skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My point was that it sucks for all oppressed groups, but trying to say, "yeah but this other group has it worse," or even, "but why isn't this other group mentioned" isn't helpful to any group.

It's like showing up at an event to fight cancer, and complaining that and heart disease isn't getting its due. Yes, heart disease is important too, but that's not why we're here.
You might have learned how to code from books you borrowed so now the author and publisher should be paid part of your earnings?
Would be very interesting to see an actual implementation.
I'm currently shopping for a laptop and has my eyes set on the Thinkpad Carbon X1. I did a comparison between the current flagship model versus the flagship models from the past two years:

2014 Intel Core i7-4600U 1718 [0]

2015 Intel Core i7-5600U 1677 [1]

2016 Intel Core i7-6600U 1847 [2]

Two things stood out:

1. Single-thread performance actually decreased in 2015 for some bloody reason.

2. The single-thread performance of the 2016 flagship CPU is only 7.5% higher than the 2014 CPU, a negligible amount when it comes to purchasing decisions. Much of this improvement probably comes from the faster DDR4-2133 MHz RAM (vs DDR3-1600 MHz) rather than the CPU itself.

[0] http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Core+i7-4600U+...

[1] http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Core+i7-5600U+...

[2] https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Core+i7-6600U...
Intel chose to build Itaniums on older manufacturing processes

They didn't have any choice. Itaniums were big, and their defect rate on newer processes was too high to get any yield on chips that size.
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Any Australia anecdotes would be heartily appreciated. A falling AU dollar and stagnent dev wages make the US look so well paid. Almost to the point i could get paid more with a remote US job let alone an onsite one.
Same reaction on my case. A Polygraph test (?!?), we are supposed to be in 2016 now ! Is that antique method seriously still used in the US ? It looks like a joke. Better throwing a dice at that point.
This UI is horrible IMO. Open Source projects could really start to embrace UX designers instead of 100% programmers. A slice of orange has a slider...really? :P
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Been like that in Spain since the infamous 11-M. You know, religion of peace and all of that
And it looks like you have to download a torrent in order to get something. But yeah, it's missing a license and is still proprietary.
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Interestingly, that would imply we are possibly living in an imperfect simulation, one that hypothetically does not replicate the physics of a real non-simulated universe.

If that is true, why? I can think of four possible reasons:

1) Is it because the simulation was designed in such a way that it leaves its inhabitants clues that reveal the true nature of the universe? This lets them figure out the truth once their society and knowledge become sufficiently advanced.

2) That it's impossible to simulate a real universe? This would imply any sufficiently advanced society will be able to detect that they do in fact live within a simulation.

3) That the creators made a mistake and it's not a fundamental limitation. It's simply an error made by whatever civilisation created this simulation, they messed something up.

4) That it's possible to create a perfect simulation, but for some reason they decided to make a simulation that used less resources and this brings errors or the need of hacks to get it working. Now we might be exploring these hacks.
> should be understood easily enough

I think you'll find you have an easier time communicating if you stick to terms that people have heard before, even if they're slightly less accurate than new creations.

Of course, if you're trying to get famous, you should absolutely invent new words. Take Thomas Friedman's "glocalization". That one didn't do so well. Steven Colbert's "truthiness", that was a gem.
"but the polygraph just helps shortcut it"

The point is that polygraphs are utter nonsense, at about the same level as reading tea leaves. Had she failed the polygraph, she'd still be prosecuted. No judicial process should have a decision point that is stochastic by design.
I understand the power savings of e-ink go away when you update often eg typing, scrolling.

Maybe that can be worked around? eg if updating only a small area. Or as a second display for docs.
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Next step: let's not try to put so many people in jail even if they are guilty. It obviously costs a lot of money and provably doesn't have any effect on crime (per dollar spent) that is near spending that money in better ways.
You can short-circuit the USB-port at will, nothing bad will happen. And BTW the available current is also software programmable. If the data lines are not used and shorted, the source will give full amps (2 Amps maybe more), otherwise it is 0.5 Amps max.
diversity (or lack of it) of the field is a result of the shift in targeting a certain type of person for the programmer's job

Based on... which facts exactly?

Edit: As far as I can see, the picture is that there's a bunch of socially inept males that some shadowy powers carefully select to make a mysoginistic getto to keep women at bay.

