skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
HN is too narrow. My personal gripe with some of the beliefs here:

- Belief that product/engineering/tech always trumps distribution. Sometimes it does. Often it doesn't.

- Way too focused on software as "tech" to the exclusion of everything else (physics, science, etc). Super-focused on programming languages, dev tools, anything that touches code.

Re: "bipartisan reactionism", my wife sits a little left of me politically so I tend to read more conservative news (e.g. WSJ), whereas she gives me the scoop from NPR and NYT. We meet in the middle. It's nice.
In 2016, Germany produced about 560g of CO2 per kWh of electricity: http://environmentalprogress.org/big-news/2017/2/11/german-e...

By my calculations [1,2,3], the US produced approximately 450g of CO2 per kWh in 2016.

And note that the difference is due almost entirely because the US still gets ~19% of its electricity from nuclear power but Germany does not (450g/(1-.19) = ~560). For all of Germany's effort in renewables at great cost, all it has done (besides helping to fund the technology, which is useful) is compensate for the retirement of nuclear in Germany.

[1] https://www.eia.gov/electricity/monthly/epm_table_grapher.ph...

[2] https://www.eia.gov/electricity/annual/html/epa_a_03.html

[3] https://www.eia.gov/electricity/annual/html/epa_08_01.html
That looks pretty good!

Does anyone know if there are any Android apps that interface with Newsblur like BeyondPod can with Feedly?
That's interesting. I had the same idea at the outset.

We've sort of started working that angle recently with talks, workshops, and 1-on-1's. Having seen a wide range of different hardware projects means there's lots of valuable experience we're able to share this way.

Thanks for your input!
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> Why is there such a culture of fake it till you make it in SV? If the tech is good, no need for faking.

Nothing happens in a vacuum. If you don’t work hard to hype and oversell your cure for cancer, investors will be passing you by to invest in this nonexistant blood analysis product hyped to the skies.

In VC it doesn’t matter what’s you have. The game is to attract enough captital to the point where you can hopefully crate what you sold investors on already having before he house of cards collapses. It’s like one big hype/investment ponzi skeam after another, however companies can openly loose money for years after years without anyone calling bullshit as long as the prospect of gains are hyped enough. Though importantly, you have to work the right line between outright lying and hyping. Prefix everything with “might be” and “could potentially” dumb investors will still be fooled but you might survive the legal fallout more gracefully.
It isn't, but Mr. Bezos wants everybody to think that it does, and it appears that it works for him.
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Psychopath is a clinical term. Sociopath is not.

And I don't really want to discuss this any further with folks nitpicking my comments. The individual I was addressing has replied and explained the reason for their interest and I have replied to that. So I plan to step away from this discussion since I don't think it's at all constructive and I don't like how I am being addressed.
AFAICT, neither of them have designed anything. Elon Musk has an executive role. Carmack's role is unclear. Happy to go through any information you've come across..
Quickbooks isn't slow to use, it's unintuitive. That's a crucial difference to your calculation. An experienced Quickbooks user can still work very quickly by internalizing the wonkiness. The inefficiency is suffered by novice users.
> It’s not clear that it doesn’t need a central authority. There is a rich history of blockchain consensus failure needing a central authority to tell everyone which chain is the right one. Satoshi did it in 2010, the Bitcoin developers did it in 2013, Vitalik did it with Ethereum in 2016. When the ledgers don’t reconcile, the developers are the central authority. And proof-of-work can’t save it because that too is centralized.

There's a big difference between centralized influence and centralized control. The 2010 and 2013 examples were fairly homogeneous, because the changes were fairly obvious and reasonable, the thought leaders were widely trusted, and almost all the users followed them. But a large number of people didn't follow when Ethereum split (hence Ethereum Classic) or when Bitcoin split in 2017 (hence Bitcoin Cash).

Thought leaders like Satoshi and Vitalik can influence most of the community of their respective coins, but they can't force anyone to accept their blocks.

