skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This sounds like “Our engineering director was very impressed with your experience, and we would like to set up a 15 min call to find out what you actually do.” Pretty much a recruiter tactic.

They discover some random nugget of info about you and then they use it as a lead to cold email you. If you respond, they apply for an entry level position on your behalf.
Thanks. Have you made any code available online?
This frustrates me, because I think your behavior makes people trust government MORE. Because you're inarticulate, don't link to any articles, and also unfriendly, it pushes people in the neutral zone away from your cause.

If you think there's objective proof of widespread government manipulation of newspapers, then link to the wikipedia article. If you acknowledge a neutral set of intellectual and informed judges (wikipedia) find it absurd, then don't go around saying it's "proven."
Record macros in Google Sheets
Introducing Swift for TensorFlow
Willingness of people who can do that kind of work to do it for Linux.
Microsoft's Bing group customized Node.js for CPU-bound tasks: https://github.com/Microsoft/napajs/wiki/Why-Napa.js

Napa.js: A multi-threaded JavaScript runtime https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15498219 (Nov 2017)

Their deal-breaker against using node-cluster was a need to use shared memory for IPC.
I think the iwatch has a function that tracks your movements during sleep and can make some kind of qualitative assessment.
Here is an example of a model.

The other day I got a robocall from one of those spoofers that uses the same area code + three digits as the number being called. This call happened to be a number I did know. Did they just happen to hit upon this number, or is something more sinister going on (eg using a hacked address books)?

Say I've gotten nCalls calls like this so far, whats the probability at least one of them would be from a number I know?

The probability of any given number being used will be 1/9999, if I know 5 numbers with the same first digits as my own it would be 5/9999, etc. This leaves 1 - nKnown/9999 other possible numbers to be used. The probability they keep using unknown numbers will then just be eg, (9998/9999)^nCalls and we take 1 minus this value to get the probability that at least one of the calls will be from a known number. Here is the model:

model_1 = 1 - (1 - nKnown/9999)^nCalls

Lets say I've gotten about one call like this every day for the last two years. So nCalls = 730, and I know 3 numbers that share the same digits including my own (I am assuming they also spoof the number they are calling). Then the probability of getting at least one call from the known numbers would be 20%. I made simulation in R and see the same results:

# Returns percent of calls coming from a known number for nSim experiments
sim <- function(nSim, nCalls, nNum, nKnown, replace = FALSE){
res = replicate(nSim, sample(1:nNum, nCalls, replace = replace) %in% 1:nKnown)
return(colMeans(res))
}

model_1 = mean(sim(1e4, 730, 9999, 3, T) > 0)

I would guess that robocallers are pretty cheap so are probably going with the simplest approach possible. But perhaps they are slightly more advanced and they avoid reusing the same number (ie, if it went unanswered and I never answer unknown numbers) and avoid using the callees number. This can be done by changing a few arguments in the sim:

model_2 = mean(sim(1e4, 730, 9998, 3, F) > 0)

The two models predict nearly the same thing in the range of 730 calls, so p(data|model_1) = p(data|model_2) = 20%. I think the simpler model is still more probable though, so lets say p(model_1) = 0.75 and p(model_2) = 0.24 and p(model_x) = .01. Model x is that something more shady like using the hacked contact info is going on, this is pretty vague and can explain anything so give p(data|model_x) = 1.

Then we use Bayes' rule:

p(model_1|data) = .75*.2/(.75*.2 + .24*.2 + .01*1) = 72%
p(model_2|data) = .24*.2/(.75*.2 + .24*.2 + .01*1) = 23%
p(model_x|data) = .01*1 /(.75*.2 + .24*.2 + .01*1) = 5%

EDIT:

Actually, I made an error for model 2. Since I am not including my own number, nKnown should be 2 instead of 3.

model_2 = mean(sim(1e4, 730, 9998, 2, F) > 0)

