skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As per the book:

weight : 1,507 lb

Dense construction.
What @pjc50 said. Here's a best of Den Beste:

https://erbosoft.com/ussclueless/bestof.htm

Very thoughtful, well written, prolific.

Here's one of his posts referencing one of my favourites, on alternate energy: http://chizumatic.mee.nu/ghosts_of_my_past
ShiftWear raises ~$1M on Indiegogo selling a false promise
Agree. I would happily pay $50 to $100 a year just to keep the twitter experience as-is.
I remember a quote about the best part of wealth being that you never feel like you need to cheat another person.

I can't google the source of it (you get some really weird results about rich men cheating, or being cheated on) but it always stuck with me as something to be grateful for every day.

Obviously, some rich people however, never got the memo.
Wow moment for me was finding out about Nim which proved once-and-for-all for me that the idea of performance vs. code clarity/convenience having to be a trade-off was a fallacy.
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The bundled software was always crappy. Luckily the protocol was simple and people reverse engineered it quickly. I used some linux command line tool to manage files on it.
What wonders me the most, is when they change titles. 1 chinese character sometimes matches 1 english word

Eg. lylei changed the title from "cs启动太慢" to "cs start is too slow " ( on https://github.com/baidu/bfs/issues/376 )

lylei changed the title from "其他SDK写策略" to "SDK writing strategies(fan-out write for example)" (on https://github.com/baidu/bfs/issues/243 )
It happens. http://www.nytimes.com/1995/09/17/us/doctor-who-cut-off-wron...
What's bizarre is I thought the whole purpose of cutting off/restricting third-party clients was so that they could control what was in the feed i.e., serve advertisements.

If they still allow some/limited third-party clients and don't force ads into those feeds, what was the point of burning their bridges with the developer community?
There are few things more futuristic than the vertically-landing rocket boosters.

But futurism has itself taken a massive knock. The 80s was the era of popular realization of the downsides of technology (Chernobyl, Bhopal, phaseout of CFC and tetraethyl lead, global warming, environmental issues generally) and the 2000s the era of realizing that progress is not a ratchet and the simplistic view of bombing countries into democracy wasn't going to work.

You can't present people with an unalloyed utopia and expect them to believe in it. People will ask the same questions of technology as were asked of Concorde - cost and safety - but be far less impressed with the raw concept of highspeed travel.
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> OSX not even mentioned.

That's because OSX does not support Vulkan.

But yeah, I hate it when projects claim to be cross-platform but what they really mean is "hope to be cross platform one day"
If by interactive you mean "reactive html5" pages, then I have to admit that I avoid them like the plague.

They require endless scrolling, there are often pointless template images on them and the fonts are too big, and their maintainers often want you to try out or download something 'for free' - and three days later you find out it's not free at all and they want $5/mo.
I'm from Germany too and as far as I can tell this isn't the truth for every company here. When I find clients/employers behave like that, I warn them and then I quit. This is what everyone should do. If you accept such horrendous conditions it's your fault people begin to think this is "normal".
All the potential benefits are blatant lies.

Brexit doesn't give £350m to the NHS. Brexit doesn't get us out of ECHR (and that wouldn't be a benefit anyway, since ECHR agrees with UK on over 99% of cases). Brexit doesn't give us control over our spending. Brexit doesn't give us control over immigration.
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It's been pretty widely reported.

This is a good summary:

Twitter's reputation as a haven for trolls was one of the key reasons both Disney and Salesforce declined to make bids for Twitter, according to reports from Bloomberg and CNBC host Jim Cramer.... the family-friendly animation giant had even hired two investment banks to work out a bid for the service, but eventually decided not to put a deal on the table, fearing that Twitter's sexist, racist, and otherwise unpleasant abusers would sully Disney's image..... Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff had expressed concerns about Twitter's problems with user abuse directly to him. "What's happened is, a lot of the bidders are looking at people with lots of followers and seeing the hatred," Cramer said, claiming that Salesforce was "very concerned about this notion."

http://www.theverge.com/2016/10/19/13328380/twitter-abuse-di...
Random trivia, the real person that song was written about, is the wife of Valve Economist and recent "star" of the debate around Greek economic issues with the EU, Yanis Varoufakis.
I did not know this - great point!

Actually being able to use simulations to a much larger extent than was possible back when Concorde was being developed must play a role in lowering the costs of building a new supersonic aircraft. I believe this is what Boom is trying to do! Let's hope they can spur more investments into this field - it would be very cool if we got to see supersonic travel again :)
The Archos Jukebox was the player that introduced me to Rockbox[0]. Great player for the time, but as you said it was huge. I think I even put in a larger drive at some point.

These days I run rockbox on an iPod. The hardware is better but rockbox is still IMHO the best interface for a portable music player.

