skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Emphasis on "most suckless projects".

The point was that you can verify the integrity by reading the source code. The actual limits to this depend on many things.
Google and Facebook have a combined market cap of 900 billion, and employ 70,000 people between the two of them. Their profit last year was ~20 billion.

Ford alone employs 200,000 people, with a market cap of... 48 billion. And a profit of ~7 billion. GM also employs ~200,000 people. With a market cap of... 50 billion. And a profit of ~7 billion.

Tech employs very few people, compared to the amount of money it brings in.
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People like him equate cost with quality of life. "SF is more expensive, therefore it must be a better place to live". It's a sad and naive outlook that a lot of consumers grow up with.
That's fine and that is already an acceptable method so long as you can make the case for why it's representative and do some real world testing to validate it.
On modern browsers you don't even need this method. A simple

<script src="//blablabla.bla/bla.js" async></script>

will get you the same effect with the added advantage that the browser's lookahead parser can detect the script and start downloading it even before the DOM has been constructed.

The problem with both methods, however, is that they will still block the onload event from firing until after the script has finished downloading.

There are only two ways to get around that.

The first is silly in how obvious it is... if you load a script after onload has happened, then it cannot block onload. This has the downside of not using parallelism.

The second method is to load the script in an iframe whose onload event has already fired. It's a bit more involved, and absolutely requires the use of document.write inside the iframe. I've documented the method here, and it works on all browsers: http://www.lognormal.com/blog/2012/12/12/the-script-loader-p...
Yes, you can, but it doesn't change the fact that you still have a clustered index (an index organized table), which is great for PK lookups, but bad if you do a secondary indexes lookup (because you need to lookup through 2 B-trees instead of 1). There is real, and well-known, tradeoff here.
I was quite disappointed the author chose not to cite Bernhardt's work, as this is pretty clearly derivative of that talk and other work in the community around this design.

I'm certain I've heard Hickey talk about it a few years ago as well. Trying to remember where.
Because the rest of your team is more comfortable with Windows and can support and develop for it.
5000M home use routers over 10 years doesn't sound right. According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Internet_usage , only about 10% of 7.2B people had a fixed broadband internet connection as of 2014. And these connections are typically shared between multiple people, so assuming 1 router per 2 people, that's only 360M routers. Making the conservative assumption that they are replaced every 2 years (in my experience it's actually less frequent), that's still only 1.8B chips. And that's for the entire market, not just Broadcom.
A local chain whose computer rebooted showed it to be using IBM's OS for POS. Last copywrite was 1999. I found out that it was an customized version of Concurrent DOS.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concurrent_DOS

Its history is quite amusing compared to some other OS's with better design. Last I heard was that the company's bigger stores upgraded to Fujitsu Linux (???) that runs that DOS system in an emulated or extended way. The backend is SCO Linux and mainframes. The self-checkouts, per the techs, run on Windows Embedded for GUI, the DOS thing emulated in there somehow, and a connection to backends.

It's clear they keep going out of their way with more complex designs and configurations to prevent replacing that relatively-simple DOS app. Hilarious.
History indicates otherwise, no?

I don't think food and manufactured 'stuff' has ever been cheaper relative to median wages than it is now.
I've been personally thinking what I would do if I were in such a situation. If I had to purely rely on govt funds and found it very hard to get by. I can't imagine.

I can see why so many people want trump. He feeds on the anger at how broken this country is.
The modern version of this is something with a big dumb GUI that is trivial to train on. A CLI or text only approach is going to take longer to learn and be comfortable with. I get TCP/IP with modern stuff which allows me monitoring, remote access, remote upgrades, etc. We also get standardization. Windows/Linux and USB aren't going anywhere anytime soon and even if they do we can emulate x86 systems in a hypervisor. If your ancient non-x86 system dies you either get lucky on ebay or you don't.

I also can't casually send the customer a text telling them their car is ready or have my supervisor look at my metrics on what I'm doing with the machine. Or a million other things on these old systems. Or you can, sorta, by shoehorning in garbage like analog modems and swapping out floppies all the time, but who wants to do that?

I think young people tend to fetishize old tech because they weren't there when it was used. Floppy failures were common, IRQ issues, programs taking down the entire OS, no real security, and "the computer" was something the specialist at your shop took days of training to learn how to use and when he wasn't there "the computer" was useless. Now its been vastly democratized and has higher levels of ease of use. That comes at the cost of complexity.
Original: https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2016/09/28/xavier/
The Art of Embracing Commoditization
Does anyone know when this will be available on AWS RDS?
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TCP was included by default with Windows 95 and NT 3.1.
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Except none of those types of jobs offer the stability of the original industrial jobs, and are generally geared more toward younger workers, who have longer. So it's a much worse situation for those workers as the jobs are higher risk.

