skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just wanted to chime in and echo the recommendations for VEX. VEX Robotics Competition (VRC) is an order of magnitude less expensive than FRC and having been heavily involved in both I can tell you that the students get just as much, if not more, out of VRC. The smaller team size means that the kids can be much more hands-on as well versus FRC where you have huge teams of 50-100 kids but only 10-20 who are really involved in the engineering part. For less money in VRC, 50 kids could be split into 8-10 teams and every kid could be working on the robot.

Also, for the younger kids, VEX IQ Challenge is a great alternative to FIRST Lego League. It's even less expensive than VEX and the kids actually get to drive the robot (unlike FLL) - which is a huge plus for many kids.

Coincidentally, the VEX World Championships are coming up next week. Anyone thinking about getting into robotics competitions should check it out. They do a great live webcast of the events. Friday and Saturday (April 22-23) are the best days to watch. Webcasts and other details should be available here: http://www.robotevents.com/championship/
Could you clarify how the investment and job creation arguments fall flat?

My view is that invested money does not magically compound: While invested cash may be directly applied to financial instruments, the amount invested changes hands many times, and generates extra liquidity in the market, and will eventually, indirectly be spent on the Real Economy endeavours, where it will generate productive jobs.

If these endeavours are successful, they will generate dividends for those participating in the endeavour's risk. Ultimately, those guys who have no idea of the effects their "purely financial" investments had on the market, are indirectly paid by the real economy.

All of this of course considers a fair playing market, which does not happen in practise: Manipulators are parasitic and should be combatted.

Not being sarcastic: Please tell me where I'm wrong.
> If they had been assembled under license by a little-known NASA contracted-company in Illinois, would you still be as keen on it?

Yes, the brand doesn't hold a lot of meaning for me - in any case (no pun intended) it's not just Omega. Arguably one of the most important parts - he movement itself, wasn't actually designed by Omega. It's a Lemania Calibre 1873 (Omega branded this as Calibre 861).

Extreme temperatures, vibration, pressure, acceleration, shock and so on; the 1873 enclosed within an Omega case survived all of this with +- 5 seconds per day accuracy. Moreover, it outperformed the qualification conditions against other well-funded, experienced watch makers. For me, this is impressive.

If the same watch was built by a little-known company out of Illinois, I'd be even more impressed!

P.S. Thanks very much for the information on Soviet watches, I'm really interested to learn more about these models. Thanks again!
These aren't criminal violations... And actually they probably aren't penalties or fines either. I'm not a lawyer of any sort but I don't believe restitution == fines/penalties. All depends on verbiage in criminal court, IRS loopholes, and the details of the case.

"Big banks such as Bank of America and JPMorgan Chase will receive deductions against the corporate tax that will amount to between half and nearly three-quarters of their multibillion-dollar settlements, at least. Meanwhile, midsized banks and nonbank lenders generally get to deduct the whole shebang."

http://www.newsweek.com/2014/11/07/giant-penalties-are-giant...

and even expenses related to criminal violations can be deducted if they stemmed from your job
Poorly prepared meat leads to food poisoning or being physically inedible, so in a nearly Darwinian selection process, meat either tastes great or you're dead, therefore living people report meat tastes good. Unfortunately for veggies, as long as you put the most minimal effort into washing them, its difficult to die from eating veggies. Therefore there's no "reward" for proper preparation. It'll hit the dinner table and you won't die no matter how bad it tastes. Therefore you end up with borderline inedible food, therefore "I don't like veggies". Growing up my well intentioned mom did inhumane things to brussel sprouts, spinach, eggplant, tomatoes ... stuff that I now like, properly prepared...

The first thing paleo/keto people discover is the real world has seasons and people looking for an excuse not to change will always find the single item in the store today that's the most expensive for this current month and then Demand it be 100% of their food intake. Therefore at $11 per imported organic pound of blueberries from greenhouses in Chile, its a mathematically unaffordable diet because humans can only eat blueberries, so I'm going back to cheap hot pockets and twinkies. I admit I indulge a bit in unhealthy blueberries are in season and locally grown are selling for $1.50 per pound. Being in season only a couple weeks is kind of a natural limiter to that dietary misbehavior. Anyway that is such a stereotypical behavior that when people complain about unaffordability in social media its fun to classify them as blueberries, tenderloin steaks, bacon fiends, etc. I saw a coconut guy posting on the internet one time proving it was unaffordable compared to a diet consisting entirely of big macs, you see all kinds of weird stuff sooner or later.

