skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Ying was invited to a mandatory conference call. While he didn’t initially join the call, one of his direct reports did, the SEC said.

He was trying to sell his stock and didn't wait an official trail of him knowing about it. It would be hard to deny knowing about it once he joined the conference call. Did I read that right? Because that's what it sounds like to me.

> “VERY large breach opportunity”

"opportunity" what does that even mean? Were they celebrating and planning on monetizing it? That kind of makes sense I guess. Since they get to charge people to freeze their credit, their stock has recovered and executive retired happily to Bahamas or wherever. It was an opportunity after all!
Probably a better question for the builders and civil engineers.
Breakthrough Message project would probably consider this.
Why can't I just configure the location of my Fallout 3 installation?
That is the coolest thing about Google that I have ever read.
You can also use the water for purposes other than hydration (hand washing etc).
I've always wondered about how Target can maintain this image as some kind of forward-thinking retailer when they're no better than Walmart is on most of that stuff, but I think the answer is honestly mostly "the Wrong Kind of People shop at Walmart."
Yeah, since I took a wilderness first aid course I've been bitching about how crappy the first aid kit is at work. There's a machine shop and a lot of power equipment, and if someone manages to cut an artery they'll likely bleed out before EMS arrives.

All you need to do is stock some quick-clot gauze and a tourniquet or two. About $50.00 in materials could be the difference between an employee or coworker walking onto the ambulance versus that same person being carried out in a bag.

The kit can't treat anything more serious than a paper cut. It's seriously just a big box full of band-aids and ointment.
It's one of those times gamblers fallacy isn't accurate. The longer since an earthquake, the more likely it becomes. Pretty fascinating.
You've hit the nail on the head with "normalization of deviance".

First you shade the truth slightly. You're uncomfortable at first, but the line seems to work, so you try it again. You use it another 10 times and you start to believe it.

And then you shade the truth a little more. After the hundredth pitch, you're a fabulist, and you barely noticed.
> Yes exactly those people vote in those instances. The key word being vote - i.e they have a say and can research the candidate before casting a ballot. The context here is positions where people CAN'T vote because those MTA board positions are political appointees. Ir'a apples and oranges. Your comparison makes no sense.

That's flatly untrue. People don't vote for FAA administrators or USDA policymakers, they vote for representatives who pick civil service people and so on. The MTA governance isn't strange or unusual, that's my point.

> Except you are wrong those are actually connected via the Dey Street Concourse.

Well yes, the lines are connected if you get out of the train and walk. By that definition all transit lines in the country are connected.

But we could have had a subway that runs from Grand Central to Newark: https://newyorkyimby.com/2014/09/the-port-authoritys-missed-...

I mean in Europe they can figure out how to run fast trains through three countries in an hour or two. But I have to transfer three times to get to the airport. Our way of doing this sucks.

> No its quite simple, if infrastructure passes through multiple counties its under the purview of a state agency. I its infrastructure that falls within a single county or just the 5 boroughs then it should be a city specific agency.

But.... what if you don't want the infrastructure to just fall within a single jurisdiction. That's the entire point I'm making. I want transportation infrastructure to be planned out and integrated on a larger scale. I want to consolidate the various agencies. Having MTA and PA and Amtrak and NYC DOT and NYS DOT and NJ DOT and so on makes for insane schizophrenic policy. Your idea that the subways and regional rails should be split into separate agencies makes that worse not better.
You mean the ones that don't cover earthquakes?
I don't think being older has anything to do. My uncle learnt Swedish at 60, my girlfriend is learning English at 40, and I'd love to learn a 4th language.

What fades after your 20s is the available time - I see a lot of retired people learning languages here.
Robinhood hires Josh Elman as VP of product, who’ll stay at Greylock
Vary on your application.

- you can fit all or portion of your database into memory

- you can utilize cache layer (redis, memcache) to bypass database access

- you can use certain databases on GPU if db is still bottleneck
Sending Navy medics to work in a trauma center is racist now?

Maybe it's just me but if you want them to get experience treating trauma victims then it might be a good thing to send them someplace there's a lot of trauma victims.

...and, yes, I know this will get downvoted into oblivion because I don't downvote posts that I disagree with but say why...
It seems that in 1970s when he was at Caltech he already barely could talk, but who knows.
> I'm not sure if you must be able to use strace to be productive

You will be productive until whatever runtime/library you are using has a serious bug or performance issue. Then you either use tools like strace or your productivity drops to 0. It is not a matter of marginal or order-of-magnitude productivity differences. You don't "understand stuff" for sentimental reasons, you "understand stuff" because the alternative is your manager has to call in people like me that "understand stuff" and pay them tens of thousands of dollars to fix things that you can't.

