skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Note that this says the opposite of you will be able to get in touch with them.

This might just be a case of the speaker not being precise, but even so, we can make a shrewd guess of the level of service we can expect, from other companies that have gone the minimal customer service route. Every couple of months, there's an article on HN about someone hitting a brick wall when dealing with a problem created by one of these companies.
Wow this would be a very expensive purchase for IBM , redhat is currently worth about 20% of IBM's market cap
This article is from 2003, and Laura has improved quite a bit since then:

"I began to try to inure myself by getting in a car and riding for five minutes. It would be awful and I would feel terrible. I was so dizzy for an hour afterward, but I just wanted to see: If I keep doing this, can I teach my brain how to tolerate it? I’d go a little longer and a little longer. And over two years, I went from being just miserably dizzy after five minutes to being able to go two hours."

http://stanmed.stanford.edu/2016summer/leaving-frailty-behin...
The Conspiratorial Hate We See Online Is Increasingly Appearing in Real Life
So what is the non-naive concept?
RedHat had a good reputation as a place to work. Meanwhile, when I worked at IBM my health insurance contribution for a family of four was $1k a month
Big if true

>bloomberg.com

if true
I assume the book was written/printed in the UK where "flesh" and sent out to us colonials. This was the 60s. "flesh toned" is pretty ordinary term for "skin tone" even in the US I believe.
Weird that they talk about this topic without mentioning market leaders such as https://www.datacamp.com/ and https://www.udacity.com/. Coursera also has some excellent courses. And of course Galvanize also teaches a course about data science.
What a coincidence.

Last week, I had a midterm that covered formal languages and automata theory. I went to the Davis Centre Library at the University of Waterloo looking for books on Automata Theory. I stumbled upon that very book. And though I dismissed it because the formatting was horrible, I did notice its odd epigraphs. I found the cover a bit mysterious and amusingly out of place, and went with something else.

Now, I read here on Hacker News, a high-profile website, about this most obscure review of this most obscure book written almost ten years ago - what's more? The person who wrote the review is also the one that requested that the library orders the book in the first place. He is one of my professors. Quite frankly the personification of what you would hope a scholar and teacher to be.

I know I have no reasons to feel agitated but why do I feel like this is the prologue of a thriller?
This was a colouring-in by numbers book so they had a particular one in mind.
Maybe Google or Amazon will buy Canonical soon?

What makes you think that would be a good thing?
Microsoft would have actually been better. They're at least still a product development company. IBM at this point is just consultants and their sales ilk. They'll gut Red hat.
Reuters is reporting the same
However nice their open source work is, RH licensing is already every bit as scummy as the others, at least if my coworkers in the department I used to work for are to be believed. Bait and switch freebies, "we need to run this sketchy shell script on your production system to determine how much money you owe us" nonsense, coming back with a ludicrously inaccurate bill that has to be argued over point-by-point with lawyers, the works.
I work remote for many years now and I never liked synchronous communication in general.

What are your alternative approaches?
Very few meaningful experiences require significant amount of money.
I'd place my bets that MS would buy Canonical since they already have a relationship.
Good news for Canonical/Ubuntu I guess? I wonder how Linux distro popularity will plot out in next few months.
> There needs to be legislation enacted to strictly control how this information gets used.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_Information_Nondiscrim...
I tried to compile the JVM 9 on a Debian this weekend, just to give it a try. The openjdk's mercurial repository returned 500 HTTP-errors 9 times out of 10. After relaunching the clone command 50 times, I managed to fetch the sources. Total size of the source code with sub-projects dependencies : 1.5 GB.

After that you have to further download a pre-compiled JVM to bootstrap the compilation, and install further debian packages such as X11 stuff (???). I looked at the Debian package's Makefile from the package maintainers, and then I gave up.

The complexity, and especially the dependencies, of the JVM are outstanding. I guess some work groups are paid to work on Java, but it seems some sub-projects are staling, while some modern expected features are still not in the JVM. For example, it's difficult to see where GraalVM is in the grand scheme. Is it replacing several previous project? Is it competing with ongoing sub-projects? Will it be compatible with most projects?

The problem I see with Java is : if people are not paid to work or develop it, I'm not sure people would continue to support the language and the stack, given the time and specific skills you have to invest in it.

At that point, Java looks more like a research project than a production-ready tool.
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You could also liquidate them, put stuff away in the market without waiting for a downturn, and probably be fine.

Timing the downturn is usually not possible.

What's the phrase? Time in the market beats timing the market.
Our solution to this has been to keep Slack, but only for conversations that need to happen in real time.

Anything else goes into our Discourse-based internal forum.
I use Fedora Linux on my laptop. What does this mean for the Fedora Project? Any thoughts on an alternate OS with a lesser memory footprint than Fedora? It takes about 1 GB to boot up Fedora 27 now.

