skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not really since that target probably doesn't support the selling of more guns to the USA agencies.
It could also be that your ISP has a Netflix cache server but not Google's (or vice versa.)
Some obervations on low cost computing (Raspberry Pi related)
Based on my research, I have concluded -
that the not so highlighted ASUS CS10 -
is a far better alternative to the now highly acclaimed RaspberryPi -
It has one USB port and one output display port -
If you were creating a standalone, non-networked application -
the simplicity of this configuration would simplify development
Those aren't pot-holes, they're traffic calming craters. They slow the terrorists down. Wrong kind of ice.

Ah crap, I'm running out of excuses.
Ah, I see, perhaps I am being unfair to her.

I deliberately omitted Marx from the list for a reason - by your description, his views were somewhat similar to Rand, not prescriptive, but descriptive. That is, if we just stop meddling with the human nature, we will arrive at society that looks like <whatever they wrote about>.

Unfortunately, neither in Marx's or Rand's case, this is not what will happen. Both are utopian.

But yeah, in my post, I should have probably used somebody who is more prescriptive of the society based on selfishness than Rand. I think somebody like Hayek would likely fit the bill better.
I would love to jail George Bush and some of his staff members.

Interestingly, you have just implied that ultimately no one can be held accountable for these failures.

Isn't that a bit of a problem?
Only 14 % admit it to themselves.
I remember that very well (worked for NSN), it wasn't funny. They learned that lesson from massive (unexpected) outage of their mobile network (2009), without possibility to reach technical persons: https://www.lightreading.com/ethernet-ip/server-glitch-crash...
> high ethical standards

Ethical standards are do not lie on a single dimension and words "high" and "low" don't sufficiently describe them. Ethics and morality is a complicated mess of game theory, neuroscience, evolutionary biology and logic. The same people that you implicitly describe as having "low" ethical standards are making that decision contrary to their immediate self-interest, out of very noble considerations, thinking about their friends and family, their children, their countrymen and the world. It's just their logic is very different from yours.
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That's the trap of working in industry lingua franca of which is your mother tongue. Otherwise public libraries in Germany are very well equipped and have wide selection of audio content - language curses, audiobooks, some might find it more helpful than just grammar handbooks.
Back in the day, I spent many days skimming email printouts, produced in discovery, and organizing them for review. Defendants were obligated to produce everything relevant, but not necessarily in any order. So basically, they'd dump everything out, mix well, and then pack in boxes. Or at least, that's how it seemed to some of us.
Fire costs resources and produces costly environmental impacts, in many of the ways we make it it's an engineering marvel (ICE for example), but yeah it's not the greatest analogy.
One can dream.. But We are talking in the incorrect place.
A thread about steve jobs or the new Iphone will get 500 replies, not this one
Go 1.11 with modules support has been released
This. I've paid for it since 2012, my world would be rocked if they shut it down or modified it significantly.

It does make you start to question why you are paying for a service whilst locking yourself in when the rug can be pulled at any minute.
I just use it as aggregator from my mail accounts.

90% of the time I use it via IMAP, quite snappy indeed.
It works... every criticism beyond that is just an argument about taste, although personally I think it's unnecessarily terse.

I've written uglier code and gotten paid for it. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
75% of those letters were correct.
Hi, I am actually an algorithm dev at Optibus, so I can provide a few insights.
1) Naturally, mass transit operators optimize for highest payoff - so they would try to use the least number of buses, least number of drivers' work hours, least deadheads etc. However, the government rightfully enforces both driver work regulations (enough rest, coffee breaks etc) and highly penalize them for service unreliability - each city is different, but in general - if a bus is late for more than X minutes\doesn't show up, the operator will get a heavy fine. Also - if consumer satisfaction is low, this operator will not get to operate the city's buses again, so they try to keep them reasonably high.
2) for these reasons, service reliability (or dependability) is animportant factor. in general - schedulers should have a few reserve vehicles and drivers, so that in case of a delayed bus - they can replace it with their reserve.
Here, at Optibus, we have started a pilot where after looking at historical data, we use AI to predict which trips are likely to be delayed. and by how much. With our predictions we first warn the operator that the estimate for this trip is questionable, and more importantly, build the schedule accordingly - give more time spread between these trips and the next scheduleued trip on this vehicle, so that this delay will not affect subsequeent trips and cause a cascade of delays. This way - we make the schedule more robust.
so far it looks promising
Two personal anecdotes related to this.

I've made what seem to be four major career decisions in my life. Aged 14 at school I was in tears because I couldn't do one of the O levels I desperately wanted, the school pretty much forced me onto this new Computer Studies course they'd just started running. As a direct result it grabbed me and I worked in the games industry for a good few years.

