skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Upvote from one triple 7 fan to another. I love those planes. The Heathrow flight 38 crash was the first hull loss in the history of the 777 program: not bad considering the first commercial flight was in 1995.

Still have not flown in a 787 as I mostly fly United and they don't have too many of them in the fleet yet. Ironically it's mostly 747s on the routes I regularly fly to Europe so I get to experience them regularly along with the odd A-380. (The latter a comfortable ride but just no poetry in the thing. It looks like a squashed frog.)
Convolution neural networks and many-layered networks are useful for things outside of image processing. CNNs are used for acoustic modeling in speech recognition, and character-convolutional layers are used in language modeling. And pretty much all neural networks in use today anywhere are many layered.

As mentioned in the article, using convolutional layers in ANNs was an idea from the 1980s, but networks that could be trained on the hardware available at the time were never all that competitive until recently. Once we figured out how to train big/deep networks (use GPUs, have lots of data, maybe use pre-training), CNNs started to perform really well. This did make a positive feedback loop: as CNNs started to work better, deeper networks in general started to get more attention, which got more people into CNNs, etc.
Since there are so many readers in this thread, are you guys managing your books: Goodreads, Google Books, etc?
The right metric is probably cost per annual kWh.

1 kW of photovoltaic (PV) will generate about 1,800 kWh per year over its lifetime, and costs probably about $1,800 to build at utility scale.
So $1 per annual kWh.

Things are more complicated for CSP, because it usually has thermal storage built in.
This allows it to generate more kWh of energy per kW of max power.
For example Crescent Dunes generates is 110 MW, and generates 501 GWh per year: 4,500 kWh per kW.
But it cost $1 billion to build, so it's about $2 per annual kWh.

Ivanpah does not have storage. Its cost per annual kWh is over $3.

(I am glossing over the fact that PV lasts for "just" 25-30 years and CSP lasts longer. Revenue generated 30 years from now is not worth very much.)

EDIT: to answer your question about "conversion rate from KW of solar energy to KW of electrical energy" - this does not matter, at least here in the US. We have way, way, way more solar energy hitting the ground than we will ever need. Converting it efficiently just doesn't matter.
Character manipulation on zero-width-joined emoji
If your life savings is 10k or even 100k you don't need to invest in startups. Try an index fund.
Pyongyang (restaurant chain)
They don't care. When you have billions in the personal bank accounts, the few tens of thousands you would collect per month from a luxury house in London means nothing.

It would be more of a nuisance - the tenants need registering, then you have to pay taxes, for what gain?
You can demonstrate compliance with some definition of demonstrate and safe, like per whatever the FDA requires.

But you make excellent points, thanks. And I suppose what got the manufacturers in trouble wasn't so much their products as their claims.
When I was a kid, my dad offered a bid to work on the construction of this house in San Diego:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3270786/California-m...
Really surprised nobody has mentioned How to Win Friends & Influence People by Dale Carnegie yet. IMO, required reading for understanding and communicating with people.
For those of us who don't know what this was, what was it?
The books of Pieter Hintjens, ok, he is a developer but...
I'm not saying it's malware free, but if you look at the virustotal report[1] you'll see it picks it up because it has references to things like msn.com and ads.net, which it adds to the hostfile to block the spyware

[1]: https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/032d394fd6884a275b8a24dc5...
Yes you are right about Margate. It's becoming really popular with artists and artisan craftsman. I don't live there but I can see the growth as more people are moving there from London.
This wikipedia article describes a restaurant chain run by the North Korean government. It serves dog meat soup and an aphrodisiac made of bear. I was wondering if anyone had experience eating here.
A company that created capture the flag type games to be used for recruiting and hiring. See stockfighter.io for an idea.
Another approach is to heat up the grill, then throw on some table salt + pour on a bit of white vinegar. Use a flat blade spatula to work it around, then lightly scrape it off.

It strips the hot plate back to metal (not joking).

So, no residue from previous meals is left.

