skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The way I visualize it is thinking in terms of levers. And there are only two major levers - monetary policy and fiscal policy. Monetary policy is historically the more effective of the two at stimulating the economy. The problem is we have pulled the monetary policy almost all the way down. The only way to pull it further is negative interest rates, which is terrifying in its implications. On the fiscal policy side, pulling that lever costs in the hundreds of billions each time (e.g. TARP was ~$450 billion) and is less effective.
Core M is the "same" CPU as their server and desktop CPU's.
It's not based on the Atom line.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skylake_(microarchitecture)
My UX dev colleagues say they now skip "sketch" and "wireframe" and most of "mockup", and proceed directly to what I'll call "high-fidelity mockup". This is possible because they have fully embraced UXPin. I'll not use the term "prototype" because I limit that term to coded artifact. And on top of the speed benefits of skipping sketch and wireframe comes the fact that the development goes twice as fast because they skip "prototype".
Dealing with web content scrapers
How to break into machine learning
That's painfully not exactly wrong by itself. Its been good advice to make sure the significant other is very happy with the company, and it is often missed. If children are involved, making "family" life easier will make things better.

// I have no real idea of the history here, I'm just commenting on one rule that can be personally costly not to heed
And test them on a shell that isn't bash. Even with the --posix option bash accepts non-standard bashisms, particularly the execrable 'extension' of '>&'.
StackOverflow and the StackExchange network are completely free to read and accessible without a login. The SE sites don't require anything but an e-mail to sign up and allow you to participate pseudonymously. When using the SE sites, the feeling of it being a community effort is a fairly clear one, I think.

Quora, by its nature of focusing on the real-world reputation of its users, is much more aggressive regarding personal information, and does not feel like a community effort to the same extent (you can't edit other people's answers, etc.).
Slimjet page: http://www.slimjet.com/en/lp/java-silverlight-support-in-chr...

It allows NPAPI plugins and is based on Chromium.
Article is exactly as headline advertised, and a well-laid out write-up. Neat to come across it.
This paywalled article is just copy & paste from this answer:

https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-difference-between-a-progr...
On the Building of a PostgreSQL Cluster
Capstone Engine: The Ultimate Disassembler
And it just gets better and better from there in later slides .. so much information about the character of one person so readily available. Or would that be an ad hominem? Decisions ..
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Idea: Create a company who's explicit purpose is to create and submit billions of iterations of the same software for their auditing purposes which horrifically unreadable/obfuscated code that completely swamps whatever agency is responsible for the process, and effectively DoSes them until literally nobody can release software at all.
I think this assumption is true of every VPN provider:

If the courts or intelligence services tell them to capture a username's data, or access to specific websites from all users, they will do it.

If the choice is between keep quiet and do it, or potentially get shutdown or arrested, you have to assume that almost everyone will do as they are told.
The midrange computer dies
This is ridiculous, she lost me at:

{Dad, if you use my face in an offensive slideshow again I beg you to please at least throw me a bone and put in a more flattering picture. As a self absorbed millennial I have provided the internet with a profusion of selfies in a rainbow of sepia tones. Please choose any of those.}

This is some sort of weird public spat between a father and a daughter, it's not newsworthy or even constructive.
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At the same time, are they experienced in CRUD apps? Probably not. Solve the right problem with the right people.
Anyone remember PL/M?
Prereqs: Stats, Multivariable Calc, Linear Algebra

http://cs231n.stanford.edu/
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Well they'll require Apple/other device manufacturers to use trusted computing so only government authorised software can run on them, of course.
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Because that point is just silly, far more energy is burned on the old system making paper bills than on bitcoin; don't hear you complaining about that. If energy is such a big concern to you, why aren't you screaming to replace the old energy inefficient system with the new more energy efficient bitcoin?
> Dad, if you use my face in an offensive slideshow again I beg you to please at least throw me a bone and put in a more flattering picture. As a self absorbed millennial I have provided the internet with a profusion of selfies in a rainbow of sepia tones. Please choose any of those.

He picked an unflattering photo of his daughter and used it as a visual example of a "woman in tech" without her permission? What on earth?
>Why do young white males tend to be the ones who pick up computers, teach themselves to code, start businesses in their basements with their friends and get rich? It’s an obvious opportunity to everybody isn’t it? If you are a different race, gender, or religion… what’s your excuse? I know of very very few successful bootstrapped tech companies founded by women or blacks.

I've always wondered if the answer to this was due to the culture and class demographics. The Current crop of tech leaders came from the era where middle class boys were bought computers by their parents as it was seen as a thing for boys to be into and not girls (I think this stereotype is still prevalent but far less powerful now). Computers just were not affordable to working class folks back then. Considering the poverty most minorities families faced then and still do now, it's sadly the case that they couldn't afford computers.