If you were a 55 year old long haul trucker, you aren't going to be able to replace the income/benefits you had with a $7/hr (pre-tip) service sector job.
This is total speculation but I imagine that Google captures less of the value it creates than Apple does.

If Android makes up 90% of the market share and is half as valuable as an iPhone and Google was capturing the same % of value created Google would have revenue numbers from android that are larger than Apples from the iPhone. But it's not even comparable.
Police officers across the country misuse confidential law enforcement databases to get information on romantic partners, business associates, neighbors, journalists and others for reasons that have nothing to do with daily police work, an Associated Press investigation has found.

It won't be long before they start planting DNA samples they collected to frame somebody.
Hopefully that will change in 1Q2017 when Xilinx finally releases to production their new Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC[1]. It has a quad-A53 cluster and a dual-R5 cluster. It is still in early-access so I can't say much more beyond that (we're designing it into a system so I'm constrained by the early-access NDA).

[1] http://www.xilinx.com/products/silicon-devices/soc/zynq-ultr...
Nothing ever scales linearly without limit.
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Because you're breaking the narrative. They don't like that round here. Using statistics to support the opposite argument challenges beliefs too. And we can't have that.

See how the SF community has turned on Theil

> The eccentric investor is not like anyone else in tech. By Kara Swisher @karaswisher

> ... And many of those who like him personally and call him a "dear friend" are even perplexed, going as far as not talking to him of late because of his Trump support. "I’ve tried," sighed one such friend, who described a number of colleagues trying to pull him off the Trump train, including PayPal Mafia family member Reid Hoffman.

http://www.recode.net/2016/7/21/12241648/peter-thiel-trump-s...
I tried thinking of a good argument against it because it seems unintuitive. From everything I see, women are ENCOURAGED to go into STEM fields. They are significantly more likely to be hired and promoted when compared to their male counterparts, and get all sorts of support and scholarships.

Are you suggesting there aren't any psychological differences between men and women? Because testosterone has been shown to cause people to be more competitive, assertive, and violent. That's a pretty good indicator of a difference in psychology.
We are of course talking about trends here. There are of course individual exceptions to the norm.
It's available at: https://github.com/somaticio/tensorflow.rb
> This is a particular piece of rhetoric I find distasteful. If there are jobs that are structured such that only an illegal immigrant, who by definition exists outside the normal labor pool and its protections, will take, that job should not exist in that form or at that pay rate. Full stop.

Agreed. There was a pretty good article on this in N+1 magazine a few months back that I found insightful enough to copy down:

> Both American and Mexican labor are cheaper for being divided, and there is no obvious reason to believe that more labor laws, like raising the minimum wage, will change the fact if there remains a surplus of undocumented workers to whom these laws technically apply, though in practice they are unenforced. The real wage, calculated as the average rate paid to documented and undocumented workers alike, explains Trump's rise more than his virulent racism does. Racism is a side effect of a regime that keeps labor laws on the books only to look the other way when millions of brown people are subjected to conditions far beneath these standards.

> The wall isn't racist; the border is racist. The wall is an effort to force a broader recognition of the privileges the border grants to professionals, who are the primary beneficiaries of American immigration and trade policy, and to redistribute some of its racist benefits downward. The only solution to this problem is to raise the price of labor power in Mexico, and then everywhere else. But given the limited political horizon of the professional left, for whom a higher minimum wage for American citizens is the best that can be hoped for, perhaps the unemployed people of Indiana can be forgiven for thinking that the wall is more realistic.
> I have never heard much about storage engines in Postgres, why could this be so?

Because PG isn't designed around pluggable storage engines, so its not really as practical to take a storage engine out and use it separately, and doesn't make much sense to talk about the storage engine separately from the whole system.
I've had LaserShip report items as delivered multiple times, only to have them actually delivered a day later.

Definitely file a complain with amazon and provide the order number. They will lay down the hammer.
Only in Manhattan, and the $100 is only TWO weeks. A full month is $200.

As one of the 80% of New Yorkers who live in the other 4 boroughs, this is useless to me.
Put one rack of servers in every house in Sweden. Each one warms the house a little bit.

Of course, you lose out on all the other advantages...
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5 standard deviations? Who cares about handling lots of easy situations.

Just create a big old test suite, procedurally generated. It would make for a nice game and driver training tool too. Verify against average and expert drivers to set grading. Additionally get statistics about prevalence of bad driving, which will allow you to check if the driverless system is safe enough using plain old cost-benefit.
Moreover, include assisted driving systems (emergency takeover) in the evaluation.

