skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Even something as simple as installing a library is a conceptual leap for these people (why wouldn't the software just come with everything needed to work?).
> Have you ever tried explaining the various python package and environment management options to someone with a background in Excel/SQL?

I don't understand the difficulty I've often seen voiced against this. Why would a newbie or someone who just wants to get analytical work done need anything beyond installing Python and doing `pip install library`? It's certainly orders of magnitude easier and faster than, say, using a C library. The only trouble I can see a newbie running into is if they want to install a library which doesn't have precompiled wheels and they need some dependencies to build it, but that's rarely an issue for popular packages.
Didn't realize app storage would be in the iTunes backup, but I guess it makes total sense!
But non-quantum encryption hasn't been mathematically proven to be secure. In the real world, you'll probably always use both and only if large quantum computers become available.
Consider yourself lucky.
not the riots and widespread arson that also occurred

Cites needed. The only results claiming BLM-related arsons and riots are online zines known to be fronts for white nationalist movements.

Edit: As a followup, a number of white supremacists set fires and framed the BLM for those fires, but were subsequently caught and are in various stages of the criminal justice process.
Then that's one more reason why the "if you don't like it, take a hike" argument is absurd.
I'd note the official documentation isn't intuitive either. Which lends itself to all of the tutorials that seem to promote mindless copy paste, because authors would rather paste their code, than explain why parts of the API are strewn together in a particular way.

I spent the last week trying to understand the brush and zoom APIs, and everyone from stack overflow to medium to bl.ocks just seems to push a style of learning that lends itself to "just look at this example, and figure it out from there."

So while sort blog articles are not the best way to learn D3, I think a better job could be done in illustrating the mechanics, models and use cases through geometry, and explaining what subset of a particular API are absolutely required to achieve a goal.
Looking at the Tesla's suspension, it looks like it gradually applied the brakes.. The accel forces would be way stronger if the car punched the brakes.
Btw, it's probably designed to respond to a confidence level curve and apply the brakes accordingly.
Not to mention that, if the dummy car is NOT made out of metal (or at least contain some), the ~70GHz radar would have trouble detecting it.
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If anyone is interested in solutions, Frank Dobbin, a professor of sociology at Harvard that studies the effectiveness of anti sexual harassment programs has some interesting conclusions here:

> The worst news is probably that men who are hostile to women to begin with do not improve with training. Men who score high on “likely harasser” and “gender role conflict” scales are the most likely to have adverse reactions to training

> In an unpublished paper on diversity training, we find that mandatory training reduces actual workforce diversity and voluntary training increases it. It looks like forcible training of people who are hostile to the training message may backfire.

> Workplace gender equity is still our best bet for reducing harassment, but progress on equity has stalled in the corporate world and on the faculty.

http://www.asanet.org/news-events/footnotes/apr-may-2018/fea...
> if Apple provided access for people with warrants

Doesn't this face the TSA Master Key problem?
Does he say something relevant to HN? It's a long (1 hour) talk and I guess it's not very interesting like most of the presidential talks here in Argentina.

(What is "mutuelles"? With Google I get something like "health insurance" but I can't get the exact translation.)
Maybe, but it makes it a lot easier to transfer to a different lab. It's also part of a cultural frame of mind. In broad strokes, here are two approaches institutions can take to recruiting grad students:

i) Admit tons of grad students, treat them like shit and just assume many will drop out/quit so you don't have to do any long term planning on resources/admissions.

ii) Plan projects and resources, vet candidates and treat grad students well. Attrition will be lower so this does allow for longer term planning. In addition, here the institution and department are involved in the planning/resource allocation and presumably personnel issues as well. In general culture will be professional.

IMO i) gives signals that harassment and other mistreatment is tacitly allowed. With ii) the grad students are valued and signal is given that this should be a professional environment. Another generalization, but I have observed American universities, especially engineering departments are close to i), European universities (some countries more than others) are closer to ii).
yes, memory leaks. thanks for answering my question my dude.
I don't think they're expecting much in the next decade or two, maybe a few inches?

> the worst-case scenario — of seas rising nearly 4 feet due to Antarctic ice loss alone by 2100 — assumes that very high emissions continue for carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/20...
The simplest explanation would be that either the IQ tests are missing some aspect of human cognition that is getting more developed in spite of others, or that the weighting used to calculate the final IQ number based on the particular results might be wrong or not representative of the actual cognitive effort required for each of them.

Let's not forget that IQ tests are just statistical analyses, while we still lack a bottom-up explanation of intelligence.
I don't think the analogy is valid. To be honest I hate it when I encounter a researcher who seems to be taking this strategy.

