skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you're that low-budget why would you not just size the cavity to match a commercial microwave oven magnetron?
No problem! I'm glad you found some value from it.
I don't think 2GB of RAM is common anymore (it is not even possible with DDR4 I think). Most low end laptops now ship with at least 4GB.
Morton Prince and the Boston Revolution in Psychotherapy (2011)
Thanks for this, actually. I'm not sure I love the term "propaganda" used on puff pieces because of its denotation (I think it's a little much and yeah I'm not disagreeing that you sounded a little "butthurt"), but I'm very glad that you rewrote the essay into a more easily read, more accessible, more neutral format.

I wish internet-based journalism promoted writing like your rewrite. It's too bad neutral writing that isn't flamebait doesn't gather attention.

(And this would have gotten way more attention here if you omitted the "butthurt" part from the beginning. HN readers love it when you're nice to other people.)
isn't infowars a crackpot site?
Apple delays earnings for Bill Campbell memorial
I agree. What I want to to is ethical because I need to do it. What other people is unethical because I don't need it.
Which steps in particular gave you trouble? I definitely skipped over some details. I was trying to balance keeping the video short but informative.
Touching Story About a Father and Son's Relationship with Video Games
EWD 340: The humble programmer [pdf]
Hold on, evolution stopped being the driving force for human development a long time ago.

The question you should be asking is how we can accept that so many people are unable to save themselves because of actions we (developed world) have taken. Both recently and in the past.
Words well spoken. But that fool article did spawn this very interesting and enlightening discussion, so credit must be given for that.
I understand that people of Asian descent are overrepresented by a factor of 5.3x at Google and that people of European descent are underrepresented by a factor of 0.87x at Google, but I think the author goes too far by attributing this to malice on behalf of the Asians. Clearly asians could be doing more for the rest of us, but I don't follow the authors subtle undertone that this is their fault. What do you guys think?
Guess what - my 5 series bmmw just won't open a trunk becaus there is a broken latch mechanism in the trunk, no big deal, things like this happen, especially to a new company like tesla
> The AAduino

I read that with a Boston accent
Humans are considered harmful to the world as a whole. There's only one human species that would need to be eliminated to solve that problem. You up for that as well?
Which parts of western Europe?

I see via google that minimum wage in Germany is 1473 euros per month for a full time worker.

According to [1], food, housing, necessary household items, and public transportation look like they could reasonably total less than 800 euros per person. Add another 100 for having fun and for the occasional wardrobe expense, and you still get to save nearly 40%.

Having children ruins all of this, of course, but that's pretty easy to avoid.

[1] https://www.expatistan.com/cost-of-living/berlin
Sigh, the author forgets that Intel tried to leave x86 with Itanium, which was an expensive disaster, and they vowed to never make that mistake again.
Emacs Evil mode
Considering how underrepresented minorities, whether Asian or otherwise, are in management and IT in the Western world, I would not start crying foul over this small irregularity. If anything Google needs more different minorities if anything, for instance Latinos and Blacks.
Virtual machines are a killer too. We are primarily web but end up doing more than our fair share of legacy WinForm app updates and that requires a lot of ram if you're going to have at least somewhat of a pleasant experience in VS inside the VM.
Yep, that's what scares me about the "drive by wire" systems standard on most cars today. Oh, and to add even more excitement, the car is on fire and the doors/windows won't open.
I didn't take blt's comment about lack of wisdom to mean that he felt that Tesla shouldn't make any radical changes. Just that Tesla was already making radical changes to the drivetrain and and software. It would be prudent to not add unnecessary complexity to a new design with frivoulous things like falcon wing doors.

I have no idea how analogous the auto design industry is to the software, but if this was the first version of a new software product I was making, I wouldn't add high risk features at launch which could jeopardize my release when my product is already groundbreaking in its primary function. I'd iterate on next years model after I had a stable base.

But, maybe the "wow" factor and the differentiation those high risk features gave Tesla was worth this risk?
This is true but containers for mortals have lagged behind. Especially in management tools. There was cloudvz. Then cgmanage that couldn't run au pid 1 which has security concerns of its own. It wasn't until systemd that a small team could stand up containers with any type of scale. Basically everything before, more or less, took a proprietary config management setup.
> making them compete in contest with absolutely no useful outcome.

Performing well at these contests means they will almost certainly be able to get any tech job they want (considering our interviews are just 'solve this algorithmic problem') and produce real useful outcome.
I meant hardware in the "old-school" sense of physical linkages and hydraulics, not computer hardware whose behaviour is controlled by some massively complex blob of software.

