skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nice, businessinsider.in is using images from a LinusTechTips video without attribution and probably permission :)

EDIT: It's the GT80 incase anyone is wondering.
Here are SPECint results for the A9X:

http://www.anandtech.com/show/9766/the-apple-ipad-pro-review...
It does say "You can leave questions unanswered" at the start, which can be seen as saying it's an "I don't care" option.
Do they have to be Masters students?
I've been using Emacs for 20 years now, and for the last few years I've trusted most of my setup to Prelude (https://github.com/bbatsov/prelude). It does a LOT of the tedious setup work most emacs pros would do for themselves. After that, I just make a few modifications to the personal.el file they provide and commit my entire ~/.emacs.d to github. I can't recommend Prelude enough, especially with Helm integrations built into so many parts.
I think your information is a bit behind.

My old car, a 2002 BMW 325i, fits that description with a 25 MHz 16 bit Infineon C167 processor and 512kb of flash in its Siemens MS43 ECU. That's properly a microcontroller in my mind.

My new car, a 2015 Ford Fiesta ST, has a 133MHz 32 bit Infineon TriCore processor and 4MB of flash in its Bosch MED17 ECU. That's more than many PCs had until the late 90s, so while it's definitely running a RTOS I have trouble calling it a microcontroller.

That's not even a new ECU either, a friend's '09 VW GTI had basically the same unit. Anything with direct injection almost definitely has a 32 bit ECU, especially if a turbo is involved. I'd imagine a higher end car these days has something more potent (or just doubles them up, like BMW used to do on V12s).
http://www.nmr2.buffalo.edu/resources/edu/matr/40yearsofPNMR...

first superconducting NMR magnet was built in 1962, by a commercial NMR company (bruker). 1970 was the first commercial superconducting FT-NMR.

The first superconducting synchrotron was planned around 1974 (ESCAR) and wasn't completed. the SSC was first discussed in 1976. CEBAF is the first accelerator to actually deploy superconducting technology in any form... But its use is in the RF chambers (the walls of the rf chambers are superconducting which allows them to transfer energy by charge oscillation more efficiently to the electron beam), not in the bend magnets.
> Furthermore the suggestion in the article that the "potential recruits" be arrested is incredibly disturbing.

And would probably further radicalize those targeted and those around them.
Valve Bans Game Publisher After It Sues Players That Gave It Bad Steam Reviews
Or Google is trying to solve L4 and doesn't care about lower levels, while others (esp car manufacturers for safety, and Uber for PR/advertising) see value in detouring to L2/L3 goals.
Global fund raises $12.9B to fight AIDS, TB and malaria
if it's more homogeneous than diverse why pick a city which is one of the most diverse in the country as the example?

don't understand your last sentence. been in china/hk, there's a lot less diversity there, at least racially. are you using diverse in economic terms? gender? age? consumer habits? religion?
We started using Zenhub for management (migrating from a messy asana-based process) and have really been enjoying it!
Was going to suggest the same thing :) I haven't had the sort of success that the OP did, but that PR Hack post def inspired my way of operating! Yay Felix
That list looks pretty sparse. What's it take to add more entries? For example, I would expect to see the TP-Link Archer C2600 near the top of the performance charts given its QCA IPQ8064 SoC and 4-stream ath10k radios. I'm assuming you aren't actually testing all these models, so it shouldn't take too long to pull together the relevant information on everything under https://downloads.openwrt.org/snapshots/trunk/ipq806x/generi...

Also, if this list ever does grow to be more than two screens long, please add actual filtering rather than just sorting; some of us are only interested in routers that don't need proprietary wifi drivers.
The average homeless person in the US cost tax payers around $40,000 [1]. In 2015 SF had a homeless population of 7539 [2]. Meaning they're spending on average of about $32000 per homeless person, $8000 less than the national average.

From 2013 to 2015 San Francisco experienced a 2% increase in the total number of homeless, while the nation as a whole saw a 5.2% decrease.

