skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would have to argue that refinements to our processes for acquiring and sharing knowledge is probably a big player. Yes you need funding for research and more funding helps. More money isn't some sort of guarantee of results though. I would also have to argue that a lot of our technological progress comes from an existing infrastructure and incremental improvements. We have a lot of momentum driving rapid incremental improvements, money does sustain that system, but an infinite amount of money isn't going to yield infinite improvements. And simple more money isn't always going to yield multiples worth of improvements. One of the reason is some things just end up being dead ends. Or some other dependency doesn't exist yet.

We've been making transistor, silicon based, x86 CPU's for 40+ years now. ARM is 33 years old. And we're just making improvements and refinements to those and to most technology for that matter. I would have to so the only thing that's growing at a quadratic-hyperbolic rate is adoption and application, not the technology itself.
This is the most interesting question. The company is based in Canada so supposedly Canadian laws would apply but I suppose it depends on where the Gitlab instance is hosted. Also the author cannot argue that they were bug hunting in good faith as an ethical security researcher would cease activity after breaching the repository and report their findings. If American laws apply the CFAA is extremely selectively enforced but if I was the author of this I would be extremely fucking concerned about going up against the Trump entourage.
No but seriously why is the first step admitting that Obama benefitted? People are up in arms that their data was misused, why do you care whether they're politically motivated or not?
The Democratic primary, ironically, appears to have been rigged against Bernie Sanders though.
The trouble being that customer is 1) an aggregate (there likely is no the customer, just some customers, maybe a lot of them), 2) fuzzy (Facebook's real customers are advertisers, they pay the bills). How do non-ad-buying users matter as customers to Facebook? Only so far as they are aggregate eyeballs to feed to the real customers, advertisers?

The sad specter of case law dating at least as far back to Dodge v Ford [1], is that legally the only relationship that has to matter to a (US) business is its relationship with its shareholders. Consumer protections have only ever barely been carved out with regulatory action.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodge_v._Ford_Motor_Co.
I'm curious about your "mask" statement. I have that same feeling, and experience with alcohol.

Do you ever imagine yourself to be a robot? Or do you memorize and rehearse things to say in social situations?

I often feel like I am operating a virtual machine at social gatherings. I tunnel in and give myself commands to operate like a normal human being, but I take absolutely no pleasure from the social interactions. I also get EXTREMELY tired, very quickly, even though I am able to function for a brief period at a fairly high level.
Isn't openness part of the big five (OCEAN) that can't be changed much later in life?

You only become less and less open later in life.
holycrap, is the soccer pitch the one on the corner of Page Mill & El Camino? That's nuts that I drive right next to a superfund site every day.
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I own Adobe Premiere, and used to use Ulead way back when, but the one kind of geek I'm not is AV geek - Premiere is much too fancy for my use case.

Open source is great, absolutely willing and indeed eager to pay for something easy to use, simple, non-invasive of either privacy or system.

Windows preferably, Linux possible, OSX is right out:)

Thanks all!
Yep, every time I read about a racial issue in the US, it turns out it's always a social/economic issue, but talking about the "working class" is implicitly prohibited in the media (thanks to the red scare) so they make it about race. Divide and conquer works fine. Hell, even the poorest americans will bash on unions and any idea of a class identity. Are the poor misrepresented in higher education? Just shove in some blacks to even out the color, that'll fix it.
It's the normal data cost. EG the Landsat data is stored in S3, so it's free to EC2 (in the same region), and somewhere around $0.09/gb to the public internet.

However, the idea is not that you download it all (there's probably cheaper ways to acquire Landsat data), the idea is if you want to do whatever analysis on AWS, they've already got it neatly ingested for you.
Recently diagnosed and it has been hugely relieving to me.

I have spent most of my life unable to really understand many of the fundamentals of what I now know is "normal" social interaction and now I get to draw a line under it, realize I am what I am, and not waste time trying to "get it" any longer because now I know I'm simply not equipped to. To put a metaphor on it, to me it feels as if I were blind but grew up in a world that never told me I was, but now I know I am, I can be OK with it and cope as best I can.

So, I think everyone's experiences differ. For me, the diagnosis has been a total game-changer.
The article indicates that Kaspersky probably knew what it was doing, what it was revealing, when it issued the report. The question then is, do they or other security firms typically hold back on things like this?
> The FBI strongly disagrees with that statement.

Whatever the FBI or people in it believe, the public assessment put forth by the US Intelligence Community does not address interaction; it is inaccurate to attribute that as a public unanimous conclusion of the Intelligence Community.

