skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Big Sur is twice as fast as our previous generation, which means we can train twice as fast and explore networks twice as large.

Can a machine learning expert comment on this claim? There are many domains in computing where doubling your compute power does not halve your execution time, or allow you to double the size of your input. (For example, your algorithms are worse than O(n), or you have hardware communication bottlenecks.)
Why are we even talking about this guy? While this prediction may be true in the long run, it's not really news, and we're a long, long ways away from autonomous conversation agents that will replace expert professionals. These dramatic long-run predictions that fail to take into account other trends -- free solar energy, climatic collapse, all-you-can-edit genes -- are essentially worthless.
Hey folks - Kat and I so excited to announce this new program - happy to answer any questions
The difference between a right and a privilege seems to be a matter of definition ..
That isn't Netflix's job. A post house delievers the raw .mov files to Netflix. The post house gets the files or tapes from the studio or whomever manages the libary for them (aka another post house). The post house has to comply to a set of standard's set forth by Netflix or it is automatically rejected. Most of the time things like no interlacing is in those requirements but also there can be exceptions if no other source material is available. iTunes works the same way. So say the post house that delievers to Netflix is only getting digital raw .movs and not the actual tapes, they may not be allowed to re-encode those or have access to the tapes to do the correct conversion.
To his credit, the article does mention:

> For many years, Washington’s Japan-handlers have pressed Tokyo to introduce repressive legislation to protect secrets concerning the US-Japan security alliance
A watch would make it easier, certainly. But it's a big limiter - smart watches are not widely used, and it adds another battery worry. If my tepid watch battery dies, now I can't pay for stuff.
North Korea will kill white-collar jobs with thermonuclear fire!
That quote is really out of context. His point is that this is the wrong reaction, but a very natural one. Here's what directly follows this quote:

> It doesn’t matter that these questions weren’t the right ones to be asking.

It doesn’t matter that they weren’t even remotely accurate, and frankly, incredibly selfish.

It doesn’t matter that they run counter to everything I’ve learned about managing employee exits since then.

It was what I felt right then and there. Betrayal. Sadness. Despair about the future.

It's pretty easy to get overly emotional on anything that you've put significant amounts of time and effort into. The point of the article is that you shouldn't actually follow these feelings and that there are much better ways of handling it.
And police officers don't make the list of top 10 most dangerous jobs.

Most police officers die in routine traffic accidents.

http://thefreethoughtproject.com/cop-top-10-dangerous-jobs-c...
They weren't violating European NOx standards.
The stock markets have trackers:

http://www.nasdaq.com/markets/ipos/activity.aspx?tab=upcomin...

https://www.nyse.com/ipo-center/recent-ipo
I love it too. Way faster than chip & sign. Wish there were more places I could use it at.
The people you are helping are already in peril, and only remain in that peril if the situation is not safe enough for a first responder to reach them. That seems eminently reasonable, and I don't think there's any expectation to ignore overwhelming risk to yourself to get to someone.

But for someone who is, say, selling cigarettes illegally, their life is not in peril until a police officer takes it upon himself to put that person in a choke hold or take other potentially deadly action. It's especially galling when the officer's life and safety was never in danger.
My opinion is because HN is highly entrepreneur+VC focused and tech happens to be the area of interest. As such the discussion leans towards investments with huge payouts. Companies that are profitable and don't need funding are not particularly interesting to investors.

If this was a tech-only forum then the business guys & gals probably wouldn't even be welcome, & vice-versa if it were a business-only forum. It's an interesting mix here that probably wouldn't normally have a lot to talk about together. But I do think it puts stars in a lot of programmers eyes who might not otherwise care about that kind of stuff.
Okay, after a bunch of last minute python 3 issues, we've updated the documentation and packages, so everything should be ready.
This is bonkers.

* A lot of people already have an iPad. No need for something new.

* The new iPad pro was just announced and not available yet. Less people willing to buy old stuff.

