skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He wrote the screenplays of some great films in the 70s directed by Alain Tanner. Most are generally hatrd to find now, they were very good. esp Middle of the World.
Thanks for clarifying and providing the link!
Fair enough. I'm inclined to believe that's how GIFy does it, because a lot of their gifs have the stuttering, sliced up kind of motion and compression so endemic to tumblr gifs
Yeah bullshit. It's been 100% proven the Clinton campaign paid thousands of online bullies to astroturf everywhere from Twitter to 4chan.
Seems we've come full circle, eh?

Back in the original dot-com boom ~15 years ago 1U pizza boxes were the workhorses. Same for things like HPC clusters.

Then the big-name vendors started introducing various blade server architectures, where many servers shared power/cooling/BMC (out of band management), often with things like integrated switches in the back of the blade chassis. (Of course, many thought the real reason behind blades were that standard rack servers were rapidly becoming commoditized, so the vendors needed something with more lock-in..)

And then we had things like "scale-out" designs, with somewhat bare-bones servers, often in some simple chassis with shared power. And lately (Intel at least?) there has been talk of "rack-scale" architectures.

But now MS goes against this "trend", going back to basics so to speak. What gives?
WASM feels like an evolution built on top of a lot of what's worked with Javascript.
Apple's October TV Surprise
I own three cars. One is my dad's old Vanagon. I haven't had the heart to sell it, and it is useful a few times a year for camping, scuba diving, or hauling. I probably should replace it with a trailer for those needs, but I haven't yet. It cost me $0, registration for it is about $120/yr, and it doesn't bump up my insurance all that much. Could I save money by just renting a van when I needed one, sure, but not all that much, and it has sentimental value.
> the philosophy behind LaTeX (which is rather different from the philosophy behind an editor like Word, and thus calls for a correspondingly different mindset while writing)

Could you explain a bit about this? How does it change one's mindset while writing?
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> Personally, I strongly dislike pinyin because using roman letters engages the intrusive "thinking in English" part of my brain

If this really bothers you, use zhuyin, or double pinyin.

> Is there just the one, canonical way of writing a character? Or can you "compose" them up from any "correct" series of strokes?

There is always one canonical way (the "stroke order") of writing a character. I find it a little surprising that a hobbyist learner wouldn't already know this? How are you studying?

My introductory text for writing characters was https://www.amazon.com/Learning-Chinese-Characters-Ms-Zhang/... , and it worked well enough that I can generally input unfamiliar characters in bihua.

On your phone, pleco (which you should have if you're studying Chinese) has a $5 stroke order addon, and skritter (meh) is all about practicing stroke orders.
I buy a car every ~2 years because I like technology. Driving a Tesla Model S now, and looking forward to the company releasing self-driving software before I upgrade to the new version.
The high level goals of WASM do include access to browser APIs, but the MVP version that is being implemented now, does not yet allow it:
https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/blob/master/JS.md

WASM code can call external functions defined per module, and the external code can be JS code that interacts with browser APIs. So indirect use of browser APIs is possible.
I can't imagine what it would be like trying to explain this stuff to someone from the '40s.
Why would it have to be Adobe? Plenty of people could do that kind of work.
How do you pronounce it?
So, this is actually a good example of the stability in high finance?

If you think the market is pricing DB incorrectly, and also the market is pricing Snapchat incorrectly... are these really counterexamples of each other then?
Donna Brazile Fired from CNN for Leaking Debate Questions
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To those who have trouble viewing: http://archive.is/BA90N
The term I've heard is "upwards management." It is (unfortunately?) a valuable skill.
This is a speech that was immediately followed by an interview; the longer video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ob-LJqPQEJ4 includes the conversation that followed.
I buy a new car every 2 years or so because it makes me happy. Money sitting in the bank earning no interest doesn't make me happy.
If your idea is substantially different from theirs (yours being specific and theirs being vague), applying for your own patent, expressly including theirs as a reference and distinguishing what's novel about your technology and how it differs from theirs, is probably the best way forward.

