skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No flimsier than the original drone-claim headline.

Contrary to popular conception, most airline pilots are very poor at recognising anything that isn't in their company fleet. A few are aircraft enthusiasts, a few are bird spotters. The remainder have knowledge of unexpected flying objects no better than most laymen and a lot worse than a school-age plane spotter.

I used to run aircraft recognition training for a local cadet squadron. The 'pro-pilots' were uniformly awful.
You and I remember very different pre-centralization Internets. Before Google, decentralized hand-administered email services were probably the single most popular way to bust into someone else's servers.
It a bit funny that the article doesn't mention Julia, which has native multimethods with all kinds of bells and whistles. It could be a nice addition to a "polyglot" flavored discussion. There is also Clojure, although its mechanism for multiple dispatch is a bit overpowered (you dispatch on values returned from a function of the arguments).
There's something a little distasteful about making jokes like that about a person on the day of their death.
You mean a new job, or a new wife?
Can you help us understand more about the test? The benefits seemed great, but obviously the cost was subsidized by the government. Did they feel that a shift to 6-hour workdays would be fully subsidized by the government, and hence the test shows it's unworkable? Or did they think it would be funded by employers, and were willing to saddle them with the costs? I'd be interested in more background.
I genuinely appreciate the response and fully agree with the reasoning. I guess the posts I saw were some weird form of survivorship bias. Curious what happened there, but "shit happens" sounds pretty valid. :)

Like I said earlier, I wanted to delete my account just to remove this as a time sink, but it's a bit more than that. The minor reprimand for name calling was a minor confirmation of it, but one of the things I've seen of late is that many posts are incredibly critical of things that often don't deserve it. For example, a few of my posts about personal experiences with mental health are met with strong, undeserved, and almost angry criticisms towards my experiences. It feels overkill, and many times it validates the hostility that those with mental health issues have when discussing these issues. HN seems to be one of harshest sites I've seen on this subject. I mention the reprimanding, since that's a "hard insult", rather than the "soft insults" I've seen during mental health discussions. They both carry a similar weight, but one (for understandable reasons) sounds sharper, so is easier to handle and parse from someone who's dropping into the discussion. Maybe what I've seen is just a few bad eggs, but others have shared similar experiences - thought that may just be the converse of the bad eggs.

Is there anything that can be done to help out here? I'm not calling for any individual solution and by no means asking for censorship of any form, but it's something that's been on my mind recently, since unnecessary hyper-critcal responses feel just as damaging to a community as direct insults are. It's a stupidly difficult problem, but possibly worth mentioning. I'm sure you guys have discussed this before, though.

(Sorry for the mild rant, and this probably isn't the best place to discuss this, so please feel free to delete this and I can shoot an email instead.)
If you dont need gfx, you can still turn a 6th Gen NUC into a pretty "mid range" pc. (also the author of this post is wrong about the Intel NUC being fanless)

i7 NUC - http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/nuc/nuc-kit-nuc6i7kyk...

NVME SSD - http://www.samsung.com/global/business/semiconductor/minisit...

32GB DDR4 - http://www.corsair.com/en-us/corsair-memory-32gb-2x16gb-ddr4...
I personally much prefer the newer thinkpad keyboards to the older one. I however, don't consider either keyboard to be good enough to do serious work on. For that I have a real ergo keyboard and real mouse.
Powershell seemed like a great advance upon cmd, until I realized it was a great step backwards from Python. It's an objectful interpreted scripting language, but suffers from poor namespacing, verbosity, and some fairly insane defaults.

Meanwhile, IPython as a shell[1] has been around for years. I do mostly python scripting, and spend much of my day at an ipython shell. I don't personally use it as a general purpose shell, but it is perfectly acceptable for many problems that I use if for.

[1]http://ipython.readthedocs.org/en/stable/interactive/shell.h...
> Considering the poverty most minorities families faced then and still do now, it's sadly the case that they couldn't afford computers.

