skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I get it, but there is a little bit of dishonesty in saying it was the system that did the work. It was the system that automated discovery of a solution, but it was the people that did the work.

As I pointed out in a different post, this is an update of the established technique of delta polling. Delta polling is useful, and an automated way of doing it can help if find even more uses for a lower cost. I see the value here. But, it isn't AI, and the system isn't doing the assessment. It is not intelligence.
Very interesting, thanks a lot for your input!

But you're probably aware that you can also generate PDFs from Jupyter notebooks. So I guess the advantage of knitr over notebooks is the ability to easily version control markdown docs.

Are there other advantages you'd like to share?
Third-party voters are “trading votes” with Clinton voters to defeat Trump
In the enterprise world, a boring stack is usually Java 7, 8 if you're adventurous, with Spring as the backing framework, running on a Tomcat server, talking to a SQL database (Mysql, Postgres, Oracle) through a Hibernate layer.

None of these are really great technologies, but they work, have infinite documentation, and it's easy to find people who know them.
... but comparatively little to train and nurture said talent. From another article crossposted here recently:

"The perceived skills gap is because companies have stopped training and developing people internally," says Peter Cappelli of the Wharton School, who was interviewed for the report. "Before the 1980s, 90% of vacancies were filled internally and 10% were hired outside. Now, 65% of vacancies are filled from outside," Capelli says.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12865971
> tie all of our products together, so we further lock customers into our ecosystem

Their failure to execute on this is what is wrong with the current Apple. While it may sound nefarious, it was never a secret agenda, but it was successful because of trust. There was an inherent trust that buying into the Apple walled garden of products was superior to the outside world. Like it or not, Apple delivered on that promise to an almost frustrating capacity.

Fast-forward to the present, that trust has been broken. The flailing we see from the Apple community (of which i am one) is because so many of us feel that trust has been broken. I can't plug my headphones into an iPhone 7 without a dongle. If i bought a new MacBook Pro, i can't plug an iPhone 7 into it, either. The total lack of answers on the desktop side has exceeded concerning. Those of us in the walled garden are seeing the flowers wilt and the maintainers turn a blind eye. But because many of us have built our professional careers on Apple hardware and OS, there is fear of change. What if Ubuntu isn't as good? How will i ship my iOS app, etc.

Trust is an important but delicate idea. Once broken, it can takes years to earn back.
If I could hazard a guess, I'd say it caters towards people who like the taste of fresh-baked cookies, without the hassle of having to prepare your own dough.

Plus, home baked cookies don't last for more than a couple days, so to make a big batch would be wasteful if you live with only one or two people.

Personally, I agree that buying a 4-cookie oven is a silly conceit, especially when you have have an oven in your own house. I might buy their dough, though. I'm fairly lazy and don't want to come up with a recipe...
>(btw, if anyone can recommend material on this period of his life, I'd love to know!)

I recommend you this book to read.
https://www.amazon.com/Becoming-Steve-Jobs-Evolution-Visiona...
I don't have great internet at home and a couple of times a week it crawls to a stop. It's kind of funny there is some app on my home network that is auto updating.. windows10, steam, Apple TV, iPhone, iPad it could literally be anything, and I don't know which one it is.
Static code analyser for Ubuntu
>since it was the place where so many children, now adults, had spent their happy summer vacations, flocking there from all over the Soviet Union.

yes, Russian climate makes you yearn for hot climate vacation near sea and giving the Iron Curtain there weren't much options. These days Russians go en mass to Mediterranean : Turkey, Egypt, Greece, Chernogorya, Italy, Spain. Despite all the propaganda they aren't going to Crimea. As joke has it these days "it is so quiet on Crimea beaches that one can hear Russian tourists having drink party ("buhayuschih") on Egypt beaches"
...so HN is your first point of call, where the tap targets are so easy on the web first interface...

