skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
HN discussion when it was fresh: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5711232

pcwalton's top comment talks of std::par... Rayon is a distant descendant of that code. Rust really came a long way.
​SUSE Linux Enterprise Server takes a big step forward
it's pretending to be legal in those states, whereas in canada, it will actually be legal.
I'm not assuming that, but then you can't assume the memory is sufficient either. If the string is from network or user, then you can never assume the buffer to be of sufficient size (which they definitely do, because they aren't tracking how much of src was copied into allocated dst).
> the 2nd law of thermodynamics is an illusion

That is an excellent analogy. Perhaps "emergent property" would be a better term for both, but even that phrase doesn't quite capture the true spirit of Dennett's argument. It's not just the consciousness is emergent, it's that its true nature is actually very different from what we think it is.
I hate to admit as well, but yes I like ads that get shown in instagram too :(.
Netflix will have 90M US subscribers in less than a decade: Research firm
>illegal activities

> arms dealer

I appreciate your political views, but this one is perfectly legal in United States, and will hopefully stay this way.
Hipsters love everything retro... except outdated web services.

Why can't they ironically use Yahoo Messenger, and leave Facebook for Myspace?

That way hypsters can let everyone know how purposely "uncool" they are, but also keep some competition alive in the marketplace.
So ... not an illusion at all, then?
Keep in mind: Tipping is the means by which to acknowledge good service.

If you did NOT receive good service, that should be reflected in the amount of your tip (or your lack of tip).

If you receive exceptional service, that should also be reflected.

The general rule is to tip in proportion to the service, and the quality of service being delivered.
Show HN: Superfine is a tiny, react-like UI library
sometimes things that are illegal are not immoral and there are also plenty of things that are immoral but not illegal.
I wish Firefox would have a "great suspender" feature. Memory just gets chewed up with a zillion tabs open. They should time out and free up memory. My only option now is just to close, and reopen after a day.
How Sinespace May Have Already Beaten Linden Lab to the Second Life of VR
I may have got this wrong, but IIRC, Duo use a Chrome-specific implementation; it’s on Duo to use the standard. I remember reading that it’s in their roadmap, but it didn’t sound like it was coming soon.
Your cynical explanation doesn't fit with the actual behavior. They sort it so things they think you'll like most will be at the top, but once you've seen everything, they don't change the order it again. If you always scroll down to where you left off, you will always see everything, and there won't be older content mixed in with the stuff you're seeing now.

Given a set of ordered posts you might see ACDB, then when you check in next you'll see HFGEACDB whereas in a chronological timeline it'd end up at HGFEDCBA, but once you've seen that out of order "DCBA>ACDB" section it stays in that order.
The burning jumper scenario isn’t quite the same. In the case of 9/11 twin towers, the jumpers were murdered, they didn’t commit suicide. Death was certain for them whether they had jumped or not.
It's so sad that such a wonderful creative person's life is once again destroyed by dea and prosecutor scum. These barbaric scumbags are the ones who should be jailed without parole for making our society so violent and ugly. While the blame is shared with lawmakers, who are equally to blame for their barbaric hate that created such laws, the power lies with police and prosecutors to properly enforce and not enforce laws. Unfortunately in the US, the only incentives police have for their actions are money and power. Of course the uphold the status quo. It makes them richer and more powerful at the expense of other people's lives. Them being under the umbrella of "justice" allows them and the general, idiot public to pretend like these actions are not barbaric and evil, that these actions are not motivated by hate, racism, and greed. But people with even half a brain can see through this facade. Too bad such people are in such a minority, they never even have a chance to get on juries. That's how the final piece of the puzzle falls into place. Being judged by a jury of morons. This is so called "justice" so that we can all pretend we live in a civilized society as long as it doesn't affect us. One day, I hope these police and prosecutor scum will pay for the lives they've ruined and the people they have tortured and murdered. I hope...
We picked capitalism, it was a choice, and it says some people get to party sometimes, but not all of the time, unless they did a really good job once.
I don't know the specifics for Firefox in particular, but update checks are classically staggered over at least a full day if not longer. You don't want every user of your product to hit your download servers at the same time.
If the unit has been chopped up such that all 52 weeks of the share have been sold, then a combination of people will be paying $100 per week of ownership, every month. Your share of the monthly maintenance is allocated by the number of weeks you "own".

