skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We need a full fledged OS for the mobile, despite the fact that Steve Jobs created iOS so that phone softwares won't be "baby software" we are still not seeing many apps which are mobile centered, they build the webapp first and as an after thought the mobile app comes into place.

I want my phone OS and my laptop OS to be in sync, I want to program using my phone and many many more features. But both iOS and Android lock us out of the real stuff by making locking things up. Just imagine how the computing landscape would have been if Linux wasn't open and as locked up as the "FOSS" android. We'd be still using and cursing Windows3.4
If Animals Have Rights, Should Robots?
Cassandra is not a person, so that was not ad hominem.
Custom Subtotal Labels and Other Label Creation for Pie Chart in Spreadsheets
> Current machine learning techniques should be advanced enough to detect trolls.

So your idea to counteract people playing psychological games on others is to put something without the common sense of a three year old in charge of moderation. That's just glorious.
Dad taught me Vi, now I use Vim.

I work in the sciences and incidentally, a number of my colleagues say they use either Vim or emacs because that's what their PhD advisor used.
I met with a "startup" founder who wanted to "disrupt" hiring. His idea was to provide a platform for hiring which would be audio/video based and would use some magic to connect companies and people. As if parsing a resume wasn't enough and like recruiters don't know how to use Skype. All the time we were talking, he was explaining more about "disruption" rather than talking concretely about the idea itself.

Sam Altman, in the startup course in Stanford said a nice quote, " don't start a startup just because you want to start one, work on something and if it clicks, then start a startup"
Ask HN: Transitioning to freelancing after H1B
Happy Thanksgiving HN!

Has anyone ever managed to transition to freelancing and still legally staying/living in US after working on H1B as a full time employee?

Most immigrants are unfortunately locked in full-time employment due to H1-B. I was wondering if someone has managed to transition to a freelancing role.
Provide a link or a direct quote. something, that supports your assertion. Your unwillingness to do so comes off as intellectual dishonesty.
Technically its a very limited form of garbage collection... Then again with this definition so is just not free-ing anything and letting the OS cleanup after process exit.
In what way is neural network not a statistical technique ?

very curious to hear about your point of view. Statistics is not linear regression and ANOVA, or whatever catalogue of techniques in a freshman book, not even the library of techniques available in R.

Statistics is the application of probability (or more broadly, math) to data.

That said statisticians did miss the neural net wave because of their flippant reaction to it. They said, "oh well yet another non-parametric function approximator we have worked out the asymptotics 30 years ago".

To paraphrase someone wise: asymptotically we are all dead. Not enough heed was paid to that. Among their other lacks were expertise in algorithms and optimization. Mind you, optimization has been at the core of their craft from their very genesis, its just that they did not feel it important enough to ride the cutting edge of research on optimization. Note: you cannot do maximum likelihood with solving an optimization problem. Gauss was doing it several hundreds of years ago for statistics. If I go on a bit further with my rant, they got a bit carried away with their fetish over bias and asymptotic normality. They missed the wave, sure.

But all said and done, by any accepted definition of statistics, NN is very much also statistics.
Whats new in node 6
Apache HBase committer here.

HBase is strictly CP (except for its geo-replication, and optional timeline-consistent region replicas).

It uses MVCC for row "transactions" to always keep rows consistent. HBase also has checkAndPut and checkAndDelete primitives, which are atomic, as well as Increment and Append, which are atomic and serializable.

http://hadoop-hbase.blogspot.com/2012/03/acid-in-hbase.html explains it fairly well.

Together with Apache Phoenix you have full multi-row transactions, but they come with a price obviously.
The wiki article on it has a number of good illustrations to show it as well. Moreover, I find the cognitive leap from matrix multiplication to simultaneous equations very powerful and enlightening, particularly when you then understand the wide application of simultaneous equations.

