skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're still giving them location data and customer profile information. Probably something like: "white male, from $STATE, income bracket derived from home and work location, and probably flagged as "privacy conscious" because you never use the app. That profile is valuable to at least some advertisers.
You don't even use the y combinator in haskell. It's an academic exercise that's mostly relevant in lambda calculus.
Y cromossome :P
This isn't about Trump using social media to win elections. This is about Russia using social media to spread misinformation to influence U.S. elections. No such thing happened 8 years ago.
In a world where a state governor can accept $175,000 in loans, gifts and other personal benefits from a businessman in exchange for arranging “meetings between [the businessman] and Virginia government officials, hosting and attending events designed to encourage Virginia university researchers to initiate said studies, directly contacting government officials in an effort to encourage said studies, promoteing [the businessman’s] company’s products and recommended that senior government officials meet with the [businessman] to discuss how the company’s products might lower healthcare costs of public employees” without being found guilty of corruption - well, I just don’t feel confident we have any ambition as a country to curtail corruption by our political/business community. I understand the legal arguement - but it just doesn’t seem right that that kind of behavior is above board.

[0]https://www.forbes.com/sites/insider/2016/07/13/scotus-quid-...
A great anti-elitist rant.

Beautiful language: "Nearly all creators of Utopia have resembled the man who has toothache, and therefore thinks happiness consists in not having toothache. They wanted to produce a perfect society by an endless continuation of something that had only been valuable because it was temporary. ... when [Swift] tries to create a superman, [he] leaves one with the impression the very last he can have intended that the stinking Yahoos had in them more possibility of development than the enlightened Houyhnhnms."
You would not be imprisoned.

You could at least try the "fire in a crowded theater argument." Though even that isn't truly limited today.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shouting_fire_in_a_crowded_the...
The (abstract) operator itself and the results were understandable. It was more stuff like: how do I see the function returns a lambda? What is foldr? Groking the typing, which is somehow reversed of what I expect (m::int instead of int::m). The list comprehension-like indexing, and why one for is outside the foldr, not zero or both -- and why you can't write this as implicit vectorization like on a Numpy array or in Fortran, instead of explicitly iterating.
If AI is going to be the world’s doctor, it needs better textbooks
It's actually faster than running OpenMapTiles locally on my old development machine was! Excellent work.
Reddit ads were what finally pushed me into install ublock origin about a year ago (redditor since 2007).

They had a misbehaving ad (downloaded a ton of "stuff" over and over and over). I reported it on one of the their support subreddits and was told "don't recognize the add urls. scan your system for a virus". It was a pretty good error report too (screen shots, console log, etc).

Installed ublock origin that day and haven't looked back.
Nvidia's SHIELD Media Player Gets Its 20th Upgrade
It will lock you down, as it's very hard to migrate from go-kit.

IMHO, it only brings problems.
https://xkcd.com/1838/
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But if the data isn't stored in Canada, not viewable from Canada, does Canada really have jurisdiction?

Of course this is government, they can do whatever the hell they want. If they want to tell Google they have to delete it globally or they'll be blocked, there's not much anyone else can do about it. Though Google is probably close enough to universal to call their bluff. I know I'd be pissed and writing to my congressman.
I like the idea, but all I am getting is "Searching... Please Wait"

Even without seeing results, though - looking for an existing business name in the state you want to register your company would also be useful.
I am an embedded OS (both Linux and vxWorks) engineer for a defense contractor. Day to day work is actually more about maintaining the OS, making sure applications get loaded successfully, and continuously keeping it both secure and fast (emphasis on secure). The initial board bring up and driver development is usually at the beginning of the project, and you usually only have to do small tweaks as the project matures. There'll be spinoffs based on successful implementations, but again, it's not too terrible. Debugging can be very stressful, but since I'm in defense, the schedule itself is usually quite long, so I have always had more than enough time to fix any issues.

It's a solid career choice, especially if you want to branch out into automotive where they are hitting this field hard. The skills you learn are also applicable to pretty much anywhere where you use Linux, so the transferable skill set overlaps a good deal.

There's a really good book I recommend that describes basically anything and everything you need to know called "Mastering Embedded Linux Programming" by Chris Simmonds. It'll teach you pretty much everything you need to know to get up and running in the embedded Linux world. It's also a ton of fun if you've never messed with something like a BeagleBone.

That said, I'm looking to get out of the defense industry and getting back into app development. Part of it is because I want to work with newer, more exciting technology. I'm looking towards possibly going back to mobile development, even. Unsure at the moment... Keep in mind that this has nothing to do with the stability of the market. I honestly feel it's way more stable than most people seem to give it credit for, especially the embedded Linux side of things.
This is not the place to get into it.
> The only place where citizens seem to have an impact is Switzerland where with enough signatures you can request a referendum. Good luck implementing that in other countries.

