skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is very cool. I love the layout. Its beautifully made and straight forward.

The MCU are all connected in one way or another. There is a cause and effect of everything. There are also cameos from other characters in the stand alone ones. I wonder if you could explore that. Maybe something like -

Have a timeline of each character. What they are doing, and what they know at the beginning and the end of the movie. So for example, in Iron Man, Ant Man is just a lowly cat burglar. His timeline would most likely be that way until his first movie.

Or even Thanos, during Iron Man is searching for the Infinity Stones and has tracked them to Earth. He's plotting some action for retrieving it back.

Just some hypothetical that may flush out the site. If you're looking for commerce, perhaps there's a ways to use Fandango to sell tickets. Or even sell merch. I'm not sure how Disney would like the latter, but it may work out in your favor.

Fantastic site!
I'm using NNI[1] with decent success for hyperparameter optimization. It implements a number of different approaches, from a simple random search to a Tree Parzen Estimator (TPE) and specialized algorithms for automatically designing networks.

It's very powerful and gives you a lot of freedom (it can minimize/maximize the output of fundamentally any python program). The main drawback is that you are on your own to figure out which paramters go well together: For example using an assesor to stop underperforming attempts early is great for random search, but devastating for TPE. You have to figure that out on your own. You inevitably spend some time tuning your hyperparameter tuner. It's still a big win in terms of human effort, at the expense of doing a lot more computing.

1: https://github.com/Microsoft/nni
Note that Airbus has the option to buy the whole program from Bombardier Inc. and the Québec government. I'm trying to find out the exact terms. There is some speculation that Airbus doesn't want to push the CSeries/A220 too much until then, as it will only make the remaining 49.99% of the program more expensive.

EDIT: after some research digging through the related thread on airliners.net [1], this is what I found:

"After 7.5 years (which is pretty fast), Airbus has a call option for all of BBD's shares in the joint venture at the then current market value (and BBD has a put option similarly, which it would exercise if things didn't work out). So basically, Airbus can buy the whole shebang in 7.5 years."

Since the announce was made in October 2016, in 6 years Airbus can trigger its option to acquire Bombardier's shares. Not completely sure about Québec's shares though.

[1] https://www.airliners.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=1376389&...
What tipping point? Maybe the engineer themselves who recommends the practice. Everyone have ethics but might be differ than you. As long as the practice meet their goal, from their perspective it works.
Helvetica, the World's Most Popular Font, Gets a Face-Lift
Well yeah, I’m sure they do, but at what cost? The same data collection that government loves so much has been misused to throw elections and genuinely cast doubt upon the democratic process. Ultimately, creating this big giant drag nets has only empowered companies to demonstrate a complete lack of regard for humanity.

If that’s security, I no longer want to be secure.
"Whoops, yet another (totally convenient for our business model) error! But that's okay, because we won't be punished if we say it was an error."
It only makes the job of intelligence agencies easier, a tiny part of an government. And one that wouldn't play any role in intervening in a company like proposed.
> Good checklist design is not trivial, however.

I understand you're saying, but this statement exemplifies so well something I think I have gotten worse at since becoming a software engineer.

In my previous life, if I tried to apply checklists to my life, I would have taken a naive approach, applied my best effort, and that would be the end of it.

Now I would be much more likely to consider edge cases and counter-examples, compare my checklists to the "optimal checklist", and as a result I might fall into a checklist-design rabbit hole, or else constantly question the efficacy of my checklists in knowledge of the true complexity of the problem.

I don't think it's always beneficial to think in those terms.
Have you tried changing browser? -- Written from my Chromium browser installed from the Fedora Linux package repository.
XFCE is great but OSTree really is the future. I don't see any reason for still using the dinosaur Ubuntu in a world where one can have Fedora Silverblue.
There are no KDE apps or libraries in Xubuntu. I'm pretty sure that I would have noticed in the 10 years of using Xubuntu and updating it with Synaptic.
Neat...I just wish there was an easy way to give the basemap library a 3-item tuple with (lat, lon, value) and have it automatically do a heat map and not just plot the points. That is an option in some software.
I'm reminded of a recent article about a criminal being caught because his brother had used 23andme.
Yeah, now that I think of it, Intel did lay off those "we are the leader in 5G" ads that I saw on all the tech sites in 2018Q4.

From a business standpoint I feel like I understand, but from a technical viewpoint, why has Intel struggled so hard to make parts other than PC cpus?
I used to read the articles more often. And sometimes I do click through.
> all of Turkey moving to the UK

It wouldn't have happened either, way, all of Turkey would have gone to Germany.

