skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Rendering the Mandelbrot Set with WebGL
I really think that Wikipedia needs a "Golden" overlay; The ability to select to see the last revision marked as good by some 'authority' instead of the 'live' version by default. This would be a good mix of the benefits of a wiki, and the assurances of authority.
Thanks for sharing, very interesting stuff. The more unbiased studies we have like this the better.
This. I'm pretty sure there is a huge problem with USPS workers fraudulently scanning items as delivered (to meet Amazon's SLA) and then actually delivering them a week later. I'm surprised Amazon hasn't done anything about it yet.
Yes, but this actually a side effect of the how close our elections are. A few nut jobs on the far right of the Liberal party are able to cause mayhem due the slim majority the liberal party holds in parliament.

The good thing is it is mostly just noise - what actually gets through the parliament is much more benign.
A nearby friend has problems with fedex. Their driver that covers the neighbourhood seems hell bent on delivering things to the wrong addresses. At one point he even delivered a massive bulky item to her front door. It completely blocked the door and was far too large/heavy for her to move. This would have been great except it was a Friday evening, and was clearly marked for someone else several blocks away on a different street.

I've had a UPS driver just slap a "missed you" note on the door, rather than actually deliver the item. I did complain to UPS, but it seemed like complaints were rare, nor did they seem to have a standardised system to address them.

It seems like the incentives, feedback loops etc aren't really present for the final part of the delivery. And it seems like neither UPS nor Fedex care, or care enough. Amazon could do a lot better in collecting the feedback, and then potentially do something about it.
True. I was using it as an argument to adjust the system architecture, as well. My argument was it didn't matter really which changed to get things into alignment, but that having them be different was a bit of a concern.
In fact, there is no such thing as an immutable or stateless computer; it violates the theory of computing. Just a bunch of buzzword nonsense people say so that they can justify spending their entire life asking for too much money to try making the machine behave as though it is stateless.

With real, physical machines; you could have a cooling issue (which you should fix), a manufacturing defect (which you should RMA), a networking issue (which you should fix). All of these can easily be unique to an instance, and all of them need analytical attention; especially when you're paying for all of those machines "horizontally" and "at scale".
It seems to me that Amazon gets a tremendous amount of bad press singing the exact song you just sung. However, I think the analogy is more like Uber drivers for package delivery. A union won't stop a job from becoming obsolete due to technology and society isn't willing to stop the advance of technology. Its probably more advisable to develop a plan to retrain then try to get in a union as a taxi driver or package deliverer.
Nah you're just too busy pumping ethereum
No, because it's never been a point of contention that the missile was fired from within (some part of) Ukrainian territory. What people have been generating noise about is the question of whether the missile came from Russia (before being launched) or from Ukraine's own stockpiles (being as Ukraine did have missiles of a similar make and description, apparently).
Lockheed Martin, their revenue stream isn't based on mining your personal information and communications. With Google at the helm there is almost no chance this stuff won't be always executing on their servers rather than in your device alone.
Probably because Apple can..
> You seem really impassioned about for a product that you also haven't used and the media has generally laughed at and dismissed.

I didn't read it as being for a product, but instead, against people being against it without having tried it. Granted, it's certainly possible to be against something without having tried it (for instance, I've never broken a bone in my body, but I'm pretty confident in my stance against ever wanting to do it), but when it comes to something like how well a new microphone works, it's really hard to say without having tried it and without having anybody else who's tried to it rely on. Relying on the media you've read that "laughed at and dismissed" it isn't relying on much at all, until it's actually released and properly reviewed.
I'm not familiar with the company but there is serious money in enterprise AI, speaking from experience. These could be very large customers.
> doesn't the idea of "living fossil" help me understand how much another species has changed over some time period?

No, it doesn't.

First, you'd need a measurement of "change". Without that, the question "how much change has occurred?" is, obviously, totally meaningless.

Once you supply a measurement of "change", you'll notice one of two things:

(1) (if your definition was motivated by defending the concept of living fossils): You've hung on to the idea that "living fossils" have changed less than "modern species", but your definition of "change" serves no useful purposes.

(2) (if your definition was motivated without reference to "living fossils"): "Living fossils" mysteriously seem to be no different than any other species.
Probably not a misprint. They could be big enterprise customers.
Currently, boys are more culturally inclined to have had previous exposure to technology and programming than girls. This leads to an uneven starting point when they arrive in college.

Now this is fine in a vacuum, but when you put students with different experiences into one room, the ones with prior experience will naturally tend to do better. This relative lack of experience is often misinterpreted as a relative lack of ability or aptitude by the students with less experience, even if their potential is equal if not better than their more experienced peers.

