skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Number of employees as a metric for dysfunction? Why not number of court injunctions? Number of union strikes?

I mean, if we're getting serious, we could write a dysfunction function, D = dysfunctional points:

D = (points for threat posed by dysfunctional government)
+ 4*(points for direct environmental harm done by company)
+ 2*(points for environmental harm caused by subcontractors)
+ (points for each lobbying dollar spent)
+ 2*(points for frivolous or non-FRAND patent lawsuits)
+ 10*(points for fighting against a free and open internet)
+ (points for trying to track users / violate privacy)
+ 10*(points for getting hacked, releasing user's private data)

etc.
H1B use is up, though.

http://dailycaller.com/2016/04/19/intel-lays-off-12000-peopl...
Guess they should have kept going with StrongARM/XScale. They could've had a mature, trusted product line by now.
One of the things mentioned in the story is that the "period of [staff] growth includes its two largest acquisitions, McAfee in 2011 and Altera last year".

I'd assume these acquisitions added to revenues.....
What would be the grounds for a lawsuit about either of those things?
> Promotions are by definition a form of publicity or advertisement

There it is. People are pissed off that an ad is being disguised as normal Hacker News post.
Combining one of these nudity trained classifiers with a project like neural-style (https://github.com/jcjohnson/neural-style) could create some serious mischief.
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It does (add ?w=1 to the query parameters), but this is a file containing a diff, not a GitHub diff.
That's very nice. It reminds me of my own https://github.com/fiatjaf/pgjson, but of course yours is bigger, seems much more feature-complete and battle-tested. I think I'm going to use it for something and see how it goes.

Is there a list of people using it somewhere? Is someone using it for serious things?
I think a vague awareness has seeped through the walls of Cupertino now that the App Store has turned into the software equivalent of grey goo.

I wouldn't be surprised to see an announcement of a big clear out at WWDC - if not this year, then certainly next.
Do wonder if you would have seen that issue if it was another SSD.

Thing about spinning platters is that it takes a fair bit of initial juice to get them spinning. Thats why some USB HDDs come with y cables to get those few extra miliamps from the second port.
I do apologize and it turns out my basis for this thread is wrong anyways. I can't delete but please down vote/flag as needed.
So are we now shifting yuppie to mean a young person with the audacity not to be broke? Most millennials are apparently lazy shits, and we need to rescusitate "yuppie" to help put a finger on why we hate the rest of them.

It now stands for Young Un-Poor
I've used it about 3 months ago and it didn't feel so buggy. Quite stable and nice, BUT not totally stable, I'm afraid :(
> companies like Tesla, Netflix, anything with a super high P/E is going to be taken out back and shot

Not that I disagree with you, but I believe a contrarian viewpoint would be something along the lines of "We are currently in the midst of an economic revolution as increasingly large swathes of activity are digitized and lingering mechanical/human processes are computerized. Companies likely to be successful in this new economy are unlikely to be the same ones which were successful in the old."

(To which the obvious rebuttal is probably "People are always saying things are about to be different, and they're usually wrong.")
Don't need systemd to boot fast. Just be fugal with what you start.

Linux distros are heading into Windows-ville in that sense, firing up all manner of daemons just in case.
Since you're a user, I'm going to ask: what do you think as Postgrest with its UI working as a standalone app for boring data management and that kind of stuff? The case I have in mind is one in which a small company wants to get some data into the computer, for no specific reason, and wants to pay for an expensive software. Postgrest for the rescue! Or isn't it a good idea? (I have never used it aside from the demo)
You ate correct of course. Five eyes is not a firewall. Tapping into fibre optics, spying on civilian satellite communications, and keeping tabs on everyone's phone calls, emails and web browsing s not a firewall either.

But it is an invalid comparison snce it isn't the GFW that is gettng people killed, it's the packet inspection and traffic monitoring.
Doesn't every email "she" sends say "x.ai – artificial intelligence that schedules meetings"?
It bugs me that nearly all chrome extensions require "Read and change all your data on the websites you visit". No thanks.
Last I checked they were the #1 sponsor for EEs/Computer Engineers. It's appalling that Congress looks the other way when abuse is clearly evident.
It's important to distinguish "a bad thing for the economy in general" from "a bad thing for an individual's share of the economy". Job loss without a corresponding drop in production is a good things for the economy as a whole - it's getting what's demanded more efficiently. It's terrible for the unemployed individuals in question, since they lost the leverage they were using to extract a larger share of the total economic output.
no, they're just data being passed in. at least thats what it sounds like to me.

obviously this data has ways to manipulate the world, because an app that did nothing would be pointless. but it's no different than any other param.

what would be bad, which is pretty much the opposite of this situation, is if you had global resources that werent passed in as params and caused side affects and you had to access a global variable to get to it (because it wasn't passed in).
I just realized my version of accessible is in fact... Inaccessible. Sorry, yes the math needed is moderate.
Always nice to see Tcl/Tk get attention, it's a language I've often found quite useful. Seems like I'd heard of "L" before in connection with Tcl/Tk, but not sure it was the same thing as Little.

