skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Guided swish and flick magic at Universal Studios is a pretty popular mechanic. Maybe Niantic can sell wands like they sell smart pokeball keychains and watches currently. And with better AR, the magic effects could overlay onto real world landmarks, ie make the Eiffel tower disappear with a swish in AR mode.
I had an actual high severity issue on-call page over this kind of thing once.

When I first started with Amazon, I was a dev on the team owning the UI component that all warehouse Picking associates used. Had to run on mobile handscanners with IE5.5. The UI was dead simple, pretty darn fast and that speed matters for worker efficiency. Taking 3 seconds between an item scan and the next pick being displayed was unacceptably slow.

One night a few weeks after Christmas, I got an autocut alarm at around 10pm. It said "PickUI page loads 90th percentile > 5 seconds" or something to that effect. I logged in and sure enough, the latency was spiking up and down like crazy for the entire European stack. All our dependencies were rock solid, metrics showed stable performance. Network was fine, no issues. Rendering was normal. But the round trip latency from the users' perspective (sent via Ajax post after a page load) was showing some round trips were taking 15 seconds!

After 30 minutes of scratching my head, I happened to accidentally switch my graph from "P90 latency" to "number of data points". There were very, very few. It turned out that since the Christmas season was just over, all the EU wearhouses were only running day shifts that week. (That doesn't happen very often anymore, I hear). In the entire European region, there was one picking associate working. And she was picking in some area with poor WiFi signal. Around 20% of the time, her page loads were slow because her WiFi sucked. I drew out a rough map of the locations she picked from and the latency- they was some kind of dead zone. But she was the entirety of my metrics for Europe, so that meant my 90th percentile was terrible.

I modified the alarm to have a minimum number of data points threshold and went to bed.
>>[...] given that unlike Pokemon, Harry Potter isn't really a franchise defined by the location-based hunt-and-collect mechanic that drives Pokemon Go and Ingress.

Pokémon itself wasn't location driven either before the launch of Pokémon Go.
Reminds me of this TED talk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dceyy0cX6J4
Its like political quantitative easing, seems like a scary house of cards assembled.
”approximately 100% at 35 feet”

Not sure about that. Although chance of death would be significant, there are many cases of people surviving falls from greater heights.
> Such measures came after an irrevocable accidental input error on Friday -- “share” instead of “Korean won” -- caused Samsung Securities to pay dividends to shareholding employees of a combined 2.8 billion shares, instead of 2.8 billion won ($2.6 million).
The cleaner wrasse has long been known to be extremely intelligent. The fact that scientists are questioning the mirror test because of this fish is more telling of their credibility than the test's.

The cleaner wrasse even engages in complex economic behavior: http://freakonomics.com/podcast/animal-economics/
Note that he is not referring to coal seam fires. He's referring to Southeast Asian peat fires, a substantial portion of which are started to clear way for palm oil plantations and other agricultural purposes.
I’ve read more this year than I have in the past few years.

A few I especially enjoyed:
- The Effectivd Executive
- How to Win Friends and Influence People
- Never Split the Difference
- Code Simplicity
- Atomic Habits
- The Lessons of History
- Superhuman by Habit
- The Coaching Habit
- On the Shortness of Life
- Deep Survival
- Desiring the Kingdom
- Masters of Doom

You can check out the full list at my Goodreads:

https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/50310109-paul-cook?ord...

Planning on diving more into history and biography in 2019 if anyone has any recommendations on that front.
I mean, you don't write the article from scratch on each platform. The author should, ideally, be writing it locally and then placing it in all the places it's needed.
That makes it quite clear he wasn't the source of the lies in question.

I don't see any credible allegation that he lied here. Here's another article which states explicitly

>Although the OIG report doesn't suggest that Pai deliberately misled Congress, it doesn't let FCC management off the hook entirely.

Believing your chief information officer and relaying the information they give until you become aware that it was false doesn't mean you lied.

https://www.wired.com/story/fcc-net-neutrality-investigation...
> We need to highlight to the world that Saudi investment is good

That is, of course, if you're ok with some people being lured into an embassy and cut up into little pieces.
I removed most of the permissions, thank you!
That's because they're designed that way. You can do styling in a way that is not effected by browser window sizing, typically with specified document dimensions, or absolute positioning.
An alternative is to put the word full before wsj in the URL. It opens a redirect page from Facebook, and effectively bypasses the paywall.

https://www.fullwsj.com/articles/saudi-arabia-pumps-up-stock...
Cats have been observed passing the mirror test. One popular hypothesis is that they can recognize themselves, they just don't care. That or some cats are capable of recognizing themselves and some aren't.
Bitcoin (BTC) Extortionists Hit U.S., Canada with Bomb Threats
It wouldnt be considered rude if it were a routine transaction, which in the US it is. Obviously we wouldnt want the waiter interrupting for tasks outside the norm.
I can't imagine it matters much since the core mechanic has proven to be so popular and it's really a squeeze of the IP tit.

I bet a Harry Potter skin will be even bigger than Pokemon Go. I'd wager most people are on no more than can-recognize-pikachu terms with the Pokemon franchise yet Pokemon Go was a cultural phenomenon.

Meanwhile most people I know have at least seen most Harry Potter movies. I know 30- and 40-somethings that have gone to Universal Studios' Harry Potter exhibit... dressed up. And the Harry Potter world has a particularly popular faction system (the Hogwarts houses).

Certainly curious to see if Niantic can pull it off again.
I know a family friend who works in internal investigations at $PACKAGE_DELIVERY_CORP, and this kind of sting is nothing new. You just don’t hear about it.

Disclosure: I work at AWS but know nothing about Amazon delivery
Except for 'Balmain', the rest became worse with the transition to bold sans-serif. The worst was Burberry's, it's like they now manufacture OEM car parts or something.
From what I've seen of Pokemon games before Pokemon Go, it seems like the majority of the game is spent walking your character around a map to explore buildings and landscape features.
It seemed like the Whole Foods of old, except that for some reason there was a rack selling yoga pants by the oranges.

That totally seems like the Whole Foods of old to me.
I cannot understand how US citizens tolerant such behavior, we should invade Saudi! (Pun intended)
Related question, is there any service or open source tool people use to get more thorough insights on the raw data you can download from 23 and me?
I'm confused on why this works. I see the promoted version at the top of the SERPs opens up the full article, but the first actual SERP, which is the same article shows the paywall.
Agreed. Lightweight, distributed tracing in real-time creates a feedback loop that can in turn inform design of your application. Even if you are only hosting a dozen microservice nodes, instead of 1000s. And if you have familiarity with Golang channel patterns such as timeouts, retrys, etc. It is sort of like second nature.

Expect more on the state of the art as KubeCon vids come online ;)

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvqbFHwN-nwalWPjPUKpvTA/vid...
sadly no, though I did the second time around
I just looked at the repo, haven't tried this yet. Could be very useful to me if tensorflow, pytorch etc. are callable
From their site:

> Outline is a free service for reading and annotating news articles. We remove the clutter so you can analyze and comment on the content. In today’s climate of widespread misinformation, Outline empowers readers to verify the facts.

A noble initiative, I think.
I submitted a Facebook request on Nov. 18 and had the file on Nov. 19. I submitted a WhatsApp request 8 days ago and still haven't received anything. Interestingly, their service promises it within two (or maybe three?) business days.
I have jewish, atheist, christian, muslim, buddhist, hindu, etc friends also. They are all moral people. So is it judeo-atheist-muslim-christian-buddhist-etc values?

There is no such thing as a judeo-christian morality or value. It is a political term invented a few decades ago for political reasons.

I don't want to get into a religious debate. Those never end well and there can never be a conclusion because they all hinge on interpreting text hundreds of pages long full of contradictory statements. And never mind there are different flavors of judaism and christianity.