This gives p(data|model_2) = .14, and:

p(model_1|data) = .75*.2 /(.75*.2 + .24*.14 + .01*1) = 77%
p(model_2|data) = .24*.14/(.75*.2 + .24*.14 + .01*1) = 17%
p(model_x|data) = .01*1 /(.75*.2 + .24*.14 + .01*1) = 5%
Then don't. No-one is forcing you to install Nest.
Perhaps I'm missing something but the capacity factor for solar tends to be around 20%, meaning that 10GW of nameplate capacity generates an average of closer to 2GW in practice. I didn't see it addressed in the article, so I'm assuming the number is nameplate capacity.
Rush order for 31,000 smartphones signals return of 'March Madness' budget rush
The title alone makes this flagworthy. Ragepost of a ragecomment with no purpose than starting a ragethread. Which you can get at rageddit anyway.
I don't think it is a good idea to rely on such subtle differences that are not well known among developers. We want to write code that is easy to maintain, not compete in knowing ECMA specs, right?
Life feels more fulfilling when a person focus on increasing the happiness of people immediately around her instead of international fame,
Idk, I'm with Apple on this one. This product isn't marketed specifically as a laptop charger. It's a 29W power adapter. It can be used with a USB C to Lightning cable to fast-charge an iPhone X or iPad Pro. Or it can be used with a USB C to USB C cable to charge a Mac. Why should Apple assume that what you need is a USB C to USB C cable? Unlike the MagSafe charger, which was proprietary and could only be used on Macs, this adapter can be used for multiple reasons. At no point is this marketed as specifically a laptop charger. USB-C is a standard, unlike MagSafe.

One could argue however that it's unfair to price it $85, and that argument does have merit.
I am all for witty sarcasm, but this one doesn't add much value to the discussion given weak correlation between mass surveillance and renewable energy.
The fact that Tesla was largely unharmed for the death is just a proof of Elon's massive fandom and influence to people.

That's why I don't like this guy.
Headline is misleading. It should say smart phone use, not cell phone use. A lot of this is about his use of the internet via his phone, not about voice calls per se. The ability to pull a phone out of your pocket and call someone, almost any time, any where, is just another layer of the issue. But his use of twitter would be problematic even if it was all done from a PC.

When I had a job at an insurance company, where we had to comply with HIPAA et al, most people in the department hated making phone calls. I was there a fairly long time before I got any training on handling phone calls.

Phone call themselves are an information security nightmare waiting to happen in part because it is live conversation. It is hard enough to write a letter that is HIPAA compliant. Certain kinds of letters, like those advising customers of a HIPAA breach related to their policy, had to be written using a form letter and then reviewed by the legal department to make sure it was in compliance and this all went through your boss.

In the claims department, it was common for people to speak colloquially of 'paying claims' because most claims were paid, not denied. But the correct term is processing claims. I had a coworker get in trouble because she called a customer, said something like "We need this information so we can pay your claim" (instead of saying "so we can process your claim") and then the claim was actually denied.

President Reagan helped bring the presidency into the video age. He was a former actor and was constantly aware of surroundings and what was in the background behind him, what was framing his image. This changed the way the presidency was portrayed in visual media, both pictures and film. If you go look at presidential images preceding his administration and those following it, they are dramatically different.

My impression is that Trump made a concerted effort to go where the people were and adopt the channels of communication they used, including twitter. It wasn't his thing, personally. No surprise that he has no clue what he is doing.

Perhaps this is the presidency where we need to figure out how the president uses the internet and social media. Perhaps they need to develop some protocols around it. I don't believe there are previously established good protocols.

This is another venue for communicating with the people. Hopefully we woo't throw out the baby with the bath water in trying to resolve the issues this presents.
... flying cars ... :)
Here's the second example convolved with 30ms white noise:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1WwmCNwWwukhtYXRT4mDHxCUa0sQ...

But it also makes it sound like she's in a closet, so it would be better to fix it at source if there's a way to do that.
I didn't either, but I didn't have a better plan at the time and I didn't want to lose the moments.