Since gender currently correlates with experience, one way to help balance things gender wise is to even the field wrt experience. This is something Harvey Mudd has done well. (Granted, their stats will be inflated since Harvey Mudd is an excellent STEM school that attracts some of the most technology inclined female students in the country to apply).
From the formal standpoint he is not, given his knowledge and expertise he pretty much is at least according to Space X engineers I know or that publicly spoke about it. There is obviously a very talented team at Space X and the things he presents are obviously a result of team effort.
That's how supermarkets work, too. They get a cut of the sales price, and if you want your product to stand out, you pay for a more prominent placement.
Seattle pretty much a hard no if you've got any sort of seasonal affective disorder. It's number 1 in the US for number of cloudy days per year.
Ah, yes, I think that's it!

Looks pretty different from what I remember, haha.
Canadians also loathe UPS. Anybody who ships UPS or FedEx ground to Canada is going to get angry customers complaining about $50 CODs, often more than the shipment is worth... Or even refused packages sent back at the sender's expense.

It's one thing to say "customs is expensive" - it's another to dump a massive fee on the recipient without even warning the vendor thst this is possible.
That's why authy is a joke
I'm one of the founders of Kolide. Hopefully I can clarify these issues.

osquery (https://osquery.io/) is an endpoint instrumentation project from Facebook. It exposes system internals in a SQL interface (using SQLite internally) so that you can join disparate sources of data about system state. It originally launched with Linux and OSX support, and this announcement brings Windows support (though no pre-built binaries yet). The beauty of this is that we will soon be able to use the same, open-source endpoint instrumentation tool on a huge range of hosts.

Kolide (https://kolide.co/) aims to unlock the power of osquery's instrumentation through a unified command and control interface. Mike Arpaia (another Kolide founder) and I have been working on osquery since Mike started the project at Facebook. We believe strongly in osquery as a cross-platform open-source agent, and we feel that a proper management solution will greatly improve the impact of osquery. Soon, Kolide will enable security, devops, IT and compliance teams to gain insight and take action across their infrastructure.

EnvDB was a prototype project that led to the formation of Kolide.

Note: We write Go and JS and are hiring engineers who are interested in solving security problems and working on open source. Remote possible. (https://angel.co/kolideco/jobs)
But you can't exclude the natural gas that's also part of fracking. The reserves of it in the US are incredible, and have a large impact on energy prices.
FreeBSD 11.0 release status update
I had a big group of coworkers from EPFL when I was working for Google Switzerland. At some point, I actually questioned whether we have a bias for these schools.

EPFL or ETH are definitely not something I'd consider as just "Swiss education system". These schools are what Stanford or Berkeley are in their region, and are highly international.
I like the way you think. Unfortunately programmers like to either be really against something or treat it as dogma and the only way to do things.
It was the company who made the item.
tldr; "The data so far provide little support for the strong claims about legalization made by either opponents or supporters."
FB will still be better for "app discovery" that was not intended by the user.

How many times do you visit the App Store without already had an intent to download a specific app or a specific app category? Compare that to how often you visit the FB timeline. The intrusiveness of FB ads hitting your brain when you had no internal motivation for look for another app is why FB ads will continue to be powerful.
Slow as hell on my 2012 i3! No buy! :)
Stanford Tops List of Colleges in the Wall Street Journal’s Inaugural Ranking
This. One thousand times this. The author's subjective judgements of other people aside, from my point of view, mandatory pair programming is a plague on the software industry. If others want to engage in that practice, cool, but I refuse to work at an employer that requires pair programming. I find requiring it to be grossly insensitive.
I find it odd how in all these first employees articles they are all investors now. Would you want to raise from someone who just happened to be a first employee??
https://www.reddit.com/r/keto/wiki/keto_in_a_nutshell
> I believe that the strong producers and leaders in the software industry feel the same. The mediocre “cogs” (9-5ers that just want a paycheck) outnumber us and I suspect 40% or less of them might benefit from pair programming

I don't buy this - weren't Jeff Dean and Sanjay Ghemawat notorious for pairing frequently?
Hi,

Yes the deal sizes are mid 6 figures or larger.

We have a larger deal pipeline than that though.
A lot more to come :).

Red hat/oracle style on premise (non saas) business model.

We usually target NON computer vison applications like fraud, preventative maintenance in data centers (predicting broken machines) and other mission critical applications.

One example:

http://insights.ubuntu.com/2016/04/25/making-deep-learning-a...

This kind of stuff is a swear word on hacker news but there's actually money in it. Fire away if you have specific questions though :).
Yeah... Amazon, the delivery service delivered some mason jars for me. They literally dropped them and half were broken. I had a massive box of broken glass.

By contrast I've never had an issue with FedEx or UPS (USPS is bad, and so is onTrac).
I wouldn't refer to the Cato Institute as anything but biased, as it's a neo-con libertarian think tank funded by the Koch Brothers but this particular study is fascinating simply because it IS a neo-con libertarian think tank funded by the Koch Brothers.
Also pharma/biotech: Novartis, Roche, Synthes...
I mean, you can have an immutable stateless computer, but it's just called a "boolean logic circuit". You give it an input, it gives you an output, that's all.

