skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'll add that this past year, multiple times the site told me my Prime shipping delivery date would be X. No further communication to indicate a delay. Indeed, the system shows the product shipped from whatever source. X would come and pass with no package. It would arrive on Y or even Z.

I no longer trust Amazon's committed and communicated delivery dates.

I suppose I could be all pro-active and self-advocating and repeatedly complain until I get some credits or whatever -- or at least an acknowledgment of the individual situation.

But, that's not really the point of Prime, is it? It's supposed to reduce my hassle.

Not this year, Amazon.

Maybe before you continue your relentless expansion, you should shore up your extant services that built you your current position.

As for me, I'm debating whether I allow or kill my 12/1 Prime auto-renewal.

It's also more than a bit insulting to see new members getting Prime sign up deals for $80, year after year, while you're charging me $100. Who's been the loyal customer? Are you focused solely on growth? Are you such a "monster", "too big to fail", that you don't need to and don't worry about retention?

I'm starting to more actively consider and use alternate purchasing vectors, despite Amazon's erstwhile convenience and payment data security.

P.S. The Bluetooth speaker I order came with a small dent. A lot of items now ship "rattling" around inside a poorly packed shipping box. And the Amazon Basics USB C cable whose page says it supports fast charging, doesn't.

My Amazon experience has been increasingly crappy. The one thing that's improved is that Prime video doesn't pixelate and stutter especially after first starting, like it used to.
So Palantir is going to analyze all Americans' data. Sounds great. Just great.
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Offer current buyers the option of giving a second copy to charity for an extra $5?
Apple reviews every single app that makes it to the store. Does the author really think this is not intentional?
Bad PR agencies can kill a startup before it has a chance to succeed
It’s all too easy to claim that children don’t need any innate priors or assumptions or representations, only to sneak them back in when it comes to get serious and implement a model. That was the trick in a lot of the neural-network models of language that were popular in the 80s and 90s – when the rubber met the road, they always built in innate structure without calling attention to it.

From the outside, seems like there are still similarities wrt ML and current AI.
Eh, too late, maybe admins can help?
If you dismiss government funded science and industry funded science as both being conflicted there is not much left.

> "a lot of it such "science" is used to justify increasing govt power."
Is this really true, or does the science suggest actionable outcomes that you are confusing with power. I suppose the scientists could just say do nothing, but with so much to learn that would seem very regressive.
Vim has a nice command to fix indentation from the beginning to end of file: "gg==G (include the dblquotes)
Since I know many here are much more inclined towards rigorous arguments, I highly highly recommend you read George Gilder's free book supporting something like a gold standard told through the lens of an information theory of money:

https://americanprinciplesproject.org/economics/new-george-g...
He's quite wrong.
In fact, he quotes me. I'm the one who said plenty of people have programs with flat profiles.
He simply asserts "this view is obsolete", with no data.

I pointed out to him that my data was based on the tens/hundreds of thousands of different programs running in google datacenters for many years.

The truth is, for larger customers who actually care about optimizing, profiles are pretty flat.

Because if they weren't, you'd hire people, switch languages, switch to gpus, make asics, whatever, until they were.

And if you didn't, you clearly don't care that much because it's not worth it, monetarily (IE not "important").

Which is fine, but it in fact, goes very against his point, because those people want optimizing compilers that do a great job without having to spend the money/time to mess with it by hand. He believes you hand these things to algorithm designers, but he misses that this just makes them flat again!

As far as i can tell, he's just handwaving.
I've talked with numerous colleagues elsewhere, and they see the same.

I have yet to hear of a lot of stories of incredibly important code that can't possibly be made faster, where people don't want compilers to do it.
Because it would just be dumb to have that code like that.

There may be code where, temporarily, it has to be like that while another solution becomes more cost effective, that happens for sure, but it's usually 2-3 year time periods.
Because otherwise, if my business could make more money/save time/etc by shoving that code on an FPGA, by convincing intel to add instructions, by funding compiler work, or whatever, not doing it is just dumb.

So they do it.
And then everything is flat again.

The only time people are doing those things by hand is for very short time periods. In the end, they want and need the optimizing compiler to catch up and be able to optimize it well for the architectures.

Even on GPU's, for example, people now depend heavily on optimizing compilers producing good code, even though, a few years ago, literally everything was done by hand.

Will there come a time where things can't be made faster, and we really do have hotspots again?
Maybe. We may change computing models so that doesn't happen :)
There was some discussion about this on HN [1].

Pretty interesting that it only got 183 votes. Usually when people talk about Apple's security holes, it generates much more discussion (criticism) and votes.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13031012
I'm absolutely pro regulation (I'm from europe) but the notion that all regulation is good is just as flawed as the proposition that no regulation would be better. I also agree about the capitalistic basis for regulation, but it really seems to me as if people are substituting the economic asymmetry of the median consumer vs a manufacturer for the liability distribution. That is to say, because the manufacturer has deeper pockets than the consumer (by selling a somewhat dangerous product at a profit) then the manufacturer should bear the bulk of the liability solely because of a greater ability to pay, and regardless of whether the consumer was adequately informed.

