skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with you but there is a very important difference. They're a publicly traded company and all that entails.
> There are also scientists (perhaps some of them the same people, perhaps not - I haven't paid close enough attention) whose theory is that climate change is driven much more by the solar cycle rather than human activity.

Well isn't that a problem with you rather than the debate? If you honestly can't tell the difference between a scientist and someone who is insane, then what can anyone, other than yourself, do about that? It won't matter what evidence they produce since you won't be able to tell if they're just making it up entirely.

Oh, and no, no-one sane thinks the current global warming is due to the solar cycle. It wouldn't make any sense.
I don't think the Japanese need those.
I would argue self-driving car software is different. If license terms permit modification, and a modified version is running in a car that causes damage, then there will be an argument as to whether the modifications caused the wreck, or whether it was the underlying software and thus the manufacturer who is responsible. Tesla, quite rationally, would not want to give users a permissive license, given this obvious liability problem. Even if, nod nod wink wink, they might approve of owners playing around with it.
Antibiotics weaken Alzheimer's disease progression
Power utility raises rates for Bitcoin miners
Um, if I am a content consumer that has legitimate access to content streams from two different sources, why am I not allowed to multiplex those streams in a way that is useful to me?

This is not about Twitter, or CNN, but the users ability to consume content that they have legitimate access to in the way that they choose.

Replace twitter in this example with the ability to feed an audio stream into a speech recognition and translation service to translate audio streams on the fly and suddenly no one can argue the value to the consumer, but both cases are legitimate uses to different users.
50 GHz is still significantly less energetic than visible light, which is in the hundreds of terahertz. The sun bombards us with a lot of visible light, but you have to get into the blue/violet/ultraviolet region before it's energetic enough (high enough frequency) to cause damage. Barring some strange and previously unknown special biological interaction with a particular radio frequency, radio signals which have lower frequencies and lower intensities than visible light from the sun are not going to cause cancer any more than exposure to red or green light would cause cancer.
If the energy is free b/c it comes from the solar panels on the roof of my garage, why do I care?
Yes. Module pre-compilation is already possible, and last I heard there is work underway to use the same sort of mechanism to allow for single-executable compilation. The problem, of course, is that Julia and Go are very different beasts, and pre-compilation will almost certainly limit some of the currently available dynamism. (Already there are packages that cannot be pre-compiled due to these limitations.)

Of course, in this regard Julia is not any different than Python, Ruby, JS, PHP, etc. Also, it's worth noting that Julia has cluster-computing as a concept baked into the language. So, whereas you might need to worry about distributing Go executables to multiple machines in a cluster, with Julia you need only have the Julia runtime installed, and from there any Julia program can distribute itself to any available nodes without further action required.
Ask permission to talk to the outgoing manager. If they balk at transparency, you'll know where the "communications" problem lay.
It's been less than a year, eh. A bit early to declare it has "already won"? There's decades of research ahead of us.
First you have to remember that China itself's population is as large as the entire western world, so things are completely different here. For example, almost nobody in China use credit card for online payment: they use Alipay as an alternative.

1. Perhaps high salary? Non-local employees are rare here.

2. No in tech companies, but yes in small cities and countries. In tech companies and cities like Shanghai, forigners are treated better than locals, seriously.

3. Easier than getting a work in US.

4. Don't send a clock as a gift :)
> It's not on agenda and it will never happen.

I believe Matz has said that it is on the agenda for Ruby 3.0: that it will have static typing and that it will be optional.
Yes. For more details see
http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/listxattr.2.html
I prefer StackOverflow careers as an indicator of language popularity in the industry.
When you post a job you can only select 5 tech tags that accurately describe the position.
I have been scraping SO for couple of months now. If you want to dig into the data, right now it's aggregated as json.

https://github.com/aparij/soCareers-Data
Trustless is a Misnomer
"IT" is me :) And yes it was an oversight, the rest of the network is comprised of thin clients running RDP, this was the one regular Windows box. Since replaced.
How many people die in auto wrecks each year. How many people die due to accidents involving microwave ovens.
Why do the old match operators now implicitly set a global variable? I feel like in a year I'm going to be debugging some really weird race conditions because of that change and I can't see any value in it...if I want to use the value of a match operator I'll _always_ save it to a local variable.

Can anyone shed any light on this, because my first attempts at grok'ing this change have me really blown away.
Agree with this. Async await is just a lot cleaner syntax. The problem with callback hell is making sense of flow and handling the error at every step.

Promises certainly help but you also see abuse of then callback hell where rather than chaining, someone would nest the thens.async await is also great for debugging.
I think we need to figure out how to bring manufacturing closer to North America. For example, getting a prototype batch of PCB's from Advanced Circuits cost ~$400 for 5-10 pieces. Whereas it costs ~$30 from Seeed Studio.

