skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, especially with early cleansing and transformation. When source semantics are dynamic, try to build recognizers rather than expect sources to obey some semantic agreement. They won't. Cast what you can recognize into an intermediate shape. I like object, property, value (i.e triple) with metadata. Don't cleanse or transform the source data. Let the data be the data. Cleansed and transformed data fall into the category of assertions. Assertions can be made by humans and software, keep metadata. Allow your applications and your analysts to overlay their own semantic meaning on the triples. Naturally, consensus understanding of source semantics is desirable, but don't want to prevent analysts from using the raw or asserted data as they see fit. Still need software to analyze triples for the bad, etc. to make assertions that data is suspect. Otherwise, your downstream programs and analysts will need to make such assertions. Given such a process, applications and analysts can write queries to ignore suspect data, undesirable assertions, etc. if they so choose.
I had two colleagues suddenly have the chat text field filled with Chinese characters and emojis today so they were told to clean their pcs. Different environments and location but both using slack... heard of this ?
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A long long time ago, I loved the feel of the earphones. They came with one of the first gen if ipod.

Then at some point the design of the earphone changed and I had the same problem as you ever since:-( I was quite disappointed at the time
They claim to have a tool to do the CUDA to C++ conversion

* The "hipify" tool automatically converts source from CUDA to HIP.
https://github.com/GPUOpen-ProfessionalCompute-Tools/HIP/tre...
I don't really see what these offer over say my Plantronics BackBeat Go 2 which lasts 4 hours. They're also connected to each other, going behind my neck. You may think that is a disadvantage, but I can easily have one in and one out if required. Besides, these Airpods don't solve the quality Bluetooth lacks. A disadvantage is you can already lose these easily (if disconnect both and keep hanging around). I don't even wanna think about Airpods and how easy they will be to lose.

Try putting your smartphone in a safe place, and have wired or wireless headset, and use some kind of smartwatch to control your phone and receive feedback on your performance. I use a Pebble 2 for that, but there's other alternatives available.

Bonus points is my phone is stored safely without saying to random strangers "rob me".
I really like it. However given how confusing for my Vim muscle memory a switching would be, I would have to make sure the ecosystem around it is good enough. Basic programming languages highlights and completions and similar tools.
Not just newer IDEs though. Many of the navigation mappings in emacs are the same in many terminal emulators, as well as pretty much every MacOS application. And although a little niche, Sam Aaron's Sonic Pi IDE is heavily influenced by emacs.
That would absolutely be the wrong time to ask a human for a decision.
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The real story here is the seemingly casual way they've decided to start treating breaking changes. Deprecation periods are more polite than not having them, but saying that users need to be constantly using the most up to date version to get information about future support, and then introducing breaking changes into the current version more regularly, seems like a step in the wrong direction. Projects who lose a lot of community engagement due to breaking changes should be the ones who understand how much of a self-inflicted hassle that is best.
Gajim and Conversations have already implemented it.
It was an immediate success with Mac users. Some PC users tried to use them, I remember companies making combos of a FireWire PCI card and special software to try to use it. I almost did it myself.

The sales explosion really happened when they released it for Windows. All of a sudden a HUGE market was there and it snapped them up as fast as they could.
> those who live in the urban centres

Per the 2010 US census, over 80% of the US population lives in urban areas.
Thanks for taking the time out for such a super detailed reply.
As I understand it, Oculus Touch is intended for two front-facing trackers (it comes with a second tracker to go with the Rift tracker). And the tracking seems pretty good while you're facing them. However, the three-tracker and diagonal-tracker setup is experimental, and the diagonal-tracker setup (Vive does the diagonal-tracker setup with its "lighthouses" to enable room-scale) is necessary if you're going to have games that encourage you to turn around or otherwise occlude the headset and the Touch devices with your body.
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this is a ridiculous suggestion price wise, but check out custom IEMs. They are expensive as hell, but I have no issue spending money on something I use for HOURS every single day.

Sound quality is often much much better too.
Then Slack has to start tracking glibc updates and security fixes rather than relying on the OS.

Might be acceptable overhead.
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This was one of the first things I recall learning about Oracle when I had my first internship dealing with it. It boggles my mind that you can work with Oracle for more than a week and not run into this.
Have you used it with Darwin/OSX? How's the experience?
Since when has that ever bothered them?

There was the dock connector -> lightning connector switch.

There's the ADB -> USB switch back in the day.

And now there headphone jack -> wireless thing switch.

Apple cares not one whit for obsoleting the stuff you have.
That is a nice find. Have not yet ran into that issue but only switched to Jira about a month ago after using an in-house system for years. Love it so far though
In that case you can easily keep track of what step they got up to in the wizard. It's a different way to store the data, but would work just as well.

I think the null vs empty argument works better when there are 40 boxes on screen at once. But again I'm not sure what semantic difference you'd find between 'they left it empty' and 'they never clicked into it'.
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Delta of 5 seconds (54s for ryzen, 59s for 6900k).

Also IIRC, ryzen wasn't using any form of boost while the 6900k was allowed to push its enveloppe.

Not a time to buy an intel cpu.
If Robots and AI Steal Our Jobs, a Universal Basic Income Could Help
Sorry but that's not the point GP was making:

> One thinks that underwater basketweaving is overhyped. Another thinks that great work was done in the eighties, but all the interesting questions have been solved already.

