skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my admittedly very cursory skim of the paper, I gave it the benefit of the doubt on this point, because this seemed convincing:

"for the purpose of prediction, we are, of course, not so much interested in the probabilities issued by the measure functions, as in the conditional probabilities that give the corresponding predictors’ outputs."

Do you disagree?

(Also, my original summary is wrong at least in that I should have said limit computable where I said semi computable!)
Not related to the pizza version but to all MRE's - what if you have a broad food allergy, like lactose or gluten intolerance / allergy? Seems almost impossible to not have those present in these types of food.
Closest planet ever discovered outside solar system may be habitable with ocean
Best thing about the Swiss military is the caffeinated chocolate and cookies [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_chocolate_(Switzerlan...
We Are Not a Startup
The peace prize has been a joke for quite a while now.
> What happened to simpler times where things like "error: ‘long long long’ is too long for GCC" were the norm?

I don't even understand this - is this kind of joke now prohibited by the Linux code of conduct?
I’ve always believed that the 100ms figure includes network round trip time.
Please add a link to the mirrors list on https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Planet.osm#Downloading as well.
It depends on what the JavaScript code is doing.

The article discusses an example where code is loading Intl.DateTimeFormat which takes some time but is not immediately used.

So if the 56KB code doesn’t do a lot of loading of expensive components then it may not need further optimization, although it may still have the problem of blocking user input.

Main moral of the story is you can’t assume performance based on code size, you have to measure.
HideNsneak – A CLI for Ephemeral Penetration Testing
> It's the best.

Heard of Konsole? It doesn't need GPU to achieve the same speed.
Oh that's good, thanks for the heads up. Pretty recent post.
Could You Get into a Gifted Program?
Humans make systems. Teams like Project Zero (of Google) have contributed a ton to security. They prioritize security a lot.
I don't think the US military accepts people with food allergies like that.
> .. trust Microsoft more

ducks in advance - I acknowledge that Microsoft and Google are not without sin, especially Google, but at least the coding and engineering teams of Google that I've been watching, namely the prolific #webperfmatters crowd behind free beer contributions such as SPDY, QUIC, WebM/WebP, mod/ngx_pagespeed, Brotli, HSTS pinning and leveraging other teams' Google assets like SERPs and Chrome padlock design to pressure the adoption of HTTPS use, at least that behavior, talent and energy seems to be in line with the gist of Github. These teams collaborate with organizations you (plural) find much less threatening, for example with Brotli (gzip alternative), there was collaboration between veteran Google and Mozilla developers, and now about 85% of us use browsers that have implemented Brotli support which, in addition to claims and my own testing, is across-the-board superior to gzip in this context. As for adoption on the server side, NGINX at least was open minded.

All the time independent developers cook up superior things to prevailing standards but, lacking the might of Google and Microsoft and Mozilla, their work seldom gains traction. Git* under control of Microsoft and Google could give the little guys with the superior code a better spotlight, a symbiotic win-win for everybody.

I am convinced guys like Ilya Grigorik and Colt Mcanlis show up to work, and to public lectures, with making the web faster as their objective. Were they pressured to insidiously exploit Gitlab to our detriment, they'd blow whistles to stop Google, like with AI collaborations with the military, or at least resign, I'd hope. They'd have better and nobler things to do than be party to that.

Judging from the pronounced skepticism and negative consensus among this crowd to such actions, I think you will do an effective job hedging the risks and "keeping them [Google, Microsoft] honest" with respect to treasures like Github and Gitlab, both in your scrutiny and the influence you wield.

I also think that, if they behave themselves, their control over Github/Gitlab may give them more return on their respective investments than were they to Do Evil. Further, if they can't resist their undesirable habits, or even if they do behave, a market has already been created for some sort of Lavabit-like set of competitors to emerge, and that should be regarded as a good thing as another consensus hereabouts has been, before Microsoft's involvement, that Github's growth was a threat and at odds with our interests.

