skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It depends on what you consider "better". I'd much rather install an electron app than mount and run a docker container, and I say that as a developer who uses docker every single day.
Coming uninvited is less the point. But it's easy to just invite 30-50 people. It doesn't make much of a difference for small ad-hoc events (which I usually plan through WhatsApp, which is still somewhat a social network).
The real question should be why integers aren't factors of pi or e

Everything else is quite arbitrary.
Forgot to mention the newly raise CA gas tax.
But it is accessible to the primitive geometer...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-o3eB9sfls

Or for more details,
http://www.math.chalmers.se/~wastlund/Cosmic.pdf
You think I'm a fan on Saudi?

My point is that OP noted that Saudi is waging war in Yemen but failed to do the same with Iran. It was an uneven comparison.
A much, much more interesting observation (attributed to Ramanujan) is that e^(pi * sqrt(163)) is extremely close to an integer. In fact it equals 262537412640768743.99999999999925...

The most remarkable thing is that this is actually not a coincidence, but a consequence of complex multiplication:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complex_multiplication#Sample_...
Commenting in Popular Programming Languages
Fourier’s transformational thinking
Homeschool Morning Routine-An AM Routine for Homeschooling
When CA was operating, the API allowed access to data that you allowed your friends to see. Which is a pretty common data setting as most of us are on FB to share info with our friends: https://www.google.com/amp/s/techcrunch.com/2015/04/28/faceb...
Don't take this the wrong way, but I suspect you are young developer who hasn't realised that putting in the extra work up front pays large dividends down the line.
I love reading these bug-hunting war stories, there's no breakpoint for radioactive cows in GDB! Another favorite of mine is the 500-mile email bug[1], if there's a bigger collection of these stories anywhere on the internet, I'd love to read them

[1] http://web.mit.edu/jemorris/humor/500-miles
Last week: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16573571	Study Reveals Brain Mechanisms That Allow “Iceman” Unusual Resistance to Cold

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=Wim%20Hof&sort=byDate&type=com...
And yet most of what he does is just business as usual for Republicans and in common with neoliberal ideas. He is a bit of a wildcard so sometimes he yells something about tarifs, which might come out of nowhere, but looking at the stock markets they are perfectly happy with the current administration.
I’ve tried Clojure a little bit and it seems like a nice language but I’m not convinced by the lack of types. Why wouldn’t you want types? How often can you reuse a function intended for ‘ints’ with some other type? The way I see it types provide important information to anyone reading the code after it was written as well as to the compiler making it possible to catch bugs early and generate more efficient machine code.
You're being additionally tracked in the reverse by a third party affiliate on the knowledge of you being a person who blocks Facebook, if that makes any sense.

Adblock detectors that function in the same vein as "FuckAdblock" look at if the client blocked a Facebook pixel.
Hey WordPress plugin developers, stop supporting legacy PHP versions
Which it could do through the SEP if the SEP were powerful enough, or through a secondary interface.
For a single month, he was in that position for six years prior though. Not necessarily wrong but it doesn't look great. Probably a normal level of revolving door though.
When you say abused, do you mean that the campaign did not violate it in 2012 but took advantage of the lenience Facebook allowed them? Thanks
While the mathematics here is completely inane, I really enjoyed the presentation whereby the side concepts that the author is building on top of become pop-up margin notes. Very nice.
> implying that adding an additional "are you sure" to the process of joining a social media platform _doesn't_ benefit users.

/snark
Another useless article written by just-another columnist giving their opinion, failing to see the bigger picture, and riding the wave of bashing self-driving cars to get eyeballs to their article in hope to generate Ad revenue.
We need more of this kind of honest writing. In the tech world, we tend to use euphemisms to talk about this kind of destructive behavior. Go to a Meetup full of VCs and they say stuff like "Oh, that startup died because of team dysfunction."

Well, okay, but what does team dysfunction actually look like? How ugly does it get? Why does it happen?

Self-sabotage is remarkably common. We all know the failure rate of startups is very high. The estimates I've read vary, but they are all in the range of 80% to 90%. And clearly, much of the failure comes from suicide, not homicide. That is, the startup isn't out maneuvered by a giant like Google, but rather, it fails because of its own internal flaws.

The essay "Why do entrepreneurs engage in self-sabotage" is on this theme:

http://www.smashcompany.com/business/why-do-entrepreneurs-en...
>You don't seem to drive

LOL. I'm not sure if you're trolling, rude or just don't pay attention to the cars around you when you're driving, but I'll guess it's a combination of all 3.

>If you don't follow traffic flow, people will cut off in front of you, tailgate, zigzag, and do other dangerous lane changes/maneuvers much more frequently.