I'm working on a non-cloud replacement with Raspberry Pis, where all of them are continuously recording and saving to local storage. That's the easy part, haven't figured out clip extraction and when I do I'll replace the Nests.
"it was designed and advertised as a global search"

No it was not. There were Lenses that were advertised as non-local searches, yes, but the main Lens was (to my recollection) not one of them.

What actually happened was that Canonical took the main search bar (which had traditionally been designed to search for local files and programs) and stuck Amazon search results in it. Then, when users (like myself) recommended the reasonable approach of "just stick the Amazon stuff in a dedicated Shopping Lens and leave the main Lens for local searches like it was before", Shuttleworth and friends doubled down.

Before that point, I was a happy Ubuntu user who - though I liked Gnome2 a lot - was at least willing to use Unity. After that point, I stopped using Ubuntu entirely and started my quest to find a new distro (Mint → Debian → Fedora → Gentoo → Arch → Slackware → Debian again → openSUSE → Slackware).
The assisted-dying movement gathers momentum in America
It's certainly more admirable than the amount of hours I have logged playing video games.
Now the issue is whether or not many F2P titles can find some form of monetization that satisfies the increasing regulation, or if they will just shutter the Eu market entirely. Apparently Jagex is shuttering the EU runescape servers because of the GDPR, but this is going to make it even more difficult for surviving games to monetize.

I have the feeling europeans are going to wake up one day and find the end result of all this legislation is to make a market very unfriendly to exist in.
Swift for TensorFlow Design Overview
They made sure his blackberry was secure. There was no security problems with him using it.
Didn't he recently just wake up and decide to fire some rockets on Syria? You call that relative peace?

Why are you trying to downplay how incompetent one president it is by highlighting another candidate? Maybe it is true that they would both have been relatively incompetent, but that is not the point being made here. The example you're giving also does not serve to put things in perspective, as it is also an egregious offense.
Nvidia offers this, but both Xbox and Nvidia's feature only apply to gameplay footage on your computer.
you're free to pay him $50 million a year. I don't believe there are laws that would prohibit it
Braces can be used in many cases, but `case` keyword is used only in `switch` and `match` and is not ambigious. You can see what construct it is from the first word.
> I think it's safe to say that the average recruiter has a better understanding of their objectives and constraints than I do, and is better able to judge what types of questions to ask during an initial screen than I am.

That's an odd assumption to make, that the average recruiter is competent, for a community that assumes the vast majority of their fellow engineers can't code.
Tangentially related: Is there a new version of SimCity that isn't mobile based? The controls were so clunky on mobile, that made it not very fun to play. This strikes me as the perfect game for a browser based multi-player ecosystem.
100% agreed. The main issue here is COST. It is incredibly difficult to predict the COST of all these services on AWS and this can lead to some pretty insane bills as the little things add up quickly.
Free to go to space, but not free to criticize your government. Nope, that's not real freedom.
The problem of getting Homomorphic Encryption in the hands of data scientists is what the RAMPARTS project we're working on at Galois is about (https://galois.com/project/ramparts/). We presented some preliminary results at JuliaCon last year: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KLlMg6jKQg

The main difference to the work from the article is that RAMPARTS is _not_ a API wrapper. It allows the the Julia Programmer to write the function as they normally would, and then compiles it to FHE. This way the programmer can use _the same_ function for plaintext testing and development and for running under FHE.

Since the JuliaCon talk we've pushed this a bit further and actually coming to a close on the project. We learned a lot about the difficulties of making FHE invisible to the user, which was the aim of the project. We're hoping to continue this work in the future and make it even more seamless for developers.
I was using Gnome on Fedora for a while but I switched to Windows 10 a few months ago and can't say I've had any problems with the UX.

Window snapping works. Minimizing windows works. You can do that thing where it shows a small version of everything you have open on both (win+tab on Win10, don't remember the Gnome shortcut).

Recommending Linux to someone over Windows seems insane to me unless that person is literally just using a web browser for everything or they are a developer. An operating system is useless unless it runs the programs you want to run and Linux is still missing so much. Microsoft Office would be a good start.
"google is loosing enginers due to it creepy nature"

Have a source for that?
Proprietary app to you, but main chat app to others.
Unless you have a legitimate medical issue it only takes a few weeks to reset your schedule.
I agree with you, the frameworks/libraries have done the bottom-up for you, to say, 70-80%. The other 20%, you need to work out on your own.