Certainly seems it could be a good alternative, a quick look at the syntax makes me think of it like a kind of typed Javascript. The ability to tap into the underlying language, e.g., event loop, Tk UI, coroutines, should be an advantage.

There probably is a way to install Little when TclTk 8.6 (and extensions) are already installed (there's a warning about trashing the pre-installed binaries), and not have problems due to moving or replacing existing libraries that applications depend on finding in established locations.
Holy crap, I didn't even realize that! Author fooled me. :)
>I think OP was categorising those who will download 100mb+ apps without 10GB mobile plan without realising what they do as idiots. Not everyone with low caps.

Exactly!
> They knew they'd use it to torture? I highly doubt that.

Well them they've been living under a rock. It's been officially banned for 17 years, and there's literally a wikipedia article about it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persecution_of_Falun_Gong
Yes, of course. Don't you see buildings in flames and people dying everywhere? You just don't have anything to compare. The fire department is just there and it is the nature of things.

Since I'm not a fire specialist, let's look at the police department: you will agree with me that the police is corrupt and incapable of arresting anyone, they're just a bunch of lazy guys!

Hear this podcast: http://tomwoods.com/podcast/ep-597-can-the-private-sector-pr...
I think that would make for a very fun research project, especially if a memory-safe language like Rust were used.

In addition to your examples of Quercus and HHVM, someone is currently working on compiling PHP to .NET: http://www.peachpie.io

I'm not aware of any security audits on any of these efforts.
I apologize, I misunderstood the situation (my own fault). I disagree that Cisco is doing anything wrong in helping China against such groups (yes I realise the implications of that) but I understand how people may very correctly disagree and such politics aren't for HN and I shouldn't have bought it up.
Microsoft, being the single biggest supplier of desktop operating systems, are holding back interoperability by not supporting file systems that are freely implementable on other platforms.

Supposedly one reason Google do not have SD slots on their Nexus devices is to avoid getting into a patent quarrel with Microsoft regarding FAT.
The history of peer review, and how it was troubled from the start
Grafting islets onto kidneys was being trialled in rats a decade ago. It pains me to see how slowly medical science progresses.
You have to buy it separately. But it does let you use a monitor, charge and use a USB device at the same time. It does everything I need.
I will give $20 USD to the first person to set this up and run Donald Trump through it.
The Thunderbolt display wouldn't work anyway since they decided to not support Thunderbolt. It would require an additional controller and power for it.
> “It’s acknowledging the reality that it’s a single-digit growth world,”

Oh, the horror.
"researchers have designed a material that can be used to encapsulate human islet cells" – http://news.mit.edu/2016/pancreatic-cells-diabetes-treatment...
Then you probably did not know she's more attractive in the full version ;)
Cool. A vim plugin and typescript type annotation support and I'd totally use it.
Interesting, and probably very true.

Most email deletion policies are to protect companies from after-the-fact lawsuits. :-)
I definitely could get used to the Macbook, but they need to bring out a 14 inch version in 2017, with the same thin bezels that makes its footprint as large as the a 13 inch MBA. The battery life will go up, space for a bigger keyboard, and there'll be space for a second USB port or even a third. All of that, at the current price (with the current price dropping for the 12 inch by $200), 720p cam and a new and improved 2017 processor, is a really decent package I'd be happy to buy, and good value if you can live with the depth of the keyboard. But right now, no way I'd buy the MB. That should be possible, 2 years after the MB 12', in 2017. Who knows.

I'm mostly reminded of the MBA when it first came out. It was $1800 back then, and that was with some pretty shitty options. e.g. you had a regular HD, if you wanted an SSD it was $1k extra, or $2.8k in total, and you'd only have a 64gb SSD. And if you wanted a CPU upgrade (because the MBA was slower than the regular Macbook), you'd $300 extra, or $3.1k total, and it was still slower btw. And look how far the MBA has come!

I think I'm really going to like the MB, but usually first gen just isn't good value. Today? Well we've got a MBA and MBP at home, no way I'm getting the MB or trading with it. Give it 1-2 generations though and I'm sure that'll change for me.
That's not what antitrust laws are about.

See here: https://www.quora.com/Why-was-Microsoft-punished-for-violati...
Shouldn't be much different. In either case you have no idea what the external person/AI will do with your data.
The realities of living as an independent contractor
Yavalath, Board Game Designed by a Computer (2013)
It's a meta study of the available literature, so I would put more weight behind it than a normal study. However I am not a MD.

As to doctors listening to studies, IMO the good ones listen to meta studies. And specialists I have spoken with try and keep up with their area. Granted, there are only so many hours in the day, but there is also a fairly limited number of new drugs every year.

PS: The FDA has only approved ~1,500 novel drugs in it's history. That's a lot but many of them are fairly irrelevant to most doctors.
I switched to a 12" X series ThinkPad 5 years ago, coming from 15"+ laptops.

It's actually great. Instead of trying to fit so much, I just focus on the task at hand. No doubt, in-editor docs/autocomplete help a lot. Plus I stopped doing web work which has been a huge boon overall. Note I started with a 1280x800 but now all screens are 1080p or other 16:9. That ratio is the real killer.

It also provided incentive to get a proper tiling window manager.
Hand rolled assembly I am sure.
> so I recognized that madness immediately.

It's just bizarro lisp without the parentheses.
I stumbled onto this article while researching best practices with mobile app authentication. I'd love to find more information about how other popular mobile apps perform authentication.

For example, I believe Twitter was discovered to be storing the client_secret in their app which resulted in anyone being able to interact with official twitter APIs.
Why would "computers become more like the AI in the movie ex machina"? What are you basing that on? Are you knowledgable about how the field of AI is progressing or how these bots function? Do be careful to not confuse fiction with reality.
How does that work? If I have a meager income I'm not buying an iPhone or a desirable target for ads from Instagram.
She had run out of money to pay people with, yet kept them in the dark about it and had them continue coming to work.
There's a lot of folklore about how active funds consistently under perform passive funds, but that's only in aggregate.

If you aggregate a few active funds they will be a good proxy for the index, which after fees, will have less returns than buying the index.

There is dependence in active fund returns, a good fund will consistently be a good fund, and a bad fund will consistently be a bad. You also have selection bias, because the best funds do not tell the public they exist, while the worst prey on public money to exist.

From the public's point of view, of course active funds are all bad. From those in active fund management we gain nothing from correcting them.

Journalists don't care for the truth and we don't care for their falsehoods.
Now that spdustin's post is the top post, that's pretty confusing...
And it then needs to be explicitly requested which usually means bypassing the cache to avoid any delayed writes.

But even then hotswap was never meant to ensure data consistency it just allows the controller to reinitialize new disks without a full reset.
Maybe they started with hstore and replaced that over time.
Don't worry. For BI to occur, the kings will first fall. Remember, they chose this course, and will follow it until the end-- they always do.
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Same here, got 11%-24% slower in most regions, and only 3% faster in US-EAST-1. Sao Paulo got 60% faster, though.

Regardless of my results, I've gotta hand it to Amazon on a really kickass speed comparison page. That's a great user experience. It immediately tells me whether I should be using this or not from my particular corporate network without requiring me to waste a day or so trying it out.
That negative reinforcement yields good results though.
Common LISP is a bit weird because its type system was originally designed primarily as a way to speed up the executables (by letting the compiler aggressively optimize memory representation and remove runtime checks).

Nowadays that kind of efficiency isn't as big of a deal as it used to be and people tend to go more towards the angle of using the type system for error detection but I still can't shake that feeling that CL's type system feels a bit off when you compare it to other modern type systems.

(this is no excuse to not at least cite Common LISP though)
I'd eat my hat if you could produce a customer who departs over not receiving a $10 coupon.
Offense intended. You sound like you hate poor people and you every obviously do not understand what it means to be poor.
How to use ADHD to your advantage and improve your life
Inverted Calvinism isn't really Calvinism though, is it?
Interestingly enough, I doubt any of the GPUs actually has even 128 physical independent cores (cuda cores are not actual cores).
99% of the effort is executing 50 tracking/analytics sites' JS, with most sites also including invisible flash applets somewhere on the page
How do they detect invalid or cards with no balance? Seems you have to round trip to the bank at least once or you would be no better off than checks.
I'm just saying, it's funny to think once computer have "feelings" and approach human level, the ones trained to do this, are the lucky ones. And, if the world is a simulation, maybe a very similair algo was once programmed in us.
It's probably doable, but also note how they say there will be a performance cost at runtime and it will be everywhere. Like I said, julia is cheating right now with the speed they are achieving while having multi-methods. It can be done, but they will loose their shiny performance numbers, or (for example) have to check to see if you need to recompile their entire standard library when you overload + while not crashing currently executing code. They are playing a shell game with the dynamic calls, and taking up large amounts of memory because of it, this will take up even more memory. And is another reason why Julia is not good for any large code base or doing anything but what the language was designed for.
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The Airtable <embed> [0] containing the legal documents do not seem to comply with EU privacy laws; you will not even have the chance to learn that unless you have DNT enabled in your browser.

This is for US residents and visa-holders creating a US-based corporation doing business primarily in the US. If the majority of your income is generated outside the US (even Canada or Mexico) this probably won't help you too much.