Can't get much cheaper or more effective than having the USPTO rule your patent as valid and distinct; even a lengthy DIY patent process will run you less than a couple hours of a middling patent attorney's time.

Odds are your business will fail or be acquired by the time the patent issues or even gets looked at (I'm still litigating a patent application I initially filed in 2010). Your goal is to succeed or fail based on the quality of your business model and only use the patent process as needed to entice investors and scare away trolls.

Patent pending is not as good as issued, but darn close for a number of investors.
I figure it's being said (as someone who both agrees with the statement and is irritated at headphone jack removal) be cause the trend has tilted that way. Apple has merely joined other manufacturers in demonstrating that headphone jack users are actually a niche market.

I suppose I realized this when I saw folks at a former employer's manufacturing department all buying $100 BT headphones... because that meant they could set their phone down and not worry about yanking it off the lab bench.
XPS 13 is a MS precision touchpad. I agree with GP, it sucks in Windows. Under Linux it's much better.
Just go out any time after 11pm...
Luckily for us, valuation does not and should not have much concern with profitability.

If this was not the case, the only businesses would be the size of lemonade stands. Cardboard ones at that, that can be profitable on their first day.
Well, there is no Insert key on my laptop, and Ctrl-V means something else in Vim, for instance.

Now, Linux vs MacOS vs Windows -- I get the difference, it's like moving from a manual car to automatic. But imagine you're given a manual car where every gear works normally except for the second -- and second gear requires some extra movement; like pressing a button, or turning a gear stick 90 degrees clockwise. How soon before this car would absolutely infuriate you?

And now imagine that people who learnt their driving on this car are coming to you and just aren't getting what's the big deal.
There is a law that says you cannot put battery more than defined amount while traveling in flights.
It is obvious that if laptop has high end specs then it will lose power quickly. Maybe this is the reason Apple did not upgrade their hardware performance wise (just a speculation).
A lot of cars coming off lease these days that are two or three years old get certified by the dealer, which gives an extended warranty for the person buying the used car. That's a nice little bonus where you buy the car when it starts hitting linear depreciation and you still have a decent warranty.
I am such a softie: I don't even particularly like https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/issues/112#issuecommen..., but I feel sad that the little koala illustration will never be used.
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I wish Giphy well, but one random thing about them that's always perplexed me: literally 1/3 of their staff have Director titles [1]

I get that vanity titles are a way to help startups hire good talent, but once you reach a nontrivial team size, this seems rather odd -- who are all these people directing exactly? It would make me very hesitant if interviewing a candidate who worked at Giphy, since their titles appear meaningless.

[1] http://giphy.com/team
People should be careful voting for Trump. In 20 years, the PC ideologues then in charge may dig out that data and the Trump voters may suffer consequences, like during the Stalinist purges. Thiel is brave.
There is (was?) so much creativity on Vine, it's insane. Many times, I've been delighted by the originality that people have been able to cram in a mere 6 seconds.

Even crazier is that many of these users were just bored teenagers with a smartphone. When people (many of them on this board) complain that smartphones/tablets are all about consuming content rather than creating, Vine is one of my favorite examples to bring up.

If I worked in any field that primarily relied on video as its medium (e.g. marketing), Vine would be the first place where I'd try to track down undiscovered junior creative talent.

It's been sad to have seen it be completely misunderstood and neglected by the twitter execs, and it wasn't hard to predict, but I'm sad to see it go. And, as the article points out, the fact that many of the most creative, active users on Vine were people from communities typically ignored in tech/social media makes it even sadder.
Trust me, this mistake has been ubiquitous for decades. You're just now realizing it. (cf "recency effect")
Hopefully the bureaucracy to get removed from the blacklist is not as bad as with other vendors.
So who wants to go into the charging station business? GM has said they're not going to do it. There's a startup, "EV Oasis", which has a few charging stations in Southern California.