Content is King
It'd be something else to manage updates for and the base OS support is pretty good on modern releases. These days, the gaps I see are for fairly obscure languages and since webfonts solve that problem and can do conditional downloads, I doubt it's worth the trouble.
There really is a link between your Facebook posts and your personality
If she cares so much about the experience, why does she use an iphone after all?!?
So there's definitely something to be said for tools that can optimize the best to deliver higher ROI despite higher CPMs.

That said, I'm not sure I fully agree on where FB's interests lie. They've come under a LOT of fire over the past couple of years for various things that people felt inflated the value of their inventory, and so helping advertisers prove they can drive more value and provide tools to help them scale more easily would all be things that should help their bottom line. Particularly when marketers have to make a budget allocation decision towards something that might be a bit more mid/bottom funnel like SEM.

So to compete for that same budget, they need to be competitive on all fronts, and right now they are not. Their margins might be higher from obfuscating some of these key insights that might let people trim the fat, but that needs to be weighed against potential lost revenue from advertisers who can't reach profitability quickly enough and stop advertising, or lost budget share from advertisers who shift it to other channels.

I don't have numbers on those hunches to back them up of course, but it just seems like a really poor long term decision to intentionally cripple your platform in such a way (and that is inherently different than just poor design or design geared to make it easy to spend).
So users reaching a site through google have a better experience than users accessing it through some other method? This seems like a pretty good thing from Google's perspective...
Nick Bostrom's research costs £6.99. It is not a research, it is a quick way to make money while the window of opportunity is still open by doing cargo cult science.

I am yet to hear a decent argument about how AI will wipe out the earth. It starts to belong to the same category as politics, nobody knows what they are talking about, but everyone has an opinion. Even the so called "smarts". I remember there were news about Stephen Hawking being concerned about AI, if you watched his interview, he literally pointed his software to the "Existential risk from artificial general intelligence" wikipedia page and read the abstract... Elon Musk started by comparing AI danger to "The Terminator" scenario. Seriously a f* movie? How about we don't go to Mars because of the "Alien" movie? Now he says that "not all scenarios are benign..." - no shit, Scotty.
A computer you'll fall in love with
Possibly related: there is a tendency to give more vague feedback to women at work. https://hbr.org/2016/04/research-vague-feedback-is-holding-w...
> a nanotechnology disaster

This would also likely to affect mars.

> Implementation of technologies that enable a global super-stable oppressive state.

And what prevents them from just sending a few nukes to mars?

>An AI disaster along the lines of a paper clip optimiser

Mars and earth are going to share some form of a network, an AI disaster on earth is not likely to be contained to earth and vise versa.

>An AI or augmented intelligence that deprecates all lesser intelligences.

Same as the above, also what prevents that AI from building spaceships and exterminating the humans on mars?

>The film version of I Robot.

Again what prevents them from building spaceships of their own?

> Biotech plague.

Plagues cross oceans they can cross interstellar space also, it's unlikely that any sort of natural/unintentional release could be contained in an era in which interplanetary travel is a common occurrence, especially if people would seek refuge on Mars, and there is nothing stopping some death cult that releases a bioengineered plague intentionally from infecting mars also.

>Regression to a stable social and biological state optimising for lower intelligence or stagnation.

Again nothing about Mars implicitly provide protection against the stagnation of human culture or knowledge.

The point is simply any large scale disaster would either not be contained to a single planet, or would still leave earth a considerably more habitable place than Mars.

None of these reasons are of course a reason why we shouldn't go to Mars.
If not pressing "power boost" meant that you didn't receive emails without your email app foregrounded, yes you'd notice.
Unless it is the same person who created this PDF and this [1], it's some kind of plagiarism.

[1] http://neuralnetworksanddeeplearning.com
I don't accept the reality of any science performed in an echo chamber--I've been too close to people doing that research and I know that what motivates them is not ultimate truth. Take that for what you will.
Use Stronger Types
Virtual Machine High Availability
The point is, there should be a plugin system, where the developer doesn't have to care what the mapping API is, so the user can slot in whatever they want.
That toggle disconnects the phone from any network, and only reconnects from time to time to update your apps.