Large parts of these papers are boilerplate or duplicated between papers. This wastes the time of the reader even if they try to identify where the new parts are. Plus, the papers are published in 5 different journals or conferences and might not even cite each other, so you often aren't even aware of all of the pieces.
The UK achieves universal coverage without the US system, even if in the middle of nowhere it's slow.
Can you have a lawyer write up a non compete or confidentiallity agreement? That should protect you I would think. Maybe tied into a refundable earnest deposit of 20%. So if they show they have not violated the confidentiallity but do not want to do it, they get the deposit back, afte a year or some such time.

I think yo are smart for worrying about this.
Apple is not the owner of the devices, they just manufacture them.
Seems the logical way to go, but Provo, UT tried that and it became so politically toxic that the city wound up giving the network away to Google and swallowing the debt.

If you look at EPB being forced to pull out of neighboring areas and the actions of other states to prevent muni / utility Internet projects, it's pretty clear that America doesn't want to solve the last mile problem unless it involves preserving the incumbent's market position.
If you’re more than like 150 feet above sea level it will never be an issue.
I sure it varies, but at my university the supervisior is obligated to pay the difference between what the department paid and what was promised in the offer letter.
Antarctica Is Melting More Than Twice as Fast as in 2012
No, because Apple isn't incompetent, and is long-used to securely handling customer data.
Sure, if a comet takes out pretty much the entirety of the current Linux Desktop community at OverengineeringCon 2020 or something and some reasonable people take it over.
Look, I get the point you're trying to make, and I know you're not trying to be racist or xenophobic, but implying that having a foreign-sounding name make you less than entirely American is a really bad look.

Literally everyone credited in this paper could have been born and raised in the USA with birthright citizenship. I know that, realistically, that's not the case, but jumping to assumptions about individuals based on how ethnic their names sound is a form for casual racism that has absolutely no place in academia.

More importantly, if non-citizens are so much more likely to get admitted to MIT than citizens, it's not the immigration system we should be worried about. We should be worried about our education system that fails to produce highly-educated and motivated adults that qualify for admittance into MIT.

I also need to call you out for even bringing "descendants of immigrants" into this conversation. The children of immigrants have a name in this country: American citizens. We ought not judge people for the national origins of their parents, we should judge them for their academic and professional merits.
It's hard to imagine anyone mentioned there was particularly entertained.

'Invented words' is what made me think of it, I don't think it's much in evidence in GULAG but it definitely pop up in his fiction. In Voinovich's parodic telling, it's due to an excessive reliance on the 19th century 'Dahl's Explanatory Dictionary'. It's a perfectly pointed barb.

I think where GULAG succeeds is in exactly what he puts on the front page "an experiment in literary investigation". Everything from 'В круге первом' through 'Как нам обустроить Россию' and later gets progressively weirder and, well, to put it politely, not better.
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No chakras, gods or old souls are needed for you to agree to the statement that some aspects of reality are constructed by the human mind (cf. Kant). It explains, for instance, why you perceive what you're sitting on right now as a "chair" rather than the mere collection of atoms and molecules that it's actually made of. Nature outside of the mind has no concept of an object, and no concept of a subject. Acid may help one see reality that way, if one is curious and mentally stable enough to want to.

Disclaimer: NOT intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment
Additionally, SQL is a domain specific language that is standard and cross platform. Why write a query dozens of different times for dozens of different host languages when you could just write it once?
In case anyone thinks this is an isolated idea, I also left academia and the scientific laboratories to work independently. While the exact reasons for doing so are multifaceted, I'll echo that there's a lot of questionable, finely parsed research that I disagree with.

Alright, so how does it work? For me, I'm on contract consulting for a few months a year and the rest of the time I spend doing research. Now, there are number of difficulties with this approach. Namely, it helps to work in a field that generates enough money to support myself for the rest of the year. Though it varies by field, I believe this has been far easier for me since I carry a Ph.D, which adds credibility on contracts. Second, I don't get to simply do research the rest of the year since it's also important to do product and client development to stay in business. Third, while consulting can pay well, it's also volatile. I've been in business full time for more than five years, so it has worked well enough, but I probably would not operate in the same manner if I had a family. That said, I've been able to look into and master many things that I would have never been able to while working in a traditional academic environment.

