skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So you know that most people have children merely to conform to societal expectations? It couldn't be any other reason, such as an innate drive?

But it's comforting to know that you wouldn't force sterilization upon them, but instead merely encourage their children to reproach them for having brought them into the world.

Maybe these children could also volunteer for euthanization to reduce the burden on society imposed by such worthless individuals? This would also have the benefit of making the idiotic, conformist parents remorseful for having indulged in their mindless rutting.
How We Do Things Differently
Show HN: Learn about a Watsi patient every time you open up a tab
Chad Rigetti on Building Quantum Computers [video]
You're right I am a senior developer.
Yeah, let's speculate about far-fetched hypotheticals, because flat currency is totally immune to these.
ALMA Catches Stellar Cocoon with Curious Chemistry
Ticket money should go toward public transit. Two birds with one stone.
Here's my plan to save Twitter: let's buy it
Important quote from the paper:

"The next challenge will be besting compression methods derived from video compression codecs,
such as WebP (which was derived from VP8 video codec), on large images since they employ tricks
such as reusing patches that were already decoded."

Beating block based JPEG with a global algorithm doesn't seem that exciting.
I have to say. "déjà vu" is a great compression technology for digital documents. I love it.
Contraband should be seized. Legal property that is connected with a crime should be seized as well.

But, the burden should be on the state to establish that the property is the proceeds of a crime.
One thing I've seen suggested for doing algorithms like seam carving, is creating a small embedded "noise texture sample library" that can be mixed and matched to synthesize "more of" a surrounding texture, rather than simply cloning that texture.

You can, of course, recognize (and remove) textures using the convolution nodes of a convolutional NN, encode the texturing parameters as part of the output of the network, and then reverse the process with a deconvolutional NN, with the textures reappearing at the end. The deconvolution nodes are in effect equivalent to that "noise texture sample library."

But this is, in essence, two algorithms: one that compresses textures, and then another that compresses "everything else" once you've subtracted the texture. Thinking about the second algorithm, I wonder whether you need to go to the trouble of an ML approach at all: a non-textured image would effectively be a smooth color gradient, perfectly amenable to wavelet compression.
Maybe drug rehab and mental health and other rehabilitative programs.
3,500 calories of fat, or 30% extra of carbs or protein. protein is also insulinogenic so eating too much fat along with similar amounts of protein will make someone balloon (i.e fried chicken)
Yeah but with a language that prevents memory errors wont this be avoided by default? I'm thinking that developer effort would be put into making other features or fixing bugs. Right?
> How about sending the money to social reform and outreach charities? There would need to be some money spent to ensure the money is distributed well.

That just takes the corruption and move it up one level to the politicians picking charities. Its going to be a political battle with a rather large monetary reward.

jrwoodruff's idea probably would do the most good.
No, it shows that successes like these are impossible to predict.
To build mine I took an existing Linux server (nothing special, 16G RAM and a 3.something CPU) and squeezed a GTX 980 into its tiny frame. The speed up for basic image processing was about 31x over CPU alone.

I don't know anything about pre packaged solutions but maybe a gaming rig would be appropriate.
It's a small point, but personal bankruptcy really does exist in Brazil. The rules are different from the US (may be even better for poor people), and sometimes surprising. But it does exist, and lawyers will help you if you ever need it.
How about not stealing the property of those who have not been convicted of a crime?
Category Theory: The Beginner’s Introduction
Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple.[1]

[1] https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Barry_Switzer
I doubt that anybody is thinking of actually running the networks in ruby, or python, or even C on the GPU. They're all run on the GPU anyway.
Upon first read I actually had the same thoughts as many and applied them to the google services as well as the application itself. However on reflection, yeah the services google provided were pretty impressive, especially after re-reading the following:

"Google CRE worked hand-in-hand with Niantic to review every part of their architecture, tapping the expertise of core Google Cloud engineers and product managers"

Architecture analysis may or may not be standard (I don't actually know since I've never had to deal with something like this) but that sounds great to me.
Accurate. Can confirm.
I don't think popularity is exactly what gets them shot. It just happens that they're looking for popularity in the same way that they're struggling to control a territory. The 'war' is extended to the cyber realm, just jumping one dimension up.
> quite a few more homeless people per capita than SF

Citation please.

This is an issue with comparing large states with cities. You can't compare LA or SF w/ Texas anymore than you can compare Austin with Dallas. It makes statements like "quite a few more homeless people per capita than SF" unfair (or possibly just straight false in your case). For instance, you could easily say "CA has WAY more homeless per capita than Texas" and actually be accurate.

Similarly, you can't making sweeping generalizations about potholes across the state in TX or CA since people don't live in every area of the state all of the time. And wrt quality of life, which is an extremely subjective measure, public transport may not be what the local citizens want compared with road infrastructure that isn't well known to be mired in traffic (again, depends on where you are, but CA consistently ranks worst here).

