skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
.. and just as they were starting to wise up, they decided they wanted to write a browser instead.

Insane.
Maybe so. Too late to delete.
Huh. There's a memory-mapped I/O bug I've known about for years, I wonder if this is related to it? It's something along the following lines, but I forget the exact details, so some bits (no pun intended) might be wrong: if you create a memory mapping and then close the underlying file handle, you can even delete the file at that point, but the memory mapping will still hang around and pretend to work, and you won't know it's not working. I'm not sure exactly what happens under the hood but I recall it doesn't behave sanely.
Yeah; nowadays parts can be cheaper, but to take advantage of that you often have to order from another continent, waiting weeks to get them. The alternative is to build a local stash, but that requires a large upfront investment, and you'll still be missing that crucial part for the current project.

I still like electronics, but software has spoiled me.
That and the voice over actress sounded like someone from the Bronx trying to sound like a child. Her accent was jarring and bled through. Should have had professional ad copy written and voiced by someone who sounds either neutral or Japanese.
> but modern complex SPAs made that harder

Not just SPAs, but the pace of web development. A web app like Facebook or Github can see changes to its coding multiple times a day, sometimes with dozens of versions being A/B-tested at once. Have fun maintaining a Greasemonkey script for that.
Millions of Dollars in Ethereum Are Vulnerable
Russia in the 1990s... but with about 10 times more people.
Having had 3 stays last year in the UK hospitals have a large number or nurses, support staff and normally a junior doctor for a relatively small number of patients.

Also all Doctors admit that hospitals are not healthy places and that getting people home as quick as possible is always good
I am also curious. For further reference, the NHS has a reference cost of £1,489/£3,366 for non-elective and elective inpatient stays respectively (figures date from 2012/13).

As a side question, does anyone know how to convert 2012-GBP into 2018-USD under PPP?
Distro's are the new apps, bootable SD cards the new floppies.
That is not important. The real bad part is that you still cannot easily load modules of your own to work around broken setup by mainboard manufacturer or Intel or boot rom in the device. This essentially causes lock in. Or even disable some broken modules.

(Security has nothing to do with it, the module can be crypto signed by user installed key.)

Plus the critical hardware setup documentation is not being released at all.

Another is the use of SMI to communicate with the thing which just does not play well with a preemptible OS.

Memory map handling is additional badness on top.
Water crystallization is a different effect and not relevant here. It has the same mass so it doesn't effect sea levels when it's frozen and it's not a linear effect, it won't continue to shrink as it warms.

But like everything else (to various extents) it will expand when it's warmer.
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No. There was little replacement of PCs, and tablet sales stagnated pretty quickly. https://www.statista.com/statistics/269915/global-apple-ipad...

Smartphones are something else, they are the most useful computers given the limitation that they have to fit into a pocket. Touchscreens make good use of available space there, that's all.
Own car: To work, to grocery store, to home = 3 trips.

Your method: trip to pick you up, trip to drop you at work, trip to pick you up at work, trip to take you home, trip for grocery picker to store, trip for groceries to your home... there's six trips. The traffic burden you create is increased, not lessened.
Browsers will ignore scripts if you load the SVG in a img element.
I think people are being a bit overly critical of the ad

Yes, it could have been better, yes maybe there could have been an "adult" version of it. (I don't think the narration is bad, but I'm not used to hearing native Japanese speakers, so that might be it)

What I think they should have done is have a copywriter script it.

