skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At the very least, a first class syntax shows a different commitment level. Building a syntax into ES2015 states a definite, intended, and considered effort to deal with modules as a key part of the language moving forward.

An async implementation of `require` would still be subject to most of the same debate and complications of the "Loader" (how are module names converted to URL paths; how are URL paths deduplicated from being downloaded more than once or ran more than once; ...). You can't assume "Node-like" semantics in the browser (where it's more often more costly to walk the remote file system) and even amongst AMD solutions you'll find variations in how options are configured and how the different loaders work.

TC39 getting the syntax into ES2015 was as much a signal to WHATWG to stop kicking the "Loader" debate can down the road and actually make decisions and get things standardized as anything else. It's easy to believe that without that commitment of dedicated syntax in the language that the browsers would be a lot less incentivized, we'd still be having the Loader debate in 10 years and we'd still have increasingly subtle differences in AMD loaders and CommonJS loaders, and that nice new "async implementation of require" would continue to just be one option among many, with twelve different libraries implementing it in slightly different ways.

Personally, I think the ES2015 import/export syntax is much more aesthetically pleasing than AMD, and nicer to work with than CommonJS, but I can appreciate that there are plenty of aesthetic opinions on the subject.
Spotify co-founders threaten to move out of Sweden
doesn't save you from needing visual studio to compile stuff :(
Nice. We have a Kindle for book reading but I have been considering letter/a4 size epaper reader for music score notes for my children, the amount of paper they carry around is incredible. Too bad Amazon doesn't offer anything like this yet.
Moving data would be a bottleneck for sure. Distributing the model itself with the state of the calculation and the required samples is just too much compared to the CPU power a raspberry pi can provide.
My VW Golf has a bug where the driver's side door will be completely unresponsive after starting the ignition, with all the lights on the door being off too. After 5 to 10 seconds it will become responsive, which is a bit annoying if you're trying to open the windows to clear the damp mist on them, as you can't....

Also, if during normal routine you run through all four electric windows to close them (so passenger, driver, passenger rear, driver rear) in that order, you hear the solenoids click in a COMPLETELY different order. I am not sure if it is prioritising the messages in some way but the order that the windows "click" is not the order I press the buttons.

Also, I can get the CD player to crash.

Such minor noticeable issues make me think about the quality of the more important bits somewhat.

The breakdown on Toyota's safety code was interesting; and frightening really.
> back in the dot com boom this thing would have been held by mom and pop.

Who also should have known better. If someone doesn't understand how a company they invest in makes a profit, or what the risks to that company are, they have no business investing in it. For example, I hold agency-MBS REITs in my portfolio, but only because I'm willing to read the quarterly filings and keep an eye on news relevant to interest rates. They are absolutely not an investment I would recommend to most people who want something simple they can "set and forget."
(1) ‏صيانة تكييف مركزي الكويت هاتف 55090348‏
Hm. Which version of Powertop is this? Your output is corrupt - RC6pp is a GPU power state, the package states should all be "PC". The output I have looks like https://gist.github.com/mjg59/c753a7cb868fbbfa83e6060c4e4d0f...
Facebook explains why it cares so much about artificial intelligence
That's right. Late employees build on the shoulders of early employees. The idea that founding team members are somehow inherently less entitled to their equity doesn't make sense. Indeed, they often forgo salaries in exchange for it.

Edit: getting some downvotes. I'd like to hear why you think I'm wrong.
I think if we want to combat the racism in police departments, we have to stop coming up with phony flimsy statements like this in the news, because this gives opposition to combating racism (from police and racists) arguments to make.

Consider furthermore the impact this has on police departments' ability to actually do their jobs. What happens when police hands are tied to the point they can't effectively fight crime? Do people actually think this is going to improve the lives of people in poor high-crime neighborhoods?
So... basically because anonymous was involved in some fashion they threw the book at him? 2 years in PRISON for this seems MORE than a little silly. What do you get for graffiti? Because this is just slightly less offensive than that. A spray painted billboard can stay up for weeks before someone fixes it.
You know what they say: analyzing a joke is like dissecting a frog; nobody cares, and the frog dies.
I haven't read the report. But what can the report possibly say that will survive the "black people commit disproportionately more crime" argument? This is the argument we need to figure out how to combat. No cop is ever going to admit he did something because he's a racist, and that's really the only way to find out if one is racist or not; isn't it?
I've been using Atom for over a year and haven't had any major performance problems. Luckily for me I don't have to regularly access code files that are megabytes long but I can see why not being able to do so would be annoying.
> Racism isn't the fundamental problem - it is the lack of justice in each individual case. If police officers were actually held accountable for their improper actions (civil and criminal liability for false imprisonment, battery, lost time, etc), the racism of individual cops would hardly matter as much.

