skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel the opposite way about the IntelliJ/Eclipse (strongly prefer IntelliJ over Eclipse). I stopped using Eclipse at, I believe, Juno or Kepler (4.2/4.3) and switched to IntelliJ 13. I found that Eclipse very frequently just plain froze while doing an operation, was laggy, and crashed frequently. There was also very long startup times.

I haven't used Eclipse in a few versions, but when I made the switch I was extremely thankful that I did. What makes you prefer Eclipse? Or, rather, what makes you dislike IntelliJ?
Not to say your point isn't true, but that has nothing to do with successive governments shitting on each other's plans when it comes to installing infrastructure to houses (or choosing the right infrastructure to install).
We used this technology last week to build a Computer Vision TV
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10728973
I'd like to have seen how IBM would have fared with Watson.
"In addition, the cards that were held by the African-American hand actually ended up being worth more, suggesting they should have sold for more than the other batch. That is, when the researchers added up how much they had originally paid for all of the cards sold by the black hand versus the white hand, the first total was larger."

That's an obvious logical fallacy - how much the seller paid for the item may not be relevant to how much it is worth much later.

For example, not so many years ago, Apple 1s were worthless e-waste.
> what is the difference to your work between 10 and 100mbps, really?

I'd imagine you'd be less nonchalant about it if you were transferring gigabytes of data from a backup in an emergency.
The reason we have "paternalistic" organizations like the FTC and SEC is because many parties make informed, consenting agreements, and don't obligate them. How are you going to enforce your $100k agreement without a "paternalistic" organization?

Consumer rights and protections are what creates scalable trade by enabling trust in our society.
I'm Australian and want to escape to Vancouver (for various reasons, email me if you're really interested). Can you provide any pointers?
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This is a propaganda piece from NBNco (the company installing Australia's new broadband network). It basically says Internet that is too fast is bad:

http://www.nbnco.com.au/blog/singapores-gigabit-dream-arrive...

Or to put it another way: our bad solution is superior because it's slower.
You're right, I'm sorry to have assumed the worst! Looking back I definitely came across rather negative.

I will give it a go, the screenshots look quite nice.
Gotcha. Although I wonder who thinks its a way to feed the homeless... Fruititarian diets aren't particularly great, although fruit makes a good snack and source of vitamins.

Personally, I just see it as a good use of space and something to make residents happy (as a kid I loved picking fruits).
As is traditional:

You pronounce it with an understanding of how difficult it must be to speak French and have most of the CS world talk about bit twiddling.
You get longer days, but less sunlight overall. It's an angle thing and even with 24 hours of sunlight it never gets hot at he poles. Also, there summers are much shorter.

As to swapping out from C02 energy wind is near parity with coal, and raw energy is not that large a chunk of the worlds economy.
Sure. I think they are two separate, but related problems. Even if the NBN were perfect and brought gigabit internet access to the entire country, without more intl transit it wouldn't help as much as people would hope.
Yeah, I was a bit too negative with my feedback, on second reading you are right.
As an Australian, it saddens me every time I hear of a friend leaving for the States. I can count at least six or seven people off the top of my head who went through my uni's computer science program - a relatively small department, I should add - at the same time as myself, and have since moved to the Bay Area.

I can't really blame them, but it'd be nice if some of the brighter ones stayed around.
That's a great idea. It makes a massive difference too when the prof remembers your name, I bet your students appreciate it.
The purpose of a drug policy is (ostensibly) and has always been to reduce consumption rates

I should have said effective drug policy. Focusing on consumption rates is indeed what most people do, and it's completely wrong.

Are you saying there's no potential at which a drug should be illegal?

Hypothetically speaking, no. In practice, all attempts at providing classifications for which drugs to ban and which to keep legal are based on purely subjective and unscientific slippery slopes. With such a variety of narcotics, it's practically inevitable to see such regressions.

My example of theobromine in chocolate is a good one, I think. Nobody thinks anything of it even though strictly speaking it's quite toxic (though obviously negligible in the dosages it's consumed).

As such, if not legalize everything, legalize some of the higher profile psychoactives and stimulants and just decriminalize (levy a fine for) all the rest.

if addictive drugs were legal and fully unregulated, who do you think the majority of the profits would go to? Hint: Novartis, Pfizer, Roche, Sanofi, Merck...

Oh, so you'd rather they go to Los Zetas and Sinaloa Cartel?

Do you really trust them to freely market a compound that has 10%+ addiction capture rate?

