skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Anything that increases feedback and visualization is great. It's not about the storage of the code it's about the communication paths between the programmer and the computer and making that higher bandwidth and quick turn-around. I love what I see with saving the session (lisp state) and replaying it.

If not this, then this idea. Or this idea with more time and features. Impressive already.
I think when we get intensely focused and emotionally invested, we tend to think our work is the answer to the world's problems and every other way of doing things is flawed.

For instance, Sergey Brin claiming Google Glass would prevent the "emasculating" effect of smart phones....[1]

[1] http://www.cnn.com/2013/02/28/tech/innovation/brin-google-gl...
What if some of the taxpayers feel it's warranted? Personally I have no problem with them spending time on these types of projects.
There is no solution. Everything is terrible.
This seems to make sense, given how I'm in the past few years starting to realize how things actually work in the world..
Heh heh heh... that'll show the author.
Lame article, just a plug piece for hackerrank.
They have their place - if you're more interested in inference than in prediction they can be useful tools.
>Sounds like 're-opening' to me.

Why are we now shoehorning the real world in to TV speak?
It isn't premine, they get 10% of mined Zcash over first 4 years.

Unless something changed.
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Here are some potential charges I could imagine:

1. She used her official position as Secretary of State representing the United States to solicit $150M++ of dollars in foreign donations for her personal 501c3.

Imagine how this worked. Picture the scene at a US Embassy social function in some small corrupt country: "Oh sure El Presidente, I'd be happy to look into what's holding up your USAID payments. Sayyy, Bill would love to come and deliver a speech for you. By the way, his going rate is $500,000."

Having our Secretary of State asking foreign dignitaries for payments on-the-side irreparably damages our country's reputation in the world. This is some of the most egregious and blatant corruption we have ever seen in a public official.

3. She made copies of government information, which any reasonable person would agree qualifies as some level of classification, to a personal server in her home that was not authorized to store such information (and as a result the Russians stole it).

2. She conducted government business using an unauthorized private server, and did so specifically for the purpose of concealing her actions and correspondence from both internal and official oversight.

4. She set up some type of shadow internal review process to squash entirely legitimate FOIA requests that might reflect poorly on her department or herself.

Routinely, little people are vigorously prosecuted for far, far less. America explicitly rejects having a double standard for royalty, why shouldn't she be subject to the same rules?
Who said anything about that? Of course I have things to do, but grabbing a sandwich from the deli on my block is almost as fast as soylent and much more enjoyable.

Although from this thread I'm starting to think the real reason many people dislike Soylent is the holier-than-thou attitude many of it's supporters seem to sport :)
> M$FT

I'm sorry, are you from the past?
> Interesting. Has there ever been a Fortune 500 board of directors in a CEO selection process under way with a CEO candidate personally under FBI investigation say, "oh, that's okay, you're still one of our two top choices"? If not, it is a peculiar juxtaposition.

There aren't any parallels in the corporate world I can point to. Being under federal investigation would be like wearing skunk cologne to any sane corporate board.

> While an investigation most assuredly does not pass the "guilty until proven innocent" bar, CEO's have been summarily fired by boards or left for the good of the company simply for being personally under FBI investigation. For the political geeks/wonks among us, can you please explain to this layperson how Clinton's situation differs?

Short answer is that she's a Clinton and in control (whether direct or indirect) of the entire DNC and it's delegates. The Clinton's are a big part of the DNC money machine, raising money across the organization so everybody owes them favors. They'd ignore anything like this out of fear of spiting her or WJC unless it were criminal not to do so (say if she were convicted).
> My point is that it is morally void, one candidate is doing it, the other isn't.

Huh? There is only one president...what's the problem with campaigning for someone else that you support? I don't see the moral issue. If you're paying for it and you're obviously not doing it in lieu of your duty what's the issue here?
Couldn't agree more. It's arguable now that windows 10 with hyper-v and bash is now the ultimate dev platform. They keep adding while macos does does the opposite
The green card time issue is only an issue if you were born in the oversubscribed countries of india, the philippines, china or mexico. And it doesn't apply if you marry an american. If your even from pakistan you can get a green card in several years if your company starts the process quickly.
Its not an all or nothing thing. Apple could provide at least one "old-style" usb for legacy devices and would alleviate a lot of pain.
Amazon HPC cluster with StarCluster tool
There isn't a better option, people are just mad that they did not get X feature that they really wanted.

Come this time next year 90% will be using the new MBP because it's a damn good machine and developing in MacOS is simply more comfortable.
> Yeah, I was gonna say-- pureeing berries severely impacts dietary fiber, which in turn impacts glycemic index, since your body no longer has to work around nearly as much cellulose to get to the sugar.

