skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nintendo seems to be the only brand left that understands the concept of "party" games. You can do 4p split-screen in Mario Kart, and you can do wireless ad-hoc in Splatoon (but this does require multiple consoles). Kirby Star Allies is also 4p same-screen.
> Quintessential means "perfect example", not "most".

Yes, but the definite article “the” is exclusive and indicates a unique status, as opposed to the indefinite article “a” which is inclusive and admits a potentially shared status.

Tex-Mex is perhaps a quintessential melting pot cuisine, but it's not the quintessential one.
Paying a mortgage is simply moving numbers from one column to another, and usually into a less tax-favorable column with a worse risk-return profile. accumulating wealth is the way to thrive in unemployment.
If it's all about the money, companies should offer voluntary pay cuts. I know a few folks who'd take that over "voluntary" retirement any day.
I found the most interesting aspect of this article is that somehow launching rockets can affect the performance of gps and self driving cars.
Unfortunately more countries are copying it - my country, Uruguay, just adopted it, and it is awful.
The real solution is not to play on a team with randoms, and not allow comms between competing teams.

PUBG is a perfect example of this. You can play on 1 to 4 person squads, so if friends aren't online, just play it solo. You're not forced into a match with randoms on your team. You can easily turn off comms with enemies (and it's proximity only anyway).

I've never played a less toxic multiplayer game for this reason. If you just reduce comms with enemies, and give players the ability to play a game with 1 - N friends without needing randoms, the problem solves itself.
Exactly -- I couldn't have put it better :-)
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Plus he was paying for private school tuition at $44k a year. So sure maybe the budget was tight but he had an investment (the house) in that budget and yes your standard of living will be lower than somewhere cheaper (even though it is above most bay area folks)... so yes tone deaf.
I would also add that Cajun food is a quintessential melting pot cuisine.
Cambridge Analytica and Our Lives Inside the Surveillance Machine
> I've discovered also that when I switch from tab to tab, sometimes the tab needs to reload the page.

I believe that should only happen for tabs restored during startup. Unlike Chrome (unless something has changed), Firefox lazy-loads restored tabs on startup. I think that's preferable to the alternative.
> We don't have Progressive Taxation.

This is just plainly false.
Sources of AI Bias
Out-of-order execution doesn't help if you saturate the functional units. Hyperthreading also doesn't help; in fact, it hurts even more, since now the other hyperthread(s) are competing for the contended resource.
Stem Cell Treatment Drastically Reduces Drinking in Alcoholic Rats
Not all Japanese towns and villages are atrophying
I think Facebook gave app developers all of that data to grow their ecosystem at all costs. They've rescinded a lot of that data in recent years as they've achieved ubiquity. Unfortunately both Facebook and Google have achieved a mass surveillance system with their OAuth logins across the web and apps.

I agree that Google have a lot more data points and like Amazon are doing everything they can to invade physical space as well. LinkedNYC kiosks, Google Home and Toronto Waterfront projects are examples of making sure you're data is being collected 24/7.
I think it's even worse than that, I suspect there have been a lot of companies like CA that have had their access cut off and have retained the data. FB probably has never done a serious investigation of most of them.

This one is only important because it's gotten so much media attention. If it wasn't related to the election it would have been business as usual and nobody would care or know about CA.
I do not understand that logic at all. Having a household income $303K says nothing about how much down payment you are able to afford.
Queso!
and sex work generally. “Sex trafficking” is used as an excuse for a broader crackdown, forcing sex workers further underground and into more dangerous situations.
It saddens me that someone that brilliantly summarizing the problems of extensive AI-driven content organization in tech companies does not seem to understand that the company he works for suffer from the same exact problems.

The real question I am having reading this thread is: is this guy being very naive, or just dishonest?
It's not about removing human agency. It's about nudging the aggregate views of a whole population, ever so slightly. Determine what works, reinforce that, repeat algorithmically.

He's making the point that Facebook has the ability to apply machine-learning-like reinforcement algorithms to whole populations.