Note that I'm not making the “no collusion” argument, hence the reference to the Papadopoulos plea. The Trump-Russia interaction just is outside the scope of the public Intelligence Community assessment, and shouldn't be described as the public conclusion of the US intelligence community.

https://www.dni.gov/files/documents/ICA_2017_01.pdf
This is pretty thin on content. More information:

[1] https://qz.com/1017181/silicon-valley-pollution-there-are-mo...

[2] https://www.nbcbayarea.com/investigations/Toxic-Plumes-The-D...

[3] https://www.epa.gov/vaporintrusion/vapor-intrusion-superfund...
There are hardly any companies that provide enough information for people to truly understand how their data and information is gathered and used.
> She kept staring at him and kept telling him to just go away, go be miserable some place else, don't expect us to share your misery

From my experience it’s females are more likely to use this argumentation to marginalize the enemy - “nobody wants you, you are alone, go away loser”, etc. Someone might not want to share your misery some time in the future, elderly lady.
>> After that it is all down to what it means for a company to exist in a state. For example if Amazon owns a subsidiary named A2Z Development which is doing software development in California for Amazon, does Amazon have a presence in California?

It's called having a nexus - even a single employee counts as having nexus. I'm not sure about subsidiaries though.
> Why is that first-day margin of error acceptable for European diabetics but not American ones?

Because the FDA is very conservative, in part because that conservatism prevented the thalidomide incident back in the day.

When it comes to novel treatments, or monitoring devices, we don't know what we don't know. The FDA errs on the side of well-tested treatments and devices.

Extra inaccuracy during the first day could lead people to make mistakes that could prove dangerous or fatal. You don't have no data during the first 12 hours, you just have to fall back to the fingerstick method, which the FreeStyle Libre still supports.

It's possible that as more data is gathered in Europe and the US, it could be found that this extra inaccuracy is not harmful, and the European version approved in the US. Or it could be that the company is able to improve the device to improve accuracy in the first 12 hours, and get a new version approved.

It seems to me that other CGMs like the Dexcom require fingerstick calibration at lest twice a day, so I would think that 12 hours of having to use a fingerstick during calibration would be preferable to twice a day fingersticks.
I wish the USA would stop calling people conspiracy theorists for critical thinking, especially as we see more what used to be 'conspiracy theories' actually come to fruition. It actually hinders critical thinking and is a bad path to go down.
> The most glaring absurdity is the performative contradiction of appealing to evolution and quantum mechanics to prove that the world is an illusion.

I think you misunderstood what the OP (the physicist) means by that. He trying to convey that "reality" is not "physical".

Physicality is conveyed by the brain but it is not the "reality". So it is an illusion. It doesn't mean our existence is.
> it is not our daughter's fault that she behaves this way

That would be true no matter what. There's no basis for the full concept of "free will". Everyone is a product of biology, culture, context, etc. etc.

The question is what capacity people have to behave in various ways given certain contexts. Most people can behave "normally" given the right context to do so. I suppose your daughter does not have that capacity (at least not to the normal level). So, having realistic expectations helps a lot.

We all get angry at times, but it barely ever helps anything, and that's true regardless of all these other questions about autism etc.
Anybody to use, who is paying for bandwidth here?
When Facebook smashes its next earnings this whole scandal will be in the rear view mirror and the narrative will change. I doubled my position in FB.
I don't feel like Git is "the one true way" to DVCS though. For example using SHA1 as hashing algorithm doesn't seem like a good idea. Or calculating "packfiles" ad-hoc on clone operations, that's wasteful and makes cloning big repos on unstable connections a PITA.

But it's certainly true that Git is the "current best practice" in the DVCS landscape.
What Firefox version are you running? This sounds like Firefox bug 1411646, which should have been fixed in Firefox 58:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1411646
The explicit `v2` in import paths is a case where Go has abandoned conventional abstraction and information hiding in an area where maybe there didn't need to be any in the first place.
He is not a deity, of course, he's "just" the one that invented REST. I guess what you mean is that he's not right about everything he says.

Well, what he exactly says is that URLs should not include versioning, because URLs are the interfaces names and REST estates that interface names should not be versioned, as that implies a breaking change in the API. It's just the wrong place for versioning in the REST way.

But he is not against versioning, as you say, you can use the Accept header. You could also use a custom header if you might, but the canonical way would be the Accept header.
I remember teaching a guy about YAGNI - You Ain't Gonna Need It.

He would write helper functions that he thought would be useful before writing actual code and often ended up wasting time. Half the functions he wrote, he never actually used, but he'd still spend time writing them and unit tests for them.
I'm sure it also depends on if the site was intended to be accessed "publicly" or not. Let's say, visually, all registration links were removed, but (as someone with internal knowledge of GitLab here did) could "breach" into the registration page.
> Do we want a society designed for people who like to interact or do we want to design it after the desire for limiting interaction as much as possible?

Personally I would prefer the first one. Like most of people in here, I'd risk a guess.

