skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Stuck at work late, need kitty litter but no local groceries are open by the time you leave? Prime now.

> Need kitty litter but don't have a car and don't want to hulk 80 lbs of litter home? Prime now.

> Need a random ass torx screw driver and don't want to drive to home depot across town? Prime now.

> Forgot the ground beef but don't have time to get it because the oven is already on, cooking for the company coming over? Prime now.

> At a beer festival and sick of standing but didn't bring your camping chairs because you don't have any? Prime now.

> Standing in line outside in the rain but didn't bring an umbrella? Prime now.

> Ran out of Christmas cards? Prime now.

> Nieces birthday and no time to go shopping? Prime now.

As somebody who lives in the city without a car and nowhere near a home depot or a grocery store that is open past 10pm, prime now has been an absolute godsend. The fact that I can order a ton of items that I just _cant_ find locally no matter how hard I look, but also don't want to wait for shipping from Amazon/Ebay/whatnot is an absolute godsend.

I don't think you need to cook up an emergency to have a good reason to use Prime Now. I have tons of 'micro emergencies' every month where I'd gladly tip my driver a bit to bring my items within a few hours.
These tiny robots could be disease-fighting machines inside the body
I do maintain some level of vim knowledge for when I'm on strange systems. But it's not hard to install my emacs config so if I'm going to spend significant time on a system I will do that.

But if you can ssh in, you could just tramp on your local emacs to edit files remotely. It's quite magical.
Dual-licensed means buyer's choice. As the client of the library, you can use it under the terms of either license.
Making Big Changes (2018)
Because it isn't as much fun.
surely you would agree that there is a vast difference in meaning between “no clear cut demarcation” and “immaterial or nonexistent”
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Unfortunately these things don't work because the general public needs something simple, centralised, rich in content, and which has the momentum of actual people using it. Technology doesn't help, it's about timing it the right application at the right time.
> contributing something back to society

It is really challenging to contextualize a lot of service industry jobs this way.
> SESTA passed Congress a week ago. It still hasn't been signed into law, yet in the past week all of the following have already happened:

Because SESTA only gives the big players an excuse to do what they wanted to do anyway--get rid of a bunch of groups that are likely to bite them in the ass with big advertisers at some point.

The real tell is the fact that none of these players have gone after SESTA in a First Amendment challenge. That means that they have done the financial calculation and banning the groups comes up positive in their mind.
This brings back memories for me. My friends and I realized even at a young age that we shouldn't have hard classes in the morning, and we almost always chose PE/arts first.
Zero profit. This is good for bitcoin.
Smugglers used drones to sneak $80M worth of phones into China
141.1.1.1 is owned by vodaphone de now.

https://dnslytics.com/ip/141.1.1.1
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Thanks for the help, I appreciate it.

> You basically need to fully commit to being HIPAA compliant if you go directly with a service.

Do you mind explaining that a little more? Are there specific actions that need to be taken in order to be HIPAA compliant if no data is being saved on the server?
I don't see any reason to see that as implausible. There used to be so many passenger pigeons in North America that they blocked the sun. Now there aren't any.
In 2004, "There should be only one way to do it" was a more realistic goal. 2004 puts us at Python 2.4 or so, but I think that's just when it got formalized into a PEP, it was around for a while before then. If we step back two years to 2002, we get to Python 2.1. We are now pre-generators, pre-with statement, pre-itertools, pre-decorators, and a lot of other things (useful itertools, etc.). There more often was only one sensible way to do a thing. Python evolved, but PEP20 didn't.
>The bad part of the space race is ICBMs

my understanding of history is that space race was good part of ICBMs.
AI can invent new ways to create complex molecules
Find a way to do it. If you don't have kids, do it before you have kids -- it is a lot easier. Possibly find a way to get Product License+PS revenue to keep up current cash.

So I was on Wall Street for 11yrs (and 3yrs Wall St consulting before that.) One day, I decided i'd just do it. So I did. I found a good dataset for a big problem (Tuberculosis) with a use case (synchronous diagnosis) in a field where I had an advantage (CV+ML driven diagnosis) and convinced a customer to fund development in exchange for equity. Cool think about some of these problems is that you can give away your product (our approach was to charge wealthier countries and give it away free in poorer countries (though everyone would also "pay" via data contribution.)

The product worked. I teamed up with a Radiologist and MPH co-founder and we did it. The metrics were good. We were even on the acquisition block for a while. The story is a bit sad later on because we became mired in IP issues that tripped up the acquisition, but I don't regret the venture.

