skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I was far more accurate than Nate Silver.

You got lucky. If you can consistently beat his methodology then you'd be just as famous and wealthy and well regarded as he is instead of an internet nobody.

This is like saying "college is for the birds, I just plan to win the lottery."

>Is Nate Silver's expert opinion still more valuable than mine?

Absolutely. Missing the boat on what turned out to be something of a freak-show election where 77,000 votes out of than 136 million ballots cast is tough for anyone to get right. And most of who, did so by dumb luck, not some wonderful new methodology that is useful against past election data or current election data. The very same people beating their chests over Trump's win predicted Moore would win Alabama or Saccone would beat Lamb.

In other words its just dumb partisanship, not some new polling or statistical technique at work here. Patting yourself on the back because you 'called it' for Trump is a meaningless statement unless you have the math to prove your methods are better than Nate Silvers.
Take the OSCP course, it is relatively cheap for the value of the content and it is one of the few certs in security that is respected.

From your profile it looks like you work for a big company. Ping some people in security and find out who runs your "Red Team" (if you have one). Make friends with them.
Probably because the Gentoo ecosystem (package tree, package managers) is build for source packages and not for binary packages.
It's just an arithmetic logic unit for tensors. It's not at all like a crypto miner that implements a single algorithm.
First Class Modules for Haskell [pdf]
I think the difference between reading the whole thing and the summary is about making the knowledge yours.

If the non-fiction book has merit, it usually includes the rationale and real-world examples of the thing explained. Therefore you can examine the idea and have a deeper understanding of the subject or even improve on the original work.

Summary forces you to memorize a few facts and you wouldn't even have a basis to evaluate the validity of the idea. I read summaries only when the book is written for the general public and I already have expert knowledge about the subject.

In my opinion, reading summaries give a false sense of accomplishment. Reading is not about understanding one idea and implementing it. It is about understanding how to reach that idea, therefore you can improve on it.
Google is a corporation; why does it care about the well being of it's users?

Google is putting in place this claptrap, but yet hasn't done anything to curb it's illegal advertising to children.

I'm sorry, I don't trust google to have my well being in it's best interest. There must be some hidden angle.
>There's a reason why some coders are Thinkpad fans.

Some != majority. Sure, I've seen some who are Thinkpad fans (or, like me, Dell Latitude fans). But they're a minority. I'm sure I've seen more that were Apple fans, even the ones doing Linux coding.
What purpose does a company with a centralized service have for "blockchain". Apparently even tech leaders have no idea what they're talking about.
The multitasking display was really interesting because they seem to be live windows so that you can interact with them.
The US might put the sanctions back in place, but I doubt the rest of the world will follow. Russia and China both signed trade deals to forge closer ties after the agreement.

There's no real way for the US to impose sanctions without international support, except on the finance side.
And yet this is what every large company has been doing for the last decade plus via call centers etc, Chinese-room style!

In fact, while I don't look forward to whatever collateral damage this unleashes on local businesses, I do relish the obvious application of this technology to dealing with the ever-sprawling "customer service". How fraudy do companies want to make their cancellation scripts when it results in only their own resources being wasted?
Reads like a Fahrenheit 451 / 1984 mashup. The perfect dystopia.
Adding new features to an existing Windows control, particularly one that has existed since the dawn of time, is a much bigger deal than adding to a simple utility. The last time that happened they added a whole new control, the Rich Edit.
The ethics of it is the interesting part though, if there's a reason we should not do something it should be discussed.
I don't look at it as just coding, but rather the purpose behind that code.

I don't know if I am interested in coding for years and years, but I do enjoy solving problems and right now I am doing it via coding.

Seeing that code solve real world problems for our users is a very good feeling.
I was pretty surprised that editing the registry to change stuff like this is still a thing.
> can you do "find HKEY_CURRENT_USER -name mypackage"

Powershell comes with a kind of FUSE mount for the registry:

PS C:\> Set-Location HKCU:
PS HKCU:\> Get-ChildItem -Recurse | where-object { $_.Name -match "HeidiSQL" }
Espresso Tutti is great:
https://github.com/psiborg/Sublime-Packages/blob/master/Colo...
Gamalon scores $20M led by Intel Capital for new AI
I wonder the same. I see the differences in protocols here and there but no fundamental things changed.
So, where can I download the books now?
mineral oil based cooling is well known in enthusiast PC builds but it leaves weird gunk on boards that is harmless but a big PITA to clean up.

Also - some oils while won't hurt your circuits, they might start dissolving the various plastic connectors on cables and board.
Eat less animal products, eat less processed food, drink less of that as well. Lift weights once or twice a week, moderate effort, walk as much as you can. Take a multivit, get checked for deficiencies and supplement those as well. My personal stack is multivit, zinc tablet, couple of grams of creatine and a D vit cap. But you know better.