Also, I encourage you to play with trying to shrink/expand the rows/columns of each matrix and seeing how it enforces certain rules on the other matrix. Once you mentally picture what'd happen if it didn't viz the animation that the site plays when you hit 'go', you begin to understand it better.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matrix_multiplication
For those interested in either, can you give more information/opinions to sway one way or the other?
I disagree.

In many places, perf is still important, and one of the reasons, I believe, that GNU offers its manuals in various formats: [0]

I know of a few devs that work for web, but due to their nations economics, work:

* On a smartphone

* Via a satellite connection

Despite being in a first world country, I've had to do both at various times whilst working from remote areas.

The GNU manuals have a huge wealth of information, but they load fast by following simple-first policies.

caniuse.com is a SPA, but they load damn fast.

I'm not saying that this page is insanely slow, but that it is slow at all is still a surprise.

And not every dev in the world gets to have broadband.

[0] http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/
Well, that depends: did Krugman actually say those things? That's the objectively measurable fact that matters in this case, because the "news" being reported is that fact that a well-known person said something newsworthy.
You can also try Vivaldi when something does not work in qutebrowser as it has support for single key keyboard shortcut s. I recently voted for native vim mode in Vivaldi reddit feature request thread. Worth checking out.
It's a paradox that the companies that care attract activist consumers who can never be satisfied and so get criticized more than companies that don't even try.
Whites are convicted of fraud far more often than any other race:

https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2013/crime-in-the-u.s.-...
I'm not sure why the bottom comment is marked "dead", but it seems prescient to me. Isolationism is exactly what China wants the US to do.
Didn't the election come down to only ~0.1 million votes out of 125 million? Just saying it doesn't take much.
Im thankful I have the ability to exercise critical thinking.
One thing that can help with harmonic mixing is, when you have a 2-3 song combination that truly makes sense and is a crowd-pleaser, prerender it as a mashup. Then you can audit ahead of time for train wrecks, and mix the final product in (harmonically or non-harmonically) with only a couple measures or beats of overlap. Not to mention that this can build a lot more hype as an individual release. Producers like 3LAU and The White Panda use this strategy to great effect.
I work for a large company that used docker in production. A lot of companies are. There are a lot of big names using Kubernetes, Mesos or some other container orchestration system.
observation: the "web" link underneath the title appears intended to do this automatically

performance report: the "web" links usually fail (as in this case) completely when needed most no matter how much time you waste trying, but sidi's link works ideally instantly. Using a Tor browser.
Cloud Accounting
Accounting software doesn't need to be $50K a year. If you're in a situation where you think you need to spend that much to report on cash burn rate, bookings, revenue, or anything else, let me know. We can help.

-Ben
ben.taylor@softledger.com
RSS 2.0 was specced in '02, if I have my dates right.

The web world has changed a fair bit in 12 years.

That the spec demands a protocol is hardly surprising, and I do wish that most readers out there would allow other connection protocols, but as they mostly don't, offering a part of your website over HTTP seems the only option.

To mitigate: Statically generate your RSS on each change. (If you use something like Jekyll, a breeze, something like PHP, a pain in the ass).

In the long run?

We need RSS 3.0, as long as the big players don't compromise it or kill it, but instead adopt it.
1. nano. standard in many distributions, easy to work with, I don't have to go through the complex commitment to muscle memory that modes require.

2. geany. larger projects demand something a little more, and geany provides just that. light enough that I can keep it running almost 24/7 and feature-full enough to support large projects with dozens of files.
> Is there any ARM SOC yet that ARM has said can run Linux out of the box?

That is not how this works. ARM doesn't design any SoCs sold to the general public. They design some specifications, such as the ARM architecture specs, a number of implementations (i.e. the Cortex cores) and a number of other IP blocks such as cache controllers, memory controllers, SD/MMC controllers, UART controllers, interconnects, DMA engines, MMUs and, yes, GPUs. AFAIK all of these apart from GPUs are supported in mainline Linux due to drivers written by ARM, which is why I've said that all their IP except GPUs is supported properly.