Not everyone can succeed in addressing a disease with 300MM victims. So just trying is a success in my book. And your solution need not be some cutting edge cure -- sometimes ancillary things like fast/cheap diagnoses is enough because the problem is often identifying early rather than actually curing. Making a diagnosis, even an initial diagnosis on a two-stage diagnosis, cheaper/faster is very much in the change-the-world territory. If you have a laptop, some GPUs, and the ability to sell your vision, you have all you need.

Side note: I wasn't rash in leaving Wall St. (a la Fountainhead) -- I waited to get my bonus before resigning and I resigned in grace by lining up a replacement for myself and ensuring there was a transition and my bosses were happy. One of my bosses even offered to invest in my startup. I also lined up a dataset before leaving.
Use https://simplednscrypt.org/ and just pick "Cloudflare" in the list of available servers.
I did not make this, just found it. Seems like a really interesting alternative to electron.
FBI whistleblower indicted by DOJ allegedly leaked rules for spying on reporters
There are tons of lab experiments showing people's ability to learn goes down when they're sleep deprived. Memory consolidation seems to be one of the principle reasons sleep and given all the in-lab double blind studies it would be amazing if people getting less sleep didn't do worse in school. Which isn't to say that this particular paper or article proves that.
Singapore says Uber-Grab deal may violate competition laws
> "once U.S. regulators approve appropriate emissions modifications,"

well isnt that handy https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/29/climate/epa-cafe-auto-pol...
Newer versions are incompatible with what’s in Ubuntu 16.04.
Ugh, this was a useful feature. Basically, I want the “All Music, When I Want It” service. Since no corporation will ever have licenses for everything I want to listen to, let me upload it and stream it back. Losslessly please—we can argue if I or anyone else can hear the difference, but I’d still pay for it.

Anyone have a favorite open source self-hosted music option with good mobile clients?
Racism Is Socially Engineered Injustice
This is not a website, but a web service. It doesn't display web pages, but responds to DNS queries over HTTP/2.
Minor nitpicking: Text inside your buttons isn't vertically centered... kind of annoying ---to me, anyway.
It's not common for those backups to actually kick, but it does happen. Wes Welker was placekicker for the Dolphins for one game as a rookie in 2004, besides being the team's kick and punt returner. He successfully converted both kicks he attempted. He did not catch a pass in that game, despite being nominally a wide receiver (and a future Pro Bowler at that position). Six years later, at New England, he served as the backup placekicker again and made a single extra point, finishing his career perfect as a kicker.

The legendary quarterback Doug Flutie kicked the last successful "drop kick" in the NFL for an extra point in 2006. However, that was more of a novelty than out of necessity; New England's kicker was healthy, they were well ahead in the game, and the team knew Flutie would retire after the season.
This was pretty well publicized circa 2008 when the events took place.
I make acoustic guitars from scratch. There's an old joke in the luthier community about customer preference : "give 'em a choice between volume and tone, and they'll pick volume every time."
It's funny because it's often true. The loud guitars sell first.
Then again, it may depend on your market. A solo performer can sacrifice a lot of volume for a tone that matches their expectations. A performer who plays in a bluegrass band with a fiddle and a banjo needs every db they can get. But this is the acoustic instrument market.

Electric is a different world altogether.
Lazy actor: receiver will scan the codes and see that data doesn't match, thus they can't trust the sender.

Bad actor: unless you intend to use rolls by yourself, what do you gain? You can't sell the better rolls as such, because you have broken chain of trust.

But such arguments lead nowhere. Of course you can come up with scenarios which can be misused. The real challenge (and one that is being solved by lots of people in crypto world - well, at least those that aren't consumed by greed) is finding scenarios that work. The ability to store information cheaply and immutably can change many industries, but technology must be deployed in such way that it makes sense.
I'm also looking forward to the impl trait work where you can return partial iterators as well instead of the massive type signature that they are today.
I don't think they're saying it never happens, but I've heard similar reports to OC.

It's a measure taken to normalize the accounts— it muddies the water. That way, they look more like average personal accounts than obviously paid-for followers. The costs on the click-farm side is averaged out so they just have the "clickers" or bots follow a huge variety of people and companies while also putting the most backing to the accounts belonging to whoever hired them.
I'm getting really tired of the misuse of the word "censorship" when it comes to topics like this. Mailchimp is not censoring anything. They are not preventing those advertisers from getting their message out. What they are doing is choosing not to partner and work with people they believe might be likely scammers. Something we all do. If you want to complain about that, then you're saying that a person should no longer be able to choose who they do business with. Do you want to be compelled to buy a car from the shady dealer with a reputation for selling lemons? If not, then why should Mailchimp?
That's a fair point, but have you actually heard a drone? It's really loud. It will be incredibly hard to counteract public pressure.
Is it safe to assume that 1Password has some sort of data feed from HIBP to handle this locally? I can't imagine they are calling a service out of their control to send your passwords or email addresses (or even hashes of them), no?