[0] http://www.rockbox.org
The entirety of Twitter is a subset of one feature of Facebook - that's why its referred to as niche.
92 out of 813 seats are hereditary peers, the remainder are life peers [Edit: forgot the Bishops] appointed (technically) by the monarch on the advice of the government.

There's really no such thing as a class 'system', let alone anything one could point to as being 'formal'. There is a bunch of in/out group signalling with fairly extreme geographic variations. Mobility across social boundaries can be achieved by understanding and adapting to the signalling although crucially (and getting back on topic) this requires the belief that you are entitled to do so.

I'm down on the notion of class in general personally. I think it's at best an incredibly lazy intellectual model of complex social phenomena. Basically I think there's no such thing [0], but I do very much enjoy listening to the things people say while they're explaining why I'm wrong about this.

[0] Problematic for this theory is that people certainly believe there is and this has operational effects.
https://xkcd.com/1102/
> OSX does not support Vulkan

https://moltengl.com/
One of the things I'm really concerned about personally is the archival of web comics. A number of comics that I've read over the years have already vanished from the net like Ugly Hill, Simulated Comic Product, and Minus (once linked to by XKCD! Now it's gone...).

archive.org, of course, has partial copies of some of these -- but it often seems to have trouble with comics and is usually missing years and years of content as a result.
The future of libraries is one of the topics I'm pretty obsessed with, probably because I loved them growing up and I've always found they had a huge unexploited potential.

First of all, I don't think it's fair to lump the "big boys" (Library of Congress, British Library etc) with smaller city libraries, because they are huge brands that will forever survive as nexus of scholarly research, no matter what fancy media we move on to.

It's much more interesting to look at small city libraries. Their main roles, traditionally, were:

- free access to information

- safe space for reading and studying

- preservation effort for local culture / warehouse for commercial culture

- community point-of-interest for aggregation.

In many places, the preservation element had often got too prevalent for its own good. Now that effort is not necessary at all - that's better left to the big boys, who can leverage a large pool of skills in big cities and archive all tweets for the rest of us, so to speak, with individuals submitting pointers of local relevance ("please archive this and that").

The free access to information is split into two: access to the internet, and access to commercially-available resources. The first is solved with the "starbucks wannabe" model, the second is being discussed with commercial players and we'll have to wait for that - but it's easy to imagine something like patrons getting a locked-down kindle from libraries to borrow ebooks, once the hardware is cheap enough.

What is really interesting is how you can perform the other two roles (reading space, community aggregation) in new ways, now that we're free of warehousing duties. Libraries are now free to experiment with spaces that want to draw people together regardless of the media they consume. I'd love for some local authority to be bold and try out "bookless libraries" concepts that can work through the decades - there is no point, for example, building a library around iPads, because they'll soon be obsolete; but you still have to provide something or people won't come. When you figure that out, you have what is effectively an "engine for meeting minds" which could potentially be much more significant than universities, shaping the relationship between citizens and state/community as well as generating culture.

That's where the fun is.
Are you referring to app quality? probability of malware? OEM clutter?

Some of these are overblown so it would be useful to clarify.
3800 employees, $2700M spent a year.

That's 700k per employee. IT'S FREAKING INSANE!

There are only 4 tech companies in the world who ever made more than $700k in revenue per head, in any recent years: SoftBank, Microsoft, Google, Apple

http://uk.businessinsider.com/top-tech-companies-revenue-per...
Coincidentally, two posts talking about this kind of never event, with links:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12773709

They do happen, but they're quite rare.
Has anyone found a good deep-dive on the architecture in english?
Rust is extremely new, with way fewer people who have tried it. So there wasn't much opportunity to change someone's career (both on the time and the people axis).

Additionally, Rust is a very well-engineered language, but it has few ground-breaking attributes. The borrow checker has never appeared in a non-esoteric language before, I guess. Most of the other goodies could have blown people's minds long before in another language.
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Verilog its like going from 2D -> 4D

And thats for real complex projects, not making LED`s blnik.
I have no idea what ratio is a good ratio and what's a terrible ratio so I googled it and the first link said the Boeing C-17 globe master iii specs say

only 20 aircraft maintenance man-hours per flying hour

https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/16121/how-shoul...

I don't know anything about flying but I assume there's a limit to amount of the parallelization you can do? Can twenty technicians finish the maintenance in an hour? More importantly, how long can you put off this maintenance? Do I have to spend this before each flight or can I delay this as a batch process later in the week?