That "works" in Switzerland because Switzerland is an entire country with a smaller population than New York City. Even then, it doesn't prevent pretty horrible laws from passing in Switzerland, because a majority of the electorate can be convinced to demonize a minority pretty easily.

Direct democracy like this doesn't scale up well at all, and we can look at California's proposition system to how that turns out at a larger scale.
It could also be the situation where the loss due to complications due to the equipment are far less than the loss due to the disease.

If you lose 10% to contaminated bottles, 15% to various malfunctions, and another 5% for things related to the procedure I can't even begin to consider, that's 30% mortality rate for this procedure.

But if another has 0% mortality rate but due to some other factor is not available in appropriate quantities, let's say there are only enough resources to service 10 cases a day, then your 11th case can either take a 100% mortality rate for doing nothing, or a 30% mortality rate with the other procedure.
You take the better chance.
Building a booking chatbot using BotMan and Laravel PHP
You're right. I edited my answer.

The GitHub's unofficial API we are using is slow and per IP rate limited. We spin up several servers to have several IPs to circumvent the rate limit.

(GitHub knows that we do that and we are in contact with them.)
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You can't say generative art without saying demoscene.
I'll wait for the list of places in the world in which there is no fear. Just that part of the list alone covers 100% of the population.
The boundary between data and behavior is fuzzy, and one can often be remapped into the other. A common example is a "field", such as a screen field. We can represent it as a structure similar to: field(dbName="socSecNo", screenName="Social Security No.", type="string", mask="999-99-9999", required=true...); Whether that's a method call or "data" doesn't make much difference. Ideally we want to define it once, and that's our abstraction.

Lisp does make "swapping" between data and behavior easier, but many say Lisp code is just hard to read in practice. I've been in Yuuuge debates about Lisp, but my summary conclusion is that many just find existing Lisp code hard to read. Perhaps its too much abstraction. Short of eugenics, we are stuck with that problem. Lisp has had 50+ years to try mainstreaming; time to give up.
>Musk conspicuously smoking weed while running a factory that drug tests its workers

To protect the safety of your workers, you do not want someone who is high/impaired operating machinery that can kill them or others. If you've been in an industrial factory or seen videos of factory deaths, you know how serious such a threat can be. I wouldn't be surprised if the worker testing was part of their insurance contract.
“When you actually talk to real doctors and patients, suddenly the things that weren’t apparent to computer scientists working in a basement with data become more evident,”

Am I the only one who thinks, frankly, computer scientists already know this? Which competent data scientist doesn't know that the models need a variety of data?

If there is going to be a backlash against AI, some of it will have been caused by these crude images presented of a data science craft that doesn't actually work that way.
Forming a legal entity (part 5): Filing incorporation papers
Utopia is gratitude now.
One step forward, and well who knows how many back.
The article details why utopias defined as the absence of pain or the abundance of a scarce resource present a problem in terms of happiness.
I would say through making. Making things gives life purpose, something to struggle against and triumph over. And you also get to learn. Learning for learning's sake doesn't give you the sense of purpose as learning in order to make something great .
Yeah that would be a good start. There's clear value-add here for on-prem teams which are starting to move to the cloud, by making it easier to run builds both on Azure and on-prem (seeing the $15/month pricing per agent) from the same cloud-based product, which I don't think anybody else is doing yet? But there doesn't seem to be any documentation about how to get that set up?

It would definitely help to see comparisons against competition, e.g. GitLab, CircleCI
Because that is how they are deployed today. Look up how much they cost.
Electric scooters are loathed by city regulators. They shouldn’t be
[Dave M - Azure DevOps PM] Also includes more free: 1,800 monthly minutes for private projects instead of 240 and 10 free concurrent jobs for CI/CD. GitHub marketplace extension for easier config from GitHub. But nearly the same functionally as Chris indicated.
Is it alzheimer’s?
Technically, the debt was caused by government revenues dropping through the floor and automatic stabilizers kicking in in 2008-2009 (e.g. Bush's final 2008 FY budget had a $1 trillion hole). Obama did not appreciably change the structural fiscal situation, he maintained the status quo (making Bush tax cuts permanent, mostly continuing global war on terror). The real damage was caused by a) Bush tax cuts b) Medicare Part D (unpaid for, $100b per year) c) 2 unfunded wars. Still, Obama ended office with a 40 year low average budget deficit per GDP.

I don't really see this as bias, but as fact telling. The Tea Party was intensely 'interested' in budget deficits during Obama's reign, despite the fact that he mostly governed as a center-right, he made permanent Bush's tax cuts, had a stimulus package that was almost half business tax cuts, and accepted austerity (sequester). By contrast, Bush massively increased government spending and liabilities, which mean when the bottom dropped out of the economy in 2008, the debt was going to increase tremendously. Where was the Tea Party in 2000-2008? Somehow they were unable to see $1.1 trillion being flushed down the toilet in Afghanistan and Iraq, and didn't seem to care about the Pentagon not even being able to account for hundreds of billions of 'misplaced' dollars lost in their balance sheet.

