skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That reasoning might work at a species level, but natural selection acts at a genetic level. I think the idea is that females need to be self-sacrificing to ensure that their offspring (and hence their genes) have a decent chance of survival. Males might devote a certain amount of resources to the same, but it soon becomes more advantageous to go and try to impregnate another female with their genes.
>Another example is BTC vs BCH. BCH is the original bitcoin code, but BTC is the original Bitcoin community.

I think that's a rather disingenuous if not patently misleading statement.

BCH is factually and unequivocally a fork of bitcoin code and blockchain.
shame it requires a facebook account to use it properly
this is obviously just an ad...
It was a golden age for the first person immersive simulation game. Wolfenstein 3D, Doom, Quake, Thief, System Shock II, Half-Life, Deus Ex - there was a period of classics with large improvements and innovation from one game to the next, where game design space was explored just as the technology to render it became available.

First person immersive sims are generally best played on the PC. When consoles that were able to do decent graphics for a reasonable period (i.e. the pace of hardware evolution slowed) came into their own, third person control worked better with joypads, and for commercial reasons, PC games often ended up as a second-rate ports of console games, with compromised controls. You really need a mouse for first person.
A National Cryptocurrency Is the Way to Go for the U.S – Says Former FDIC Chair
I would think so. I would love to see authorities going after both. That would set a wonderful precedent.
These libs seem to have seen more recent maintenance:

https://github.com/go-macaroon
And Tcl had since the beginning an event loop naturally embedded in the core language.
http://wiki.tcl.tk/2567
http://wiki.tcl.tk/1527
USA motor vehicle fatality rate is 7.1 deaths per billion vehicle-km. Hard to test that without going outside onto real roads with real drivers. (Tesla fatality rate at time of third and most recent fatality: 14.3 deaths per billion autopilot-km, which is significantly worse than I had realised).
ETC is the original blockchain data. Whether that means it’s the original coin depends on the definition of “coin”, I guess.
Issue is in counter-intuitive API of D3, not in DOM.
> Is this a social network or spy agency?

A modern social network is a spy agency where you file your own reports on yourself in return for being able to read those of other people.
I love writing React code and it is easy to get up to speed there.

I abhor the mix of HTML/CSS for UI design. I'd rather code UIs in Actionscript.

The web browser as an abstraction for general use UIs is just not ideal.

XAML might be a company induced mess underneath but my point is that you don't have to be XAML expert to make nice interfaces. I made CRUD apps on WPF and rarely did I have to touch XAML directly. I had a big thick book on XAML and it sat unopened on my shelf.

I am forced to do front-end webdev work and I hate it. I need to worry about UI breaking instead of worrying about business logic.

Let's say client needs a dropdown menu added at a certain location. On desktop this is cake on most toolkits.

On web the problem is that there is no certain location, there is no absolute. You have to delve deep into CSS abyss to figure out how the component will behave.
Animats' point is that if you break and avoiding hitting anyone, there's no trolley problem. How you break is an important but unrelated question.
Heart disease, cancer and chronic lower respiratory diseases are the top 3 leading causes of death in the USA, all regarded to be natural causes. Accidents are #4, and car crashes are included in that.
I used to agree with you. But over the last few years, in their own ways, Apple and Microsoft have dropped the ball on their native desktop UI toolkits. So, whereas the argument for native used to be "rewrite your client once per platform, and you get a better language, better performance, better usability, and a better development experience", now it's "rewrite your client once per platform and you may get a better language, depending on your taste, probably better performance, an aging closed-source toolchain, an outdated development paradigm, outdated APIs covered in legacy-barnacles, debugging-resistant performance pitfalls, and decent usability if you're ok with a generic one-size-fits-all look (and you're on your own if you're not.)" In other words, the argument for native, and native development itself, is not aging well.
This is all good and nice.

But in my opinion it violates principle of least surprise: when I encounter any enum, am I able to OR two values? These do not seem like flags, is this correct usage?

