skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Exactly, it's a classic rhetoric device to destroy an argument by extending it so much that it sounds silly and addressing the silly proposition instead.

That's not what I was attempting to do.

> Sure, I wouldn't hire a JavaScript developer to do C, because they can do a lot of damage there. But I'd consider a C dev for a JavaScript position, even though I'd have to ask them why they want to do that to themselves.

But it's a problem either way. A C developer likely is going to want Javascript to work like C, and they're going to hate that it doesn't, and they're going to write bad Javascript as a result. And understanding modern Javascript means understanding the DOM and how to efficiently interact with it, and the whole horrible mess that is NPM, and compile-to-js languages.

My argument is that outside of a textbook, the domain and the language seem to be inseparable, or at least very tightly coupled. Abstraction is one dimension (and I'm not entirely sure it's true that it's easy to move up, since abstractions carry their own debt) but it's likely not one that really matters to a business.
What's wrong with alter table? It's not like you have to manually re-enter rows. And this is during development, right?
Is anyone running mainline Debian, with the linux-image-armmp kernel package, on the Tinker Board yet? If so, what hardware is supported and what is not?
It would be corporate malpractice if they were not to do that, this way they limit their exposure to the exuberant fines and any other unintended consequences of this anti-american piece of legislation.
The inherent problem is that even if you are heavily diversified, in order to back by 50% gold you'd need to have 50% gold PLUS 50% MULTIPLIED BY THE PROBABILITY THE GUARANTOR FAILS.

For ether, such overcollateralization isn't a problem, because you can package it as an ether derivative and have no counterparty risk... But for a gold collateral you would have a risk that cannot be mitigated in this way and the risk will need to increase the slippage of the asset.
So, does GDPR applies to ?:

- European citizens only currently living in the EU ?

- European citizens worldwide ?

- Everyone currently living in the EU ?

As a European living in the US, I'm wondering.
It is overcast 8-9 months of the year in Seattle.
It’s like being dropped back into my Latin classes. The history component is great, and by far the best part of taking 4 years of it in high school.
It's actually kind of unclear what it means to predict results from an algorithmic simulation. Surely that's just trying to use a different method to simulate the process?

I also don't see them mentioning anything about noise, so what exactly are they trying to achieve? Surely perfect prediction should already be possible, otherwise what are they comparing the output to?
> This thread is now too deep for me to respond to your comment.

It probably wasn't depth that blocked you. It was probably time. There is a short interval after a comment is posted during which the reply link is not available in the thread. (You can still reply without waiting, but you have to figure out how to get a reply button instead of a reply link. The reply button doesn't have the delay).

> This statement seems to have misinterpreted article 27

I believe that statement is summarizing recital 23, not attempting to interpret article 27.
Beware of Selling Yoga Pants on Facebook
I don't use Facebook, but could one build a service that automatically sets Facebook's privacy settings to sensible options? A large part of the problem is that changing these through the web site is painful in the extreme.

I suppose I'm asking if their API provides read/write access to privacy settings. If so, there's a big opportunity here.

More generally, I'd like to see governments mandate that all FB user's privacy settings be reset to the max, and force Facebook to realistically inform users who want to loosen them about why they might want to do so.
so whos tried mastodon?
I don't think the servers matter, it's not really about the servers, it's about the business side of it, they operate a low tax business within the EU. I don't think they can move out of the EU without all of a sudden not having to pay a lot more for doing business with EU companies. So they still want to operate as a company within the EU to get the tax advantages, but then also are subject to the laws.
All of that is undeniably, unfortunately true as well. At the end of the day the F-35 is a jack-of-all-trades and master of none that isn't even a a jack-of-all-trades.
The Fall of the Big Box
I still use it through an old terminal based unix email system .
Works relatively well (of course opening attachments is tricky), although I feel like whats app/sms has significantly cut down my email use.
I do miss Tin and the untamed and distributed Usenet.
Sebastian Junger – Why Are Men Violent
I think you are forgetting how long a design lead these projects have. The first time pen was put to paper on the plane that would be the F-35 would have been in the 1990s sometimes. Drones were far away from viable then.
This way is fairer to the original submitter, and it's a big enough story that it's unlikely to suffer in terms of rank or time on the front page.
That's in context of a multi front war. In a 1 on 1 confrontation without vast foreign aid to the USSR it would have been at a massive disadvantage in 1941. Lend lease providing 30% of USSR's aircraft, 58% of their aviation fuel is no small thing. This was as far as I can tell a view shared by both sides with Stalin fearful of the German war machine.

