skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The real physical universe doesn't offer tooling for playing with advanced math, though.

The real physical universe is nothing but tooling for playing with advanced math (but it's not always easy to figure out what the advanced math is, or how best to play with it).
We actually do have full Jira Cloud (and Confluence) support! Those just went live in the last week.
I think it boils down to the following question: "Do you trust the government to make decisions that will benefit and protect you?" In the EU, it appears the answer is Yes. In the US, the answer is unequivocally No.
For what it's worth, an early complaint about GDPR was that it benefited the large, incumbent companies like Google and Facebook at the expense of their smaller competitors.
NET Core Windows Desktop Apps
Did they ask the Saudi crown?
I agree with those points and I'd like to add that both approaches (US and EU) have their drawbacks (and advantages).

In limiting businesses more in the EU I found out that it generally means less competition and fewer companies (per capita) than the US, in my limited experience of having lived in the EU most of my life before moving to the US and still visiting Europe every year. One of the most common shocks of moving to the US from Europe is the sheer number of options/choices that you have/can make for every little thing. Back in Europe there was 1-2 supermarket chains, here there are much more. Same for food (fast or otherwise), insurance agencies, banks/credit unions, broker services, pension funds plus countless small stores (not national chains). In most interactions I have in the US I really do feel that "the customer is always right" (there are lots of exceptions to that rule but you will generally see those exceptions also happen because of lack of competition) while in Europe most of the interactions I had as a customer meant I would have to either beg for something or get angry about it/make a scene in order to make progress on an issue.

There are also deeper cultural differences in criteria customers use to pick one company or the other. In the US people seem more willing to vote with their wallets and do not look back while I feel much less of that happening in Europe.

It's hard of course to generalize across such large and varied populations and economies but this has been my experience and it does align with logical explanations of consequences of limiting businesses more or less in a free market environment.
Exactly the same for me. It starts wir subtle things: Why do they have to override the system scroll speed? Then, as you point out, I’m a heavy user of safaris read mode which is essentially solving for the same problem as AMP. For me, the best thing about amp is the link leading to the non amp version

EDIT: I have to apologize for both of my points. The scrolling thing was fixed as somebody pointed out and the reading mode works just fine for most pages I just checked. Have tried to avoid AMP for a long time I guess...
There are many quack remedies and elixirs that have been around forever and long ago obtained protected status with government regulators.
> If a(n) is the number of ways to write n as the sum of three palindromes, the sequence a(0), a(1), a(2), a(3) is kind of interesting.

Do you just mean "the sequence a(n)"? I don't see anything especially interesting about the first 4 terms.
Not at their current price point.
Then disproving causation. A fascinating use of Mammoth Cave in its history was a "good air" study on tuberculosis patients, because caves have great, naturally tempered air. That airflow is also tightly enclosed and many tourists and the doctors themselves caught the disease. It was a terrible way to help prove germ theory, but at the same time its hard not to blame them for trying because it was such a serious disease and anything to help was more than they had.
Not sure your age, but I think a lot of us are just growing up, and we're seeking more stable, intelligent news sources. I stopped using Reddit a couple years prior to the redesign. HN and Google News satisfy my news niche as well.
And much like software, there are many of us who get nostalgic about the days when automobiles just worked, and were knowable, not inscrutable piles of nonsense.
Ok, we replaced the title with a more modest phrase from the article body.
It's a matter of objective fact? Show me the experimental data that shows the American interpretation of freedom of speech is correct. Even Americans draw the line somewhere. For instance, the old "shouting fire in a theater." bit. Or, say, planning a murder.

Other people decide to draw the line different places. Sorry, but claiming the American legal interpretation is "objective fact" and, say, the German one is wrong is just crazy.
That's due global warming. Also, the UK will have a shift too, soon :)
Recent years have been warmer in Bilbao, too. But... still gray skys and rainy days at least twice a week.
that would be good, for now there are apps for that. Your pixel2 should make it easy for any third party camera to be your main camera app.
Agreed. Luckily, we as a community have tools like Sourcegraph which are based on battle-tested pragmatic systems from places like Google.

Disclaimer: no affiliation, just love the team and product.
>>> Life in the Spanish city that banned cars

>> ban cars

> unrealistic statements

You, sir, are funny.
The answer to your question is basically "no". Humans aren't getting better at driving in the aggregate - new ones are born, learn to drive, get better, then get worse, then die off. On average humans are as good as they're going to get (with small variations due to culture and different training programs).