When a function expects bitmask<T>, I should know that T is just flag positions. But when I do not have some API point, only enum, how am I supposed to know that?

Plus, in case of interop with other languages, even with C, I will have Button::B == 2 in CPP, and BUTTON_B == 4 in C (or Button.B == 4 in Java). This of course adds to confusion...
What are Gibbon and Cobalt?
I tried google but with no success.
Do you have any link?
Modern video games too often have far more linear gameplay, because AAA budgets means assets get wasted if they don't get consumed. See the entire CoD series, for example - tedious to play if you're used to a different kind of game.

Many people want a movie-like experience from their game, but that isn't what I played games for. It was more about emergent situations, rather than scripted. That was also what made games replayable - it's very rare for me to want to replay a modern game these days.
How Long Does It Take to Develop Custom Software?
The evidence of what actually happens when you "go Uber style" and cause a death as a result strongly suggests that risking 100 deaths will not speed up development of AVs...

Edit: genuinely perplexed by the downvoter who apparently believes the Uber "move fast, break things, suspend testing for at least several months after attracting widespread public opposition" approach has been a net positive for their prospects of commercialising self driving cars in the near future?
You should check out https://www.typingdna.com/ a startup making this technology available for everyone.
> I don’t see the Go dev team Pershing that in the next couple of years

Agreed. But if I didn't mention it, I'm sure someone would have felt obligated to respond with a "well actually..."
The average user is unaware their mouse is being tracked. Without this knowledge or without given an informed choice, it could be argued that they can't act with full consent. They might be less willing to use a site which does this if they did know.
Bloom Energy files for IPO
What part about Sugru, Inc., isn't a chemical company?
The article doesn’t say what this app does - is it for match schedules, news, or what?

But this is probably a good example of why I generally refuse to install apps unless I genuinely need to. Almost all apps that people install can be replaced by using a web browser. Yet I see my friends installing tons of apps for no specific reason. Each one increases your attack surface.
I noticed you consistently misspell Reuben Hersh's surname. Sorry I haven't corrected you when I first saw you doing that on HN close to a decade ago, assuming you might soon self-correct if only by glancing over the book you hold so dear.

As for the book by Constance Reid, Gian-Carlo Rota's review entitled Misreading the History of Mathematics is all that should be said of it.
There’s still something to be said for inherent price insensitivity for the national labs.
Aren't native Vue apps already supported with Weex[1]? Why would I use this over Weex?

[1] - https://weex.incubator.apache.org/guide/
Threads are not hard.
In fact, threads are extremely easy to implement.

However, real Threading code is just incredibly difficult to reason, just by looking at it. This makes it easy for you to introduce race conditions without even knowing that there is one!

There is also the fact that locks don't lock anything!
They are just a flag, that a any code may choose to ignore.

They are a not an enforcing tool, just a cooperative one.

(More here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zinZmE3Ogk)

P.S. I created a library, that makes it easier to write safer multiprocessing code

https://github.com/pycampers/zproc
Non-serious: maybe they have to spend so much time chasing the latest trends in JS frameworks that none is left to learn about alternatives.

Semi-seriuos: I am afraid many honestly believe that JS is the best language and has the best ecosystem.

I consider myself lucky having learnt programming back when you had no choice but to use different tools/languages for different tasks. It provides with a luxury of being able to compare different approaches.
PyRoMineIoT spreads via EternalRomance exploit and targets targets IoT devices
Learn How Nintendo Entertainment System Works
You misunderstood. The problem is not forwarding Kerberos tokens, the problem is obtaining Kerberos tokens. Unless some extensions are employed, you need to use password authentication. Even if kerberos extensions are employed, you must still use kerberos auth instead of ssh public keys. If you try to use ssh public key authentication (instead of telling ssh to use kerberos authentication) you can't log-in to the machine because you can't access your home filesystem, which is kerberised. In fact, depending on your configuration, you might not be able to log-in at all since the user's filesystem might not be mounted at all (waiting for the automounter).

