skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>A Windows Phone with the ability to run ("native") Windows software would be an incredibly interesting play.

Intel killed its smartphone x86 chip project in April[0] so that's unlikely to happen anytime soon. There are reports of MS planning to attempt to do x86 emulation on ARM but that strikes me as a long shot. Getting good compatibility and decent performance would be challenging to say the least.

[0] http://www.anandtech.com/show/10288/intel-broxton-sofia-smar....

[1] http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/11/x86-em...
I've taken to calling it the 'overheated discussion detector' because it's not always about flamewars.

Sounds like an odd cough algorithm.
> Theranos is toast and I suspect Elizabeth Holmes will be very lucky if she does not spend some time in prison over this.

An elite, highly politically connected, young, blonde, Caucasian woman will not spend time in prison for a dubious charge of white collar crime. There is little to no hope of that in today's society, regardless of how damaging her actions are.

Edit: I'd love to be proven wrong on this comment, but I don't have much faith that this will ever come to happen. It is laughable to think that the American justice system is actually neutral across races or socioeconomic lines. Also, I agree that Theranos is toast. I just think it will try to become toast somewhat quietly.
You might like http://boschproject.org/ for high dpi scans of original art with a nice js viewer.

Would be nice to have characters from from those scans for animation.
Gravity signals may provide a little extra warning before an earthquake strikes
Nervana TPUs aren't rebranded x86 cores. They aren't neuromorphic either, and I don't know what neuromeristive is.
Asking for a raise – and getting it
Yeah, I need a new phone (screen dying, probable battery swelling) and would like a newer macbook, but the latest Apple offerings (and prices) on both fronts drove me to look outside the bubble for the first time in a while.

I can say the competition has gotten good enough that it's only obviously worse when you look a bit closer than a quick glance at owner sentiment and specs. That's the best I can say. And those are the handful of stand-out devices—the overwhelming bulk is still trash.

So: Apple's stumbled really hard, but the competition's still basically a whole different product category, so I guess I'll just wait and see what things look like in 2017 :-/
If Intel is smart they will invest heavily into library development. Researchers use whatever is fast and right now cuda is fast, not just because nvidia has the best GPUs (it's about even) but because the primitives in cuda are so much faster. Matrix multiplication on the same hardware is like 3x faster in cuda than opencl or competing libraries and using the neutral networking primitives is even faster. Intel needs to invest in good, low level libraries so researchers can hack on their platform, build new things, etc. Ultimately I think researchers drive what platform gets widely used since training takes so much longer than inference.
There are some Terms of Service [1] items that might come and back and bite you (or not — who knows, they're a bit vague):

The Service is offered in the United States. We may
restrict access from other locations. There may be
limits on the types of content you can store and
share using the Service, such as file types we
don't support, and on the number or type of devices
you can use to access the Service.

The fact that they "may restrict access from other locations" could be a problem when you travel.

[1] http://www.zdnet.com/article/is-amazons-online-storage-reall...
> You can't judge practices based on how they work for one particular area of software development. Especially when said area is one of the simplest out there.

You know exactly nothing about what I've based my opinion on. Because all you've done is jump in and rant about your beliefs.

> thinking about said architecture upfront with twice the development time

Design quality is limited by the information you have, and no amount of thinking creates information. The beginning of the project is when you have the least information about everything: domain, users, user needs, business needs, technology, team. Everything.

You mostly get information by trying things in the world. And actually trying things in the world is the only real test of ideas that come from thinking.

If your methodology requires understanding everything up front, then it's basically useless in the real world. Even if you could perfectly understand your intended market and use case, that will change over time. But you can't, because your competitors are always plotting to beat you, and they will not share their plans with you.

Amazon, for example, has been in operation 20 years, and could easily be going for decades more. If in the early days they had tried to write code capable of dealing with their current needs, let alone their needs from 2050, they would have been idiots. Pure up-front design is an unworkable fantasy.

> More importantly, how are you going to add proper abstractions to an existing project? No refactoring tool will ever do that [...]

Refactoring existed before automated tools, and mostly exists beyond it. Tools help, but it's mostly a human activity. Try reading Fowler's book on this, and his subsequent writing. You can't effectively criticize something you don't even understand.
Ok, yes, but have you had Lunchbox Laboratory's 'Dork' (duck and pork) burger?
2016 Black Friday Deals on Amazon
> Boies Schiller was granted more than 300,000 shares valued at $4.5 million, based on a valuation of $15 a share at the time, this person said.

yeah, they are not getting paid.
>Finally, I think, the problem is not the liars but the acting believers. If you fall for such a lie, fine you are entitled to think whatever you want. However, if you act on it (by threatening or committing violence), then you become a criminal. But that part is already covered by current legislation.

