skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You might enjoy Cory Doctorow's recent book "Radicalized":

https://craphound.com/category/radicalized-full/

The protagonist starts out by jail-breaking her toaster, which was designed on only toast authorized bread. However, the company that produced it went out of business (taken over by a hedge fund), and the authentication servers were shut down, so now the toaster couldn't toast anything.
It's kind of funny, how mobile today is a big part of traffic and this will only increase, yet while the mobile experience is already terrible, especially in chrome with no script blocker, google constantly works at making it even worse, with preloading of undesired, external content. Does Silicon Valley not have data caps? I guess they never have bad reception, though. So at least the malicious add that preloaded in the background can transition you seamlessly to a new page. As quick as if you newer saw the content you intended to. Progress! :-D
"But if you think EU citizens will be entirely safe and comfortable in the UK after a hypothetical Brexit, you've not been paying attention to the "hostile environment" and the deportation of actual Brits in the Windrush fiasco."

It's a little populist and inflammatory to suggest that the UK is a 'hostile environment' for EU citizens.

Literally millions of EU citizens and other naturalized immigrants from EU countries - and others around the world, live in UK, and they don't 'live in fear'.

There are obviously many ambiguities, and people caught up in immigration snafus.

Neither of these issues are new.

As treaties are realigned (and they have been forever and will continue to evolve), citizenship status will be adjust, but neither the UK or the EU are going to start mass deportations.

And to indicate an individual getting caught up in the system as evidence of much is not fair; have you considered the problems right now in Germany, Poland, Greece, Italy? Just to start the list?

Sadly, even the most modern nations have loopholes in their systems and outcomes are not always just, but overall, most modern nations have lawful, well regulated and reasonable policies, for the most part.
Hah, good call. It's like a mechanical slow-scan film recorder.
Encouraging criminals to come to your area?
I'm mainly going for Z-Wave plus, using Home Assistant as controller for now (though still evaluating that).

My A/C is on Wifi though, and the cloudy controller web page is using a REST API (undocumented but simple enough to sniff and fake), so that's the only outlier so far.
Much of our day to day lives are touched by data
This is not a problem. BSD is a superior license model.
Uhm yeah, this is illegal in most states. And in case of emergency (fire, flood, gas/water leak, etc.) where a landlord is unable to get in - guess who's going to pay for damages?
That's a great suggestion, thanks!
Yes, with the benefit that the site which opened the portal (or link) still has control over the target.

Sounds fishy and they’re trying to project this under a UX umbrella.
Ivory Puzzle Balls
How sustainable? There are only three ways to sell a thermostat.

- at the time a home is being built when it’s easy to get all sorts of add ons bundle through the builder. How many homes are being built in a year?

- as a self service after market upgrade to your existing thermostat. In the grand scheme of things, how many people are willing to do that?

-working with service companies or building out a network of installers.

Also, how often do you replace your thermostat?

Look at Roku, they knew from day one that money wasn’t ultimately going to come from hardware sells. Their business model was always ultimately to get a cut of subscriptions, sell ads, and sell viewing habits.
"A tenant illegally locking their landlord out". Where the fuck do you live, 11th century Europe?
Because people keep turning them into HTML. Leave the vectors alone, people! CSS is terrible.
I’d love to see some evidence of this being true. I have a very hard time believing it otherwise.

Simply reporting on the same events after another outlet has does not make them a scam.

The CBC is a valuable public service that produces heaps of quality content.
exactly. read 2 pages of a book. play with your pet for so little time that it gets pissed off at you. ditto the kid. code long enough that you manage to remember what you were doing yesterday and then immediately forget...
That's..terrifying.
I think it’s a bit of an overstatement to call this an end-to-end solution.

What they are starting with here is a single table of data with all the features already defined and an existing binary label column. Typically when this type of data is collected in the field it is much more fine grained (i.e many observations collected over time) and unlabeled (e.g how do we define a true example? How many false examples do we select?).