If you want to store user directories on kerberized NFS, users must use kerberos authentication.
Not having a direct interest doesn’t guarantee they are neutral, true. That’s what net neutrality rules are for. But giving them interest in the content guarantees they _arent_ neutral, and will always have conflicting interests, regardless of regulation.
May their ATPase keep pumping forever...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Na%2B/K%2B-ATPase
Wonder if the Facebook Containers for Firefox can stop this type of fingerprinting too.
Yeah that's why I think they'd classify me as a robot.
I've used krb5 and nis in an osx environment with NFS as file store. My basic opinion is that osx is not about unix legacy and they move as desired. Running on osx is agsinst a moving target.

Unsuitable for production.
I feel like this comes up every time bitcoin drops a lot.
What is the speed of light?

Aristo:
http://aristo-demo.allenai.org/ask?q=What%20is%20the%20speed...

Wolfram Alpha:
https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=what+is+the+speed+of+l...
https://slurm.schedmd.com/

It still depends on scientists to produce code that can run during off hours. (And how well are scientists known to code?)
"I think the best argument against this, is to demand that the person willing to let many die is the first to die. "

That's why I am saying that all road testing of autonomous cars should take place in the neighborhoods where the executives and their children live and are on the road. That would align the incentives of the company and the public.
A society that forgoes monogamy
Firefox does not include Flash by default, the others do.
It's definitely not solved from a technical perspective but it's really hard to compete in a business perspective. The market wants good fast search. If you come up with great fast search, it's still hard. The only opportunity I see from the business perspective is to challenge the visual paradigm. Having said that, there are tons of opportunities from the academic perspective such as inferring context, letting users control context, etc.
Snapchat GitHub repo is being migrated
How to handle multiple intents per input using Rasa NLU TensorFlow pipeline
Oh yeah, I've read the 2200G/2400G horror stories and taken precautions, thanks. :)
I have always assumed that Facebook uses heat maps to track what is under your pointer. Doesn't every serious site do that to gauge user behavior, interest and interface utilization? I guess the difference is FB is putting it in an available data set along with everything else about consumers' individual lives.

More interesting is "a patent held by the company states that the Facebook app uses voice recognition algorithm, which uses audio recorded by the microphones, to modify the ranking scores of stories in users News Feed." and their speculation that Facebook could soon reveal details about their use of surreptitiously recorded user audio.

Facebook makes a curiously specific denial about audio, which is that it is not used for advertising. Considering their entire business is basically advertising, what does that leave? But all they mean is ad selection. When they were found to be recording audio during the posting of statuses, I believe they claimed it it was so they could recognize the music you were listening to, and know something about your mood. So for a long time, I have thought that they use audio to select other content, like friend suggestions, or to inform the selection of stories that appear on your newsfeed.
At this point Facebook can come out and say they track any and everything. They might as well because no one will do a single thing.
very interesting article ... thanks for sharing
Pandas is slow. Hadoop is slow. Spark is slow. R is slow. What else is there?
This pull quote is pretty convincing evidence that the DOJ doesn’t comprehend the stakes at all. “Pay TV” is way too small a lens to be thinking about this through. Internet access has a much much bigger impact on people’s lives than mere TV (or the streaming equivalent).
Intel is set to launch new discrete graphics cards in 2020
That is a very interesting point you are making. While I'm sure we could(and most likely will) make sure no one suffers from hunger, has access to quality education(in the online form), and quality goods, things that cannot be mass produced/duplicated will become even more expensive-real estate in tourist cities, tropical/scenic places, art and so on.
No one wants the national labs accepting payments from anyone but the US government. Especially if they’re selling “digital assets.” I’m trying very hard to not litter this reply with swear words. Concerns about national security abound.
So, I guess I mispoke and that’s what I meant. Does Intel want part of this market? Would it be lucrative to them?
> Why is it wrong to kill a man?

It is not wrong to kill a man. It is only wrong to murder a man

> My personal reason is that I am an empathic person.

