skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know how NVIDIA's linux driver is structured but I'm curious if they use a separate Vulkan .so file like NVIDIA's OpenGL library which one has to make sure is used instead of Mesa.
Who in their right minds would want China to be the global hegemony when they censor free speech, treat people like they are disposable (Falun Gong body organ harvesting by President Zemin), impose Han Chinese ethnocentric ideologies as superior to the world as did Nazi Germany believed their blood made them pure?

What country in their right mind that enjoys the security and economic prosperity and trade with other democracies, uproot all of these perks in favor of China?

Who thinks like this besides delusional Chinese ultra nationalists and apologists?

United States is not perfect or all good either but fuck me if I'm going to let China become the world hegemony and bully every country like they do in the South China sea?

The world needs United States more than it needs the world.

edit: for those saying falun gong organ harvesting is a conspiracy.

Please refer to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organ_harvesting_from_Falun_Go...

Falun Gong is a Chinese qigong discipline involving
meditation and a moral philosophy rooted in Buddhist
tradition. The practice rose to popularity in the 1990s
in China, and by 1998, Chinese government sources
estimated that as many as 70 million people had taken up
the practice.[23][24] Perceiving that Falun Gong was a
potential threat to the Party’s authority and ideology,
Communist Party leader Jiang Zemin initiated a
nationwide campaign to eradicate the group in July 1999.
[25]
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"Samsung Galaxy Y comes with very restrictive specs of 290 MB RAM, 600 MHz processor, and 180 MB internal memory."

In what universe is a 600MHz CPU and 290MB of RAM restrictive for a glorified RSS reader?
I dont know the details of her situation, but I think chronic pain management goes something like this:

* patient such as your friend has excruciating pain, requiring the heaviest of the narcotics (say oxycodone/oxymorphone, instead of a "mere" hydrocodone that you'd get for wisdom teeth or something ).

* these narcotics are so incredibly dangerous that they must be taken
exactly as prescribed for the following reasons. 1) Patients have a temptation to take an extra one (or snort one) to achieve a euphoric and addicting "high" that can be irresistible once its experienced. 2) In some cases taking even one or two extra pills can kill the patient. 3) Patients have incentive to Not take them because some pills can fetch up to $40 EACH on the black market.
4) not taking them exactly as planned can cause a tolerance buildup or reduction, which can stymie the physician's efforts to find the safest minimal and effective dose for continuous pain management.

* To combat all 4 of these factors, pain management specialists enter into "contracts" with their patients that they will treat their pain, if and only if, they agree to take the pills EXACTLY according to plan. To affirm compliance to this plan, the patients are subjected to random drug testing. Not just to see if they are getting high (over using them ), but also to see if they are using them at all, (i.e. not selling the pills for a massive profit ). IIRC, if you show up to your test and they find no painkillers in your urine, you can be taken OFF the plan, i.e. no pills for you.

tl;dr they drug test patients to make sure a precise plan is being followed because there are at least 4 separate "failure modes" to chronic pain management.

I learned most of this from news articles and reading junkie's tales on /r/opiates. I'm not an expert, nor user, but I just find the whole topic very interesting. Please correct me if I've said anything wrong.
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It seems hypocritical to assume this is any worse than having these drones flying over other countries, sometimes without their consent.
They incorporate tylenol to help prevent addiction and overdose. Too much tylenol makes you sick - very unpleasantly. Too much opiods and you feel great, until you die. The tylenol is designed to provide an edge to taking too much so that the curve correlatibg dose to pleasure doesn't always angle upwards. Being very sick, and even having liver problems is generally better than death.
You're asking the wrong question. Here's the real one:

Who's going to pay for everyone else to have free time?

That's really what you're implying here: It's an underlying theme stemming from the assumption that we must have an economy based solely on the output of individuals.

What if all economic output comes from machines doing all the work? Why would people clean toilets or wash dishes if they didn't have to? Wouldn't their time be better spent on their hobbies (e.g. art)?
Waterboarding is considered torture.
Point 1 is conceded in my earlier response. You're right that someone who is unfamiliar with Python is going to be stopped by the format syntax. However, it's simple to acclimate and learn the basics of it and is something that is very pervasive in Python code and is one of the safest ways to interpolate string data, so its use is justified.

Point 2, this type of string slicing syntax is pretty common in languages similar to Python. A very similar syntax exists in Ruby and Perl. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Array_slicing for more examples of slice shorthand in the wild.

Point 3. I didn't intend to rewrite the whole thing again, just enough to demonstrate my problems with the reply's lambda-based approach. This is indicated by the ellipsis. If I were to create a full version instead of the quick demonstration of the more-clear full function definition here, then yes, I would've assigned the output of the function to something.