Profitability does not automatically imply liability...unless you want all manufacturers to carry total liability insurance for every product they sell and for every product to become significantly more expensive as a result.
And runs default root so essentially is a security nightmare waiting to happen.
Microsoft Confirms Its Chinese-Language Chatbot Filters Certain Topics
Sounds like a subsidy/payout to the steel making industry to me.
In my opinion, the niche with likes are mostly people who like everything
If you are looking for feedback, here is another suggestion for future posts: I found the use of violin plots for discrete data to be confusing. To be honest, I still am not sure how to interpret the unlabeled Y axis. I think a histogram would have been easier for me (and others) to interpret.

But suggestions aside, I found your article to be interesting. Thank you for it.
Interesting. My roommate is from somewhere in northern England; I'll have to pay attention for this in the future. His parents speak with received pronunciation though, so I suspect he has fewer colloquialisms in his speech than the general population of wherever he's from. He contends that his accent and figures of speech wouldn't be recognized as English at this point, but every American I know pegs him as British almost instantly, so who knows.
If you're willing to pay more than you're able to, I think you need to reevaluate your approach to personal finance first.
Saying Chomsky is wrong is like saying Newton is wrong. Or Freud is wrong.

A good theory is valuable because it provides a way of making sense of the world.

There are some theories where it CAN actually be proven wrong (like the old theory that the earth is flat, etc.), but it's stupid to say something is "wrong" when it cannot be proven wrong by definition, nor is it meant to be right or wrong.

No one understands how human beings work. Unless if you're a God.
I've dealt with the alt-right since the early 2000s in various libertarian circles where they tried to justify everything from eugenics to claiming LGBT people are the product of bad families. So, I'm not going to coddle any of the alt-right when they themselves don't hide their authoritarianism and anti-humanism. When they support the following ideals of civil rights for all people and a heavily restrained government in terms of personal surveillance then we'll talk. Until then, I'm not playing with them. They either change their ways or expect the same rebukes I've given neoliberals.
We built 5.6 with -O2 -march=broadwell -mno=avx (had to remove, probably pecl ext issue).

There was about a 15% performance gain. Nothing that would explain the large difference between E3 and E5.
Not really, it works great for some people. I'm very interested constantly turning over 1.2x roi using FB.

There are just specific types of campaigns you don't do using FB and if you're not experienced you most likely burn money.
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Google decided to take on IOS by loosening the quality controls that help make the ecosystem secure. Google could easily require code signing and auditing for all non-google OS components, but it chooses not to because doing so would hinder phone sales.

The vulnerability in BLU phones was due to third party code packaged in the Android build for BLU phones. This was discovered because it sent texts back to china. Imagine if a slightly more sophisticated attack were included, how easy would it be to spot?

I'd estimate that there may be over 20 stuxnet level malwares lurking in the Android ecosystem, leveraging it to spread opportunistically deeper into infrastructure and onto higher value targets, etc.

And this doesn't even consider hardware level malware which could be included in bulk via alternative ASIC designs that end up on millions of phones.
> This benefits a very small number of companies ... And everybody else pays the cost in terms of complexity, security holes, and implementation bugs.

Yes, exactly!! SPDY, QUIC, et al are designed by Google for the Googles and Facebooks of the world. It is not prioritizing what most sites need most. Hell, most sites don't need this period. Optimizing even the most generous 1.4% that Cloudflare claims isn't going to have any meaning to sites ranked below 100,000 in Alexa (eg 99% of them.) They're not going to run out of bandwidth, and their traffic means they're only using ~3% of a $5/mo VPS.

You want software and website monocultures? This is how you get it. Unbelievable complexity creep. All the fun we've had with OpenSSL vulnerabilities? Get ready for them in the new QUIC-HTTP/2 servers.

TLS alone already basically makes it impossible to write your own web server anymore, but at least that's a necessary evil due to ISP and state actor spying abuses. If you're okay with a world where everyone has the choice between nginx or Apache, I guess that's fine. I'm not, though.
We have not compared on bare metal.
Ending independent central banking in the US would probably destroy the credibility of US Government securities as an investment vehicle, which might in the short term make more money available in private markets. OTOHnot it's probably bad for any kind of investment in firms actually substantively tied to the U.S., and probably best for firms in the kitchen design of it distress expected to do well in a period of international political instability, not most tech startups (though some might do well.)

Then again, this kind-of talk doesn't mean he'll be appointed, or confirmed, or that his past stated policy preferences will make it into law.
Constellation background with JavaScript and TDD
Fantastic stuff.

