skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Boo, looks like osx keychain integration will still languish

probably because it wouldn't work with sync on linux/windows/android

> eh, sounds fairly run of the mill?

would you have preferred them to use some cutting edge cipher instead?
Browsers don't have a stylus pressure API (nor any stylus API at all). No further discussion needed.
This dropped recently. Needs a config to be set in about:config, but besides that, works just as well

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/panorama-view...
Still waiting for the answer here.

What the NRA is doing is a disservice to gun owners. They are making a gun ban more likely by not offering any reasonable alternatives.

My opinion is we need state run (but federally funded) gun licensing to ensure safe owners and gun registry to ensure the guns stay with those owners.

Other countries do it. It works just fine. We are not having that conversation in America today in part because of the extremist views of the NRA.
To be clear, when you say AQR is primarily a "high frequency" firm, do you mean they are mostly position neutral with execution in (at most) a few microseconds?
We have methods to handle big build logs, and we have a backlog full of ideas on how to improve the way we handle big logs.
Go to the doctor and have yourself checked for psychopathy, mate.
ROFL - yeah right... Because after the I international shitstorm about the '13 reasons why'(correct name of the show?) a million teenagers jumped of a clive... Whenever someone tries to argue/sell anything with hashtag/google-search statistics I have the perfect counter argument... This is no-proof of anything and you are a moron if you don't get why...
Argonne Helps to Develop All-New Lithium-Air Batteries
I can imagine the practical appeal of a device like this when applied to something like a map. Especially over large journeys, this could likely cut down on your error considerably.
Panorama View: TabGroups for Firefox 59+
Riot, Blizzard, Twitch and others are teaming up to fight toxic gaming behavior
But you can certainly determine it if you happen to control the algorithm that decides which of those 20 million people actually see.
Unfortunately my A&H Xone:K2 does not have a 24 bit DAC so I can't really test with equipment and songs I know.

I think people who like vinyl more the CD just like the noise floor on top of the music and not that vinyl actually has higher quality. Everything before the pressing is digital anyway these days, just with higher resolution. And that's what I meant, your sound can't get better then the 24 bit releases used for mastering. You may like the sound more, but the quality is necessarily worse then the digital original.
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How possible chosen paypal id , only get my name in my papaypal.me/$id ?
> I think it's reasonable to assume that if 50k people tweeted about it, a far larger number probably took action

I don't really think it's reasonable to make any extrapolation, as there are also opposite arguments.

A brief search on the hashtag shows that most of it's typical "social stuff" - sarcastic remarks, jokes, pictures etc.

Also, I also wouldn't take what social users says as action. There's always been the meme of "I'M GOING TO LEAVE FACEBOOK...!!!", yet Facebook kept growing. Rather, I'd assume it's very typical rage venting.
Valid point. I should have made it clearer that NFL stands for National Football League. I was trying to demonstrate the difference in domain, one being sports and the other being computer science.
That sounds great, installing... It should be part of Firefox at this point, because it is getting ridiculous.
How much would this 3D Solar Power Plant simulator cost if a company needed to pay for it?

I reckon 25 days is a fair estimate. That breaks down to;

1 day to research sun position, azimuth, etc.

2 days to figure out the various bits of maths involved and write code to do the calculations.

4 days to build a working interactive 3D model.

2 days to build the charts and tables.

5 days for a designer to make a great layout, build assets, etc.

6 days to bring everything together in a website that works across different browsers.

3 days for device testing.

2 days to cover meetings, phone calls, etc.

At a rate of $800/day that's $20,000. I'd add a $5,000 (20%) buffer on to that to cover unexpected scope changes.

$25,000 for what appears to be a single page might sound high, but if the company is getting, say, $500,000 of value from it then it's really cheap. I know of agencies that would charge 10* that if they thought the client could afford it.
Can't shake the feeling weed gets different rules just because /r/trees is a big part of the culture on the more "wholesome" side of Reddit that they prefer to promote.
This article will have merit if it was posted after their next earnings call and there was a percentage decline in users. This is all anecdotal and speculation. Habits are the hardest thing to break. And 50,000 people, even if US-only, are a rounding error for their MAU/DAUs. C'mon, NYT.
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Thanks for the feedback, the website and any part of the brand is open-source, so if you feel like contributing, you may start a discussion on GitHub or make a PR :)
Blockchain Founder Say They Were Wrong About Bitcoin Prediction
As mentioned, the NRA did not support those initiatives, secondly the NRA today, right now, is not willing to compromise. As a gun owner, this hurts us all.

Common sense gun regulation is a benefit to safe gun owners and less people will die from misuse, less criminals will have access to guns, less mentally unstable people will be able to go on killing sprees.