We already do so for a variety of psychotropics, analgesics and so forth. The difference is we think of it as "medicine" rather than "drugs" and as such our perceptions are distorted. Yet the cost of vulnerable people getting high off over-the-counter drugs is pretty negligible. It takes no effort for a teen to dose themselves off DXM in cough syrup.
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see also ngx_mruby and mod_mruby.

- https://github.com/matsumoto-r/ngx_mruby
- https://github.com/matsumoto-r/mod_mruby

ngx_mruby ranked in 15 at techempower benchmarks

- https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r11&hw=...
here's a tip: if a customer ever asks for an 'escape clause' in a contract, unless tied to very specific measurable things, they're going to rip you off.
Tool to create, schedule and approve posts across social media?
Peral Submarine
internet is dodgy/stops working when it rains

Hah! This so much. Sorry <client>, we can't have our scheduled video call meeting now because it's raining and my Internet isn't working.

This has actually happened to me. If it wasn't so embarrassingly awful, it'd probably be funny.
My backup strategy does not involve a residential internet connection so I cannot relate.
>b) We overturn the majority of our current social psychology knowledge and realize that yes, people actually do have absolute free will

Err... All current research suggests that you have almost no free will and are little more than a complex set of reactions to external stimulus.
As an Australian the only reaction I can have to stuff like this is an overwhelming desire to leave the country. We're screwed in the near-to-medium term, and in the long term if we don't improve both our technical capability and the level of political discourse.
Hum, this is disturbing. I would be curious to know how much malware is actually served over HTTPS and what good alternative to Avast is out there for Windows.
I might be reading this wrong but this gentleman's problem seems to be that some companies make way more money than he thinks is "fair". Because all his sources are about who made how much. If this was similar to gambling he might be able to show a story or two of somebody mortgaging their house and/or losing job, taking a loan from mob and unable to pay it etc. etc. over addiction to Candy Crush as we have plenty of such stories about gambling.

I have never seen anything similar about f2p games. At most you learn about kids dropping out of school to play DOTA/LoL/WoT/etc but this had been happening ever since there had been video games. Same kids dropped out over EQ/UO/WoW, which are not f2p. Heck, a dude dropped out of my school over a single player PC RPG (was either one of M&M or Wizardry games). I never heard of anybody becoming homeless trying to get their Farmville's dog to lv85. All there is are stories about somebody spending thousands of dollars at once to by some magic crystals in some stupid cell phone game. While it looks pretty stupid it does not seem any more danger to society than people buying pieces of painted canvas for millions and even tens of millions at art auctions.
Has this ever been held as legally binding in civil court?
sunghau, thank you :)
Especially when the current solution offers no upside (slower speed, no cheaper, a rollout that will take just as long).

I like to play "stupid or liar" when it comes to things like this, but I can't figure out which it is when it comes to the NBN decision making.
Corporations paying their fair share of taxes is completely different from agreeing what the taxes are spent on. Thats what your vote is for.
Google has quietly launched a CDN
I don't think I understand what the complaint is. Let me see if I understand this right:

Tech is developed in the US, and then licensed to a subsidiary in a different country, for a fee. The US entity pays taxes on the income produced by these fees. Then the subsidiary sells products based on this tech, and pays taxes on the profits in the country where this happens.

Is the complaint that the fee charged to its subsidiaries too low? The article itself addresses that by saying that the fee is set in an "arm's length" transaction.

Or is the complaint something much stronger, namely that Apple should pay taxes on all the income produced everywhere in the world? If so, what is the reasoning behind that? Is it because the software is written and hardware is designed in the US?
Thank you, it really means a lot since we've been working on this for over 3 years now (finally hiring employees this past month!). I wish the best of success to you too.

In reference to people wanting freebies - that's just human behavior. If they see sufficient value in a product (e.g. iPhones), then they will happily pay for it.
Because there is a non-linear relationship between money invested and the end result, and the greatest efficiency in investment may be achieved through a heterogeneous approach.

For example, if there is existing coaxial cable infrastructure in an area, it may be far less expensive to deploy higher-speed DOCSIS than it is to roll out entirely new fibre for the same amount of bandwidth. DOCSIS is easily capable of gigabit speeds, the main issues are sharing QAMs with existing cable television and the ratio of customers per headend.
Isn't Watson a question answering system? I don't think it's specialized for image recognition.
Advising anyone to move countries to go to Silicon Valley (or SFO) seems irresponsible with the out of control property market and all the social issues that come with it.

http://sf.curbed.com/archives/2015/10/09/the_median_rent_for...
yes. more like 5-shot hold-out, and the held-out set is pretty big as well, so more legit.
> If any user is spending more than $40 USD/week on a game

So, we'll ban all professional sports events because some people pay more than that to go to every game for their team? Or pay more than that to be able to watch lots of sports on TV? I know a fair number of perfectly normal people that pay thousands of dollars for season tickets.

