skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You should look into thunderbolt external GPUs. The discrete GPUs in apple laptops have traditionally been out of date, out of the box.

Good enough for a lot of people, but if it matters to you, and you really want a mac, perhaps the external GPU is the option for you.
And what is the etymology of Moscow, Yauza, and Oka, Volga and rivers... ?
I have no idea why you're being downvoted. there are approximately 2.8 billion people in the world whose annual income is < $2/day which is $730 per year. If you invested $300 into a lucky 5% of them - to give them six months of runway - then it would cost you 2.8B * 5% * 300 = $42 billion and you get 142M entrepreneurs.

Let's look at YCombinator's stats. YCombinator has funded something like this: https://blog.ycombinator.com/yc-stats

Let's say 1,000 companies, 8 worth > $1B. 8 in 1000 is 1 in 125.

Let's reduce 1 in 125 to - not 1 in 1250...or 1 in 12,500...but 1 in 125,500.

Everyone else goes to 0.

Okay, now you have created 142M / 125500 = $1131B in value at a cost of $42B.

That means if you took a 10% stake (a valuation of $3000 in everyone), you have now earned an approx. 30% return on your $42B.

I think the above estimates are more than reasonable and anybody anywhere in the world who wants $300 for 6 months of runway to build anything they want should be given it at a $3K valuation no questions asked - because it is free money and it is enough for 1 in 100,000 people to succeed. Those chances are better than the chances of a high schooler drawn at random (without regard to whether they have any interest whatsoever) making it into the NBA, since there are 360 people in the NBA but less than 36,000,000 high-schoolers.

$300 is more than enough for every tool an Internet entrepreneur needs - and remember, we are starting with the 5% who want to be one. the figures work just fine and your question is perfectly reasonable.
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This! The autopilot on a plane is nothing like a self-driving car. It’s mostly cruise-control in an environment where a collision with another vehicle is much, much less likely than an automobile on an undivided highway.
I have recently switched to Hugo static site generator (from Octopress), deploy via GitLab CI, and host on S3.
I think providing free internet is a much smaller problem to solve than providing education. Google can just not do anything at all. So I'm glad they are providing this service (for now, at least).
I agree that women should not have to put up with casual misogyny. However that belief alone doesn't make the problem go away. In that vain, giving advice to your daughter that is pragmatic and acknowledges a problem isn't synonymous with excusing a problem.
This is yet another clickbait-y title that overpromises and underdelivers. Little value, no specificity, and hardly any real description of a "formula" whatsoever. Here, though, is a tl;dr summary for one of the only concrete pieces of the "formula" actually described:

Bloomberg's early-stage VC fund will only invest in Series A or earlier companies. Then when looking at AI companies they ask two questions: "1) Do you have access to your own user? 2) Do you have access to a data set that's yours? If they have both those things, then they can create a virtuous cycle where the user contributes the data, the data gets better, and it makes for a better user experience."

Asking about access and usage rights to data and means of applying learnings from the data is a very obvious qualifier, so there is little valuable insight here.
Some more images at https://imgur.com/a/N8MZd (potentially NSFW links)
Product consumption isn't anything special these days, it's all about services now.
Facebook should spend more on advertising, they would have avoided what happened to their program.
I don't care about what technologies that company may work with.
I can learn any technology.

pretty naive.
>Part of this is that people who have never been online before don't understand the value of getting online.

Yes, and therefore they will understand even less, the value of the whole Internet as opposed to selected sites. So it is misleading.

>The telecoms are not going to just give free access of the entire web to everyone, but by giving access to some valuable websites for free people may start to see the value and demand better infrastructure/start paying for mobile internet. I think Zuckerberg is being earnest here and not attempting to manipulate people for some malicious power grab - this seemed like a good approach (unfortunately the PR fallout was not).

This whole thing (internet.org / Free Basics) was discussed to death in the Indian tech and even mainstream media, and also a good amount on HN (and I'm sure plenty of other general Internet discussion sites) when the topic was more current.

The arguments of the people (many Indian) objecting to it boiled down to one thing: the telecoms / FB can easily give access to the whole Internet, not just their selected sites, but for a limited amount of bandwidth per month, e.g. 500 MB or 1 GB, for the same cost as their original plan, which discriminated against all other sites than their selected ones. Then why did they not try to do that?

As I understand it, that is the gist of the argument against internet.org.
Nobody is restricting anything. You can still pay for Internet. It's only a free service tier.

Don't forget that these are mostly 2G connections and so a full internet experience is likely to be a poor one. The limited services here are serving up lite versions of their products that should provide a better user experience on a 2G connection.

