skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You don't need to use euro currency to take advantage of unified trade/no borders etc. ie. currently Poland.
But if your entire project uses Babel, those 140 lines will already be in your code and thus won't be added.
> Do police pay for damages in cases where a raid is excessive force?

Generally speaking no. Even if it looks really bad and they honestly want to make amends, they wont as doing so may be seen as an admission of wrongdoing either usable in or encouraging of a lawsuit. As a general rule, damage done during the execution of a warrant will not be covered by the police or their insurance provider.
Off-topic (sorta): Is there any easy way to find out about this kind of open source design offers? I think I might be interested in trying some and I didn't even know all these existed.

How would I find out about more of them in the future?
> A widening wealth gap can only occur if the wealthy are investing their money

That's simply not true. If the rich are reinvesting all of their wealth... we wouldn't have a wealth gap. This is almost a tautology.

Why do you think interest rates have been kept so low? Regulators (e.g. the Fed, ECB) have been doing everything they can over the last few years to add liquidity into the market in the hope that it get banks to lend again.

> If the wealthy were hoarding their money, then it would not be growing

Life is rarely black and white. We're talking about people that have more than enough money to both invest as they desire and hoard a lot of money. The ability to do both increases as the wealth gap widens.

> since worker's wealth would increase

This is pure fantasy. How would worker wealth increase? They don't have enough money to invest, and they don't have the political power they once had. Worker wealth is going down as money accumulates in the hands of the few.

> and the wealthy would consume some of their wealth

Consumption (even large amounts) costs are insignificant when your wealth is sufficiently large.
These commercials are made to lure tech talent by letting them know they're more than the industrial mechanical company they used to be and need people with modern tech skill sets as opposed to knowing how to sling a hammer.
> There is bigger problem than index funds and it's closet indexing. Many portfolio managers that claim to be active investors secretly follow their benchmark index without exactly replicating it. This is fraudulent behavior.

As long as they can also provide competitive maintenance fees and tracking errors don't play against them, I don't see much of a problem. If they consitently do worse than the ETFs based on the same indexes with a similar risk profile, the market will eventually punish them for under-delivering.

If they only make a few picks that end up doing well, keeping the rest of the benchmark for a balanced risk profile seems sensible to me.

Please explain where the problem lies exactly?
> “We had to be more capable in software,” Mr. Immelt said he decided.

I hate to be snarky, but I suspect this is not how GE Digital actually came about.
I'm not clear as to why you say that alternative injectors were "arbitrarily denied approval": Auvi-Q was voluntarily recalled because it didn't reliably dispense an accurate dose, Teva's was rightfully rejected AB rating because it was not identical to the EpiPen in use, and the FDA is well within it's regulatory scope in requiring Adamis provide a usability study and stress-testing for their pre-filled syringes.

The lack of competition to the EpiPen (note that there are other injectors, just not a generic to the EpiPen) is, as I see it, a statement that even simple medical devices are a hard problem. The problems that these companies have had are quality and design failures (in the PLM sense) that are on the companies to correct.
My open source Vlc remote is pretty ugly. Can I nominate it to get a better logo? Source @ https://github.com/nicolasbrailo/VlcFreemote
This looks nice. Is it as battle-tested as browserify?
The mastermind concept is laid out in "Think and Grow Rich" which was published in the 1930s
King County's (WA) incredibly cheap answer to the EpiPen
Is Spelling Reform, Ten Years Old, a Success? (1916)
they shouldn't. They will be subjected to a relentless digital world from age 10 onwards, and before that, they should at least be given the chance to fully bathe themselves in our intrinsically analogue reality, with all its subtle, unabstracted, and beautiful detail.
Ursula K. Le Guin, “the emissary from Orsinia,” challenges expectations
Ask HN: DevOps for Free
I'm experienced DevOps engineer with strong SysAdmin background, actively participating in Open Source projects. I'm doing it for a living with great success, I'm doing it as a hobby with passion (hence Open Source involvement) and I take pride in my work. I've worked and have experience with wide range of technologies, including all sorts of virtualization technologies (Xen, AWS, containers, Open Stack), operating systems (RHEL, Ubuntu and FreeBSD), programming languages (mostly Python, Shell and little bit of Go), automation (Ansible and Puppet) and everything else around it (databases, monitoring, log gathering stacks).