Probably not be a good idea to do this on a hot plate coated with (say) teflon or similar. Did that once on a friends BBQ years ago, which stripped it back to the metal. Oops. Unsure what the coating was though. It definitely "wasn't there" any more afterwards. ;)
Good old fashioned dead trees, on my end.
And the moderators are basically dictators over their sub. We believe so much in democracy that we practice it almost nowhere.
Show HN: MoonQuery.js Mongo like querying of arrays in JavaScript
A startup by patio11 and tptacek to attempt to help recruit software engineers better.

https://www.starfighters.io/
I wonder if the public policy intent of this regulation could have been met by permitting soaps to label themselves as antibacterial without containing any of the prohibited compounds (or even lie about containing them).

Soap is pretty antibacterial by itself. ... and now I wonder if we'll next see a wave of soaps containing various reactive nanoparticles what whatever potentially not healthy stuff they'll use to address the fact that the public thinks it wants to buy something that is antibacterial.
ThinLTO sounds good in theory, but is still too hard to use in practice compared to gcc -flto=4.

While clang -flto can produce up to ~15% faster binaries than with gcc, it's still not usable for bigger projects which put a lot of their API into a shared library.

Some of those functions in a shared library are eventually inlined, but with clang -flto the exported copies of the functions are optimized away, whilst gcc keeps the copies additionally to the inlined variants. So you can try to keep those inlined API calls in the shared library with __attribute__((used)), but then they are not inlined anymore with performance regressions up to %50.

Not fixed in clang 3.8 and not in 3.9. I hope it will become usable in 4.0 as the performance benefits would be dramatic and the implementation efforts to keep the ((used)), i.e. exported copy, minimal.
inotify is only available on linux so `tup monitor` doesn't work on all OSes. But other platforms have similar libraries so it's possible to port it.
Eviction can be very difficult (1 year +) when it comes time to sell.

Also, it's risk. They can fuck up the place, and if their rent is not much, then the insurance will be more than the rent.
Start with the book of Proverbs, follow its wisdom and advice, if all you're after is career improvements. Great wisdom.

(Wisdom about people, situations, attitudes, and actions are all found there).

But, move on to John, if you are eager for more.
Thanks for the Feedback: The Science and Art of Receiving Feedback Well by
Douglas Stone and Sheila Heen.

I think it has made me a better teammate, mentor, and mentee.

If you'd like to know more before buying it, check out
http://www.npr.org/2015/09/22/434597124/trying-to-change-or-...

https://www.amazon.com/Thanks-Feedback-Science-Receiving-Wel...
Can you give me a tl;dr?
They don't complain about good questions. Just about bad answers.
In any city with a high price-to-rent ratio, rent isn't really a factor in prices. Investors are buying homes in those places because it's really hard to make more of them, just like gold and high-end art. The price is determined by what other rich people will pay for them to hold as a speculative asset, just like gold and art. Collecting rent is possible, but it makes an illiquid asset even less liquid: many home buyers want to live in the home they buy, which is hard when there's an active lease.

This does not happen in cities where it's easy to build more homes in desirable areas. They have lower price-to-rent ratios because prices are determined by the value of the rental income stream. We can make it easy to build more homes in every city by repealing laws that push lower income families out of desirable places—that's what density restrictions were invented to do.
Does Burning Man Need a New Urban Plan?
Oh right, it's in the OS so it's a tragedy now.

Facebook and Google obsessively hoarding data about me is all good. Microsoft trying to collect usage data, horrible nasty evil no good rotten scoundrels.
Maybe twitter should hire tptacek's company for a security eval.
I think by "blockchain" they mean hashed blocks that include the hash of the previous block and can be synced; basically git.
Better yet just use Antergos. It defaults to Gnome, even, and has a live CD.

It still isn't a good situation to anyone put a power user. We would want an Arch derivative with better security (ie, MAC, package hold-back for stability, etc). And the AUR is in practice a security nightmare given anyone can upload anything as a PKGBUILD.
Isn't this similar to the cryptocurrency Stellar
> And... this is what happens when you don't tax foreign cash infusions.