I expect (and hope) that in the next 10 years we'll see the distribution of tech leaders become naturally more diverse. Not because of any activist drive but simply because these kids are much more likely to have access to the tools they were denied in the past.
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No, they also got the police to deploy to remove them from public places, which was clearly protected speech. Violence by their hired security against employees, clearly illegal, was politely ignored. They rather blatantly controlled the police in some cases.
Then read the Ubuntu doco.

* http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/wily/en/man5/systemd.ser...

* http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/wily/en/man5/systemd.uni...

* https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SystemdForUpstartUsers

* http://askubuntu.com/questions/636899/

* http://askubuntu.com/a/613814/43344
Show HN: Why I'm addicted to talking to my computer
This is pretty typical of popular press descriptions of new science and tech. Initially describe it as though it works flawlessly. Reveal flaws only later in the context of their having been dealt with. I also used to see this a lot back when I was an audiophile. A new piece of kit would be reviewed as absolutely amazing and worthy of its huge price. Then a few years later a new bit of equipment would be praised as improving on the previously reviewed one's well known flaws.
Try to do a search via the Mobile implementation. It's almost completely unusable.
We should pump the waste heat into greenhouses and grow tulips.

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulip_mania)
> More electricity is being burned to do the same amount of work.

You're assuming hashrates and electricity consumption are 1:1, ignoring improvements in efficiency.

> The number of transactions the bitcoin protocol can handle is essentially capped and completely unrelated to hash rate as the difficulty of producing a correct hash is adjusted based on the hash rate.

That is true, but one must also consider that transactions & value transfer is not necessarily 1:1 either. A transaction can carry information which refers to multiple transactions, or is a transaction for a billion dollars. So value transfer is not necessarily capped, although in practice of course it is right now.

Further, to say there's no relation isn't true, either. Transactions are not dependent, but they are related to hash rates to some extent, and by virtue of the protocol this will increasingly become so, as transactions will be the main source of income that funds hash rates, there is indeed a relation.
Agreed, when I hit back once or twice I was like crap. (I had just scrolled through every one.) So I just opened a new tab to HN, and closed that tab. Poor tab.
earth to freud
Scala native (comming soon)
The Start menu in Windows 10 can be configured in about 2-10 clicks to stay put.
Obviously the gender assumption is pretty cringeworthy in and of itself, but what I find particularly strange is how he advocates this but then turns around and complains that developers don't want to do 80-hour weeks as a regular requirement of employment. These are not mutually-reconcilable recommendations.
Offtopic: Man, these military websites are embarrassingly old looking. Where is 18F when you need 'em? :-)

https://foia.navy.mil/foia/webbas02.nsf/(vwwebpage)/home.htm...
Because lol, standards.
Welcome. Look me up if you are thinking about it.

(I imagine sterling completely getting smashed if Brexit may also make a lot of people think the same as you).

Also, there are a ton of roles in Dublin with someone with your experience.
Sites that block adblockers seem to be suffering
Not in this case. I was friends with her. I never witnessed anything disrespectful and she spoke regularly with most of the classmates. Perhaps flocked was a bad word - but let's just say it was obvious that she was getting a lot of attention initially for the fact that she was the only female.

Assuming they were being creepy or coming on hard to her because they took interest is just wrong. I think it could be intimidating for some women in a similar situation but that's normal if you're extremely outnumbered. I was offered a job at a women's fashion company once. It was a little intimidating with the sheer number of beautiful women, the different culture and the tiny tech team. I didn't take the job because they didn't have a proper budget, not because I felt women were making me uncomfortable. They weren't.

When you're around a lot of similar people, it's refreshing to work with someone with a different background. People are naturally curious. Did some talk to her because they thought she was cute? Perhaps, but that's not a crime. My point was that I don't believe male programmers are exclusive of women and programmers are merit-based people at heart. They want to work with women. There's just not many of them.

This is just my experience, but I've been in several industries and the only thing I've ever witnessed in tech was one guy who was mildly creepy with another female employee and she was friends with him. In other industries like hospitality and real estate - they are tightly controlled by men and there's a lot of obvious sexism and I've seen several sexual harassment claims. Yet, there are a lot more women in them than tech.
What Uber Gets Right About Data Science Platforms
Proof of stake has been around for decades in some form or another (Quorum based consensus was what it was originally called) Andrew Poelstra has compiled a pretty decent list of reasons why it's an uninteresting idea: https://download.wpsoftware.net/bitcoin/pos.pdf (He's created other documents on the subject)
This does actually somewhat exist now. Most modern phones/tablets/ereaders have a low power core for monitoring and sleep modes. The problem is as soon as you want to 'do' anything you need the performance of the main core. Especially anything with graphics (like eink).

