skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not convinced this does logically follow. There is a view point that God is the source of math only in the sense that God created humanity with the limited capacity for understanding the world around them and one way this capacity has manifested is through the development of Mathematics.

Why does math work so well? Well math is pretty great but I don't think it is magical. There have been thousands of years of slow mathematical advances to get us to where we are now.
This verifies that the speed limit is 45 mph, not the 35 mph that many were reporting. Many suspected that was the case because of the sign in this Google street view image [1], but since that image is from July 2017 it was possible that the speed limit had changed since then. The car in the submitted video drives by that sign, and it still says 45 mph, and there are no new signs between there and the crash site.

[1] https://www.google.com/maps/@33.4350531,-111.941492,3a,75y,3...
A short list of the other attempts on bio-inspired underwater robots:

* Fish https://seagrant.mit.edu/publications/MITSG_00-4J.pdf
* Octopus https://phys.org/news/2015-04-octopus-inspired-robotthe-fast...
* Snake https://eelume.com/
* Jellyfish http://www.emdl.mse.vt.edu/projects/alex.html
* Manta Ray https://www.usnews.com/news/news/articles/2017-12-04/singapo...
I thought China is the only one want to regulate their people's everyday behaviors...

It turns out the whole idea of freedom is nothing but a degree of how alone one can live. The more alone the more free, but that isn't what freedom stands for...
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If only it were possible to establish factual causal relationships with 100% certainty 100% of the time... sadly we do not have that utopia and must thus deal with language that speaks in terms of degrees of certainty
If that IP data is from the SEC 4 filings than that is interesting to see Renaissance and Blackrock using the bulk of their downloads from that source.

BUMP Form 4 is insider trading disclosures per the original paper. That is even more interesting.
I think that’s a good point. The chilling effects of ruin without a safety net make it hard for cteative individuals to develop their skills - and their economic potential.
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Many, many people don't realise there is an entirely separate section of BuzzFeed called BuzzFeed News. BuzzFeed News are the ones who first published the "Steele dossier" to the public (as far as I recall; if there was another organisation in partnership, I only remember BuzzFeed News).

I recall at the time that people kept nitpicking over the misspelling of a bank (in a way that suggested people of a certain expertise never make spelling errors, which is simply untrue). It was a sensational story at the time, but all one needs to do now is to look back and compare it to what we know now.
We moved on - my friend was in business school at the time, and thought that continuing on with the project would be detrimental to his job search (he was looking at joining a hedge fund).

Yeah, it was a very sudden shift. We always knew they were potential customers, we just didn't realize how quickly they would take to the product (as opposed to legal firms which you can imagine are significantly more bureaucratic about such things).
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Just an update, the Uber car did fail that badly, and it was a shocking failure.
>I think it's reasonable to assume that if 50k people tweeted about it, a far larger number probably took action (active tweeters are just a small subset of the population) or are at least thinking about reducing usage or deleting.

These "Delete Facebook" campaigns are nothing new. They used to spread around Facebook like chain letters all the time (maybe less between then and now, I don't really know since I haven't used it much), always about privacy something, and all the people posting them were always right back to their normal Facebook usage the next week as if nothing happened. Maybe this time it'll stick a little more among the small group of people who are invested in this kind of thing, but I'm not holding my breath.
'Great Pacific garbage patch' sprawling with far more debris than thought
Agreed. The food I got while driving around Baja a while ago was not very good.
I have a problem clicking on Gizmodo ever since I read an article on what was essentially a moto perpetuo machine presented as a breakthrough. Do we have a better source for the news?
Last year they allowed Fix NICS to be coupled with the concealed carry reciprocity act, so one side gets enhanced background checks and the other side gets an easier time concealed carrying - https://www.nraila.org/articles/20171206/house-passes-concea....

That sounds like budging to me.
Actually I might buy a new bulldozer with Arthur Dent.
Where is Valve... cs:go is the most toxic game i've ever played... and its one of those games which has no support team behind it, once you report something noone from the company gets to see your report...
The amount of racist names etc that goes unpunished in there is unbelievable.
> Sure, you can report those players, but ultimately, someone has to review the games and I suspect this is quite impossible to achieve.

They don't have to review the games if one account has many reports of "Unsportsmanlike conduct".
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I wish people would stop comparing policies of governments to the policies of a private company's online community.
> I'd really rather not have video game designers and video game journalists forcing their versions morality onto me.

You know what, I would.

Now don't get me wrong, I don't want these same people regulating speech or whatever. But I do want them regulating their own userbases. I do want moderators on HN enforcing the HN guidelines, just like I want Blizzard to enforce the "Blizzard guidelines" in their games, whatever they may be.

