skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No suprise people on the street would be happy to receive extra cash for free, when asked.

Unfortunately money doesn't grow on trees, and politcians know that :)
Customer acquisition costs should go down as the overall value proposition improves.

Good PR on efficiency and domestic manufacturing helps, as will availability of Tesla's Powerwall (10 kWh battery for $3,500).
I suspect the plane trip example is an ideologically veiled allusion meant to bring the mind the kind of digs shows like South Park and Fox & Friends like to take at Al Gore. Just think how many more empty beer cans we could happily toss in the trash if these rich hypocritical liberal environmentalists weren't making all these useless plane trips to UN conferences!
'Cause for the world you are someone, but for someone you're the world' ;)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOlG-H_Pjbg
For non-critical things, they provide relatively good value for money. For critical things, I wouldn't touch them with a ten foot pole.
You can reach your full cloud infrastructure from any browser, all you need to remember is your google password. No need for a terminal or ssh, a regular windows, os x, linux, chromebook or tablet will do. Quite handy.
I didn't realize until working at a larger company that lots of "news" articles about products are the result of a company's comms team reaching out directly to the authors of such articles and telling them what to write.
Here's an example of Microsoft attempting to shove platform exclusivity into a deal (thankfully, they backed off): http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2013-12-04-microsoft-revea...

This sort of thing is not specific to Microsoft's gaming business. Microsoft's habit of using Windows OEM licensing as a tool to prevent computer manufacturers from shipping other operating systems (especially in the 1990s) is well-documented, for instance.

In your example, the Visual Studio licenses are in-house to the development company. There is a different set of license agreements in place regarding the technology shipped out on game discs. Microsoft is well aware there's more money to be made there than from VS licenses, so they're more flexible on toolchain/development contracts than they are on middleware and production library contracts.
> However I never liked the religiosity about a JIT, preferring the .NET way of having a choice between JIT and AOT.

I wonder how much of this comes down to the fact that Java methods are virtual by default and in C# they are not. The former makes devirtualization more important and is harder to do ahead of time.
View of Kobani from a drone
Hey! In NodeJS we added a handler that helps you with that here: https://nodejs.org/api/process.html#process_event_unhandledr...

Here is a talk I gave about adding it last June: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGpmUyFnyuQ

Personally, I recommend you use a faster richer userland library like Bluebird which has stronger unhandled rejection tracking.
I certainly have! But personally I love the Erlang syntax, for me it fits the mindset of Erlang perfectly. However that statement reflects what I've seen and heard often on the topic.
But red 2 is still pointlessly banned?
Bogobogosort
Anything particular that interests you? There is always room for a followup :)
It costs nothing to register, but the sources aren't for PhysX they are for the SDK and samples.

The GameWorks source code isn't even available to most big developers you need a really special relationship with the green giant to get access to it.
This is perfect for services like Bastion, Gateways, CRON jobs.
Sounds like Google.

(Used OVH for several years, but my server with them has an uptime of 1034 days as of today, so customer service might very well be useless - I've never had a reason to talk to them)
Man, that's just beautiful - I love reading his notebooks. Just skimming them yields unexpected little gems like "the value of money is roughly logarithmic", which I had never heard before and gets me thinking about progressive taxation.

The final step of the St. Petersburg paradox, which he took far further than I had ever seen before, might be implementing the Kelly Criterion, where the amount you bet is related to the size of your own personal bankroll, but I don't know offhand how to relate that to a probability distribution since the Kelly Criterion is normally calculated with one odds value and one payoff value. At the least, I'd like to see a calculation of how many times you'd have to place the bet before you could be reasonably sure of a positive payout - you could do that easily enough with a monte carlo simulation I guess.
How to use iOS 9.0.2 ifunbox download – All devices tutorial
Everyone gave up after they realized the inherent superiority of ThinkPads.
Hi! We're in the process of rolling this out to all accounts over the next week or so. Stay tuned!

Cody Bratt, Google Developers Console Product Manager
Chromes "break on exception"-option also breaks on unhandled promise reject().
Ask HN: What will self driving cars do to real estate?
It seems inevitable that self driving cars are coming. When they do, they will change housing dynamics in a fundamental way.

Will this change make city living more or less desirable?

A few forces could be at work here:

* Parking lots in major cities are free'd up because they no longer make sense creating more housing real estate. City living is more affordable.

* Traffic Congestion is reduced so commutes are shorter creating more demand for suburb living.

* Distances feel shorter because they are no longer inconvenient so living outside the city makes more sense - more suburb demand.

* City living gets even more desirable because of the abundance of cheap self-driving cabs not available in more rural areas - city prices go up.

* More?