However the phrase "would you like to try some Japanese candy" ends at 0:04 (and "Candy Japan sends you unique surprises 2x a month" ends at 0:08) so I do think they got to the point as quickly as possible
I think you were misreading my statement. I was certainly not advocating for anarchy! Quite the opposite. Life was miserable, brutal, and short before the very progressive step was taken to have police, courts, and he rule of law for common people. It is quite ironic to complain that police brutality and court machinery are oppressing the poor when in fact it is precisely those institutions that prot ct what liberties they enjoy.
For those, like me, confused by this comment, the article's real title, which I guess was changed on HN after this comment is "Are Hospitals Becoming Obsolete?".
There areno jobs in these areas in middle America. And sometimes the water and air is poison where there is affordable housing anyway in these places. We need social programs that actually help and that actually are accessible. Some of the Medicaid forms I've seen were more difficult to complete than a dissertation and turn everyone away until they literally have nothing, i.e. when it's so too late for help to actually help in any lasting way that could be built upon.
You're getting downvoted because you're equating Angular 1, React and Vue.

React has one huge difference: its "template language" is (almost) never compiled at run time. Its not HTML at all. This makes it difficult to coerce it to interpret any random string as an expression. That annoying "build step" that everyone hates, that is the convenience for which people are sacrificing security.

When you have no build step, your template compiler must accept expression strings at run-time, and it will inevitably process user input at some point unless you're very careful all the time. "Escaping" things is a stop-gap that doesn't work.

You could just use fully static HTML/JS endpoints (react based) combined with fully JSON based RPC endpoints and it will be safe. Then you can combine that into server-side rendering, and it will stay safe (unless renderToString has a problem). No escaping required if you are not sending code strings to a compiler at runtime.
I wish someone said to me a year ago (when I started ML) clearly at the beginning: "Machine Learning is about MATH, deal with it".

It'd be much easier.
Once they fall into the sea the displacement occurs. It doesn't matter after that how long they take to melt, all that matters is that they fall off land and into the ocean.

So melting is an issue only for ice that melts on land and then flows into the oceans because that represents new water volume.
Data in Motion – Reconstructing the Past
Clouds reflect sunlight but they also trap heat, by absorbing infrared radiation and re-emitting it. (In Winter, notice how much colder it is in the morning when it's been clear all night.)
You would think so, but there isn't. Even if it is a child custody case. Even if you have a subpoena. I worked one place that would let you off if you were a witness in a criminal case or had jury duty (because it was law), but never for a civil case. After all, you should have conducted your personal life in such a way that it didn't interfere with work.

Of course, this was a state that didn't require any reason to fire you. Sometimes folks could get unemployment afterwards, sometimes not.
The campaign page [0] says there will be a kill switch:

> Hardware Kill Switches for Camera, Microphone, WiFi/Bluetooth, and Baseband

but is somewhat unclear on the baseband firmware:

> The mobile baseband will most likely use ROM loaded firmware, but a free software kernel driver.

[0] https://puri.sm/shop/librem-5/
... seriously? You didn’t read the last paragraph or what?
Or at least possible to reduce to a minimum start-up set. Which is possible with EFI but thanks to mainboard manufacturers and Intel and AMD being secretive plus crypto signing everything... not at all.
Shortening the statement,

>src must contain an URL referencing a resource that isn’t scripted

This says nothing about how agent must treat imgs not following these rules. This entire statement is useless, because the specification should explain what to do with given input, not what input must be. POSIX goes UB route, because it describes what to do to get what you want as a careful programmer. Browser cannot be described like that, because an input is random bytes over network that must be interpreted according to safety rules. But this description is pointless in both senses. It doesn’t specify what must happen on invalid input, nor does it describe the options.

Sorry for this rant, but this resembles to me how all other “web” tech is working and described. They just throw a pile of meaningless things together and pretend it’s done, because a reference implementation exists. No surprise there are browser wars and never-ending evolution of the same text-and-images spacerocket tech.
Warnings: -Weverything and the Kitchen Sink
Hehe, my experience was kind of similar. I was not really unhappy with Windows (98), I had just grown curious about Linux due to all the media hype it got at the time (2000-ish).

After I got past the initial "This is really weird"-phase, Linux was an eye opener. Other than that I use Windows at work, I have not looked back since.

