skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This seems interesting, but I feel like it would be way more useful if you could drag to rotate however you want, instead of waiting for the animation to get sort of close to the viewpoint you're interested in.

Great feedback! I had been thinking of doing something like this but I was waiting on actual readers to mention it. I'll see if I can get to it this weekend.

> I really like the visual representation of elementary row operations, but the intersection of the three planes is off their edges, so isn't actually shown.

Yeah, good point. In the last visualization we have a vector pointing to the intersection, perhaps a similar sort of thing can be leveraged there.

> I found a bug (Chrome 65.0.3325.181, Windows): The scroll position is kept when you switch sections, so you have to manually scroll up to the top.

Thanks for the report! I think someone else mentioned this already and I filed a ticket on the github repository.
The exciting stuff with negative tax/basic income is to see the systemic effects kick in. And yes, this will be very hard to test small-scale. Kind of how it would be very hard to test whether democracy works or not by giving one person a vote.
Why would you want to be a part of the inter-net? Microsoft has all of MSN!
Fact Check: does coffee cause cancer?
That link looks great. I've bookmarked it to read later when I can give it the attention it deserves. I find networking at this scale fascinating and something I'd like to refine my knowledge with and perhaps do some sort of CNNA style course.
It's bad enough to not be able to roll it back, but to also not thoroughly test? Unfathomable.
Should scientists advocate on the issue of climate change?
no. just as with most things it just have the option to support either or both
[1]: https://www.cnbc.com/2017/07/24/alphabet-earnings-q2-2017.ht...

But I have to say, "Of course, Google has the money to spend."

"Bleeding cash" is hardly what Google/Alphabet is doing. At worse, this for Google/Alphabet is the $10 bill that discovered in a jacket they haven't put on since last spring. Or to state this properly, Alphabet's liquidity/viability is not in danger by this effort :)
On the other hand, I really like it. But then I seem to really prefer having good lumbar support in general in cars etc.
Actually, I think the issue here now that I think of it is that we do media query detection in on the React side to figure out which components to render. Really, we should just render a single component and have CSS to cover both cases.

Other sites do this, so it should be possible, though it would require me to change the react component that renders the sidebar (I'm using Atlaskit, but that doesn't have support for mobile responsive rendering, sadly).
I'm from Scotland but moved to London a few years ago for work. I very much have that perception. Like many people from other parts of the UK I moved to London for the excitement. I wouldn't want to live in Zone 1 but there's plenty of places in Zone 2/3 which are lively and fun to live in.

Maybe I just don't know the best places in Zone 6, but my perception is that they feel like small towns which just happen to be on a tube line, if you're lucky. Even in zone 3 it's a lot more suburban than where I used to live in Glasgow.

If one day I have to move to Zone 6 because it's cheaper, then I'd much rather move to somewhere like Glasgow or Manchester, live centrally with more space, and for cheaper still.
Me too :D
The issue is that the population sequestering itself in an isolated working space is stepping away from unity and partnership and backwards towards fear and mistrust.

We learn to work together by actually working together. It's tempting to isolate yourself sometimes, but partnership is more fruitful in the long run, assuming your partner is willing to work with you. I believe it is the case that the vast majority of men are capable of and willing to work respectfully with women in the workplace and are extending a hand of friendship, so to speak.
Even with tightly coupled systems, ultimately it's all bits on the wire. You can always develop shims or intermediaries to perform a phased migration with rollback options. Of course that takes time and costs money, which is why some people take the damn the torpedoes approach.
Yes, absolutely.