That was the only concern part for me and unless I missed it I couldn't find where it was addressed.

Beyond that this is a great idea!
The consequentialism is not the talking point in the meme. What's controversial is his valuation of "the ends": that "connecting people" has greater utility than the life or happiness of a minority of those connected.

I'm not going to make any assertions about the intent of the meme because I don't know the context, but the logic expressed in the meme seems to have been their strategy already to me, from the outside.
Ultimately most people take it as more or less axiomatic that human life is of greater value than any other kind, and this kind of argument is unlikely to sway them.
And existing streaming services already have a latency of several seconds. Twitch for example can have a delay from 5 to 20 seconds or more. Unless you're using WebRTC or similar technologies you won't see latencies below a second.
Not for long, probably thanks in part to the total shitshow that was/is LG's TB3 display.

"As part of doing a new Mac Pro — it is, by definition, a modular system — we will be doing a pro display as well. Now you won’t see any of those products this year [2017]; we’re in the process of that. We think it’s really important to create something great for our pro customers who want a Mac Pro modular system, and that’ll take longer than this year to do."

https://daringfireball.net/2017/04/the_mac_pro_lives
No. 1.1.1.0/24 was not allocated because idiots poisoned it. For a long time address ranges like these were left unused because it wasn't worth anybody's time handling the problems but since IPv4 is now full we may as well do what we can with them.

So China Telecom will never have been given 1.1.1.0/24
I was actually told this by a physics professor in college (in a class about science and public policy). He claimed that basically anything that is browned via heat becomes a carcinogen, so policy makers and scientific researchers have a moral obligation to ensure that "is known to cause cancer" remains a meaningful statement, because taken literally, it applies to almost anything.
It sometimes helps the public, against whom the conspiracy is performed.

Do you think Snowden's leaks were intended to help the NSA?
Honestly I suspect that this stems from a perception particularly among people from a non-traditional CS background that "functional programming" is intimidating, whereas Python is seen as approachable in a get-shit-done kind of way for programming novices. Python definitely did co-opt a lot of traditionally functional stuff, but did it in a way that obviates needing to know what a monad is, concern oneself with functional purity, etc., so there's a community of people now who don't care about any of that but are still familiar with some of these idioms, and this post is meant to make Rust look more accessible to them in a way that "Rust supports functional programming idioms" would not.
Indeed, our security service allows our customer (the website owner) the option to adequately protect their website.

I'm not sure you actually made a point other than to confirm that we allow website owners to fully whitelist Tor if they'd like to.
There was a good experiment that Merit did when they announced 1.0.0.0/8 for 1 week back in 2010. The findings are here:

https://www.merit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/1.0.0.08.pd...
How SCL Group Used Indonesia and Thailand to Influence Elections
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Math is like going to the gym but for your brain. I consider it the most expensive sport that you can play. to do math You may never need anything you learn in math but I know it changes my problem solving abilities for the better. The more Math I know the more creative I can be when solving problems.

I agree with you 100% that the average person doesn't need math throughout their lives. We need to stress teaching statistics though in schooling (high school especialy) because that is something that manipulates people constantly .
Switch to an example.com bookmark.

Never had any issue and there's an extremely low, almost infinitely zero, chance of the domain dropping and being taken over by squatters (re: neverssl)
Maybe I should rephrase that: to imply that there is no clear-cut demarcation between transactional and reciprocal relationships is offensive. That demarcation might not be visible to an internet platform, but it is obvious and unambiguous to the individual participants.
If you're referring to the 2016 ILO report[0][1], that was a short-term trend partially attributable to the refugee influx. Overall, global poverty has been on a steep downward trend for decades.

[0] http://www.ilo.org/wcmsp5/groups/public/---dgreports/---dcom...

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2016/05/19/poverty-increasing-in-develo...

[2] https://ourworldindata.org/extreme-poverty
U.S. regulator approves SpaceX plan for broadband satellite services
Transitioning Google URL Shortener to Firebase Dynamic Links
Shocking. I heard him speak in person only last year at a company introduction to Enterprise Agile. Most in the room didn't know what it meant that he was an original signer of the Agile Manifesto. He peppered his talk with all kinds of anecdotes and funny stories. I regret not shaking his hand afterwards, and I'm sure he will be missed by those that knew him.
That’s how drugs will be coming over trumps wall!
Neat. Have you tried it with any games?
New York City to launch free cybersecurity tools for residents
I was going to post this same comment. I letter-swap typos on many commands, but I've never in 20+ years made the typo of "sl" when I type "ls".
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If you are Chinese, you would. 1, 6 and 8 are lucky numbers to Chinese.