The competition description even goes as far to say “We have chosen a dataset that you can get started with easily”.

So, yes, this is a cool demonstration of Google's product, but the success in the competition might not extend to the problems real business face when trying to apply ML to a problem like this.

That being said, I do think AutoML can help with these problems as it is extended to handle data that isn’t in a single table already.

For example, I’m a developer of a open source library called Featuretools (https://github.com/Featuretools/featuretools) that tries to automate feature engineering for temporal and relational datasets. Basically, it helps data scientists prepare real world data into the form this competition starts with.
It's pretty easy to demonstrate that when most people are asked to do an estimate with 80% accuracy, they do estimates at 30% accuracy. There are studies on this, but make 5 people in a room do it and it's a lot easier to believe. People are really bad at estimating.

One trick is to make them really small chunks of less than 4 hours. When you add up the chunks they tend to average out quite accurately.

Estimations are quite a pain though. I've spent days doing and negotiating estimations of things that take less than a day to do. And one downside is Parkinson's Law - if you overestimate, it slows down development, and if you underestimate, it's far worse.

While you can make your estimations more accurate, you can't do it without putting a heck lot of effort and manpower... which defeats the purpose of doing it for efficiency.
You make some good points, as I said I was just making assumption. It's definitely the land that is valuable, but you want a long lasting house with a minimum of renovations due to 'wear by environment'. My thought (assumption) was that it'd be better in our normal brick houses.

But fair enough, it's probably less bad than I thought :)
DiffEq is a lot more than a 1000 lines of code. By now it's about 75 git repo and some of those repos are themselves >10,000 lines of code. And there is a single file in the test suites that is 10,000 lines defining mathematical constants for 200 Runge-Kutta tableaus. So it's way way more, and actually quite large by now. However, we still get a lot of feature bang for our lines of code buck.
OK, so what’s the entire point of this article then?
I am referring to NORMAL humans, not us super nerds.
I buy only Apple devices.

It's true that they're mostly proprietary, and Apple runs its own services, and I hate iTunes these days.

But—and I realize not everyone feels the same way—but at this time they are literally the only b2c company that has any credibility around privacy.

They feel to me—and again, not everyone agrees—they feel to me like the only hardware company that thinks of their users as their customers, and not as cattle to be sold to crapware vendors and search engine behemoths.
Curious, is this rosy retrospection or are there objective measures that integrity was more of a mainstay in the past?
I had my house wired with gigabit Ethernet when it was being built. I don’t know how long will that be enough.
Unlikely. There was some intelligence behind it. He was aware the locks had been changed as I explained his in an SMS so I did what he asked explicitly. Secondly I could apologise for the mistake of leaving the wrong keys inside the property. As for the marmite, some kid did a prank! Ooops. Based on the police's previous attitude, would they likely come out for a bit of marmite in a letterbox.

The put the keys through the letterbox thing was actually a masterpiece of idiocy on his part which I refrained from mentioning to him.
It's exactley what Microsoft tried to do.
I'm not surprised that this has happened. As soon as I started seeing ads for people selling courses on how to list cheaply imported things from China in your spare time to make 'passive' income, it probably was easy enough for factories/businesses in China to do it directly.
To begin with, why to run JIT if you can run optimised to the limit native code?

Really no value there. The positive connotation of "web native" label is not so positive in the world of dour and severe people which "hardcore embedded developers" are.
Mono is already a solution, no need to wait for CoreRT.

Java has AOT compilers available since around 2000, just not for free.