> It always puzzled me how people can be comfortable using this kind of stuff.

It's called learning.
That’s true, but what of solar? Data centers are increasingly being powered using solar panels and other sources.
Aren't there hidden datacenters in the wilderness in many countries now? Nothing that a satellite sweep couldn't find, but still.
He's a troll. Read through his comment history, it's nothing but "love socialism; hate capitalism" rhetoric.
Conclusion from the pre-print paper:

> We have shown that, within the boundaries of our corpus, there are no significant differences in aggregate between pre-prints and their corresponding final published versions. In addition, the vast majority of pre-prints (90% - 95%) are published by the open access pre-print service first and later by a commercial publisher. Given the fact of flat or even shrinking library, college, and university budgets, our findings provide empirical indicators that should inform discussions about commercial publishers’ value proposition in scholarly communication and have the potential to influence higher education and academic and research libraries’ economic decisions regarding access to scholarly publications.
Blockchain doesn't make sense for AI. Check out /r/machinelearning.
Got some speedy feedback from Karim. Definitely some great advice! Thanks
Anecdote aside, it's established beyond a doubt that the US has much, much higher rates of gun violence than European countries, across every dimension: wounds, deaths, assault, self-harm, accidents... You name it, there's a statistic documenting it.

For example, according to healthdata.org, in 2016, physical violence by firearm was the cause of 210.5 DALYs per 100,000. In the Netherlands it was 10.8.

A DALY is a standardized metric defined by the WHO as "lost years of life" to measure the burden of a disease or other affliction.

So in 2016 physical violence by firearm caused 20 times more harm per capita to the US population than to the Dutch population. I'm willing to bet that for self-harm and accidental firearm wounds the gap is even larger, given the idiotic habit Americans have of keeping guns and ammunition stored in their homes.

Source: https://vizhub.healthdata.org/gbd-compare/
Amazon is just one scalability improvement in blockchain away from getting a major DApp-based competitor with the potential to obliterate its e-commerce side (while keeping cloud one) within a decade.
Google usually has its own private power generation for major DCs, not connected to the public grid. They're very big on renewables - they've built their own hydro power stations on the Columbia River for their west coast DCs, and they typically use geothermal or tidal power in Europe. Being close to potential renewable energy sources is actually a major consideration for where they put new DCs.
I'm completely novice at this matter, but from the sounds of it even if LC4 does not completely remove the biases but only reduce them, wouldn't it still be improvement? I'm kinda assuming that the remaining biases would be smaller, and thus harder to exploit in an attack?
> I highly recommend not selectively pulling out one detail of many as an excuse to be dismissive.

The other commenter didn't merely nitpick a detail, they attacked a central pillar in your comment's credibility. When you responded with irrelevant information about watching criminal dramas, the commenter (rightly) advised you not to get your information from entertainment media. I can't tell you how to feel personally, but frankly I'm not sure it could be worded any more gently. You really shouldn't get your information from TV. At a certain point it's difficult to correct someone else without coming across as patronizing. As for your other sources of information:

> As already stated, I have taken college classes where this was touched upon.

As I cited in another reply to you, those college courses either provided you with misinformation, or you misunderstood them. Reading "quite a lot of stuff" and raising children while encountering "personal challenges" also does not satisfy any empiricism for your claims.

> If you take additional personal potshots at me, my lack of reply is not some sort of confirmation that these low blows are in any way accurate.

This is irritating and comes across as controlling, in my opinion. You don't really have any authority on how other people interpret your lack of reply. Nor were the commenter's valid criticisms "potshots" or "low blows" - you're being factually incorrect, insofar as there is cited, demonstrable evidence available. In fact, I'll freely interpret your lack of response as a tacit concession!
Oh geez, the aisles with shelves of heavy objects stacked 20 feet high at home improvement stores would be terrifying during a big earthquake. Had never considered that.
What's New in #Microsoft Patch Tuesday Updates for March 2018?
US antitrust enforcement has basically settled on "if it's not directly leading to higher costs for consumers leave it alone." This is kind of Matt Stoller's signature issue that he's always writing about.
How Your SaaS Pricing Affects Your Target Audience
Which is fine; those people chose not to invest in Amazon.
Yup! Although we're not there yet, we believe the program is generalizable to every young professional who wants to work in the US, since the core insights themselves are not industry-specific.