I suspect that the whole reason why 8.8.8.8 is a Google DNS server is that they were originally only 4.4.4.4 until someone Chinese pointed out that 4 is an unlucky number. :)
The posted article has a link to the earlier study from the same researchers: http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2014/04/elite-violinists-fail...

“The consistency of results from session to session showed that soloists could definitely distinguish one violin from another. However, the soloists seemed to prefer the new violins.”
Indeed, and there was always great worry about how polluted that IP space might be. I posted this link elsewhere:

https://www.merit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/1.0.0.08.pd...
The ball's state can be described by its y coordinate, and it converges to zero. The lightbulb's state can be described by Boolean variable (on/off), but it doesn't converge, just oscillates between on and off with an exponentially increasing frequency. If we have instead used a variable intensity light switch, and turned it like 0%, 100%, 0%, 50%, 0%, 25%, 0%, 12.5% ..., with an exponentially increasing frequency, it would have also converged to the 0% state like the ball did.

So the variables that describe the system's state has to converge.
The whole point of probation is that you are trusted enough to not be put in prison.
Or realising that "perfect is the enemy of good" is an adage for a reason ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_is_the_enemy_of_good
Exactly, eat less and exercise more!

Discipline is hard, I know.
That matches the gummy experiment.

Buy a bag of cheap gummy candies, with multiple colors of candy. Separate the colors. Taste each color in turn, and write a description of the flavor that matches that color.

Now put on a blindfold, and have a confederate hand you randomly selected candies. For each sample, describe the flavor.

For certain brands (or lack thereof), it is readily apparent that all colors are actually the same flavor, and any distinctions that may occur in the initial descriptions are all illusionary. Some brands actually do have distinct flavors. At some point, someone figured out "hey, we could save money by not using 5 different flavoring blends, and most people wouldn't even notice."

And it's not the smelling or tasting part that changes. It happens when you try to describe it. That's why "blue raspberry" is so wrong on your shaved ice. Raspberry is not a "blue" flavor. It's "red". But on the shelf, the red spectrum is already cluttered with cherry, strawberry, and watermelon. Apple has to be green, and raspberry has to be blue, so the ice jerk doesn't have to read labels. And you then have to close your eyes to make it taste more correct--or at least as correct as the artificial flavorings can get.
If a UBI was big enough, steel workers could go back to work. They could run a factory and make steel, at a loss, but it wouldn't matter because doing something useful (making steel) is decoupled from their livelihood.

And for the people who want to get that sense of usefulness another way (raising kids, teaching others how to make steel, playing video games, building houses) they would have the financial freedom to do so.
Linear Algebra for Deep Learning
That's a false dichotomy. It's better to work somewhere where transparency isn't a problem.
Minor correction: They used 54 SPARC T3-2. You can see exactly which components they used in http://c970058.r58.cf2.rackcdn.com/fdr/tpcc/Oracle_SPARC_Sup...
TWitter was doing something new and still had to work to get it's early users on. You need a different strategy in a mature market.
Facebook’s mission changed, but its motives didn’t
I can certainly see the ideological direction you're coming from. I'll just say this: there is honor in pushing yourself through hard work and long hours to build a business - and in almost every case, the act of building the business is not an end unto itself. The promise of material gain, and other 'superficial' outcomes is a major driver. There is no shame in that.
> I was a Facebook employee for several years; I left shortly before this memo was drafted. The environment was pretty much the opposite of "don't rock the boat." Dissenting opinions were encouraged and openly discussed, but everyone understood that could only happen if it didn't undermine the PR department's job.

It likely depends on where you are in the company. I haven't worked at FB but have a few friends who have in the past. One of them told me something pretty similar to what you experienced, the other had the exact opposite.

So I'm honestly not sure what to believe about their culture. It seems, once a company gets big enough, that culture becomes multiple sub cultures and I'm not sure there is a single culture that drives the company anymore.
PSA: If you are using a DisplayLink based device, this update will break your setup. They have a beta driver on their site that will re-enable clone mode, but not extended desktops, etc. Through the 10.13.4 beta the rumor was that changes to support eGPU's broke something they relied on.

Edit: 1.0.13.4 is not a version of macOS.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16707592

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16716040
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Zuckerberg says memo justifying deaths to grow the network was 'provocative'
2012 and 2013 15" Macbook Pros used NVidia. I think Apple likes to alternate every generation or two, if only to keep their options open.
Anyone can download the whole list of hashes