It doesn't matter who the problem is, it only matters how to solve it. Claiming the mainstream media is lying ("lying press"/"Lügenpresse") and sowing distrust in traditional sources of truth was one of the tactics that helped Hitler rise to power. I don't know how to prevent this tactic, but the current approach of letting people just blatantly make shit up and push it as truth isn't working very well. It's very possible that it's the least bad approach, but we should at least consider the alternatives before concluding.
I guess you've never heard of Martha Stewart then. I'm only joking of course.
Downvotes on HN these days are slowly becoming as bad as Reddit: it's no longer "downvote this if there is no argument or there is no added meaning to this conversation", as much as it can be "I disagree with this statement."

The Pre was a fantastic device and did a lot of things right from a UX perspective, IMO. The hardware was terrible and there wasn't any mind paid toward securing anything really, but it was a breath of fresh air in the duopoly.
I see where you are coming from, but masterful DJing takes much more than switching from desk A to desk B. Song selection is crucial, it's even more important than transitions, moreover you need to play the right music to the right audience. Those things you won't find in tutorials, and that's what makes a great DJ set great. On top of that you can combine producing with playing live by adding effects, creatively transitioning between songs and cue jumping, this takes a lot of skill too.
Cho Chikun would not stand a chance against AlphaGo. AlphaGo has shown itself to be stronger than Lee Sedol, who is much stronger than Cho.
All our votes are carried out on paper. If whatever scheme they're using for collation is compromised/suspect a recount could be done entirely by hand.
Do you mind explaining those architectures?
> a dubious charge

Given what has come out so far, is the charge of criminally misrepresenting the efficacy of the product really dubious?
Traktor has key recognition built in now.
Show HN: A simple PGP client for those unfamiliar or new to encryption
It's called fraud, and she defrauded and embarrassed many of the people she is "connected" to. Despite your assertion to the contrary, many white people have gone to jail for fraud. I also don't think there is much behind-the-scenes lobbying happening on her behalf (in fact there may be some lobbying against her).
Brooks' view is much more closely aligned with Boehm's Spiral Model than with Agile. He valued an overarching design that satisfied all stakeholders before construction. He also recommended a top-down approach to iteration, which means prototyping the entire system with each iteration, in successive degrees of refinements. I find that very different than picking features to implement with each sprint. He also found PERT charts to be invaluable, and I can't imagine he would find Kanban boards a sufficient substitute.
So: "_____ is no big deal because _____ did it too."

How far should we take this....

- The Atlantic slave trade is no big deal because the Arabs did it too.

- Slavery in general is no big deal because Africans, Egyptians, Middle East Muslims, did it too.

- The Colonization of Africa is ok because the middle east Muslims, did it too.

- Making homosexuality illegal is ok because 30+ African countries did it too.

- Communism is ok because Cuba, North Korea, Germany, China, Vietnam, Bulgaria, USSR, etc... did it too.

- Rape and abuse of women is no big deal because, gosh everyone did it too.

So...what now, it's hypocritical of us to try to stop something bad from happening because a long time ago we did the same? Well then hell, lets just go back to the stone age. Screw law and civility.
My experience is that Wikipedia articles have been very accurate about every subject I consider myself knowledgeable about.
It just has the issue of hundreds of millions of unemployed workers, a big issue then it is in the U.S. since it has been going thru this same issue for 20 years. In China it will happen much faster.
Availability and load balancing aside, did any other Australian citizen (who actually managed to complete the census at all) notice that the UX was quite ordinary? Reminded me of a web form circa 1990.

For instance, IIRC the census asked for my and my wife's country of birth and nationality, but later on when filling in the info for our children, it asked for the nationality of the both parents again. Simple logic checking back through the data should have shown that our (the parent's) information was already supplied, and this information for our children could be pre-filled or skipped and auto filled in the database.

Just a few small things that would have made the filling out of the forms a lot smoother, faster, and less complicated for lay people who were already nervous about doing the data entry.
The OP is referring to Fisher's p-value rather than the more common Neyman-Pierson method that you refer to. Fisher's method doesn't have the concept of the null hypothesis. The difference is fascinating and I do believe the Fisherian method is superior if you can't easily replicate.
Ask HN: What are you thankful for?
The entire ARM ecosystem is basically Google and ARM. Google is using open source Linux to power Android but all the hardware drivers are closed. The only reason you cannot simply install and use Linux on any Android device is the closed source drivers.

