skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My examples are pointing out possible edges of feeling safe equals safe envelope. And I don't think cops hang out on HN looking for anecdotes of speeding to investigate, nor are you going to get a black mark on your permanent LexisGoogle record from admitting that you have sped.

There are plenty of towns large enough for highway bypasses and traffic lights. The ones I'm talking about have one good road, maybe two if they're lucky enough to be the intersection. I indeed appreciate when there are graduated signs so I don't have to use the brakes, but this obviously costs money they don't all have, and isn't needed by people who already know the road. Talking about traffic engineering is laughable for such places - if your goal is to pass through as quick as possible, you could just take the interstate.
>“...and is taking his place with the state's more age-appropriate candidates on the Tuesday primary ballot”

Blatant ageism!

uncommon != inappropriate

I’m only slightly kidding. I am thoroughly impressed with his comments thus far and would like to hear more of what he has to say.

On one hand, I remember thinking I knew a lot more than a I did when I was 14. On the other hand, he is not me!
I've been really wary of novelty candidates since 2016.

Probably best to go negative on this kid right out of the gates. Really play up the worst grades on his report card, and make him explain any unexcused absences.

But on the upside, he probably hasn't ever even considered sexual harassment or racist comments. Yet.

~
People are irrational.
In fact, considering FB's past attempt in India to offer something leaning heavily toward "Facebook-only Internet"[0], it's more likely a misconception they want to reinforce, not correct.

[0] No source because I'm on my phone and fuck all those AMP links returned by Google. Just look up 'facebook internet.org fiasco'.
Yes, I'm using the latest Firefox on my update channel (ESR), namely 52.9.0. It's up to date.
Neat. Suggestion: maybe don’t “underline” characters such as y or g
Uhm, no. Read the release log - it says that in 4.0 the Qt UI will be feature complete, however, GTK+3 UI is already gone in 3.10, so you can use either GTK+2 or Qt5.
The dangers of AVX-512 throttling: myth or reality?
Ask HN: SAFE note for development time
I'm wondering whether there is a SAFE-like document, except the value would be correlated to hours worked and hourly rate.

The situation I often find myself in is that I am asked to help out startups but they don't have funding yet. I'm happy to help in some cases, but I want to be compensated in equity in a fair way. It seems as though a convertible note would work well - except the value would need to change based on the hours I contribute.
Why overspend if you don’t need to?
I've built a recommender system for my movie database app "Coollector Movie Database". It's based on Collaborative filtering and it took me 2 years to implement. I built it from scratch and it's unique in several ways (for example, you can view the reliability of each recommendation). The technical difficulty is to crunch fast enough a huge quantity of data. I've had to apply all the optimizations that I could think of.

https://www.coollector.com/help.html#recommendations
Depends on lots of factors. I often used that approach too, but it has its downsides: uses a relatively large amount of texture memory, text can't be scaled, not really compatible with subpixel rendering¹.

An example of another technique would be signed distance fields, which is useful for putting vector shapes like fonts into 3D environments without using high resolution textures. It has the property that you can transform the result fairly effectively, avoiding artifacts from antialiasing and pixelation.

1. Though it's pretty hard to avoid that since you really need to be able to do the alpha blending yourself.
Notes on the Google SRE book
Google Maps shows about 90 miles, on a direct line, between Copper Harbor and Thunder bay. About 180 miles to Sault Ste. Marie. Having been in the area many times, Canada does not feel -- and is not, barring I guess an expensive and international sea plane flight -- a day trip. (And yeah, there's one controversial local magnate I'm aware of who would make that trip -- in his own plane.)

It may not be Canada-level wilderness, but it's pretty empty -- or "thin". IIRC, I was told that the large Ontonagon County, towards the west end of the UP, has one of the lowest county population densities in the entire country.
Someone that young, my big question would be "who's advising you".

Still, good luck kid, it'll be interesting to see if he gets involved in politics on a slightly less ambitious scale after this effort fails. Hope he doesn't end up Vermont's Goodspaceguy. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodspaceguy)
I think what you did is a subset of what we do when we build medical software products, it's called computer system validation.
"He also proposes a new system of governance which would allow groups of people that have different goals and values to come to decisions together on various issues." Summarized concrete details would be nice.
Ask HN: How does your company do reporting?
How does your company do reporting? What technology do you use? What does your pipeline look like?
Technically, it looks like the minimum age requirement is 4.

From his website, which is linked to in another comment:

Is This Legal?