* The Surface had just been updated and is still building on the success of previous models.

This comparison is Steve Jobs-level of data creativity.
The way you treat exiting employees is just as important as how you treat them when they are still there from a recruiting perspective. If you treat someone well when they decide to leave, they are more likely to recommend your company to others looking for a job.

There have been places I left for various reasons that were great employers that I still recommend to this day for others looking for a job.....and might even thing about joining if the right opportunity came along.
I had the Surface 2 & 3 as primary mobile computer devices. The 2 I used a year, the 3 less than a month due to a problem which may or may not have been a defect. There should be some historical posts on hn where I was wrote that I was shocked how great the 2 was. Now I'm 100% iPhone - iPad Pro - 2015 Macbook. Anything that requires heavy processor power is done through remote servers.

From a security and privacy standpoint I feel a little bit better with Apple than Google/Android. Microsoft I don't know enough about at this current point in time to make a judgement call on.

With an iOS or Android device you can remote in to a Windows, Linux, or OSX desktop. Every year things have become visibly better and easier to use. Much of the biggest stuff is cross platform. If you use Adobe Creative Cloud you can jump from Windows to OS X with no license switching issues. Many other companies have followed.

Years back I attempted to go ultra mobile with a Fujitsu U810 (convertible where the whole computer was about the size of your hand.) Watching the transitions since then, today things feel very mature. Back then if I tried using that thing I could work at about 1/20th speed. Now I'm desktop speed (my last desktop had 3x 27" screens.) The high DPI mobile screens help a massive amount.

You have to tweak your workflows and find the right apps. Sometimes small things can be a big problem, such as a keyboard shortcut not working right when you are remoted in through a tablet.

Te device matters less and less. It is now much more about weight, battery life, heat output, and stability (not crashing when you pick it up weird, which the Surface did to me often.)
Hi, I’m Andrew, and I’m with the team that built the Pixel C: Ask Us Anything
Or a nice market for VW diesels might develop in non-inspecting states.
Can't you just disable the background app refresh?
Sounds nice in theory, but I'd be concerned about having my reading habits tracked by yet another Central Scrutinizer. I already block ads mainly to avoid creepy and invasive behavior by the ad networks, as well as the malware that seeps through said networks. I am not going to opt-in to mass surveillance.
Improvements in Gradle for Android, with Etienne Studer
eh, I find it hard to believe that this was a conspiracy by a restricted group.

engineers are know to know how to calculate an engine efficiency. this is not the 60's and they can have a pretty decent knowledge of an engine performance profile by their simulations and knowledge of previous iterations of the same engines.

if this really was an internal 'conspiracy' it should have run from the engine engineers of this engine iteration, the previous iteration, the software developers that touched near the code, all the testers testing that software code, all the qa that ran the endless benches run for the engine to qualify for robustness (a very tight and monitor environment [1]), whomever touched that data afterward etc etc.

[1] think like this, photi not actual wv center: http://assets.slate.wvu.edu/resources/1117/1304968590.jpg
The point being, you have to actually do some movement to reap the benefits of metrics. The current trend among people both in fitness and in ad analytics is to have pretty graphs (with details often abstracted; because smoothing things up and removing scales makes a graph prettier) that give little more than pleasure and sense of being in control. People often don't know what they mean, besides "higher is good, lower is bad". We can do better than that. Charts and dashboards are means to an end.

And I say that as a person who absolutely loves pretty graphs. AprilZero's design is exactly what I dreamed of building for my own tracking. But again, it's not the data that matters, it's what you conclude from it.
Look at the UK. Police there have far more judicial discretion than is common in the US, but abuse/bribery/etc is incredibly low.