That said, note the lack of citations in my comment indicating that this is nothing but unfounded devil's-advocate corporate-apologist Google-fanboy speculation on my part and that you all are probably right... Cheers everybody!

edit: Ouch, i thought that was more substantive than contrarian. Before this gets voted to death, could someone please offer a rebuttal? I'm often wrong and it could help me wake up.
It's fair to take either opinion – personally I often find the common ancestor quite important, but I could understand why you might not. But it's disingenuous to call a tool "three way merge" if it's not shown. If you're only showing the two immediate parents, that's a regular old two-way merge.
Could you be more explicit as why you think TOML is not good enough?
I used to think YAML was the greatest thing until I saw the spec and what was actually allowed. And then I sort of moved onto TOML, and now I'm curios, maybe TOML too has showstopping issues :)
I used lists to build my own include concept in yaml like so:

includes:
- relative-include-file.yml
- url: git://stuff.git
file: git-included-file.yml

Not possible here.

(Of course I would need to change the string to a map as well, but that is just clunky to write all the time.)
GCP has been able to host your repo since before the turndown of Google Code. In fact, the original GCP Source Repo team and the Google Code team were the same team (though the current product has a different backend and team).
Do you have a link? This is potentially a good point, but it’s generally acknowledged by people on the spectrum that their condition may explain breaches of etiquette, but does not excuse them.
Ask HN: Recommendations for contract templates
I need to put together a contract for some software development that I am going to be doing, and I was wondering if anyone could recommend a template they have used or a website that has good templates to choose from?
Just FYI (has been said a gazillion times on the Internet): no state on this planet was ever communist. Communism is a society without money, no such thing existed on a state level anywhere. The states you are referring to were 100% socialist, i.e. no private property in any form or share with very very few exceptions; money tightly controlled by the state; all businesses are state-owned.

The comment above though probably meant the true communism, i.e. society without money.
Rapid UI Development with TailwindCSS – The New Kid on the Block
Amazon, Samara buy India's 'More' retail chain for $580M
Point well made. I could never put my energies behind something I knew to be false, dangerous, unhelpful or something I myself didn't believe in. Does it mean you have to be somewhat ethically and morally "flexible" to get going in startup land?

I am too scared to conclude anything about this lest I cement my mind into hopeless cynicism.
Love it, the audio is great.
Ask HN: Is Apple ashamed of the iPhone upper notch?
Is Apple ashamed of the iPhone upper notch area? Commercials running now show a planet display deliberately excluding the area...
I think they are harmful in the same way that sexual harassment training is harmful: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/11/upshot/sexual-harassment-....

It doesn't work at best and it definitely strongly polarises some people into pro/con camps.

That being said, it is funny that nobody would bat an eye at signing a code of conduct when they sign up for a gym membership or to volunteer for the YMCA, but signing a code of conduct to enter a restaurant or pub would feel really obnoxious. In all cases an obnoxious patron would be ejected. Maybe when a code of conduct is presented alongside some other typical agreement it seems more appropriate?
Oh yeah, it is - I just wanted to offer an alternative to your views, and added a real-world example.
Thiel-backed fund hits the jackpot with $12B Tilray stake
But that is an obvious observation. Almost a tautology. The question is how they choose to go about doing it. One company plans to keep selling me off to advertisers. Another plans to provide me with software.
I wonder if he is reacting to the many recent reports of censorship in the Elm community or if he has other specific examples or if he is just speaking generally?
As a cishet white male, I’m always a bit perplexed by these kinds of rants.

Did they just not see the vicious bullying disguised as debate, the misogyny, homophobia, ageism and racism that I’ve been seeing in my industry for 30 years? Deliberately not see it? Not care?

Because this is often not fun for members of the community that are Female, PoC, LGBQT, or just targetable.
At the cost of everything.
Looks very nice! Two things I noticed right out on a projet:

- It doesn't seem to be picking up my global .gitignore file. I see untracked changes of something that should be ignored. It doesn't appear on any other git client nor `git status`.

