skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Taxes can create loopholes or outright frauds (VW diesel scandal?), what's the problem with the ban? No ICEs anymore, that's it, go for electrical or whatever isn't fossil-fuel based anymore.

Why do all of this juggling with taxes, pricing, etc. when you are a sovereign state and can just decide "no more"?
When I want to watch a movie, and it's not on Netflix, I generally do not watch that movie. I wonder who this benefits.
By definition if my premise is true I'm not wrong (because it's true) :)
Show HN: Followww. – Track HTTP redirects and cookies from short URLs
My eyes and mind were not ready for that! This is brilliant!
Great advice for getting started right there. Keep it lean. Since this is one of your first projects, I'd say the focus is more on quality and less on profit, growing a happy client base and nice portfolio.
It's not yet banned (Hospitals still use them, as do all major corps). I found the following post as late as Dec 2015 but nothing later than that.[1]

[1] http://www.iphoneincanada.ca/news/liberal-government-may-blo...
Hi HN, I built followww. to help my online marketeer colleagues get insights in what is hiding behind short URLs.
Before building this tool, they routinely came to me with URLs asking me to trace them.

The back-end is a websocket API that returns each step as it discovers it and the front-end is an Angular (1.x) application.
I also built a small Chrome extension[1] that adds a followww. context menu item to all links on the web.

[1]: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/followww/dmpapbgln...
In other news, Macbooks destroy Chromebooks in being real computers.
Nodal: API Services Made Easy with Node.js
If you're writing your own resume, I'd maybe sit down every six months to a year and think about things you accomplished, and write then down (problem solved, how it was solved, data if possible, impact, etc.). At some point you'll have a list of accomplishments, and you can select the more impressive of them to put on the resume.

(As an aside - this also helps with career stagnation. If you're having a hard time deciding what to write, it's time to move on.

Once you've got some accomplishments, refactor to the most efficient use of words. How can I say everything necessary is as few words as possible? This is where a professional might come in handy if you're not a good writer.

You can run your accomplishments by a friend and say "which two or three are most worthy of a resume inclusion?" - gives insight into what is impressive.

I think that covers most of it. The rest is mostly formatting and summarizing (if you choose to write a summary).
Are you measuring by placement, by container is running, or by container is fully initialized?
This pretty much sounds like the scenario used, successfully, here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium_Challenge_2002
Not a "per dollar" graph but still a graph just how big the different catalogs are:
http://cordcutting.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/netflix-ca...
F-– You Startup World
As we observe the evolution of AI, it appears that the most interesting problems are human-related: transcribe speech, recognize objects in photos, play games, drive a car - they are all human related activities. If an AGI were to suddenly wake up and look around, it would be a lot of pretty uninteresting stuff except perhaps the human culture and society, which has more complexity and sophistication. It would be pretty irrational for it to destroy the only interlocutor it has, reducing his world to a barren place. Instead, I think it will find ways to create biological implementation of itself based off human brain cells, and evolve together with us.

Don't think that an AGI would automatically destroy humans. We're still pretty efficient self replicants that can be useful, even for an AGI boss. Perhaps enhanced humans would even be able to keep up with the AGI. Imagine having an AGI design a human brain.
What we're getting isn't a la carte; we're getting a bunch of bundles with more chaff than wheat.
Sales data is hard to get for PCs in a timely manner, as most of the computers are sold through intermediaries. So the HP all-in-one desktop sitting on a shelf at Best Buy is "shipped" not sold.

Destroy is a fair term, as Mac/PCs are a mature market, and devices get refreshed on a regular cadence. Substantial downward shifts in shipments, particularly late in the year before the holidays, are indicative that back to school sales sucked and lots of inventory is still on the shelves.

Chromebook are in a growth phase. In the spring, my local Wal-Mart had zero Chromebooks. Now it has 3 models. Those three models represent more shipments plus finite shelf space permanently lost to cheapo PCs.
Yes for good. It's the insight that still the content matters and not so much if it was created on a pricy MB/iPad or a ChromeBook
Raising Barriers
My trainer was certified by the people who make and sell the course/questionnaire. She made it clear that this was the official position.