Now, to actually create SoCs, other companies such as Allwinner, NVIDIA, Samsung, etc, buy a license either for the architecture and use their own implementation (e.g. NVIDIA Denver) or they buy a license for the ARM implementations (e.g. the Allwinner A64 which uses Cortex-A53). These companies can then license a subset of the other ARM IP blocks, they can create their own, or they can license them from other companies. So you end up with SoCs which are either partly or completely not ARM IP, hence not ARM's responsibility to support as a complete unit. If you're looking to blame someone, blame whoever designed the SoC.

> Drivers for all the hardware bits are tied tightly to Android.

The GPU and video accelerators have userspace bits which are typically proprietary and Android specific. This is what I was saying is indeed annoying but not that much of a problem. The GPU on ARM SoCs only provides OpenGL(ES) acceleration, while graphics output, framebuffers, and even the hardware support for XV (video scaling, colorspace conversion) is usually implemented in different IP blocks with available drivers. Software decoding for 1080p and smaller video is fast enough on most SoCs.

> ARM SOCs are all different and tightly closed.

They're all different indeed, but not necessarily tightly closed. You can get the reference manual for a whole bunch of SoCs, including NVIDIA Tegra K1 and X1, the Freescale i.MX series, the TI Sitara series and most Allwinner SoCs (ha). These normally exclude the graphics/video accelerators, but everything else needed to have a usable system is typically included.

> Which ARM SOC can you run on Linux without support from third party open source developers?

Things get really blurry between drivers officially supported by the vendor, drivers mainlined by the employees of these companies in their free time, and drivers written by the vendor but mainlined by the community. AFAIK, at least the Tegra series and the X-Gene based APM SoCs are in the first category.

> Only the rasberry pi works on the latest mainline and that is due to the work done by the foundation

Well, that's simply not true. I personally use a Cubieboard 2 (Allwinner A20), Jetson TK1 (Tegra K1), Acer Chromebook 13 (Tegra K1) and APM X-C1 (APM883208) on mainline. On TK1, even the GPU is supported via nouveau and APM883208 doesn't have one.

Wasn't the mainlining work for RPi mostly done by Eric Anholt, who (surprise!) works for Broadcom, the makers of the SoCs they use?
Summary:

> Reddit CEO Steve Huffman has confessed to modifying the posts of some users on the most visible Donald Trump-supporting “subreddit” community after they repeatedly slung verbal abuse in his direction…

> By editing users’ comments to reflect something other than their original intent, Huffman changed himself and Reddit from being an “interactive computer service” to an “information content provider.” i.e. If Huffman or Reddit are sued, they cannot claim Section 230 immunity from a lawsuit.

> In legal terms, Huffman has exposed Reddit to liability.

> That the CEO of a media company so flagrantly violated the integrity of the copyright of its users is insane. It represents a complete lack of understanding of the ethical, moral, and legal duties he has to his customers and his shareholders. Huffman has potentially exposed Reddit to legal liability through his actions. By any account, it’s a breach of his fiduciary duty to shareholders.

EFF:

https://www.eff.org/issues/bloggers/legal/liability/230

> Section 230 says that "No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider."

> However, you may still be held responsible for information you provide in commentary or through editing. For example, if you edit the statement, "Fred is not a criminal" to remove the word "not," a court might find that you have sufficiently contributed to the content to take it as your own. Likewise, if you link to an article, but provide a defamatory comment with the link, you may not qualify for the immunity.
This is a bad kind of argument. There are more 16x16 sudoku boards, and ways of dealing a deck of cards, than there are atoms in the Universe too, but Sudoku and many card games are easy for computers to solve.
I am sorry but I have to call bullshit on this.

To give just a taste for the nice properties of KL, if you are using a layer 1 NN with the sigmoid function as the transform, using square loss gives you an explosion of local minima. OTOH using KL in its place would have given you none. Numerically accuracy is pretty much a non-issue, people have known how to handle KL numerically since the last 40 or so years.

