skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, I originally thought that this was an announcement from reddit about getting hacked and loosing user data or something like that.
I would be shocked if RAM and not GPU were the limiting issue in a phone running VR.
Soldiers of fortune do go home afterwards and wait around for another job these days (unfortunately a short wait) https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/14/south-africas-...
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The largest size we tested was 150mb, that's why the x-axis of the graph ends at that point :)
Obligatory comment so nobody else has to: C is a terrible language for security and we must abandon it immediately. Anyone that uses it has clearly not heard of Go/Rust/Haskell. We should just abandon the Linux kernel and start from scratch. And we can unit test the shit out of it to avoid security vulnerabilities. Hasn't Heartbleed taught us anything? MongoDB is web scale. Ron Paul 2012.
It's interesting. Lyft originally was 100% focused on car pooling. I wonder if the time is better now for this type of offering.
Cyclades: Conflict-free asynchronous machine learning
So you hear well but understand poorly?
Or click through to the original posts: https://imgur.com/a/9Lf86#5JQABQG

One thing that most people in this thread seem to be confused about: PDtv, the guy making $2400/year, was a "Media Director", not a developer.
As do most companies / hiring managers in favor of (indiscriminate) offshoring. Because foreign workers are, you know, "cheaper".
John Holland is always worth watching, and not very many people have seen this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_u_d-KLEsE#t=1183.549186
I had the same reaction.

After some fussing, I bite the bullet and went back to Xfinity. I have a Netgear AC1750 router and an Aaris modem and I've never had coverage or speed issues in my house.
>Why would you need to say you're using ActiveRecord or Ruby if you said you're using Rails?

Exactly. "Rails" implies all of those other components. That's my point.

And your stack is relevant. I'm curious what simple stack you use, and how much more simple it is.
Sourcegraph CEO here. You are right on all points. It uses Monaco on the frontend, with a lot of customizations (see here for a shout-out: http://www.infoworld.com/article/3127336/application-develop...). And LSP on the backend. We're writing a technical walkthrough blog post of all this stuff (excited to share!). Happy to chat with anyone who's curious in the meantime.

Anyone who thinks this sounds awesome to work on, head over to https://sourcegraph.com and click on "Jobs." We are growing quickly and would love to chat. Drop me a note (sqs@sourcegraph.com) as well.
One way to think about AI's potential impact is less about replacing what physicians do well currently, and more about doing things they can't do at all.

Take ECGs -- it's true that in a hospital, an automated ECG interpretation doesn't buy you much. But what about about the patient with a paroxysmal heart rhythm that doesn't show up when they're at the doctor's office?

I was at a patient conference recently, and people were describing the first time they felt atrial fibrillation (a common abnormal heart rhythm). Many times, by the time they got to the doctor, they were back in sinus rhythm and thus the ECG showed no abnormality. Some were told they were just feeling "anxious" or "going through menopause." It often took months of persistence just to get a diagnosis.

Now, if have cheap sensors + AI analyzing the patient's whole heart history before they walk in the door, you can do a lot of good for real people.
"What more could reasonably be expected of Samsung?"

Goodness knows, I'm sure making a noisy beeping sound, printing "Load too heavy/unbalanced" on the LCD and refusing to run would be totally unreasonable ?
Their data is wrong, at least for Edinburgh.
The Front-end Architecture Revolution by David Nolen: http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/61483785

It completely changed the way I approach front-end development (Not that talk in particular though. I saw an earlier, similar talk on Youtube but this one has much higher quality).
Isn't that generally proportional to the cost of living of the whole neighborhood?
The pain medication didn't keep up with the pain.
I'm interested, actually, but only because the core parts of Stockholm are so immaculate that it's hard to imagine the city (or its suburbs) might have any "sketchy" parts. Though I'm sure it must have its soft underbellies, if you're willing to go out a bit.

So that list should give me enough to chew on ;)
I have a feeling that the repetitive series of Google Play Services on this device will be very far from stock android
o u said steve jobs: really his announcement of the ipod was an incredible speech .. it ties together tech+art+music+apple and his vision appears pretty fresh.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kN0SVBCJqLs
The guy introducing the product specifically called out that the daydream headset fits over glasses
Why are all these mesh Wi-Fi products (Google Wifi, Eero, UBNT AmpliFi, ...) only available in the US?
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Works fine until someone driving by runs over the passengers who are de-boarding [0]. Or until someone crashes into the train [1].

