skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is not just a problem with tax law, but any law. The problem with the spirit of the law is that it means different things to different people. Both intent (and morality!) differs greatly between various people. Hence we stick to the letter of the law. A simple example:

- Let's say one can do A, B, C and D. They all represent similar situations.

- For some reason, the government wants to block the above.

- They create a new law, blocking A, B and C. They forgot D.

Now, they might have wanted to block D as well. But how do you know? What if D gives you a significant advantage over competitors?

One thing I've noticed, hanging out with lawyers, is that governments often make a lot of half assed laws. Closing the "loopholes" isn't hard - it just takes time + requires proper work. Also, don't forget, some loopholes are there by design.
I know I would love an ereader or outdoor-usable screen with color for schematics, drawings, syntax highlighting. Literally anything that doesn't involve animation and requires a battery-powered display could be better with this.
I don't want to dismiss the importance of certain language features. I'm just saying that any Turing-complete language with a reasonable ecosystem is good enough in most situations (where good enough != perfect but hey, perfection is the enemy of the good!).
New Google Calendar
"Today over one billion devices have Persistence built into the firmware."

Jesus. Why are surveillance technologies being built into every electronic device?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11766461 (2 minutes before)
So your argument has shape shifted from "This is terrible advice" to "this is terrible advice unless your at uber scale".

Sounds like we are in agreement then - at high enough scale - this is solid advice.
Jobs? Jobs? Jobs?
> A final thing to note - none of these methods stop a thief installing their own OS on your machine. Whilst this means your data is secure, you can make things a little bit harder for the thief by adding a boot or BIOS password to prevent them booting from a different medium. There are ways to reset this, admittedly, but since it won't get in your way (much), add another stumbling block for your enemy.

If you use UEFI with secure boot (and your own keys with the windows ones removed, and an administrative password set up in your firmware) then you're in theory protected against that attack as well. What's more, openSUSE Just Works™ with UEFI. I wanted to flash LibreBoot (a CoreBoot distribution that is free as in freedom) but I'm worried about bricking my laptop (as well as not being sure about how good Linux's support is for that).
Summary:

1. Enable Siri-2-app integration (likely similar to Android's intent URIs):
"To work with Siri, the third-party apps will need some kind of search-query box that Siri could fill with the user’s verbal request once the app is accessed. It’s unclear what would happen if an iPhone or Apple Watch owner had multiple apps that did the same thing, like Uber and Lyft, and then asked Siri to “book me a ride home.” (Don’t bother asking Siri to book an Uber ride today; the results are typically terrible.)"

2. Apple to release an Amazon Echo rival, powered by Siri, and probably open it up to content providers and developers.

3. Both are likely to be announced at the upcoming WWDC.
It seems that us as engineers either partake in pushing these souls into oblivion or join them. I see no way out unless we invent an economic use for those who will be useless.
It's a lifestyle choice. Personally, I like restoring old cars, remodeling my home, building robots. I couldn't do any of these things without being already wealthy if I lived in a big city, within walking distance to the grocery store and work.

I gladly commute so I can come home to something more than an apartment or condo, because that is all that is available or affordable.
I honestly don't see any issues here. As far as I understand the offshore processing centers aren't very different from what we have here in Europe.

What's wrong with Nauru? or Manis? or Cambodia? These are people fleeing from warzones for gods sake, any of those ought to be an immeasurably large improvement.
full-colour magazines, textbooks, cookbooks, atlases ... pretty much everything involving illustrations would be nicer in colour
Using Rollbar to unravel existing Laravel applications
> it gets hard to benchmark “algorithms”

The cleverest of all C compilers that I know do not even attempt to rewrite algorithm to a "smarter" one (they're not there.. yet). All this does is translate popcount algorithm to a hardware instruction, which one would presume affects the performance linearly.
Educational books ? There was some research that reading from a screen is less effective for studying. Maybe this is better ?
What bothers me more is the chilling silence on the issue of human rights violation carried out by the followers of communism [1],[2] by most of the intellectuals (mostly humanities professors) in USA who are very keen on criticizing USA for whatever perceived/projected censorship and violation of human rights. There is a huge possibility that these intellectuals are either crooks who have been paid and bought by the communists and/or are fools ("useful idiots")[3] who believe in the communist propaganda.