So, no, she was not a doofus.
hashicorp is a company started my Mitchel Hashimoto. There is no open source tool named hashicorp. Do you perhaps mean vagrant?
Further, the traditional way to feed livestock is with resources we can't use ourselves. Pastures on land that has low yields, rest of food now thrown away being used for animal food, acorns from forests. At least partly those resources are still used.
Scary. Netflix is showing logged out though, whereas I'm actually still logged in.
It retrieves the favicon (at least - haven't finished reading how it works) from YouPorn. If you're looking at DNS requests, it looks like similar to if you're browsing porn.
As a developer, I find more pleasure in deleting code than writing it. It might have been hilarious, but I wasn't surprised to read that :)
(yes this will be dead. That's okay)

Over my career I've attained my MCSE, MCDBA, MCSD certificates. I've worked on and deployed massive solutions on the Microsoft stack, and still do.

But I absolutely cringe at how Microsoft fanboy this site has become. The post you replied to is pure cringe, and many of these comments are the sort of hilariously dreamy nonsense that these people parrot about solutions like Windows Phone. Some vague, hand wavy "well Microsoft makes other stuff too!" sort of noise.

This whole site has been overwhelmed by mediocre Microsoft devs. The amount of actually informative content has fallen to close to 0.
MySQL 8.0: The end of MyISAM
Twerk Queen
That all depends on what your job is, doesn't it?
A not-yet-fully-upstreamed branch maintained by the linux foundation can, yes. But just like FreeBSD has to make an exception to build certain packages with gcc, the kernel can be exclusively built with gcc for the time being. If you're not using musl libc, I guess glibc might also require gcc but that's an unsurprising coupling, likely due to gcc C extensions in use.

The important points are that such a distro will quickly improve the situation of clang and libc++ compatibility across the board and exercise the alternative toolchain a lot more. In fact, there isn't much incompatible code out there, and it's been fixed mostly due to efforts of Debian, FreeBSD and of course Apple and Bitrig and Gentoo. FreeBSD is the leading force behind making lld a viable alternative to binutils ld and so far ThinLTO (which works with binutils, to be clear) is exclusive to llvm, so there's that.

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/llvmlinux-git/

http://llvm.linuxfoundation.org/index.php/Main_Page
Ask HN: Is Serverless the Trend of the Year?
Taxi in-car GPS was faulty so often the dude resorted to smartphone fallback. When Google Maps owns you, you have a problem.
Good advice. I use my filed email threads to jog my memory, see whom I worked with or who's questions I answered.
correct, among others it checks youporn. For this check it needs send a request to that domain, which may get flagged in certain corporate IT systems.
I don't have a link off hand, but I remember from university a professor showed us how many vegetables you would need to eat to get an equivalent amount of protein from a serving of meat (chicken breast or small steak). You literally need a mountain of veggies to equal the protein provided by meat. The thought was that if we wanted to replace meat protein with veggie protein, then we'd need to cover the earth in soy, edamame, and lentils.
This is _insane_ if it actually happens .. a move I want to compare to China, except here it's the government bending to the will of a corporation, not the other way around!

Dumb stuff is proposed all the time in US proposals[1,2] but with great effort they get rejected (not all, sadly).

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

[2] https://www.whitehouse.gov/net-neutrality
We "splurged" and bought our kids a 4 GB Celeron Chromebook (as opposed to 2 GB + ARM) last year. They have user profiles for their school account and a personal account. I don't have to worry about random things showing up in /Applications. So many nice things about a box that does a few things really well that's hard to screw up.

When my 2009 MBP died 6 months later, I realized that I never go anywhere with it anymore (iPad) so I replaced it with an ASUS Chromebox. I've tinkered with upgrading storage and DRAM for using Ubuntu/Crouton, but that hasn't prevented me from relying on my wife's iMac for many things.
I'm a subscriber for a couple weeks now, and I've run out of content I'd like to watch in my free month. The homepage is filled with stuff I'll never watch, and I can't even tell them that fact. There is no button to hide stuff. Back to piracy I go.
My simplistic version is that our economy is basically a ponzi scheme that needs new entrants to fuel the "growth".
Bluetooth headset + phone gives you the same functionality. They even have bluetooth buttons you can attach to your steering wheel if reaching up to your ear isn't something you want to do.