You or I, individually, still have agency. Large populations have inertia - they're slow to move - but I'm not sure they have real defense against this kind of manipulation. I guess the real defense here is a diversity of sources (but we all know people who get all of their news from [fox | cnn | facebook | whatever]).
LOL. I've actually never been to El Paso. I think it's a matter of Latitude so I'm sure it's great there too.

> great tex-mex in East Dallas and Oak Cliff

This is what is weird to me in Dallas. I have to go to certain parts of town to find decent tex mex. These are both 20-30 minutes away from where I live! I never had this problem in Houston or Austin. There was always some little cinder block building in/near the neighborhood run by owner pumping out great stuff.

I've tried a few of these places in East Plano or Harry Hines area that look authentic from the outside. All occasions they were actually Guatemalan or El Salvadorian which was a surprise to me.
> As someone from Texas I can definitely say from first hand the attitude I experience from people snubbing 'authenticity' in other cuisine is the same I hear towards 'Tex-Mex'.

I never said that people in general have a different attitude about authenticity toward Tex-Mex food than most other food, I said that it is impossible for the source of that attitude to be a desire to get to what the cuisine was like before the discovery of America.
PHP News – blog's aggregator
How would you regulate the training---what if you fail the training that's required to be part of a well-regulated militia? If the right to bear arms would be only contingent to being part of a militia, would the failure void your right to bear arms? (serious question)
That's not what the OP implied.
It's an experimental project where I try to aggregate all interesting blogs from PHP world. You can submit any other blog you find interesting and be notified on Twitter (for now) about new editions (list of posts from last week).
The Justice Department Is Headed Down a Dangerous Path
Pretty sure 90 minutes the longest I've seen.

Having to wade through at least 5 seconds of ads per video has made me reluctant to use Youtube anymore.
Considering most search queries are simple and apolitical, I feel the argument "tailoring search results is less dangerous than curating a news feed" has some merit.

That aside, if you use Google as your main news outlet, all that goes out the window.
>It isn't like creationism because it is based on some otherwise currently unexplained observations such as quantum mechanical behavior and magic physical constants. The idea is that these are exactly the sort of observations you'd see if you were in a simulated universe.

Really? Why would you not simply "see" whatever the Creator(s) want you to "see"? After all, it's a simulation.

And it seems to me likely that Creationism originally grew out of a then-unexplained observation: "Hey, we're alive and we exist! How the heck did that happen???"

>Now if we were to observe new species being created in N days, for small integer N, then I suppose your assertion about creationism would also hold.

I'm not sure what you mean. My assertion about classic Creationism is that it's disproven bunk.

Are you saying that if "if we were to observe new species being created in N days, for small integer N" then my assertion that simulation-Creationism is also bunk would hold?
No the "small subset of players" was referring to top players that would be affected by people misusing blocking other players.

As for all the players "affected" by this problem: People should learn to chill out. In a virtual, anonymous setting, some people will use the opportunity to be mean to you. That's why muting and block was introduced. I don't get the big deal, even though a big number of people seem to be "affected".

Actually, one of the wort statements in the whole article:

"There’s no IRL and online anymore. This is just all reality now."

WTF? That is the _point_ of creating virtual spaces or play per se. If I want a dose of reality I might as well watch the news and do some bookkeeping.
You're saying he said Tex-mex was a "uniquely representative example" of melting pot cuisine?
The problem they're facing is that by banning stuff they don't like, they are endorsing everything they don't ban.

This doesn't follow. Not at all. This new rule is pretty clear that users may not use Reddit to solicit or facilitate any transaction or gift involving certain goods and services. Pizzagate has nothing to do with soliciting or facilitating transactions or gifts.

