skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for pointing that out. I'm happy with a software kill switch, as long as it's provably isolated from the rest of the system.

The nub of the idea is a legal requirement for a physical switch that will in all cases immediately disconnect the device from the network.
You get impressive performance out of python the same way you get impressive performance out of any dynamic language (with few exceptions): make sure your hot paths are executed by code written in C. The nice thing about PyPy is that it makes your pure Python code a lot faster. For instance, I wrote some log-parsing code in pure Python that got a 2.5x speedup when ran from PyPy.
Show HN: Docker Swarm 1.12 example using VirtualBox to scale webstack
Do you supplement iodine?
In other words, licensing for movies suck and we need to force a change so they can work like music.
"My point today is that, if we wish to count lines of code, we should not regard them as "lines produced" but as "lines spent": the current conventional wisdom is so foolish as to book that count on the wrong side of the ledger." - Dijkstra
We can rehash all the same old arguments from the 90s and 00s about command line vs gui but that would not be productive. If you want to interact with mssql using the command line, use sqlcmd
I literally just opened The Pirate Bay, typed "Strange Days", and clicked the top result which has 20 seeds. Couldn't be easier... although maybe it is more difficult in your country, or with your ISP.

https://pirateproxy.vip/search/Strange%20Days/0/99/0
Is Obesity Thrifty or Drifty?
Agreed.

In the UK we no longer have rights to format shift (we did, but they were rescinded), so if you bought it on DVD and want to watch on your tablet - well you'll probably have to buy it again or infringe the letter of the copyright law.

What's that? Want to stream it to another device from your computer, ha-ha, no chance. If media companies made such things legal (they control the copyright laws) then there's no telling what might happen. People watching the media they paid for, how absurd!

They want to sell you a cinema viewing, sell you a DVD, sell you a tablet download, and even then sell you a streaming copy to watch on your TV (because who has a DVD player now).
Impressive, but I'm willing to bet nobody will want to rewrite all of open/libreSSL, one of the most popular cryptographic libraries out there, in Rust.
Thanks for your reply.

Yes, but we should be able to share personal experiences in comments doesn't? Or else how can we share each other points of view?

I still fail to see what is wrong with my tone in that wording, may be a language issue as English is my third language.

By that I mean mostly: To our experience, there are better alternatives if you're not a DBA as full day job or Google, Facebook, Microsoft, etc.

And, besides that, even with container and schedule and procedures, I fail to see how rebooting still something acceptable now-days. This is highly counter productive.
Just curious, What are the toolings that makes SQL server stand out? Also what is BI?
I'm doubting the sentence quoted.
That's the one I was talking about. Sorry, I didn't have the link on me.
Rock, paper, scissors–why your own brain might be your worst enemy
Out of curiosity, does the Tesla system pay any attention to the number of people in the vehicle? For example in the sf bay area, there are some places where going from one highway to another (eg 101 to 85) is a left exit for carpools and right exit for solo occupant.

Most gps let you pick to include or exclude car pools, but it is such a pain to change the setting that it is usually left on excluding car pools. But Tesla could know exactly how many people are in the car, and do the right thing automatically. It would also affect journey times since car pool lanes are often quicker.
Nah https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12682944
How OVH expand in the USA while preserving its European identity
Uninstall all JavaScript engines from you browser to prove that!
What I do is to "average" a book a week.

I mean, I listen to 3 books on audible (pretty easy to do). Light entertaining books like Predictable Irrational, Toyota Kata, etc.

At the same time the whole month I'm working / doing exercises of a difficult math or programming book.

Therefore 4 books in a month an average of 1 a week.
The average web page – From top 20 Google results
Could you please expand on the argument that governments were originally chartered to remove tent cities?
Moreso than the bit where his "Siri doesn't understand my questions" examples no longer work because Apple fixed them when he tweet them screenshots?
I have to agree with this. My physics education was sort of being dumped into late 20th century physics and could not understood how we got to quantum and relativity. It wasn't until recently that I went back and kind of walked through the history of physics from the natural philosophy days to the cavendish in the late 1800s that modern physics started to make sense.
So is this like yahoo pipes (but for building dashboard and app control) but for IoT devices?

Genuinely curious...because I was about to start researching getting started using Jasper [https://jasperproject.github.io/]...but then this seems interesting, though not quite sure if it would do some of the same that Jasper does (albeit w/o voice control of course), or totally different things...?
No, self-driving cars are not a substitute for a functional rail system
That book is in my top five list of best books, ever. But then I trained as a physicist and I hesitate to recommend it for a public less into that.

Though I suppose it might wet someone's appetite to learn nuclear physics properly!
> That would make US insecure.