The quality is obviously better from Advanced Circuits, and it doesn't take a whole month as it would from Seeed (I've heard good things about OSH Park and they're US Based).

The quality of Chinese products is improving, and the parallels with the history of Japanese tech are strikingly similar.

In terms of software expertise, I think the talent is still in North America. The hardware expertise though is somewhat non-existent. I'm surprised there's no city like Shenzen here.
> it would be paradise for anyone who believes that adults should be able to live like adults without a meddling nanny state.

Some of us adults though don't like living with the other adults who indulge in these things. My current "adult" neighbors are legal drug users, and to be honest I don't really find it to be a paradise, especially when their pot smoke leaks into my condo.

I would rather move to a place where people have the same values as me.
https://github.com/pydanny/cookiecutter-django is fairly similar in terms of providing a good jump start for django development.
It may not be that hard. Mormons believe jesus is coming again and will arrive at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam-ondi-Ahman. Some people have been buying land there for this reason.

Joseph's Smith's communal utopia, finally realized? Oh yeah, there are people who will go for this.

Edit: As for farming, yes mormons will be fine with it. Google "mormon food storage" and you'll be amazed. They are taught to be ready for disasters at all times.
So far, I have not been affected by the confluence of stock comingling and counterfeiting resulting in receiving a counterfeit product from Amazon, but... the day that does happen is the last time I buy from Amazon.

I don't mind knock offs, so long as they are clearly labeled as such, so I can choose or I can avoid them.

Amazon needs to address this issue at once and with force. They can't afford to ignore the issues of both the effects of stock comingling, counterfeiting, paid fake insincere reviews resulting in their customers getting fleeced disappointed and upset.
Very true! We should be concerned about worst-case scenarios. Probably an isolated car crash is not a worst-case scenario, except for a PR-obsessed tech company.
Questions for our first 1:1
If I'm reading the OP correctly, the video isn't being distributed. Just an alternative media stream with some form of captioning that could paired up with the video at the user end.
Innovation is the magic word that renders everything it's attached to undebatable and unquestionable..
You mean chickens might make it harder for humans to reproduce?
Behind-The-Scenes: The Music Font Comparison from Elbsound.studio
While Google may be the leader in Machine Learning tools, they are way behind when it comes to Machine Learning services.

They've only just now released a Natural Language Understanding service in beta, and it is more limited compared to other NLU services from Microsoft/others.

While tooling is important, the market for low level tools is much smaller than for the services built using those tools. The vast majority of businesses who could benefit from Machine learning don't have the expertise to run RNNs using Tensor Flow, but do have engineers who can integrate API's that leverage trained classifiers.
I would recommend that you look into jobs from the Big Three in China (Tencent, Alibaba, Baidu, in that particular order).

All of them hire many people who do not hold a Chinese passport, so they have mature system in place to handle some of the issues you may be concerned about (visa, healthcare, etc). The culture in those companies would also be more international than most Chinese companies of course.

You could also look into YC companies based in China. I saw a job posting on HN a few days ago from a Shanghai-based YC company (I cannot remember the name at this point).

Good luck! :-)
Agreed. Took Apple a long time for their cloud based services to work out their kinks.
Teen’s Snapchat bathroom prank is criminal behavior, court rules
Exactly - personally I can't complain since I'm Swedish and one of our largest tech companies (telecom innovator Ericsson), got their start by ripping off Graham Bell designs before they were patented in Europe
> Is there any accurate analysis of exactly what Microsoft collects in Windows 10?

Microsoft could easily demystify this by writing detailed document detailing what is being sent but unfortunately there isn't one. Even if it was, part of the outrage is that some most egregious options are opt-out and easy to miss if you are not technically inclined and just went through unintended upgrade.

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/itpro/windows/manage/con...

Most lists are open-ended, they will start with "such as" so you can't be sure there isn't anything more. Even then under basic level I fail to see why they'd need to take my IMEI number or device attributes of presumably every piece of hardware I connect to my computer.

Then there's another group of settings related to privacy, the most troublesome is "Send Microsoft info about how I write" which seems intentionally vague about what it does, but it's been suggested that it sends keystrokes to Microsoft and we know this feature is included in Windows due to this bit from privacy statement: "Microsoft collects and uses data about your speech, inking (handwriting), and typing on Windows devices to help improve and personalize our ability to correctly recognize your input."
The data already gathered would indicate that your suspicion is wrong. Currently the US averages 1 fatality for every 89 million miles driven. Autopilot is at almost twice that with only 1 fatality. So autopilot already fails less often than a human.