From my 45 years of observing people's driving and driving myself for about 30 years, I find that most people generally obey the speed limit or don't go much faster. Probably about 90% of people in general. At rush hour, it drops to about 50%. Some of the other 50% certainly do do all those fucked up, rude and dangerous things you mention, but it doesn't mean that the 50% of people obeying the speed limit are at fault. It's the impatient speeders who are at fault.

It's sometimes a bit of a Darwin award scenario. I live on Vancouver Island, and there is only a single highway over the mountains to Victoria. During commute times, about 50% of people speed significantly, and they do some of the dangerous and rude shit you mention. A few times a year one of them drives too fast for the conditions and ends up killing themselves, which then shuts down the entire north-south highway (the only fucking route) for 4 hours. The government is currently spending a shit ton of money to put barriers in the centre of the highway to try and prevent the excessively speeding idiots from killing themselves so often.

So no, I don't have much patience for the rude people who tailgate me, go 50km/h over the limit even in rain, and then get themselves killed and hold up the entire island for 4 hours because of their stupidity and lack of knowledge of basic physics.

(And I'm not calling out everyone who speeds, I do it myself sometimes, it's only the ones who go way over the limit with no consideration for weather conditions or safety, and the rude idiots who are in too much of a hurry to extend basic courtesy to other road users).
This needs much more visibility than it presently has. Device attestation is a difficult topic, and the writeup shows exactly why.
State of ICO ratings in 2018 (part 2)
Tuba! I’ve always been impressed by the dual demands of breath control and lugging around a tuba. You can probably snuff a candle at a quarter mile.
> The sixth edition will be the final one.

And so will the seventh.
Show HN: Distributed counting semaphore implementation using redis as a broker
Hi!

This is the second part of my research of what is there that ICO ratings websites have to offer us.

This part focuses on ICO listings compositions and metrics. In this part I am going to overview a list of 14 ICO rating services, which have relatively larger ICO listing size (200+ ICOs).
For those who may be concerned about this being a partisan hit job because it's a news article, the primary source from a verified account: https://twitter.com/cld276/status/975565844632821760
First, I assume the rules for trains are different than for cars. Second, I expect that someone jumping in front of your car is different than running over a cyclist in a bike lane.
what you can't email your mom pictures? IF she can use Facebook she can read email
>Maybe what they need isn’t more parties, but different friends. That’s not a judgement on you — I don’t know you nor your friends, so if you think the hassle of inviting them does not outweigh the pleasure of their company, that’s your decision to make.

If everybody takes about 10 minutes of individual communication overhead for a party and you have 50 guests. then that's 500 minutes of communication of what might just be a simple 10 minute organization over Facebook. If some exceptions aren't on Facebook it's maybe less of an issue, but it still is a disrespect for other people's time.

>But maybe they don’t care. Maybe to them not being invited to a few (or even the majority of) events is worth it, considering the alternative. If you’ve asked them and got an answer, I’d be interested to know what it was.

I asked them, they both cited privacy concerns as their main reasons to quit Facebook (which is completely valid).
Looks like the "app store" business model for news subscriptions... interesting. Very often I feel like I would be interested in subscribing to a media outlet but I don't want to go through a cumbersome payment process, possible issues with cancellations later on etc
I am a customer, but not a huge fan.

- There is a standardized API for interfacing with banks, HBCI, which almost every other bank supports. Except N26, who stated that they have no plans to do so.

- Their app (which is the only real way to interact with the account - there's a web interface but it's clear that the app is meant to be the main way) used to be really bad. They gradually improved, to the point that I wasn't able to get an error message by just opening it, but the fact that that was a pleasant surprise is not a good sign.

- They repeatedly made misleading statements about the acceptance of their credit card (meaning that I'd be stranded at an airport had I not had another card), their support was generally slow.

- They lured users in with great conditions, then made them progressively worse.

The instant credit card usage notifications work well though, and since it's free... but I don't consider them good enough to use them as my main bank - I expect anything that goes even slightly outside of everyday mainstream transactions to go horribly wrong.

If they manage to gradually fix their issues, they could be great, but as of now, I feel like they're just another startup that wants to "disrupt".
I imagine they're more interested in the location and store size than how recent the tile has been replaced.
All these articles coming out now definitely feel like a smear campaign against facebook. Im not saying I agree with facebook's actions, or that I even enjoy the site. But is anyone really surprised by any of this?
It's not 9.81, it's more like 9.87 (you got the distance correct at 0.13 so I guess a typo?).
Uh yeah I have no idea if it'd perform well, but instead of having a sparse vector with the one-hot encoding of 'cargo', you enter a sparse vector with the 'car', 'arg' and 'rgo' dimensions set high.

Top of my head speculation, I never tried this...
That's a strange statement. What about all the regulation that doesn't come to be? To take your statement to its logical conclusion would allow no company to do anything on its own.