Since I've decided to get few AWS certificates, I thought the best way to do it would be to dust off my AWS experience, and the best way to do that is to actually work with the technology. Since my current work doesnt involve AWS I thought I'd offer some of my free time to any charity, non profit foundation or organization, or company fighting a good cause that is in need of part time DevOps resource to help them with their AWS projects/infrastructure, entirely for free. That's right, there's no catch here, its not a sales pitch, its simply a form of donation that would benefit both sides, I hope! :)

Obviously, I am more than happy to undergo any security checks, reveal my identity, provide references to my clients, Open Source projects and my publicly available DevOps related work, and will sign any paperwork required.

So, if you are such charity or know one, let me know (PM me or leave contact details in comments), let them know, spread the word (I'll be posting this on Hacker News and Reddit), and lets talk!
Where does he say this? I read the post again and did not see it. As far as why it deflates the thrust of the post, I like to think I was excruciatingly explicit.
> Personally, I feel like I sold my teenage years as a price for my edge in tech.

Yes, this. That's how I got here, too. And have the same ruminations from time to time.
You can google every single thing from my post and see for yourself how many people have these problems. Calling it FUD is just FUD.
That's not my experience... What math concepts do you think are required?
hmm something about that site is off putting, I dunno if it's the page layout they chose or the requirement to login before being able to navigate that page.
It's hard for me to think of General Electric without also thinking of Jack Welch and those massive, massive layoffs.
Yes, unfortunate that MXNet wasn't covered. It's in the happy Venn place of (fully cross-platform) ∩ (easy to embed) ∩ (flexible) ∩ (hackable).

* Cross platform: Windows, MacOS, Linux; CPU and CUDA. Though their CMake needs work.

* Easy to embed: straightforward C FFI, JSON for metadata and parameter serialization, no weird runtime.

* Flexible: not too specialized to vision. Static unrolling of RNNs possible now (with mirroring this can still be very memory efficient [0]), basic support for the fast new cuDNN 5 RNN layers [1] (contributed by colleague of mine). Dynamic unrolling is on the horizon I hear.

* Hackable: once you're familiar with the codebase, custom elementwise unary or binary ops = few minutes, custom layers = 1+ hours (depending on complexity). And if you can leverage mshadow primitives for your layer implementation, you don't even have to touch CUDA. Also fairly active on github, responsive to PRs etc.

[0] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1606.03401.pdf

[1] https://devblogs.nvidia.com/parallelforall/optimizing-recurr...
Some feedback: requiring a user to login/sign-up just to browse/discover here is a non-starter. I don't care to sign-up to determine whether I want to learn about your service.
https://github.com/sitespeedio/sitespeed.io
Is “Artificial Intelligence” Dead? Long Live Deep Learning
My point is that a lean build of GTK3 doesn't require more than GTK2 right now does. In the port linked to, libepoxy and libcolord can be avoided. And when you do that, it's down to what GTK2 depends on in its default build config on most Linux distros. If you could disable ATK, you could shave off some more, but GTK3 doesn't build without ATK.
Scaleway has two plans for 3/month:

A:
- 4 Dedicated ARM Cores
- 2GB Memory
- 50GB SSD Disk

B:
- 2 x86 64bit Cores
- 2GB Memory
- 50GB SSD Disk

Does anybody have experience how these two compare performance wise? Is it better to have more (ARM)-cores or less (x86)-Cores?
So a tinkering person who has in the past used Slackware (at the end it looked like a bastardized Linux From Scratch), *BSD and after much meandering settled on a minimal Debian desktop, but still uses Mint at work, should probably feel at home, you say?
Thoughtful and clearly written. I also have a six-year-old daughter and many of the same concerns.

