skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The purpose of test equipment is to diagnose weird situations...Its requirements are to be as robust and transparent as practical

That doesn't set a clear-cut boundary, does it? What seems practical to you might be impractical to the test equipment maker - especially when cost is considered. Should the test equipment be robust enough to handle 1000+ amps? I'd say no, someone else (maybe even you) might say yes.
I like it. There was a thread on here recently about an ex-googler going freelance on toptal.com and earning $2,000 USD per hour. That still looks more individually focussed though.

I know what you mean about the team thing though. After 15 years in IT in London, Sydney, Copenhagen and San Francisco, there are definitely some teams I'd like to work together with again to build something great.

Busy with koalasafe.com just now, so not in for helping launch it.
I doubt that Autocad was ever written in Lisp.

Autolisp was added to Autocad when it already existed. They took the free XLisp (written by David Betz in the early 80s) and integrated it into Autocad. The XLisp of that time was a small Lisp dialect written in C.

Some years ago the old Autolisp implementation was replaced with a different (but compatible) Lisp implementation, which Autodesk bought. That was then called Visual Lisp.
It's really not an artifact of being a minority it's an artifact of being poor and/or living in a poor neighborhood. The same thing could happen in better neighborhoods but as wealth increases so does access to better resources to combat this type of behavior by the police or by government. In that sense it's (just) no surprise another advantage of having money. What you gain is the ability to buy better "advice" (legal or otherwise) and hence get a fairer shake out of the world. In many cases (I won't comment on this one) it's perhaps not that the law is being used unfairly but rather that poor people don't have the resources to question and fight what is going on and perhaps raise the right issues with those that try to take advantage of them. Or simply to communicate and be taken seriously.
“A child born today will conservatively live 200 years”
Please stop trying to remotely argue in favour of the ludicrous rent prices.

The point isn't that some combos can work out, the point is that people shouldn't have to buckle down and "combo up" to afford a fucking apartment.
Off by a few orders of magnitude. Tihane-2 hit 33 pflops or 3.3*10^16 flops or approx 1/3 of the upper bound. Brain simulation is a snag, but it isn't our only snag.

Like you said, it's a general algorithm issue. We do not remotely understand the brain well enough to simulate it. We have very little idea of what an intelligent algorithm (other than brain sim) would look like.

Also, all of these estimates are based on flops and none of them consider bandwidth. We are a few orders of magnitude lower in gigabits/s than we are in flops. I personally think that is where the bottleneck is. 100 billion neurons with a 100 gigabit/second pipe could interact once per second and then only at the level of a toggle switch. Granted not all neurons have to interact with one another, but we are significantly behind in bandwidth and structural organization.

Bandwidth is intimately tied to processing capacity. I dont think the bandwidth will be there until 2045-2065 and like you say we have serious software/algorithm/understanding deficiencies to resolve before then. I would be very surprised if we get general AI before 2065 if ever. I do not expect it in my lifetime and would be pleasantly surprised if it happened.
Definitely changing, but it takes time and work. See here:

http://www.fastcompany.com/1839445/introducing-silicon-harbo...
> but right on the policy: not only did you not make it up, it's in the FAQ! Linked at bottom of every page.

Haha, my bad! I actually did try to search around for it, but it didn't occur to me to check the FAQ. I even checked the github mirror of the code [0] (no idea how up-to-date it is), but I can't read Arc very well. It just goes to show you could probably plaster rules like that as a header over the entire website and people like myself would still look in the wrong place :P

I have read the FAQ before, so that's probably where I "heard it", but I didn't think to check it this time.

[0] https://github.com/wting/hackernews
Using NOT EXISTS() is a lot better than NOT IN(). The latter, as defined by the SQL standard, has confusing behaviour with NULLs. x NOT IN(y1, y2) is defined to expand to x <> y1 AND x <> y2. If any of these are NULL, the whole expression is NULL. Which means no rows match. Fun, ain't it?
Is there a self-hosted version of this for those of us without 3-way calling or long distance plans?
You might be interested in this analysis:
http://tomtunguz.com/adobe-saas-growth/

Looks like the transition has been good so far.
This site immediately lost me because of autoplaying videos... :-/
Less moving parts. If I get a request from a PM, I quickly open up Tableau, select a datasource or write some SQL and deploy. Sometimes data asks that they think would take 24 hours or more can be turned around in under an hour with Tableau. You can also train and hire less technical people to use Tableau...its basically like advanced Microsoft Word.
This may be my personal taste but does anyone else think that it's just ugly? I saw one in person the other day and it really looks like a big snail, especially compared to the sleek looking Porsche and BMW SUVs in the same price range.
And he gets to run a Turing test on his AI for each call, sorta like training AI through CAPTCHAS.
That's pretty scary (can't say why) when thinking of my kids (3/5 yo).
> Spotify seems to be intensifying its efforts to combat fraud with actions that could leave the door open to censorship.

