skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Clearly he consistently sided with Orcale thought all this case. And I think it's totally ok to consider that he's not independent and very subjective.

But by following he's blog since a few years I often found very interesting insights about the trial. And i think it's important sometimes to be open to counterpoints.

While he can be very irritating when he touts out loud that he was right against every other analyst... We should conceded that he was remarkably good at predicting the outcome of the appeal.

And while i don't agree on him on every points I'm pretty sure that the ruling about copyrightability of API is a very good one and might one day prove beneficial to the FOSS community.

People often tends to mix up concept like Free/OpenSource Software and don't really get why licensing published code (even under WTFPL) is very important to keep projects rolling. I give to Mueller that he's probably better than many to understand complexity's of theses matters.

On the other side the linked article of this thread is a giant misinformation as it use the most dumb and old argument Oracle used in this trial even thought it already have been ruled out years ago.

EDIT: On a side note, I personally use PostgreSQL daily and wont recommend OracleDB to anyone as of nowadays.
They just wanted that for the RCS expertise. It should go into a Messenger/SMS replacement sometime in the future, I'd imagine.
Happy to answer questions here or give people invitations. If you request an invitation to https://www.imzy.com/imzy it's much easier for me to get people in than the front page!
I've heard a very similar saying about people in LA, as many people love to talk about how narcissistic the population is here.

LA does not turn people into assholes, the environment allows assholes to blossom into their full potential. If you are a humble, good-hearted person and move to LA you will generally stay that way.
Why not link directly to the android N naming suggestion page?

https://www.android.com/versions/name-n/
It is a problem for the 350 non-alcoholics who are unable to get a job because the hiring manager doesn't understand statistics.
What does the iPhone of 2021 look like?

I get the feeling from today's announcements that Google sees the 2021 version of Google Now as the selling point for their 2021 Nexus line.

I don't think Apple is preparing to compete on that.
It's primarily a frontend to Google search and music. It seems very appropriate for it to be under Google proper.
totally agree. Try this https://www.google.es/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd...
> Trying to change the schema

That's the biggest question I have after looking over the site. Coming from the Mongo/Mongoose world what happens in this case?
It's "Off The Record" in that they claimed not to store history. As I understand this is completely unrelated to the OTR encryption system.
>"A Daydream home screen will let people access apps and content while using the headset; an early look shows a whimsical forest landscape with the slightly low-poly look that Google has used in Cardboard apps."

Google Bob! ;)
I think he fluffed the book up a bit, but I believe some of the assertions about their research activities and production have been confirmed.
I know a lot of ER docs (I assume this story took place in an ER). Some are better than others, but I can't think of any that I wouldn't consider "above average" relative to "most human beings".

I'll absolutely agree with you in terms of primary care docs... As someone who routinely transports patients out of doctor's offices when the doc is in over their head, there is a _much_ broader variation in competency...
20% affordable is standard in many places, especially since affordable isn't really that affordable.
Looks like just redirecting a recurring ping command output to a text file then graphing the results in google docs or any other spreadsheet. I've done the same to shame Comcast.
Is this sarcasm of some kind? Is there some joke in here about Whisper Systems vs. Open Whisper Systems?

This comment seems baseless and unfounded at best. Is there context I am missing?
What I'm curious about, and think would be really neat, is if one could take advantage of the shared Signal Protocol to send messages cross-platform. Specifically, sending an encrypted message to a Whatsapp user from Allo. Or to a Signal user from Whatsapp. Or any combination/permutation really.
looking forward to replacing my Echo Dot with this
Do startups have an asshole problem? Yes. Do they have an "enforced fun" problem, as someone else asked? Yes again. To some extent, I think these are both reflections of something else: Silicon Valley style startups have an extrovert problem. Even though we're in an industry notorious for its prevalence of introverts, we're all called upon to put on our extrovert disguises for loud boisterous hyper-social fun from time to time. Why?

Part of it is that American culture in general tends to favor extroverts. Part of it is that startups have to do a lot of selling, both the company and the product, and that's extrovert territory again. Part of it, I think, is that VC culture strongly favors extroverts. VCs have to be that way due to the nature of their business, they favor founders who tend that way, they favor other execs who also tend that way, and everyone else just has to follow along. That's why non-VC startups tend not to have the same pathologies. People who cozy up to megalomaniacal show-offs a lot tend to become . . . well, anyone can complete that sentence.
I had the exact same thought--it's unfortunate that this happened, but some good might come of it as a randomized control trial...
I came here to ask people of examples of use cases because I just can not see how this can be useful in this decade.
Nobody knows that the FBI wants. It may actually be for legitimate reasons or not.