> So if it can’t do the first thing it promises it can do, maybe it becomes more like a Rube Goldberg machine than something that is meant to be useful/practical. The fact that people are praising CryptoKitties as a “practical application” seems to support the Rube Goldberg machine/toy theory.

The problem I think is that decentralized control is really the only thing that blockchains offer over existing data stores. If you don't care about decentralized control, existing distributed logs such as Datomic are superior to blockchain in every way.

I would go so far as to say that the vast majority of blockchain users fall into two categories:

1. People who don't understand decentralization.
2. People who don't care about decentralization but are riding the hype (whether they understand decentralization or not).

This is why so many "blockchain applications" look like Rube Goldberg machines:

1. People who don't understand decentralization use it to implement things that would be much better served by an existing distributed datastore such as Datomic.
2. People who are just riding hype don't need to implement anything serious to fool people. They can implement a Rube Goldberg machine and there will always be suckers who take it seriously as long as it ticks the "blockchain" hype tickbox.

Very few people actually understand decentralization AND care about it, and even fewer of those have the technical chops to implement them. So I think it will take time for more complex blockchain killer apps to emerge.

It's worth noting that the first simple blockchain application, cryptocurrency, has already had pretty immense effects on our society, from darknet markets to crypto exchanges. You can argue whether the uses people use cryptocurrency for are good, but you can't argue it isn't useful--it's just not complex (from a logical standpoint--it's just a ledger--obvously it's technically and socially complex).
Its actually Ancient Greek for secret
Get down off a ladder. Stop your car. Pull boiling water off a stove.

I can go all day....
So your friend connected to a WiFi network and didn't tell Windows that it was metered... and Windows assumed it wasn't metered. This is what they are trying to explain. There is a way to tell Windows that the network is metered.

If you are connected through a Bluetooth link to a cell phone, Windows will probably assume that it is tethered to a phone and therefore metered. Likewise, WiFi connections are probably assumed to be unmetered, for better or worse. But you can tell Windows that a given network connection is metered.

(I am not a Windows user 98% of the time and I find this behavior annoying too, FWIW.)
One doctor from the November Las Vegas shooting wrote a review of the incident for his ER that got attention on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15688900
Stephen Hawking was born 8 January 1942, exactly 300 years after the death of Galileo.
Going strictly by the letter of the law what you say makes sense. But there are other factors at play here. These are "computer nerds" taking aim at an American company from outside the US. I do not think they will find many willing to practice the restraint we would see if we were dealing with a typical wealthy American white collar criminal. Such behavior is normalized in some circles, but it is still seen as aberrant for any 'outsiders' to engage in the same behavior.
if the end-game of all this is driverless cars, I suspect that will greatly reduce costs and probably make Uber's model sustainable.
It's a shame, but projects like Fallout 3 in Fallout 4 just wouldn't exist in the first place without copyright law. Food for thought.
It says later in the thread that Equifax filed the appeal too late and the appeal was denied.

https://imgur.com/a/dUCGJ
This is not what I understand a leaking (or more commonly 'leaky') abstraction to mean.

Instead, assume the previously mentioned Logger does internally write to a file. Now, when the disk becomes full, Logger throws an exception and the caller must do something about it. The abstraction of just writing anything to log is broken and the underlying complexity leaks through.

This example also demonstrates the difficulty of keeping abstractions from leaking. You can't exactly make the code automatically free up disk space or sign up to a remote logging service when disk space runs out.
I guess my workplace and home don't have surrounding buildings so it's ok to get out. With buildings around you it's probably less of a good idea.
What inputs are they using? As far as I know, everything we've considered as possible inputs has turned out to be worthless in earthquake prediction.

What precision is their output?
Really cool stuff.

Would look great in http://yuml.me which also has a sketchy look.

