skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1) The word "microblogging" threw me off -- for some reason, I hear "blogging", and don't realize it's meant to be a twitter clone.

2) Maybe it's just me, but the full page image of the woman on your landing page makes me want to close out rather than engage and find out what the product is. I'd rather see top peeps immediately, with a partial landing banner for new users.

3) I think the most critical task for a product like yours is curating a good community. With twitter already existing, how do you intend to avoid turning into a boring graveyard of crypto shills (like Steem) or a Gab-like place filled with only people offensive enough to have been banned elsewhere?

4) Otherwise -- it looks great! I'm on the waitlist...how long before you send out more invite? :)
For further reading, I would highly recommend 'Molecular Biology of the Cell'

https://www.amazon.com/Molecular-Biology-of-the-Cell/dp/0815...
> They will also sometimes avoid modeling small things in small units like millimeters even though they might prefer it

Scaling model from meters to mm only changes precision in model’s units, but the precision in real millimeters stays the same, so the units don’t matter.

I think they avoid millimeters because down the art pipeline people who’ll use the models expect meters, e.g. to place the stuff in a metric world without extra scale involved.
Yes, people do move cities for better quality of life (e.g. their commutes suck). Companies have been known to do similar things.

Right now Phoenix is not even on the map for most of us. If they did something like this (at the right time), then it might be.
Call me naive, but as a EU citizen I believe there is way less uncertainty with the UK than there is for the euro-zone.

Yeah, maybe it's gonna be ugly for a few years while the UK recovers its independence, but eventually they will essentially go back to functioning just like 90% of the countries on earth. In the mean time, with the situation in Greece, Italy, Eastern Europe getting pretty nasty, who knows what's gonna happen in the EU in the next 5 to 10 years?
It’s more nuanced than you might think. All of the other elements do contribute to the fun factor. As a former game developer, there were times where adding particle effects or even sound suddenly made a sequence fun, as if suddenly a threshold had been crossed.

Human beings do respond to rewards and payoffs; it can be the satisfying sound of a coin being collected or animation of your character wall-jumping and grabbing onto a ledge. These things DO matter.
Fed up with Silicon Valley, US serial-founder starts tech company in Ukraine
This is not necessarily indicative of anything; I don't if this applies to Vancouver, but a big portion of why DC and Manhattan have bustling residential demand despite having less population than their historical peaks is that there has been a general reduction in household size due to various factors. So you could have the same amount of people but a much higher amount of households.
> They can in a few edge cases, but in most cases they don’t. [...] world transform will contain large values because you’re very far, view transform will also contain large values because camera’s also very far, but multiplied together they won’t have very large values, because model is near the camera.

This is a good point; this problem is more prone to show up in a ray tracer than a rasterizer, since rasterizers have to apply the camera transform to the geometry, and ray tracers don't.

It's pretty easy to see this problem while using Maya though. Z-buffer resolution in the editor drops off from the origin.

We might see this issue crop up with increasing frequency as more and more people use GPUs for ray tracing...
Systems that are semi autonomous where there's some expectation of intervention work well in those scenarios, keep the car in lane markers on the highway, etc. Make sure the users hands are on the wheel but for fully autonomous even if your hands are on the wheel, how does it know your paying attention?
I don't really know the precise technical details, but owing to how these stations serve as entry points for other stations, I would surmise all one would have to do is impersonate the original station and hundreds of other broadcasters would immediately begin relaying an alert in a mesh configuration. There is no authentication on this process (or at least there wasn't in the initial days of EAS before CAP/IPAWS), and any rogue ham or Russian spy could do it.
You'd think so, but Michael Bay's Transformers franchise is widely despised by critics and fans (and rightly so), and also makes hundreds of millions if not billions of dollars worldwide.

When you have audacity, nostalgia and guaranteed merchandising potential you don't need the movie to be good, unfortunately.
True points, very cool tool though and thanks for sharing.
I’m a big fan of Scott Aaronson, he’s a bit eccentric and I love it. I would love to meet him one day.

I currently have two books on my desk, and one is his book : Quantum Computing since Democratis. It’s a book that pushes at the edge of my intellectual capabilities, and it’s been a tough read where I have often had to stop and go away and study something for a week, then resume. Very challenging, and very enjoyable.
Psychological Weapons of Mass Persuasion
How about all those martyred by prolonging our current manual driving system for the years band decades it will take to roll out separate infrastructure for vehicles no one owns because they can't drive them anywhere?

I think we need to keep the human driver in control, but have the computers learning through that constant, immediate feedback.

And get rid of misleading marketing and fatal user experience design errors.
> Just self-proclaimed authority who decided systems means operating system or some embedded code

Systems does mean that. There are 2 broad categories of software you can write. One is software that provides a service to the user directly. That is an application. The other kind is software that provides a service to applications. That's systems software. Do you think there's something wrong with this notion? It's pretty well accepted over the decades:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_programming
I actually built this a few weeks ago: https://github.com/qrohlf/bones

You define boilerplate components in `~/yourproject/.bones` and it does what you just described. I've been using it in several projects at work, it's been a nice standardization/productivity bump for my team.
That was easy to miss and very important.
> (paradoxically, if, a week later they say they need another 5 million, giving them that at that time is OK as long as you think you still have ½% chance of getting all your money back, but you shouldn’t give them 15 million up front when you thought you had a 1% chance)

No paradox here... the evaluation of the situation in the first week should be [EV of getting all your money back with the 10M investment + (negative) EV of needing to put in more money later to keep the company afloat].
Look up the Blackberry Playbook vs iPad comparison they did a while back. Playbook was QNX-based. They were browsing with some games running IIRC. There wasn't any lag on the switches. Being a RTOS, it stayed responsive.

The BeOS demo toward the end is similar where they fire up a load of 3D apps, videos, etc with the system gradually slowing but still handling the load. That was on mid-90's hardware.

EROS was a capability-secure microkernel with persistence for saving or restoring running state of system. One thing they liked doing at demos was unplugging it during file transfers. After it restarted, the system would pick up where it left off.

In security side, there's been a few security and separation kernels to never have a reported breach in the field. They passed 2-5 years of pentesting by evaluators, too, doing many times better than monolithic kernels in defects found. Also easier to mitigate covert channels or do formal verification since they're small enough to analyze to begin with.
But randomly guessing Cambridge is not that likely. A bit of a pointless exercise though since security questions are dumb.
I think the overall point here is that your body is going to adapt to the stresses you expose it to. While it obviously won't be as extreme as a professional athlete, distance running will cause your body to adapt by improving cardiovascular efficiency, muscular endurance, and so on. It will not, however, cause muscle hypertrophy (in fact it may cause atrophy), and, contrary to popular belief and evidenced by this study, it may not help reduce bodyfat. This isn't exactly new either; there have been studies about this since decades ago[0]

Virtually any form of physical activity is good for your body. If you want to be a rock climber then do that; if you want to be a distance runner than do that. And expect your body to adapt accordingly. But if your goals are centered around aesthetics and body composition then you should choose something that will lead you toward those goals, and if your ideal aesthetic is low bodyfat and high muscle mass then distance running is not likely to help you.

[0] https://www.thieme-connect.com/products/ejournals/abstract/1...
Why hasn't Hollywood been able to make a good movie since 1999?
Really enjoyed the section on error handling. I had read similar sections in the rust book, but something about this explanation really made things click for me! As much as I love Rust, I personally found it a little difficult to get used to the error handling coming from an language like JS which cares little about appropriate handling
I am glad that nobody has caught "Max" in all these years.

The British signal intrusion from "Vrillon of the Ashtar Galactic Council" also mentioned in this article is pretty wild!
You're right that normally a more important consideration for production is consistent units.

The units do matter though, since the absolute float value is what determines your precision.

The author of this article translated by 200k units, so the precision loss is relative in this case. But artists might need to translate something 100 meters, so their precision loss depends completely on their choice of units.
Why can't Hollywood make a good movie?
Normally the news articles say its Chinese investors parking their money in Vancouver housing since it is likely to be stable compared to the yuan, etc.
UberRocket for Mars,
UberGalactic for interstellar space travel. All coming by 2020.
1Password 7 Beta supports local vaults
Yeah I caught that, too. Also had nothing against Scribd because I came onto them later and liked the platform. I wouldn't have guessed that's what the place was like. Though I'm not sure I'd personally like it. But I understand @jowiar's point a bit.
I am tempted to say I "like" this, but danger lurks in amateurs discussing aspects of Cryptography. I would want to see a discussion led by people in the field, about the merits of this approach.

It looks like the author avoids sharing even super-encrypted state outside of the locally strong-store box, and has made an architectural decision to segment passwords/phrases into two: the ones which get onto the strong box you hold, and the ones you send over the wire to login to systems.

But, what worries me is the implied uniqueness of the derived strings: if a family of things share xxxx-yyy-zzz-<unique> then the functionally unique input to the PRNG or whatever mix he used to generate the string, is the length of <unique> and there is a large component of input which is shared with other things: In my weak understanding of crypto, this is traditionally held to be a weakness: the apparent length of uniqueness is not as long as it looks, and loss of even one of these tokens may reveal facts about the seed data.

TL;DR want to see competent cryptography on the products of this scheme and the impact of the <common-prefix> <unique> inputs to the produced passwords.
Routing Attacks on Internet Services
I've put $23k into $clm and make $345 in dividends a month.
Nice work. I created something very similar with Python (https://github.com/leerob/facebook-data-analyzer). It looks like yours touches on some things I didn't get to in mine, like ranking messages. Awesome idea!
On most of my projects we have enlightened PMs who make allowances for paying down tech debt. For example, on my most recent rotation (an RoR app front-end to manage cloud orchestration software), the PM and tech lead worked out an arrangement where, for the four weeks following "feature freeze", half the dev time was spent paying down tech debt and other chores (the other half was spent fixing bugs).
That would be easy, but ensuring the same level of quality would need someone who thinks like Linus about these things.
Experts: Are we heading for a third world war? [video]
Look at OKL4 or Nova microhypervisor for what a microkernel version of Xen would look like. Xen is relatively large with pile of monolithic code in dom0. Microkernel vendors, esp OK Labs, were poking at its huge TCB for a while.
Putting CO₂ to use: 10 finalists named for Carbon XPrize
Show HN: Generate React components with extremely simple templating
From a branding perspective, that would be terrible. They've already invested a bunch in Google Play brand that isn't Android Apps (Play Music, Play Books, etc).

Seems more likely they'll allow HTML apps into the Play Store, eventually getting rid of the Web Store entirely. They've already done the WebAPK stuff to glue HTML apps into Android.
Oh wow. Clearly, something like widespread availability of SDRs was not an issue back then.

I wonder why it hasn't been abused/trolled on a large scale, though. Really, if I were interested in trolling that's what I'd do: next to zero chance of the cops catching you as you won't leave a trail, plus the entire country will be wide awake once the sirens ring and it will likely need months or years until the government secures the stuff.
Cytoscape.js – Graph theory / network library for analysis and visualisation
>> My best understanding is that they aren't skills, they are hardwired abilities.

And isn't it the most amazing coincidence that those who are thus exceptionally gifted are uniquely placed to benefit from the demand for those very abilities in an extravagantly lucrative profession?

I mean, imagine what would happen if everyone could program! Where would those six-figure salaries go then?
The long-term strategy works, though - "Not driving uber right now? Let somebody else drive your car"
The last one with the truck does count, I agree. If it enables inattentiveness, it's likely to cause harm.

The Skoda driver makes less sense: if you are trying (like he was) to stop, brakes should always outpower the engine. Unless the brakes failed. Toyota went through a huge ordeal just like that (possibly floormats, possibly ECU stack overflow, who knows). An attentive & trained driver should be able to handle it. The truckers were willfully ignoring what pretty much every driving manual tells you. If you drive at night without lights, in a blizzard, with summer tires, I don't see how you can blame the car manufacturer if you hit something. But if all you do is consistently go over potholes, and consistently lose power steering & lights when the serpentine belt comes loose, I think you can blame the manufacturer.
Firewatch isn't really a game so much as an interactive story. It's basically a movie to start with.

You can't actually lose Firewatch can you?

I did really enjoy playing it, although I thought it was rather expensive for a game that I finished in about 3 hours.
Yes, it does:

Imagine 39% tax, where you compound at 10%.

If you pay tax once per year, that becomes 6.1% after tax.

1.061^5 - 1= 0.34455

Now imagine you compound for 5 years at 10%, then repatriate and pay 39% on your profits:

(1.1^5-1)*.61 = 0.37241

You have 10% more if you defer taxes.
Theranos is not a public company.
Glasgow is tiny compared to NYC, SF, LON, etc. In an equivalent sized city in the U.S. you could easily find a house for $200k.
IQ of groups around the world have been improving, but the composition of groups has changed.

Eg Africa went from 1/2 the population of Europe in 1950 to 1.6x the size today.
Speaking of infrastructure. Does anyone know the current status of the "dig once" rule (contained in the Ray Baum Act) as it pertains to the US Senate?

It passed through the House in early March. I can't seem to locate any information about it after that. Supposedly it was due to easily sail through the Senate.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/03/dig-once-rule-re...

https://eshoo.house.gov/issues/telecommunications/eshoo-appl...
Perhaps a week, perhaps never.

There really is no answer to this except that the more tries you make, the higher your chances one of them might have some people interested in it.
Yeah, I was one of the PNaCl naysayers. :) But wasm has different characteristics: (1) it has a forwards compatibility story because asm.js exists; (2) it's a custom IR that was designed from the ground up to not have undefined behavior; (3) it uses the Web APIs, rather than an alternate Pepper stack.

Issue (1)--the forwards compatibility story--is the tricky one. Was it necessary to have asm.js as a stepping stone, or could we have gone all the way to Web Assembly from the beginning? I don't know, and we might never know, but having asm.js around for browsers that don't support wasm certainly doesn't hurt.
Learning how to Bitcoin: Australia’s first blockchain uni course launched
Nothing to make you realize how much you need to unionize like seeing how the boss will screw you over when you try. I hope this is the beginning of a wave of workers organizing at their workplaces. They can't fire us all.
$nflx stock
How to be a good citizen of the CVPR community?
The real irony of redux is that most of the project specific customization has to do with dealing with the boilerplate
Yep for sure. I think https was around 1994, but adoption of it was really really really sparse for probably 10 years if I'm remembering correctly. There was lots of FUD around the overhead.
Any recommendations for a free spreadsheet version or open source version that doesn't require giving my financial data to yet another 3rd party and tying it to a unique identifier via login?
In my experience often the term 'technical debt' will be hijacked by product-oriented folks resulting in feature debt
being presented as tech debt.
An Eye in the Sky Could Detect Methane Plumes on the Ground
> Having the clock be an ambient authority leaves the system open to easy timing attacks via implicit covert channels. I'm glad these kinds of timing attacks have gotten more attention with Spectre and Meltdown. Capability security folks have been pointing these out for decades.

And the Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities have shown that it doesn't matter. Taking access to a clock or sleep mechanism away doesn't stop the bad guys but makes common programmers lives much more difficult.
Thanks!

1) Yeah, it's a weird word. Other suggestions appreciated.
2) Good feedback.
3) Branding is a top priority. This front-end is meant to polarize for a certain type of user. That becomes more clear during on-ramp and usage. Copy/messaging needs work. Suggestions appreciated.
4) Thank you. Best way is to DM me on Twitter at @bevanbarton with the email address you signed up with and I'll approve you ASAP.
>Why replace it with something that breaks existing code?

https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/commit/1e70e82baa9193f6f02...
Running a bug bounty is not the same thing as getting an independent security audit.
Correlated, not linked.
Indeed, we've all seen the confused deputy in the wild. For instance, CSRF is a confused deputy vulnerability.
What's a vector clock?
Atlantic Ocean's Circulation Is Weakest in 1,600 Years
> their precision loss depends completely on their choice of units.

If an artist needs to translate a model 100 meters off center, and the model is in meters, the graph you’ve linked says the precision will be 10^(-5) model’s units, which is 0.01mm. If the same model is in mm, the graph says the precision for 100*1000 will be 10^(-2) model’s units, which is the same 0.01mm.

As you see, it's independent on the choice of units.
Lately I've been working with designers through Sketch + Zeplin and its been pretty great. I like being able to pull CSS and SVG/PNG assets out of the tool and it speeds up mockup to built site quite a bit.

What worries me about a tool that outputs html + css is then having to take that markup and integrate it with whatever client side framework or server side template engine so that its consistent with the rest of the code base, follows set code and style standards, is fully responsive and adheres to whatever arbitrary standards are set by the dev team.

I just don't have a lot of faith that a tool can be flexible enough to output markup that can then be used effectively. I imagine a developer will need to massage it into place in order to get it to conform well and by that point it might have just been easier for a competent web developer to build it from scratch. For prototyping or building out functional mock ups, it could be quite useful, but if the end goal is to hand a developer some markup and stylesheets and then let them build out the business logic, then things could get messy pretty quickly.

It's a good dream though and I hope that one day we can let designers do more of the view layer work but I'm cautiously optimistic.
Others like Bolt and Leaf give you 360 surround view parking. Tesla instead gives you Autopark but if it fails/crashes, you're at fault.
I Downloaded the Information That Facebook Has on Me. Yikes
> relatively few people have been convicted of this

I take it you don’t keep up with current events much. There have been a number of high profile convictions under 18 USC 1001 this past year.

Adding: the penalties for false statements and perjury are roughly the same, although false statements can also carry a heavier sentence in some cases. There are defenses against perjury that are not available under the false statements law. All in all, they are very similar.

You may find the Congressional research Service’s summary of these [1] to be helpful.

[1] https://fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/98-808.pdf
The comparison to autopilot is a good one, I agree, but the implication is just the same: it's potentially dangerous. The aviation had to address this issue back in the 80s and 90s, noting that simply failing to properly observe gauges or other indicators contributed to 31 of 37 airline disasters in the 80s: http://libraryonline.erau.edu/online-full-text/ntsb/safety-s...

It remains an issue, and a very well-explored one that is extremely relevant to car automation. https://www.newyorker.com/science/maria-konnikova/hazards-au...
Let me guess, it will follow the Google tradition of making it painfully slow or resource intensive to use on Firefox.
Picketty's "Capital in the 21st Century" gives ~5% as the historical rate of return of capital after inflation, which is remarkably consistent across countries and decades.

1% is way off.
There's also opportunity cost, though, and the fact that Theranos with a full staff and boatloads of money produced basically nothing.

And $10 million can fund a lot of smaller startups with better odds of success and less baggage.

IMO, the smart investors will move on and hope for some other sucker to give Theranos money. It's rough, but if they can't afford to lose sometimes they shouldn't be in venture capital.

Also, a new investor, giving only $10 million after they've raised nearly $1 billion, is going to be really far down the list of people getting their money back if Theranos turns it around somehow.
«The car does not actually require the human to watch the road»

By law it is required. The autopilot instructions also require it. Of course the autopilot software should be improved. But ultimately—the keyword is ultimately— it was the human driver's fault for not paying attention, for assuming the autopilot had a 0% failure rate.