In practice, you'll of course actually be using a computer with RAM. Most likely, it will even have a Von Neumann architecture. That leaves you open to everything from race conditions to hardware failures to cosmic rays putting a machine into a bad state.
Keto (and any diet change really) will have effect on the microbio in our guts. That's also a likely large source of weight loss.
Posting this here because I know the HN crowd includes both a lot of FreeBSD users and "early adopters": Some errant bits escaped prematurely, and the ISOs for FreeBSD 11.0-RELEASE are being re-rolled. So if you noticed the unannounced images on the FTP site a couple days ago, wait for the announcement and the final images.
My personal impression is that coinage is complicated.

I suspect they started out as weights for measuring out a certain value of grain or similar.

Then you stamp the weights with the mark of the sovereign that validates them.

Then at some point it becomes just as easy to just swap weights around as bring out the scales.
I have a few questions for Swiss expats.

Could you tell me about the Swiss culture--at bit? I know it's a huge topic. Just some of the differences you see between the Swiss, and say Americans.

I mainly interested in the Millenials.

What do they think of Americans?

Do they basically have the same hobbies?

Are their any stark differences in what they value?

Do they view Americans as spoiled?

Do they fear us?

This next question is very specific, and probally weird. I heard teens love 50's Cadilliacs. I love them too, but I heard they are more desired there, than in America? What is it about older Caddys?

Are their fashion differences? Here we have kids spending hundred of dollars on tennis shoes, specifically Nikes. Has that fad hit Switzerland?

Are women more, or less fashion conscience than Americans?

Just any insider observation?

I've been interested in Switzerland since I began Watch Repair a decade ago.
I had fully assumed the OP was writing some kind of joke or satire, but since folks are taking this seriously...

I really wish some who call themselves introverts would "give it a rest" insofar as using introversion as a childish EXCUSE to avoid any and all interaction with others or as an excuse to selfishly cherry-pick which interactions they will participate in or as an excuse for anti-social, alienating behavior.

Sometimes people need to work together and pair programming has many benefits for mentoring relationships, getting people up-to-speed, and for solving hard common problems that benefit from discussion and exploration. AFAIK, it is NEVER a "permanent" arrangement-- you go back to your own desk eventually, and honestly, if a pair doesn't work out they can always split-up, so suggesting that it is an "all day" exhausting grind is kind of disingenuous.
> The absence of significant adverse consequences is especially striking given the sometimes dire predictions made by legalization opponents.

No kidding - let me just quote Kofi Annan's excellent essay on the subject (published a couple of months before the UN failed to course correct at UNGASS 2016):

"Nowhere is this divorce between rhetoric and reality more evident than in the formulation of global drug policies, where too often emotions and ideology rather than evidence have prevailed."

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/kofi-annan-on-why-...
But their revenue stream is generated from war.
Know your source: Cato is an advocate for libertarianism, at least as envisioned by its funders, founded in part by Charles Koch, and still heavily funded and controlled by him (and I think by his brother).

I don't mean that in a partisan way; you might love them, hate them, or not care one way or the other, but it's always useful to know who is talking.
If you don't eat a lot of carbs, that means you need to eat fat during the day to replace it. Would you rather eat the butter raw, or with a cup of coffee?
Caves in Which Jewish Rebels Hid from Romans 2,000 Years Ago Found in Galilee
Yeah -- it definitely misses the point. It's not as if mathematicians have been desperately "mining" prime numbers, like bitcoin. They've able to generate as many as they need for quite some time now.
Maybe they want to grow an endowment fund which will enable them to live off the interest generated so they don't have to rely on donations in the future.
If it were free, wouldn't everyone do it, thereby negating any benefit?
My observation agrees: the best hackers are relatively solitary in work. It's introverted work, and introversion suits the work.

Nothing in that should be construed to mean that programming shouldn't be done in consultation with upstream and downstream stakeholders. Just that pair programming and other high-interrupt situations are poor approaches for good work.
I have heard of, but never witnessed, groups where the team stays together but cycles through projects a sprint at a time. One or two teams keeping three or four projects spinning but making the projects take turns.

I don't know if they provide popcorn at the meetings where the project managers explain why they deserve the next sprint.
Yes, but farmers (especially subsistence farmers) just want to get the most yield they can. That's the only part of the chain they're involved in.
RIP Steve.
In order to cast enough votes to affect most elections, you would need a large number of votes. The more fraudulent votes you cast, the more likely you'll hit a voter that already voted. If there's a significant volume of double vote attempts, that's a big red flag.
Play framework (https://www.playframework.com), a JVM (Scala/Java) high performance web framework. Underlying it applies netty.io as I/o engine.