When I first got my Vitamix, I did some cursory web "research" which seemed to imply that blending made no substantive difference in nutritional value of fruits. Do you have a citation for this conclusion?
Rants like these are of little meaning as long as the people who insist the government is run by slaveholders keep voting for politicians who want to give the government more power. Put your ballot where your mouth is, guys.
Already proposed a few laptop models here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12816033
0.2% change in one month does not make a trend.

Desktop market share is also increasingly less relevant to the search engine game.
And if you had a clue, you'd know he really had no intention of being polite. ;)

Phrases like that exist to indicate that one is emotionally dissatisfied but at a level where it's bubbling underneath the surface rather than something you'd like to display fully. It gives just enough plausible deniability of the fact for it not to become the center of discussion, while still unambiguously letting the person you're communicating with know that you're pissed.
pete williams is reporting this on msnbc and being relayed by other reporters on twitter.

trying to find the 3 email source (and relayed by other reporters on twitter). thought i heard williams say it on msnbc but can't find video.
When you reference a past case against new evidence that's usually called re-opening a case.
Amen. Preach it.
As a partially sighted developer specializing in assistive technology, with several friends who are totally blind, I think this is an excellent project idea.

The cheapest way to do it would probably be using the Orca screen reader for GNU/Linux, probably combined with the MATE desktop (forked from GNOME 2) so one doesn't have to worry about 3D acceleration in the VM, which will presumably be hosted remotely on a cloud provider somewhere. The main technical challenge that springs to mind will be capturing all keyboard events in a browser window. This is particularly important because screen readers tend to rely on esoteric keyboard commands, which repurpose keys like CapsLock and Insert as modifiers. I don't know if this can actually be done in a normal web browser.

Anyway, just throwing out my quick thoughts on this. I don't currently have time to pursue it further myself.
There is no one Lenovo's laptop on the market with Thunderbolt 3 support, so not an option at all.
Title is a little general. This specifically is a technique for breaking down text analysis, where the goal is to give semantic meaning to a block of text. In their example, they want to condense beer reviews into star ratings of a few categories. A totally black box technique would take the review and spit out the scores, whereas their technique has two jointly trained networks: one identifies relevant text fragments for each category, and the other gets the corresponding category score for the fragment.

This is not groundbreaking, but still a good example of a larger trend in trying to understand neural network decision making. Here's a cool paper that analyzes how CNNs can learn image features for attributes like "fuzziness" and other higher level visual constructs while training for object recognition: https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/3b31/9645bfdc67da7d02db766e...
I'm not sure why you indicate 3-4 monitors is not exactly exotic. Pretty sure its the 1% or less. Wouldn't that be the definition of exotic?

Wait'll you see what happens when you rotate them!

We are living in a bubble, our use case is not even remotely close to the average or above average use case. Looking at the data broadly, this barely registers as a 'thing'.

Spoken as a multi monitor user too.
Interesting. I assumed FB would have hot replicas (kept up to date with live master-slave replication at all times) - ready to go any time a main database fails. Cascade that to another layer of slaves and there's no need to restore anything ever.
I'd be happy with that if US-centric news has "in the US" after it.
Then use the Ubuntu-packaged runit or daemontools; or port s6, perp, daemontools-encore, or nosh.

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11416376

* http://jdebp.eu./FGA/daemontools-family.html

I don't know whether the Debian-packaged nosh will install on Ubuntu as it stands.

* http://jdebp.eu./Softwares/nosh/debian-binary-packages.html
It's more or less a headless Ubuntu install, so you have apt for package management.
Under Rule of Law, one set of humans write the laws. If you break them another set of humans decide on your guilt and punishment.

Set 1 (legislators) can and do write laws to favor and disfavor individual actors, and I agree that that is in part unavoidable.

Set 2 (judges and juries) are appointed randomly after it's become a legal matter, so it's impossible for any inappropriate influence in either direction before that.

And there is no "set 3" of regulators that issue orders during the day-to-day running of the business.

So I think you're right that this problem always exist, but in my estimation it's a few orders of magnitude bigger under a "Rule of Man" regulation scheme.
That doesn't really answer my question.
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I feel like Apple is trying to force innovation with their latest offerings.

I'm not against change, but change for the sake of change is annoying.

The idea well must be running pretty dry at Cupertino
Well, given that Microsoft's profits were once double that of Apple, yes, it is quite a reversal.

(irony of using "M$" when you're talking about them not making money is great, btw)
I came from a T61, and I really don't mind the keyboard on my X230. If I had any disagreement with it, I would have promptly swapped it for one from an X220.
Remember that Huma Abedin also had her devices seized as part of this investigation. Likely, the emails are on her device.
>they'd need to find my IP (which changes regularly, DHCP from my ISP)

You might be surprised at how long you can have the same IP. It can easily go for a year with some ISPs.
There are improvements that can be made though - I think one of the best articles I've read about this was here: http://worrydream.com/#!/LearnableProgramming.

