skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apparently this can be done. Not too surprising.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/259582/how_to_use_a_kindle_dx...
LabStack Up (Real-time file transfer)
Most of the improvements are superficial, apart from medicine maybe.

- Housing

- Education

- Quality of jobs

- Career growth

- Job security

These are less accessible than 30-40 years ago, while surely you can enjoy the magic of Facebook on your shiny iPhone, which were admittedly unavailable then.
Show HN: A simple wind speed and direction probability model (Jupyter Notebook)
relevant:

"Bessen argues that during times of technological innovation, it often takes years before workers see higher wages from productivity increases. Bessen stresses the importance of the standardization of education on the job as workers adapt to new technology."

http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2016/05/james_bessen_on.htm...
James Bessen on Learning by Doing
This really does not appeal to me at all. The major point of docker containers is not the image format, it's that the kernel can allocate resources more intelligently. VM images work just fine for "shippable images."

What I'd rather see is an allocation layer for physical resources that just cordons off the whole machine (physical or virtual) by tenant as soon as previous tenant resources have been fully consumed, then reclaims hosts after usage subsides. So as a provider I still only have one cluster to manage, but as a consumer I still don't worry about another layer of abstraction slowing things down or pre-allocating resources.
I am almost baffled by the notion that here we're seeing divulging profoundly personal information being flipped on its head with the concept of privacy-by-design, but since we now live in the post-1984 era, I guess this refined level of doublespeak should not be so surprising. "Don't be such a worry worm. If you don't trust us, you can trust our algorithm all the same as your very soul mate. Honest!"
Much of the stuff you sign when you take a job is unenforceable. But they have you sign it anyway, because you remember signing and think "what's the point in talking to a lawyer?"
Going to 141 chars would solve all their problems imho
Unemployment is low because of the make-work programs that hide reality.
They were both current model year or at most a year old. Well, I use the term "Skyline" loosely. I don't think Nissan actually calls them that anymore.
I'm not sure if this is the right place to post it. It's just a simple probability model of wind speed and direction, that I made using Jupyter Notebook. This is my master thesis (And I'm still working on the paper).
Idunno, with the law as complex as it is, and with civil procedure being as complex as it is, it seems like there is so much room to grow as a lawyer that I'm sure they have a similar 10x distinction, as in programming
Does this mean PostgreSQL is an even better NoSQL? ;-)
For me this is an interesting consolidation. Microchip was the "king" of small chip embedded systems with the PIC series back in the 80's with the PIC16C84 and David Tait's 5 component programmer that you wired up to a parallel port. Then Atmel's ATMega line started gaining ground and with its selection in the Arduino and the intense community at avr-freaks it pushed Atmel to the top of the pile. Neither Microchip nor Atmel chose to license an ARM chip initially and both wasted time and resources on their own bespoke 16/32 bit architectures. The price wars that led to making it possible to buy a 32 bit machine with 8K of RAM and 64K of flash for less half the price of an 8-bit machine with 2K of RAM and 16K of flash. Such a huge change that it really turned the world upside down in many ways.

I will be interested to see how this works out for them longer term.
It may have made America as a whole wealthier, but destroyed the working class.
> They are a good employer though if one finds a happy place there with excellent benefits.

As long as you don't work in IT.
Scientist suggests possible link between primordial black holes and dark matter
At a brief glance, this looks comparable to Magnum:

- containers
- openstack
- multitenancy
Typical handwaving. You make it sound like everything has fine, but there have been many many occurrences of full blocks and delayed transactions over the last year.
What happened was that power gave fairness and justice a chance.
Makes me wonder if we should eliminate the minimum wage altogether.
This is awesome – I've been passively looking for someone to do this and finally you have. I'll have to take a longer look at it (and respond in more breadth/depth), but great work and good luck with your thesis!
I'm pretty sure this comment chain is going to end up making someone a lot of money.

Honestly, I love the idea of a van Goph with a massive, subtly moving image.
What I find funny is people who think that metaphysics is real, even at the mild level of mathematical Platonism, but think that it can only ever be figured out from our armchairs, that there's no way I could build a machine to do it for me.