And honestly, the fact you think this "ultimately caters to a tiny fraction of gamers while worsening the experience for the majority" tells me you're part of the problem; you're probably often toxic to other players (even if you don't notice it), get your account muted/locked out/whatever, and then think that you did nothing wrong and everyone's in the same boat as you.

You wouldn't believe how many times I've seen this. People who think their behaviour is OK, who think they're not making the experience worse for other players. Then they wonder why they got banned. They go on the game's forums, subreddit, etc and complain "[studio] is banning people randomly!". And then some fed up dev from the studio pulls up chat logs and reveals some disgusting behaviour.

> If this were such a massive problem, millions of people wouldn't be spending billions of dollars and hundreds millions of man hours playing these games.

Thousands of companies are spending millions of dollars fighting that problem because it's affecting their players' experience, which ultimately affects players' willingness to buy and play the studio's games. Once again, that you think they'd willingly cater to a "tiny fraction" of their base, is absurd and gives a glimpse of your true nature.
I am sure the top guys in your company took a significant amount of the savings as bonus.
3 actually applies to the Obama campaign, though without the "false pretenses" part. The majority of people they harvested data on was via friends giving consent. But the other points remain important differences.
There are a few articles linked on the bottom of the page (dead links unfortunately) that purport to show the same.

> "Surprisingly enough, it's proven that Chinese-speaking children are better at counting numbers than English-speaking counterparts because of their language. Bilingual children are better at counting when they think in Chinese than in English. The irregularity of the English number system makes it harder for children to count numbers properly."

Not sure I'd give much credence to that hypothesis, though. Hard to disentangle the many factors influencing the results. Having said that, the Chinese numbers are pleasantly short and logical, by and large.

English has the advantage again in big numbers, where we have million, billion, trillion, quadrillion, etc., with the Latin prefix N indicating 10^6N (long scale, old British usage and continental Europe) or 10^(3+3N) (short scale, American usage).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_and_short_scales
"I took a sabbatical". If the company has a problem with that they are not a good place to work anyway.

Given that, looking for jobs sucks, a couple of rejections can easily make people feel really down. So after some failed attempts I know it's hard to keep the mindset that you are also interviewing the companies, but do try to keep in mind that you deserve a good work environment!
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The truly large bright stars don't really "live" long enough in that state to travel great distances on an astronomical scale, and if there was one in our area we'd be in trouble[1].

Large stars smaller than that but large enough to be significantly bright would probably look a lot like a planet, but long-term could also be bad for us if they were close enough and massive enough to even slightly destabilize orbits - the impact might take thousands of years to truly materialize, but climate change has nothin' on orbit change.

Also, anything both large/bright enough to be easily visible AND headed in our direction would likely have been noticed at this point. It may happen someday, but the descendants of the cockroaches are the ones who'll have to deal with it.

[1] http://earthsky.org/astronomy-essentials/supernove-distance
> "information which is sufficiently accessible that its price impact has diffused through the market."

Thank you (and Retric) for explaining, but this phrasing does not quite convince me: it does not explain how this diffusion is supposed to take place, and I for one cannot imagine a way of this knowledge to be distributed among the market as a whole without individuals knowing this information and freely sharing it together. Which again seems to be fundamentally undermined by what was measured.

I mean, yes, there are situations in which you can distribute knowledge among people where no individual can see the whole picture, but together they manage (for example, the knowledge required to turn crude oil into plastic requires knowledge among every step of production, diffused among individuals - nobody truly "knows" how to turn crude oil into plastic if you define that as knowing everything involved in the process). I do not see that kind of context apply here though.
Completely anecdotal, but I've interviewed a few IBM lifers and veterans for positions outside IBM. Their skills were lacking, to say the least. It's unclear why. Perhaps when you joined IBM "back in the day" a CS degree was less important? Or maybe the business itself stressed other skills over technical proficiency?

While ageism is a serious problem in the industry, I also don't think it's fair to equate seniority with competence. There are many wizard old heads, but not every old head is a wizard.
im surprised not to see lezgi language here.
we have 1 to 10
10+1 to 9
20+ 1 to 19 (ie 37 is 20 and 19)
40+ 1 to 19
3x20+ 1 to 19 (ie 63 is 3 twenties and 13)
4x20+ 1 to 19
hundred
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The rate at which it was drifting with respect to the other stars might have been noticeable under long-term observations. 20 ly in 70k years means its doing about 85 km/s. At its point of closest approach, 0.6 ly, this translates to 1 radian per 2100 years, or 1 degree per 37 years. (The full moon is 1/2 a degree.) The Scholz star was too dim to see, but a brighter star following its trajectory would have noticeably moved in a constellation over the course of a human lifetime.
I took a sabbatical from late 2016-early 2017. I didn't have any trouble with obtaining a new position after I ended my time off. Any company that would've given me trouble with my break isn't a company I want to work at.