For every criticism dealt out against USA for human rights abuse and other governmental crimes/sins, the communist nations must be criticized a 1000 times.

Communism as a ideology is still a great threat to world peace. The followers and believers of communism have wreaked havoc on various parts of the world that matches nothing and these crooks blame the free market based democratic western nations for problems in their own countries.

I don't deny that capitalism has its disadvantages but it is by far the most humane, most successful and most benevolent government/societal system that has existed ever before whereas communism has resulted in extremely corrupt and very abusive government/societal systems in the world.

The things like the communist party chairman, the politburo members, and a bunch of their cronies got the entire benefits in a very skewed manner whereas most of the general public got only hardship should not be forgotten at any cost by freedom lovers.

So, we must not forget that the USA has served the world by taking a stance against this vicious ideology called communism and its equally vicious followers. We must raise this issue every time USA and capitalist free and open market based democracy gets criticized in favor of communism/socialism by the communists/socialists.

Some links you may find interesting here [2], [3], [4].

[1] https://sentinelblog.com/2015/12/10/maos-monstrous-record-ha...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laogai
[3]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Useful_idiot
[4] http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2017839/Madman-starv...
[5] https://tiananmenstremendousachievements.wordpress.com/tag/m...
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204455
Yes.

You're getting 1.5x the income (usually with longer hours) and paying 5x for the house.

You're also paying more for other random stuff like groceries, eating out, gasoline, electricity, etc.

You're also paying lots more for taxes. Some states have no income tax. Some states have no sales tax. Some have neither!
It would be fabulous for kids picture books. I've read chapter ebooks to my kids a few times but for younger kids you want big colour pictures.
This allows magazines and other color-image-heavy content to work a lot better on e-readers (currently they're pretty bad)
I still find the latency just that bit to much on my Kindle PaperWhite. Love the tones, texture, and battery but the latency is just a killer for me. I guess I'm too impatient.
Oh, restriction to a carefully chosen subset can be a feature all by itself.

Eg for data interchange compare json vs evaluating any random javascript expression. The latter is strictly more powerful than the former. The former is better.

Or an example in the other direction: imagine Haskell-Prime, like Haskell, but you can mutate every variable. Strictly more powerful, but awful. (Or imagine adding GOTO to your favourite programming language.)
Here is the direct link (paywalled, see summary below): https://www.theinformation.com/apple-opening-siri-developing...
I've never felt performance issues with full disk encryption, and I personally wouldn't feel safe carrying my laptop if I didn't have it.
Comics! I've been wanting one of these dedicated for comics for a long time!
That's what blows me away about San Francisco. Not only are you paying 10x ($1.5M) what most people in the US pay for a house ($150K), you're getting a lot less house at the same time.

We're talking going from ~2000 sq. ft. to ~1100 sq. ft., old construction, no insulation, etc.

If you really wanted to make a comparison between equal houses, the difference is more like 20x ($3M for a similar house in the Bay Area).
If you don't mind line-by-line or paginated scrolling, it will be fine for most applications. Not video or gaming, of course, but software development, web browsing, email, word processing, and spreadsheet editing are by no means unusual use cases.
So you copy the drive first.
Any plans for NodeJS client?
For reading either, perhaps. But the refresh rate is waaaay too slow for it to be comfortable for you to type on for interacting with IRC. Just invoking man would be painful enough.
One important insight into all of this is that, while there might not have been BSP renderers until 1995, the BSP rendering algorithm was probably 10-20 years old at that point.