Unless the government is planning to get involved somehow, censorship is the wrong word. Even setting that aside, though, it's hard to understand what that sentence might mean. Best guess is that the author means Spotify would remove spam. I can't imagine any justification for using a word like censorship to describe an action like that.
Show HN: Vigènere Cipher with Emojis
Elon Musk discusses an electric jet
Isn't this kind of thing fixable by configuration or installing plugins ?
>There's no way to know 'everyone' is really using ST3 beta except if you learn it from a social network.

A social network, tons of posts and articles on the subject on blogs and web outlets, Hacker News (which has covered the editor several times in the past), plus the official forums.

If it's a tool you use everyday for hours on end (which is what programmers do with their editor), then you can go out and read a few things about that. People spend hours reading on their favorite shows, car models, NFL games, movies etc -- and those are just hobbies, whereas this is a professional tool.
PowerBI has nowhere near the capabilities of Tableau.

On top of that, PowerBI is subsidized in order to funnel customers for SQL Server.
That works until it doesn't, see Japan.
I consider the one I own as ideal, so I guess I'd go for that or the next in line, which is probably a Samsung C3750. My needs are quite basic. It has to be light and compact with long battery life and that's all :)
I was quoting Richard Dawkins quoting an editor of New Scientist magazine. I even linked the debate. Its not a new issue, its a very divisive issue, and I think that sums up the opposition quite succinctly.

For further context this discussion was between Richard Dawkins and Neil Degrasse Tyson at the "Beyond Belief" panel discussion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_2xGIwQfik
"Ninety percent of women, 91% of children aged 0 to 14 years, 92% of youth aged 15 to 24 years, and 82% of all people killed by firearms were from the United States."

I can't help but be annoyed by the "Ninety percent"..
Hell, I haven't received an email from Facebook since about 2009, I think?
It's earnings season.

http://www.investopedia.com/terms/e/earningsseason.asp
One potential downside is around long term effects of hired guns on morale of the people who keep the lights on. Pay gap is stark in Silicon Valley and a concept like this might re-enforce that.
Out of curiousity, what is your platform of choice for server-side development?
Anyone know the latencies associated with an URL request?

Are we talking 15ms range? 150ms range? 600ms-1s range?

Also, can we access binary blobs/files/images via this API? It seems the max file size of an asset field is 15mb, which is smaller than a Raw photo.
I know, but quoting the most inflammatory thing an inflammatory figure has said is unconducive to substantive discussion. The last thing we want on HN is binary ragewars between people who identify one way and people who identify the other.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11031472 and marked it off-topic.
Can you explain how the link above contains evidence that "NSA eventually confirmed it", as it was purported to?

If it doesn't, then I am correct in calling it out, no?
+1 for not focusing on users
You appear to have missed the part about this being my own mail server.

And I don't need any more luck; my initial problem is solved (I no longer see spam from Facebook, and I am taking steps to ensure they are aware of their problem, in case they weren't).

The problem was worth the time I spent on the config; it is manifestly a waste for me to involve the FTC, since I don't have to worry about Facebook's spam anymore and am willing to eat the tiny amount of bandwidth involved.
It's been changing everything for quite some time already...
Silicon Valley Should Join the War on Terrorism by John McCain
Liked it. Reminded me of CMU's Andrew project from, egad, decades ago.
A child born today, unless they're upper class, would be lucky to have a job in 2050.
I wonder how that compares to a single AWS data centre.
What would you say is a good live-coding platform for someone who actually has a lot of harmony and music theory training and would want to take advantage of it? I guess that would mean less looping and more motivic and theme development.
Curious what you guys think, I always thought coding is like scribing in the 13th century where a large percentage of population is illiterate and scribers are relegated to imperial quarters to take note of the empire's history and accounting.

However, better education system (programs to teach kids and adults coding) and improved accessibility of writing process from carving on stone tablets to ink on paper (better toolchains and the ubiquity of smartphones and computers) led to mass literacy rates.

Scribers (CRUD web apps written using CGI/Java 1.5) are therefore commoditized and become from emperor's scribes to Bartleby the clerk (CRUD using Rails and Node).

Thus writing becomes less a lucrative profession to literature where you have 1% rockstars authors who rely on marketing and a huge popular following to generate hits (e.g., startup's that rely on the charisma of the "founder myth" to raise money, but have the lifecycle of a reality TV show and the whims of the consumer taste; Friendster to Myspace to Facebook ("Zuckerburg") to Snapchat; Napster to iTunes to Spotify to Tidal ("Jay-Z")).

Now suppose you are the 99% Bartleby the scrivener, what are you to do, other than to say, "I prefer not to..."?
This is overblown and the stock price being low is probably short sightedness (again) on the east coast due to oil prices.

