skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Those are race team sponsorships. People pay the owner of the car to put those ads on the car. That’s the exact opposite of the point under discussion: the owner is getting revenue by choosing to put ads on the car, that is much different than Ferrari putting ads on a car you buy in order to make more money for Ferrari. Those sponsor ads make money for the owner of the car/team.
Both the first amendment and section 230 were mentioned in the article. Also, Google is not being sued here, merely being given a subpoena, so I don't see how it applies.
The Economists had the same bullshit (plus it was an international call, only in a limited hours), so I sent them a very angry (and I admit abusive, which I am not proud of, even if what they were doing were basically fraud) email. Wof now I am unsubscribed, no call necessary.
To update the probability you assign to a prior after you make some observation you rescale it by P(observation | prior) / P(observation). This scaling factor is proportional to how well the prior predicted the observation and inversely proportional to how well the "average prior" predicted the observation.

So a prior's probability increases to the degree that it predicts an observation better than alternative priors.
The best bit was his take on the famed Google "adult daycare" workplace theme - essentially saying it's a clutter problem. But this guy is a dumpster fire.
There are many sites that run on PHP 5.2-5.5, which are EOL from PHP.net already.

If shameless self-plug is allowed, take a look at my presentation at DrupalCon Vienna: "PHP7+: The why's and the how's": https://events.drupal.org/vienna2017/sessions/php-7-whys-and...
Given project/ biz structures at least with amazon and the gov cloud efforts, their response could be entirely true and false at the same time. Ie. amazon didn’t have modified hardware but the joint business venture did.
Many samplers are based on HMC, it's a general class of samplers, not a specific algorithm. NUTS is a variation of HMC, as well as the paper I linked above.

'vanilla' HMC uses detailed balance to guarantee that the stationary distribution of the chain is the one you want, causing the process to behave like a random walk. So although the Hamiltonian bit of HMC lets you take these great big steps through state space, you end up retracing your steps quite a lot.

Hence NUTS (No-U-turn sampler) et. al
Data breaches make the news because the data wasn't supposed to be published. Just because a third party has my data on a computer doesn't mean it's public. Under your logic I've published all my banking data, whether I've used online banking or not.
Interesting article (thanks for sharing).
Indeed, a genuine prior is the key to apply Bayes' rule. However, is there a proof that it always exist? (As Feynman would question the law of physics changing in time.)
Consider an alternative scenario: you're a business person and you present an alcoholic beverage to someone you know is an alcoholic because you are paid to do so. You know they've had substance abuse problems in the past (you have all the metadata!) but you turn a blind eye because $. Is that morally acceptable to you?

Just because it produces revenue for a few ad tech companies doesn't make it objectively good. Marketing bs products to people through online ads is no different than giving crack to kids, presenting the idea of a major life solution through pretty fonts and flashy user flows when in fact most products are just stupid and ill-conceived from start to finish. If I left a tab after checking out a product and didn't buy it, it probably sucks. But repeatedly shoving it in someone's face through advertising after visits, for one concrete example, basically pushes people into situations they didn't consent to. It is total manipulation and its reprehensible - its just slightly more abstract and people get drawn into the "well just dont buy it!" narrative.

It is a fact that an increasingly large number of people have poor impulse control and pretending it doesn't is not equivalent to predatory activity being OK.
The "number of clock cycles that are required for the execution core to complete the execution of all of the μops that form an instruction" is the definition that Intel uses in its manuals to define latency.

It is actually not the definition that uops.info uses. Instead, it uses a definition that takes into account that different operands of an instruction might be ready at different times (see section 4.1 of the paper that mentions Intel's definition as a "common definition" and then continues to introduce the new definition). Furthermore, uops.info also considers latency differences that can occur if an instruction uses the same register for multiple operands (the SHLD instruction is an example for this).
An example of entrepreneurial accomplishment. Peter Madsen desperately wanted to go to space. So far he has made it to confined space.
(Few of these are news sources worthy of note.)
Show HN: Dangless-malloc – Safe dangling pointer errors (master thesis)
Not just WP, Drupal, Magento, Joomla, OpenCart and many others.
https://www.quickanddirtytips.com/education/grammar/commas-w...