The Arduino is underpowered for anything more than a supervisory role, and even those applications are tending towards Cortex-M series.
Did you actually look at the blog post? The novelty is the idea that you generate a JIT compiler from the interpreter using a few hints. Truffle does that, but Truffle is newer than PyPy.
Harriet Tubman set to replace Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill
I think the ability to copy/paste a URL to show exactly the state I'm looking at (I.E. #dropdown to see the dropdown.) Is great! But, after I scroll through a dozen, I want to hit back to go back to HN.
Here the video of a talk I gave with the slides above: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzoyRv_7fEk
You're quite right, but does it make sense to conflate objects and namespaces that way? Might it not make more sense to separate the concerns?
I absolutely hat cliffhangers, so I told myself to wait until the series is complete before reading. Is it done? Is this the last part?
Well IANAL, but I'm happy with that.

Doesn't it then bring us to where we are with all other matters - wiretaps, breaking into a home with a search warrant?

Law enforcement has to get suspicion of a crime, probable cause, a warrant or what have you and be subject to all the assorted checks and balances the justice system has evolved.

That's vastly different to having all internet activity tied to an IP/account/person in vast, ever increasing, NSA/GCHQ/lots of other databases then going on a big back trawl every time a name comes up.
> I expect (and hope) that in the next 10 years we'll see the distribution of tech leaders to become more diverse. Not because of any activist drive but simply because these kids are much more likely to have access to the tools they were denied in the past.

I don't see much hope of that as the fundamental problem hasn't changed. Lack of STEM training / degrees in pre-K / elementary school teachers and a gender problem worse than tech. We've had a lot of debates about the availability of programmable computers to lower incomes in a lot of threads.
Yes, it's a similar idea. These terms get repeated SoC used to refer to a single chip CPU, and they keep reusing the term as other components get integrated.

Anyway, I am referring to packaging like: http://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/ASIC_+... Yes, HBM also does more or less the same thing. The issues are twofold heat which is vastly less of a problem in the mobile world so with HBM it's a stack of ram chips next to a processer, with Mobil the CPU is under what might only be one RAM chip and they call it SoC.

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/04/the-pc-inside-your-ph...

Note: CPU's are already 3d with many layers depending on how you count.

Anyway after die size, heat, latency, and manufacturing costs are really the largest factors. Some PC ram chips run hot enough they really can't be stacked. You can slow them down and trade latency for total bandwidth. ed:Less of an issue with active cooling and a heat sink. However, they can call this HBM, because you can have more chips so even if each chip is slower overall you get higher speeds.

PS: Don't forget HBM is designed for a GPU/CPGPU without a large cache. CPU's have a huge cash which let's them have very different approach aka lot's of cheap but slow RAM. Benchmarks show faster ream really does not add much for a modern CPU with most workloads. You could use this for a CPU but it's harder to swap in more ram.
> Because that point is just silly, far more energy is burned on the old system making paper bills than on bitcoin;

Plus they still manage to destroy economies with hyperinflation. They're more wasteful in providing a worse product.
Ridiculous!!! It is just a honeypot. As the most notorious company in China, no one trust Qihoo360 (opera is acquired by Qihoo360). Qihoo360 is the pet and lackey of Chinese communist party. Go to hell!
I'm no fan of Walmart but they do have a research wing and open source contributions as well.
​Red Hat doubles down on OpenStack
Really interesting read, thanks for sharing!
PostgreSQL 9.6 parallel query significantly improves most TPC-H queries
It's buried in the bottom of the post, but I'm happy to see that Facebook paid a bug bounty of $10,000 for this. In the past we've seen Facebook refuse to pay bug bounties when the hacker goes beyond scope. Interesting that going beyond the usually scope of bug bounties actually discovered a latent exploit and helped Facebook. Maybe this will result in change of policies for bounty scope.
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feels like reading a script for an upcoming action based spy-movie. But I guess truth is stranger than fiction
On UNIX, the "API" is basically that everything is a file and programs are written to handle text streams. After all these years, the shell is still perfect for this.

It sounds like you want create a new language and shell in order to have something similar to Windows PowerShell which interacts .NET objects using its API. This does not fit into the Unix "API" described above. This isn't a "Next Generation UNIX Shell" but an alternative shell that suits a certain group of users who don't really understand UNIX.
The vast majority of python codebases are still in python 2, even though many of the popular framework have been ported to 3, and there's no reason for most of them to bother with the amount of work it can be to port to py3 when they're happy with py2. Whether it be devs like Dropbox or open source software like NVDA, they will stay in the world of python 2 for the years to come. The amount of customers they could get by supporting python 3 is definitely not worth the effort unless they get paid explicitly for it.

In terms of libraries, python 3 is "mostly" ready (though there are still issues with highly popular ones like wxwidgets. Or amazing tools like Pyjamas, which replicated GWT with Python instead of Java. Or Google AppEngine, which still shows no sign of moving to 3.) but large codebases outside of highly worked on web frameworks haven't moved on and there's not enough gain to justify the effort it takes to port them. The Python 3 debacle caused a lot of devs to also look at other languages for new projects. Old python 2 codebases will stay python 2, but new projects might not necessarily be python at all. The anger with Python 3 is real.

