skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, it has. Folks hundreds of years ago could not articulate the rules of evidence in Bayesian terms, but intuitively understood that it is probabalistic. The question is, what are the odds that all these facts are true and the accused is not the killed. If that is below the threshold for reasonable doubt (1-10%) then a conviction is in order. Circumstantial evidence like “direct” evidence narrows that probability. Knowing the killer stayed at the same hotel as the victim on the night of the murder is circumstantial evidence, but dramatically narrows the probability that the accused is innocent compared to the prior odds ratio. Any given piece of circumstantial evidence may not be enough, but together it can narrow the odds sufficiently to achieve a conviction. (He was in the same hotel, had an insurance policy on the victim’s life, and had recently purchased a gun, which cannot be found.)
Hi! I have a couple questions I've been wondering about for years. Appreciate any insight/answers you can provide.

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QNX was momentarily open for a little while until the license change with BlackBerry et al. My question: did this license change only apply to future QNX versions, or did it also retroactively apply to the "open"-sourced code as well?

My primary current interest in QNX stems from being fascinated with old and/or unusual operating systems. I'd love to be able to go fishing for 6.4 et al, maybe even compile what I find from source (or maybe not), and basically just play with the system to see how it works. If it's fine for me to go and find 6.4 and poke at it for noncommercial purposes - well, that'd be awesome to know. Obviously such a usage model would not incorporate any official agreement or warranty, and I understand that.

In a somewhat related vein, at some point I may find it useful to observe how QNX handles certain technical minutiae as part of my own (hopeful) OS development work. Obviously sourcing the latest versions of the QNX source for this purpose would offer support options, not to mention a more relevant codebase; but it would be great to know that I'd be able to safely make do with the older releases as long as I don't seek/expect any form of support.

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I was unfortunately out of the loop with the QNX scene during the period it was open so I never got a chance to grab any of the repos. (And a quick search turned up what appears to be some QNX 6.4 bits and pieces on GitHub (as the previous comment hinted at) but it doesn't look very official, so I don't want to sift through it in case I waste my time.) Of course official repo access has since been closed, so I can't check that. So: I figure why not ask, what can it hurt.

When the repo was opened, did it include full commit history, or a large portion of it?

QNX 4.x is really cool. I managed to get an old copy working in a VM some time ago (took a bit of thinking; there's so little documentation out there). 6.x is nicer, but 4.x feels faster (which kind of makes sense).

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I've been fascinated with QNX for years, and to be honest I want to say I find the "closed > yay open!! > closed" timeline incredibly frustrating; but besides wistfulness, this has also generated a fair bit of confusion regarding the current status quo.
Thanks, those all look interesting. I will check them out.
It has to be the most uncommon pizza topping in the US.
This should be the top comment. From the article you link: "Judge Susan Eagan let stand a count of criminal possession of a weapon against Dixon, and its 5- to 15-year sentence, which she said he had satisfied."
This boils down to an argument that none of the issues that divide the parties matter to you. Apparently you don't care about immigration, feminism, LGBT issues, inequality and so on? Trump is boring?

American politics in 2018 is not lacking in drama or stark divisions. If today's politics doesn't excite you, what could possibly do it?
Yes, it only came out a few day ago; it's understandable you were not aware of it :)
It's at the point now where it's irrational to pay attention / partake in national politics at all unless you have said money. For most individuals it makes sense to treat national politics as basically the weather, and instead just invest in local politics.

But that's not what partisans do by and large outside a few key ones, because in the end for most partisans it's not about policy proposals or trying to steer the gov't, it's about identity.
I've found the keyboard shortcut to be a lot less annoying Esc. I just do it automatically these days on any popup. These damn website notifications aren't going away anywhere, they are getting all the more pervasive. So I've just learned to live with them and be less annoyed.
According to the first sentence in the article you link, "Intrinsic value is the perceived or calculated value of a company, including tangible and intangible factors, using fundamental analysis." That's precisely what I am talking about.
Ask HN: Pros and Cons of Coding Bootcamp
Before JavaScript embraces lambdas, everyone thought they were a bad idea. You could say something similar about jit.