And what's the future for CentOS?
4K at 60 FPS is basically impossible on CPU.
I don't think it was the brand, but rather the VC funding likely allowed them to offer restaurants better terms.
When enough people start wondering about a recession, one is assured
I am very confused by your response, it seems like you're responding to what you think I said rather than what I actually said.

I am saying that if you create a product NEW, and hope to lure away people from product OLD, the only people who will migrate to the new platform are the people who have problem with product OLD which product NEW solves for them.

In case of the 'free speech' platforms, the group which has the problem and need of 'free speech' are the ones which are restricted in their speech.
Both of which are quite a bit incovinient than flipping a switch. Hats off to them indeed but an argument for unlimited electric power based on them is a bit rubbish.
Solving Intercity commuting is a huge category that would revolutionize transportation.

With this large category of people off the road, therr would be lots more space for everyone else, which would help in terms of traffic, ect
I don't think they were really making a moral statement saying that crimes are committed by bad people, but that crimes are often committed by people in desperate situations and reduced opportunities, which I think is a reasonable, non-moralistic interpretation of the statistics.
Sleep apnea at the surface looks like CFS since you aren't consciously aware that you stop breathing in your sleep but still feel tired all of the time when you wake up in the morning.
As a PL PhD, many of my peers have gone into ML. They actually have competence in it, it turns out many phds are just smart and curious (eg people like Jeff Dean who has a PL background also).

I haven’t gotten into it myself, but that is more of an interest issue.
Yeah I'm completely ok with reading into a packed struct. I think you may as well and indeed in most cases it's more explicit and succinct. I think using that internally leads to problems, so generally I advocate (if you're going to do this) using those as "packets" or whatever that are just PODs. You can validate those, then build higher level, internal structs from them. Generally I find whenever you see packed structs anywhere but the "I got this from the network/filesystem" level, the devs aren't considering taint analysis, which is a red flag to me. You shouldn't be dealing with external data outside a specific, well-defined layer.
Plus the wonderful 401k match once a year plus the "colocation" scandal etc, etc.
There's a great opportunity for someone to build a team communication tool that's more forum-centric than channel-centric. Let me explain the core problem with slack (or any channel-centric chat).

When I join a wide slack channel (e.g. #Design), I'm not interested in half a dozen different threads of communication happening on it everyday. But there might be couple of discussions per week that are pertinent and important for me to do my job well. There's NO way to ignore 90% of non-pertinent conversations without actually reading all the messages on the channel (yikes!).
I'm a fan of Red Hat. I am a Red Hat Certified Engineer and contemplating working towards the architect certification. When I heard they aquired the company behind Ansible a few years ago I was excited.

If this deal goes through I'll be super disappointed.
> Presumably this is in the hope of getting away with riding on the pavement or jumping red lights.

Let's not jump to conclusions. Have you seen these folks break the law? The cyclists who wear hi-vis are much less likely break the law than cyclists who don't in my experience. In fact, I can't recall a single instance in my decade of riding where I saw a hi-vis cyclist break the law. The folks you saw probably were trying to improve their visibility.

Though, as a motorcyclist on HN told me, a driver seeing you and being angry at you is often better than them not seeing you.
Bitcoin Less Volatile Than Wall Street’s NASDAQ in Q3 2018
This is Firefox's overhauled Privacy interface
There’s no way for taxation to not focus on the wealthy, they have all of the disposable income. You could try raising taxes on the bottom 80% who live their entire lives in debt, but you can’t squeeze water from an stone, and it’s better for wealthy people to not have a French Revolution situation on their hands.
Ubuntu looked like it was taking over last time I paid attention. Every new cloud thing touted its pre-configured Ubuntu images, for example. Even Microsoft started with Ubuntu with WSL.

Maybe that's why a still multi-billion dollar company decided to cash out even as Linux seems to be making inroads. People used Red Hat for the same reason they used IBM: it was corporate, understood corporate needs, and knew how to serve them. Now it seems like corporations are offloading IT to AWS and friends with Ubuntu.

Everyone talks about what Canonical did for the desktop while missing what they did for friendly apt-based Linux on the server with SLAs and LTSes and support contracts from a company that speaks corporation.

And if all the paying customers switch to Debian-based distributions...

The writing is on the wall.
Correct, and we saw exactly this happen in 2016, to such an extent that Barrack Obama had to make a public statement “It’s not rigged” in response to conspiracy theorists claiming that entities would exploit vulnerabilities in the voting infrastructure. It’s uncomfortable for some to confront this.
I'm not sure Amazon would be worse than the likes of bloodsucking PE (private equity) owning Suse.
Nice! The penguins got too cozy for too long!
Two procedural issues:

(1) "Show HN" is for projects that are the submitter's personal work. It doesn't look like this is the case here. The rules are at https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html.

