skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How do you CI for iOS apps without a mac server?
1. SICP (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structure_and_Interpretation_o...)

2. Generative Programming (https://www.amazon.com/Generative-Programming-Methods-Tools-...)

3. PAIP (https://www.amazon.com/Paradigms-Artificial-Intelligence-Pro...)

4. Lisp In Small Pieces (https://www.amazon.com/Lisp-Small-Pieces-Christian-Queinnec/...)

5. The C Programming Language (https://www.amazon.com/Programming-Language-Dennis-M-Ritchie...)
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For those that are interested, here's the original workshop proceedings from John Lauber, one of the forefathers for CRM. As a pilot it was an interesting read. Cool to see how something that is engrained into pilots today came about.

https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/198000...
Would you mind sharing some insight on what role PHP plays in your tech stack that scales so incredibly high?
Supreme Court declines to take Martins Beach case –win for CA coastal access law
Can we also download physical objects after we go through the checkpoint?
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>> A colleague said: "The three-letter agencies are done with these, so they can go public now" - I wonder how true that is?

> Likely. Considering the three letter agencies get early access to these things from other vendors: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/06/nsa-g...

Though, it's worth noting that the NSA actually two roles: 1) ensuring the security of US Government communications systems and 2) conducting signals intelligence against other foreign communications systems. People focus so much on the former that they often forget the latter.

Given their defensive role, being "done" with these exploits may mean simply having patched/secured all their systems against them.
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* Review team members’ code to collaboratively identify bugs and correct security issues;

* Help establish threat models against our decentralized network and protocol.

Competencies:

* Deep knowledge of Python, Go, Javascript, Rust, or C;

* Familiarity with public-key cryptography and related cryptosystems, and the OpenSSL APIs;

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* Verbal and written technical English.

Bonus Points:

* Experience with AWS deployment and management (IAM, ec2, s3, etc);

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This method can super-resolve tiny unaligned face images (16 x 16 pixels) with the upscaling factor of 8x while preserving face structure.
While I know they have such imbecile laws, I just avoid visiting this country.
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Do you also have facts?
Why should it be awarded the Nobel prize for medicine?

Are there any medical applications in use today?
>...didn't want to ruin our vacation so I complied.

>It ruined the vacation for me...

So what was the lesson?
How I stopped eating meat and dairy and what I learned along the way
A couple of times I wrote bootloaders for new chips. I relied heavily on the chip vendors documentation. It was usually almost non-existent, and no more than text saying what things I had to do in what sequence. But taking that info, then looking at other bootloaders for operating systems (to see if there was environment specific things I should be considering) I was able to create boot loaders.
How do we know that they aren't installing software? It may just be a matter of time before someone reports an incident in which another one of these nations do install something.
Let me ask you this hypothetical question instead:
What if we have a "brain encryption" technology that allows encrypting your brain so that brain scanners, thought detecting methods or emotion detectors cannot see through it?

Would customs be allowed to ask for the decryption key? Or should the customs just ignore whatever is encrypted inside?
Nathan Myhrvold and co: https://modernistcuisine.com

Dave Arnold: http://www.cookingissues.com
http://heritageradionetwork.org/series/cooking-issues/
This book is indeed mind blowing, and after reading it I find all those FP vs OO arguments sterile. As you say, this book makes you understand that it's all a trade-off.

In fact what this book does is advocate multiparadigm languages (actually the author dislikes the term paradigm, multiple programming models would be more acurate), and explains in great detail how to decide which to use when, and how to mix different paradigms (ehem, models) with the very powerful technique of impedance matching.
I am a pollworker in San Francisco. On voting day, there is an army of us temps working at polling places all over town from 6am until 10pm or later, for about $150. The city is having a very hard time recruiting people for those long hours on a work day.

We have very old fashioned voting machines that scan ballots marked by voters by hand. The paper ballots are retained in the machine after being scanned, and are picked up at the end of the day by sheriffs deputies.