But if judaism and christianity had same values then one is obviously redundant. But obviously that isn't true. There isn't even "judeo" values or christian values. The term "judeo-christian" is meaningless. There is no value, morality or anything underpinning it expect for political expediency.
This is absolutely not happening. All the major clouds are investing billions into infrastructure build-out and I've toured their data centers first-hand.

I would question the people who told you this rumor as they either have no clue how things work or are blatantly lying to you.
The games, and I assume the anime, are about searching for pokemon in different locations.
Awesome, love the storybook. Components>Media>Input is broken FYI.
It's like when someone says something funny, then another person follows up with a witticism that basically repeats the same joke...

Like someone makes an inspired pun and some dude immediately exclaims "LITERALLY!"
http://craig.theeislers.com/2006/02/20/directx-then-and-now-...

"Since multimedia on Windows had a bad reputation back then, we were adamant not to have our stuff associated with “multimedia” and so we called the first beta the “Game SDK”. We got the idea to name it DirectX because some reporter made of fun of how we had DirectDraw, DirectSound, and DirectPlay – Direct “X” they wrote. We took it and ran with it, and so every set of functionality became DirectSomethingOrOther (Direct3D, DirectInput, DirectSound3D all followed)."

And "direct", of course, was in a sense of direct access to the hardware (more direct than GDI, anyway).
I too am outside of my very (very very very) narrow five things that I can do BUT I've had the same question as you so allow me to throw some of my thoughts your way.

It starts off with a rough guess about something hard to define and because it's so hard to define no one ever changes it but it's not as though the rough guess was ever correct. That's the part we forget. I think it's similar to the Turing test which to some people has become like a blindly dogmatic rule for machine intelligence. I don't think the Turing test was ever meant to be used how it's used today. I think it was just a rough guess. More like a "yeah, something like that" kind of thing than a definition.
Demand is there. The new Smash Bros sold 1M+ units in three days ;)
Thank you for this. I don't know why people keep posting links that are behind a paywall.
85km =~ 270,000 feet for those used to thinking in airline terms.
He was, just not with a bunch of classified documents in hand.
The Last Independent Mobile OS
If you're using a frontend view engine like React then I'd recommend looking into component-based CSS frameworks like https://tachyons.io/ or https://tailwindcss.com/ where you have classes for the basics and add them together for the final output. It's a natural fit to view components.
65% renters, vocal demand for "affordable" housing, crazy tax schemes -- your burgh sounds like San Francisco far more than Las Vegas.

http://www.city-data.com/top82.html

You've just made up some fictional connection between your town as Las Vegas for karma-gathering, despite there really being no substantive similarities at all.
A coworker of mine once made this proposal. 5 of us would start a company. The company would buy key man insurance for everyone, then go on a company team building trip. On this trip, we'd all skydive, but one of the 5 parachutes would be non-functional...Profit!

This coworker of mine soon after left the company by storming out of the meeting room and slamming the door, then took up playing online poker for a living.
China’s Plan to Sideline Bitcoin
But not a placebo-controlled one? Shame.
No, the Youtube infrastructure is rather impressive. It's the frontend UI/UX product that's crap.
In New Zealand a lot of retailers added contactless, but are now removing it again as supposedly the fees charged by Visa/Mastercard are rather high.
Please don't reward violence by posting this. The ideas in this manifesto led its author to kill.

His victims deserve better from us.
The Divide Between Silicon Valley and Washington Is a National-Security Threat
This is just the next iteration following the same pattern down its logical path. Assuredly at some point in the future, we'll find another faster and more convenient way to convert real-time answers into documentation, and we'll seize it.
I don't understand why Kashoggi is brought up so much more frequently compared to what Saudi Arabia is doing in Yemen.
I think your link didn't copy right :(
Good. Injustice should be really, really expensive in the 21st century. I hope the bill just keeps getting bigger for them.
Why do people keep throwing electric scooters into rivers and lakes?
It is.

The list is long.

You need tons of people with tons of little bits of specialization, tons of factories run by experienced people, tons of workers for those factories willing to put up with rubbish, you need all the support: capitol, financial systems, export sophistication etc..

