skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As mentioned above, my builder friends will put in PVC pipe to run cables between floors and in walls. This allows cables to be replaced relatively easily if their time of usefulness is exceeded.

This seems to be a common best practice, sort of like blowing in expandable foam insulation between the historic (unchangeable) facade and new inner walls to properly insulate a historic home.

Electrical Metallic Tubing (EMT) conduits are similar but more stringent (fire protection).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrical_conduit
> The equivalent of a miniature staircase, perfected and fascinating for all future generations would be what, in software?

A perfectly written little compiler or interpreter, a little database? Something like that?
ITT: People who refuse to watch the video because kasparov can't possibly know anything else than chess. Being a great chess player doesn't make you an expert in everything, but it also doesn't mean you can't say anything useful about anything else than chess.

I think he has a valid point, then systems are specifically engineered to work in a domain, for instance chess. The rules and aspects of the game are programmed and then it can teach itself how to optimally play by those rules. It is a very limited scope and VERY fa from general AI
That is very cool. I could see lots of people would want one of those on their wall.
CPU of the Day: Intel Jayhawk – The Bird That Never Was
I'm increasingly convinced that any organization without a specific 'beat' is hopeless. Not only are they bad at the topic, it's hard to spot because they're good at newswriting - often you'd have to already know the story to catch the errors.

I've got half a dozen tech news sources I kind of trust (as in, trust that I can usually spot their errors) - Ars, Techdirt, and their ilk are all at least useful. WaPo/NYT/etc are largely subject-specific to US politics, but in denial about it, so that's workable. Physics and biology news I'm largely reduced to reading blogs and asking friends.

I've found ways of making this work for lots of things, but medicine and foreign affairs are the two that give me fits.

Medicine, like social psychology, is full of headlines reading "X causes Y!" over studies finding "X correlates with Y at p=0.30". I end up just reading the damn studies myself, which is obviously not efficient or trustworthy.

And foreign affairs is basically hopeless. I'm easily 5 removes away from facts at when reading an English-language story about, say, Saudi domestic politics. There's effectively no 'ground truth' to access, because every source I can compare to has its own issues. It's honestly sort of baffling when I hear people talk about those topics like they're fully-informed; I'm not sure how anyone who isn't an actual expert in the specific foreign affair in question works up that kind of confidence.
Detecting Cryptojacking with Sysdig's Opensource Project Falco
America’s unprecedented move to limit nicotine in cigarettes
I believe this looks awfully familiar to this: https://github.com/c-bata/go-prompt (which is based on the previously mentioned `python-promt-toolkit`)
It's a pretty neat tool. I've played around with it a lot, and it's used in the aws-shell[0] to a very similar effect as the OP. (Disclaimer: I work for aws and have contributed to the aws-shell.)

[0]: https://github.com/awslabs/aws-shell
While yes, you can simply create a new repo on GitHub with the local copy and name it similarly, it will not be linked to the original as a fork on GitHub.
> Luckily I found an old local copy of my project, but this taught me not to rely on Github as only storage for code.

This is the distillation. If something matters to you, you should personally take responsibility for its long-term storage. Apparently for the author, finding a true duplicate was just luck. To minimize the risk, maintain multiple copies on multiple media. Github is only one medium.

