skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Case in point: CacheControl [1]. Plug it in and you get flexible caching — interoperable with NGINX, the browser, and everybody else — for very little. But it relies on the protocol. If you respond to GET /stars/98765 with 200 (OK) and an “under construction” placeholder, it’s going to get confused.

[1] https://github.com/ionrock/cachecontrol
The overcompression/poor compression of streaming video is scandalous. Netflix cannot even offer a decent DVD quality stream, it seems perverse for them to even offer 4K.
I'm relatively unfamiliar with people who are actually arguing that deep learning is all that is needed for AGI - Andrew Ng can say what he wants, but do many of the researchers and engineers working with deep learning systems actually think this way?

I tend to think of deep learning as adding additional sensory capabilities to machines. In this sense, is a network misclassifying a school bus as a snowplow significantly different from a GPS sensor generating garbage position data due to multipath? All existing sensors are noisy and can get confused, and yet no one says that GPS isn't useful because it can be so completely wrong in urban canyons. Of course, no one says GPS is going to become sentient - this brings us back to my first question above.
761st Tank Battalion (United States)
They start by not borrowing $150k for college. You can also look to live in less expensive places and in smaller houses, but yes, housing has increased
It's because the rights holders in Japan (of whom many are broadcasters) have broadcasters by the balls and demand it and the Japanese Government goes along with it. In particular it's music labels, but various sporting events also make explicits of it. HD broadcasts in Japan (including free to air terrestrial) are encrypted with B-CAS, something that has been broken a few times over many years now. The 4k/8k transmissions over satellite have a new system called A-CAS that instead of being smart card based, is an ASIC in device that apparently receives keys and firmware out of band from the video mux. Now these kinds of systems have been the status quo in that market for over a decade, any new format coming along will most certainly have to implement _some_ form of conditional access. At least until the value of the content on it makes a minority stake on the balance sheets.
8k broadcasting could be the path to realistic 360/3D videos -- where at each moment your eye gets only some fraction of full resolution video.
I hate it so much. Not only is the resolution totally shot now that we have fully digital projection systems, but the compression artifacts in some movies I've been to are worse than if I had just pirated the damn thing at home.
Javascript started in the same position as PHP - a wild west community of amateurs writing their own code by hand... then JQuery and other frameworks came along and more amateurs were writing their own code mostly by hand around those frameworks. Neither language or community started off on a good footing.
Once one adopts the refactoring mindset, its lessons and approaches can also infuse new code aka "prefactoring". :) Ken Pugh wrote a 2005 book called "
Prefactoring: Extreme Abstraction - Extreme Separation - Extreme Reliability 1st Edition", which won a 2006 Dr. Dobbs' Jolt award.

http://www.drdobbs.com/joltawards/2006-jolt-awards/187900423...
Just a nitpick, most savvy advertisers know that the discount code alone isn't how they measure ROI (or more appropriately ROAS) on a media buy. You look at other things like an increase in organic search or direct traffic, social mentions, etc. to try and paint a more holistic picture.
As with most issues, this isn't black or white. There are many legitimate reasons why an insignificant number of employees do support Dragonfly and it's not rationalization from their perspective.
Are there really specific exceptions for Wikipedia and Github? How does that work? They can't be named explicitly in the law, surely?
Here's the paper:

https://www.cs.tufts.edu/~nr/cs257/archive/don-knuth/pearls-...

(ACM ref, too: https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=315654 )

Also, I found a blog post which links to a C version of the exercise in the spirit of Knuth's approach, and a Haskell version in the spirit of McIlroy's:

https://franklinchen.com/blog/2011/12/08/revisiting-knuth-an...
Australian Government Anti Encryption Ad
Wow, I had no idea it was so varied
Not really surprising. I catch myself making assumptions about people's politics based on the clothes they're wearing. This data just allows one to confirm.
Trump admin starts overhauling process and preferences for H-1B visas
English has lots of pairs of words that both mean the same thing. Examples: pork and swine, beef and cow, mutton and sheep, battle and fight, fraternity and brother, justice and right, elevate and lift.

The words pork, beef, mutton, battle, fraternity, justice, elevate are all French, and were used by the Norman aristocracy after 1066. They all connote sophistication and nobility. The words swine, cow, sheep, fight, brother, right, lift are all Anglo-Saxon, and were used by the powerless peasants after 1066. They all connote earthiness and familiarity.

There is a fun podcast "The History of English" that covers a lot of this stuff. If liked the OP, you'll like the podcast.
Is there a difference between visual acuity for static and moving images? What about the square pixel grid, I've read that a hexagonal one would be better in principle for our visual system.

Basically, could higher resolution help in some edge cases?

