skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Did the bet specify that it would be a human base? If not, and if $1500 is enough to be worth having your school buddy think you have become an idiot or dishonorable, maybe you could have tried to argue that the secret alien outpost [1] on the far side counts and demand that your buddy pay you.

I assume your friend would reject that, but unless the bet specified a procedure to use in the case that the participants could not agree on the outcome, it might have been enough to void the bet at least.

Also, was the bet in writing and signed? If not, and if you are in a jurisdiction that has something like the Statue of Frauds [2], you might try to argue the bet is invalid because the Statue requires contracts that cannot be performed within one year (other than indefinite contracts) be in writing and signed.

The 2010 end date on the contract arguably makes it not of indefinite duration. The "cannot be performed within one year" is harder. It doesn't mean that it has to be performed within a year--just that it is possible.

For example, if I make a contract with you that says I'll pay you $1000 if in the next three years your bicycle is stolen and not recovered within two weeks. Because it is possible that your bike could be stolen in the next year, this contract can be performed in one year. It doesn't matter that it might not be.

Would it be possible in 1990 for a permanent Moon base to be deployed within one year? It may have been physically possible, but it was certainly politically and economically impossible. For Statute of Fraud purposes, is it good enough that it could happen even if it would require worldwide cooperation on an unprecedented scale? Or does it have to have a non-negligible chance of actually happening?

[1] https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/601628/Dark-Sid...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statute_of_frauds
Medpedia.com Domain Compromised
Just a heads up to the HN community who works in medicine or healthcare. It seems the medpedia.com domain is being spoofed or has been hijacked. I recently discovered an insecure link in a medical application redirecting users to install malware / adware.

Medpedia closed in 2013[1] and it looks like the domain has been parked since last year. Since it was attempting to be an authoritative source it may have been linked to in trusted settings.

[1]https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/medpedia
So has anyone broken the currently EULA and published benchmarks with the new microcode updates anyway?
Do blocks don't allow side effects, they are just syntactic sugar that makes composing monadic operations easier.

Haskell does have escape hatches with unsafePerformIO and IORef/STRef
> What is Snapchat doing?

Going bankrupt?
It's about taking a reasonable level of security practice, like you said "some level of competency required."

We require this of our bridges, and our roads, and our buildings. I'm not sure why we don't for our personal information assets. Arguably the Equifax hack will cause far greater economic loss than, say, a hole in the middle of mission street opening up due to lack of review by a civil engineer, so I don't get it.

Is it because politicians are uneducated technically? We didn't have good fire law in America until a room full of seamstresses burned to death when the single exit was blocked off, do we need something similar for infosec? Equifax SHOULD have been that but whoever breached it didn't release yet (as far as I know) so maybe nobody is feeling the pain yet.
Recently looked up "accredited investor". Joint income of > $300k and net worth (minus house) of > $ 1M.

I wonder if someone actually does the accrediting.
Some pictures of this thing on the runway available here: https://www.space.com/39155-stratolaunch-wprlds-largest-plan...

Can't wait to see videos of it in action.
Interesting, I've never actually heard this point of view.

Do you mean I'm wasting their time because it's not their responsibility to know if they have had successes? Or because it's my fault for eating too much when I could decide not to?

I'm honestly asking this, please don't take this as an attack. I am very curious as to your thoughts about doctors.

I'm generally asking because I am hopeful that they provide me with a motivation to believe that someone else has done what they're asking me to do.
I was already logged in to FB and android/chrome remembered it. I didn't have to type password. Yes, its the real messenger app. I was wondering what is the point of sending review account email in this i.e.after sending the mail about a message and when the user chosen to interact and follow that email to message flow. Maybe its not much.
I'm not a burner, but I've worked with several. There seems to be local community burner gatherings that are less well known unless you are part of the community and probably have the vibe are you seeking.
1980 called
It was only a week long assessment though, I don’t know Security Innovation but I’m sure they would have appreciated more time.
I don't get it. Am I shadowbannned or something.
I think that really just means that the market has changed and you're no longer for this market, rather than that new companies are not for public market.