Easily replaceable, cheaper, better design.
I was about to complain about the lack of 8+ IMDB rated films on Netflix UK, but after doing some research[1] it's actually quite high.

Although one thing I did notice by picking a handful of random films is that some are rated 8+ but only have 50-100 votes, which reminded me of this excellent article by Evan Miller on how not to sort by average ratings[2].

Personal opinion now: I'm more of a movie person than a TV series person, but I do appreciate some of the Netflix Original series, but I'm finding it harder and harder to justify the monthly cost when I also have a NowTV movie subscription which seem to have more decent films and are regularly updated (even though research[3] shows they don't have many 8+ movies)

[1] https://www.justwatch.com/uk/movies?providers=nfx&rating_imd...

[2] http://www.evanmiller.org/how-not-to-sort-by-average-rating....

[3] https://www.justwatch.com/uk/provider/now-tv?content_type=mo...
I believe the threshold is whether it's large enough to have collapsed into a spheroid. Vesta is about the same size as they're estimating, and it's still too lumpy.
That's a glimpse of the future. Most interfaces are useless nowadays.
> Legislation would only be used as a vehicle to achieve monopoly control by large tech companies...

Food labeling requirements haven't lead to monopoly control over food. Why would IoT labeling be different?

Don't get me wrong, I'm cynical too! The lobbyists that control our legislators with purse strings will most certainly do everything in their power to ensure any such labeling only makes things better for their corporate overlords! I just think, "what's good for corporate overlords" is actually good for everyone in this case.

I would expect VC-funded businesses to reject any such, "Requires 3rd party service to function" label since they're all about locking customers in with "network effects". I would also expect established, old-school businesses like Microsoft to reject any label that would identify a product as "open source".

...but what corporate overlord is going to object to labeling like, "Regularly updates itself"? That's something that's cheap for them to do but can be expensive for upstart competitors.

There's much to be gained and almost nothing to be lost with labeling IoT devices.
Repurposing is something I forgot to mention as well.

There are a lot of schools sitting on PCs from the last decade that aren't doing much other than running educational programs written for WindowsXP.

gDocs at least lets schools repurpose those machines and make them usable with the current curriculum. And then you have a foot in the door when it comes to the next round of equipment purchases.

Yeah, there's iWork on browser now but again, too little too late.
But as opposed to EMC standards, software vulnerabilities arise periodically and standards need to be continually updated. Would devices need to be audited periodically to maintain certification?
There's nothing wrong with à la carte offerings. The failure is charging $10/month for every service.
Many cattle in Iowa are grazed on grass/field waste for most of their lives. They get corn only in the last week of their lives, to put on a little marbling.
Agreed. Chromebook does a few common things very well and at a good value.
You and others would presumably watch more if there were more better (especially recent) movies to watch. Personally, I keep my minimal Netflix DVD rental subscription mostly to trickle in the previous year's Oscar nominations etc.

>I wouldn't be surprised if movies just don't get the viewers to justify their cost.

Presumably that is also true. Whatever deal the content providers are offering, Netflix doesn't see the ROI.

To your broader point about TV vs. movies though. A former senior technical Netflix guy once told me that "People come for the movies and stay for the TV shows." (And this was before they had nearly as much original content.)

The danger to the studios here seems to be if people just get out of the habit of watching movies as a format. But that's probably a pretty big leap from where we are today.
A TextBlade? Well, there seem to be too many beta testers in the wild for it to be a scam of any kind, and too much money has been dropped on it, I suspect, so, yes, I expect to get it at some point. Of course I'm pretty pissed at having to wait that much, though.
At a minimum, though, please block third-party cookies and site data.

I have pretty minimal customizations and plugins on browsers—very few plugins, no ad-blocking, no security or privacy enhancements.