Uber, maybe?
I don't think it's the range sucking as much as it is a question of what you do when you run out. Gas stations are far more common, and far quicker to use, than charging stations.

I don't own a car at all currently (bus+bike+lyft/uber for me). I've been thinking about buying one, but the longest ride I'd like to do is to get to Washington DC to see friends and family. The DC metro area (and to be real, my preference would be to park somewhere and take transit once I got to the region) is 235 miles away, which is right about the top rated distance for this bolt - but when you read that the observed range for highway driving is 190 miles, and add in unexpected detours and the like, it makes me think I'd need to plan to recharge along the way. Thinking about where I could do that reasonably - and I would totally be down to stop for an hour for a meal and the like - and looking at map of the supercharging stations, leaves me with not a lot of redundant options. Charging station full or out of service? Odds are good that the whole trip will lose its competitive advantage over taking the bus or train rather quickly.

To me that's the source of range anxiety. If I knew I had decent charging options all over the place, I'd want one of these pretty badly.

I get that the EV market is seeking people who make small trips and commuting and the like because that's the easy end of the market to capture, and that's how a lot of people use their cars. But as a society I wish we could just better address those needs via investment in things like urban mass transit and the like.
Perhaps a stupid question but where is the architecture doc? (I think that should be the starting point, especially if you want help from a community.)

I'm also interested in what theoretical results from the last 25 years are being used. Some references to papers would be nice. Since the biggest hurdle is separation and thus security, I can imagine the OS has an embedded theorem prover, but I see no mention of it.
Also if you're into human biological differences and heretical things like IQ, the bell curve bar for "can farm instead of hunter gather" "can factory instead of farm labor" is very low, like IQ 70 or something. You don't need an IQ of 120 to put a nut on a bolt on an assembly line.

However, lets say all the jobs with IQ below 120 are replaced with an IQ 120 AI or similar automation via the efforts of over IQ 120 engineers...

Most of the population is physically unable, as best we understand, to ever obtain a MSEE or a PHD in computational fluid dynamics. It doesn't matter if we have 100M job openings for people with advanced CS degrees no matter how much we pay them, with only 300M people in the country the bell curve says we can't find the warm bodies to staff them.
The [0] video is kind of suspect: http://www.salon.com/2016/10/21/donald-trump-foundation-paid...
Building an incredibly powerful engine and flexible modding system to enable one person to do this in 200 hours....
In that situation there are three safe and legal answers:

* Replace the wiring with grounded cable. Expensive.

* Replace the outlet with a GFCI and label it "no equipment ground". Gives most of the safety benefits of a proper ground, and is up to code. Not that expensive.

* Use a cheater plug [1] and connect the external ground tab to a pipe or something else grounded.

What you're asking for is basically a cheater plug plus an ordinary power strip, sold as one integrated unit. Better to keep them separate so that people know what they're dealing with. Also, what the poster upthread was describing didn't have a grounding tab, so there was no way to hook it up safely.

(The landlord isn't required to set up grounded outlets out of a general principle that you only need to bring things up to code when you're modifying it, and that something that was legal at the time it was installed stays so. Your unit could legally have knob-and-tube wiring if it's old enough!)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheater_plug
I understand that criticism but i would urge people to focus on the contrast between working with just your hands vs head vs heart. That, and i think anyone who aspires to become an "artist" in a trade is on the right path.
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Pro tip: if you use your smartphone to wake you. Get a fitbit or similar that can gently vibrate to wake you and leave the phone outside the bedroom. I've been doing this for over a year now and sleep a lot better.
Seems like Intel's margins are a good incentive for OCP members to design their own processors. Google has made some noise about that (but I guess that could be a bluff as well) [1].