So, I agree it was a strategic blunder, but perhaps a closer fight than many assume.
Power and status are the ends. Money is the means, or at least a score keeper.

Sounds silly when you type it out.
FYI, the first public release of Scratch was in 2007 [1], so that's really a more accurate border. I'm aware of this because I started using Scratch in 2008. I'm a computer science student in college now, and I've had a couple of internships. From my experience, Scratch was a great start. I learned a lot from it, and I really credit it with getting me into the field, although I likely would have irregardless of Scratch. Either way, I don't think that it necessarily will be bad for toys to replace tools.

[1]: https://web.archive.org/web/20070120041500/http://scratch.mi...
What amazes and dumbfounds me is that there are still colors we haven't discovered. A perfect example of: we don't know what we don't know.
What you're referring to is called "The Tetris Effect" and it seems to be a widely recognised phenomenon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetris_effect
Knock-offs, and stolen merchandise are often sold by the same criminals who sell drugs. Aside from street dealers who are dealing to get their next fix, it’s not as though drug dealers have some need to restrict themselves to one lucrative market.
That's what I used to think until I started taking motorbike lessons.

At first I was having a hard time turning, because this whole counter-steering thing didn't come naturally to me and I would try to turn the handlebars to the left if I wanted to go left, but the bike would go the other way witch was pretty scary.

I then internalised this and the next time I rode a bike I tried this out, and indeed, this is how it works. If I turned the handlebars left at any considerable speed, the bike would lean to the right and start turning right, with the handlebars going right. It would go a slight bit left at the very beginning, but then it would go all the way right.

When I think about it, at slow speeds (say below 25 km/h - 15 mph) I only turn the handlebars and lean the bike. However, I can lean the bike at those speeds, so no counter-steering is required. I first lean the bike and then turn the bars.
However, it's very difficult to have it lean any useful amount at speed. And this is where counter-steering is useful.

Here's a video where this is all explained, complete with fixed handlebars (that don't steer the wheel) to show how just leaning doesn't do much : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_5Z3jyO2pA&feature=youtu.be...

Granted, this is way more noticeable on a motorbike that on a bicycle. Maybe the weight of the wheels and of the whole bike has something to do with it. If I lean a 10 kg bike but stay upright on it, the centre of gravity doesn't move much. However, on a 300 kg motorcycle, it moves quite a bit more.
They'd also have to stop being based in Europe (they're officially headquartered in Ireland, because tax evasion), and (here's the kicker): stop doing business with all of Europe. Even if they had to say screw it and not do any targeting of their adds at all, it really wouldn't make any business sense for them to take their ball and go home.
We've all but given up on Stripe's radar.
We plugged in Signifyd, and it's amazing to see how often Stripe gets things .. completely wrong.

Now obviously Signifyd scrub, but we haven't seen a case where we've had clean transactions scrubbed, and when a CB goes through, you're refunded.

Likewise, you no longer have to worry about your CB% going over and you getting blacklisted for life.

Until Stripe steps up and starts providing chargeback protection, their protection is simply lipservice.
See Article 3, "Territorial Scope", here [1]. It's fairly clearly written.

[1] https://gdpr-info.eu/art-3-gdpr/
You do realize the number of critical workloads running on HA RDBMs clusters is N orders of magnitude higher than number of critical workloads running on CockroachDB?
Voiceloop – Facebook's algorithm for audio impersonation
Less important since the discussion moved elsewhere, but I've added some hyphens.
You could argue that. And that is a good point. But it is simply price swings or volatility. The job of the stable coin is to be stable during periods of volatility, even high one as that.