On the other hand, I find it pretty easily believable that we can receive compounding returns from advances in ML/AI. After all, pretty much as soon as we invent new techniques in computational statistics, the go-to fields needing to apply them are the other computational sciences: physics, chemistry, biology, medicine.
@harator : Thanks for posting this link here. I would have never found it on my own.
Windsock.js 0.2.3 release
A flux inspired library for building web applications built on top of an observable JSONML compliant virtual DOM. This is a pre-alpha release.
New search engine – Omnity
Tesla Motors (TSLA) Financing Model Mirrors Scams – Devonshire
On that description alone, I want to see it.
I think we are in violent agreement.
Goals vs. Systems
Edit: seems like HN doesn't let you emoji
Reading this makes me so glad I live in a part of the country where there are no HOAs and where multi-unit houses (2 and 3 unit freestanding) are typical. It's a great neighborhood, and the high density means I can live within walkind distance of way more friends than in the part of the city where I grew up.
Yep. The Paperwhite isn't as good as the art-quality print job you'd see on an heirloom book, but it's certainly within range of mass-market paperback quality (or even better, as another poster noted... some of the more cheaply-made paperbacks look like they were rubber-stamped on paper towels).
> In 2014, 28% of young men were living with a spouse or partner in their own home, while 35% were living in the home of their parent(s). Young women, meanwhile, are actually still more likely to be living with a spouse or partner (35 percent) than they are to be living with their parents (29 percent).

Can someone please explain to me how this works -- if there is an approx equal number of women and men, then at least (35%-28%) = 7% of women are living with a spouse or partner who is NOT a man. If we account for gay couples, assuming there are the same number of female and male gay couples (and in reality there are more gay men couples than lesbian couples), then this difference is still 7% (or greater). So 7% of women are living with a partner who is not a man nor a woman?

Not sure I follow this research.
I wrote one up for Codeship earlier this year:

https://blog.codeship.com/heroku-postgresql-versus-amazon-rd...
Why Profit Margins Are Key to Trading Success
Guess I'm old. I've always capitalized it and generally never seen informed people using lowercase. And that's ignoring the public Internet versus any internet.
I think you can silence the opinion of fuckwits like Gawker without losing the ability to teach critical thinking.

In fact, the silence might be better for studying.
I think the only time you get the 409(a) valuation is when you get the IRS reports after execrcising.
But the Hindernet will still be capitalized.
They could easily know, by counting the machines they told to upgrade and counting the ones that came back from upgrade and subtracting one from the other.

But you might be fired if you tried to implement the collection of that data.
That's an impressive feat but now that you know about the bit shifting trick, I suggest you start using it because most of us mortals don't instantly recognise large powers of 2 when they're written out in decimal :) I'm still kind of amazed that you learned how to do bit arithmetic without coming across that pattern.
How hard its to find a remote job?
Tor developer flees to Germany
My last fees were .00013 and .00005 respectively. If I was just reading headlines and not actually using bitcoin, I would think there was a problem too.

If you are worried about the network scaling, there are criticisms to be had. The network works very well for me, I don't consider that handwaving. I consider Blockstream to be delusional people, it has nothing to do with the network, it works really well if you've tried to use it, even during one of those "stress tests".
Evan Sayet has some thoughts on this (many videos on youtube). In a nutshell, Liberals like to talk about things, whereas Conservatives like to do things. So liberals go into fields like journalism, acting, teaching, etc.
Can you give links where?

We wanted to make eink displays with touchscreen controls for videoconferencing but the latency isnt great.
> "It will probably take a while to get shift-I out of our muscle memory."

If only there was technology to flag potential spelling errors in the editor along with all of the other automated style rules used by the industry.
The craigslist theory of design. It'll cost him a month's worth of revenue in labor to change it!
Can we please stop calling these demands 'requests'? "n. the act of asking for something to be given or done, especially as a favor or courtesy; solicitation or petition". The connotation is really misleading.

I've held my tongue about this through dozens of stories, and I won't harp on it again, but after the third time in this article I'm sort of snapping.
Outcomes-over-principals approach is exactly why I compared the two exercise of freedoms on their empirical effect on violence.

With that in mind, would you support more alcohol control, analogous to whatever level your desired gun control is? (Perhaps registering containers of alcohol, prohibiting felons from owning alcohol, consumption permits requiring background checks, etc.?)

---

PS Using Europe as a model of legal gun restrictions is a convenient choice. Mexico or many South American countries would be less convenient examples.
I would hazard to guess that a couple that consists of younger woman to older man(that is older than 34, which the research seems to cut off) is more common than the otherwise.
I'm liking this argument that "gawker bloggers aren't journalists" so much that it seems to negate the contradiction of Thiel preaching press-freedom yet financing lawsuits against a press outlet.