Another good example of this is the Phong shading model. IIRC it was invented in the mid-70s, and some software rasterizers implemented it, but it didn't really make its way into graphics cards with fixed pipeline rendering until the mid-90s.

Graphics tech in the 90s and even early 2000s involved a lot of hardware and software catching up to theory from the 70s and 80s because we were finally getting enough compute power to make it worthwhile to use "approximate" rasterization-based algorithms in order to get real-time rendering.
Color also conveys information more efficiently per pixel than black and white.
FWIW: I agree with you. Living with my family would be a nightmare, but I think there are some major benefits from staying at home
I saw a few prototypes of Mirasol-based displays [1] over the year. So amazing, however they never got a broad adaption.

I still would love to have a comic reader with Mirasol.

[1] https://www.qualcomm.com/products/mirasol
It's still there, 4 days later.
The i7-5960X has a DDR4 controller. I believe it was the first mainstream CPU with DDR4.
Agreed. I had a very nice childhood and I couldn't wait to get out of my parents place. There is something invigorating about being in complete control of your own life.

I moved out when I was 18 and never went back.
>As a VC investor, having a company incorporated outside the US introduces additional legal risk.

An interesting counterpoint, for many startups in the Bitcoin / Cryptocurrency space, incorporating /in/ the US is seen as a risk (to some). E.g. ShapeShift, Blockstream.
I found this helpful reading: https://blog.coresecurity.com/2009/08/11/the-bios-embedded-a...
>there is plenty of apolitical journalism

Could you name three major sources of it, preferably not personal blogs? I am asking out of curiosity and disbelief.
39% of the US population lives in a coastal state, that's not insignificant either. Most of those people have a problem with affordability, you can't just shrug the problem away.
The 5960x already is DDR4. Also, Intel's supposed to be releasing the Broadwell-E 6950X in a few weeks, which will have 10 cores. That being said, the 6950X is also supposed to be $1500. The real fun will be the bang/buck comparison against the 6900K, which is going to have 8 cores and be $1000. Regarding bang/buck, it's hard to say, but I'd probably say that AMD places their part at the $800 price point, which would definitely give it a decent bang/buck.

Another wrench in comparing things is that AMD's promising some interesting peripheral support, like 64 lanes of pcie, usb 3.1 and direct nvme support, which will further complicate direct comparisons until release date. Intel's hanging on with the x99 chipset, which is stuck with usb 2.0 and pcie 2 for the support lanes.

Fall will be interesting, to say the least.
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> The world is certainly richer than it was in the 80s

It's debatable. I was in my 20's in the 80's. I was able to buy a 3br/2ba, 1500sq ft. house when I was 26. I had my school loans paid off a couple of years after I graduated - that's not happening for 20-somethings now.

> I believe that the answers to this crucial question are obscure

I don't think they're so obscure. If we are wealthier now, then it's likely that the wealth is in much fewer hands than it was in the 80's and before. Income stagnation. Wealth accumulating in fewer and fewer hands. Back in the 1860's Marx told us this is what happens in Capitalist economies. While you may not agree with his prescription (and I certainly don't agree with most of it) his diagnosis was pretty much spot on.
Hinton nicely summarized why neural nets used to not work - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcOMKXAw5VA&feature=youtu.be...

Quoted:

1. Our labeled datasets were thousands of times too small.

2. Our computers were millions of times too slow.

3. We initialized the weights in a stupid way.

4. We used the wrong type of non-linearity.

The pre-training helped with initialization, but later it turned out that just initializing the weights with correct scales for each layer (to deal with dissapearing/exploding gradient effect) worked almost as well with enough data.
Your purposely ignoring my point though: People have a working product. Why push them to a non-working product, when they clearly don't want it?

Maintain the current product, take the time to make the product work, and make it appealing to them, then you won't have to push them.
I'm excited for what it will do to textbooks
This reminds me of a This American Life episode where many members of a town collected disability because doctors there didn't consider them "smart enough to work". Seems to be the beginning of Universal Basic Income in all but name.