No need to require perfection, failing gracefully is also acceptable. For example, in a weird situation, the car could slow down and engage notifications at drivers.
The number of physical connections (power and numerous data cables) that can be seen in the 5th slide that each machine has makes this seem infeasible for now, but considering the article mentions there's "only one technician for every 25,000 servers" and Facebook's FBAR software (hey, that's up from 20k), it seems like the next step in "the new data center" is having a robot to unrack (and rack) entire machines and bring them to a servicing bay.
It's useful for people who work out on the west side highway like at IAC or in the Starrett-Leigh building and live on like Avenue D or something. Or other similar oddly crosstown commutes that aren't necessarily gridlocked. Or people who work in hospitality like bartenders and so on who have to otherwise take a couple trains to get home.

Which, I guess, is a use case.
This reminds me of a a terrible programmer I knew when asked why he had no comments in his code: "inspection of the code should be sufficient".

Not for your code it wasn't.
Edit: I tried looking at the study and the factors and numbers they used. I find it very unconvincing. The numbers are very abstract and the weighting rather arbitrary. You'd have to correlate these numbers by sampling actual people in each country at the bottom and top half and see how they live. When you conclude that the bottom 10% of Americans all living on food-stamps are about as well off as the top 10% Italians then something seems very wrong with the methodology.

It is actually very hard to come by studies and comparisons of these things, but one knows certain facts, which is that health care is not easily accessible to the poor in the US, while it generally is in other western nations. We also know that college costs considerably in the US if you are not especially talented and get a scholarship.

Germany which is supposed to much worse than the US according to this study offers cheap health care and college to all citizens.

So I am not saying this study IS wrong. I have no proof of that. It simply isn't believable to me unless somebody can offer a proper explanation for the way in which say poor swiss or germans are worse off than the poor americans.

This would not be the first time I've come across dubious studies like this. There have been studies in the past where they claimed Mississippi was better off than Sweden. If you start looking into this assertion and talk to people who have been both places it becomes clear that the assertion is completely ridiculous. It is one of the many cases in which statistics can serve you a fat lie.
There's already 10x drones than soldiers. 'Unmanned: illusion of perfect war' is a great read at how autonomous and Video game like the current US military is.
Ah the memories. From memory, and obviously we are going back a long time here, there was a program in there which you could write to make it sound like a baby was crying ( it kind of did), and another where you could design a sprite ( a hot air balloon ? ) and move it around the screen.

It all seemed rather complicated to me at the time and couldn't imagine how people were writing whole games using it. Years later you realise it was even more complicated as most games were written in assembly.
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The word acronym refers to both cases (pronounced as a word, and as a set of letters).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acronym#Nomenclature
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> Last I recall, you had to break up the `</script>` end tag into two strings.

Only if you're an inline script. If your document.write() call is in an external script, you don't need to do anything like that.
So, when is the entire Rust Belt going to pack up, and move to be productive in other areas? Where are they going to go? San Francisco?

Is there some demand for the general skills of former lathe operators, that we've all missed?

Should millions of people start building websites that make money by advertising other websites that make money by advertising other websites?
Why should anyone feel guilty relative to the median income?

The real guilt should be in not being paid what you are worth for too long.

Seeking greener pastures and getting compensated in line with what you're worth should be celebrated!

OP, shoot for 200k+ and I'd suggest going to Facebook. I'm confident their stock will do wonders in the coming years and they have very interesting problems due to scale.
Strong enough to grab Crimea from Ukraine? Its like stealing candy from a kid. Ukraine's military is in even worse shape. Syria is not exactly super power either.

The military machine over there can spit out "super weapon in development" stories all day - the truth is, nothing meaningful or threatening is happening, the funds for any meaningful development work are being stolen by the higher ups and channeled to the western banks through offshores (see "panama papers"). How do you think they buy mega yachts and houses in London, Spain, Greece?

Under Yeltsin there was no freedom (in fact there was never any freedom in Russia) - there was complete lawlessness. USSR fell and nothing was holding the thugs behind anymore. In the 90's thugs (+ ex-KGB) took over all business and then merged with and migrated into government.

Today thugs (KGB is a glorified mafia family) are running the entire country - its simple as that.

Russian people never had a word to say about any of this. Those who tried - got blown up or shot in the back.
Robotics production, tooling, software engineering, and the jobs associated with whole new industries that are enabled by robotic manufacturing. Also, the jobs associated with more cars being on the road and being more reliable.