Ideally the further we expand the more we're capable of supporting interdisciplinary job seekers like your friend. There's potentially something here where the more industries we cover, the more we know about everything in between those industries, and the more effective guidance we can provide to candidates who are stuck in between.
I'm just saying how I'm running things now. Totally open to better ways. Right now I pay $135 for a two year wildcard cert (very small business here). It takes 1 hour of my time to update the cert for all these applications. 1 hour of time and $135 every two years is not a lot. When I do a cursory look of how to reliably automate letsencrypt across all applications, there are people who have created scripts that help, but it does not give me reassurance that everything will run smoothly every 90 days. I am waiting for letsencrypt to get first-class support in dovecot, postfix, pureftpd, and IIS, so it can be set and forget, and I know long term support will be there.
If this is real, get him to contact me. It's worth billions if it is accurate and novel / patentable.
The tiles are hardly a requirement here, as mentioned in other comments you can use deck of cards also with LC4
> Any alert is better than no alert

For large earthquakes, absolutely. But if you get a situation like the Canterbury earthquakes (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Canterbury_earthquake - 17,000+ over the span of several years) the warning system becomes useless unless it can rapidly detect magnitude and mercalli intensity.

My family lived through the Canterbury earthquakes. If you live somewhere with this hazard PLEASE prepare accordingly.
The article asserts there is a "drought" because Earthquakes on certain faults haven't occurred in the last N years. But the article fails to even suggest a frequency of expected occurrence which would lead to such a conclusion. This is just clickbait exploiting fear for money.

For facts, the USGS posts the best scientific evaluation of fault frequency. Here's the one for the Bay Area [1]. Summary is that in the next 30 years, there is a 98% chance of >= 6.0 (meh), 72% chance of >= 6.7 (ouch), 51% chance of >= 7.1 (Loma Prieta class), and 20% chance of >= 7.5 (Great SF Earthquake class). The fact sheet goes into detail on the likelihood of earthquakes on each fault.

[1] PDF https://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/2016/3020/fs20163020.pdf
I'm not very familiar with the various jvm profiles - but isn't javacard pretty light? (the stuff that runs on similar cards and such)?
They're hardly the only ones. Injustice 1&2,Guilty Gear Xrd -Sign- & Revelator, Marvel vs Capcom: Infinite, Dragon Ball FighterZ - these days, it's actually less common for AAA fighters to not use the Unreal Engine.
No Alcohol, No Coffee for 27 Months. This Is What Happened
Flare 1.0
Are you doing more than 300 transactions per second? If not then don't worry about it...

I say '300' because just a few years ago we were doing that on (a poorly tuned) DB2 on top of an 8 disk array on Netapp over NFS... Worked Fine™
I had to duck a few LCDs and drop ceiling tiles in the 2011 Christchurch earthquake, 60 seconds would've been handy to hide under my desk.
YouTube didn’t tell Wikipedia about its plans for Wikipedia
The context of that section was that he was tired of working in isolation and wanted to pair program with the rest of the team.
Until January 2020, Microsoft is producing security patches for Windows 7. I'll continue using it until that time. Past that point, it'll be a fallback for software that I can't get running under Linux (similar to the positions that XP, 98, and DOS fill for me).

If Microsoft only wants to support new software, they should make new software that people want to switch to without being tricked, forced, and coerced into it.
I ran into the same issue and frustration you have in trying to learn UE4. I even started UECasts.com[1] to help bridge that gap for others.

I made a lot of getting started resources and cheatsheets to help newcomers such as a C++ Cheat Sheet[2] and a Blueprint Cheat Sheet[3].

[1] https://www.uecasts.com

[2] https://uecasts.com/resources/unreal-engine-c-plus-plus-chea...

[3] https://uecasts.com/resources/unreal-engine-blueprint-cheat-...
Oh, d--n it, misread. Never mind.
> drone-based burrito delivery service

Well, I'm sold!
I think I have the ratio's wrong, I think it's 0.5% antimony.

But I haven't seen it in about 20 years. Even before then most solder was 60/40.
Dinero.js  an immutable library for working with monetary values in JavaScript
When I learned about dark matter I remember it being discussed about how the spin more like a solid rigid disk (ie: homogeneous mass distribution) vs a non-rigid (non-homogeneous) disk. That the distribution of visible matter did not predict the observed rotation behavior (moment of inertia problem, not center of mass. Though angular momentum is key).

An analogy for a non-rigid disk would be like swinging a flimsy plastic pipe. You'll notice that it is not straight when spinning and the far end lags the hand holding onto the rod. Vs if you spin with a metal pipe, the whole thing is rigid and your hand and the tip of the rod are in the same place.

The figure skater analogy is usually used in discussions about center of mass and moment of inertia (figure skater pulls arms in and the center of mass changes, but the energy is transferred into spin energy). Which rigid disks have a different moment of inertia than a non-rigid disk (eg: hoops spin different than disks).
I can almost guarantee you that a warning like that, broadcast at certain times of the day on all major freeways in LA or the bay area, would kill more people than the events that you mentioned.
Your timeline is off. The show was ordered several months before the company went bankrupt.
"Three Equifax Inc. senior executives -- Chief Financial Officer John Gamble, and unit presidents Joseph Loughran and Rodolfo Ploder -- sold shares worth almost $1.8 million in the days after the company discovered the breach. Equifax has said those three executives had not been informed of the incident when they initiated the sales."