My father bought me (and my brother) a 2nd hand computer in 1988 (ZX Spectrum+), in communist Czechoslovakia, for a price of more than two monthly salaries.

Was the social situation in the U.S. really that much worse? I seriously doubt it.

Now of course my father was an academic, and was very smart, so he obviously saw a value in it. But it seems to me that being poor is really a poor excuse here.
$750 for the mic?!? (http://www.xmos.com/buy?product=20258)
When Your Life Feels Like It's Falling Apart
No. The strengths of this UI is simple, good-looking organization that loads lightening-fast. Even works with NoScript easily while yours was a pile of links. If you want to benefit HN users, I'd suggest toying with variations of this exact design that try to solve problems people here gripe about.

Here's two with the first one probably very easy:

1. People accidentally downvote comments trying to upvote them. I can imagine no technical or UX excuse for this problem still existing. It's sooo easy to solve. Somewhere, someone is giving an order to keep it a problem probably for aesthetic reasons.

2. Comment nesting. A tricky problem in general for so many reasons. People gripe about this version of it sometimes. My only gripe is some way to restructure the presentation so deep nesting doesn't just push further and further to the right. Can be optional.

3. One of biggest complaints is how a tangent unrelated to OP takes up the whole screen and it's hard to find next reply to OP. This is actually two different problems: can't easily see how conversations are connected without parent links and them taking up the whole screen. The screen issue might be helped with little plus or minus symbols to hide a whole thread. The other one I leave to UX designers as it's trickier to balance form and function. A simple method might be an optional link on site top-level or comment that turns on some kind of highlighting putting different color, labeled boxes around grouped comments. Maybe limit groups to just first replies to OP & anything nested in them rather than everyones replies to everyone.

I think solving these three issues would be helpful. And notifications of replies, too. There's already a service for that but it's a nice feature to have in any HN client. Hope this helps you on next round. :)
New Website for Tesla Powerwall and Powerpack
I'm not saying that we should go back to those times, I'm saying that we should be aiming for decentralization in the long run. It's not like the security paradigms we had back in the time are tied to decentralization. They're mostly tied to ignorance.
Show HN: Make Apple TV apps W/OCaml, compile to JavaScript withelectron/express example
Working in open source on a variety of projects, many of us are starting to look forward to a Python 3 only world, and Python 2.x is not where we develop.

You are going to start seeing libraries come out that don't test on Python 2.6 and don't work there either.
Could not agree more with this.

FWIW: Some of these ideas are echoed and further developed in "The Art of Action" http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004CRSN2O

"The insight is that alignment needs to be achieved around intent, and autonomy should be granted around actions. Intent is expressed in terms of what to achieve and why. Autonomy concerns the actions taken in order to realize the intent; in other words, about what to do and how."
It should be - changing "wikipedia" to "fan wiki" would be far less misleading.
He played basketball too.
Office Perks Are Dumb
Ask HN: What are the most innovative ways of using Likes and Comments
What are the most innovative ways of using Likes and Comments data for a post?

For example, some of ways I think are:

(1) List most liked/commented posts

(2) List trending posts using some scoring computed from likes and comments count

(3) List posts where likes increased by 100% over weekend

etc
How Statsbot for Slack Can Integrate Analytics into Your Daily Routine
The Evolutionary Argument Against Reality
> I might be wrong but my understanding is that it was a way to get around his contract with his record label

My understanding is that it was a hack to make life difficult for the label while fulfilling the letter of the contract in order to prod them to release from the contract. I think marketing his music became a headache for the label, and DJs ended up calling him "the artiste formerly known as Prince"
Solar Impulse sets off for California after long lay-off
How does the Chromium Opera compare to Chrome?
I'm sure Clapton is mourning his promotion today. Sad.
While this has historically been the case, Python 3.4/3.5 has really sped up adoption of Python 3, and from an open source maintainer, Python 3 is making large inroads.