I'm receiving lots of great links in the comments here, so it'd be great to cross link similar resources on this page too.
Ask HN: Does back end or front end bring more value to the company?
> Even in developed countries IPv6 is barely deployed

For reference, the list of currently leading and trailing countries by IPv6 adoption (from Akamai's August 2017 numbers):

Belgium 46%, US 40%, India 36%, Greece 32%, Germany 25%, Switzerland 20%, Finland 20%, Brazil 19%, Canada 18%, Norway 16%, Japan 15%

Portugal 13%, UK 12%, France 12%, Australia 8%, New Zealand 8%, Sweden 8%, Netherlands 7%, Mexico 5%

Israel 3%, South Korea 2%, Ireland 1%, Denmark 1%, Russia 1%, Spain 0.7%, Italy 0.5%, China 0.3%, Colombia 0.1%

The way some of these nations are lagging is bizarre.
Britain’s mass surveillance regime is directly opposing human rights
This is Hacker News, not Reddit.
VMware Bugs Leading to Guest to Host VMWare Virtual Machine Escapes
Chinese man tired of wife’s complaining invents smart robot cooker
It probably could be, as long as I figure out how to get code splitting to work with it being a static site. Shouldn't be too hard. I imagine its just a case of pre-rendering all the routes and then uploading the whole thing to an S3 bucket.
IMPRESSIONS FROM HEALTAC2018 CONFERENCE
> pretty ridiculous (like having your toaster burn the day's agenda on your toast).

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/258723592/toasteroid-fi...
Google Public DNS Hijacked
Don't forget about the comments that read, basically, "why haven't you googled this, peon?" usually found in the first hit, often the first several hits, in Google.
Thank you! This was exactly my motivation in making it, so I'm glad it helped you!
A smaller labor supply implies that the supply and demand curves cross higher. Pay should be higher then.
The currency of politicians is jobs and dismantling the inefficient bureaucracy is damn f*ing expensive.
> The Aeron is only for people who are small? They make them in 3 different sizes and Size C can easily handle a very large person.

But does nothing for leg length, which is the issue. As I said in the post you replied to, if you fold your legs under yourself the Aeron doesn't work.

For smaller people, they likely won't notice it, but for larger/taller the back of your legs brush against the underside/front of the chair in that position.

The Aeron seems to want you to sit correctly or not at all.
MEDantex – Transcription Service Leaked Medical Records
Talking about disruptive things... to provide an unconditional monetary equivalent of the benefits any unemployed people are currently entitled to (rent, minimum income, supplementary welfare) to everyone, or even every adult would by itself cost more than the entire current government budget, including current welfare costs – so you would really need to rework the whole tax system. Disruptive, perhaps? Or very simple to go ahead and “just try it”?
Depends on what the two ends are doing.

For example, an ML back-end is probably more valuable than the front end, because that's the meat of the business. A portfolio site designed expressly for viewing is little more than a CMS with a glossy paint job--front-end is more valuable.
The first rule of Manager Club is: It’s always your fault
AT&T didn't allow those with off-contract iPhones to unlock them until April 8, 2012, so there was a few years there where you could have a paid-off device still locked to AT&T.

https://www.macrumors.com/2012/04/06/att-will-unlock-off-con...
Has anyone trained neural networks to read QR codes?
And how much training data does it need to achieve high accuracy?

QR scanning is actually a non-trivial algorithm. If NN can learn this algorithm, is it possible to reverse engineer any complicated software system, given enough training data (input/output pairs)?

Thoughts?
Basic income for some is how you test whether all the claims you made are true. While I agree with everything you said, there are still many fundamental questions yet to be answered.

Another reason it is not happening any time soon is that rolling it out in a country such as Finland would be WAY more expensive than the current wealthfare models in Scandinavian countries as they stand now.

To roll it out for every citizen as a replacement to current wealthfare, the people who are currently receiving wealthfare will be receiving much less. To many, this would be unacceptable, as these families already are percieved to be struggling to make ends meet.