- Please add regex to the search :)
This is a strawman

I don't think it is. Those of us who've been in tech for a long time know women and people in minorities who have come and gone from the industry for these exact reasons. You don't have to blindly accept the stories people tell about how they're abused and mistreated; just read the comments on the videos of people's talks, or look at the replies to their tweets, and it's really obvious.
neat! but (speaking of the pendulum fallacy) if the fuel tank was attached with cables instead of a fixed structure, wouldn't that actually work?
Developers. Those are choices for developers, not their customers.

Their customers are still primarily enterprise/gov.

And the reason for giving choice and candy to the developers is to keep them onboard and happy to develop for the ecosystem, so that customers will continue to buy in as the ecosystem has what they need.

I'm not saying WSL or VS Code are evil. They make developing on Windows a joy. But they make it a joy with that goal in mind.
I totally understand the need for Android support back then (and to your point should have happened sooner).

With regards to relevancy, RubyMotion is built on top of LLVM. With regards to Ruby the language itself, it's been around for decades and won't be going anywhere (granted the same can be said for JavaScript).

I'm waiting to see how web assembly will shake things up.

Best of luck to you man (I genuinely mean that). And if you ever decide to come back to RM, I'll be here to help :-)
Soldiers have always groused about their chow, of course. Generations of generals have repeated the adage that armies march on their stomachs, but few ever mentioned taste buds.

Adding to the anecdotes here:

My dad was an E-8 in the army. He told a lot of stories about cutting through the bureaucratic BS to look out for the welfare of his people. He was very savvy about the fact that simply being in charge actively created obstacles to him knowing what was really going on at the lower levels.

One of his stories that sticks with me:

He inspected the chow hall by walking in unannounced and taking the tray from the guy coming off the line, then telling the staff to get the guy a replacement tray post haste so he wasn't unduly screwed over in the process. This meant they couldn't set aside any special cuts of meat or whatever just for The Sarge. He knew he was eating what they ate because he was eating a tray prepared for one of the troops, not for him. He gave them no warning so they couldn't have this day be the day everything was better or whatever.

I'm not convinced MREs are an improvement over the old rations. I've eaten MREs. They are pretty bad. I've heard stories from my dad about the old rations and some of it was apparently okay.

I'm not a fan of microwave meals either. MREs strike me as sort of like that. It is some new fangled means to do x, y or z that actually lowers food quality. Though I have read that in WW2, there were two different bugs that so regularly infested the flour with which biscuits were made for soldiers, that soldiers could tell you which bug they preferred to end up eating because one of them made the biscuits very bitter. So maybe it isn't quite as simple as I like to imagine.

Anyway, this looks like a good thing to me. The article mentions that pizza is "ubiquitous" in the US. That's actually understating it's popularity. From what I gather, it is actually the most widely eaten food globally and they do things like put fish on it in Japan.
Why do you think traditional markets should crack in a few months?
"choosing to participate"

Using the streets and sidewalks to get to work and/or school is not an optional activity for most people.
You mean this one:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/9/19/234
?
At first I was terrified of this, in the short term this could cause a lot of suffering but I’ve become convinced it will fail in the long term.

Human societies have evolved a very sophisticated mechanism for moving people up and down hierarchies using a distributed reputation tracking system. This system is interesting in that they’re trying to centralise the reputation tracking system and thereby control it.

To the extent that it replicates what people, on average, think about you I think it’ll work. But planned economies loose to unplanned ones because distributed decision making outperforms centralised decision making. Eventually this system will be misused, make bad decisions, or get ridiculously complex. Then people will loose faith in it. When that happens there’s very little China’s government can actually do to control 1.4 billion people. (That’s not to say that there their remaining options aren’t very worrying though, e.g. tanks)
Isn't that just selling user data with extra steps?
I agree with your point.