One interesting point about affordability is the official government diet is pretty cheap, after all, once you die of a heart attack at age 40 and 400 pounds, your food bill tends to drop a bit. If trying to save money is the only priority, corpses don't eat much.
Possibly violating non-disparagement clause in contract and getting sued into oblivion > Hacker News karma
They have probably looked at your public facebook.
The drivers and kernel support is provided by the chip vendor.
Hey thanks for your comment. Please share if you have any valuable inputs on the original idea. It might not be clear but I am not trying to do any recruiting tech idea.
All the best with your search
I've taken a couple of courses and paid for one. The reason I paid it was simple - I loved the course, wanted to make a clear commitment that I was going to finish this one (I am poor with finishing projects :/).

The $49 for most courses was something which I could afford and it helped in serving as additional motivation. The reward at the end of it all felt good as well!
What's tortured about it? "V engine" seems to be a perfectly acceptable term of art: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V_engine
Got an original Broad arrow to trade? ;-)
Apple reportedly working with Chinese vendor Inspur to build data center inhouse
GS cracks down hard on leaks. There's a fake Twitter account called GSElevator which pretends to be tweets of things over-heard in the elevator at Goldman Sachs. Goldman has since banned talking in elevators. They don't play.
While this data has some really neat aspects to it I think they miss some interesting observations, this is why I wish people would release their data set more often.

How do they define unusually common? I ask this because there's an interesting pattern I think you can start to see emerge in the towns with lower populations. As you go down the list it looks like cheaper foreign cars are more "unusually popular". I doubt this is a function of where they're located or culture but I would guess it has more to do with median household income.

It would be even more interesting to map where each car is serviced and see if you could determine where the most affluent communities are. Or maybe you could use property values coupled with vehicle values to see if financially responsible people tend to live in one community or another. You could then use this data to affect how you advertise in one area or another. Some areas you may want to market as "A quick affordable, mechanic right at your finger tips." and in others you may want to market it as "Having your own personal mechanic that caters to you." Just throwing that out there.
I know the integration was a little poor. A number of our testers did complain about that. But yea it was the quickest option when it came to building the prototype! Will definitely do a better job in the next iteration.
I'd kill for one of those UTF-8 shirts.

http://www.openbsd.org/images/hackathons/u2k15.gif
John Carmack's BAFTA Introduction, Speech and Interview [video]
The former head of GS was US Treasury Secretary during the time these offenses took place. The former NY FRB (during the time these offenses took place) head was US Treasury Secretary in the immediate aftermath and beginning of investigations. The current US Treasury Secretary bet against MBS at Citigroup, which required a massive taxpayer bailout to survive.

When you can pull all the strings, you can do as you please.
* was forced to receive
Intro is OK but most people on HN will be aware of its contents:

Speech starts at 4:10, interview at 7:20
Who Was Ty Cobb? The History We Know That's Wrong
And both my credit cards show real time credit score numbers from the one of the services. It's not perfect, but if the number radically changes that should be a red flag.
Ditto. I hate when that happens, so upvoted as well
NVLink is similar to a higher-bandwidth PCIe connection, except that multiple GPUs can be connected with it. It's primarily useful for very large convnets, which use a lot of memory and can be bandwidth-limited. It doesn't require any particular modifications to a model or framework to take advantage of it.

CAPI is much more flexible and interesting. It allows a CAPI-capable connected device access to a process's virtual memory. Essentially, you can extend the CPU's capabilities with CAPI. Usually this would be an FPGA (and the utility of FPGAs for machine learning is very much a research topic), but I could easily see a DSP being useful for voice recognition. GPUs can take advantage of it too, but ML work is usually just offloaded entirely to the GPU.

CAPI is very very cool and designed by some very smart people. I'm excited what people will do with CAPI and FPGAs.
SaaB (Swedish as a Business)
Unclear why you believe that a major software project would not be able to find a sponsor for a bug bounty; in fact, many major projects already have bug bounty sponsors.

Also, why would it be strange to suggest talking to someone other than myself?
Well, yes, it's probably a losing battle in terms of winning the hearts and minds of this clique of prep boys. You probably aren't going to do that. (You might win with one or two, but probably not the group.)

It's one you need to fight? I'm not saying you're wrong, but I would suggest at least thinking twice. You are going to take some hits in that process, at least emotionally and perhaps professionally. You need to be honest with yourself about whether you are able to take those hits. (On the other hand, you're already taking emotional hits, so maybe doing nothing is not an option for you.)

Do you feel you need to fight this to keep other people from going through what you're going through? You can do it; employment law is firmly on your side. (IANAL, though.) In fact, I'm pretty sure that Oracle has HR policy that is also on your side. But I'd caution you to be careful about how much of your emotional energy you invest in a fight like this. You may decide you need to fight it, but even winning could look like losing. Those people aren't likely to become your friends after a lecture from HR. They may stop the comments, but become more coldly hostile toward you, maybe even passively trying to undermine you.

You can make them stop the behavior. You can't make them grow up and treat you like humans should treat each other.