Market is literally made up of the companies and people that participate in it.
Commons Clause, GPL, FSF, etc. are not liberal though.

MIT, BSD, ZLIB, Apache2, etc. are liberal.
Deep Painterly Harmonization of Ultrasound Images
Any particular airlines or airports? I've flown from Frankfurt to Amsterdam without checks (they have automatic gates for boarding cards at security and the gate on both sides). In the case of outgoing Schengen flights for amsterdam there is for sure no police ID check (unless of course you fly outside of Schengen).

Airline crew did check my ID last time flying to Italy with Vueling (at the gate), but this was not a border check but just a name-check with the boarding pass.
Classic strategy, by the way. Defund, then point to it and say "see, it doesn't work!"
Blockchain Technology Is Causing a Paradigm in Fintech and Payment Processing
Google doesn't recognise "residue of experience" as part of a familiar quote, but the phrase itself seems to be rather frequent, at least in academese: https://www.google.com/search?q=%22residue+of+experience%22.
SparkFlow: Train TensorFlow Models with Pyspark Pipelines
PC gamer
It takes a toll, but it's worth it man. Drink a lot of water!
Although this seems like a popular opinion here, the only thing that concerns me about Facebook is the potential for the govt to get access to the data fb has on me. I actually trust fb with my data because I know that they don’t care what I do online and no one will ever look at it individually. They are just going to Hoover up as much data as possible to target me with better ads, but it’s not like a human being is looking at my data, it’s just a bunch of ML code.

However if the govt can subpoena them and I’m on trial, the prosecution could probably make anyone look like a phsychopath and twist the data to look however they want.
Has anybody successfully exported a wordpress site to a static one? I'm working with a company spending too much money on hosting (a site which is painfully slow), they could host for free on Github pages with something like Jekyll, but the Jeykll exporter fell over and died when I tried it.

I'd love to set them up with Wordpress running on a machine in their office, so they can use the familiar UI etc to make pages/posts and make use of their favourite plugins, and then a button to export it to something like Jekyll and push it live.
Creating enhanced ultra-sound images using Deep Painterly Harmonization.
Decoding Clojure code, getting your feet wet
Just because the motivations and reward mechanisms here aren't adequate in your eyes in terms of fairness doesn't mean that this system is somehow "out of equilibrium" or whatever and is headed in a bad direction.
Damn, that’s someone who really knows where their towel is. He nailed it two years ahead of time, through a morass of hype, based on patents alone and got it all right. Looking over more of his site he correctly predicted why the view of the real world would be so dark, that they’d be limited to only 2 focus planes, and pretty much everything else.

Wow.
I have a local homeless shelter that takes clothing. I know they are not connected with any industrial profit machine.
I could imagine blocking this behavior if it points to a site off the TLD and it's sub domains

This would not address the vulnerability in the article.
Your smartphone could be covered in 10 times as much bacteria as a toilet seat
We care so little about democracy that this is actually a noteworthy thing.
> parties in power

Sounds like the usual "both parties are the same" nonsense.

I saw them push back all the time. They recovered billions for consumers.

The success of the agency is written about in many publications. Read up on it before putting it down.

One party enacted consumer protections and another party is working to rip it apart. There is a clear difference between the two.

Here's an example article highlighting the success of the agency and the Republican desire to end it http://fortune.com/2017/01/27/donald-trump-cfpb-consumer-pro...
Recently felt this way. I looked at my 9-year old and thought of that tiny infant baby with a quivering lip and helpless cry. It seems like only yesterday he was being born.

Also had some friends pass as well. One good friend from work committed suicide. Workplaces have a way of forgetting all about you, and what you accomplished, but family (and friends to some extent) don't. It's human relationships that really matter in this life.

Don't miss out on your family for work. It may seem like a good trade, or simply what you must do, but in the end you'll regret the high cost.
Regarding your pendulum example - wouldn't it be significantly simpler if you had a closed-loop system with sensors feeding back information? What I was suggesting about Kalman filters was that instead of using a "proper" analysis, is it possibly more practical to just add some cheap sensors and combine their output to tell the actuator what to do?

