skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Norvig's essay references Chomsky literally talking about "trying to apply statistical models to various linguistic problems", which is surely what today's search engines do.
ON.Lab and the Linux Foundation Form CORD Project to Define the Future of Access
Accelerating Eulerian Fluid Simulation with Convolutional Networks
Have an axe to grind with Basecamp?

Come now, tell the group how you feel and we'll make it all better.
Making of the State of the Art Demo (SpaceBalls 1993)
Patchwork Philadelphia with Code for Philly
Pasque flower herb
Lots Of Copies Keeps Stuff Safe: https://www.lockss.org/
[That Washington Post paywall is killing me]
It's worth pointing out that circa July 2016, it is still manageable and reasonable to continue using Snow Leopard.

I use it daily on my primary system. Other than the cool "draw my signature on a PDF" feature in Preview that showed up circa Mavericks, there is nothing - not one thing - that I miss by running that older OS.

VMWare fusion works great. Current chrome+ublockorigin. Great multi screen support. I don't run any services and keep a strict firewall (and also the ublock Origin) so the lack of recent security updates (combined with the gradual loss of interest in SL from exploit writers) isn't a problem.

YMMV.
Most Hispanic immigrants to the US come from poor, often very indigenous parts of their countries. Those people are usually very short.
What I don't understand is how they think these "marketing" tactics will establish anything but a negative reputation for their brand. Seems to me like they are happily waving a massive red flag that says, "we break the law all the time and can't be trusted!"
It is theft whether you like it or not. They don't have to provide you with the service if they don't think you're not the right customer or if you can't afford it. You are in no way entitled to watching that single TV show if you don't have the subscription.
No. It is clearly creepy. It is a natural extension of ad networks, though. I think there will be a market soon enough for glasses that provide ad blocking filters.
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It's more than just validating the computer models, it's also the manufacturing process, and the car company etc. In the end when a third party is crashing a physical object that's much harder to fake.
I disagree with this so much. I'm not saying there isn't some onboarding cost, but with experienced engineers its a lot less than you think. At worst you should be "breaking even" with a Senior Engineer almost immediately. When I look back at what I've done for the company I just started with 7 months ago, I completed a highly valuable, and large project for them in the first 3 months. I could probably get the same project done a lot faster now than I did then, but that doesn't mean it wasn't worth it to the company.
The Common Myths About Performance Reviews, Debunked
>If your VC says just don't engage, then don't engage. If your VC says pay them, get a second opinion coz that's BS.

Wait...are you taking the VC's advice, or aren't you?
Yup!

"Architecture as Obfuscation".
I tried again and you are right. The first time, it seemed to block my scrolling with a face-slam.
"Heck, I'd love to live in those areas if my job didn't require me to be in downtown SF everyday."

1. I'm not sure if you realize, most people are already living in those far off places, like Santa Rosa, and commuting to SF already. Most of those workers you see in the downtown area are commuters.

2. Section 8 vouchers take up a small percentage of the apartments you would likely want to live in. A lot of the units are run down chit boxes. Many just meet section 8 requirements. Very few landlords rent out to section 8 out of the goodness of their hearts. Yes--I know there's the exception.

2. Tech workers are living pretty well now. I really hope it lasts. I just know too many homless individuals who were once Programmers. I know a key developer of Word Star that's literally begging for money as I write this now. (Give him some money when you see him. He wears a Penquin costume, and strums a toy banjo. He is harassed by cops, and wasen't luckey enough to get section 8.)

3. What a lot of people don't relalize is the cost of living has gotten so outragious, even the requirements for section 8 seem ludicrous.

You would qualify for section 8 if you made less than $65,700 if you're single. If you have a wife, and kid your considered low income if you make less than $84,500.

4. My point is when the party dies, and we all know that time clock is ticking away--you might be the one applying for section 8? Good luck because they aren't even taking applications.

We all know there's not a barrier to entry into this profession, other than a lot of drive, and hard work. It's not like medicine, where there a huge barrier to entry. My point is one day you might be living in that subsidized apartment? In my twenties, I never considered putting myself on that section 8 waiting list, now I wish I did.
You know, in an alternate universe where ARM Jazelle took off, that might not be so bad.

But in this universe I'm all out of hair.
> "let's stream data in and out and not interrupt whatever the GPU is doing"

You're quoting this but I'm not sure I understand what problem you're referencing. Streaming data to the GPU isn't a problem of interrupting it. GPUs use memory fences, atomics, and other things you might find in CPU land. Why are we in trouble if the demo was true? For every type of hardware, I can come up with a rendering algorithm and data set that makes it look better than similar hardware in a different configuration. If you have more memory bandwidth, you should be using it accordingly.
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Looked better, but less obvious what it does.
Myth of the Day: Functional Programmers Don't Use Loops
I have no information on the Facebook/Google/Twitter involvement, but I can share this video, perhaps you'll find it interesting:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXuxZXMzSNY
Could you tell me where you work? Asking for a friend.
Is it also automatically replicated to a distributed storage pool so that it is mirrored to all of your other containers?