Which is precisely the point -- Lovecruft, justifiably, had no way of knowing what the government operatives had in mind, and wanted from her; whether it was something comparatively insipid and harmless (just some junior investigators throwing darts, and checking boxes on a list someone gave them); or something all-out insane and pernicious, like what they did to Swartz.

Would she be woken up at 6 a.m., and made to watch as agents ransacked her apartment, confiscating anything that looked like personal notes, and anything that looked like a digital device? Would she be strip-searched, and held in solitary confinement for hours (even after family and friends posted bail), or longer, with no explanation? Would she face the prospect of indefinite imprisonment if she refused to disclose the passphrases to any of her encrypted devices?

Would she be pressured into providing testimony against her friends and collaborators -- and/or "turning" outright, and becoming a paid informant? Would she hold her ground? Would she break?

Any of the above was a very real possibility. Which is why this is anything but a "non-story."
Um, pretty sure it's got to be "NBoaty McBoatface"
I would be shocked if tensorflow optimizations where useful 1:1 for stock Intel chips or GPU's. So, there is still plenty of lock-in even if your process runs. GPU vendors love to play this game by helping optimize games.
It hasn't even launched yet; won't be out until later this Summer.
The developer was likely worried about getting "a letter".
> The main exception is luxury developments: since the profit margin on luxury construction is so high, it's worth the extra cost and risk associated with navigating San Francisco's permit process.

And by navigating arbitrary decisions, I assume we're talking about bribery at some level of the process?
Is the carbohydrate-insulin hypothesis false?
Likely it was one of the racks used by AlphaGo
I have two words for you: Homeowner Association
Coin 2.0 supports it via NFC (through agreements with banks, similar to Apple Pay, AFAIK). That's what Fitbit would want.
I'm pretty surprised anyone thinks Dublin, California is "highly dense". It has half the population density of Oakland, and only double the overall population density of Alameda County, which is huge and empty. The only even remotely dense housing I can think of in Dublin are the apartments near the BART station, but even those are utterly car-dependent because there's nothing to which to walk. I challenge you to name even a single commercial establishment that fronts a walkable street instead of being totally surrounded by parking lots.
Exactly, so say you are running it 3 hours a day every day and it costs x an hour and you want an ROI on your hardware of 3 months. If y is the cost of building it...

if 3x * 90 > y
build
else
rent

So at $13.338 (assuming no reserved instance) if y is less than $3600 you make your money back in 3 months. Of course a machine with those stats will not be $3600.
What's wrong with this country, that nowadays people are so afraid of being disappeared that they run away to Russia, Ecuador, and Germany. We're doing something wrong.
Check out my upcoming talk "Migrate to Firebase", today at 3. I specifically cover how to use new Firebase features to add all the missing Parse product lines back to ParseServer

Link: https://events.google.com/io2016/schedule?sid=b4641ff7-0bef-...
Sysdig: Behavioral Activity Monitor With Container Support
It still happens. I always seem to get asked.

Heathrow's FAQ: "Do I need to remove my shoes at security? Only if you’re asked. Some passengers will be asked to remove shoes in order for them to be x-rayed."

Gatwick's FAQ: "You may be asked to remove your shoes and belt before going through the security archway."
It appears to be a commemorative plaque from when they defeated world champion Lee Sodol.
yes, common estimating method. My group at Lab 126 used it.

you're correct his usage is uncommon
Having completed my undergrad degree without attending most lectures by just by reading text books and papers, I wouldn't be so quick to dismiss the value of a lecture and a clear and concise presentation on a complex topic. Granted at my university, many of the lecturers were un-inspired/English as a second language, but there are presenters which can provide clarity and communicate understanding through lecture.

One of my favorite presenters, for example, is David Beazley who has several presentations/examinations on the Python GIL I found very useful. As another Python example, I also found Andrew Montalenti's overview of multi-processing in Python quite enjoyable as well (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVBLF0ohcrE). Finally, Sal Khan was such an inspired presenter that he founded Khan Academy (https://www.khanacademy.org/) based on his great success teaching mathematics to his younger relatives and their classmates through YouTube videos.
IBM's TrueNorth chip is taking a much more neuromorphic design approach by trying to approximate networks of biological neurons. They are investigating a new form of computer architecture away from the classic Von Neumann model.

TPUs are custom ASICs that speed up math on tensors i.e. high-dimensional matrices. Tensors feature prominently in artificial neural networks, especially the deep learning architectures. While GPUs help accelerate these operations, they are optimized first and foremost for video rendering/gaming applications -- compute-specific features are mostly tacked on. TPUs are optimized solely for doing ML-related computations.
For Authentication, it will be cool to have something like Twitter Digits(https://get.digits.com/) or Facebook Account Kit(https://developers.facebook.com/docs/accountkit), which is basically SMS authentication without password.
True. Even then, I'm still holding my breath for Unity's VR API to support Google Cardboard. Anyone know when that's coming?
Tablet connected to a network?
Joyent's Instances/Triton/Docker was already under $3/mo for the 128M instances, now they've just lowered it to ~$2.16/mo (720 hours at 0.0030). I've been able to do a surprising amount on the tiny instances, especially since they scale up/down near instantly.
Isn't this exactly the opposite effect? You place a bid for what is currently showing on the market, and the HFT firms use their speed advantage go and buy up most of the stock at that price and relist it for a bit more. So the price is never what you actually think it is, it is what you see plus whatever the HFT firm decides to add.