In a lot of fields, elegant analysis has given way to cheap brute-force application of computers that is easier to generalize - that's what I'm fumbling at here.

After all, if you or I try to balance a pencil on our fingertip, we are not doing the math on that wikipedia page in our heads. We are in fact using something more akin to the brute force method - sense, synthesize, act, repeat.
Also given the (hundreds of) billions of advertising dollars spent on shaping consumer tastes/desires when it comes to food.
I don't go to BM, but my teenage son does (with his mother).

His mother and her BM crew make some of the big art you see pictures of every year.

They think it's still great.
By "a little more than four months on average."(for USA)

And taking a statin drug will extend my life by about 4 days.

I'll have to put both in the same category of importance: despite the factor of 10 difference, neither has much effect in the long run.
From https://commonsclause.com:

> It [sic] this “Open Source”?

> No. [also sic]

> “Open source”, has a specific definition that was written years ago and is by the Open Source Initiative, which approves Open Source licenses. Applying the Commons Clause to an open source project will mean the source code is available, and meets many of the elements of the Open Source Definition, such as free access to source code, freedom to modify, and freedom to re-distribute, but not all of them. So to avoid confusion, it is best not to call Commons Clause software “open source.”

Additionally, "Apache 2.0 + Commons Clause" is not an Apache license. I have seen a number of people be confused by this. I hope Apache implements some guidance with regards to trademarks on this matter, mostly so I don't have to keep saying it.
Awesome, that's the first reason I have to get an Apple device!
Half-Life: Done Enormously Warped – Speedrun in 6:26 – WR
Voyager transmitters are in 10 watt range. On 2 and 8 GHz bands.

Lots of interesting reading, for those so inclined, at
https://descanso.jpl.nasa.gov/DPSummary/Descanso4--Voyager_n...
That's fair. Just keep this risk out of my index funds. I'm a long term investor, not gambling with unprofitable "high growth" equities.
I've never used Snapchat, but I like this description where there's an "end" to the content, rather than infinite scrolling. You can catch up, and be done.

To reply to another commenter here, I, too, am "old" and generally find any video content exhausting. I like text and pictures; the idea of an experience to which I am captive feels suffocating; I feel like I have no choice. Oh, it has sound, great, now I have to put my headphones on. Or I have to watch this youtube video eventually get to the point, or a gif of indeterminate length.

I feel the same way about Instagram stories and video, BUT I think generally these platforms (I'm sure Snap included) at least have a scrubber so you know when it will be over.
Eventbrite, what's that?

/me goes to eventbrite.com
A website selling tickets for events.

It's on public market. Why? I struggle to understand why everyone wants to be on the market. It is a website selling tickets. It's not rocket science.

Yes, I'm sceptic, I'm afraid we're going to reach another dotcom bubble soon (and yeah, I'm 25yo, but I know stuff about "history").
Compared to iOS? Yes it is.
I agree with your detailed disagreement ;-)

But I get the feeling that a large part of the audience here is not that aware of those possibilities - I was just pointing in that general direction.
IMO there's still a lot of room for Snap to do something. They still have an opportunity to seize, same for Twitter.

For example, there's a subset of content creators on Snap that charges for premium content (a separate private account w/ more content). Subscription and payment is done outside of the Snap app. Cancellations and payment confirmations are all done manually. I'm not even sure if Snap realizes this but they can totally make money off of it.

Now that Evan is being more open and less dictatorial, someone will notice and bring opportunities like these to his attention.
I didn't honestly find it ruinously distracting, but it was a handicap. Much of the work I did at the time relied on interacting with a team of developers while I was remote. Slack allowed me to ask and answer questions asynchronously, while scheduling a meeting or getting a video call together at least _felt_ like a greater burden.

On average, at peak slack usage, I was probably interacting with it several times per hour, in bursts of messages per conversation. After reevaluating, I'd quit slack for hours at a time while focusing.