Of course, factoring out my biases, this is troubling. But who is foolish enough to think that this sort of thing doesn't happen in tech? Most of the big names got there through backstabbing
Cars was not critically successful, but it has been a merchandising goldmine. Every NASCAR mom and dad bought a Lightning McQueen, or a Mater, or other Cars toy for their kids.
I liked DuckDuckGo's approach, they have really benefited from a user first strategy. That said, it has been interesting how the cost of compute and storage going down has led to such a large number of non-pages on the web. I was reading a paper which estimated that there were probably 10 trillion web documents reachable on the web, and fewer than 10 billion of them were "meaningful" (meaning they had accurate and unique information). If their estimates are correct, literally 99.9% of the web is crap pages. That is a huge discrimination problem.
How to extract audio file from Blu-ray
Yes, we should abolish the minimum wage, and if necessary directly subsidize the poor with EITC and similar programs. That will reduce disincentives.

Of course, if we really cared about reducing poverty and inequality, we'd just skip the EITC and open our borders - but obviously the massive amounts of inequality between an American and an Indian are far less important than the relatively small amounts of inequality between two Americans.

Another solution is a basic job - basically a basic income, but you need to work for it (e.g., fixing our crumbling infrastructure and providing free child care for working mothers).
>are eligible for medicaid

Depends on your state. Where I live, you can't get medicaid, regardless of income, unless you're elderly or disabled (not sure if low-income parents qualify). Thanks, Republicans.
The central tenet of critical thinking is to question everything. Why bother questioning anything, if you just saw your teacher shut down a source of information without giving you the opportunity to ask your own questions about its motives?
As long as it's just a few hackers playing with their toy, yes, it works fine. It fails horribly at any sort of non-toy use case. It couldn't even support the transaction volume of a small city, much less an entire country, or the whole world.
OVH is likely to launch a dedicated instance for Postgres in the near future. It's currently in the beta stage of RunAbove.

https://www.runabove.com/PaaSDBPGSQL.xml

No affiliation, just a happy customer of OVH's hardware.
An effective barrier is making it IMPOSSIBLE for a government request for data to be fulfilled - such as end-to-end encryption where the intermediary never has the key, like Whatsapp has done. This is easiest if implemented into a new system from the beginning design of its architecture.

It completely removes the need to waste person-hours attempting to fulfill a "wiretrap" request, whether from a warrant or FISA-court type thing, if the request is impossible due to lack of crypto keys. And at least at present completely legal unless the US passes laws outlawing crypto.
Adidas to sell robot-made shoes from 2017
I wonder how much of this is companies getting stingier with relocation expenses. Even in tech, companies which claim to be begging for more talent tend to offer either no relocation benefits or really kinda insulting benefits ("$5000 max reimbursable with receipts, and you have to pay it back if you are separated within a year" for instance).

How many Americans could really cover a cross country move out of their own savings in search of work? Especially when job switching is so risky these days. I know a woman who relocated herself to SV to work for a startup and then was terminated a few months later after the startup shifted priorities and eliminated her position.
They were showing some kind of multi window demo. The 3 panels would show independent images and then synchronize and show a single large image split across the 3 panels. Cool stuff but I couldn't find video of that online.
> it's just that I can't automatically detect the region by the bucket name on the back end

exactly.

> But it should be fixable.

yep.
Unfortunately, on many even the lowest brightness is too much for a low light or no light environment.
Why I Left [Language_1] for [Language_2]
do you have a link? this fits with my hypothesis, and would be interested to read it.
Are you Andrew Bolt?
Cell Phone Signal Detector
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11761583.
Not sure why you say that. GP post perfectly describes my home town in BFE Midwest.
Apple Rehires Jon Callas, cofounder of PGP, Silent Circle and Blackphone
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11761437
Most successful artists in my generation are media-agnostic and work fluidly between sculpture, installation, image-making, digital, video, and sound as media.
The new movie of Van Gogh is just that.
If you mean that big heist last month or so, almost all the money (90%) was recovered 81M lost out of 951M. That'd simply not happen with BTC. And there's been plenty of cases of BTC getting stolen and putting exchangers out of business.
The public option was specifically killed off by insurance industry lobbying by Karen Ignagni, as were reductions in Medicare drug prices by the equivalent guy for the pharmaceutical industry. As I understand it, Obama wanted a public option, but had enough difficulty getting Obamacare passed at all, and those sacrifices (along with requiring the individual mandate) were the price of preventing hundreds of millions of dollars of anti-Obamacare attack ads from those two industry lobbies.

I'm not sure how much more to the story there is than that, but for reference, see: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/obamasdeal/
Did you see the video link posted here [1]? "Latency" seems to be in the 5-10s range with a huge amount of jarring flickering. Definitely not bad as an art display but way way way far from being remotely useable as a screen. Considering how long this step took, still easily 3-5yrs or more from a commercially viable monitor.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11767090
This is great news, awesome for textbooks etc... I've been waiting for this for so long as e-ink Triton has been way too expensive and low resolution.
I'm aware of C's language problems, but I don't think the ones you mention impede encapsulation of algorithms so the compiler can do a better optimization job.

