skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, but if you've chosen GPL, it suggests you care that open source project's ability to get changes back. And code can only cross the barrier between BSD and GPL in one direction.

Wouldn't it therefore be polite and align with a position on developers getting changes back to make the changes available to upstream even though you're not legally obligated to?

I think it makes sense to do that upstreamable work upstream. Unless the interest in GPL-style is less about getting changes back and more about keeping your work out of any closed source products.
You've posted dozens of comments in GDPR flamewars. This sort of high-quantity, low-quality controversy quickly gets extremely repetitive and thus is off topic in addition to breaking the site guidelines (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html).

Since that's all this account has done and we don't allow single-purpose accounts here, I've banned it. Please don't create accounts to do this with.
Appcode is a little better than xcode in that regard but still haven't found a solution to the typechecker problem that xcode has.
Nope not being malicious. You're right. This isn't fake news. But it's something. I guess astroturfing fits better!
I feel like this would be better suited to those with NUCs or other small PC dev workstations, rather than laptops. Otherwise, wouldn't you have IO cables hanging out of your lappy?
Coalitions are minority governments. They are super common in Europe.
It's certainly appreciated if you submit back code from your proprietary fork too.
Out of curiosity, how did you manage to have Mozilla as a location provider?

I hope i'm wrong here, but as far as I can tell. You need either google services or unifiedNLP from microG to achieve that.

I say this, because I run LineageOS without Gapps and I could never make it work with Mozilla's location provider.

The lack of geolocation is the only thing bothering me to be honest.
Been doing this a lot for toy projects, or when I work with server side application frameworks like rails and phoenix.
Check out OpenMW as well, you might like it.
There were some definitely interesting bits at the start, but I agree. I couldn't make it through. It could use some editing as there are some superfluous statements in there.
Macaroni and Cheese is referred to in Canada Kraft Dinner I used to eat it at least twice per week. It's changed so much it's the Theseus of pasta since the only two ingredients, the noodles and cheese powder, were changed but it's still called Kraft Dinner.

The macaroni used to be hard durum wheat now it's somehow formed, not pressed, you can even see the seam on the edge of each noodle. I used to boil it on a rolling boil for seven minutes to get it just barely soft but after Kraft switched the wheat type the noodles turn to mush in a little over a minute.

The cheese has changed too I think it was due to EU regulations or pressure by consumers for it to be less artificial. Whatever was done has changed the cheese so much I don't bother eating it anymore.

It's easier to just buy durum wheat macaroni and some real cheddar cheese to make a better version.
Looks like it's not a research anymore but a commercial product. PONS device. http://heliusmedical.com/index.php/divisions/neurohabilitati...
Nice to see Julia styling in these benchmarks!
It's a lower risk but it could still happen. There's been plenty of embarrassing occasions in the last few years where automation has failed to account for black people -- facial detection and automatic door openers are two off the top of my head

Also, with automated offense, a lot of people may die in short order if you encounter a systemic failure in your targeting + execution
Good for you.

now understand that fines are proportionate to the offense. Are you engaging in doing very bad thing to personal data on a very large scale and having a business based on this ?

no ? then what are you afraid of ? that failing to answert to one guy asking for what data you have on him will cause you to be fined to bankruptcy level ? I pity the fool as said that one guy.
I will start by saying I'm not giving Microsoft or the "Rush author" a pass on this.

Obviously the license was broken by removing the copyright notice of the original author, but it also doesn't sound like the author really did anything to try and handle the issue properly so now they are posting a rant.

Here is the extent of what the author did, "So I reached out to people I knew at Microsoft. This was probably a year ago now. They were shocked and apologized. But since then nothing has happened."

We don't know who those people are, what they're roles are, but I suspect they are not involved with the Rush project nor is it their job to handle potential copyright violations for all of Microsoft.