On the other hand I don't think it's good to have people like your "elderly lady" just casually imposing themselves on a train full of others.

There's a balance in everything.
See my other comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16681284

However, we obviously don't know what reality is or the real nature of it.
Went to my appointment, doctor wrote an order for an APAP machine, called the medical supply company who is working with the insurance and will call me later today (or will receive a call from me tomorrow morning when they open). Thanks for the advice.
Can anyone point to a comprehensive review of the machine learning work done so far in protein structure prediction?
As a dev, I implemented something similar. And I can't speak for TaskEasy but mine wasn't on purpose. Really complex process made simple:

1. Start out with an email transaction that follows up purchases done in the MVP to registered users. All that receive the emails have accounts since the MVP required it. It's not hard to setup automatic emails through code... It's hard to think of edge cases though.

2. Change in spec: more people buy if we change the UX and cut the registration.

3. Send an email to the customer. Oops - no account to unregister.

4. (This is the step that was missing) Change the code that handles emails so everyone can unsubscribe.

Sometimes it's important to get something out quick and things aren't always dark UI / UX on purpose. Users are often blaming us devs for our dark evil powers when all we did was shake out some code on a too tight deadline.
And I'm sure you will provide ample evidence of this "vote rigging."
I'm not sure which you're thinking of as the streetlight, the diagnosis or normality? Both are saying, "What you're after is here." It's up to oneself to follow the lead that resonates the most.
http://resin.io is close to this, but also handles updates for you.
My wife's sister is a teacher, too. I agree that defining that response is the problem. Especially for behavioral issues the balance you note is important. That's why extreme cases (e.g. non-verbal, violent meltdowns) are allowed to be segregated from general education classrooms when necessary.

We don't begrudge wheelchair bound students ramps to access rooms. We shouldn't deny children with "${diagnosis}" driven behavior alternatives to punishment when it's appropriate.

Edit: For what it's worth, I also think punishment is too often a first-resort by schools for all children. This is a complex issue driven in part by the horrific way we under-fund schools. Many of these problems would be much less significant if we funded schools well enough to provide the support they should (and are legally required to).
This description of teaching is a lot like how 3blue1brown does his videos on YouTube: https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCYO_jab_esuFRV4b17AJtAw

I am not affiliated, just love how he geometrically visualizes the concepts of math, and how he focuses on he intuition.
Recently diagnosed and this metaphor feels right to me. Indeed, it works the other way around, because I'm "short" I can fit into places others can't (and similarly, my "condition" gives me some extra powers others don't always have).
I find this:

https://www.cnet.com/news/state-attorneys-general-push-onlin...

Which suggests Andrew Cuomo had a bigger effect:

https://www.cnet.com/news/n-y-attorney-general-forces-isps-t...
I agree that revenue hits are not the only (and usually not the primary) effect of boycotts.

But what I'm questioning is "due to the public attention drawn by the boycott." Was the consumer boycott actually a major reason SeaWorld feared legal action?

When Blackfish came out, a lot of musicians cancelled planned SeaWorld concerts, which had a visible and immediate revenue impact. Share prices dropped 33%, even though revenue only dropped ~1%; presumably shareholders feared the possibility of legal action. And a range of state and federal Congressmen introduced bills on regarding orca captivity, explicitly citing Blackfish as a motivator.

Boycotts are certainly correlated with major corporate and legal changes, but I'm skeptical that they're a significant cause. Examples like SeaWorld make me think that boycotts and policy changes have common causes (e.g. Blackfish), but the boycotts aren't themselves very impactful.

The Chicago Tribune had a clever bit about the gun-seller boycotts, arguing that boycotts only matter as a way to keep the topic in the news, and it basically doesn't matter whether people actually participate. That's basically my guess, also.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/g00/news/opinion/zorn/ct-persp...
Spotify thinks its revenue growth will slow, to reach $6.4B this year
To be fair, living in an European LCC hub I get deals on my inbox every few days and I end up buying plane tickets up to once/twice a month, so it's realistic, maybe not so much for legacy/long haul

I also get many emails from legacy airlines for long haul deals and I end up getting one of them a year, I'd say it's a successful campaign, they don't expect a large amount of customers to jump on every deal, eventually one that's closer to your profile pops up
> With that scenario, you're dealing with physiological limitations, because if you have a bright region next to a dark night region, your eyes cannot perceive detail in the dark region.

Correct, that's why you meed a software solution that detects this issue and dynamically adapts.

This isn't complicated either, every modern video game has the issue of UI, text, and HDR content in one frame, and has well-working tonemap curves and dynamic exposure adaption algorithms.

Microsoft is also integrating solutions for this into Windows.