It's bad enough comparing two states at that high level, it's even worse to throw in subjective opinions about quality of life on specific things.
Music-App Maker Shazam Finally Turns a Profit–But Not from Music
Chill out. My mom is the most common non-technical person I deal with. No need or reason to assume sexism, ageism, motherism, or any other isms. The only take away from my comment should have been "Hey, non technical people don't need developer extensions".
Littering with Mushroom Packaging Helps the Environment
That was my first thought as well, but:

If I really was converting from USD to CAD and back, would the experience be better? Would the fees be lower? I suspect they would. Would it take as long?
STEMTera Breadboard – Arduino compatible built-in breadboard
I did a stint out there at Intel in 99. It was a really cool city. I second your suggestion.
I'd been meaning to try using Electron to debug/run both my node.js backend and my single page web app front end in the same process.

With using redux, you'd have a time travel-able single process server and client debug workflow. Headsplode.
http://dresdencodak.com/2009/09/22/caveman-science-fiction/
Every day.

Every night prior going to bed, I read and learn something new. I try to read at least a book per week.

During my work, I always try to find the best solution to every problem I encounter. By doing this, I keep learning every day.

Also, with hobbies. Last week I tried lockpicking for example.
> tamper-evident seals.

Doesn't help when the tamperer isn't hiding
Its that part of government's version of giving a contract to a company then being hired by said company after leaving government. Both should be illegal.
Really? Do you commonly debug random websites for your mom?
I'd love to talk to people in a similar situation. I just feel very out of place all the time. Imposter Syndrome is not quite right, but close enough.
September 2016, Uppy 0.10 released
And then you trace the signal back to the rigger and get the cargo and the rigger's deck/drone fleet. That session definitely paid off for my crew.
Addendum: If I recall, when I try GWT way back in the day, they had somehow made it so you can develop your webapps in a single process using a Java debugger.
This is probably the most current at-home option. It's basically just building an average gaming rig, yes you can buy them prebuilt but you probably just need an i5 or i7 a good pool of RAM and a late-model GTX. There's many ways prebuilt or otherwise to accomplish that.
I think the point is the parent doesn't want to fill out the form...
If they're talking like the person that was described was talking, I absolutely would take away from their success, especially because they've never had to worry about any of the stuff that someone who doesn't come from means has to worry about.

Don't get me wrong; finding success is hard, and whenever someone does find it, it should be celebrated. But those that do find it shouldn't discount the struggles of those who aren't able to try, especially if it takes them several tried to find it themselves.
If they were based on runit, or at least made it easy to switch to that... I would install right now.
Saw that a while back. It is pretty interesting how off most were. Makes you wonder about all foods.
Dude you're mixing up terms. Quoting from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dependency_injection : "A dependency is an object that can be used (a service). An injection is the passing of a dependency to a dependent object (a client) that would use it". Basically if A depends on B, but A does not initialize B, but is instead receiving it as a parameter from somewhere, then that's dependency injection.

> it's only a good thing if you value referential transparency over ease of testing and encapsulation

I get the feeling that you're mixing up terms again, as you cannot have ease of testing or good encapsulation without referential transparency.
I'm also excited about the possibilities MIR opens up. As I recall, non-lexical lifetimes depended on MIR. Does anybody know what the current ETA is for that feature?
You wait two weeks while they make some more.
A suggestion for the website: the one thing I really want to see is a picture of the dashboard. I think I saw one amidst the airplanes and coffee shop shots.
As a I mentioned above, please consider therapy. It's not perfect, but you deserve to find some happiness. There may be some groups where you can find people with similar backgrounds, such as drug-survivors (al-anon etc).

Also, time may heal. I'm old enough that my unhappy adolescence now feels like a dream, even though there are some lasting effects.
It depends on where one lives. Where I currently live, it takes about $25M in wealth just to get out of middle class and into lower upper class. And, to get into the true upper class requires maybe $500M to a billion. And, at that level, it is effectively infinite money (like > $250k a day in passive income, at the lowest level).

-4 in less than 30 minutes. that's a record for me. I must have said something controversial. So, glad that I could help :-)
Hi, I'm one of the people who worked on some of the data visualization for this story. The people behind this worked very hard and did an excellent job. I would also like to point out, this is why police transparency is very important in modern society.
Have you read 'Into the Magic Shop'?

[1]: http://intothemagicshop.com/
Cheap telescope. Very expensive camera lens.
Seems a bit like back peddling. He knows that Google has experience running big software systems that need to scale as well. We all know it. He also knows Alphabet is a part-owner of Niantic.
I had not seen that xkcd article before! Thanks! It's the most lucid explanation of the problem that I've seen.