[0] http://sf.streetsblog.org/2016/02/18/muni-taraval-meeting-me...
[1] http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Car-crashes-into-Muni-...
Ask HN: What would it take to build a cpu from scratch
Lets say you had unlimited money and motivation, what would it take to build a modern cpu from scratch? Is the knowledge and techniques needed to manufacture a cpu widely available, or are there trade secrets and things you would need to reinvent? What about building something simpler like the Intel 4004, what sort of equipment would be needed?
(1) I don't see evidence that its, in general, the same people praising superblocks as criticizing superblocks, and
more importantly

(2) I don't see evidence that they do the same thing, so even if it is the same people, there's no inherent inconsistency: both reduce local traffic, but by very different means which have different effects. Superblocks don't create a hierarchical network which favors long travel routes but prevents through traffic, superblocks don't create a road system that lacks through access on main corridors within easy walking distant so as to support mass transit, and superblocks don't increase walking/bike travel distance by the manner in which they reduce local motor vehicle traffic.
Sam Altman's Manifest Destiny
>I wonder what the actual personal consequences are for someone going public that there is an NSL requested.

Under the Patriot Act its 5 years in federal prison for any individual who violates a gag order.
Can someone explain me the python(3) reference from the end? I don't seem to get the pun
Is this is the best solution?
https://emailselfdefense.fsf.org/en/

Getting anyone else I know to do this seems like a long shot. Is there something simpler?
With SAAS, a server-side code tweak could resurrect surveillance capabilities.
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It's perfectly possible to have suffered shitty hours/below minimum-wage pay/poor management/etc. and at the same time be sad to leave. (The sadness then being leaving a project you're proud of and the community that loves it.)
The value of gold is not at all stable. It has higher variability than the S&P 500 index.

http://finance.yahoo.com/chart/GLD#eyJjb21wYXJpc29ucyI6IlZGS...
I've always wondered how to fix this when/if 8Chan's users move towards a peer-to-peer system.

Maybe some kind of "I use this board so I agree to share the content" style feature?
Is a government somewhere witholding assistance from anyone because they're not donating blood or an organ? Or is this a "logical conclusion" you presume it would be taken to should monetary compensation be made available to donors?
The link should be updated to point to this URL.

If this were any site other than Schneier we'd all be screaming "blogspam!".
Well, yes.

But if you want to address one rhetorical flourish in calling you out for assuming a link between police shootings and demographics which supported your position without addressing equally valid and likely links which didn't support your position as "racist" merely because it involved you assuming that one race (by virtue of being that race) was the victim of racism, when the data suggests that it's possible either is the victim of racism, then you are correct, it's not strictly speaking racist.

But you're well in to very technical arguments about why that's not racist.
> I understand it to be about fostering curiosity and wonder. I assume it's also about discouraging people from dismissing an article based on headline alone.

Quite an euphemistic way to say "clickbait", isn't it?
Wait, OnHub doesn't support IPv6?! That's inexcusable. There's no reason IPv6 couldn't "just work" too. Google Wifi had better support IPv6 at launch.
> My claim is that most AIs won't and we need to ensure that whatever AI is created does.

At least we can agree on that.

> You specifically said such AI should not be created.

I don't see how this is equivalent to me supposedly wanting to kill BDSM practitioners. I already laid out what I object to and why, no reason to rehash this a million times.

> So people who want to be slaves can't satisfy their desires? What other harmless desires should people be unable to satisfy? A desire for gay sex or drugs (to borrow two examples that go against the zeitgeist)?

I'm not sure who else you're talking to in your mind, but that in no way describes me or the points I made. I allege you know that though.

> You keep trying to turn a discussion of AI into an opportunity to express your conformity with the modern zeitgeist. Does that make you happy?

What do you define the modern Zeitgeist as? The Enlightenment movement happened in the 17th century, and I guess you could accuse me of conforming to that. My suspicion is that's where our inability to communicate stems from, is it possible you're not onboard with the whole humanism thing?
I was interested in IT the most but I wanted to keep my options open with non-IT, like a desk job. A job in marketing, human resources, recruitment...could work but I think you need a college degree for those.
Any large company should openly defy such an order.

What will they do??? Fine, court, shut down the company? If that happened would the public not outcry?
"Disturbing" if you're new to the city, I guess. The numbers may be seasonal, and the epicenters of misery may shift from time to time... but such images are quite familiar to any long-term resident of the city.
I didn't mean I didn't want to do any job required for my startup, it's just that I enjoyed coding more than I enjoyed the rest of the stuff (which I always looked at as more of the CEO's responsibility)
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In the context of physics, topological phases of matter often reveal themselves by causing certain quantities that are usually continuous to change in discrete steps instead. A key example is the electrical conductivity of certain quantum Hall effect systems, which jumps in discrete steps (is "quantized" in physics jargon) as an ever stronger magnetic field is applied to the system in a transverse direction.