4. Conceded.
It's more orders of magnitude more dangerous and addictive (in that marijuana is almost impossible to OD on, and isn't addictive at all).

Marijuana is certainly not the magical silver bullet some make it out to be, but it's incredibly effective for many people whose only other recourse would be opiates.
Of course it is. That's why it's in San Francisco run by techies.
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think of it this way:
The search space for chess is much smaller, so we can lean very heavily on brute forcing in our A.I. implementations.

The search space for Go is much larger, so while brute force searches are critical in tight fighting, and in endgame play, something more has to happen to play go well in the middle game.

Chess fell to a much earlier generation of A.I.
While Go held out until A.I. as a field had advanced as well several generations/decades as well.
In suppose the defence of the statement is that in chess intuition is used by humans, but not required for a computer. In go the computer needs it too.
Wouldn't globalFlag just be shared in a duplicated cache line between all cores until one of them modifies it?
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

>"Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon."
Chatbots ate trivially easy to beat. Just try teaching it a simple game and ask it to play it with you. Basically any questions that require it to form a mental model of something and mutate or interrogate the model state.

Many of the chatbot Turing test competitions have heavily rigged rules restricting the kinds of questions you're allowed to ask in order to give the bots a chance.
...or how little it can do.
I would probably change my locks
I can't comment on Go, but with simpler games like Othello it's fairly apparent when your opponent is A.I. driven or human driven, in how they try to move the board position. Even against expert human players.
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Every one of their powers and directives is worded against foreign threats, not people inside the border. The mission creep is similar to how anti-terrorist laws are used for drug enforcement.
So is this some kind of specialized constraint solver? I'm looking at the JS source for the various art and it seems to be defining relationships alongside the shapes and styles.
But aren't both problem symptoms of the same core issue?
the standardized model of education fails every one.

I think in the near future each teacher will have at most 7 students... and each student will get personalized attention?

Those teacher will come out of all the jobs that robots will disappear in manufacturing.
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Setting alarms and timers is fantastic with Siri.

Nap alarm: "Wake me up in X minutes/hours"

Normal alarm: "Wake me up at X AM/PM"

Timer: "Set a 45 minute timer"

Other than that, I don't use Siri. I find that if Siri gets my query wrong even once, it would have been faster for me to look the thing up manually.

Oh, also as a party gag you can ask Siri what 0/0 is. Stone cold.
It's impressive how some Google services are worse for other languages. It is better understanding my poor spoken English than my native language. Even the simple dictionary doesn't a lot of basic conjugations that doesn't exist in English, like the for the pronoun "We". These subtle differences in technology are a great lever for English speaking countries.
Did you go to college? I tend to hear this most from people who went to college. I didn't, and I definitely have trouble getting my resume in front of Hiring managers because I get screened out in the linked in search. You can make it work but it's not easy and you'll get paid less then your peers for a long time. Less than the debt they acquired? not sure.
> overprescription of opioids because they're cheap

It's a bit scary how eager doctors are to prescribe them. "Hey doc, I'm in pain" – "Here's a bottle of painkillers, NEXT" Bitch, I don't want painkillers, I want you to figure out why my body is hurting when it's not supposed to. It's surprisingly frustrating to talk doctors into looking for the cause instead of treating the symptom.

Thankfully, the metamizole they kept filling me up with is not nearly as addictive as opioids and we have free health care, so I didn't have to pay a dime for the repeated blood analyses and CT it took find the cause. Otherwise I'd probably have bigger problems right now.
This presumes college is the goal or that graduating college is actually important. Also, what does getting into a "good college" actually provide (in terms of education--forget social networking for a moment) above and beyond a "mediocre college"?

Everyone would have us believe that "an education is what you make of it" yet the foundation of our society is apparently the opposite: The education is what makes you.
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Ask HN: Grad-school or Startup?
Non American confused about either applying to a mediocre grad school for CS (would help with work auth) – my undergrad was a disaster and almost put me off programming until I started working on projects of my own, CS106A by Mehran Sahami & my discovery of Ruby

I would've loved to be at Stanford or any top CS school as I feel sound CS skills actually do translate positively to the industry when working on a high-level system but thanks to my low undergrad GPA I don't even qualify for most of them. Alternatively MOOCs could help in understanding various concepts if I go through with the startup route

OTOH I've been mulling over establishing my own startup. I've freelanced a bit, worked for a company and found that I loved product ownership and simply couldn't stop charting out various courses, features, marketing strategies, etc for the product, and refining them through various iterations, etc esp. Edtech w/ regards to Software Industry[1]

Also I'd have to establish the startup in India which brings various challenges which lower my probability to build a world-class product[2]

Ideally I'd finish my graduate course & work at a decent-sized company/startup, pick up valuable insights and later work on my startup

