skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
SPA is mostly useful for reducing the cost of large application deployments. It improves speed for loading the initial bootstraping of the application. That means index is delivered almost instantly, and depending on the async loading of the code, can be dramatically speed up. SPA will reduce the overall server-rending of content besides json results which will be compressed, and json is smaller than html markup. Also SPA provides for a more sophisticated user experience. But like all things, the original cars got people from a-z, but not in style or comfort. As technologies improve over time, so will the reasons for using SPA. Browsers eventually will allow offline browsing as a standard feature, and having the SPA JS installed & json written to localstore/indexedDB will make using that UI rather nice, instead of always getting a 404 response when you have no internet and such. SPA is about control, server-rendered requires connectivity and difficulty handling response when failure occurs. 1st Major SPA's were email clients, consider google's gmail or microsoft web outlook service for exchange servers. Huge benefit with SPA, because the UI is complex and should not be constantly refreshing, because it can cause contextual change on what is displayed and present in-app state from re-initialization.
"IBM CEO Personally Offers Company’s Services to Donald Trump"

[1] https://theintercept.com/2016/11/16/ibm-ceo-personally-offer...
[2] https://twitter.com/yogthos/status/799060608561872896
Perhaps you've misunderstood what I said. I'm suggesting that promoting much more widespread surveillance will seep into civic life, e.g. people spying on employees/employers, neighbours, acquaintances, etc... and at a much greater level than sites like Facebook allow.

In other words, I'm suggesting an arms race in the field of surveillance available to the general public is likely to have unwelcome effects on society at large.
Wow, that is so laughably wrong. If anything the UI is often as complicated and difficult as possible so that the company can generate more money by selling training packages or licensing other companies to do training.

Autodesk makes a mountain of money off of this stuff.

If you don't want to be a "Renaissance level expert at everything" then either give up on 3D or stay narrowly focused on one aspect of the pipeline and learn that well.

Blender doesn't fall short in either department. It's just different. Get over it.

This is just as bad as Max people whinging about Maya being stupid, broken, and useless.
Posted two days ago, with two comments, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12970683
I see it like this. Literacy is reading what is printed on the page. Discernment is reading what is not printed.
What information is the U.S. government "surging"? In Sweden?

I think it's a false equivalency to imply all nations, including the U.S., are doing the same as Russia.
Matlab and Octave have multidimensional arrays built in. Few modern languages do. C, C++, Python, Go, Rust - no built-in multidimensional arrays. (Arrays of arrays are not the same thing.) There are lots of array packages, but they often don't talk to each other. Classic Python gotcha: "+" for Python arrays is concatenation, but for NumPy arrays, it's elementwise add. Mixed-mode semantics are complicated.

Simply not having to worry about how to represent a multidimensional array is a win. This keeps FORTRAN alive.
The site-provided bookmarklet will save the text you have highlighted on the page, and you can pay a little extra for the "Archiving" option that will wget the entire page for you to access forevermore.
Which weakens the trees such that the beatles can get 'em...

Source: I live in an affected area. Without the drought, many trees would effectively protect themselves.
It mainly draws indifference, not support. It's very much manufactured consent.

It's not exactly fully democratic either. The last time they had a real opposition that posed a threat of winning Lee Kuan Yew threw them in jail.

There's a very low level of political engagement in Singapore in general due to the stranglehold the ruling party has on power and the lack of much political media outside of their control (TRS notwithstanding).
Don't know any of them, but my BS detector went off pretty hard - more advisors than team, completely unclear value proposition and a brand strategy that will keep them out of any first page SERPs for some tome coming (with nobody finding them on an .is domain and few chances to get a .com) makes me wonder what they're up to.
Please don't post such rants here. Even when there's a legitimate grievance behind them, they lower the quality of discourse we're hoping for on HN.
Two whole hours?

Do you still crawl around on all fours or did you ever take the time to learn to walk?

3D is hard. It's like learning to fly an aircraft in terms of complexity and no amount of UI tinkering will ever change that.
One reason to utterly and totally oppose mail-in and on-line balloting. That non-secret ballots also allow paid and coerced voting are other traditional reasons.
Hot air guns don't need particularly precise temperature control. They apply diffuse and gentle heat, so you really just need to watch the state of the solder. I've done good work on difficult boards with a non-calibrated reflow gun. With a bit of kapton tape, you really have to try hard to damage the board.

0603s are easily solderable with an iron and an Optivisor. There's a knack to 0402s, but they're entirely manageable. Hot tweezers make the job far easier, but it's perfectly manageable with a decent iron and a steady hand. Smartphone repairers are now often dealing with 01005 parts, which are barely visible to the naked eye. As mrob suggests, working with SMDs is often easier than PTH if you know the proper techniques.