For example, if I pull the door handle of my car, it directly activates the latch, and the only way that could fail is if something physically breaks or jams. It's not just a switch sending a signal to some "brain" in between that could just decide, deliberately or otherwise, to not honour my "I want the door to open" request.

People are often surprised to learn that, despite me making a living off software development, my daily driver is one that has exactly zero lines of code controlling it.
Well by the same token AMD is entering the ARM chip business.

7 years ago they sold their Imageon GPU to Qualcomm, which is now going gangbusters inside every Snapdragon-based phone.
Sorry. I have to ask this to you also. Are you a biologists/ecologists or some one knowledgable in the field?
The radical future of media beyond the Web (1997)
If you want easy scale-out and scale-up with Python, check out the (relatively) new library Dask: http://dask.readthedocs.org
it still confuses the issue as the title says it's a CLR vs JVM comparison, there are dozens of languages on each so i don't see why they're bringing C# vs java into it.
I'm not sure if it's fascinating or not that Apple doesn't appear in this. They certainly didn't have much going on in this space - but they didn't even rate a mention.
You are correct. cgroups v1 came from Google (mostly Paul Menage, if I recall my history). OP is in a sense slightly correct without realizing it that Borg predates cgroups themselves, but I'd wager Googlers would agree that they're pretty happily married at this point. Kubernetes just doubles down on what Borg learned in some ways (and discards others).

There's a distinction between containers the concept and Linux containers, of course, but yes. You've got it right.
Yeah, that was a bit awkwardly written. I tried looking up more info on it but got worried the article itself was some kind of meta test to measure human intelligence and decided to just move on...
It also doesn't have the easily available official documentation like you get for a Cortex-M from ST, Atmel, etc.
Global Trends 2030: Alternative Worlds (2012)
I thought HN practice was to prune editorializing clickbait words like "strange" in article titles.
You're misrepresenting the reality on the ground in Germany. The government has zero interest in prosecuting the man, but had to when a foreign head of state pointed out a law that was on German books outlawed what the man said. They cannot choose to apply laws selectively so he will probably be prosecuted, acquitted and later the law will be struck down. It's worth mentioning that Germany really needs Erdogan to remain well disposed to them so that was an incentive too.
performance is still important and a big selling point of the JVM
BUT WHY

Your performance is going to be complete and utter crap because you're paying for serialization on every single data element.

Dask is higher performance and more pythonic: http://matthewrocklin.com/blog/work/2016/02/22/dask-distribu...
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It's weird the article conflates "tech" with startups.

Within the next few years Facebook, Google will have huge headquarters (currently under construction or planning) right next to Amazon's collection of buildings in Seattle, and Microsoft near by.

I think the issue startups have in Seattle is they expect to pay less than in SV, because cost of living is cheaper. However with some negotiation the Big 4 will pay you the same as in SV, while paying a quarter of SV rent for a nice apartment with a walking commute.

I guess that lingering smell of urine keeps people coming back to SF?
Where are these 10s of thousands of former Amazonians working now?
I don't own a Tesla, although I'd like to.

These sorts of expensive problems are not unknown in top-end cars from long-time manufacturers either. The list of problems an S-class Mercedes will have over the course of its life is long, and can be very, very expensive.

So, not to say this isn't a problem, just that buyers of fancy, super-fast 'super-car' type cars do put up with a lot of maintenance issues.
Any benchmarks against Presto?
VW to offer to buy back nearly 500,000 U.S. diesel cars
Alternatively many companies and governments spend licensing fees magnitudes higher than that for software that works terribly if at all. It's nothing new in the technology sector just a bit new in a consumer device.

But ultimately I agree with you
CipherShed, encryption software based on TrueCrypt
> secret management

Kubernetes does have a reasonable solution here:
http://kubernetes.io/docs/user-guide/secrets/
Even if it's temporary, it's still beneficial for the temporary time. Maybe you could also purchase a house in that area, and later on have it appreciate.
evolution stopped being the driving force for human development a long time ago.

Why in the world would you think that? We're still made of genes aren't we? We still sexually reproduce don't we?

because of actions we (developed world) have taken

Stark differences existed between the continents long before colonisation. Stark differences exist in areas that were never colonised.

Some areas that were colonised are now thriving.

As much as we like to flatter ourselves, we are not the cause of all the world's problems.