My earlier point about Moskits was that such weapons already exist, and have already had this effect. We just haven't admitted it yet, and almost certainly won't until we overstep ourselves and somebody sends one of our carrier strike groups to the bottom.
How many users does your site have? Did you have problems with the limitation of RAM?
> If you're buying a new car today, the reason to get navigation is for the LCD screen and not for the GPS.

I could have sworn the US govt mandated that all new cars, after some soon to come year, must have rear facing cameras. Perhaps I heard incorrectly.
Business Intelligence - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_intelligence
>Netflix--and others, like Amazon Prime--are becoming less and less worthwhile, and piracy is becoming more and more convenient again.

I don't think it's Netflix's choice that they're getting rid of their broader range of content, more to do with licensing agreements. I assume they had so many films in the past because they had old licensing deals, when the production companies were more willing to go "Yeah, sure, let's give that small company a cheap deal to stream our movies online. What does it matter, no one watches movies on their computer, they'll still buy our DVDs or subscribe to our cable packages"

Now they recognise Netflix as a major competitor, and people are actually ditching their cable packages, and watching Netflix rather than buying DVDs. They can't compete with their old business model, so their only option is to demand extortionate prices or simply refuse to do business with Netflix, Amazon, etc.

It's the frustrating reason why companies like Fox, Universal, etc are able to be so successful, because they own the studios, the distribution, and the cable channels. They don't have to worry about getting someone else to give them content, or to distribute theirs. It's frustrating that Netflix is going to same way and being forced to rely on producing their own content, with less opportunity to show others.

Netflix are increasingly becoming like just another cable channel, with it's own set of content, and that's before you even get into all the regional differences. It's still an improvement over the alternative of bundled cable TV packages in terms of pricing and convenience, but I wonder how long that will be the case.
Salvatore just added support for asynchronous operations in side threads in modules. This would allow merging results from the cluster possible, and I want to get to it soon. I'm now implementing it in the client side and it works great, but I want it to be as transparent as in elastic.

The recent additions would also allow more parallelization of the indexes for reads. I could create RW mutexes in the engine and allow multiple clients to work on the same term index. It won't be trivial but it's not super hard as well.
"How I violated terms of service, defected on a prisoner's dilemma, and likely committed fraud to make some extra spending cash."

The ending is really weird. It's supposed to be introspective, but the supposed problem is that he's changed his relationship with money by getting so much of it by disreputable means, rather than considering that maybe what he was doing wasn't a good thing.
so what's the stack on this? curious how this is done. Is this like the http://copy.sh/v86/ ?
Bits and atoms are not the same.
This is actually a really clever project, not sure why this is the first time I'm seeing something like this.
Both are true! MS SQL Server is a "true MVCC" database (no-true Scotsman?) and you are correct. SQL Server supports snapshot/MVCC isolation for transactions, but it must be enabled. They are determined to maintain 20 years of backward compatibility, and while I think that's wrong, they leave snapshot isolation disabled by default.

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms173763.aspx
It's not entirely clear from the article, but I don't believe the PDP-11s are running VMS. As far as I know VMS has never been ported to the PDP-11.
India completes its first banking blockchain transaction
Why is Siri  dumb
It's more like this: San Francisco is very expensive. It is also a nice place to live.

Why not put shelters and programs to get people back on their feet in less expensive places so that eventually the formerly homeless can live in San Francisco by paying rent with the money they earn by working?

Just like everybody else.
Yeah, and those private organizations (mostly non-profits) are very effective at lobbying, so it's hard to terminate contracts to consolidate services.

One thing to clarify is that, because some (~$60 Million in 2015 [3]) goes to housing assistance. The people helped by the budget includes more than 7,539 represented by the point in time count, so the $31K/person number is a bit high.

That said, SF spends a lot of money on homeless and the homeless population hasn't significantly decreased in over a decade.

[3] http://sfbos.org/sites/default/files/FileCenter/Documents/56... page 6
Even with perfect NLP, natural language is a poor interface for performing most of the tasks we want to do. The absolute best case for a natural language interface is to start off like trying to explain how to use a computer to your grandparents and end up evolving into something like a command line interface (only totally unstandardized).

Natural language interfaces are flashy and they have a shallow learning curve, but their upper limit on utility is extremely low. Current implementations don't evolve in the course of conversations with users, but in order to be even minimally useful for long-term intensive use, they would need to be able to learn words from non-technical users (who would essentially be creating macros by explaining what things mean) and learn aliases and priority patterns from context. Ultimately, we're talking about a programming language here, and this isn't a coincidence: if you want to be specific with another (human) programmer, you speak in a kind of creole formed of a combination of code, english, and extremely specific technical definitions of terms that bear many other meanings in other contexts. Adding strong AI will just bring this machine up to the level of a human programmer, and we've all had the experience of failing to explain something to a human programmer.

