skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Older USB drives use SLC flash, which is definitely more reliable than the MLC+ encountered today. (The downside is lower capacity; made slightly less bad by the fact that they were actual binary sizes --- I have a 16MB(!) drive that still works, and has exactly 16,777,216 bytes of user-accessible sectors.)
I don’t think you completely understand supply and demand. If Mercedes makes more cars, that does not raise the price of a Toyota.
I would agree if your overly defensive you may get a fail-silent system.

I would say failing fast is good. However, that does not just mean exiting the application or exiting. If you encounter a failure mode you should gracefully fail so the operator knows what to do or if in development know what the heck is breaking.
This has made me so much happy. Thank you. Brilliant stuff. I've been looking for something that does this and have just started having fun with this problem using P5.js and playing around with splines, perlin noise etc.
.. this

I have bought a couple of newer Thinkpads but they end up reverting to my x220. x230 is almost as good but doesn't have the old school keyboard.

On reddit.com/r/thinkpad there is huge following for moding them.. My only recommendation is to ensure it you have an SSD and load up on RAM.
Critical thinking, specifically, is taught on a widespread basis?

What country are you writing from, and could you give some specific examples?
I can also vouch for the T530 working perfectly (Ubuntu).
It's a bit strange to consider this even an edge case, and weird that one would even create a diagram (such as the one on the wikipedia page) that doesn't have a solution (such as a leaf node marker prepended). Why isn't the prepended leaf node marker included in the concept of a Merkle tree? Is there ever a situation where you'd want a Merkle tree that allowed this?
It is frustrating how widely applicable this book is. Universities across the country are struggling to adequately prepare students for software engineering jobs.

It is also frustrating that this book from 2012 is still applicable in 2018. I'm not sure what the solution is or what would drive change here.
It's entirely possible to appeal sans a set of rules.

The appeals are rooted in norms, and the process is a dialog, kept recoverable, not a trial.

Explain to me how a set of rules isn't a formalized expression if the will of those who created them?

There is more to all of that, in particular, security and agency.

But, those details aside, norms operate much like rules, and are far more resonant, and community owned than rules alone are.

Finally, the organic and well distributed nature of norms tends to check varied and manipulative enforcement of rules. A primary example might be a flare up, vs nefarious intent to make noise and or cause grief.

Think family vs Roberts rules of order.
The pain I had with atomic writing on Windows is that Windows rename does not behave like the POSIX standard:

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/zw5t957f.aspx

"The old name must be the path of an existing
file or directory. The new name must not be
the name of an existing file or directory."

I ended up having to use ReplaceFile and rename if ReplaceFile failed:

ReplaceFile(tmpFileName, fileName, NULL,
REPLACEFILE_IGNORE_ACL_ERRORS, NULL, NULL) == 0 &&
rename(tmpFileName, fileName);

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa3...

Why Windows why?
> Any ideas of what I should do next?

Log out of your computer if you don’t want people to see your history (well now with the sad addendum of both online AND offline history)
Do we really need to be clear, or are you just trying to make a poor point about a legal strategy that was used by his lawyers?

Also, I wasn't aware that a settlement was an admission of guilt. Why are you treating it as such? Does no innocent person ever settle?
lucky! I grabbed a refurb T470, added an SSD + high cap battery. Runs Fedora like a charm! I did pay 1/3 of the price of a T480s but I do wish I had those extra 2 cores!!
>building lots of lower rent units will bring down the rents in the luxury segment

Sure. Wealthy people can lower their standards and take housing meant for the class below; people who are struggling can't exactly raise theirs, but they do group into larger/more crowded households to bid upmarket. When there are not enough small apartments, for example, people find several other working housemates for single-"family" homes that are then no longer available to 1- or 2-income middle class families. I suspect the pressure is stronger in the downmarket direction but it absolutely cuts both ways. (And homes that are too upmarket sometimes don't act as housing at all).

>What you're arguing for is a removal of the poor from certain parts of the city they currently exist in

Nope. With sufficient heights, the problem is addressable through infill development on commercial/industrial properties (ideally replacing existing uses on the lower floors) and upzoning to permit mid-rises in predominately owner-occupier single-family house zones.

>We don't need an ideal world or a revolution to build and maintain affordable housing.