This is all in benefit to gun owners. How does sensible gun control (not bans) hurt a legal and safe gun owner?
Less compositing necessary, among other things
How an Entrepreneur Says He Is Fighting for the Soul of Blockchain
The current version of Redhat - RHEL 7 - which most banks, large enterprises etc. are using comes with a system python version of 2.7.5 and you need to jump through hoops to install Python 3.x ( e.g. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8087184/problems-install... ), which may not even be possible if you're in an environment where security is tightly controlled.

There is the possibility of Python 3.x being default in RHEL 8 ( https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Python_3_as_Default ) but right now RHEL 8 isn't released and there's no date for it being released. And even once it is released, it will be more years before big enterprises really start switching

TLDR ignore python 2.7 and alienate RHEL customers
I think you’re basically proposing that someone with a cold should get rid of their runny nose to fix their headache.
Hi HN, we're Rory and Conor - two undergrads in Dublin. Metro lets you write your own data-collection plugins which others can install to donate/sell data to your project. The DataSources are dynamically plugged into our Chrome Extension when you press "enable DataSource" on a Metro project's page.

Metro is just 3 months old and we just opened the site for public signups this morning, but hopefully it works okay and you can do some useful stuff with it. We're full-time students and learning as we go, so keep an open mind (and let us know!) if you find any bugs or problems.

The feature you might like best is Open Data projects, which are projects which give every contributor access to all of the data.
The Portlandia Effect: How Did the Show Change the City It Satirized?
Screw the system, people on the project should've detected a "misconfiguration" like that.

They didn't. Either because they are negligent or because the footage is misleading and the system saw the whole thing but did nothing.
My point is that you don't need to plea with IBM or the general marketplace. If what you said is true then companies with that mix of young/innovative and older/experienced will outcompete everyone else. Let IBM's massive public failure be the message to others.
Thanks, that's an awesome idea. :)
I would chose a belief about a moving star in a heart beat compared to a talking bush and a dude walking on water.

Edit: my point being, humans are superstitious in unpredictable way; A moving star wouldn't be more surprising than an eclipse. I'm sure our cultures and religions would have been roughly the same
Shock horror.. some of the British establishment are far-right types who would rather cause extreme havoc?
Black Block Research releases bullish report on REQ Network [pdf]
Both Pinta and Krita had really weird interactions with my touch screen the last time I tried. GIMP was the only one who worked correctly - I presume because it just treated it as a mouse (it may well be that my Linux configuration is to blame, not Pinta and Krita)

Perhaps things work better now.
> you can't have strict gun control without strict border control.

The irony of your statement when guns flow from the US to Mexico, not the other way around.

Maybe the Mexicans should build a wall to protect them from illegal US guns?

https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/politics/border-issues/...
I am not the op, but (faster) WebAssembly could turn out to be a big thing for browser extensions. For example, we are just in the process of adding WebAssembly powered image search to our Kantu Selenium IDE to allow for visual testing. We tried before with normal Javascript and even WebGL, but both results were not usable for various reasons. The websight page gave us new hope ;-) https://websightjs.com/
I'm just on my way to editing, we can prep materials and a short video and stuff. Where can I send you stuff?
Probably sooner in asm.js: http://vps2.etotheipiplusone.com:30176/redmine/projects/emsc...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11578317
Pay off your mortgage. When you get pushed out of the workforce because of age (and you will), having no rent and no mortgage puts the situation in a different perspective. It becomes more of a beginning than an end.
The headline I'm seeing for the article as of 20180322T1509Z is "For Many Facebook Users, a ‘Last Straw’ That Led Them to Quit" (different to the one posted here - I don't know if it was changed at nytimes).

Not everyone needs to delete Facebook - only a sufficient number of "core" users whom others look up to need to stop using it. That alone can cripple a network or sub-network. Remember that the number of users that C.A. pulled from wasn't that huge of a number so network effects can work both ways (consider Snapchat and several recent celebrity disendorsements, for example).

The easiest way for most to start "deleting" is by deactivating. Do an experiment: deactivate for a week and see what's the worst that can happen. It can always be undone.
Agreed. Hindi is ranked 4th most difficult but the system is identical to English (rank 41). Just the symbols for the digits are different. Even they are similar looking!
Another lesson in the dangers of digital share cropping
No, every quantitative firm uses unconventional sources of data. That doesn't meaningfully differentiate them (at least, not anymore). For example, Two Sigma has an entire division devoted to sourcing and processing "alternative data." But Two Sigma is not at all comparable to firms like RenTec.

The funds I'm talking about (including RenTec) take in as much unstructured data as they can possibly find, almost indiscriminately, and they tune their processing pipeline to the point that it requires neither manual classification nor munging. In most cases, a trading strategy is sufficiently multidimensional that any particular set of data can be completely public. Exclusive data is helpful, but not required. In many cases people become too dependent on exclusive data and lose sight of the methodology.