The connection to the donut/bagel thing more familiar in topology is that topology also deals with integers: a manifold can have 0,1,2,3... holes in it, that sort of thing.

One key mathematical quantity that comes up in the works of Thouless and Haldane is the Chern number https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chern_class

The reason the physics quantities jump is that the Chern numbers of certain electron bands change, and by definition a Chern number is an integer.
> The issue is that they, and other administrative organs, often change their interpretation of what the law "has always meant".

Yes, and if that conflicts with what the courts believe the law has always meant, those decisions won't survive contact with the legal system. An ex post facto law is a law creating (or enhancing) criminal penalties for acts that exist before the law is passed. Changing administration interpretations are like changing prosecutorial priorities (and the former comes with a lot more notice and specificity than the latter) -- they only have effect so long as they are within the bounds of what the courts will accept was covered by the law when it was passed.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12625642
> what does winning look like?

At this point, winning looks like the people responsible for abusing their power and overstepping their constitutional authority going to jail. And for a long time.

As long as the only consequence of illegal activity that violates the constitutional rights of citizens is being told to stop, there will be continued efforts to chip away and push the envelope for what they can get away with. If it were made apparent that there are personal consequences above and beyond the scope of their jobs, perhaps some of the people in those jobs would more carefully consider the constitutionality of their actions.
What about working for literally nothing? Like, say, open source?
I think the phrase you're groping for would be 'political patronage', not 'actual corruption' - unless you're alleging he fundraised for the Clinton campaign with the express intention of obtaining that particular seat.

Otherwise political patronage is the same as it has always been, and in this case was marred by the fact they probably didn't have any relevant positions to reward him, and cast about for any seat available. If you look through the diplomatic appointments of the last ~10 presidents, you'll find that many are unqualified for their appointments.

It's the same process that brought Mike 'heck of a job' Brown to the head of FEMA, where he concerned himself with his dinner plans as thousands of Americans drowned in New Orleans.

And truthfully, I'll bet every presidential appointment ever has been made first and foremost on the basis of that president's relation to the individual, unless you can find me an appointment made on the behalf of an individual said president hated personally.

Broken? Absolutely. Corrupt? No.
I've had recruiters contact me about "opportunities" for various stealth startups and they give off the impression it's so damn cool that it's stealth. However I agree, sounds like quite the gamble. Interested in responses for anyone who's actually done this.
From the wikipedia (which confirms my prior understanding):

>Murder is the unlawful killing of another human being without justification or valid excuse, especially the unlawful killing of another human being with malice aforethought. This state of mind may, depending upon the jurisdiction, distinguish murder from other forms of unlawful homicide, such as manslaughter.

Murder is both specifically unlawful (which is debatable in this case, even if we don't want it to be), and specifically premeditated (which it almost certainly is not). So I'd say murder is probably not accurate in common law jurisdictions, especially U.S. jurisdictions.
I think the problem is the font-weight. I wasn't really able to read the page until I changed it from 300 to 400. I don't think anyone should reduce the font-weight of their body text, it just looks too greyed-out.
In my city, we have these small electric buses[1], designed to travel at a reduced speed. Not exactly tremendously innovative, but still, they're much nicer than regular buses, and since they stop anywhere (just wave), they're helpful for people with reduced mobility.

[1] http://www.stopcancerportugal.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03...
Soon 20 bits won't be enough, either, and every Unicode program out there will break :-(
But nobody knew it was going to be a big success when it started, so that doesn't justify anyone's behavior.
Thank you.

Long before I was homeless, I had a class on Homelessness and Public Policy through SFSU. I am aware policy matters. But, I am kind of a fan of That government is best which governs least.

When I was first on the street, I went to meal sites, etc for a time. I mostly hate programs intended to "help the homeless." They mostly suck. Homeless people are just people without housing. If we get off the street, we stop being The Homeless.

If we focused more on solving things like the huge shortage of affirdable housing in this country, a lot more people like me could solve our own damn problems without having to go through some program where we will be treated like idiots who should be grateful for what is often rather abusive treatment. Let me recommend these two links:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12639356

http://micheleincalifornia.blogspot.com/2016/07/minimum-dece...

Thank you very much for teaching math. That is always a good thing. I tutored math for free as a member of Mu Alpha Theta (a collegevlevel math honor society) in 11th grade. A lot of math instruction really sucks. Props to you on that account.
Men can also have new babies. I'm chuckling rather heavily at the fact that you are the person who brought the sexism to the discussion in an attempt to white knight a bit.
I feel the same way. Was also disappointed with my Chromecast after it just stopped being able to connect to wifi and eventually wouldn't even boot at all. What kind of warranty and privacy disclosures does this solution come with?
The opening paragraph of the WP piece is this:

"U.S. military strikes against the Assad regime will be back on the table Wednesday at the White House, when top national security officials in the Obama administration are set to discuss options for the way forward in Syria. But there’s little prospect President Obama will ultimately approve them."