I'm pretty sure it is "big red bus"[0] and not "big, red bus" unless you're using the comma for emphasis? Either way, as you say, it can't be "red, big bus" nor can it be "red big bus" because these adjectives are cumulative, not coordinating.

[0] https://www.quickanddirtytips.com/education/grammar/commas-w...

[1] https://dictionary.cambridge.org/grammar/british-grammar/abo...
Ah, yes, need more humanities to combat wrongthink.
It should be noted that is where Pony was born.

Additionally, one of the language designers, Sylvan Clebsch, now works at Microsoft Research, so in a way Microsoft is also sponsoring the work on Pony.
Humans have been breeding plants and animals to try to enhance specific traits for a really long time, well before it could be done in a lab.

Watermelon was originally called that because it was used as a natural form of canteen. Hundreds of years ago, the inner fruit was not sweet and tasty. It was consumed solely for purposes of hydration.

https://assets.atlasobscura.com/articles/where-are-watermelo...

https://www.vox.com/2015/7/28/9050469/watermelon-breeding-pa...
You should define what kind of simplicity you're asking for: An easy to understand explanation or a simple formula. I actually think that J Pearl & Co in the Book of Why provides a good example of the former.
It’s a large can of beer.

Most places that sell crowlers pour fresh draft in, and can on site. It typically means either very fresh beer (the Crowler I picked up yesterday was from a very fresh beer kegged a few days ago) or specialty beers that won’t get distributed in a way that normal consumers can get it.

A beer correctly crowled will last for quite a while (months) if stored correctly.

edited to add: a crowled beer is filled all the way to the top, sometimes purged with co2, which is what helps reduce oxidation - compared to a growler, which usually has an air gap.
With the canopy off? I doubt it!
A Renaissance painting reveals how breeding changed watermelons (2016)
No, this is a different IACA-like tool. Our tool is not public yet.
Life is a system that decreases entropy locally. Fire increases entropy locally.
There’s no requirement that defamation be public.

If one lies about a person in a one on one conversation with a close friend, he or she could be sued for defamation.
Congratulations on the release from my side as well.

The more languages the merrier, specially type safe ones for distributed computing.
This is the most powerful hurricane to strike the Florida panhandle in recorded history.

So, uh, yeah, it’s news.

It’s disingenuous to claim there was a huge failure in preparedness in an area with frequent storms while ignoring the efforts involved to evacuate and the severity of the storm. This evacuation successfully saved every person on base and a significant amount of hardware from a 200 year storm in... 72 hours.
I believe you can express those things in Pony via higher order programming. Just like in Rust, although Rust got quite a bit farther on this.
The spreadsheet wasn't being used to stop men from getting jobs. It was being used to warn women that they may need to protect themselves when working with those men.

Please don't conflate the UK laws about blacklisting - which come from a time of vigorous anti-union activism in the construction industry that prevented men from working in any company in their industry for many years (and led to the creation of UK laws about data protection) - with this small private spreadsheet.
>My life has been destroyed by a baseless corporate accusation of misconduct. I used the bitch-word toward a woman

Calling your coworker a bitch is most certainly a fireable offense. Sorry to hear you haven't found work since.

Maybe taking ownership of your mistake and showing remorse will impress potential future employers.
Implying that those startups failed due to engineer negligence and not due to strategic business blunders.
I was more indicating the capitalists here.
Left and right are two wings of the same bird. What many seem to overlook in posts like this is the simple fact that they're being controlled by an authority and you allow that authority to take from you, even if you believe you're doing it voluntarily because that's what everyone else does.