Although it should be noted that UK police have no incentive to fine people, the department doesn't profit from it, whereas in the US a lot of departments are primarily financed through fines.
Cool idea. I'd be down to pay after the 14th of this month as a beta!
Wow. At my university group, we're continuously trying really hard to get funding for our research, where we ask for less than 1 percent of that budget. It's really, really hard to get because the landscape is quite competitive. But such a project, if we'd ever get one, could fund a co-worker and me for three years plus a bunch of partners at other universities.
Google Contributor [1] is basically that.

[1] https://www.google.com/contributor/welcome/
A neat command is `sudo lsof -i -P` which will show something like this:

java 1114 elasticsearch IPv6 TCP localhost:9200
nginx 1169 www-data IPv6 TCP *:80
nginx 1169 www-data IPv6 TCP *:443
dhclient 1620 root IPv4 UDP *:68
sshd 1697 root IPv6 TCP *:22

I.e. services listening on various ports. Knowing which services are running plus a firewall as an extra precaution goes a long way to avoid issues like this.
Agreed about EV, but claiming that the CA system "has a few warts" is similar to claiming Katrina "flooded over a few houses".

I consider the CA model as it exists for browsers fundamentally broken even in a world where everyone configured things perfectly and no bugs exist. It "works" today insofar as (for instance) I don't really fear using my bank, Amazon, etc. But the protection doesn't come because the CA model offers any technically strong way for you to be certain of the identity of the server on the other end. Any assurance you have is based on human factors (thus the push to EV certs - more human verification).

I'm pretty sure there isn't more wide-scale cert forgery only because it is more useful to target individuals, and possibly because those who have the ability to forge, say, Google's certs have an interest in not loudly demonstrating how broken the system is.

Given the number of root certs in everyone's browser right now from entities completely unknown to the users, I really don't understand how people have more confidence than I do.
Even the name..
I've recently started to consider tools like wkhtmltopdf [1] to easily dump a website I'd like to link to. Then I'd include both the original link and the pdf version on the blog page, in order to keep the linked structure and the archived version at the same spot.

I haven't done it yet, but would be interested in other's experiences. It would be interesting to have a crawler that does it automatically for each new post.

[1] http://wkhtmltopdf.org/
I think this only works if you follow a "zero based budgeting" philosophy.

https://www.daveramsey.com/blog/zero-based-budget-what-why
Meh - maybe. Imagine this scenario:

You're out at a restaurant, and you drove there. Your phone dies somehow, either dropped in toilet, or what have you. How do you do the following?

- Pay for dinner

- Drive your car, since your keys were in your phone

- Pay for a cab since you can no longer drive

- Pay for a phone replacement at an Apple Store

etc, etc.
Gotta get shwifty!
IMHO this reflects the problem of applying free market principles, where cost depends on demand, to things like healthcare and education:

1) Demand is absolute: How much would you pay to live rather than die? For some of these drugs the charge could be 'your life savings' and people would pay.

2) Free market pricing is efficient because it distributes goods based on who wants it more (i.e., who will pay more). But for survival, everyone wants it equally; it's merely distributing goods to who can pay more.

3) It's immoral to have people's lives depend on how much money they happen to have. That is, I don't think person A's life is more valuable than person B's because person A has more money.

The free market is a great tool, but like any tool it doesn't solve every problem.
Fascinating story, and explains why the product is so odd and rushed.

It raises the question: why did this ship at all? Why waste marketing dollars, muddle your overall branding/product lines (Nexus vs. Pixel), and compete with your own existing products (Nexus 9)?

Microsoft canceled the Surface Mini at the last minute, because it was clear that WinRT had no future. Once the touchscreen Chrome OS got canceled, the Pixel C should have been too.
"In 1986, two FBI agents armed with six-shot revolvers died in a shootout near Miami with bank robbers armed with more powerful weapons, including a semiautomatic assault rifle."

There's quite a bit more to that story.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1986_FBI_Miami_shootout

The bottom line is that one suspect (the other fired only one shot causing no injuries), after receiving a fatal wound, killed two FBI agents and wounded five more.