Nor is the constant haranguing of people who have nothing to do with events decades and centuries past of benefit to anybody.
But instead on HN, my Facebook & any story about Bernie. His supporters automatically try to counter any kind of scrutiny of the guy, his positions & his plans. For crying out loud The guy is running for president, he's not a saint and he deserves every bit of scrutiny.

Not to justify it, but it kind of makes sense. Many of Bernie's supporters are finding a reason to participate in politics for the first time, or feeling cared about by the system for the first time, and when something threatens their new champion they feel like they themselves are threatened.

This definitely speaks to a wider phenomenon in society, where a lot of people had lost hope and are just now finding some, whether through Trump or Sanders. Taking that bit of hope away could be very destabilizing. There's also some interesting human nature in there, regarding conflating one's identity with one's beliefs.
>Microcontrollers like the Arduino/Atmel are perfect for situations where you need to guarantee that some signal will be asserted exactly 250 (no more, no less) nanoseconds after some other external event, _no_matter_what_.

What is an example of something like that?
You may want to consider something like rs485 instead of USB. One less attack vector for bugs and viruses. Or users plugging in mice or whatever and expecting them to work.
Ultrasonics!
I guess that comes with having the new toys in low production runs. Fewer testers and technologies or implementations that are yet to be run through their paces, I wouldn't be too surprised as an informed buyer.

An uninformed buyer would be pretty annoyed though!
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May I interest you in Rust? https://www.rust-lang.org/
I would bet the median taxpayer would see their costs go up.

This is likely true, but I also expect it would be worth it in terms of social stability and progress. It's okay if your costs go up if you also get better health and education out of the deal, so earning power also goes up.
I don't quite understand this comment. Isn't a regular expression just a description of a custom finite state machine? Any fast regex implementation will first compile the pattern into a custom DFA before matching it.
QOR 1.0 Released (the SDK for E-Commerce and CMS Development in Go)
This review was really helpful to me when I was looking for more insight into Julia.
http://danluu.com/julialang/
Maybe I'm a total Luddite, but with how fast cars depreciate, and with how fast electronics become obsolete, right now I have zero interest in the marriage of the two. You might as well just take the 138k it costs and start a bonfire.

I'm totally sure it's the future and all that, but when I bought a new car in 2013 I got a stick shift with the most advanced electronics being pretty much the radio (and even that could be mistaken with a cassette player from 1980 if you don't notice the bluetooth connection). You know how many problems I've had with the car so far? ZERO!
The trick is to write a managed wrapper that takes care of the housekeeping with AutoCloseable / IDisposable, exception flow control, etc. Careful use of arrays, nonboxed types, and statics instead of beating up the heap space... it can be tedious but someone's got to do the dirty work.
Yeah that's what I pretty much got from the story as well.

I suppose it's hard as we always default to the western perspective.

Sounds like that whole time was hard for both of them and they were both mature enough to understand this and get past it.
Generally true, but all three improve over time
>>With that in mind, your characterization of wisdom in this context will be a prescription of never changing anything radically.

Your parent has said they should not spend too much on "tangential mechanical features".
Can you explain what was radical in such features?
Holy triple negative batman! Do you mean that nobody thinks the null article produces thrust? Or did I parse that wrong?
It's not a site I frequent, I think it may have a bit of that brand image, but not like ufo bigfoot or whatever crackpot levels.

That article is just a simple and clear telling of sourced facts that came up when I was searching for some facts.
He's not a Saint? Didn't he just have fly over to meet the Pope over the weekend? Who does that?
Sampling from external sensors for example. If you're measuring something changing over time, you may need very precise timing.
Sure thing. Mind if we start with you?

/s
Make the map yourself, damnit
I meant hardware in the same sense as you. My point was that even if we assume the brain (borrowing your metaphor) makes no mistakes, introducing it does not reduce the amount of physical breakage and jammage that is likely to occur.

You're not choosing hardware over software, here - in which case I might choose differently - you're choosing to eliminate an entire link in the chain. That's always going to be a win for reliability.
I had this on a monochrome Toshiba laptop from the 80s as a kid. Thought it was so amazing.
Why does loction matter? Are you prohibited from seeing a doctor outiside of inner London?
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I'm not sure that there is an undertone that it's their fault. At best, it's because Asians value school and mathematics more and Google prefers high GPA and ability to solve mathematical and algorithmic problems. I suspect there are also a lot of Asians in the world and Google will pull talent from other countries.

To continue your analogy:

"I'm not Asian, so I'm not good at math, but perhaps if I were Asian I could be. Those guys do math all the time and they love it; its impossible for a Caucasian guy like me to be any good at it. I spent 10 hours on my calculus work and Li did it in 30 minutes and got a higher grade. I'm just not Asian."
> It _is_ important to note that the average retention at Amazon (even for excellent people) is ~50% for 1 year, and ~20% or lower for the 2nd year.