Any OS that plans to ever mix HDR and SDR content on one screen needs this anyway, and if you do that, you can also easily add minor changes to allow text content to be annotated so its contrast can also be dynamically adjusted.
I have friends who like to eat from their garden and fruit trees in their yard. I have to remind them that they're living in Silicon Valley and who knows what sort of crazy industrial solvents are seeping up through the ground.
The Hilarious (and Terrifying?) Ways Algorithms Have Outsmarted Their Creators
Most of those rules suggested are too ridged can be accomplished by formatters hooked into an editor's save function or version control commit. I don't want my developers spending any more time on whitespace.
Anything not solved by an automated process should certainly be on a case by case basis. If half a file has semi colon endings it's reasonable to request it be uniform for that file.

The benefit to automated formatting is the style configuration can be swapped. if I HAVE to see altman brackets my editor can cook that format while my version control can hook whatever format the project requires.
I use Shotcut (https://shotcut.org) and it's been a good experience for very simple cutting/editing.

If you strictly only need to trim/cut, Lossless-Cut (https://github.com/mifi/lossless-cut) may also be an option (and faster).
article:

https://gizmodo.com/aggregateiq-created-cambridge-analyticas...

two main points:

>Trump's digital marketing campaign was illegally funded through in-kind contributions by foreign entities, including intellectual property and software. Trump's U.S. digital marketing company lied about the source of its intellectual property and software to hide the fact that its origin was a foreign entity

https://twitter.com/SethAbramson/status/978331761397682177
Lambdas shouldn't be more than one line anyway.
I agree with everything apart having if and return statement in the same line. It makes code really difficult to read.

In addition, I also like is to avoid if/else when returning bool values:

if (a > b) {
return true;
} else {
return false;
}

Could be simply written as

return (a > b);
Awesome interview, if the people making it are still reading: What about those "fluff" credits in major blockbuster movies (I don't recall specifics, let's say some animated whatever zooming through a part of the credits) - do they just add this to the endcrawl-rendered video or is this more for the 90% low-key credits that aren't so fancy? :)
> Worked: Native Ads

> We place our name and logo in all new Endcrawl projects. Customers can remove them if they like of course, but the power of default is strong. As a result, our name and logo are sprinkled across hundreds of films and will be seen for many years to come.

> We encourage all founders to think creatively about what constitutes a "native ad" in their space.

There is a smart, subtle insight here. "Ads" can take a lot of different forms that can be very powerful without spending any actual money. "The power of default is strong" is great!
Argonne National Lab plans Exaflop supercomputer in 2021
Absolutely not relevant to the topic posted. If you would like to discuss this video I recommend you make a post and stop derailing threads like these into your own discussion.
Shocking how incomplete this article is. One of the prominent sites was caused by Fairchild, and it's specifically described in Gordon Moore's autobiography. he said they just dumped strong acids down the drain, unaware that it ate a hole in the drainpipe, and so all the other solvents they dumped down the same drain ended up hitting the water table and pluming (https://www.amazon.com/Moores-Law-Silicon-Valleys-Revolution...).

he claims he didn't know that would happen, but every trained chemist learns to neutralize their acids before dumping them down the drain.

AFAICT, Moore and his buddies never had to pay anything for this- the companies settled with the government.
This is different, it's not about bring conceptually open and interested in new ideas, its about openennes of attention.
Mainly just making a concerted effort, when something went wrong, to go back and analyze why it went wrong and what I should have done differently. It took a lot of trial and error (like 10-20 years worth), and even today I will sometimes freeze up in social situations because all of the things I can think of to do in some situation are being flagged as "wrong" based on some prior experience.
Cambridge Analytica and Psychographics versus Facebook Algorithms and Targeting
José Filomeno dos Santos
> "Missing Third Feature"

Very good observation. I also see this relatively often, but had never seen such a clear explanation of the phenomenon and it is great to have a name for it.

> C is that vgo has no ability to express compatibility across multiple major versions

This is true. However, I think (hope) it will be a non-issue. Some tool may easily take charge of modifying import paths and go.mod files from v1 to v3 (to follow your example). This should not be, in practice, more difficult than adding the <3.0.0 constraint in the lock file.

On the other hand, if you are importing from your foo package some other package baz that also uses bar, and baz requires bar v1 because it is using that function you did not care about, you may have problems using a lock file. Either you will import the wrong version, breaking the build, or you will have two packages with the same import path and different major versions.

It is hard to predict how all this will work in practice. Although I do not think this particular example will be a problem, I agree it is important to keep our eyes open for that "Missing Third Feature".
Google, Ubisoft Debut Agones Cloud Gaming-Server Project
In the rare case a return is needed, I prefer to put a nil block and a simple return, e.g. (return value). The nil block stands out and warns about the presence of a return. It also helps that all iteration constructs (do-*) have an implicit nil block.