Yet these drivers exists and work perfectly for Android which is the Linux kernel, so why are they not being made available after all these years?

If there was any interest in open source by Arm or Google they would make some minimum intiatives to makes the drivers available but not a single initiative exists.

There have been multiple discussion on Ars and HN itself about Google's relations with Android and open source..

[1]http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/10/googles-iron-grip-on-...
Ever since Getting Real (https://gettingreal.37signals.com/) I've agreed with practically everything Jason Fried has ever said. Wish there were more CEOs like him.
They don't give inner products, but they do give norms. But inner products are, in some ways, more convenient than general norms, hence squared error as opposed to other things. It's not that squared error is necessarily what you fundamentally care about; it just happens to be so conveniently analyzed, because the mathematics of inner products is convenient.
The design and implementation surface area for TrustZone is just too big to be secure.

Protecting a few secrets is a bit different from a Quasi-hypervisor environment that could be used to implement such a scheme.
All good points, maybe there could be one testing machine per area or zipcode instead of one per room. People wouldn't know which voting booth would be tested. If the test pass potential false positive are still there, but you at least a quantifiable bit of error catching and restricted scoping. Cost still up for sure, but maybe people wouldn't mind paying a bit more instead of 100% for trust in the system. Would probably even motivate some to vote.
Hammercoin – A Bitcoin-fueled game
Murder rates are always concentrated in certain areas, including all those other countries you're comparing to.

http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/murder-rates-nationally-and-...

And if you're trying to argue urban areas are more dangerous, you're wrong.

http://science.time.com/2013/07/23/in-town-versus-country-it...

Remember, murder rates are per capita.
Couple of weeks ago I randomly came across a building here in Munich that looked absolutely spectacular. It's shell looked like it was made out of very small cubes and millions of them. Looked at the doorsign...turns out it is the HQ of Algoriddm, the company that makes Djay Pro (recommended by the author) :)

EDIT: would love to see a „How to get started with music production“. Just started using Logic Pro and with all its plugins it seems very overwhelming at first.
And somehow I can't connect my android phone to a mac computer with a USB cable to copy photos out, without it crashing 50% of the time. I must be missing something
Printing money is only a problem when it's combined with a loss of faith and credit.

It can be a useful technique to tax wealth and provide liquidity. (i.e. "Quantitative easing")
Japan does not have anything even close to what would be considered a high-crime US neighborhood, and the little crime there is fairly even scattered around the country:

https://www.japanimal.org/culture-crime-map.php

Unsurprisingly bigger cities have (slightly) higher crime rates, with each of greater Tokyo, Osaka/Kobe/Kyoto, Nagoya and Fukuoka clearly visible.
This is rather disingenuously worded. It's NET sales aka profit, which is rather a bit different from the gross sales you would assume from reading the giant headline.
Jill+Stein+raises+funds+to+examine+Wisconsin+result+•+THE+WORLD+INFO
i play go, nowhere near the retired semi-professional level

my backwater go community doesnt really care about computers because we're too focussed on trying not to be so lousy, and on the conversation. the light chase.

i'm super curious...when you see alpha against sedol, or whatever this is against chikun. do you read something there? is there a character?
So first goal of fakers is to ruin that. It even written as one of main goals in Russian trolls goal books. Find a copy of such book and read it: you will learn a lot.
Except you may have step-children, adopted children, foster children, children in the house not part of your family (friends of your child, children of your friends), etc. Keep in mind that the census needs to include everyone who was in the house at the time it was filled out, not everyone who is part of your regular abode/family situation.

You might argue that it would work for the "most common scenario". In which case why not pre-fill all the data to the statistically most common values? (Hint: the census's purpose is to collect those statistics.)

Also, pre-filling might cause confusion as to which fields have already been filled out by the user; if a value is present, they might wrongly assume no action is required on their part.

(Having said all that, I haven't seen the online census.)
The articles on Donald Trump and abortion both seem very factual to me. They might have inaccuracies, but I doubt there exists any more objective source of information about Donald Trump or abortion on the Web.
>> because of bad policy stemming from at least a nominal socialist agenda

The oil price cop-out is one of the go to excuses for Venezuela. Another common one is the death of Chavez. Both are debunked by the fact that the current problems are nothing more than a worsening of problems that began [1] before either Chavez's death or the oil price drop. Venezuela is nothing more than the natural progression of extreme leftist government.