> we could use better compression codecs at higher bitrates, reduce or eliminate chroma subsampling, increase color depth and/or gamut for HDR content

Those are likely to be rolled out in tandem with new resolution standards[0]

[0] https://i.imgur.com/phONmPZ.jpg
Depends totally on the branch and company but 55k to 80k.
The two expressions are equivalent, even under overflow. With a few exceptions (eg division, right shift) fixed size integer math follows the same associative rules as "standard math".
I think if this feature was perfected it's far better than what an SLR does. I would much rather take the picture with as much information as possible, and blur to make the subject stand out later. It's kind of the same reason people shoot in raw.
I doubt 8K will be as big as a subjective improvement. Things like HDR, 10-bit color depth, and higher display brightness (nits) all contribute to a better image than just a resolution increase.
Most media buyers do in fact verify their media buys. There's an entire cottage industry of people that actually watch tv programs to make sure commercials ran, drive out to billboards to verify the right ones were put up, etc. While I haven't bought a ton of podcast inventory I have to imagine that this is done for that medium as well.
I felt the same to a large extent. But still played it because moving on to the next game was what everyone else I'd played with did.

I think Medal of Honor: Allied Assault came out in a similar period and I ended up playing that for longer. I'd go back to playing dust on CS occasionally though - as a one map wonder it was good.

Occasionally today I'll turn an Xbox on and play some Battlefield, but I do miss FPS games of that era on a PC, with Teamspeak or whatever else we used.
> Most European TLDs no longer publish sensitive information in the whois data.

First of all, I don't think it is due to GDPR. Does GDPR mandate that you have to do it freely? Second, namecheap does it for free now, for every domain for users in every country.
Zeno's paradoxes
Article should mention that TypeScript is made by Microsoft.
They pulled it, because it was garbage: https://twitter.com/asadotzler/status/1068961020540899329?s=...
Why would an addict use heroin over fentanyl if they both produce the same euphoric effects but fentanyl is cheaper / stronger?

I almost always hear about fentanyl in the context of "...the heroin was cut with with fentanyl". I read that statement like "...the heroin was cut with ultra-pure-super-heroin". Why wouldn't the addict cut out the "middle-man" and just use fentanyl? Legitimately trying to understand.
Unfortunately I am not the right person to ask since I know what Tesla autopilot is, what you should ask is if you go on the street and ask 100 people what it means that a car has autopilot and maybe show them some popular youtube videos promoted by Tesla fans you will get a number of people telling you that autopilot means that the car will drive itself from point A to B.

I do not understand the point of trying to change the meaning of autopilot to mean lane keeping, or car chasing but with 100% attention still needed, then how will you name the real autopilot ?

In the article it mentioned that a drunk guy said it is OK to drive drunk because of autopilot , do you think he would also be confused if marketing would have been more honest/modest ?
I am so ready for a huge mug of spider milk and and a plate brimming with dessicated flies right about now!
In my (part of the) JS world Angular is dying and React has long since won.
You're right that there are a range of rights, but Copyright is very closely tied to the rights of speech and expression.

Usurping somebody's mineral rights sounds like straight up theft.
Perhaps I have a vastly different idea of what these questions mean (though reading other replies here, I don't think I do), but the "translations" to these questions are just horrible.

"1. Tell Me About A Time You Failed

Translation: Can you stomach failing until we figure things out?"

No. No it doesn't. It's far more likely that they're asking you if you can identify that you've got something wrong in the past and have learned something from it. Rambling on about things that you didn't get wrong, but someone else did and were out of your control will only serve to make the interviewer wonder why you're avoiding the question.

"2. Where Do You See Yourself In Five Years?

Translation: Are you ambitious enough for a startup?"

Again, no. This is a simple question to find out what sort of direction you want your career to go in. It's a common question to help evaluate whether the company and you are going to be a good match. If you want to be a CTO and they want someone who's OK staying more hands-on, this is the sort of question to help make sure you're not going to be unhappy later on.

"3. Why Should We Hire You?

Translation: Do you really understand the problem we're solving?"

I'm really unsure how the author got to this conclusion. This is the same old question that's been asked for donkeys years, and the underlying reason for it (if any) is that they want you to sell yourself to them. Any halfway competent interviewer is going to have some much better questions for finding out if you understand the problem they're solving than this would give them.

Now, of course, different hiring managers are going to disagree with what I've just written there, and that's just fine! We're all going to have different motives for interview questions, whichever side of the table you're on. Point is, you can't "translate" common interview questions like the article attempts to do as you have no idea what the interviewer is actually looking for. Be honest, be friendly, and be yourself.

edit: formatting and duplication
World War 3 WARNING: Guy Verhofstadt Fears Russian INVASION of Europe
HTTP is an inherently complex protocol, which has over time accrued many idiosyncratic, non-orthogonal features to support various use cases of the growing Web. Just consider that there exists an entire class, entire design space of libraries known as “HTTP routers” which boil down to extracting arguments from the first line of an HTTP request.