You aren't just paying maintenance for the week that belongs to you. Original calculation of $62400 is correct. Part of the scam is obfuscating from you the true costs of the deal.

If the 52 week-owners knew each other, and could all afford the costs of the share in the first place, they could conceivably form their own LLC, cut out the timeshare company middleman, pay $10k each up front for week-length shares in a $520000 property, and cut their maintenance fee in half, to $50 per share per month (assuming 5% upkeep/utilities/taxes per year). They could even rent out any unused weeks on AirBnB to cut the maintenance charges, or even pay out distributions.

The timeshare people are making bank on the fact that getting up to 52 people to spontaneously come together in a common cause is extremely unlikely. You need a prime mover organizing the whole thing, who is ideally positioned to profit from information asymmetry.
Is there a simple explanation for why consciousness (as an idea, or something distinct from unconsciousness) is necessary?

I think my wording was poor. I don't mean necessary for things that may exhibit consciousness. I mean why should consciousness even be considered to exist? Why is it a necessary complication to understanding the mind?
"Trust me" pretty much always means "don't".
Reading the discussion at the time there wasn't too much prediction required:

>A few days ago it was rumored to be valued at $500 million. A few months ago it was $300 million. Its last round — just a year ago — valued the company at $100 million.

It was already the hot thing when he bought it. (https://gigaom.com/2012/04/09/here-is-why-did-facebook-bough...)
ok wow that actually seems to work pretty damn credibly[1], at least given the inputs that i could come up with. i did find it difficult to come up with queries that (1) clearly would rely more on the code embeddings than the description embeddings (which i'd assume are at least pretty decent on their own), while (2) actually making sense / having a sensical answer.

the best i could come up with is describing what you want ~operationally, rather than with domain-specific (read: predictive) jargon. but while also not underspecifying it to the point where the query is nonsense[2].

but when i try the query "sort the operands in decreasing order", not only does it get a bunch of sorting functions[3], but i'll be damned if the top 2 results weren't: (1) a `swapOperands` function that takes two Comparator<T>s and returns a new one that invokes the comparison with the operands reversed and (2) a function that sorts a dequeue into decreasing order.

obviously that's not the perfect query for telling the relative contributions apart because "operands" is kinda "jargon"-y by my earlier standard, but the results did (correctly) address the only reason i'd ever search for something like that: to remember if the default comparison operator is "A - B" or "B - A". if you change "operands" to "elements", the results do get a little "worse", but i'd argue that the query (1) is actually quite a bit more vague in that formulation and (2) is less likely to represent a code snippet that actually exists, if only because most comparison operators on individual "containee" types (~"element[ type]s") are parameterized by the sort direction [citation needed].

tl;dr - lmk if anyone thinks of particularly good ways to "fool" this and/or demarcate what kinds of things are and are not well-represented by the code embeddings; to my eye they definitely seem to be doing a decent job of... embedding the code... as code embeddings are wont to do.

[1] not to "damn with faint praise"-- if you had asked me whether something like this paper would work well enough to be useful i... would have guessed "no" :)

[2] e.g. queries like "do some machine learning on the user images" and "... on the training data" don't get very "good" results in terms of topic proximity, but there really isn't a sensible response anyway, so if anything that's a good sign-- garbage in, garbage out

[3] which obviously to be expected, as P(<can't find sorting functions> | <paper published>) is (hopefully) pretty low...
Sorry, I completely screwed here. I think I am way overworked.

It's Dashlane that I was using, not 1Password.

After Dashlane I was using 1Password for a week but it was not for me, moved to Padlock and now with LastPass.