Sorry for stupid question
> more poles of power

Yet two-party system is opposite of that.
Som here are missing the point in the other direction – this isn't about "design" as in "please give me a shiny UI", or "fewer buttons". The paper makes this point quite explicitly:

"These weaknesses have spurred the development of com- mand line wrappers and GUIs whose primary goal is to re- move some of Git’s complexity (most notably, EasyGit [1] and GitHub’s desktop client). These make largely cosmetic changes, through more attractive user interfaces, more con- sistent terminology in commands and documentation, and a focus on more commonly used commands. But their suc- cess seems to have been fairly limited, and most people still use the command line interface distributed with Git as their primary frontend, or fall back to it for accomplishing more complex tasks.

We believe that the usability problems of Git run deeper, and can only be addressed by a more fundamental reworking that reconsiders the underlying concepts. This is not to say that such a reworking cannot be achieved in a lightweight fashion. Indeed, our own reworking hides Git behind a ve- neer just as these other tools do. The difference however, is that we are willing to completely reconsider the core con- cepts that are presented to the user."
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Can a distributed storage expert comment in what ways this differs from hadoop?
If I understand you correctly, you are advocating for defining the second such that its length varies, but its connection to a day does not? And you would also introduce locality to the definition?

edit: Or perhaps you meant to tune variably, and not redefine the second. That sounds more sensible, but not as practical.
More like a C++ clone of HDFS than most people are likely hoping. While you seem to be able to mount it with FUSE I imagine it's primarily meant to be programmed against directly.

Using Raft over a dependency on an external consensus system is nice. Definitely makes the namenode architecture much better.
People aren’t reading your ability. They’re reading your read on your ability
not yet :(
What's the difference then between this and MapR, besides a similar CLDB pattern? (No single point of failure)
I was! I live on Bow St/Somerville Ave. :D
I was lucky enough to see one of the last two flights and capture it doing a lazy turn at low altitude: https://www.flickr.com/photos/136766297@N06/21457421183/in/a...
That doesn't sound reasonable. The sonic boom is caused by (I had thought) air being compressed at the front of the plane. That would mean the loudness is determined by speed and shape of the plane.

The only way mass would have an effect is if the exhaust (which heavier planes presumably generate more of) contributed to the sonic boom, which doesn't sound right.

I'll believe that modern planes might generate smaller sonic booms, being more efficient sounds like it's related to how you displace the air, which sounds very related to the size of the boom, but I don't believe you that mass is related.
I find "The long tale of two tribes" at the bottom of the page far more interesting than the score calculator itself. We should discuss this and not nitpick on WebBS gaming. It would be better for discussion to have article at the beginning of the page and later on introduce the score calculator.

I would not say that it is easy to pick one particular side. It is true however that web feels too bloated. It is funny how simple static page with everything embedded can be faster than whatever fancy web framework. Look how quick St4k [1] is.

Computing on server may be fast and energy efficient. It also hides complexity. But then we end up in proprietary walled garden. There must be some middle ground. I am hopping that Sandstorm project [2] will bring democratization of the server space.

Lately I think that our technology meets the ceiling. In the past we imagined that everyone would have their personal flying car or that we would have a space plane. Now we have subsonic jets and maybe electric self-driving cars behind the corner. We have a promise of reusable rockets with stages landing separately like some kind of elevator. Everything is smoke and mirrors. We will not have thin clients with low latency links to servers everywhere just like we will never have independent and fully distributed thick clients. We will fake it until we make it. There may be Netflix cache [3] near you to simulate that network is fast in both senses.

[1] http://danlec.com/st4k#

[2] https://sandstorm.io/

[3] https://openconnect.netflix.com/en/delivery-options/

[EDIT] I worded it poorly. St4k was not meant to be an example of fully static page, but rather general trend. Yes, St4k is SPA, but after one request you have whole application. Next requests bring content only.
https://github.com/baidu/bfs/blob/master/src/client/bfs_clie...

std::string pad;
if (path[path.size() - 1] != '/') {
pad = "/";
}

Else?
Please submit the primary source of the news, in this case http://thehackernews.com/2016/10/how-to-hack-iphone.html, not a facebook photo. I'm writing this because all 9 of your submissions so far have been facebook photos.
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The value constructor for strings is the empty string.
How Autism Shaped the Modern Conversation
Well that didn't take long at all since Uber acquired Otto not too long ago. It's interesting to note how many precautions they took including a police escort, careful mapping, light traffic, and weather.
Pre-processing and alignment are going to be way off. Even if it wasn't, then you have (for face recognition itself) eigenfaces or fisherfaces (bad) or maybe LBP(maybe barely acceptable). Your performance is going to be abysmal compared to serious face recognition technology.
I used to go to the town library every saturday morning. I would spend hours in the reference library pouring over obscure technical books. The book about designing satellites, or electonics, or nuclear fallout predicitions. It was literally the only place I could find out about some relatively simple things (in hindsight); but at the time they seemed like secrets. The musty old stacks are where the disocovery was, now most of it is just a Google away.