The author could have posted an issue to the repo expressing their concern. If this was ignored then they could issue a DMCA takedown notice through GitHub. If this was not successful then the author could contact Microsoft legal or file a lawsuit.
By the NSA?
Good question. I understand the motivation behind it and am impressed with the work done but can't imagine it being used as someone's primary os.
I just signed up to respond to this. So...
...First Post! (of mine anyway).
OK, 20 years ago I went to a talk by Stroustrup in Cambridge, UK. He critiqued C and said there were better macro processors available than CPP. After the talk I went up and asked him what he was referring to, and he said M4.
So I learnt it and haven't regretted it. I've used it in non-C projects quite extensively.
tl;dr I've reasonable experience using M4 and from that I strongly disagree with you objection. Stroustrup moreso.
Yes, it's weird, but very capable. It lacks named parameters but I can live with that for what it does give me, which is arbitrary blocks of code without '\' at the end of every line, and recursion which is the biggie. But diversions, which allow you to 'put aside' some code until later, which are pretty good and there's loads more stuff.
May I suggest you give it another try before dismissing it.
If you understand Schrodinger equation then you probably understand what wave function is - it's just a field of some kind. In quantum theory everything comes in quanta, and the quantum of the field is what we call a particle.
> You're subject to exactly the same regulations on health and safety and hazardous materials handling.

It's appropriate to have special requirements for large scale operations, e.g. to have fire suppression systems with regular inspections, an assigned safety officer with specific training, material safety data sheets, site zoning requirements and so on.

None of that is appropriate for someone who just has some motor oil in their garage. And the requirements that are appropriate -- the small subset like not pouring motor oil down the drain -- are easy to understand and consist of a simple prohibition rather than an unfunded mandate to affirmatively take specific actions.

> If you're a small company that sells wood carvings, you don't need to do very much to comply.

If that were true there wouldn't be small companies writing off the EU because of the compliance costs.
I've often wondered why someone doesn't design a daughterboard with a SDR chip for the RPi as this would let them do away with the embedded cpu/FPGA.

Plunk an rtl-sdr chip on a RPi board and Bob's your uncle...
iAd 2.0 ?
It's the second time I see you whine about job interviews. If you're still bitter more than a few days after the rejection, you better start attitude adjustment process. Learn from your mistakes and move on.
Please don't take threads even further off topic.
Would census data be a good place to mine for this? I confess I was basing my assertion pretty much purely on seeing how much child births cost. I do not condemn the rise in hospital births. I am worried at seeing how much it costs. And that is for births that presented no complications.
I believe what he meant by that was that without encryption, you are aware everything you send might be intercepted and read by a third-party, whereas with a flawed encryption algorithm you might send sensitive information under the wrong assumption that it is safe from attack.
I also seems like the projects have different architectures. The author claimed they were copying his code and modifying it for their "weird event system they added". It is not clear to what degree they changed any of his code or if they only used his project is an inspiration.
Tuition increases are mainly due to expanding administrative staff subsidized by a bottomless supply of $120 billion+ yearly in federally guaranteed student loans. If you aren't rich (or destitute and eligible for a full ride) you're going to take a big hit.
Could you please not post like this? We're trying for a bit better than internet median here.

If you could keep the substantive comments and drop the unsubstantive ones, that would help.

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4 years into Open Source: Here is what I learned
A Case for Safe Eval
Reality is most people rely on others for help.

Reality nowadays when a piece of lab equipment breaks down is that the kids call tech support, i.e. The Professor. You wish they'd consult documentation or their own brain, more experienced students in the lab, the tech support number on the business card that's stuck to the instrument &c p.p., but instead they immediately kick the matter upstairs instead of consulting peers or using the means at their disposal. Their childlike trust in authorities is too great.
t. some guy frustrated by the time he spent in the trenches preparing for May 25
> Well, that should be easy to answer: Simon and Speck are "lightweight" ciphers intended for embedded designs.