BTW using KL on equivariant Gaussian gives you square loss, apparently the loss you prefer.
We can often misunderstood the value of ideas.
Like you mentioned - many people have thought about flying cars, internet or space travel. That doesn't make us smart or a visionary.
Ideas need to have a possible course of action.
Everything else is just a wishlist or a desire.
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FST-01 is an STM32F1-based board, which according to [1] can be dumped fairly cheaply.

[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13031484
emacs and joe on nox shells.

Why? It can do everything. For 25 years ongoing
Most of the article is biased reflections of the author.
There may probably be a lot of things he could do to help Python but why is listing problems any less useful?

He says he gave it a try many times, too, so it's not just blind criticism.

I don't like how he disregards the opinions of communities and how he validates his, but that doesn't mean he totally wrong about the problems of Python 3.
Absolutely, flexbox is great.

My comment with browsers, is more about knowing your audience. Most of the evergreen browsers do support flexbox but...

Well, I maintain a website for a company.

97.3% of visitors, are return visitors.

69.77% of the visitors are using a version of Internet Explorer.

69.03% of the visitors are using Internet Explorer 7.0.

I have no hope of getting to use flexbox to simplify managing the website, which makes me very sad.
its good site for CSS with practical environment.. and i have also some related article on that go with this https://askopinion.com/polls/technology/worldwide/
Minority report scenario hinges on the fact that the crime predictions are not completely reliable.

But if we had a 100% sure way of detecting that someone's going to commit a crime, should we use it? This would be a dangerous change of perspective about free will and its relation to the law.
Not everyone has nice employers giving SSDs and I bet most likely 16GB.

On the other hand VS runs properly on a HDD with 8GB.

As for Android, since you only installed Studio for the first time, let me explain it how it goes:

- Data binding introduced at Google IO 2015, still doesn't work in all use cases;

- The new layout constraints introduced for Android N, are still work in progress. In some cases blueprints and actual UI get out of sync, crash or don't expose certain attributes;

- Between the Camera and Camera2 API, I am not sure which one is worse;

- During two years anyone using the NDK was left unsupported, only after InteliJ announced CLion, did Google announced it would add its plugins to Studio. It took two more years to finally have some decent support for the NDK;

- Which since the move to Gradle had only the ndk-build documented, with some information scattered around how to use the new unstable Gradle plugin, followed by another plugin on the stable Android. But actually the way forward is to use cmake;

- There is hardly a Support Library release that doesn't have regressions;

- The Java fork, that is increasingly causing friction with Java libraries;

- The Jack compiler still doesn't support all of the Android own tooling;

- Fragments and activities, oh well....

- Gradle execution speed measured in minutes;

- The deprecated API between releases;

- Hardware accelerated 2D actually depends on how the APIs are used;

Stopping here even though I could easy add a few additional ones, but any Android developer can happily add some more bullet points here.
> The GNU manuals have a huge wealth of information, but they load fast by following simple-first policies.

Do all GNU projects keep there documentation i one big file? I wanted to contribute some recently but got lost in a complex help file.
OJ, Donald and America's Achilles Heel
He says "democratic socialist". I would take your reversal of the phrase to be related to the democratic party, though perhaps I'm reading too much into it?

Even then he's called himself a socialist without any qualifiers before:

"﻿When I ran for the Senate the first time, I ran against the wealthiest guy in the state of Vermont. He spent a lot on advertising — very ugly stuff. He kept attacking me as a liberal. He didn’t use the word ‘socialist’ at all, because everybody in the state knows that I am that."

politifact has some nice analysis on it:
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2015/aug/26/...
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From the article:

> The law firm was paid in Theranos stock for its work on the patent case, according to a person familiar with the matter. 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.

Wonder what the valuation's at now.
VS Code on Node, go or random projects because I like the extension system and it's very light, simple and free. Used to use Atom but that crashed all the time and was slow.

For big PHP projects PhpStorm because it does everything
Yeah, I read that. They don't tell you how often they raise the caps.
Musk's businesses may be spread too thin. The Solar City merger was iffy; that's a bet Solar City can beat China on solar panel price.

