skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The funny thing about "holding people accountable" is that people rarely explain what it means, and I'm not even sure they know what it means? It's a stock phrase in politics that needs to be made more concrete to have any meaning.
> It's a responsive webapp: if we create a new button just for mobile, then we'll have to hide it for desktops, which means more complexity and testing

Don’t you need to refresh on desktop as well?
Not only would this not be a problem for many decades even if carbon capture is wildly successful, but releasing carbon into the air is much, much easier than pulling it back out. If that were not true, we would not be facing the catastrophe that is ahead of us. You could literally just burn old coal mines or something if in some far-flung future the nefarious carbon-capturers were somehow sucking down too much. We have over 100 years' worth of artificially introduced atmospheric carbon since the beginning of the industrial revolution to work through before this will ever be a problem. Please educate yourself on the actual quantities involved.
You never encrypt anything but the session key with the public key in this case all chat participants will exchange a single shared session key.
Google promised not to kill. Killing X to save 2X is still killing.

Google did not promise to employ utilitarian ideals when deciding if the outcome of a new contract or product is good or bad. They said, "We will not directly aid in killing or harming people."

However, I suspect this vow will invite challenges that question the redistribution of personal data Google aggressively collects to other parties, both advertisers and Orwellian governments. But I'm glad they spoke out nonetheless, since it invites closer scrutiny and upbraiding of the company by eagle-eyed social critics, who are all too often silent or ignored on these issues.
Move fast and break (users') things.
Love the downvotes from Apple fan(atics). It means that the truth stings.
All the people Apple just pissed off to better protect your privacy
Ideally we'd sequester enough to bring us back down to the 280 ppm we had before we started
GDPR is strictly pro-consumer. Data hoarders like Google or Facebook are the ones that were hurt the most.
Would potentially live enabling matter be precise enough? I just think the adjective organic alone is too overloaded with all kinds meaning. Even organic molecule is just historic and obsolete when it comes to being descriptive.
This will fail so hard I'm even laughing at their attempt.
Ubisoft Expects Only One More Console Generation
If things are that tight, why not send your kids to a public school so your wife can find employment? Even a part-time job would add tens of thousands of dollars to your total annual income and go a long ways towards easing those squeezes you're feeling.
Oh yes, and what's more amazing is that it's about 60,000 coal miners whose jobs we're talking about.

That's fewer than Arby's. That's fewer than people who work in museums.

It's insanity.
> Sorry to ask, would that be open sourced?

No. I would have if I owned the code personally, but it wasn't in the companies interests to open source it.

> That is a little hard to warp my head around...

I was there between was 2012—2013. The hardware wasn't bad, I don't remember the exact specs but it was colocated at a place in downtown TO on some decent but not crazy gear. It wasn't perfect, but it worked pretty well.

For the actual image processing we just shelled out to imagemagick and I vaguely recall some fancy batch write code for keeping things like photo view counts from completely destroying the DB. We had a hardware load balancer that worked pretty good and we compiled ruby ourselves for a performance boost, though that ended up killing us this one time when there was a bug that only showed up in the compiled version of Ruby when all the dev boxes ran the universal binary.

People care so much about performance, and in some cases like computer games it's totally warranted, but if at the end of the day you have a DB the DB is going to be the problem long, long, long before the application code.
The case for cloud neutrality
How to get referrals in 2018
A good read outlining the different kinds of historical writing, including 'passé présomptif' where an author makes statements that their subjuct may have done something or would have been familiar with something else. It ends, essentially, as a review of Jean-Louis Brunaux's Vercingétorix .
This library is meant for mobile.
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A little colour breaks the monotony.

https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/
Ruby On Rails - still my fav
I'd think it would make sense to do this as an LLVM backend so that everyone could use it. This used to exist [1], but I don't think it's maintained, which suggests there wasn't much demand for it.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12279770
So true. I'm increasingly finding myself having to 'play' the recommendation algorithm strategically, just to keep my own political sanity...
The context of those leaked emails pretty much ensures that it would be framed in terms of revenue and potential PR backlash. Even if those individuals have a moral problem with it, they're likely going to frame their argument in that way because that's probably the most effective argument to make in that context.
Google and Facebook were hurt somewhat but they'll be fine. Smaller competitors had to take relatively more resources to comply.
Interesting quite different to the HOC where the result of a division (vote) is read out quite soon after.

I have worked at large 500+ delegate conferences using parliamentary procedures and now they often use electronic systems for both teller and card votes which is much faster
maybe they adhered to the same principles, seeing content mafiosi as citizens, too. The article makes it sound as if having your news article cited would become opt-in.
New Bitcoin ETF Would Set Buyers Back $200,000
Factory-made homes do exist, but they acquired a bad reputation somewhere along the line, and tend to get used only in limited applications, such as summer cottages.