The Bay Area's housing deficit over 2012-2017 is conservatively 120,000 homes based on 400,000 new jobs, 60,000 new homes, and an average household size of 2.3 (many household members are not workers). [0] The average cost to build an affordable housing unit in California (so an underestimate for the Bay Area) is $332,000. [1] So $39 billion is a lower bound to walk balk just 5 years of a problem decades in the making. Where's the money going to come from? Not property taxes: prop 13 repeal would be a revolution in itself. Not federal subsidies: do you think the Trump administration wants to subsidize coasties? Not tech companies: there's always some Bay Area municipality that's happy to keep the free tax revenue and soaring housing demand (particularly for owner-occupier areas) local. San Francisco spends tens of millions on affordable housing when what's needed is tens of billions. Even the state of California spends only hundreds of millions.

So far the best anyone has come up with is (effective) taxes on market-rate development. To get the numbers required, we're going to need a hell of a lot more market-rate development to tax.

[0] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-06-23/why-can-t...

[1] https://www.mercurynews.com/2017/08/16/walters-bills-would-m...
Or more specifically, be born by rich parents.
Depends what you mean by application. So far I only worked on simple exercises and translated some algorithms I have previously written in Python. Compiling them is fairly easy since the compiler output is very helpful and IDE integration is quite good for still being new. Main painpoint is, that I haven't managed to get the debugger work yet.

Rust does have a high learning curve but to me it seems justified by its goals, the domains it targets and using some concepts that are unique or not the most common. Still I'm fairly confident I would get a simple CRUD web app out in a day if that's what I wanted. Learning curve is not crazy high, just higher than the usual high level languages.

My background is mostly in Python/js web development, but I'm currently learning dsp for audio processing and synthesis. And since language doesn't really matter at my current level I alternately implement things in Python, puredata, C++ and Rust. So I won't be implementing full fledged applications for quite a while :)
The site claims not to work in Safari, but it works fine with a user agent switch. Please don't arbitrarily limit browsers.
Please try to make a point in this discussion instead of contentless ad hominems, and I'll respond to it. It may be hard, but I'll be here for you when you finally make it.
I searched for The Design of Everyday Things but I could only find a course with this name on Udacity, not Coursera.

Can you check and confirm?
For specific needs I have occasionally made my Go struct constructors (NewFoobar() *Foobar) use malloc ported to Go + mmap to allocate memory and said structs have a .Close() method (think defer foobar.Close()). It worked fine... This is a fine solution/compromise, in 95+% of development solutions you don't want your devs wasting their time managing memory manually, and in the worse cases they will get it wrong.
i believe it was debunked:

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/british-journal-of-n...
My first choice was a thinkpad. My second choice was a macbook.
> Everyone knows it was and remains a business transaction.

Then why would having sex outside of a loveless, business-transaction of marriage make you 'completely devoid of morals and ethics' as OP indicated?

Boy, I'm impressed with all this insider Trump knowledge that has been coming out in this thread. All of you guys should get together and hand these stories to Michael Wolff, as they all exist with approximately the same level of vetting.
not a lawyer and suggest get a one

Here are torought details about Facebook case:
http://europe-v-facebook.org/EN/Complaints/Model_Contracts/m...
There is a difference between "including" and "not excluding" people based on color or whatever. It's (officially, anyway) about removing barriers, not roping people in. I'll grant in practice it's a blurry line.

So, yeah, it's a political issue, but an open source project is necessarily a political entity by virtue of being made of people. You can't escape making political decisions, and since "inclusivity" mostly just means being nice to people, I can't complain much.
Well you yourself said it reflected the same kind of "emotional thinking" that led to millennia of "torture and abuse". What I am trying to show is that there are plenty of good reasons for this kind of punishment (whether or not one accepts a retributive component to justice). It is not simply a knee jerk insensitive reaction.
> I'm not seeing apples for apples in your argument - it'd be valid to say the popular female opinion (whatever that is) is hypocritical if their stance was that men couldn't wear revealing clothing

Isn't that their stance? If a man went out in public with 1/3 of the flesh of his penis showing, everyone would be cool with it? The reality is, he'd be arrested for indecent exposure. In this case, the equivalent of what women do on a regular basis is quite literally illegal.

> but you're making the point that they're hypocrites for wearing provocative clothing and then being upset if they're treated indecently or worse

No I'm not.

> If I'm rich and wave my money as I walk down the street, it's still a crime to rob me even if you feel as though I was asking for it.

I'm not saying otherwise.

This conversation is actually not a terrible example of my overall point.
This doesn't seem too over the top. Everyone (outside of IT and most in it) uses Dropbox* even though Google Drive and OneDrive offer more space for free and are arguably better in the different ways (GSuite integration / Office 365 integration). As another reference point Litecoin market cap is about $10B and newly minted BCH is $18B - granted this refers to market cap of the coins not the backing company/orgs but nonetheless I'd know which I'd one been investing in.

