skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Awesome! thanks, also here's the reasoning from the Why? [1]

> I wanted people to be able to share HATETRIS replays via Twitter.

> Twitter supports tweets of up to 140 characters. "Tweet length is measured by the number of codepoints in the NFC normalized version of the text."

[1] https://github.com/ferno/base65536#why
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That's the interesting thing about PWA. They can be web applications that don't require internet access.
The title also brings sensationalism and political bias to a neutral technology.
It's not bad. If you get & use the touch screen, that gets smudgy. Not really sure what to do about that.
I'm not familiar with European real estate, but I have to ask: Where within these countries are prices rising? Is it universal or is it constrained to popular, low-unit count areas (like is generally the case in the US)?
Yes it starts on boot and doesn't need a special terminal. There is just a small whale in the toolbar so you can exit or change settings.
I can't really help with the rest but if you wanted to track units of work without putting it against a task you could try FocusBooster (https://www.focusboosterapp.com/) which allows you log blocks of 25mins using the Pomodoro technique.
I'm pretty sure that pointing a device that appeared to be a gun at a group of cops after ignoring their requests for him to put his hands up had a bit more of an impact than the dog in this case.
Nothing about the freedom of the software has to do with whether or not you compensate the authors for creating it.

If you take free software and never consider paying its developer for making it, despite them providing you freedom, choice, and a degree of trust in the software you can not have with proprietary code, then you are the kind of person to blame for why proprietary software is so rampant today.

For example, I donate $200 to the Document Foundation every year to match the cost of an annual subscription to Office 365 plus a 33% bonus for respecting my freedom.
And updated UX305CA works great with a 4.5 kernel.
This kind of gets solved through the courts

"Oh, you used an AI to establish probable cause?"

"Yes, your honor"

"Can you actually explain what happened?"

"We give it a bunch of data and that makes a neural network and then it gives us answers"

"OK... so basically you do not know the source of PC? This is the same has having no probable cause. Illegal search"

There's something fascinating about how most AIs work. It's almost impossible (for the learning, neural network-y type) to breakdown what the "thought process" was for a result. Seemingly unimportant details because the main thought process for the AI (even if the correlation is spurious).

I'm almost surprised that Google can implement any court ruling, considering how their search must be based so much on data fed to a big system.
> Switched to Android from iOS (with reasons)

> Switched to iOS from Android (with reasons)

> Counterargument is: But you didn't try this specific Android device.

Sort of "moving the goalposts," is it not?
Using the higher performance Linux specific interfaces like epoll isn't doing it wrong, it is getting the most out of your platform. Perhaps it is doing it wrong to use it directly instead of a library in application code, but someone still has to know enough to write the library.
I'm pretty sure that attitude is called "paternalism". Self-regulation works better when it's self-directed, as opposed to other-directed (as in, someone else doing the regulation).

`I shouldn't do ${foo} because people will make fun of me` is a horrible attitude to foist on anyone else, and anyone who tries to propagate that attitude isn't helping the community at all.
Chromebook Pixel has been an awesome sometimes-Linux laptop for me. I'm still spending most of my time in ChromeOS, but the crouton project/extension allows me to have another linux chroot running for when I need to do work. There's a number of supported distros, although I've stuck with Ubuntu and XFCE, mostly because it stays out of my way.

The fact that you can have the entire chroot or an individual app run in a window under xiwi as though it were a regular Chrome tab makes it even better. I regularly have everything running in ChromeOS except Sublime running in its own tab while I'm coding.

Someone else can probably chime in as far as how well it works if you want to go full-Linux on the thing.