But the question we all want to know the answer to is: Did they get paid for working 80hrs or for 'working' 30hrs?
How many people with industry experience did you talk to about this before you kickstarted?

The hobby game industry is very accessible: Go to the right convention and you get to talk shop with people with decades of experience printing and marketing games. Just two weeks ago I was talking to industry bigwigs about the changes that came to US publishing as part of Asmodee's purchasing spree of very different game studios. The kind of shop talk that describes the different choices you need when making a Fantasy Flight game, a Catan game or the first printing of Codenames are exactly the kind of thing you guys needed to know in advance.

Also, why did you decide to kickstart yourselves, as opposed to talk to a publisher?
So cool! Thanks for posting them.
Yeah, it needs to be a toy first. Otherwise it will be boring. Toys are meant to be fun. Thats why we play with them.

Ive tried different ones and only those that are actually fun and interesting get used enough to become broken. Then we have more fun fixing them.

Just be open to trying new things and dont force shit on your kids. Sometimes they just dont care about STEM.
Many very popular Android phones cost as much as iPhones do (which includes models like S7, Note 6/7, etc. ). This implication that people buy Android because they can't afford iPhones is a bit arrogant don't you think?
I don't remember a single time I took any government regulation seriously.

Well then you're just a foolish person. The absurdity of some regulations doesn't mean that all regulations are absurd - that's a simple fallacy of composition.

I dont even care if the doctor actually had a medical degree or not if the yelp reviews and my peer's reviews about that doctor are good enough.

Yeah sure buddy. Come over next time you have a bad pain and I'll operate for cheap. I have a really high karma score so you know I'm legit.
Strongly disagree. People learned to program on the ZX81 because it was cool but essentially useless. It booted directly into a BASIC prompt and came with a fairly good introductory programming manual. The Spectrum was essentially a games console that a handful of nerds learned to program on.

Micro:bit is designed like the ZX81, using lessons learned from the Raspberry Pi. It's a useless toy, but it's a useless toy that is fantastically easy to program. Hook it up to a computer via USB, go to a URL and it Just Works. Type some code or drag some visual programming blocks, click "compile" and the program is running on your micro:bit. If you want to hook up a buzzer or a switch, you can do it with crocodile clips and one line of code. It's an incredibly slick onboarding process that is perfectly suited to education.

http://microbit.org/start/

With a device like the Arduboy, it's too tempting to just play games. To program it you need to download the Arduino IDE, then install a bunch of libraries, then fiddle about with settings, then start reading through a bunch of documentation. With micro:bit you can go from unboxing to hello world in about five minutes, even if you've never written a line of code in your life.
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Why? It is a great way to gauge interest in your product. As long you as you don't go crazy like these guys, and start projecting 5x growth, you will be fine.
Not really. They're talking Raspberry PI type devices based on RISC-V on the market by late 2017.

Source: MeetBSDCon 2016, update on RISC-V by the team who designed it.
My favorite Seymour Cray anecdote is from Alan Kay when he did an AMA here on hn a few months ago:

"Seymour Cray was a man of few words. I was there for three weeks before I realized he was not the janitor."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11941941
Do you know if Clojure devs are expensive compared to Python and Ruby devs of similar experience? I feel the comparison to Java, .Net, & PHP maybe just a comparison of huge mainstream language to more "niche" languages.
The problem is that many Kickstarter campaigns are now offering a non-existing product as the main reward that people are paying for. Under the Kickstarter Terms of Service, they are obligated to deliver all rewards upon the successful funding of the campaign.
It's like screaming into a void when discussing Snap as an AR company. I've been talking about it since 2014, posted about it last year on our blog, comment the same thing consistently and yet it's like it's a surprise to everyone.
I think you are talking about the"Datomic Free" option which is still available: http://www.datomic.com/get-datomic.html
Just don't uncritically apply this to all files without thinking twice and also consult with your team. :-/
It's only 32bit. This is not something I'm interested in funding. If it was 64bit or the 128bit version of RISC-V it would be more alluring.
Your points are valid but this clusterfuck doesn't excuse Android: both Microsoft and Apple were able to deliver working ARM-based systems not subject to these issues: Microsoft by mandating UEFI, Apple by reasons unknown to me, but presumably helped by the fact that they're a vertical.

As a few people have noted, it's not "Intel x86/64" that's standard, they just happen to be a dominant player right now. The original architecture is the "IBM PC", and its clones that are "IBM PC-compatible", that all descend from the same BIOS lineage.

IBM became dismayed how other companies were profiting from its architecture, and released the incompatible PS/2 architecture instead [1], which fizzled, and its good parts -- like 3.5" floppies, VGA, and PS/2 connectors -- were adopted by the clones. In the 1990s, Intel and Microsoft rose to prominence and began to exert more control and dictate the direction of the architecture with specs like 'PC System Design Guide' [2], and they and other vendors produced several improvements (ACPI, USB, PCIe, AHCI, SATA, etc.) which were adopted by broad community consensus, pushing the architecture forward.