A black swan event is the one you pointed out about ETH crashing to zero. And there were none yet.
I see it written there but that doesn't mean its enforceable.
And investing in one of them. ;)
You haven't answered any of the questions or provided any reasonable details.

What does ethics class have to do with this? I'm sure the question of whether lying in your job to avoid doing a particular project would be far more interesting to study anyway, I'll be sure to bring it up the next time I teach one.
I don't believe that high standards inhere in small scale. I have also not read or heard anyone articulate a reasonable explanation for why that is necessarily the case. Figuring out how to operate a business with high standards at scale is arguably the primary job of anyone who operates any business at scale.
> Thursday, February 26, 2015

Not exactly new.
ITYMeant "A multilayer perceptron is a universal function approximator.
I think you're correct about collecting weather data. That said, the prediction doesn't have to be perfect - like race horses or the lottery - in the short term it just needs to be relatively close. It all depends on how far out your long term needs to be.
Shopify integration ?
I’ve heard Floydhub is good too. https://www.floydhub.com/pricing
4 Different Types of Developers
I believe it's an attempt to stop PRs like this: https://github.com/woocommerce/woocommerce/pull/19545

We get at least one of those a day and they are user error, spam or something. Definitely a useful feature for popular open source projects.
> there will be a financial incentive to launch a 51% attack on the blockchain

Anyone with that computing power will use it to earn transaction fees, not to attack Bitcoin by sniping funds through double-spends. If Bitcoin were ever attacked such that transactions were not immutable once confirmed, people would stop using it and the value of Bitcoin would drop. A 51% attack only destroys Bitcoin. There is no financial incentive (at least not in terms of Bitcoin).

(This is in the original white paper.)
Pipe Cleaner Bending Robot Using Lego MINDSTORMS EV3 [video]
I used to try using this as a way to design games as I try to sleep by 'playing' them in my head, since the game you see in your mind's eye is rarely exactly the game in reality, or at least, not in mine.

It hasn't exactly worked out, though. Mostly because I stuck at the part where I have to actually make the thing.
Aww, another website has gone to sticky headers :( You designers obviously don't use the spacebar to scroll.
Latest software (using v10.3), better performance (nvme SSDs), better backups (point in time, instant cloning), better features (more extensions, cross-region replication even across different clouds), better flexibility (migrate master across different clouds), better monitoring (logs and datadog metrics export), and more focused support with a smaller team.
> Most people don't real care about money, they just need it to buy status symbols with.

I'm pretty sure you have the causality backwards here. Status symbols exist to show off that you have money. If someone shows off status symbols but everyone knows they don't actually have money, they'll be seen as a poser, not a clever social hacker.
The google signin was the stopping point for me too.
What camera do you use with the Tinker?
How does this beat the results you would get from Google search?
There is a version link at the top.
Does the Tinker board have a pinhole camera module like the Raspberry Pi?
This was the first thing I checked, thankfully they stayed the same.
Why do you feel sad about the fact that an individual who values science is "privately funding" a great publication? surely you don't object to private wealth and/or activity?
Have you looked at Snowflake Data? They have a similar pay-per-compute setup as your Presto cluster with automatic pause/resume to save any idle time. Good middleground between traditional Redshift and flexible BigQuery.
> If the thing you care about is clear sidewalks, scooters are such a tiny problem that they're barely worth mentioning.

So let's nip it in the bud before it becomes a bigger problem and then use scooters as an example to rationalize the bigger problems with sidewalks.
I use Google Voice.

I send all calls that block the caller ID automatically to voicemail.

If I get repeated spam voicemails from the same number, I manually add it to a contact called “Block”. The next time they call they get a special voicemail message I recorded telling them the number is no longer in service.

This system has worked well for years.
As open as they are, they still aren't fully open. For me, that means there really isn't any point to them.