The context is especially notable: this is source code and source code is (in a majority of cases) very small. Maintaining personal archives of project source is a comparatively simple and low-cost matter.
We have net metering here, so the grid is basically my battery. It would be more worthwhile if I could charge from the grid but I’m way overproducing as is.
I am aware that the ambulance is not free in the US, but it's quite hard to comprehend I guess. Especially in an emergency, I wouldn't think of anything other than calling one, driving to hospital myself wouldn't even cross my mind.
Depends what you're talking about. Scans of objects? Terrains? Buildings? Different LiDAR data sets for very different tasks. Here is free LiDAR for the state of Oregon: https://gis.dogami.oregon.gov/lidarviewer/
There's a little more nuance to it than that. While git users generally keep a local copy of a repo, collaborating with others is pretty much always done through a central server. Git users could theoretically collaborate without a central server, but it currently a far too manual process to be considered practical. There were a couple of attempts to implement decentralized collaboration in git under the name gittorrent, but those didn't go anywhere. Failure is understandable in this space, decentralized collaboration is a _hard_ problem and the tools to do it are still in their infancy. IPFS is probably the furthest along at this point and they're still a long ways away from having something production ready.
You're misunderstanding the intent I think. This isn't a guarantee that the code is kept private. It's a guarantee that the other copies don't have a Github "fork" relationship to the true repo.

Nobody is disputing that access to the private repo allows for a copy to be kept. But it's an "island", not a fork.
How Machine Learning Helps Analytics to Be Proactive
I agree this seems much more important than the everything else that's been said about this issue. Even TFA could be faulted for not expanding on this point.
Calling it a randsom note is a tad dramatic. You pay them for the service of private repos. If you stop paying, you stop getting the service.

Just like every other business ever.
Is there good barbecue nearby? (I'm only half joking.)
The point of a secret ballot is that there is nothing to stop them taking the cash, then going to the polling station and voting for someone else. Are the ballots not secret in India?
What do you mean when you say a natural language isn't that hard? Surely it depends on which languages you know already.
Testing and Refactoring Legacy Code [video]
We will make you like our research
Serverless by the numbers: 2018 report
So the current sea level is the one that must be kept? forever? or should it rather be the level at the start of British Industrialization, let's say in 1760?

What about sea level changes that are not caused by us? should we stop that, too? in either direction? forever?
I’m in a similar situation and considering quitting. I also have had a mvp built for a saas idea but I don’t know if that can give me financial independence. Maybe 6 months later, after spending too much savings, I will need to look for a new job again.

I’m being approached by a startup also. What they promised (the work I will be doing) seems to be nice. But I am hesitating. Don’t want to be burnt out again.
Mute uninteresting log noise with machine learning
> Does that ever happen? What could cause it to happen?

Please do read to the end of the article. It has happened, with this same sheriff.
Some clarifications. The grandmother said she was a psychopath. I confused the terms. The granddaughter can be very charming and sociable. While nothing was said about parental abuse, I do remember her saying the mother was so controlling from a very early age of their granddaughter. Whenever the grandparents visited, she would simply not allow them to take their granddaughter off by themselves, as she always insisted on coming along. I can imagine that was not the best for the granddaughter.
I'll calculate my own taxes thank you very much. If big brother doesn't agree, then I'll show my work and sources. Otherwise, the less they know the better.
But it won't say "forked from..."
If you have self-deployed Gogs (which is a smallish OSS GitHub clone) you can easily set it to mirror other repositories periodically. Very useful for backups.

Also simple to self-deploy since it's essentially a single service written in Go.
If I'm reading their whitepaper right, Agora appears to be a Bitcoin sidechain.

https://agora.vote/Agora_Whitepaper_v0.1.pdf
>"Zuckerberg hosts weekly meetings where he shares details of unreleased new products and strategies in front of thousands of employees. Even junior staff members and contractors can see what other teams are working on by looking at one of many of the groups on the company’s internal version of Facebook."

No kidding they watch! When you are a publicly traded company, any form of information that is leaked, can have an enormous effect on the price.

As a former trader, I would live for those days of information leak!

