skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
True, I assume they'll just ride that till the bitter end and then unhappily move to using nwjs instead of Chrome, and distribute it from their website instead (even though they seem highly opposed to that).
Hyperloop came after Paypal, SpaceX, Tesla and Solar City. Musk was already very well thought of before this idea was made public.
It looks like interesting content, but I got a little confused by the writing style and general layout.

A more succinct, clearly defined structure would help me a lot. Each topic could be clearer on what is wrong and how is the right way.

It would help a lot just to start with a clear: "What is the right definition of the word electricity?".
Then, maybe a "What is "electrical phenomena" and some examples". "Correct definition and differences of electric charge, energy and current".

For me personally, a structure that explains what is the right thing first, then goes on about misconceptions and consequence of misconceptions is much better.

I became lost while reading this and finished with basically the same confused and mistaken understanding of what is electricity as I began.
Obligatory. [1]

[1] https://xkcd.com/1138/
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> That's true in theory. In practice I've never seen anyone max out the amount of RAM possible in off the shelf x86 servers.

I'm currently experimenting with a 4 node cluster running Apache Drill (on top of MapR's Hadoop distro), with 500GB RAM, 96 cores, and 28TB of SSD. For some analytic queries that span multiple date partitions, its actually easy to see 70% RAM capacity being utilized, and 80% of the CPU. The size of the data set is currently about 7TB, but that replicates for both data locality and redundancy.

We are a Postgres shop, and have tested with some of the options that run a "single node cluster" but one of the limiting factors is that RAM is divided between those DB processes, and performance is impacted. Plus we then need to implement some form of replication to obtain redundancy, fault tolerance, or HA.

Quite simply we are not using a cluster because our data won't fit, but because we can get better performance and reliability on 4 nodes. We likely won't have the need for 400.

There are cases where for non-interactive data processing we definitely don't need a cluster. At its simplest, multiple copies of Awk scripts can be run using GNU Parallel, Python scripts can be parallelized with the Multiprocessing module, and Go has been useful for concurrency (especially to us Python programmers).
I've completed three of the courses in the ML specialization on coursera (The UW one) and I'd definitely recommend it. It uses python (which I prefer over R or matlab) and it's really well organized with good lectures.
When he decides to lie about the share of robot vacuums within the market (which you can infer from iRobots "70%" marketshare) he should make sure their financial filings coincide - complete BS.

There is no reasonable interpretation of the public data (and estimates for privately held vacuum mfgs) where 20% becomes true. Perhaps the dataset is their employees and found only 20% own their product? ;)
Want to know really the only thing all of us have in common today? We're all alive. Think about it. Tomorrow for at least one or more of us, that may not be the case.

Despite many great comments from those in the profession or not, go with your gut instinct. When you get to the point where you are thinking of leaving what you do for something else, it doesn't matter whether or not other people got to the same point.

Trust your gut and go with it. Usually, it knows what's best for you.
Lots of good advice here. Are you in the position to go back to school? Maybe enroll in a couple classes at your local community college and see if you learn better in a structured environment. It's hard learning by yourself when you don't know what to learn.
> Maps is one of the few that can actually work really well in offline mode.

Just how long will it take for google to ask you to long it to do all those useful things that it does? Ability to escape googles panopticon is one of the reasons it's important to support OpenStreetMap https://donate.openstreetmap.org/
The lost medium – On using computers to augment our human capabilities
> “I do not know how we are supposed to proceed,” Dennis Kwok, a lawyer and legislator said.

Call your local Communist Party office. They will tell you how to proceed.

Oh you wanted rule of law and freedom of expression? Move somewhere that respects it.

The Chinese government gives approximately 0 shits about Hong Kong's silly foreign ideas and just wants to extract as much wealth from the area as possible before redwashing it. Their days of freedom were numbered from the day the Brits took over.
Mubi is worth considering. They don't produce their own films, but they tend to find films that are rare or unusual enough that they'd might as well be original.
It makes me smile that while proponents of censorship and blocking of parts of the Internet use the "Think of the children!" argument, I never hear anyone shouting "Think of the adults!"