HFT firms can't provide liquidity--they don't hold positions! At the end of the day their books are all 0.
National Academy of Sciences Report on GMOs
How is the demand for DJango developers compare to Node and Spring?
I am junior interested in DJango but I am afraid that the job demand is low. What is your opinion? Should I go for Spring or Node?

My location: Boston, USA
I am very sympathetic to the founder, and he made a lot of very bad decisions (that he admits) but ultimately, the reputation coming out of karma loop locally was that they were way in over their heads and a dumpster fire.

I think this cautionary tale is important and worth reading, but taking on a bad loan wasn't the only issue they faced.

The other side of the fence has a private equity company realizing they may have just entered into a world of chaos and taking the steps they felt necessary to protect what capital they could.

Not understanding the repercussions of the financial moves you are making on the company's future may be an indication as to the general sloppiness of which the company is conducted.
It's also possible that the route between Numericable and Netflix is insufficiently provisioned, unlike the route from Numericable to your SSH server to Netflix, which can have more capacity.

What I mean is that's probably not an intentional throttling. Anyway, it's still a bad service. I have a similar issue sometimes with SFR...
Have you tried the "Adjust your Netflix playback settings" advice at https://help.netflix.com/en/node/11559 ? Not that I haven't seen this adaptive stream behaviour, but I find it affects my mobile devices (like iPads) far more than on a wired, desktop computer.
Actually, I expected to hear more about VR after the releases. Could it be that the hype is over before it began?
Germany is going to require evidence before extradition.
Insider trading is a term with a specific meaning, and that is not it; true, but nor is the specific meaning of insider trading what most people think it is.

"Trading on inside information" is a term for what many people attempt to do that is illegal.

"Insider trading", on the other hand, is when insiders trade, which is totally legal, it's just regulated in certain circumstances when the size of the the trade is large or the person's role is at the executive level, an upcoming trade needs to be announced (made public) in advance as if itself it is information.
While I completely agree, running a newspaper business in general, with today's margins, also sucks. So this just spreads it around a bit :).
The guy says that BitTorrent is half of the internet traffic "by some estimates". Does anyone have sources for this?
Gwern, I declare you to be a natural aristocrat.

I hope you won't get mad if we freeze you until the world cycles back around to the idea of making rulers effective at their jobs.

I don't think we'll have long to wait. The Net is over turning many formerly reasonable ideas by holding up a mirror to us. Will Rogers said: It isn't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so. <opinion> The Net is the end of egalitarianism, forever until perhaps genomics is truly cracked.

It's going to an interesting ride! I hope we wind up closer to the Diamond Age than Snow Crash though.
MyCroft?

https://mycroft.ai/
"Backprop" isn't even close to something that would be a "CPU instruction", it's an entire class of algorithm. It's like saying "calculus" should be a CPU instruction. Matrix multiplication & other operations, on the other hand, do neatly decompose into such instructions, which have been implemented by NVidia et al., since that's the core set of functionality they've been pushing for like a decade now.

Additional die space on additional functionality might hurt the power envelope (which is where the focus on performance / watt rather than performance kicks in) but it doesn't make your chips slower per se.
Yup, I assume they're gonna keep them in house as a competitive advantage for a time. I doubt they'll do it forever; the most valuable part of NVIDIA's CUDA is the ecosystem, and I think Google knows that.
> Extending and extinguishing can and most certainly has taken place, whether a monetary incentive exists or not.

Um, sure, but EEE is important because it was a strategy and one that was executed repeatedly by Microsoft. On the other hand, just because some products have been "extinguished" (debatable) does not mean that was the strategy employed by GNU, nor does applying EEE here seem to serve any predictive function.
(Firebase engineer here)

The old SDKs will continue to work! We worked extremely hard to make sure everything was backwards compatible with them. We most certainly do not want to break any existing customer apps. Check out the migration guides [1] to get your app updated to the new SDKs.

We understand migrating is not easy or always convenient. If you run into issues or something that used to work seems to be no longer work, please let us know. We will be giving you advanced warning if and when things get turned off.

[1] http://firebase.google.com/support/guides
Moxie's on the record as being opposed to federated services.

https://whispersystems.org/blog/the-ecosystem-is-moving/
Well, sure, @Pinboard is great if you like snark and don't care about accuracy.