Do you need to fight this? I can't tell you, but be realistic about what fighting is likely to get you.
Wow, that's amazing. I need to check it out (even if it's a completely different version now).
I don't believe it is quite that simple.

Suppose you're a gay man living in Yemen. I do not accept any definition of "right" or morality that would compel me to disclose that information.
Yes, it was "baked in":

> The bank already provisioned for most of the charges. Goldman set aside $1.95 billion for legal and litigation expenses in the fourth quarter, and $4.01 billion for all of 2015, more than double the totals for the two previous years combined.

In other words, Goldman normally spends about 1 billion dollars a year fighting and/or settling lawsuits. This year they spent 4. That's elect-a-president money, a couple bucks for every person in the US, or a few hundred for every likely voter in a swing state. Normal intuitions about money simply don't apply at this scale.
In the article it says GS had previously provisioned about enough money to pay these damages.
Seems like the core complaint is with subsidies for electric vehicles.

I can see where he's coming from... 'course, without subsidies, I doubt wind and solar would be taking off the way they are, now, as those subsidies allowed economies of scale to develop which have led to significantly reduced costs. Sometimes government needs to subsidize technology in order to help it take off (and that includes the Internet, which allowed the author to broadcast their post to the world).

This also ignores the fact that existing gas powered vehicles are heavily subsidized thanks to a) subsidies to the petroleum industry, and b) negative externalities. So there's a bit of hypocrisy, here.
Middle-aged female with a husband and children. Practical, but laid-back. Admittedly, she's coming from a job with an overload of work, iterating on a kind of boring, mature product. At the new employer, she's involved with some cool, new stuff, big enough that I saw it on a tech news site online before she told me about the release. She's been there about a year so far.
Tesla issues Model-X recall for 3rd-row seats
> I really don't like this imperative style. You're responding to a stranger who has not said nothing offensive in his comment.

You're projecting your needs on those of a complete stranger. That's going to get some folks hot under the T-shirt.

> I recall saying useful.

You know what "advanced 3D gaming" also means? It means being able to broaden one's horizons via virtual tourism (and if you think I'm reaching, go use a Vive) without paying tens of thousands of dollars t go be there in person. You know what local speech recognition and AI processing means? It means being able to do all that cool shit Google does without exposing yourself to risk.

These might not be things that are useful to you. They are useful to others. You're projecting, and you're kind of being a jerk about it, and that's why you got the response you did.

Oh, and while we're at it: 3D unambiguously and without question is "every-day personal computer use," and higher-end audio would be if people actually had the hardware for it. Everyone plays video games now. You might blurf from your very, very high horse that that's not useful, but literally tens of millions of people derive value from that right now and that number's only going to go up.

Please don't be That Guy.
Technically "no" the SEO goals for HN would appear to be unaffected by the choice :-).

And in this case its actually a good thing. If you scroll through the /new pages as I do you will see that a lot of people try to use HN like Reddit as an SEO tool to get more views to their web site. That can be facilitated by a link baity headline cum URI which gets indexed with the keywords of interest of the day.

By simply putting 'itemid' in the link text HN gives very little "link love" to keywords and so is not as easily exploited by "digital presence" folks (aka people who try to SEO their client's sites or products).
Good to know! Thanks.

I may have observed this from a non-SF angle, but based on my own experience health, public and manufacturing verticals have the slowest rate of tech adoption. Partly due to aging staff and bucket loads of regulations.
We're at the point we need to run trials to confirm that nothing we are doing is dangerous, and that it shows promise of some kind (Phase I and II trials). The problem is a large scale study using EEGs is rarely, if ever done.

The website is just kind of there, we haven't updated it in a year. We have over 50 people willing to participate and pay to be in a trial. We just need an initial, relatively small investment to purchase a few EEGs, hence we applied to YC.
That's an excellent loan isn't it. A home loan usually ends up in twice the price being paid back over the length of the loan.
I can think of a couple of impacts:

- Shorter urls are easier to copy and share.

+ Keywords in the url may increase search engine rank.

+ Full title in the url helps readers know what they're clicking.

There are advantages to having the full title in the url for both SEM and readers. However, as others mention, HN wasn't designed for SEM and contains no ads to profit from it.
> large developer community is super important ... solid, reliable kernel with open source drivers is far from easy.

I agree -- I think a corollary is that a larger installed base of users will yield overall better quality.

If you're using a very small subset of the accessory features, you might find that this is a good value. I've had good luck with ODROID XU3 but I only use it for ssh-ing and building/testing code.

The RPi is often worth the additional money for the quality and community benefits.
I always assume Dean Kamen is somewhat scammy. I'll admit some of this comes from a bias that I am very SV focused, and he's based out of New Hampshire (not exactly known as a research hub).