The final 20-30% are really marrying the exact business needs, with the underlying libraries/frameworks you're using.

The smaller the % of work needed to marry the business needs with the libraries, the more it starts to look like an application, like Photoshop, and less like programming.
That's a common misperception. Michael Clark played a larger role in Ryzen: https://venturebeat.com/2016/08/24/how-amd-designed-what-cou...
Russian Ponzi mastermind Mavrodi is dead, but his legacy lives on in crypto
> three calls with gate-keepers of sorts, between which there was zero knowledge transfer from call to call

That may have been disorganization, but there's also a decent justification for intentionally limiting knowledge transfer. You get 3 independent opinions that are not biased by the others.
How is any of this relevant to the question?
You can export video clips.
> I really hope we can find a solution to that.

Hopefully insurance companies will find a way to pay a fair amount, since they'll likely pay less for a one-time cure than during duration of coverage for treatment.
I don’t think it’s as black-and-white as you claim. Suppose a driver is inattentive at some moment with probability x, and conditions where inattentiveness would lead to a crash exist with probability y, then a probability of a crash at that moment is xy. Probably, both x and y are > 0 for all drivers, but xy could be low enough that an accident never occurs.

The driver has no reliable way of estimating x or y and therefore can’t judge the risk of their lack of attention causing a crash. Maybe they “shouldn’t” be driving according to this formula, but they don’t know that, and autosteer could save them from an accident.

Most likely, the presence of autopilot increases x and decreases y. We can’t tell which affect dominates by arguing on the internet. We need data.
I got so much used to Unity. 17.04 felt more alien to me than when I first tried Win8 Metro. I'm getting old...
I, for one, am happy that a war is being fought on general purpose computing because it seems to be the only way to make everything "just work" to an acceptable degree.

The iPad is the least general and most locked down computer I've ever used but I love it because it just works. I've never had a problem with it.

I was a diehard Linux guy for five or six years but now I run Windows 10 on all my computers and spend most of my time in the iPad anyways.
Announcement discussion for context https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16719615
Thank you imartin2k for posting this. I just came across it on www.marginalrevolution.com, and I'm glad somebody shared it here. Should be on the front page!
Makes sense - I actually do work remote right now and I think that is part of the issue for a handful of reasons.
Play Cities: Skylines instead. It's what I always wanted SimCity to be.
Not sure, I cannot click the dropdowns.
Any profits fund charities in the state of Wisconsin - and they have a rotating set of causes they work with each year. Last year I think it was senior citizen care, next year it's alcohol and drug rehabilitation.
> pharmaceutical companies should be legally required to spend a certain amount of their research budget on rare diseases

Assuming greed, wouldn't they identify the illnesses with the least likely abilities to cure? (or at the least, least likely to affect their profits, though perhaps they could focus on torpedo'ing a competitor in another area that focuses on a condition they don't)
Ha! I remember this from back then. Interview process aside, did you see the guy's technology page?

Which process has led to TrustLeap's technology? Instead of trying to add something on the top of a multi-layered construction done by many different persons in a period of time exceeding 30 years, TWD has resolved the problem from scratch in a few months.

riiiiight
Man this guys career should be exhibit #1 when asking if Non compete clauses should be valid. I mean, he's worked for most of hte big names in silicon design during his career.

Imagine if he was stopped from moving from DEC to AMD early in his career?

From Wikipedia.....

> Jim Keller worked at DEC until 1998, where he was involved in designing the Alpha 21164 and 21264 processors.

> In 1998 he moved to AMD, where he worked to launch the AMD Athlon (K7) processor and was the lead architect of the AMD K8 microarchitecture,[17] which also included designing the x86-64 instruction set and HyperTransport interconnect mainly used for multiprocessor communications.