Yes! According to the Vermont Constitution and the Vermont Attorney General, you only have to have lived in Vermont for 4 years or more on the day before the election. Ethan has lived here for 14 years.
I really wish my wife hadn't gotten rid of her old original Furby. I'd love to "follow along" in the code while it's actually running.
WebAssembly is explicitly disabled on the ESR version of Firefox 52, per https://www.caniuse.com/#search=webassembly, so that would explain that.
The makerspace community?
Ask HN: How will you go about building a CRM tool like drift and intercom
How will I build a crm tool like drift and intercom equipped with an api key and a javascript snippet for install on users sites.
There are videos of engineers kicking robots to see them recover or self-balance, and people who watching are always like, "OMG why would you kick him?"

And then it takes a second to realize .. wait...that's ..that's just a robot. But our brains make that association because it looks human enough.

So watching that Pleo video; even though I rationally understood what I was feeling, I still felt bad for the dino and I'm glad I felt it. That was just cruel and disturbing. I know I'm feeling bad for a toy, but our brains evolved to have those types of emphatic responses to identify when other animals or humans are in pain -- similar to pain we can experience.

It's a pretty interesting trait, and it's not just purely nurture(vs nature) because we see similar sounds and emphatic reactions on many other mammals.

There are quite a few human beings who don't feel that; who can watch animals or people in pain and not feel anything or have their sounds/crys trigger neurological response. Those people usually grow up to run banks, or become CEOs of multinational conglomerates.
Well, maybe. Conservatives in Vermont might argue that the minimum age is 3 years and 3 months.
If that happened, I would die happy knowing the tsunami from it would wash California clean.
Linux Kernel 4.14.7 (Ubuntu 16.04 / CentOS 7) Arbitrary File Read
The irony is def not lost on me ;)
Going to or coming from Copper Harbor, you can also take the Brockway Mountain Drive for some elevated views. The final leg descending to Copper Harbor is also fairly scenic, so I'd probably recommend taking it eastbound, on your way in. Although there's a wayside you can stop at, for a few back over Copper Harbor, when you're heading the other way.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brockway_Mountain_Drive
My Dell XPS 13 9370 is completely silent (fans turn off) when browsing or watching video.
I've asked a few friends who are management consultants this. Most say around 25-50% of their job is doing that. They don't view this negatively though because in many cases getting a reputable consulting group to tell you what you already know helps the decision actually get implemented. The rest of their time they spend doing things like collecting information that the client can't/doesn't want to do on their own.
Ageism over being too old is forbidden. Ageism over being too young is enshrined into our Constitution.
I wonder if he's talking about Ethelo?

https://ethelo.com/
If you read his quotes it’s clear that he doesn’t deserve to be bucketed with Trump.
> But on the upside, he probably hasn't ever even considered sexual harassment or racist comments. Yet.

Have you ever been a teenager or been on an American schoolyard? That stuff starts much earlier than 14.
Goodspaceguy seems way cooler than New Jersey's perennial candidate Jeff Boss: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Boss
>hasn't ever even considered sexual harassment or racist comments

You're taking the fact that he is running for governor as evidence that he doesn't play any online multiplayer games?
Great point, completely agree. It took me several years to understand that the quality of the technology is only a single component (often a very minor one) to making a successful product (let alone a successful company).
Removing Y and the instructions AND taking advantage of the size difference means you have to do new layout.

The NRE to make the change is at least $100,000 (probably closer to $500,000--but I'm spitballing here). And that is up front cash.

Those changes are really small. So, lets assume a penny saved.

It would take you 10 million chips to make that back.

The total run was 25 million? or so--and nobody expected that.

If the NRE was $500K at a penny saved, you never make it back.

Even at a nickel (which is probably a huge savings), again it would take a 10 million chips to make it back.

Given the oddity that this is, I bet that this was a failed batch of chips that was just enough damaged to be really cheap but not so damaged as to be useless.
I'm not a Crystal developer but I think this is accurate:

The way Crystal's type inference works, if you have a variable that sometimes can be assigned a Foo and sometimes can be assigned a Bar, then that variable will have the inferred ("generated") union type (Foo | Bar). This usually works great, but the compiler runs into performance issues if these unions become very large (more accurately, it happens when the number of distinct such unions that gets passed to a particular method is large, for which a large possible union space is a precondition).

In practice, this tends to happen in class hierarchies with many descendants from a single root class. As a somewhat kludgey workaround, the compiler will simply forget about the union in these cases and use the parent class instead. For example, a method that looks like it should take a (Bat | Cat | Dolphin | Dog | KoalaBear | Hog) will actually just take a Mammal. This can be bad if Mammal doesn't implement all the common capabilities of those specific subtypes. For example, adding an Echidna subclass that doesn't implement the birth_live_young method can cause calls to `cat_or_dog.birth_live_young` to fail even in places that type inference "should" be able to determine that `cat_or_dog` will never hold an Echidna. However, it's deemed a necessary evil unless/until the compiler can be reworked to handle such cases without exploding compile times.
All the fuss about Kodi makes me think I should get a box. Is it worth it?
Supposed to die quietly without disturbing others.
What industry has the highest Gross Profit per Employee?
What kinds of meaningful stuff are adults even capable of doing?