And there are plenty of other languages with AOT compilers to native code.
They also hijack the scrolling and often break parts of the site, I hate AMP with a passion.
yes, I was looking for this book. Thank you. I wish I had read this when I was in school. I liked the book for explaining complex topic in a very simple, easily understandable way. This would be a great book to introduce calculus to your kids. I read chapter 2 (on different degrees of smallness) and found it enlightening.
Here's a clause from a U.K. (England and Wales) lease agreement that is pretty standard:

35. Landlord's Covenant for Quiet Enjoyment

The Landlord covenants with the Tenant, that, so long as the Tenant pays the rents reserved by and complies with the obligations of this lease, the Tenant shall have quiet enjoyment of the Property without any interruption by the Landlord or any person claiming under the Landlord except as otherwise permitted by this lease.

There are clauses covering emergency entry for repairs (e.g. burst water pipes, leaking gas) in short-term rental agreements but - as others have said - they require "reasonable" notice in almost all cases aside from dire emergency, and the tenant can still refuse entry.
Curious, does anyone have a good manual thermostat that they like?

Part of the reason Nest has done so well is most programmable thermostats are horrible to use. I'm a product designer and I don't understand how the scheduling works.

Scheduling isn't something I really need for my studio. At night I turn the AC on, in the morning I turn it off. Don't really need to turn on the heat in the winter. I'd love is a quality manual thermostat—something like the Honeywell CT87K1004, but with a metal shell.
https://www.honeywellstore.com/store/products/the-round-non-...
I fear that any process that allows for a git push -f at any time is eventually going to result in someone hammering a shared/public repo when they meant to hammer their personal repo.
You are not the boss of me. You are also a nerd, not a normal person that uses anti-virus software.
Traces of five drugs found on 1000-year-old South American ritual kit
Apple doesnt sell products, they sell a lifestyle.
Are there any additional benefits beyond residency that the QIIP grants, that could be reneged upon if you violate the intent of the contract?

Perhaps, could they say that if you stay in Quebec, your money is just a loan, but if you don’t, it’s a permanent payment—making the entry fee almost more of a “deposit” attached to a Letter of Intent?
We are already doing that (or rather, the moon is doing it to us), more by changing earth's rotation than by changing distance. We just need to wait a couple billion years for earth to be tidally locked to the moon (and not just the other way around like it is now).
Still stuck at Level 2...
Any ideas?
Pretty sure that was a reply to me instead of the current parent. Yes, :( would have been more appropriate. I did not really think that much about the smiley, and did not use it as a reflection of the fact but more as a reflection on finding out the gap in my thinking.
Seems very buggy due to handling of requests - some examples:

- if I'll search for "Zagajewski", then search for "Fryderyk", I still get "Zagajewski Artur" in results; what should happen is it should clear results on blur

- if I click Timeline, then Centers, then Timeline again all it does it makes the dots juggle; what should happen is there should be a loading bar indicating loading of resources and rendering

- there are requests to http://mapofcomposers.pl/wp-json/wp/v2/kompozytorzy?per_page... for no reason at all

- please clear the breadcrumbs at some point
I'm missing something obvious but all of the history you show is in the reverse order to default behaviour?

Am I missing a config setting you explain somewhere?
What is going on with all the air pollution articles hitting HN this week? This is the 4th(?) I’ve seen in about 3 days. Any tech topic and I might not think about it, but air purification doesn’t really seem to be the kind of topic I’d expect to see so much here.
Gnome and KDE seem so close in polish these days, it's hard to decide which one to run and I keep on going back and forward.
Localizing Javascript apps with JQuery.i18n
New water cycle on Mars discovered
Who is Satan and why there is evil
Best video about this with proofs
https://youtu.be/AWNM1-xYI5E

Funny monkey using phone in video
Don't think just you can use phone
See how he is searching and watching own monkey videos on phone
http://bit.ly/2DS4p2R

See what happened when a lion was trying to kill man
http://bit.ly/2H2zsKc
..
Would you be willing to share your speccing process?
The reason for a new element, rather than just tacking this behavior onto `iframe` seems to be backwards compatibility [1].