These are parts 1 and 2 of an FBI training video on the incident:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlSCE88UhyA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAUDnzDhQpc

This incident seems to be so obviously a fluke that it would be hard to find any generally applicable lessons, although as the article points out, lessons have been found from it.

(One was the introduction of the 10mm pistol round and pistols chambered for it---that didn't last too long as the recoil was deemed too heavy for accuracy and the pistols seem to have suffered failures---and then the move to the .40 calibre S&W round (based on the 10mm with a reduced powder charge).)
Designing an iOS App in Sketch: Part 1 of 3
If he's already learning JS, why not stick with functional concepts there, in a language he is familiar with?

Two resources I can recommend are:

- http://reactivex.io/learnrx/

- https://github.com/MostlyAdequate/mostly-adequate-guide

The second link in particular is quite an in-depth look at the more theoretical side of functional programming but in the first part it deals with fundamentals, and is not super complex to follow.

I say this as someone who can grasp the basics like functional composition, currying, partial application etc. but not stuff like monads, functors, etc. so take my advice for what it's worth :)

Good luck!
squatting once/week is viable if you're extremely experienced and are not on steroids. The more experience you get, the more rest you need between lifts.

One of the major reasons why steroids works is because it cuts down on the required rest time by a large margin.
So you have zero goals in life? You expect to die as you are now, but older?
> I would gladly pay a netflix-like subscription that gives me a "pass" to top news sites with no advertising.

This has been tried without much adoption (e.g. https://www.google.com/contributor/welcome/).

Really the problem is that newspapers make very little online, even with high numbers of ads, compared to print.

It isn't cost effective to run an online-only newspaper (with all of the extraneous costs that go into producing "news", and not "blogs"). Thus, they have a strong incentive to crazy subscription models instead of streamlining everything.
the program is 2 months later, is anyone available for some coffee today :)
I have to disable JavaScript for NYT, every time I click or double click words in an article (I'm copying and pasting to reference things myself, thanks very much NYT!) they hijack my clicks and change the font size or switch articles.
Go back and read the post to which I was responding where the author stated that in his mind he thought that officers signed up for a dangerous job knowingly because they're heroic and self sacrificing.

I'm saying it's a job, in many ways similar to your job and my job where putting all this heroic self-sacrificing burden on them isn't fair.

Interesting how you criticized me for creating hypotheticals which are almost direct quotes from everyday stories on HN and then tried to prove your point by referring to a South Park episode - a cartoon that features fictional characters doing outrageous things for the sake of comedy.
Anatomy of a Rails Service Object
That page is just plain wrong. You can put the card into a reader, type your PIN in, and get your card back almost straight away. 5 seconds is possible if you don't forget your PIN!

The process can be slower if the retailer uses an older system that hasn't got a permanent network connection. With some ancient terminals, you could hear a modem dialing up and talking to the bank. That was slow, but luckily those kind of terminals are now rare.
According to this [0], the average one-way commute time in Japan is a bit over 50 minutes.

So, no. A 120 minute one-way commute time is not normal in Japan.

[0] http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/10/14/world-of-commut...
Back to Basics, Building a Business the Old-School Way
When it comes to medical devices, Draper's dumb money. The only reason he invested is because of good ol' nepotism:

> Draper, the venture capitalist and early Theranos investor, says he’s known Holmes since she was 6 years old and a friend of his daughter. When she decided to start her company, she approached him. He called her parents to make sure they were OK with her plan to drop out of school. Then he gave her $1 million.
How'd you decide what groups you wanted to focus on? Vets, Women, URM, International.

Any other demographic categories you think are important to especially reach out to?
International Communications Market Report 2015 [Ofcom]
I'm sorry I don't follow your logic.

But I think we should leave it there, arguing with strangers on the internet doth butter no parsnips.
The best explanation I've heard is Rich Hickey's in the Value of Values...i.e., what we usually want when we do something is the next value and changing something and then reading it is more complex than just getting it. I'm not necessarily saying sit your child down with the video, but watching parts of it with your child might be worth it...or watching it and explaining it.