[1] https://www.wired.com/2016/05/googles-making-chips-now-time-...
Ask HN: Why Scipy is down?
http://docs.scipy.org/ seems to be down? Somebody know about that?
Yeah, but when it happens to something you care about it can be fucking brutal from an emotional standpoint.

Rami Ismail has talked pretty extensively[1] about this. He referenced it as one of his darker periods of game development when Ridiculous Fishing got cloned.

[1] http://www.polygon.com/features/2013/4/24/4257958/cloned-at-...
Giving people federal subsidies to buy the car and then taxing the milage seems like ... mixed messages.
> GIFs suck. They are possibly one of the worst image formats out there.

Halo effect?
We're bad at tracking deadly storms, but NY has a new way to see them coming
They really are (or subsidiaries are). Ally Financial (or Ally Bank until a few years ago) started as the part of GM financing their auto loans. I'd bet Ford and Chrysler have similar groups, and foreign automakers as well.
How is that faking? That's just putting up with something to get the result you want.
Evil knows evil.
Just do it in the break room/kitchen, not in the workspace, which should be treated with the same respect as a library (if you provide private offices with doors that close, feel free to disregard). Group chat rooms that aren't #random (which I have /part-ed) are an extension of that workplace, and deserve the same respect.

My current workplace offers neither. People shout what I'll describe as "verbal memes" to no one in particular. There is music blaring (dubstep currently), over which I have no control without risking social ostracization. Group chat is used poorly (what do you an all-day all-hands meeting with no agenda?).
There is a lot of scientific evidence that what has been labeled introversion should instead be called highly sensitive personality

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensory_processing_sensitivity
And god dammit they were right back then!
Don't move to a bad neighborhood then be surprised when you have problems.
There is one front end shape that supports both aerodynamic constraints and safety considerations; that is why the front of pretty much every vehicle looks the same. Only trucks look really different, and that is because most truck buyers would eviscerate any truck that looks like a car.

For the back end of this car, it is good to know that the battery pack looks something like this ____==== . It is slimmer in the front, and taller in the back. The rear must be taller to allow any room for rear passengers and cargo.

Additionally, the whole industry is moving from sedans to crossover/SUVs, and the Bolt EV is indicative of that

As for the styling cues, there are a lot a people who still want to remind people that they own and drive an environmentally friendly car.

I don't know if I just got used to it, or if they changed it extensively, but the styling of the production vehicles seems muted compared to the pre-prod vehicles.

Can you point to any particular styling cues or reason you think the vehicle is ugly?

(I work for GM, but not on this program)
Warren wing wants Clinton to crack down on Apple, Google and Amazon
https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/793101331707858945

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/38478

http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2016-10-31/dnc-s-...

Another thread being actively flagged: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12840251
Peter Thiel Speaks at the National Press Club
What a great summary of the utter baseness of this type of advertising: a stomach-turning body horror image I never wanted to see, some article calling strangers "morons" based on some stupid superficiality, and gossip about the private lives of strangers that is, quite frankly, none of my business.

That being said, if these companies vanished tomorrow it wouldn't be a complete positive either, since the fine sociopaths of the advertising industry would simply use the resultant vacuum to come up with something even more contemptible. Fuck that industry.
There were bugs in the Java VM that were only surfaced by people writing tools that generated java assembly.

It's probably safest to assume that history will more or less repeat itself with web assembly.
I live in CT, and yes, it's 0.2 not 0.02.
Three years ago, I had an idea to write my own Flash Player in Javascript, but I was too lazy to start working on it.

Today, we have PDF.js, emulators of gaming consoles, or even emulators of a whole x86 computer, which can run Windows OS.
I believe that "SWF interpreter" in Javascript can run pretty fast. The specification is free available online.