See also:
https://caremad.io/2015/04/a-year-of-pypi-downloads/
https://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/45sm94/what_are_the...

"Looking at these graphs, we can see that in the past year Python 3.x has grown from roughly 2% of the total downloads from PyPI to roughly 5-6%"

I expect things like AppEngine to deprecate Python rather than port to 3, when/if python 2 reaches EOL and not enough people gather to maintain or even evolve that old branch.

Python 3 users are a vocal bunch, but the war they're fighting is a lost one.
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So this is somewhat OT, but in reading the slides, I noticed this gem:

> Potential money is worth more than actual money.

In very, very rare circumstances, that is true. In the vast majority of cases, it's total B$. It's what company founders tell employees to exploit them, to get them to work overtime as a norm for crap normal-time pay. It's what the founders genuinely hope is true because they own so much of the company, but it rarely turns out that your shares are worth as much as the net-present-value of the delta to an average salary. At least in my experience.
citation needed. There is no limit to the energy burned to create bitcoins; it is increasing by design.

And, other digital currency implementation don't require 'mining' at all; just the paranoid ones.
Seems like a multi-tier approach is the way to go!!
Why taking credit for your teams success may be good for your mission
>I've always wondered if the answer to this was due to the culture and class demographics.

The answer is simple. Women are naturally inclined toward social fields. There are few women who want to do something highly technical and not people-oriented. Men do not have the same strong social inclination. The physiological differences between male and female affect their psychology as well as their superficial appearances; let's not kid ourselves.

These are tools called "generalizations", which means they're not universally applicable, but they are helpful for understanding the world.
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As much as moving the fashionable styling from the beginning of the development process to the middle is an improvement, it still should probably be at the end. My preferred lifecycle is:

sketch -> wireframe -> prototype -> stylish paint job
last one is coming next week.
For me, the Arduino's appeal and value is in not having an operating system, and just how directly you are dealing with the hardware. Your C code is the only thing running, and it talks directly to the pins. It's crazy easy to get started, it has a ton of potential for cool projects, but is so limited that your projects are manageable and you're forced to be creative. You only get a few K, so you get to be clever and kludgy and do whatever it takes as fast as you can make it.

I really like that bigger better tiny hobby computers are being developed, but the things you mentioned - running Linux & many different languages - don't appeal to me the same way Arduino does. Adding modern day benefits like tons of memory or 3D display means I'll be just programming, like I would at my day job developing console games. With the Arduino, on the other hand, I'm always hacking.
Blog about design; presented with a massive self-linking clickable image with no hint of content below the fold.
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Actually, the evidence is starting to show that the subsidy comes from federal government. Mining is the process of converting registered value to fungible value. The premium on fungible value comes by way of regulatory controls on drugs, gambling, capital flight, and sex workers. A little more than 50% of the bitcoin being mined on any day would appear to be allocated for use by those who need bitcoin, in these industries.
I also find it faster when a coworker requests I shift an image down, to add style="position:relative;top:10px;" to adjust an image or div down a few pixels, than to find the style sheet (one of dozens nestled in various locations) and add it where it belongs.
You sir, are a genius! I've been looking for something like this. Thank you, thank you!
Eink uses a raster mode, but with (somewhat) tri-state pixels. You can send a 'no change' to any particular pixel. The disadvantage is you still need to scan the entire screen, so it isn't really useful for changing individual pixels, but partial updates are common.

The other difference from a traditional raster display is there is no minimum refresh rate.

Eink controller chips use an addressing model and handle the partial updates for you, so the main processor sees a bare framebuffer.
It's fraudulent, even. Many of these "blockchain" companies are just writing weird crud apps, and marketing it as something else.
Sadly even the most recent one still has the private_network issue (and the missing line in hosts), it just stops during vagrant up with this error:

> sudo: unable to resolve host ubuntu-xenial

> mesg: ttyname failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device

I hope this PR (https://github.com/mitchellh/vagrant/pull/7241) gets merged because the private_network issue has been around since 15.04
Other languages don't package 1 line functions.
At the time of writing this, there seemed to be a majority of a hollow dismissal tone to most comments in the thread.
Interesting battery. Can you tell me what kind of charger you need for it?
Bad Apple on Game Boy Advance
Exactly.
As a Django dev if all someone needs is a Wordpress site, I would recommend that to them (rather than try to recreate it from scratch). No point in reinventing the wheel. Can't designers have the same sort of objectivity?
I'm still on less. Is there a memo somewhere to switch to sass?
Volkswagen to buy back 600,000 cars in framework deal over emissions scandal