I'm not really sure how to quantify the impact that had; it's mostly that I've forced myself to recognize when I'm in the zone on work and proactively shut down communication until I'm ready for a break. Before, I'd occasionally get an interruption or reach out to someone and lose some time and focus to Slack.
Why GraphQL?
Mastodon will go nowhere unless they fix their branding and user experience first.
I sympathize with THIS position. It’s the same blame shifting crap when “identity theft” becomes your fault, even though any cashier or clerk can “steal your identity”.

What this marketing spin does is give cover to those who design badly secured systems.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CS9ptA3Ya9E

Also similar is the “jaywalking” idea, made by car manufacturers to make the default right of way to cars!

http://amp.charlotteobserver.com/opinion/op-ed/article650322...
Worth watching Tested's review on youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vrq2akzdFq8

I was expecting typical astroturfing and there is a bit of that. But they are also tempering expectations.
Why You Need to Add Live, Pre-Recoded Videos to Your Marketing Plan Now
The genome of the offspring of a Neanderthal mother and a Denisovan father
Played with an iPod when it first came out. It was really nifty. I played with an iPhone when it first came out, even the swipe to unlock screen felt like star trek. The two things were not comparable
Big Asimov fan, and really looking forward to this. I just hope they don't screw it up. Fortunately the stuff coming out of the internet based media companies has been good. I would not trust the blockbuster movie industry to do it. JJ Abrahms does Asimov would be an abomination. That I Robot movie with Will Smith as an abomination. At least Apple has the $$$ to pull it off.

Foundation series would be ideal though, as you could cycle through actors. Really would like to see a miniseries, maybe 10 hours for each book could do it, but I don't know about the 1 hour format. Would like to see 2 hour movies. I don't know how compatible it would be with the internet attention span.

What I don't trust Hollywood to do, is to keep it hard sci-fi, which is why I love Asimov.

For example, through the series he spends many pages covering hyper-spacial navigation. Sub light until you get outside the gravity wells, micro jump, then spend two weeks figuring out where you are, micro jump again, etc. This changes as technology is developed from Robots through Foundation.

They'd have to do the same with many other topics, such as mathematical psycho-history. That's what makes it Asimov. Otherwise they would turn it into a space-opera.
There are actually FOUR possible binary operations, all of which agree when both arguments are positive (e.g. f(13,5)=3 for all of them), and all of which satisfy the property that if f(n,d) = r, then r ≡ n (mod d). Namely:

• The first one always returns a positive number: for this f, when f(n,d) = r, it's true that 0 ≤ r < |d|. For example, f(13,-5)=3, and f(-13,-5)=2. Some programming languages that obey this: ALGOL, Dart, Maple, Pascal, Z3.

• The second one always takes the sign of the divisor (i.e. the denominator, if you write the division as a fraction n/d): for this f, when f(n,d) = r, it's true that |r| < |d|, and that r and d both have the same sign. For example, f(13,-5)=-2, and f(-13,-5)=-3. Some programming languages that follow this: APL, COBOL, J, Lua, Mathematica, MS Excel, Perl, Python, R, Ruby, Tcl.

• The third one always takes the sign of the dividend (i.e. the numerator, if you write the division as a fraction n/d): for this f, when f(n, d) = r, it's true that |r| < |d|, and that r and n both have the same sign. For example f(13,-5)=3, and f(-13,-5)=-3. Some programming languages that follow this: AWK, bash, bc, C99, C++11, C#, D, Eiffel, Erlang, Go, Java, OCaml, PHP, Rust, Scala, Swift, VB, x86 assembly.

• The fourth one takes the sign of the product, i.e. it's positive if both the dividend and divisor have the same sign, and negative otherwise: for this f, when f(n, d) = r, it's true that |r| < |d|, and that r and n*d have the same sign. For example, f(13,-5)=-2, and f(-13,-5)=2. I'm not aware of a programming language that does this, though I've seen some ad-hoc hand-rolled big-integer libraries that used to do this.