This is utterly ridiculous, no matter which amount of social science "evidence" you put into it. I'll be retired by then, but I'm pretty sure enough time will put this crazy notion to rest.
Release notes:
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Constant thrust means constant acceleration, so speed goes up indefinitely with a constant supply of energy. But kinetic energy is proportional to the speed squared. So you get more energy than you put in.
If they are bought out by the Chinese, does using this mean the new Chinese owners will see all your traffic?
Is this the same Opera that was recently purchased by a shady Chinese consortium? [1]

1:https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/feb/11/browser-m...
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I wonder just how much costs are inflated for medical goods because of unnecessary restrictions or standards?
Announcement: https://insights.ubuntu.com/2016/04/20/canonical-unveils-6th...
I don't think that's a problem isolated to just India!
Part of the 1925 version was already in color (2 strip Technicolor).
Recycled click bait travels a score of furlongs before basic journalism has its boots on. Investigative journalism is still sleeping in.
> Because we should only research orthodox, approved subjects, and not go where the data leads us?

Data is crappy at the moment, but I agree, it's at least interesting in the case of the EmDrive that people are measuring something.

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Actually yes, if somebody follows crank science my trust factor goes down (the Mariana trench). But that's me, if you see no problem with it, just study his paper. He also a big opponent of dark matter. But hey, I'm just a programmer, what do I know about theoretical physics.

Read this thread:

https://www.reddit.com/r/EmDrive/comments/3hjmtv/my_conversa...

The guy who challenges him is a PHD student who happen to be usually on the right side of theories although sometimes being too hard headed.
Damned if you do, damned if you don't...
If it surprises anyone that a boy can ask a girl for help with maths, then that person is a sexist.

Unless you think girls are worse at maths, then this is a null-story. Shall I tell you a story about how as a child I saw that the sky is blue?
I suspect that if an artist selected colors for a few key frames, the computer could figure out the rest of the frames.
> If you are thinking, how does it give more probability for the air borne strain to spread?

Right, that's the important thing to think about: the size of the advantage over (or even disadvantage to) the status quo doesn't matter in itself; it only matters to the degree that competition affects the viability of the new strain. I'm glad we're on the same page about that, because that's the thing I perceived that you did not understand.

On your answer to that question, if you go up to the GGP post (your first responder, Slapshot), you'll see that's exactly what they were arguing against. Most people don't have a malaria at any given time, so they're not competing for hosts. So instead of considering how our two strains battle it out in C, the dominant question -- the one that determines whether the strain is viable -- is whether it can infect A's friends D through Z, all of whom don't have malaria, presumably because they weren't bitten by an infected mosquito in the last couple weeks. Since the answer to that doesn't depend on what's happening in C, we conclude that it has about the same probability now as when mosquitos are being eliminated.

I mean, that's the whole reason we're so scared of things "going airborne", right? That they spread so much faster and frictionlessly, and they're not constrained by the vagaries of their hosts.

Not crucial to this discussion, but worth knowing: malaria isn't a virus; it's a protozoa. It does mean the immune response is pretty different.
Yeah, there are a number of statements about unikernels that are ... somewhat inaccurate.
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tl;dr: They plan to launch the world's largest sovereign wealth fund ($2 trillion in assets) via an IPO for 5% of Aramco, and diversify into nonpetroleum assets.

I guess this signals interesting times ahead for tech, biotech, and clean energy entrepreneurs in S.A.
> I prefer my neighbors not to stink up the whole building by [cooking smelly food|smearing shit on their walls|...], but that shouldn't make it illegal.

This example could have been chosen better. While you're correct that your dislike of the smell isn't, in the absence of other facts, a great reason for criminalizing your neighbors smearing shit on their walls, that is in fact illegal, it is illegal for very good reasons, and you dislike the smell for the same reasons doing it is illegal. In that case, the smell is actually telling you something important.

I think we have more of a "this has to be allowed" exception for cooking food than we have a general policy of "we won't take smells into account when deciding what's allowed".
The VPN is operated by "SurfEasy Inc., an Opera company based in Canada".

Just tested it and it worked flawlessly to watch a YouTube video that has been blocked in my country. [Edit: Netflix seems to block SurfEasy already. Sad.]
New York Had the Second-Lowest Voter Turnout So Far This Election Season
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b-b-but I like unions and McJobs. I just don't like them having too much power.

The crux here is that I'm a person. Union member is a person too, many of them probably would genuinely like UBI. As group they would probably not admit they don't like it. But organizations tend follow the incentives of the organization more than they follow opinions of the members.
This is terrible news. I wanted to get a sim card for Japan, but you can only get a pocket wifi device, which isn't so bad, but not as straightforward as swapping your sim out for a local sim as i do when in the states or malaysia.
It hasn't been purchased yet; the buyout deal is yet to go through AFAICT.
"Draining" is a fantasy, statistics about it are manufactured by the kernel randomness subsystems. Are you concerned with your ssh keys "running out" too?
If I use this though, will Netflix block me from accessing any content?
> "That's distinct from 'I didn't get treated fairly' [.. ] It's not, 'Some of the evidence was obtained unlawfully, there was an incorrect ruling by the court, [...] - no, you actually have the wrong person here...they're actually innocent."