(What Drives Stock Price Behavior Following Extreme One-Day Returns)(2003)[http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1475-6803.00048/f...]
(How do stocks react to extreme market events? Evidence from Brazil)(2017)[https://www.mcgill.ca/desautels/files/desautels/overreaction...]
This is what happens when your 3yo realises you forgot to lock the server rack
> given that any particular ~~retail~~ professional investor is overwhelmingly unlikely

Reminder from Random Walk Down Wall Street; Professionals rarely beat the S&P 500 Index on a time horizon. It's statistically likely, that if a professional fund does beat the index one year, then it will underperform the next year.
Getting Erlang to talk to the outside world [pdf]
That sounds like you're arguing that you want the ability to continue avoiding taxes by not letting the IRS know the whole truth. That's fine, but if I have to pick one entity to extract money from me id rather it go to the government which at least has a tiny chance of benefiting me rather than going to a private company who has no reason to do anything to benefit me
Welcome to Hacker News!

Show HN is more for projects, startups, and stuff like that.

Blog posts shouldn't use that title. What I was saying is self-promoted blog posts usually shouldn't be posted at all.

Most content on HN is here because someone found something they found intellectually interesting and wanted to share it. Self-posted content rarely gets front-paged.

But, with that said, there are exceptions. I don't want to discourage you from writing and blogging and all that good stuff! The community ultimately decides if something is frontpage worthy. I'm just one voice :)
There are multiple time scales synaptic plasticity happens on. For instance, ion channels can be moved in or out of the membrane to modulate excitability. On a longer time scale, gene expression can change. Synaptic plasticity can get really complicated, but Kandel's book has some great chapters on mechanism.
It seems like Betteridge's Law has been catching on among the better sort of journalist. The NYT recently ran "Is Loneliness a Health Epidemic?", and I shook my head in anticipation of another article wildly overselling a weak claim. Instead, it was a measured piece cataloging excess hype on the topic and problems with commonly-cited loneliness studies. The author eventually arrived at "loneliness is a real concern, but not an epidemic".

Which is all tangential, but it's great to finally see a journalist write a yes/no headline and actually notice that the answer is 'no'.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/09/opinion/sunday/loneliness...
Russia Hacks into U.S. Power Plants, but Nuclear Reactors Should Be Impervious
Check out these useful ECMAScript 2015 (ES6) tips and tricks
It's funny, but please, let's not turn HN into Reddit ;)
Does this apply to public repos?

I have a close friend who past away a few months ago, and wanted to try to find some way to preserve all of his GH repos for his wife and children. I've locally cloned all of them, but the prospect that GH might delete all of his stuff if he fails to login for a certain amount of time or something is deeply concerning.

I don't suppose GH has some kind of memorial/preservation mode the way Facebook does?
It is more about how strong the girl is, in the context of nonchalantly kicking a hole in dry wall. Quiet strength.
IBM is likely the single largest government contractor in North America. Most governments at every level have contracted IBM for something, at some point. You don't hear about the successes because that's not news. That's just a government and contractor functioning as they should. Only large, expensive failures make the news.
I see many people treat regex as an in-app library and argue about that. But in fact it is a text processing tool. It is not important if you're biomed-dev with a honorable degree or web-dev from 'secondary school'. What is important is how you manage your code and constant data, which is mostly text that doesn't care who you are. How do you manage your code? What do you do if you understand that you need a module extraction? Documentation fixes? Managing any text includes non-trivial search and replace or specific tools, right? Either you know one of these, or you leave your mess as is. If former, you have to know something anyway. If latter, well... not much honor.
There is a huge huge difference between recognizing a student's need for a different learning style empirically and forcing them into a path based on a genetic test from kindergarten. I am absolutely not in favour of one size fits all education styles, but this is definitely not the answer.
>Kasparov apparently continues to believe that his expertise in chess transfers to other disciplines.