What is gaining ground, apparently, is prefabricating components of houses, which are then assembled on site rather than doing everything on site from plain lumber. Stairs, for example, are often made from kits.
Two points:

1. If you're using a data driven background, you're background model isn't the Standard Model but that there isn't something special about your signal region.

2. If you are using the SM as your background, then yes you do believe it to be 100% true, since what you are looking for is evidence that there exists new physics not described by the SM.

In other words, the theory under test is the SM, and it can pass very easily. If it fails despite this, that's evidence that it's incomplete. If it passes, the limit setting stage tests whatever new physics we were looking for, and gives an upper bound on how sure we are that it does not exist.
The cost of production has absolutely ZERO bearing on the sale price. Price is based on what a consumer is willing to pay for the product, that’s it. The cost of production only comes into play after that is determined, to ensure the company doesn’t sell at a loss (in which case they would probably cancel their plans), or whatever profit margin they are willing to accept.
I am aware of America's many follies and villainous acts in support of misguided notions. It's regrettable, but Americans as a group have strived to rectify wrongs and steer our country in the right direction. I deeply cherish our American values and think they're what set us apart from the rest of the world.

I can't for the life of me see why Sundar Pichai should be beholden to his (significantly foreign) employees and privilege their interest over that of the nation (his nation). Remember that Google itself is tainted, being complicit in spying over Americans (PRISM, anyone?). Why shouldn't such an entity be regulated?
You are thinking of Arthur Eddington.

But yeah Einstein never got fully comfortable with many ideas, even the ones that his work helped to pioneer, like quantum physics and black holes.
ISC comes to mind - https://www.isc.org/
Perhaps if you're trying to compete on bottom of the barrel costs, but that's only one segment of the market.

Panels themselves are only about a third in the cost; therefore it rarely makes sense to go with the cheapest panels. Higher quality, longer life span, higher cost panels tend to win out because higher efficiency means more energy per panel and those other costs are often per panel.

This is more extreme in the residential market where the panel costs are an even smaller fraction of the cost.
The entire point of weapons is that they give you significant influence over other people's choices.
> Under Article 13 of the proposal, sites that allow users to post text, sounds, code, still or moving images, or other copyrighted works for public consumption will have to filter all their users' submissions against a database of copyrighted works. Sites will have to pay to license the technology to match submissions to the database, and to identify near matches as well as exact ones. Sites will be required to have a process to allow rightsholders to update this list with more copyrighted works.

I don't understand where this level of detail has come from. Can someone explain?

Here's article 13 as far as I can tell

> Information society service providers that store and provide to the public access to large amounts of works or other subject-matter uploaded by their users shall, in cooperation with rightholders, take measures to ensure the functioning of agreements concluded with rightholders for the use of their works or other subject-matter or to prevent the availability on their services of works or other subject-matter identified by rightholders through the cooperation with the service providers. Those measures, such as the use of effective content recognition technologies, shall be appropriate and proportionate. The service providers shall provide rightholders with adequate information on the functioning and the deployment of the measures, as well as, when relevant, adequate reporting on the recognition and use of the works and other subject-matter.

> 2.Member States shall ensure that the service providers referred to in paragraph 1 put in place complaints and redress mechanisms that are available to users in case of disputes over the application of the measures referred to in paragraph 1.

> 3.Member States shall facilitate, where appropriate, the cooperation between the information society service providers and rightholders through stakeholder dialogues to define best practices, such as appropriate and proportionate content recognition technologies, taking into account, among others, the nature of the services, the availability of the technologies and their effectiveness in light of technological developments.

Edit -

> after Article 13 becomes law, any information hosted in the EU might disappear—and links to US mirrors might become infringing

How would links be infringing? Also where in A13 are they talked about at all?

Edit 2 -

I need to dig out a source but I'm near certain that there is an allowance for review, critique and satirisation of the news in the EU docs they're talking about.

> news sites may seek to withhold linking licenses from critics who want to quote from them in order to analyze, correct and critique their articles
Neat concept but the news is just noise for the markets.
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The problem isn’t the key exchange but the data.

Most messaging based solutions keep the same individual key exchange for group sessions also instead of figuring out some key ring or exchanging a key between all individuals.

This simplifies things and allows you to have only one key exchange algo.