You are providing rationale which the NSA is, according to Ashur, unable to provide in the design documentation/rationale. So I think you are missing the point he's trying to make: If you can't tell me why and are doing hand waving you are either incompetent or deliberately dismissive in which case you should not be trusted.
A few interesting takeaways from skimming the article:

* Shockley was ahead of his time with peer-ranking and transparent salaries

* Ageism and zero work-life balance has been a feature of the Silicon Valley landscape since its inception

* In the 1950's, the reference point for what a youthful, technically innovative, highly entrepreneurial industry would look like was the automobile industry - which would not at all be obvious to a modern reader who didn't know the early history of automobiles (I know the piece was written in the 80's, but for that part Wolfe is taking the perspective of someone in the burgeoning Silicon Valley of the 50's-60s)
That depends on where you are. In Europe, electronic payments directly from bank accounts or using various types of card that debit directly are much more reliable and have much lower fees, for example.
This is how a "good company" starts turning into a "terrible company" by selling its soul to keep increasing shareholder value indefinitely.

Eventually the company, even one like Apple that has more money than it could ever need for the next 2 decades (unless it decides to build an orbital ring for or some enormously expensive project for launching rockets orders of magnitude cheaper into space), starts chasing new paths that make it lose its ethic and its fanbase's trust.
Ask HN: As a dev lead where do you go for advice feedback?
Dev/team lead/managers where do you go for advice on how to effectively lead? Any forums or sites you visit frequently?
I felt like seeing a lisp machine
Does this mean it would be possible to use Zigbee?
How well did that "open source reassurance" work for finding the security vulnerability that led to HeartBleed? The vulnerability went undiscovered for 1.5 years?
It's called bias.
If there were only one power plant responsible for the grid, I'd agree with a regulation requiring a minimum number of days of fuel on-site.

However, there are many thousands of power plants on each of the three US grids (Eastern, Western, Texas (ERCOT). And many different points of failure. [1] How much more should consumers pay for a regulation to keep fuel onsite to mitigate a risk that has, effectively, never happened? [2]

[1] http://fortune.com/2018/01/04/bomb-cyclone-grayson-power-out...
[2] https://www.dallasnews.com/news/texas/2011/02/06/freeze-knoc...
It probably got flagged because ideological battle is off topic here. Regardless of how right you are, it's not what this site is for, and (worse) destroys what it is for.

The comment you replied to wasn't good, but taking HN even further from its intended use just makes the thread worse, which is why the site guidelines ask you not to do:

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
In Flash Boys, Michael Lewis explored why so many of the programmers for High Frequency Trading firms were Russian.

The conclusion he reached was that in the former USSR, people studying CS only were allowed about 15 minutes of computer time per week at universities. They had to write their code by hand and make it as elegant and bug-free as possible long before actually running it. Learning in this way lent itself to writing highly efficient code in an industry that rewarded whoever could execute trades the fastest.

Disclaimer that this is highly anecdotal and I haven't read the book in a while so I may have some details wrong, but I thought the story was entertaining.
MacBook Pro with OLED Display?
Theoretically, the NSA has a dual mission:

1. Gain access to information where that would be in US interests.

2. Protect US information from being accessed by others.

From their web site ( https://www.nsa.gov/about/faqs/about-nsa-faqs.shtml ):

> NSA/CSS has two interconnected missions: Signals Intelligence (SIGINT) and Information Assurance (IA). Through SIGINT, we respond to customer requirements for information relating to the plans, intentions, capabilities, and locations of foreign powers, organizations, terrorist groups, or persons, or their agents, who threaten America’s national security. Under Information Assurance, we protect our nation’s vital national security systems and information from theft or damage by others.