I've had third-party cookies blocked for a long time now and there aren't any sites or logins that break down with them disabled (that I've encountered).

On the plus side, though, you don't have to worry about this crap. I'm logged into several of these sites and none of them show as leaked.
I think the difference ultimately derives from the fact that music is something you listen to again and again, which enables a small fee per listen model, which means that it makes sense to get it out there everywhere.

But you're right though, the difference is stark. I don't think I've ever had a random tune I'd like to hear come to mind and fail to find it on Spotify, conversely I can honestly say that I have not once found a movie I've gone looking for on either Netflix or Amazon Prime.
Don't worry, nowadays Microsoft mines the windows systems just like Google mines their online services. It' pick you master scenario, not choose between freedom or fiefdom.
This is a myth perpetrated by people who probably haven't used Windows as a primary OS since Windows XP. Windows 10 is nearly immune to malware if you have UAC and Windows Defender on. The primary methods of attack these days are phone scams asking for remote access to your PC and phishing websites, because actual malware is pretty hard to come by.
> Netflix--and others, like Amazon Prime--are becoming less and less worthwhile, and piracy is becoming more and more convenient again.

Lawyers are the primary reason why Netflix is becoming less convenient, and by pure coincidence, lawyers will benefit from an increase in piracy.

Money talks.
My 5th grade daughter thinks iPads are for movies and games and her Chromebook is for homework.
> You can change the way the scroll works from your Mac Settings, same goes for the power options.

It only works for a single device. So if you want to keep natural scrolling on the trackpad and use regular scrolling on a external mouse, you can't. For some reasons the two checkboxes for this (even under different panes) are linked.

https://pilotmoon.com/scrollreverser/
[To the submitter/mods/reader; this essay is from 2008.]

Belch. It starts with a combination of misogyny and ageism, as if calling people a "little girl" or "baby" were either demeaning or funny, while assuming that everyone's goal should be "like a man", and that one's figurative "man card" could be taken away by acting too effeminate, i.e., being a "sissy."

FWIW, one of my users complained that my test suite failed under Docker. Turns out he was running it as root. The failing tests were to check that I reported the correct error message when trying to read a file which didn't have the correct read permissions. Of course the test fails, because root.

He insisted that the test suite should run cleanly, even under root, because in Docker it doesn't matter if you make a mistake.

I said running under root wasn't a supported test environment, and if they wanted to pay for that feature then I would gladly do so under my consulting rates. Never got a followup on that. Guess it wasn't so important to run it under root.
Chromeos does have a nice security subsystem too. And with embedded sync, they can reset it with a button.
We own both a macbook ($1000 >) and a chromebook ($180). The macbook is bloated with software, popups keep sliding down the right side, and it occasionally freezes. The chromebook "just works".

Love the iPhone but we are otherwise ditching apple.
Had to dig around a bit to find out what this is.
https://ultibo.org/wiki/Getting_Started

Seems to be a Windows IDE in Free Pascal that renders single self sufficient program images to use on the pi without any linux involved, similar to Arduino.

I would prefer it to be in c and on linux, but nonetheless, interesting.
If you ever want to feel really old, go to Population.io [1], enter your date of birth and country (fake it a bit if you wish), and look at how many people in the world are currently younger than you. This is both fascinating and shocking even if you enter the information for any smaller children you know (from the last decade or so).

[1]: http://population.io
Thanks for a concise summary. I guess these assumptions don't appeal to me because they are mostly justified by Pascal-wager-like argument: "if they are true and we disregard them, we are fucked; so we'd better assume they are true".

Claims of recursively reaching godlike intelligence seem particularly dubious to me. Why would AGI be superhuman at all? What if the hypothetical paperclip maximizer produces one paperclip and then dies out of exhaustion? Why would it recursively self-improve to a godlike status? Humans can recursively self-improve to an extent too and it doesn't happen to them. Why would it be particularly interested in recursive self improvement (this one seems to be imported straight from a particular human value system)?