I think it's fair to say that there are instances of technology causing variable effects on the labor market over time (particularly variable effects on different parts). That's not a particularly interesting result though :)

More broadly, economists overwhelmingly think that increases in productivity lead to improvements in quality of life of people over time. Either by improving their labor situation (better, safer jobs) or their consumer situation (cheaper goods, more choice etc).

The logical counterexample would be technology we wish we would not have created, of which I can come up with a few examples, but far fewer than the reverse.
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Arizona, California, Maine, Massachusetts and Nevada all have ballot questions for fully-legal recreational marijuana this year:

http://www.thecannabist.co/2016/07/14/definitive-guide-us-st...

Four more states have medical marijuana on the ballots.
hi all, we need more help on this. If you are interested in getting tensorflow to other places besides python, this could help immensely. Especially if you are a ruby developer. Our goal is to get tensorflow.rb to get feature parity with tensorflow, but there is still a lot of work to do.
Is it just selection bias from posted links on HN, or has the PostgreSQL team been doing many (feature) releases lately?

Sounds good!
> Older usually means simple and simple is usually more reliable than complex.

Well said.
Ruby definitely needs more love from the AI community! Especially with projects like JRuby really improving the performance of the language. I just can't seem to make myself like python, ruby is just too easy to think/dream in. I have hope we'll see some awesome scientific libraries in the future for ruby.
People are under the likely false assumption that they won't be replaced by AI, because their jobs require too much intelligence or creativity. At one time, rug weavers believed the same thing, and now it seems to be programmers, designers and artists.

But I think you're right - as a general trend, any job that can be automated, will be automated, as long as consumers find the product acceptable. Of course, you can't automate everything because someone, somewhere, needs money to spend on the goods and services, but with a global consumer base and efficient automation, companies can probably still make a profit in the midst of mass unemployment.
Probably in 3-4 months. AWS has historically had a 3 month gap time for postgres. Their policy (from what they have said on the forums at least) is they wait for at least x.x.1 release before they start working on it.
Yeah Uber's navigation in Manhattan and Brooklyn is unusually bad in my experience. The last incident that truly soured me on Uber Pool was when it tried to take me from Downtown Brooklyn into Manhattan to drop the other guy off before me, when I was going to Brooklyn Heights. Um.

That, however was only my second worst Pool experience, not nearly as surreal as the driver who spoke nearly no English, and didn't actually understand the basic concept of Uber Pool. So I get in, then it prompts him to pick up another passenger, but he doesn't understand so he drives to the spot and expects me to get out. I try to explain that he just drove by the woman he was supposed to pick up, and after much confusion, she gets in the car. The driver thinks she's a friend of mine, and doesn't understand that we're now going to two different destinations sequentially. Then it prompts him to pick up someone else. It would have been more painful if it wasn't sort of mildly amusing.

Oh wait that might be tied for second with the time that I was headed down Canal leisurely when the app pinged indicating a new passenger, and prompting the driver to take an immediate right, which caught him off guard a little and he veered right into the Holland Tunnel approaches. Thankfully I was paying attention and immediately vocal enough to get him to stop and escape by moving a few traffic cones. Your average tourist would have been blissfully headed for New Jersey in that scenario.

Or, in other words, Uber needs to stop spending so much time fantasizing about valuations and robot cars and actually improve their product.

I have no idea why they're spending so much to theoretically develop a monopoly when ever user in this town at least is developing many reasons to bolt to a credible competitor on moment's notice.
> It has all the benefits of JSON and YAML...

Well, except that you have to quote strings.
Most therapeutic (rather than pharmaceutical) approaches to treating anxiety that have a long-term impact, require you to focus on (or at least acknowledge) the stressful stimuli repeatedly in the short term:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_behavioral_therapy requires that you focus on stressful thoughts to "pick them apart."

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exposure_therapy requires that you experience a stress-trigger and "pass through" the initial phobic reaction to get to the point where you can neutrally observe that the stimuli isn't dangerous.
The tragedy of the mental health status-quo is that Science now knows enough to help these people... They knew enough 40 years ago. A recent study found that psychotic patients don't produce cortisol upon awakening [1]. This indicates problems with the mitochondria, and the flow of energy in the body.

[1] https://www.jcu.edu.au/news/releases/2016/june/stress-hormon...

"These distinctive alterations of hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis function may have important implications for CAR as a marker for transition risk." (emphasis added) [2]

[2] http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0149763416...

But Medicine is much more a haphazard form of "applied science" than a rigorous application of what's been discovered by physiologists. Our medical corps are disproportionately influenced by the industry they serve. So they sedate their psychotic patients, rather than help them.
Still, arguably, a very primitive form of "artificial intelligence."