That said, I should note that the two primary things I did during my sabbatical are pretty much the antithesis of screwing around. I started a very successful non-profit and released a very well received update to an open source consumer-focused app that gets used by a couple hundred thousand people. So, YMMV.
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How Luther went viral
It does ensure that the add-ons you download were at least approved once to enter the add-on store. So if you were at a sketchy website and were prompted to install an add-on, it would fail the check. So that's something. I agree it could be a lot better from a security point of view, but I don't think it's malicious.
For a project, we had a couple of early 8086 samples rated only 4 MHz - the final product was 5 MHz.
Thanks for the advice. I don't think that a company is interested about this project. However, it would be absolutely awesome and I might start looking for that when I will be a little bit more professional.
You are right, this is B2B. However, AWS is mostly used by large corps as IT offloading, which is not a business where IBM is a competitor.
I really don't understand the mentality here sometimes. HNers want ultimate choice for themselves, but the choices of the companies they work for are to be constrained such that the only choices they make are choices that benefit them. They want both ultimate security and benefit of market forces on their salaries.

Libertarianism only when it suits them.
The rasterized image they have on that announcement looks like it was rendered with OpenGL 1.2 or something. In reality, today's rasterized image would look almost identical to their raytraced image.
> What if a company has a large codebase that's in Python 2 and wants http2? Will those suggesting porting help them bear the costs and manhours it takes?

This is why banks still use COBOL and Fortran.
As someone who has worked for one such secretive hedge fund in the past, and has for a long time been very interested in Renaissance, I'd be curious to know what your source of this information is. Any chance you could share some more insight?
The solution is to block the person you don't like, never having to see or hear from him again. Seems pretty fair. You'll be matched with less "toxic" people, they'll be matched with similar minded people, which they may or may not like. No need for suspensions or bans, imo.
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Why do they mention Google on the title? Google doesn't rely on content. It's sites like Reddit that will take a big hit. As for Facebook, you can always report a user.
You are literally telling someone to go kill themself because they personally don't find it necessary to socialize and maintain personal relationships with others and prefer to be left alone to their own devices. I think you're the one that needs an attitude adjustment.
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I already put it out there. Gun licenses and gun registry.

Without that there is no room to enforce regulation. The NRA and the gun culture will never budge on these two items, so they make an outright ban inevitable.

People can call things reasonable or unreasonable, that's fine but try to argue that registering a gun or obtaining a license is such an undue burden for the individual gun owner vs the harm of vast unchecked gun profileration for the rest of society.

NRA supporters are gun nuts. I am a gun owner.

There is a difference.

Here is a recent ad from the NRA,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrnIVVWtAag

That doesn't come off as at least a little unhinged to you?

The NRA does a disservice to gun owners and the whole country with their amped-up, violent rhetoric.
Yea that video pretty much sums it up. The car is definitely the proximate cause. If I were handling the claim I would go 90% liability to the car for driver inattention and careless negligence and 10% to the pedestrian for jaywalking.
> am certain that some of the ideas that many of us hold now will be thought quite silly in a few hundred years.

Yes, like the theory that we're actually living in a simulation, espoused by Elon Musk and other respected, ostensibly science-minded people.

It's basically Creationism in modern form.
I would be a very rich person if I got a dollar for every time the "right framework/solution/technique" broke unexpectedly when pushing it in certain ways.

Or it might not even have existed (or was unstable) when you started work, but it got better later.
CircleCI will parse and collect JUnit test metadata. https://circleci.com/docs/2.0/collect-test-data/
disclaimer: Developer Evangelist at CircleCI

re: parsing test results

CircleCI has been doing this for years. Not only does CircleCI read and store JUnit formatted test metadata but provides a dashboard called "Insights" to show this data overtime.

A Doc on collecting this data can be found here: https://circleci.com/docs/2.0/collect-test-data/

re: Code coverage spam

Thank you! I've often felt this way but never seen anyone else mention this. For many code coverage tools, you can integrate them at the GitHub point, which then gives you that "code coverage spam" or you can integrate it with a CI provider. This can simply fail a build if coverage drops. You can always have a status badge that shows coverage % in the readme as well.
I'll take this opportunity to recommend Universe Sandbox[1], which is pretty cheap on steam and worth every penny.