I know JS gets a lot of hate on hn, but if you look at the history of a lot of modern pl paradigms, many of them got traction after years of ridicule because JavaScript brought them to the masses.
> It's not obvious to me that higher voter turnout leads to better governance.

And that has never been the intent. High voter turnout leads to Democratic victories and rain on the election day leads to Republican ones.

If someone is building an app to create technology to make it rain on the election day for whatever reason, you can probably guess the real reason behind it.
I was wondering the same. Or would external fins/wings defeat the purpose?
Introducing the Librem Key
From Vimperator to Tridactyl
Cloud Native Patterns: Canary Release
Never heard of it before. It looks good. Is it really free?
Amazing, exactly my issue as well.

I'm convinced their promo videos are shot by teams carrying tons of batteries. If you are actually adventuring / backpacking for a few days etc, a go-pro is no go unless you want to be worrying about battery life the entire time.
Exactly. Or maybe the day before, but the key being an extremely simple solution to a core piece of the problem. Even if apathy were low and engagement was high, it seems like a lot of effort for any given person to know when and where they are up to bat for voting and what they're voting on.
Is there a place you can buy MRE's as a civilian? Are they available at any typical military surplus store? I've always had a thing for utilitarian food, I was big into Soylent for a while, and will gladly eat PB&J for lunch every day for months. I'll often ponder that if I could get my energy from a USB charger overnight, I'd prefer to just never eat.

I've always wondered if all the complaints MRE's get are actually because they taste bad, or if most the hate is in the principle of such a food (or the monotony and lack of choice, etc.)
Copenhagen interpretation does not imply human or conscious observer. That's called quantum mystism that usually uses Copenhagen interpretation as a starting point.

What Heisenberg and others assumed was that that there exists so called 'Heisenberg cut' between somewhere between quantum and macroscopic phenomenon.
Ask HN: What is a “Cypherpunk”?
I watched a "From Cypherpunk to Ethereum" video on Youtube yesterday that discussed some of the history behind 'Cypherpunks'. Can someone elaborate on this origin, history, meaning of the term?
"Judge Susan Eagan let stand a count of criminal possession of a weapon against Dixon, and its 5- to 15-year sentence, which she said he had satisfied." (http://www.espn.com/golf/story/_/id/24736866/valentino-dixon...)
No idea about the results of that dehydration experiment.

Thanks for the ‘h’ call out. I’m lousy at spelling. :(
I am sad that I do not have the ability to downvote this utter tripe.

From the author's twitter a/c:

> Linux story was a bit unusual for #MeToo, because the abusive conduct wasn’t necessarily directed at women – yet the climate of abuse and nastiness had the effect, critics say, of driving out women.

It's not just unusual for #MeToo - it's fucking downright inappropriate to even attempt to tie it in with #MeToo.

The good old "critics say". Who are these critics - do they have names or special knowledge that could inform us as to whether they're qualified to make these criticisms?

Are they random people on twitter by any chance?

The named girl in the article was retweeted by author & had this to say:

> If you wanted to work in operating systems but left or never joined because of Linus Torvalds, please reply to this tweet or DM me. RTs for reach appreciated!

who herself retweets some other random who tweeted(in relation to Linuses salary):

> Agreed. There are two issues being conflated:

> 1) Given Linus's behavior, he is not qualified to lead the project.

> 2) The salary he is receiving is fair compensation for the lead of the Linux project (assuming the person in that role is qualified)

Even as a liberal European, the current toxic nonsense being spouted by these people is most definitely well past the "jumping the shark" moment.
Anyone know which definition of lightweight is in effect here? :)

I see Atom called lightweight all the time. I remember when my PC had a 5MEG HDD and exactly 640k of RAM, so...