Even if I take your reading of this at face value, it doesn't follow. Having rules against one thing doesn't prove Reddit endorses everything else. That's quite a leap to make, and doesn't follow any sort of logic or precedent.
Visualizing high-dimensional functions with cross-sections
I feel sorry for the 'safety driver' here as it seems likely much of the liability will fall on her. As a transgendered ex-felon she can't have had a lot of fantastic job opportunities. I wonder how much Uber was paying her to sit in the hot seat.
Authentic Mexican cuisine means Mexican food in the style of someone's favorite Mexican restaurant. Typically one in their hometown.
It's stupid to throw political crap in at the end of the article like that. These writers, they just can't help themselves.
Paying off your mortgage is one of the absolute worst investments you can possibly make in an environment where house prices are rising.

If they stay still or decline by all means, pay it down faster, but otherwise DO NOT pay off your mortgage early. Invest the extra cash in some cheap index fund instead.
The cell service provider can also track you, and you have zero control over that. They may be sharing your location info with many parties, including google.

I don't think there's a technological fix for avoiding location tracking of connected devices. The network must know where you are in order to deliver the connection, and you cannot control the network. Any control given at the device level is therefore an illusion. The only comprehensive solution is a legislative one. Outlaw improper use of location tracking information (GDPR-style), and allow people to use the courts to force good behavior.
I quoted a Supreme Court ruling in which the justices said there was no such right enshrined in the 2nd amendment. Thus there are people who are learned in the law who disagree with your position. Is it really hard for you to imagine that well educated, knowledgeable people can come to a different conclusion than you on what the 2nd amendment means?

I’m claim neither to be well educated or knowledgeable. I do claim that when I read that amendment it seems to give the government broad powers of regulation over gun ownership.

As I’ve said through these posts, fight for your rights. Be vigilant. We are on opposite sides but open debate and discussion is good for a democracy. Maybe my view will prevail in the coming decades. Maybe not. Societies evolve and views change. Only by people of like mind to you being willing to advocate for your rights will my position be prevented from becoming normative.
Trustee probably bills by the hour. No incentive to close it out fast.
Google Chrome’s next update will finally block autoplay videos that have sound
There are plenty of good school districts in the US where a house won't cost anywhere near $500k.
Facebook closed off the slurping of all your friends from the API with the app, and only shows those that have the same app.

https://techcrunch.com/2015/04/28/facebook-api-shut-down/
Kiki is still the cutest.

She's more important than she seems - branding is everything, and Krita has one of the best mascots in FOSS, a field in which aesthetics has traditionally not been a priority.

How better to spread a program for artists than with a mascot that begs to be drawn?
I still remember the UK using the anti-terrorism act to seize funds from Icelandic banks in 2008. Iceland doesn't strike me as a terrorist nation. If laws can be abused they will be abused.
What are the legitimate functions of government?

Possibly relatedly (depending on whether you think it's a legitimate function of government to be the answer to this question), what sort of social issues may the people tackle, and with what sort of power, and how is abusive vigilante justice prevented? Should Reddit refuse to allow people to arrange for sales of alcohol using their site as a communication platform, because underage people might buy beer? (This is a new policy from approximately yesterday: https://redd.it/863xcj ) Should the CEO of Cloudflare, bending to public pressure, refuse to serve Nazis on ideological grounds? Should a religious person with a genuine belief that abortion is murder be allowed to use deadly force to stop an abortion clinic? Should the Black Panthers be allowed to bear arms in public whenever Oakland police are in black neighborhoods, in order to dissuade the government from abusing its power? (Ronald "nine most terrifying words" Reagan signed the act that made this illegal.)
You are not off base at all, thanks for clarify and sorry for the confusion, I did not mean to say it was using gradient descent. It's been a while. The term I was thinking of was multiple "simulated annealing".
Gitlab's CI/CD is amazing. Of all the systems I've seen, it's the easiest to (a) deploy your own runners easily, and (b) mix private and public runners (i.e. the equivalent of using a free plan on Travis, with the benefit that for heavy-duty jobs you can run your own machines). That and first-class support for docker (no more being at the whims of what Travis chooses to deploy in their images), make it a really great system.