I introduce this because, you can just simply write Java code without learning the servlet spec to build your app server. There is nothing wrong about servlet spec, but it definitely slow down people prototyping some startup ideas. Play framework actually borrows the route file idea from Ruby community to let you write plan Java functions and configure route file to exposure them as REST APIs.

Talking about concurrent model, play framework mixes two models – reactor (This is the concurrent model NodeJS keep advertising about) and Actor model.
So instead of ads you want a system where random relevant apps are floated to the top of searches? How is that helpful for anyone?

Maybe I'm missing something, but it seems like Apple is only doing what every other search system with embedded ads at the top does.
Let me refute that for you then.

I have been hired at both G and MS. In my tenure at both, my connects (performance reviews) have been stellar (you'll have to take my word on that, unfortunately).

At the risk of saying something I should never associate with my professional profile, I have also been rejected at both, in combination ~5 times to the 2 I was accepted. (both prior and post my acceptances at each place).

I reasonably consider myself to be a "good engineer" in a pragmatic, "you pay me money to make your company money" sort of way, however, I would not say I pass the interview process with ease or enjoy it; and would VERY MUCH say the process puts me off interviewing for companies I know behave this way instead of just waiting for a prior coworker who trusts my output to say "hey we need someone"; those latter arrangements have historically worked out far better in the long run for me given both outcomes and ROI of time spent in the process.

While I certainly welcome that I am either a fraud or an outlier, the fact that I've heard similar stories from coworkers I see as very high end engineers allows me to assert at least that this occurs (interviews putting off good candidates) although not necessarily how much.

The fact of the matter for me, at the end of the day, is the common lament: if the interview (and when it is) even VAGUELY about what we do day to day, I will surf without blinking, with the exception of the occasional "culture fit" rejection which I've come to accept in stride, but between those rejections and the sheer volume of "I clearly don't want to be interviewing today so going to make this hellish/I expect a magic question to a problem I prepared ahead of time" that I've seen, it seems divorced from reality that such an often arbitrary and painful process wouldn't put people off it. I recently likened it to be most similar to what it used to feel like to ask out someone in middle school, when you felt somewhat clueless despite your best effort, with low chance of success and high chance of shameful failure.
> A lot of people can also be traced back to Wirth.

Martin Odersky, the creator of Scala and javac, was born in Germany but received his PhD in Zurich, at EHTZ, under Wirth's supervision[1]. Odersky is now a professor in Lausanne at EPFL [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Odersky

[2] https://people.epfl.ch/martin.odersky/bio?lang=en&cvlang=en
> this particular study is fascinating simply because it IS a neo-con libertarian think tank funded by the Koch Brothers.

Of course a libertarian think tank would argue for drug legalization; that's not surprising at all. (I say this as one who also supports drug legalization, whose politics are in many ways diametrically opposite to libertarianism.)
If you had a basic syslog setup, it stored as text files. However, a more interesting syslog setup would take those entries and send them to a remote database, filter them to match certain contents, run scripts based on those matches, etc. Systemd only seems magical because most distros don't use even a sliver of the abilities that modern syslogs provide.

Systemd is a Jenga tower. Yes, there are lots of little pieces, and yes, removing a few won't hurt anything, but it's still fragile, and rather inconsistent. "Parts" like the journal, are a separate executable, but are not managed like other services. It uses a poorly documented ipc interface to talk to the various parts, and the configuration files are a nasty tangle of symlinks and control files stretching across the filesystem. It's just not a very well engineered piece of software.
Communication delays were a big part of this.

I think unappreciated problem with modern communications tools is that by default, they enable and encourage micromanagement.
I wouldn't say "other than Haily". Even with that character in mind, I don't consider the show to be sexist. My point is that having a flawed female character doesn't imply that the show will be perceived as "attacking women" as tzs seems to be suggesting.
> Promoting has nothing to do with how well supported the app is.

I think it could, to a certain extent. If someone stops supporting an app, I think there's a decent chance they wouldn't both paying money to promote it. At least for the kind of throw-away crap apps that are out there.
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Why should that matter? Should we exclude all but subject matter experts in all discussions?

You don't need to be an expert to understand the limitations of rockets as a means of getting to space.
New rule suggestion. You must argue at least one flaw in the study or article before pointing out the source may be biased.
Thanks for sharing that tip! By the War Museum, do you mean the Army Museum? I was not able to find the war museum with some quick googling.

http://www.armemuseum.se/languages/english/
apple isn't hurt by this at all. they likely don't want to commit any resources beyond a spokesperson mentioning that their enthusiastic about it.

this partnership thing is a pr move that makes all involved look good. investors and shareholders alike thinkin "cool they're working on ai, that's good"

what will come of the partnership? nothing other than a place journalists can ping for questions about ai.