There is a lot of irony in this statement, since he speaks about expertise of AI systems in Chess and other games transferring to more open domains.
Is Microsoft managing OSS initiatives well? The case of issue #3324
Your proposal doesn't fix Spectre 2 in general; just the cross-privilege level (or at best cross-process) aspect. Anyone trying to create a sandbox still has to worry about the sandboxed stuff being able to read all of the sandbox memory, for example.
The Man Who Made Violins Out of New York City Buildings
From repoweramerica.org in 2009

"The Problem: The US electricity transmission and distribution system – or ‘grid’ -- is in critical need of an upgrade. It is old, balkanized and too limited in its reach. The current grid is a series of independently operating regional grids – it can’t meet the needs of a nation whose economy would benefit substantially from the system optimization that comes with national interconnection. Its limitations and vulnerability to failure are also reported to cost the nation $80 billion to $188 billion per year in losses due to grid-related power outages and power quality issues.1 And most critical to clean energy development, areas rich in renewable resources like solar, wind and geothermal are currently not well-served and thus have no ‘highway’ available to move power outputs to the markets where that power is needed"

I wrote a post on ZDnet
http://www.zdnet.com/article/al-gores-unified-smart-grid-vis...
discussing efforts for a unified grid, but haven't seen much progress since then to support the demands of electric vehicles.
Reality is under no obligation to abide every fetishists particular emotional capture

Society is expected to build more to satisfy every unique experience that requires complex efforts?

Laughable.
So far I've been using Python/JS/TypeScript mostly and I'm striving for a better Type System and more functional capabilities. ReasonML offers a lot of the things I was looking for:

* Familiar syntax (coming from Python/Go/JS/TS etc.)

* A lot of functional capabilities.

* A nice flexible type system.

* High (predictable) performance.

* Fast compile times.

* Compiles to byte/native/JS

* A mature compiler.

I'm still having an eye on three things:

1) What's the concurrency model going to be.

2) What's the solution for unicode going to be.

3) At what pace is the ecosystem going to grow.

If things turn out well, I can imagine OCaml/ReasonML becoming my general purpose language of choice for most of the stuff I'm currently using Python/Go/JS/TS for.

I recently started with a frontend using bucklescript-tea [0] and it's a great experience so far!

0: https://github.com/OvermindDL1/bucklescript-tea
I believe this talk will specifically and completely answer your questions:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSX3qdy0dFg

Short answer: Self driving vehicles do use deep learning, but they avoid some types not because it is unreliable, but it is processing power intense. Traffic lights, road signs, pedestrians etc.. That's a whole ball of wax to unravel. Check the lecture, its fantastic imo.
Would it be okay to train extensive neural nets?
Enforcement will never be completely universal and the more "free" the society is in general the harder it would be to enforce it via draconian means.

So the dry laws in the US and in other western (primarily Nordic) countries isn't that great of an example as these were still mainly liberal democracies despite the restrictions.

The similar laws in more authoritarian regimes would work quite differently.

And unfortunately we have too many modern examples of how effective governments can be at suppressing various behaviors and or ideas.
I confused sociopath with psychopath. Her grandmother described her as beautiful and charming when she wants to be. But she has episodes where something sets her off and she acts as if she is a completely different person.
Robinhood (.. Markets, Inc ) is split into "Robinhood Financial LLC", "Robinhood Crypto, LLC"

It looks that the RH Financial LLC is good enough capitalized but I wonder why they split up into 3 different entities? Or is that usual practice?

The latest SEC filing for RF Financial: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/vprr/1701/17016683.pdf
As far as I can remember from the instructions last time I voted, in Britain you can do this, just return the ballot to the person handing them out and say that you made a mistake, and they should issue you a replacement.
> until everything is a bit more secure because companies take it more seriously

That logic works for full vs. limited (or no) disclosure, but not for immediate vs. 90-day disclosure. In general, the incentive for a vendor with a reasonable embargo period is the same as without, because the effect on their reputation is the same. The only people differently affected are users, who are left more vulnerable for longer than they would have been. Even if one could argue that vendors deserve shaming for what might have been a simple mistake, users surely deserve better.