This is precisely what I mean: many people think that these firms differentiate based on the sources of data they use. They do not. They differentiate on their ability to automatically extract signals hiding in plain sight. Whether or not the data is public makes very little difference, because the signals come from tens of thousands of indicators combined together.
> your sound can't get better then the 24 bit releases used for mastering. You may like the sound more, but the quality is necessarily worse then the digital original.

My point is that a correctly mastered CD will be perceptually indistinguishable from that digital original.
That's brilliant, I'm just trying to imagine how NYC will send Pizzas back via a tube to SF in return for the Burritos.
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That's why I support a more robust welfare state.

The reason that people are in positions like you describe is because of the dire consequences of losing employment. Being older doesn't mean that you don't know how to innovate or look for ways to improve the area you work in. People become super cautious because of the mortgage and college debt, car payments, on and on and on. Their "actual job" is to get money for those things.

If losing employment didn't mean complete loss of livelihood, the only people working at a place would be there because they actually wanted to be there. They would be interested in performance because it might be rewarded, not because failing would be punished.
On Mobile Apps, Who Can See Your Personal Data?
> good raster photo editor with non-destructive editing capabilities

RawTherapee and DarkTable are both excellent (I prefer DarkTable), and in some cases have much better plugins and algorithms than Adobe has to offer in Lightroom or Photoshop. Which one works best mainly depends on your preferred UI set-up, but I'd say they're easily at Adobe's level:

http://darktable.org/

http://www.rawtherapee.com/
All you have to do is appoint the right judges.
I think the implication was that a very large fraction of police/national guard/US armed forces would at least refuse to enforce such a law, if not join the rebellion itself. Indeed, I've never met a more adamant group of 2nd amendment supporters than my military friends.

But should such a dire scenario occur, I have always wondered how these small arms would fare against UAVs. The trouble is that we have precedent in this country that in a large-scale rebellion, it is taken out of law enforcement's hands and put into the military's hands.
If you have not already check out David Revoy. He creates beautiful art using only open source tools:

https://www.peppercarrot.com/
And then after saying no, you can watch the executives hire or promote up someone who says what they want to hear regardless of its feasibility, usually while using the latest buzzwords. Lacking domain knowledge or the interest to acquire it is a good sign that they will lack the awareness to avoid facile answers.
Building on Solid Ground: Getting Postgres Foundations Right with Pgbedrock
How the AI cloud could produce the richest companies ever
If cultures can’t be better than each other than American culture today is no better than it was during slavery.
>I can't imagine why reddit would ban strictly law-abiding communities while allowing illegal and toxic ones to flourish.

To be cynical, why offer a seller access to a market for free when you can charge for it?
Simple as that!
Most "black box" quantitative hedge funds still use massive amounts of public data, even public data that might appear somewhat obvious. They absolutely develop new insights from that data.
I was under exactly the same impression. From the description a few days ago, I had imagined someone on the right hand side of the road stepping out from between two parked cars.

From the video this morning I was wondering how it was possible the vehicle lidar and radar didn't pick this up. This is exactly the sort of thing I would hope these additional sensors could pick up easily.

Also from the released video, it was clear to me the "human driver" of the car was not paying attention. Looks like they are looking at their phone at lap level 90% of the time, unless there was something like a "camera/lidar" view in the dash they were looking at.

Having a human in these self driving cars is useless. There is so little for the human to do that it is hard to keep them from checking out. And once they do, they might as well not be there. Seems like "Safety Theater" to me, make the public and the Uber riders feel like there is still a human in the loop, when there really isn't.
I’m not an enterprise developer but does RHEL 7 support docker? Run python3 in a container. Isn’t that the point of containers?
Make 10 Molecules in 90 Days: External Evaluation of Methods to Engineer Biology
If one incident can reverse your conclusion then the sample size isn't large enough to draw that conclusion.

With only one death, the only conclusions you could reasonably reach from statistics are either "we don't know yet" or "we've gone so many miles with only one death that we know it's safe enough." There's no reasonable way to argue from the stats that we know it's not safe.
Side note related to this incident:

When did the "futurology" crowd become so militant? I've seen multiple people on multiple forums blaming the victim here, with some even going as far as to say that they "deserved to get hit". Other rather disgusting comments have been along the lines of "you have to break a few eggs to make an omlette".

Since so many of these people are outwardly saying that they're comfortable with people dying to "train the AI" (their words), I wonder if any of them would volunteer themselves or someone they care about to play the role of "broken egg"?

Others have been blaming low light conditions, which is ridiculous for so many reasons I wouldn't even know where to start.

The general feeling I get, is that they simultaneously acknowledge that this technology is still developing, but refuse to admit that it isn't already perfect. If they had their way, and blame for incidents was always shifted somewhere else, autonomous cars would never improve.