There are no good options in Syria.

I'm not sure what you are arguing? It's impossible for every piece on Syria to include every single piece of information.

If your point is that the NYTimes is somehow systematically trying to advocate for something, then I'm unsure what that something is.

I guess the US consensus view is:

- ISIS is bad

- Nusra is bad

- Assad is bad

- The Kurdish situation is extremely complex because of Turkey

- Some groups within the FSA alliance are worth supporting

I think the US's state goal is a cessation of hostilities, Assad leaves power and democratic selection of the next government. All of those things are pretty difficult things to achieve.

I don't think any mainstream media is being particularly misleading here?
Nope, but repeatedly accused of it even when the head developer of the engine said I wasn't.

That community has infinite salt, but it made my day^Wweek^Wmonth^Wyear.
There's a typo there - "complements", not "compliments".
"S3STAT is a service that compliments Amazon's CloudFront and S3 offerings"
I'm not a game programmer. As an outside observer, the whole game dev industry seems pretty toxic. That may be a wild misconception. My first inkling came from the whole EA widows thing. I don't actually go looking for opinions, so the few opinions i see come from these kinds of explosions. From my old stale point of view, it seems like companies exploit passion until the devs can't hack it anymore.

Should i update my opinion? Has game dev gotten better?
I'm really confused as to what exactly this is, but it looks cool. It seems to be some kind of visual programming environment, which I'm usually against on principle (BOO non-standard binary formats! ASCII text is the closest we can get to future-proof, and thus what we should be storing our source code! Down with journald! you should know the drill by now...) But interesting ideas are always interesting, so I'm willing to look into it, even if I don't like the look of it.
Or maybe people in India wont put up with the sort of crap we somehow do here in the US
But DXOMARK! The camera metric we've been relying on to buy our phones! Its the highest score ever! Think about how relevant the incrementally better lens will be. Wait till your friends read the EXIF data on your Facebook and FOMO at the mouth. "I saw the DXOMark for that lens" immediately escalating your life from the mundane to the exciting.

Innovations in photon capturing technology like light field be damned. This is the best.camera.ever.

Did this not factor into your decision?
And when working in a language that returns errors, you just use the "check the result for an error" pattern and same.
Ask HN: Pros and cons of Solutions Engineer after being a developer
I need some advice on a career decision. I have a couple of years as a developer before I got my current job and in my current job I don't do a lot of development but when its needed I can always get it done quickly compared to any pre-sales engineer. My question is, is it a right time to move in to presales/solutions engineer? Or should I look for a development job and go into solutions engineer after a few years?

Any advices/experiences from fellow HN'ers?

Background:
2 years as a developer
1.5 year as a consultant/developer
Most Android devices sold are not Galaxy S7 or S6, they are cheap $100 to $200 devices, sold to people who just want a new phone and maybe facebook.

The market share is bottom heavy.
> and specifically premeditated (which it almost certainly is not)

No, "malice aforethought" does not, in modern US usage, actually equal premeditation; there are four distinct states all held to be encompassed within "malice aforethought" [0]:

i. Intent to kill,

ii. Intent to inflict grievous bodily harm short of death,

iii. Reckless indifference to an unjustifiably high risk to human life (sometimes described as an "abandoned and malignant heart"), or

iv. Intent to commit a dangerous felony (the "felony murder" doctrine).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malice_aforethought#United_Sta...
What if you had all your mail scanned or OCRed to remove certain phrases such as "do not disclose" and then the resulting message was delivered to you.

The key here being that you will never have any knowledge of such requirements and therefore cannot act with intent to violate such requirements. Basically, can you eliminate mens rea as an element of the crime of contempt?

The burden is on the deliverer to make sure you receive, open, read and acknowledge the entire message instead of a partial message.
Its October and you are still playing anything from Niantic?
On Participatory Realism
Proper primary source: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-internet-predators-idU...
Also arguably the Punic wars or something is their societal peak, and late republic their cultural. In the empire period the locus shifted east pretty quick.

Which is to say the Romans assimilated into their conquered cultural betters.
At a minimum, I would not have any 2-character graphemes be semantically identical with any single code point.

> Seems a bit wasteful

If they were all separate code points, how many are we talking about?

Also, consider that nearly every Unicode program handles them wrongly. That's pretty wasteful of programmer time and money.
Jailbreaking solves the walled garden issue. What are the millions of other reasons?