skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Funny enough, after an interview I had yesterday where it sounds like they're going to reject me for "culture fit" reasons, I kind of came to the conclusion that fulltime jobs and even direct contracting isn't for me anymore. It was for a security engineer job where my "I may have actually convinced comcast to start a bug bounty program after disclosing a major security hole over the phone." story got no reaction. Not entirely sure what I'll do, but freelancing lately has been pretty enjoyable. Then again, I don't know how long that's doable. You sound like you're going down the same route I am with work, long break, work, long break and you're right that those projects get almost no attention. That lack of attention is getting me further and further from wanting to do programming/IT for a living and to just use the knowledge as tools for other things. If you're interested in it, try doing civics work and hammer your city/state with FOIA requests to get things you're interested in. You might find that the "rabbit holes" there are surprisingly exciting.

If you're ever in Chicago, hit me up and we can grab some drinks.
Are you Sergii R.?
I have immense respect for RMS as a person and as a hacker. I also have several points of disagreement on philosophy, ethics, politics, etc. (and occasionally on facts), but that's not the same thing as not having respect for him.
No, "all out" is always the same intensity. As Greg LeMond said, "Hills don't get easier. You just get faster."
How will someone like CloudFlare stop a tool like this from scraping their customer's sites? Just blocking the tool's IP?
But most of your resources likely still are, or the threat would be pointless.
Bezos will hold a press conference "We are sorry we did not realize we would make as much money as we did - consequently our spending just could not keep up" while AMZN tanks.
It does.

The Google Tango uses the Myriad V1. The new tango to be released in may comes with this new V2 chip.
There is absolutely no way you will achieve a 50% increase in torque (at any RPM) just by switching from ordinary port injection to direct injection. Do you have any references to this claim?

The efficiency improvements are possible, mainly due to the better atomization of the fuel, but 15% seems pretty generous if we're talking about improvements from DI alone. Keep in mind that many manufacturers are adopting multiple new technologies at the same time they're switching to DI. Newer engines with DI also tend to come with wideband o2 sensors and more modern ECUs, both of which can lead to improvements in efficiency which makes it harder to determine the true contribution of DI.

There's only one possible explanation for the 50% torque improvement claim:

Many cars are switching from larger naturally aspirated port-injected engines to smaller turbocharged direct-injected engines. Maybe that's what they were talking about.

Going from a naturally aspirated port-injected 3.8 liter V6 that makes 300HP and 280 TQ to a turbocharged direct-injected 1.8 liter 4 cylinder that makes 300HP and 350 TQ could very well explain those figures, but it's the turbocharger and smaller engine that are really the key here.
White House struggles to explain weak economic growth
> Gas tank, fuel lines, transmission, engine, drive shaft, spark plugs / distributor cap, muffler, exhaust system, fuel pump, engine, air intake, turbo/super chargers if necessary, oil pumps / reservoirs, etc. -- many hundreds of parts can be shaved off of full electric cars.

Battery software, Battery management, Battery coolant. Electric Drivetrain.

The Drivetrain in particular seems to be rather complicated. Consider that Edmunds was forced to replace their Drivetrain FOUR times in two years: http://www.edmunds.com/tesla/model-s/2013/long-term-road-tes...

Note that modern engines have a lot of parts because we KNOW which parts wear out over time. Spark Plugs for example wear out, and its very simple to replace spark plugs to recondition an ICE engine.

What wears out in an electric vehicle? Do the permanent magnets in the induction motor require replacement in 10 years? Nobody knows! Probably not, but there's probably something in there that needs replacement (due to rust or whatnot).

Eventually, electric motors will grow to have more parts. Not because they NEED more parts, but because we will learn what parts SHOULD have replacing.

Replacing a $4000 drivetrain whenever "something" is wrong? That's a problem. Replacing the $1000 permanent magnet in the induction motor? Well, that will be a better problem, but will require long-term testing before Tesla is able to discover (let alone solve) those problems.