[1]College education (esp in India) is broken – it doesn't offer a lot more than just a bunch of textbooks to learn from. It's still exam-based, not many co-op programs, no insistence to develop other related skills, an outdated & irrelevant syllabus to the industry, unmotivated & egotistic professors (one of whom failed me for questioning the spiel around OOP), etc

[2]Specific to me, not that Indian startups don't build WC products eg HackerRank. Pedigrees in the industry are based on the founding team which expect an IIT/M founder – this directly affects hiring, Investor interest, Press, etc and the product itself takes a backseat

PS I love conversing with fellow startup folks, hit me up if you think you've got something to share
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But the federal system in the US seems to quite successfully have been coopted by politicians who spend most of their time raising funds, to stay where they are, in collaboration with companies who supply them with funds to get laws written to suite them. I know this is a bit of a caricature, but it seems to me that it now is really hard to change this system to something which takes the money out of the politics.
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> I found FreeBSD to be unusable simply in the command line environment. I was using only a text console login. I simply wanted a decent shell and editor.

If you don't like a command line interface install a desktop environment, if you want a different shell install one and if you wan't a different editor, again install a different one.

Nothing you have wrote suggest FreeBSD is unusable, apparently you prefer systems with this stuff already installed which is fine, but it doesn't mean you should knock the BSD's because you are unwilling or unable to install a couple new packages.
"Worse" is subjective.

"Legal" is quite a bit less so – although not totally objective even then.
Not according to John Yoo.
Looking at several stories on this, it seems that the drone was used to aid in executing a lawful arrest, not to gather evidence.

The exact timeline is unclear, but many of the stories indicate that the drone was brought in after the arrest turned into an armed standoff, with the drone being used to figure out where the armed people were so that the arrests could be made safely.

Under those circumstances, I don't see how using the drone would require a warrant.
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"The lemur stared at me for a moment, then turned back to its drink. "
Those people that are responsible for this activity should be brought before a court and tried for treason.
* For personal use, or organizationally for academic purposes, classroom learning and open source projects only. Or if your company has <250 PCs or <$1mm in annual revenue, up to 5 people in your organization can use Community.

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I think it's fair to say that in the future, people will look back and wonder how it was possible to live without having a good AI.. similar to how we look past at caveman and wonder how they could live without electricity. AI is really just a tool that we leverage, the same was as we leveraged the wheel or electricity.
Any recommendations for someone who knows nothing about neural networks?
This method is one of the ways statisticians combat the problem of multiple comparisons. Misapprehensions about multiple comparisons (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_comparisons_problem) have been coming up fairly frequently in the news, so I wanted to point this out. Conceptually I think this is a pretty powerful tool to have in your mental tool box.
I had this attitude when I reached High School and started getting 4+ hours worth of homework every night. I realized that I didn't want to live my life that way, it was bullshit, and I wasn't going to bother. This upset my parents greatly, we battled for 4 years before I tested out of school, went to community college on my own dime, getting an excellent gpa, and then going to university.
I wonder who mayor genius is:

One case in which an unnamed mayor asked the Marine Corps to use a drone to find potholes in the mayor's city.
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CPU : 8 CPU GenuineIntel Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4790 CPU @ 3.60GHz 3910MHz
L2 Cache : 8192 KB
OS : Linux 3.16.0-55-generic
C compiler : gcc version 4.8.4 (Ubuntu 4.8.4- 2ubuntu1~14.04.1)
libc : libc-2.19.so
MEMORY INDEX : 58.235
INTEGER INDEX : 52.421
FLOATING-POINT INDEX: 79.472
Baseline (LINUX) : AMD K6/233*, 512 KB L2-cache, gcc 2.7.2.3, libc-5.4.38
The cut depends on the crop and even specific varieties within the crop.

Yes, pricing is transparent to farmers.
It is a common misconception that any calories >0 break the fast. However, all IF coaches agree that the threshold for most people is around 50 calories [1]. Knowing this, I only take a splash of cream or milk in my coffee.

[1]: http://www.marksdailyapple.com/forum/thread36172.html
Hi folks - Last year we polled HN on whether there'd be interest in R integration in Visual Studio. You said "YES!", so here it is! I'll be around in case you have any questions.

BTW RTVS was built by the same group that made PTVS (Python Tools for VS) and NTVS (Node.js Tools for VS). RTVS will also be free & open source of course.

Cheers
Flinging around a term like "sociopath" about a specific person is a breach of HN's civility rules. Please don't do that again.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11252782 and marked it off-topic.
Yes. It took all of us 2 seconds to find it when we realised it what was happening. You're not the first person to type stuff into google.
There is a difference between a military operation on US soil and civilian law enforcement using military hardware.
But it comes with a free Tesla ;-)
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Thanks for sharing that. I recently was looking at a different comparison of the _batch_ capabilities of flink and SS [1], which found that flink was faster at terasort than SS. I'm curious to understand why it is that it looks like SS can get higher throughput than flink in the streaming case, but less in the batch case.