As for a first language, my opinion is Racket unequivocally. The Beginning Student Language is entirely functional and the ecosystem offers a gradient from there to just about any point on the spectrum...from Typed Racket, Datalog, Lazy Racket and Algol 60...all within the same package, DrRacket.

Racket is also designed as a teaching language and extends that part of Scheme's mission. It has decades of educational research in its history.

Good luck.
I made this point at a previous firm I worked at. That the number of potential employees in any town is a finite number, and so you want to treat people leaving as brand ambassadors of your firm so you won't have trouble hiring in the future.
Does also nicotine chewing gum cause relapses? I wouldn't think that's a significant phenomenon. Well, we will hopefully know with some statistical evidence some day (unless e-cig prohibitionists win too heavily).
Awesome! Since the first round is for all founders and subsequent rounds are targeted at specific groups, are people encouraged/allowed to apply for multiple? Or should we pick?
Why software engineers should start their careers in San Francisco
>In fact, my priorities (usually...) are me, then my crew, then you.

So you take an inherently unsafe job and then act to maximize your safety? If those are your priorties then why do you ever go out on a job? Certainly the safest place for you and yours to be is playing cards at the firehouse.

You know, I know, the reason you go out is because if you don't go you'd be fired for insubordination. You'd be fired because you're being paid to go out on those calls and take those risks. So you do the next best thing: you go out on the call, but you make a series of operational decisions that, essentially, make you as safe as if you didn't go out on that call. And what's your justification? So you can be well enough to go out on the next call - and not take risks there, either. So you end up going on call after call, and on each call acting for your own benefit, rationalized, you say, to keep you healthy for the next call.
Where you live is a lifestyle choice. If you find a place that's 1/4 as expensive as SF, is it going to be 1/4 as nice to live there? Considering that rent in SF is only around double what you pay in most other american cities, the 1/4 figure implies you'd be living somewhere undesirable. Is that a worthwhile trade-off?
"If outsiders kept callously telling us "you signed up for it knowing that you would work 80 hours a week" or "you signed up for it knowing that your stock options would probably be worthless", we'd be up in arms and demanding that no one should be treated that way."

No, not really. It's really only irritating because I started out every day telling myself that.

"Can you imagine going to work every day where the public expectation is that the risk of your knocked-out teeth when confronting someone resisting arrest is perfectly acceptable?"

Yeah, I've known a few bouncers in my time. Also, some farmers and ranchers.
>"If you were not worth X the day before you quit, how are you suddenly worth X the day you decide to quit?"

This can easily happen when you are actually worth X, but the company thinks you are worth X-Y because they have a history of underpaying and perhaps were able to get away with it when the economy was down. If the market is willing to pay X for someone like you, you are worth X regardless of what your current employer thinks you are worth (as long as you act on it).
AirBNB involves a negligible fraction of the city's housing units.

A more relevant metric would be the AirBNB rentals relative to the vacant rental units. A rough estimate indicates:

- There are 300+ "Entire home" units available in SF next week on AirBNB. AirBNB says this represents 15% of the total supply. This would suggest there are 2,000+ such units in total registered on AirBNB (though I presume some of those are occupied units that are only listed when their occupants are out of town).

- The rental vacancy rate in San Francisco is 3.6% of 220,000 units, or about 8,000 vacant rental units total.

- This suggests that the percentage of unoccupied units that are serving as AirBNB units ranges from 3.6% (300/8300) to over 20% (2000/10000) Even at the overly conservative rate of 3%, this is a non-negligible fraction in a city with a rental shortage. Rents tend to jump sharply when the rental vacancy rate falls too low, and SFs vacancy rate is among the lowest in the nation.

Surely the commenter upthread was talking about the moratorium on development in the Mission.

You're likely right.