Consider this anecdote: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/756004029239472132

Then rethink if you really believe that this pedestrian deserves to be dead because you don't trust the data and the world-class engineers for which this is literally their job everyday.
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Some of the people with whom he used to communicate may still be alive.
The article makes the argument that, by opening up TensorFlow, other companies are at risk of having their TensorFlow-fluent employees poached by Google.

Trouble is, if other companies are using the same tooling as Google, it's equally easy for the outside company to poach a Google employee.

Opening up the code to the world is more likely to be a net-good act, propelling everyone forward.

https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/blob/master/LICENSE
Some people enjoy the snow, green everywhere, no water restrictions, and less traffic. Sure mosquitos suck, but so does having everything be more expensive. There definitely is more to it than jobs and houses, so I chose to return home to the Midwest to get paid a little less(though not much in terms of cost of living) than I would at a Silicon Valley firm.
Sustainable cities sounds like the future. Low carbon emissions and no cars in the city center so the air is fresh.

Humans benefit from living among trees. The value of trees can be seen of property prices in New York where central park is highly valued.
http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/what-is-a-tree-worth
Could you clarify?

Tesla needs batteries. SolarCity does not need batteries except in jurisdictions that make having a battery significantly favorable over having one. Also, the high energy density batteries that Tesla needs are, IMO, mostly unnecessary for stationary use. Compare Powerwall prices to lead-acid -- lead-acid wins hands down. Sure, the lead acid batteries are heavy, but that's not a problem if you plunk them in the basement or crawlspace.
It's C++, I recall using C++11 constructs on a recent Arduino project.
Giving the Mandela Lecture
This is not a black-white or other racist issue.

The issue is unaffordable housing and it is a problem in many cities such as NYC where I live, not just SF.

The cause of the unaffordable housing is zoning restrictions that limit housing density and overuse of historic landmark status through politically induced scarcity. Using politics to induce scarcity creates an additional "economic rent" or profits above for landowners (housing and apartment owners) above what they could get in an efficient market.

This is a basic concept of microeconomics: the use of politics to induce scarcity for receiving profits above what one would get in an efficient, competitive market.

This "rent seeking" makes landowners like Donald Trump much wealthier than they otherwise would be in an efficient market.

Harvard Economist Edward Glaeser has written extensively about this. NYTimes columnist and Economics Nobelist Paul Krugmann has written about this in his columns, and Financial Times columnist (with a masters in Economics Tim Harford) has also written about this.

Another example of gaining "economic rent" or "rent-seeking" is in NYC there had been a political limit of the number of taxi medallions to 13,000. The result was a medallion market value of $1.2 million per medallion. Taxi drivers that leased cabs had to pay for use of the medallion as well as the cab, and gasoline. The result is much higher fares approved by the NYC Taxi and Licensing Commission.

Then Uber/Lyft came along and the price of the medallions dropped from the $1.2 million to less than $700,000.

The rent-seeking is very harmful to the economy and of course adds to the income inequalities. It is in invisible "tax" that transfers wealth from the less wealthy to the wealthy. Money that one could be spending on goods and services in an efficient housing market is instead going towards paying additional housing costs with that money ending up in the pockets of the wealthy.

The race issue headline undoubtedly gets more page clicks than an article that would state that billionaires such as Donald Trump owe much of their wealth to inefficient markets resulting from the use of politics to create artificial scarcity.

The solution is a simple one which is to get rid of the destructive laws that create the artificial scarcity in land use.

It is upsetting to me that the NYTimes reporters appear not to understand basic economics.

For more information see:
Edward Glaeser: Build Big Bill (Mayor of NYC)
http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/build-big-bill-article-1....

An on-line article about "rent seeking" and the damage to the economy (includes land use restrictions)
http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-rent-seeking-is-too-...

This book is a very fun read:
Tim Harford: The Undercover Economist
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0199926514
Is it possible to do this on the fly with subdomains? I have a specific problem with my instance where I have multiple domains and multiple subdomains. Right now I use a wildcard SSL because the subdomains are generated on the fly whenever a new client signs up.

Is it possible to create a new certificate without restarting all the servers each time a new client signs up?
Sorry, was not accusing of piracy, only possible ignorance. I've worked with companies that didn't know the difference between Home and Pro and Enterprise SKUs and I don't think everyone realizes how many small and medium sized business run on Windows Home editions.

Windows is a huge ecosystem and there is a lot of blame to pass around in every direction. I admitted that it was an MS problem, but I was also trying to point out that it was an ecosystem problem too. (There hasn't been a major driver architecture change between Vista and 10 and it blows my mind how many drivers needed new releases every Windows version between Vista and 10 and weren't just magically compatible.) Apologies if that point did not come across well.
If Trump wins it will be squarely the fault of left-ish pundits, bloggers and twitters. Their intellectual impotence is staggering - probably because they had 10 years in which to make a hard hitting piece was just needed quote Colbert and Steward - so now they are caught off guard and just cannot think for themselves. Every anti trump article is bland and absolute carbon copy.