Also, libraries are slowly going to drop Python 2.x support and go Python 3 only.
My favorite is still hunting down .lck files with strace because of a bad lock file implementation. Reinstalling definitely fixes that one :). Looking at you, firefox and yum!
I do not have the answers for your questions (and I don't think anyone can share actual failure rates), but I would direct you this video which goes over a lot of modern chip fabrication techniques, circa 2009:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGFhc8R_uO4

It's crazy stuff.

There are wafer test machines which will interface with the wafer directly and do some testing (which are $$$$), JTAG type tests, which access parts of the chip out of band, and functional testing. Some products, like SD Cards actually have a microcontroller on board that will provide the test routines and error correction without the need of an expensive machine. Design for test is extremely important.

I'm by no means an expert however, I mostly deal with JTAG and functional tests.
Because the backdoor was logging fb developer credentials. The stolen creds would not be useful with two-factor required every time.
Think Before You Swap: Not All File Systems Are Equal in Scaling Cloud Apps
Funderbeam Launches the World’s First Startup Bourse, Exciting Tim Draper
I see very few articles that are covering exclusive content. Most of the time, the topic is also covered on non-blocked sites. I typically find more/better information from commentary on articles from places like HN, than in the article. It's a supply & demand problem: There are too many non-blocking sites and discussions, that ignoring the blocking one is trivial.
Chalkboarding: A New Spatiotemporal Query Paradigm for Sports Play Retrieval
3 Minute React Test Drive: Hello World the Easy Way
The Google Play Awards Coming to Google I/O
Bookmarked that. It's has some neat features albeit uglier, front page. Curious, does it fix the age old problem of up and downvote being too close together?
Laziness? It's non-trivial to migrate to Python 3 if you've spent any time building up any number of bespoke libraries.

Look at it this way:

1) I can spend 2 days writing, testing, reviewing and pushing code that works perfectly fine in Python 2, or

2) I can spend a couple of weeks+ porting all the libraries I need for the tool to add python 3 support, maintaining backwards compatibility, fixing tests, reviewing etc. etc. etc., then spend 2 days to write the actual code I started out needing to do.

Which one do you think I'm going to be able to justify, given there is always a backlog of work? Multiple weeks of developer time is a non-trivial expense. There has to be a significant technical advantage to justify the effort and for a lot of things that Python is used for there just isn't enough of one.

I'm not anti-Python 3. I like it, in fact. Where I can use it, I do. It's just a lot of the time I can't because of all of the associated extra work involved.
Steve Jobs had HR policies very very similar to Alex's.
How compatible are third-party packages with PyPy? Is there a compatibility matrix for all the packages on pypi?
> I don't see how it had an impact on revenue if ads weren't displaying

1. browsing hacker news sees interesting article, uses ad block.

2. posts link to Facebook

3. link gets propagated across Facebook and clicked by 1000's who do not use ad block

4. x1000's

You can think of ad block users like carriers. They show no symptoms, but could be the man vector for distribution of your content. So they may have a value that can't be measured in ad clicks.

The interesting question is if they saw a subsequent fall in ad revenue indicating a correlation between ad block users and more ad revenue.
bookmarked! as a "non developer", this is super helpful when i'm putting together quick landing pages!
If you don't like Monsanto's work, don't pirate it. If you like it, pay the royalties.

It's really very simple; if you don't uphold their ability to defend their intellectual property you destroy the business model, and you'll lose the research.

The US Government needs to step in here -- exactly the same as they would if Chinese companies were selling computers with pirated copies of Windows into US stores.
I have friends who do professional video post production. Things like major television ads, tv shows and feature films.