There is another army of mostly city employees working all day and night, for several days, suporting the polling places (in a dozen languages) and processing all of the ballots. So it is indeed a costly system.

We have been able to vote by mail for many years, but for various reasona, about half of the voters prefer to come to the polling place to cast their ballot (and get an "I voted" sticker).

Meanwhile, Washington, Oregon and Colorado have only voting by mail. No voting machines no polling places, no army of workers all over town. No doubt there are issues with processing those ballots as well, but it removes the voting machines from the vulnerable spots in church dining halls and residential garages all over town.
Honestly, I thought they'd killed off macOS Server a while ago. I'm a little surprised to discover that it's still a thing.
I’d say that most people nowadays do not really need broadband if they have a good enough cell phone plan.
[Growth Eng Blog] the Intent/Ease Framework for Conversion Optimization
The Feds will already have most of this information now.

They've long had your bank account information (thanks to the PATRIOT Act). They probably have trackers installed on the chipsets of devices, but ignoring that, we know they are capable of intercepting most internet traffic.

Most people have their fingerprints taken, either as the result of a run-in with the law, legitimate or otherwise (clerical error). Or because they were incentivized in some manner (TSA Precheck). Federal IDs are rolling out now too.
Netflix already lets series run on too long

I think Maniac and Series of Unfortunate events are both a bit of a push back to that (both are excellent btw). Having a hard ending makes sense for some shows, but if the creators have something they want to make, that the consumers want, then they should keep going. I see that as a benefit over traditional ratings wars type shows.
Not criticizing you but that's terrible advice. Not only is it pointless, it exposes the traveller to criminal prosecution. Why would a customs officer acquiesce?
As a Kiwi I've had some horrific experiences at the mercy of NZ customs. Aside from the usual drug swabs of phones and cameras they on one occasion managed to delete all the images I had stored on an SD card which they decided to search - they of course denied all responsibility. I would advise anyone traveling to New Zealand to leave their electronic devices at home.
You can already "download guns".

http://time.com/5344265/3d-printed-guns-legal/

I would be surprised if that's not possible for drugs or explosives in 5-10 years.

Edit: Looks like they are already possible or at least on the way:

http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/01/you-could-soon-be-man...

https://all3dp.com/custom-shaped-explosives-us-navy-3d-print...
I recently had to go to America for a wedding, due to these types of policies I always go through my phone and clean almost everything out of there.

Photos, logout of Google, clean up downloads, etc.

I don't have anything to hide, however having some random customs dude go into Google Photos which has over a decade of my life documented doesn't seem exactly ideal.
> What humanity and our civilisation will be in 20 or 30 years I don’t know, but I fear it’ll be unrecognisable and almost unimaginable to us, even now.

This is certainly true when looking at 2018 from the perspective of 1988 (or even 1998).
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Gov. Jerry Brown Signs SB 822, Restoring Net Neutrality to California
> Voting machines are a solution in search of a problem.

Voting machines are pretty crap, but they can and occasionally do solve some real problems.

Voting machines can help visually disabled people vote without human assistance and potential vote manipulation. Although that's not super helpful when it often makes systematic vote manipulation easier.

Voting machines can make it much easier to handle giving eligible voters the proper ballots if they show up at a precinct other than their home precinct; which enables things like pooled early voting locations and show up at any polling place in the county. It can be a lot easier to show up during voting hours to vote somewhere near work or school or on your way than somewhere near your house; but most elections have a mix of national, state, and local issues to vote on, and districts are not always well aligned. In the 2016 Presidential election, Santa Clara County had 247 different types of ballots.
So you're saying they take an issue which is roundly described as wrong, vaccine denialism, state that it is much more pervasive on the political left, then without any irony, you state they didn't lean left even though they blamed this issue on Trump?