On another note, it must be depressing to live there.

http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/490/t...
> Appreciate the context for that comparison, but imagine that CPU for probably 50% or less the cost and with a DDR4 controller.

Not only that, the differences between Haswell (2014) and Broadwell (2016) are fairly modest. And nobody buys the $999 version anyway -- if they can make something that competes with the i5 at the $300 price point they're in business.
This will be perfect for electronic picture frames. I've given such devices to family before, but their significant drawback is that they are backlit, so they are much more distracting than normal print photographs and can't be put in a bedroom or anywhere else that needs to be dark. But a electronic picture frame with color e-ink would be an ideal use: Low power, no illumination, and no need for fast updating.
It sounds as though it's not particularly obscure and very very clear why it is part of the law. If you have shares or a right to shares you should be able to see who you are sharing with. Isn't that the very point of this law?
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I think I remember that article (or at least a similar one)! I can't seem to find it on the Globe's site, though.
The original said "FORTRAN in any language" (http://web.mit.edu/humor/Computers/real.programmers)
People forget, repeatedly, at length and often boisterously, that one of the fundamental points of bash is to continue to function when the rest of your machine is completely screwed up.

Loading an entire development environment into your CLI is ten tons of bad news in a five pound bag.
...So, webms?
Did you have an actual counter argument to share?
Microsoft accused of Windows 10 upgrade 'nasty trick'
I've always wondered how much cheaper the devices would be without such hardware functionality being built in. Surely a good portion of the cost is offset to the consumer for stuff they'd arguably not buy otherwise.
Disney: this isn't surprising. I don't think people realize how bureaucratically corporate Disney is, almost a parody at the level of "Brazil". They are a good employer though if one finds a happy place there with excellent benefits.

QNX: a lovely embedded and even service OS. I used it for encryption and stream management in a game-cartridge-over cable-TV headend. They also included a bag of chocolate chip cookies in the box. :)

Microsoft: I remember the agonizing (and multiply failed) Hotmail transition from Unix to Windows after the acquisition. I was working for a vendor called in to assist and the status meetings were a slow motion car wreck.
Get out of the F&$ing Way
Giving submissions provocative, outrageous titles may be great for getting attention, but it breaks both the rules of this site and its culture. We take submission privileges away from accounts that do this, so please don't do it.
>Why do we need 2 people (mom and dad) taking up an entire 4k-6k sq ft "single family" dwelling sitting on 1/4-1/2 acre of land?

>This country has a housing problem and this is the root of it.

This country has practically unlimited space for housing. We do not have land short; much less a land shortage caused by people living in comfortable houses.
It is cultural. In countries like India, Japan, China where collectivism is valued over individualism, it is acceptable to live with one's parents. In fact, even celebrities with a lot of wealth live with their parents.

Does collectivism correlate with a country's wealth per capita? Maybe it does!
If I had enough storage I'd give them a repository of all reasonably large free software projects. I'd also give them SciHub and everything in arXiv.
>Remotely invoke security commands to limit damage and protect data during a security incident

Gleefully awaiting the day when this is exploited by an attacker.
Paywalled :(
Help us test BookWithMatrix: find a trip that doesn't work and you'll get $5
The MTM client for iOS is not integrated at the system level like the Android client is.
Yes, but there is a summary in one of the comments above
System Preferences > Users & Groups > Guest User > Allow guests to log onto this computer

"If FileVault is turned on guest users can only access Safari."
If you google "australia refugee camps" you will find allegations of rape, abuse, substandard living conditions, lack of medical treatment, indefinite detention and more, denounced by the UN who call it illegal, denounced by Amnesty International who have accused the government of violating ratified rights too. Three people have set themselves on fire to kill themselves, that's not a thing that happens where people are treated humanely.

It's also been made illegal to talk about the conditions of the camp if you work with the guests of the internment camps. That shouldn't even be possible, it's just basic oversight 101.