I'd rather see the government help people that have a problem, rather than put limits on people that don't.
> There's tons of laws to protect people from false advertising, fraud, and such. But if, armed with the facts and all of these protections, someone still spends their money unwisely, that's no longer the government's problem.

Laws hadn't caught up with progress in game industry yet. It's high time for it though. I understand the reluctance to regulate things, but when we have a whole industry which explicit purpose is figuring out the best way to abuse bugs in human psychology to part them with their money, I think some reaction is warranted.

> To use another aphorism: you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink.

Oh, but modern marketing is all about exploiting horse's cognitive heuristics to make it drink.
Watson doesn't have much unique computer vision capabilities unfortunately. They did some good work in NLP a decade ago but not added much since
Paper: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Darya_Zabelina/publicat...
This is so wrong. Flags should be treated as code.
see http://dswalter.github.io/blog/machine-learnings-first-cheat... for some background on this.
There are a few Swift web frameworks:

https://github.com/PerfectlySoft/Perfect

https://github.com/glock45/swifter

https://github.com/izqui/Taylor

https://github.com/brownleej/tailor
Moving to Sydney for a job could be almost as expensive as moving to the States.

I'm looking in Melbourne but the market down there seems like a mess right now.

Couple that with the falling Australian dollar and moving to the US and getting paid in USD doesn't sound so bad.
Laws that arm people with more information are great. I'm a big fan. I'm not a fan of laws that prohibit certain contracts no matter how informed both parties are. It's sometimes necessary when there's a huge asymmetry in power, like in landlord-tenant relationships and in standard-form contracts that waive all liability (interestingly, this is something courts have recognized as a matter of common law, even in the absence of legislative protections). I don't think video game pre-orders, in-game purchases, and Kickstarter pledges by informed adults should one of the exceptions.

As for who's going to enforce my $100k agreement, the same people that enforce any other contract, the courts.
> still skeptical as to the degree to which it will address fundamental problems with the tech economy here though.

Fast, reliable Internet is going to be the beating heart of any modern tech economy.

Fix all the other problems you mentioned (tax, education, risk aversion etc) and it will all be for naught if companies and freelancers are stuck on a 10mbps connection that drops out when it rains, because they won't be able to have meaningful and reliable collaboration with anyone outside their own physical location.

You can't have a flourishing tech scene with that limitation. It's not just 'improved quality of life' for techies, it's about being able to conduct business or not in reliable and productive manner.
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Nothing is "just" commerce at work. This is also a prime example of the naturalistic fallacy. Just because these things happen to be legal doesn't necessitate that they should be.
Star Citizen employs microtransaction, you just pay them in advance. There are also whales, like the guy who paid 30000$, and many more who pay between 100$ and 1000$. In comparison with other mentions it is even worse, because this game isn't even completed yet. It fits in the narrative.
Just as a side-point to some of the authors (valid) points:

Atlassian would have failed in Silicon Valley as well.

It is kind of strange where the author mentions how Atlassian bootstrapped its way to an IPO after many years and then tells entrepreneurs to head to "boom or bust" Silicon Valley.

The truth is that an Atlassian-style business can be built from just about anywhere.

You will need to market appropriately, but if your product is great, it will eventually get to a point where it will market itself quite a bit too.
Society already had this discussion and gambling is highly regulated for a large number of reasons. Some games have destroyed lives, and enabling that is not in society's best interst.

PS: We can fantasize about people being rational, but reality disagrees.
It isn't AI specifically. Any intelligence capable of taking over or shutting down a wide range of systems, or even just a few critical ones, needs to be closely monitored if there is more than a small chance of it causing massive harm.

Now, if that intelligence also far exceeds our own in certain aspects but is not empathetic enough, and if it were to have a keen understanding of how to control humans, and if it were much more able to quickly control and adapt software and hardware, then it would become a much bigger risk.

But, you're right- in theory, there could be a natural intelligence that could be the same level of risk as an artificial one. Most of us, including myself, are just not aware of one.
I disagree with your opinion, but tossing an upvote because it seems you were downvoted and I can't tell why other than some people disagreed with you.
Passed 1 billion now, http://creativecommons.org/weblog/2015/12/08/46651
"For the foreseeable future coal is the foundation of prosperity"

I take that to mean 'Coal will provide the prosperity that takes Australia forward', rather than 'Coal will continue to provide our electricity'.

i.e. We should invest in Coal, train our children to mine for it, research new ways of producing it, at the expense of other fields like high tech.
I do not believe that the property owner may do whatever they wish within their property.