Lots of things that show tools and ideas that would make learning programming a lot easier.
I like what these guys do: https://www.myminifactory.com/scantheworld/
I'll expand a bit more on my point with the iron content of Soylent.

I picked iron out of the list to focus on because it's not water soluble and that makes it more problematic. I bet there are issues across the board with the nutrient content in Soylent.

Excess iron in your diet can be a health problem because your body has no efficient way to dispose of it. The main mechanism for shedding iron is via blood loss! You aren't going to die if you get even 40mg of iron in a day, but consistently ingesting too much iron can be problematic.

This is why you see vitamins with 3000% DV Vitamin C and 10% DV iron -- there's no harm (beyond expensive urine) in excess water soluble Vitamin C, but there can be harm with excess iron.

So if we look at Soylent, with 5mg of iron per serving (IF all of that is actually bio-available), it is not ideal even for the likely majority of its customers (adult men) and even if they only consumed Soylent.

The average adult male only requires an additional 3mg of iron per day, which can easily be exceeded from any number of sources: a multivitamin, a second serving of Soylent, eating a steak, and so on. It's extremely unlikely that the average consumer of Soylent isn't exceeding their daily iron intake (unless they're a woman, especially a pregnant one, in which case they have more wiggle room).

That isn't even considering a non-average adult male, who might need 4mg or 12mg or who knows what.

Excess iron (>20mg) can also cause "gastric upset, constipation, nausea, abdominal pain, vomiting, and faintness" [1] -- which can all be caused by lots of things, but are certainly areas where Soylent has struggled somewhat.

Mainly I just think it's disappointing that Soylent adopted a naive one-size-fits-all approach and doesn't really seem to understand what RDA and %DV are meant to convey. The FDA is faced with an impossible task to provide %DV for all people everywhere without considering any of their personal variables. Soylent should be trying to go a step beyond that, not just blindly targeting those numbers.

[1] https://ods.od.nih.gov/factsheets/Iron-HealthProfessional/#h...
And bribery
Good luck with the interview next week, I hope it goes well!
When will this end? I'm afraid that we're about to take a 'dark ages' turn to the ignorant. I guess in 200-300 years we'll have another awakening.

Until then, tiny hands man child will be on tv all day everyday.
I'd like Razer ship to the marked 14/15" frameless laptop with NO graphic card, mate screen, 32GB RAM and Thunderbol 3. I can get for games something like this if needed http://www.notebookcheck.net/Acer-Graphics-Dock-with-Nvidia-...
Back in the ~2007 Dell tried to sell Ubuntu PCs to consumers. It was an interesting experiment, but they seemed unable to figure out how to market it (even at a slightly cheaper cost) and discontinued it after a few years.
Right, I do understand that! That's the whole point. Your experience is completely foreign to me which is why I didn't understand Soylent's purpose when it first came out. It's like trying to sell an umbrella to a nomad in the Sahara.
> Just check out its striking video for the Surface Studio — it is so influenced by Apple’s playbook that I’m surprised there’s no Jony Ive narration.

What's happened is that other companies have figured out how to emulate Steve Jobs's playbook that's now several decades old and there's nobody at Apple to write new plays.

Jobs always talked about how Microsoft didn't have taste and when you look at MS products up until around 2005ish in comparison to Apple products, he was right. At some point a lot of business people realized what was making Apple successful - they weren't just selling computers, they were selling a lifestyle, they were selling cool. Oh, you are a creative? Well, shouldn't you have a Mac? It's what Einstein and Gandhi would have used.

Jobs was an absolutely brilliant marketer. Since 2005 other companies have gotten successively better at emulating Apple's design, experience, and marketing. They've distilled what Jobs knew intuitively into a formula that they can iterate on. It's not just MS, it's Dell, it's every medium and high-end manufacturer, it's Google. Please tell me what the difference between this [1] Pixel commercial and every Apple commercial made within the last decade is with the exception of the logo.

It's the Applefication of tech production and marketing and Apple doesn't have anything to stand out anymore.

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCI1tcu8tQw
> You're right that it is only one anecdotal perspective, but it's kind of like a prominent Apple blogger tweeting that a new Microsoft product has phenomenal UI

To stretch your analogy: when the FCC sends Microsoft questions about the product's RF emissions, does the prominent blogger's endorsement really matter? Firstly, RF is out of the blogger's wheelhouse and secondly, hypothetical Microsoft ought to have planned for regulatory compliance from the beginning, or at least have the technical specs recorded somewhere.
I saw someone say they modified vim to use the touch bar.
Uber is pretty big in Manchester, too
Ethiopia Internet Shutdown Costs Country Approx. $500,000 a Day in Lost GDP
He's hardly a typical case.

People who get into graduate physics programs at Stanford rarely are.