> We wish to give user agents as much flexibility as possible to isolate the host and guest browsing contexts (in implementations, in separate processes), even when the active documents may be same origin-domain. To make this possible, we intend not to expose the Document or WindowProxy of the guest contents, via the IDL attributes on HTMLIFrameElement, by using access to named windows, or by indexed access to window.frames. Without such access, communication can be be guaranteed to be asynchronous and not require shared access to JavaScript objects. Those operations which don't apply to portal contexts would all need to be modified to throw an appropriate exception in such cases.

[1]: https://github.com/WICG/portals/blob/master/explainer.md
"These weren't professionals having their pockets lined to break ethical standards or push pre-decided stories."

I don't think you have the evidence to come to that conclusion. If they were, how would you know?

Once you find out someone has lied to you in real life about something serious, generally the right answer isn't to slightly adjust down your estimation of the truthfulness. You should generally drop it like a rock, and require a lot of evidence to bring it back up again. I don't mean that politically; I mean that in "real life", as a general life rule. Lies are highly correlated, and it is rational to do this, and indeed, actively irrational not to. (Though many people who are naturally inclined to thinking the best of people have to learn this the hard way, over and over, before getting to this point.)

Similarly, though not identically, you now have strong evidence that what you considered the ethical firewall was breached. You have good reason to suspect that the breach wasn't contained there; what may have started out as putting a toe over the line almost certainly escalated to totally ignoring the line, because in a group that large, that's always how it goes. (Again, general life rule; in groups dedicated to breaking the rules, there's always someone pushing the line just a little bit more than yesterday. Not always the same person, but always someone.)

No, I don't have absolute proof of this... my point is more that you don't have anywhere near proof of your belief that the transgression is limited to just what you know about, and that you have a lot of rational reasons to very strongly suspect that to not be the case. Or, at the very least, I have a lot of rational reason to strongly suspect that is not the case, since I don't consider these people my team or my tribe. Additionally, as I cited earlier, I think that for the same reason people suspected the "journo-list" existed in the first place by watching news stories that something like it exists again today. If this is true, not only has the ethics firewall been breached once again, it means it's been done completely knowingly, at which point any arguments about meaning well go out the window.

(This is all in addition to the general argument that control of the media narrative is literally one of the most valuable things on Earth and I find the idea that literally nobody with any power has ever successfully found a way to manipulate it and it's all just innocent people naively doing their job without a thought as to how it might affect society and that nobody anywhere would even dream of pressuring such people to be such an extraordinary claim as to be absurd. The degree of ethicality on the part of human beings necessary to pull that off strikes me as almost inexpressibly higher than the degree of ethicality that I observe.)
Feudal and Authoritarian eh? Certainly not being dramatic over differing interpretations of property rights.
Which themselves are less hospitable than living in the middle of the Sahara desert.
Wait! Seriously? Did IE of yore not teach anyone anything??? Or does the internet truly have that short of a memory span?
hmm...

Carrying a smartphone vs carrying a smartphone and a key chain.

I wonder which is preferable..
Is it possible that the tariffs are an attack on Amazon (Bezos) who Trump doesn't like?
3 paragraphs in and I'm not following, but I do like the pretty pictures. I guess she got through to me, if only for a bit.
I'm interested in WASM for microcontrollers to have the application guaranteed free of side-effects (due to the sandboxing). This allows to be test the logic thoroughly in isolation, and have reasonably high certainty that it does not do anything funky - like write to some hardware register in some edge-case.

Such code would not be able to do I/O directly, but must receive it from outside the sandbox. It could be a pure function implementing a state machine on form `state, outputs = next(state, inputs)`, where state,inputs and outputs are plain data. This structure is amendable to generating testcases, be it via property testing or fuzzing. Or regression tests by capturing a stream of state transitions in serialized form.

There are languages which makes this possible, like Haskell, or maybe even Rust or Ada. However in the embedded world, C is what everyone knows and uses, so there would be a benefit to staying within that ecosystem.
1. Get a good grip on how to understand and interpret the finances of your company. Especially the concept of cash flow. A book I can recommend it https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5152210-financial-intell...