Their machines are absolute monsters - and necessarily so. I don't know what kind of video editing he is talking about - but video editing is obscenely compute heavy if you are editing for 4k - which is what you have to do nowadays - and you need to do include composite graphics, effects and run color correction to be viewed, in real time (on the array of a dozen different monitors, displays and TVs of various sizes that are in your editing bay) without upfront rendering - which is what is expected. To be able to replay the same hugely complex portion of video 30 times in a row with zero lag after making a change that requires the entire thing to be re-rendered.

I can think of few single-station use-cases, in fact, that are more computationally heavy than commercial grade video editing. You've got dozens of gigabytes of source material which has to be parsed quickly, loaded into memory, modified, composited and rendered at 29.97 - and the lag between commands and playback has to be effectively zero if you don't want your editors to blow their own brains out.

Maybe he means people using iMovie.
Lambda Functions versus Infrastructure – Are We Trading Apples for Oranges?
FBI Paid More Than $1M for iPhone-Cracking Tool
To be fair it looks like they aren't purely using SSO which is what provided the credential scrapping attack vector that was used by someone else.
If you weren't calling bullshit on the original articles you really need your view of the world examined.

This is just D&D is the devil panaroia for 2016

1000s of 'near misses' and no hits is a industry that plane lies.
Bingo! It's always evolving too. We do use a lot of experimental flags from the browser, this helps work with up and coming features as well for learning about new APIs very easily.
[Hunter's] home state named him a Kentucky Colonel, an honorific reserved for Kentuckians “unwavering in devotion to faith, family, fellowman, and country.”

Wikipedia:

The honor has been given to a broad variety of notable people . . . . It has also been bestowed upon various people who are not generally considered especially notable – they have been people from "all walks of life". . . .

Under Governor Steve Beshear in 2008, so many commissions were being issued that state budget cuts led to a major change in the design of the commission certificate. The certificate was downsized from the 10-by-15-inch (25 by 38 cm) size to 8.5 by 14 inches (22 by 36 cm).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kentucky_colonel
That's what I thought he meant as mid-range in terms of price/performance is always relative and changing. Maybe I should've known better.
The last couple years he's been blogging about converting old open source CSV repositories (FreeBSD, etc...) to git. Here's a post where he talks briefly about FreeBSD being 18GB, and GCC being > 32GB: http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=6830
Listen to an FBI “Honeypot” on the Job
Quick! To the Betteridge-mobile!
> Classic HN. Jumping from someone's annoyance to "create a startup" that "definitely has value" without knowing anything about the space.

All that without specifying whether or not you have knowledge in the space. You probably should have specified X and Y are already in the space rather than assuming that someone already has taken up space there.
I'm waiting to see if we hear more about the cause of death because there's some evidence to point to this being a similar thing to what happened to Jobs. Not fame, but stupidity.
"And they have the disadvantage that when the hardware fails you have to discard the entire device instead of only the part that failed, which is becoming more important as hardware doesn't have to be replaced for being too slow as often anymore. "

BOOM! That and greater hardware customization are where desktops and servers have a benefit at all price ranges.
The article is about a dispute over when royalties have to be paid. Monsanto expects to be paid every time, farmers are saying only the first generation can have the royalty requirement by law.
While I am all for a substantial fine I will be very disappointed if the fine exceeds that given GM for their ignition key recall. There were thirty million plus cars in that recall for an issue known over decade, an issue which directly lead to death, and they got off for less than a billion.

While some might claim "pollution" from the TDIs is killing people the link is not direct and negligible in the big picture when you look at volumes. Frankly I think VW should be blocked from selling any TDI they have in stock, new or used and buy back them all. But a separate fine beyond that? Again, not if exceeds the fine giving GM which by the way also topped Toyota's fine for unintended acceleration which could not even be proven.
Uh yeah, no shit.
No, "the war on drugs" does not qualify for treason.
Foreflight costs $99/year. There are free alternatives:

- FltPlan Go app for android and ios

- skyvector.com

I use the FltPlan Go app when flying, and skyvector.com to look at the charts from a browser.
Damn, sorry for the trouble :(
It is more that unix shells are built on piping and piping is systematically broken in unix shells. It just becomes extremely obvious after using for powershell for any time which doesn't require most of the work to scrap and rewrite ouput to make it compatible withan other program.