> In 1999, he left AMD to work at SiByte to design MIPS-based processors for 1 Gbit/s network interfaces and other devices. In November 2000, SiByte was acquired by Broadcom,[19] where he continued as chief architect[9] until 2004.[3]

> In 2004 he moved to serve as the Vice President of Engineering at P.A. Semi,[3][11] a company specializing in low-power mobile processors.[4] P.A. Semi was acquired by Apple in 2008, and Keller followed,[6][17] becoming part of a team to design the Apple A4 and A5 system-on-a-chip mobile processors. These processors were used in several Apple products, including iPhone 4, 4S, iPad and iPad 2.

> In August 2012, Jim Keller returned to AMD, where his primary task was to design a new generation microarchitecture[5][11][15] called Zen.[14] After years of being unable to compete with Intel in the high-end CPU market, the new generation of Zen processors is hoped to restore AMD's position in the high-end x86-64 processor market.[3][13] On September 18, 2015, Keller departed from AMD to pursue other opportunities, ending his three-year employment at AMD.[20]

> In January 2016, Keller joined Tesla, Inc. as Vice President of Autopilot Hardware Engineering.[1]

> In April 2018, Keller joined Intel.
Didn't Rory Read hire them and start the projects?
Thought: it would be possible to make the phone reasonably secure by having one of the SS agents (who are always around him) carry a secured WiFi access point, which the phone connects to (and it doesn't connect to anything else).

Then the access point is VPN-ed and firewalled back to an endpoint that is secured, from which phone calls are then connected directly to e.g. Verizon / ATT / Level3 for
termination to the dialed number.

i.e. network topology is

TrumpPhone <--> WifiAP <--> VPN to <--> Secured endpoint <--> telco/bandwidth .

More security could be added by e.g. configuring a virtual phone number which lives "on the switch" then forwards to a securitized softphone. This would mean that the phone number attached to a physical phone would never be used; and multiple phones configured identically could be set up ahead of time, audited, upgraded, etc.
Lightsail instances are just T2 instances, and they are not exempt from CPU credits.

From https://aws.amazon.com/lightsail/faq/

> Lightsail uses burstable performance instances that provide a baseline level of CPU performance with the additional ability to burst above the baseline.
He talked about the cell phone thing in some video I saw and that answer bugged me a bit too. At first it seems like that line of reasoning could be used to justify using all proprietary things. But I think that cell phones are proprietary spying tools is one issue, a reason not to register one in your name due to maintaining anonymity, as well as a reason not to do personal computing on, because who knows what the hell it's doing in the interest of the proprietor. On the other hand, making a few phone calls through someone else's phone is basically the same level of risk as using a pay phone. So both points are about cell phones but one is about cell phone as a computer/gps and the other is about the cell phone as a phone. If he had said he'd use someone else's phone to check his email, I'd be worried about his line of reasoning :)
The platform sharing definitely went several generations back, but the sedan platforms were almost always developed more by Mazda than Ford.

My understanding of the Ford V6 from the 1990s is that it's some Mazda/Porsche design. But the current generation of Ford V6s are pure Ford designs.
piqued?
http://alexandercoppock.com/projectpages_CEK_opeds.html

"Study 1:...In Wave 1, we collected pre-treatment background
variables, exposed subjects to one of five treatment op-eds (or nothing), and collected immediate outcomes."

So it looks like no reading material.
What are you talking about? The NYT covered Iraq's use of chemical weapons against Iran at the time. https://mobile.nytimes.com/1988/03/24/world/iran-charges-ira...

The NYT covered that the US knew Iraq was using chemical weapons and manufacturing more in 1984. https://mobile.nytimes.com/1984/03/30/world/us-aides-say-ira...

The New York Times covered that the US knew Iraq would use chemical weapons while helping Iraq (the same as this article) more than 15 years ago.
https://mobile.nytimes.com/2002/08/18/world/officers-say-us-...
You might want to check out City: Skylines. Intuitive controls, deep mechanics, and thriving mod community. Some of the stuff on r/cityskylines is pretty amazing.