Also, a statement like "no company can be trusted to do the right thing on its own" is obviously untrue, doesn't account for many of us with companies out here, and harms your overall point when you make these kinds of broad generalizations.
Gotta be able to negotiate wiggleroom somewhere when the Netflix-types come knocking
The pizza place generates more revenue -> the increased revenue can be used to increase wages -> drivers get more money

It's that simple, but it doesn't work in American tipping culture.
Not a "real bank" yet, but they applied for a European banking license in Lithuania last year.
https://techcrunch.com/2017/11/07/revolut-is-applying-for-a-...
Facebook to hold crisis meeting without Zuckerberg
Once the identity was pointed out to me and I didn't immediately grok, I realized I would never be a first-class mathematician :p
Fear, urgency, and figuring it out one day at a time
I'm from Tunisia and spent a lot of time in the UAE, so I'd like to think I know a bit about the Middle East and its history.

"Not even close"? Are you serious? Do you have a list of the most brutal dictators at hand by any chance?

Heck, Hafez is definitely on that list alongside his son. The Assad family has been renowned for its brutality and torture program, ever since the 80s.
Whenever I would talk about stuff like CA a few years back to my friend who works at Facebook, he would just say Palantir is even worse. Palantir has everything that can possibly be scraped from Facebook, and everything else they can get. It's not far off from that show Christopher Nolan's brother made... Person of Interest?
Just a coincidence. The g depends on the mass of the planet, while pi is rather universal for a perfect math circle.

In reality the g constant is not a constant, the value depends on the place of the Earth.
> they dont demand money

A linux developer demanding money from GPL violators is (seemingly) what triggered this action. See http://www.zdnet.com/article/linux-beats-internal-legal-thre...

>McHardy has sued companies for Linux GPLv2 violations in over 38 cases. In one, he'd requested a contractual penalty of €1.8 million. The company also claimed McHardy had already received over €2 million from his actions.

>what exactly does "not heavy handed" mean

It means not permanently revoking their licence to use the code again, even once they have become compliant. It's a common complaint made about the GPLv2 which was clarified in GPLv3
> Stop commenting about this until after you've done a bit of research.

In US most states have to make up to ensure people are paid at least minimum wage. Even if that's not the case, it's the governments responsibility (in case employers don't) to ensure people get paid enough. This as individual employees don't have a strong negotiation ability.

A customer is not obliged at all to tip; not unless the definition didn't suddenly change from "a sum of money given to someone as a reward for a service.". It should be a reward, not an expectation or even an insult when you don't receive it.
Methods for choosing to ensure a market that operates how the public wants:

Regulation:
Laws that mandate exactly how something should be done and if the company doesn't do it that way they are shut down - with no regard to whether or not the legally-mandated process achieves the end. Quite literally it's politicians controlling the means to hope that a certain end occurs, regardless of that end being achieved. Prone to regulatory capture, rent seeking, anticompetitive practices. Apt for: when a negative outcome will absolutely devastate the public, there isn't much variability in how to achieve the end, the domains in which the market operates are stable.

Tort Law:
A company is free to change how some process works but is able to be held financially liable for all ramifications of their process. Prone to failure if the assets of a company are less than the damage they can produce. Apt for: a new market which is highly dynamic, the state of the art is constantly changing, ruin is limited to customers who have chosen to engage with the company (no to little externalities).

Neocons: in favor of no regulation and castrated tort remedies
Neoliberals: in favor of bloated regulation (rent seeking) and symbolic tort remedies:
Libertarians: in favor of /extremely/ limited regulation and strong tort remedies.
What is the likelihood we could get state-based data protection like GDPR in California?
I'll agree with you in characterizing it as a breach of trust. That it is. Operatives in Washington, however, are trying to characterize it as something it is not.

It's not Russians hacking in, it's not part of some effort to destabilize democracy, etc. That characterization and demonization is indicative of the mindset of those people and that may be even pose more danger than the breach of trust by Facebook.
You must not be American. They're not that close in the USA.
(Part of) the problem is a lack of transparency to the cost you pay.

>They voluntarily did it.

If we're going from voluntarist morality then it seems okay initially but there are two main complicating factors that I see.

(1) Facebook and this app appear to be free. In reality they have a cost but because that cost takes the form of something other than money, the monetary value is obscured.

(2) Even the data itself is obscured from the user. Users don't know what data they've handed over, how it's been collected, what conclusions have been drawn from it, who it's been sold to, whether it's been combined with other data sources, etc.

Even the most voluntarist among us would probably see something wrong with the US healthcare system where you can't know the price of your services until after you've accepted them. Social media data collection is even one worse step than that because you never find out what price it is you've paid.