Of course, in this case we're trying to protect people from themselves rather than the outside world, but still...
Unfortunately dynamic doesn't work for me.

I use musl day-to-day to cross compile statically linked executables, which tend to be 1500kb or so. (Embedded systems with around 10mb of memory or less).

I used to bash glibc into compliance, and musl was like a gift from heaven.

Unfortunately rustc isn't there yet - though it is on the radar for the future.
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Hi there,
About usability: I have used the hololens for entire battery charges (about 3hours). I work on various experiments in AR, including path finding, assembly, etc. Had no noticeable eye fatigue.
Hololens works great already, and although light field may bring a technology imporvement, ML seems to come a tad too late (I mean, all the ML videos I have seen can be produced with an hololens)... but I'd love to be convinced.
> they need 520,834 people to sign up [..] Netflix has 33.3 million subscribers, so this is an increase of less than 10 percent on their current customer base.

Yes, it's less than 10% -- but it's also less than 2% (33.3m * 2% = 666k)? Or what am I not seeing?
Could someone fix the title, please? The notes aren't being made illegal, they are just ceasing to be legal tender. There's a big difference! Right now, the title is clickbait.
“DRM Is Used to Lock In, Control and Spy on Users” – TorrentFreak
very nice article, thank you for sharing
Aftermath: the consequences or aftereffects of a significant unpleasant event.

Why is the election of a new President an "unpleasant event"?
For some, it may not be. So, the NYT is leading the narrative already.
This assumes an interest, willingness, and time to learn. For better or worse, not everyone can/wants to become an expert in managing these buggy and vulnerable messes we call general purpose computers.

It's a big investment, an investment many of us don't remember making since it was effectively part of our childhood. That same investment, in a world with special purpose computing devices, has a very low ROI for people who would rather be doing something else.
Leads are indeed the only sure way to build a successful (revenue generating) real estate agent/broker offering. It is possible to sell websites -- but the reality is most agents have no idea what to do with a website to generate traffic. And if a website isn't marketed, it's useless (aka giant waste of money).
This is a great move. Though I only hope that depositing whatever money you have is easy because all I can imagine now is kilometer long lines at every bank
I'd say ISPs to start with. In the UK, BT still hasn't rolled out IPv6. Neither has vodafone.

Also I have servers in colocation with two datacenters, and for both I had to ask to the support to get an IPv6 range. We are very far from IPv6 becoming a standard feature.
You can add "open source contributions" to your CV now ;)

I'm going to add "thought leader".
> I believe one of VW, Mercedes Benz and BMW will bankrupt in 5-10 years. None of them have taken EV serious yet and I fear it's soon too late.

"None of them have taken EV serious yet"? You must have not pay attention to the news for the past few years.

BMW is ALL IN on EV!!! [1][2]

[1] https://cleantechnica.com/2013/10/01/bmw-electrify-entire-li...

[2] http://evobsession.com/bmw-still-aiming-models-go-electric-n...
Read this then: http://newsthump.com/2016/08/19/depression-sufferer-makes-co...
I shouldn't have used the word curriculum. I went to a top university and I know how frequently those prerequisite courses can be totally off base (my degree is chemical/biomolecular engineering). I used the term 'pre-requisite knowledge' because I would prefer a list of what ideas/concepts are needed to be fully understood before taking the course (ex/ instead of saying linear algebra is a prerequisite, say you need an understanding of solving linear equations using matrices but you don't need to understand linear spaces. Then you can focus your effort better and not take a 40 hour pre-req that you only need 4 hours from)
Ask HN: How to actually start freelancing?
Hi HN,

I'm a self employed guy living in Paris. I know how to code (mostly websites), and I'm pretty good a conversion optimisation (landing pages, AB testing, etc.)