Your comment on "retention" is factually incorrect. I'll presume your comments are in relation to "tech roles" such as SDE SDM TPM etc.

First the number of Amazon hires in "tech roles" increases by ~50% per year. i.e., in year 1 there are 1,000 SDEs hired, year 2 is 1,500, year 3 is 2,250, year 4 is 3,375 and so on.

"Attrition" represents the number of individuals who leave for any reason. This may be because the employee terminates employment or the company terminates employment. Attrition levels are comparable to the rest of the tech industry, ~15% of the current population per year.

"Tenure" is the length of employment. Because hiring greatly exceeds attrition you should expect a relatively low average and median retention. As I recall Amazon is approximately 12 months median tenure. This is comparable to Google at ~13 months, for example.

Lastly the employees current tenure does not have a substantial impact on the probability of their attrition. Indeed the average tenure at exit is somewhere around 3 years. Which, again, is roughly in line industry standards.

In short, the average tenure at Amazon is low because they hire a lot. And while retention is not "good" it is a far cry from what you've represented.

Edit: The gross growth rate is actually above 50%. I've attempted to simplify the values where it does not make a material difference to the refutation.
Ask HN: How do spaceships navigate?
I have been very interested in implementing a program to help a spaceship find it's location in relation to earth or what ever NASA and other space agencies align to.

I was curious how do satellites and probes get their bearings in space. Do they align to binary stars (if so how do they know which one is which), do they find the sun and align to that, etc. Any info would be greatly appreciated. Thanks :)
To me that's like saying compression algorithms don't necessarily make data smaller. It's true enough, but you can still make general comparisons between approaches.

If your work has an "inner-loop" situation, then the JVM can optimize the heck out of it using statistics specific to this particular execution. That's huge.. it opens up all kinds of concrete optimizations that aren't possible with static analysis alone (precomputing call targets, knowing what to inline, etc.). I'd wager this is a major factor in cases when the JVM occasionally outperforms C.

But no, it doesn't necessarily help.
Depends on how embedded. For something really mission critical you don't want any dynamic malloc at all even in C code. Allocate a set amount up front and manage that directly. For an android phone on the other hand, no problem.
And things like quality of life in the suburb vs the polluted air and noisy bright nights if living in the city.
Falcon wing doors.
I've known of Eliza forever, it seems, and of Pygmalion nearly as long. But it was only comparatively recently that I learned the one was a reference to the other. I'm honestly surprised I never put that together on my own.
You’re going to need a bigger app
Peer review: Troubled from the start
I thought it meant 'washing day' originally …
I am not extrapolating from American tax law at all

I as an American citizen am in no way bound by German law

For example If I put a website selling digital Nazi Merchandise, and a german citizen buys it, I am in no way violating the German ban on those things because I am not bound by german law, any attempt to enforce germen law upon me would quickly be squashed by American Courts as a violation of my free speech

Now Germany can forbid it citzens from going to my site, it can attempt to have that site blocked from Germany, it can even prevent other german businesses from doing being with me (including credit card company as your example) but it can never compel me directly as I am not under their authority at all
For sure. If your last cars were good production year Volvos, the high end car thing can cause some heart burn.
Red Hat Product Security Risk Report: 2015
Perfect example with their best replacement for x86: the i960. It was one of most impressive compromises I've seen from the time period in terms of speed, reliability, and security.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_i960

Some variants are still in production mostly for legacy purposes but not the one (MC) I wanted. Too bad.

http://www.intel.com/design/i960/index.htm
> I have only lived at the West coast which largely seems at odds which some other parts of the country. Parts of the South come to mind immediately. The circumstances people live I seem so very different and thus are their needs and concerns. I rarely meet people who have social bonds to the South who fondly talk about them. I fact that might have never happened.

I think that might be an artifact of living on the West coast: the Southerners you meet are likely to be those who hated the South, hated their neighbours, hated their families — and moved as far away as they could. Believe it or not, a lot of folks love the South: good, decent, kind people who take an interest in one another (of course, if one is neither good nor decent nor kind, that wouldn't be appreciated, and if one is private then one might find them nosy).

Everyone's different.
Being cynical, the sort of people who give enough credence to claims of a non-Newtonian 'space drive' that they rush to test it may not be the sort of people who are also likely to practice a high level of scientific rigor.