In short, I've been able to make this work by consulting to buy back my time. I do think there are other models to making this work and if anyone else has been successful doing independent research I'd love to hear how.
A common cause for this is foil backed insulation. A number of companies install this in the ceiling spaces and outside walls to reduce the energy costs of keeping the store at a comfortable level.
That's because it is.
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Tidy features (like pipes) are detrimental to performance. The best things R has going for it are data.table, ggplot, stringr, RMarkdown, RStudio, and the massive, unmatched breadth and depth of special-purpose statistics libraries. Combined, this is a formidable and highly performant toolset for data analytics workflows, and I can say with some certainty that even though “base Python” might look prettier than “base R,” the combination of Python and NumPy is not necessarily more powerful or even a more elegant syntax. The data.table syntax is quite convenient and powerful, even if it does not produce the same “warm fuzzy” feeling that pipes might. NumPy syntax is just as clunky as anything in R, if not worse, largely because NumPy was not part of the base Python design (as opposed to languages like R and MATLAB that were designed for data frames and matrices).

What is probably not a good idea (which the article unfortunately does) is to introduce people to R by talking about data.frame without mentioning data.table. Just as an example, the article mentions read.table, which is a very old R function which will be very slow on large files. The right answer is to use fread and data.table, and if you are new to R then get the hangs of these early on so that you don’t waste a lot of time using older, essentially obsolete parts of the language.
>Just because they didn't have a central organization, doesn't change the fact that it was a movement that caused a lot of damage. In fact, there's a parallel with the Alt-Right.

Nobody is disputing the facts. The problem comes when people take disparate facts and weave a narrative that supports their own beliefs without any supporting evidence.

>Many terrorist organizations operate with individual cells who work independently, so that they can't implicate each other. I'd still call that an organization.

Only because they have a shared goal. There is no shared goal in gamer gate. The thing called "gamer gate" was filled with crazy and non-crazy people with wildly differing goals and beliefs.
You don't have to hack into an Android phone if you are the police. The data is available to you in multiple places. (Including the phone.)

That's why this semi-adversarial relationship exists principally between Apple and Law Enforcement. Not necessarily Google or Samsung and Law Enforcement.
>we never managed to produce a single, great native cross platform toolkit

Why can't the web+JS be that platform?
“Even the great Lutyens, than whom no architect more beguiles, was crushed by the expectations of commercial clients such as the Midland Bank.”

What a great sentence!

I hope and expect that “whom” will be deprecated within my lifetime, but it will be a shame to miss out on sentences like this one.

It is very satisfying to see the passive voice used so irreproachably too.
It may have been before they met in person but they had been very friendly with each other. So much in fact that the journalist had beta tested the game for her and was put in the credits for doing so.

https://www.mobygames.com/game/browser/depression-quest/cred...
The "TSA Problem" is not that they master-key manufacturer is incompetent...quite the contrary.
Ahem:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICloud_leaks_of_celebrity_phot...
I'm fully aware of the tone I'm passing off: take it or leave it. I have no vested interest in this. I'm simply a gawking spectator. Learn to accept input from others who don't give it to you on a silver platter.

The otherwise timid and passive voice on HN is frequently an irritation to me. This is the author of Redis making an uninformed decision in both writing Lua bindings, and extending that ignorance to making changes to Lua to suit his ignorance. I don't care. What my tone is suggesting is how ludicrous this is and how it shouldn't be taken as a good suggestion.

This is a great example of someone who has a large exposure simply using something incorrectly and him having a large exposure doesn't make his technical observations of a language meaningful. In no way here can you leverage that to justify poor decision making.
What infrastructure is broadband most like? The water utility that's poisoning people with lead: https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/dcs-decade-old-problem-.... The sewer utility that's dumping raw sewage into the local river: https://wtop.com/dc/2017/07/heavy-rain-raw-sewage-potomac-an.... Or the subway infrastructure that constantly catches fire? https://www.arlnow.com/2018/01/22/developing-track-fire-at-p....

I've lived in several major cities: Baltimore, D.C., New York, Philadelphia, Atlanta, and Chicago. Out of those, I might trust Chicago to run municipal broadband. For the others, I'd pick Comcast any day of the week.
The problem is, how do you build a back door that can only be used by people with valid (and just) warrants?

You really can’t go down your line of argument without answering thar
We're currently working on the forum software. I'd love to hear your ideas. Send me an email? toomim@gmail.com

If the client-side JS is a dealbreaker, let's talk about it -- we can build a server-side renderer.
Just a note about United: their directory of in-network medical professionals is, frankly, horrible. If a doctor formerly took UHC, and no longer does, they will stay in their directory.

It took many days and calls until a representative told me that the directory is outdated and that I needed to confirm with each doctor/practice as to whether they still take UHC.

Yes, this process is terrible if you are sick and in need of treatment.
One-third of adults in U.S. taking drugs that may cause depression
For anyone who doesn't know who Jessamyn West is:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessamyn_West_(librarian)
>It still hurts to have your dream job undercut by someone else, though.