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/21/world/americas/venezuela-f...

(at the time of that story -- April 2012 -- oil was above $100/bbl)
This article was originally printed in 1970.

http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~fajans/Teaching/MoreBikeFiles/...
The Swinery in West Seattle
This is good answer.

It's also how profitable sports betting syndicates work. Lots of small bets with relatively low expected value. 1% expected return per week is 70% return in a year. You can't scale the syndicate above certain limit.
See OpenCV and TBB for examples (from Intel) of this strategy at work.
something that would be awesome is if there was a command line tool to spin one up & it'd have a ticking timer to let me know how much time is left.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13026321
Thank you very much. Great examples.
Once while applying for jobs I had an interview for a dev job with a firm like this. They refused to tell me exactly what they did, or even the company's name. I had to sign an extensive NDA before I could even interview (it was weird having to sign an NDA when it wasn't clear who I was signing it for)!

I was fresh out of school and flubbed the interview, but will never forget the experience. All they told me was, I would work around the clock, but if I came and did my job I would likely make a mint.
>The problem as I see it is that technology has made DJing too accessible. Every two-bit hipster with a Macbook thinks that they're a DJ.

This is the point I was trying to make. I'm very familiar with soundsystem culture, I've been making a living from it since I was 17. Obviously there's some good sounding stuff you can do while mixing on two decks, you just gave decent examples, but in my opinion it's never going to be as mind blowing as Birdy Nam Nam or Araabmuzik absolutely killing it on some freestyle stuff. It's never going to beat a great vinyl jungle set with an experienced scratcher, and it's certainly not going to beat some of the crazy live sets people in the downtempo psytrance scene play.

I went to a rave on halloween, and there was these two guys doing a live set. One guy was just doing regular 2 decks stuff for the rythmic section, while the other guy had an mpc, a controller and electronic drums plugged into his computer for the melodies. It was great seeing the drums used as melody, I've seen thousands of sets in my life and I was mind blown. There are no videos of him playing live, but here's his soundcloud.

https://soundcloud.com/swa-swally
Literally thankful to be alive.
Agreed, I completely missed the server name field. Scanned over it thinking it was a horizontal line with a label below and didn't bother to read it.
Martha Stewart?
We're still going with "Unicorn Blood", right?
I'm not sure it is a hefty fine for the situation. Its simply paying the remaining costs for IBM's failures.

I don't see how IBM thought they could pull if off for $9.6 million [0], especially with the ABS requirements for information handling during the census.

"Key measures to safeguard information include strong encryption of data, restricted access on a need-to-know basis and monitoring of all staff, including regular audits. After data collection and processing, the ABS removes names and addresses from other personal and household information. Names and addresses will be stored securely and separate from one another. No one working with Census data will be able to view your personal information (name or address) at the same time as your other Census responses (such as age, sex, occupation, level of education or income). Stored separately and securely, individuals names will also be substituted with a linkage key, a computer generated code, completely anonymising the personal information. Only these anonymous linkage keys will be used by the ABS to bring data sets together." [1]

Currently, it seems IBM is blaming their subcontractors, "While IBM issued a mea culpa, they were then quick to lay the blame at the feet of Australian communications company NextGen Networks and its upstream provider Vocus, blaming them for failing to implement a geoblocking service called Island Australia to prevent traffic reaching the site from outside Australia." [2]

And considering IBM's has a revenue stream of $20.24 billion this quarter [3], the fine won't really impact them.

As to their reputation, IBM doesn't have a brilliant name already:

* Failure to meet deadlines [4]

* In Queensland they were overbudget, overtime, and under scope [5] resulting in their permanent ban from working with the Queensland government.

* They have a great habit of building things that they call incredibly fast, but never perform up to spec in the real world [6].

Anecdotally, National Mutual contracted out to IBM for some "supercomputers" for their COBOL applications, to speed up processing time. The machines were half the speed IBM claimed. IBM's solution? Double the number of machines delivered, and ignore the extra costs of power, maintenance and network load.

[0] http://www.smh.com.au/business/ibms-reputation-at-risk-in-wa...

[1] http://www.abs.gov.au/websitedbs/censushome.nsf/home/privacy

[2] http://www.news.com.au/technology/online/security/ibm-faces-...

[3] http://www.businessinsider.com.au/ibm-surprises-with-q2-2016...

[4] http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-09-27/ibm-unlikely-to-hit-cu...

[5] http://www.healthpayrollinquiry.qld.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf...

[6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_7030_Stretch