I have migrated to 1Pass and then from it to LastPass, thus the confusion.

I checked the history of my backups and somehow forgot about my migration from Dashlane that was the initial tool that would do autofills. Sorry for the confusion, I've should check that more thoroughly. A good sign for me it is time for a walk.
So why the camps at Calais then? given that the UK isn't welcoming to asylum seekers it makes you wonder how bad it is in other European countries.
There are addons that function similarly, such as https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/unload-tab/
"Famous" is not the word you are looking for; "popular" or "trendy" maybe. Or even: "Why is deep learning so hot right now?"
> The OP said was distasteful when they turn into "political orgs with a political agenda".

There is a difference between political in the sense that all legislation is political, and politics as an "us vs. them" tribal conflict where anything which is bad for your opponents is good for you and vice versa. Having anyone, but public interest orgs especially, participate in the second kind of politics is distasteful.
Mozilla telemetry report
BTW, +1 for Simos' blog, especially his series of Ubuntu+LXD+HAProxy (with SSL termination and host based ACLs) +ZFS, etc, etc. All really good stuff, easy to follow and setup, and IMO, even though over the years LXC has lost some of its gluster to Docker, the combination of LXD/HAProxy is actually a simpler and superior way method in a lot of use cases than Docker, et al.
Hundreds of Hotels Affected by Data Breach at Hotel Booking Software Provider
June 2018
I have a 2014 MBP and love it as much as you seem to love your 2012! When it comes time to replace it, I’ll probably look for a new or refurbished 2015 (the last model before the touch bar design) unless Apple does something significant to the current design to make it more appealing to power users.
Freakonomics podcast did an episode on it: http://freakonomics.com/podcast/mattress-store-bubble/

That's also exactly why Casper and a half dozen other upstarts have come out with the memory-foam mailed-to-you-in-a-vacuum-tube online mattress sales.
I couldn't make it work 6 months ago, they answered to the issue I referenced above that it wasn't officially supported and they never sent any updates about that on that issue, so I supposed that the situation stayed the same. I wonder why they don't update their issues anyway
Airbnb makes cities unaffordable to actually live in because landlords decide they can make more money on Airbnb than by renting to locals. I'm not sure I would call that a 'bright side'.
Do we have on by default privacy sandboxing yet?
For me, the problem with thinking about time as just another dimension is that while we can move through the spatial dimensions, with time we are either locked in one place or flowing at an absolutely constant rate* (depending on the bird/frog perspective).

*extrapolating from general relativity.
A stunt person rides a motorcycle over a canyon; resulting in severe/fatal injury.

A stunt person's assistant materially assists a stunt person in riding a motorcycle over a canyon; resulting in severe/fatal injury.

In which case have whose rights been violated? Who is liable for the loss?

Should the eulogy for a stunt fatality be fundamentally different than for a person who accidentally caused self-harm through risky substance use?
Can you explain any of your weird habits to me? Why do you spend hours staring at a screen watching a fiction? Why do you defile your body with tattoos? Why do you use an alarm clock to wake up? Why do you not worship my God? Why do you not eat dog meat?

Of course I just picked some at random. I more or less ordered them from things your probably do to things you probably do not. Yet all are things that I can find somebody in the world who will think you are strange.

The point is who are you to pass judgement on the likes/dislikes of others. This is a large world and it is very hard to find objective answers for likes.
Yeah, I think given their UI/model it is pretty difficult to have any long form discussion on Instagram. The "news" part of the newsfeed as always been FB's killer app. Or at least that and event planning, though I think it's not impossible for Instagram to develop a product around that.
Enhanced radiation weapons, aka neutron bombs - there was initial excitement followed by a mass exodus - the govt held on for a while longer, but they move slowly - the labs and contractors visibly got cold feet over this
For whatever reason the law cares greatly about the intention of work. If it can be proven without a doubt that your actual intention is to facilitate breaking the law you can get into a lot of trouble as is the case here. Economic activity can't have the primary purpose of facilitating someone breaking the law.
The re-usable detergent bags are nice, and many countries do distribute milk in thin plastic bags that you then empty into a pitcher at home.