You really don't want it on if you expect the phone to tell you when you have a new message.
Yet another JVM language? Whiley takes a fresh approach
Can you name any "great" technologies in place of each of these?
I was once watching Elon Musk talk about this, he said something kind of curious, which I'll paraphrase here because I forget his exact words. He said he does not feel motivated every hour of the day, occasionally running into snags, ick factor, brain fog but he also doesn't not view handling those as options. He just literally does not think of 'dealing with it', which sounds like the opposite of most self help book advice It is not so much thinking, as the lack of it that gives him an exceptional personal executive command to coordinate.

Either that or he's got a secret supply of NZT.

It does speak to several things I've read about the brain though. The higher brain functions are 'new' and rudimentary. It fits in with Moravec's Thesis about AI. I don't see many animals procrastinating or stressing out unless there is an obvious physical stimulus that explains why they're behaving like that. Many of the psychological phenomena humans experience must be related to higher brain function and it being evolutionarily unrefined. In the human species itself there is a wide spread of behavior, where a lot of intellectual people are neurotic as hell (kvetching being quite noticeable) but the obviously less intellectual apparently don't suffer quite as much. It cannot be a coincidence that meditation has the goal for absence of thoughts and so many geeks practice it.
What about having at least one classical usb port?

What about giving at least one dongle when buying a machine at 1700$?
Verifying a signature is not the simplest thing to do on hardware that doesn't even support a normal OS.
I've seen a similar paper quoted in one of the books on my shelf talking about a really long chain of logic gates that evolved in an FPGA for some physically situated agent (aka, robot). The chain couldn't be doing anything from a discrete logic point of view, so they got rid of it to "improve the final design". But once they did, the robot couldn't perform it's task anymore. Turned out the chain was being used as an antenna and was pumping RF information into the chip in order to help accomplish it's task.

Evolution is a strange, strange thing.
thank you thank you!
Sure locality is important, but I think you're overestimating the necessity of planning for it. When I was doing hardware design a few years ago, I wasn't worrying about the physical layout of anything. We kept the interconnect limited to a modular hierarchy, and we didn't seem to have many problems.

Of course, we were in a research group, so performance was less important to us. And we were working with FPGAs, so we didn't need to get it right in one go (and I think the fabric is better able to cope with looser style).

That said, I think there are cases where you can afford to sacrifice a bit of design efficiency to increase development speed. And if you're working with FPGAs, you may even be able to optimise later.

EDIT: Also the impression I got is that while industry does spend a lot of effort on it, complex designs are nowhere near as optimal as they could be. The first clue should be that an Intel chip has clearly defined blocks on it, rather than being a mess of interleaved logic. They divide the design like that to make it tractable for the designers.

> If you did the equivalent in silicon (like move the location of a group of transistors), at best it would break your functionality and at worst it would make the design unsynthesizable.

I don't think this makes much sense unless you're presupposing a prescriptive physical layout. Sure, if you were to move a bunch of synthesized circuitry somewhere else and then try to reconnect it, it's not going to work. But that's not something you'd actually do in an abstract model.

What you might do is move a bunch of HDL logic from somewhere in the module hierarchy to somewhere else, in which case the synthesizer will move everything else around to compensate.
Absolutely, and further extends their embrace over the web.

I suspect google are probably wary about moves that push themselves much further right now, the last thing they want to do is look like a monopoly.
>I am traveling close to the speed to light how is my watching running slower? How do the atoms in my watch know to run slower?

I think in some sense this is the wrong question to ask. Your watch isn't running slower. The point is that if you're moving, you must be moving relative to something else. Their watch will appear slower to you, and your watch will appear slower to them. The counterintuitive part is that you're both correct.