While I am still a big advocator for basic income in the developing world, I struggle to see how it would work in a country such as Denmark where I live. While I believe there are workarounds such as only providing basic income for the people who apply for it (still unconditional just opt-in instead of opt-out) there are no studies showing the effectiveness of the limitations that are necessary to make basic income feasible.
I whole-heartedly agree. Another incident was Jimmy Kimmel's emotional speech about gun control where they left ads on his diatribe but demonitized anyone that pointed it out. Google is literally in a "holier than thou" position regarding fundamental constitutional rights and it's really starting to piss people off and not just conservatives if the Youtube shooting tells us anything. Personally I'm getting off the Google ecosystem as fast as I can, they're no longer pro-free speech in fact they're extremely hostile to it.
Yeah, I tried, it started with gushing over James Dobson - the man who believes that beating children is a good thing (this is personal; my parents used his books for parenting advice) - and C.S. Lewis.

Eg, it complains about Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone as being a "deeply incoherent work", and praises Lewis. But the Narnia series is also a deeply incoherent work.

It describes the book as a narcissistic fantasy, which is a literary description and an opinion. It then spends paragraphs describing the psychiatric condition known as narcissism. But the connection is still an opinion.

The author then gives this horrid homophobic nugget:

> One of the most blatant forms of magic through ingestion is, of course, homosexuality, and through its connection with narcissism we can get some inkling of the purpose behind the major cultural offensive in favor of homosexuality. The homosexual is the consumer culture’s version of the ideal citizen because he takes all of the strains of narcissism to their logical antiessentialist conclusion.

Yeah, I stopped there.
Given their age and the commute I can imagine the company was in the city center, which was an ideal commute. Then, later, relocated to the city outskirts, an unideal commute. If she owns her home she may not want to move and sell.
> it just made it legally dangerous to distribute.

Internet and countries that don't enforce copyright exist you know? You can even get HDCP strippers on Ebay, pretty easily too. Never had any issue finding ISO and roms online, even for the Switch before this hack.

If only the legal side was a good enough security...

If you want a portable device that you can use to run your own software, then go get a tablet that run the Tegra X1, you will get the exact same thing.
No I'm not. 18650 is the size, NCR1850B is a very specific model of off-the-shelf cell in that size manufactured by Panasonic with a specific chemistry and specification. As far as I can tell (it's not something the manufacturers release much information about publicly) the "NCR" part identifies the chemistry as Lithium Nickel Cobalt Aluminum Oxide.
To be fair, this second job exists at every company. Whatever the levels/review systems are called, managing your future is your job, and only your job. Your manager is your employee when it comes to setting up your future.
Though the segregated markets could also imply smaller demand.
I finished an undergraduate degree in 1980, when there were around 25000 undergraduates [1] p13/14. Now there are at least 10 times that many. Inevitably, the system has had to change to reflect that increase in volume within the span of a single career - quite a lot of change.

Not sure where the answer lies, but an increasingly large proportion of my teenager students are opting not to go to university directly at 18, so there could be a 'correction' on the way over the next generation or so.

[1] http://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/SN042...
> it's pretty safe too if London's latest murder spree hasn't convinced you yet

The London murder rate is projected to be 180 this year, about 2 per 100k

Rio's murder rate is 18 per 100k - about 10 times worse than London.
Jon Skeet's StackOverflow Question Checklist (2012)
Indeed. I think one of the thing I wanted to focus on as well in this series was explaining exactly where a lot of the formulas came from. It was a great learning experience, since a lot of what I was taught was basically as you said "here is the formula for the determinant and oh look, NxN determinants can be worked out in such and such a way if you just apply this algorithm". It was super useful to decompose why that algorithm works from a visual perspective. Same thing with surface integrals.
the vast majority of times when a video is demonetized it's because of a 30second sondbite where some copyrighted music is playing in the background, even if it just the background noise at a mall or a store and would pass any sane non algorithmic test as fair use. And not because the intentional content breaks any rules.