In my late 20s a friend offered me a role earning a lot more money wearing a suit in the IT department of an insurance company. A very tough choice as I loved the industry but after a couple of weeks of heart wrenching I took it; absolutely no regrets 25 years later.

Now at work unless I can decide using experience or hard facts I'll either choose not to decide or do a coin toss. It infuriates some people but if I can't sensibly analyse it any more and my crystal ball isn't working that day then random is far better than wasting time thinking about it.

One other thing to help make a quick decision is to toss a coin and whilst it's in the air think how you want it to land and then go with that. The limited time forces you to choose what is generally the route you subconsciously want.
If this is a planned escape, a full tank and a couple of 20l jerry cans will get you from Land's End to John o' Groats, and back in a modern estate doing ~50mpg.
For users who don't like the new design:

https://lifehacker.com/how-to-ditch-chromes-new-material-des...

In my humble opinion, the new tabs look the worst out of all the major browsers.
This position is no longer open since we have decided to change course -
We are now working on building an interface around an ASUS CS10, a keyboard and a 19" greyscale - you may still email me if this interests you - first person enquiries only
PM for VSTS here. The final scale unit in South Central US was brought back online a few hours ago, which means that the final accounts that were affected should now be operational. We're still restoring package management to some accounts, but otherwise, you should be back to working. Please feel free to reach out to me if you're still having trouble. Email is my HN username @ microsoft.com. We're _very_ sorry for this very significant outage.
I know people here aren't big on religion, but just as a perspective (no worse than Jeff Bezos I guess): In Islam there is a certain prayer you are supposed to say before making a big decision. You ask God's guidance for it, that you'll do what's good for you in this life and the next, and so on.

The funny thing is that when you do that, you almost always make up your mind immediately. It's like deep down you already know what the right thing is, and the act of explcitly stating the 'business requirements' (doing the morally right thing, for the long term good) just makes it obvious - no divine intervention needed! I'm pretty sure it's just a clever mental hack, but it does work.
Hi, I am an algorithm developer at optibus. So I can explain the logic of the use of heuristics in this case.
We actually use MIP solvers for many of our problems, and are quite proficient with it.
However, mass transit problems, especially in large cities, tend to be highly complex for CPLEX or any other solver to solve out of the box. There are billions of variables, and many global constrains which involves: vehicle types, multiple depots, fueling and charging considerations, driver unions and regulation, and hundreds of others.
Simply using generic solver (though very advanced one) works well for small instances but doesn’t scale well for medium to large ones. Just fitting the model in memory is challenging. We, at Optibus, are distributing the problem using massive cloud resources and dedicated algorithms, and use a mixture of this, MIP solvers, and the heuristics discussed in the article.
We wanted to keep our competitive edge, but hopefully, we may write a blog post about it in the near future.
I think it's important to make a distinction between "decision parameters" - factors relative to _this_ particular decision - and what I call "decision hyperparameters" - factors which are relevant to all decision-making.

For example, you can be evaluating the purchase of a new car, but if you have slept poorly or haven't eaten recently, you may not be in the best state to make a wise decision.

We often check the parameters for each decision, but not as often hyperparameters (how much time do I have to make this decision? how reversable is it? how am I feeling? how much domain knowledge do I have?). I think a concrete checklist for major decisions is quite useful - we abstract up from the decision and ensure that our _decision-making process_ is sound.

For the interested, I wrote about this here: https://alexpetralia.github.io/2017/11/27/NL-2017-11-27.html
I wrote https://pingtype.github.io to add spaces between words, pinyin, the literal translation for each word, and a parallel English translation when available.

It also has support for simplified/traditional conversion, bopomofo, Taiwanese and Cantonese, and typing from pictures.

The most useful texts are bilingual. For me, I was reading the Bible, song lyrics, comics, and subtitles. I want to upload those, but I've been threatened with copyright issues.
Font rendering is broken, antialias messed up, blurry, weird – chromium
I don't understand why people are dissing this.

It does what it's designed to do, and fills a specific need for one website. It's not there as a teaching aid, nor is it meant to be shared for other people to use elsewhere.

Not everything has to be gold-standard code full of perfect variable names, extensive comments and good whitespacing. If you have a day job that isn't primarily writing code, and/or you are likely to be the only person ever working on that code, who cares if it's not up to the standard that people around here seem to expect of every project?

As long as the code works, anything else is just gravy. If you were to peel back the layers on all the major websites out there, I'm sure you'd find less than stellar code everywhere.
Hacker news looks really bad now with Chrome 69 on Win10/HiDPI.
Fantastically miss-used image before/after sliders, not actually showing before or after?
Even if they had did all that, some person on the internet would have had "a lot of issues with the post" in order to show off how smart they are.