Even as a shameless Alan Kay fanboy, I'd managed to miss his 2007 TED talk until last night. It includes a kind of front-to-back demo of how they were using computers (and other means) to teach six-year-olds at that time, which I haven't seen in his longer talks for technical audiences.

https://archive.org/details/AlanKay_2007
It's fairly new but The Guardian uses it for all their JavaScript (the creator works there).
They should hire as CEO someone who helped build a software startup into a large company to show the appropriate leadership. Otherwise there will be too much corporate inertia and the old way of doing things.

Like Google, they should open up a large tech office in NYC, where many top level software people want to live.
From 1992: http://www.lrb.co.uk/v14/n19/wynne-godley/maastricht-and-all...
Interesting to know, thanks for checking!
The only sibling response is rollupjs, which replaces webpack with ES6 import syntax. You still need bablel for the rest of the ES6 syntax.
This is very impressive. I wonder what the server costs to run a website like Reddit would be if they hadn't used Python and instead used assembly, C or C++.

The benchmarks game [1] suggests that C++ can have a speedup of 10x to 100x for many toy benchmark programs and use far less memory. A highly optimized assembly version could add another factor.

While code closer to the metal would require higher investments in coding, it would be drastically easier to scale. And in the long run, server costs will dominate, so it would be beneficial to reduce those.

Who knows if Reddit would be cash positive if their codebase were written in a different language?

[1]: http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/cpp.html
Qt5's base memory overhead is big (minimum 25MB for the simples hello world window you can create). The modularization of Qt5 is a good idea, but it also makes use on Linux distros a pain, because it's too many modules, like the mess some Linux distros create when they split core Perl into a gazillion packages.
never heard of a bag that has a weight limit instead of a volume limit.
Serverless architectures: game-changer or a recycled fad?
Bitcoin Technology to Fuel P2P Solar Revolution?
The key point of the wager is that the bettor must select the funds at a point in time and bet only on the future returns.

Gazing back into the history of thousands of funds to find a few funds who have beaten the S&P 500 over 25 years is interesting, but is far a guarantee that those funds will beat going forward.
I wonder what happens to performance of same code.
rollup can only load the functions of lodash you actually use into your bundle
Thanks @sandGorgon,

Definitely hear your feedback on the custom tier, we'll try to figure something out this next week.
Predix is built on top of Cloud Foundry. GE are a Foundation member and one of the major investors in Pivotal, which in turn is the majority donor of engineering on Cloud Foundry. By way of disclosure, I work for Pivotal. None of this should be seen as official comment.

So the key thing is: from where I'm sitting, GE are actually serious about this. Really serious. They are not alone.

There's this cliché that big companies are all sitting around, waiting to be disrupted, blissfully unaware that someone in the Valley is going to kill them.

It's getting to be a less and less plausible strawman. Those business leaders are reading the same books, hearing the same ideas and -- crucially -- many of them are consciously seeking out people who can teach them (including, I guess this is a disclosure, Pivotal Labs, our consulting/coaching wing).

Enterprises now want to disrupt themselves, because it 1) hurts their existing competitors and 2) creates moats against startups.

The strawman that giant enterprises are ignorant and ripe for disruption because of their arrogance -- the classical model of hubris -- isn't true.

Hubris cuts both ways. It's the Valley that's becoming lazy and complacent, assuming that they have a monopoly on interesting problems, on big revenues, on agile and lean development.

The barbarians used to be at the gates of Rome. Now the Romans are at the gates of the barbarians, and they're much more heavily armed.
Poe's Law.
depends who you work with. I've been working with really immature loud new grads at my current company and the open floor plan is awful. I just want to work and they yell across the room to talk.
Snebu (http://www.snebu.com, https://github.com/derekp/snebu), the Simple Network Backup Utility, is a snapshot-style agentless backup system for anything that supports GNU Find and Tar. It supports local and remote backups, compression, and maintains a backup catalog in a database (sqlite). It will eventually support encryption, cloud and tape storage, and direct backup of KVM virtual machines.