Video and any other high bandwidth application would require you to always have a shared key on a group level because otherwise you are doing a lot of extra work and a lot of exra upload.
I'm sorry but this election has taught me the limits to my own tolerance. My patience for "The Reds" is exhausted. As someone who grew up in these places, I can tell you without hesitation: These people won't change. They despise change. They don't want new jobs, any more than they want healthcare. What they want is endless adoration and rose-tinted nostalgia. The coal industry is a racehorse with a broken leg and it should be treated as such. And if coal miners can't figure that out, they shouldn't be accommodated.
Except GitHub doesn't steal your contact list and then send fraudulent notifications to them like LinkedIn does.
Can someone explain to me how any technology or change in mass habit will arrest changes and return us to, as well as hold us at, a perceived equilibrium that never truly existed within our dynamic climatic environment?
I'm not from the rural mid west, but no one from the mid west uses underscores for emphasis.

But seriously, there are 65 million people living in the US midwest. I can promise that thousands of you guys use 'mid west', underscores, italics, and just about everything else.
If someone asks me, "Do you know how to do X?" I tell them yes only if I know.

If someone asks me, "Can you do X?" I tend to say yes, even if I don't, because, really, I can learn almost anything related to what someone might be asking me to do.
Sure.

But Google has no intention of doing the right thing anymore than Microsoft or Disney does. These are corporations and their executives HAVE to do what they think will be best for the corporation. Not what they think is best for mankind.

This is how for profit businesses currently work. And PR saying anything to the contrary is simply not true.
Another good, well-known book on the subject is the Millionaire Next Door: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Millionaire_Next_Door
Cape Town, in the recent past may have been a good choice, but not so much this year.

https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2018/02/cape-town-runnin...
It's not the only way for society to function, but it's very effective at convincing people to be 'productive', so to speak. Realistic expectations are beneficial to the individual, but there are all kinds of forces that do not have the individual's well-being in mind.
You can't just claim something like that as if it was a fact.

Maybe it would be better for the world for Switzerland to have the most advanced AI. Why does it need to be the US, especially in the rapidly deteriorating political climate from the past 2 decades?
Not to mention a lot of new "employment" is in the gig economy.
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>At its heart, AI is computer programming that learns and adapts

No, that's machine learning. AI is intelligence demonstrated by machines, and it doesn't necessarily mean that it learns or adapts.
> Avoid creating or reinforcing unfair bias.

This very high up and is written in a way which would explicitly allow "fair bias". This means activists will have a free hand to use their positions at Google to enforce their vision of political orthodoxy.
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VSTS hosts git repos as well. I don't know of anyone that still uses TFS, but I'm sure they exist. I've been using VSTS daily for the last year and a half, and while it has it's quirks I think it's a powerful and productive environment.
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Along with increased centralization?

I can see some important (in "PageRank" sense) hubs emerging, which could give rise to problems that are analogous to those in the current proof-of-work setting, and the associated mining pool centralization.
And for LOTR and Narnia fans you can visit the Pub the Inklings met the Eagle and Child.
It's $26 on PC and $20 on Xbox, so the revenue is about there
Laravel Php
Mysql
Redis
Bitbucket
Forge
VS Code

“Seasoned” tech but works like charm
I, like the article writer, enjoy much more a clear listing of what is known and how it's been remembered later on, rather than a plausible view of his life.
They don't mean anything for me. To be honest, I barely even remember they exist, let alone look at what score a project has when I look it up on Github.

Maybe it's the way it's placed on screen that makes it so easy to overlook for me...
Yea, my projects are still on there. But it's not going to stay there. It's just there because I've been too busy to investigate alternatives and move. But I will in a week or three.
Here's one where Track 6 is a bit-for-bit copy of Track 5 - including the header that says "This is Track 5"! https://archive.org/download/PinballConstructionSet4amCrack/...
> Its interesting that the USA is strategically trying to go back to being the manufacturing country and China is strategically trying to become the innovation country. Its like China and the USA want to swap places.

Or the US is trying to reduce its dependence on China just like China is trying to reduce its dependence on the US.

IMHO, it's not good for a country to be all manufacturing or all "innovation" and "services." It was a mistake for the US to let its manufacturing sector wither to the degree it did. It's better to strike a balance, especially when your trading partners have drastic political and ideological differences and thus cannot be considered reliable.
Ask HN: Forecasting FIFA World Cup outcomes, statistically, for fun
We are 1 week away from FIFA World Cup 2018, given than it is one of the most important sport events worldwide I though it would be an interesting and entertaining exercise to try and predict the outcomes of the matches, Im wondering what are the most effective approaches to do so and if there are some free data sources out there that one can use to build a model.

For predicting the odds of a team winning an specific match it seems that there are 2 approaches that have been proved to be effective:

- Using Elo Ratings [1]
- Using the bookmaker consensus model [2]

And we can easily obtain data to setup a model based on those approaches from the Elo Rating website and betting odds comparison sites respectively.