Sounds like it's a problem you can't underspend your way out of.

[1] http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2012/mar/...
[2] https://sfgov.org/lhcb/sites/default/files/2015%20San%20Fran...
Maybe Thrun doesn't feel like launching separate companies for each of his interests.
The nox version works beautifully in the new ubuntu subsystem bash console. I've never tried using any of the graphical versions.
I'm hesitant to pick up another network protocol after OpenFlow. Lots of vendors claimed to support it, but only a handful took an honest shot at a decent implementation.
Hey! Great question. We strongly believe that it's important to understand the ethical implications of such technology. However, we don't believe we are experts or authorities on the ethical implications and as such will provide recommended readings but not cover it ourselves.
I'm not Norwegian, but I would be surprised if this was really a fair description. The author appears to be making an implicit comparison, where things are well if they are as in GB. Of course, there is no claim of objectivity.
also I believe the food industry was very interested in NMR. There's stuff like "nmr analysis to estimate fat content in cream cheese" sort of stuff in the very old (60s) literature. This shouldn't be surprising, as the way arnold Beckman got really wealthy (and got his name on pretty much every science building) was by inventing the pH meter, which was snapped up by the florida citrus industry.
To further your point, there are a number of studies that show how exposing political partisans to opposing viewpoints (and people on the other side) usually pushes them further into their own camp.
It doesn't advise only for saving bytes, but also for scannability, which is greatly enhanced following that advise.
+1 for Termux.

I started using it purely for the novelty of running emacs on my phone (a moto x pure) and it's a great piece of software. It's even open source!

https://github.com/termux/termux-app
I know someone who moved from Postdoc level Physics to Machine Learning. He is a strong and capable member on one of the teams that I work with.

Its certainly possible, but my guess is the big challenge is persuading a company that this is actually possible.

His strengths are being to understand the mathematical concepts and use them as tools to solve real world problems. I do not know your subject, but I would recommend finding something in what you do and applying it to tech -- you should be aiming MUCH higher than throwing a web application together.

Edit: I'd also recommend applying to Google and not expecting to make through the interviews. The amount of effort in getting up to interview level there certainly helps in getting positions in less well known companies.
As a techie, you can just help the economy by making/providing whatever widget/service the market needs. That creates employment and keeps people's retirement funds afloat. If the growth stops, many people will suffer.

If you actually want to make a huge difference, get into economics, politics, policymaking, etc. to affect the way markets work.
I don't see why it should not be doing that on a modern system. It will just be a lot harder to do (less access, wider busses, much higher frequencies), but possible non the less
I'm trying to get into the program, working my way through your pre-req courses. I do a lot of self studying on the side, but don't have anything to show for it on Udacity. I'm shooting for 33% completion on the 3 Ai-related courses before the application date. Do you think this looks better, or would you rather see I go for a 100% completion on one course?
Ask HN: How early is too early to move on from first job?
I landed a "software engineer 1" job with a fintech in the Southeast after graduation, pretty good salary (considering the low cost of living), good benefits, etc. But, I'm itching to relocate back to the West coast (I'm not from the South and this Bible Belt stuff is giving me the creeps). The product I'm on is scheduled to go to prod in Feb, but after that... Will it reflect negatively on my professional record for me to start job searching again so quickly (less than 9 months at my first job)? Or is this standard practice and something I should try for?
If you look at the official figures:

San Francisco - 7,539 homeless out of population of 837k[0]

Tokyo - 1500 - 5000 homeless out of 13.62 million [1]

It is orders of magnitude difference.

[0]http://abc7news.com/news/data-shows-sf-has-2nd-highest-homel...
[1]http://blogs.wsj.com/japanrealtime/2014/10/17/homelessness-i...
Here's a video of two dolphins creating a new trick and performing it in sync, which requires creativity and communication:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSjqEopnC9w
Research on using polymers to kill superbugs
U.S. Air Force grounds F-35 fighters over cooling line problems
>...One is the climate...