You have to draw the line somewhere, and this post is very interesting as it is.
It's called by the "hide" link under each story on the top page.
> We also need the ability to survive ourselves breaking the law, because the law was created with the (at the time reasonable) belief that only important violations would be brought to the attention of the authorities, because most of us can’t get through the day without violating several

This is arguably the biggest problem of all. Selective enforcement is already a thing, and is only going to become a bigger problem. Just look at all the bullshit prosecutions that have happened in the UK over things said and done on social media.

Police are also increasingly keen on downloading the entire contents of people's smartphones (and prosecuting you if you don't give up the password). So anyone who comes to the attention of the police is at risk of having their entire life pored over to look for any other infringements.
Zero overhead deterministic failure: A unified mechanism for C and C++ [pdf]
It's unfortunate you're getting downvoted, because this is correct.

For anyone that is dubious: Black holes are one of the common ways this gets discussed, because it's such an extreme example, and you can read more about it at http://www1.phys.vt.edu/~jhs/faq/blackholes.html#q11 - this goes into a bit about photons and the event horizon - you can ignore that and just consider it in regards to the time dilation effects of gravity.
Many high performers in technical positions will stop being high performers when promoted to a management position. (I know that I would.) See also the Peter Principle.
> Terrible naming, e.g. 'vis' -> reading the function it means toggle visibility, so it should be called 'toggleVisibility'

But it doesn't toggle visibility. It sets visibility.
Working on drones saves soldiers’ lives. Working for intelligence saves civilian lives by preventing terrorist plots. People who work for the military and the intelligence usually see themselves as paragons of high ethical standards.
I just wanted to say j strange is my favourite novel, read it at least 10 times!
No. My parents and grandparents were fairly precious about books and if they wanted to would make separate notes. Occasionally they'd have inscriptions on the front pages about where they came from or who they belonged to etc.

I used to do it in technical manuals but never in novels. I've thought about it but when I actually go to do it think it's silly and my thoughts are my thoughts not to be shared. Off feeling as I love the idea of it.

I have started pencilling in the front cover my initials and when I read a book, just gives it a little life I think.
Right you are :)
See my reply later on this thread (ishay from optibus)
> Theranos' was not about making something previously impossible, possible.

Yes, it was. They were trying to do more tests with less blood. That's like, you know, new advances in biomedical science.

> Theranos doesn't have anything to do with biomedical science,

They claimed to create a new method for blood testing that required a fraction of the sample size previously required. That is, by definition, biomedical science.

> they were supposed to improve the experience of blood testing both for the patient and for the medical professionals.

Yes, but that pesky biomedical science got in the way.

> Their problem was that they choose to try to do it by a method that was not technically possible at this time.

The limits of biomedical science can be a real buzzkill. But hey, the UX was great!

> Another company might try to improve the experience by improving the needles and redesign the machine to look like less offensive and scary and they might succeed in it.

It failed because it didn't work. Because biomedical science.

> It's exactly like the difference between SodaStream's success and chatbots failure, that is, betting on UX improvement using a tech that's not there.

We should all tell Merck and Pfizer to be more like SodaStream. Cancer would be a thing of a past. It's merely a UX problem.

> Chatbots, SodaStream. Theranos - they don't do anything new that wasn't done before. Chatting with customer support was around since a while, Carbonating water to make soda was around since probably the industrial revolution and testing blood samples were around since modern medicine.

I went into the forest once for a hike, it was very nice. I liked the trees. Do you like to hike? It's good for you. Modern medicine.

> All these companies tried to improve the experience and reduce costs, regardless of the nature of the business being internet or manufacturing based. It's not about the domain.

What you're trying to do never matters! Cancer can be cured. We just need to improve the experience and reduce costs!
Interesting to see people's take on this.

Before reading it I assumed it was some sort of explanation of Trump. Which is not disabused by the article. Not to say I'm in favour or the current POTUS's policies or manner.

Possibly related - "a secessio meant that all shops and workshops would shut down and commercial transactions would largely cease." reminds me of John Galt.
Actually, the trend has reversed: Teachers now get hired as officials again because there are not enough teachers and states are competing for them. Especially the East German states hire teachers as officials since salaries are not as competitive there.
"Almost One Percent of the World's Energy Consumption" is hardly 'noone',

https://news.slashdot.org/story/18/08/26/162242/bitcoin-mini...
One method I sometimes use to work out whether I have an underlying feeling about a two-way decision is to get a coin, assign heads/tail, then toss it. On seeing the outcome, observe to see if I feel disappointed. This seems to be a good way to discover whether I had a preference that I hadn't realised I had.
You needed to watch a lot of his videos and read enough of his daily posts he used to make on his site to understand it, but everything he said was actually perfectly consistent within his own world view.
>If you have a day job that isn't primarily writing code, and/or you are likely to be the only person ever working on that code, who cares if it's not up to the standard that people around here seem to expect of every project?