But most of the scammy vibe I get from him, is there is just too much "innovation" for one man. Yeah, maybe in the olden days you could invent across fields, not really true these days. getting one thing to market is a very hard task these days.

Sterling engine? yeah maybe. all these other random projects that never seem to get off the ground? I guess that's innovation.

My guess is that he's got one or two giant money makers in a regulated market (he's probably got some medical device just raking in the loot) and then he uses that money to create a little workshop to tinker around in. most of that stuff is probably very non-viable economically.

But his motivation to do things for prosthetics for soldiers is very admirable. And I am sure the govt covers his costs on those projects.
Those change over time so Facebook exposes more of your information you meant to keep hidden.

I have to check my Facebook every few months to find out what sort of content is now visible to a new group of people that was hidden by me in the past.
new Kindle named Kindle Oasis, battery cover etc.
Yes, very hard to justify when a high-end 4-core Xeon outperforms on some benchmarks[0] and costs half as much or less. Not to mention vastly mature open source floating point, compiler, etc, support. As well as existing (invalid, but still) programs that assume x86isms.

[0]: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=talos-wo...
Here's a double-blind test of modern vs Strad violins:

http://www.thestrad.com/cpt-latests/blind-tested-soloists-un...

(spoiler alert: a modern violin won)
Hi lettergram

This is an awesome effort. Just wondering how this compares with something like Joyable?
If she didn't qualify her comment with the statement about often voting libertarian, you'd have a point. But the political spectrum she fits into is currently covered by the Libertarian (big-L) and Republican parties (specifically, a minority libertarian portion of the Republican Party). A pro-life position would push someone back towards the Republican party, along with the fact that the Libertarian Party isn't going to win many major elections any time soon (maybe if Trump gets the nomination and the Republican party finally fractures?).
MS Python: How to deal with the pain of “unable to find vcvarsall.bat”
And for the record: The cheese slicers sold at IKEA are horrible, slicing way too thick slices.
Worth noting: $15+7 units are sold out and the $19+7, $29+7 units are "Currently Scheduled to Ship by May 2016 – May ship earlier but not later."
Yes, there was also a big scandal when a state owned cooperative was sold by our corrupt minister of finance several years ago, but that doesn't mean cooperatives are a bad idea; it probably just means that government-owned cooperatives should be avoided. Ideally the cooperative should be fully owned by the tenants, so nobody can go and sell it off (however, I am not sure how exactly that would work from a financial / legal perspective)
I wonder if that could just be poor quality OpenCL implementations on CPUs rather than an inherent limitation of OpenCL?
>I wanted to get laid (and I'm prepared to admit I was shallow enough to want to do this on occasion)

Are you 'shallow' when you eat when hungry, drink when thirsty, sleep when tired?
The original paper is here: https://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=2513561

I'm kind of wondering if the NYT reporter actually read it. From the article: differences in life expectancy for individuals in the lowest income quartile were significantly correlated with health behaviors such as smoking (r = −0.69, P < .001), but were not significantly correlated with access to medical care, physical environmental factors, income inequality, or labor market conditions.

Other factors which had no effect include residential segregation, health insurance, and unemployment.

Contrast this with the NYT: "New York is a city with some of the worst income inequality in the country." "We should really be thinking about how do we build up the public health infrastructure."
There's strong social pressure enforcing a first-come, first-serve rule on seats and standing room. Seats are only surrendered for the pregnant or disabled, and standing room is only surrendered if a child pushed his way onto a train but his parent or guardian didn't quite make it.

In other cities, I've seen people ask for spots on an otherwise full bus or train because they were running late. That would be unheard of in a NYC subway.
Iirc, obesity statistics are about equal between the poorest parts of NYC and the national average.

Sedentary, isolating suburbia is killing us all.
You do need volatile (or equivalent) to instruct the compiler not to optimize away an access/write. Locked read/write intrinsics will already be annotated such that they don't get optimized.
I think the flaw in the analogy is that we as a society have had the chance to openly debate things like attorney-client privilege. We understand that we have a legal system in which guilty people may enjoy protection, and we understand the reasons for it. At the very least, the fact of the matter is public knowledge. That's not the case for kinds of tax-avoidance and general shadiness being revealed in the Panama Papers.
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3 tbsp sour cream is one gram of tasty carb. Dairy isn't very paleo but I'll indulge sometimes.

1/4 cup of guacamole (depending what you added) is about 4 grams of carbs, probably affordable.

Both are about 100 calories.
/b/ is actually educational when it comes to showing people the really bad face of the internet.
Don't document. Automate
Understanding Libertarians
I tried to focus on finding someone in my 20's and 30's and couldn't find anyone and now I'm in my 40's and I just give up. It's too time consuming etc. I've come to the realization that most likely there isn't anyone for me and my life would have been much better if I had focused completely work and not bothered with dating.