This is not realistic; we can't monitor and hold accountable all police actions. We can't even do it when there is widespread evidence of abuse.

Racism is the fundemetal cause of many of these problems; until that's dealt with, they will just keep coming back.
Do you have a reference for that? Maybe some evidence of why you consider these numbers misleading? I worked in the tax business recently and I'd say both those numbers are actually below average for out customers (who were mostly poor or middle class).
Exactly what I wondered. Not just in hiring, but in who they accept patronage from. If you have to bake a cake for a gay couple do you also have to let men ride in your car-sharing service? Not sure how that works.
Apollo, the data stack for modern apps
Sadly that is usually what happens. Something or other do not work in Linux but work in Windows with OEM drivers installed? Blame Linux even though Windows is getting help from the OEM that Linux lacks...
I'm no libertarian: there are definitely plenty of cases of market failure, where the market fails to provide enough of goods with positive societal and cultural externalities. Art history might even be one of them.

But, as pc2g4d notes, the right way to deal with that is for the government to directly stimulate demand for art history. Not to give cheap loans for students to study art history and then live the rest of their lives in debt.

Personally, I don't buy that the world needs more music and film majors. We seem to have far more music and film than we need already. I can understand why economically irrational young people might think it's fun to spend 4 years watching films, but I don't think we should be subsidizing that choice.
g2 instances has a GPU which is not compatible with the stock tensorflow, you must rebuild it from source. Do you have a workaround for that?
Code is noticeably faster than Atom on both my Linux and Windows machines.

While that's my personal experience, it matters the most to me. Makes the decision easy... for the moment.
It's not possible to eliminate unused code safely with CommonJS. require is entirely dynamic and can be used in arbitrary ways. It's impossible to analyse all such uses correctly, after all JS is Turing complete, so you're going to have to solve the halting problem first! In practice, this issue doesn't come up much, but some modules do use dynamic loading.

The same applies to module.exports, the final set of exports from a module can only be determined by executing that module. While you can spot common patterns, ultimately JS is, again, Turing complete, so the code has to be executed. In practice, this is frequently an issue as modules often use sophisticated logic to build up their exports.

So it's impossible to statically analyse all such dynamic modules, which is why the ES6 module system is static. This is a big win as it allows tree-shaking to be done with 100% safety.

Also note that the ES6 import syntax opens up future possibilities which are not possible by destructuring require, for example type annotations look set to come to JS and destructuring can't be used to import a type, because types are not values.
They had decent performance improvements in recent major releases. It's pretty good now, except for the initial boot time. Takes ages to launch it. But after that, runs smooth on my laptop.
Docker 1.11: The first OCI-compliant runtime, built on containerd
Talk to lawyer, they will have suggestions. A buyout seems a plausible outcome.

My previous company with two 50% cofounders had a provision, where in case of an unresolvable disagreement both parties would make a blind offer to buy out the other party, and the higher offer wins.
"Groupthink is a psychological phenomenon that occurs within a group of people, in which the desire for harmony or conformity in the group results in an irrational or dysfunctional decision-making outcome. Group members try to minimize conflict and reach a consensus decision without critical evaluation of alternative viewpoints, by actively suppressing dissenting viewpoints, and by isolating themselves from outside influences."[1]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groupthink
Have we ruled out the possibility that African-Americans disproportionately engage in the actions we consider an acceptable reason for deadly force (aiming a gun at, charging towards, etc. police officers)?
Brilliant, Troubled Dorothy Parker
As far as I can tell, the taxi drivers need to take people with wheelchairs, as long as you can fold up the wheelchair and it fits in the car. They aren't allowed to tell them to wait for another car if the car they have can accommodate them. But besides training, the ADA doesn't mandate that companies have wheelchair-lifting vehicles, from my searching.
TLDR; they simply didn't test their (global!) custom route announcement management software. An edge case was triggered in production, and they gee-whiz-automatically went offline. Epic fail.