But as parent points out, exchanging glass bottles isn't really better for the environment (in terms of CO2) as compared to properly disposing of plastic. No real reason why those deposit+refill bottles need to be glass; they could just as well be quality plastic and reduce some transport-weight. Similarly having a guy driving a truck around to deliver heavy liquids seems inefficient when you could just as well bring all your plastic bottle back to the store at one time and refill from big tanks there.
Uber wins appeal and gets a provisional 15-month license to operate in London
Modern Statistics for Modern Biology
What the hell does that mean?
Oh wow, I have the "Going From BASIC to C" book! I remember reading it first because I knew Apple BASIC really well. I also had K&R. Looking back, I wonder if learning C was made harder or easier by that book…
Sort of — the trust in the network is reduced to:

1. I trust nobody has >50% of the hashing power.
2. I trust network participants to be economically rational actors

This is both a much smaller, and much more explicit, set of things you need to trust than regular banking.

At any rate, the bigger point is that the a16z post describes trust as a positive, whereas the correct attitude is to treat trust as a negative quality of a system. Cryptocurrencies are not designed to engender trust, they're designed to avoid it wherever possible.
You wouldn't happen to be running Tab Session Manager, would you? That was causing me all sorts of performance problems on both PCs and Macs, and I only tracked it down by disabling all extensions and themes and then incrementally re-enabling them.
Though this was true for many years, there is now a team dedicated to sync development. (But there's a big backlog for them to work through!)
MSVC linker also supports removing unused functions/data from the output binary: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bxwfs976.aspx. These can be applied irrespective of compiler optimizations, so you should still be getting good PGD debug symbols.

Haven't tried it personally, but it's worth a try.
There are two certainties in software development:

0. A new technology will arise and it will be named 'X'

1. Eventually someone will write an article titled 'X Considered Harmful'
'Sonic Attack' Symptoms Reportedly Spreading to US Diplomats Around the World
I used a Nixie tube as an example in my presentation on the evolution of digital typography [0]. I actually brought a nixie clock with me, which was a nice visual aid.

[0] https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/14o7vtyxz79Xto4JeDFcr...
Posts on HN don't need to be rolled out slowly to spread out the load a bit and your browser doesn't check updates every few seconds if there's only one expected every few weeks.
Why? Don't the cops carry guns, too? Aren't guns value neutral, like all technologies? It is humans that do evil deeds with guns, not the guns themselves. Guns don't enable crime anymore than they enable to ethical application of the law. If you look at Brazil, there is a thriving underground gun manufacturing industry that supplies the criminal element because guns are a 200+ year old technology that is well understood by pretty much all of humanity at this point. It's a lost cause to ban technology like that.
You use US as if it’s some singular person, and of course it isn’t. The US could mean an organization, a government, a market, you never specified.

In China, the government control everything, there are no independent bodies. That is a huge difference between the way things work in each country.
In this case it's just a figure of speech. You don't actually have to trust me. You can read Dennett's book and see for yourself.
Yours is actually much smoother for me, but that might be due to some intended animation delays or something.
Tell that to my sous vide. I've got an IoT litter box too. I'm aware of the problems, but I try to keep the number of extraneous IoT devices down and isolating them on my network. Just because some people are doing it well now, doesn't mean they all do. Most of it is a zigbee+arduino and a gnarly software stack.
I could see how that might work. Most PIPs that I've seen were pretty fair as they laid out pretty specific benchmarks. But I could see it working the other way if someone wanted it to.
Teams Are the Hi-Tech Engines of Change
Apple News Tries to Avoid Facebook’s Mistakes with Midterm Elections Section
I honestly feel stories are probably one of the biggest drivers of current growth. It's kind of cool to have a easy way to scroll through my friends and get an update of "oh, I guess Jeremy went on a hike; Monica is harvesting blackberries; etc"
The only remaining quirk with TST I have noticed is that sometimes on launch, tab groups open expanded even though I had them collapsed. Then I have to first collapse any child groups before it agrees to collapse the whole thing.

piroor is putting in a ton of work, see: https://github.com/piroor/treestyletab/commits/master

edit: oh, I've just ignored the tab strip at the top, so no comments on the tab hiding :)
> I eat meat because I like it and humans are omnivores.