And the amount of information one has to add to a solid undergrad education in physics to do rocketry is relatively minor compared to the amount most dilettantes need to add to become an expert.
I'm not a big fan of drinking milk -- it causes digestive issues for me and a lot of other people and doesn't taste great by itself. It would be hard not to question the judgement of anyone who drinks that stuff.
Despite not being as good as the old IBM keyboards, can you name a laptop with a better one? It seems all the manufacturers make terrible keyboards.
I agree. I tell people about some of the things I've had to do in Crusader Kings 2 and they are horrified. Civilization 6 is a history themed 4x strategy game, not some hyper realistic history simulator.
Do I think Hotz has a viable product? No. It's worked a few times, for short distances, in very controlled circumstances, and it's based on a single-camera approach which seems likely to have a ton of problems with some common cases.

Do I think there's significant political pressure to have his product, ahem, driven into the ground as to not be a viable competitor to larger firms? No. Because I don't think it's a real product.

Do I think it's a sign of immaturity to pack up your stuff and leave when confronted by a small challenge? Yes.

Do I think dealing with the NHTSA (and potential NTSB) is a small challenge? No.

Do I think responding to the letter is such a burden that it's worth leaving the market? No.

Am I still a fan of George Hotz as both an inventor, innovator, and persona? No. He's a loser with tech that doesn't work, and he's blaming the government for his decision to overpromise and under deliver. If you disagree, let's put money on it. Because I could use free money from some George Hotz loving sucker.

Do I think it's hilarious that a vocal contingent here criticizes him for taking a "path of least resistance" (regulation) in his development and iteration process? Sorta. It's only funny because he's a pathetic hack who can't do what he promised, and he's blaming everybody else.

Do I think that people who admire George Hotz are morons? yes. I can't imagine why an intelligent person would think positively of him, at all. He's a pathetic, gutless, cowardly hack who couldn't do what he promised. Only a loser would love him.
Do you know if any commercial JDKs release any metrics on the use of this?
The US DoD has done a LOT of high end projects as low risk. Taking Guam -- about when and how planned. The B-29s, intended to fly from Guam (Tinian, etc.) to Japan, ready at about the same time. The A-bomb, right on time -- how 'bout that for a high risk project done on time. Rickover and the nuke powered submarines and then the missile firing submarines -- on time or nearly so.

The F-35? I'm not so sure it's been a big mess -- I've heard two sides. On the good side, it should boil down to about $150 million per plane, everything including from start through the lifetime, and that is comparable with the ballpark $100 million or so that has long been the case in both the US and Europe. Right, on this topic, my collection of good references totally sucks -- I could be wrong.

Sure, the F-35 is not so good at dogfighting, but, then, it's not supposed to be. The fighter is the F-22, and it is supposed to kill the enemy planes well beyond visual range and not do dogfighting, either, although it definitely has the performance for it.

So, the idea is that early in a conflict, the F-22 and F-35 go in. The enemy can't see either one, from ground, from planes, via missiles. The F-22s take out the enemy fighters, and the F-35 takes out the early on, high value ground targets, e.g., radar and missile sites. Then can send in F-16s, F-15s, A-10s, F-18s, B-1's, B-52's, etc.
It's not just that there are a lot of edge cases; it's also that a single edge case could allow someone to extract an effectively unlimited amount of money from you.
> function names are not subject to rot

I don't agree with this. I think often a function will drift from its name if functionality is added to an aspect of its implementation or because of refactoring.
> if it's anything like Ethereum's DAO hack the fraud will not even be considered any wrongdoing at all

I would not use the word "fraud" here, regardless of which side of the Eth fork you sit on.
See also RFC 2119 that disambiguates the meaning of "must", "shall", "may" and others in specs. It's because of that RFC that you often see those words in caps in a spec.

https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2119.txt
Comey's letter says they have not yet determined whether they are relevant.
Except the IO is split between two sides of the new machine. Maybe each connection has its own bus, but if its like thunderbolt on the MBPs with a physical FW800, those two ports share a bus. That still means half of the IO would not be useable in a 'dock' situation.

No more docking to one side of the machine...
You don't need to test how well people do the easy stuff - even if the easy stuff makes up most of their work - you want to test if they are able to do the difficult parts.
I was thinking recently how Bill Gates often said the biggest competitor to Windows was the previous version of Windows. Alternate OSes didn't have enough market share or compatible software to really be a threat, but customers always had the option of just not upgrading.

iPhone seems in a very similar position. Sure, there are some people who will switch from iPhone to an Android phone. But Apple's biggest challenge seems to be convincing their current customers they need a new phone at all.
I am working on a project to parse an image which then synthesizes an audio representation which retains all the information of the source image ... next step is to parse live video to enable people to hear what others see ... shoot me an email as well ... its not specific to dev tools yet could parley into a general enabler ... I am using a Hilbert Curve ... nice intro video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuiryHHTrjU