skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"compromises that work for a large number of people"

I'm not sure how removing all of the ports that my existing devices plug into is a compromise that works for me, let alone my mum or anyone else I know. Carrying a bag of dongles is not my idea of the future. Is it yours? I can no longer plug my SD card in from my Sony camera. How exactly do you think this is a good compromise? It isn't a compromise at all - it's dictation or an ultimatum, really.
I really disagree with that. You might not have time to have code written and completed in that interview. You might have someone who just knows that question but has limited knowledge, you might have someone who can code but has an uncommon failure on your problem. I have interviewed tons of people who can talk about technology but can't do it themselves. If you are hiring people for a coding job, they have to code. People who say they are architects or first level manager will have a really hard time doing a good job if they don't understand the technology themselves (I guess its not impossible, but its harder).
>It's not that I disagree with you because I think this is probably correct but... I mean do we know that? As a sure thing?

My understanding is that we don't know either way, really. Hell, there's still a lot of legitimate controversy about the RDA - and that is just a very short, and certainly incomplete list of micros.

(personally, I'd be more concerned about the missing micros (or that they put in the wrong chemical form of the micros) than I would be about the structure of the food; but I'm no doctor, and certainly chewing is a part of digestion, so maybe that is important, too? I bet you could actually find good studies on that part, though; figuring out if a liquid diet is ok should be easier than figuring out if you have all the micronutrients you need; there are plenty of cases where people are medically tube-fed over the medium to long term.. but I think that even that involves pulped fresh food, and how is that different from food that wasn't recently living? the obvious starting place is the bacteria, but I'm sure there are other differences, too.)

That's the thing, it seems like this would make for interesting medical research but it's instead advertised as a time-saver, without a lot of actual medical supervision.

Again, the 'extraordinary claim' here is just that you can live solely off of the stuff... if they marketed it the way the other meal replacements are marketed, e.g. we tried to make this good for you, but don't let this be the only thing you eat, I think it would be a fine product.
Technically speaking, it's a CPU-imposed limitation when used with LPDDR3 modules. See http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/processors/core/7th-g... (See section 2.1.1.3, "LPDDR3 supported memory devices")
iOS lib: TTGTagCollectionView
I've had a number of transactions blocked because my bank must've suspected fraud. I can count on zero hands the number of times it wasn't actually a transaction I wanted to go through. It's pretty awkward when I'm in the checkout line trying to pay for something or if it means some order gets delayed. I'm really thankful I have multiple credit cards which don't seem to all use the same fraud protection algorithms so I usually can just cycle to the next card, but it makes me a little uncomfortable that my solution is essentially just trusting the next service doesn't fuck up.

>In the first case, it's a service they are providing you

I like knowing that I have some money that I control myself, not through some service I have to worry about locking me out at inopportune times, though I admit it's mostly an ideological position than an economic one.
Throughout this whole thing, I can't get past one thing - her using her own server was no big secret when it was happening.
Exactly. Though I have seen ZCash stories on YC HN frequently, the commentaries of my peers have combined with my prejudicial biases to coalesce into the opinion that ZCash will not be a significant part of future commerce, and there is no advantage to me in buying into it now, while it is in the ground floor.

At this point, in order for me to pay attention to any crypto-currency other than Bitcoin, it would have to allow for more than just one of the following:

- buy black-market without getting pinched, more easily than paper money
- pay bills with a verifiable proof of payment, more easily than checks
- buy from untrusted parties, more easily than credit cards
- save at lesser risk of theft than cash in the mattress
- save at lesser risk of confiscation/forfeiture than money in the bank
- save at lesser risk of market volatility than Bitcoin alone
- allow anyone to issue barter scrip
- facilitate trade-chain settlements and redemptions of barter scrips
- allow both anonymous transactions and provable-identity transactions
- facilitate honest trade while crippling scammers
- stable decentralization, such that N% attacks are impossible
- built like a pile of bricks, instead of a house of cards
- no excessive pre-mining or front-loading
- if not future-proof, at least future-resistant

So far, the only thing Bitcoin really has going for it is that it got to the mountaintop first. But since no other alt-coin has proven to be superior in more than one or two of the ways that matter to the users, none have yet displaced even it, and never mind surpassing any of the traditional currencies.