The "humans are omnivores" appeal, I think you'd agree, commits the naturalistic fallacy. There are things humans can do, and you might even argue were "designed" to do, that nevertheless we condemn as wrong, like killing, stealing, and using physical abuse to have one's way. Perhaps by "humans are omnivores" you meant that it's more difficult to eat healthy without animal products, which is undoubtedly true, but nothing out of reach or even especially difficult for everyone above a certain socioeconomic status.

If you agree that that part's gone, all that remains is "I like it".
I do agree.

Mattress sellers love the value based sales pitch: how much would you pay for 1 hour extra sleep per night? Maybe paying $10/hour for extra sleep for one year is a bargain in some contexts, then you have a payback period of < 1 year, even for a ridiculously overpriced mattress.
Uber Wins Back London License, in Victory for New C.E.O
hoping for an answer to this too
I guess people don't want to review data that could help solve the optimization problem (maximize Constitutional compliance,
minimize crime, minimize unintentional self harm, minimize loss, minimize suffering, maximize Liberty and pursuit of Happiness; with no particular ranking) amidst emotional rhetoric.

Strict Scrutiny requires a law which violates equality to be the absolute minimum necessary policy which achieves the public interest objective(s).
sigh One of these days.
We do mention both: see https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/06/technical-deep-dive-st...

To sum up from that post, we think STARTTLS Everywhere is a stop-gap measure until DNSSEC is fully deployed, and STARTTLS Everywhere can act as a preload list for MTA-STS (to prevent DNS downgrade attacks).
Working with Matrices in C++ using Eigen
Whistleblower Charged Under the Espionage Act Pleads Guilty
That's funny. I don't pay for it so I suppose I estimated it to be worthless. Make me pay for it to get a more accurate estimate. Thanks!
Debian Stable (stretch) is stuck with Firefox ESR. IIRC it was due to issues with Rust packaging.

Firefox 61 should be available in Debian Sid and Ubuntu pretty soon though.
Why does it say "dod" when I write in "bob" in the name box? Why is it in a square instead of using the whole page? Why don't the wasd-keys work? Why is there no instructions? Why did you think it was a good idea to post this poor excuse of an evenings work on HN?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17264934
I only started using Tree Style Tabs after it became a WebExtension. The userchrome.css stuff is still required, but it is documented and TST will link you to the doc when you first run it.

The usage experience is good for me. I had one weird bug where the TST panel would not correctly initialize in a new browser window maybe 10% of the time, but I cannot recall this issue happening in the last two weeks, so maybe that was fixed by an update.
Yes, same thing in Mexico. Many companies only have a FB page.
Smart Contract Audits: The Ultimate Security Guide
It's an odd way of selling software in 2018. I sell a product written for developers and in JavaScript, too--and I effectively sell access to an NPM registry, I don't fearmonger at people like "it's illegal!"; practically there's no serious way for a developer to get even business-level pirates to actually respond. Instead, I don't give people access to Pro-tier features and I open-source the application because it's still useful to people even without those Pro-tier features, rather than freeloading on GitHub's servers?

(Also, the turnaround time is under 24 hours, rather than a week...and that's just because I haven't yet wired up a webhook to create a user in my SSO solution yet.)

But that relies on actual features and not a timer with some local storage. $38 is too expensive for that given the time a developer would have to spend vetting the software to make sure it's any good rather than writing functionally similar code that syncs with existing infrastructure rather than having some separate dashboard.
I'm an EFF technologist, and we're looking into this!