(2) This account is part of a ring of abusive accounts that we banned a while ago, which is why the post was killed on submission and had to be vouched for by users. Generally that's a good thing, but this case wasn't so obvious.

All: using sockpuppet accounts to vote and comment on HN will eventually get all your accounts and sites banned on HN, so please just don't. (Just for clarity, there's no reason to think that the creator of this project had anything to do with this.)
Harm reduction is different than legalization and/or decriminalization. The harm-reduction measure for drug addicts in places like vancouvers insight program have absolutely no impact on money. Totally different objectives.
I've still not reached the point where more money hasn't increased my happiness

What about the point where increased work stesses outweigh additional gains? Personally, I may be hitting that point.
Terrible news for scientific computing :(
Particularly in some genres: short, long and trilogy.
Given the salary difference between the two on average, if the BA was five nines as likely to be as good as the PhD you'd hire two of the BAs and you'd make out like gangbusters.
Technically the M in CPM is "Mille", the French word for thousand. The origin of the term is from traditional print publishing.
Melting Down PatchGuard: Leveraging KPTI to Bypass Kernel Patch Protection
A lot of successful researchers lack phds, some of them are considered at the top of the ML field. It isn’t really hard to acquire on your own, you just have to spend time at it (the main advanatage of doing a PhD is time and mentorship).
Yup, not a problem, at least compared to each other (“there’s black, blue, brown: match wire to color”). Ask me if the brown wire is really green? Dunno.

Real color blindness, which is a tiny percentage of the population, might have a problem, though.
Very well written, and has one of the better descriptions of Sichuanese food & cooking techniques I've encountered. It is truly one of the great cuisines of the world IMHO. Was incredibly relieved when credible Sichuanese restaurants started popping up in the Seattle suburbs about 5 years ago.

I believe we will find out that Sichuanese peppercorns have some kind of mild, physically addictive quality. And I'm totally fine with that!
I'd also suggest giving Discord [0] a try. There's a few tech communities that have migrated from Slack to Discord, with one of the main benefits being that you can access and search the full history for free. It also uses fewer resources and it's overall snappier in my experience. The top example that comes to mind is Reactiflux [1], which at the time of migration I believe was one of the largest free Slack servers.

IMO, Slack can be pretty great for remote teams, although I agree you can definitely abuse it too hard and end up wasting time. One benefit of using text chat to have a discussion is that it you can easily scan through it and reference any section. There's also certain kinds of discussions which I think are easier to have through text, especially when you want to provide references and examples. It also makes it easier for introverts and non-fluent speakers to participate. On the other hand, physical discussions are hard to beat when you're whiteboarding or drawing diagrams, especially if you're still exploring the problem domain. You don't have to limit yourself to any single discussion format.

[0] https://discordapp.com/

[1] https://www.reactiflux.com/
How can this be a good idea? Meanwhile in the gulf there are still leaking wells. When do we learn?
Its like they are making a statement: you think the planet is screwed? You ain't seen nothing yet!
Why not less focused work over more years? The argument makes zero sense to me.

Of course a lot of study and also applying what you learned are important. But having a PhD says very little about a person's ability to do data science or machine learning work. Especially since most phds have an extreme focus on their narrow field.
I think Deliveroo Editions use commercial kitchens from temporary shipping containers, dropped in 'dead space', out of hours car/ industrial parks. Ah, from 2017:

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/oct/28/deliveroo-d...
There cannot be a single Red Hat employee outside of RH's board of directors that thinks this would be a good move for Red Hat.
Russian disinformation on Facebook targeted Ukraine well before 2016
Every time I see such a list on the internet, I ask myself "So, now, which of those basic plots is 'Master and Margarita'?", which leads to a conclusion that these lists bear a negligible amount of cognitive value.
I doubt. Making food had nothing to do with their core business...
Wow, yeah, that would be a reason to use hardware. Here's what that looks like: https://youtu.be/tvGVqGQIDGA

Kind of an interesting aesthetic. It looks less terrible than I expected. I think it would be interesting to apply some of the recent machine learning based upsampling techniques on DS games too.
Mass renting creates the worse political incentive structure of anti-gentrification, motivating people to oppose any improvements in their neighborhoods.
This will only work out if IBM beefs up it's data centers to clone AWS (Lambda, Batch, S3, RDS, SQS, Fargate), gobbles Netifly, then puts mainframe DB2 in the cloud next to commodity servers. Also needs to open the ZOS toolchain and get a modern syntax and tooling around COBOL.
The idea is nice, and I'm sure I'm not introducing anything you haven't already considered, but a flat consumption tax is in fact regressive.

The simplest way to think about it I guess is that regardless of wealth, everybody needs a certain number of calories to live. If you are poor and can only afford subsistence, you are paying a much larger portion of your overall wealth just to stay alive.

That may be ok with you, but for a lot of people it's not.