71% of homeless people were living in SF just before becoming homeless. Only 10% come from outside of California (and its climate)[0]

This pretty clearly shows homeless has alot more to do with the cost of housing relative to wages jobs then good weather.

[0]pg 33 of http://sfgov.org/lhcb/sites/default/files/2015%20San%20Franc...
1234 days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5642010
Wouldn't that basically be replicating a return value-error approach, in a more cumbersome way though?

You could argue that Go can use Exceptions in the same manner as X lang too, by using panic and recover... but most people seem to not like that.

With Go and Rust, return value error handling is just simply nice. There's no question about if a function might error out, just look at the signature.
sure, but you're thinking about the perspective of the engineer.

from the perspective of the buyer, this is all part of the cost of the transaction
Are you sure about that first part or if that just conjecture?

The main reason to give drug addicts clean needles is to stop the spread of blood borne diseases like HIV and hepatitis, which reduces stress on the healthcare system. Alternative drugs are useful for weaning people off of a drug that would otherwise give them potentially life threatening withdrawal.

I think the argument you're implicitly making is that homeless people won't change so why help them, which is fundamentally flawed because you're looking at those people like they're less than human. Sure, some (or in your argument, most) people won't seek help, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't offer it.
I'm by no means an Emacs expert or even power user, but I've found Aquamacs to be pretty good for OS X. It's stable and seems to strike a good balance between integrating with native UI functionality and the Emacs way of doing things.
Interesting. Had not realized rationality was learnable.

Another leading contributor to opinions that others may consider to be irrational is existing beliefs. I am not a scientist but I am guessing belief systems are a bigger factor than irrationality in most cases where we generally label others as being irrational or unintelligent.
Your point makes no sense.

If some random teller makes a mistake the bank can just organise for the transaction to be reversed.
I tried Unetbootin with Linux Mint, but it didtn't work with uefi. The full installation after the live boot may work.
I'm normally a bit wary about platforms such as Steam wielding their power over the marketplace but in this case, I'll be the first to congratulate them!

Bravo! Please keep your store empty of publishers who sue their dissatisfied customers.
Cool stuff! Any reason why you switched to Lua from Elixir and any links to github with the code?
"they are called chefs now"

To be precise, the people in the kitchen are: the chef, zero or more sous-chefs, zero or more specialists (gard-manger, pastry...), zero or more cooks, an expediter and the dishwasher(s). In a very large restaurant, each specialist may have cooks working under them.

There's only one unadorned "chef".
Right, sure. But these are pretty basic questions. Questions that you wouldn't expect a lead to be asking a few years hence. You understand that right?
>Fish was bread-crumbed or battered, and was invariably cod. And deep fried.

Well, that will kill you too. Just much much slower.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12521883 and marked it off-topic.
I would optimize for completion. We'll be looking for students who've shown they can aim for end to end completion in the program. Hope that helps!
Could you be specific. In what particular areas do you need a consistent point-in-time snapshot?

Having worked in finance myself, as part of a team that procured and replaced an international core banking system with a state-of-the-art, multi-hundred million dollar successor; we've never had a strong consistency requirement. Much weaker forms consistency sufficed for their needs and the requirements of regulators.

Also what big trouble do you mean? I do not know of any financial regulators that expect banks to have a totally consistent point-in-time view of their balance sheet. Furthermore the Basel Accords and similar banking supervision rules do not mandate such a requirement.

I be very much grateful if you could provide me with this information, as I can pass it to my former colleagues who will be quite surprised to discover this requirement.
Any shortcut that could be pressed with one hand on a qwerty keyboard would probably be good.

I'm partial to Ctrl-` since it's cross-platform and seems to be unused, but some international keyboards might have difficulty with that.

