skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The whole idea is to motivate you to automate the process as far as possible. This is basically a good idea. It's a faff for us at present 'cos we don't have direct access to our load balancers at this moment (just switched hosting), but we're working on that.
Nope!

These robots are amazing in their realism of behavior that I find myself referring to them as creatures rather than robots.

Watching them get kicked makes me feel bad for them, just like I would for an animal, and watching them fall on a banana makes me laugh, just like I would if an animal or person did (so long as they weren't seriously injured, unless I didn't like them :P)
This makes no sense. Because people who move to California also move from other states.
I wish you'd explain why you disagree with my answer.
Seems HN/YCombinator is using Comodo:

https://thumbsnap.com/i/5ZkbUd6F.png?0623
Well you can't really compare Safari with Edge as they are are exclusive to different platforms.
There have been three: http://timelines.latimes.com/deadliest-shooting-rampages/
If you like to test it, I would be very interested in the result of trying to get linux running with only code written from the last 3 years. I would assume that almost a majority of the code would be there, but then I would also assume that most of the essential core is basically untouched except for security patches. It would make for a very interesting read and a HN worthy article.

Have kernel images doubled in the last years?
Yes, indeed. Portal is great. But when I wrote that, I was thinking more about open worlds and multiplayer games where game length is entirely irrelevant, and you can easily play hundreds of hours without realizing it.
Obama might want to be a venture capitalist after leaving office
radare2: The ed of reverse engineering.
The thing about vim is that the interface is a language. It certainly takes some learning. Check out vim-adventures.com
+1 for Digicert, awesome service. I'm definitely looking at letsencrypt for our next project.
In addition to the new language features there are some very exciting new APIs being designed at:
https://github.com/dotnet/corefxlab

Including a new higher performance/lower allocation text formatting API:
https://github.com/dotnet/corefxlab/wiki/System.Text.Formatt...
Or they would have pissed everyone off by having an auction instead of a regular IPO and they wouldn't have had nearly as much interest in their shares. Google was a very special company and even then nearly managed to screw up their IPO.
Wait, why does it have to have a purpose besides marketing?
Han Unification "rules" were an inconsistent mess, but I do know that in Japanese 靑 was at one time a printer's simplification of 青, so you could find either in texts, and the Consortium tended to encode a character separately if you could find printed examples of both in the same language.
> the performance enhancements they claim to have realized have to come from somewhere

Even in the first beta, the performance enhancements are real. Numerous Apple folks, including Craig Federighi, have said that with WatchOS1 and 2 they 'overshot' how conservative they needed to be with RAM and CPU (out of respect for battery life), and with WatchOS 3 they have rebalanced that.

Time will tell how much of a hit battery life will take from this, but for a beta things look good so far.
Oh, I apologize. When you said "That's about as X as it gets" I thought you were using the common US idiom conveying an extreme degree of X. (I usually make this mistake in the opposite direction, misunderstanding an idiom by taking it literally, rather than mistaking literal writing for an idiom)
He probably meant Hacker News, just checked and HN is verified by Comodo and LetsEncrypt by IdenTrust.
How would open sourcing get people interested if there are no users?
Maybe GitHub will start to look like America with its gorgeous mosaic of diversity and we will finally be able to get some African-American and female perspectives on OSS. Change yourselves! Change the world!
We buy EV certs for those sites where the business unit and/or marketing demands it, but otherwise we just use Let's Encrypt. (Small publisher with some paid info sites.)
Just going to leave this here:

http://www.google.com/about/careers/locations/waterloo/

https://www.google.com/about/careers/jobs#t=sq&q=j&li=20&l=f...