Even better, it uses a distributed object store backed by ZFS called "Manta". Do you have any more questions?

Meanwhile, you are very persistent at stonewalling my original question: why the insistence on using Docker?
It's definitely even worse for games, as copyright law and the nature of the industry can mean that a game might not be legally obtained again for over a century. Nintendo, for example, goes out of its way to punish people for distributing games that they no longer publish or license, even despite their abandonware status.
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On what personal knowledge do you disagree with the conclusions of scientists and historians of science?

I already pointed you to the actual quote. And a book to look into. I can give you no shortage of examples. For example for famous examples of scientists in the 20th century that rejected new scientific theories, I can offer Fred Hoyle's refusal to accept the Big Bang, Einstein's refusal to accept QM, and Ernst Mach's refusal to accept the existence of atoms.

I would suggest that you at least keep an open mind on the topic.
Listen, you have no right to someone's else own work. If you don't want to pay HBO NOW to watch a single TV show. No problem. If you do however pirate their show, then that's stealing and the owner has a right to call you a thief. If HBO decides to charge $1,000 per episode, that would be very outrageous, but that still doesn't give anyone the right to steal their show. BTW, I know the pain, I really want to watch Showtime's "Billions" but I'm not willing to pay $12.95 for one month to watch it. I pay for Netflix and all my shows is restricted to Netflix, youtube and what's on TV.
I think the most fascinating aspect of this article is the conflict between preservation and curation. The world of books is no different than the world of content online: it's mostly low-quality and not worth the reader's time. The authors' observe that for book preservation, building a curated library of high-quality texts demands a certain amount of exclusivity in who's doing the curation. At the same time, this exclusivity increases the centralization of the repository and makes it more prone to being taken down if hosting copyrighted content. Whereas a distributed library reduces the exclusivity, but also reduces the overall quality of the library because anyone can contribute to it.

They cite Wikipedia as an example of these competing qualities, where user-contributions declined as stricter quality controls were put in place. I've watched this debate over what qualifies as "notable" for Wikipedia rage for years now, as the community tries to strike a balance between hosting an expansive encyclopedia with one that hosts relevant content that isn't watered-down with too much trivia.

I'm curious what others think about this conflict? Will algorithms and machine learning one day curate out the literary gems for us?
The dev kit is $10k. I imagine the final product will be cheaper.
> What operation could you possibly perform significantly faster in a gui than on the command line? I can think of tons that would be far, far slower in a gui.

Sticking to the Git example:
- visualising history (in gui it is just there)
- opening old versions of files
- visualising a complete log of a file and then jumping to individual diffs/commits

The fact that in a decent GUI everything that could possibly be a link is, is very useful. I do not ned to go around copy pasting SHA1 sums. I drop down to command line when I need an occasional filter-branch or do some arcane incantations. But maybe Git is a bad example because it has a notoriously bad CLI.

Some other example, debugging.
For me it seems that you can actually see whether a programmer uses a visual debugger or a cli. If they have to drop down to GDB then their code will most probably be sprinkled with useless debug macros.

Setting break points, jumping from function to function is easier with visual debugger and a good IDE. (note that the IDE can be emacs or vim running in a terminal session for what I care)

> With nearly every program that I use I start by depending heavily on the GUI and then transition to using almost exclusively keyboard shortcuts as I become a power user, as GUIs are fundamentally inefficient.

Keyboard shortcuts are awesome of course, but I think they are so efficient because there is a GUI around. In a GUI you can always see more state at the same time. This is because graphics can sometimes pack more than text in the same space (e.g.: a visualised Git tree or a graph spitted out from callgrind)
I've always thought of Bitcoin as a rate-limiting token. The only thing it actually buys is space on its blockchain, which you bid on and pay for via transaction fees.

In fact, this will probably be the dominant use-case in a few years, as more and more non-financial applications use Bitcoin OP_RETURNs to host replicated state machine inputs [1].

[1 shameless plug] https://blog.blockstack.org/blockchains-for-distributed-syst...
Theft deprives the owner of something. Making a copy leaves the original intact. Technically HBO would not be providing them with the service. HBO provided the service to someone who paid for it. That person then made a digital copy and gave it to someone else. HBO is not involved in the second transaction. After I purchase something, am I not entitled to do what I wish with it, including giving it away?
Why can't they be trusted? Because they break the law?
Not an electric car. They are pretty much batteries and software.
I don't think the WTC jumpers are quite the same. They were faced with certain death or near certain death, and they naturally chose the latter. Falls from a great height are survivable, very very rarely. I see this an example of the human drive to survive: when faced with death, we'll try anything that offers any sort of hope, even just a slight delay.
Check out the icon used for Speed Camera on UK road signs. It still has bellows! Doesn't seem to cause a problem.
You mean like an AMD APU?
The problem is not that students have a hard time finding entry level jobs.

The problem is that computing careers tend to be dead end jobs in the long term.

Like seriously, you get hired into Google and where are you going to go? Become a product manager? Really? Academics get to look like they are doing positive when they are running something just as exploitative as the Thoroughbred racing industry.

Job fairs are also as much as a part of the problem as they are part of the solution. For instance, Google and Facebook are far more likely to send recruiters to the moon than they are to send them to a historically black college.
One frame of uncompressed 48bit color 8k video is 190MB. So just sending it through ideal pcie 3.0 16x you're limited to 83fps. Add overhead, latencies, actual transfer slower than theoretical, and especially actual processing requiring several frames at once. 17fps seems good, considering.
Some highlights you may want to relay to them if you know them.

> Given my couple-year goals, am I focusing on the right spheres in my life?

> my professed purpose is "expand the reach of human knowledge and ability"; my current vision is "do that by making powerful ideas more learnable and by helping more people become life-long learners"

> which I create based on what I and my team are accountable for delivering to the company.

> I can't ignore my email, but I also can't let it dominate me. <- dominate? wtf?

That's just a few examples but this stuff is pretty cringey and detached from basic humanity.
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It would help if they just started drawing borders around things again.
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I was struck by the use of "shadow library". It makes me sad to think of a world where the library experience is analogous to the buy drugs experience.
Why did Steve Jobs think the iPhone shouldn't be able to copy and paste?
some also welcome fascism. heck, back home some still say the time with a dictatorship was better because there were no buns on the streets.
Seems to be done with a mix of compromised (reused) credentials and social engineering. Social media accounts in particular are quite vulnerable to social engineering since they are often tied to mobile devices and it's fairly easy to contact a network operator and set up a forwarding number or request a new SIM card etc which completely bypasses most 2FA solutions.
A mistake and an insight.

The idea that white men have the highest suicide rate is misleading - they have the highest rate of success, which is very likely because they are the most likely to own guns, which are far and away the most effective and effortless way to commit suicide. Effortlessness is important, because depression makes planning so difficult. FWIW I'd really appreciate it if we could not turn this into a debate about gun control.

The insight, of course, is that Elliot Smith didn't have a drug problem, he was looking for a drug solution. This is an incredibly accurate description of addiction. The saying in AA is "If alcohol didn't do anything for me, I'd never have let it do anything to me". Drugs and alcohol are a solution to the underlying problem, one in which we simply can't feel ok the way others can. Of course, they are a solution with horrible side effects, and one that eventually stops working. Many members of AA describe getting sober because the drugs and alcohol weren't working anymore, only to become suicidal and realize that the drugs and alcohol were only symptoms of a much deeper problem.
Qatar, Lux, Sing, Hong Kong, Brunei, are more like cities then countries. I doubt the UAE is counting their slaves in their GDP numbers. Norway and Kuwait are probably the only real countries in the list that are ahead of US.
Absolutely no.

The best thing he can do is listen and get more information. You can't resolve a dispute without talking, and it only ends up in court if you don't resolve it. Yes he could ask his new investors for advice, and yes he should have called his lawyer the minute he heard, but the best way to clear things up is to listen to the VCs who are unhappy.

This is a completely different situation from the reason not to "talk it over" with the cops.
It's just how political polarization works in the US. Nothing changed in Iraq until the actual pullout a free years after he took office, and Obama ramped up the war in Afghanistan and over Pakistan, but the anti-war movement here shut down the moment he took office.

The "they won't let him shut down Gitmo" business is exactly the same thing. It's just a rallying cry, and strictly one to rally around the president with, not to try to accomplish change with. Hence the literalism - it's not about humane treatment of prisoners, human rights, or anything like that. It's about that one base in Cuba. It's just excusing a failed campaign promise.
Is this what they are referring to?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11420139
They offer vacations too (3 weeks per year - towards the end of the list). I think Sabbatical is on top of that.
I think their benefits are quite good even compared to the typical benefits of nice-to-work European countries (i.e. Germany).
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How about a compromise: make some form of lithium available OTC, without any patents involved?
Nobody likes those calls, but please don't use HN comments to vent.
also vaccines..
Ask HN: What are your freelance contracts like?
I was reading the comments section for the "Ask HN: Why don't
companies hire programmers for fewer hours per
day?" (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12161693) post and
several people appear to be freelancing (and enjoying it at
that).

I was wondering, what kind of freelance work are most of you
engaged in? What are the scopes of your contracts, and do
clients primarily approach you or do you approach them?
...I feel like it must be a pretty good business to wander around D.C. shouting "blockchain" until some government agency commissions you as a consultant and pays you to write a report like this

Matt Levine is a rockstar and this alone is worth the click
We have an epidemic of bad posture
People taking time of simultaneously has nothing to do with how much holiday you get.
Flynn 1.0 is here
I'd also like to call attention to Belgian men finishing a respectable second place for men (although Belgian women don't feature in their respective top 10). I would argue this supports my Port of Rotterdam and cost-effectiveness of produce hypothesis, as Belgium would benefit similarly from its proximity to the port, even though Belgian diet is a lot less dairy-centric than the Dutch diet. There should also be measurable differences between Flanders and Wallonia, due to Wallonia being more distant in km, but less so between flemish and wallonians in Brussels, because of the "wallonian enclave" situation (even though the diets supposedly differ)

If anyone feels like testing this hypothesis..
I mostly agree with your sentiment but copyright infringement is not "theft".
I consider this an an casualty of the switch to flat design: how do you draw a "flat" lens?

Without 3D or lighting effects, a lens is just a few concentric circles. So a flat picture of a camera housing is less ambiguous, even though it is not what a phone camera looks like.
Yup. This reminds me of the novel The Diamond Age in which the poor tend not to be able to read, but instead navigate the technological world exclusively using pictograms which descended from modern "icon" design.

In such a world, if you didn't choose to use an icon of a camera to denote "photo", what the hell else could you possibly use that would make any natural sense?
Camera's are on TV shows, books, and advertising so some 4-5 year old might not know it, but I suspect most would make the connection.

EX: http://www.buttonsoundbook.com/site/595626/product/ISBN%200-... (Recommended for ages 3 years and older.)
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My first though when checked out the source. That thing is so messy it's hard to navigate not to mention having to click so much.

If this truly is a source of income he should put more effort into making it usable. This is a predictable outcome of anyone neglecting their content.
Thanks for sharing this, we were just looking for something like it after struggling with some of the concepts in React.
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By iconic I meant represented by an object associated with an activity that has the most meaning. (I have some difficulty phrasing this)

For example, in the current world maybe 10% of the people are taking pictures with actual cameras but we still represent the camera as a "box with a huge lens". Few people use land lines but the phone icon is still a banana. To send and e-mail in general we use an envelope but we send way more electronic messages than snail mail.
one of the signs of depression is poor self maintenance, people get into a rut where they stop showering, cleaning etc.

They wont always seek help.
Feeling better about opting for a statistics and data analysis engineering degree instead of a software engineering one.
And rightfully so. Who the hell are "they" to judge "my" competency?

Isn't that the job of my employer, anyway?
Many documents and websites produced by government in the UK have the "Crystal Mark for Plain English". Details at [1].

I don't notice the difference, but non-natives have occasionally said they've been surprised when certain information is clear, such as letters from a bank.

[1] http://www.plainenglish.co.uk/services/crystal-mark.html
"Bloody and brutal coup"... oh the hiperbole.
Sounds like a paradise. I hope I get good offers after I graduate in December. Currently interning now with zero benefits;
> I feel the duty to comment whenever I flag a post

The HN guidelines specifically ask you not to do this, so please don't. HN comments should be for substantive discussion.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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It's a pity not more employers do this. I've always been a big proponent of 4-on-3-off work schedules. Traditional work 5 out of 7 was arbitrarily chosen. Regular 3-day weekends really rejuvenates you. If 40 hours of work a week is mandatory, spreading the 8 hours of the fifth day into the 4 days isn't so bad.
What about identity theft ?
I'll bet that if you look exclusively at descendants of 1914 Americans, they would be in the top 10, or at least close to it.
Vast Majority of Guns Recovered by Police Not Carried by Legal Owners
I think overall this sounds like a great benefits package, but I find it troublesome that there is such a disparity between maternal and paternal parental leave. This is one of the standard policy disparities which puts a great deal of the career coat of parenthood on women, and I'd urge Jason and company to reconsider the disparity.
How to use Python’s min() and max() with nested lists
Exactly, that's why I don't completely agree with the statement.

If you model with high strength steel and the manufacturer or supplier make a mistake or substitution, then your model doesn't represent reality.

The crash tests validate reality and the model at the same time.
The government should definitely subsidize things like housing, transportation, and food. We're talking about creating low income luxury items. A house in Menlo Park is a luxury item, much like a Ferrari or Kobe beef.
Does it only bug me that with the addition of cold storage on the card, GPUs scream of poor design?

If I was rewriting the same-ish REST helper on every micro-service of a project, I would immediately think of refactoring and yet GPUs now have CPU/RAM/Disk.

Is the future GPU-only or are we in dire need of a better way to use existing PC components from GPUs?