On the other hand the self-driving cars are just getting started. It's entirely reasonable to suppose that they may surpass the average human in the next X years. And they won't get old and confused and eventually replaced with new cars that have to learn from scratch -- they should get more or less monotonically better. I think the optimism is warranted even if the timeline and technology is uncertain.
> > OK tough guy, please give me three palindromic numbers that add up to 1,234,567. And don't use the trick! And don't use brute force!

> 1,234,567 + 0 + 0 = 1,234,567

The first of these is not a palindrome.
No need for time travel here...

I currently live in the south of Morocco and this is exactly the kind of advice I am given here constantly. My SO went through months of dietary restrictions based on such advice; got her to hospital 2 weeks ago and today the lab results are in: bacterial infection. We are looking forward to the first proper dinner in a very long time.

My personal highlight on local advice I was given: "Keeping a tortoise in your house helps with asthma. My cousin has asthma and when it is really bad, he comes back to his parents' house and after a few days it is much better!" (That house is in a very small mountain village with very clean air, he lives in a very big city full of cars and he does not dare to smoke anywhere in his home village or his parents' house lest his parents see that.. go figure.)
All I can say is that we know this. We know it should be better. There's definitely more to come.
I thought that was implicit in "I don't get it."
Women on Cap Tables
Gee maybe if they taxed these people themselves we wouldn't have to buy them a new electrical grid.
> snazzy Electron interface or some other trendy framework that makes everything super easy

Except that Electron is harder to use than pre-.NET Visual Basic, or Delphi, or especially HyperCard. All of the developer convenience of web apps, with all of the great performance of web apps!
In what non-small part?

Their business is built on the deployment of custom (if not particularly sexy) office technology and quite simply could not exist without it. There's also another certain very significant tech company they outright acquired to enhance their overall operations and portfolio.

So - they're not a traditional tech-only company; but a tech company quite definitely.
I think he's predicted 12 of the last 3 recessions.
Using ‘cryptopasswords’ to discover data breaches
I'm a bit confused why the filter list's page says that then. I'm not sure why they need such a disclaimer, even if what it said was true.
If the cookie only stores the preference to not show the dialog box. That should be GDPR compliant.
Why are you so hostile? It is eminently clear in OP's comment that we are talking about transportation in cities. Even if it wasn't, you could give OP the benefit of the doubt.
Silicon Valley’s Equity Gap: Women Own Just 9%
But those other places pay for those things by heavily taxing the folks that would be considered "middle class" here. In Germany, folks making $65,000 or so pay 7.3% of their income (with another 7.3% being paid by their employer) for health insurance, on top of their taxes.
It really depends. The biggest safety issue for cyclists is being overlooked at crossings. Being on the road makes them safer for cyclists in those situations. Especially for bigger roads there are also other solutions to this problem.
http://bfy.tw/Jwqg
He was basically forced out of retirement for Jobs. Jobs loved his sushi
It also looks like part of the outside edge of the ear got blurred mistakenly.
I don’t think “cost savings” factored into the new HQ. even within the walls out of view, construction tolerances were insane for no particular reason other than it was “right.”
I heavily use my browsers' reader modes as well but isn't the idea that if you load the regular page then use the reader mode you end up downloading more data than you would have if you just visited an AMP page? From a user's perspective (absent ideological concerns about the implications of AMP in its current implementation) the latter is preferable to me.
And he founded and runs one of the most successful hedge funds in history.
Lovely, now they can get rid of AMP. It's an unwelcome distraction.
I find that tweet storm problematic, she frames automated trading as a bad thing while her slide only gives information about the various policies that some crypto exchanges have about it.

wouldn't the real conversation be about what she expects here?

does she want an additional paragraph in the 40 page disclaimer? "There may be automated trading, users that enter trades manually may be at a disadvantage in reacting to market fluctuations."
In the US, political donations are not deductible on personal income - which would likely mean they are not deductible here either.
Training models with unequal economic error costs using Amazon SageMaker
I'd imagine that something like this would need to be done on enormous scale to make such a dent. How many engineers would a company need to hire? 1000? 5000? 100,000?
Out team chose Datomic for it's graph like properties and emphasis on data locality. This is optimal for GraphQL style patterns where you'd otherwise join a million tables
I've always felt that NAT ruined the internet. It made it basically improbable that someone might host something at home like the internet was made for.
There's probably someone right now generating baby names with a neural network trained on a huge list of every SSN name used in the past twenty years. They'll use one of these and become very minor celebrities for a week while it goes somewhat viral on Twitter.
The scroll speed issue has been fixed on later versions of iOS.
Caches are significantly less dense than normal ram. You wouldn't be able to fit gigabytes in the same area. They would probably be more expensive as well.
Cars are typically utilized under 5% of the time. A car most of the time is a non-human inhabited object that is wasting a lot of space
Meanwhile, this BBC story about it got taken from #1 to #75 in 10 minutes: http://hnrankings.info/18013406/