(Search above includes both Tornoto and Waterloo, but Waterloo is the main engineering office in the area.)
Implementation of an ... SDK, maybe? Implementation of an API would be another Github, right?
for sure, and the quake soundtrack was actually my first exposure to nine inch nails.
Nextdoor is now used in over 100,000 US neighborhoods
Meh? I mean retirement savings: over the course of 30 year you can expect about double what you put in. "oh if you put in 5000 now when you're 70 you'll have 10000" is not really that impressive (and of course that works out even if it's not a one time sum. Assuming you don't retire just before/after a market collapse you're going to see about double what you put in (that's assuming were talking actual investments, the .01% interest on a savings account is just an insult)). It's basically the reverse with housing and student loans. You end up paying about double what you take out. A) you don't really need easy facility with compound interest to be made to understand that B) "about double" is, despite Einstein claiming otherwise, not actually that powerful.

Credit Card debt is really the only thing that most people will interact with that has sufficiently high interest rates to be worth worrying about and like I said elsewhere the principle on CC debt is going to be having constant significant swings which makes analysis entirely dependent on spending habits, not the interest.
That sounds like marketing to me. But don't know what's wrong with marketing in the first place. Having good marketing is essential.
I also donated I think the feeling of missing out helped sway the decision.
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aaaaand there it is! https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix/releases/tag/v1....
I'm not rejecting that the act itself might have been altruistic. It may have been. I've merely suggested it might not be, that there's no proof it is except incidentally, and certainly doesn't support them being altruistic as a company. The evidence I offer is all the selfish or abusive practices they do at various levels for maximizing their bottom line. That's for them not being altruistic. Far as acts appearing altruistic, image management and public relations are huge, money-making fields. The reason is that big companies often do something altruistic (or seemingly so) to get people to buy their stuff. Apple has a history of doing that, including with fake security ("Macs can't get viruses!"), to get people to buy their stuff. Given that history & insecurity of their phones, it's right to question whether them championing secure, private phones is a move to create or continue demand for their products given main competition is backed by a surveillance-oriented company. Clear differentiator available that might make them billions.

So, your claim is that a company with many selfish, damaging behaviors fought a legal battle over a case whose consequences might cost or make their shareholders billions depending on outcome and press. That... is consistent with rational, corporate self-interest. Their position also had social value to many & maybe the CEO even paused to do the greater good. That's dogma or speculation at this point given they usually don't focus on public benefit plus are still misleading people about their security & privacy for profit that continues to be hoarded also with few or no investments benefiting the public.

Apple's not altruistic: they're a company that schemed and sued their way into billions in profits. Taking a privacy stance might make them billions more. Or maybe they're just a good citizen on one topic on a few occasions. I'm leaning toward the former but still glad their self-interest and the publics' aligned with them following through on it. All I'm saying on this topic.
Most likely. My experience with learning math in the US is that it's all taught in a very boring manner and they generally don't care about showing you how it's applicable to daily life, so it seems abstract and useless to most students. It was only slightly better in university.
It's also taught in Canadian high school accounting class, although it's not mandatory.
How do they have any advantage over Android or iOS for business?
I think it depends on the job. Maybe a web-developer has lesser gain from extensive knowledge in ml. But I agree that every computer scientist (whether he works as an software engineer or not) should have some knowledge of ml, there are many things in the curriculum that are not as important as ml.

As a snarky remark: Maybe i am not yet qualified enough for real criticism as an cs-student, but i don't like it such sharp destinations between engineering and theory. All the "trial an error" in ml can be a useful guide to solving the theory. Also i guess the work of Jeff Dean is quite often more theoretical as the work of an average engineer. While i feel that if we have not developed a theory behind such tools, we have not really understood them, no one knows how komplex these things really are. I think/feel this makes ml-related engineering harder than software projects with a well understood theory

I just hope there are enough computer-scientists/mathmaticians at universities (or google ;) ) sharply looking on all the progess made in ml from the engineering side and asking themselves "what does that really mean?", because thats a hell of an interesting problem.