Nothing within the article applies or helps EU or Asia-based startups.

[0] https://airtable.com/shrOQ3Gf4Hs3Gvvvc/tblbXrHGAKizU1U4P/viw...
You talk as if sophisticated investors can't read a balance sheet or don't understand buybacks.
No, it isn't. The HN post is about CI being more affordable thanks to DO. And with Gitlab.com, it's free, can't get much affordable than that.
There's "math knowledge" and then there's "math knowledge". I'm still learning the beginner stuff but so far all that it seems to need is basic calculus (ie. "do you understand what a gradient is and how to calculate one numerically?") and some linear algebra ("do you know what matrices are and how to multiply them together?")
At the time, the comments page was filled with venting about existing DO customers getting the $10 shaft.
Why not just send in the taxes as you receive payment? Like salaried people do?
Welcome to the Series B crunch
While this sounds great, I was just given a debit card with a chip in it. While extra protection is afforded at terminals built for cards with chips, I still only use the magnetic strip on my card at the 90%+ of terminals that are not built for chipped-cards.
I think I'm ruined... I got used to a quad-27" monitor desktop with a full-sized mechanical keyboard and a nice wireless mouse. Going back to a single screen, weird laptop keyboard, and touchpad is excruciating
i hate to admit it, but you're right, its much easier now. i am on about 7 "teams" and Xcode handles it really well - provided i only ever use the one machine.
That's what happens when you add more money to the system. It flows to highly liquid assets first.
When you think about it, either 64GB iPhone is overpriced or the 32GB is underpriced, or both.

Possibly, the people buying the 64GB iPhone for slightly more than they should are actually subsidising the people getting the 32GB for less than otherwise.
I believe you just called Rule 34 on The Thing. :S
With the Economist leading on the qualities of Autism in its latest issue, maybe it is time to also consider ADHD as a talent, not as something to medicate. The article may be silly, but I consider AD(H)D a superpower, yet as anyone with ADHD knows there's lots of Kryptonite around.
Show HN: Manygolf, massively multiplayer Desert Golfing in a browser
FYI, the above response was related to the below comments about existing DO customers getting screwed out of a $10 promotion, one that wasn't even featured prominently on the Gitlab site. I wanted to show my support for DO and Gitlab here, and thought it best to do so as a new top level comment. I honestly didn't consider that my comment would end up above the others.
Can you try again and post a screenshot of your results?
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Jail is an extreme punishment that should be reserved for very serious offenses. In this country, we are conditioned to think of it as no big deal. No one bats an eye if someone sits in jails for months or years without being proven guilty. If you are eventually convicted, you get credit for the time you Sat in jail as an innocent. You were being punished although you were innocent. Yet people will recite that in America you are innocent until proven guilty. What good is your innocence if you are being punished. Land of the free with the most people in prison. All men are created equal in a nation built by slaves.

The only folks who know what the criminal justice system is like are those who have been through it. People have been screaming from the mountain tops that the system is screwed up, but as long as the folks being locked up don't look like the majority, the majority is happy to turn a blind eye. As long as the neighborhoods that poli e drive around all day looking to lock people in cages don't look like the majority's, the majority doesn't care.
It felt wordy to me. Like the author was afraid to repeat any word (besides yuppie) while striving for a formal sounding analysis. Very painful to read.
The post doesn't live up to its title. The title is profound.
It starts slowly, I got half way through only. I didn't finish watching it. Apparently there are some interesting twists at the end, as I found out now I am intrigued. Might have to get back into it.
The implication of "amateur hour" is different from "amateur".
Got it.

I'm wondering what this performance cost will be and if significant, can all that brainpower at MIT etc really not find a way to mitigate it?

This is a practical question for me because I'm considering Julia for a project and my personal data language.

This is the upcoming python alternative ecosystem, also with multi dispatch:

https://github.com/libdynd/libdynd
https://github.com/numba/numba
https://github.com/blaze/blaze
It's really not. Maybe for you it is, but no, not in general... 4gb is working just fine, yes you can browse, have netflix open, your photos app and some music in the background while you're primarily working on a paper with a few PDFs on a few screens. My gf is on her MBA 4gb, no issues with the above (and she has a LOT more crap open than me, she never closes... at least until I showed her what it does to her cycles and what that means) I' m on a rMBP 8gb, similar experience. Running multiple VMs is not the norm.
Fair enough, but the problem wasn't that it's possible it's that it's automatic.

you can still choose to download 100mb+ updates, they're just not applied automatically. (unless I'm mistaken).

and how it happened was that it was unlimited for a while, but they realised if they all just stick together they can charge for data caps. :\
PBMs recently seem to be getting dirtier. I would hope there are enough angry people to effect change after this debacle goes down.
It's been like that since the last crash.