The Model X enabled Tesla to use the same core as the Model S while building and testing some new features during the construction of their giga-factory that will enable the Model 3. It also allows Tesla to stay in the press during that time (demonstrating new features, talking about the new car etc.).

While delivery is a little delayed they've already sold over sixteen thousand Model Xs - I don't agree that it was a mistake.
> If there is a problem, the Fed will drop interest rates, maybe even go negative, and that will cause bond rates and conceivably mortgage rates to drop as well.

The Fed has very little room to drop interest rates and won't do so to prop up the NASDAQ while the economy continues to grow and add jobs.
> you could probably plaster rules like that as a header over the entire website and people like myself would still look in the wrong place

That's very true. I even alluded to that in my comment but took it out as off-topic. It isn't you, though, it's everybody. Disseminating knowledge to the community is hard.
I accept that the situation may be misrepresented, but your own link states otherwise:

Police can seize cash over 10,000 kroner [..] as well as individual items [..] such as watches, mobile phones and computers

money and valuables will be confiscated on arrival [..] Assets discovered at a later stage [..] may also be taken

So if the BBC article is inaccurate about the Danish situation, I don't think you should assume it is any more correct about the Swiss, Dutch or German situation.
They should. What made you think they don't?
Previously: https://hbr.org/2015/01/where-boards-fall-short
This issue can also be explained a bit by illustrating some of the divides that make up party lines.

The call to arrest Snowden has been echoed by both political parties. The mainstream of both parties is very pro-surveillance. While surveillance programs were certainly in place before 9/11, the Bush administration really furthered the goals of the surveillance (and the larger National Security state). The Obama administration continued that advancement without restriction.

I would say that the two political parties in the US both support surveillance in a pretty vast majority. The bureaucratic reasons for this are fairly complex, but the simplest way of putting it is that the mainstream of both parties is very authoritarian (what some, myself included would label fascist.) Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama (to some extent), and the neoliberal movement has effectively the same foreign policy goals as the neoconservative movement that gave rise to the Bush administration.

On the fringes of both parties, you have outspoken activists trying to address both surveillance and the larger natsec state. The libertarians on the right, (Rand Paul, Justin Amash), and the progressives on the left (Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren) have all been outspoken against the NSA. The problem is that the mainstream in both parties tends to control Congress, the bureaucracy, and the media.

Gun Rights is a mainstream Republican issue. Every republican has to be strongly pro gun (both the mainstream GOP and the libertarians are) whereas every democrat has to be against it (Both the neoliberals and the progressives are.)

There are a lot of issues (or, in my opinion, non-issues) in American politics that tend to split the fringe in both parties. Topics like Gun Control, Abortion, Immigration, etc. are hot button issues that generally take the focus away from issues that theoretically should be very, very important, like NSA surveillance, illegal rendition and torture programs, assassination programs, and war.

It's sad, because the anti-establishment (Progressives and Libertarians) in both parties tend to agree on these issues. Frankly, most of the people who are pro-gun-rights are also anti-surveillance. These are the constitutional libertarians on the right: gun rights are guaranteed by the US second amendment, and privacy by the fourth amendment against illegal search and seizure.

The dissonance you're seeing isn't so much due to logical inconsistencies, but rather due to the weird, schizophrenic nature of US politics.
Each point independently, although the ratio can be as low as 1.5x during winter (summer air conditioning is a big problem).

East / West power distribution won't help too much, because there's only a 4-hour difference. The specific load curves of New England (which is only 1.5x load peak vs bottom at the moment... more typical of winter conditions) can be found here: http://www.iso-ne.com/
I'm not sure this makes sense:

> "Tesla, like most Silicon Valley companies, uses most of its revenue to finance research and development for new products. Rolling out new products with minimal required development is crucial to this strategy"

Those sentences just don't follow. They spend lots on R&D and they need to roll out new products with minimal R&D?

And I'm pretty sure the majority of their revenue is spent building the cars. They did around $3.2 billion in revenue and sold 35,000 cars. Unless they somehow have unheard of margins of 50-60%, that means Tesla spends the large majority of their revenue on building vehicles.

To me, this community blog post reads like they started with the contrarian clickbait title, and went from there.
I think your argument was best summarized by doki_pen below:

> Many Americans believe in following the law no matter what.
Looking at their pricing ($500/user/year) seems pretty reasonable for such a high-impact role. If you're at a company, the question is if it saves you ~5 hours in a year.
Sorry, but I've not made this up:

"Full profiles for 3rd-degree connections are available only to premium account holders."

Here is a screenshot: http://booleanblackbelt.com/2012/09/full-profiles-of-3rd-deg...
Edit: got one (two actually) thanks!
Yes it is a good idea - a better one would be to stop subsiding fossil fuels. Neither have much chance of getting through congress.
Elon's not superman. His insight and visionary ability to execute comes from something very simple: he reasons from first principles instead of by analogy, and he avoids cargo cult thinking.