Then you don't really support property rights. I mean, certainly, property owners must be within the bounds of the common and civil law framework of their jurisdiction. Limiting how property is internally arranged is a wholly different matter, it's a direct veto on how someone schedules their production structure for no reason but the failings of people who they have no stake in. By protecting customers from "themselves" and thus also protecting owners from customers, you are curtailing rights of both to engage in voluntary contract.

It is a mere implementation detail, not an end in itself.

Not free market economy. Market economy in general. It's not at all an "implementation detail," it arises quite organically out of interpersonal exchange.

hence I propose regulation

You know what I loathe?

Let's take everything you've said at face value.

You provide a case for perceived suboptimal behavior of markets, but then by proposing regulation you completely ignore the prospect of suboptimal government action! That is absolutely disingenuous. Your proposal exists outside of reality and assumes a hypothetical benevolent exogenous regulator that doesn't actually exist (as opposed to real states which are complex institutions).

You'd do yourself good by reading up on some public choice theory.
The primary motivation for those I know who have moved to the Bay Area isn't the pay (although that certainly is part of it), it's finding more interesting work and being in the SF/SV culture.

Personally, I don't like the start-up culture, and I happen to work at a place that does interesting things already, so I'm quite happy staying in Canberra.
Have they not really added much to it since the Jeopardy stunt? We get some periodic rumblings about integrating it with a customer-service tool, but it is starting to sound a little Duke Nukem Forever
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10722907
Great points - any data you can point to on it?
I'm in Canberra too - contact me if you'd like a coffee.
I don't like the handwritten messy slides.
"Be the next Minecraft" sounds like a fairly risky business strategy to me.
> If it's true, almost every power loss results in a data loss of whatever was written in the last 15 seconds, on average? Is it so bad?

No, because correct programs use sync() and/or fsync() to force timely flushes.

A good database should not reply successfully to a write request until the write has been fully flushed to disk, so that an "acknowledged write" can never be lost. Also, it should perform write and sync operations in such a sequence that it cannot be left in a state where it is unable to recover -- that is, if a power outage happens during the transaction, then on recovery the database is either able to complete the transaction or undo it.

The basic way to accomplish this is to use a journal: each transaction is first appended to the journal and the journal synced to disk. Once the transaction is fully on-disk in the journal, then the database knows that it cannot "forget" the transaction, so it can reply successfully and work on updating the "real" data at its leisure.

Of course, if you're working with something that is not a database, then who knows whether it syncs correctly. (For that matter, even if you're working with a database, many have been known to get it wrong, sometimes intentionally in the name of performance. Be sure to read the docs.)

For traditional desktop apps that load and save whole individual files at a time, the "write to temporary then rename" approach should generally get the job done (technically you're supposed to fsync() between writing and renaming, but many filesystems now do this implicitly). For anything more complicated, use sqlite or a full database.

> I'd expect more "smartness" of Linux, like, as soon as there is no "write pressure" to flush earlier.

Well, this would only mask bugs, not fix them -- it would narrow the window during which a failure causes loss. Meanwhile it would really harm performance in a few ways.

When writing a large file to disk sequentially, the filesystem often doesn't know in advance how much you're going to write, but it cannot make a good decision on where to put the file until it knows how big it will be. So filesystems implement "delayed allocation", where they don't actually decide where to put the file until they are forced to flush it. The longer the flush time, the better. If we're talking about a large file transfer, the file is probably useless if it isn't fully downloaded yet, so flushing it proactively would be pointless.

Also flushing small writes rather than batching might mean continuously rewriting the same sector (terrible for SSDs!) or consuming bandwidth to a network drive that is shared with other clients. Etc.
Might be worth noting that it is very likely that Google, Facebook and Baidu did not even participate in this ImageNet. It is widely believed in the vision community that this dataset is at the end of its run, i.e. any subsequent improvements in performance are not due to scientific breakthroughs but through hyperparameter optimization and ensembling.
I'm disappointed to hear this after watching the video of Andrew Ng's talk. He was very proud of Baidu's accomplishment in this competition.
The openhybrid.org example sharing a timer between toaster and food processor _using a phone, which has its own builtin timer_ is non-compelling bordering on comical. do you have more realistic examples that make meaningful use of the components of a physical object?
Too much dreamy melancholy for my taste.