After reading the thread "Ask HN: How much do you earn through software freelancing?" [0], I would like to givre freelancing a try. But I don't know how to get started.

First: what should I freelance in? Build website? Give CRO advice? Run A/B tests?

Then: how to actually find clients? Is networking the main option? Where should I go to network?

Any advice on this would be really helpful. Thanks!

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12894209
It's the only way to afford law school.
> The Zumwalt is not meant to be an "anti-air" ship, it was meant to be a replacement for battleships in the role of shelling land targets from sea

This is misleading.

The design of the Zumwalt class is multi-role, oriented around a few core missions: battle against surface ships, air defense, and naval gunfire support (e.g. "shelling land targets from sea"). Air defense capabilities aren't as prevalent in the Navy's vision for the Zumwalts today as they were when the class was first coming off the drawing board -- there was a time when the Navy would cheerfully say that Zumwalt-class ships would be able to shoot down ballistic missiles, a claim they don't make today. But anti-air is still part of the overall bag of roles the class is (theoretically) supposed to fulfill.

On the question of naval gunfire support, it's true that the Zumwalts are supposed to do that too. But that's complicated by the fact that the Navy, institutionally speaking, doesn't think of naval gunfire support as a mission that exists in the real world anymore. They believe that ground attack missiles have put an end to the days of ships firing guns at shore targets forever. So they have been noticeably unenthusiastic about including any gun capabilities on new ships, including the Zumwalts.

Congress and the Marine Corps disagree with this assessment, however, and Congress found a way to make the Navy pay attention to the subject by legally mandating the Navy to provide certain levels of gunfire support capability over time. The Zumwalts got guns as part of a deal that would allow the Navy to retire the previous ships they'd used to meet those requirements, the World War 2-era Iowa-class battleships.

The Navy had wanted to retire the Iowas pretty much from the moment they came out of mothballs in the 1980s, so they were willing to live with guns on the Zumwalts if that was the price of being able to do so. But the Zumwalts only ever had 6-inch (155mm) guns, as compared to the Iowas' 16-inch guns, so it's difficult to see them as a direct replacement in the gunfire support role. (The Navy argues that the increased accuracy of the Zumwalts' Advanced Gun System makes up for the decrease in weight of iron they can throw, but that's arguable.)

There's a decent discussion of the various issues in play in the naval gunfire debate on Wikipedia here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_naval_gunfire_su...
Online transactions weren't as safe and ubiquitous back then. She already had a paranoia of entering those informations online and we told her that her instinct was right.

She does some Amazon orders every now and then but that's it.
It's meant to be a bit of dark humor. Sometimes the folly of humanity (including much of what you bring up) can make us cynical, angry, or depressed. Being able to have a laugh at those troublesome aspects of human nature is one way some of us can find a bit of a respite.
They choose between two options.

To make the point: Would you rather suffer from pest or cholera for the next 4 years?

Following your argument you cannot complain because you chose it.
This is pretty, but it's all statistical outliers; every highlighted spot is a small city where random fluctuations above a low baseline are most likely to generate seemingly-impressive spikes in query volume.
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That dude is USA as heck.
New Tool Can Help NASA Sniff Out Life on Mars
Interesting Ctrl+F Sanders: 35, Clinton: 49, Trump: 70.

> Among candidates in recent decades who entered the campaign with no money, no organization, and no national following, Sanders fared better than nearly all of them. Sanders’ initial low poll numbers marked him as less newsworthy than Clinton but, as he gained strength, the news tilted in his favor.

This is revisionist history. I think the issue I and many of my friends have is that he did have organization and did have a national following but lacked the appropriate media coverage still. I can't comment on money but I'll concede that Hillary had more money based on the fact that they have essentially been raising money for her campaign for the past 10 years. Maybe, just maybe, Clinton had better poll numbers because she had more media coverage?