PS. To the downvoters, truth hurts.
What is the percentage breakdown by race in the arrests that these sweeps produced?

What is the breakdown by race of the perpetrators of the crimes that these sweeps are aimed at?

If blacks are the arrestees in greater than 72% of these sweeps that result in arrests, would you say that blacks are being under-profiled?
What if this is actually hypersocial instead?

Given enough information, everyone could approach cold reader's peak performance at a glance with additional biography. Sort of creepy - mostly because you can use such information to manipulate people.

But like any knowledge it can be used to break ice, strike interesting conversations and broaden one's circle of acquaintances. Or it could be used to build new tribalism.

The most problematic part is being able to cut loose and erase the past. This used to be much easier in the past - you just moved far enough and most everybody didn't know what you did.
>People who are against outsourcing of jobs because it hurts workers have what appears to me to be a small view of the set of humanity that matters.

Then get rid of nation states, allow complete freedom of movement, eliminate all the world's militaries, and use the money saved to improve living and working conditions for everyone on the planet.

>There is no force more powerful for improving the quality of life and well-being of _billions_ of people than economic development

And no force more likely to destroy quality of life and well-being of everyone than predatory nationalist capitalism.

You can't have this one both ways.

Oh - and the US economy is already incredibly uncompetitive, with vast surplus capacity. Why is moving that capacity to China and India better than using the full economic capacities of both China, India, and the US?
Discussion from yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11483934
No, because you have no guarantee that you're talking to whom you think you are. Private messages still go through the central server, and Eve could be listening on Carol's connection.
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I think your comment completely misses the target of the Bill. From the staff report linked in the article:

" “During the term
of this agreement,” the contract read, “the IRS will
not compete with the Consortium in providing free,
on-line tax return preparation and filing services to
taxpayers.”10 The IRS would reaffirm its pledge to avoid
developing tax preparation services in the 2005, 2009,
2014, and 2015 Free File renewal agreements.1
...
Today, fewer than 3% of eligible taxpayers
participate in Free File, in large part because the
program’s maze of eligibility requirements and product
offerings are so difficult to navigate."

The problem being targeted is the backdoor deal where private companies (TurboTax) _prevent_ the IRS from providing free filing services. They then turn around and obscure features and promote their paid services so that less than 3% of Americans who could and should use the "Free" tier end up paying for the paid product anyway.

This legislation is two parts:

First, it requires the IRS to develop free filing services to allow Americans to file taxes without having to use third-party services. This is to reduce the requirement that Americans have to share their personal information with third-party corporations in order to pay their _Federal_ taxes. It will also bring some much needed competition to the market where products like TurboTax can't just lock features required by certain users behind paywalls by creating a Federal, free base-line.

Second, it _explicitly_ prohibits the IRS from entering into agreements with corporations which restrict itself from providing goods and services (specifically, "provide free online tax preparation or filing services"). The fact that corporations were able to do so in the past is disturbing, so this is a much needed change. The IRS is a governmental body for the people, it shouldn't be entering into agreements that benefit corporations and place burdens on the governed.

Tax code is still going to be a mess, especially for the more complicated cases, but this has nothing to do with the focus of this bill.
Have I embarrassed my supervisors by solving a problem a PhD student couldn't?
What is this? More disguised marketing for slack?

Now it claims to beat email, which is a non-proprietary and decentralized protocol that is usable by just about anyone, without costs.

Reminds me of the silly hype behind Docker.
It feels like there are two sides of this: either recognition is amazing, either is really really far.

It seems that after it generates the caption, this needs to be fed to some semantic pipe, so that a plane sitting on a book would not make sense, and try further.

After all, it really depends on the training data. If the picture of a train ticket was never seen by the NN, how could it answer correctly? How ever, it should try to reduce the answer to some more meaningfull info, for example instead of two giraffes near a tree, ideally would have said, it's a text and would attempt OCR.
You should probably look up what the ADA requires taxi companies to do.
What about private tuition? Also, every other source, other than your common sense, seems to find the opposite of what you think.

https://fee.org/articles/student-loan-subsidies-cause-almost...

http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2015/05/the-rea...

http://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2015/08/03/increased...