I guess this skeptical way of thinking is part of reflexes of an engineer. When presented with the whitepaper of a database with miraculous consistency properties you don't immediately start to fantasize about the possible applications. Instead you ask "Can I play with it? Gimme the demo. Does it pass jepsen?"
In some Greg Egan book (Permutation City?) there are AI spam bots (that call you with full video and try to impersonate someone you know, then advertise a product) and AI anti-spam bots that take your calls and hold a conversation while trying to figure out if the caller is real.

The anti-spam bots are at a disadvantage because at some point in the arms race you have to make the bots actually fully intelligent, and then exposing them to spam 24/7 is torture and illegal. Spammers don't care about legal issues.
As much as the size, placement, and car integration of my vehicle's (2016 CX-5) dash GPS is ideal, the fact that it cannot display Waze renders it mostly useless for my everyday commuting. Until I can do so via Carplay or Android Auto, I'll be using gaudy cell phone mounts.
I would love a rear-view camera that could display on my phone
applied ML research here also -- a lot of interactive (but highly parallelizable) modeling, graphing. Using medium-size data sets around 3-4GB in ram, by the time you forked it a few times, you easily end up beyond the m4.10xlarge or c4.8xlarge limits.

IMO theres an awkward space between small data and big data where it isn't really worth spending a long time to treat it like a real "big data" problem, and the x1 instance gives you an easy-out.
It's more like subscribing to 4 different cable bundles, each with one good show and 99% stuff you'll never watch just like a big cable TV package.

Lookin' at you Mr. Robot.
Oh, is that you Maggie from the forum? I'm still vaguely able to complain there, or so it seems, but I still keep it low key. I also cancelled after a year, but then reordered when the beta testing thing started, since it seemed kind of imminent to get one. How wrong I was.

Checking your Scala on Chip deck, I'm pretty deep down the Scala rabbit hole since a couple of months ago.
Correct

But the number of people who need a "real computer" is smaller every day
Well, in an actual system, this would be sandboxed and stuff.

If this all sounds dubious, consider:

In modern databases these days, most everything already lives in RAM, and CPUs are getting incredibly fast, meaning most of the time the CPU is sitting there doing nothing, and the bottleneck is bringing stuff up and down from memory into the CPU cache(s) and registers. There is orders of magnitude difference in the speed of accessing stuff from registers vs L1/L2 vs main memory.

Now, usually, for sequential access to memory, the hardware is smart and will pre-fetch stuff into the cache, causing near-optimal performance. The more random access to memory you have in your code, the more cache misses, and the worse the performance. Now, imagine having a function call! This means swapping the stack, code, variables all in and out. And often this is a virtual pointer (e.g. MySpecialProcessor->next_tuple()) which is even more indirection and more cache misses. On top of that, there's branches: abstracted code has if's and special cases for many situations that we may already know will never happen in our current query, so why have them? And branches are also bad for other reasons to do with pipelining in modern CPUs.

Additionally, the code you're using is competing for space in the upper levels of the memory hierarchy with the data you're trying to process. Meaning if your code is large, then parts of it need to be paged in and out while you loop through your data, which again, is sloooooooow.

If this sounds like hyper-optimization, consider that this is the inner-most, hottest loop in the entire database software, and gets called millions and billions of times per second. Trust me when I say this does make orders of magnitude differences overall. For a toy example, check out: https://www.naftaliharris.com/blog/2x-speedup-with-one-line-...

Also we'll see this method being used to some degree in Apache Spark:
https://databricks.com/blog/2016/05/23/apache-spark-as-a-com...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zPYW6Ipgok
> You need to be pretty dumb to buy a Mac now. They're clearly the company's red-headed stepchild. WTF would I buy a 4 year old computer at premium price?

I bought a new MBP a couple of months ago. I would have much preferred to wait until the line was refreshed, but my toddler poured milk into my mid-2012 MBP and I needed another laptop now. Given the choice between a $2k MBP that's a couple of years behind in specs and a $1k Windows machine that I'd have to spend hours installing Linux on and dealing with getting all the compatibility issues dealt with... it made sense to buy the MBP.