skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the number one legitimate concern I can see, after just reading this for the nth time, is the trustworthiness of C++ compilers, which I believe was not so great in the early 90s. Now, I have no evidence to back this up (yet), but I'm willing to bet that clang and LLVM are verging on as trustworthy as (if not more than) GCC at this point. Nevermind MSVC, which would require its own analysis. I'm not a C++ programmer, but you're right: clearly it has advanced. And Linus has gone off on GCC as well for producing crappy output as well (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8089321)
> Why does everybody aim for total market dominance? Is is not enough anymore to be just profitable?

Network effects are very helpful. Also remember to distinguish fixed costs from variable costs. The development effort is pretty much a fixed cost, whether you sell few or many. Each additional product sold reduces the fixed costs per device. Generally the more you sell, the cheaper you can make the product, the more profitable you can be, the better deals you can negotiate etc.

And then the bigger customer base you have, the easier it is to continue to do well financially. There are more opportunities for a longer term sustainable business.

> If I look at my Android phone, there are maybe 5 external apps that I use regularly ...

The power of defaults! What you are also implying is that the apps that came with the Android phone are all you need, plus those 5 external ones. This gives great power to the provider of the builtin/default ones.

> If developers don't want to port their apps, Microsoft is in a position to just f'ing do it themselves if they really wanted.

Not really. Microsoft doesn't have the source to the apps, would have to stick to rules about trademarks (eg calling an app "Google Search" would be problematic), would have to develop against public APIs and their requirements, would have to maintain the apps, and a heck of a lot of other stuff. For example see http://techcrunch.com/2013/10/09/microsoft-re-releases-its-y...

An aside/anecdote was a developer colleague who worked at a company that made a music player. They were paid $100k by Microsoft to port to Windows Phone in its earlier days. The Microsoft app review team then rejected the resulting app, because it kept running as music players need to, and Microsoft didn't have any rules yet about apps that needed to keep running in the background. It did eventually get sorted out, but still rather amusing.
Got the original Coin, it was defective and I was sent another one. I used it on a transaction and it charged a card different than the one showing on the display. By then most of my frequent buys were at stores that take chip cards so I stopped carrying it. Still waiting for my Coin 2.0 that should have shipped in Q1.
For the record, I meant evil in a fun way. Like a cartoon villain. Suitably meaning that it was a good equal response to what they've been dealing with.
The promise of Coin is that you don't have to carry anything else. It is a fantastic idea.

However, unless it worked at least 95% of the time, it's useless, because you have to carry at least one backup card.

My experience with the Coin 2.0 is that it worked about 20% of the time and was very, very frustrating in every respect. It went in a drawer after a week.
I think the control of viruses such as smallpox may become irrelevant once their genomes can be synthesized de novo ("in a test tube"). There is still the challenge of producing fully infectious virions but it is possible and has been done with poliovirus (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12114528).
Piggybacking on the thread. I am a person that would like to provide Open Source for personal use, non-profits and other Open Source projects, but I'd like to force commercial institutions to pay me some money or give back to community.

What options do I have?
It looks like it's just another mobile only platform too. Am I the only one who'd like to use my computer to send messages while I'm using it?
if you type finnish into google translate, the results in english are pretty bad.

furthermore, google translate only manages the "written" finnish language... which nobody talks like. everyone uses "spoken" finnish which is not translated at all in google translate.

i wonder how many other languages have this property.
1. The evolutionary advantage of cooperative problem solving is what gives rise to the human tendency to self-identify with mutually exclusive groups of every scope including political territories, religions, sports teams, etc. and in turn some of the largest aspects of human culture. 2. Our concept of knowledge, which is based on prediction from past observations, is rooted in the design of our nervous system. Intuition is the product of micro-observations and predictions calculated with this system. 3. Organic life responds to its environment using a closed-loop feedback system that can be modeled as a series of steps (Sense, Organize, Analyze, Decide, Execute) where the Execute step changes the input in the Sense step.
Companies unionizing is called a cartel, and very illegal.
So what if 1/200 times your baby was saved by being closer to the doctors...

but 1/180 times your baby got a Staph Infection they would not have gotten at home and died?

The numbers are obviously bogus, but there are dangers to anyplace you choose to give birth... As long as people are well informed, seems they should be able to choose their own adventure.
What does a software company cost to start?
Same here. My Coin only ever worked once before I gave up.
slow.com redirects to fast.com. That would cause a redirect loop. :D

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11723650
Looks great! I've been managing my own remote VMs for secure development environments for freelance coders. It would be nice to lower the time I spend on administration.

Having access to a GPU is a great bonus too. Some of the coding we do involves deep learning and being able to provide GPU access to the developers rather than making them switch to a staging server to test things would be a big improvement.

I look forward to when you have capacity for new users!
> "(that security is NOT to protect the baby from strangers; it's so CPS can take your baby)"

Uh no, it's really not.
> Would she be strip-searched, and held in solitary confinement for hours (even after family and friends posted bail), with no explanation? Would she face the prospect of indefinite imprisonment if she refused to disclose the passphrases to any of her encrypted devices?

Has the FBI done this before? I could see the CIA doing this to foreign nationals, and obviously that's horrible, but has the FBI done anything like that? I'm not saying they haven't, I would just like an example or two.
How Our Fake Food Business Ended Up Winning an Award Thanks to Online Marketing
I know the answer was not meant for me, but I'm very excited about Verilog. It allows me to build my own chips with FPGAs (not that I'm doing any at the moment). Plus that means I can build my own language around a custom chip architecture.
Thanks for sharing your opinion. Can you explain why a non-story is important enough for you to take time away from presumably important things in order to poo-poo it?
Exploring the universe of programming resources together
This will have some effect in San Francisco (some neighborhood development plans and zoning regs are so low density all projects require approval). But a lot of projects (like "the monster in the mission" to replace an old Burger King and empty warehouse with housing) would not be able to be blocked under this law. They follow the existing development plan so they require no exceptions.

Even out here in Sunset, all the land is zoned 40ft or 60ft. If you include a basement, thats 4-6 stories when most structures are 2. If you weren't subject to massive delays and reviews, it would certainly be profitable to tear down some of these single-family homes and build 4-6 story apartment buildings.
The economical (Occam's Razor) explanation of the patterning of life on earth, based on genetic studies, is that all current living things share a common ancestor. That's what the quoted sentence says, and what you wrote doesn't show that the quoted sentence is a "deeply flawed origin story".
>We began placing orders for the family style meal, when my boss suddenly announced to the room that I wouldn’t be eating meat. People began to chuckle, saying things like, “How can you be in Argentina and not try the meat!?” “You’re not going to try the beef? You don’t know what you’re missing!” Then, my boss added, “Yeah, she doesn’t drink either. I mean, what the fuck is wrong with her?” Several people laughed alongside my boss.

That is the most important part of the article. Your boss is a dick.
And it's not meant to replace Hangouts.

What do you want me to use, Google? Hangouts? Messenger? Allo? Duo? Wave-- er, Spaces?
Also check out https://broadbandquality.net/ for both a download and upload test.
They always say that. Google's internal customers also get to continue access after a product has "been retired" (eg. Chrome Web Store still using Google Wallet's web payments) and are in a different position than Google's external customers when it comes to negotiability and notification period.
The smart replies thing creeps me out. I already take swiftkey suggestions on how I talk sometimes. This just takes it to a whole other level where it's not even you writing the suggestions anymore.
Tried on a US-East VPN and worked fine..
They dumped a bunch of money into it, so presumably they're at least interested.
Fitbit is buying Coin so it can make a fitness tracker that pays for things
They were going to prevent her from breastfeeding.
I mean, all the turn-key stuff is terrible right now, but I've seen some awesome DIY stuff with Homeseer + IFTTT + bash scripts.

My friend's house turns on the front porch light when he gets home, auto-locks the front door if unlocked for more than X minutes, alerts of outside doors that have been open for more than X seconds, dims the lights when he turns on the TV, alerts him when his wife is almost home (she hates that), yells at the dog if he goes into his office, and a hell of a lot more. That said, he's logged dozens of hours getting everything working.
"Child Protective Services" in the US, to save Brits the google.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

>But please don't post complaints about paywalls. Those are off topic.

https://archive.is/q1nGu
Liquidity means the price is stable not that trades will go through.* Stable prices prevent HFT traders from making money.

Price accuracy is somewhat debatable. Many HFT traders may toss lot's of trades around at a price, but that does not mean you can buy or sell large numbers of shares at that price as they can easily just be trading relatively small number of shares back and forth.

*Dramatic price swings are often tacked onto this. But, that's also relative to number of shares traded. If selling 1,000 shares at ~20.00 each involves any price shift it's hard to call that stable.
This bug is worrying. EU Spreadsheet Risk Interest Group (EUSPRIG) released a report in 2006 about spreadsheet errors in medicine, which some people might be interested in.

http://www.eusprig.org/2006/spreadsheets-in-clinical-medicin...
> The issue was the way they treated here AFTER the two known-to-be-spurious tests

You mean by sending away for a more accurate test which cleared things up?
Are you making an argument that distress and psychological harm aren't a form of "damage"? They added some fairly traumatic experiences to an already stressful time in these peoples' lives without sufficient cause. You're trying to say that the little things (glances, the temporary threat of CPS taking away the newborn, being told more than once not to breastfeed your child, being described as a "combative patient" just for doing what's best for the child) don't add up to a big thing. I don't think you understand the stresses involved in this situation.

Maybe a lawsuit is going too far, especially if this incident isn't in some permanent CPS record. But if it is, the hospital has them set up for some serious problems down the road.
The pictures have swapped captions.
Nothing about how much the deal was worth. Regarding acquihire, "the acquisition accelerates Fitbit’s ability to develop an active NFC payment solution that could be embedded into future Fitbit devices, broadening its smart capabilities. The acquisition excludes smart payment products, such as Coin 2.0."

https://investor.fitbit.com/press/press-releases/press-relea...
Hydrogen bridges are intermolecular forces. The same kind we break every day when we break stuff by hand. (The strongest variety of them, but still not chemical.)

The interesting here is how they are broken, not that they break.
Why bother if there is a ready solution, that's already got the trust of other market leaders?
The carrier needs to remotely tell the device to enter into a special mode, so a faraday bag would be an effectively method to block this.
They wanted to ask her questions. Lawyer could be present. She didn't want to. FBI now has a subpoena. I have no idea where you're getting this "indefinite imprisonment" stuff from. They didn't have a warrant for her arrest.
If the FBI wasn't willing to speak to her with her lawyer present, IMHO, they were not looking for something legit. They had ample opportunity to subpeona her before she left the country and neglected to do so. In fact, they waited until she left.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11643246

This whole situation feels like the FBI pressuring this person so that they can get the information they want out of her while avoiding their legal obligations.
In the talk there was a two bar graph

{(others, ~bottom) (google, ~top)}

Couldn't see more, but after Nvidia claiming overwhelming power with their latest GPU architecture including in the ML domain .. I was surprised.
I lost my cheapo fitbit at the car dealership (it clipped onto the seatbelt of a certain car I test drove), and Fitbit sent it back after it was found.
I agree with that, but how does this apply to a javascript framework? You have no control over network latency or device CPU load.
That's nonsense. In-house proprietary encryption is not peer reviewed and untrustworthy by definition and if you're going to work in the open, especially for a new proprietary chat app, it makes better sense to build on an open platform that's already proven and is handled by people that really know their stuff. More secure and probably cheaper as well.
Again, let's not forget that the US government explicitly funded development of TOR: https://www.torproject.org/about/sponsors.html.en and https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jul/29/us-govern... (and many more) as a way of helping people avoid the depredations of oppressive governments.
> So it only works when you can't compress the fluid, the fluid is not sticky like honey or oil, had as uniform-density, and is an enclosed body (bubbles, not seas).

Right, most (non-gaseous) fluids are just about incompressible. This is a pretty safe approximation for tons of applications, although if you were simulating sound wave propagation through water or something you would need compressibility. The lack of viscosity is a bit more limiting and more of an approximation, as even water is fairly viscous. I'm not sure about the enclosed body part, I'd have to read the paper in detail.

> There seems to be two ways of looking at fluid motion. The Lagrangian way is following an individual parcel through time and space. The Eulerian way is looking at a specific location and watch fluid flow through that location.

Exactly, although the Lagrangian/Eulerian views aren't just limited to fluid dynamics, they are common throughout continuum mechanics. Both approaches have tradeoffs, and hybrid techniques do exist.

> Advection is the transport of a property by the fluid due to the fluids bulk motion. So the speed of fluid might compress the fluid, and that should be prevented.

An incompressible velocity field is one that is 'divergence free,' as divergence roughly maps to how much material is entering or leaving an infinitesimal volume element. For an incompressible fluid simulation, you thus need to maintain a divergence free velocity field. This leads to the next point...

> Orthogonal projection is representing a 3D object in two dimensions. In two dimensions there can be no divergence if I understand it correctly.

I think here they are referring to a projection from a general velocity field to a velocity field that is divergence free. See for example [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projection_method_(fluid_dynam...
Unless Charter owns the monopoly in your area.. $80/mo for 100/7 copper, or $450/mo for 100 symmetrical fiber.
The way I see it, the difference is the burden in not having the device. For a lot of people a smart-phone isn't necessary, but it's extremely inconvenient to go without. Whereas these devices are new, so they aren't ingrained into our culture yet.

I agree with you and OP. If there was a good open-source version of either of these, I'd buy them in a heartbeat, but there's not.
dupe, please check before submitting:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11724935
All stones erode, and granite is not even the most durable stone, by a long shot. You'd do better with quartzite.

Of course there are billion+ year old stones exposed at the Earth's surface, but it's easy to mix up the age of a geologic unit, and the age of the particular surface we can see and touch today. While the stone overall is old, the surface we see today might only have been exposed for thousands of years. I've been to see some of the oldest rocks in North America and the surface is not always the solid smoothness we think of with granite. It's often crumbly due to weathering.
Is there a tutorial that explains how to setup a backend for user-taken videos? for an IOS app

one thing I liked about Parse was that it's documentation was newbie-friendly.
That was my impression too. ML under the hood was a lot of linear algebra, not very different than most shaders. But maybe Google decided to hardcode a few important ML primitives because the ROI was that good in terms of grabbing customers. Also they might have very large scale applications not found elsewhere that motivates this.
I think this may be the article you are thinking of, the comments also include links to a blog post they wrote.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11643246
Google’s First Amendment defense to search censorship fails in court
The story is that the FBI refuses to tell her or her lawyer why they desperately want to speak to her, but only in person inside of their jurisdiction.
I'd second Horizon. I've been working with RethinkDB for over a year, and really believe in their commitment to RethinkDb's core technology, and their deep understanding of what is needed to build reactive web apps.
Skype is the last major messaging platform to not have end-to-end encryption in any way.
I saw this a lot first hand doing commercial small business real estate. Hard money lenders give someone a loan to start a restaurant, and if it fails to meet the obligations of the loan, they can foreclose on the restaurant and other property or assets the person has signed as collateral.

Taking money as a loan with a personal guarantee is always a very high risk situation and should be avoided unless you absolutely have to.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11724654
Architecting Front-end Styles
> Unfortunately tied to your phone number
> ...
> What's wrong with tying this to your Google account?

Or, as I recently learned after switching to Project Fi, the worst of both worlds where I am forbidden from using Google Voice on my Fi phone because ... reasons? I can't even navigate to the Voice website without considerable hoopjumpery because Chrome realizes that I'm on a Fi phone and immediately redirects me to the Play store where I can install Fi - you know, that app that came with my Fi phone?

Just damn.

I'm with that other commenter: I thought, mistakenly, for a while there that we were going to have chat interop, if not from XMPP then from the multiple WebRTC products. But, ha ha, I must be new here.
It's going to end up on a lot of Android phones. If it's any good, it will catch on. Hangouts hasn't caught on that much because, imho, it has bad UI.
> I had literally liquidated everything (down to my wife’s engagement ring and all my savings, 401k, etc.) and (foolishly) put every penny I could find back into Karmaloop to try to save it - yet they came after me anyway. [...] A bank can legally make you sign a release of any wrongdoing the bank may ever undertake in the future (!!) as a condition of their loan. Crazy?

Not sure about they details but they could have come after him to make sure he doesn't have resources to come after them, even though he already signed the contract. But perhaps the contract was signed as the CEO of the company but not as him personally?
Nah, I would very much appreciate an AI I could talk to. But none is on the horizon yet - I'm still waiting until one will be able to hold the conversation and have something interesting/relevant to say.
Tesla Announces $2B Public Offering to Accelerate Model 3 Ramp Up
From my point of view, the US Government has not acted in such a way that they deserve to be extended any "benefit of doubt". The three recent events linked below come to mind as supporting material.

They have consistently demonstrated their willingness to break the law when it is inconvenient for them, as well as actively working to expand their power and authority at any expense.

1. Raid of Tor Exit node - http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2016/04/04/472...

2. Hair Follicle Analysis - http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/apr/21/fbi-jail-hair...

3. Manufacturing Evidence - https://theintercept.com/2016/05/05/fbi-told-cops-to-recreat...
You appear to be saying that people who value privacy are hypocritical because you want free stuff and do not care about privacy. I can't find the logic in your comment.
Oddly coincidental, there was a book released today covering this exact topic in the context of PHP development: http://adamwathan.me/refactoring-to-collections/
If scientists are biased at all, they're biased against life being hard; generally the party line is that it is easy. The standard line is that life arose once because all the evidence seems to point to the fact that all observable life comes from the same line, not because they can't conceive of any alternative.

It is still thought that there could be a slight possibility of a different life line still alive in some extreme environment, which we would have a hard time observing with our existing tools; e.g., if it was not built on DNA then some of the tooling we use to detect small amounts of otherwise-unknown life might not work. But to the best of my knowledge this is just speculation with no current concrete evidence.
Every single time I've played we filled the pong cups with water and have whatever you're drinking (beer, soda, cranberry juice) on the side. Whenever they sink a ball, just drink your own drink. I was under the impression most people played like this?
> _beats_ Java

Not according to that data!
> If you have to deliberately compare to the worst case scenario

What in god's name are you talking about? Infant mortality is the one primary risk of childbirth and the primary measure of perinatal and neonatal care alongside maternal mortality, the risk of the child dying is the very first thing you compare when talking about childbirth.

> with completely unqualified midwives

And that is a very common risk in the US because most states don't require any formation (let alone certification) to call yourself a midwife.