While I'm not sympathetic to the U.S. CIO named in this article, I find it somewhat dubious that none of the above executives knew anything. In any event, I wouldn't take Equifax's word for it. The finance dudes get a clean bill of health, and the tech guy gets thrown to the feds. Again, not that Ying deserves my sympathy either, but...
I just hope when the next simulation starts my mind gets carried forward.
Almost finished mobile version of site (you could check it in beta.bazqux.com -- landing page/menus are not ready yet, but the reading itself is more or less OK). Planning to add feeds management and reading statistics, themes, bookmarking, improved sharing, mailing lists support, many little things and to open source it.
> None of them run in a browser

some used to, until browsers banned them
> more powerful (and safer) than many nation-states

Like maybe safer than Uruguay? Not the US.
I'm not disputing that America has far more gun deaths than most (all?) other nations, but to generalize that the violence in Chicago is endemic to the rest of the nation is pure fantasy.

There are tens of thousands of towns, villages, and cities that see little to no gun violence each year. But they don't get written up in the Daily Fail.
Show HN: Open Source Directory of High School Hackathons
Good point. The builders gave all assurances, but they're also the seller, so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
This should probably link to the source at https://david-smith.org/blog/2018/03/14/apple-watch-series-3... , unless i'm missing something.
I didn't know we had the tech to detect earthquakes with high prob (say >99%) something like 60 seconds in advance. Can someone comment? If we can detect, you are right that it is shocking we don't do population wide drills with messaging infrastructure.
Taxi-driving is a full-time job with tons of people who've been doing it for years. Is taxi-driving a desirable occupation for skilled workers? Lyft and Uber aren't keeping drivers for a straightforward reason: they're a comparably worse value proposition than being a taxi driver used to be.

I'm not saying there aren't advantages to the new system. There certainly are. But the drivers are bearing the brunt of the downsides.
I've found the git support to be lacking. Every game studio I've known uses Perforce mostly because it handles lots of binary data much better. Because of the way games are developed, DCVS don't have as many benefits.
As disasters go earthquakes are intermittent enough that it is easy to forget about them. I carry an earthquake kit in my car with enough to get out of my car and hike (and possibly camp a bit) back to my house from most anywhere I might be in the 99th percentile.

I did have the unpleasant experience of replacing my water cache and finding that one of the barrels had been leaking into one of the dry goods boxes. That was a gooey icky mess. And it reminded me to be more vigilant about rotating supplies.

Still, when it hits, I expect a lot of chaos.
> extremely low margin

The airlines cry that it's low margin, then report billions in profits. Someone should call them out on it.

AA, for example, reported $10 BILLION in profit in 2015 and 2016 combined.

Yet legroom gets smaller because it can't make any money.
Stephen Hawking helped us create this show and today we’re releasing it for free
Even if they expired after 10 years, it would be great.

Of course, that would never happen, but if it did, we'd end up with a wonderful cottage industry for aspiring artists making derivative works of "old" music, movies, and games.

It seems like most of our modern culture is going to be lost because companies won't release the IP, but they also won't spend the money to maintain it.
Or what about removing the restricted sound files entirely and allowing the user to provide their own, which could presumably come from some fan version.

Then again, I guess releasing your "redo" of some voice actor's soundtrack violates copyright too?

(Like, I couldn't release a set of files of me doing Darth Vader's lines from A New Hope?)
Why are some words capitalized? Is there a hidden message here or something?
to be fair they did a good job, was fully functional quickly. I've had 5 good years with no ads.
Automation is shifting income from workers to owners
idk, it'll be curious when a $5.99 video rental online will actually mean a near instant delivery to your door. Amazon is trying to do instant deliveries.

Then all these services won't be as valuable.

My point is, might it be smarter to make a coop logistics company? Consumers may favor slower(but not too slow) delivery of a higher quality product for the same price as it's digital equivalent.
Well, TBF, if you are doing something genuinely new, it can be hard to figure out what's real and what's not. It can be hard to figure out what are meaningful metrics and what aren't.

I was sympathetic to the Theranos side of things until I learned they actually submitted fraudulent test data. That was the point where it became clear to me they were not confused as to where to draw some line. They were being willfully deceptive. Deception like that doesn't grow out of confusion. It grows out of clarity that you are selling BS.
I assume this is more intro to Pytorch than intro to ML.

Any tips on an high quality intro to ML content using PyTorch for the hands on examples?