I need to rewrite yUML using newer tech, business collaborations welcome :)
For a newbie I think SVN is definitively easier to learn at first.
But then you have to live with the limitations.
Git is the better choice in the end, especially if there are more than a few people working on the same codebase.
Variants of this have been happening for a while. Here's 2008 article: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/intense-training-for-military-s...
The difference is, the small claims plaintiffs are representing themselves, so they're only out time. Equifax is paying lawyers hundreds of dollars an hour to not only be in court, but to write memos about it, plus expenses.

Even if the little guy doesn't win, Equifax is going to pay a couple of grand per case. Multiply that by a lot of angry little guys, and Equifax learns an important lesson.
Current customer, really happy with it, though I wonder if there are any new features in the pipeline...?
Tags can be added (created).

Tags can be deleted (permanently destroyed, though of course with the distributed nature of git, remote tags must then be handled in a separate step).

But those are not intrinsic properties of the tag itself. Those are properties of the repo that holds the tag.

The tag itself is immutable: It is a human readable name pointing to a commit id. And, to distinguish it from a branch, it can't be updated after it is created.
Best tribute I've read, from his collaborator Roger Penrose: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/mar/14/stephen-hawk...
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You won’t know exactly how much time you have once you hear the warning. You might be better off finding shelter in the immediate vicinity rather than being caught in a potentially dangerous area 15sec into your 60sec evacuation route.
The Fortune 500 have an alternative. Build a nonprofit cooperative for their own data centers. Offer only S3, in memory S3, RDS, Lambda (with GPU/FPGA instances too), and SQS equivalents as generic compute services. KISS. Beat AWS on price and simplicity.
Partial list of things that can happen with even 10 seconds of warning:

* Elevators stop at closest floor and doors open, preventing people from being stuck between floors.

* Critical garage doors & gates at fire stations / hospitals will open, allowing emergency vehicles to quickly exit.

* Other critical doors & gates will close to prevent people from entering tunnels or other areas that could be blocked off.

* Trains will slow or stop to prevent derailments.

* Oil/Gas pipeline pressures will be reduced and valves will close to lessen impact if line is compromised.

* Hospitals alert to prevent mishaps in surgery or other dangerous areas (like MRIs).

* Airports alert to stop takeoffs/landings in case there are buckles in the runway.

In short, there are a ton of things that you can do to prevent really bad outcomes (many of which are prefaced on doing something before the power cuts out) that are much more difficult and expensive after the shaking has started.
So this is a gripe I have with the American view of "news".

OF COURSE they push an agenda. EVERYONE pushes an agenda. But I do think there's a brightline between "pushing an agenda" and "publishing things that are false". The Economist is at least open about it, calling what they do "editorial journalism". Publications like the NYT that purport to be "objective" chafe me way more. I'm not a Trump supporter but I promise you the NYT will report any wrong he does 10x as loudly and harshly as anything remotely positive.

It's OK. You just need to be aware of it.

The bigger problems, I think, are (a) people who believe things that are blatantly false, or (b) people who get all of their news with the same ideological slant. As someone who considers himself a "centrist" living in SF, (b) is decidedly not my problem. lol
The numbers are fuzzed by generally a good indicator.

There's no way to disable downvoting on reddit. Some subs try to hide the button using custom CSS, but this doesn't affect those with custom CSS disabled sitewide, per-subreddit (with RES) or mobile users (presumably the majority of traffic).

Tangent rant: giving your sub some character with a custom banner is ok, but the ability to hide or change basic UI like the logout button or voting buttons is a huge flaw in the design of reddit.
The problem with any publicly-verifiable voting scheme is the it opens the market to vote-selling: once a person can "prove" they voted a certain way, they can confidently sell their vote.

This is the entire reason photos are prohibited in voting booths.
Nothing there.

In the "General Policies" section in your first link, we find:

Costco reserves the right to inspect any container, backpack, briefcase, etc., upon entering or leaving the warehouse.

One key claim Costco makes in justifying the inspections is to make sure you got everything you paid for. I have personally experienced at least three cases over the years where the process worked to my benefit.