FWIW, I believe Linus Torvalds uses a Chromebook Pixel running Fedora. [0]

[0]: http://www.zdnet.com/article/chromebooks-biggest-fan-linus-t...
I got an ASUS U31JG (13" non-ultrabook) about 5 years ago and added RAM and an SSD and it is still going strong (and nice to have HDMI and VGA). I think the Zenbooks evolved out of that line so an ASUS Zenbook (UX305) will be my likely replacement. Although I have also been eyeing the XPS13. It will likely be between XPS13 and UX305(FA or CA). But like I said, this 5 year old ASUS (with a few upgrades) is still chugging along.
Better than the HP Elitebook I had previously, and no problems after 9 months.
You missed the part where the walls on BBSes were not vile, yet its users were similarly anonymous.
I suppose it should be able to split up into multiple personalities and choose the suitable one for a chat partner.
The touchpad on the skylake 13 is bad (not sure if it is broken).
I'm in the same boat, and I have to use Vagrant + VirtualBox for just about anything docker related.
fuck_dang, and fuck__dang are already banned.

I like pg. I do not like dang.
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I wouldn't say it's a problem with that comparison so much as the point of it: it illustrates the relative efficiency of the two.

It also illustrates some side issues, like why an EV will suffer significant range loss when you need a lot of heat, while a normal car doesn't care.
Does the pixel do the thing where your linux partition gets wiped out if you ever run down the battery? Because that scares me.
Live Video SDK or Asynchronous Recorded Video?
You can quit and restart (its very quick). There isn't a pause at present though.
No, people do get shot. 12 year old boys get shot by gangsters in broad daylight, and no one says who did it. People get smashed on the head with poles by roving teenagers. That the cops are just another gang sometimes doesn't mean they aren't necessary, or that Stop Snitchin' is anything but aiding and abetting murder.
This is actually how AWS Lambda works under the covers.
What we found when we simulated the backbone of the Internet
What's the point if they're just going to ask for backdoors in those systems later?
Eesen looks promising, uses LSTM and CTC rather than older tech.

https://github.com/yajiemiao/eesen

Baidu open sourced their CTC implementation

https://github.com/baidu-research/warp-ctc

I think we will have an easy to install OSS speech recognition library and accurate pretrained networks not far off from Google/Alexa/Baidu, running locally rather than in the cloud, within 1-2 years. Can't wait.
Ditto for the Pixel. I also have a ux305 and it's nice in a lot of ways but doesn't really have the battery life I want. The Pixel (what I'm using now) does, beating even my old MBA. As a bonus, I get to run low-maintenance ChromeOS and real Linux simultaneously via Crouton, including niceties like clipboard integration. Haven't missed either the MBA or the ux305 once since I got this.
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I can't find anything about actions the ACM has taken on this issue. According to their website [1], the USACM is responsible for US policy matters.

The USACM website [2] does not mention anything about the ongoing DOJ vs. Apple case, or upcoming encryption laws being drafted by Burr-Feinstein.

Their "Tech Policy Blog" is currently down ("Access forbidden!") [3]

Most of the discussion I see about policy has to do about diversifying computer science and getting more women involved. This is laudable, but given recent news you'd think they would have some comment on their website about the DOJ, Apple, or encryption in general.

The EFF, on the other hand, has kept us well informed about proposed laws and the Apple FBI case.

[1] http://www.acm.org/about/history

[2] http://usacm.acm.org/

[3] http://techpolicy.acm.org/blog/
Yeah, with some TODO managers I've used, the routine was to label things by how frequently I should check them. I ended up re-visiting a lot of things unnecessarily. I was always afraid of a task slipping through the net.

Good search functionality helps, but so does useful metadata attached to tasks to search on i.e. which tasks haven't I looked at in 3 months.
I was going to get the XPS 13, but decided to perform some upgrades on my desktop at the same time. So to save a few bucks I got an X250 from Lenovo, and I've been very happy with it. It's a little bulky since I also got the large second battery, but the battery life is absolutely phenomenal, and everything works great on Arch.
why are all the chapters in separate pdf's? Is that unintentional or an enticement to buy the book when it comes out? If it's the former, anybody got a full pdf download link?
???