If you want simplicity, and you fully control both sides, and you don’t care about the systemic advantages that REST purports to provide, then your best bet is to avoid HTTP altogether (which in practical terms may of course mean tunneling through it) and stick to a simple, modern RPC protocol.
Given how much BS people typically believe, I would say a problem of training data is universal and not something exclusive to neural networks :)
I don't think that reading through millions lines of code is a sane idea. Therefore I suggest an alternative to author's opionion:

- select a Linux distribution one can trust, like Debian

- throw away your Node.JS and switch to PHP. We have frameworks like Symfony made by a company that can be trusted and that has proper code review processes so you don't have to worry that tomorrow there will be a backdoor

Another alternative would be a community code review. Everyone using OSS code can contribute some time for a review of the project they like the same way they contribute the code. Reviewing is even easier than writing a code. Then they sign the lines they have checked. It would also help to find poorly written, difficult to understand code and find unreliable code that can contain vulnerabilities.

The companies using OSS code could be interested in this. They would prefer to use the code checked by other corporations rather than the code that has never been reviewed. And they probably are already doing the reviews privately so it wouldn't cost them anything.
Not looking forward to when captchas get replaced by the Voight-Kampf
You can use Dicewear to generate these passwords: http://world.std.com/~reinhold/diceware.html

They recommend a minimum of six words though.
Violence Escalates as France Scrambles to Respond to ‘Yellow Vest’ Protesters
The relevant quote from this version [1] is:

>"The definition of online content sharing service providers under this Directive does not cover microenterprises and small sized enterprises within the meaning of Title I of the Annex to Commission Recommendation 2003/361/EC and service providers that act in a non-commercial purpose capacity such as online encyclopaedia, and providers of online services where the content is uploaded with the authorisation of all right holders concerned, such as educational or scientific repositories. Providers of cloud services for individual use which do not provide direct access to the public, open source software developing platforms, and online market places whose main activity is online retail of physical goods, should not be considered online content sharing service providers within the meaning of this Directive."

[1] http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?type=TA&langua...
The Strong National Museum of Play
Possibly: it's extremely strong, which means physical dependency kicks in extremely fast and hard. Just because you're addicted to opioids doesn't mean you don't care about modulating your intake.
> Source control was very, very standard 15 years ago.

For commercial shops, perhaps. But back then the bar for using source control was much, much higher, so for many small projects, people didn't bother. There wasn't anything as simple as `git init`.

There were a few public CVS and SVN servers that were appropriate for open source projects, but for anything personal or commercial, you had to use a local, single-user repo or set up your own server. (Back then, the only viable DVCS systems were commercial.)
Ideology and Outrage
Paris turned into battle zone as Yellow Vest protests escalate
I just started a side project with Typescript, and I like a lot of it, but, ironically, type discovery seems _very_ lacking. The JS keywords like `instanceof` are useless because everything is just an object, and Typescript doesn't give you a way to pattern match on types.

For example, in React there is this type that's a union of an array, single object or null. Some kind of catch-all, I guess. So, when you see one of these things, there's no way to know what you have unless you do something ugly like this:

if ((value as any).length) {
// it's an array
} else if (value) {
// must be a single object, I guess..
} else {
// null
}

The thought of littering my code with these kinds of type checks makes me feel really dirty, unless I'm totally missing something...
Been waiting and looking forward to 8k. It would make a significant difference for me.

I use a UHD/4k 40" TV as a monitor, running at native resolution. It's essentially four 1080p 20" screens in one. The pixel density is pretty good, but not "retina"/high DPI level.

Things can be a bit too small as I sit further from the screen than a regular monitor.

With 8k, it'll be four 4k 20" screens in one.

I'd be able to go to a larger screen without sacrificing much on pixel density. I would no longer have to zoom in on certain websites and can just get a larger screen.
Clojure's missing piece (2017)
In a typed language, an IDE can make breathtakingly large refactorings that are 100% correct.
We used to have a HiVision signal in Vladivistok in early nineties, the difference in between blurry coffee muck soviet tv, and Japanese tv sets was dazzling.

People back than were paying serious moneys for HiVision set, but I remember one case in particular. Some rich dude from Moscow flew all the way to Vladivistok, to buy a HiVision set from father.

First, he paid a ton of money, and happily flied away to Moscow, then father gets an angry call "the TV set is broken!" In a few months time he returned with the set, father asks him to turn in on to see what happened, and it "miraculously" starts working.