If there is X amount of energy in a battery and it takes Y amount of energy to do Z, then Z ought to be able to be electrified... and so on.

It ain't rocket science. :) Unfortunately this is not how most people think or are taught to think. Most people look at what other people already do and reason by assuming superficial similarity as indicative of underlying similarity.
I agree, this is pretty mean and funny at the same time. I think where it turns from mean to funny is about where we imagine ourselves a certain distance away from them. But I do remember a certain time where I got mad at a customer service rep and made some comments that were... a little too cutting, and I remember experiencing her react in a way that showed she was hurt and upset. It hit me hard and I haven't done that since.
Inspirational Woman from New York Will Bring Tears to Your Eyes
If it was harmful but more interesting than harmless stuff... what would you do?
Are you talking about the BMW X5 and Porsche Cayenne? I think those are rather hideous vehicles. The designers clearly tried to retain some of the sedan branding and looks in front, just much taller, and weren't sure what to do in the back. Heck, a Chevy Suburban looks better! At least it has a consistent design philosophy!
I wish I could run my life while ignoring certain pesky costs!
In the context of VR, latency refers to the amount of time between when your head rotates and when the light coming out of the display reflects that rotation ("motion-to-photon"). Too much latency means that whenever you rotate your head, the world you're looking at seems to shake. Wearing a headset with high latency conditions people to hold their head still (they get negative reinforcement from looking around, but don't realize what's happening).
> That ended SGI's reign in Hollywood;

Big studios didn't convert to NT, they converted to Linux. SGI ended their own reign by not being able to compete with Nvidia and AMD/Intel. Even now all those studios use csh since that was the default shell that came with Irix.
Skype for Android allows to schedule a call
May not need to: http://editor.datatables.net/
How about a third option: keep training new programmers on Fortran and improve tooling - just like we do with every other language (and, afaik, this is happening with Fortran.)

Most Fortran programmers I know aren't programmers by trade - they're scientists or analysts who need to crunch numbers. Fortran doesn't need to be as feature complete or cutting edge as more general purpose languages.
I'm seeing a few people claiming this proves we're in a bubble. That we've reached peak computer science. Why?

Maybe I'm being touchy due to my location[1] but that sounds rather arrogant. This seems to be a more comprehensive training program than 6 week "hacker" schools so many are fond of. The workers were even paid while being trained. Is it because they're hillbillies?

[1] I live in southeastern Kentucky.
I'm curious, what do you mean?
Energy storage is beating peaker plants today... under specific situations.

Note that gas peaker plants only run 10% of the time on the average (basically, they only work in the summer when our grid needs the most power, and then they don't make any money for the rest of the year).

From an economics / business point of view, having your power plants sit around only working 10% of the time is completely uneconomical. You need to be compensated severely to make it worth your while.

Or to put it another way: my energy storage company that gets 1c off energy arbitrage for all 12-months 100% of the year will make more money than your peaker plant that only gets 7c for 10% of the year.

And good luck convincing California to build a peaker plant. It is more politically sound to push for green-energy batteries. You'll get more approval in more locations in the US than gas (even if Natural gas is all-American and burns cleanly, its still a fossil fuel which is increasingly becoming a poison word in politics)
'what it means in terms of stock' Exactly- The problems (big price drop) arise only when the stock price is at unreasonably high levels based on unreasonable growth assumptions by Wall Street. So the same people that cause it go 'bubble' then cause it to go 'burst' wreaking all kinds of collateral damage (employee stock options, morale, etc).
A rural coder's initiative wouldn't do much for the racial imbalance, though.

The brain drain away from rural America is pretty alarming. The best and brightest leave for the cities, and they don't often come back. Throw in the burgeoning heroin epidemic, and things are pretty grim.
So if I hired someone to follow you around in public and gently but constantly poke you with a stick you would treat this person well simply because I was paying them? You're just happy they have a job?

At what point is a person responsible for their job/career? Regardless of whether it was a choice or not, if your job is to annoy, harass, and manipulate people, those people being angry and treating you like shit is just an occupational hazard.
Not only Android, Windows 10 Mobile Build 10240 packs Linux core files too
It's clumsily worded, but I think what they were going for is something like "Tesla, like most Silicon Valley companies, uses most of its revenue to finance research and development for new products, so profitability depends on maximizing the returns on that R&D investment." The idea was that the R&D necessary for the Model S was intense, and the hope was to be able to extract more value from that investment with another vehicle that largely reused Model S's tech.
> A neuron is an organism. It contains a gene regulatory network more complex than the entire network topology of Amazon's entire web services stack, and that's just looking at the aspects of gene regulation and enzyme (a.k.a. nanomachine) operation that we understand.

Can you give some more details about this? How are you quantifying the complexity of a neuron and of the AWS stack?