A lack of schematics is a problem, but that problem has existed for decades. The most common repairs are broken connectors and failed electrolytics, for which no schematics are required. Schematics for popular smartphones, tablets and laptops are readily available; ZXW make a superb interactive schematic package that massively simplifies the fault finding process.

I think it's very much swings and roundabouts. Some things are more difficult than they used to be, but the tools and information are far more accessible. There are thousands of excellent tutorials on YouTube demonstrating practically every aspect of electronics repair. Test equipment has become dirt cheap. Most components are readily available; for those that aren't, eBay's "spares or repair" listings are a treasure trove.

In my opinion, repair is less common simply because consumer electronics have become so cheap relative to the labor needed to repair them. The number of repairs that are economically viable has dwindled as prices have fallen. By the time something has failed, the odds are fairly good that it has been rendered obsolete.
Something to keep in mind if you're looking into studying AI seriously is that it's really half a dozen barely-related fields, that have all retained the group name "AI" solely because it sounds cool. Machine learning specialists use a whole different set of ideas than robotic control specialists, for instance. The logical inference engines or expert systems that used to be the bread-and-butter of AI departments are now flippantly referred to as "GOFAI" ("Good Old-Fashioned AI") to distinguish them from the shiny new approaches that get students hired into Google.

I think one could frame the question like this: What do you want to learn; logic, statistics, and/or cognitive science? For each there is a branch (or several branches) of "AI" that revolve around it, and have only a limited amount to do with the others.
This is possible today using slots.
An interesting book, for sure.

The thing of it was, while they made some very interesting connections they didn't particularly make one that IBM (America) directly knew about the literal holocaust.

Now, IBM definitely knew their technology was being used to catalogue specific groups, and thus that that technology was being used to facilitate mass involuntary migrations of those people. What I don't recall (I read this book when it first came out in 2001), is if they knew (or should have reasonably known) that those people were being killed. When I think of the Holocaust, I associate that more with the deaths of those people and less with the forced migrations/etc. Both are terrible, of course, but one is obviously far worse.

In any event, that's a very good book to read, even if ultimately I find culpability for IBM to be somewhat tenuous.

I'm glad I don't live in a country/world where anyone is proposing registering anyone, Muslim or Jewish.
Yup, nice concept but pushing my high end I5 to 100% usage on a first page load and getting chrome to freeze is not a viable extension for me.
There seems to be a meme around the EmDrive where "it works" and "conservation of momentum is upheld" are mutually exclusive. Couldn't it be the case that there is some local phenomenon happening that we do not understand that still manages to maintain conservation of momentum? Isn't assuming that momentum conservation is violated a conjecture on the underlying physics of the device, which we don't know?
The point is to reframe the ordeal as an adventure as it is happening. Two people can face the same circumstances, yet one will be challenged and the other miserable. Be the first.
LastPass appears to use text field with bullets instead of NSSecureTextField
...which you should, for it's the quality of life that counts :)
I'm happy to be a /former/ Intel employee. Staying for layoffs sucks.
Azure is even cheaper
I don't think this will result in dismissing of conservation of momentum.

But because many thought it did, it's been an incredible uphill battle to get this thing tested; yet throughout tests it shows strange outcomes. Something odd is going on, and perhaps the simple outcome is that we find a better way to perform the tests.

To me, that's a fantastic outcome and I'm dismayed it's taking such a _political_ fight to arrive at it.
> As the probe gets away from the sun, the solar energy it gets decreases with the square of the distance, and so it probably will stop providing even the little bit of acceleration.

In space you move in elipses. It's possible to choose an elongated orbit that moves the probe closer and then further from the sun repeatedly and each time it is close to the sun it accelerates forward, moving the "far" side of orbit further away, until it gains enough speed to escape sun gravity.

Or at least it's possible in Kerbal Space Program :)
Good job everyone for letting the government gain so much power. I've said it before and I'll say it again: monolithic governments that have fingers into every aspect of your lives are dangerous.
It's on mouseover that they change
The building you're referring to is not the building discussed in this article. I've also stayed in the Marriott Marquis in Times Square but this building (33 Thomas Street, the "AT&T Long Lines Building") is down in Lower Manhattan, quite a distance away from Times Square.
Also Australian (Israeli) company Sky and Space (ASX:SAS) is launching 3 nanosats in May as proof of concept and have a tie in with Virgin.
Arctic sea extent loss in the last 24 hours
The above makes a lot of sense. Looks mostly accurate. Appreciate your clarification.
>Why can't you give this man a chance?