Tesla needs to get their production line for the Model 3 going. They need to develop self-driving that works in the real world. The Gigafactory battery factory, which right now just has the battery assembly line moved from Fremont, needs to be finished.

Space-X needs to get their launch rate up so they can stop losing business to other launch providers. They need to finish the man-rated Falcon 9 and Dragon capsule.
They also need to get the Falcon Heavy, which has slipped from 2014 to 2017, to first launch. There's also the Texas launch facility, which has slipped.

Musk has a lot of expansion underway, and most of it is behind schedule. Not a good time to go off in search of the next cool thing.
Has anyone ever won?
Yes indeed, but the Brownian motion story is weaker than the CLT story. Lot more conditions required, you have to look at it the right scale, in the right way ... then stochastic processes look very much like a Brownian motion. Well, technically the bog standard CLT is a special case of this, hence has a simpler story.
ON DUPLICATE KEY is another construct that is used in some DB (MySQL or HBase with Apache Phoenix and others).
That was an interesting read; thanks for sharing. I'm always fascinated reading the latest exposes on the Venezuela saga.
Like how wikipedia does it? Full content but mostly collapsed.
However, I don't think you need to cut out 70 % of the US population out to make a difference. More like 1-2 %?

Take out some areas of St. Louis, Detroit, Chicago and a few other places, and the numbers look very different.

Of course other countries also have their bad places, but I think the U.S. is much more split to good and bad areas than most developed nations.
> A good DJ can make the difference between a mediocre party and a really amazing party.

I hear this a lot. However, this sounds like rationalization of DJing competences.
Are there ways to check such a statement?
Have you looked into ways you can personally derive energy from less environmentally destructive sources? I just started a meetup in Berkeley to get together with people interested in clean energy. [1] Time to take matters in our own hands. :)

[1] https://www.meetup.com/Berkeley-Clean-Energy-Hackers/

p.s., If you live near Berkeley c'mon down.

Edit: fixed typo
Ah, I missed that. It's hard to say with certainty whether horseback riding diminished the popularity of foot races since it happened such a long time ago and at a time where probably neither was considered a sport or entertainment.

I do think that technological advances in general affect the appeal of certain games and sports by rendering them less mysterious or by bringing them further from a real world activity/situation.

Of course, I'm talking about relative, not absolute, popularity. Chess and horseback riding will remain popular for a long, long time.
also called "Soundgoodizer" in some DAW :-)
Vim on Cygwin & notepad++ on work. NeoVim and a few times Kate on my PC.

I work usually on windows with Eclipse + Vrapper (Eclipse poor Vi emulation plugin). But every time that I can, I try to use Vim to edit files.
People use Visual Studio instead of Vim or GNU Emacs because there's much more marketing and advertising being done for Visual Studio.
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I use a hex editor and write in raw Unicode.
Conduct On-Site Induced Withstand Voltage Test and Partial Discharge (PD) Test
Obligatory xkcd: http://xkcd.com/378/
I'm not an expert here, so I would invite contrary interpretations. I know you can't setup speakers outside and play Spotify, but it should be legal in a venue that pays ASCAP. When I worked for a radio station in the early zeds we were told many times that their ASCAP license allowed us to play music regardless of the source, so ASCAP should supercede the Spotify prohibition on public performance.
Uber Portal Leaked Names, Phone Numbers, Email Addresses, Unique Identifiers
I often wonder why companies and governments even trust large organisations like IBM over individuals they've interviewed themselves. I mean, it's not like IBM's consultant's competence is any secret. IBM is also trying to make it worse, or at least, not making the competence factor any priority. Rather, it's cost over everything:

http://www.businessinsider.com.au/ibm-layoffs-1-month-severa...

I mean how do you get away with hiring IBM (or accenture, PwC, didata, deloitte or, may God help us, Tata or something like that, where cost of paycheck is literally the only factor in hiring).