The only problem I see is, that in Flash, you can create TCP / UDP sockets, which is not possible in a web environment.
Personally, I don't want another thing to charge. The robustness and simplicity of the analog port still win in my book.
Peter Thiel defends what Trump represents much more so than candidate himself
Ah, but that's not what their bet was... the bet was that you will happily buy a smartphone without said headphone port -- which I expect will happen because you won't be able to buy one any other way now that it's been demonstrated that it can be eliminated. You might not be happy about that aspect, but still be happy with your new phone as a whole, as you adapt to the lack of any option on that front.
On my three-year-old macbook the battery is dead, it lasts maybe half an hour. Replacement costs 350$ or so, ouch. Maybe the bigger question is whether the better can be replacement relatively cheaply, not whether it lasts 10 or 7 hours.
If they actually are like trying to be a managerial role and 33% are acting like managers (mostly meetings and more meetings for example) that I think would be worry some indeed.

For some organizations, though, Director isn't really a "Director" but more of a rank like "Senior." By this I mean there would be Assistant Director of Blah blah Development that didn't actually direct a group of people, but were was a more senior-ish developer earning the Director part of their name. It is odd, but it wouldn't be the first place I've seen that.
Service discovery at Stripe
Wonder how many of her supporters think she's a demon?
IMHO, it's not right to cut off something that someone has bought, until the next billing cycle.

Whether it's amoral, immoral, or whatever, it seems pretty silly to not notify users that their trials are ending.
Maybe people are posting these links as stories and they're getting flagged quickly but Norton still sees them and thinks of them as site content?
You've just discounted quite a lot of what I said as "no evidence", and have made some incorrect assumptions about both development at Sun and Netflix. Along with your other comments, at this point it's clear you are bashing on Linux, Netflix, and me personally, and you still haven't revealed your real name.

I'd like to know what your real name is. If you really cannot post it here, then feel free to contact me at bgregg@netflix.com.
This is incorrect. I've talked to Apple security people, and interned there a few years ago. They're not that dumb; they know that it's trivial to get around the private API check, and private APIs are never intentionally used to enforce a security boundary (that's what XPC is for). Apple doesn't want you calling private APIs for a variety of reasons, but those reasons aren't connected either with security or with the JIT prohibition.

It's perfectly permissible under App Store rules to use an interpreter which is functionally equivalent to a JIT in its ability to obfuscate code, or invoke or manipulate private APIs (e.g. can read/write arbitrary addresses, run dlsym, whatever). You aren't allowed to download bytecode for that interpreter from the internet, but again, that's a policy restriction, not a technical one.
Sharing is so hard. Fear of criticism is so high. Being open and even looking up for critical criticism is important for a product to evolve. Even the iPhone opened up to apps on feedback at launch.

Posts like these are very crucial to help people like me get over that bump.

I have to say also that I am in love with the website oldgeekjobs. Its so well done.
I doubt your Mustang can smoke the tires at 80+ mph. Test drive a Tesla.

Also, while we grew up thinking of gas engine sounds as powerful, after driving an EV gas engines just sound like angry lawn-mowers. People in their hot cars seem like kids with playing cards in their bike spokes.
Something to do with Peter Thiel?
A different anecdotal take - from my experience, the problem isn't in knowing when to use data (the answer is IMO "always, if you have it and can afford it") - it's in how to use data. The way I see it typically used is only as an argument to convince yourself you're right all along. You know, people proclaiming "the A/B test shows it works!", without any understanding of what "A/B test", "showing" and "working" even means.
Sad, but a day everyone knew would come. I totally understand the lack of support for a dead architecture. It's not like you can just keep throwing software at these machines and run them fine anyway.

I have a 2003-04 era Powerbook with Ubuntu on it. It runs 10.04 just fine, but any newer and it's pretty damn slow. Basically the only thing I can do with it now is text based stuff, and not much of it. Some Python, bash C++ etc. Can't even really browse the web, because the newer versions of any web browser won't run/compile.

Since I can do all of those same things on my current laptop just fine there's no motivation to use the PPC mac other than nostalgia. Imagine how the folks feel trying to support it now?