Strictly speaking it is not about GNU/Linux per se, but Windows vs. Unix. One of the BSDs could fill that place just as well, but on Linux, hardware support is usually better, plus the mainstream Linux distros tend to be more friendly to lazy or non-techie users.
There was no old court system. The old system was life was harsh and brutal and there were entire classes above you that could treat you as literal property to be disposed of as they pleased without repercussion.
I hope you are feeling better, because that was one serious burn!
I don't recognise this version of public transport you talk about.

I've never had a car and moved place many times, yes it means hiring a man with a van, but my things wouldn't fit in a car anyway.

I haven't seen much crime in stations apart from fare dodging, yes there might be pickpockets, but probably not more than other places outside in London. You're pretty safe, there is good lighting and staffing and cameras everywhere.
-Werror Is Not Your Friend
Well, we beg to differ ;-)

It's okay to be awkward with everyone, as long as you have strong friends, even just one. Why would blending in be a goal.
That is the whole point. State-owned companies make total sense when their goal is to ensure some common benefit (like mass transport, public utilities, health care etc), as opposed to making profit. With that in mind, subsidies are logical, because the alternative is to have a purely state-owned system (like police or military) which has no income except for government subsidies.

Essentially, if you think of government subsidies to private companies as assistance in making profit (which happens often when a government wants to promote a certain industry, even if it's only in form of a tax cut), having commercial companies to take care of common utilities is a way to assist the government paying for those utilities.
Why not? Because our's is very bad? Why does that preclude one from commenting on any credit system around the world?
It's standard practice on HackerNews to comment on surveillance and tracking systems in general and point out the dangers of them. There are lots of European commentators discussing US government policy, and vice versa. All criticism is fair, where you are born or what your government has done in the past doesn't invalidate one's opinion. There's too much nationalism sensitivity in these kinds of discussions when someone takes offense to someone else criticizing their country.

There are some aspects of China's proposal which are good in regards to giving scores to businesses in an effort to regulate them, similar to independent reputation systems in the West, but it is the promises of "holistic rating of character" they've made and the comments about introduction of big data deep learning techniques that have people concerned. Even if intentions were completely benign, you could end up with something very bad.

The idea of using surveillance capitalism in a multipolar system is one thing, especially if there is a very transparent dispute system, but using it at the state level should scare everyone. People complain about being ruined by small tweaks to Google's ranking algorithm, but having a single ranking instituted by a government monopoly would be inescapable.
I have a S8+ and have never been annoyed by the round edges, never experienced any distorted colors or been annoyed by indirect light.
Unfortunately his statement is still valid even after 6 yrs, it is still a complicated disaster. And it uses Fat32 and PE. An abomination in my view.
I find it odd that they refer to this as dynamic pricing. I know someone in this industry and they've been doing 'dynamic pricing' for decades - specifically pricing for expected and actual demand.

I suspect they've deliberately avoided the more contentious-sounding 'personalised pricing'.
Yes, you’d have to replace the blacked out text with a fixed length string too. "REDACTED" perhaps.
To get quality result, they take sample of your muscles. Dont do it at home.

Less precise but easily available test: http://www.topendsports.com/testing/tests/muscle-fiber-compo...
'Bring in the heavy hitters' strikes me as an odd way to phrase 'the investors have decided to take your company away from you and put someone else in charge who may or may not understand the business'.

Surely the correct way to react to that is to start by asking what you've done wrong, and whether you can fix it? If the investors are just being assholes for the sake of it, you've got a fight on your hands, but hopefully that's not the typical case.

Unless it's a case where you don't want to run a big company? But the article didn't seem to be talking about that.
That is true but beside the point no? Buy a phone that is known and tested for long battery life.
Caltrain isn't completely immune to public transit foibles, but it's mostly hazard-free, primarily because people use it exclusively as transportation and not "a place to hang out outside of the elements". Fare evasion is actually checked for regularly, and it's enforced.

I always take Caltrain when I go directly to/from the ballpark, even though I have parking passes for all games (which almost always can be sold at a profit).
> but a pretty obvious retort is that it's necessarily complex

I would like to offer, as a counter example, every micro kernel ever.
There's some debate over whether or not Utah really did solve their homeless problem:

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/kevin-corinth/think-utah-solv...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/apr/27/utah-homeles...

And even when a region does offer good homeless services, word gets out and more homeless move in:

https://www.heraldextra.com/news/local/more-homeless-move-to...
I suppose you could also read a website through Google Search previews by putting the last few words of the current preview.
How do you know that? It is and a cop out answer because age is not a mechanism. Specifics please?
Any apps apps I use that make use of FaceID have a setting for that. Also, it is quite obvious when FaceID is being used, there is a UI to show that.
Monocypher 2.0.0 released
I think you misunderstand, I agree Softlayer is terrible - I was merely pointing out that when their pricing wasn't bad, their tooling has always been pants.

(But then they were bought by a company who's "cloud strategy" is to put the word "cloud" in as many DB2 and mainframe contracts as possible.)
When I first started using Linux (2000), the desktop was still rather clunky. Both KDE and Gnome were so immature I eventually settled on Windowmaker for a few years.

OTOH, the Linux- / free Unix-desktop has come a long way since then. For my personal machines, I think GNU/Linux plus MATE makes for a much better desktop than Windows these days. (Admittedly, my taste might be slightly non-mainstream.)
Not a samsung user but I would definitely like to have variable aperture and 960fps slow motion. The latter can enable uses that smartphones could not previously have.
More than the authors it were the publishers getting greedy.
ImageTracer is a simple raster image tracer and vectorizer, 100% free, Public Domain.

Available in JavaScript (works both in the browser and with Node.js), "desktop" Java and "Android" Java:

https://github.com/jankovicsandras/imagetracerjs

https://github.com/jankovicsandras/imagetracerjava

https://github.com/jankovicsandras/imagetracerandroid
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> The airline market is about as competitive as it gets.

Citation needed: the American airline industry is a textbook example of regulatory capture and protectionism [1-3].

The first reference has a nice chart which suggests that price gouging might be occurring; where else is all the extra profit coming from?.

[1]: https://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21721201-americans-ar...

[2]: http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-welch-united-comp...

[3]: https://reason.com/archives/2017/07/13/flying-the-fairer-ski...
Indeed. True story. I was drifting through the mountains of southern Mexico with some friends, in an old pickup. We encountered an old woman, carrying a large pot, and gave her a ride to a nearby town, maybe ~10 km away.

So it turns out that she had made the pot. Mined the clay. Fired it in charcoal from a wood fire. And she was intending to sell it for several pesos, with which she'd buy corn, beans and chillies. Walking both ways.
Don't these weird curved Samsung screens make the cases less useful?
Sure, Google's $100bn/yr revenue is all just charity from people losing money /s
So a part of me is literally attached to my mum's brain?

The wallet-controlling part I'm guessing.
> It turns out burning all that fossel fuel dims the sky

Depends on how we burn it. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_cooling

We no longer produce sufficient SO2 due to clean coal plants and cars, so we have a problem.
One thing that looks paradoxical to me: In the first half it says people going through financially stressful situations suffers from deficit in IQ level and drop in cognitive performance. But at the same time, they can take smart and wise decisions as the experiments suggested.
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The entire article reads like blog spam. They make a contradictory statement in the same paragraph here:

> Experts say such technology is most likely to be used to offer discounts to customers with loyalty status <...> such as to induce a new customer with an especially affordable ticket.

Yeah exactly you're going to always offer the lowest price you can. I've never heard of someone being loyal to an airline who wasn't already getting significant discounts with a loyalty card. A loyalty card is going to be replaced with a browser cookie?

I don't think so.
"Bus agencies could do better if they were a bit more adaptable/flexible too - other countries have experimented with bus-on-demand, and having smaller buses ("shuttles") would help on lower demand routes"

Has that worked (financially) anywhere? This model was a catastrophic failure when tried in Santa Clara County ("Dial-a-ride").
I think Tianimen square and it’s afterma is a counter example to this.
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Yeah, if you're using loads of CPU, but not all the RAM or block storage. This usually happens if your problem isn't really parallelisable. Then scaling out isn't really something you can do easily or quickly, so the cloud loses it's appeal a bit. In those cases, it might make sense to go DIY/in-house.
I think it's very contentious to some people (though I agree that at this stage, ML == mathematics).

I've read quite a few people on the internet who will swear up and down you don't need the mathematics to apply basic models to business problems. I disagree, and I kind of find it weird to divorce the mathematics from it.
Optional Chaining Operator in JavaScript
Some are more equal than others: abusing IntegerCache to make Java say 2+2=5
Actually, I think the camera & battery life are currently the most important features on a smartphone. I take all my pictures with my S8, casual or vacation and I'm thrilled if the next models are coming with a even better camera.
Battery wise, I think that by now the minimal accepted performance is a full day on a single charge, with normal use, 4G and Wifi. Upgraded to the Samsung flagship every 2 years in the past 8 years and battery life was always within this acceptable limits.
The ant and the grasshopper is a just a gross simplification.

Both are strategies that can be valid and work in different sceneries. When you spend some money you create a social net, maybe you have more friends or hang with more people that could help you in troubled times. For the "ant" people, the colony (family) is all. Can't trust anybody out of that circle, so saving the money is the correct and only option. For solitary "grasshopper" people, without strong family bonds, spending money and being generous with their money can pay more in the future if they make wise choices about whom to spend the money. Safety net can be made with money or with social bonds. Both can fail and no one is more virtuous than the other. The best is probably having a mix of both.
Live demo: http://lba2remake.xesf.net/#scene=42

Editor mode: http://lba2remake.xesf.net/#editor=true
> When cities like Mumbai and Dhaka will start to submerge, you can imagine the havoc that will cause.

Actually, no, I can't. This won't happen overnight, cities will just slowly move away from the coastline. It will take hundreds of years to cover such cities with water (if ever).
> Unless there are huge issues such as the network crashing, they don't care.

When the network literally didn't work, the price went up.

(Because the "price" is a thing that happens inside individual exchanges, not on the public blockchain/tangle/whatever.)
Connections. Connections. Connections.

Yes, that's basically the same as having a lot of cronies. But alas the market is what it is, it pays off to sometimes hire one of these. (Look how Google hired their CFO a few years ago.)
That's an easy statement to make, but I don't think it holds true for most wealthy people. Especially wealthy people in Silicon Valley. If anything, most wealthy people I know are extremely aware of how bad things are for the bottom half and regularly vote against their economic self-interest for progressive candidates.

Runaway inequality isn't due to some evil conspiracy by rich people to hoard money from everyone else. It's due to the leveraging nature of technology and the plummeting demand for unskilled labor
Fun coincidence (or maybe not?), I just stumbled upon the following paper on arvix titled "Differentially Private Generative Adversarial Network" https://arxiv.org/pdf/1802.06739v1.pdf

Its Related Work section also references some works on "differentially private learning in neural network".

While the paper does not discuss directly OP remark about how differential privacy could help generality in machine learning, it shows that at least some connections exist between the domains.
The history of cellphones and how drastically they've changed
How do you expect anyone to determine this? Not everyone conveniently mentions their gender in their profile.
Programming frameworks have lots of stuff that becomes obsolete over time. You don't really learn complex, open-ended and expanding mathematical subject like machine learning like you describe.

There is no book you just read and then you understand and now it's behind you.
You are constantly making new connections and deepening your understanding when you learn more. Ten years is small time for things to start to sink in and make a connected whole in the mind.
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