Remember, nothing is truly yours if you have to pay someone else for the right to use it. The cost then for using a Huawei phone as a US citizen is they spying will continue but at least more authoritarian governments (excuse me, Democratic republics) gets a piece.
Yes, but it is possible to inspect the Dockerfile and recreate the runners yourself.
Makes sense, thanks. Back when i was phredding for a living, i had the luxury of just cutting off the file when the quality of the read got dodgy!
The Full-Stack Startup (2015)
I agree. this would make a nice mobile game.
This thesis is from a friend of mine. In the following discussion [1] someone said that this warrants its own post.

I asked him permission to post this. He reads HN but is a bit shy in commenting, which is why I am posting it as show HN.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18212312
If you lied about your boss in a serious way it would be.
The issue at hand is specifically accusations of sexual assault which are provably significantly under reported and often dismissed when reported.

This is a problem that needs to be solved and the first step to solving it is to listen to and believe the people who have been assaulted.
I once attended a small scientific conference with a couple hundred attendees total. Over the two days of the conference there were many technical presentations to the full group, but two of the final presentations were non-technical. One presentation was from a science ethicist, who I believe was a professor at an Ivy-league school.

It pained me to be in the audience for the ethicist's talk and following Q&A session. She was unable to provide any framework for thinking about ethics which the scientists present did not already have. The scientists asked direct questions about how to approach specific ethical issues they saw in their own work, and her responses were all along the lines of "well, the important thing is that you think hard about it."

She displayed no ability to teach the scientists much, and no willingness to dive into discussion of their issues. Her presentation was a lot of the sort of thing that this article is trying to do: shaming STEM folks for their mistakes, and claiming the humanities is the cure-all. Let me make a claim: if the humanities are really a solution for problems created by STEM, all you should need to do is demonstrate the case. Technical and scientific crowds understand problems, and will jump on real solutions.

(Aside: of the STEM undergraduate programs I'm aware of in the US, they all require somewhere between 20% and 50% of classes to be in the humanities or social sciences)
It’s too simplistic a measurement to use, clearly it’s incorrect to use it by itself. Another example to use would be imagine a neighborhood with the Forbes 100 richest, the extreme income disparity there between Number 1 and Number 100 clearly breaks what you’re commenting on.

Maybe the measurement should be ability to move up and down the economic strata.
Done! You can see it here: https://dangless.gaborkozar.me/
True, but at the same time the conventional value of free speech has a lot more exceptions than the Constitutional version. If someone's calling you out for being a jerk, and your best defense is "hey our culture usually values letting people disagree," everyone's probably going to think you're a jerk.
Can a vegan keto diet work?
> I'm surprised that doesn't have a larger performance cost,

For what workload?
That’s nowhere near the scope of the New York Times.
Ask HN: How to handle angel investor interest?
Our product has entered the launch stage and we are doing a kickstarter. I had asked a bunch of people for feedback before going live.

One of them has expressed interest in being an angel investor. I had never given any thought to this.

How do I handle this? Do they take a percent of company for the money. Is there a contract similar to YC? Is there anything I should look out for?

Here's the link that created this (not meant to be a plug)
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/100-xyz/298281515?ref=578000&token=e80d409c

Thanks
Interesting, thanks for the heads up. But is this likely to be an issue for a UK-based startup? I understand its a bigger problem in the US
Wait until screens get cheap enough... you'll have 4k ads rolling on each screen that are tailored from your name in your ticket.
I will second that it isn't very painful at all. Longevity is one of the strengths of PHP, it is not hard to find continuously operational PHP codebases that are 15 or more years old.

Those codebases are often hideous but they've been getting stuff done, and that's admirable.

Generally when updating a codebase like that, it's important to also make sure that passwords are being stored securely, SQL queries are using prepared statements, and XSS/CSRF protections are in place, and a protocol is set up for keeping up with new PHP versions. Then hopefully it will be ready to go back to minimum maintenance mode for some more years.
> Purse a course in a community college.