It's a bit sad that's not a human right yet but that document is a work in progress.
How so? Understanding risk is not relevant to working at a risky-by-definition startup?
Definitely ethnic variations. I've known plenty of people who are relatively new to the US and still hold a lot of their previous customs about the living arrangements of children and young adults.

My impression is that most Americans look at it and say "that's different", but don't look down on it.
It's already working, after a little fiddling with an APK converter: http://www.zdnet.com/article/how-to-run-skype-on-a-chromeboo...
It is a generational wealth transfer. But when boomers die, they're generally leaving that wealth to millenials, aren't they? Except that the boomers also have a lot of debt.
Live in SF bay area and save up $50k (One year if you could make $120k(?) and live with your parents?). Buy two $25k houses, one to live in, one to rent out for your living expenses. Semi-retire. ?
Hypernetes: Bringing Security and Multi-Tenancy to Kubernetes
That is true; and it is generally considered a failure of UI design, especially if these differences show up side-by-side in the same system. That graphical coding tools have these problems is in part my point - many hops up this chain, pavlov bemoaned the lack of GUI coding tools, and I pointed out whether a UI is good and whether it's text-based are orthogonal properties

As an example of how it's possible to make a consistent UI among diverse applications: both Android and iOS have had a lot of effort put in to make app developers converge on consistent idioms; early Android did not do this, and was widely panned for it in the UI design community. The way iOS did this from the start, and Android does it now, is by having the "owner" of the system publish libraries that implement these standard UI idioms.

In the Unix and command-line world this has mostly been the province of GNU, which published the widely (but sadly, still not universally) used getopt_long, which was a big step forward for usability by imposing some level of uniformity on at least the syntax level of command-line args; more universal adoption of them would be great. There's still a problem of word choice and abbreviation choice, which hasn't yet been standardized across commands (quick, which of these recurses onto subdirectories! grep -R, grep -r, sed -r, cp -r, cp -R, less -r, less -R)
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We've already tested it a bunch, but would love the HN community's feedback. If you find an itinerary that, when pasted into BookWithMatrix, gives an "Invalid itinerary" error message, we'll buy you a drink or send you $5!
Any idea how they manage to control which pigments are shown?

In traditional B&W E-Ink, black pigments are negatively charged, while white pigments are positively charged, so it's fairly straightforward to control which ones to show. I wonder how they do it for color, since they would need presumably 3 or 4 primary colors
you can also certainly blame google marketing for not pushing televideo conferencing app hard enough..
He doesn't announce plans to fix things, he just says how bad something is, says something insulting about whoever tried to fix it before, then says that if he gets elected he'll somehow magically take care of it because he's the kinda guy who "fixes things", or something.

Although, there have been frequent instances where he claims to have a plan for something, but doesn't want to say what his plan is because he doesn't want to give anything away to his enemies. It would be kind of endearing if it was someone asking a little kid how he's going to prank someone, not so much when it's a grown man responding to questions about the potential use of nuclear weapons.
Are you saying Australia would be immune to the same problems certain places in Europe, i.e. Rinkeby, are experiencing?
So why didn't they all vote for Obamacare and for the public option, subsidized by higher taxes?

Because there was nobody to vote for who offered that. McCain's proposal was to deny that the problem existed. Obama's proposal was Obamacare without an individual mandate. Clinton's proposal was Obamacare with an individual mandate. Those were the only entrees on the proverbial menu. No candidate ran on a public option, so you couldn't vote for that even if you desperately wanted to.

Ironically, one of the first moves of the candidate who got the most votes, Obama, was to decide that Hillary Clinton had been right after all and include an individual mandate. So if you voted for him over her because you opposed that idea, you were officially SOL.
Upvoted because of course you're absolutely right.
Not a correction (given that they posted after you), but if krasin's mention of 32k colours is right then it's 5bpp.