Ctrl-Space would also be pretty nice.
Having dealt with languages that don't, I much prefer ones that do. The thing is, most languages DO basically check vtables, in that 2 values with different types will never be equal (unless there is implicit casting or some kind of equality override). For instance, 1 == "1" is valid, and true, in PHP, even though that is less then ideal. The difference, of course, is that most of those checks are done at compile time in many languages. Go will do some checks at compile time, but it's specifically unable to do some of them due to the "dynamics" of how interface variables work.
> the argument you're implicity making is that homeless people won't change so why help them...you are looking at those people like they are less than human.

Where did I say that? Interpretations like this is exactly the reason why politicians just throw money at the problem without understanding it, they are just afraid of people making wrong assumptions just like you did. I never implied that they are less human, I just said that offering them better shelters and better services isn't helping them getting away from being homeless, in contrary it's doing the opposite.
>Yeah I feel like science and some test strips would do the job. But eating blowfish to begin with is ridiculous, and based solely on tradition.

Citation needed. They ate it centuries ago too, before they even had a tradition of eating it.

It's more bravado than tradition. They don't eat it because "our ancestors ate this too", but because they like the challenge. Who with any sense of bravado wouldn't?
Ask HN: How relevant are Master's degrees in tech today?
I ask this question with interest from both from the perspective of a person with a non-cs undergraduate degree and one with.

Personally I have a degree in economic geology and am currently studying a Master of Finance but I have been programming on and off since school. Recently I have been considering exiting my finance masters with a grad dip/cert (I am in Australia and am not sure if those quals mean anything anywhere else?) and pursuing some form of CS. For many working professionals and people who don’t happen to live near quality education institutions, I think that online learning is an excellent choice.

Unfortunately this severely limits the course options to both lengthy and costly master’s degrees through universities such as Georgia Tech, Penn State or Liverpool, or short specialisations through MOOC providers such as Udacity or MIT’s open courseware.

[TL;DR] Getting to my actual question. Do you think it is worth the cost (both in time and money) to pursue a Masters in CS through a traditional university or are building skills by completing personal projects and taking MOOC's (such as Udacities nanodegrees) just as likely to arm you with the skills to land a job and make a meaningful contribution in the field.

Edit: Fixed my paragraph formatting.
Rationality is logical behavior.
> It could be classism and segregation, or there could be a higher incidence of theft and you got lucky

I can only speak from my personal experience, but I would attribute it more to the former. The advice I generally heard was that you should stick to the heavily developed areas, near your hotel, etc. We were abroad for about 4 months, and I always felt safest outside of the touristy, "nice" areas. Especially in India, you'll find many scammers (sometimes entire organized teams of them!) in the areas where there are lots of tourists because that's where all of the money is. But, I found that by walking often just a few blocks away from these areas you would be alone as a foreigner, and there wouldn't be mysterious people with excellent English following you around and trying to "befriend" you. I was definitely noticed, but people would be smiling, or shouting "hello!", or waving. I never felt threatened.

I felt very fortunate that I learned this lesson; we also met many people in India who had barely left their hostels because they were so stressed and afraid of dealing with the scammers who waited at all hours of the day and night in those areas. When they made it out they didn't go far: they went to the tourist-friendly places that could be found on TripAdvisor, but these places were also teeming with scammers. I think a lot of people end up missing out on India because of this and not liking it.

We were very lucky and none of us dealt with crime the whole trip. Of the travelers we met who had had stuff stolen though, it was in touristed areas, especially on beaches while they weren't paying close attention to their stuff (and/or very drunk).
While the document may be labeled 1986, much of what he described was from the 50s-70s. And quite a bit of it is no longer valid, thanks to changes pushed both from above and below.
Define tech.
If this interests you, check out https://intelligence.org/rationality-ai-zombies/.
Yeah, I tend to agree about the lack of fairness or objectivity, especially in part 2 (which I'm still making my own way through right now). The author really lashes out there, sometimes without very much justification. It almost sounds in parts like he's still undergoing culture shock. At the very least, the author is very opinionated. It does make for some interesting reading, but makes me skeptical of some of the conclusions and it would be nice to get a 2nd or 3rd opinion.