> political advertising can be tuned to your personal hot button issues

But it was always already the case with newspapers and TV news, you wouldn't target the same population with Fox news vs CNN or the Sun vs the Guardian. And people wouldn't have seen ads for the "other side" since they wouldn't have opened the other newspaper or switched to the other channel
I've used Xubuntu for years as a weekend OS for side projects. It seems to work well.
The current generation of passenger jets have been optimized to the point of looking similar across makers and models. High bypass turbofans, wing and body design are all similar. For me, the quickest way to distinguish a Boeing and Airbus is nose taper and cockpit windows. Everything beyond that point are not unique enough.
Nope, you got it all wrong. It wasn’t the idea of Google to build light rail. It was the city’s idea and has been discussed for many years. The problem is that the city lacks funding so google might have been asked to contribute in exchange to all the benefits they get from this Neighborhood.

There is also no residential land right now at this spot. It’s potential residential land that would need to be built, that’s the whole point of the neighborhood but right now it’s the old land of the port, there isn’t any residents.

I’m not sure if you are misleading on purpose or not, but you have twisted reality entirely on this one.
The Many Benefits of Regular App Updates
I’m about halfway through rereading The Book of the New Sun, so I’m very sad to hear this
Why does it ask for your e-mail password to begin with? It is sad that there are 1.5M people out there (and probably more) that actually gave them their password. Scary.
The economic, ecological and carbon benefits of chestnut and other tree Crops
Isn't ostree for upgrades? Its not a DE like XFCE right?
I'd like to avoid vendor lock-in. Additionally the way Shopify caters to audiences like dropshipping entrepreneurs is putting me off.
As someone without any knowledge of OSTree or Fedora Silverblue, can you go into more detail?
Author of the article here; you have a point that there is no explicit discussion of validating this assumption, beyond the variability shown in the colored curves in the "count per pack" plot.

Having said that, this small sample is indeed reasonably consistent (or at least not inconsistent) with that iid assumption for the color of each individual Skittle. We would not expect to see any 80+% red packs even assuming that color was perfectly uniformly iid, because the probability of observing such a pack is so small (less than 10^(-19)).

However, still assuming this model, we should expect to see packs with very small proportion of reds... and we do, with one pack having just 3 red Skittles, for example. The entire distribution of proportion of red follows the assumed binomial distribution very closely.
Controlled lighting is extremely helpful in computer vision and key to the operation of a lot of industrial uses of it. From a system design point of view it makes a lot of sense, but obviously it's not possible in many applications (and researchers obviously want to go after the toughest problems, and would rather mostly solve a hard problem than entirely solve an easier one).
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basemap (like matplotlib) has the contourf method. You can calculate your x, y, and z values using matplotlib.mlab.griddata (altho scipy's are faster), and pass the results to it:

https://stackoverflow.com/a/26885815/416626
Nice to see this posted so soon. Please do feel free to contribute your own interpretations and I'll collate them and republish an update after a while.
I wonder when they start adding to fish pills additional substances which are OK for fish but harmful to humans.
Microsoft loses control over Windows Tiles subdomain
"Facebook bug causes all user's sensitive data to not be uploaded in some case" sounds like an Onion headline.
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What really sets me off with linux DE's is how poorly they handle dpi scaling on external monitors. I recently bought a 24" 2560 × 1440 monitor for my 15.6 laptop running Ubuntu Mate 18.04. This is what i went through just to make it work.

1. Plugged the hdmi, everything looks so small.
2. Mate desktop had HiDPI support but only by a scaling factor of 2. Now everything looks very large.
3. I have to manually change the fonts dpi settings. Chrome and some other apps look good but the menus, file manager and firefox are still upscaled.
4. I manually change layout.css.devPixelsPerPx in about:config to make firefox look good.

Finally, the result looks very unpolished. The menus are still largely upscaled and some apps like vlc won't even scale at all. My laptop's screen can't be used as a secondary screen because everything is upscaled, not to mention that i have to manually undo all those steps to revert everything back to "normal" for my 15.6" laptop screen. I eventually wrote some scripts with dconf to automate the proccess but it's just not good.

Does anyone have experience with external monitors and linux desktops? How does xfce or kde handle this? I tried gnome that supports fractional scaling and it's way better than mate. Now the problem is that i only have 8GB of ram and gnome shell is known to be a ram hog.
> I'm not a conspiracy theorist but if you're trying to claim you cannot capture a screenshot from any release meant to be shipped out, either you're crap at release management or are full of shit. Which one is it?

That doesn't strike me as especially unlikely, especially for a specific branch of the app codebase that would likely only operate with a huge number of other co-dependent codebases for backend systems that no longer exist.