Consider this: Hard Drives have more moving parts than Solid State Drives, as do Tape Drives. Yet we place more trust in them than SSDs because we really don't know the failure modes of SSDs.
In your enumeration, what's the board look like at position 348277381979984699478633344862652779770286522453884530548425639456820927419612?
Does Valve cash out the bitcoins immediately because of it's volatile nature, or is Valve large enough (or bitcoin purchases small enough) that they can safely bear the changes?
I feel like when we're able to put frozen brains in fresh bodies, refugees coming back from a different era will be lesser concern than the whole technological immortality thing. How do we ensure everyone has access to immortality (because this obviously needs to be a human right)? How then do we deal with population growth when people don't die of old age?
I'm not clear what you're asking... Do you mean auto scaling the EC2 instances in the load balancer? Or auto scaling the # of load balancers? Or something else?

Of course the former is very common with Auto Scaling Groups [1] [2]. Then you can use round robin or session sticky routing algorithms in the load balancers.

(Apologies if I'm totally off-base for what you were asking.)

1: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AutoScaling/latest/DeveloperGuide...

2: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AutoScaling/latest/DeveloperGuide...
"All Cretans are liars" said Epimenides...a Cretan.
> Alpha Centauri is about four miles away.

Actually, around 500 miles.

Distance to Alpha Centauri: 4.37 light years = 276,364 astronomical units.

In your diagram, the Earth is 10 feet from the Sun. Multiply by 276,364 to get 2,763,640 feet, or 523 miles.

The scale jump from distances around the Solar System to the next closest star is mind boggling.
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This effect is especially true for those of us who are non-profits.

"Give food to the poor and needy" often understandably has more appeal and is a quicker reference point to the normal citizen than the stuff we do: "Hey it's becoming more dangerous than ever for a small amount of the people who deliver the food to the poor and needy, so let's think of a open source technical approach way to make it easier." Both are very worthy/important, but some messages are just easier/clearer for people in a voting process.
I might be wrong, but I think I've sometimes seen it here; in any case it definitely happens in many "programmer" online circles (say, programmers.stackexchange: search for questions about the GPL or GNU or open source software): RMS is sometimes disparaged as a loon and an extremist. The Free Software movement as a whole is often disparaged as impractical and out of touch with reality. I cannot say these people self-describe as hackers but... I dunno... they are asking and answering questions in a stackexchange community about programmers...

I do remember this also happened in Slashdot occasionally. People using free software criticizing RMS as an extremist.

Which is pretty disappointing, given that many of the people doing the disparaging are using software borne out of the efforts of said free software / hacker movements.
> Whether technological societies remain small and planet-bound like our own, or ultimately span across galaxies is an open question in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence.

What questions in this field are not open?
It's interesting to note that Amazon third-party seller unit share is at 48% of total units shipped, which is a record high. It has grown by 1% per quarter for the last 4 quarters in a row.
Ok good point. But you could suspend it from the ceiling. Placing a box would, I suppose, create a much higher risk of damage.
I keep thinking that a virtual arcade model could work well... you get N plays per day for free, but if you want to buy more "coins" you pay like $5 and they carry over...

Each version improves existing games in the arcade and/or adds new ones... you can play your 20 coins/day first, then buy extra if you choose... there's no reason that model couldn't work quite well.
CompuServe and AOL both predated the GNU Project (!), while Prodigy was nearly contemporaneous with it, and I could imagine these becoming or evolving into centralized social media services and huge-scale communications intermediaries -- maybe with or without the web -- if they hadn't encountered the competition that they did. And they were able to make a lot of progress, in their way, without the GNU toolchain.

On the other hand, the ease with which startups could enter this world from the 1990s onward owes a huge amount to GNU and to languages and tools that owe a huge amount to GNU.
Curious which app you tried out...
> I know some people on HN do not have respect for RMS

Don't misunderstand disagreement on politics with disrespect. I don't subscribe to his views, but I respect him for strength of his convictions and software that he developed.
It cost $37,000 to send Maciej to Antartica to write about it.