Why would you do that?! It's basically free cash flowing into the local economy, it would be absurd to "tax it". Am I missing something?
What, offering enough value so the user subscribes for longer than a year? How is that a "dark pattern"?
A $5 million home rents for roughly $20k a month, or $240k a year.
Thanks for replying, Andrei.

Air Canada Express recently started 2x daily YVR-SJC; direct connections between Vancouver and the Valley may help with communications with the Redwood City office.

Are you willing to publicly divulge an ETA on when you'll come back to Vancouver? Please come back. I really love Human API's vision, and I don't want Vancouver's biggest tech players to be companies like:
-SAP (which I wish could be relegated to the ashheap of history in all its ABAP glory)
-TELUS (a telco monopoly)
-EA Canada (a slave-driving AAA game studio)
-Tableau (which will be doomed when Microsoft PowerBI gets in gear and SharePoint integration improves)
YouTube de-monetization explained
Seems you believe correlation proves causation.
The templating engine on BlogSpot is not fun at all.
I can think of no examples where someone who has been adjudicated as incompetent has purchased firearms from an FFL and gone on to commit crimes - and I'm quite familiar with the process, let me assure you.

You saying someone is "unfit to own guns" does not make it so.
So i wonder if some kind human soul would just throw a solid rope, long enough to reach the bottom from the surface to help poor species?

Ants are like "WTF humans! F* your studies, help us already!"
Log levels described as shit hitting the fan
True Air-Gapped Communications in Python
Great share, thank you!
> MS is just catching up on what Crapple

Just an FYI, I stopped reading and downvoted when you started with childish name calling.
* Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell

* Freakenomics

* Slideology

* The Checklist Manifesto
I've been spraying my hands off with 70% ethanol in labs for the past ~10 years. So, FWIW, a lot of people with phds in microbiology do that (to protect themselves and their experiments from themselves).
Insults like this are not OK on Hacker News. We ask that you comment civilly and substantively, or just not at all.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
There's a distinction between the software itself being excellent and the team being fast-moving.
I remember welding in shop class in seventh grade in the US. Pretty fun actually. That was more than two decades ago though.
Visualizing dependency graphs of Go http frameworks
While that may be true in certain exceptional cases the available evidence (every other 1st world country) would say it isn't the regular case.

Even IF that's the case it's still wildly better than the current system.
"The Goal" by Eliyahu Goldratt, while set in a traditional manufacturing world, does a great job in clarifying the role of constraints in any team effort. It's written in the form of a novel.

It is not perfect. I think it hase some sexist undertones, is generally just super-eighties and kind of self serving as a novel. But it has definitely changed the way I think about business in a deep way.
There are people that behave in ways I considered pretty irrationaly with their capital... and they work out.

If they're getting an absurd percentage increase from property values alone, an extra few percent won't make a difference.

Not everyone min-maxes their capital. Governments probably end up eating them through inflation and taxes in the long run (but in the long run, we're all dead).
Depends on your organization. If you're government, the possibility of the government spying on your data isn't shockingly worrisome. A lot of types of businesses also would have no reason to care about privacy concerns, where a lot of reporting and accountability is already required, or where there's almost no contention for need for privacy.
There is no healthcare in the US where the government is the sole (or even primary) customer. So using anything from the US as a counter example is going to fall flat.
It's the cost of being an Apex predator!
> Everything "just works" on it.

Except the maximize button.

And scrolling.
These hosting companies are already doing enough things "wrong" that if "well, everybody just stop using them" were going to be a viable strategy it would have worked by now for those other things.

We currently do not have the power to change the behavior or the market share of these hosting companies in any significant way. That leaves working around their behavior as the option.
I am interested and curious. Could you give an example of something you were dissatisfied with, and at which you became great because of those books? Thanks.
Debian is a better alternative for Ubuntu. Arch has a rolling-release cycle that incurs additional maintenance (things break).
Because my time isn't worthless.
Live Auction of Steve Jobs' Personal Effects
High-speed rail sounds like it could fit your needs, as long as you could somehow limit the number of stops along that distance that would need to be made, as the time-cost of slowing down, unloading and loading, and speeding back up would likely be the limiting factor in its efficiency and utility to the user.
Stefan Esser is a well know iOS security researcher that is well known to be (and vocal about) keeping private jailbreaks.

