anyone in your lab, and you don’t have any expenses, you’re pretty free as a tenured faculty.

But if you want students,
you need to find grants for them. And if you need materials/travel/services/etc for your research that’ll require grants too.
A person holding a camera is peresent at the concert and doing the experiencing. I don’t understand how holding s camera at all detracts from that experience any more than people at a ballgame watching it partially through the
jumbotron. It’s a personal preference, it’s not up to you to decide for others what is preferable.

A phone is also an intimate device for many, it carries our most intimate thoughts, our photos - often nude! - and possibly even sexual videos, along with our banking information and every password to every app or site we touch. Using our phones during art performances does not separate ourselves from intimacy but rather embraces it and allows us to share it with our friends and family and lovers.

Just wait until augmented reality really starts taking off!

I really don’t think a musician performing has any business whether I share my experiences with others - that’s my prerogative. We’ve moved past the tired arguments for copyright and bouncers yanking cameras - it doesn’t fly anymore, and people won’t accept it. They can request no phones as part of the experience, and check ahead, though I doubt it will become a trend . most tickets are moving to phones as it is, and most rock music fans will rightly look at bans as nostalgia, just like paying for recorded music once was a thing (and still is for people over 40, but will eventually fade away).

Other venues like live theatre warrant less light and sound distraction and I think still deserve etiquette of keeping phones down to between acts or sets, though that may evolve.
Can you provide more detail on #9?
I should have read your comment in a more favorable light, as the community guidelines say, so I apologize for that. I admit the image of the government sawing off the only branch it’s standing on with regulation is humorous.

Obviously preventing speeding up video delivery with no negative impact to quality is not the intent of Net Neutrality. The intent also, however, is not to prevent “a slightly worse consumer product”. Corporate censorship of the Internet for financial gain could do as much damage as government censorship for political gain. But the common element in both cases is one party having too much control because they’re the only game in town. And the people pushing for “public Internet” absolutely terrify me.

That said, I don’t think preventing title II government regulation of the Internet would prevent government censorship of it. I’d remind you how willingly companies like AT&T worked with the NSA to enable their wiretapping in the early stages of PRISM. They gave them a freaking secret wiretapping room in their building with a fiber optic splitter. Why would we think they wouldn’t be just as compliant with government censorship under similar threats or incentives?

I have hopes for mesh Internet providers to solve all of this. Competition is the only answer I see, and I think our philosophies align there at least.
> What's the need?

It isn't needed all the time but the one scenario I can think of is for debugging. Sometimes it's hard to dissect or even replicate a bug without the original data.
It can be dangerous... I once caught a glimpse of some befunge source code, and haven't had a sound night's sleep since.
Path dependency is why. It's not complicated, it's just expensive to overcome.
Server sent is not stream, it's a pseudo bad implementation on top of http 1.1.
None of which is responsive to the point I made. Bye.
But he's the entertainer, whom the audience is paying. People should be able to use their phones if they are not doing it in a disruptive manner, or jeopardizing the quality of anyone else's experience. They should be able to look around, too. And stand with poor posture if that's what they like. And even not dance if they must.
Much of the criticism against Uber concern top-level decisions, such as the creation and use of "Greyball", or actions and decisions from Kalanick himself and other top executives. Lyft maybe deserves blame for not building better and more automated audit systems and policies after knowing that these lookups could be abused.
Ah, ok, I think now I better understand the point you made above. I can accept that value per se is only created by one or more parties, but the coin itself can make it easier for them to do so profitably.
I feel like this is what makes dyslexia kinda cool. You spend so long when you're young trying incredibly hard to pick up this seemingly impossible thing that comes naturally to everyone else, eventually you build up a resiliency to not being very good at anything in particular, and you become pretty comfortable just trying many many different things as creatively as you can, because there is a zero percent chance you'll become "good at them" anyway. The upside of this is an inherent curiosity.

https://www.google.com/search?q=dyslexic+entrepreneurs
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