Surely, any group of people well enough organized could build maybe one such city of a few million people in ten years, but that's small.

In the meantime, in India, they can't get the electricity grid to work. Factories? No way.

Which is why we see a lot of software outsourcing in India, factories in China.

For assembling Nike shoes or something, other parts of Asia might already start to make sense. But for real manufacturing of most things ... it's China for the foreseeable future.
In my city in NZ, they like to do their tai-chi looking stuff in a park beside the main avenue of travel from the airport, with big banners about the Falun Dafa and Friends Association, but most of the banners are filled with hanzi - which makes me wonder who they're preaching to - Kiwis, or Chinese migrants?
"We’re trying now to design approaches that are capable of both precise footstep placement, such as when walking over a rock field with few, sparse footholds, and are robust to when this precision fails, such as really compliant terrain with lots of subtle height variations, using a single algorithm."

Somehow I have the feeling that robots capable of striding confidently over mountains of human skulls could be coming sooner than some think...
>2. Self-hosting the encrypted communication platform means that there's no one but you for the Govt to approach

Assuming they don't James Bond style break in unnoticed and plant a backdoor on your soft/hard-ware.
> Once you reach terminal velocity the air pressure is imparting exactly the same kind of force against you to repel gravity as the floor would be at ground level, so you experience one full g.

And what's interesting, is that what feels "down" is actually "up". Which is one of the gotchas in flying.

> You only really feel weightless the moment you jump off a surface, before you've accumulated any velocity and thus before you're being accelerated by air resistance.

This is a very useful thing in ice skating, skiing, martial arts, etc. Especially combined with changing moment of inertia.
There are of course extraordinary cases. There is that last tiny fraction of survivors.

But really, falling sucks. There is a reason working in solar is more deadly than working in nuclear. And the reason is occasionally an installer falls off of a roof.
This is great. I appreciate an open-source project looking at the amount of developers working on locked-in legacy projects where dependency upgrades take years.

This is a rare moment of empathy in an industry that - judging from other comments here - is ALWAYS on the hunt for the next best thing. Bootstrap has brought me joy and made my life as a developer much easier. Thank you to @mdo & team for keeping it that way.
$37 for 1 day access to download the paper. If that's not part of the satire, I don't know what it is.
The force of gravity is always orthogonal to the direction of motion when in orbit. So never loses momentum. Which is why the moon is still going around the earth a billion years later and has not 'fallen' into it.
Look for a new job. Get new the new job. Then quit the old job.
It’s also illegal to take “almost free” gasoline at a pump that’s erroneously listed $0.02/gal. While one would pay the unrealistically low price listed on the pump, one knows — or rather, a reasonable person would know — that it’s an error. Benefitting from a such a pricing error is illegal and technically theft. One is legally required to pay the fair market value for obtained goods, or return the goods that were received in such circumstances.
Could you place the work in context, and provide a simplified explanation for someone who understands math and ML, but is not familiar with the literature on normalizing flows and autoencoders? Thanks!

I tried reading, but the abstract and introductory section were a little too terse for me :-)
Your right to "free speech" is a constitutional right. In other words, the government can't pass a law or regulation that limits free speech. Now, not all "free speech" is considered constitutionally protected free speech but that's a separate issue entirely. GitHub is a business, it's a private institution. It's their site, they pay for it and they own it, so it's their legal right to do what they want with it. I really don't know the story behind this, so I don't really have a position on it, but that's just how the laws work in this situation. It wouldn't be a free speech rights issue. Plus, like most major sites, GitHub has a sole discretion clause in their ToS. Again, I'm not trying to weigh in on who's right or wrong, it's just how the laws work in these situations, right or wrong.

https://help.github.com/articles/github-terms-of-service/#c-...