And I think none of the schemes set up to reward those investing in the costs of development will succeed. In the end, a currency has to be a commodity, and you can't charge much more as seigniorage on a commodity currency than the actual cost of operating the mint, unless you have a monopoly. Otherwise, you're better off running the power plant than the data center packed with ASICs.
What... what is emotional about that? Saying a product is trying to fill a need which has already been filled is the least emotional reason I can think of to not purchase something.
Old media should consider running their own social infrastructure, Gnu Social for example.
You might be interested in https://archive.org/.
Relevant from August of this year: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/08/update-patent-troll-sh...
I'm disappointed to see this sort of hysteria and conspiracy theorizing in a HN comment section.
But will they run out of people to kick?
You are peeved by US companies asking US-centric questions? It seems like a problem you give yourself
That's true; they both exist. I just think it could be fun to build a better mousetrap. Are there any other product ideas you'd find personally useful?
> What's with the old chipset/cpu

Intel doesn't have laptop-ready quad cores shipping in their 7th gen chips yet...
@ibdknox 's blog "Two years of Eve" is useful to understand why of Eve: http://www.chris-granger.com/
Watching for EC2 Spot Instance Termination
The End of Public Transit?
I own the new xps 15.

Best laptop I have seen yet. No complaints. Great screen, color calibration, cpu, size, weight, good keyboard when on the lap (could be better on a desk), smooth trackpad.

Battery lasts about 4 hours of programming work, 6 or so browsing.

What horror stories have you heard?
>So you feel that programmers are more inclined to treat the function name as an authority, as opposed to a comment. Is that an accurate? I'm curious what lead you to this conclusion.

I think this is a reasonable claim, even though as you've said there's nothing strictly enforcing this behavior. Function names are generally highlighted by the editor/IDE, and the developer is forced to stare at them and at least begin to type them out while calling them. They're brief and repeated over and over again in the source code. They're just harder to ignore. Comments on the other hand only appear once per comment, tend to be italicized and greyed out by IDEs, are generally at least one sentence in length and can span multiple paragraphs, and are never going to be directly referenced from within the code itself. It's still very possible to change a function without updating its name to suit its new purpose. But I know for me personally I'm much more prone to missing comments that I need to now delete or reword. I have to acknowledge the function name when I write code calling it or read code referencing it, but comments are just sort of there, hovering in the background. It's easier to read them once and then tune them out and forget that they're there.
"Scooter" Libby leaked the name of a CIA agent and got pardoned. It's time for Obama to pardon Hillary on this.
Im not saying it will happen, but if Tesla is the first company to get to fullautonomous car sharing, by just six months, uber will be toast.
A huge proportion of commercial self-driving car projects have senior technical staff who were involved in the DARPA challenges and the surrounding research projects.

It's hard to over-state the role of federal R&D funding in the development of self-driving tech.
and of course that's not true. And anyone experienced has seen people from mit that are just terrible. That degree might help get a cooler first job. That could lead to a better second job, vs say someone from blah state university in a small town, who has a harder time starting. But eventually that person can make it to the big time. I know cause i'm one of those.
I wonder when Intel will support LPDDR4.
OP here, apologies if this is not suitable for HN. I posted this not as much for highlighting the fact that datadog does this. But rather in the hopes that there might some discussion about alternative approaches and maybe some critique.

So from the look of this, this is something I have been trying to find for some time. I guess only way to tell if it's as good as it seems is to try it. If anyone else knows any alternatives for doing anomaly detection in stats, open source or other services it would be great if you could share it here.
There is documentation?
> you are one bitflip away from sending bad stuff to prod.

Including some ascii art of Trogdor the Burnanator!
Given how reasonable the NHTSA request looks, to give up so quickly is a bit suspicious. In products like that it is likely that the first 50% looks much more approachable, and then as you try to reach something that can actually be shipped to customers, you have to solve huge problems incrementally, and it is very hard. So looks like a bit of an excuse to stop it: if you have the working thing you try harder before giving up IMHO.
It sounds like he only sent the letter because of his testimony, and his testimony was highly unusual, so the letter must be too.
I've seen a few of the "excel crowd" comments so far. Could you imagine the performance of this system if they really let a few of the "excel people" make their own charts and graphs like are in that video? It would destroy the system in short order, I'm guessing.
This generally seems like a poor signal. People are very bad at reporting what affects their voting decision and a little better at reporting how they will vote. I would be much more apt to believe this was an important factor if we see a shift in the tracking polls or a significant shift in another.
Are GPUs not a big deal only because they refuse to release a modern OpenGL version on macOS?
They went out of their way to point out that it's not the same keyboard as the 12". Aside from that, there are plenty of opal who are more than happy with that keyboard - personal preference is just that, personal.
Bounced out as soon as the video auto-played.
Is this a response to the literate programming aspect of Eve that's presented? The actual datalog code that is written seems quite succinct for what it accomplishes.
Our experience at MealSquares[1] has been that these external testing services are entirely oriented around the food industries needs for 'check-offs' rather than any concern about whether food is good or even safe for humans. I repeatedly had food science advisors confuesedly tell me 'but it's generally recognized as safe!' when I raised concerns about newly released designer cocktails of preservatives or flavoring agents (MealSquares still has neither). There's also a mini-industry around 'clean labeling' which in practice means food additive companies finding every loophole in the FDA regulations to be able to refer to some crazy concoction as just 'modified starch' and similar on the label. The real rabbit hole is 'processing aids' which don't even need to go on the label but wind up in your food (and our ingredients have to be tested for).