I am sometimes baffled when people seem to think that the amount of money that is payed for a certain job is proportional to how beneficial that job or service is to the society. I mean, there are Bankers who make good money screwing everybody over. Yet somehow people seem to look up to them.

I'd like to think that there might be improvements in how we value/pay services. But letting the government decide that is also quite foolish.
There's been a few stories about the fact that Google was also interested in buying GitHub. I think the GitHub CEO felt Microsoft would be a better fit for them.
i've been reading this same headline every year for 5 years :(
actually you can use windows 10 indefinitely for free. It has a little watermark but otherwise few restrictions
"tiny probability of accidental death"

The leading cause of death for young people in many jurisdictions is not a tiny probability.
It shows that the answer is simply "nothing whatsoever".
> doesn't have features such as tabs

The lack of tabs is a feature for some of us. After all, why have tabs when you can have tmux? :)
Alex Jones purposefully tells harmful lies to vulnerable people in order to get them to distrust the institutions around them so he can sell them harmful junk. It's literally his business model and it's immoral and dangerous. And he didn't even get censored, he got kicked off some platforms like twitter.
To compare him to an actual victim of censorship who was trying to get the truth out is an example of bothsidesm that is attempting to masquerade as rational thought.
> never before heard a description of RF ranges in octaves

you can read something about filter designs...

> It is usual to measure roll-off as a function of logarithmic frequency, consequently, the units of roll-off are either decibels per decade (dB/decade), where a decade is a 10-times increase in frequency, or decibels per octave (dB/8ve), where an octave is 2-times increase in frequency.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roll-off
I guess I'm an old man that hasn't smoked the hype, but I don't understand why one would write this:

const main = () => {
setTimeout(() => drawer.init(), 0);
setTimeout(() => contentLoader.init(), 0);
setTimeout(() => breakpoints.init(), 0);
setTimeout(() => alerts.init(), 0);
requestIdleCallback(() => analytics.init());
};

over this:

function main(){
setTimeout(drawer.init, 0);
setTimeout(contentLoader.init, 0);
setTimeout(breakpoints.init, 0);
setTimeout(alerts.init, 0);
requestIdleCallback(analytics.init);
};
And just when you thought Howard Stern could not broaden his audience any further..
I always assumed it was just because github came first and became incredibly popular before anyone had even heard of gitlab.
my understanding is he was appealing to going back to the informal way of dealing with conflict, where you try to empathise with people being flawed and only reserve the big guns like banning, ostracism etc for people who are being willingly nasty. Because once you codify behaviour standards it can potentially become a weapon in power struggles and political in-fighting, even if the intent is a positive one ( to prevent the creation of a hostile environment).
There is a wide variety of medical conditions that disqualify people from serving in the US armed forces.

https://www.military.com/join-armed-forces/disqualifiers-med...
Speed differentials increase the probabilities of accidents.

Speed increases the severity of accidents.

Decreasing the probability while increasing the severity may not provide any benefits.
Also from the same year of the contest, Wander[0] is a 3D explorable world complete with grappling hook and save points!

[0] https://js13kgames.com/entries/wander
Recently, like almost a year ago.

It's good, by the way.
So, like the one there is already that you have to pay for?
A society without money is even more absurd.
Struggling to Get It Sold?
I think the point is that in this purge of unpleasant or caustic geniuses, we're trading a meritocracy for mediocrity.
Is Artificial Intelligence the solution to broken politics?
If anyone from Versity is reading this, there is a typo in the release:

“We are releaing the technology under the GPLv2 open source license.”
> smart watches and wearables never really
> grabbed me the same way phones and tablets did.

Same here. It's because they're basically dashboards. It's hard to get excited about a dashboard.
Qt 5.11.2 Released
link: https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/9/19/234

Some of the replies are worth a read too. I like the one on cultural differences because it resonates with me that the whole CoC thing seems to be a very american thing.
Scaling high-throughput genomics workflows on AWS
It's using data to their advantage, but no it's not being sold.
Honestly no, they probably didn't. I know I never did. It was only once I got to know a couple of women engineers well that I got to know the things they had to put up with. So I can see why you might oppose codes of conduct if you've never been exposed to the reasons why they were implemented in the first place. Personally I'm glad they're there.
What GitHub has that GitLab didn't offer in my experience last year is a snappy website. Apart from that I'm a huge fan of GitLab, it is superior.