With six months to recover code and build a non-live environment with all the dependencies could it be done? Sure. But that's not really within the scope of a journalist request.
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They are responsible, but I don't see how shoving ads into their end-users face is going to be seen positively. There are other ways to monetize a product, for example B2B.
Do you not speak to your neighbors!?
I cannot recommend enough Latro in the Mist, a combination of two of his novels about a Roman soldier in Greek times given the curse of losing his memory every day.

To me this was his most 'approachable' novel by virtue of the fact that I could cross-reference the names with historical resources like Thucydides -- I also highly recommend the Landmark series for their detailed annotations.

Fifth Head of Cereberus is, of course, the best way to start with him, and I re-read it every few years. If you have never read Wolfe before, I would start with Fifth Head. It will give you an early sense for whether Wolfe is your cup of tea.
Related: basemap is deprecated, use cartopy instead! https://scitools.org.uk/cartopy/docs/latest/
actually ripping a small bag filled with stuff open reliably is a bit harder than you might think.
"self appointed elite" is a weird bag of people, which would likely contain Bill Gates, Larry Ellison, and many random CEOs in between the spectrum. Their approach/value is radically different, so it's generalising here useful?
It depends very much of which .NET runtime we talk about (NGEN, Pre-RyuJIT, RyuJIT, IL2CPP, Mono, MDIL, .NET Native, .NET Core, Burst), and which version of it.
I enjoy the f-you tone of this article
A common practice is to keep developers unaware of the real objective of their work (like Uber, in another comment on HN, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13786384):

- developer A is tasked to create the prompt to ask for username and password of the email account

- developer B is tasked to call some API to upload contacts from email account

- developer C is tasked to bind two functionalities.

Now replace developers with teams and you see how simple is for the average developer to underestimate the scope and the ethical bounds of a given task.
yes LinkedIn was certainly using dark UI patterns to upload the contact list and send invites to everyone on it.
For the people in the back, "Facebook is a multi-billion dollar company." They have 30,000 employees. They could spend the money to do better QA. But it's cheaper to let your end-users do it for free.
I usually keep stuff like bread for a little longer and I usually don't waste most of it. If I'm not sure I'll eat it in time I'll freeze it even though it won't be as soft.
Why are companies even asking users to provide passwords for unrelated services? For example, when I added an external account on Etrade, they gave me the option of same day verification of that account if I provided them my online banking account credentials.

This practice opens up a significant potential for abuse and should be illegal.
\theta doesn't seem that bad. Typing something like \kissyface or \poop seems better than clicking around or typing a numeric code, albeit with the usual name guessing problem.

On OS X, and I assume others, you can add items to be automatically replaced, so something like "!t" could become a unicode theta if you want.
Yeah, it's O(N) in air and O(sqrt(N)) in a vacuum. The O(1) thing assumes all the beads move simultaneously in the same time unit, which isn't possible in practice of course.
Do you happen to have any references for that? I in no way doubt you, but I hope to use this fact to dazzle a child when I get home; and maybe persuade her to read some top class sci-fi.
CLR routes any interface calls through an indirect cell or pad that can be quickly rewritten to point to a different dispatch stub. Some stubs perform caching whereas the generic resolver behaves as explained by the pseudocode in my article.

The “book of the runtime” has a graph visualizing these possibilities: https://github.com/dotnet/coreclr/blob/master/Documentation/...

So this is a self-modifying code approach.
Sounds similar to Zillow lowering homes' estimated values (zestimates) to encourage subscriptions with which you can contest their number.
> It takes extra work to upload those contacts, which means several managers and developers decided to do it and then spent time implementing it.

Not really. Facebook is a bunch of autonomous services (registration, access, tracking, activities, etc.) accessing shared databases (chat logs, activities, media uploads, etc.) with some kind of automatic implicit and explicit ACL in place. The suggestion/contact service got access to data provided through the email-not-working-with-oauth-so-let-us-use-automatic-token-delivery-and-confirmation-by-accessing-user-emails because it was told a new source of contacts were available for those users. So, not a straight path.

Accident/Blunder > Evil.

Now. GDPR ? GDPR. And because of GDPR those things aren't supposed to happen in Europe.
I recently reviewed some of my old notebooks (Moleskin, graph) for information for a blog post. Noticed how bad my handwriting had become. Have since rediscovered fountain pens. Writing is now much improved, I put this down to the necessity to write more slowly or at least more smoothly with a proper pen.
We will look back on these times and realize how morally and ethically corrupt Facebook was and is, especially under this "Leadership". This is why Facebook should be broken up. Its not just dangerous to Democracy, its an actual menace.
> how on earth could that have been a part of an earlier import contact feature? Did they already ask users for their email password for that

Yes they did. I remember people complaining about it many years ago. Here’s a page from 2012 describing it I found using google advanced search: https://smallbusiness.chron.com/import-email-facebook-44162....