A fix to this is radical forced transparency, just like what GDPR is going to do.
Thats a really neat inline pdf viewer! Rendered on the backend with pdf.js or something?
Alibaba doubles Lazada investment to $4B
They were also just implicated in the Cambridge Analytica story from Channel 4.
How to Talk About Abortion
The curious –en suffix in English
In fairness backing up is the last place I want to hand over redundancy responsibility. Better I consider B2 as one part of the 3-2-1 backups than the be-all end-all
To Understand the Universe, Physicists Are Building Their Own
https://github.com/danluu/debugging-stories
https://github.com/danluu/post-mortems
...if you measure in a particular set of units. It's not so close to g = 21 mph/s, for example.
The NSA Worked to “Track Down” Bitcoin Users, Snowden Documents Reveal
Down for me right now (from the Netherlands).
This response is the 'I was only following orders' response
If we’re going to go this route, Google should be hauled in first. You can easily choose not to play with Facebook. Google? Not so much.
facebook basically did nothing to ensure third party apps & developers were not violating its data access and sharing policies. most developers know it has always been pretty easy to harvest data from facebook by tricking users and once you have the data you can do whatever you want with it.

facebook probably didn't do anything illegal, but many people feel they failed to sufficiently protect user data from bad actors.

It the absence of laws or regulations to punish facebook, the only recourse is for users to leave the platform. this probably won't happen b/c most people don't know or don't care. but if we think its in the public good to protect this data we should seek to pass some regulations that require platforms like facebook to meet an acceptable threshold of data protection.

given the effects that harvesting facebook data can have on elections, its probably a good idea for regulators to step in.
The problem for these companies is that hoarding and monetising data _is_ their business model. If they can't do that anymore, they are going to struggle in a serious way.
Most stem cell therapies produce benefits through the signaling of the transplanted cells, near all of which die off rather than integrate. This is an example of an approach that goes beyond that, providing a set of more organized cells in a thin tissue segment that looks more like the native tissue. When this was done for the heart, 10% of cells survived (this is a large number in the scope of stem cell therapies).

So it is interesting to speculate on the degree to which the benefits here are signaling versus cell integration. Clearly the big difference between past attempts is that a tissue-like set of organized cells are delivered rather than just free-floating unorganized cells.
What are you talking about, g is roughly 7e10 furlong/fortnight^2
What about the data already collected? Do they need consent to keep it?
Why would anyone want to use messenger, it is such a low quality app to be beyond useless.
Based on many of the comments in this thread I don't see how you could say it "sounds like exactly what happened with CA and FB." Debatable maybe. Clear cut, obviously not.

And as for your glib comment on editing the wiki article, you should read more carefully what I said. My argument was that the numerous examples of a breach in that wiki do not fit the CA/FB incident. Adding the incident to the list would do nothing to dispute that point.
From the article, 29- and 21- letters improvement in visual acuity. I believe this means at least 4-6 rows improvement from the chart you read off of.

Think about that for a second. Nearly blind, or actually blind, to being able to read again.

I'm seriously debating specializing in ophthalmology, and sub-specializing in retina surgery just became an even more appealing career plan for me.
Google digital news initiative
I would assume Facebook has more than Panatir can scrape. They are the real problem.
I don't think this is a good thing.

The GPL is a tool to scare companies into doing the right thing and releasing their code. By committing to this we lose the ability to scare those companies. It becomes much more worthwhile to play chicken hoping no one will notice that you are using GPL code in your closed source binary.
Ah, the other shoe drops. This is the reason for the blitz of anti-Facebook stories all at once... Legal authority to examine all that juicy personal data Facebook holds.

And if you think you are safe because you don't have an account, I have bad news for you.
S3 versioning is optional and off by default. Writes (including rewrites) to S3 are also atomic, so you’ll never see partial writes.
The poster i was replying to was talking about SFC, not that case.
Every ABET accredited degree (CS and/or CE) has a minimum requirement for ethics courses. The software industry just doesn't have a minimum requirement for accredited degrees (or any degrees at all, for that matter).
These are. I've been to one. Not a bad store at all. Resurrecting a highly nostalgic brand may be a viable option, if Amazon has some trick up their sleeves. The one thing they can't fix is low birth rates though, so it would have to transform the stores a bit.
Debiasing word vectors is not guaranteed to yield less discriminatory results in every application. In many languages, gender is expressed grammatically and there are different words for e.g. male and female scientists. If you debias the word vectors to remove associations with gender, it becomes impossible to distinguish those two. Now if you translate between two languages with that distinction, the model will have to fix itself to one of the two possibilities, and the translation error will be minimized by always picking the more common form. "First year of all-female Nobel prize winners and machine translation gets it totally wrong!" By debiasing the word vectors, the model has become more biased and less accurate overall.

If you create a discriminatory machine learning model, it's unlikely to be because you didn't debias your input representation. More often, you're training it on a task whose real-world statistics are biased, and the model learns to accurately reflect that bias to solve your task. The solution to that is not to modify the input, but rather the output you expect the model to provide.