Now, for predicting the score of a given match it seems most approaches seems to use statistics about shots per game, shots on target, and goals per game. But I couldn't find any website to use as data source for that information.

So Im wondering what models or techniques could the HN community suggest, and if someone is aware of some website to use as data source to create a model to predict a match score.

[1] http://www.eloratings.net/about
[2] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1710.02824.pdf
I have a two-camera panoramic camera (one lens on each side) and you can't see the monopod if you set it on one. When the two half-spheres are stitched together, the monopod ends up being stiched away, because the lenses poke out laterally from the body of the camera, they both can see behind and around the monopod, so each view can crop the monopod out and it looks like it's floating. It's a bit spooky.
His answers read like they were written by a bot tbh.
I’m pretty sure that they multiplex the video into a single stream and tell the clients decode the relevant ones. The server can also do some detection on the device to flag a stream as the focus stream without having to be able to decrypt the data the server can also tell the clients to what bitrate encode their transmition depending on the number of participants and which clients are in focus at the time e.g. if you aren’t talking send a 480p stream if you are send a 1080p one.
The difference should be more than 100k a year. Sadly that's not something people interview for.
The Japanese were hardly already defeated. Had the bombs not been dropped, the United States would have invaded Japan directly, island by island, until the country surrendered. The loss of life on both sides would have been tremendous.

Source: My grandfather had orders to go and do exactly that when the dropping of the bombs ended the war.
You’ve observed central count?

You’ve attended the canvassing board meetings?

You’ve audited an election?

You vetted the certification of the hardware, software, rules, procedures used by your jurisdiction?

You’ve collaborated with the nationwide network of admins, vendors, academics, and activists on these issues?

Can you refute anything I’ve stated?

Do you even know how your ballot is processed?

Did I say anything about fraud?

FUD indeed.

FWIW, you perfectly illustrate the challenges whistleblowers endure, so thanks for that.
Ah that explains it: I was looking at the now-old https://andrewkelley.me/post/intro-to-zig.html#error-type
Any realistic plan for that is over a century away. By now, it will take luck and hard work to achieve even the 2 degree scenario (2DS), where we have cut net emissions by 60% in 2050 and we reach zero net emissions some time in the 2060s-2070s. Forget about reaching 280 ppm, if we can stabilize at 450 ppm by 2100 it'd be a huge achievement.
I live in the core of a city and love it, but all the damn jobs I get offered are an hour away in the suburbs.
(I'm Matt, from SF@MSFT, the same guy from up here [1])

To me, it makes sense that the Kubernetes services at Microsoft would be built on top of Kubernetes and expose Kubernetes to customers. That's a good way to get experience with running a service at scale, eat the dogfood, and deliver the experience people who want Kubernetes are expecting.

Just because some services pick K8s as the backend (when that's an appropriate choice!) and that Microsoft hired an expert to work on them is in no way proof that a different competing technology is dead. Plus: would you have rather we hired an amateur? :) I'm glad Brendan's here leading the charge.

The notion that promoting Docker indicates that SF doesn't have a future is also misleading - that's a container format vs. an orchestrator. Those are different layers of the stack with different jobs. Since SF has supported Docker containers for some time, we're fine with the rest of the company promoting Docker as a means of isolating workloads. Plus, before containers, isolating workloads on Windows was really tough. SF arguably made this worse by giving everyone an environment where you can run tons of different workloads SxS without giving people guidance on how to isolate things reasonably. SQL virtually had to invent their own way of doing it[2], and nobody really likes programming against Windows Job Objects (just like most people wouldn't prefer to deal with cgroups directly either).

Docker (or other) containers are a godsend for taking old leaky code and getting it running in a shared cloud environment without having to rewrite stuff. SF <3 Containers, but we also work with bare processes because, well, like Mesos, that's how we started, and also sometimes you just don't have the problems that containers solve or can't take the hit to switch to a containerized workflow at the moment.

Lots of new services get built on top of SF all the time (The video from build[3] shows the newer services built on top of SF in Azure). So in the same way, just because there are new services getting built on top of SF doesn't mean that the Kubernetes offerings at MSFT are dead either. It's a false choice.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17257735

[2] https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/sqlserver/2016/12/16/sql-se...

[3]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ab2wIGMbpY
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"Don't be evil" is incredibly vague and practically meaningless. What the hell is evil, and since when did everyone agree on what evil means? It's obvious to you that they're getting "evil", it certainly isn't obvious to me.
"Google changes its policy to maintain its workforce"

Google, an already known to be duplicitous company, changed its policy to maintain its workforce at the expense of US national interests. That's certainly something to be wary about, as a member of the public.
Make they come to the west and think all our housing looks the same.