Worry less as you will die regardless.
Unfortunately for everyone but Trump, if he wants North Korea to be less friendly, it's not exactly hard to do so. :/
I'm trying to setup something similar - do you use Wake on LAN to turn the computer on? Or do you leave it on? Do you have a static IP or do you use some kind of dynamic DNS service?
I've been programming for 25+ years. I still love programming. Never wanted to be a manager. The challenge of coding, solving problems, and being well-paid for it make me very happy. I'm currently sitting in my kitchen, working from home, looking out my deck onto SF Bay. This is not a lifestyle I would have been able to accomplish being a chemical or mechanical engineer, a biologist, an accountant, etc. I truly feel blessed that I love programming, that I'm good at it, and that I am living in a place that rewards good programmers consistently for the past 2 decades. Who knows when this well will dry so I'm taking it as far as I can.
People don't seem to understand that a bug in the spec is just as bad (or worse) than a bug in the code.
If you put together a structure like that and leave the sordid details up to the implementer and you supply a mostly confusing example as the set shipped with the OS, and subsequently mess it up even further with your own application installs you own the mess.
> What makes you wake up every morning and sit down to code again?

Having other coders to talk to about code as well as life. You won't have access to such people unless you keep working with them.

As it happens most of my current team is remote, but a lot of the socialising is over Slack.

And it's a big deal having qualified experts to talk to about stuff; they know the most about what's interesting, what works, and what's been tried before.
I would gladly make this exact argument for the second amendment. I don't see anything wrong with updating the Constitution as our society changes.
Very nice. I am especially excited about these features:

> App Timer lets you set time limits on apps, and will nudge you when you’re close to your limit and then gray out the icon to remind you of your goal.

> Wind Down will switch on Night Light when it gets dark, and it will turn on Do Not Disturb and fade the screen to grayscale at your chosen bedtime to help you remember to get to sleep at the time you want.

I actually have a separate device for fun/addictive apps, and my phone's charging spot is not in the bedroom. But these kinds of features will help orders of magnitude more people than my very manual interventions ever will.

I'm glad Google is seeing themselves as on the side of the user here. Rather than enabling the "up and to the right" religion that has a lot of tech companies chasing DAU and UAM metrics by any means necessary.
Can you cite where in the video where these long delays were?
Crypto Influence Award
This is meaningless without some kind of guarantee they won't increase their cut in the future. It's like, invest significant effort into developing for our platform because we will give you 95% of the revenue. Oh you (and many like you) have released the fruits of your labor and now our app store has surpassed the Google and Apple ones? Well guess what, now we are going to take a 30% cut because we reserve the right to increase our cut at any time as indicated in our ToS.
You have to make sure the attacker cannot revoke your key first. If the backup code is unrevokable, then it is indeed a nice solution, albeit a high-friction one if you are doing safe backups for each new account.
Sadly ... driver Support.
The main reason for me - standby and resume allways work and not only mostly ...
> If people use it to flake a lot, I could see businesses just not responding to the assistant.

Or being forced to use for Google's small business version of Duplex to handle the increased call load (for a small fee of course).
Thought that all new Android One devices should get upcoming updates like the Pixel devices but they don't get Android P Beta (except the Nokia one).
Yes, disabling signed boot and allowing untrusted, unsandboxed code is what sets chromebooks apart from the competition.

Of course, you can do away with these checks by entering developer mode.
Do you feel it is worth the upgrade
?
The problem they are going after is that small businesses don't have an online appointment system. Wouldn't it be simpler if they made one and offered it for free to all businesses? The voice demo was fun to borderline creepy, but are we really at the point where this can work at scale?
> Can anyone actually give me an elevator summary of what this actually means without relying on tribal language or dog-whistles?.

To be studiously neutral:

The US is withdrawing from the international agreement under which Iran agreed to limit certain nuclear activities and submit to IAEA monitoring of its nuclear activities, in exchange for various concessions from other countries, including the removal of US “secondary” sanctions on those doing business with Iran (but not direct sanctions on Iran, which remained in place.)

The direct impacts would seem primarily to be the end of Iran's obligations under the agreement and a return to US secondary sanctions; indirect impacts are somewhat more speculative and disputed with splits that have a distinct partisan/ideological correlation, though not breaking on party lines.
> Passwordless login is just password reset without a password ....

And without the security questions.
It easily could be used unethically. How about hard to get reservations that become available at a certain time or the only way to get one is to keep trying (a real human wouldn't stand a chance against a Google robo-call).

Or being used by a restaurant competitor to keep the phone lines busy with endless reservations and cancellations. Nothing you can't do with a motivated human of course, but the cost and ease of use makes a difference I think.
FWIW, it was great as a status signal! I was in a Panda Express with it once and got asked if I wanted a job by another customer who worked in a nearby building!