> When you create a Facebook page for your business, you can import your email list of contacts directly into Facebook. From there, you can suggest your Facebook page directly to your customers. Facebook can interact with a range of email providers and only needs your email accounts's username and password to import your contacts.

Here’s another from 2011 https://www.techwalla.com/articles/how-to-import-contacts-to...

> Type your email address and password for the Web-based email or instant-messaging service that you want to import into the dialog boxes and click "Find Friends."
FB would probably prefer a word "lended" or "took for a repair" instead of "stole".
Considering vast crowds of folks happily working for amoral places like investment banks (2008 crisis and its consequences) or wealth management (rich folks trying to keep as much money untaxed as possible and used for public spending), the moral bar for usual smart person is actually pretty low. Optimizing some ads seems pretty harmless when compared to.

As long as you don't see the evil being literally done ie in form or row of inmates being sent to gas chambers, there are almost endless ways to persuade yourself that all is actually OK and fine.
18 USC 1030 (a)(4)

(4) knowingly and with intent to defraud, accesses a protected computer without authorization, or exceeds authorized access, and by means of such conduct furthers the intended fraud and obtains anything of value

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1030

A criminal investigation into whether or not this was really accidental would be entirely warranted here. If there was intent to access this information without authorized access that is criminal.
> id say something like ww2 is “extremely bad”

WW2 was a result of a far right government and its rapid rise to power, mainly as a result of propaganda and misinformation. So...
I feel like "far-right" lost its meaning. Further right than the center-right, sure, but are all those parties and persons really openly racist, advocating for discrimination and authoritarianism ?
Are they going to block Danbooru in the UK?
A great find. I remember having Machine Code for Beginners (IIRC) which I got after learning some BASIC. I think it put me off machine code for several years as it seemed to go on and on about how difficult machine code was. (It is/was, but some encouragemet would have helped).
Is it possible to download all these 136 repositories at once?
We manage 75+ with ease on PCs larger than toasters.
KDE is a bit better with high resolution displays, try it with a live Kubuntu image and see if it works for your setup.
No.

Can you imagine an office full of developers all talking to their machine to enter code...

It wouldn't work at all.
I don't know for other heads of state, but the French president has a (small) service dedicated to his protection, the Groupe de sécurité de la présidence de la République (Security Group of the President of the Republic), whose name is a little more explicit than Secret Service.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groupe_de_s%C3%A9curit%C3%A9_d...

Fun story: at the time of its creation, in 1983, under president Mitterand, one (unofficial) mission was the protection of the illegitimate daughter of the president.
Bézier Curves and Surfaces: The Utah Teapot
What does OSTree have to do with XFCE?

OSTree: https://ostree.readthedocs.io/en/latest/manual/introduction/ -> The underlying architecture might be summarized as "git for operating system binaries"

vs

XFCE: https://www.xfce.org/ -> Xfce is a lightweight desktop environment for UNIX-like operating systems. It aims to be fast and low on system resources, while still being visually appealing and user friendly.

Also that Silverblue thing, assuming it's this site: https://silverblue.fedoraproject.org/ doesn't really do a good job at explaining what it is...
SOFORT quite explicitly ~scraps~ scrapes the entire available transaction history for „your convenience” (much more is available with access login and password actually). What a satisfaction when they tried to enter Polish market and the Polish finance controlling authorities shut them down before they managed to squeek. The famous German „privacy” it is.
Thank you for pointing out an interesting project.

Ubuntu has the full force of upstream Debian behind it, while Centos/Fedora has Red Hat upstream, which just got bought by Oracle. Is anyone in the Centos/Fedora ecosystem concerned about the sale? What happens if management simply quits making public RH streams available? What if the lawyers come out as usual?
That looks too compilcated. Will you also use several different QA engineers and several product managers for this?
and won’t silhouettes be easily affected by different clothing?
Aadhaar in the Hand of Spies
This is the real truth here.
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Randomness in Art
Most people don't understand OAuth, so they don't know the difference between OAuth and giving out their password. Most people don't know they're doing this with bank scrapers like Mint!

I myself have had trouble figuring out whether certain dialogs were OAuth dialogs or just skimming my password, and I've been in web software for 20 years. A layperson has no chance.
> The point that the people who argue against privacy are liars which will abuse fears to try to get people on their side was missing so far. Thanks for adding it.

Do you honestly believe that CCTV is completely useless wrt crime prevention and detection?
What is nexus? And where did it come from?