Lots of things can override empathy. Anger, jealousy, ambition etc. 'Do whatever you feel like' does not sound like much of a moral framework to me
Mendeley encrypts your data so you can't access it
High tech is born in war – not Silicon Valley (2017)
The questions won’t change at all in the UK as the DPA was in effect, what can change is the punitive damages.
AMD Created Navi for Sony's PlayStation 5
> * The more white and privileged you are - the more predictable your life is.*

That's a quantifiable claim, especially in response to an article about a gulag system that killed and tortured many white people, many of whom you may have called privileged before they were imprisoned.

I would love to see your justification. Seeing a scatter plots with whiteness and privilege on the horizontal axis and predictability on the vertical would seem persuasive, though I'm not sure how you'd quantify the variables.

Can you cite a source?
Nice story. Interesting notes in your paper on the lack of a standard library. In the end, I think this is what have killed the language.
Did you not read the instructions? Aristo is designed to answer multiple choice grade school science questions, not abstract and cheap virtue signalling nonsense.
Yeah that's kind of why we need another 50% or so to really be cheaper after you allow for the problems with peaker plants, upgrading the grid and so on.
This is a gross oversimplification of the issue. Here is the judge's opinion which actually explains his rationale: http://www.dcd.uscourts.gov/sites/dcd/files/17-2511opinion.p...

His rationale on this particular is over 30 pages long. It starts at page 57-ish.
> Some solutions are worse than the original problem.

Wow, that's a pretty harsh claim. This was just released and you already think it's worse with no sort of data to back up your claims. Sorry, that's not a sound argument.
I think it's pretty cool.

Question: Which nucleobase is not present in the DNA,
(a) thymine
(b) uracil
(c) adenine
(d) guanine
(e) cytosine

Aristo's Answer: (b) uracil

Confidence: 53.92%

Justification Sentence: In DNA, the uracil nucleobase is replaced by thymine.
True, but having a test suite is necessary if you are test-driven. With the almost fanatical use of test code in Sqlite I cannot imagine they wouldn't write the tests before implementing a new feature, ie, test-driven.
> you nevertheless strive towards ideals that have ultimately no reason but your belief in them

Not necessarily: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_rationalism
I'm sorry, but the way the web stack is typically is the opposite of good user interfaces. It's not that the web can't be used to create good UIs, it's just I've never seen it used in this way, and I find that the less of web technologies you use, the better.

A good user interface will, among other things, be consistent with its environment, efficient wrt. to its purpose and performant.

Consistency with the environments using similar interface primitives to other applications at all levels - not just looking like other applications (to facilitate knowledge transfer/principle of least surprise), but also supporting universal idiosyncrasies - like the context menus in text field, copy-paste, integration with system-wide settings, etc. Looking the same is anathema to web designers, and reconstructing anything else than basic functionality of an UI component is something webdevs usually can't be bothered with.

UIs that are efficient for purpose happen on the web, as long as people do not follow popular UI/UX guidelines. Efficiency for purpose usually means denser interfaces, less bells and whistles, more data on screen, more features and functionality, and a bit of learning curve - all of these are actively hated in the current web ecosystem. All the efficient interfaces I see on the web these days are of those products that didn't get the "web 2.0" memo and are stuck in early 2000s.

Performance. They say V8 is heavily optimized and all, but for some reason the modern web is still fucking slow. Might have something to do with ads and tracking, but it also might have something to do with trying to be first-to-market, and putting in lots of pretty looking bells and whistles. The end result is that I say the data table might need to display 10 000 rows, and I see the UI team cringe at the thought of slowdown. Well, why on Earth would 10k rows in a 4-column table be a problem? Oh, you used lots of JS magic to make that table pretty and "reactive" and shits, that's why.