I now get that feeling from art galleries or museums. So many things to be discovered that will change how I view the world. Most of it is on the web, but I want to see it for real. Maybe books need to be treated more as historic artifacts.
Nice and easy to use. Really useful. One comment is that when I click on "talk productivity" and "popular books", it would be nicer to get an external link so I can keep "my todo list" at sight.
Good work.
Well you can down vote me all you want but it's not a UX problem that's been solved so far and it's a legitimate factor in range anxiety.

Unlike switching the lights off you have to get out of the car to plug it in.

If the car is going to beep before you get out then it's not a reminder for something I've forgotten,as with lights left on, it's just irritating UX noise, like the "don't forget your mobile phone" message. After a very short time I go blind to that.

If it's an alarm on a mobile/smart watch it's still a tedious chore to have to plug in a car when it's raining or I'm in a rush or I've parked in a spot without a charge point.

People _will_ forget to charge their cars, just as they forget to charge their phones and they will be late because of it.

If purely electric cars are to be brilliantly convenient everyday repacements for fossil fuels they'd be better with either some kind of induction charging, fast charging that doesn't take hours or hydrogen fuel cells.

If we had better ways of splitting hydrogen we could "fast charge" anywhere water and electricity is available.
Peter Woit – Quantum Theory, Groups and Representations: An Introduction (2016) [pdf]
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Well worth a listen to some old Off The Hook shows from 2600.com - they go back a long way in time and culture. Off The Wall too.
Anybody know how this differs from AFS?
I think the more critical you are to the business, and the more pressure and responsibilities you have, the more critical it is to worry about work/life balance. People aren't robots, and we don't have infinite capacity to work, our ability to make rational decisions, understand the market, customers, employees, think critically, etc. is all dependent on having a healthy working brain- and that requires rest and recreation.

For founders, and really anyone heavily invested in early stage startups or companies looking for a lot of growth, responsibilities are 24/7 and the line between work and life get blurry, and it's a lot more difficult to make sure the balance is there, but also a lot more important.
Anything that uses the standard decoding strategy (Viterbi) is quadratic in the number of "states" (i.e., tags), though, and that easily dominates.

(Nowadays, many people just use greedy---linear in the number of states---decoding because it rarely is much worse.)
>Do you believe they can/could/should refuse to check and fix the problem under warranty?

I'm actually saying that they did refuse to attempt to fix the problem unless you restored the original OS that they sold it to you with. (I believe upgrades to newer versions was okay, because those were supported on newer computers. I didn't encounter that situation in the time I was there.)

Having said that, I didn't always toe the company line. I often did my best to help people who were using an unsupported configuration (added internal hardware, different OS) but there was still a limit to what I could do. Unlike most of the others, though, I had a few years experience working at a computer shop, so I actually knew things and wasn't just reading from the company intranet's guides.

I got caught a couple times on software problems that appeared like hardware problems, too. By not forcing them to revert to the original software, and then escalating them to second tier support, I ended up getting in trouble. So there was at least some method to their madness.

Sending it in, though... There wasn't a place to do that. So far as I know, there weren't any physical stores other than big name retailers like Best Buy, and you couldn't just ship it in without going through phone support. So you had to try the advice from the phone support first before shipping it in.
Yeah, the main reason, assuming you're a "ML-based business", is you want to validate your market and not spend a ton of money creating something that's not profitable.

Anyway, there are many more obvious use cases. Other apps/games/services that need to detect faces or filter out porn and so on. Imagine a dating site that estimates age and more based on photos, while also filtering out NSFW images.
Interesting post. As a fellow Australian (actually, fellow computer programming molecular bio BSc who went to La Trobe), I completely agree with your assessment on the Australian startup scene.
Is software easier or harder than hardware?

Somehow people seem to assume software is easier, but then there are at least as many critical failures blamed on software as on hardware.

Maybe there are different curves: software is easy to get to 90% working but hard to get from there to 99.9%. Hardware is hard to get to 90% working but easy to get from there to 99.9%.
I imagined that. I am more like "let me tell you exactly what I want" rather than relying on behavior defined elsewhere. It would not pass review where I work.
Even if it's not a lot of mp3, I was able to change the mp3 without buying something and this at that time was a revolution. Even if it was not perfect, they made the revolution Apple did nothing.
I mean it worked for me. I took some really risky decisions that could easily result in me being homeless, etc. Most of them paid out so far. I guess it's up to your priorities - I would rather fail hard than settle for being where I am right now in the long term - taking risks is the only option.
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Testify!

Emacs is so mysterious, some people actually think it's a Text Editor.

It's like saying Android is a Phone.
Isn't it Scott Alexander (note the almost anagram) that blogs there?