skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Naturally since MLB baseballs are basically hand-made. I've seen any number of segments showing how they're manufactured. Very low tech - winding by machine but the covers are sewed on by hand.

Statistics are always a two-edged sword. Using home run statistics to "prove" a ball had changed is folly unless you have the data on balls over many years including the variance which as you pointed out can be significant.
TL;DR: The core of the balls are 0.5g lighter, good for 15cm of extra range. The balls are more bouncy, good for 90cm of extra range. And the balls are slicker/smoother/less air resistant, good for 1.5m extra range. The total of ~2.6m extra range could make the difference for the observed record number of home runs.
The curious case of the query that gets slower the fewer elements it affects
This wasn't a flaw with Ethereum itself or its protocol, but rather an issue with one of the its client implementations (go-ethereum), other clients like Parity, Harmony, etc.. are unaffected.
Home-grown means every other developer that ever has to touch it is going to have huge additional overhead getting started with the codebase (because your documentation is going to be nonexistent), and you're going to spend a ton of time unnecessarily reinventing the basics.

These days it's never worth it to home roll in the CRUD world. There's way too much good tooling out there.
None of them. Don't get me wrong, there are a lot of blogs and media sources I like, but at the end of the day I can get any information I want somewhere else for free.

Heck, in many cases, the information I need is either paid for by taxes (the BBC) or provided by hobbyists for free anyway.
>the root problem is not in his tech skills.

It doesn't seem to me like there was a root problem. There were several. The primary problems being that he was a bad developer, an asshole and non-cooperative.

He wrote idiosyncratic bad code, copy pasta and documented nothing - that wasn't about him being an asshole - that's a lack of basic tech skills. Those are actually the things that led to the company not being able to deliver. I know plenty of perfectly nice junior developers who have done the same thing and if unchecked it causes the same problems they experienced.

It doesn't say it, but it's strongly implied that it wasn't just others that had a problem understanding and maintaining his code because of his poor skills - he likely inadvertently made it difficult for himself too.
Een gezond eetpatroon en dit kruid doen je 2 kilo afvallen in 1 week
Out of curiosity, what "really bad engineering decisions" are those?
I've always thought he was whining because he knew the Plan would not work, because things had changed. The Plan was designed for someone taking over a building, holding hostages, and demanding a ransom of some sort. Indeed, Hans even makes it seem like this is the case; assuming, correctly, that the police will follow standard procedures for such an incident. McCain (Bruce) knows the truth, that Hans is going to blow the building and it's not about hostages.

Pre-9/11, if a plane was hijacked, it was flown somewhere and there was some sort of ransom; no one thought a plane would be hijacked and flown into a building, so no one resisted.
Does anyone know of a good description of which parts of K's implementation makes it so fast? I have heard the interpreter itself is quite small, and easily fits in L1 CPU cache, which helps of course. Are the primitives further implemented using vector instructions or multi-threading? Does the K interpreter pattern-recognize compositions of constructs and dispatch to an optimized implementation, like with APL "idioms"?
Yes, for privacy reasons, it’s not appropriate to keep observations on your fellow citizen...
The python API for transmission is pretty simple, I wrote a RSS feed reader that adds new torrents in something like 20 lines of code (not counting my custom rss parser module automagically generated from the schema).
What's the relevance of your comment to mine?
Care to support that a little? Not aware that there have been many attempts at direct replication
I think the dependency order here is reversed. GDPR breaks certain very popular technologies in a deep way.
Applied via hired, did their code test and never received so much as an email beyond that, very negative experience.
Medical Emergencies on Airplanes: Should Doctors “Heed the Call”?
There is actually a new category of products sold and shipped by third parties that still count as prime shipping somehow.
It always depends on the use-cases. JS frameworks are good for interactive content, but if the content is write once read many times, they might not be the best solution. So I wont even mention any of them.

From server oriented stacks I would suggest and personally use for many years:

Open-source:

OpenXava - because it will generate the whole CRUD app automatically based on the database relations, and this will be sufficient for generic use-cases (it is based on Java Server Pages, Hibernate)

or

Tapestry - if I need something which is very component oriented, flexible and capable of extreme customization of the rendering process.

or Commercial:

Oracle APEX (Application Express) - it is extremely easy to create CRUD apps and general table/grid/master-detail type UI. Even if you are not a programmer you will be able to create a nice app. There are free options and there are cheaper options for smaller websites. If you get a hosted version it's easeir, if you host it yourself you would need a Oracle DBA knowledge to install it.
Not a bad way to arrive at slow thought, really.
Gotcha...I would assume to leave it in for use in interactive data analysis, but if you REALLY want to keep things small...
Depends. On 1999 I joined my second ISP, and in Portugal that's when we hit the mainstream.
Sounds like Apple and their A11 Bionic chip. Dedicated ML cores just for this purpose. Seems like something Intel is probably working on as well.
One could argue that. One could also argue that it should be possible to collect any garbage successfully created.
I'd hardly say that. "Forget me" can take a lot of design work (can introduce a ton of edge cases). "Export data" requires building an entire information processing pipeline.

Larger corporations have the resources to dedicate to this. But for a small startup deciding between spending 4 dev-months on "forget me" and "export data" versus on enabling the top 3 new primary use cases users are asking for, I understand how this could feel really difficult.

I really wonder if it wouldn't be better to make some of the requirements only for companies above a certain revenue threshold or the types of data collected. (E.g. export data is critical for health or finance-related sites, probably less so for a meme generator startup.)
There aren't many. HN is the closest, but the truth is that I'd not start out paying $5 a month for it: I'd have to have 3 months free to test, then .... maybe. I'd probably pay for Reuters, AP, or BBC. The thing with these is varied content or content I check on my own.

The problem with most things bogs is that I don't get that much out of them. They are like newspapers or magazines: Might be OK every now and then, but nothing I'd read daily without getting bored of the content or finding it not nearly as useful as paying attention to them occasionally. I really wish advertisements were responsible and non-intrusive, but unfortunately this is rarely so. It wasn't so with television, newspapers, and magazines pre-internet either. Paid cable was filled with so many ads! Even paid channels advertising their own advertising long after a decent cable guide on demand existed.

My other big exception might be a cooking blog if it lacks the horrible ad experience and stops people from forcing their morals on me (I can buy organic flimsy brand butter if I choose, but listing it as an ingredient annoys me to no end). But again, I'd not pay it upfront and a free full-access trial would be necessary.
Thanks. I'll wait for Ubuntu 18.04 to arrive and hope it contains a 2.2.x version, which might behave better.
Exactly like clickbait headlines, political posturing, advertising, and propaganda - all of which are misleading stimuli designed to elicit a specific behavioural and cognitive response.

Brains are very easy to hack. The idea that we're reliable exemplars of rational objectivity and rigorous self-awareness is nonsense.
This. Might not be hip and trendy, but we've been using this stack (just with React on the frontend) and it's probably the best that I've ever worked with.

Anyone who knows Java/Kotlin will have experience with Spring Boot so it's easy to find good people. The whole platform is as mature as it gets at this point and the docs/questions cover pretty much everything.

It's really easy to get started when working on smaller projects, but you can also easily scale and integrate loads of other technologies if/when you need to. You might not need a complex caching layer, monitoring, metrics etc when you're starting out, but you know you can add it in if needed.
It's "personal identifiable data" that covered. What you did at work doesn't count, your companies record of which days you worked is not personal within the company. If they shared it without anonymising it then it becomes personal.

"andygcook wrote this library" in internal company data isn't personal data.
I did a write up on this:

https://fightthefuture.org/article/returning-to-america-and-...

I use to work in health care. The ACA is hopeless broken, unless you live in one of the lucky states (like Washington) where it's not. For most people, the deductibles are too high. They don't realize this until they need it.

Also, in 2017, medical debt is still the number one cause of bankruptcy. That's with government mandated private health care. That's after several years of it. No, it is broken, and the ACA is garbage. I downloaded that thing several times in 2008 during the debates. Did I read it? Of course not. It was 1800+ pages. I guarantee you no congressman or senior did either.
12stPR – A Practical Guide for Developers

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I got my first modem (without direct Internet access, only BIX and a Vax at college) in 1992.
The nice thing about Linus is that he "plays the ball not the man" to use a sporting analogy. He criticises peoples actions, but not the people themselves.

I.e. "this is a stupid thing to do", not "you are stupid".
I suspect preserving git history is allowed for the purpose of determining copyright compliance.
Suppression[0] or similar tech. Delete the username associated with the edit, while keeping the diff around.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Oversight
OK but what if the search returns a fake bumper, you're happy with that are you?

I get that it's OK to return a result with similar items but surfacing a blatant fake so prominently, you really think that's just an algorithmic glitch?
Hi,

I was curious to see the responses to this question.
I run Opportunity Overload and we have paying subscribers for our pro-tier. We started at $10 per month and now have a $50 per month plan (still working on the details of this).

We send out the best weekly entrepreneurial opportunities in the form of sites, side projects, domains, broad opportunities and courses that we write.

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Focus on providing something that you would want to pay for. 'Scratch your own itch' sort of speak.

Hope this helps,
Vic
Open source document management system project – Seeking feedback
> Why don't they just use the Deutsch-Schorr-Waite algorithm

Here is a good reason: you're debugging some problem that occurs in the middle of garbage collection. You have the world stopped and would like to look at some objects. Oops, pointers are scrambled by this algorithm and won't be put back in place until it runs to completion. (Which it might not even be able to do due to whatever bug you're trying to investigate, even if you have a way to initiate that.)

With regular recursive traversal, you can just bail garbage collection at any time: loop through all the heaps, and reset the gc bits of all objects to the "unmarked" state. Then examine whatever you want.

(If the bits aren't in the type tag, you don't even have to do that; though it's a good idea for them to be in a type tag because then an object which has been mis-handled by memory management (e.g. marked object remains in the live object graph after gc) then it has the wrong type and blows up when used.)
5/month is too much. Consider how many different websites you're reading in one month, then imagine they all cost $5/month. It will start to hurt.

On the other hand, sites that charge you directly have to charge a minimum because of banking fees etc.

What we need is some middleman that will charge you $15/month then distribute it somehow along all the sites that you wish to support. Criteria to be done, maybe evenly, maybe based on how much you read from each...
Developing in Clojure with Emacs: Mastering the Keyboard
What personal information does bitcoin contain?
> The point is that the human brain is just as vulnerable to the adversarial attacks that people are claiming will be the downfall of ML

That may be the point, but it's not proven by this study. Cats and dogs have many structural similarities, as do the other adversarial examples (panda / gibbon, cabbage / broccoli). We know that this isn't just an artefact of the human visual system because we know they are very similar in non-visual ways too, i.e. they are genetically and behaviourally similar (compared with random other items in the world, such as bananas and toasters).

This study's choice of images seems to acknowledge that when the human visual system makes mistakes, it does so in a far more robust way than ML-generated models do. Even the fact that this effect is robust across many individuals, versus adversarial ML images being model-specific, demonstrates this. Mistaking a cat for a dog, given a 50ms window, is much less likely to be disadvantageous to us than mistaking a cat for a computer, or a banana for a toaster.

In other words, this study is a long way away from demonstrating that applying a bit of static to an image could make us mistake a car for a tree, whereas in an ML scenario such a mistake seems quite plausible.
Funny how your anecdotal point is just that, anecdotal. Here's another anecdotal point for you -- Pancreatic cancer (stage 2). Diagnosed on the first visit even though a private doctor had missed it previously. Surgery in less than 5 days, excellent follow-up and post-surgery care including the surgeon having a set of non-mandatory procedures approved in record time (10mins) as a preventative step towards recurrence. Two years later, cancer free with excellent reminders and follow-ups on periodic checkups.

Your experience does not dictate the system, as doesn't mine.
It's World Wildlife Day
The other work of popular fiction that gets referenced in these cases is, of course, Snow Crash.
But that was exactly my point. The US movie industry is globally dominant, and through that, influencing other countries’ cultures.
The Force works in mysterious ways.
Re: "All in all: this sounds like the seller is possibly counterfeiting, but it's not a great example of amazon tolerating counterfeiting,"

Less than ideal example? Possibly. But still valid.

Amazon. One of the few 800 lb tech terrors. And they're doing what to solve this problem? Tolerate is being too kind. When you're making the choices they're making you're an enabler.

All the revenue. All those resources and...that gets them a free pass? That's disturbing.
This is absurd. When Bezos becomes the dark lord you imagine, just unplug your Echo and throw it away. Problem solved. In the meantime, your use or non-use of an Echo seems to have no meaningful impact on the rise of dark lord Bezos.

Also you well know that the Echo is not transmitting everything it hears to HQ. It transmits only when invoked, which can be spurious but is not constant. Same for Apple and Google equivalents.
I just want to point out that a lot of the article is the authors own opinion on how the regulation should be implemented into software and a lot of things are probably not needed normally and would be a burden for businesses.

My own take (and the take of most European data protection lawyers I meet) is that consent is not needed, and also possibly is inappropriate in 90% of the cases - instead the “legal basis” called “legitimate interest” should be used instead. This is where you do your own judgement if your data processing is reasonable. Imagine if you yourself always had to consent to all common sense use of your personal data, what a hassle!

If you use legitimate interest, also skip the “under 16” part, consent checkboxes and re-request consent part of the article (Of course there is more to it, but I would not get in to that unless you are doing data processing you do not think the data subjects in general would approve of).

Functions that allow the users to delete and automatically download/access their own data is good practice for legitimate interest but not needed. You are anyway in general allowed to deal with these types of request on a case by case basis if you provide your data subjects with an email address.

What you should do though is automatically delete data that you do not need anymore, such as old logs, customers contact details of customers long gone, old backups etc.

The parts of encyption, you should create an api etc are not required but may be good practice. Just make sure you have normal OK data and data access security.

As discussed above, you SHOULD use data for purposes that the customer has not agreed/consented to. However, never use personal data for purposes that are not compatible with the purposes you informed your customers of when collecting the data (normally stated in your privacy notice on your web site). If you did not have a privacy notice at the time of collection pre-GDPR, what is an compatible purpose will be a judgement call from the context of collection.
I just saw the construction of a crematorium on "How It's Made". Very interesting - this one had two chambers. The primary chamber for the body and then a secondary one connected with a sloping tunnel which was designed to incinerate any fluidic remains.

Perhaps this is a modern construction. It seems very logical that fluids would render from a body and need to be re-burned so this crematory accounted for that.
TreeRegex: Extension to Regex's for Working on Tree-Structured Text [pdf]
That's brought back some memories for me! This is the only screenshot I could find from a brief search:
https://archive.org/details/tucows_194462_HotDog_Professiona...
You pay to get quality content a few weeks ahead of time.

Just a week ahead of time:

https://lwn.net/op/FAQ.lwn#subs

But I agree, LWN.net is awesome, I am also subscribed for $7 per month. They have really well-researched articles about Linux and the Linux community.
Is the Answer to Phone Addiction a Worse (grayscale) Phone?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14810008

This applies to "Solidity", the most commonly used language to write smart contracts for Ethereum. The VM itself is not so bad but also simpler.
Dear diary, today I had a discussion on HN with tajen.

Will HN support erasing your comment history if you ask?
A thing I've noticed about cryptocurrency news. The people that are pro cryptocurrency are often far too optimistic and sometimes are not the most academic people. However I've also noticed that those that constantly critique cryptocurrency are often so wrong about their assumptions it's just pointless reading on. It's so hard to actually get a reasonable discussion about cryptocurrency.
> In this particular case, it applies to companies that are not registered in Europe, but are having European customers.

Umm, nope. The EU doesn't have any authority to enforce companies outside of the EU to do anything.
Google first changed the Chromecast protocol a few times to prevent Amazon from using it.

There’s a lot of fuckery there, and those of us that tried to build open source chromecast clones got fucked by Google as well.

If you wish to argue against this, please offer me a way to implement the Chromecast protocol on a raspberry pi, reliably, without it constantly being broken by Google’s updates.
Your webserver logging IP addresses is a legitimate interest that does not require consent (preventing abuse).

I do hope you're not storing passwords, only a securely stretched and hashed variant, which is not subject to the GDPR.

Emails and Usernames will require consent, as do IPs stored outside a context of legitimate interest (preventing abuse).

The only thing that most communities will be missing is a function to delete all user data from their website (ie, delete user + all posts on request) but that should come into standard software soon enough or is already present.
This is interesting. Could this be a way to watermark images automatically before uploading to the "cloud" to prevent AI processing by large corporations (e.g. Facebook)? Main problem seems that the AI can be adjusted down the road to eventually fix it.
Can't get an image out of your head? Your eyes are helping to keep it there
Scattering the ashes is also illegal in many places.
I'm not sure blaming a supplier after a stream of ad hominems qualifies as addressing the actual issues.
Is anyone else surprised by the sample size? I'm not sure that eight baseballs provides enough data for any relevant conclusions, especially when the differences are so small to begin with.
I wasn’t aware there was integration there. I’m probably just wrong about that one.
The author mentions that they fired his management before they fired him.
Maybe they pull the teeth beforehand? I don't really know.
'I suspect many people will go for (2) and hope this fizzles out the same way the cookie law did.'

I suspect you may be right.
http://nocookielaw.com/
Having read a good number of (at this point) 150+ comnents this gist so far seems ro be:

- Lots of assorted complaints about Amazon

- Very few "I'll never shop there again..."

Seems to me that even when Amazon is wrong things still work out for them. Why should they change?
> If a theory isn't predictive, it isn't falsifiable. If it isn't falsifiable, then the theory isn't truly scientific.

That's an overly anemic view of science. Scientific theories have both predictive and explanatory power. Interpretations of QM don't change the former, but they do change the latter.

Copenhagen, favoured by this article's author for some unfathomable reason, has little explanatory power. Many worlds and Bohmian mechanics have excellent explanatory power, and their predictive power equals Copenhagen.