> strings are required to be zero-terminated arrays of signed 8-bit integers

This is incorrect. C's char type is optionally signed, not required to be signed. The implementations I know of make them unsigned, because signed characters make no sense.
Ah, I meant per channel but I wrote per pixel - thanks for the correction.
I just have a general knowledge of what neural networks are about so this video was actually more impressive to me than the one submitted. Thanks.
Here is an amazing blog post where someone did exactly this!

https://www.claybavor.com/?p=407

Obviously they took a pretty expensive and power intensive route, but the end result is absolutely phenomenal
Wow nice work. I'm glad you persevered. What they finally gave you is hilarious.

The first design feature of the panopticon is that any inmate can be seen by the guards at any time without his knowledge. The second equally important design feature is that the inmate can never see the guard, can never see what he's up to or who he is looking at. Or even if he's around.

In the present context this manifests itself in the above hilarious obstructionism against FOIA and open government, and more ominously in Obama's war against whistle blowers.
Maybe some kind of prism that flips one face at a time when it gets a pulse?

The other thought that came to mind would be some sort of resonance system... send the right frequency, and the cyan (e.g.) particles bob up and down hard enough to reach the surface, where they'd stick. Each particle would have its own resonance frequency.
Primaries and Caucuses – Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
The GPL protects users; if you use software, a GPL license protects your right to make changes to the software via the source code to correct problems and make it suit your needs. I understand that many developers and suits to not wish to give this right to users, but trying to never mention that and calling yourself or anybody "pwned" by the GPL that other developers granted to you is quite simply propaganda.

Protecting users' rights is not getting pwned, it's a failure to pwn your users with software that you don't have pwnership of.
True investigation of a country requires a lot of time and effort, you have to live and feel the people here, reading reports will not give you a true understanding even it's based on facts. Unfortunately, statistically most western journalists now are extremely biased as it comes to politics. They are writing things for you to read, not for us. They will write things that you will understand and you will like, even if they tell lies. There are many examples of how western
journalists made fake reports on Xizang(Tibet) and Xinjiang. That does a lot of harm to China's politics and diplomacy in the world. So if a foreigner wants freedom, he/she should prove to deserve it. I think now many foreigners in China get almost the same level of freedom as Chinese citizens.

As to uniting the country, in Chinese history, every time when China is united as a whole, people get better life. Once divided, wars come, that is a whole disaster to Chinese people. There is always a force in China to make the country unite, that will make the whole Chinese people's lives better. You see, even EU is uniting European countries, unite brings greater good, though not everyone of 1.4 billion understands it. Sorry, here, we can't let everyone shout his voice out.

As to "I'm pretty happy and hopefully everyone else is too", no I didn't say that. Actually, I'm not that happy, and everyone in China is not that happy. But you have to see what we are worrying about. I have traveled around the country and lived in many cities and in the countryside(I have many relatives there), and I have quite a few friends from Xinjiang and Xizang(Tibet) too. For now, if you don't live in deep mountains, your life quality will be good. Food good, cloth good, water and power supply good, hygiene condition good. But there is still a lot of improvements to go, we don't want merely good, we want fantastic. So we are all worried how to make more money, work harder get a better job, when can I buy my own dream flat, how to teach our children better, how to make our parents happy. I think worrying about these kinds of problems is much better than worrying about the problems of refugees in Syria.
For some people, spending most of your life in a polluted, noisy, shitty apartment is giving up more life than the commute to work. It is unfortunate that we have to make such terrible choices.
Fortunately, hypocrisy is not a fallacy.
From the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco:

[1] http://www.frbsf.org/economic-research/publications/economic...
I know this is a generic joke, but the use of [spoiler] is a pretty good punchline. We could use more of this.
> Basically if you think people vote against their self interest, you don't understand the perspective from which they are voting. To be baffled by it is to fail to recognize your own ignorance.

Didn't you just write that people can be motivated by ideology instead of self-interest?

Yes, you can be altruistic (essentially the opposite of self-interested) and decide not to support universal health care, or basic income, or whatever, because you believe it will be a net loss for society. This line of reasoning is pretty common in conservative circles, in fact, and I didn't consider it worth mentioning.

I suspect you are working with a definition of "self-interest" that is so broad as to lose most of it's meaning. I take it to mean the opposite of altruism: working to help others at the expense of your own material well-being (or, perhaps, just without seeing any personal gain). My point is that you need not be altruistic to support these policies (though it does seem to help), if you think enacting them will improve or defend your well-being.