This makes the principled 'fiscal conservatism' of Republicans look feigned and disingenuous, and merely used as a scare tactic to rally around when they are in opposition in order to attack government. Magically, deficit concerns disappear once they get into power, like the $1+ trillion deficit they just created with their latest tax cut package.
Congratulations on the launch, and for your support of open source projects! I'm interested in extending our bulk builds of the OCaml language community packages (https://opam.ocaml.org) to Windows. Do Azure Pipelines support Windows Docker containers yet? Having somewhere to robustly build native Windows images is quite difficult at the moment.

One of the other things on my wishlist is for some sort of standard for all these CI/CD pipeline agents. So far, on our build cluster we have BuildKite, GitLab, Azure Pipelines, <insert CI provider> agents, each of which have slightly different platform support. It's particularly challenging when trying to extend our CI to slightly less popular operating systems such as OpenBSD or exotic or newer architectures such as ppc64le or RISC-V. It wasn't clear from the Azure documentation whether or not the agent is open source or not.

Today, we use a combination of BuildKite and GitLab to coordinate the multi-OS, multi-CPU-arch Docker images that then get pushed to the Hub. The first provider to give us a one-stop coordinated multiarch build pipeline will save open source projects like OCaml so much trouble for testing and publishing our releases!
The thousands of people employed, directly and indirectly, by those same casinos will have employment.
We are experiencing some issues with a hosting providing we try to figure out.
Company dorms were a thing when the U.S. started to industrialize. People come off the farms and in to industrial areas, they know nobody, and they don't have two nickels to rub together. So, they got put up in dorms.
Turkey: Torture, Sexual Abuse Rampant in Prisons
I'm saying a lot of sites are punished, but Facebook is able to get through/away with it because of scale. It's very much a two-tier punishment system.

Such a colossal platform is given leniency all around under the "we have too much content to police effectively" model.
This feels like Alice in Wonderland
Is anyone familiar with space law? What are the specific rules? If they had used a ground station abroad would they still need FCC approval?

EDIT: Thanks walrus01/mirashii for the EAR/ITAR points, very helpful
No, I think you’re getting the relation backwards. Many parents who were well educated have the opportunities to send their children to good schools, regardless of whether they went to a good school themselves, because they realize that it makes it easier to be well educated there.
Cool. The "saagball" theory of infinite happiness is born. The other order of names didn't sound right.
I don't know whether or not Common Core is the "right" solution for math education, but on face value it is.

A good math student understands the subject in a principled way, which shapes inference and intuition for future discovery, and results in rock solid grasp of the subject.

Supposedly, this is the point of the Common Core math curriculum, right?
Conserve the sound
It doesn't appear to. Helpfully, Hydrogen [0] for Atom was designed to be entirely language agnostic.

[0]: https://github.com/nteract/hydrogen
US free speech isn't even that expansive. Food libel laws are the most hilarious thing that a "free speech" country could do, after criticising others for banning nazi speech.
Quick thoughts:

-The pitch line makes it sound like it assesses the 'quality' of the name rather than it's availability/similarity. I was expecting something that would 'rate' a name based on some kind of popularity or sentiment score.

-Im not really a fan of the name, which is a problem that stands out when your product is about good names. "Namegine" parses strangely, I think my brain's looking for another "n" to complete the word "engine" and keeps wanting to pronounce this word "Namm-Egg-Inn". Honestly, I think just NameEngine would be a better name. Obviously very subjective though.
This site is blocked by openDNS for malware distribution :-/
C-SPAN: National Security Agency and September 11, 2001
We actually don’t start out with an attempt to build anonymous recursion.

That is the goal of the Y Combinator in the Lambda Calculus and Combinatory Logic, but here the initial goal was to decouple an anonymous function from itself so that we could decorate it.
The 4 Waves of AI: Who Will Own the Future of Technology?
Seconding that. This was one of my favourite games ever because of how well it manages to achcieve that feeling.
How Apple Watch saved my life
If you are used to vim maybe spacemacs can help you?
Hi avsm,

We absolutely support building Windows Docker Images. At the moment you are limited to either Server 2016 or Server 1803 based images but that is something we are working on enhancing. I would be interested in understanding your needs at a deeper level. Please ping me on twitter @chrisrpatterson if you are interested.
To say that Redshift doesn't support Arrays vs BigQuery's UDF support is a little confusing. Redshift has built-in functions for array operations and Python UDF support.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift/latest/dg/JSON_EXTRACT_...
Not a crypto, DHT, or any expert, but this sounds interesting very to me.