I was thinking of having a logo representing a gear shift shown in reverse (backup = reverse). But lately I was more thinking of a logo in the style of Dr. Seuss character.
Uber is not uniquely positioned to pool multiple people in one car, to suggest otherwise is quite frankly ridiculous. Also there are no preexisting cars of regular people for Uber to take advantage of because regular people don't have adequate insurance.
At my age I can barely read the article's thin, small, low-contrast font, but I believe that I agree with the author. I read Mindstorms back when it was first published and thought it was reasonable. Now, I'm more skeptical. I see the early introduction of technology into schools as distractions.

I have the benefit of experiencing life before the impact of computers on society. Heck, my parents wouldn't even let me get toys that required batteries (too expensive to replace). So, I played with toy trucks and I read and I climbed trees and I drew. I drew pictures of locks, of circuits, of mazes, of buildings.

My own children grew up very differently. Playing video games, and their schools insisted on early introduction of laptops, convertible laptop/tablets, and iPads. At an age where I would be drawing complicated diagrams of electrical relays to play tick-tack-toe (which, because I was just a 13 year old kid with no training would have never worked) they played XBox.

I tried to get the schools to use paper and pencil for math lessons instead of iPads, but the forces at work in school systems end up encouraging many distracting technologies being introduced with no discernible benefit.

Furthermore, the development of abstract thinking, necessary for programming, happens over time in children. Is there any evidence that early programming instruction hastens it's development? Real research in education seems pretty weak.
Can you explain how Zulip is more like a better IRC and Mattermost like Slack?

I'm a reluctant and weak (opposite of power) user of IRC and Slack and though I understand their great architectural differences, as a user they feel very similar. Surely I'm missing something.
Why is dark matter diffuse? Shouldn't it clump together? I guess if there's no Coulomb force the stuff just moves past itself. However there should be some kind of collision cross-section shouldn't there? Since there's so much of it, what would be the result of even a small probability of collision?
"High level abstraction" is mathethematcs.
Tech companies offering internships for 40-something moms
For me, there's a vague similarity of research interest going back at least five generations.
I cant say much about SF, since I'm rarely there, but in the South Bay there has been a ton of construction going on. Near where I live in Sunnyvale, there has been a dramatic amount within the past few years. 1 and 2 story buildings have been getting replaced with 4 or 5 story ones, and much of construction is near the rail corridor, major highways, or El Camino (a major non highway road).

Not all of the Bay Area is stuck with regressive development regulation. Caltrain electrification (supposed to be completed in 2020, which is probably realistic now that funding is finally in place), BART expansion (ongoing, not sure final completion date), and other various transportation improvements like bus rapid transit will all also help improve the region.
And I want the middle piece, full magic is fine but a detailed manual with all the magical relations identified and tools to inspect areas where the magic is having issues.
A curated list of deep learning resources for computer vision
agreed 100%.
You should be careful with this, you'll wear a hole in your instruction set.
Yeah. Arch borrows heavily from the BSDs. It even used to use their init system. Nowadays, OpenRC is the way to go if you don't want to deal with systemd.
Failure to pay income tax is not a crime punishable with prison time. If you cannot pay, all the IRS will do is arrange for future payment through civil methods (e.g. garnishing future wages, putting a lien on your house, etc). If your poor, the IRS won't throw you in jail. However, if you have a reasonable source of income, you will be asked to pay your share of the services you're using[2].

Note that tax evasion/fraud[1] is illegal, which may be difficult to distinguish in some cases.

[1] not to be confused with tax avoidance

[2] services like national security, various types of infrastructure, verification and enforcement of safety regulations (e.g. no melamine in your food). You may not like all of these services - I certainly disagree strongly with some - but citizenship is not à la carte[3]. If you don't like some things your tax money is going to, I encourage you to participate in the political process so your opinions are heard, or even run for office yourself.