Anecdotally, I remember the morning commute that I decided to never give a dime of my money to NPR when Sanders' landslide win in NH was covered, but the panel all agreed that his campaign was a no go due to Hillary having the super delegates locked up...
Firefox shares sessions (cookies, etc.) between all running instances by default.
(it's the same in my country, about not showing wages). That just makes things worse for us software-people.

I didn't write about knowing anyone personally, just about reading on the web. Your message is the first one that I've seen.

Since you have a .nl domain, I'm a little surprised about it. (was excepting something like London/SW).
Snowden shows how easy it is to hack into a US voting machine with a memory card
> FYI, Dwarf Fortress is an ASCII-only roguelike

Well, it's Unicode actually — displayed by OpenGL! — and not really a roguelike (although IIRC there is a roguelike adventure mode). It's incredibly difficult not so much due to the graphics but rather to the fantastically complex world, and also the control interface, which is … baroque.
For international readers:

Rs 500 and Rs 1000 are the highest denominations notes in India. Other available denominations are Rs 100, 50, 20, 10.

This is such a major move to curb black money in the history of Indian Politics and Economy
There are some commuter trains from France used in Romania. They still have some posters about the old line and a couple of ads.
Strange part about this is that they are going to issue new 500 and 2000 notes as per
> 8:32 pm: A new series of Rs. 500 currency notes and Rs. 2000 currency notes will be brought into circulation.

Pulling current notes I can understand, but the problem is that the denomination allows people to move lots of money in a minimal amount of space, so replacing them isn't really solving the problem.
Pretty much all of Africa, unfortunately. Dumping from both the west and the far east has destroyed large parts of the economy.

To add as well, the free subsidy is definitely a short term thing. If you look at it as an 'education fee' for the subsidized business, it's not really that unexpected. Eg, a student may be paid nothing while he works as an intern and learns skills, but he does it anyway because once he has done so he can earn far more for the rest of his life. Same with subsides.

Also another way to look at it: the people buying the cars for less could probably already afford the cars. So instead of that money going to new workers in your own country, they're going to those in other countries. So the rich benefit in paying cheaper prices, but the poor who needed that income more than they needed a cheaper car suffer. In properly working free trade, this would be a two way street of comparative advantage, but because of numerous 'cheats' it's no longer a two way street.
You're correct. But it has been cultivated from seeing too many good engineers laid off due to bad management. Bad management who get to keep their jobs.
Complex neural networks made easy by Chainer's define-by-run approach
You see, this is actually funny because there's a pun there. Parent is either a troll or has no sense of humor, or both.
So Iran can claim 300k award for breaking telegram crypto, can it?
For international readers:
Rs 500 and Rs 1000 are the highest denominations notes in India. Other available denominations are Rs 100, 50, 20, 10.
This is such a major move to curb black money in the history of Indian Politics and Economy
I had one and eventually sold it and went back to the regular vacuum.

You can't have anything on the floor, so I wasn't really able to let it run while I am not at home because I was afraid it would hit stuff. Sometimes it even pushes furniture around or bumps into other stuff and scratches it.

I can vacuum my whole apartment in a lot less time than when using the roomba.

The roomba kept blowing around the dog hair and ignore spots, but kept going over the same spots a thousand times.
The money is hard to pass up, regardless of area.

As I've mentioned before I own a gym business (multiple locations) with my wife and some other business partners. Part of the purchase process was financial disclosures of everyone so we all know what each other makes on paper, what we actually take home, household wealth and assets, etc.

I'm 30, younger than my business partners by multiple decades, and am the only one not in a strictly management position. Two of the partners are PEs and I make more than anyone else.

I say this not to brag but only to point out that it takes a lot to leave programming simply because the money isn't there is a lot of other professions. I almost went into civil engineering and I'm glad I didn't, because apparently I would've had to bust my ass to make it into management only to be 20 years older and making less money to boot.
Good question and good answer through your rhetorical question too. GP approach with your addendum is the way to do this in my opinion.
Hopefully this the start of something very powerful.
I do this for my family these days, virtually zero maintainance.