I'm curious what amount of resources (disk, runtime memory etc) is used for something like a small CRUD app (think simple phonebook or CD library)

If you know the answer for proton native, please post that too!
I've taken the first part of this (not the newest version using Pytorch, tho I'd like to retake someday soon), and found this class to be extremely useful. I do agree that in order to be optimally efficient you'd want to have a background understanding of statistics/linear algebra; however, I love this class because it gets you up and running very quickly and excited about the content.

It's also my understanding that the ML stack is making it more and more accessible to actually apply these algorithms. Sure, after you take this class you probably won't go out and invent new algorithmic breakthroughs, but many people in this class do participate in in Kaggle competitions solving real world problems (some of the assignments are submissions) and do very well, even winning occasionally.

The point of the class is to generate interest and to get people useful quickly (make neural nets uncool again), it'd be much harder to get the field to blossom if you required people to start with years of stats/math beforehand.
Many of the US Michelin restaurants are tasting menus only, though they'll always adjust for real allergies. Few will accomodate vegetarian or vegans though.
I am not sure about Dolphins for example. Bats do 3d navigation and echolocation with tiny brains, so there is some reasons dolphins use that many resources to support a larger brain than ours.

We don’t have a great ability to communicate with them, but they also have a very different sensory world.
Posted a Show HN about 6 years ago. On the front page for about half a day. We hold our cards close to our chest because ours is a competitive industry, so pardon the anonymity, but we are bootstrapped and did $10m+ in revenue last year with a healthy profit. Much love, HN :)
I think it's because the batteries are teetering above the centre of gravity?
Great, another app using which, people who know me in real life, can unfriend me.

The problem isn't voting or lack of awareness (although I have an inkling on which side might think this is the root cause), the problem is polarization.

More aware you are of what goes on, more polarized you can be.

The problem which needs to be solved is to not get people hold opinions, but how to consolidate their opinions with the other side.
Is there a way to view history of a single branch?
> The polls are not rigged, and people are not afraid to speak freely: Russians love Putin.

Amen, comrade!
It's surprisingly difficult to produce combat rations that can provide enough calories for wartime activities. The (civilian) 2000 calorie diet on the side of the box now is already a joke for anybody reasonably active, but when you're humping a third to half your bodyweight through rough terrain, it's downright ridiculous. WW2 K-Rations (approx 3000 kcals daily), when not supplemented with anything better, frequently led to malnutrition, scurvy and other similar ailments, not to mention that troops on them for extended periods of time in a warzone lost so much weight and muscle mass that they were ineffective for months afterwards.
Should have flown a MIG-29.
The other side. We spend 80% of our time on the last 20% of the code. Make it count for something. Do something that differntiates you from competitors.
Remember when Obama said that thing about clinging to guns and religion? He ended up winning Pennsylvania by 10 points! Don’t pretend this is a new phenomenon or that anybody actually cares that much about it.
This looks great. would love to see it in other editors.
I don't understand, I have the 6 and stabilization is already really good. Truth be told, I'm not doing stunts on rough terrain, but even on gravel roads it does the job. The video looks like it's totally turned off for "Previous GoPro".
We aren't talking about anchovies:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18033318
How do you mean? As a side project? I've seen and built several ML products that are used widely inside Amazon atleast.
Classifier with less than 100 pictures
There may be a bit more to this case: "Scott said he had gotten the gun, a Tec-9 semi-automatic, from Dixon and the two men had driven together to the crowded corner where the fighting broke out." (http://www.espn.com/golf/story/_/id/24736866/valentino-dixon...)
Resources availability. English/X or X/English pairs probably exist for a lot of X and may be well endowed. But for any other X/Y pairs resources may not exist at all or be too small to use. That being said it is still interesting to develop this kind of ressources (for example dictionaries) because they can be used for other NLP tasks.
Does the library content update on yours? It doesn't on mine. Not an unusual problem, I understand.