Once (that I can remember), an item was misplaced by the checker into the items of the patron behind me (I had paid for something I wouldn't have gotten out the door with).

And at least twice, back when they accepted Discover and would allow up to $50 cash back on a purchase, I didn't realize that I hadn't gotten the money... only to have the receipt-checker proactively ask me if I got the cash. In both cases, a subsequent count of the register confirmed it, and I got the full amount of cash.

So, I'm content with Costco's process, but I don't allow proactive checks anywhere else (e.g. Fry's).
Why not that long ago for technical /research programmers knowing how to solder was a given.
>the presence of weed allowed for entry/search by police

This is the biggest reason so many "law and order" types fight legalization. It's a "Get Out of the Fourth Amendment Free" card:

https://www.boston.com/news/politics/2018/03/08/joe-kennedy-...

>Recalling his days working as a state prosecutor when Massachusetts voted in 2008 to decriminalize marijuana, Kennedy said the decision affected the ability of police officers to search and seize other illegal items, such as guns, from vehicles.

>“If you smelled [marijuana] in a car, you could search a car,” Kennedy said. “When it became decriminalized, you couldn’t do that.”
You don't have to stay under $2 for every meal as long they average out to that value. It's possible to eat high quality meat while hitting that number - you just can't eat it for every meal.
I wonder if this is a step on the way to going after the CEO too.
Settings menu (in top right corner) => Subscriptions => Export OPML. Or just bazqux.com/opml
I imagine that most of the losses in an earthquake are property losses. These don't seem like they'll be significantly mitigated by a one minute warning.
It seems the settlement of a $500k for Holmes was rather weak justice and sends the wrong message. With the kind of fraud she perpetuated to investors jail time would be more appropriate.
Upvoted both for being spot on and for the excellent VfV reference!
At least one inventor doesn't seem thrilled with the result of selling them his patents.
Specializations exist because nobody can be an expert or even reasonably well informed about how everything works, even their own tools. I don't expect most professional engineers to understand the internals of their text editors or their compilers for that matter. Why should we expect it for something like a source control tool?
Me too, I've been waiting for something like this for a while.

If I was somewhat younger or if AI wasn't booming, I would try learning Mandarin, but learning a third language is a pain in the ass, especially if you're past your early 20s and the novelty and excitment of communicating with foreign cultures has faded out.
Likewise, I will not go further with firefox until there is a working session manager. The one supposed alternative that is compatible has poor reviews and appears unreliable.

I might add that I was a nightly user for over 30 prior versions.
> Why do government funded schools have to teach people everything?

I don't know any government funded school... do you? Beyond this, people need financial knowledge to make better decisions since finance skills are required on a daily basis in the modern world.
The crowd factor is primarily why I don’t think I could get out of a large store within sixty seconds, yes.
>If you have to ban an idea, it seems inherently evident to me that the idea contains some irrefutable truth that can only be silenced, not defeated.
Expecting a "rational" debate while spouting such irrational views is quite absurd. Most people, and that probably includes myself, will hold some views in high regard; convinced that are rational, whilist being just like your example pretty much a fallacy.

I find quite laughable that some jerks cry about censorship when a private company denies them access to a site, while they propose to use physical force and violence to deny access to other people to a physical place.
It's shockingly difficult to get paid to develop this kind of critical tools.
Appalling. One would have thought that a C-level officer in a listed company would know enough about insider trading as to not do it...
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I hadn't heard 50/50 in that context before, it is a gunshot to the spine?
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And that tech demo eventually became a pretty decent book series by Brandon Sanderson.

I wouldn't be shocked at all if they got made into a TV show at some point.
A spiral/disk galaxy's mass is proportional to the square of the radius:

Mg = C1 * Rg * Rg

where C1 depends only on shape and is basically the same across all the spiral/disk galaxies.