I'm sure some of these things will have a very little impact while others will have huge impact. I just wonder about the net result. Any speculation?
Does AWS not offer customer service for billing issues?
No minimum, just in the process of slowly rolling this out over the next week or so. Stay tuned!

Cody Bratt, Google Cloud Console Product Manager
Cario is good but Quartz was better in my experience.
GitHub Launches Support for U2F Security Keys
Sounds like a stretch.
Modern gene editing is not a paradigm shift, but rather a technical innovation, and one that will surely bear fruit, at least at the level of substantially increasing the rate at which biological research and bio-industry processes can advance.

Crispr, and the newly identified similar process using Cpf1, allow one to perform gene editing at a rate and on a scale not previously feasible.

Whether it will eventually have benefits in medicine remains to be seen. Previous technological breakthroughs in genetic modification, such as adenovirus-mediated gene therapy, RNAi, etc, have had limited impact. I believe the best effects have occurred in the fields of several narrowly defined leukemias. In these cases the entire cell population is under constant renewal, so introducing an engineered line of blood cells and removing the malignant one has been technically possible since the invention of bone marrow transplants. Doing so for other cell types or organs is much more difficult.
Dropbox lets you get a link right away. But only for screenshots. Screencasts you need to use itunes then copy the file to dropbox, but it is fairly easy too. Just not one click.
As noted, essentially I generate a mapping of DOY/Hour and merge them.
A few recent papers have shown that it can be done by directly introducing the required proteins.
Cute, but in all seriousness... if there's a fire, your first priority needs to be getting out of the building, not pushing code. Code is never as important as your life. And in real life, fires spread much faster than you can probably imagine, and even if flames aren't near you, carbon monoxide and other poisonous / asphyxiating gases, or super-heated air, can spread from the seat of the fire and kill you.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoy81oARDfs
That would at least be more expensive. Moving the cheating to harder and harder chunks of the entire system is a fine start.

You can't have perfect security. You can have security that makes bad actors pay more for the privilege of being bad actors.
Googles's Happiness Algo
I'd be amazed if warning labels had any affect at all. The real factor is the price.

The last time I smoked, a pack of cigarettes cost about $2.50. Now it's over $7.
How is this better than a search on a suffix tree created with good old Ukkonen algorithm? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukkonen%27s_algorithm
Vavilovian mimicry
How many aggregate developer-hours spent fighting with this stuff, that could have been prevented by many many fewer developer-hours up front doing it right in the first place?

How many aggregate developer-hours would have been lost waiting for it to be perfect rather than just better than whatever else was available at the time? Especially since perfection is a target that keeps moving as we learn more about what works and doesn't.
> Where is Renderware now?

Thankfully confined to the dustbins of history.

EA didn't buy Renderware, they bought Criterion largely for their games studio and just happened to get Renderware as part of the package. The later versions of Renderware were, uhm, not good products so it is just as well they weren't generally available.
Yeah, he's making a nitwit statement there. Recycling or landfill - it's the same quantity of mass that has to be hauled somewhere.
And, unless I'm missing something, this is not a screen sharing program. It's a screen-casting/recording program.

Can someone edit the title?
I am not surprised, what else were people expecting? They should suffer for supporting a company that just sells you hardware with a forgets about you.
I think South Park is one of the most politically damaging things that happened to my generation. "It's a choice between a douche and a turd", "I really hate conservatives, but I really really hate liberals", "Nobody knows what's going on, stop talking about it", etc. [0]

Heavy doses of "not even wrong" twisted into a monstrous sense of pride about political apathy, "fuck you got mine", and myopia.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Park_Republican
Thank you for that write-up! Sorry that my response is so slow. (Seems I can still reply several days later, wonder what the limit actually is)

That's definitely both a nice solution to the problem, and I found it pretty enlightening (having sadly not used anything as strongly typed as Haskell).

In the case of global variables, if performance didn't matter then it would be possible to just pass around a pointer to a struct of the thread-local/thread-locked data for use directly. I spent a while trying to come up with some alternatives or generalisation of your approach, and found it was really hard to match the same guarantees without a run-time cost. One idea I got from your description is putting access to certain data/function in scope in a type-checked way. So you could put multiple such contexts (pointers or other access methods like functions or even macros) in scope at the top of the function/block, rather than having to type-check every access throughout the function using an implicit control (e.g. the 'th' variable.) But really, that's just equivalent to using the L macro like so:

void inc_foo(video_thread_t th) {
video_thread_data_t *vid = &L(video_data); // checked global access
vid->foo++;
vid->bar++;
}

I think something like this looks more natural though.
No idea, but he didn't stay there long.

If you check his blog he has another posts about the whole issue.
Milpitas is nothing like SF, aside that it is an overpriced ghetto
> Security vulnerabilities are found all the time in established stacks and things like robustness, reliability, maintenance and growth are ongoing issues.