What kinds of meaningful stuff are you even capable of doing?
I thought this too for the longest time - turns out it's actually not true (assuming Wikipedia is to be believed). There aren't any age restrictions on what can be sold as 'lamb', so most American 'lamb' is what the British would call mutton.
I believe he/she was using "agree with it" as shorthand for "judge that it is a good thing".
You might find this interesting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamb_and_mutton#United_States
Beautiful and profound. Not all decades in life are created equal. Don't waste a moment!
> he probably hasn't ever even considered sexual harassment or racist comments. Yet.

Based on my experience in multiplayer online games, I'd argue his age is in no way support of that particular assumption. Toxic doesn't even begin to describe things.
(</sarcasm>, tbc)
I use Calibre on desktop, sync’d to dropbox, and use the Marvin app on my phone. I like it a lot better than the iBooks app. It has features like search and tagging/collections. The only thing it doesn’t do that I wish it did was handle PDFs.
Cool, now he can apply for YCombinator.

(They have, or used to have, a question on when did you hack a non-computer system to your advantage)
Ha, in order to contribute financially to his campaign you have to be at least 18 years old. :)

On a more serious note... why not? I would love it if my daughter/son wanted to do something like this. What a life experience! I am positive this will peak his interest / make him likely to be interested in politics / global & current events now because he's had this experience and IMO that's the best way to learn!

Honestly, thats how I learned about software engineering, I picked something (a game) that I was extremely interested in, and programming was just my conduit to make modifications to the game. Only later did I learn that programing was interesting apart from that game and was the start of a big career.

Good on him!
Soviet Collapse Echoes in China’s Belt and Road
My guess is the whole article is bait for 'nootropic supplement' - not worth mentioning the product name - he is selling. The proprietary, all natural formula includes:

-Nootropic compounds -- like Huperzine A and Theobromine and Phosphatidylserine
-Neurovitamins -- including Niacin B3 and Vitamin B12 as methylcobalamin
-Antioxidants -- including PQQ and DHA
-Adaptogen Extracts -- including Bacopa monnieri Leaf Extract and Mucana pruriens Seed
-Amino Acids -- including Acetyl-L-Carnitine and Taurine
-Choline Donors

Another miracle drug.
"Kah bye-bye oo-bah koh-koh."
Likewise here, one of the factoids that got tossed around pretty regularly was that all the physical actions were controlled by a single motor, with sophisticated mechanisms and coding to make it look independent.
This only works for HSv3 though. HSv2 addresses are enumerable without too too much work.
Solving the Brachistochrone with PyTorch
New Yorkers on Mobile Messaging and Implications for Privacy (2015) [pdf]
Sorry, can't resist. The work you're looking for is "pique" his interest.
I'm eager to see the AIDA64-fpu or any other scientific calculation benchmark on linux, as it is the area where the i9 seems to dominate the TR. Sadly, the few benchmarks I've found were on win10.
Have you considered the possibility that this blog article was reviewed by legal experts before being posted? I don't know of course but that's a possibility.
Whoa! Hey! Ha!
Just imagine that the Pleo is infected with a xenomorph... and you're all outta nukes.
Pro tip: when posting to HN, include a summary of "what it is"! It's often hard for readers to figure it out from a changelog.

From the docs:

"Crystal is a programming language with the following goals:

Have a syntax similar to Ruby (but compatibility with it is not a goal).

Be statically type-checked, but without having to specify the type of variables or method arguments.

Be able to call C code by writing bindings to it in Crystal.

Have compile-time evaluation and generation of code, to avoid boilerplate code.

Compile to efficient native code."

See: https://crystal-lang.org/docs/
> That is part of the reason the recommender has been degrading over the years.

Netflix is clearly promoting its original shows. Do you think your system is still in use now that they've moved to thumbs rating and percent match score?
There is something about rendering these unicode code points that seems to make Firefox jank more than usual (when scrolling this page up and down). Are rendering these code points especially costly for some reason?
How would you get involved in this sort of security research? It's been an interest of mine for awhile. I have experience in reverse engineering binary files and malware but not so much experience in the "live internet stuff".

Would you start with simple CTF tasks?

I assume they used some sort of application to view the http requests that the phone was making and where able to figure out the right endpoints from that?