Of course in mathematics (number theory) we usually don't care, as, for example, modulo 5 (or -5 for that matter), we would say -13 ≡ -8 ≡ -3 ≡ 2 ≡ 7 ≡ 12... (mod 5), and so we can pick any of them and it doesn't affect the mathematics.
You said following: western marriage is an institution for life-long near-unconditional male servitude to women past their (reproductive) prime; the only way to spoil these benefits is to be manifestly abusive and untrustworthy in a way which can be proven in court.

That is completely different statement then "men paying for a divorce are at an obvious disadvantage".

> Middle aged unattached men have an easier time not being alone, generally.

Are they really? People on this site tend to argue the opposite - that men tend to be unhappier after divorce and that men are more likely to be lonely. Male loneliness was treated here as serious problem. And they seemed to have some stats to support it and seemed to be motivated primary by wish to help men (or themselves) while you seem to base it on theories.
Comfort to wear is still unknown frankly, and while it has marginally improved FOV and 2 focal planes it also has a much worse view of the real world because of the 6 layers of waveguides. It feels like an expensive dead end, especially when you take the corddd “Lightpack” into account.
> [OO] introduces a (noticably high) complexity

Hmm...I'd say Smalltalk is about as simple as things get.

For anything more than a few functions/methods, you want some sort of scoping/module concept, and I think you're right that that's one way classes are used. Might as well be classes as they are lightweight, provide a convenient metaphor and other benefits.

I would say that true OO programming is rare. Most I've seen in industry is scoped procedural with little to no polymorphism. Or paraphrasing Alan Kay: "Before you dismiss OO, you should at least try it once".
New York Is the Capital of a Booming Artificial Intelligence Industry
> the poster speculated that it was the EULA for a beta version of the microcode

I don't see how this changes anything at all.
> After hearing lots of old-timers talk about how Burning Man was in the 1990s

But that's part of the meme, just as much as Burning Man's principles invite the criticism

The founding members weren't serious about "radical self reliance" as their congregation now repeats without practicing

Its also more of a heroin hit for these people, the second hits will never be as good as the first, but its still the first hit for everyone else.

The expense also invites the criticism, it is ironic and funny. Wage workers can't take a week and a half off for burning AND have another vacation somewhere else that year, and thats if they can rationalize the cost to begin with. So it invites quirky tech CEOs and socialites and DJs, along side the actual counterculture people who barely have a social security number. For a festival in an inhospitable environment that prides itself on decommodification, it is ALWAYS going to have criticism.

SEE YA THERE! :D
Totally agreed. My one and only wish is that they might offer an RSS feed.
What about where Facebook has wholesaled your information to companies like Cambridge Analytica?

You could say they "learned their lesson" and will focus on ads now, but this pattern of behavior is exactly why people distrust Facebook and find it shady.
> The headset can overlay elements at any distance, but when it does there may be a mismatch between the point your eyes look at and the distance they focus at.

So basically it can only correctly overlay elements at two distances, then? Any other distances are going to be out of focus to varying degrees, which will start looking increasingly incorrect the farther they are from the correct focal distance?

Does the hyperfocal distance come into play here? Is there some range around each focal length that is acceptable, or do the eyes work differently from camera lenses here?
I have fond recollections of learning to program in Caml (this was in 1997). Without ever being “indoctrinated” to FP (I only recently made the connection to FP), we learned recursion, list manipulation, pattern-matching and currying before loops. Tail-recursion was the standard way to write a function.
I don’t think teaching the same concept to first year students would be as easy in Haskell (although I only know the language from LYAH)
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Computer hardware has a very long lead time between product concept and metal-in-your-hand. Combined with the pains and huge initial slowdown of a megacorp purchasing a medium-corp, I think the real fruits of that acquisition are yet to be seen. I bet it took at least a year just for management to get their bearings on straight.

I would have guessed additional lead time for Altera to move their designs from TSMC to Intel process, but it looks like Altera has been planning to fab on Intels 14nm since 2013[0].

[0]http://chipdesignmag.com/display.php?articleId=5215