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSQCH1qyIDo#t=219
Draining Oregon
I think they are preying on human lives and I think that is wrong.

In my previous comments I acknowledge the failure of regulations first.

I am not saying that medical related industries or products should not raise prices. In fact, I think competition and profit motivation are essential parts of innovation in medicine, or any field.
Why countries besides the US and Japan is he talking about? I live in the US and have received great service everywhere I've gone, including no-tipping countries like China, France, the UK, Spain, Italy, and Greece, so this doesn't fit my observations at all.
> The strawman that giant enterprises are ignorant and ripe for disruption because of their arrogance -- the classical model of hubris -- isn't true.

I'll buy that.

I still think they are ripe for disruption because they are giant enterprises.

I can't think of any examples of big bureaucratic organizations with a settled culture transforming into something different and better. Normally they get replaced.
Can high-frequency traders replace active investors in an ideal world. Ideally, the price should be the best estimate of the value of the company based on all publicly available information. When new information is released, high frequency traders should rush to profit from the discrepancy. Further, they can market make based off their knowledge of the stock's true value. However, this business should face increasing competition until it becomes a low-margin business. I don't see any inherent reason, active investing should be super profitable. In the end, it is just another business like any other.
Why? Lately my paranoia calmed down somehow, and I'm even considering to install it (I need to have some messenger, after all, and it doesn't make me feel as naked, as skype or whatsapp would). Care to make me reconsider?
my opinion is that valuation is always subjective, but there's a whole industry and a whole field of economics dedicated to answering that question.

conceptually, land value is just market price of the property minus building cost. building cost is a little more objective to estimate than market price but it's not an exact science either (i formerly product managed the cost estimator used by most US taxing jurisdictions and many international ones).
One of the surprising things in history is how well the Dollar has worked out, and I think it's probably very instructive to study it.

The U.S. Dollar has a long and surprisingly complicated history as it worked its way up to becoming the official currency of the U.S., and at each stage, there was some reason for it to move forward to unification.

For example, the U.S. civil war was one of those reasons. Before the war, the U.S. had standardized coinage, but not paper money. After the war the U.S. ran, effectively, two different currencies that exchanged between each other (coins and bills). After dropping the gold standard, the exchange between the instruments was pegged at 1:1.

But before this, paper money was issued by local banks, exchangeable for some weight in silver (or other precious metal) coinage. Notes taken from one region to another devalued simply because of distance from the issuing bank. At one point there was thousands of different kinds of paper bills in circulation, and several kinds of coinage (Spanish, Mexican, U.S., etc.)

I think as Europe slowly gravitates towards some kind of unified system, it would have been far better for blocks of nearby or economically similar countries to each adopt locally unified currencies and controlled, as a block, exchange, duties, interest rates, etc. Thus we should have had a West Euro, Greater Pound, Romancis, New Rubles, Drachmas, New Thalers, etc. and then another couple steps of intermediate currencies and economic blocs.

Furthermore, the overlapping optional unification layers: EU, Eurozone, Shengen, NATO, etc. was also a mistake. Economic, political and other ties really need to be accepted all at once. Partial acceptance hasn't worked as well as might be expected, and has only introduced complexity and confusion over who gets say in what (these things are all deeply interconnected).

The unification experiments in Europe are noble, and are supposed to prevent future crises, but when met with real crises (both internal and external) has shown that the system put in place is overly fragile and not as normative as had been hoped.
I'd be interested whether they've adopted pair programming or not.

I've worked open plan solo and paired.

Solo: I have ADHD. It's a nightmare.

Paired: I have ADHD. I barely notice the background.
This is a great intro, it seems it hasn't been updated in a couple of years (last history update is 12/26/14 (or 26/12/14 :-)) but it shows pretty clearly all the steps to turn your FreeBSD install into a desktop environment hosting OS.

Now I just want a company/org that will in conjunction with a decent machine setup. Basically I want Sun Microsystems back where they have some great hardware engineers put together a desktop system, and great software engineers that can put together a well integrated and desktop environment.