skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Which, ASCII or UTF-8?

If you have a file without a BOM, you have to pick one.

As every 8 bit combination is an ASCII character of some kind, you can interpret every UTF-8 character as a combination of ASCII characters. And what you output will be different to what was input (unless you restrict yourself to single byte UTF-9 characters).

Without some other way of indicating the encoding format of a file, a BOM can be a tool to indicate "It's probably encoded using UTF-X".
The dock connector lived for 13 years, ADB lived for about as long, and both were obsolete and replaced by better ports.

I don't doubt that one day iPhones may use USB-C or whatever replaces it, but the lightning port is going to be around for a long time - it was designed to last at least a decade, and I don't doubt that it will.
None of which affects California and New York state labor laws.
But my middle name IS null
I would imagine that the cable itself contributes more to the headphone falling out than the weight of the headphone itself.

Also, I imagine you mean "likely lose just one of the pair", as losing one pair means losing both of them (not intended as a dig, just helping to clarify; your intentions seemed clear)
Forget AT&T. The Real Monopolies Are Google and Facebook
I completely blame my own community, rather than you, for writing this, but as an AI researcher, your comment is terribly painful to read. We have little to no idea how actual neurons (let alone entire brains) really work. The things that are often called "(artificial) neural networks" really shouldn't be called that. I strongly prefer terms like "computational networks" or (where applicable) "recurrent/convolutional networks".
Are you sure that's the NSL number being redacted at the top-left?

The NSL numbers are also listed in the Google blog entry, and are in the URLs of each PDF, so the numbers definitely aren't something that Google intended to censor.
That's a good point, although I'd argue that anything is less proprietary than something that literally runs only on a single vendor's hardware.

Also, I feel that proprietary shouldn't be used as a synonym to targeted at specific hardware, because being truly independent of the hardware might just be too much to ask for.

But it's interesting to consider why HIP doesn't support compiling to OpenCL. They don't seem to address this in the FAQs, but I think the reason might be that in addition to all the other problems, OpenCL is terrible as an intermediate language for compiling C++ to OpenCL. If it wasn't, then I don't know a good reason for why something like HIP wouldn't support it out of the box. I mean, compiling C++ to C basically requires a full-blown C++ compiler, which is a huge investment of resources, so I really wonder how the decision was made to base OpenCL on C99. Because of all this, I'm not sure how to understand HIP in relation to the rest of the ecosystem.
I agree with many of your points, but still China is the second largest country in information technology, better than EU and Japan. How do you explain this? Any thoughts?
The previews are nice, but they do tend to catch the eye and make it difficult to quickly filter out unwanted results. It's hard to skim the result titles. I do like the tiles, however.

The clickable suggestions at the top are an awesome idea. It's an improvement from having to start typing again to get suggestions.

Overall, this looks polished and well-designed. Competition in the search engine space is still sorely needed.
Not to mention that AirDrop has been a disaster since its inception, and I haven't heard a single good thing about unlocking Macs wirelessly with the Apple Watch.
The causality here has always been misguided because of the name "Gateway" given to these drugs by the media. "Gateway" drugs are not gateways people use to transition through, and shouldn't be thought of or called as such. They are "first warning" drugs.

Almost all toothaches do not need a root canal, but some toothaches are definitely the first warning sign for needing a root canal.

<strike>Children</strike> People, who are more likely to try cigarettes/alcohol are also more likely to try harder drugs, and people who are more likely to try harder drugs are more likely to try even harder ones. Usually the causality is related to issues at home / issues at school / issues of biology+psychology. They have a desire to exit society because it has failed them. The fact that they do "mild"(i.e. more common) drugs before they do "harder" ones is simply common sense on their part. FWIW, these same people would likely fail the cookie test[0].

There is an interesting Ted talk[1] which discusses the correlation between heroin addiction and a feeling of belonging. i.e. if you feel detached from your community you're at risk. And inversely if you're an addict, being accepted into a community is the biggest predictor of successfully overcoming the addiction.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_marshmallow_experimen...

[1] https://www.ted.com/talks/johann_hari_everything_you_think_y...
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what abotu someone with 0 experience in ruby but has experience react/js c
I look at man pages all the time.

On the other hand, I avoid Java as much as possible, so I might not be the best test market.
My problem with apple headphones is that my ear holes are apparently different sizes. The right ear is always fine and the left is always less comfortable (if only just). I switched to over the ear bluetooth headphones a while ago and haven't looked back.