It sounds interesting. How do I do that? Can you explain a bit more?
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Deploy vue-cli 3 project to GitHub pages
Pony core team member here, Thanks!
Checked out Polar. Looks really cool!

Serious question: Why is it free? How would you be able to support and maintain the product if you aren't charging for it?
It's not defamation if it's true.
They also won't allow you to blacklist content (artists, songs, albums, etc) from your radio... truly frustrating given they force you to use their client.
'Probably neither the author nor I would be willing to pay for a subscription without ad subsidies.'

The author thought he was doing exactly this and, consequently, will cease to be a paying subscriber for much longer.

The ads and difficulty in unsubscribing are the reasons why these organisations will never achieve a critical mass of paid subscriptions.
Do not click this link. There’s a rather evil browser-hijacking ad on the page.
Drafts 5 combined with workflow and Pythonista on IOS. For everything ranging from diary, personal crm, search adress/telephone number/e-mail in a given text, meeting notes and well almost anything.
Very usefull combo
I'm considered a violent felon by the state of CA because I handed a bank teller a note politely asking them to follow their training and hand over their cash. after my last arrest the DA asked to raise my bail from 100k to 150k because they hadn't considered my strike when they initially set the bail amount.

not being able to bail out is more than a minor inconvenience.... people lose jobs, miss rent, get evicted and lose everything while being presumed innocent.
How does a saved item differ from a non-saved item? Is it equivalent to "downloaded"?
> new guy thrown into production support
Oh cool, seems like we'll jump from zero to two direct competitors to IACA soon. I look forward to your tool (hopefully it can use the same IACA marker bytes so binaries and be compiled once for all these tools).
And what about calling a male colleague a "dick"? And of course I agree that it's unprofessional and generally not acceptable; however I disagree that it should be in itself enough to fire somebody. Of course a repeated behaviour of this kind is not acceptable and can be grounds for dismissal.
> The law need not match your personal idea of morality

Agreed. But it should reflect our collective views. The process for finding that collective agreement is discussion.

Judicial proceedings are based on law, not morals. Legislative proceedings consider morality. If something shouldn’t happen but does, we can address that through the law.
I don't have a "takeaway", but the Bezos quote, "Your margin is my opportunity," comes to mind. We live in capitalism, and in this system, "good user experience" only matters insofar as it is profitable for whoever is providing that user experience. If ads for subscribers are so annoying that people stop subscribing, then companies might stop advertising to them. But if they are not annoying enough to affect those numbers, then it isn't that surprising that they try to earn more revenue from their attention. One other way to look at this: perhaps by advertising to subscribers, these publishers can afford to offer a lower subscription cost to their customers. Let's also remember that most publishing companies don't have massive digital revenue scale or growth, compared especially to the big tech companies. And let's also remember that big tech companies like Amazon and Google monetize customers "on the side" six ways from Sunday.

I guess what you are responding to with outrage, I am responding to with a shrug.
This was posted yesterday... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18204637
"paste" -- an unexpectedly useful data-wrangling tool. I used a hand-rolled version for years before discovering it was available "as standard".
My understanding is that "Kebab" as such simply means "meat". In continental Europe, "Kebab" is often short for "Döner Kebab" (meat sliced off a central rotating skewer in thin shavings), while in the US, it seems to usually stand for "Shish Kebab", (skewers of meat cubes served on a plate either with or without the skewers).
Innocent people get arrested. Innocent people spend years in jail awaiting trial. And occasionally innocent people get convicted.
Inferno v6 released
I love how these conversations inevitably lead to a desire for some kind of context-free rule about what words are and and are not acceptable.

That just doesn't exist. Context is important. In the identity of the caller and the callee, in the nature of their working relationship, and in the nature of the interaction. For example a manager calling a direct report a bitch in anger should be completely unacceptable IMHO, while one colleague calling another a bitch in jest may be just fine.
What's needed is to make cracking down on white-collar crime profitable. Like the setup for drug task forces.
As a veteran programmer, I'd say that on average, engineers in the Bay Area do need an attitude adjustment. There are a lot of awesome people here, and bad behavior is an exception, but I've seen more douchey entitled behavior from Bay Area programmers than I have in the entire rest of my professional career.