Whether you trust them is another question. Many argue that this dual mission creates an inherent conflict of interest. But if you believe they take both halves of it seriously, you might see them as having a legitimate interest in ensuring good crypto is available. (I'm not advocating for that position, but it doesn't seem totally irrational to me either.)
I respect people that build large C++ software on Windows with "native" free tools. The last time for me was around 8 years ago on Vista and I had no fun - except for the sick pleasure of working on challenges. I was porting a Linux server software to Windows using free software. Going another 10 years back, I think it took me a year to compile my C++ Hello World on Windows... :D (At some point I happily found the freeware compiler from Borland.)
Is New England drug epidemic really as bad as the media leads one to believe? I mean, in Santa Barbara, a lot of people smoke weed, but it's rare to hear about anyone doing heroin or meth.
Neat. This looks a lot like GHC’s rewrite rules (used to define loop fusion optimizations, among other things) except that Haskell doesn’t have to worry about side effects quite as much and the whole system is simpler as a result.
The article says malaria was eradicated in France. Anyone knows how? Why can it not be replicated in africa?
This was one of the things Andrew Ng really hammers on in the coursera course. This alongside separating out the training set from the cross validation set for tuning parameters went a long way to dispel some of the "magic" in how you iterate towards a sensible model.
Waymo vs. Uber
With Waymo pushing rapidly into self driving ride sharing, what's Ubers future look like? Uber's network of riders and drivers might not be a strong moat against Waymo as riders can and will easily switch to lower cost service that Waymo is going to offer. So it seems crazy that investors are still pouring billions of funds into Uber. Do they bank on Uber going to beat Waymo in self driving game? What am I missing here?
Don't forget checking out Svalbard [1], it's much larger, way northern and a lot less people.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svalbard
I thought about putting a disclaimer, but I was like nah, they will figure it out :)
It's a clickbait article with almost no substance. It lifts all data from https://www.aei.org/publication/more-on-my-efforts-to-advanc... and adds some lazy commentary.
Yup I wonder if they use any crazy processes to realize that ;)
Dammit you ruined my 'feel good" moment.
Given the tiny number of jobs involved, we could give all of the coal workers lifetime pay and a free Tesla and come out WAY ahead.
I did throw out "probability/quality adjusted years of life gained" to address the obviously grossly inadequate metric of counting "lives gained/lost".
she left a 12 year old in charge of a three year old at the mall which is a much different situation.
> I don't think anyone is arguing for more dangerous products or getting rid of safety precautions for toddlers.

Extreme "get the government off our back" people are definitely arguing for that.
And LOSS wouldn't work out quite as well as FOSS or FLOSS :)
> only a tiny slice of the population

Hmm, very fair point. I admit that, biking support overall being what it is, I'm mostly stuck on making things better for those who already bike (e.g., people like me, obviously). Expanding ridership to other groups seems like another level entirely most of the time, although it would be great! I should try to keep that aspect in mind more.
So from my casual reading of the Blog post and Paper BQP is now proven to have sets of problems that aren't efficiently solvable from classical computers?
I mean non-mini. The traditional 9.7 inch screen.
To summarize the article: maybe we'll never discover a unified theory and will have to live with approximations for each context. But maybe we will. But nah, we should be skeptical about that. Probably not.

Just like pretty much any philosophy ever.
- I wonder how the NSA's compute resources translate into an inherent advantage over academics in terms of ability to break these codes. Especially if we are talking about pushing the limits of small margins.

- I don't think it's fair to say the background is "political" if NSA is currently not cooperating with the process. Calling it political makes it sound like their treatment is a function of the broader context or history, but it sounds like they are being treated fairly given how they have acted in this situation.
Hashgraph Consensus Vulnerability
They say "market-based". It sounds like $80K in Indianapolis or the equivalent in your city.
$80k/yr is market for a starter mid-level position in Indianapolis. However, most of the city's talent is C# and JavaScript.

ETA: that's probably the most rigorous interview process I've seen in Indy and seems a bit extra for anything other than a lead.
Sometimes you do, but please resist the temptation to do it here. We're trying for a higher quality of discussion than is prevalent on the rest of the internet, and for that to work, we need users like you on board.

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Agreed, why not attach it to the internal USB bus? Maybe it’s a sourcing / business deal thing. I’m theorizing most laptop manufacturers have made a deal with m.2 pcie wifi producers and not the usb WiFi producers.
Apple is trying to get more revenue from services, etc.