I'd take a 486 DX4 SoC with no better than VGA output if it was entirely open.
Well, for one, because one of the biggest ad vectors is retargeting. The ads aren't split in tiny overly broad categories.

If you pick "videogame", unless they ask you if you like RPGs, which videogame do they advertise to you?

(not saying it's WORTH it, but ad tech is pretty darn sophisticated these days)
I was pretty sure someone was going to focus on the example I gave instead of the idea :), very predictable. Chaotic systems are not just functions, that's why there's an entire discipline that studies them. There are many ways to approximate functions that have been developed during a long time and all have had trouble approximating chaotic functions.
I used to, but I’ve since played so many games that I tend to get pastiches of them stuck. In particular my dreams almost always have game-like elements and mechanics in them, which can be fun, or a bit exhausting depending on the scope. Inventory management in a dream is inevitably a very confusing and frustrating experience, since everything changes when you stop paying direct attention to it.
Five people downvoted but only one replied. I would appreciate a line explaining, since I didn't think my opinion was so controversial.
Cool article. The title made me think this was going to be an article from 2011 about Color the company [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_Labs
As CA Comcast customer, I was really hoping for this. Of course, Republicans can't be mad at this, right? State's rights, and all.
1K Calls for Change: Increasing Police Transparency in the Bay Area
Where the Raspberry Pi wins is community.

From what I've observed, the community feels almost like a walled garden in terms of mentality: if you're doing what everyone else is doing, it's great. If you try to go beyond that, don't be surprised if you encounter hostility or discouragement.

By "go beyond that", I mean simple things like trying to find the electrical specifications of the GPIO pins. The comments here are worth reading, for example: http://tansi.info/rp/interfacing5v.html
Indeed, I've had nothing but good experiences with Samsung EVO and SanDisk Ultra cards.

BTW, your link seems to end up on your front page, rather than the card comparison article.
The mental model for most people for so called free media is broadcast tv.

Yes there are ads. Yes I dislike those ads but they pay for the tv programming and broadcast.

No, broadcast tv does not keep a massive dossier on me or even know I exist.

Almost nobody expected nor understood that they are now "free from having privacy." It's not usual nor expected nor was it ever made clear. It was also done where there was no consent (shadow profiles for people without facebook accounts) and where consent was expressly withdrawn ("I now know what facebook does and would like you to close my account and delete all data and all backups of data relating to me"). Wildly evil stuff going on there, argue about what the law "says" all you like it's foul and should be illegal. It probably is illegal too if you haven't got billions to buy out of the problem. Que the apologists...

There are plenty of other media consumption businesses paid by advertising where you aren't being monitored in a manner the stasi could only dream of. Free printed newspapers supported by advertising have been around my entire life. This was the expectation.

Could facebook and google have grown if they had stated on their front page, every login that they were keeping records of everywhere you went on the internet? They wouldn't have got any traction whatsoever so they lied. Android will keep track of everywhere you go physically and add that to our file on you. Apple are better is just such BS you have to be a huge fanboy to swallow it.

Everyone concerned should be facing criminal charges for that kind of lying. Trying to claim they didn't know they were lying at the time and it was a bait and switch fraud instead.
Zuckerberg went to Congress and told them Facebook would support GDPR, as if the only thing GDPR is are just some controls you'd do at the user interface level (and as we learned today, that they're attempting to get around with dark pattern designs [1]).

GDPR is much more comprehensive than that, but most importantly it gives data privacy regulators real teeth to enforce with (fines up to 4% of global revenue).

The only way Americans (or anyone else besides EU citizens) will get GDPR protection is if GDPR-style regulation is enacted into law.

[1] https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/986591125262749696
I think they meant, when the contributor is also not the author of the changes. At least I hope this is what they meant.
If you’re going to be that pedantic, I’ll see your pedantry and raise you. Time travel is not only possible, but routine, just in the forward direction only. It’s only travel into the past which is probably impossible, and to be even more pedantic and abstract, impossible only in our observable spacetime geometry.
> 2-tier working tables?