But we had been on Github, and that turned into something of a pain.

First we tried mirroring Github to Gitlab. This worked, but (a) it added a minute or two of latency to starting jobs in the CI, (b) since it went through one account, all the build emails went to a single person, and (c) the mirroring happened on our own infrastructure, which turned out not to be so reliable. So we got tired of this approach.

Eventually we decided to move development to Gitlab, but we didn't want to move our users, so we left all the user-facing elements on Github (issues, PRs, etc.). This also kind of works but has its own set of issues.

Things might have been different if we'd started on Gitlab from the very beginning, but as things are, I think having the repository on Github and the CI on Gitlab would be the best of both worlds for us.
Yeah, to clarify I was agreeing that those firms certainly pull and use that data, but not necessarily in the same traditional fashion that paper seems to imply.
You realize essentially the only social reason for marriages to be solemnized by a city official or a government official is because it forces people to at least slightly consider the consequences, right?

Like it or not, there is not yet a similar sort of widespread awareness of the risks of Facebook. If you asked a random person on the street to explain what could go wrong with a marriage, they could give you so many examples that troubled marriages are literally one of the classic sets ups for jokes.

If you asked the average person to explain how the Cambridge Analytica breach happened, or what Facebook can do with the permission to see which WiFi network you’re connected to, for example, they would not be able to give a good explanation.
YouTube expands firearms restrictions, more gun videos to be banned
I think they're pulling it from noticeable monitor FPS rates. I'm not an expert on machine vision, so I couldn't tell you the FPS needed to correlate movements between frames.
AbbVie Failure Casts Doubt on Cancer Stem-Cell Theory
Immediately upon clicking this, I typed Ctrl-F followed by "artist's depiction". The page didn't disappoint. :)
item 4 is particularly interesting. it sounds like IBM's greatest missed opportunities -- really huge ones -- were caused by failures in business/marketing/management, not engineering and technology.
I think a better solution (better than what currently exists) would entail centralizing gaming profiles which would require you to share profile data across games and game companies so bad behavior in one game is reported to all of your games.
I want to help with transcribing this.
I wonder why a SpaceX Falcon-9 was singled out. Wouldn't any sufficiently large rocket have the same effect? And if so, wouldn't the Falcon heavy cause an even more dramatic effect?
I'm taking the liberty of reworking their "plain language summary." I aimed for maintaining accuracy with relaxed precision, but please correct me if I've lost too much of either in the process.

I corrected a specific bit of imprecision in language in the source's plaintext summary not clearly distinguishing between vertical/y v. vertical/z, something the technical abstract clarified by stating "vertical altitude."

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In plainest language, the rocket was lobbed up, not hurled forward, and this resulted in a shock wave that was followed some interesting reactions in the ionosphere between the rocket exhaust plume and the plasma in the ionosphere, all of which need further study because of potential risks to things like how accurate your GPS might be in the area around the "hole" caused by these reactions.