2. GitHub May Remove Content

We do not pre-screen User-Generated Content, but we have the right (though not the obligation) to refuse or remove any User-Generated Content that, in our sole discretion, violates any GitHub terms or policies.
In general people find it much easier to understand the story of one person than to understand the story of thousands.
Haha of course. Probably a change I made earlier today. I’m at dinner now, but will update it in a couple hours.
Did you try SQL Server in a container? It's way more easy to get up and running than installing it on Windows.

https://hub.docker.com/r/microsoft/mssql-server
UC Berkeley to build open-source secure enclave using RISC-V
Murdoch you mean?
What are the big improvements they've made in the 14 years since SpaceShipOne?
If it is not heavy enough, just dump some rocks in the bottom.
Whether math is a science isn't a matter of location. It's a matter of definition. Math is not a science by definition anywhere.

Deduction is used in philosophy as well. Doesn't make philosophy or logic a science. And the major underpinning of the scientific method is empirical, not deductive.

Can you point to where the scientific method is used in mathematics? It isn't. It's why math has axioms and theorems and proofs while science has hypothesis, theories and empirical tests.

How can I empirically test that the square root of 2 is irrational? I can't because math is not a science. And I don't need to because it has been proven that square root of 2 is irrational. In math, once proven, it's always true. In science, theories are true until they've been proven to be false. In science, theories are falsifiable. In math, theorems are not. They are true forever.
Wow, I need to master ODEs/PDEs to keep up with Deep Learning now! Seems like one has to be a master of statistics, operations research, calculus and algorithms to push it forward!

Comparison to RNN was impressive! Any well-known real-world models for comparison to state of art?
I agree with this completely. This demos well... "I took this 'mess' and turned it into two clean limes!"

However, actually trying to figure out what the hell the code is doing in pointfree style is an order of magnitude (or greater) more difficult.

This is a maintainability nightmare, no thank you.
Rereading what I wrote a few days ago I can only make out as much as you have. There was a thought in there and maybe it got lost in mobile autocorrect. In the end I agree with this part:

> Arbitrarily limit lines of code used to solve a problem and write the app with the goal of never touching it again

...which is the basic jist of microservices.
Tkrunning, I greatly appreciate the style used on your blog. Its very functional and renders perfectly on mobile.
The current title "Parachutes prevent death when jumping from aircraft: randomized controlled trial" is exactly the opposite of the article's conclusion: "Parachute use did not significantly reduce death or major injury (0% for parachute v 0% for control; P>0.9)." Nor is it the title of the actual article.
You need to provide evidence for your claim that they leak energy, first of all. You also don't seem to understand how sash windows work. They are meant to be opened from the top and bottom at the same time, which creates a continuous flow of air from the outside. They can also accommodate window A/C units. Your German windows can do neither.
Say more. She’s probabaly the musical voice of the #metoo movement, which is quite a significant protest movement in my life.

I’d pick Praying though, I’m not aware of the song he picked.
1 Billion Dollars for New Raider Stadium, 1 Billion for New Wynn Casion0 and Amazon opening New Shipping Center N. LV in 2019 1000 new jobs, lowest unempolyment in 10 years CA homeowners have lots of equity and high taxes. The same gurus that didn't buy 5 years now know the LV market NOT
Earlier today I simply visited the early access page for Robinhood, and this evening I got an invitation to join it, without having submitted my email address. Presumably it was a blanket spam mailing? Kinda scary.
This is almost certainly survivorship bias[1]. Only middle-height cats that might theoretically survive are going to be taken to a veterinarian; the cats that fell from higher heights were not included, because they were "obviously dead". Which makes "high-rise syndrome" an example of the exact type of bias discussed in this paper.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias#In_cats
This story neatly fits with my observation that where I grew up the cities electrical contractors get busted for bid rigging every 10 to 15 years. They only get caught when they start doing that on city contracts.
​Organic food worse for the climate
I can recommend datagrid. You pay yearly but after the first year you can stop paying as long as you’re ok with not getting further updates.
I would bet on the Harry Potter game being a relative flop. The Japanese market will probably be dead and that accounted for a huge proportion of Pokémon Go’s revenue. I would also doubt that many “whales” would be immediately attracted to the premise. They will have a tough time not just being Pokémon go but with Harry Potter this time, and I bet that will hurt mainstream adoption.