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TL;DR: The web is the opposite of good UIs. I'm not really sure if the problem is technological - it seems to be almost entirely cultural.
That self interest is usually rooted in how society would react to your behavior. So in the end if it's society basing the idea that something is immoral on religion, you're still indirectly basing it on religion.
I remember watching the Twilight Zone episode about the man with the bomb shelter whose neighbors laughed at him until the air raid sirens went off, then almost killed him. I think it applies to a lot of people in a lot of situations. When times are easy, the vast majority of people go along and get along, but it is in very difficult circumstances where you find out who your friends are. There are a lot of people in the world who would become very selfish in difficult circumstances, but that doesn't prove that _everyone_ would do so. It is truly amazing to see those few who would go through anything and be loyal to ideals.
This. I rewrote pure-JS implementation of some topology visualization in D3 and very much regretted it. The abstractions are simply weird, documentation poor and the resulting code difficult to reason about and maintain. Useful for toy projects, but I wouldn't use it in a serious app anymore.

> I really wish there was a library out there like D3 that tried harder not to surprise me with every abstraction.

Interestingly enough, I find that the combination of React + inline SVG fill this space pretty nicely. The engine is well thought out and documented, as is SVG. And animations are easier to do with CSS anyway.

EDIT: note that React is declarative too, which helps with visualizations a lot.
TL;DR

- Seeking $100MM (could be placeholder)

- Share price is undefined

- $376MM in 2017 Revenue, $208MM in 2016 Revenue

- $281MM Net Loss in 2017, up from a $336MM net loss in 2016

- NYSE symbol: "BE"
I noticed this warning on the Talk Talk direct debit details page, two weeks ago: https://twitter.com/lexburdusel/status/1001994580672344064?s...
Besieged by Activist Investors? Goldman Has an App for That
The problem is: the platform owners (Apple and Google) have absolutely no incentive to make this see the day of light. They make money selling apps, and want to bind developers to their platform.
10 bucks says the way this eventually gets solved for BVLOS will be a combination of RVSM on the cardinal points and ADSB.

So, so many people trying to solve this problem. This is just the flavor of the month.
Great write up (why is hn getting so sardonic?). Anyone using one of these for web dev?
Show HN: JSUI – A powerful UI toolkit for managing JavaScript apps
...and empty talk is cheap.
That's precisely why I used the phrases "equivalent land in capital" and "equivalent to a nice suburban home". In context, it should be obvious such a wealth explosion would cause an unfathomable real estate inflation.

While land is limited, wealth and capital are not. It's perfectly possible to posit a society where people own, say, shares of robotic mining companies that roam the solar system for resources. Or that values genuine human sexual intercourse to the tune of one million dollars per act, inflation adjusted. It's much harder to substantiate how such a society would actually look like.
JS empowers beginners and disempowers advanced developers. If you are learning programming, JS helps you, if you need sensible pro-level features, you are out of luck.
I'm so glad the 3D models can be disabled, to experience the enemies sprites as their original creators envisioned.

Those 3D enemies that show up in the video, come walking towards the player as if they had a strong stomach ache!

Also explosions look too "fluffy"... Doom is not a game that needs to be reworked, IMHO.
Should have told that the Tianhe-2, which uses Xeon Phis (aka Larabee 2013 and later) and was the fastest super computer for multiple years.
Spoti-Free? still have premium months after stopping paying for it
Ive generally always had spotify premium, but a few months ago i lost my job and as such i had to tighten my belt a little so the premium subscription got the boot, i didnt actively cancel it, my card expired and i just didnt enter the new details.

its now been nearly 3 months since i paid for premium and while i still get the red banner saying my payment failed and i need to add a new card they havent disabled any of the premium features. of course im not complaining about it, just wondering if anyone else has had the same sort of experience

On another note what the hell ever happened to Spotify HiFi? (the invite only lossless service test that ran well over a year ago now)
Transhuman Tech to Live Forever, Go Bionic and Alter Politics with Zoltan Istvan
Lol @ the Facebook army astro-turfing the comment section.

"But it's not nefarious..."

"But everybody else is doing it too..."

"It's not for surveillance, profiling and shadow profiling, pinky promise, trust us..."
The green boat in Amsterdam
Oat the Goat