A big part of that is due to the power the copyright cartels of non-creators(aka music and film distribution companies) have brought to bare on youtube due to the amount of music video's being streamed on the platform means that youtube cannot really afford to be a fair use supporter or try to code any fair use awareness into their algorithms(even if it was technically feasible).
Building ETL Infrastructure for Analysts
Yeah but it's easier to look it up before you even go to the store. Why waste gas if you've only got $10, wait til next bit comes in a few days, that sort of thing.
This wasn't initially the case with the original iPhone.

I might be remembering wrong, but I think the original iPhone has some sort of technical constraints working on T-Mobile's network even if it was unlocked.
This is Condé's third full-site paywall, following behind our implementations on The New Yorker and Wired. We also have a paywall for some specialty content at Golfdigest.com.

The Vanity Fair paywall is built in house, with some help from outside vendors for metering.

We make extensive use of our CDN (Fastly) and VCL. Our site is in React. The New Yorker makes heavy use of VCL whereas Vanity Fair reworked its implementation to do some things in the client and some at the edge.

I'd say this is the start of a monetization conversation, not the end. Micropayments certainly have promise, but the move from print subscriptions to print and digital subscriptions needs to play out first before the next iteration. Will that be micropayments? I wouldn't close that door, but think there are likely other first steps.

Much of the business logic from the paywall originates from our previous properties. This isn't to say that it's done, but that we used those as a starting point for this implementation.

Thanks for the questions!
Your right, I did have some success with a recruiter. And I also believe that if a process does not allow flexibility, they arent a company worth working for.

Still looking for resume tips btw. But will be making more attempts through recruiters.
Exploring potential use-cases enabled by the Three Elements of FOAM
This is really true. There was an interesting documentary about the docs who did the first hand transplant. The docs were really pushing to do it since they could be "first". The patient was so-so about the idea, but went ahead anyways.

Fast forward a year and the hand is slowly disintegrating since they couldn't get his immune system to accept it. The patient eventually stopped taking his drugs.

The hand was then amputated and he got a prosthetic. Patient was much more functional.
The article itself contradicts that. You can switch carriers with an eSIM, and these operators were trying to prevent that.
> decentralize the database

How do you propose?
or learn both and have the convenience+speed of Julia for scientific work? Speaking from my experience here as a bioengineering PhD student. The Julia learning curve is low enough for an experienced Python/scipy user to switch over fairly swiftly.

edit: also, I would be very surprised if you had seen any Julia job ads, v1.0 hasn't been released yet. Doesn't mean it can't make my scientific life easier in the meanwhile.
Monzo's head of engineering will be keynoting at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon in Copenhagen next week, and talking about past outages: https://kccnceu18.sched.com/event/Dsan/keynote-anatomy-of-a-...
As an American business owner with two kids, not only is "a" car needed, we actually need two. I don't see this changing for other Americans, unless you live in the city.
Using Ant Design in Sass-Styled Projects
Gitlab merge requests are coming to your desktop
It's already more economical, it's just not surfaced very well economically. People hide the price of IPv4.

One of the IPv6 ISPs did a talk about this, they realised that rather than hiding this cost they could surface it and then magically instead of "Try to persuade technical people to choose IPv6" the situation is "Make technical people explain to their finance department why they're spending the extra money" and what do you know, "Learn IPv6" is way more popular than "Argue with accountants".
In the US civil engineers must go through a multi-year certification process that involves a significant amount of on the job work in addition to standardized examination before they are labelled a Professional Engineer (PE).

As a PE, they can face significant legal repercussions for errors in work they approve.

The benefit to the PE is that many Civil Engineering projects are legally required to have a PE design/approve them. The PE literally has a physical stamp they use to stamp blueprints and designs when they approve it. Work won't proceed without that stamp.