Turning on projected orbital lines in an N-body simulation of our solar system and seeing what happens when you toss a star in there is really enlightening... the rings all shift in tandem in a visceral way that really helps me "feel" what happens.

There's a simulation that comes out of the box that simulates the circumstances of the book "Nomad" (I haven't read the book) where a small solar-mass rogue black hole drifts past the solar system at high speed. With orbital path projections turned on you get to watch all the paths shift like wobbling hula hoops as the unseen object drifts past. Most orbits remain stable but very deeply shifted from where they were (earth's aphelion ends up far out where Jupiter was, with its perihelion much closer than before...)

The effects described in the article are obviously less extreme, but the game helps me get a sense of just how perilous our planetary orbits are and how vulnerable to outside influences they can be.

[1] http://universesandbox.com/
Have you tried Wire? (Similar protocol as Signal, more polished apps)
THIS!!! Freelancing is still working. Showcase it, don't hide it, however you have to learn to _sell_ yourself better. For instance, I would put "Private Consulting" rather than Freelancing on your resume.

It would be even better if you had your own company, then you could put "Backpack Consulting Inc." on your resume ;) Don't hate the player, hate the game :)
I guess that when you say "all the expertise it took", you're comparing yourself to hedge-fund managers and major investors?
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Tried and failed. You just reinvented the downvote button.
>impossible to fund gun violence studies.

How is the NRA stopping anyone from funding studies?

>study shows as is already implied it means that person may be hurt or killed

Your arguments are epistemologically broken. Would giving, low-blood-pressure people, blood-pressure regulating medication suddenly make them have high blood pressure? No. Wet streets do not cause rain
I like good tools as much as anybody, but I am always impressed with what a little talent and practice can do with existing tools. This story was in the news lately, about a woman that uses nothing but MS Paint:

https://mymodernmet.com/grandma-ms-paint-art/
Don't know about France but a definite problem in Ireland is that farming is 7 days a week 365 days a year job for many farmers and for those with a small holding making a living can be difficult. Add to the closing of rural pubs/post offices/shops social isolation is a real problem.
I understand, it’s just a funny coincidence.
I'm not telling the scientists what to study.
Frightening small children and disconcerting grown-ups:Linux kernel Concurrency [pdf]
I was born and raised in San Antonio. My grandmother wrote a locally-famous cookbook back in the 1960s, "The World of Mexican Cooking". [1] It's actually almost purely Tex-Mex, although she does have a chapter for "Mex-Mex" recipes. The recipes are fantastic, authentic, and most are easy enough fo r the average home cook to prepare. I asked my aunt, who now owns the copyright, if I could typeset the book in LaTeX and distribute it under an open-source license. She was cool with it and I started the transcription but never got beyond the second chapter--it's hard, tedious work! If anybody knows of some software that I can feed scanned pages into and get a PDF of OCR'ed text plus the artwork (it had wonderful art doodled in between the pages and paragraphs), please let me know.

By the way, Tex-Mex is the quintessential melting pot cuisine and one of the things that ties us San Antonians together. Tex-Mex has been embraced by many different ethnicities. My great aunt and uncle were children of Syrian-Lebanese immigrants who came to the US via Mexico. They opened up a restaurant, Karam's, that was one of the most famous and popular Tex-Mex restaurants in San Antonio for decades until it closed in the early 2000's.

If you're ever in San Antonio, skip all of the crappy tourist restaurants on the Riverwalk and head straight for the original location of the Blanco Cafe [2]. In my opinion, it's the most authentic and delicious Tex-Mex joint in town.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/World-Mexican-Cooking-Margaret-Curry/...

[2] https://www.yelp.com/biz/blanco-cafe-san-antonio

* EDIT: I just remembered that I did scan the book to PDF already. I have it here on my phone but I'm on a plane at the moment. Once I'm on the ground, I'll see about uploading it to Github for everyone to check out. The scanned version is sub-optimal and I think my grandmother would have appreciated my efforts to typeset this. If you're interested in helping out, we can figure out some way to divvy up the chapters and you can help me with OCR+proofing or doing the image->text manually. Thanks for your nice comments! I hope to get something for Show HN soon.
I don't live in the US so I am not familiar with this ruling, but are you saying that I am not allowed to use my own data that Facebook handed over to me in a neat zip file containing html files, photos, friends lists, messages... everything?
Because it's a false equivalency. Nobody is accusing Julian Assange of something that he isn't guilty of, and it's attempting to change the subject when faced with the facts.
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>"Perhaps most surprising, the researchers found the median fund-month download amount is only four filings while the mean was 672, suggesting that relatively few funds are accessing vastly more information."

Interesting...