The rich dude wasn't able to hide his embarrassment and disbelief, and flew back again. As you can guess, the guy was not away for long, and that time father answered "if you that rich, maybe you will buy an own satellite," and pointed him to fine script in the contract.
Ironically another advice to protect your privacy would be not to use Firefox - considering all the new telemetry, newtabpage, beacons, and calling-home that Firefox nowadays does.
It might sound conspiracy. So i will try to formulate it, right away like it. Why- if i have exploits and knowledge on human weekneses of the human mind- would anyone share those?

Basically, in a world, where the mind-hardware can not be fixed and improved. He who goes full black-hat first rules forever unchallenged, even unpercived? So wouldnt it be reasoNobel, to set free a quack science, to keep those with similar thirst for powerfull knowledge busy? Maybe its tabula rasa time when it comes to psychology. Only replicated studies count, and everything before simply - never existed - and with it, works and titles referencing to it.
Solid piece, I'd give it a B+. We'll see if there's any improvement at our next review.
That's where the EU link/Google taxes started but this copyright directive seems to have gone far beyond tackling news linking, which was what Axel Springer and friends cared about. Is there still provision in it for Google to have to pay for linking to news sites? I am reading contradictory things here - some are saying that links are perfectly fine now.
The argument is weather exclusivity to information and it's applications should be something that can be owned and therefore be stolen.
It always confuses me when I hear of kids dying to OD'ing on this stuff; why cut your product with so much of something that would kill your customers?
A worse house? No, I don't think so.

The best house of the 70s would be laughably bad today. Poor climate control, sub-standard insulation, smaller rooms, etc. Going back even further (to 'the greatest generation' for example) housing is even more primitive.

Housing, like cars, phones, and almost everything else, gets better as we go along. The best cars of the 80s are terrible compared to the lowest price of today's cars. Phones? Not even worth talking about.

Young adults of today do have some disadvantages, that's true. But the goods they can acquire are better than ever before (but not as good as tomorrow's).
Unless it was over WhatsApp.
TLDR: About 126 paid trial signups for about $30k.

Comes down to about $238 per signup.

Now the question is: What is the lifetime value of an ahref customer?

Say 20% of the trial signups result in a full signup. And let's say they all chose the lowest tier of $99/Month. And let's say they stay for a year on average.

Then that's ... 126 * 0.2 * 99 * 12 = $29937

That would be about break even.
Kubernetes 1.13 – What's New?
Because it's hard to dose correctly, and has a very slim error margin?
News Analysis: Genetically Modified People Are Walking Among Us
> The company he formed in 2015 had a simple pitch to government agencies: “We convert a capital expense to an operation expense.” Raytheon Co., the giant defense contractor, was an early investor and customer. It has engineers working with Hawkeye’s 31-person team and, in turn, will sell some of the company’s findings to its own government customers.

Essentially, open market spooks for hire, selling limited space intelligence to countries that can't afford their own space programs.
I really like this kind of introduction; they let you get into what the authors consider the main reason for their products existence straight away - this is what they will spend most time on and other features will exist at these features expense.

It is also the best place to start evaluating how "complete" a solution is; particularly when faced with multiple choices.

It was a tutorial very similar to this one that led me to choose flow over typescript - I did the equivalent of setting the "user" in this example to null, flow would tell me it wouldn't work and typescript just happily compiled away. In short, this kind of quick evaluation led me to deduce typescript is JS with loose types sometimes (but you aren't sure where) so as not to be annoying and flow is JS with restrictive types everywhere (that may not get your indirect but correct logic) so as to provide the most guarantees.
Wow. That doesn't even make sense: "service providers that act in a non-commercial purpose capacity such as online encyclopaedia, and providers of online services where the content is uploaded with the authorisation of all right holders"

Are they really assuming all online encyclopaedias are non-commercial?
When will we finally have 4 8k 20" screens in one?
It would be very hard for a junky to dose in most environments. Like you could do volumetric dosing but just isn't practical for those in too deep and especially if in the daily struggle just to get well grind. I also think it has shorter 'legs' that is kind of like crack vs coke you have to re-dose the fent more often than heroin
Good times. I miss the all classic maps that didn’t make the transition: cs_747, as_oilrig, cs_seige, even the weird es_ maps. Each one is tied to a series of emotional childhood memories that are no longer accessible due to no one playing them.

I hate how much less experimental and quirky multiplayer gaming is these days. Dust2 may be a “good” map, but it’s so freaking boring. Give me weird and unbalanced over tight and competitive any day.

(Seige returned briefly in Go for an event a few years back. That was really fun!)
I don't want to spend the 7 to 10 years it takes to succeed with the kind of startup that YC invests in. I'll proceed with a side project instead and sell out if it develops significant potential for such growth.
You are assuming that people keep their heads static whilst they are watching which is not true. If you move your head you'll see any subset of that 8k picture which makes it more "real" to the viewer.
I thought for VR it was refresh rate?
Seven tough lessons from ten years in bootstrapped business