It seems to be a very shiny SKU with some serious firmware issues.
> They took it because not having it exposed them militarily

Ok, I'll bait - it exposed them to what?
Will We Ever Stop Eating Animal Meat?
And like all these cool new *nix terminal projects, they seem to forget that a configuration GUI is worth having. Sure, you don't need it every day, but its really darn handy when you're first setting it up. The cycle of "Look at website, edit file, restart terminal, repeat, what are my font options again?" gets old really fast.
Evidence doesn’t need to inexorably lead to the conclusion of guilt. The evidence taken together must establish probability of guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.

Having motive to kill someone doesn’t prove you did it. But statistically, those with motive are much more likely to be the killer than a random person. That narrows the probability. Likewise, lying about where you were at the time of the murder (which is what #4 is about) doesn’t prove you committed it, but makes it more likely. Those compund—each additional fact narrows the probability that the accused is not guilty.

If you take a random sampling of 100 situations where there exists facts similar to this case, I think you’d find that 95%+ of the time the accused really did commit the murder. That’s all that’s required.
The various Innocence Projects across the US are full of absolute heroes. The number of innocent people currently serving time in US jails is tragic and scary.

Prosecutors and judges should be held more accountable for malpractice. This man lost his life when the facts were in his favor. Someone should be punished for this injustice.

Even worse, lots of states won't even compensate the wrongly convicted for taking their lives from them.
The 'normal' process is that a cell starts with it's permanent DNA in the nucleus. Part of the DNA [1] is transcribed to a string of RNA, this RNA is translated to a protein. There is an encoding where the sequence of base pairs along the DNA strand unambiguously specifies the sequence of amino acids that form the protein. The proteins then do the work in the cell (eg. the protocadherins and zinc fingers article mentions).

This isn't the only way, and biologists seem to love studying the exceptions, but it is the main pattern found so far. This is the dogma the article refers to:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_dogma_of_molecular_bio...

Cephalopods edit their RNA before translation to a protein on a huge scale. Apparently 60% of the RNA sequences in a squid brain study were modified (presumably before translation to a protein) https://phys.org/news/2015-03-squid-enrich-dna-blueprint-pro... So most of the proteins in that squid brain are not in it's genome (although similar ones are).

This is very simplified and I am not a biologist.

[1] Roughly speaking each bit of DNA that does this is a gene: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_code
"Apple said it decided to sue after the company bought a number of its power adapters and charging and syncing cables "that were directly sold by Amazon.com – not a third-party seller – and determined that they were counterfeit."

I recalled multiple discussions about fake products on Amazon. I have been very careful not to order from 3rd party, but if even a product directly sold by Amazon can be fake, this is not good.
A minimal Turing test
A paper or webpage I read long ago about Bing Translate internals mentionned to use of an intermediate language that was artificial.
How a Microwave Weapon Might Work
I think that just like most people don't need to know about the extremely complex internals of databases or networks, we should get deep-learning systems to a point where users can treat them the same way.

(Of course there's always value in knowing the details -- it helps to strive towards lowering the barrier to entry into complex systems.)
Disdain might come in a more subtle form, for example disdain for candidates like Bernie.
>You can also hover over most buttons to see which git command it will run.

I really like this feature.
"Kids-for-Cash". "Judges Michael Conahan and Mark Ciavarella were accused of accepting money in return for imposing harsh adjudications on juveniles to increase occupancy at for-profit detention centers."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kids_for_cash_scandal
It's similar to how racism is presented. Many people talk about how "racist" the US is, and of course there is still a lot of racism in the US.

But there is racism everywhere. I've lived in several countries, including Switzerland. I've never heard anyone except people that have lived in CH talk about how racist it is (very).

The difference, I think, is that the US is the country most likely to admit fault when they are racist. Americans themselves will say "yes, we're racist", while Swiss, Germans, Brits, etc. all seem to still be in that denial stage.