I did. Then he immediately brought on a white nationalist as his closest advisor and is apparently going to name a southern good ol' boy who thinks marijuana is straight up the devil as his Attorney General. Chance thoroughly blown.
And that will likely remain true. Thanks to testing this, we'll end up with better testing processes.

Why is it such an uphill battle to engage in actions that have positive outcomes like these, simply because they challenge our core understanding of the world? At the least, we end up better equipped to measure and test future experiments.
> Actually it's not as much useful as an engine as it may seem,

It's worth more than any existing or previous theoretical engine. Put this rotating around a center point. Now put 1000s of them. Now we have power generation for outposts in space. The implications of a working EM drive are staggering.
Are you speaking from experience with Google Cloud Support specifically?

(Disclaimer: I work there.)
Thank so for that pointer about Matlab home use. I had missed it. I have a license through my employer, but being able to goof with it at home could be worth it. $150 for Matlab and $45 for toolboxes.
What I am worried about is that in future AI swarm military robots will enable something that wasn't seen yet in history. Now to make dictatorship state you need support of military/rebels/people behind it, you can't make it on your own. Without humans in equation who will stop some oligarch with enough money to take over some nation in for example Africa or Middle East? You wouldn't need hundreds of thousands/millions people supporting you anymore.
Since there's obvious appetite to discuss this, we've merged the comments here instead of burying the current (re)post as a dupe like we normally would.

A couple more posts about this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12994541

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12994400
Rather than 'fake' it seems more genuine to describe it as a mystery that conflicts with existing scientific understanding. It would seem that it's a problem worth solving, if for no other reason than determining what's wrong with our measurement instruments or practices.
The hope is that this gives the idea some legitimacy, which will encourage others to test the idea too. It's like a win-win situation, if you test it and you discredit the effect, that's a free paper. If you verify it or add your own little spin, you'll go down in the history books along with this team.
Sexual selection is one of the principles I mention. Sexual context may be a better term. But my argument is secular, not religious. I am referring to American common law, English common law, and its predecessors, not the Bible.
Plus you may be able to get your new email address to import all your old Gmail. Outlook.com does this, if you want...
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12995125. Normally we'd treat that later post as the duplicate, but there's unusual appetite to discuss this article, which is currently at #1.
You're wrong if you think this is "political", as you put it.
Hmm, sounds like I have something interesting to read, now. :)
If you feel these discoveries are important and you are an American, let your Congresspeople know that you support NIH funding.
WebWorkers with Angular 2
As a Muslim American, I am absolutely in awe, and simply shocked that something like this has come up at all. If this trend continues, I will definitely leave the US as soon as I finish up my degree.

Last week, my state Georgia tried to pass a bill that would effectively ban wearing the hijab (headscarf) in public. Thankfully, there was a huge amount of backlash and the bill was withdrawn.
Why I Had to Eat a Bug on CNN
Doesn't a standard microwave (or any other) transmitter produce a tiny force due to radiation pressure?

I understand that this is different because the radiation bounces around an enclosed chamber and so momentum wouldn't be conserved, but if the issue is to create propellant-free propulsion, doesn't that already exist (even though it's not practical)?
If real, you could build a perpetual motion machine with it. Therefore it's not real.
It already is possible to algorithmically deduce who people are voting for.

I am not benefiting from surveillance. I am a game developer and engineer. I see things from that perspective.

We can't make compelling multiplayer games by hiding information from the server. We need as much information as possible to make sure everyone has as good a time playing the game as possible. We also need to know if some players are actively "griefing" to ruin the good time others are trying to have.

I think the mistake we make is in keeping this information to ourselves or selling it to third parties (that happens). The information should be broadcast to everyone, and if it's of some use, then it should benefit the people who the information is about directly, and by benefit, I don't mean they should be targeted for more appropriate advertising. I mean benefit, like get paid if they're having trouble paying bills, or get love if they're feeling down, or get food if they're hungry, or medical attention if they're sick.

Unfortunately, we are currently too culturally immature and litigious to be respectful of that kind of information, which is why developers don't broadcast it.

We just ceded our government to a guy who won by way of asymmetric information. We had his opponent's taxes and emails, but we didn't have his. How can candidates be judged fairly in a situation like that? One of the repercussions of this is that we now have Republican-controlled Legislative and Executive branches, and it sounds like the Judicial branch will be next. That's what asymmetric information does. It creates imbalances in power. If we can see what they're doing just as easily as they can see what we're doing, it becomes a lot harder to throw stones in our glass houses.
Oddly enough, it was really easy to set up a custom domain on Gmail: I did it. However, Google stopped offering that service for free, which will stop most ordinary people from using it...
Lots of Municipalities/Cities require planting of trees be done such that there's a variety of species.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_elm_disease (also transmitted by a beetle)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emerald_ash_borer
etc
There are similar AT&T buildings scattered throughout the country built to similar specification. Here's one in West Palm Beach - https://goo.gl/maps/VD42JWpnp8P2
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12995125.
Listen: If anyone is going to do something about the surveillance state it is Trump! It certainly was not going to be the Clintons!
I'm also worried about what will happen, but the best way to predict the future is to invent it. We're not a helpless bystanders. Organize with others and do something about it.
Good point. And we have no way of knowing what Google's internal format looks like...
That's deeply concerning. Can you pls share your aws account ID with me? If you're not comfortavle doing that, pls share email ID where I can contact you. Thanks.
Speaking as a experimental physicist:

The research shown is relatively inexpensive, and can be pulled off with what many labs probably have lying around anyways.

I'm sure it's more a work of love anyways and the guys doing this are probably facing serious headwind for trying 'crazy stuff'.
I could be mistaken, but I believe someone is lunching such a test next year.

Edit: Cannae Inc. intends to launch a test with a small satellite. 2017 is so far a guess for launch based on a quick search.
Press F12 go to the console and type `document.querySelector('video').playbackRate=0.33;`
Well it's obvious that we need to eliminate that possibility. We'll just have the robots build themselves.

Problem eliminated and no other unintended consequences as far as I can see.
Naive questions from someone who does not understand a lot about physics (to put it mildly): Did you just invent the perpetuum mobile, or did I misunderstand what you said? Or do I just not understand how this thing is supposed to work?
I'm sorry but you are missing a huge part of what GNU is about.

No, I don't think I am. GNU supports building businesses on free software. That's why the GPL does not say "free for noncommercial use only" like many other licenses. It's meant to be sustainable.

Using iconography that says "businesses are bad, uprisings in the street are good" is counter to the GNU mission.
Absolutely! It is possible to deduce pretty accurately who somebody is going to vote for without even looking at the ballot or peeping into the booth box.

All actions people do online like sharing a newspiece on their Facebook walls, likes or dislikes, chats, mails, texts, add up to something that makes the person -- and that information is quite valuable.
Ask HN: Real world examples and advice for applying reinforcement deep learning?
I am learning reinforcement deep learning and working on applying it to the rather difficult problem of routing PCBs. It's a classic NP hard problem where you're trying to a find a set of 3d paths (x and y are continuous, z is discreet) that fulfill arbitrary constraints like length, distance to other paths, etc.

I believe that various forms of deep learning can enable leaps in autorouting because computers are far better suited to combinatorial optimization than humans and learning algorithms are finally starting to emulate a level of intuition that makes routing lots of traces (terminology for a connection on a PCB) relatively easy for the human brain. I also think that reinforcement deep learning is the ML algorithm best suited to this problem because it mirrors how humans route: in discreet steps that can be encoded as actions like go up 10mm, go down one layer, etc, guided by visual feedback and a design rule checker.

I'd greatly appreciate any advice or papers/projects that show how to use reinforcement learning for problems different from playing a video game. What I need is a significant deviation from OpenAI gym solutions and without a lot of experience in machine learning, it's hard to know where to look and what terminology is relevant. I'm jumping into the deep end here so the best advice is to start with learning linear algebra and simpler neural network architectures but starting with a hard, relevant, and exciting problem is how I learn a new subject best with limited time and conceptually deep learning just "clicks."
> Doesn't a standard microwave (or any other) transmitter produce a tiny force due to radiation pressure?

pressure against what?
They fund it, no?
The Lambda-CDM model ("standard cosmological model") states that the majority of matter in the universe is non-baryonic dark matter. It's generally found around the same locations as ordinary matter, and has only very weak interaction with ordinary matter (like neutrinoes do). It sounds a lot like ether except without the relativity problems. Maybe the EmDrive can somehow interact with non-baryonic dark matter and accelerate it.

I don't actually think this is true, because measurement error sounds more likely, but unlike conservation of momentum violation it would require only a minor tweak to known physics.
They're actually not uncommon.

Seattle: http://i.imgur.com/O9FGxHM.png

SF: http://i.imgur.com/R9qtuY2.jpg

Just look for a big building with no windows and lots of security.
On demand: m1.medium mostly for Rails and Node apps and db.m3.medium for RDS (Postgres).

Now on GCE, we use Kubernetes, which means the type of instances is rather insignificant as they can be instantly scaled up when more resources are needed for containers.
Obama's Attorney General did anything to legalize? "White nationalist" as Trump's advisor is worse than taking donations for presidential campaign from foreign powers? What he can do? Reintroduce slavery? For real?
> hesitated before upvoting, because I know this action will be recorded

And that's why I upvoted.