The reason all this comes about is that both observers measure the speed of light as traveling at the same speed, but they can't agree on the path that the light has taken.
I really used to love Udacity, but at some point their constant mini-quizzes just drove me nuts. Totally broke my flow.

I prefer the Pluralsight approach. Quickly going through some Pluralsight courses has really broadened my toolset.

I prefer to think of MOOCS as a way to augment what you learn via traditionally methods as opposed to replacing traditional education entirely.
You can set this option from Group Policy.

Set "No auto-restart with logged on users for scheduled automatic updates installations".

I also set "Allow Automatic Update immediate installation".
China’s New Blockchain Drive: Who’s Leading It, and Why?
Learn more about Trump Rolling here: https://medium.com/api-corner/trump-rolling-to-make-apis-gre...
"It's already happening"--um, you realize that "it's" been happening on this planet for millions of years, right? The climate changes, all over the world. Before humans, after humans.
I always set

browser.display.use_document_fonts = 0

in Firefox.

Surfing the web is a more pleasant experience without WebFonts.
I really just have one measure of whether a startup is on-track or not -- can they verbalize to you what core business transaction is going to take place wherein a customer will give them money in exchange for a product/service? If not, there is no business there.
Set up pihole or similar at home and none of your devices will see ads. It's great fun and makes a nice difference on mobile.
Colonizing Mars and "saving" Earth are not two opposed goals. You don't have to choose one or the other. You can do both. The problem I have with the argument proposed by McKay (and a lot of others) is that it's way too simplistic and misguided. It makes Mars colonization supporters like the ultimate pessimists, people who have already conceded the Earth battle to be lost. This is simply not true but it is implied by the argument.
I have been particularly annoyed after putting my computer to sleep and coming back in the morning to find that it rebooted and is now idling at the login screen, with my previous session of open programs lost.

I've had good results with this guide[0], which describes a lot of the same steps as the guide that mintplant already linked to, plus a few more. So far, it seems that no Windows updates have undone the changes I made by following the guide. I'm pretty sure I went through the guide before receiving the anniversary update, too.

In addition to no longer waking from sleep, my computer also no longer forces me to restart while it's awake and in use.

[0] http://superuser.com/questions/973009/conclusively-stop-wake...
No.

TypeScript 73.9%
JavaScript 21.6%
CSS 3.4%
Inno Setup 0.8%
HTML 0.2%
Shell 0.1%
I was hoping this would show up because the first thing I thought when I read the post title was, "Crime, boy I don't know."

I love that show.
It's called a History degree.
I started a new Ember.js project recently and got frustrated with Ember Data and JSON API. In my experience, it's the weakest part of Ember by far. Out of curiosity, I tried wiring up Apollo Client to my backend instead. Turned out to be very easy to get going.

So far I like apollo-client and GraphQL much more than Ember Data. I get full control over what data is being loaded on each route and only fetch exactly what's needed. Mutations with explicit arguments are also much better than the blob.save() / save-everything style encouraged by ember-data.

With client-side resolves in the next release, this integration should get even better. Hopefully they'll also switch to using GETs for non-mutation queries to enable some much better caching options.
Beautiful Planet
I had the understanding that Slack never used bots when responding to support requests...
> If you don't want ads - then you have to pay for the apps.

Some apps don't even offer an ad-free option. I'll pay if they provide me value, I won't pay if they don't, simple as that. This used to be a more standard model called shareware, but it kind of died out in the mobile app decade.

> No pay / No ads = no content.
> None of you teenagers have been able to counter that point yet.

Why can't I pay them just as much as the ad-revenue they'd earn from me? It'd be fractions of a penny per page, nothing like the cost of most of these sites paid models.

If they offered a reasonable payment model, I'd be much more open to it. But until they're willing to accept their real value per page view, I'm not interested in paying $10/mo for everything I use, when I wouldn't even provide them with $0.10/mo in ad revenue.