I think things like Brexit are starting to get people to think long and hard about their actual views on race / immigration. America just got to the party first.
So what would you expect my example above do, at a glance?

Or is my example something that a good Ruby developer never write at all?
I think I would have agreed even if you had said 'has been ... so far'. Monopolies rarely behave well.
I don't think that grid will be able to do that, you'd need some kind of state aware component or function in your compiler/SSG that updates the state of your "mosaic" based on your own settings, so that it can calculate the best possible layout as new items are added to your site and then render/generate it.
I have built computer vision products at my startup. I was familiar with some machine learning before, but only really learned to apply it on the job. Fast forward 7 years and the initial product and others that followed have been very successful. Machine learning is only a part of the whole product though.
I've been using Tower but I may switch to this since Tower switched to a subscription model and I'm a fan of Sublime Text.
Great explanation. I think a lot of comments along the lines of “I don’t understand something so it must be dumb” are better framed as “I don’t understand something so my model of the world is incomplete”.
Facebook didn't use hg until 2012 or later. I was talking and only know about the state of hg in 2010/2011 and at that point, git was widespread, stable and widely more useful than hg for anything besides simpler/smaller projects, again IMO.
That’s a real chicken and egg problem. Why put that many people into space in the first place?

Tourism seems like an option, but if you can drop launch costs enough that it’s ‘cheap’ then sending stuff up is also ‘cheap’.

IMO, the trick to getting space mining to take off is not robots it’s the need for billions of tons worth of low complexity stuff in orbit.
Robust is probably a better word to describe attack resilience.
Sorry, got mixed up with traffic fatalities. Thanks for the correction!
GoPro has been dying for a few years, there are a ton of alternatives at much lower prices and if you're just strapping it to a bike or something no need to go top of the line.

https://youtu.be/l4fHeiqtGOA
> What code base did you develop the web app in?

The app itself was an iOS app written in Objective-C.

> And do you have an android version?

Unfortunately there wasn't. It probably would have been helpful to write it in something like PhoneGap (now Apache Cordova) to increase engagement, but I was using it partially as an exercise to learn Objective-C and iOS.

> What was the reasoning? Were you not getting enough use and participation? No downloads? Did you fail to execute the concept in some way?

At around 100 registered users, I felt it wasn't enough interest in the app to keep going. Some of the feedback I got through the App Store included not seeing all the available candidates (like lesser third party candidates) for a given election. Since I was entering elections by hand and not using a third party API to get the information, there was alway some information missing from the lesser elections. Also, after the 2012 election was over, I didn't see the purpose of maintaining an app that wouldn't be used for at least another 2 years. Its something you need to be dedicated for in the long haul.
The advantage of learning lots of “deep” skills superficially is that it gives you the perspective to have a better idea of which ones you should dive more deeply into to address particular real-world problems. (It may even give you the tools to apply some of them to the real world problems they are most simply applicable to without further study, as a bonus.)
A battery lasts about 3 hours of filming for me using GoPro Hero 5 Black 1080 30fps linear.

This usually lasts all day of regular use.

I now have 3 batteries and never have to worry about battery life.
Dried fruit and nuts ARE a significant part of many different Country's soldier meals. The problem is that it just doesn't do for a soldier's morale what something like pizza or chili does. A soldier doesn't want health food, he wants comfort food
5 Year Degree in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering in 9 Minutes
Phalanx was successfully adapted to shoot down mortar shells in Iraq (C-RAM.) If it has a radar return Phalanx can probably kill it. This sort of weapon could be adapted with infrared or other anti-radiation sensors as well.

I think the answer to defending against offensive UAVs is defensive UAVs. Just today a story[1] appeared about a USAF Reaper shoot down of another UAV. Supposedly a first.

[1] https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/aviation/a23320374...
This is pretty cool. What can we expect in terms of additional language support?
> I’ve heard something about a surprise principle in API design. Principle of most surprise I think it was? Let’s go with that.

The design process of this, I imagine.