Something like a wealth- or income-based tax credit would possibly correct this, although poor people are also less likely to know how to take advantage of such tax breaks.
Rather than take a product that wants to be a chat room and adapting it in a million ways to make it not a chat room, there could be wisdom in using a product that attempts to address these issues from the ground up? We use Basecamp instead of Slack and find it infinitely better than when we used Slack, even with a ton of plug-ins and settings and hacks.
Wouldn't multiple protagonists still be countable by the same proof that the rational numbers are countable?
> but let me raise my hand right now and admit that I am absolutely guilty of checking every notification I see come in and breaking my own flow, it's why I even hold this position

Right, so you are blaming yourself morally here (guilty of...). I'm not saying you're wrong to do so. I'm just saying that to solve the problem you can either:

1. blame yourself, and try to improve your own discipline when using slack.

2. stop using the tool that you know "tempts" you too much.

I'd rather bet on strategy 2. It's entirely analogous to throwing out all the junk food in your house when dieting. Sure, if you had the discipline you wouldn't need to do that, but so what?
That's a bit unfair, Hopcroft and Ullman is extensive and detailed by design. They invented the field AFAIK so this book ought to be deep as they use it to lay its foundations. If you - or lurkers - are looking for a solid, down-to-earth exploration of automata theory - but not so much proofs, then I would recommend these in no particular order:

- "Introduction to the Theory of Computation" [Part I] by M. Sipser

- "Introduction to Compiler Design" by Torben A. Mogensen

- "An introduction to Formal Languages and Automata" by P. Linz

- "Languages and Machines" by Thomas A. Sudkamp

>Many of OP's objections come off as petty

I have had the book in my hands, I have turned the pages and seen the typesetting myself. It's not an exaggeration. It looks like one of those books written by a typewriter with some of the lines are misaligned, except it wasn't and that is overall a pain to parse. Also the pages are small and margins wide.

Why inflict that upon yourself when there are plenty of other books that show a modicum of effort in editing.
Terrible textbooks are written all the time by cranks and eccentrics, and I did not see how this book stood out from the rest.
In African cities, the “gig economy” is called the economy
As someone who just purchased a primary home, it’s unnerving to hear about a correction on the horizon and that my house won’t be worth the debt I took on.

I’m still recovering after tapping into my 6 mo emergency fund to make the down payment. I think I need to move to a more aggressive E fund regeneration strategy. The article states having ~20%~ 10% of home value in liquid cash; my ~6~ 3 month E fund is about there.

I haven’t learned how to check the indicators to tell if the economy is about to go through deleveraging yet. I don’t know if I’m seeing more attention to this type of article now that I own a home or if the presence of these articles are in indication something bad is about to happen.

I guess the future will tell. I’ll tighten my belt much more and get that E fund back up.

I wasn’t working in 2008 during the recession; I’ll prepare just in case I lose my job. No new debt.

Edit: article recommends 10% the value of your home in cash, not 20%, to get through a downturn. Updated this response.
Funny thing is free food in the office was a thing before Slack.
Nice article. Since I just started learning Stats, I wish I could find more of such notebooks.

Any recommendations?
> It's also very logical to be taxed for what you take from society vs. what you give to society. But that's just a minor point.

Not so minor! Taxing based on how money are spent is very reasonable (but goes again consumerism).

It also ties very well into resource-based taxation. (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polluter_pays_principle )
I believe, as with sexual assaults, kidnapping is most often done by someone already known, as the example you gave.
Mathematician Federico Ardila Dances to the Joys and Sorrows of Discovery
What salary difference? At most of the majors, PhDs are paid roughly equivalent to somebody with just a few years of industry experience.
Polar bears.
The problem is that when you put people without formal training in charge of building and training models, you get also results that match - models with horrible biases, models that don't reflect the reality at all, models that are worse than taking random guesses.

Running through a bunch of tutorials and then taking a deep learning toolkit (e.g. Tensorflow or Keras) and starting to feed data into it won't teach you squat about the importance of having a representative sample, about removing biases from the data, about correctly handling outliers, about doing some basic statistical analysis on the data to see whether they are even relevant to the problem at hand and so on and so forth.

Or even how to build a questionnaire/experiment so that you don't get only a load of expensive garbage instead of data out of it.

This is what a doctorate and the associated research training generally give you. Of course, it is not anything that couldn't be learned without doing a formal PhD, publishing research papers and defending a thesis but it is typically the background you won't get from these MOOCs or various online (and offline) "data science" trainings.
Ask HN: How can I protect my private data on mobile phones?
I am looking for solutions and would appreciate some recommendations.
In statistics, "average" often means "expected value". No time frame is specified (although you could consider it an infinite time frame). With a small sample size your actual average might not be 10 minutes, but as your sample size grows, it will tend toward 10 minutes.
What makes you think the poster thinks of it as a good thing?