The only other interesting surface-brightness-related fact I can think of at the moment is that surface brightness fluctuations can be used to measure the distance to galaxies. This is one of the cases where it helps to have a really big telescope.

The basic idea is that although galaxies are extended sources, they're really just a collection of point sources --- they're just a bunch of stars grouped together in an area of the sky. Now suppose you have two similar galaxies (at least they have similar stellar densities) and one of them is close by and the other is far away. The nearby galaxy will have relatively few stars per pixel and the distant galaxy will have many more stars per pixel. Since the stars are randomly distributed, the number of stars in any given pixel will be given by a Poisson distribution. A consequence of this is that in the nearby galaxy there will be a lot of variation in the flux from one pixel to the next, whereas in the distant galaxy the image will be much more smooth. So even though the average flux per pixel from both galaxies is the same, you can still tell which one is close and which one is distant based on the surface brightness fluctuations.
Might be controversial, but I pretty strongly believe that buying ads is in the same category of manipulation as altering search results, with perhaps the caveat that ads which declare themselves as ads are maybe not nearly as bad.

Ads manipulate the flow of information going to a person for the benefit of the advertiser. It's taking advantage of a vulnerable person in hopes that they will change their behavior - whether that change in behavior is beneficial is irrelevant.
None of those are evil maid attacks.
Not from nothing, they had years of experience and infrastructure from Ingress.
Norway isn't even really spending it's oil money, so this entire comparison is entirely invalid. Norway puts 100% of the oil revenue in a trust fund and takes out no more than 4% per year.

Think again on the similar GDP Per Capita rankings, and review this: https://stats.oecd.org/Index.aspx?DataSetCode=SOCX_AGG

Norway only spends about 22% of it's GDP on Social Benefits. The U.S. spends 19.2%. Breaking that down into dollars does tell a different story: Norway spends about 50% more on social benefits than the U.S. does, but you can hardly argue that the U.S. cannot afford it.

To throw Canada into the mix, it spends about 17%. That's a lower percentage of a lower GDP. In fact that would imply that Canada spends approximately 25% LESS on social benefits than the U.S. and has still has free healthcare.

One caveat to this is that I am comparing social benefit percentages from 2014 and comparing them to GDP Per Capita data from 2015, so take the exact numbers with a grain of salt.

The argument I'm trying to make is that it's political, not economic.
Choose Google not just so that you can say you worked there, but because it offers almost unlimited opportunity for working on high impact products that people including you might actually want to use.
Perhaps. I'm not sure the metric used in the study would support such analysis, though, and if they published their raw data alongside their methodology and conclusions, I wasn't able to find it.
> You have been able to use dplyr on spark dataframes for a while now (at least a year)

How? I didn't get it to work till sparklyr????

https://blog.rstudio.org/2016/09/27/sparklyr-r-interface-for...
I'm forcing myself to accept that I deserve good things, so I got an amazing apartment downtown in my city that has an incredible view. The plan is to renovate this apartment and make it a home.

The mentality was so bad that for the last 15 years, I didn't even have a bed. I would just sleep on the floor.

Last year, by fluke, I ended up in a place where I had a regular bed. It was foreign to me.

All kinds of fucked up.
I call this my 'idiot expense' account, after this Dilbert: http://dilbert.com/search_results?terms=Idiot+Expense
If you don't think this is going to have an effect, the cost of this is that calories are going to be presented on a menu which customers can choose to look at or not. I am genuinely bemused as to why anyone would find this offensive.

Do you think alcoholic drinks should be labelled with the percentage of alcohol contained? Should food be labelled with the ingredients? Should you be allowed to know if your food contains nuts? And so on.
Big Data Revolution
Yes, the ticket should say that. However, if TICKET-432 is still open, and someone from SysOps comes along to make a change to that config file, how would they know that they shouldn't turn on feature-that-should-usually-be-enabled?

They could read through every open ticket to check, but they're only human, and things can be overlooked. If the comment lives right next to option, it's much harder to miss.
The Weeknd – False Alarm
Respectfully, this is kinda BS.

Your average American kid has already won a genetic lottery. Being born and raised in America is already great.

I grew up the kid of immigrant parents from an African country and I am an immigrant myself at 5 years old. I have a great job at a major well known tech company in a technical programming position.

I'm not the kid that got straight A's. I was the smart fuckup. I almost flunked out of high school. I dropped out of college. I could barely program worth a damn out of college. It was hard work learning not only how to program but, all of the other skills that college didn't teach but, are critical to a working professional programmer (git for instance).

Now, I'll argue there weren't a bed of nails. There were a bed of pillows. I had to move back in with my parents multiple times through my twenties. I thought back then that I was walking over a pit of spikes but, it turns out I wasn't.