For now, blocking ads is the only option if you want to get a full internet experience without the ads, if enough people block ads that advertising is no longer a viable model and more viable models become available, I'm more than open to them. But we have to get the industry to that point where they're at the consumer's whim and not like it is currently where the consumer is at the advertiser's whim. The advertisers having all the power is not a good solution here.
Could you make it work on mobile (esp. touch screens)? Something where arrows are swipes?
> India is less a security threat than a destabilization threat

Uh, what? This is complete bullshit. Where do you get this kind of garbage from?
Yes, that's the experiment! Here's a more thorough article: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.50....
One illustrative case: A guy I know was an expert at each of the legalese paragraphs in a high yield bond offering (aka "junk bonds"), his knowledge and experience could save issuers millions with a single tweak.

After fin crisis of '08: junk bond market close for a few years, was let go. By the time the market came back, there was a whole crop of young guys that survived '08 and had come up the ranks, no need for him.

For a more current example ask some FIC traders that are getting laid off at banks this year.

Tweaking bond offerings and doing FIC trading is not a "leather tanner" type skill. Maybe coding is for reprograming the "moister harvesters" but it sure isn't for "$1m a year doing "other bets" at Google"
If the Sun goes supernova, sure, we are all toast regardless of whether we are on Earth or Mars or even Pluto. But that's relatively unlikely. On the other hand, a large enough asteroid impact could kill 99%+ of the Earth's population and leave Mars intact.

But even if it killed only 90%, think about what the remaining 10% would do. They would probably wage war on each other to grab whatever land and natural resources remain. Furthermore, civilization as a whole would severely regress technologically, as we would lose the vast majority of power plants, laboratories, factories, data centers, etc. We would find ourselves back in the Middle Ages.

Compared to that, a super high-tech stable Mars colony that has a population of 1,000 would have it pretty good. Sure, they would be living most of their lives under the surface, but so what?
The new MacBook Pro display can supposedly cover the full DCI-P3 space. If the default system elements like icons and desktop photos are provided in DCI-P3, which I bet they are, then the difference would be noticeable compared to an old screen at sRGB or less.

As for whether it's mindblowing, well, that depends on the person I guess.
OOP, FP, and object-relational impedance mismatch
And don't forget that Google's Eric Schmidt was on the Apple board at the time... he would literally be asked to leave the room when they discussed the iPhone.
ASP.NET MVC5 C# + Angular 1, because that's what we do at work and what I'm currently most familiar with. It's a pretty solid way to go if you don't mind Microsoft technologies, either. Although ASP.NET Core is probably more future-proof.
> Sometimes i think that "diversity consultant" is code word for mentally handicapped...

This is not the kind of civil discussion the guidelines ask us to have on Hacker News. Please don't post like this.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
>> India's government is subsidizing these rockets

What do you mean by subsidizing rockets? Launch costs are to be borne by customer, not Indian government.
The serial killer who won the Dating Game
Ubuntu's Qt changes and platform implementation have been upstreamed. I'm willing to bet that Sailfish's have been too.
What bugs ail you friend? Looking to see where and if they are on our bug tracker.
I didn't appreciate this either...and am curious if the "image" of disabling comments was considered.
The problems you name are true, but another issue is that errors in HW tend to be much more expensive than errors in SW. If, say, my timing analysis tool is wrong and I spin a chip based on its results, I'm out ~$100,000 and a few months of development time. That's also why we're willing to pay $thousands for licenses to proprietary SW; you want to be really confident in your tools.
The chart at the top of this article directly opposes their own premise that presidential elections for the last 100 years have been close to 50/50.
>Verilog seems "hard" because people often use it in a similar fashion to a programming language

You mean typing random stuff into the editor without understanding what any of it does and hoping for the best? Because all of the online examples I've seen of "HDL done like programming" involved exactly that. In my experience, HDL design is very similar to functional programming (minus recursion) and the principles that work in one translate well to the other.