Thanks in advance.
This is a follow-up on a previous article looking at Revenue Per Employee that a lot of people commented on saying (rightfully so) that Gross Profit per Employee might be a more insightful measure to analyze. Link to previous article: https://craft.co/reports/where-do-the-most-productive-employ...
Use your skills for Democracy: Swing Left hiring developer and data scientist
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We're looking to fill two full-time roles through the November election and possibly longer:

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A more cybercrime themed Vinge short story would be True Names. It's out of print AFAIK but you can find it online.
Sorry, can't resist. The word you're looking for is "word" you're looking for.
Show HN: Visualizing a complex horse racing wager
"Kodi" is an open source media player. Nothing more or less.

The problem comes because people sell boxes preloaded with Kodi and plugins that make one-click piracy possible.

Unfortunately the association that people make is now "Kodi = Piracy", which is very wrong.
Almost: Küken means chick. Küchlein would be the diminutive of Kuchen (cake) so a small cake or sweet pastry.
There's a significant workload difference between compiling the Linux kernel (C code base) and Chromium (C++ code base). I'd very much like to see a Chromium build benchmark performed under Linux.
Although, getting familiar with how political campaigns are actually run might send his interest in politics downhill.
FYI:

Pique: stimulate (interest or curiosity)

Peak: 1. (of a person) gaunt and pale from illness or fatigue and 2. reach a highest point, either of a specified value or at a specified time.

They are both pronounced the same, \ ˈpēk \.
If you have "a browser" open, sure, if by "a browser" you mean a single browser tab on a not-resource-intensive page or with Javascript disabled. If by "a browser" you mean the dozens of tabs and half-dozen browser plugins the typical user is actually running, though...well, there's a reason Chrome comes with its own process monitor.
This WWDC video shows the effects quantization at various levels: https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2018/708/

A bit Apple specific, but the main ideas carry over to any ML model. There's also a part 2, which I haven't watched.
my gut feeling tells me - ln((1+Similarity_cosine(A,B))/2) would satisfy the triangle inequality.
IRAs do have exceptions to the early-withdrawal penalty for just the sort of reasons you note: https://www.irs.gov/retirement-plans/plan-participant-employ...
They are not a red herring. California tried to do this, and its a Democratic state, not swayed by Grover Norquist, but Intuit blocked it.

https://www.npr.org/2017/03/29/521954033/stanford-professor-...
Some things are subjectively "better" than they used to be though.

My kids may spend too much time watching Netflix, but at least for every 30 minutes of screen time, they're getting 30 minutes of pure edu/entertainment and not dividing their attention 50% between filler content and commercials. For better or worse, they have no patience for ads.

> I don't feel comfortable giving my child access to a phone until high school.

Good luck with that. I said the same, and by the time my oldest hit middle school all her friends already had iPhones themselves, which led to teasing and exclusion for those in the clique that didn't.

The worst part is the lack of visibility. Everything happens in private, on encrypted devices wielded by immature humans you are legally and morally responsible for. If someone's grooming or harassing your kid, this pattern of circumstances ensures you may never know until it's too late.
You can easily install it on an existing computer and try it out if you don't want to spend money right away.
> Those people usually grow up to run banks, or become CEOs of multinational conglomerates.

Got a citation? I imagine most people like this would end up in prison and/or socially marginalized. Being incapable of empathy is basically a disability.
The Not So Personal Computer
Sorry, can't resist. The work you are looking for is word.
Very odd. I can't imagine the rationale. "But you could watch pirated movies with it".... uh yeah, same for VLC, can I sell my Macbook on Facebook?
one possibility is to generate a "protocol" (a class implementing the intersection of the methods of all the types in the union) and fall back to that instead.
I admit if you want to get mega rich you need timing and a big risky bet, but during the last recession there was a decent period of time when the writing was on the wall and there was plenty of time to get into profitable short positions. I very clearly remember oil being very high even after lehman collapsed etc.

If i remember correctly you had 6 months before the crash.
His theory with Goldenfeld about horizontal evolution enrages me but Goldenfeld has so many interesting and good ideas a few of them are bound to be right by chance anyway at this rate.
I'm not sure people with RSU's are as small of a minority as you think. They're a fairly common form of compensation.
How would such spam result in anything lucrative?
A couple of quotes:

"Just as economics can drive people into unsafe living conditions with people they don’t trust, the cost of cellular service drives people into family plans with people with whom they have an adversarial relationship. Saving money with a group plan is a powerful incentive. Combined with inertia and an aggressive customer retention industry, our participants were in legacy family plans that no longer reflected their family or living situation. People remained trapped in plans with estranged partners, distant family members, and others they didn’t know well, such as temporary roommates, or people they’d lost touch with."

[...]

"The participants had strongly adversarial relationships with the cell phone providers, like Cricket or Metro PCS, that they saw as a threat to the reliability of their phones. In particular, they believed the carriers were trying to push software updates to their phones to break them, which would in turn would force them to upgrade. This would represent a financial benefit the carrier, at the expense of the participant’s job, safety, and well­being."