That can’t continue growing selling more iPhones, at least beyond single digit growth.

As much as I like getting a new iPhone every year, I think most of the world isn’t nearly as excited. That’s going to hurt revenues, and the stock at some point.
Some stats about the data set:
There were 3,419 ads.
They had approximately 40 million impressions.
Approximately 3.7 million clicks.
And, surprisingly to me, cost only around 117,000 USD in total
Kinder eggs are something that were swept up in a generally well-meaning legislation. It improved safety overall, but generally disallows such products to be sold lest there be a choking hazard.

All that said, I think there are ways to get exceptions, but they are shy to give them away. And it really is a shame in this case: though there have been perhaps a handful of suspected choking cases in children, overall they have been quite reasonably safe (based on years and years of them being sold to children elsewhere). It simply winds up being a silly ban done for a good overall reason.
> Macaroni and Cheese is referred to in Canada Kraft Dinner

Perhaps a little patriotic of me but it’s shocking you talk about Canadian Kraft Dinner without calling it KD.
Perhaps the IO bandwidth between the RPi and its peripherals isn't high enough to enable it to manage an SDR. (I don't imagine you could connect a modern GPU, or a video capture device, to an RPi either.)

Speaking of: are there any SBCs that have PCIe-based daughterboard support? Or Thunderbolt-3-based peripheral support?
What laws would you break, if any?
A Euro Tragedy
How to Create GIF from YouTube Videos – Geekhubb
Does this use couchdb the way NPM seems to?
High availability for InfluxDB
Two words: unintended consequences.

We humans don't really have a very good track record of dealing with the things Nature throws at us as can be seen with countless examples invasive species (imported to solve some problem or other) wrecking havoc on native species, super-germs &etc.

I seem to recall reading that mosquitos are a staple food source for birds or bats or something, what could possibly go wrong with killing them all off?

Humans have a natural immunity to malaria but nobody is saying we need to genetically modify everyone to have sickle cell anemia.
If you understand Schrodinger's equation, then have a look at some Quantum Field Theory lectures.
Actually, it's being blocked in these countries

'MX','GY','CL','BO','VE','PY','EC','CO','US','CA','UY','BR','PE','GF','AR'

No idea why those, but that's their policy in YouTube
It depends on your reasoning around the GPL and using it. It gets into the whole "permissive" vs "restrictive" debate and how people in both camps flip those terms around.

I can see how, if I were a big GPL/FSF/Stallman person, I'd like to ensure everything I derive will always have future derivations be open source, even if they came from BSD roots. In that philosophy, you're almost "upgrading" the license, where the BSD/MIT/Apache folks might view it as a "downgrade".
A former Googler shares his decision-making process to move back to India
High variance strategy: cofound a startup or be the first engineering hire at a startup. Work your ass off and hope that the startup becomes a mid-sized company.

You'll need to scale along with the company - in the early days you'll be writing a ton of code, but once the company is "mid-sized" your role is going to be managing people. As someone else mentioned, if at that point you're still coding either you're a terrible CTO or you're working for a terrible company (or both). :)
I just dug around in the rush GitHub, and was surprised to find no pull requests by the author of Lerna trying to rectify the missing copyright ("Hey guys, you forgot to keep my copyright in there since this is a fork of Lerna, so here's a pull request"), or any issues raised ("The copyright of my MIT-licensed project is missing. What's up with that?").

The only instances of lerna being mentioned are people who use or work on rush mentioning differences between the two projects.

Assuming the lerna author is accurate, why just the angry blog post? If I had contacted MS and raised the issue via email, and nothing happened, I would have started raising issues on the project GitHub and making pull requests to rectify the situation. Not only could that actually work to resolve the issue, but the discussion would be public.
Title should be:

> A Case for Safe Eval

The author's argument is that there is at least one valid use case for eval, not that it belongs in all web projects.