So, if a PE refused to approve a bridge design, presumably it would be very difficult to find another PE who would approve it (especially given the record of the first PE rejecting the plans) and the work would not proceed.
V8 engineer here: basically, a serialized walk through the object tree, starting from the top-level script. Predominantly, this means bytecode, scoping metadata, and strings.
Is ‘friendly fire’ in the brain provoking Alzheimer’s disease?
Tensorflow for Manufacturing Quality Control
I recently got 3x /25s delegated from various ISPs in various cities, they wanted IP allocation plans
What exactly do you find so bad about Windows 10? I am on Linux pretty much full time, but when I have looked at Windows 10 it seemed OK.
I'm just sitting here wondering how far YouTube will go to make the site "Ad Friendly" with all these changes lately. At this rate it wouldn't surprise me if the YouTube Partner Program went back to it's original form, where it was invite only for a select few creators.

But this also highlights the need for creators to diversify their revenue. Don't just rely on YouTube. Offer T-Shirts. Take sponsorships. Open a Patreon. Start streaming on Twitch. Try to get to that point where the majority of your revenue comes from sources outside YouTube.
MSNBC’s Joy Reid Claims Her Website Was Hacked, Bigoted Anti-LGBT Content Added
One big answer to the unbridled graft in public-private partnerships is to nationalize such services and run them as public enterprises.
1 - nothing compares to a brand new car. The smell, the cleanliness. No one other then to move it from the factory to the dealer has driven it.

2 - cars that have a strong aftermarket (currently driving a Ford Mustang) - I like to modify them / work on them. Anything to fancy or complex to modify (my Acura RDX) I lease and just leave it be.

3 - Volvo's new lease program interests me - a new car every 2 years just like a phone. I've never really liked the style of Volvo but I can overlook that if the terms look good (and they do to me)

So while I'll take an Uber or Lyft if we're going out for the night and might drink to much, I'll probably always buy or lease a car. I'm a car guy and enjoy taking care of my cars (cleaning / detailing) so buying / leasing is still worth it to me.

This is in Western NY where we have some metro rail / bus system but not as strong as say NYC.
China's not your friend.
This is known as "the XY problem": http://xyproblem.info/
> I wonder if Propel can't deliver a devastating blow with a digital records FOIA request

I wouldn't think so. Propel needs current data, and taking a month or two to respond to each FOIA request would make the data untimely even if the FOIA request is deemed to be valid.

> App users could be shown how to request their primary key or some other permissible identifier under FOIA from Conduent, and then they'd be reduced to a mere primary data warehousing and collection outfit.

If I understand the article correctly, Propel already knows the individual's primary key and their app was working fine. Then Conduent stopped responding to API calls from Propel's app. Knowing the ID doesn't help with that problem.
Most countries have a small number of dominant telecom providers. When they adopt IPv6, you'd normally see a very big jump in a short amount of time.
I think, given that SO has become an encylopedia, it needs editors in addition to moderators. My one contribution to stack overflow was a comment on a question about a strange TLS problem, where I explained what was happening, and mentioned it was worked around in the latest OpenSSL and linked to the diff where my workaround had been accepted. Then a few weeks or so later I got a message that I needed to fix my comment because something. I was motivated to fix the problem in openssl, and to respond back to help any other people who run into this, but I'm not motivated enough to fix my comment to follow community rules.
Wow, so the experiment succeeded - they figured it can’t work.

Well, except for that whiner who reminds me of central banksters and complains it didn’t work because it wasn’t tried for long enough. They can pay me to do nothing for ten years, I’m ready - if they’re interested they Dan contact me offline.
Every time I think I grasp the expansiveness and wealth of the US, something comes along and whacks my concepts. In the Asian cities where I live, the well off live in condos where a 100 houses share a pool and the area occupied by a 10k gallon pool would be as big as a third of the house.

I'm not sure these solutions work for even the well off in most parts of the world, let alone common people.
I am quite offended by how the news provider phys.org reacts to me using an ad blocker:
"It appears that you are currently using Ad Blocking software. What are the consequences? Click here to learn more."
-> Will never ever click
Uber Plans to Stop Giving Drivers a Log of Your Pickup and Dropoff Locations