If you stick to writing code only in a BEAM language, you're insulated from all errors except for those of system resource exhaustion (edit: or -obviously- system hardware failure ;) ) or programmer logic errors. [0]

The parts of Elixir and other such projects that are written in another language that compiles down to native code, [1] are vulnerable to the usual array of issues endemic to the language selected.

> Yes, BEAM is proven in enterprise use, but most of us don't have those resources.

I'm not sure what you mean by this, and what concerns are implied by this statement. Would you care to expand this statement?

The WhatsApp folks have found that they got a lot done with Erlang with a small staff and (what is reported to be) very few machines when compared to the amount of work performed.

[0] Erlang can neither save you from your own faulty logic, nor can it add resources to your system. ;)

[1] Erlang provides a mechanism called NIF that lets you write performance-critical (or whatever) code in C or another language, and link it in to Erlang. From there, you can access your other-language code with from your Erlang code what appears to be a regular Erlang function call.
Can anyone tell me what libzdoor is? They list it among other C libraries in this article, but googling it I couldn't find any information about it. Even the github repo has no README. Very unusual not to be able to find info about a library, don't think it's ever happened to me before!
The author agrees that recycling aluminum, paper, and cardboard is efficient. Glass is mildly efficient. It's that the complexity of sorting all the other waste is too costly with little benefit, so the industry relies on subsidies.
At the risk of sounding unsympathetic, it's cheaper to kill people at lower altitudes.
A conference in Crested Butte, Colorado in February is kind of a bad idea. I lived up there one winter and it is very very cold and covered in snow and ice. It's the kind of place/season where you pretty much need special clothes to walk a block.

Full disclosure: I grew up in SF and didn't really believe in seasons until that year I spent in CO, so take this comment with a grain of salt or better yet a big bag of that road salt they use to melt the ice on the roads, and a four-wheel drive vehicle with working heater, and winter underwear and a warm preferably-goose-down jacket and boots and "smart wool" socks, and hat and mittens. Seriously though, unless you like to ski or you're just really into ice and being cold and you can't get to Antarctica going to Crested Butte in winter is nuts. Nice town. Freezing cold.
My point was about using Ruby not Erlang. I know Erlang quite well.

It seems my post came out badly.
The “Hello World” of Git
I agree with you on the readability pov. It's almost as if the author just wanted to publish something.
> Parking lots in major cities are free'd up because they no longer make sense creating more housing real estate.

Buildings will continue to exist, this will only have an effect on large parking lots which will be torn down and replaced by housing, but these are already rare enough in cities.

> Traffic Congestion is reduced so commutes are shorter creating more demand for suburb living.

If you have to travel 30-50 km to the city centres, even autonomous cars will not solve the issue that this distance needs time for travel.
Your TV uses 25 watts on standby?
No, SamReidHughes is right: you insulted China by excluding it from what you called the "civilized world" and then backtracked by pretending you said something else. This is a pattern, and it's a poisonous one on this site. Please stop.
This current article seems to cover the various choices for constructing 'contexts' (which include skip-gram and CBOW) pretty well.

Note that negative-sampling and hierarchical-softmax are actually alternative choices to interpret the hidden-layer and to arrive at error-values to back-propagate. Each can be used completely independently.

If you enable them both, you're training two independent hidden layers, which then in an interleaved fashion update the same shared input-vectors. (Essentially, it's joint training of each example via the hierarchical-softmax codepath to nudge the vectors, then via the separate negative-sampling codepath to nudge the vectors.) So the actual combination doesn't reduce the complexity – it's additive to model state size and training time – and I think most projects with large amounts of data just use one or the other (usually just negative-sampling).
Show HN: Chunkify.js – A functional API to unblock your JavaScript thread
Trying to do this with https://github.com/jonnor/finito,
but have not had time for it in a while.
Key differences to QP being no/minimal codegeneration - instead having an introspectable (by humans/tools) keeping of the statemachine.

EDIT: the actor-like part is done in https://github.com/microflo/microflo which is more mature
What if you make a synthetic protein and then find it in nature? What if you build bacteria to make the synthetic protein? The difference between synthetic and natural seems like it would be very murky.
Ummmm, the article you've quoted is related to publishing contract and not a licensing agreement. Exclusivity on publishing is very common. You said that it's also "almost always" a part of licensing. Licensing is what I am curious about since I've never heard of anything like this.