This isn't happening with other stories. The system is clearly being gamed.
Or maybe it is, and the adults actually won.
It's not an obvious joke to people who don't speak English as their primary language.
Apple admitted they made a design mistake with the Mac Pro. It’s clear that they were originally planning to abandon the Mac Pro and release the iMac Pro to address the high end - along with operating system changes so Macs would work better with external GPUs.

Then they had an about face mid last year.

What I don’t understand is how hard is it for them to make a simple pro Mac in a tower case? I doubt that it takes PC manufacturers two years to design a mid tower high end workstation. Intel is doing most of the engineering and they (Apple) already have a very high performing SSD controller.
Walk Score was acquired by Redfin in 2014.

Walk scores are on their listing pages, but I am not sure why they don't allow you to filter by Walk Score in the Redfin search UI.

https://www.geekwire.com/2014/redfin-buys-walk-score-marking...
> The underlying crypto is fine (provided you don’t pick the weak algorithms) and use it correctly.

What is the target audience for GPG?
> Government is a business, and its most important customers are the rich.

I think that's a bit jaded. A better phrasing might be: "Modern absentee democracies are leveraged by those who can extract the most value from them."
You should strive to find out what area of computer science you enjoy versus making it about your GPA or trying to be the smartest in the class. If the latter is your goal you're going to be disappointed.

It's hard, or was for me, to do projects on your own time when you're full time student. Therefore, apply yourself in learning as much as you can from your classes and build off the assigned work as much as possible if you have free time.

Lastly, learn how to develop a good work ethic. Try to revert from googling answers. Struggle and try to find your own solutions. Pay closer attention to your compiler warnings without googling them. Utilize tools to debug your code versus googling if someone else had the same issue and what their solution was. In all, learn how to struggle effectively to improve your overall understanding of concepts and problem solving.

~S
Facebook enlists AI to tweak web server performance
Bog standard blockchain antidote, feel free to steal and reuse as needed (or disregard as usual):

If participants are willing trust some subset of other participants within the system for certain privileged tasks that are required by the design of this system, why would they not be willing to trust another subset of participant to operate data storage for the system? Note the potential that most any kind of datastore can underlie systems providing replication, operation of copies by multiple independent parties, consistency guarantees, availability through redundancy.

What potential byzantine faults exist in the design of the system such that providing fault tolerance benefits the system? Can those be eliminated by a better design? Can the risks posed by faults be absorbed or mitigated by the administrative/business/legal infrastructure for the system (which probably will have to exist, regardless)?

If byzantine fault tolerance is required, why is a ledger + immutable chain of history objects + Proof-of-* system the most suitable byzantine fault tolerance solution for the system, given inefficiencies (Cost of Proof-of-*, constraints on throughput), inconveniences (Immutability), and introduction of complexity which is auxiliary to the intended purpose of the system (a ledger of currency)?

Do participants have insufficient incentive to participate in the system such that providing them a balance of a currency is required? Can the system be redesigned to better incentivize those participants? If the system provides little incentive to participate in it from its primary purposes, is there any utility in creating the system at all? Does attracting participation from participants uninterested in the primary and ancillary functions of the system to speculate in the value of an auxillary currency pose a benefit to or liability upon the system?

If participants are motivated primarily due to the fashionableness of blockchain technology, do they realize it's not 2017 anymore, what will happen to the system when they catch up and get bored? Is there a way to use an "AI" instead?
> Online newspapers are the worst

Oracle. Here's July's Critical Patch Update page:

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpujul20...

On my my domestic ADSL line the cookie pop-up takes almost 10s to load. It presents 67 checkboxes to select from. There is no default selection, so this requires at least 3 more clicks (at least the non-obligatory cookies are grouped). Submitting the form takes another ~4s -- it even has a progress bar. (Thankfully they aren't using TLS so it's not quite as slow as it could be).

Earlier this summer this component was broken and I just couldn't use oracle.com.
“It’s unfortunate, but each camera will need to be updated manually by users,”

So most people aren't going to bother unless they get an alarming email from the manufacturer (assuming they even have a list of customer email addresses). Although these appear to be DVR systems for commercial use so it's more likely that a business would have a service contract with someone to manage these things. The service vendor would probably be more inclined to patch the thing than the business owner would.
A lot of your concerns have been addressed in Uber's "Elevate" study [1].