I wore it for about a year, I still think it was way better at notifications and stuff than the current smartwatch trend. But the main problem was the company making it and it's insistence on first party control. It didn't become possible to get non-Gmail email notifications on it until near the end of it's life.
It can make sense if you're developing for Linux -- for instance web apps that will run on Linux in production.

It can also make sense if you like physical function keys and/or a touch screen larger than a function key row. :)

I used a Chromebook Pixel with Crouton very happily for a year. Granted I spend 95% of my time in Emacs and a web browser.
I've hired a lot via UpWork and consider it the lesser of evils among these platforms. It is still all kinds of evil, though. I've heard it's at least as bad for the contractors.
yeah, my first thought was how useless this is, since it's going to take a lot more time to program the robocall with the information and read the text digest of the order than it is just to call or text yourself.

And this thing will have to text digest it, it can't simply record the call without identifying it is doing so, and that's destroying the illusion they are crafting.

The tech is extremely impressive, but this use case makes little sense except as a way to humanize it and get people to like it. It has to be more for businesses or some other solution.
Still here! Definitely stay away from preview release on your main phone, but once Google slaps beta on a build stuff is pretty stable (have not tried in car Bluetooth yet -- knock on wood).

As a dev, days like these are the ones where I get my moneys worth buying into Googles hardware :)
I don't think those phones ever had Treble.
I imagine that similar to how Google keeps its search rankings particulars secret to prevent gaming, they want to avoid being above-board about censorship for similar reasons. Censorship is not the same as taking a stance on an issue, it is destruction of the discussion itself. If they name what they censor, that will only create more discussion of topics which they have decided it is in their best interests to destroy.

They might also be concerned about similar 'gaming' with people pushing what is allowed to be talked about right up to the line without crossing it. This is a valid concern, because I will personally do this as aggressively as I am able given the opportunity.
An upvote isn't always enough, so I just want to say I support your holistic view of engineering and find the "not a bug, not my problem" approach detrimental to the broader success and acceptance of technology in society.
They should not do this, as this would make Yubico responsible for potential fraud attempts. Existing sites should do the same way they do already.
A different page got submitted a while ago, and it has more detail: http://www.numberspiral.com/index.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13296129
Envify – Colorize browser tabs for dev/stage/production sites
I concur, would be great if this feature could be enabled with 'Emergency Mode'.
It's pretty accurate about which lane you need to be in. I wish it would announce with more notice, but the info is dead on.

I find Google Maps _vastly_ underestimates how hard it is to turn onto a major artery without a light. It seems to think that turning left across three lanes of traffic without a light is "free". In practice, I have been stuck making these turns for 10+ minutes before. I've noticed it underestimates bridges as well.

> Sometimes it feels to me as if, over time, it learns from routes that it suggests and I repeatedly avoid, but that might have been just a coincidence and it might have learned that from aggregate data, not just mine.

That could be the case. Given my usage of Google Maps was less than once a month, it may not have had much to learn from me. I would also rate these poor experiences as bad.
Don't forget that a non-trivial amount of e-mail still passes across the Internet completely unencrypted.
It sounds like this is targeted at machines that are attached to Active Directory, in which case the fallback is the same as before (you call a help desk/sysadmin, and they "reset your password" aka verify your identity and give you a new security key).
Okay, I suppose it is possible that Krauss does "research" as opposed to research. This is what the article says about it: "The [meta-]analysis, overseen by Ronald M. Krauss, director of atherosclerosis research at the Children’s Hospital Oakland Research Institute, found no association between the amount of saturated fat consumed and the risk of heart disease."

So do you dispute this result? I was in fact under the impression that recent studies say saturated fat is not really bad, especially if it is not paired with highly processed carbs. Trans fats, OTOH, are extremely bad. Trans fats occur in small quantities in meat, FWIW.

Note that the Scientific American article cites several different studies and scientists, e.g. "Meir Stampfer, a professor of nutrition and epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health" (is Stampfer also in the pocket of the beef industry?):

> A 1997 study [Stampfer] co-authored in the Journal of the American Medical Association evaluated 65,000 women and found that the quintile of women who ate the most easily digestible and readily absorbed carbohydrates—that is, those with the highest glycemic index—were 47 percent more likely to acquire type 2 diabetes than those in the quintile with the lowest average glycemic-index score. (The amount of fat the women ate did not affect diabetes risk.)