I also believe MS had been sued for the OEM racket in 90s and lost so, while it might be true, it's almost 20 years later now and also, I am not sure it's a licensing contract. Looks more like a re-seller/dealer relationship.
I didnt violate any guidelines. You Americans will be civilized or sooner or later you will face punishment like every other criminal.
Not sure promises are equivalent to the IO monad in particular. They could form a Monad instance, although that is not the interface they have chosen to expose. It does seem it would be more similar to the `Either` monad, however.
I am certain he has heard of Elixir. But Elixir is not a better version of Erlang, it is simply a different way of writing programs on the Erlang VM.
disclaimer: I work at GCP

That is rad! Anything we can do to help? Link to the company?
Lisp at the Jet Propulsion Lab
What happens is, things get complicated.

For a related example, consider the phrase "we settled the debt without prejudice" That sounds like it means there are no bad feelings, but it actually means that there may be future attempts to change the terms of the negotiation.
It's hard to take this article seriously - heavy on broad stroke attacks (it's cheaper to send to landfill) than data from third party sources.

On an unrelated note if a composting facility reeks that's a management problem not a fundamental issue of composting - that means there is too much "green" waste such as food scraps relative to "brown" waste such as soiled paper.
libzdoor is an extension of libdoor[1] done by Joyent. It is focusing on using doors to bridge the barrier between none global zone and global zone. Handling zone events such as boot, shutdown, deletion. It is used in a the sshd plugin that allows a process in the global zone to manage ssh keys (and ssh key access) into zones.

[1] http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E23824_01/html/821-1464/libdoor-3l...
Well now that we're all a bit off topic, it also seems like some people have lived in Russia for some time and form opinions about a country that some people have felt the need to respond with their opinion.

I can see why HN might not want to show such to public viewers to be protective of their image if people have never came across the brand before and spent enough time to get a feel for what goes on here…

I'd also love to see the corpus on how HN classifies things as "nationalistic flame-baiting", but I as of now, I suspect it's usually ad-hoc indirect self-referencing ("I saw this user said something like $__non_exact_quote_of_what_some_user_has_said_ [which mostly reflects my personal bias/interpretation that may or may not be consistent over time, that may or may not be shared by others, but to the degree of which, I cannot say because I have no stats to show you]") to other instances where a mod has stepped in and labeled something as such.

I think that would be a much powerful citation… but yeah, not my forum, not my rules, HN/YC and their agents/mods are free to be transparent (and to the degree of which is defined as being transparent) as they like.
Self driving electric cars mean that tunnels are more cost effective (no fumes, closer tolerances in tunnel sizing, greater capacity), so we can go 3D (no need for stop lights, we just have cloverleaf interchanges underground with sloped ramps so that passengers feel no lateral acceleration which means higher speeds are ok). Now the surface can be for pedestrians (like Venice) and of course no need for parking lots at all.

This means greater density is possible increasing the value of central real estate. But also means that further commutes are much faster, increasing the value of outlying real estate? Or does it, what does this suggest for real estate investing?
This may derail the discussion but it's hard to discuss this question without first wondering the impact of self-driving cars to mass transit. At least in New York, being near a subway stop is a very nice amenity and commercial development typically flourishes around each stop regardless of neighborhood. If stepping into a self-driving car is as easy as walking 50 feet to the nearest subway stop, will real estate around subways command less of a premium?

I guess the bigger question is, will subways have as much demand once self-driving cars become big? Obviously, no, if the cost for hailing a self-driving car becomes almost as inexpensive as a subway. But there are things the city of New York could do to impact that, such as reduce street capacity (i.e. increasing pedestrian and bike capacity).

But that's just New York. Everywhere else in the U.S. where mass transit is not a daily option, automated cars will be a daily habit. Inevitably, as more and more people migrate to New York and expect automated cars to be the default option, it's hard to imagine subways (and buses) winning out, absent some major limitation in self-driving car production or capability.

New York will always be an anomaly...but yes, I'd have to agree with your speculation that suburban living would become much more attractive without having to worry about car ownership or driving. And this would most definitely impact commuters to New York. But if self-driving cars become a ubiquitous option, will there be the political appetite to continue subsidizing mass transit rail, such as the kind that is currently used to bring in upstate workers to the city today?
Brain to brain interfaces have arrived and they are absolutely mindblowing
HN discussion from a little more than a year back.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8059480
I'm going by the abstract here, but:

You'd build the suffix tree from the haystack, whereas their algorithm preprocesses the needle.

So I guess it mostly depends if you're going to be repeatedly searching different strings in the same document, or if you're searching for the same string in many different documents. Plus, space requirements might be relevant too, as a preprocessed haystack is probably bigger than a preprocessed needle.
3D-printed Micro RC Truck “Unimog” and Transmitter
We invited user_235711 to repost it. We've been trying this lately as an experiment in giving good submissions multiple cracks at the bat. However, from comments in the thread it sounds as if this article may not be as substantive as it looks.

(Also, don't forget that on HN a small number of reposts is ok if a story hasn't had significant attention yet: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html. Otherwise what makes it off /newest is dominated by randomness.)