Orbital speed of stars in the disk is proportional to the square root of the galaxy's mass (the observed absence of the other otherwise must-have orbital velocity equation component - ie. 1/SQRT(r) - is what causes crack pot theories like dark matter) :

Vdisk = C2 * SQRT(Mg) = C2 * SQRT(C1) * Rg

where C2 also dependents only on shape and is basically the same across all the spiral/disk galaxies.

Thus Vdisk = C * Rg where the C is pretty close to being the same across all the spiral/disk galaxies.

Angular speed of a star in the disk at the distance "r" from center is

Vdisk / (2pi * r) = (C * Rg) / (2pi * r)

which at the edge of the galaxy, ie. where r = Rg, becomes

(C * Rg) / (2pi * Rg) = C / 2pi

ie. the same constant across all the spiral/disk galaxies.
The end.
How Apple let Siri fall behind the Google Assistant and Alexa
My first advice would be some self reflection-

"My colleagues and Facebook friends haven't given me good job leads. I have been poor for a few years, and I'm not motivated to make new friends anymore.

"I have a weak support network"

Careers are built on networks- a college degree is a checkbox for some jobs but has little to do with your career. The time invested in building up friendships is much more valuable than class time.

The effect of your network dwarfs any career advancement the degree will give you- and your career will undoubtedly continue to suffer even with a degree unless you build that network.

That said- LEARN. Be knowledgeable and capable and your contacts will be confident in utilizing or referring you for work.
Google runs earthquake drills every year in which they assume that the Mountain View & other Bay Area offices have been completely destroyed, all employees within them (including top executives) have been killed, and all West Coast datacenters have been knocked out. Their aim is to ensure continuity of operations. Although each drill usually identifies some deficiencies and potential failure points, in the 5 years I was there the simulation never actually resulted in Google going offline.

The big Silicon Valley companies are all huge multinationals at this point, more powerful (and safer) than many nation-states. I'm not even sure a worldwide nuclear war would take Google offline, although it would likely kill 90%+ of its customer base.
the add on can make multiple dated session stores and you can pick which to restore from.
Maybe when you're the only person leaving the building.
Perhaps life/health insurance? I'm not sure the average costs of injury associated with earthquakes but it could be substantial
I saw a post here a while ago, if I remember it right, about Twitter's use of machine learning for this and I think this is quite an elegant solution
I am curious as to how narrow your scope of industries/requirements will be in the future.

I have a friend with a BA in Photography and a MA in Collaborative Design. She is very talented and intelligent, but has trouble explaining exactly what it is that she excels at. (I've known her for years and I still only get the gist of it. Think creative work mixed with formalized systems thinking.)

Is this a possible customer down the line?
I understand that was the intention, but we aren't all being specifically targeted by the FBI. If they can collect as much information on us without specifically targeting us, imagine if they did target you?
Whether you learn things online or in a classroom, in some sense there is always going to be a disconnect between academia and industry. Industry is where the rubber meets the road and academia is about abstracting it to a circle and line problem. I suppose trade schools could serve as a bridge in that regard. This is indeed a massive generalization, but I've found that people who are left brain dominant, and always in the habit of "citing" stuff, execute poorly on real life projects which are messy, will always have a lot of unknowns and deal with human factors.
I think the mod developers don't want to spend their time,energy and money in a legal battle, Bethesda could drag this in courts and who knows with the current copyright laws may even win, would you risk it if you were living in US or such a country? I would give up and work on an open source game instead or a game more friendly to this kind of modding.
Not the parent, but the imperative interface supported by the dynamic graph approach Pytorch takes is much nicer.

Additionally, in my personal opinion Tensorflow is often too low level and Keras is often too high level for the things I'm trying to do for research. While you can jump between the two of course, I think PyTorch hits a much more natural middle ground in its API.

Tensorflow/Keras is making improvements in these areas with the eager execution, and is still great for putting models into production, but I think PyTorch is much better for doing research or toying with new concepts.

This article has some good comparison: http://www.goldsborough.me/ml/ai/python/2018/02/04/20-17-20-...
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