For noise, they're targeting at most half the noise of a truck, at most 1 dB increase in the day night level indicator (DNL), and a maximum 5% increase in nighttime awakenings.

As for efficiency:

a normal car does about 1 mile/kWh,

an electric fixed wing about 2 mile/kWh (thus, better),
though VTOL would increase that by 50% or more,

an electric car about 3 mile/kWh.

So, could be quite feasible, and a lot of the groundwork is being done.

[1] https://www.uber.com/elevate.pdf
For $5-10 purchases you'd cut your CC fees in half. That's a lot. Pretty much every food truck and many non-national fast food restaurants and cafes use it.
What would I have told myself? People matter more than I think they do. Learning to interact well with them is hard for a geeky person like me. Work on learning how to do so. (This isn't the same as spending tons of time on the social scene. People are everywhere and you interact with them all the time, not just at parties.)

Most of the specifics you learn won't matter. Learn how to learn, learn how to think, and learn how to work.
I keep on seeing this sentiment of "TLAs/short-sellers/Russian content-bots/pick-a-boogeyman could possibly have an interest in this topic, so they're probably manipulating the conversation (conveniently against me and never in my favor). Who knows what to believe?, so I'm just going to continue believing what I believed before."

And it's increasingly odd to me. It makes sense to an extent, it lines up with a lot of what we already know about aligned interests, what happens when you challenge someone, etc. But at the same time, it's like the possibility of 'false flag'/Sybil/conversational manipulation is letting people double down on prior beliefs (which could in itself be the goal of the same level of "maybe everyone who disagrees with me is being manipulated").
iOS 12, reviewed
He actually did admit that funding was not secured to buy the stock back for $420.

https://www.tesla.com/blog/update-taking-tesla-private

In the post, he also admits that the Saudi Arabian investment would only provide a small fraction of the necessary amount needed to go private.
Spock’s home world has been discovered (sort of)
Started overseas, right after dropping from school and landed my first job by pure chance, in the so-called creative industry. Had no money, knew nothing and had to learn the ropes in real life situation. The fact that this was a completely different environment helped a lot. I had to start from scratch and pay attention to everything. Luck played a large part. My first client was a big ad agency so this gave me a bit of a buffer time and also helped to get new clients—that job led to the next, building a portfolio and clients references. For a long time, I didn't know how to market myself, however. It took me years to learn some of the basics in that regard. These are things you only realize in hindsight, after trials and errors, in my case. When you are freelancing one of the danger is that you get a false sense of freedom. When things go well you tend to believe that you are at the steering wheel of your career. But at the end of the day, you depend very much on clients and things that are out of your control. If not careful you can quickly become expendable.
I'd imagine that with UBI, the incentive to stay in a low CoL area increases and for a subset of the population, they will seek out a low CoL area. Then there will be the subset of the population that takes their UBI and goes to an expensive city for the "opportunities" and pay the higher rents for said opportunity. If it doesn't work out, they can take their UBI and go back to a low CoL area. Of course this mobility gets harder once one has a family.
Clojure bindings for Apache MXNet 1.3
If you like pen plotting, i strongly recommend checking these drawings and the video that comes with it: https://www.michaelfogleman.com/plotter/
I wonder how that user feels about always being referenced in this context.
Clojure tutorials & API Documentation: http://mxnet.incubator.apache.org/api/clojure/index.html
For those looking for a different, and maybe deeper perspective on this; this was an interesting podcast. It is maybe the latest example of the shock doctrine / disaster capitalism pattern where disasters often lead to profits for those with access to capital.

https://www.blubrry.com/thedig/34718421/naomi-klein-and-merc...
I think you mean Infinite Loop 4 (the building with Town Hall & the Cafeteria). Last I saw it was still there.
Some time ago i did this math by choosing random bay area properties in Zillow, find the oldest last sold price and arrive at CAGR to the current zestimate.

Mostly it was in the band of 6-8%. This is less than S&P 500 and considering the mortgage rate was >6% before 2006 its not much. One exception to this is properties bought in the 2008 recession which had 12-18% CAGR.
I have one at my desk and one next to my bed. At work I can check a notification and then just put it back down without messing with a cable every time. And when I'm tired at night I don't have to chase down a cable and try to plug it in, I can just throw the phone on the mat in the dark. It's not a huge difference but it's nice, and it's worth the $7 I paid for a charging pad.