So there is a difference between real innocence and "we-are-not-able-to-convict-him-but-we-think-he-is-guilty" innocence? And the prosecutor gets to decide?

Then why even bother with the due process? Why not let the prosecutor decide directly? /s
I think they actually switched away from the TI CC3000 module with the Photon because it had some quite severe, unfixable firmware issues.
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I'm pretty sure if you asked a group of humans to colorize the lighthouse you would probably get the same result.

There is no way, from the greyscale, to know that the sky should be orange.
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If the traffic is encrypted then they wouldn't see into it, but it would go through their servers, so in worst case scenario you'd be surfing from behind the Great Chinese Firewall
Startup gets funding to help you boot Adobe and Evernote out of your life
Let Black Police deal with Black Suspects;

http://www.boston.com/news/globe/ideas/articles/2007/08/05/t...
In some countries, code is copyrighted by default unless the author specifies a different license or explicitly puts it into the public domain. Without a license (or asking the author for permission), I have to assume this code is copyright & All Rights Reserved, and that I can't do anything with it except read it.

It's still interesting and cool to see! Just not what I thought it was when I clicked on the link.
>> Does smoking pot make you cool?

> No, the contrapositive.

The first thing you're ever taught about the contrapositive, generally at the same time the name is taught, is that a statement is exactly equivalent to its contrapositive.
no, it was about this one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bikeshed_color
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If what you're saying were true (even requiring decades of training), it would herald a revolution in our understanding of human physiology. Let's see you reproduce these experiments in a lab with a skeptical researcher.
Skimmed through it, saved it for later reading. It's pretty interesting to see such drastic plans for change in SA. As an Arab Muslim, I truly hope they follow through. It could push several other oil-dependent countries in the region to follow suit.
Since Opera is still a norwegian company, they still will need to abide by norwegian data privacy laws.
That's not true. You just can't get a sim card with voice/SMS capability.
Foreigners can get data only SIMs no problem, most airports will sell them (often out of a vending machine)
e.g. https://t.iijmio.jp/en/
In the GDR equality between the genders was supposed to be a done thing, so no one talked about feminism.

Women did work. But we had few women in management and leadership positions.
I notice your comment also got downvoted. Seems there are a bunch of people on HN promoting this religious-fluff-critique.
Do you live in rural India? If you have access to the Internet, you might not be representative of the target population.
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Also, there were almost no nice cars to be had.
You can't retroactively have not signed a treaty, though. Your analysis doesn't address the question of "OK, we're in a bad spot, what do we do?", which is the question facing parties to the Convention.
The classic BASIC version is here: http://www.atariarchives.org/morebasicgames/showpage.php?pag...
Meanwhile London has the bold plan to make mandatory the Euro6 in the Ultra Low Emission Zones by 2020 - when those engines will be 10yrs old.

https://tfl.gov.uk/modes/driving/ultra-low-emission-zone
You would lose that bet so fast your head would be both spinning and smoking: zones have been hardened and worked on for enterprises since 2006, and in ten years have had three known vulnerabilities, the last two having already been fixed in illumos (and not exploitable without being able to be explicitly run by a user inside of a hypervisor).

As Bryan Catrill has said in one of his talks:

"we walked the trail if tears since our customers were very large companies; if they had a problem, we had a problem!"

The illumos and smartos mailing lists are hyperactive, with bugs being fixed, and new functionality added, which even Oracle Solaris doesn't have -- just subscribe to those two mailing lists and see for yourself. I warn you in advance: be prepared to be buried under the vortex of e-mails.
You seem to be getting downvotes because you don't understand what the term "open source" means, but nobody has offered to explain so:

Open source does not just mean you can see the source. From Wikipedia[0]:

"Open-source software is computer software with its source code made available with a license in which the copyright holder provides the rights to study, change, and distribute the software to anyone and for any purpose."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-source_software
UK spy bill will force tech firms to disclose future products before launch
Can someone explain to me how the sale of 5% of Aramco will yield $2T? Certainly they don't believe Aramco is worth $40T?
Planet Money has an excellent episode on this topic from a few weeks ago: http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2016/02/03/465476188/episo...
Something like this would happen in my Civic too, not a decline but a small bump on the road like where two concrete blocks meet would set it off. It turned out to be a MAP sensor issue. This is something in the exhaust that feeds back to the controller, it was giving wrong values which caused the software to decide, fuck it let's shut it down. We all know the Toyota acceleration story. So the point of my story is, dont trust even reliable cars' software.
How would they know that the vehicles, say, were supposed to be the same colour. I'm thinking The Italian Job - the same model of cars are used and are distinguished by their colours. Also what about when different vehicles are painted by the production team to look the same (for stunts say), the computer could rightly recognise them as different vehicles - how would it then know that they're supposed to be the same.