Edit: I should add that with in-ear headphones, I was always able to get a good fit by using the one-step smaller rubber ends for the left ear and the default one for the right ear. Never had a problem that way. Still, I prefer over the ear these days, and they also double as earmuffs in the winter time!
It sounds like we could've used something like Aleph to centralize the queries that were coming in, as opposed to the case where somebody copy and pastes a query to someone who adds a column and then emails it to someone else, etc etc. And you're right, there is no silver bullet, so it's always good to hear how other folks are making it work. Thanks for the response!
They need to make it safer than average driver being adviced by driver assistance systems.

That system can fix the negatives of human drivers without affecting the advantages of humans over machines
What happened to Palmer Luckey? I haven't been keeping up with the Oculus news for a while.
I didn't address [the facts of what happened] and I don't care much about [them].

Not my way of looking at the world. But hey, whatever works for you, pal.
> Because of course: something is going on: crazy Internet trolls are trying to frame strangers for pedophilia.

Frame is the absolute wrong word. Nobody is framing anybody. It's an investigation: and one that's limited to looking at public records and internet articles and social media accounts and the like.

I know that the New York Times has already decided the idea of a pedophile ring involving some powerful people to be double-plus "fake news", but its current CEO Mark Thompson literally helped cover up the crimes of child abuser Jimmy Savile for the BBC, so should we just take their word for it?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/jimmy-savile/10...

> The author of a controversial inquiry into the handling of the Jimmy Savile scandal at the BBC has suggested that a former director-general lied when giving evidence, according to a tape recording. Nick Pollard was asked by a journalist during a taped conversation if Mr Thompson's "instinct" was to "lie" during questioning when he appeared before the inquiry. Mr Pollard replied: "Yes. Well... yeah, yeah."
They shouldn't believe that shipping a MVP will immediately displace the current legal system in which they are vulnerable to nuisance lawsuits over an implied warranty.
a non-sarcastic phrasing might be....

"Do you use an Ad blocker? I do, and didnt have that experience."
You're assuming that all nodes are functionally important/non-spurious.
I do wonder if they accounted for statistical bias.

Death rate is 3x larger, but US population was ~60% of what is was now. That alone means that the death rate is actually only 1.8x times bigger.

Additionally, it's been shown that doctors have been bribed and has caused vast over-diagnosis.

Why was this clickbait, masquerading as a study, linked on HN?
As zodiac said: yes.

I think the printer knew he needed large parentheses, but didn't have them available (or he had used all of them elsewhere in this edition of this journal), so he went for something similar that he had instead.

Knuth's rationale for writing TeX is full of this kind of observations on mathematical typesetting: letters that become larger in some places, italics that disappear, tiny font changes, etc.
Manpages still matter for Linux systems. Not necessarily for GUI-only tools, but any command-line tool should have a manpage. They remain the most convenient and consistent form of documentation for command-line tools, with the possible exception of --help.

If you need to know which command-line option to use for a particular behavior, consider the relative amount of time needed to find out via a browser and search engine, versus installed documentation, versus a manpage. And if the search engine comes close, half the time it does so by finding the relevant manpage (or excerpting the relevant manpage snippet).

The troff markup language remains terribly baroque, and in truth it hardly matters except as "the thing that existing manpages all use so the man tool handles it". Nothing but inertia and existing infrastructure keeps that format necessary, but learning the small subset of it needed for manpages doesn't take long, especially if you copy an existing manpage as a starting point.

Groff knows how to produce HTML from a manpage, and the result can help if you want to provide documentation that works on other platforms.

The conventions of manpages matter far more than the markup details. If "man sometool" popped up with troff-formatted documentation that didn't have the expected sections and section order, it wouldn't have anywhere near the same value.
If a autonomous car can pass a standard driving test it should be allowed to drive. They always do, every time.
IIRC, it was not fixed at release for Excel for Mac 2016 but there is now an option to Save As a "CSV UTF-8 (Comma Separated)".
If I wanted to hand user data over to a 3rd party that tapped the entire backbone, I'd make that user data unencryptable. Why would I want to send Gbps of traffic to that third party? Then everyone would know. If they can just analyze the recorded traffic, none has to know.
it seems like their naming scheme is to take a three-syllable name, and cut off the first syllable. Triathalon -> Athlon, Centurion -> Turion, Horizon -> Rizen.
I like the idea but sadly I'm sure it's more of a marketing effort than an actual platform. I've been saddened to not be able to find social media marketplaces that provide an actual twitter platform (ie programmable). All you can buy is x thousands of account blasting an identical message. Or maybe I haven't been looking hard enough?
One reason why the SF Bay Area attracts so much tech talent is that techies have high status here.