[1] http://www.slideshare.net/ssuser6bb12d/a-comparative-perform...
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As someone who was born and raised in Tennessee, I wholeheartedly agree with the above. I myself was raised about an hour south of Nashville, and currently am a relatively new developer, but the dev culture here is very vibrant, especially in the Hillsboro area, or The Gulch.

To comment on some things from the above:

Yes the weather is wonky here, one minute it might be snowing, the next it'll feel like spring/summer. (Like it has the past couple of weeks here.)

Traffic? Not terrible by any means, just have to give yourself extra time if you're having to go anywhere during rush hour (7-8am / 5-6pm).

Job market? We've got some great startups popping up, but mostly medical from what I can tell, most of my development work has been for something involving medical or a startup.

Environment? Tennessee is absolutely beautiful, we got everything from Mountains in East TN, the delta and Mississippi River in West TN, we have caves, lakes, rivers galore, beautiful state parks, and a pleasant parkway called the Natchez Trace running from the bottom of Nashville all the way to Tupelo, MS. The only thing missing for us is a beach, which is normally why a lot of Tennesseans go to Alabama or Florida, typically, for that.

TL;DR: Nashville and Tennessee are indeed awesome! I highly recommend people come and visit and check a few things out, cost of living here is extremely cheap compared to Silicon Valley / San Fran, and a lot of other major cities are far away, as horv mentioned above.

10/10, would live here indefinitely if able.
"Apple CEO Tim Cook, Google co-founder Larry Page, Napster creator and Facebook investor Sean Parker, and Tesla Motors and SpaceX honcho Elon Musk all attended."

It's not mentioned in the article what plan they came up with, though.
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Correct, CE version has restrictions. It's great for checking out RTVS to decide if you want to upgrade to Pro/Enterprise.
I can see how the ratio of time spent around Melinda Gates to time spent around Steve Ballmer might serve as a good predictor of anyone's mood.
A couple of major reasons. There are so many aspects of a startup that go beyond where you are operating and the kind of market you are targeting. YC's advice with these matters is very valuable. They have started accepting international companies as well recently, which is a good sign.

Finally, the value of the YC network including its very strong alumni can never be quantified.
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This. I regularly use Facebook mobile website on my quite powerful smartphone. Basic UX functions are lacking there though they are possible .

Facebook engineering is over-engineering the whole application across multiple platforms but can't fix many usability issues and add missing features on many of them. Finally a like/action, comments around a few hundred "friends" with text, audio and video shouldn't require that much effort. I mostly suspect they over engineer because they can! namely too much money can buy too much talent and skills. But maybe they don't need that much.
No, I think the statement's approximately correct. Chess has an average branching factor of 35, Go has an average branching factor of 250, intuition is required to prune candidate moves in Go in a way that it is only extremely minimally required in Chess.
I think the same thing was said about Javascript when node.js was created.
Agreed. The part I object to is the unqualified statement that go requires a high degree of intuition, whereas chess doesn't. As humans play the game, I think it's safe to say that this is generally inaccurate. Both games, for humans, rely very heavily a high degree of intuition.

I would tend to agree that there is something interesting and new at work here, though, in that computers didn't get better than humans at go simply by applying the same brute force algorithm, just with more processing power. It does suggest that at least some of what we previously thought required "intuition" can be modeled through a random forest (I think that's what they're using, if not RF, then some other combination of ML).
Here's what it looks like on iphone: http://www.webpagetest.org/result/160309_JW_14VA/
While I share your apparent concern for civil liberties, the assumption that we're likely to see armed drone strikes on US soil is hyperbolic and rooted in misapprehension of why the state uses drone strikes abroad.

Drone strikes are used as a replacement for manned air strikes, which in turn are used when a target is too isolated to engage with ground forces.

The reason that we're not going to see drone strikes on US soil is the same reason we don't see air strikes on US soil: you can deploy SWAT teams on US soil.
> Who in their right minds would want China to be the global hegemony

Who in their right minds would want any one country to be the global hegemony..

> The world needs United States more than it needs the world.

Sure, "the world" needs a 4-decades-long "net-debtor+net-importer" very very badly..
It's a fantastic idea and a beautiful site. I wish I could give better feedback, but the only thing I noticed was this:

>"For more information you may search ’Intellexer’ in Google Scholar!"

I'd change the wording to:

"For more information please search ’Intellexer’ in Google Scholar!"

And I'd make the "search ... Scholar!" portion of the text a link for the 'Intellexer' search on Google Scholar.
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Yes, trust from farmers is extremely important. Maybe the most important aspect here and we work daily to ensure and build that.

We haven't faced those sort of issues yet.