Example:

"At the personal level, the inferiority that seems to lie deep in the psyche makes itself known in all kinds of little ways. 'What made you come to Norway?', ask many
people... certainly hoping for a positive comment on their country and culture."

Asking what made one move to one's country is supposed to be a sign of having an inferiority-complex or begging for a compliment? Come on. There could be any number of reasons for asking that, ranging from simple politeness, to making small talk, not being able to think of anything else to ask, or amazingly enough: being genuinely interested in the answer or in the person its being asked of.

I'm always interested in seeing the world through other people's eyes, and that's one of the main reasons I ask people for their impressions.
I think you're right.

By answering the 'Operating System knowledge' question 'I've used Mac OS and Windows.'
my 13/25 dropped to just these two:

* OpenSuse
* Slackware

So I just unchecked that question and moved on.
If he is anything like Daredevil, he loses in court then beats the shit out of the person he couldn't convict.
Would North Korea Have Abducted an American in 2004 – To Teach Kim English?
That might be what they need (or could also use and is more readily available), but I wrote about what they want.
This is a complicated problem and I admit that I don't have a good understanding of law or social studies... so take this with a grain of salt.

I sometimes wonder if we have a little too much freedom in this country. Heroine/meth/alcohol mixed with mental issues have demolished the lives of many people. They turn bitter and blue. Life becomes a loop of temporary satisfaction through chemical escape.

The ones that end on the streets are often not violent, and I don't believe they belong in prison. But defiling public spaces with needles and shit is not acceptable. Fines and nights in jail don't matter to them, but freedom on the other hand...

I imagine a state institution somewhere between jail and trade school. Drug use would be tolerated to some extent. Food, shelter, and hopefully some sense of community are provided, along with opportunities to learn useful skills.

I realize this is idealistic and that the monetary cost would probably be immense. I'm just sick of all the biohazards strewn across the city and felt like wondering out loud.
It seems this argument can be summed up as follows:

Side 1 - eventually computers are going to be so powerful that it'll be trivial to create a realistic simulation - so we must be in one.

Side 2 - our "mind" cannot be represented by computers therefore we can't be in a simulation.

I'm trying to identify which logical fallacies these sides represent - does anyone know?
I have known many clearly intelligent people who held irrational opinions quite strongly. For example, huge believers in specific, concrete stock market predictions based on some fibonacci sequence nonsense, to the point of actively loosing six figures through multiple failed predictions over a decade+ and still believing.

So clearly, they're distinct.

But the question about the bank teller doesn't seem like the strongest indicator. It seems more like a parlor trick that relies on our "system 1" brain short circuiting before our "system 2" kicks in.

Better indicators would be ones that explore in-tribe vs. out-tribe perception of facts, or that attempted to quantify one's awareness of one's own blind spots.
Xwidgets is little more than a gimmick, which:

+ Is not cross-platform and never will be

+ Depends on X and GTK (bad!)

+ Substantially reduces the stability of Emacs due to GTK
memory leaks and bugs (terrible!).

This is also the reason that many Emacs users compile Emacs without GTK toolkit support on Linux.

+ Introduces serious security issues via the webkit part, and no, host/browser process isolation isn't really doing anything to mitigate this.

With all that in mind, I'm wondering why they bothered including it
in the first place. It will never amount (at least I hope so)
to anything that can be reliably depended upon.
If there were 10 engineers, no one else, and no investors, and they each had 10% of the company, and that company sold for $100M, then they would have each gotten 10% of the company.

But that's not likely.

From the point of view of a buyer who spent $100M and got 10 engineers out of the deal, the cost was $10M/engineer, whether the engineers each got $10M injected into their pockets or not.
>Apple adds features like PCI-e for discrete GPU support (ok, they did in A9), and if Ax series performance starts to exceed corresponding Intel mobile parts by >50% (enough to compensate for the overhead of binary translation for legacy x86 apps).

When it happens, it might not need binary translation.

http://lowlevelbits.org/bitcode-demystified/