For such things it seems you'd need to check every shot change.
Presumably if you're actually guilty you don't want them going back and collecting more evidence on your case.
They could pay less. Then they'd have less attractiveness in the presenter, which hypothetically doesn't matter, and more money, which we know matters. They don't seem to want to do that.
> On the note of how they communicate - I wonder if anyone has considered sonar holography - I.e. The clicks and whistles aren't words per se but are interpreted visually, as an actual sonar reflection off an actual object would be. I'm trying to find the paper but I seem to recall some research in which they realised a dolphin was mimicking the sonar echo of an object, with startling accuracy.

Do you mean something like this?

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/12/this-picture-reveals-how-dol...
Agreed. I guess the point is that there are still improvements in mobile and TV and other interfaces. I am still many times faster at almost any task with my laptop, but it is not always with me like my phone or as comfortable as my TV.
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Well, it's well-known that Ashkenazi Jews have above-average intelligence. So it definitely can vary.
It's the same sort of thinking that used to say "the African does not truly think or feel, he simply exhibits reflex responses that can give the appearance of thinking and feeling".

Or, perhaps, "the Computer does not truly think or feel, it simply follows numerical algorithms that can give the appearance of thinking and feeling"?

(Obviously I'm not attempting to compare the intellect of Africans and that of computers; just to make the point that it's really hard to describe what is going on inside someone or something else's mind, when we don't even have clear definitions for what it means to "think" or "feel".)
Because the utility of mosquitos is roughly equivalent to the utility of cars.

Duh.
Well, it's well-known that Ashkenazi Jews have above-average intelligence. So it definitely can vary. Why wouldn't it vary by race as well?
5 days ago:
Lyft gaining on Uber as it spends big on growth (sfgate)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11509461

Today:
Lyft's Nice-Guy Strategy Leaves It Struggling to Catch Uber (nytimes)

Confusing world.
Script analysis would take much more effort probably, but it could work if the colour is in the movie script...in that case object detection gets important as well. Just using more training data to cover all the dog breeds and car colours would help a bit though.
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Only the best of the paradigm / technology, also known as best of breed. The difficulty is deciding when to make the jump from old paradigm to new paradigm. The article mentioned the clippers vs steam ships and how much better the steam ships were, but usually the decision is much harder.

Take smart phones for example. Just when the Iphone 2.5G came out, was it better to get a new Iphone (with in some regards limited functionality, slow connection and poor camera) or stick with the "Best of breed" feature phones?
What a ludicrous idea. Cops break into your house, arrest you for a crime you didn't commit, take months to figure out they blew it -- then what? You get a greeting card in the mail announcing that you're actually innocent? Maybe some flowers?

Sorry, no.

I support the use of force, including lethal force, on violent criminals when the public is in danger. I support the appropriate use of force otherwise. But in return for that support, there has to be some kind of feedback mechanism in place. I understand that workplace accidents happen, and nobody's perfect. But ruining somebody's life isn't the same as an IT worker forgetting his security badge one day. "Actual innocence" looks like a gimmick to make the poor rube you screwed over feel better, not evolve the system to a better state.

As bad as these stories are, my concern is for the next victim -- and the next thousand after that.
Economic immigrants who work are completely different breed than economic immigrants who come for unemployment benefits.

Currently in Finland if you can ~800e/month from the government if you get asylum. That's not "rich", but it's lot better than most things available in Iraq right now.

The fear mongers (perussuomalaiset) won the last election and got to the government. Their performance controlling the situation has been very lackluster so far.
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Hi Guys,

I have a some idea about creating web app which would require DB to store user data. i initially zero'd on MongoDB as i was using it on machine and i knew there were managed hosting solutions for MongoDB.

Now when time came to really think about making final decision about DB (80% dev done) i am confused as MongoDB managed hosting costs $30+/month, Cassandra is another one but could not find any reliable hosting solution, DynamoDB has complicated pricing (Read/Write Unit ??). So i am asking what choice do i have?

Little bit on requirement, i am thinking per user it will take around 12kb and maybe 100,000 user then = 12gb / year (i know 100,000 is very optimistic but this is just for calculation). I am looking for DB which can store binary/blob data, so its not limited to NoSQL db's.

I am good with Unix / Linux so i can do devops job myself but i dont think i can do it round the clock, which makes managed hosting good option but its going beyond my budget as web app would be free to use. I can spend $20 a month on hosting ($5) + db ($15)

Any input would be helpful...
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In related news, Germany has announced requirements that all purchases of any lithium-ion related technologies be accompanied by an identifying arm-band to be worn at all times.
Yeah, this is HN, not /r/worldnews mate. Keep the discussion respectful please.
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