We've found no reasonable way to signal to the market that we are not engaged in these shenanigans partially because 99% of the market isn't even aware of these shenanigans. There's the organic and gmo free sect, but those have often been found to be worse than the alternative in terms of things like carcinogens in the organic pesticides used.

I will say this: several of our friend's kids eat MealSquares. Our advisory panel includes a registered dietician who specialized in meal replacements for many years, an academic nutritionist, and an MD who specializes in obesity research. And we've made changes based on their input. We've also checked in with a pediatrician who does nutrition research for kids. We give a shit.

1. I am one of the founders of http://www.MealSquares.com
>>The core of my point is that treating a pile of molecules as the same as food is not scientifically sound reasoning "from first principles"

Here is what Elon Musk said about batteries when asked to give an example of his first-principles thinking:

Somebody could say, “Battery packs are really expensive and that’s just the way they will always be… Historically, it has cost $600 per kilowatt hour. It’s not going to be much better than that in the future.”

With first principles, you say, “What are the material constituents of the batteries? What is the stock market value of the material constituents?”

It’s got cobalt, nickel, aluminum, carbon, some polymers for separation and a seal can. Break that down on a material basis and say, “If we bought that on the London Metal Exchange what would each of those things cost?”

It’s like $80 per kilowatt hour. So clearly you just need to think of clever ways to take those materials and combine them into the shape of a battery cell and you can have batteries that are much, much cheaper than anyone realizes.”

--

Thinking of batteries as being made of cobalt, nickel, aluminum etc. is EXACTLY THE SAME THING as thinking of food as being made of proteins, fats, carbs, etc. There isn't anything special about a piece of chicken - it's a combination of molecules, some of which are digestible by the human body, i.e. nutrients. Therefore, taking those nutrients and putting them into a meal replacement shake is perfectly fine. And incidentally, just like in Musk's example, treating the nutrients individually and assembling them into a shake results in much cheaper food.
If unnecessary red tape slows things down and causes 100k extra deaths is that ok?

That's an imaginary scenario. You have no idea if that's the way it plays out. Let me give you another scenario: the first self-driving cars kill a bunch of people, and no one wants to touch them for years after they finally become safe; delaying the adoption of cars, and causing millions of additional people to die.
Right. I suppose the time still isn't right, and I'll have to stick with private ipv4 subnets and NAT :/

(granted, nat64 is also nat - but on paper, it would be so nice to just stick to ipv6...)
You're very welcome :) And here's my ~/.minttyrc with, IMO, a better version of Solarized Dark compared to what I found in search results:

https://www.pastery.net/ujprbd/
When applying for a job outside of the US
a variation on 2 could be integration with various messengers.
It is not "similar tech" at all. Yes, both approaches involve some machine learning (which is a huge field). But Cruise's approach is similar to Google/Uber's approach in that it relies on LIDAR. I'd assume (but might be wrong) in that it also relies heavily on premapping, as does the Google/Uber approach.

Comma's approach was complete end-to-end learning with just a single camera (to give you some context, research problems involving two cameras are already considered distinct (but related) research problems from those involving one camera), which is an extremely different approach (the Google/Uber approach can be thought of as more "handcrafted"). From the deep learning researchers I know of there was heavy skepticism of Comma's approach. End to end learning makes for nice demos but is still an active research topic.

From what I can tell, Mobileeye is somewhere in between an end-to-end approach and a handcrafted approach, so I would guess Tesla is similar to Mobileeye on that spectrum.
Oh come on, the early bitcoin adopters got WAY more than 10%. The first bitcoin transaction was 10,000 BTC for a pizza. That should tell you how easy it was to mine bitcoin when it first came out.
I think they were trying to emphasize that their strength in "readability", hence Medium.

I watched the video, and immediately realized I would never want to program in that kind of environment. The "literate programming" would get in my way.

It would be like having someone follow me all the time and translate my words in realtime right next to me whenever I speak something. (Actually it's more like me saying something in English AND having to translate after every sentence) It's super distracting because I can't focus on what I'm saying because I lose my train of thought.
> I haven't seen any numbers that indicate the nation cares either way on this

Regardless of if it will affect their vote (some it will, some it won't), people absolutely do care.
The FBI explicitly investigated whether there was an attempt to hide emails. Here is Comey's statment:

> The lawyers doing the sorting for Secretary Clinton in 2014 did not individually read the content of all of her e-mails, as we did for those available to us; instead, they relied on header information and used search terms to try to find all work-related e-mails among the reportedly more than 60,000 total e-mails remaining on Secretary Clinton’s personal system in 2014. It is highly likely their search terms missed some work-related e-mails, and that we later found them, for example, in the mailboxes of other officials or in the slack space of a server.