The last persons that had their own ideologies named after them were Lenin and Marx. Think of it. And they ruled half the world at the end. Trumpism is an enormous gift by the left to Trump. For free - just to show how anti trump we are. Names have power. And if you pay attention to any form of press - it feels like we are living in the second year of a Trump presidency.

I have a simple explanation why Mr Thiel supports Trump - he just enjoys the deer in headlights looks on the faces of the elites when their world bubbles pop.

The Democrats turned for 8 years from the fun and cool party to the deathly self-serious, smugness, stick up their butt, no humor allowed party.

Being a Trump supporter right now is probably as fun as being a satanist in very conservative county - so I guess at least some form of his support is just for the lulz. And yet that is the one sentence nobody has written - that Peter Thiel is supporting Trump because he is having fun. Having fun by being unique in SV, having fun of all those people that hate him for his ideology, while they make all kind of mental loops to ask him for his money.

Some people just want to stick it to the man - and on social media right now it is Democrats which are the man.
> and the implicit idea that anyone of a different religion (or of no religion) would not be welcome.

Historically, it's always been the other way around. Mormons have always tried to reach out to connect to their communities (vs. making an impenetrable fortress/cult community like FLDS), and were met with hostility due to differences in culture (i.e. polygamy, different bible beliefs, etc.). Most of the time it was the community that was not welcoming of the mormons.

This seems to be the case again here in this article with Vermont.
Because it severely limits your range.
I seem to remember a soundbite where he said the Chinese were kicking the US's ass all over the place, and he was the man fix it.
It might be easier than you would think. It's possible Tesla (or other vehicles with self-driving features) have latent capabilities already in their software, which just need to be switched on. A hacker playing around in his garage might feasibly jailbreak the car and flip this switch. Whereas I would agree with you to the extent that writing self-driving software that uses all the various data inputs and maps to pilot the vehicle, from scratch, is not something very many people are even capable of doing.
They have almost constantly innovated by acquisition. That explains their lurker status, I think.
MicroPython on the ESP8266: Kicking the Tires
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Sounds like the story is mixed.
http://norwegianfirstnews.blogspot.com/2016/07/supreme-court...

I believe they will prevail in the end.
There is a saying which says if a product are free "you are the product"

Did you pay for Ubuntu?
How would you reconcile that with the fact that his wife is Slovenian? Things are complex and you can simplify to fit your label of the day.

NATO commitments are a joke, when outside of Britan and few Eastern European countries, Germany, Netherlands, France are not spending to their commitments so why should Americans subsidize their mega-welfare states?

Here is a fact, Germany has about 330 or so battle ready tanks and most of them are made before 1980. That is some abysmal commitment to NATO.
Put that way, the statistical impact of someone tweaking their automobile improperly is lower than that of someone messing up their toaster.
What's an SC entity?

EDIT: must be subcontracting...?
They have been setting the global variable before. This is not a new behaviour. I think it was to match Perls behaviour iirc
Going for the extreme cheap will also have some problems

South Americans (or even Mexico) will have a smaller time zone difference, less cultural differences.

Southern western Europe might be a good source of developers as well
I don't see the problem. I paid for some content, why shouldn't I be able to view it in my manner of preference? If I want to watch it mixed up with some funky third-party subtitles, or a chat window with my friends, why not? You're assuming that Andrew Huang's business model requires sharing content.

Here's a practical application: Due to travel, sometimes my wife and I are apart when the latest Must Watch Episode of something comes out. We will fire up skype and hbonow/netflix and watch it together. Dorky, yes. But also a pain in the ass to keep synced when pausing for bathroom breaks, snacks, etc. Someone should invent an app for that! Oh... but it would be illegal under DMCA.
> As a result, the government stepped in and created 1201 to make it illegal for someone to <A> to <B>.

Doing <B> was already illegal. Therefore, doing <A> in order to <B> was also already illegal.

People are upset that <A> is now illegal, for all purposes, not just doing <B>.

> The purpose of the statute isn't to <X> but is to <Y>. I don't see anything wrong with that.

What's wrong with that is that it also does <X> (even if that isn't the "purpose").
Yes. I didn't measure it, but I'm guessing there was a heck of a lot of javascript loading.

Too slow to be more than a curiosity, I'm afraid.
I live 8 miles from work. "Limiting my range" from 200 miles to 150 miles between daily charge ups is irrelevant.
It's a little early if you ask me, IMO you win once you make the first killer product that changes the market Eg: search, iPhone, self-driving cars etc