2. Learn to play the sales and marketing game. As engineers, we often underestimate the value of presentation. Showing up for a meeting well dressed and groomed has a really positive effect on a prospective client. I used to send my proposals as plain text files. People started taking me a lot more seriously once I switched to PDFs with proper fonts and colours that reflected my own company branding (website, stationery etc.).

3. Get money from your clients when the time is due. Don't become a line of credit for them. I learnt this the hard way and have a significant amount of money that's due to me which I'm not hopeful of getting.

4. Learn to evaluate a potential lead quickly and then decide on how much time you want to spend on making the proposal. Good leads might be worth a quick prototype of the project even. Bad leads might not be worth the email you send telling them that you're not available. Your time is valuable and it's what you're selling. Spend very little of it for unpaid tasks.

5. Put an expiry date on your proposals. Tell them that you'll do X for Y $ if the project starts by Z. Don't skip the Z.

6. Charge an advance before you start the project and charge in pieces based on value delivered. This also helps your cash flow.

7. Structure your company properly. A good book on that topic (and several others - a must read IMO) is https://davidmaister.com/books/mtpsf/

8. Keep growing. In my experience, consultancy (the services business) is a numbers game.

9. Spend some time, money and energy setting up policies for HR etc. up front so that when your employees come about raises and things, you have answers ready.

Good luck!
That’s a bit of a straw man.
1. You are using go’s built in imaginary type, and writing one from scratch in Java.
2. That is no longer idiomatic Java. Use Autovalue and the comparison is a little more fair. The LOC and complexity still come out in go’s favor for this, no doubt.
3. Beating down on Java is fun, but with Kotlin interop and adoption rate, I think the comparison will become JVM vs X.
> Google's smart home strategy will now revolve around only the "Works with Google Assistant" program

This arguably makes more sense anyway, and I think it opens up some interesting possibilities that might not have been possible while Nest was a standalone entity.
Do they not teach why Newton invented calculus anymore? They did when I was taught physics and it all made sense. I don't recall if I considered it beautiful at that time but I do recall how impressed I was with Newton's feat; moving himself farther along with his studies in physics.
> I'm wondering what my quality of life would be relative to the US.

Likely more affordable if you're drawing US based compensation.
Check out working remote via Toptal > www.toptal.com/
I had never heard that explanation of the Lisp curse and it is very insightful; thank you!
Just block force pushes to shared branches.
The original (not the Martin Gardner version) is public domain at this point. Project Gutenberg has a PDF of it.

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/33283/33283-pdf.pdf
> I use an internet-enabled coffee maker to make me coffee at the same time every morning, thereby giving me extra sleep.

Where's the internet part? It just needs a timer.
“Why buy a $40 bikini made in America when you can buy a $4 bikini directly from China? For that matter, why buy a $20 bikini made in China but imported by a U.S. company like the Gap when you can buy a $4 bikini directly from China?”

– Alana Semuels, The Atlantic

^ 40% of merchants are in China but the percentage of goods made in China is likely much higher maybe like 75%.
1D Convolutional Neural Networks and Applications: A Survey
Webpage doesn't work on Firefox on Android. It's absurd that any person/company is failing at mobile-friendly static sites 12 years after the iPhone came out.
Get a cheap Ecobee lite or one of the many long established manufacturers like Honeywell.

I really like Nest but after the Google acquisition I’m not confident in their products being supported. For me I don’t need smart scheduling. My wife works from home and I do a couple days a week.

The Ecobee 4’s I have are great and come with a couple room sensors. Had them for a few weeks now. I’ve briefly looked into the API and it looks like I could integrate it with my Raspberry Pi.
How about ordering supplies for you when you run low?
Great comments here.

How do you guys promote yourself, those that work alone without agency of some kind ? Word of mouth or web site or something else ?
disable force pushes on master