I agree that land use decisions are also an important contributor to the problems in the mortgage market, especially in places like the peninsula. But without federal loan support, the market could not have reached the heights that is has since ultimately people can only afford to pay so much per month. If interest rates are much lower, then you can afford a higher principle amount for the same monthly payment. In a housing market with shortages, this allows prices to be bid higher.

But of course those land use policies are also exactly the kind of first-order thinking about government policy that I decried in my post above.
Html vs. java script tricks ~#
Visual Studio Code is NOT based on Atom, it is based on Electron[1], a wrapper around V8/Node for the creation of desktop apps. Atom is also based on Electron (and the Electron project is run largely by the Atom people), but other than that the projects use entirely separate code bases, and have vastly different feature sets and performance profiles as a result.

[1]http://electron.atom.io/
Recently, on a related thread, I said "Erdogan playing to the Turkish crowd, he knows that he's not going to get that guy cencored or anything in Germany", sort of (1). Now if he succeeds at getting him processed, I'll indeed be very surprised, and sad for Germany. I hope Germans won't let such a humiliating thing happen.

(1) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11396532
No, you're got upvoted by me. XML is great and has all kinds of well-tested tools - query language, schema validation, namespaces, etc.! Not sure why people think it's worse than JSON, TOML or the likes. Less readable? Not really. Plus, more people know HTML than JSON and so it should be less easy to learn than even JSON for people who already know HTML. Maybe the only improvement would be to make it more relaxed like HTML5.
I am the author of ProxySQL, and I am very glad it helped a wonderful service like Nylas to easily scale the database infrastructure.
I will be happy to answer any question on ProxySQL.
Ha! Strange that this is a new find. I got more than one "easter egg" like this simply by writing a letter to Nintendo America back in the day, and asking for help. They'd usually write you back with suggestions like this.
I'm not sure about whether the YC documents become binding on the ownership of the company, but it would indicate that YC has had knowledge of another owner for awhile.
Yes, it gets easier and easier to correlate enough metadata and real data to find out many interesting things about many a person.
> what can the report possibly say that proves there is racism?

Systematic racism isn't a novel idea that has been impossible to substantiate, but a widespread, well-documented phenomenon in many different circumstances. Was there systematic racism when blacks weren't allowed in many restaurants and hotels? What if all black prisoners are treated one way and whites another?

EDIT: I think my response addresses your updated comment.
Your argument is similar to saying "We can't monitor and hold accountable all people's actions."

Enforcement of all crime is based on post-facto complaints. We just need to stop giving cops a free pass to break the law, and stop the justice system exporting its externalities onto innocent people in a weird reverse-lottery.
I have met many later-in-their-career, senior government folks cultivating a transition into the private sector.

They seem particularly vulnerable to this kind of catastrophe. It's like they have their favored peers who are also retiring & they get them connected to a firm by someone who also left and wants to help out other govies. They do 20 years in the military and then go work in private sector for companies that will sell to the government. So the board gets loaded up with civil servants rather than entrepreneurs.

My perception is that their career experience doesn't arm them with the ability to identify a company with inadequate runway & execution talent. They seem to think a a well connected "who-you-know" network would have enough collective wisdom to avoid this scenario, or maybe they don't really consider that failure is possible, given the funding environment of the military.
still slow like a dead fish. and bloated. unusable piece of shit, ridicolous. there are so many great toolkits out there, e.g. with qt such an editor would fly. unbelievably how stubborn people are.
Software Engineering and Lego Bricks
Note that several commenters on phoronix[0] are saying that they are not having any problems (along with the commenter on this thread[1])

[0] - https://www.phoronix.com/forums/forum/phoronix/latest-phoron...

[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11492693
This article sums up my recent experience trying to get a skill published. It was slightly frustrating to receive multiple rejection emails, but at least the responses were detailed and helpful.

While building some skills for fun, I also made some gulp tasks for locally testing skills and deploying the code to your lambda. https://github.com/tmcleroy/alexa-skills
Or how long before everybody starts wearing burqas? Islamic women are ahead of their time :)