Boston is the second biggest location in the U.S. for startups, but as a tech worker, it was a much worse place to be status-wise. Boston is teeming with doctors, corporate lawyers, management consultants, investment bankers, etc., who generally have much higher status (and typically earn much, much more money) than a developer there.
I think what we might see is a kind of autonomous corporation that is nominally under the control of shareholders, a CEO or a board, but which makes decisions without very much or any human input, and which gains some amount of legal rights through corporate personhood.

It won't be a 'general ai', though. More like a set of loosely connected systems that operate 'in the best interests of the shareholders', however that's defined.

It's pretty much the end state of the trend of pushing decision making to algorithms to remove moral and legal culpability from individuals.
It will be once he actually analyzes the protocol, because it would mean
pulling it out from OpenVPN's source code, which is a really difficult task.
I don't know how Green or his team is skilled in reverse engineering.
> Imagine if everyone could get around easily and safely, without tired, drunk or distracted driving.

I don't really think we should place drunk driving at the same level as tired or distracted driving.
That would be about 5% low for me. I've never had earbuds fall out without the 'help' of a cord...
> trains aren't completely automated

> subways aren't completely automated

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_automated_urban_metro_...

> planes aren't completely automated

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unmanned_aerial_vehicle
Thanks for responding ...

> He would have noticed if costs were increasing elsewhere.

My guess is that you haven't worked in many large organizations! :)
Can you post a summary of what they did wrong, and what they should/could have done different?

Or do you think they should not have done any breaking change at all?
> You're thinking the old AMD architecture, which was quite different from that of Intel, and it sucked. The new architecture is much better

I've been hearing that for the last eight years and it has never been proven to be true, in real world benchmarks and $$$/performance by the time equivalently priced tiers of competing varying $125, $195, $250 and $350 CPUs are available for purchase.
That's what an appendix is for. Letters to Nature are 1500 words. You'd be surprised how effective that forcing function is. Not only do you preserve meaning, but you can convey it better because it respects the readers cache size limitations.
Mac-only? Where's the linux port? :)
While I agree with your observations, there is also some element of selection bias. Most Chinese students that are able to make it to the US come from rich families since most internationals don't get financial aid (so maybe they're more likely to be spoiled/entitled).

Also, depending on how "top" your university, it may have been easier for these students to get into your university than the top universities in China (e.g. they have lower test scores than their peers at the top unis in China).
> I believe people like owning things... This is a basic fact of being human

There are some objects we enjoy forming a relationship with. Your favorite kitchen knife. Your bed. Your sports car you take out on the weekend.

There are other objects we just want to work. Your running shoes. Your daily commuting vehicle. Your dish rack.

Of course it varies from person to person which items fall in which category.

There will always be a market for people who want to own and fetishize a car. The same way there is a market for people who want to own and fetishize their record collection.

But it is usually a smaller market than the market for people who just want convenient access to the thing. I.e. Spotify.

Which will be bigger, Spotify for mobility, or your neighborhood hipster automobile dealer?
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I think this is expected, and I don't believe many people in the space thought the current round of VR would be a computing paradigm change that causes a huge growth like iPhone or the web.

The analogy I like to use is current VR is like an early PDA (Palm Pilot, PPC or Newton), which means we're 5-10 years out from a mature device that could be called a VR iPhone. Its possible that somewhere along the way everyone gives up on VR and AR, which can enable many of the same experiences anyway, but its also possible that VR is still missing a lot of what makes a compelling mass market consumer device and there will be an iPhone style product that everyone emulates in the future.
Trump's presidency won't simply be about the direct benefit to Thiel's existing investments and bets on the table like Palantir. I believe that the greatest opportunity that Trump's presidency will create is through disruption to a whole host of industries. If you're a VC, you are probably already looking at areas that there will be massive privatization like education, health care, etc. These create new business opportunities for an entrepreneur like Thiel to make plays in.
The IRS suddenly starts audits of company officials. Srsly.
There's a nice analogy with fighter jets taking off from aircraft carriers. They have handlebars in the top of the cabin that the pilots are required to grab during take off. Experience had shown that, when they took off with their hands in the steering stick, the acceleration was so high that they'd react by pushing the stick, plunging the plane into the ocean.
They showed a single hand picked benchmark for video encoding. I'll truly believe it when I see a mixed head to head comparison like: http://www.anandtech.com/show/9483/intel-skylake-review-6700...
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Are you in search of miraculous?
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"In Search of the Miraculous:
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If your app that can't handle basic JS and SQL injection attempts then you deserve the bad time you're bound to have. ;)
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Redmine comes to mind:

https://www.redmine.org/boards/1/topics/18986
Why do you think there is a ton of money for this? Currently buyers go through salespeople--it's not elegant but not it is working. How much more money would an automated system be able to extract, given that some buyers are comfortable with doing it in-person?
I was about to say that it worked fine for me but then I realized that it might be because I have uMatrix, so I allowed the site everything it wanted in order to test and indeed that interferes with right click due to a dumb black popup thing with a twitter and two other icons on it.