Biggest word of warning though is that Google are totally happy to change things with no warning or how or why, which can be very confusing.

For example, they stopped a direct route to import photos from an SD card or alike to google photos. No automated replacement workflow.
The problem is that the case statement coverage isn't a valid assumption in this case and using a union type is putting a square peg in a round hole.

HTML selects do allow duplicate names. He'd be better off just using a dictionary or list of name/value pairs and forgoing the union type altogether.
Signal is providing usage data to Google, it is not anonymous, the messages sent are available for Google to decrypt at wish.

Telegram is open to Russian version of NSA, and the company that made it.

For me and you both, it doesnt matter, unless you work for NSA.
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Why Starbucks? It's the McDonald's of coffee. Pick a local cafe you like and see if they'll hire you part time for weekend shifts. A place that takes pride in their work.
like Austin, Phoenix, and San Francisco?
Good point. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most-listened-to_radio... reflects how significant that it.

1. All Things Considered - 13M weekly listeners
3. Morning Edition - 13M
6. Marketplace - 9M
What about people not in India with a few 1000 rupee notes lying around, those are valueless for good? I have 2 notes.

Wont the funds be effectively destroyed and removed from circulation, for those who don't put their cash in the bank by the end of next month. Wont this have deflationary consequences?
It is. To get new notes, you will have to submit the old notes to the bank. In that case, you will have to declare the money to the Income Tax department. And if the sum is huge, a criminal enquiry will be started by IT department.

Also this will at once curb all the fake note issues.
Yes, they solve completely different problems.

"Mobile-dev" is more or less application development for a target client, possibly with a client-server relationship. It may incorporate the products of a ML system, or any number of other systems, but is itself the same application development model we've had for 30 years, but with a mobile client.

Machine Learning is applied computational statistics. It and its close cousin "data science" have become incredibly hyped the last few years. I suppose it's a matter of taste, but my view is that applying simple probability to a problem (e.g. "recommending" based on picking the thing most frequently voted up by other users and adjusting the recommendation as data comes in) isn't "machine learning" or "data science", but I've seen it called such by candidates I've interviewed and even one colleague. It's not that simple, and trivializing the terms just contributes to the hype.
> I had to move on from my social group who were not healthy (some of my closet friends at the time), I stopped drinking and partying entirely, I started working out, and started to plan out my goals for the next two years.

I suppose you mean closest. Even though closet could explain depression too.

It's far from easy to express yourself [1] in your traditional circles when the inner self distance is very large. I spent lots of years following the average persons because I couldn't really accept my own desires.

[1] This comment has a lot of homosexual subtext, but it's only half pun, I believe they're a good extrapolation for having to deal with lives they didn't want but are force fed on them. Anybody who doesn't listen and accept himself ends up in the same situation.
Thanks! I made it to automate some tasks involving saving receipts to files and so on. Using the shell as a REPL and being able to use the shell's functions for working with files and texts is why I like it.
Well, I'm not sure where you're from but I'm thankful my ancestors didn't have your attitude when confronted to dictatorship.

Your contempt for those people who are fighting for their freedom in their own country is astonishing.
For me I continue to be somewhat excited when I see Google has an actual human interacting with a customer/user even if it is in a sales role.
Some programmer humour - https://twitter.com/manojlds/status/796012773373161472
> not feeling an emotion (which I would argue is impossible)

It's not impossible. There are people without emotions. And even more people with only minimal emotions.

See: http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20150818-what-is-it-like-to-...
US Actor Steven Seagal Becomes a Russian Citizen
All the studies mentioned in this article are exactly the type that are currently being debunked en masse and generally causing a crisis of faith in psychology.
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You tell me - I am not from the USA ;)