Why would you create an AI bot for policing that said, "... "Hey, here's a dataset. Cluster the people in the set." ..." ? (That doesn't really strike me as policing. Policing is enforcing the current laws. And there is nothing about the current law in a dataset that simply clusters people.)

Not trying to be snarky, that was a serious question.

If you were making a bot to police laws, would it not make sense to feed the bot a learning set of laws, the punishments for those laws, and then as input feed it what the defendant did ? Why would it need any information about who the defendant was at all ? (Actually, maybe it might need a list of the defendant's prior convictions for instance... but little else.)

I guess my question is, why is an AI for enforcing laws, instead being fed information to identify groups of people ?
Yea, but before there was nothing easy to tie this app and the public profile. Now there's no choice but to tie the two.
check out https://github.com/yajiemiao/eesen for LSTM and CTC based library instead of HMMs
>>> a lot of experienced individuals (myself included) believed that npm is fragile by design

I agree with you!

>>> you're accusing others of failing to fully understand the situation and of being condescending and rude

I'm saying that people who say "massive helpers.js file yo" is not a solution. Improve the standard lib, npm and use lodash.

I'm also saying we all rely on other package managers so don't think just because you saw npm as flawed you get a free ride to say this couldn't happen with other systems. All of them have various ways of poking holes in any security you think they have.

At some point you have to put trust in your package manager. I'm riling against the people saying to copy and paste code everywhere.

>>> The fact that your post is top of HN is just more evidence that Hacker News is no longer a useful website. It's kind of funny, YC gets better every year, but HN gets worse. I wonder at what point Sam and pg will realize that this cesspool is actually hurting their brand.

Disagree sure, but I think to say that my post is from a cesspool is a bit over the top!
Maybe we could start to publish signed approvals of specific package hashes.

For example: "I, mbrock, think that pad-left v1.0.3 with hash XYZ seems like an uncompromised release."

Then the tool that upgrades packages could warn when a release isn't trusted by someone you trust (or transitively via some trust web scheme).

The approval system becomes like a "release review" process.
The very first sentence of the article explains why this is controversial.
My guess is that Citus is making enough money from consulting that they don't need to keep this code closed source when they can profit from free community-driven growth while they are expanding their sales pipeline through consulting.
Well, you can have shared network drives. Dropbox. Or... google docs. I don't really know too much about the gov't's network policies but people tend to use the tools they know
Probably slack and ryver and facebook for work - there's a lot of companies out there. And other companies are throwing money into it too.

Cisco just put out a $150mil fund to fund similar things for their chat & video platform as well:

https://developer.ciscospark.com/fund/

Disclaimer: I do work for Cisco
As a minor note, "chthonic" or "chthonian" gods doesn't refer to the Furies; it refers to whether sacrifices to a god are burned on an altar raised above the ground or in a pit dug into it. The Furies are chthonic gods, but so are several others, like Hades and Demeter, who wouldn't be going out to get anyone.
No, Docker doesn't replace virtualbox. Docker and VB are different tools, meant for different things. The reason the article says no more virtualbox is because previously tools for running Docker on mac, required VB to run the Docker containers but this new product does not have such a requirement. It's basically removing that heavy VB layer from using Docker containers on your mac.
The need to preform maintenance during the useful life of an object is a defect. The ability to extend the life of an object through maintenance is useful. These statements are not in conflict.

Early CPU's where built to be maintained, modern CPU's are not. That in no way makes modern CPU's worse. The Hubble cost more to maintain than it would have been to replace with something better. From a utilitarian standpoint the ability to maintain it was useless, from a political standpoint NASA loved being able to pretend those missions where useful.

At a deeper level maintenance generally means some parts break down before others. So, an ax becomes less sharp over time. Meanwhile the head also loses strength which limits how long that head can reasonably be maintained.