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Plain(er) Language Summary

On 24 August 2017, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket took off from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, carrying Taiwan's FORMOSAT‐5 Earth observation satellite into orbit. The lightly weighted solo payload lets the rocket fly a path higher than the bare minimum to insert the payload directly where it needs to operate (the mission altitude), at 720 km. This unique nearly vertical path away from the ground is different from the usual satellite launches where rockets fly over horizontal paths more closely to the ground and insert satellites at 200 km above Earth and rely on orbit maneuvers to reach mission altitudes. Because of this lofty (more vertical) launch path, the rocket launch generated a gigantic circular shock wave in the ionosphere covering a wide area four times greater than California. It is followed by an ionospheric hole (plasma depletions) due to rapid chemical reactions of rocket exhaust plumes and ionospheric plasma. Large spatial gradients caused by these reactions and the resulting hole could lead to ~1 m range errors into GPS navigation and positioning system. Understanding how the rocket launches affect our upper atmosphere and space environment is important as these human-caused space weather events are expected to increase at an enormous rate in the near future.
Trump to Announce China Trade Sanctions
What tax advantages? I'm going to get exactly zero benefit this year for all the mortgage interest I've paid; I'm probably going to take the newly increased standard deduction whereas last year I saved thousands by itemizing.
You're commenting on the changed link. The original was techcrunch blogspam.
Show HN: Clj-wordcloud – A Clojure library to create word clouds
I think that the more the UK state covers for CLS, the worse the blowback could be. Every single country that CLS has been involved in will have an official starting an investigation and dusting off the extradition forms.
This sounds reasonable. For a variety of reasons I think the U.S. constitution is badly in need of being updated.
Though in this case, all his employees are in Seattle, not in Canada....
That's because you're comparing a single exposure from a digital camera. You can have dynamic range far in excess of the human eye with HDR techniques, by combining difference exposures and/or by exposing different pixels on the same image differently.
That's exactly my feeling as well, a less-friendly player base is one of the unintended consequences of matchmaking
Another way to say it is "We could do that, but it will delay this other thing that is on your roadmap as top priority for X months."
Dollar Extends Losses on Fed Move, Trump Revives Trade War Fears
Article is from 2011 and you're ignoring the fact that TX is a very large state. There are a wide variety of places to live.
Where's the posts on explainable AI? I did a ctrl+f but didn't see any.
I feel this.

Growing up Italian-American, with relatives who came off the boat cooking things for me, then having a 'merican who did a semester abroad in a single city in Italy tell me the way I cook isn't "authentic."
Lol, talk about overreaction. Why are you so anti autonomous driving?
Announcing a Node.js Snap for Linux
"10x" is large or small depending on the plausible variance you can expect. A free casual game? 10x spike is quite expected. a $1000/month B2B Saas? 10x comes with a lot of predictable lead time.
A sufficiently large rocket with a similar payload being launched to reach a similar orbit.
Apparently that combination is not very common.
I was in a similar position a few months back. Was trying to simply build Lineage with MicroG and Xposed baked in for personal use and was essentially shouted out of the LineageOS-dev IRC channel and told to write a backup script and to flash the ZIP files instead of compiling it. They seemed outright hostile to fixing this situation, or maybe I was shouted out of the channel by some randos.
Even plainer language:

Rocket exhaust can have impact with atmosphere, we need to study it more on short and long term effects.
Is drinking butter with coffee still a thing ? I had thought that was a passing fad. This guy can make $250k for himself selling this gross concoction blend make me rethink everything I know about humanity.
Except the competitors are trying to mimic other successful companies hiring practices, i.e. why we have such a horrible interview situation right now, because everyone is copying the interview processes from everyone else (not literally everyone, but enough that it's an issue).

There's not enough companies out there taking a Moneyball approach out there, and it'll take some major visibility of a booming company that is pretty much preaching how much of a good deal and competitive advantage they have from hiring these people before we might seeing a shift back to it, but the brainwashing of 'younger thinks outside of the box and saves us money!' is strong.
Sure. As long as you:

Throughly and clearly defined shitty behavior that had wide agreement.
Had an effective form of zero tolerance that was both deterrent and enforcement.
Had a clear code of conduct that was neutral to all.
Correctly identified players and prevented false positives.
Was willing to remove anyone, no matter how popular they were.
Was willing to remove anyone, no matter how profitable they were.

You know what else would make for a better community? Better citizens.
The Android launcher app has a newsfeed, and they also added that to the (at least Android) Chrome start page.

Sometimes I'll read an article to get a sense of what some gossip is about and then I get half a dozen wack-a-doo suggestions there, it is pretty bad.

Also, since I marked that I'm interested in a couple of sports teams, I'm obviously obsessed with them and want to know everything repeatedly.
"Bad code isn’t Technical Debt, it’s an unhedged Call Option"

http://www.ontechnicaldebt.com/blog/bad-code-isnt-technical-...
Space engine http://spaceengine.org/ is also worth mentioning