Doing piping well is extremely hard and basically requires that all commands give metadata about their arguments but doing it better wouldn't be all that hard.

You could do the same thing with text streams but structured piping would be a lot harder. If all programs would read and write something like json or msgpack and have a unified argument parser and dumper working with the shell would be a lot easier and faster.
There are plenty of "iPhone clones" that don't come close to feature parity, so it seems a bit picky.
Law enforcement will absolutely go interview the person you bought with cash from and get a sketch, maybe even a license plate off surveillance near your meeting place. Cash transactions make tracing involve more schlep than a SQL query, but they are not close to anonymous.
I thought that "beamforming" only applied to actively emitting signals, so that the waveforms would cancel/reinforce each other, to get the desired "direction".
I have no idea how that works for microphones. Google is not very helpful, I get lots of hits for products.
A 30% saving is roughly what I would expect.

Commonly JPEG separates the image into 1 channel of luma and 2 channels of chroma. It then downsamples the chroma to half the luma resolution, meaning that you have twice of much raw luma data as you have chroma.

It then goes on to do a whole load of fun discrete cosine transform, quantization and huffman encoding, but to a first approximation, I'd expect them to compress roughly similarly on average.

Since you've got twice as much luma data as chroma data, dropping the chroma will only save you ~30%.

Since the predictions from the neural network are not always accurate, you could then encode the error in the compressed file, and restore it on decompression. This will generally be close to 0, so compression should be pretty good.

At the end of the day, 30% better compression would be great... if the processing overheads aren't too great - I think that's the key factor.

(Most of this is from memory based on some hacking I did to be able to transcode videos to play on a cheap Chinese iPod Nano clone, which used an undocumented variant of MJPEG. The default quantization tables for luma and chroma are different from each other. The iPod Nano clone was using the standard quantization tables but the other way round (so using the luma table for chroma and the chroma table for luma). I can only imagine this was a bug in their code, as it was bound to reduce their compression ratio/image fidelity.)
What I'm trying to figure out, is whether a teraflop directly comparable. That is, on the top 500 list, the first 4.9 Teraflop computer was in 2000, but does that mean that Pascal could provide performance similar to the Supercomputer on the LINPACK benchmark?

In describing the benchmark, they say,

In an attempt to obtain uniformity across all computers in performance reporting, the algorithm used in solving the system of equations in the benchmark procedure must conform to LU factorization with partial pivoting. In particular, the operation count for the algorithm must be 2/3 n^3 + O(n^2) double precision floating point operations. This excludes the use of a fast matrix multiply algorithm like "Strassen's Method" or algorithms which compute a solution in a precision lower than full precision (64 bit floating point arithmetic) and refine the solution using an iterative approach.

So, to summarize, if in 2000 the fastest supercomputer on the planet ran at about 4.9 TFLOPs, does that mean, apples-apples on the LINPACK (and only the LINPACK), that Pascal today would outperform that Supercomputer?
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I am looking for a remote programming position
I have 10 years with C#, I know golang, I know node js. Looking for a remote developer position.
Anyone hiring?
Titld: Insights and Analytics for the Art World
With the VPN enabled, I am able to resolve local network computer names and domains that reside in my work's local DNS only?

How is this resolution working?
The article itself seems to be written alright though, it's the headline that seems in conflict with the data.
Can not copy the url for a session using the iPad.
Mine too. Firefox, but only on my work machine. My home desktop is fine. I've had weird Firefox issues whenever there's video (like that banner at the top) and if I watch the output, it looks like GLX issues (my work laptop should just be either Intel integrated ... I wonder if the driver is crashing)
http://packages.pypy.org

The web server type stuff works. The scientific computing type stuff mostly doesn't work.