Disappointed. Would have expected more in terms of UX from Google.

Anyway you might enjoy uMatrix, it's pretty good although it can be a tad bit annoying to figure out what I need to allow each domain in order for their pages to load content when they host content-critical scripts and such on a separate CDN-domain that they own or through a third-party CDN.

I also don't know if it's possible to allow some domain to always be allowed to be iFramed by any other. For example I would like to always allow embeds from SoundCloud, YouTube and Vimeo on any site.
> One annoying thing is there's no idiot protection... You can lock yourself out of the admin interface and only way to recover is restore factory defaults.

Been there, done that :)
I'll call shenanigans on this one:

>> In order to hire the Botnet you first need to join the bots with your Twitter account.

Any actual commercial enterprise, legal or not, would take your money without asking your participation.
The only reason my headphones ever "fall out" is because something catches the cable.
I'll be a believer the first time they actually put a fully unmanned vehicle on a public road with no "safety" driver on board. That'll be big news indeed and indicate that the technology is far enough along to be taken seriously on a massive scale.
Yep, AmEx for example will provide vendors with the new numbers, expiration dates, etc., when your card expires and they issue you a new one.
I think this is brilliant social satire come to life. Can there be a block chain of people who "trust" a source within the net and where central claims originate?
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Apple isn't going to be the first company that comes out with audio augmented reality or any new technology, really. Apple doesn't invent new product categories, and never really has. They wait for someone else to come out with an early, terrible version of something, see if there's a market for it, and then come out with a new take on it that doesn't suck.

Where is the augmented reality device they're going to be targeting with this?

If anything you'll see them take on something like google cardboard or oculus directly before they do something really left field with headphones. But even that is a couple years away.
I dual majored in history, and I always chuckle whenever I hear people complaining about partisan media.

US Revolutionary war papers make current day talk radio seem balanced!
What is wrong with using the sorrow of war to justify the means of war? A thing can be both good and bad. Sometimes war is justified and is a good thing, relative to not going to war. Sometimes war is good because it puts a stop to a bad war. There is nothing contradictory about this.
No, that's a bad idea.

TC articles ARE many times vapid, uniformative and click-baity, but...

They will remain tech-oriented, timely and do serve the purpose of initiating conversation, by drawing attention to information sources that might not have gained visibility on their own. In short, you risk harming the network effect by applying a censor or restriction against such behavior.

This is one of those nuances that requires to blood and sweat of moderation. Unless there's a reasonable way to maybe crawl the submission and search its contents reliably, preventing such links carries risk.
This would be great.

Sometimes the game UX presents probabilities in a misleading way... such showing the card being taken from a deck. However if it was probabilistically accurate, the deck shown in the UX would have probably 10000 cards in it.
Indeed. The fact that the first use experience is (from what I've heard) the very best pairing experience for any bluetooth headset ever tells that story quite well (all thanks to Apple's proprietary W1 chip, of course).

I've got a pair of Bose QC 35s and though their pairing experience is standard annoying bluetooth pairing, their support of multiple devices/easily switching between them is the best I've seen in bluetooth headphones I've purchased. The AirPods are, apparently, comparable to the Bose in this regard, with a better onboarding experience.
I meant that it's a bit similar in the way that the passing on of signals and how over time neurons prefer some connections rather than others.

This part is a bit similar, no?
> Very curious how long battery life actually is

Most of the reviews of the preproduction units said Apple's 5 hour claim was about right. That's about 1-2 hours more than I get from my current earbuds, and they can't charge one-at-a-time or give me 3 hours of use in a 15 minute charge.
That makes sense. I was going to pick up GPU programming, and I don't wanna learn CUDA just to use this tool.

Any guides on getting started with running ROCm?
No sure why you make that distinction, or what the benefit of that will be. I want to read HN on the back seat on the way to work, not "supervise" the driving appliance.
碼工 is also correct.

Programmers are literally 程序員, where 程序 means program, and 員 means worker. People also call them 程序猿, where 猿 has the exact same pronunciation as 員 but means monkey. So basically programmers are also called code monkeys in China.
Totally agree. I had a Rift set up in the office (seated) with Touch (very impressed) and brought it home at the weekend to try roomscale (with a third camera) and was utterly frustrated by the glitchy tracking. With the Vive (in the same room) I've never experienced a single glitch in nearly 60hrs of play. I hated running all the cables back to the PC as well. It's worth mentioning as well that the sensor USB ports all have to be USB3 as well. That means it takes up 4xUSB3 ports for roomscale!