Not a good look, and we're in for a very messy dystopian future if the lowest common denominator is already willing to blindly trust what they believe to be "AI".
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What about image recognition? Too complex? Or doable at 320x240 resolution?
Are there differences to the approaches taken by Obama vs. Trump in terms of leveraging social media data? Did Obama do it in a more transparent way (is that even possible given the disconnect between the amount of data people give away vs. what they think is going on)?
I've seen many people lately try to claim that censor is solely a government-related word and censorship is only something that government officials are capable of. Every definition of the word I've seen does not say this.

Makes one wonder where this new definition is coming from?
So I guess that makes Trump one of the worst improv actors I've ever seen?
You are correct in all of that.

I simply would have hoped that Slack wouldn't give too much control to employers when there are already viable ways of providing message history without resorting to copy-paste. It makes for a lousier product, and it would have prevented me from having candid conversations that involved no company secrets or harassment of any kind.
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How to Make a Dapp of a Pet Shop Using Solidity and Truffle
That's a minuscule number and "influenced" doesn't necessarily mean "aimed them at the Earth." There's a lot of space out there which it takes things a lot of time to move through. It takes the Earth a year to go around the Sun. And the Oort Cloud is, like, 100,000 times further away from the Sun than we are.
If only guns respected state lines.
50 Big Companies That Started with Little or No Money
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300 acres is a tiny farm especially for a mix of cereals and cows. It's only going to profitable with massive subsidies and as doing a better job is probably not that important vs. collecting government handouts.

I don't know how most of France operates, but small operations are generally a vast waste of resources.
Hah! He mentions Bell Pottinger: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/sep/04/bell-pottin...

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/sep/04/bell-pottin...
Well, both try to reach an audience with their message, but one side is practically (if not literally) boasting that they are manipulating an deceiving their targets and using what they know about their prey against them.
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Thanks for the feedback, we're working on methods to prevent TravisBuddy from commenting if the PR is being rapidly updated or if its comments are not relevant for some reason. One idea is that if the PR has a special label TravisBuddy won't comment on it. Another one is to be able to communicate with TravisBuddy using comments, so when you're sick of it you could just comment: "@TravisBuddy stop", and it'll stop immediately. (Maybe even "@TravisBuddy clear" to remove the previous comments)

Yeah, Jenkins' tests view was one of the inspirations for TravisBuddy :)
>Also, has anyone here talked about the effect on the eyes of watching a (typically) bright white screen vs letting them adjust to the light of the night yet? This point deserves to be brought up.

Using bright interior lighting at night is something that we've known not to do for more than a century. If the driver couldn't be expected to see the pedestrian because the interior lighting or UX was too bright that is not something that does not reflect favorably upon Uber.
While it's excellent to make the code readable for the next guy, I read this as talking about the architecture level, where reading the code will be largely unnecessary because it is all junked for Rev.2

I did this for one SAAS company and it worked out great. Although I had been very much a design-everything, pre-optimize excessively type of coder/designer, for this project at a company I co-founded I went completely the opposite direction.

With only a slight nod to the architecture I expected we'd need later, I just coded up the first version in the easiest high-level tools we had, separating only one module. This allowed us to get a much better handle on the actual requirements, especially since the marketing guys of course went out and sold some of the prototype. Fortunately the sales were small enough that we didn't get swamped, but it gave me real data, and strongly reinforced my plan to build a highly modular set of interacting services such that each could run on separate hardware, which could also be scaled in hours. This very scaleable architecture later allowed us to take business from competitors who were (AFAICT) were stuck in a monolithic architecture.

But after the first version had served it's purpose, no one has ever read any of the code again in the 15 yrs since. We just started on the main version and never looked back.

So as a person who formerly would have recommended the opposite, I can strongly recommend making a really brief Plan A prototype / first version that you plan to throw away. Just make sure that you do actually throw it away, and soon (code that sort-of works does have a way of sticking around too long).
Mayo clinic?
I mean the field's notions are being customized, but so far the language hasn't been shown to be all that insightful in numerous engineering fields probed. Algebraic topologists seem happy trying to be vaguely relevant though.
My only point is that markets are not completely rational, and they are often irrational in many respects.
Do large, bright stars ever pass that close? What would that look like?
That's what GP yorwba said.
Just a coincidence, or any relationship to this story?
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/03/how-congress-censored-...

(discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16641900)
Michael Simon (@mbsimon) who ran the microtargeting team for Obama in 08:

>How dare you! We didn’t steal private Facebook profile data from voters under false pretenses. OFA voluntarily solicited opinions of hundreds of thousands of voters. We didn’t commit theft to do our groundbreaking work.

There’s more in the thread: https://twitter.com/mbsimon/status/975231597183229953