Honestly this model is not too different from what we had here in the US prior to iPhone. My Verizon phone had a very limited amount of Internet connectivity that was mostly restricted to Verizon's walled garden. I could pay for more connectivity but it was not a good experience. Pages were slow loading and the whole thing was more frustrating than anything else.
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The perf advantage is in user loading times. HTTP1 won't cut it, and no amount of hardware on the server will, either.

Just adding "SPDY" to nginx on some customer sites was enough to reduce load times by double digit %. (10-30 IIRC)

I think SPDY might be a workaround for a bit; it's still supported this year right?
Why "hacker" in quotes?
A wonderful thought and insight, and you're right that this is a positive indication. Perhaps for those of us here on HN, a worthwhile thought is how we can accelerate this change and help more rapidly distribute it as well.
This is where Facebook messaging and actual the Free Basics program are at odds. Free basics is basically 30+ websites which includes Facebook.

Whatsapp is not a part of free basics. Your uncle would have to buy a special'Whatsapp upgrade' if he wanted to message you on Whatsapp.

It's a clear violation of Net Neutrality principles and Facebook spent over $40 million trying to lobby for this to happen.
I bought the Apple keyboard+cover. When I write, I only write 3 or 4 pages a day, so that minimal keyboard is OK.
Yeah, there was a lot of backlash against fb and it has resulted in a lot of people being weary of anyone trying to provide free internet again.

To answer your question though: they don't need to monetize it at all. That's the beauty of being Google: they only need to expand the advertising market. And the simplest way to do this is to get more people on the internet using Google.
Thank you for the example.

Also: SPARK is another one I forgot.
I guess I'll have to think of a nice example and just implement it in a Ada, F* and with RDL to get a hang of the differences and features.
> I responding to whether or not they had an "edge" in comparison to other companies which is a much weaker claim than "success".

Fair enough.

You raise some good points. I guess I just assign lower values of advantage to their investments and acquisitions than you or nl seem to do, mainly because existing companies tend to have a bad track record for breaking into established markets.
My suggestion is to try to audit a series of courses. This will force you to concentrate on a particular theme; some of the courses are not self-paced and have a deadline to finish problem-sets (which are Juyptor notebooks where you have to actually do the work, and fill-in the code snippet but not to muck around with setting up annoying IDE/dev environment, autograded with unit tests), so will force you to stick to deadlines.

Here are some of courses that you might (read: actually I am) interested.

https://www.edx.org/xseries/data-science-engineering-apache-...
(3 courses on Apache Spark using PySpark and introduction to simple machine learning and distributed computing)

https://www.edx.org/xseries/genomics-data-analysis (3 courses on R, next-gen genomics sequencing, annotation and some more cool computation protocols involved with CHIP-Seq and RNA-seq).

https://www.coursera.org/specializations/scala (4 courses + capstone, spearheaded by Martin Odersky; the guy who is the big-wig in the Scala community).

Also, I'd recommend taking the verified tracks for all of them. This will force you to complete them as money is on the line (if possible ask HR/your boss if it's related to your work, for tuition reimbursement benefit).
Ah, thanks for the clarification.
I'd like to hear the rationale of the people who downvote this comment. This comment looks correct to me.

The main characteristic of established protocols in the event of an emergency are that they are supposed to be reliable and not require complex computation on the part of the user.

I doubt any sane person (simple metric: those who would call the ambulance instead of driving the person to the hospital in current times), would be more likely to use the autopilot feature instead of calling an ambulance.

Yes there will always be dumb people till posterity, but to claim people are more likely to abuse the feature than current rates is nonsense.
It's kind of like saying that knowing how to provide first aid is bad because you can do something wrong that a doctor wouldn't screw up.

Having more ways to get somebody to the hospital is better than having less of them.

It's just like with knifes. Yes, some people will find a way to hurt themselves using them, but that's not really a good argument to get rid of them.
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Also some of the quotes from US military leaders at the time sound like something from Stranglove:

"Restraint? Why are you so concerned with saving their lives? The whole idea is to kill the bastards. At the end of the war if there are two Americans and one Russian left alive, we win!"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_S._Power
> Another problem is that there exist some verbs that have a genitive object (these often sound very educated), among these is "gedenken" ("to commemorate"). Because these verbs are not used so often, many less educated people use them wrongly with a dative (which appears more natural, but is wrong). For example "ich gedenke den Verstorbenen" is wrong; correct is "ich gedenke der Verstorbenen" ("I commemorate the deceased", where this grammatical subtlety again cannot be expressed in English).

I was never taught about such verbs and am glad to know about them, but I think you have a typo in your example; the mistaken dative form should be "dem Verstorbenen", not "den Verstorbenen".
Yeah, tell me about it. I've been using my old laptop for 6 yrs now. The battery is completely broken now, and it's always on AC power. I had to use an SSD on it, due to its HDD failure which caused the loss of all my data. But other than that, it still is working, but only for trivial tasks, like downloading and stuff. I also replaced its broken DVD drive with a Caddy to add an extra HDD later. Oh, and there's now a bright spot on the monitor (IDK why)! This is obviously so messed up, but I figured it's "electrical" and not "mechanical", so I keep using it, esp. w/ Windows 10 which refreshed it!
Although I really don't know what to do w/ the noise I hear from the motherboard (coil problem maybe.)
How would a standard interface like this support async IO?
Additionally, how about giving some weight to packaging; especially the ubiquitous petro derived variety.
If I don't have some minimum requirements for candidates how would I be able to identify the right fit?

I'm in an industry that lots of people want to be in. We get lots of applications. Some filtering must be done. The basic interview is one filter.

The wrong candidate affects my company. That means it affects my employees too (most?). A critical part of the filter is to determine if applicant who WANTS to be here will fuck things up for the people I NEED to be here.

Its not just about you.
We switched to using Chrome boxes instead of the older tele-conference machines we used. They are loads better, and less than $1k USD each, too.
Blues News! Man, that takes me back...
I was involved with a couple of ESA and EU FP7 projects. They're a joke. More paper than code is produced, and none of the code ends up being used.
Why is it insulting that a company offered people limited internet access for free?
Rubbish. As long as you don't watch YouTube or listen to music via the cloud, 500 MB will be plenty for most people.
I don't think anyone denies that taxi services (which is what self-driving cars will eventually replace) are an important part of a city's transportation network. But owned-and-operated cars don't have to be, and using owned-and-operated cars as the backbone of an urban transportation network doesn't scale. And neither do taxis, and for the same reason.
If you're considering the Mini, then no, not at all. Core for core, they're quite similar, with only a mild speed bump. The 2012 had a 4-core option, but does not support 4K. The 2014 models (current generation) are dual core only, but have a graphics system that's able to handle 4K @ 60Hz. (Not sure how well it does it, but it can actually output it.)
Don't get too excited. It's not rails enough for the ruby community to ever seriously use it. I know this from firsthand experience going down the same rabbit hole a few years ago.
That webpage uses 36% of my CPU (not just at the beginning or during scrolling, but all the time). Are they mining bitcoin or something?
If in C++, LLVM + Flex/Bison still the most productive for me. I've tried lots of other compiler compilers, but they're still the best once you learn them. If anybody is bored, I put together a simple word count example a long time ago that has taken on a life of its own: https://github.com/jonathan-beard/simple_wc_example
I don't mind the release cycle as it exists... I get the newest model when they come out and the feeling of missing out on something better doesn't linger over me. There aren't a million configurations of the same laptop, there are only a few, which makes things simple on aspects of development, support, and troubleshooting.

When people on this thread compare MacBooks to "chromebooks" I don't even know what that means... It could be any number of manufacturers using any number of combinations of hardware to run a common OS. Just because it has the latest Intel doesn't mean the rest of the components aren't subpar. Even if they are higher quality, it wouldn't nearly stack up to the millions of users that have tried and tested the exact configuration of my MBP.

Most of the professional community feels the same way, even within the last year [1]

[1] http://stackoverflow.com/research/developer-survey-2016#tech...
A lot of people move to the city because that's where the jobs are. If the job is no longer the primary motivation to choose their location then they would go into a low cost city and decrease the pressure on the housing market of the high cost city.

Oh and inflation is already very low.
I have no problem keeping a computer for 6 or 8 years. But when I buy a new one, I don't want it to have 3 years old specs.
The article doesn't make this obvious, but the Michelin Guide just expanded into Singapore this year.

Singapore has some amazing food, and the hawker stalls are no exception. If anything they exceed far fancier restaurants with their focus and authenticity.

But as far as this being news or worthy of HN goes, this just seems like shameless corporate propaganda, even the video accompanying the article is entirely produced by Michelin.

If anything I think the newsworthy aspect of it is why there's been literally no street food stall in Michelin's established markets deemed good enough for certification? Maybe I just have my guilty pleasures, but there's some truly delicious street food to be had in Europe.
Steam is exactly the kind of software that should be distributed using Flatpak[0].

[0] http://flatpak.org/
Yep, you are right.

-in, -yn, -ian, -an: "he"/"they".

-yaki, yaky, -aky: "which is/which are".

Pol - field, "farmer". Polyak - which is Pol (Western Slavs). Polyan - he is Pol (Eastern Slavs).

Moreover, Arab: ar - horse, ab - (one) of. Arab - one of riders.
People are not stupid, they are often uninformed. Politicians' job is to advocate for good policies in a way that people understand and support
Last week I bought a new computer. And for the first time since 2002, it wasn't a Mac. I wanted a Mac Mini, but that's a tough buy when you can get something much smaller, more flexible, and more powerful in the PC realm. I wound up buying an Intel NUC and slapping Ubuntu Gnome on it.

Most surprisingly, Gnome 3 does not feel like a compromised choice in comparison to OS X. It's not a seamless experience by any means. That said, I'm really digging some of the UI choices they've made. It's a UX that's committed to a vision of how the user should interact with the computer.

I remember a time when the Mac also felt like a strongly opinionated experience, designed by and for humans. It no longer feels so. It feels aimless and stagnant, even regressive in some ways. It feels designed by committee rather than vision or voice. The changes do not seem to serve any higher purpose than making the UI look cool in screenshots. I miss the high-contrast controls, readable fonts, always-visible functionality, personable quirks, etc.

I still use a Mac all day at work, and I still respect it as a good tool for getting shit done, but I really wonder about the point of it. If I can pick up a free alternative like Ubuntu Gnome and actually feel happy and productive quickly, what's left to recommend the Mac? If Apple doesn't care any more, why should I?

(Alright, now y'all can light me up.)
Wonderful! I worked in Singapore in April, and the street food is indeed great! I looked at the pictures in article and didn't recognize the chef or his restaurant. My other favorite place to eat in Singapore, that I would like to recommend: in the basement of the famous "Buddha Tooth Relic Temple" is a cafeteria where the monks and the public eat; delicious food!
The thing I really like about Vultr is that to use their site, you just have to enable Vultr.com (in NoScript). For DO, you have to enable 15-20 domains because they use all kinds of outsourced services, and every time you go to a new page, there are new things that have to be enabled. I got tired of it.
The important part is to make sure that the ABI didn't change. Since Steam wants Debian-based distro, it then should be enough to keep the same. It's not a perfect way to go, but so far it works though. :-)
While we could go on and on about how MZ doesn't live on the same planet than the rest of us, and how we don't buy MZ's pseudo-philanthropic PR, strictly speaking, that 2 USD/month is comparable to the paying capability and cost of living over there vs. the USA. The average income is $130/month in India ($4,500 in the US), which means that the ratios between incomes (34-fold), or internet affordability (41-fold, if using your $2000), are similar (I am talking cost here, not quality or quantity of service).
This looks quite interesting - I got the impression that React would need quite a rewrite internally to accomplish incremental rendering.

One thing I noticed with the priority mechanism proposed - Angular 1 has something like this, but it turns out to be a complex api to understand and use. In fact, just about everyone stays away from mucking around there, and all usages of it I have seen in the wild is a straight up hack/misusage. I suspect that something like this would increase complexity dramatically.

Animation is a problem I feel might be worth studying different systems on, maybe not even just the browser. For example, Angular's implementations have ended up mirroring how Chrome handles animations after collaboration with the Chrome team. It probably shouldn't be singularly focused on how one browser has implemented it, but studying these systems is probably best for maximizing extensibility and performance.
You totally sound like the idiotic T-Mobile guy.
I find the tendency of a distinction toward "teach girls how to be safe" and "teach boys how not to hurt" to be dispiriting. Boys can be hurt, too.
Trying to reset my password just tells me that they don't have an account with the specified username, I'm hesitant to try to create an account, that seems like it could cause problems.
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I know Tesla is a premium car but...image if the masses had access to an autopilot like this, or better. Many can't afford the ambulance costs. Autopilot can change this excessive cost on the market.
Latin texts from 2000 years ago are quite clearly intelligible to modern Latin speakers. ;-)
Definitely not just my ISP, since it also doesn't work on keybase.io's servers, or on various other people's home networks (but it works on some), or on my cellular, or on a shell I have access to in the Netherlands.
Ah. Thanks for the clarification here.
Believing that only AI startups that will make it big are ones that don't own the data or end user seems like an obviously flawed filter; for example, imagine if someone demand AirBNB or Uber owned the property they ultimately profited from.
You mean 'unnatural forces'? As a species we have made great progress in mitigating natural forces. Not utopian, but there is enough resources, logistics and actors to feed the entire world, if a relative few didn't have to take all they can sequester for themselves. I see more forces pertaining to greed (infinite inflation racket, regulations as barriers, control of *-opolies, artificial shortages boost prices) holding back humanity.
It's easy to be against something when you already have that something. All of the activists that defeated Free Basics are not going without internet access today.
I thought Michelin stars were about the whole restaurant experience, and especially the consistency. That's interesting they said it was just about the food in the video, that really opens up the award to a more contemporary foodie audience, which is interested in where to get the most delicious X, which is rarely even expensive.
But doesn't that work equally well if you pay the unemployed window repairperson to fix a window that was already broken? With the added benefit that the total number of broken windows has gone down?
Ask HN: Have you been given a job offer without going through interviews?
Has anyone gotten an offer from a tech company without going through the interview process only because company wanted you so badly?
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