QED: Maintenance is all about having different parts that ware out a different times.
The Pixel 1 did, but not the Pixel 2.
That's what we should expect to see when looking for other planets with intelligent life. But you, andrewclunn, should expect to live among one of the more populous species.
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Much of that functionality is in other Java SE standard library classes. You can do left padding with Formatter.

http://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/util/Formatter...
Tnis is not a far comparison. Very few modern cars can hold a candle to an E30 :)
Can anyone comment on how difficult it is to put Linux on a chromebook? Is it locked down with a need to "root"/jailbreak or is it just a matter of some startup keys? I have avoided chromebooks because ChromeOS always seemed like a limiting factor and potential privacy issue. Can someone summarize the ChromeOS -> Linux process and pain factor?
I don't get the stats here:

- I am an ordinary sentient being (for the sake of argument... just nod)

- I am a member of an ordinary species.

according this theory one of these statements is wrong.
So they do something like this:
Let's choose a human in random - he is more probable to be from Pakistan than from Slovakia. (OK)
Now let's choose a country - now an average country like Slovakia is more probable than a country as big as Pakistan. (OK)

So if you are a human - then it is most probable that you live in a country that is more populous than the typical country. (OK)

Now they say - ok - so now instead of choosing humans let's do the same thing with sentient beings. If you are a sentient being it is more probable that you live on a planet where there are many other sentient beings rather than on a planet that there are few of them. But if you go to some random planet with sentient life - then the expected number of sentient beings there would be average.

Then it goes on that "Physically larger species will on average have lower population densities." - so most probably the random alien planet will have fewer and larger sentient beings than us.

I don't know if I buy that whole argument - but I am too lazy to write the bayesian equations to nail it down.
I think taking a step back to consider the bigger picture and your place in it is a valuable thing that more people should do when carrying on online discussions. While you may not have gotten any value from my comment, it doesn't mean other people did not.

Also your claim that my comment AT ALL implies that we should not try to better our own situation is a false inference that seems to me to indicate that your own comment is merely a knee-jerk defensive reaction to a perceived attack on your position.

And if the plight of web developers who can't negotiate higher salaries than 80-160k/yr isn't a "first world problem", then pardon me, you're right, I must not know what I'm talking about.
I've done it, it's an absolute cakewalk. No need to do crazy rooting.
I'm impressed how fast someone was able to turn this into a Unicorn :-) VCs will be stepping all over each other over this!

Seriously, some languages have broken package systems and it looks like it's not the case for JS ... in fact it's working so well they are used ad nauseam, for trivial things even.
This is to be expected from a language that is very flexible, but does not offer 'standard' ways of doing things built in, or at least offers the functionality as part of the distribution of the language libs/modules.
JS just hit puberty, and will mature ...
Microsoft silences its new A.I. bot Tay, after Twitter users teach it racism
AGPL license if anyone's curious: https://github.com/citusdata/citus/blob/master/LICENSE
Nixon advisor: We created the war on drugs to “criminalize” black people and
Best comment in the whole thread.
I asked about this last year:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9629091
I have one. Build quality is excellent! No complaints.
I have a System 76 Gazelle(https://system76.com/laptops), which I use as my travel machine. It runs Ubuntu 14.04. Very nice machine.
>Hahaha - isn't it hysterical how everyone using npm for small reusable code pieces! Aren't they morons! How stupid of people to trust their package manager to be consistent and correct and return packages they were expecting.
How stupid of people to reuse small often used functions that only do one thing well.

I don't get the supposed irony.

Beyond a certain level it is indeed stupid of them.

And the examples we've seen were all below that level.
It's from this bit [1].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOVWS7r9ADY

And to answer your question, yes.
It's probably been on their roadmap for a while, before Alexa came out. Re: Alexa/echo - think there is an opportunity for someone to manufacture cheap USB array mics for far field capture.