I believe that GitHub is more popular mainly because it was first, gained traction and became synonymous for some people with git itself, and open source.
Well, after 140 years, I don't think the original owners are worried about collecting any royalties?
How explainer videos and the right storytelling can boost your startup’s success
What really helps the poor?
The 2nd style will not work if those functions internally use `this` and were not previously manually bound to their parent objects, like `drawer.init.bind(drawer)`.
Maybe they should just be a little more careful about who they give it to. Even back when she seemed like a saint, did she really advance the cause of world peace that much? I don’t see how.

The classic crazy example would be Obama’s prize. It was obviously just a “you're not George W. Bush” prize. Hard to take such a thing seriously. They should stop treating it as “we like your political activism” and start treating it as “you have significantly contributed to world peace.”
And what was a dumb decision on the part of the conference organisers. It doesn't really have anything to do with why codes of conduct are a good or bad idea, though.
> Company has managers work the floor for two weeks on a rotating schedule for the first 6 months. Each manager does two different jobs for a week each. Pepsi does this every year. Friend of mine was in upper management and he drove a truck and delivered products a week a year.

I like that idea. Let managers deal with the details of the product or service. Have them exposed to countless, tiny, everyday pains and problems, which are invisible when handling big picture ideas.

For companies that deal with digital goods instead of physical products temporary low level support rotation might be a chance to get higher level positions down in the trenches. Basecamp seems to use such a system: https://signalvnoise.com/posts/3676-everyone-on-support
Tesla Model 3 gets perfect 5-star safety rating in every category from NHTSA
Abstractly, it's exactly the same as git. Commit → File tree → File data blob.

The underlying data structures used are different, but considered an internal detail, so could be changed in the future.
Today, most data is stored in a "revlog", where data can be either be stored (compressed) directly or stored as a (compressed) delta against an earlier version. Deltas may be chained. The index consists of fixed size records, which gives fast lookups, which are also linked to global revision numbers so that you can eg quickly find the commit based on a specific file change.

Obs: This is based on attempting to re-implement the basics of Mercurial from scratch.
Whenever I see a code of conduct I check if "political opinion" is a "protected class". Then I ask, "Could Brendan Eich have been excommunicated under this code?".

I rarely find the first. The second is less clear cut, as far as I can tell the new Linux contributor code of conduct would not have directly applied to him.

None the less, the harm is in that it empowers exactly the same group of people who got Eich fired in the first place.

Much like progressives try to "de-platform" conservatives, these codes of conduct "en-platform" progressives. And while some of their points are valid, it's hard to endorse their camp when they go around hit and run blackmailing others under the threat of shouting Racist! Misogynist! Shitlord! to force them to do things like changing master/slave database terminology or even more insane, changing blacklist/whitelist terminology.
8 Python packages that will simplify your life with Django
Well I'll be.. A parent-child relationship more odd than those found in os process hierarchies.
Thanks, this is a very insightful comment (and the NYT article confirms a suspicion of mine about workplace sexual harassment training — although here in Europe the legal situation is a bit different).

> Maybe when a code of conduct is presented alongside some other typical agreement it seems more appropriate?

Funny, this is exactly what I’ve done on personal projects. The CoC is simply a part of the contributors’ guidelines, next to things like submission guidelines and code style.
I like Kitty because of the built-in layouts, the speed is a bonus for me.
From Arabic to AI: the ancient roots of the algorithm
Due to javascript's funky notion of object methods. If you just pass the function reference itself invoking it will execute it with a |this| set to undefined.

Put differently, a property access x = foo.bar followed by x() is not the same as foo.bar()