Future you that has to decipher the code. Why make it hard on yourself? Software is a living thing eventually a decision will need to be made about it and without understanding what it does it's easier to make suboptimal assumptions.
> I fear it would turn out equivalent.

Only some 30 or so years earlier, and who knows what we'd have come up with, given such an early head start?

I work in the space of dynamic language runtimes, and it hurts me to see how ideas pioneered by SmallTalk and subsequently the Self language[1] runtimes haven't yet been adopted by some of the more popular dynamic languages today.

[1]: http://bibliography.selflanguage.org/_static/implementation....
Maybe the author used to write C
I echo this approach.

If it is not for the hollywood movies/western RPGs, I won't find my inner calling to conquer English at all. I picked up writing by simply want to have a reasonable discussion with people on the Reddit (well, that was years ago, not sure it is possible nowadays).

To some degree, I see there is similarity between how human/algorithm approaches language. The trick is always data-driven: expose yourself/model more to the true distribution, which in this case the society where the language is used natively, the more the better.
I haven't had my morning coffee yet.

That's a piece of factual information for you, yet it has no bearing in this discussion.

Valve's revenue might be factual, but it also does very little to further this discussion. Valve has almost no effective competition, and people will put up with a lot of shit from them because of it — which makes their JS engineering practices largely unrelated to their revenue.
I'm wondering if this could be made a relative score instead of an absolute one that measures the current site's memory consumption relative to your available free memory. It might be more useful to see the impact it has for you.
>> reminds me of John Galt

Except the John Galt thing is based on the fantastical notion that a "creative" withdrawing from society would bring everything to a grinding halt.

The secessio plebis is the withdrawal of labour power, a general strike.
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They will improve in time. If anything, it shows that Tesla is going to have to play hard to make sure the competition doesn't eat their market share. I think Tesla has dropped the ball by not being able to make their cars fast enough. The bigger auto makers might have access to bigger credit lines or exciting plants which can be retooled quickly if they see their electric car selling fast.
I got the prompt to "convert" my legacy Skype account to a Live account a few years back. Guess what? I ended up with 2 accounts. After a while of nobody being able to find me (constantly adding the old account, which didn't work anymore, because it was the only one that showed up in the search) I got in touch with Microsoft support. Once I proved my identity they agreed to delete the old account.

...Except that was around 2 years ago and it still exists - and it's still the only one that comes up when you search Skype for my name.

Oh, and I still can't log in to it, either.
I'm interested in the article's mention of unquestioning hospitality in the desert.

I wonder if it is a clever survival mechanism to just receive guests as they come, since guests know you'll be friendly, so that nobody is hostile to one another and wastes unnecessary resources (by fighting) in a harsh place.
The Only Way to Spread Your Story Is to Tell It to Everyone, Anywhere
> setting up all the types for the channels based on the types in the functions being run by the go routines was quite difficult. I had to do it all by reflection and the code was really complicated.

My guess (and personal experience) is that this would maybe be more convenient to do this via code generation. It's not as ergonomic as generics (well, depending on the implementation...), but still it's less cumbersome and prone to failing at runtime that reflection.

Reflection has its uses and places, but as soon as it gets all over a function then it's time (imho) to look into code generation.
What are botnets downloading?
Um, is this supposed to be a criticism?

Because this is MUCH better than sites loading megabytes worth of scripts to do nothing more than render text, have dozens of floating elements everywhere, auto playing videos that follow you, "use our app" buttons, etc...

JS is the assembly of the web, do you also criticize games written in assembly?
Value based pagination in Ruby on Rails
I built my own dictionary with 114,326 words for Pingtype. I based it on the word spacing from the romanised Bible and Apple's option-right-arrow method, and I've made over 5000 edits.

In my opinion, reading traditional characters with spaces is much easier than simplified characters without spaces.
> Customers may, for an additional charge, add on a native resolution video feature, disabling optimization

That's such beautiful double think. We have this amazing feature for you, and for just a small charge you may turn it off.
Just because you don't feel "particularly bad" doesn't mean that you should be working. When I feel a little sick and go to my doctor to get written off sick for 2 or 3 days, she always insists on giving me a whole week off because infections typically go on for longer than you feel them, and you should rest to give the immune system time to clean out the gutters.
People have given up believing that these laws are created for their benefit... I think this breakdown in trust is partly to blame for the current state of the US (and UK) political systems.

Fixing the issues you list, are part of regaining trust in the political system overall. If it doesn’t get fixed slowly and methodically thing will just get worse and worse until something snaps.
http://archive.is/bUljp
Yeah, you're right, I misread the code. It should be called 'setVisibility' then.

A problem that wouldn't exist if it was named correctly in the first place ;)