> It is also likely that there are other work-related e-mails that they did not produce to State and that we did not find elsewhere, and that are now gone because they deleted all e-mails they did not return to State, and the lawyers cleaned their devices in such a way as to preclude complete forensic recovery.

> We have conducted interviews and done technical examination to attempt to understand how that sorting was done by her attorneys. Although we do not have complete visibility because we are not able to fully reconstruct the electronic record of that sorting, we believe our investigation has been sufficient to give us reasonable confidence there was no intentional misconduct in connection with that sorting effort.

http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/07/politics/james-comey-hillary-c...
Oh my god everyone here is splitting hairs like the rest of the goddamn internet.

The FBI is looking at more Clinton emails. That sounds shady and bad for Clinton no matter how you swing it.
The documentation that the NHTSA is requesting are things that would already exist for a properly designed product. They are not asking for it to be generated de novo (and in fact, it cannot be done in that manner if they are operating under a proper design process).

This letter is designed to give pause to (e: previously I wrote "kill") a company operating with complete disregard for proper operations in a regulated industry.
Huh? Sounds like you are a little constipated.
I'd like all that AND the ability to know with confidence that I can plug into any HDMI/Lightning projector and it will just work. As much as I prefer Linux I don't really care about programming on laptops, I like laptops as portable projector machines.
You're thinking about the consumer IT market, where people tend to buy the cheapest up-front price. In most enterprise shops, people recognize that the purchase price is a small part of the total cost of ownership and favor things like durability, support, etc.

I don't want to derail into yet another argument for whether Apple is better or worse on those points but the cost gap between a business-quality PC and equivalent Mac historically has been much narrower than for the cheaper consumer-grade PCs and the buyers have fairly different priorities.
I would say degrees work 2-3 years after graduation. After 3-5 years experience becomes more relevant for employers.

Numbers can vary, but based on what I see, after 5-6 years of relevant experience, there's no difference between graduate of Top_20 and of noname college.
For me? Because I can't tell without looking at the keyboard whether it exists or not (and potentially whether it's been moved by some program's integration with the touchbar).

I've been touch typing for years now, and the idea that I have to look down at the keyboard to see if a key exists (a key that that has existed for the entirety of my computing history) is ludicrous.
Could you share an example library or framework that allows a programming model similar to what they demonstrate in the video? I'd like to learn more.

I am aware of frameworks that can pass information around in similar ways, but only with a lot more ceremony of the sort that's not necessarily a benefit. Observe specifically the code blocks with "search" that react to events without needing to be connected in any direct way with event production; and event production doesn't need to involve data structures or storage.

Maybe this model won't work in applications of meaningful scale, but maybe it will.
Phil Schiller: “MacBook Pros Max Out at 16GB RAM Due to Battery Life Concerns”
If we knew what they found, then I would agree.

Unfortunately, all we do know is that they might have found something that might be important enough to warrant an investigation that might result in an indictment recommendation, &c, &c. With this in mind, it's more than a little strange.

Unless I've misunderstood Comey's powers of discretion over FBI investigations (which is entirely possible), he has little to no need to "cover his ass."
If we create an AI that can write software, no one in any profession will ever need to work again. So far all this has shown is it can places buttons on a form. Try building a path finding algorithm with it, that is actually performant enough to run inside a 60fps game engine across open terrain, and I think you'll find C++ isn't going anywhere yet.
I've had a lot of luck with Sager. Previously alienware was a good fit, though you lost the 'cheaper than a mac' advantage most others give.

I don't get the battery life, and I imagine some tweaking would be required to do so.

I've not had a problem with trackpads on linux, after accounting for the 'set up synclient to run on startup so I don't accidentally scroll' that's been annoyingly necessary forever.

In the end, with Sager I get more memory + more max memory, faster CPU, larger SSD + secondary TB HDD for quite a bit less than a maxed out MBP. I haven't compared against the new specs yet, but I imagine it'll be consistent. My machine also typically outperforms mac-using coworkers for common dev tasks, but this is anecdotal and not measured.
Voting for trump has got to be more loathsome to most that putting up with Clinton's shenanigans.
Ok, so why isn't the Kaby Lake dual core in the other offerings? As far as I can tell they have released mobile SKUs. Why are we still on DDR3?
You can't fit DDR4 SODIMMs on a notebook of this form factor. And this processor generation doesn't support LPDDR4 memory yet.
As former customer I don't recommend them. They have an excellent hardware inside but very bad quality for chassis and assembly.
So was Apple yesterday.
Why does everyone assume the end state of a successful cryptocurrency is replacing all other currency? This won't even replace bitcoin, let alone the dollar.
How about this? "we believe in god, rest we authenticate"