You know it was considered.
My parents read to my brother and I up until I left home at 18. By then it was more so that we didn't all (parents included) squabble about who got to read the new books first.

My dad read the Swallows and Amazons series to us,
then a bit later the Hornblower series, also the Redwall series, the Hobbit, the Lord of the Rings, Treasure Island, Kidnapped, a few Dickens, Robinson Crusoe, all Narnia, possibly a couple of Shakespear. A bunch of classic Sci-Fi: Day of the Triffids, the Foundation series, etc.

My mum read first quite a lot of Enid Blighton (Famous 5, Secret 7, magic faraway tree, etc)(really dated now), a few of the 'Chalet School' books (I got bored of those though my brother read the rest to himself), Agatha Christie, Jane Austin, Jane Eire, Don Camilo, Adrian Plass, Harry Potter, an Abridged Narnia and Abridged Lord of the Rings when we were younger (I think she just skipped the scary parts), Roald Dahl and Dr. Seuss (our 3 year old loves them now), Katie Morag (lovely gentle stories), Dick King Smith, Alexander McCall-Smith has a few great calm fun fiction for kids (The Perfect Hamburger, for instance), Treasures of the Snow, Paddington, E.Nesbit, the Princess and Curdie et al, The Secret Garden, Dogger, the Story of Ping (AFTER you read it, check the amazon reviews), Politically Correct BedTime Stories ...

My wife and I are now reading (for the second time) through David Eddings' 'The Belgariad' together. I grew up reading those, although my parents never read them out loud, I dunno why. They work great out loud, but are definately for older readers. Teenagers or so. Kind of obvious plot - but the characters are so much fun to read, and it's a predicatable enjoyable journey.

Other older teenager series to read might include Ted Dekker's the Circle, Tamora Pierce, some of Anne McCaffery (depending how comfortable you are reading stories which include sex - maybe read them yourself first), Eragon (don't watch the movie though), Stephen Lawhead's various serieses, the Empryion one is a good start. Not too long, nor too heavy. Some John Grisham (The Street Lawyer is EXCELLENT.)

I'd recommend all of the above to get started :-)
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12714846
NASA's Exploration Campaign: Back to the Moon and on to Mars
Ironically this makes the whole thing very un-entrepreneurial. People ‘studying for the test’ to compete to get in. Almost employee/herd like. You cannot be upset about not getting in, or at least minimise the time you’re upset, give it 5 minutes and get back to work.
This bill honestly seems pretty well put together. I was wary when I read it went beyond the FCC’s regulations wrt zero-rating, but apparently that’s actually allowed as long as the zero-rating is application-agnostic, which sounds good for that quaint old-fashioned free market competition.
> GH have to have this kind of rule because they can't 100% control what goes on their site, 24/7. (Really, if they were smart, they would make that 18.)

The age restriction is 13 years because of COPPA. It is there because of (sensible) Federal law.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children%27s_Online_Privacy_Pr...

> No spectre of DMCA hanging over my own site.

A C&D could be sent to your hosting provider, your ISP and/or the registrar of your domain.
Because state and local governments hate America.
What's a TL?
The above comment is one of my most upvoted ever. It's annoying to have to click twice to get to the latest version. Maybe they make it too easy to get to old versions - I don't think I've ever seen a link to Wikipedia that points to an old version of a page.

Not saying this is an easy problem to solve, and the documentation is mostly pretty great, but this definitely bugs me and apparently a bunch of other people too.
You can add a version number to the query to get a specific version:

https://www.google.com/search?q=postgres+functions+9.1
Ah, I didn't catch that, and that's a plausible read. Because any contributor making an edit has push access to the source branch.
> Bolt and Nissan Leaf have both far outsold all Tesla models combined, and that's not even a fraction of the worldwide EV fleet that exists now.

And Android phones are for more numerous than iPhones. My point here is just that pure number of units sold does not determine a company's value.
tech lead?
Pedestrians killed by cars is an order of magnitude higher than that.

They are presumably already using the sidewalks.

It doesn’t matter where you are relative to them, cars are dangerous.