It definitely sounds like there are some potential security concerns with DHT: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_hash_table#Securit...
A new implementation called Tonika is mentioned that sounds promising to defend against the sybil attack but I don't see much activity on the project post-2012.

As you mentioned, nodeID becomes the URI (You can CNAME a domain to that) and protects from node spoofing, but it seems like a if someone could affect the DHT, they could cause a DOS. I supposed that'd be analagous to BGP spoofing routes? If the only way to falsely modify the DHT is a mount a sybil attack (I have no idea), then it could actually be an improvement over the current state with BGP.

The other concern of course, is if the DHT implementation is intergalactic-internet scale.
Ask HN: How was your experience with networking apps (e.g. Shapr, Bumble)?
I used to work for a catering hall that was, decades ago, a resort. The cottages on the property, that once used to house guests, housed the (illegal alien) kitchen workers. The owner (and his managers) used to wake everyone up and get them into the kitchen, unexpectedly, if something went wrong—which might mean only management's planning.

It cannot be ignored that—however convenient it may be for workers—the arrangement is easy for management to abuse.
Not everyone views government as a purely negative
No, although that is an interesting thought: selectively forgetting things so you can relearn them later.
Is there a description about how you built this?
This is awesome! Would love to hear more about the dataviz the author is putting together. I have to admit the stack seems like it might be a /bit/ overkill for this use case, but it seems like it was a great learning experience!
So we are moving toward a world where one person gets out, while the other has to languish in prison for months or years awaiting trial because an algorithm said so. And the accused aren’t allowed to know what’s happening behind the scenes of the algorithm because we need to protect the competitive advantage of the vendor who sold the software to the state. This is total and complete insanity and elected officials should pay with their jobs and their reputations for even suggesting something so unjust.
In the medium term, it's likely that Hydrogen will be able to read and write .ipynb files. It can currently export .ipynb files but has some bugs [0].

[0]: https://github.com/nteract/hydrogen/issues/1296
Seems broken on mobile. Android Chrome. Cant click anyt hi ing to proceed. Neat concept. I'll try it on my mac...
Isn't its license - AGPL v3.0 - a problem?

My understanding of the AGPL in this case is that if you publish a blog with Pelican, you have to also publish any trivial fork of Pelican that you create, even if only by a single trivial patch.

Seems rather onerous given how likely us devs are to tweak something here or there.

I'd gravitate towards any of the many MIT-licensed generators instead.
I love the idea! Everybody has projects (for fun, hobby, or serious projects) and you see it all the time were the name is already used by [insert other large library/project] or it translates poorly in another language [becomes the word "poop" or something].

This is really cool! :D
According to the article, the FCC "regulates all satellite launches by American companies, whether they occur on U.S. soil or elsewhere."
The article says they have power over all American companies so probably yes. If they were a foreign company with a satellite over the USA, that would be a more interesting question.
Yeah cos still American company.
No Vertica?
I think the entire practice of exit interviews should be outlawed. Perhaps replaced with an optional post-exit interview that takes place after the final payment has been received, and that comes with compensation of it's own.
Which Node REPL would you recommend?
Exactly. Facebook isn't dramatically different than your local pub, church, Elks lodge, knitting club, or any other self-selected social group. Singling them out and treating it like a new problem gives too much credence to the notion that it's a new thing.

Think today's politics are divisive? Look back to the mass social unrest and violence of the entire 20th century (or farther, at all of human history). This is not a new phenomenon, and there's nothing unique about Facebook, the Internet, social media, or technology.
How did I miss this a week ago? Looks great!

I recently whipped up a quick hobby project where I'm displaying a map on an old kindle by running wkhtmltoimage on a server and displaying the png. It's got a giant delay in responding with a lot of it due to Mapbox initialization time.
Don’t Get Pwned by Secret Zero
It makes almost no sense for a tech platform to be a DevOps tool. It's like saying saying a programming language is better at supporting agile. DevOps is a matter of how you assign responsibility to people in your org. Not how they get there.
A practical guide to Virtualization, containers, kubernetes and Serverless
I’m hoping that’s the misunderstanding: Severance != last paycheck.
That actually sounds like a solid improvement. Do the head-to-head comparisons change with sort- and dist-keys? What was the tuning used?
Debate: Stiglitz vs. Summers on Secular Stagnation
I think the latter point is somewhat subjective indeed. I was reading it as an almost-anagram of "imagine" and also "name genie" :)
This. Although said tongue-in-cheek, is a basic principle. Once you understand the concept and the mechanics behind something, what rote learning buys you is to free cycles in the future so that you can take up the next-level task. Skipping this step is like expecting someone to play the piano just by learning how to read a music sheet and where each note is in the keyboard. You build up your muscle memory so that you're able to take on more complex pieces as you progress.
Except its millions of times bigger in its scope and reach. That makes it qualitatively a different thing entirely