* For the record I use Google Drive and Insync - Not promoting Dropbox here.
Just came to say so excited to read this and on the top of HN! Jeff is a hero of mine.

Jeff, I once responded to your survey. I lost a ton of weight abroad with nothing going for me bc your podcast and the Changelog podcast gave me the weird fuel I needed to just run but also learn and be engaged mentally. I find your career choice from Amazon inspiring as a transition (not to mention poker) and you always ask insightful questions. I am trying to get into security with dev work on top bc you make me want to be in that culture, after a decade of avoiding it as a jaded IT guy.

I have sent every group of developers and tech enthusiasts links to one or more episodes. I need to make time to contribute to the open source SE Daily apps. Just because.

Thanks for building me an ethos so I don't have to for myself. ;-)
Great. I am wondering which tools he used to draw object diagrams. It looks neat.
Another key factor is the community reaction to low-effort posts; Many users of social media are not looking for or willing to put in the time and effort to digest more in-depth discussion, and will happily skip over more thoughtful posts in favour of the next meme or bite-sized thought. In a platform such as Reddit, where votes per unit time are paramount, this results in the burying of most longer discussion.
I will never install it until they have dialed back their forced updates. I plan on using 8.1 until I can't, and then jumping to another OS. I had a number of blue screens from updating windows 8.1, and I see photos of windows force updating at crazy times. No forced updates from the brickmasters, thank you.
Show HN: Zeppelin notebook to try out deeplearning4j
Ah, it was Udacity, not Coursera; my apologies
Alias tables are pretty cool, I wrote an interactive visualization of how they get built as part of this post a while ago: http://engineering.flipboard.com/2017/02/storyclustering . We used alias tables with MCMC and the hastings metropolis test to build a super fast LDA.

Also worth reading up on are sum-heaps. Alias tables are O(1) to sample from but O(n) to build/modify. Sum-heaps let you modify in O(log(n)) at the cost of sampling in O(log(n)) as well. A good writeup is here: https://timvieira.github.io/blog/post/2016/11/21/heaps-for-i...
Interesting. Couple of chromebooks use Bay Trail chipset, though a audio firmware related issue on linux is quite known (https://github.com/GalliumOS/galliumos-distro/issues/180) I didn't know about the cstate bug.

I wonder how ChromeOS avoids(fixes?) both the above said audio issue and the cstate issue mentioned by you.
It's long established that Java's problem is not the JVM or bytecode but it's memory model.

Java's bytecode execution speed in the JVM is good enough that it's on part with C, easily beating any language with even a slightly inefficient compiler, like Go or Haskell.
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I have read various bits and pieces of the evidence that is supposed to validate the claims that these didn't occur. What I found interesting was that the archaeological presentations either were very wishy-washy or the conclusion so presented were in direct disputation of the evidence presented.

Some years ago, I read a paper by two Israeli archaeologists disputing the idea that the northern Kingdom of Israel arose out of a split of the unified King David/King Solomon kingdom. What bemused me was that the evidence directly confirmed what the biblical record says and yet the conclusion was that the evidence had to mean that the two kingdoms of Israel and Judah had been independent from the very beginning.

I find it interesting that the Hittites were, for a long time, only known by the biblical records. Yet, it found in recent times, (the last two or so centuries) that it was a large thriving kingdom that disappeared from history.

As far as Jericho is concerned, what evidence have you seen that is was uninhabited at the time. I have seen various archaeological papers that directly support the biblical story.

One of the major problems that is faced today is that we have no sure way of measuring the time periods of the artefacts found with any real precision. The +/- errors are just too large to be sure of precise timing.

Unless we actually develop the technology to view the past, we will always be unsure of what and when events occurred. It becomes a matter of "faith" as to what you end up as believing as "truth".

What god, if any, you believe in is a personal decision. I believe that Jesus Christ is God (one with the Father and Holy Spirit) and that He is the creator of the universe and that He takes a personal interest in every single person who has lived, is living or will live. But whether or not you so believe is entirely up to you. He has given you the free choice to do so.

For those who think science "proves" that there is no God, my to you is why are there so many scientists who believe in a god and in particular believe in Jesus Christ as God, especially when they come from a background of no belief in any god or gods?

What made it compelling to them to change their minds and believe in Jesus Christ?

Of course, on the other side, there are those who believed and no hold the view that there is no god. One must also ask them why did they change their minds about the matter.
I appreciate you're trying to be logical about this, but it doesn't make sense to me.