What an absolutely atrocious way to think of your fellow man...

If someone else is getting the job you want instead of you, they worked harder for it than you did. If you want your dream job, you need to be prepared to compete for it, regardless of what color skin the competition happens to have.
But any one can use any Iphone to call 911. It doesn't block that function. In fact any old cell phone will likely be able to call out to 911 if it has a single. regardless if it has a paid cell plan or not. My point being that in an emergency situation a cell phone works. If it didn't that would be considered unacceptable. Anything less than that for a firearm is also unacceptable.
I'd call this a dupe of the better LAT article posted last night, see the discussion from that - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17299838
If you have the time he has a great video here[0] that talks about redis+LUA

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaIwBagADVM
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Status in Debian: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-3665
You can stream torrents

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popcorn_Time
Mikestew claimed that nothing would stand up to the bolt cutters in their garage.

Kivin_thibedeau presumed said bolt cutters do not fill a significant space in said garage with hardened superalloy jaws and hydraulic power system, and speculated on a common-enough material that could defeat any pair of manual bolt cutters that a typical person would be likely to keep in their garage.

Now we just need a security geek to point out that you don't need to cut the chain if you can defeat a weaker link in the security web. Example: lock bike to street sign post with uncuttable chain and uncrackable lock; bike thief unbolts sign, lifts bike and chain off post, and replaces sign.
but how do you know it exists if you've never been there? who told you?

> there are no reptile aliens secretly ruling Earth.

perhaps not ruling it...
You centralize ownership, the same way it has been done since the dawn of the internet. Even Intel can securely update your microcode.
While I love Matt's column and read it often I think there is a third possibility. "Real" (as in do it for their day job) foreign exchange traders looked at it and said, "Gee, there are all these tricks we get slapped for if we trying them on manipulating exchange rates, but these noobs either don't know about them or don't care, let's see how high we can push this thing..."

Watching the BitCoin saga from Mt Gox to today has often felt like watching a financial crimes historical reenactment society having an annual get together.
TV's would be one (of many) limiting factors here. Most consumer televisions have, relative to most other computing devices, low processing power and disk space. Plus you have to factor the additional bandwidth load of downloading a 4K television show that you may not watch and then multiply that cost by 30 or 40.
I come at this entirely from the ML side, not the hardware one, so that stuff is a mystery to me :-)
That is what I meant. Master is stable, I have my feature or bug fix branch which I already want to show. Nobody is forking from this branch but if the pulled the branch before it will break after my rebase.
50cm by 2100. That's just under 20 inches for Imperialists.

This assumes a linear rise of 6mm/year.

So in the next 10 years sea level would rise by 6 cm (just over two inches; I understand there are twelve of those in a foot, so we're not talking "feet" until 102 years from now).
I posted some details about this to Twitter: https://twitter.com/cperciva/status/1007010583244230656
Tests are usually not the same, but they are "the same kind", and it is expected that practicing a kind of problem can give an advantage at solving the same kind of problem in the future. It's pretty much a fundamental aspect of learning.
And your point is? the US landlord just increases the rent to pay for their property tax.
C'mon. If it's part of a Linux distribution it's part of "Linux".
They could have more confidence now since the AT&T merger with Time Warner.
I don't think this is a particularly productive way to look at things. RSA has been used for a long time, but the vulnerabilities we find in RSA implementations (for instance, the recent Yubikey RSA keygen flaw) tend to be traceable to things we knew a decade, or sometimes two decades, ago. There's very little general evidence of maturity in crypto development, so that you'd assume that a vendor would learn from industry experience in building something. You just have to sort of guess which constructions they'd have an easier time coding safely.
> “I would go to dinner and they would say ‘Equifax! Crazy! Nothing you can do,’” she recalled.

Exactly what we hear around here, too.
Excellent! Adding those to my list.
Recording the analog output has a lower quality than the original stream for 3 main reasons:

1. Marketing and psychology: Viewers want to believe they are viewing the original, not a degraded copy.

2. Unfaithful copy: Analog output and analog input introduce errors. LCDs use a variety of tricks to improve resolution such as spacial and temporal dithering. Also you can't use a normal camera to record a monitor because of aliasing (of pixels and non-genlocked frame rates).

3. Encoding noise. The encoding of the original is based on the higher quality original, and carefully optimised for the least visual artifacts. Any re-encoding also has to deal with noise introduced by the copying process, and with the noise introduced by the original encoding. This noise noticeably reduces the quality of a copy.
> any other product in the history of the planet that gave people the ability to hide information so completely that the government could never look at it.

Any volume-level encryption?
It's the other way around - if A is a superset of B, it's correct to call B as A, but not to call A as B.