This makes sense considering the platform - burning an exploit would render it unnecessarily difficult to continue research on future versions of iOS.
>It certainly improved my personal and professional life.

If you don't mind me asking how has it improved your life? Also, have you seen the effects wearing off after a while?
So what would happen if you ate one of these ants?
Ask HN: Is there any CRM for mobile games?
We're looking for a CRM for mobile games where all user data is collected (activity, revenue, social media accounts, support requests) and can be exported by custom segments. Does anyone have a hint for a good solution?
Hillary first used a Power Mac tower for e-mail
I have found the Euro model quite good for the Northeast US.
NYC Cabbie Whips Passenger with Belt When She Says She Can't Pay
The answer to that question is a lot less obvious than one would expect.

Windows installation upgrades (hereafter "migration") have been blocking setup if a known-incompatible program[1] is detected during installation, telling the user to uninstall it prior to allowing the upgrade to continue.

For Windows 10, the goal was to make the migration process (which would take ~40 hours to gather/apply on a typical system from Vista -> 7, the same process takes 20 minutes to an hour on upgrades to modern 10 nowadays) a lot faster, and a lot more seamless, as to get as many users as possible on the latest OS release to reduce effort supporting other software versions[2] and such.

Of course, blocking the installation with a known-incompatible program would result in popping up to the user, say, 'hi, this update can't install until you uninstall this program. please do so!', and they of course will respond 'what update? I don't want to uninstall my program so you can install an update! [I don't trust this at all/I'll forget/...]', and therefore said update (which wouldn't just be from 7/8 -> 10, but also cross-build on 10 itself) would never get installed.

There is no sane way to ask the user, since this will reduce adoption of new builds further than what people not understanding/accepting Microsoft's POV on this will attempt by 'not upgrading'.

[1] A common case to cite is the deinstallation of the product 'Speccy', which, funnily, will cause a system crash in a kernel driver shipped with the product if said older version is later installed on the new OS version and run. Given the chance people will have odd ways to automatically start this, and that people's systems will instantly crash if run, it makes sense to block the installation on this product.
[2] I maintained a hobby product that worked with fringe cases in the OS for a long period of time, and over time as I moved to newer OS versions myself, I'd end up having a large amount of features break on downlevel systems due to depending on new implementations/refactors done in 8, 8.1 or 10 with regards to those components of the OS.
Old related thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12243611
This part of your comment is factually not true:

"The kerfluffle over Apple's Irish tax bill is because the EU competitiveness committee has ruled that Ireland's low taxes are equivalent to an unfair subsidy. But the key point is that it is Ireland's rate, which is why Ireland is also fighting the EU ruling. If they can't have lower-than-average business tax rates, they might have a harder-than-average time attracting businesses."

Ireland made a deal with Apple, whereby Apple effectively paid NO tax (vs the standard Irish rate of 12.5 or 13%). THAT is the problem - that Apple scored a preferential one-off deal that is not available to most other business operating in Ireland.
Probably due to anti-moneylaundering requirements...
Their readme doesn't specify, but from a brief investigation, it seems like their application has options for what to do and not do.

As more and more critical parts of the Windows system is moved over to the UWP model, though, disabling UWP apps would just be silly. And UWP doesn't require the Windows Store to work.
> it's an investment based entirely on trust without any information, accountability, or influence over the outcome

Assumes that an investor's extra-monetary 'influence' on a company is +EV.
I though Stockfighter was a cool idea, and was incredibly excited to try it when it launched. Unfortunately the site was unreliable, winning felt random, and in the end I'm not sure that I would have had faith that it was a good litmus test for developer skill.

It was a great effort, but I feel like it never really caught on and that a community never really developed around it.

As a comparison, I found Elevator Saga [1] to be much more approachable and fun.