I suppose you could accuse McDougall of bias; after all he does run a business around his diet. I wouldn't go that far, though.
That's what the purge option to apt/dpkg is for.
Youth who fled Taliban held with adults after disputed 'pseudoscience' age test
Hi everyone! Less than happy to read this news, as my husband and I have been working on a similar solution for some time now. We've created an app https://maplog.it/ which allows you to create different lists, share them with others and give you better recommendations for places to go out. We are currently working on an iOS and Android apps. Do you think it makes any sense to continue or should we just drop the idea? Would love to hear what you think!
> Progress bars have very low credibility on Windows, because users have learned that they're basically useless as an indicator of wait time. A progress bar might get stuck at 7%, then suddenly rush to 100%; conversely, it might get stuck at 95% but never finish. The bar offers no real indication of the actual level of progress

I disagree with this; I find the progress bars more credible with erratic timing. (And ideally, a display of the task currently at hand, like "Copying tiny file. Copying tiny file. Copying giant file............")

A progress bar that smoothly fills from 0 to 100 looks like an animation that somebody thought it would make you happy to watch. A progress bar that lags at 7% and then rushes the rest of the way looks like the software has some internal metric for task completion, and is reporting according to that metric. This implies that when the number changes, progress has happened, which isn't the case for a progress bar that isn't affected by workload.

The software can't use "how much time has elapsed?" as a progress metric, because it doesn't know how much time things will take, and because the passage of time does not actually cause -- or reflect -- any progress. That progress bar would be a spinner, not a progress bar.
> Think about that from the perspective of a security threat model: what are the odds that your disgruntled spouse has access to your computer and knows your laptop password, but doesn't know your phone password?

Well, you might not have a password for your desktop - but might have a pin for your phone.

Or maybe it isn't your spouse, but your kid; they might share the computer - but not access to the phone?

<ed: i don't really disagree, but I also struggle with the 7 days (and not quite in the "perfect is the enemy of good"-sense:
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Either way, I'm not sure I understand how 7 days make sense (seems too long, still).

Seems like either it should be ~14 hours to a day (sync at home every evening) - or it should be: phone has to be unlocked.
Exactly–ChromeOS being Linux-based is, at this point, an implementation detail. No ChromeOS "apps" depend on that fact, because they all run under their own VMs or ABI sandboxes. This means that Google could make a Fuchsia-based ChromeOS and nothing in userland (save for the code of those VMs and sandboxes) would have to change.
Here's another page who does this.

http://ulamspiral.com/generatePage.asp?ID=1
What is your specific privacy concern? That something bad will happen and everyone on the internet will see that you were involved?
Yes they are driven by profit but their algorithms are optimised for metrics such as watch time. They are finally realising that someone who literally spends 24 hours per day on their website isn't actually generating profit for them and they are changing their metrics to better align with the actual things that their users care about such as getting enough sleep and being productive.
There's definitely an agenda out there, FB and Google now are both using Snopes for fact-checking.
https://steemit.com/health/@holisticgreen/snopes-is-the-auth...
The standard line ending of the '70s was CR/LF, because the printers commonly used as interactive terminals required them both. I wonder how that worked on the first Unix systems?
Until you discover in X months that moving from the beta to release versions that get security updates requires wiping your phone.
I wish they would also offer some runtime environment to run Android apps on a normal Linux (e.g. Debian/Arch). And no, I am not talking about some weird, full size VM with a few Gigs of ram overhead. But since the business case seems to be missing, I will probably have to wait forever ;-)
I see it more as a platform war that's finally settled. No more Mac/Linux/Windows linebreaks, now we can at last talk about "Linebreak".

I mean there is only so many ways of putting together two different characters. Is it supposed to be \n\r or \r\n? Or just \n? Or mabe it's \r? So much of the last 35 years have gone to writing the wrong line endings for the intended platform...
I don't think you could have this without it devolving into what is essentially a religious debate but I'd be very interested in a collaboratively built wiki of age appropriate challenges or documenting developmental milestones vs skills they unlock (similar to tropes vs stories on tvtropes)

For example I've heard kids can go to school when they can reach the ear on the opposite side by reaching their arm over the head. Also at some age they start to understand non-literal meaning i.e. sarcasm but until then they are oblivious. This would be very useful knowledge to concentrate into a wiki.
The thing that gets me about Google news is that the personalization is incredibly coarse. I can see a "17 apps that take great selfies" article and the only way to express disinterest is by removing Android from my interest list. I might dislike an article because the publisher is low quality or I'm not interesting in one aspect of the content but it just picks one "reson" to justify showing the article.
Choice in the marketplace is still choice. And, Google might eventually decide to sell this to outside companies. Eventually the desire to build competitive advantages for Google Cloud might be surpassed by the desire to compete with NVIDIA. Commoditizing the complement is a powerful strategy.
They also banned Christmas, and most sports.
I only dived in crouton etc. for a short view, but I think the main reason why I did not continue (besides that it was messy) was the lack of GPU rendering (I believe there was none, at least for my ARM Modell)

Is this going to be different with this approach?
Yeah seems like a way more abusive position to me frankly, a Google monopoly would be way worse than a NVIDIA one.