At $20,000 for the YC Fellowship, it seems like an absolute steal. I for one would love to see the results of this experiment.
I think the Fermi paradox has a hidden assumption, that we are intelligent enough to detect aliens. We couldn't detect that the earth revolves around the sun till quite recent in our (genetic beings on earth) evolution. I say give it a few years, we'll figure out that aliens are too alien right now to us. Computationally speaking, our brains are quite limited, though we have recently gained the ability to share ideas across the internet. Nice hearing from you cousin!
> Card payments take far longer to process than bitcoin payments

I can't remember the last time I stood in line at the supermarket for an hour because VISA was clogged with "dust" transactions. Hmm.
> And there's no need to list off software. I'm not sure it's possible to be in this site's target demographic and not know who he is.

Taking opportunity to clarify what we're talking about is just good communication.
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You are confusing "respect" with "disagreement". I have great respect for RMS, but I often disagree with his views on stuff.
How about Kung Fu Panda 3? It did very well in China, and I believe I read that since it was a joint production of DreamWorks Animation and Oriental DreamWorks they ended up getting much more of the Chinese revenue than they would have had it been an all-American production.
Amazon Is Looking to Create Virtual Reality Content
Well yeah, to the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative. Putting your money into your own foundation is a well-known tax evasion scheme.
> RMS is sometimes disparaged as a loon and an extremist. The Free Software movement as a whole is often disparaged as impractical and out of touch with reality.

> People using free software criticizing RMS as an extremist.

I agree with these views, but it doesn't mean that I don't respect him.
honestly - stuffing video in with prime then raising the price. recently offering video stand alone but for $9 more a year than prime (with video)... Hard to tell who is actually shipping an item - sketchy pricing based on region / or account etc..

why trust them with aws? it seems their strategy is to price things stupid low - get you on board then raise it when they think they 'got you by the balls'

no thanks
I think you're right in that Amazon Machine Learning and Azure Machine Learning will never be drop-in replacements for eachother.

However, I would argue that VPSs are already drop-in replacements and I bet (though I have no proof) that VPSs are the majority of the market. The cloud providers may not have a viable way to provide even the perception of vendor lock-in when it comes to VPSs.

Now it could be that prices and profits stay high anyways as the market is an oligopoly. The U.S. has experienced the same thing with mobile operators. This is also far from obvious though because entrance barriers for VPSs don't seem steep.
At least you had an email. I still haven't and I paid for the branding removal and custom domain addons and haven't even had a years use out of them! Really poor show - they could at least grandfather users over to a similar plan, or leave Invoiceable as it is for the free option.

I won't be using the new system - already looking at https://www.invoiceplane.com/ and https://www.pancakeapp.com/ as replacements.
"[they] warmed up for two minutes on stationary bicycles, then pedaled as hard as possible for 20 seconds; rode at a very slow pace for two minutes, sprinted all-out again for 20 seconds; recovered with slow riding for another two minutes; pedaled all-out for a final 20 seconds; then cooled down for three minutes."

Sounds very similar to the Tabata interval protocol, with the difference being the extended rest period between the "sprint" sections. I have done a variation of this in my own training in the past. It works really well on an elliptical trainer. My subjective feeling is that training this way works pretty well for building endurance and burning fat.
Serious question: did that thing with the hard drive actually happen to you?
It's a reputable company.

http://www.theverge.com/2016/3/16/11242578/movidius-myriad-2...
if warming up is just a myth, i dare you to deep-squat two plates without any warmup or mobility exercises. even better, try it after a day at the office sitting for 8 hours. i'll have the wheelchair ready to wheel you out when you slip a disc.
The Surprising Danger of Being Good at Your Job
Actually the correct name is the GNU/ACM Software System Award.
It's easy to look at him as an odd piece of history. But so far I manage to not forget how much we rely on what he said and did.

Happy he gets recognition.
In Lattice QCD [1] we basically execute huge MCMC in order to sample the partition function [2] on a discretized spacetime.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lattice_QCD

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Path_integral_formulation#The_...
Thanks for the links. The theory rings true to me as well. I've coerced sloppy colleagues into writing cleaner code when working on my sections of the project. Conversely I find that I relax my normally high standards when I work on spaghetti code.
How would immortality be a human right when most people around the world don't even have access to basic health services??
> "There’s no guarantee that this ‘being’ would be the same one who first entered into the cryogenic process, either. As de Grey says, the question remains of “whether scanning the brain and uploading it into a different substrate is revival at all, or if you’d be creating a new individual with the same characteristics.”

I think this is probably a bit misleading. I can't imagine de Grey being anything other than reductionist in his views about the mind, so I can only imagine his interpretation of this question to be as follows: "has the scanning process captured all the relevant information about the person's mind?" Have you created a new person (by missing out some information from the original's physical instantiation), one who is perhaps very similar to the original, but where some details are different because the scan was not of high enough fidelity?

Of course, it's still unknown whether it's even possible to extract sufficient detail from the brain; if by unhappy chance it turns out that some of the quantum details of the brain's state are important to the mind, then it's possible we may simply never be able to copy a person. Let us hope that is not the case.
To save everyone the time, here's a typical Internet thread about Stallman:

- He's crazy!

- But he's right!

- Right? He's just been stating the obvious all this time!

- NSA surveillance!

- Hadn't anyone heard about Echelon?

- He stands for freedom of users!

- But users don't care about those freedoms, they just want something that works!

- He's antisocial and extremely rude!

- Autism spectrum.

- But he's not diplomatic at all, we don't want him as a spokesperson for Open Source!

- It's GNU/Linux, not Linux.

- See? It's nitpicking things like GNU/Linux that make even open source enthusiasts hate him!

- Only the userland is GNU anyway.

- GPL!

- Emacs!

- GCC!

- HURD!

- Toejam.
Are there any good examples of FPGA implementations of CNN?

I see one example in Verilog on github: https://github.com/ziyan/altera-de2-ann/blob/master/src/ann/...
Context matters too, I suspect some of those works when commissioned were meant to be enjoyed semi-privately, in someone's mansion or palace. Now they're placed in a public building behind people being photographed.
While there are people that do not respect RMS, there are others who appreciate the work he has done (both as a hacker and an activist), but are vehemently against the way he goes about advocating free software.

I personally do not like the absolutism he preaches.
To me bitcoin is trendy and kind of unprofessional. Steam is obviously a pretty reputable service, but for a long time accepting bitcoin screamed "this is a low quality service and we have no other ways to differentiate ourselves than using a buzzword currency"
"Frank said that the third big question—how long civilizations might survive—is still completely unknown."

Interestingly, that might not matter so much - Michio Kaku argues that any truly advanced civilization would be essentially immortal, as their technology would have evolved fast enough to deal with global catastrophes:
http://mkaku.org/home/articles/the-physics-of-extraterrestri...
I don't mean to be rude, but extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. It's the best we have and it won't be easy, but my neighbor thinks there are aliens hovering over our houses once per month (his phone can't record it for some reason)...
I think you take a particularly narrow view of what constitutes a "society". Arguably, current human society is the product of over 10,000 years of continuous development. Yes, there have been numerous changes in structure and power, but our fundamental "human" identity hasn't really changed in that time.

I would also argue that life itself has proven remarkably long-term stable on our planet. Granted, it has not been stable enough to produce a type-III society, but if we remove homo sapiens from the planet for a thought experiment, there exist other species that are developing communication or tool-use skills and might succeed us even on the technological path.