[1]: http://play.elevatorsaga.com
No it hasn't really.

Technological development has lowered the costs and availability of most things in our lives. If you look at the actual practices of governments and individuals over the last few centuries you won't find much truly free trade. You'll find all kinds of protectionism, exploits of positional control over markets, currency flows (I'm looking at you China), and the occasional super-power deciding to to have a war on ... well slavery was the one that mostly worked.

But free trade? Well, most countries agree that they should be allowed to freely export whatever they want... imports are another matter of course.
How so? (I quite like it. I am looking for insights.)

Thanks.
Serie B: Ικανή εντός η Μπρέσια
Pretty much any non-UWP Windows app installed with administrative rights can collect OS level data.
> The book is written as if it's presenting "a new, flashy, grand theory of everything". It's not that. The idea of working in a deep, focused manner isn't a new one or one that would shock people (as the book's extensive citations show). But the book puts up a very intense battle against an army of straw men. I don't think you'd find anyone who disagrees with the general notion of working intensely on your priorities; it's making your life conducive to it (and getting done what you aim to get done when you sit down) that's the hard part. So the book feels more to me like ideas you'd share with friends about how to be more productive than a revolutionary new idea, but you have to wade through pages of why this is life-changing and flashy to get to the more useful actionable steps.
The Campus Left and the Alt-Right Are Natural Allies
What community? The only community around OpenOffice.org were the Sun/Oracle devs + the Go-OO devs getting it to work on Linux.

The Go-OO devs forked it into LibreOffice and then Oracle shuttered their own work and reassigned their devs to other projects. Only a tiny handful of devs not part of Go-OO remained, and they had not been instrumental in actually maintaining the codebase as these other two groups had.

There was no community around Apache OpenOffice.
Nodevember removes Douglas Crockford from keynote speaker list
Petition to prevent DEA from making Kratom plant Schedule I
They don\t commute from the core to the burbs. They move in from the hinterlands. People living in chilliwack, burnaby, Squamish and even further afield are commuting in. They are working on houses, on the industry that is every-rising house prices.

Watch the lions gate bridge or the upper levels highway on the north shore. Watch what rush hour is these days. The 7:30-8:30 rush across the bridge is barely a thing. Now it's thousands of pickup trucks driving into the burbs at around 6:30, ready to fire up tools come 7am.
"Youngry" - A newsmedia property built a supplement entrepreneur and professional "entrepreneurial-advice" entrepreneur that aims to make money by creating sponsored content and e-commerce products (webinars, digital books) for early-stage, young entrepreneurs.
Companies will do anything to advertise their products!
Are there successful startups working on what you may broadly call "programming games (with a serious practical purpose)"? I know of CodeCombat [1]. The story of how they got into YC [2] is pretty interesting:

>With all the chaos trying to keep the server up and the bugs down, we slept little and prepared for the next day's Startup School even less. We had been tapped for on-stage Y Combinator office hours with Paul Graham and Sam Altman. We watched a video of previous on-stage YC office hours and concluded that "office hours" really meant "eight minutes of two of the smartest startup guys in the world demolishing your idea in front of 1700 entrepreneurs and a live video stream".

>Fortunately for us, they liked our startup and were much nicer than we expected. In fact, as we were walking off stage thinking, "Hey, that went well--maybe we'll get an interview!"--then Paul whispered something to Sam, who nodded, and they called us back.

>"Okay guys. Wait, wait, come back! Come back for a second. You didn't realize that, but that was your Y Combinator interview. You're in the next batch."

It's worth watching the video for the founders' entire interview.

Edit: Added the quote.

[1] https://codecombat.com/

[2] http://blog.codecombat.com/codecombat-in-y-combinator
Impossible to find? Where do you shop? Where I live, the non-antibacterial soap outnumbers the anti-bacterial soap 4:1 or more on the shelves.
The launch announcement: http://www.kalzumeus.com/2015/03/09/announcing-starfighter/

Launch announcement HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9173939

Hats off to patio11 and tptacek; trying is far more than most people do.