I may be wrong, my lecture on ml is next semester ;)
Your property management company is likely receiving a significant sum of money from ATT to keep it this way. Unless you have access to their contract with ATT, you're SoL.
The most epic thing I've seen today! Always nice to see people running their first line of code
Ask HN: How to get into clinical trials (how they work/operate etc)?
In all fairness, they'll probably just let everyone in as they've been doing until now, mainly because of two facts:

1) UK has never been part of Schengen, hence it has border controls (regain control of our borders!). That won't change outside the EU.
2) As shown with English hooligans in France, you can kick out any EU citizen that's a problem or burden for your country. That won't change outside the EU.

So, leaving the EU won't give superpowers to UK's border control that didn't have before. Hence why I'm pretty sure the UK will very quickly sign the same treaties Switzerland and Norway have, thus pretty much leaving untouched the immigration topic. After the referendum, UKIP will have no meaning as their goals would be fulfilled hence the Tories would have no reason to lie to you anymore about immigration control, they'll just leave the doors open.

The only that would change and has actually changed already is all the xenophobia created towards EU nationals and that, my friends, is a two-way street. Hatred only brings hatred. I'm reading too many EU nationals saying things along the lines of "I hope they leave and sink", which is not fair to British people IMHO.

You've normalised racism and brought it into national debates and even have public figures with racist campaigns (e.g. Farage's famous latest stunt). How the public has found this acceptable is beyond my comprehension.

Anyway, it is a shame what this welcoming country has become in the last few years. I hope that, whatever the result, we can keep working together on building a great UK and a great Europe.
Sounds like you did the right thing by moving somewhere that suits what you were looking for.

Similarly, I did the right thing by moving out of the Northwest to the Bay Area where my quality of life is vastly better.
> There are a lot of industries with a much higher COGS that do fine.

But not many that have such a ridiculously high PE ratio. One of the main reasons tech businesses (specifically SaaS) can command such a high valuation is because their gross margins are amazingly high (some up to 90%, on average around 70-80%), which means 90% of their revenue can be reinvested back into growth (S&M and R&D). I think it's certainly fine to discredit Twilio when looking through the lens of publicly traded SaaS businesses (they're on the low side of gross margins), but if you compare to other industries, you're right, it's a very healthy business.

Good read on this:

http://tomtunguz.com/not-all-revenue-dollars-are-created-equ...
Yep, rents have doubled since I moved here.

I moved to the bay area about 8 years ago. In that time, the house in Seattle that I lived in doubled in value, the equivalent of about 50k/year. Since I have lived here, the rents have also doubled, the equivalent of about 25k/year. I'm actually paying about the same (mortgage there vs rent here). I could have parked everything in AAPL and made about 5x. There are opportunity costs everywhere.

Money is only part of the equation but I'm making more than that difference in salary and I'm a LOT happier in SF. Being closer to friends and family and having a better work/life balance, being able to ride my bike to work, makes a big difference for me in overall happiness score. YMMV of course.

The building I live in used to be a terrible slum situation, and the new owners have renovated it (of course, living here during the renovation wasn't fun). I feel lucky there. Friends of mine have also been evicted and moved to other cities or other countries as a result of not being able to afford anything.
That was an elucidating dialog; and I have appreciated watching recordings of your lectures as well.

I realize I am replying a bit after the fact, so I am writing more on the off chance that you may read this rather than further the dialog. It seems unlikely that I will have an opportunity to directly collaborate with you given the present realities of my existence, but I deeply appreciate your contributions to the field of computing and education and for sharing your knowledge and wisdom.

Kind regards and sincere thanks.

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That's common (and can-spam compliant) marketer speak for "We'll remove you from List A, but we've already sold you to List B, C, D, E-Z. Toodles!"
Brillo Common Kernel
While that sounds great for Twilio (and in some ways it is), it's actually a bit of a bummer because this means they left around $90M on the table.

This is because of how IPOs work:

In an IPO, the company (eg. Twilio) sells the issued shares to an underwriter (eg. JP Morgan) at an agreed amount (eg. $15) and then the underwriter turns around and sells those on the market for whatever people will pay for them (eg. $24).

If those first shares get bought for less than the offering price ($15) the company got a good deal on their shares and the underwriter loses money. If the shares get bought for more than the offering price, the company loses money and the underwriter profits.

This is one way underwriters make money, by being able to turn around and sell those shares to the public market for more than they bought them for.

Twilio issued $10m shares at $15 and the market opened up 60%, so they raised $150M and left $90M on the table.

10m shares * (24 - 15) $/share = $90M
Simple Windows GUI Application Written in Go
Emoji were added to Unicode for compatibility with various mobile phones, so they would have a standard encoding. That's how Unicode ended up with the poop emoji for example - they didn't sit around thinking "what we really need is...". Since people really, really want more emoji, Unicode is sort of stuck constantly adding more. If you want to propose new emoji, the rules are at http://www.unicode.org/emoji/selection.html

Text symbols (as opposed to emoji) have different rules. Basically, the symbol needs to be used in "running text" (i.e. normal text), like "containers with [recycling symbol] can be recycled" or "he bid 2[club]". Traffic signs for example are not normally used in the middle of text, so they aren't encoded in Unicode. To get the Bitcoin symbol encoded, I needed to show that it was used in text, not just as a standalone icon. The full rules for symbols in Unicode are at http://www.unicode.org/pending/symbol-guidelines.html

For the snowman in particular, it was added to Unicode because it was a symbol used in the character set for Japanese TV broadcasts, see http://www.unicode.org/L2/L2007/07391-n3341.pdf

TL;DR: Don't argue "Why does Unicode have a poop emoji but no symbol for X?" - the rules are totally different for emoji and symbols.

Edit: does HN strip out arbitrary Unicode characters now? I originally had Unicode characters in place of [recycling symbol] and [club], but they disappeared when I submitted.
No biggie, but I do miss rotate, partition, nth_element from STL. Its just that when I came to C# i came with an expectation that it would have all of STL covered and more.
Or run a xserver on Windows.
They just didn't donate to anybody, which looks bad when the founder of your biggest competitor is also the world's biggest-spending philanthropist.
EDIT: Why was this post flagged? Comments now disabled?

I think you're running into the comment-cooldown feature. The reply button doesn't appear until a comment has been live for a couple of minutes. I'm not a big fan of the feature, it leads a lot of people to think they're being messed with by the moderators.
Google just said, "Wait! Did we say we are focusing on a 'household robot' and are therefore going to sell Boston Dynamics? Hehe. Just kidding about selling BD!" The cleaning up, stair climbing and fall recovery are seriously impressive.
Feels like living in the future.

We could have right now a RoboDog, with some machine guns on it and let them patrol and secure a perimeter. Fire at anything it moves. I hope they solve the issue with the banana peel :), though.
Not Being EMV Compliant Is Like Not Being Ready for Y2K
I.e. you suggest to use no library, but just ad-hoc DIY XHR/websocket/whatever-else-works to do what React doesn't?

I was asking exactly because I've already tried this and didn't like the process and results. Used the loading indication approach, with models having `pendingUpdate` flags. Basically, I felt that I'm writing ton of unnecessary code that had to be written only because things are too low-level. Like I was re-solving already solved problems.

React does the UI layer, but DIY data model + persistence layers aren't fun. What I'm looking for, is something like Angular's $resource (or its extensions) for React. Something that hides away the unnecessarily gory details (low-level XHR stuff, URL construction, maybe even data validation) behind a programmer-friendly API facade (`Item.save`), plays well with React and those fluxish patterns, yet doesn't enforce any special requirements on the server-side tech (i.e. can be used with existing Django/Rails/PHP backends).
German stop signs used the word "HALT" before. My German dictionary defines "stopf" as darning yarn, and "stoppen" as stop. Not quite the same spelling. Typing "stop" into French Google translate autocompletes to "stoppé". I wouldn't be in the least surprised if the American spelling crept into many European languages as a result of the sign being ubiquitous for 41 years - it would be surprising if it didn't.

I wouldn't underestimate the influence on the language of the American occupation after the war, either, nor the global influence of American business since the war. English words have crept in everywhere.
"More serious and expensive offerings apply machine learning to internal human resources (HR) records, and work to discover and infiltrate online crime rings."

Their first offering sounds pretty unlikely to yield results and the second seems ethically dubious to undertake for a single client.
Comodo is not a trustworthy security company.

Their browser extensions break browser security: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11021633 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9091917

They issued fraudulent SSL certificates in 2011: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2011/03/comodo_group_...
Good old NIMBYism
I guess parent meant geographical. Ocean, bay, mountains, forests, near-deserts, all in close proximity.
Magento 2.1 released
Still looks like ~$100,000,000 was missed.
> [CodeReloader] The lib/ directory is now code reloaded by default along with web/ in development

Nice! I found the way Phoenix deals with iteration to be quite refreshing, glad to see lib is now a part of this too.
They're marketing directly to people who would want to know about why they would IPO in the first place. Mission accomplished, non?
I think good customer service is pretty much essential to running a service like Fiber, because there is no code that I can write that's going to smooth over the fact that we killed your lawn while running the fiber through your yard. It happens :/
Write Code to Rewrite Your Code: jscodeshift
The skull-like face doesn't exactly scream "friendly" to me.
This has nothing to do with hiring and everything to do with finding a buyer. A lot of companies are told by potential buyers "if you were in SV we would buy you". Relocating lets them cut head count, improve financial outlook (new cost structure) and get closer to a potential acquisition. Definitely in the interest of the investors.
I didn't understand fully what it took to achieve this but simply looking at the numbers it is so clear how impressive the work is. Near or better performance with enormously fast build time, significant improvement in incremental compilation and enormous reduction in memory usage. Its unusual to see an optimization attempt succeed from so many different angle.
Please refrain from telling people what is not funny. It's not polite and doesn't add to the conversation.
Thanks! Can you please explain more about Electron App? It's based on Electron. I already exported the binary for macOS and Windows (https://github.com/KNNCreative/please_stand_up/releases).

Do you mean submit it to Mac App Store? I plan to do it later.
Ready or Not, Companies Will Soon Be Tracking Your Emotions
I think one concern is that if you're not familiar with Mir, and the fact that it's long gone (or if you're just skimming titles on HN), the title by itself could be seen as suggesting that the worst collision in the history of space flight just happened recently. Putting a year, or maybe calling it "Reflections on the worst collision..." or something like that, would get rid of that ambiguity.
They forgot to kick it to make it lose its balance !
It was changed by 'sctb':

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11961301
I may have briefly visited the site a while back, but I haven't looked at it too closely. I'll check it out more later. Thanks for the suggestion.
Yeah.

It's a mess. If you want to write a document in Japanese that talks about a Chinese character which is written differently than its Japanese version, you can, or can't, achieve this in Unicode, depending on the character, its history, and the mood of the consortium the day it was assigned.

The reality is that Unicode is governed by people, some of those people are grumpy reductionists who push for a minimum of symbols and a maximum of meaning-overloads, and others are more liberal and tend to advocate the opposite, and the result is a compromise, and is in areas very messy.
True, and to some extent it's like any other form of gambling. The odds may not be that bad -- they may even be in your favor in the long run -- but the game ends the first time you go bust. So it's really, really important to keep that from happening by accident.
Previous discussions: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=Lessons%20from%20Doom%20vector....
As I hear it, it all comes down to financing. Talent's easy to find, sure, but raising money anywhere in Canada vs. SF is no contest.

It's still a shitty way to treat people, but I can see why companies still want to be in the valley. I just wish we could attract more investors to Toronto. There are a lot of super-psyched tech and design folk in this city.