I'm going out on a limb and claiming that taking a left leaning fault in society and blaming it on Trump, does not count as a right leaning example.
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Good point about adverts. I’m so used to using ad blockers that I had completely forgotten about them.

In the absence of adverts, I can easily believe I will be a heavy user of augmented reality, as I already find the limited form on my phone extremely useful (translation mainly, but I have also used AR as a ruler, and a previous employer’s main app uses it to tell hikers what the nearby hills are called).
For what it's worth, I noticed that the login does not load up on IE11 and Edge, although it loads up for Chrome, Firefox, and Opera and will label the fake pop-up window with said browser name.
Ask HN: Prospective employer wants me to start ASAP. Is this a bad sign?
To keep it short: I've accepted a job offer from this company in a different country, which requires me to apply for a visa. I had told them back when I was interviewing that I had a prior notice of three months to fulfil. They said that they were going to set a tentative start date in three months plus a week. Fine.

Now that two months have passed, I've informed them that I will not realistically be able to start at the stipulated date, and that I'd need a couple more months. That was taken very badly by them. I was told that they'd give me another month at most.

This has gotten me very concerned, since I'm joining a considerably large team (5-10 people) in a large-ish company. On top of that they sent me all the paperwork via email plus a welcome message before I gave them a final clear verbal accept. That plus the fact that now they "need" me as soon as humanly possible left a bad taste in my mouth.

I haven't yet signed any physical documents. Should I bail out?
Unfortunately the push for checklists has been made more for the purposes of decreasing physician autonomy and increasing reliance on mid-level practitioners as a "cost saving" tool.

The big difference between aviation and medicine is that human patients are more complex and variable than machines like airplanes. Sure checklists can improve some things, but they're not the definitive fix for anything. In fact, checklists can actually slow down decision making unnecessarily, especially in situations when seconds matter.
9 new sci-fi and fantasy books to check out this October
Lurking beneath the surface, I'm sure, is bewilderment at the Trump phenomenon by New Yorker readers. But nevertheless, the piece isn't a partisan screed.
Of course they should be allowed to do so. That would eradicate drug trafficking and cross-border terrorism.

I would say the benefit is too good, weighing against privacy.
The replication rate is social science studies is very poor. And an even larger problem is that the studies themselves do not actually test what they aim to test, often because they simply cannot. For instance do video games cause violence? The only way you could realistically test this would be to have one group somehow prevented from playing video games for their entire life, or at least up to a certain age, and another group obligated to play video games in a similar fashion, and then some control group presumably free to do as they saw fit. And then follow these individuals for decades and see what happens.

That's not really possible. So instead the experiments that are made are toy experiments, but when you're not really testing what you're trying to measure, it becomes impossible to prove anything, and possible to show anything. For instance could you design a toy experiment that might indicate video games cause violence? Of course. Could you design a toy experiment that might indicate video games don't cause violence? Of course. The experiments are meaningless.

As an example of the problem, 'emotional intelligence' in work is all the rage right now. Yet the keystone study that sparked it is really just quite bad. The author had people split off into groups and perform a variety of tasks such as, literally, planning a shopping list. Using some method of determining who made the best shopping list, the author then determined that the groups who had the highest average IQ did not perform the best, whereas their 'emotional intelligence' as measured by an, again literally, "reading the mind in the eyes test" mapped better to performance - so therefore, it's not merit alone that judges performance but some emotional intelligence, at least as measured by "reading the mind in the eyes" that does. That's just broken logic. At the bare minimum IQ != specific task merit. The most logical way to perform that experiment would be to have created teams of those that performed individually best on any given task to work together against those that did not score so well on merit, but did well on the "reading the mind in the eyes test". Of course she did not do this, the bare minimum to even begin approaching this question, since the result would not be what she wanted. And negative results don't get published. Yet now there have been likely hundreds of articles and spin off studies taking that study's unjustified conclusion as a granted.

So no, there is absolutely no big picture progress in the social sciences.
What does that have to donwith women?