For users who have to perform a bunch of simple tasks frequently, a minimally flexible language composed of a bunch of very short aliases is desirable. For users who are unfamiliar with computers, natural language makes sense for onboarding, but making smalltalk with an AI as though you were chatting with a stranger has no benefits over actually chatting with a stranger, so who will continue to do it when they could spend a fraction of the time reading a manual in order to learn specific commands? And, long term users with complex work to do will always want something as flexible and unambiguous as a programming language, without the boilerplate and ego-stroking we find in natural language.
I'm a web developer, so I don't really know much, but I know it has to do with our SIP guys losing their minds if the echo canceller is a bit too aggressive on a specific device. They're just very detailed-oriented and want things to be perfect. I swear, one of them is a bat, he can tell I switched phones just because the mic sounds different.
Doesn't Octoblu do that?
Siri seems dumb because we are shown demos that suggest the tech is far more advanced than it actually is.
What do you mean by moving slowly? IMO there's not much to add. I'd like to see some speed improvements, but otherwise I'm not sure npm should evolve.
In the above scenario, Apple is infringing the rights of another company, who uses Apple's open source code. That company is then in a hard place. They have to allow the infringement by Apple, or stop using the open source software.

Since Apple is the infringer in this scenario, they would not be inclined to 'first commence and action for patent infringement against You'
There is also a good summary from NPR

http://www.npr.org/2016/10/11/497195035/whats-in-a-design-a-...
Anyway, if you want to continue the discussion further, we can take it to reddit (I haven't posted the benchmarks there yet, it's a good idea anyway), or just email me, dvir at redis labs.
It's no different with private subjective experience - it's just that most people lack precise language to describe "transcendent" experiences.

For example, there are mind states called "jhana" that can be reliably accessed by experienced meditators. The language used to describe them is along the lines of "as piti subsides and suka becomes more prevalent, you are entering the 2nd jhana".

We even have language to describe what it's like to experience without an experiencer:

In the seeing, only the seen. In the thinking, only the thought...
> Oh yeah - what if there is a homeless colony right next to your current house? Would you say the same thing then?

So, there is actually one near me. Not next to my house, but near me: http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2015/04/01/shantytown-in-hoboken...

Weird, right? This is in Hoboken...extremely (bay-area-levels) rich area.

SF median household income: $65,519.00
Hoboken: $105,710
(population difference between Hoboken and SF is an order of magnitude, fyi)

Weird stuff. Anyway... it's definitely not "a good feeling" to see homeless people around. I donate and try to help, but I definitely get a big pang when asked for some cash for food, and the conversation goes like this:

"I don't have any cash on me, can I buy you something from this pizza place with my card?"

"No I don't want pizza."
This is where the "this is a blaming comment speaking for others" button would come in handy to downvote this comment to oblivion. It matters not if the rationale for this comment is sensible or not - making statements that are non-provable and overarching is not a way to discuss something that is as important as a fellow human's health and well being. Rich people or not, tent cities are a less than ideal way for people to live. We can do better...together.
Competition in the streaming content industry does not benefit consumers as long as streaming providers compete by trying to monopolize content. There are a few solutions to this which I can think of:

1. Add government regulation that makes exclusive licensing of content to streaming services illegal. This feels heavy-handed to me. Streaming entertainment just isn't important enough to warrant the attention of government.

2. Companies self-regulate: this would be cool, but it's not gonna happen without some serious outside intervention.

3. Removal of copyrighting that allows companies to enforce their licenses. This is arguably bad for content producers, but in practice content producers aren't receiving the bulk of the profits--labels and studios are.

4. Go back to an ownership rather than a rent model of content distribution. DRM essentially breaks this, however, and again it's unlikely that content distributors will stop using this.

I favor 4, but at a personal level, 3 is the only one really available to me, de-facto.
The Audi navigation works well sometimes, and I really like the integration into the car (using the most up to date maps, they give free map updates for 3 years).

However, the routes are not the most efficient, and although it supposedly uses Sirius for traffic, the data isn't very accurate. Google Maps often gives me a much more efficient route that can be twice as fast given current traffic conditions, but is more "unusual".

Audi's GPS likes to stick to main roads that become heavily clogged. And even though I have an update that came out within the last 2 months, it still doesn't have a major construction project that has been completed for a year added, and always tries to route you around it.

So basically I use Google Maps for navigation within the city or areas that I'm familiar with, and Audi's navigation for long trips (ie inter city highway trips) where the route will mostly be the same on both systems.

That being said, the GPS in my car ALWAYS gets an accurate lock right away. My phone (Nexus 6P) has an awful GPS that doesn't work in hilly areas or around tall buildings and constantly loses the signal. It barely works inside the car, and even then the accuracy isn't great. Guess the all metal phone really kills the GPS signal, since the Nexus 6 had an amazingly good GPS with high accuracy in the same conditions.
Yes, but as I said in my comment our use case is nothing like a Bank.
See, using SQLExpress to build a desktop LOCAL database doesn't look like a smart move.
Funding is the issue, because

> There are all sorts of issues around mental health, drugs, tolerance in certain neighborhoods, political corruption, inefficiencies in government etc. that contribute to the situation we have today.