For example: "What’s been missing from my video calls is the ability for people to see me before I’m ready" [1]

This is when you are calling them. Why wouldn't you be ready? It's more like seeing who is outside your door before opening it.

[1] https://twitter.com/Pinboard/status/732992053668253696
The Amorality of Self-Driving Cars
Apparently Nest are having trouble actually releasing anything. There were rumours in the press about this being developed outside of the Nest group for that reason a while back.
it's ASIC tuned for specific calculations, I'm sure it's better power consumption than general purpose GPUs. Same as crypto mining ASIC's crush GPU's in terms of power efficiency.

There isn't much data yet but I'm also guessing they probably have access to much more RAM than NVidia cards and can process much bigger data sets
The financial model is pretty much straight out of real estate development and private equity. The best up side for the lender is often being able to call the loan and take control of the asset. My anecdotal observations imply that this is pretty common outside Silicon Valley because it's the model the local yokel investors know through experience. The popularization of "startup" as a synonymous with "new business" and the common idea among founders that raising money and pitching investors and getting mentored is the first priority make happy hunting grounds for this type of investor.

That's not to say there aren't vultures on Sand Hill Road, but the standard model there tends to have greater alignment of interests between founders and investors.
5 tools to help developing and testing APIs
Your guess is wrong. It's DRAM plain and simple.
There are pros and cons.

Whatever her reasoning, she chose the same destination as people like Jacob Applebaum who "[...] has moved to Berlin, where he has applied for residence authorization; his stated reasons include that he doesn't want to go back to the USA because he doesn't feel safe and that privacy protections are better in Germany than in the US. In December 2013, Appelbaum said he suspected the U.S. government of breaking into his Berlin apartment." [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Appelbaum
And he mentions that in the article, he was very naive.

The sad truth is that this stuff doesn't get taught well (or conversely its the only good reason for getting an executive MBA where you learn from other executives). One of the random events that can make you a better entrepreneur is to interact with someone who is sociopathic early in your career. To experience the feeling that this person is totally on your side and then experience them ripping you to pieces for their own gain really helps add perspective to your future dealings.
There used to be a thread in the Firebase Google group about this which is gone now. It still lives on here:

http://grokbase.com/t/gg/firebase-talk/154mr25k86/firebase-m...

That thread is not encouraging.

Edit - found the original thread here:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/firebase-talk/LjHATl...
That was what I meant. It isn't really evil. "Suitably evil", in my mind, implies that they are responding with a suitable amount of evil to what they've been faced with.
If You're a Millennial You Can Be a Millionaire If You Start Doing This Now
I find one of the biggest challenges of YouTube being the editing between presentations slides and videos of the presenter. Being able to look at a stage as if you were in attendance from the audience would alleviate this challenge greatly (at least for me).

This has utility for note taking as well.
Son is barista at high-end coffee place in Silicon Valley.
Regularly serves coffee to extremely well-known VC.
Chats with VC over a period of months.
VC invites son to dinner with him and wife.
VC introduces son to CEO of several companies he has invested in.
Son now interviewing for management position (includes equity)
"The first priority in a hospital should be the health of the patients"

Like looking out for a newborn by discussing with the mother the ramifications of breastfeeding in light of multiple failed tests?
I'm not sure I agree with you, long term (about the chips). I think that the value here is in the ecosystem. If Google can compete with CUDA, they'll be doing really well.
Historically, 5-10 years ago, it'd be between 30-40% of total internet traffic. Its come down close to ~7% in the last few years with Netflix, Hulu, and other over the top services being available.
There is discussion about a better article, with no paywall, at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11724763.
Why didn't Google just develop this in house? It almost feels like they're admitting to having no credibility on privacy without an external partner.
Go piddle your massages elsewhere!
I was answering to "using a substandard approach and language" -- if that is an option that's on the table I am assuming the time savings would be substantial (order of 50%). I do of course agree that one should often "Taking a little more time to think about or improve some code".

It seems like you almost say that it is better to be good at coding than bad at coding. Which I think nobody will ever disagree with. What I was talking about was assuming senior coders, knowing what they are doing, who think about actively choosing a shortcut.

I don't think it's a strict dichotomy, but I think there is a scale. For every project you can choose how well to do the job, and compare it to the importance the task seem to have and the budget it ought to have in developer time spent on it; then find relevant short-cut which does not dig you too much deeper in the hole. I usually try to figure out "how would I refactor this later to clean it up", make sure it can be done without too much pain, then if I can see the path clearly it's OK to take the shortcut if needed.
Agree. To attract devs to using your spec, then eventually go to your platform. But since the spec are open, AMZN/MS can make their own too. So it is still a good thing.
Thanks Joe! : ) I remember that day.