If you accept that they saw the same feed as was behind them; if you accept that they knew the connection cutting was the booster coming down; then i see no reason to say "[we'll find out] whether it's standing" AFTER the smoke clears, except to misdirect the stream audience.

Do you have any concrete alternative explanation for that?
Reddit has done nothing but censor. Its own CEO spez has edited comments of others. The mods have removed all the comments that don't fit their narrative or liking in every big news or political sub. Anything pro conservative or anti-liberal has been removed no matter how true it is.

Its pure censorship and nothing else. They even banned a complete subreddit because they found out the people that were working at reddit were removing things without the mods knowing about it and when they found out and proved it, they banned it the NEXT DAY.

Fuck reddit. It anti-free speech
What do you have against Khosrowshahi?
Great quote:

"If I had to start over I would prioritize health — exercise, diet, sleep, socialization, getting outside for fresh air. I would be nicer to those who love me, and try to opt for kindness over cleverness."
Using a blurred version of the whole image as background is probably better than what the OP is doing, as I understand it he's treating the background as a single fixed color.

In particular my use case is cleaning up pictures of whiteboards, where the brightness from the room is not as constant as a scan, and the approach wouldn't work at all.

Probably an easy PR for that repo though?
His main site he mentions at the end is learntla.com. That's a good tutorial for using a subset of it that will get stuff done without trying to read a bunch of books on heavier stuff. He and I both also recommend Alloy for a taste in formal methods or blueprints like fouc said since it's designed for beginners with good guides and tutorials. TLA+/PlusCal with its model-checker is better at modeling order of execution (esp concurrency/distributed) whereas Alloy's is focused on structure of your program. Finally, Design-by-Contract combined with property-based testing or AFL-style testing with properties/contracts as runtime checks is probably combo most applicable to most programming languages and situations. If you know conditionals, you can use DbC in a lots of situations.

http://alloytools.org

https://www.win.tue.nl/~wstomv/edu/2ip30/references/design-b...

https://hillelwayne.com/post/pbt-contracts/
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@crablar

What are your favorite episodes?
I think it's a little weird and biased to imply that Hashicorp's vault needs special setup to manage development secrets.

Vault stores secrets. That's all it does. (Well it can also generate TLS certificates, handle AWS integration and more..) Once you have a vault instance adding a new secret takes seconds and the having an instance for development, and a second for production is trivial.

You can also prefer a single instance with more restrictions, logging, and similar.

* secret/$application/development/db_user
* secret/$application/development/db_pass
* secret/$application/development/db_host

vs

* secret/$application/production/db_user
* secret/$application/production/db_pass
* secret/$application/production/db_host

But the vault itself doesn't care about dev vs. prod. That's more an infrastracture question about which hosts can talk to it, etc.
Related work: https://github.com/emeeks/d3-sketchy
Most of the student outreach is a pathos appeal under #saveyerkes on Facebook and Twitter, but this comment from one of the directors on its Facebook page indicates that there might be more substantive plans in the works [0].

[0] https://www.facebook.com/YerkesObservatory/posts/10156061540...
I'm beginning to think that the use of the term "virtue signaling" is itself a form of virtue signaling.
No offense but how is it different than if your friend went onto Amazon from your computer?
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Along the lines of The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences (also, Hamming's one)?

One factor is that mathematical notation was shaped to describe natural laws (over many different laws). Though I agree that this doesn't seem to fully explain the simplicity and generality.

However, I do want to note that Occam's razor can justify whatever you like, if you're allowed to define the language you use without it counting as entities (like choosing a prior for Bayes').
They are simply provoking the idea that pravils today. If you do not have equal part of woman in your organisation this is all besouse os sexism an misagyny.
Understandable, is the timeline now more like a month?
> pro-conservative or anti-liberal

hmm... you might be on a different part of reddit than I am.
> can compel you to turn over documents that it knows you have possession of,

The only way to positively know that one has possession of the documents in question is to read them. If they need someone's help to decrypt the documents, then they at best have a very strong suspicion/circumstantial evidence of possession.

Even if they intercepted transmission of the documents in question, they don't know if the documents are still in possession or have been deleted until they've gotten the suspect to cooperate and decrypt all of the suspected documents.

If one had a hidden encrypted partition filled only with copies of the U.S. bill of rights, and the government used sworn testimony of definite knowledge that the hidden partition contained contraband in order to force disclosure of decryption keys, what's the likelihood that a good lawyer could get enough damages out of the government to make it worthwhile to sit in detention for a month or two while things got sorted out?