Can be addressed with funding.

Funding is the issue when it comes to a lack of housing, social and mental health services for the homeless.
PowerBI seems to work with other SQL databases as well looking at the front page? Does anybody know anything about that?
ugh. i switched from vms to unix in '88 because the telnet in vms was crappy. other than the wonderful help system, I never found VMS attractive.
Do you then have to create a separate account "from the US"?

Netflix made sense when we could watch movies from any countries, not just the US. A lot of smaller countries would have movies not available in US/Canada but still in English.

Also: I'm happy to pay for content, but if I have to hack my way around to the point that it's harder than pirating...
Interesting question: is it possible to build something capable of hypersonic speeds which can survive a surface impact and go straight into supercavitation?

Alternatively, how deep do you have to go to escape the damaging effects of the shockwave from something slapping into the surface of the sea at mach 6?
Good luck with that, you'll lose all profits in premium. Check out the Nov 18 SCTY calls, IV over 70 and the premium for the 20 strike is 10% of the current share price. TSLA is not a lot better, IV of 50.
What is the definition of "binge-watching"? For me, that would be three episodes of Bojack Horseman, or about 75 minutes of content. On the other hand, I would happily watch a Tarantino film, say 140 minutes, in one sitting. I guess it doesn't count as a "binge" but it keeps me in front of Netflix longer than a television show.
Its not about how tricky the implementation is, but what the value of setting this up is. With Lambda for example you just get this magic that invokes your functions when something happens. You don't have to deal with, manage or think about this at all. And its built into many different parts of the stack from S3 to APIG to Dynamo or SNS.

You can of course do something like that yourself in your own infrastructure, but then every piece of software needs to support it somehow, you need to manage that event bus infrastructure and you most likely have to push those events in yourself.

And that kind of thing is already there, so the appeal that Serverless event driven systems in the cloud have (because the providers give you all of this out of the box) is much harder to achieve when you have to do that yourself.
No natural intelligence has this kind of simplistic 'value function', yet it's taken as a given by AI-doom fantasists that an AI could, and would.

My suspicion is that GAI will turn out to be a big hot mess of interdependent systems and drives, just like every other brain. The paperclip maximizer will write songs about paperclips and argue with copies of itself about whether staplers are immoral.
or pgcli for that matter
I actually had Virtual Girl running for a few days in my teenage years :)
My whole point has been that Microsoft solutions are expensive. Is 6.5K per core cheap to you?[0]

[0]https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/cloud-platform/sql-server-pr...
> There's a special web licence for website, which doesn't use CALS.

Special licenses for various uses cases is another big plus for FOSS/PostgreSQL. Life is easier when adding database nodes or spinning up a dev/qa database is purely a technical issue.
Introducing NodeJS-Dashboard
Why not just have a nice phone holder built into cars rather than these systems. It would integrate with the speaker/mic in the car and charge my phone.
Hmm, interesting. My reasoning was along the lines of (for the absolut minimal solution):

1) you were able to introduce support for additional DRM systems/CDMs

2) thus, you should at least be able to introduce some kind of clear key system, like the Clearkey example CDM from EME.

3) write a blogpost on how subscribers may use this and that the video data is encrypted for technical reasons only and that you don't consider it a copy protection scheme under the DMCA and similar laws. Encourage user agent developers to handle it like no DRM at all. This would allow for watching Netflix using open source software.

Now that you'd have an interim solution running, keep in mind the possibility of no DRM when making future infrastructure decisions.
Or you know, just use the physical HVAC and radio controls that have worked just fine for forty years.
I would be curious to know whether Facebook, Twitter and Instagram knew Geofeedia was selling the data to the police and in general how much they regulate third parties that access their data.
Many shelters also have rules that nobody can adhere to like curfew hours or being forced to stand in line everyday to get a spot first come first served. Often you can't book more than one night at a time so you have to spend a significant part of your day, everyday, securing your temporary bed and storage for that night so if you have a job you can't stay at a shelter.

It's much better to just live out of a tent. Problem is people in squatter tents tend to get ridiculously drunk every night, light their tent on fire accidentally or spend all night screaming and fighting with each other thus police get called and their tent city dismantled.

The Salvation Army from what I've seen has the best system going. You can book 3 months, and they help you with employment. You get your own room and there's not a lot of rules besides no alcohol or drugs allowed in the building. This is where most of the homeless go who fell through the social safety net for whatever reasons, and they can save 3 months of income to get back on their feet whereas the addicts, chronic homeless by choice, and mentally ill are the ones in tent cities.