Today is much different than even a decade ago, so much more than a generation ago.

You can teach yourself how to program. You can work a minium wage job while you teach yourself. You can't do it in LA, SF, NYC but, you can live in the parts of the US that no one talks about and learn.

It takes time and dedication but, one can do it.

I fully financially supported my brother for two years and he didn't learn or do really anything with that time other than barely pass a bad coding bootcamp and then struggle to find a job with that inadequate education.

The greater difference is the person and their perseverance than economic circumstances. As a poor person who made it by screwing up again and again and again and again. Unless I have astronomical luck, I really don't think it's that hard.

Seriously, if you have the intelligence to program, you should be able to find a minimum wage job or what I did, work nights doing security. I learned programming (reading programming books and coding) while I watched warehouses, trucking depots and the gate at gated communities. It was still a fuckton of hard work but, the hard part was the programming not figuring out how I was going to feed myself.

Maybe I'm somehow this unicorn of blind exceptionalism but, while I felt depressed and that it was hard at the time, it doesn't feel that hard now. I just kept working and it was more of less inevitable. Even today, I keep telling my brother that if he keeps working at it, it will eventually work.
If only I had ~8000 dollars to spend on a desktop I'd be waist-deep in porting Linux packages.
(I think you commented on the wrong post, you want https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12607160)
Yes, this is thanks to Amdahl's Law.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amdahl%27s_law
Post-traumatic stress disorder, it sounds like. You have my sympathies.
"Law enforcement took more stuff from people than burglars did last year"

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/11/23/cops-...

Who, exactly, do we need protection from?
Then what about comparison to the cost of getting dollars into a country whose government is very hostile to them, like Venezuela?
Yes, there are tales. But that's all they are: Tales. They're not statistically significant. And you can have all the "attitude and character" in the world, but if you've got a family to feed and shelter, most people are going to take the rational course of action and get a job so they can provide for that family, rather than take the riskier path.
Google rebrands all its enterprise and cloud services as Google Cloud
FTA:

"To Walter’s dismay, some are buying ISRIB online and ingesting it, long before it’s been extensively tested...

Some outside scientists remain skeptical. They warn that interfering with vital cellular mechanisms, as ISRIB seems to do, could lead to a host of dangerous side effects. They caution that it will be years, or possibly decades, before it’s ready for testing in humans."

Cause, meet effect.
Fix your legacy password storage.  NOW
And you can charge a lot in 12 hours at 120v. A tesla can add 3-4 miles of range per hour of charging, so overnight, you get 3.5*12 = 42 miles added. Teslas can charge at higher power, but it's often not necessary. Other cars, like the leaf can charge similar or slightly larger range at that amount of power because they are generally lighter. 120v outlet and daily range use of less than 40 miles and you are set. In the winter, if you run a heater, you will of course use more power (gas cars get almost free heat because they are ICE).

So you need a spot to charge, at least a 120v outlet. The next limitation is quick recharge. If I want to drive somewhere at the range of my car (say 80 miles with a leaf or i3, or 250 miles with a model s), and then I want to do my business, quickly recharge and go back home right away, you need a faster recharge, like an hour. Chademo can do this for leafs, supercharger handles that for teslas but they are rarer. Tesla can use chademo with an extra cost adapter, but they can also use high power ac (80 amps 220v) and charge 60+ miles of range added per charging hour.
Pokemon GO really disappointed me, i'm a big fan of Pokemon and this app really sucks. It is really buggy. I stopped playing two weeks ago because of the GPS instability. I hope they get it right some day. But i'm glad they fixed the server issues.
Probably you are right. However, I am wondering how many of those videos will be deleted by owners, Google or just blocked in "some" countries a year from now. They could have published it separately to avoid this.
The spy who liked me: Britain’s changing secret service
It's still in the pre-RFC phase, so there's no solid ETA. This was in fact one of the largest blockers, though, so we'll see how it goes. To make the status of MIR more clear:

* 1.11: "old trans" by default, MIR with a flag
* 1.12: MIR by default, "old trans" with a flag
* 1.13: MIR only, "old trans" is gone

Given that we've had 6 weeks so far with MIR-by-default, everything is looking good, but in theory, making it more widely available might turn up issues. If something catastrophic happens, in theory, old trans could be brought back. So we'll see how the next few weeks goes.

That doesn't mean _no_ work has been done on non-lexical lifetimes, see http://smallcultfollowing.com/babysteps/blog/2016/05/09/non-... (that's a link to the last of three posts). But there's still work to write an actual RFC, discuss it, and then land it.
As I've posted before, my old minister used to say "We can have all of the morals we can afford"
I'm sure there are, but let's be real: you don't have to bring race into the argument to convince anyone this is immoral and unconstitutional.