So my view is that, unless we continue to fail spectacularly, life will still continue without us. Even if we do not reach type-III, that does not necessarily preclude Earth from producing a type-III society in the future.
Thanks, but I'm not super keen on working with an enterprise company. SAP and Amazon are probably the two companies that don't see LMIA as an hindrance.
> Starbucks To Begin Sinister 'Phase Two' Of Operation

> SEATTLE–After a decade of aggressive expansion throughout North America and abroad, Starbucks suddenly and unexpectedly closed its 2,870 worldwide locations Monday to prepare for what company insiders are calling "Phase Two" of the company's long-range plan....

> Though the coffee chain's specific plans are not known, existing Starbucks franchises across the nation have been locked down with titanium shutters across all windows. In each coffee shop's door hangs the familiar Starbucks logo, slightly altered to present the familiar mermaid figure as a cyclopean mermaid whose all-seeing eye forms the apex of a world-spanning pyramid.

http://www.theonion.com/article/starbucks-to-begin-sinister-...
Heh, that was my thought too. "Because it was taking forever to get someone to make me a new repo"
Subsidies must have some effect on the price. As the government subsidies for electric vehicles diminishes, the overall price diminishes as well.
How are space contracts governments' help and not SpaceX helping government from the evil ULA?
Sorry, my intention was not to discuss merits of anonymity or privacy. I do agree those are good.

My point was that in discussing things like cryptocurrency (and other technical matters), many of its advocates go to arguments like yours with the silent assumption that certain aspects are obvious benefits. You forget that that's an opinion, and any argument based on it misses it mark with someone who doesn't share that opinion (or hasn't formed one). I think that's part of the reason "the oxygen in the room has been depleted".
Jump on board, but don't wear the shackles! Use something like Kubernetes and FOSS projects and you can shift to whomever has the cheapest VMs today.

Easier said than done, I know, but a fine goal to have, I'd say. :-)
Digitalize humans and let them live in simulated worlds.
There was only one I could really test as two were for women and another was for diabetes which I presume would make it difficult to test without having it. The one I tried was called 'Start' and is for people with depression. It basically lets you set up reminders to take pills, gives advice on the pills your taking (side effects), and allows you to take a questionnaire on a daily basis so you can track your depression level and see if your treatment is working. I was just playing around with it but it seems like it would be really useful for someone with depression and it's very simple to use.
You're ignoring the context of the comment I replied to.
People in that same position of power also killed rather a lot of middle easterners in the Crusades. I don't think we should use all their choices as a model for modern ones.
I think you're being a little nitpicky with my language here. And I in no way implied, "You won't get fit without hard work because you won't deserve it." Going for a short walk is still exercise and isn't all that hard. I suppose I'm a little unclear as to what exercises exist that you can put little effort in and get a lot out of.

With regards to HIIT, it's been pitched as 'get fit quick', but without proper training in how to actually push yourself, it's kind of a moot point. My only real argument against any of this is that almost every article focuses on the time of the workout instead of the intensity of it and I think it misleads people who are looking for a more efficient way to get a workout in. The time of the workout is really irrelevant, the intensity involved is what makes it so effective. When people see these quick workouts and attempt to implement them, but don't see these amazing results that are promised, I'm sure it's incredibly frustrating. That could all be avoided by stating 'Hey, these workouts are really, really, really hard and they will be uncomfortable and you will be gasping for air'.
If cryonics suddenly worked, we'd need to face the extremely serious question of why we let almost everyone die before, i. e. how we could've made one of the most catastrophic humanitarian and public health oversights ever.
Oh, I left that out of my description. Having the server specify the salt or the text required to be at the front of the value to be hashed does make things better.
Depends on what you define as 'much money'.

I spent 3 months building Hipster CEO and its made me approx $40-45k (as well as leading to other projects). Not a bad return for 3 months work.
Feudalism says hello...
Actual code reviews, experienced architect(s) that actually understand the whole project, and paired development. Not being afraid to refactor... creating componentized pieces that can live in separate codebases if possible.