It's very easy for those who do not suffer the damage from their actions to rationalize their impulsive (or in this case venal) behavior, but that's just another kind of agency problem that people who fling economic jargon around should consider.
> it is a strategy for managing relationships

Not really. That means that you've worked with benevolent actors up until now. It's not that hard to keep a clone of the repo and upload later after the termination of the business rapport, either as a private or a public one.
That's how, in my mind, the commissary should work. At least in Texas, that's not what actually happens. They will, for example, withhold soap, toothpaste, and toilet paper. Ask yourself why these items are even offered in the commissary. Why would you need "extra"?
As a result of the regulation yes of course, which is a very different thing than deciding what needs to win which is what is happening right now and why EPA is getting some criticism.

Coal should and will lose once there is a cheaper, cleaner, more reliable and more effective solution out there. Just like coal replaced the burning of trees and made it possible to provide energy from outside instead of people having to use a fireplace inside their homes (which was very unhealthy).

There actually are better solutions than coal one is nuclear yet an absurd amount of pushback from environmental organizations and too many politicians have kept coal around because of their unsubstantiated fearmongering. Another is shale gas which has reduced the CO2 of the US substantially but despite that is also getting a lot of pushback from environmental organizations and politicians

Neither wind nor solar can provide enough energy at scale and at a realistic price for the US let alone for the entire world yet that is what is being forced rather than the much better alternatives.
> Migrating elections to a technology one needs mathematics/CS PhD to understand

"Black box" abstraction is utilized everywhere in the world and has been a core part of many functional systems. That's a silly basis to dismiss any technology.
Anything in particular you want to see?
Robinhood gets their revenue from margin interest lending to people who can't afford to invest but do it anyways. And also from selling the trading data to high frequency traders to front-run the Robinhood traders. The top guys at Robinhood all have HFT background and connections.

Their pr message is priceless but a sham. The users are the real product, with all that we know goes with that.
IIRC the windows team has been in the process of cleaning up the NT Kernel for awhile (since vista at least) with the clear goal of getting NT back to "Dave Cutler's NT". The visible bits of this are the Server Micro project that's used for containers and Server core.
The grandmother and grandfather have seemed to see her as a psychopath. She can do crazy things without emotional response, without warning.
This review reminded me of "How to Read a Book", specifically the getting more out of it with each reading. It might be hard to fathom with most of today's mediocre fiction, but there's a reason some books are classics and end up on lists of what books someone would take to a desert island.
Am I missing something? You pay taxes on gains, not losses.
It's frustrating on several levels.

Letting stories 'age' a bit is actually good, it makes detailed coverage with expert input possible. But we've somehow ended up in this idiotic double-bind where not only are year-old stories being run as current news, they're still written up at "reporting live" quality levels.

"Speed, accuracy, pick one" would still be one more merit than we actually get.
And how does it matter when it's a private repo?
> In Modula-3 or D, as as possible examples, a solution might be destructors or scope attributes.

These still allow you to mismanage resources.

> The only way to actually be 100% safe would be if everyone would be programming with formal logic,

Indeed. In order to construct a correct program, you also need to construct the logical argument that establishes its correctness. So, yes, you have to use formal logic.

> which still requires a lot of research to make it approachable by the average developer.

s/research/education/

You raise the craftsman to the level the craft requires, not lower the craft to the level of an apprentice.
I am absolutely shocked that this is actually still in a law. How backwards for a place to be.
> It would be a strategic blunder to let Alabama secede, also as much as HN loves to hate the south, Alabama has over 33% African American population, that has to be kept in mind.

Did anyone bring up race here? I don't see how a comment about race is relevant towards discussion of corrupt government.
Care to elaborate what kind of complex data modelling you wanted to do?
Common mistake, but lawn bowling is very different than bocce. Bocce balls are uniform spheres that you can either roll or lob. They travel in a straight line. Lawn bowling balls are oblate spheroids that are weighted on one side so that they will always curve in a certain direction (more for light throws, so you can draw around a guard like in curling). They are always rolled. So it really is a lot more like curling than bocce, though granted there is nothing analogous to sweeping.