Another thing I seen too often from programmers, is a disdainful, even disgusted attitude when faced with negative feedback. The first reaction should be to try and understand where the feedback is coming from, not to disdain it. What I've seen too often, is a defensive retreat behind the idea that the feedback is coming from an idiot. The thing to remember about online idiots, is that a) most people aren't them, most of the time and b) even when someone is that, they are usually far different in real life.
Reminds me a bit of the segmentapalooza design of the APX architecture:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_iAPX_432#Object-oriented...
I think that is the case in the US too. And beer bottles are normally in cardboard carriers too.
> the public...would quickly become inured to such reports

Who said mandatory public notices? There are lots of options between staying silent and broadcasting every bug.
So much for "if you're not paying you're the product". Seems like if you're paying, you're still the product.
Engineer here. I wasn't around for G+, but it seems to be an open secret internally that G+ was one of the most poorly managed projects ever. This isn't the first time I've heard about the poorly designed incentive structures or terrible senior management described here.

I'm not going to say anything about all the other obvious caveats here, I think the other comments cover that pretty well. But because this one actually pisses me off: who cares about "partying with our competitors"? Does working at Google mean I shouldn't have friends at other companies? And above all, why the shit is your manager supposed to care about that?

For what it's worth, I've also seen people transfer in less than 3-6 months on the team they were hired into. But if you don't do anything to make it happen, it's not going to happen.
Clearly she didn’t discuss the danger of extrapolating a trend line from a single datapoint.
Why not A/B test it?
> who are not getting rid of Facebook itself what are the security and privacy risks of using it for login for other services such as Spotify?

Facebook could decide arbitrarily, or by bug or mistake, to deny you access. Why use them at all? Convenience. Everyone is free to do the convenient thing. Just don't complain when your convenience fucks your over.
Pony core team member here:

There are no block and wait patterns. That is true.

You need to structure you app as an async one. All communication between actors is async. This has the nice side-effect of making it really hard to write in a deadlock.

There are no plans to and wait at this time. It's not something that folks who are using Pony call for. It is something that folks coming from Erlang/Elixir want to see.

Perhaps they end up dropping off and we end up with confirmation bias that our approach is right. Perhaps we are on to something.

OTP wise, more patterns built into a library would be awesome and anyone who wants to take that one, we'd be happy to help support their effort.
It’s not just hobby/personal sites, Magento has about 30% of the e-commerce platform market share, Shopify for comparison has 7%.

If you take Magento and WooCommerce (the most popular e-commerce WP plug-in) you have about 50% of the e-commerce market share (by installs/shops not revenue cuz well eBay and Amazon got that handled).

A lot of companies even fairly large enterprises use Drupal, Joomla and ofc Wordpress.
Because free markets don’t always produce ideal outcomes for consumers.
I got my first job with a side project that was not anywhere near successful.
Amending a treaty isn’t the same as ignoring it.
Kavanaugh is awful and should have been disqualified for other reasons, but he wasn't the one sitting on Ford's accusations. Feinstein's story is that the accusation was in the form of "this is for your information only and I do not consent to publicity", which was pretty much useless for a minority committee member.
Spritely: towards secure social spaces as virtual worlds
It's the law (tm), not complying because it would cost money is a very poor excuse.
Besides some case law would help the law and guidelines are a bit vague on specifics.
I prefer to justify my salary not by benchmarking myself against an excellent teacher, but against a mediocre investment banker.
Isn't it already? Possibly even more so than drug task forces?

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/07/your-money/vanguard-a-cha...
If this was literally true, it still would prevent the next 10 million rings from being produced, so it should have an eventual benefit from discontinuing them.