Still, having this paid and cloud based puts a limit to types of things where you'd use it. I will use it in my own apps for now but will swap to a OSS speech recognition library running locally as soon as one emerges that is good enough.
So it's basically amb, but with using threading instead of backtracking. So probably faster than the classic amb implementation, esp. on multiprocessor architectures, but also much more resource intensive.
The first line in the table on http://advancedlinuxprogramming.com/alp-folder/ is a link to the PDF of the full book.

http://advancedlinuxprogramming.com/alp-folder/advanced-linu...

(The size in the table is incorrect. It's 3866012 bytes, not 1273361. The md5sum is correct.)
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Thanks for exposing me to ThinApp and the rest. I took a quick look, these are Microsoft based technologies designed to run Windows apps, however conceptually I don't see much difference.

Docker is a containerization standard that relies on various Linux capabilities to isolate application runtimes (or containers if you will). On Mac and Linux it used to be achieved by running a small Linux VM in VirtualBox, but looks like this release has brought xhyve on, which is supposed to have an even smaller foot print.

HTH.
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They offer an enterprise paid version with more functionality.

"for customers with large production deployments, we also offer an enterprise edition that comes with additional functionality"
Excellent, looking forward! I really do enjoy beat poets and rebel outlaw characters so there was a lot in this article to like, but hitting against the issues you mentioned was a bit despiriting. Thanks for putting them in perspective and for the suggestions
This is the second time recently their AMS region has gone down, which is where I host my email. What a pain.
the BABA shares are the only reason Yahoo is dieing.

investors see that as an easy sacrifice to get fast money.

and everyone is naive to believe that the third biggest online advertising company in the us (same market Google and Facebook) is worth zero dollars. really?

why those kind of investors even buy shares that are not going up nor pay dividends in the first place? and why recently you heard some twelve news about those investors trying to do that to Yahoo recently all of a sudden?

it's easy money. if you can get a little dirty
>The cost of a dependency for a good package manager is zero

Only if one doesn't understand the notions of opportunity cost, code debt, and several other things besides...
We've been running CitusDB for a couple years now at CloudFlare for serving aggregated analytics to customers (cf. https://blog.cloudflare.com/scaling-out-postgresql-for-cloud...).

It's a good product, and it was even fairly easy to do a major version upgrade / cluster relocation. At least as easy as such a thing can be. :-)
The soft-touch carbon fiber finish can hang on to a smudge, but the aluminum outer shell is very smudge-resistant. It's much better than plastic.
Though the actual article suggests something less sensational, the idea reminds me of a young child. How many children hear a bad word and then repeat it because of the negative attention it gets? Just like a parent tries to teach small children to grow with the right motives and seek the right attention, we may have to get more sophisticated with our enforcement algorithms.
"Not even wrong". This entire analysis is built on reasonable statistics which are predicated on dubious and unprovable assumptions, which invalidate the entire thing.

Consider "the size of alien species". Okay... so we are extrapolating about the size of beings we know nothing about based on those beings that have come to existence in our particular situation? Assuming that the distribution of weight across animals on Earth is the same as the distribution of weight across beings in the universe is dubious.

This is a wonderful example of Brandolini's law.
It's a memset followed by a strncpy, hardly worth linking to a library for. You'd be done writing the function before you finish googling for an existing one.
The situation is much more complicated then you are making it out to be. For one, this investment in high end residential property only really benefits a select few elites, not the general population. Of course it does generate some taxes - the debate is whether this small benefit is worth it considering the long term picture.

You're using the word "investment" to make it sound like they are starting local businesses that create well-paying long term jobs, grow the economy, and contribute to the community. The truth is that these houses sit empty 11 months of the year (or more).

Lastly, guess where that profit is going to end up when they sell? Not in the Canadian economy like it would have if a purchased by a Canadian. So again, is this a net gain? It's hard to say, but don't over simplify it.
If I depend on Frobnicator 1.2 and Frobnicator-utils x.y, and that version of the utils depends on and bundles Frobnicator 1.0, then Frobnicator objects created with the utils lib may not be compatable with Frobnicator 1.2.

Moreover, if the lib has internal state, then even if its the same version it will be broken