ARM is different, because they make their money licensing their cores, so historically they had no interest in cultivating a general-purpose, "vendor consensus" platform. And Android's owner, Google, just wanted to get its services like Google Search, Google Maps, Google Mail, Google Now into as many people's hands and pockets as they could -- and they succeeded, despite the platform's haphazard nature.

Samsung knows that Google and the handset manufacturers are allies of convenience. Samsung is hard at work trying to cook up an OS and ecosystem for its hardware that's not contingent on Google's continual involvement, even allying with Microsoft to bring .NET to Tizen after its previous attempts saw no developer uptake.

Meanwhile, Google knows that continued press coverage of Android's security situation is hurting the platform. It's trying to re-frame the partnership it has with hardware makers, to design more hardware in-house, and to lean on its partners only for contract manufacturing -- a shift from the Nexus days, incompletely executed with the first Pixel phone, but likely more to follow. This will enable Google to control more of the software on the phone.

[1] http://www.mcamafia.de/pdf/pdfref.htm
[2] http://tech-insider.org/windows/research/1997/0711.html
I think "Seventy-Two Letters" might be of particular interest to the HN audience. It's not that amazing in terms of literary merit (especially the way it just just sort of fizzles out at the end) but it's based on a particularly clever combination of ideas.
It seems unlikely Ms. Holmes is going to have the opportunity to pursue that strategy. She has been personally banned from running a diagnostic facility, her company is being sued for fraud, and pretty much all their claims have vanished in smoke. Who would buy a product with a company with a history like that?
Credit scores have existed long time in the West. This just extends the idea. I live in country where positive credit scores are not allowed and I think US type credit score is creepy, but people used to it seem not to care.

My fear is that it works all too well, especially in Chinese society.
Agree this is rapidly turning into false advertising in my opinion. Basically the problem is that when it shows the "Prime" logo, its becoming much less meaningful. 2-day shipping but ships out in 2 days from now, but the 2 day delay is not visible anywhere until you are about to check-out, then what does that "Prime" logo really mean?? Will ship in 2 days after anywhere between 1-7 days of "handling time"?? I mean, honestly that is roughly how I'm interpreting it now..
It depends on the age you're looking for, but at around ages 6–10 ours enjoyed Snap Circuits: https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B00CIXVIRQ
I'll add a trick that I think helps: work for very small companies or ones with very small software groups. A startup qualifies of course but there are lots of small companies where you can work on interesting stuff without the risk of a startup.

Large companies tend to have enough employees that people tend to specialize - it's an optimal arrangement for them[1]. Your "reward" for becoming the expert with technology "X" is that after a while you mostly get assigned to work with "X".

At a small company, that is less likely to happen. At my last job as an employee in a 2 developer company I would find myself doing high level GUI (WPF/C#), low level computer vision (algorithms/C++) and bit-banging stuff out a communications port while watching the responses from the laser controller using a data logger - all in the same week. A small company can't afford to have a developer dedicated to a single thing so by necessity you wind up wearing a lot of hats and learning a lot in the process.

[1] See theory of comparative advantage https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparative_advantage
Memory seems likely.

On the E5 php 5.6 in top we see sys at 15%.

On the E3 php 5.6 in top we see sys at 7%.

On the E5 php 7 in top we see sys at 13%.

We are exploring memory perf more now.
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Credit score is based on financial and measurable context.

Giving people brownie points for "being nice" or "not shitting in the streets" seems like a different ball game.
This post has little to do with science. You're talking about healthy media consumption with a misunderstanding on what being a published paper means. There's this huge disconnect among laypeople, which is probably the cause of the antiscience movement, that subscribes to the idea that once something is written down it becomes SCIENCE LAW. When infact all a peer reviewed article means is a group of qualifed folks couldn't see anything immediately wrong with your experimental setup that would color your results and so enter it into the total body of work. Then, when the next group wants to study in that field, they'll compare their results to yours, and either add credence to the established lexicon, or provide a competing hypothesis and body of evidence. With the exception of blatantly fraudulent studies (vaccines link to autism, early cold reports, etc) the idea that "science isn't always real" doesn't make much sense. Experiments can be flawed, conclusions can be faulty or incorrect, but the process behind them is still the same. There's neither anything stopping you from presenting a counter experiment; infact the community wants that. Just because the ideas behind good science doesn't sell papers, doesn't mean that it's not near 100% of the science being done.
If the solution to ME stealing my secrets is simply "don't plug in a network cable" then that's a lot simpler and I'm not going to bother with the potential brick making. Why go through all this and still not have a working computer?