Then he cites three general Math journals as what the hiring committee can use to rank the candidates, not a journal specialized in underwater basket-weaving.
+1 Forget about trucks. What about trains? That's an even easier problem to solve than trucks.
When all the cars on the road are self driving, I don't see why they would need to have all their radars on at once. I imagine they would be able to communicate with each other and form a complete picture of the entire roadway without all of them having their radars on (or perhaps running at a lower power?)

This would be very difficult to train with ML, however. I'm sure there are other downsides I'm not thinking of
That's funny as I've seen people say Rift room scale is okay if you set up the cameras to be opposing (as instructions say). That said, if you buy an extra camera and get three it's mean to be VERY good room scale. Of course that's another 80 bucks, and officially above the Vive's price!

I think Oculus doesn't want to dillute it's marketing and reach the largest core group, so front facing standing. Many people don't have 5 by 7 feet free. We're currently at the stage of enthusiasts though, which have more money and space than typical users, and will move shit to make space (I sure did), which could definitely be a mistake...
Imagine the possibilities of this, combined with McCarthy's wet dream palantir.
I've been really happy with Backblaze.

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LGA-2011 i7s can handle 128GB of RAM now. 6800k for example: https://ark.intel.com/products/94189/Intel-Core-i7-6800K-Pro...

The previous generation (5820k, etc) were only officially rated for 64GB, but they too worked fine with 128GB in practice. Intel just never updated the spec sheets once 16GB DIMMs became available.
Yeah, every once in a while when my wife calls me, we get what I'm assuming is an LTE voice call and the audio is great (AT&T HD voice, I believe). Outside of that, it is amazing how bad the call quality can be. You really notice it when listening to hold music. It is like the audio version of one of those old jpegs that looks like it has been recompressed each time the email was forwarded.
About 20 million jobs disappeared in America last year, although there was a net gain in jobs overall. This is going on all the time.

So if all of America's 11 million professional driving jobs were to disappear over the span of a decade, it would be a blip, not an apocalypse.
Not on macOS, I believe. According to the other commenter, this is called sidetone, and requires external hardware [1].

[1] https://www.citrix.com/blogs/2016/03/22/gotomeeting-audio-ha...
The Bragi Dash and the Samsung Gear Icon X both do this, and also include fitness tracking functionality. The Samsung ones can even be loaded with music and cache your fitness data so you don't need a phone with you.
this is a false analogy. the CD drive was an improvement on the 3.5" floppy. the 3.5" floppy was an improvement on the 5" floppy. bluetooth is an improvement in form (no more wires), but a downgrade in function as the audio quality is diminished.
I'll give you that, but it's a very contrived example. I'm trying to think more of real world problems.

Many people have mentioned the idea of keeping track of if someone doesn't have a middle name versus you don't know their middle name. That makes more sense as an example (although I'm not sure how critical that is).
10 years ago, my peers at uni were building self navigating robots that could autonomously follow a path in a park without gps ...
>They can chop up those assets and sell them to anyone (hedge funds, banks, individual investors, etc) at any point

Yeah... unless there's some kind of market liquidity crisis.
Appreciate this comment and did want to follow up that we are not a Ubiquiti shop but instead have taken over other deployments of it. My deployment experience with Ubiquiti is none, so it's great to hear the actual implementation of Zero Handoff is a hack... nasty, and that should explain the problems we've seen for sure.

We're still in the process of tuning one client with a significant investment in UniFi. ZHO is not enabled in that case and am going down the routes you've described re RSSI tuning and RF mapping, but still see blatant performance issues, and will readily admit that being forced to resort to forums for support and outdated setup articles isn't exactly confidence inspiring and helps fuel my distaste for the product. We're stuck with it though.

Anyway, just wanted to post back to say thanks.
Note that Chinese characters are the vast majority of characters, so (at least from your description) my guess would be "random bytes being interpreted as Unicode" instead of "Chinese hackers who like using emoji". If it's only Chinese characters and emoji, that's different.
This seems to have been said in jest but the main thing keeping flying cars in sci-fi and out of the real world is the human element. Most people have a hard enough time driving in two dimensions. Adding a third would be chaos without the aid of our robot overlords.
yes you're correct, my mistake
First, some baselines: humans suck at driving too. Next, coverage isn't an all or nothing thing, it'd be quite easy for an autonomous uber like service to restrict itself to areas that permit remote control when cars need assistance. Last I'd encourage reading some of the literature behind what folks are doing: it's a very different sort of system, one that blends a lot of complex probability estimates. It's not like everyday coding where a human developer needs to anticipate every combination of corner cases.
Depending on where you are, cell phone coverage could be between great to totally nonexistent. The mobile apps are built to be able to handle intermittent cell phone coverage. You can see yourself on a ski resort's map at all times, as well as see your own statistics. When you get in a cell phone coverage area the app sends the latest information to my servers, and receives information about your friends. You might get some stale information, but that's still better than nothing. And of course, if you're in a ski resort with great cell phone coverage, your friends location is fresh most of the time.
> The number of variations that you propose is a fast geometric progression.

Only if you're an engineer. To a marketing person, you bundle groups of features together and price them at various tiers.
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It could still be helpful, however. If your car gets a signal that there are an unusual amount of cars stopped half a mile ahead of it, it might be able to deduce that there has been an accident or something else stopping traffic and navigate away before it becomes an issue. Sort of like an automatic version of Waze
I wonder how this writing of a NSL letter would affect an organisation's warrant canary (if they have one).
The same happens for me on FF on Android. I tried three times and it crashes each time. A shame, the comments have intrigued me.
I never understood what were the failure and what could AMD have done better. When intel started to be ahead in single threaded IPC, AMD tried to innovate by bringing low consumption, multi threaded, with embedded GPUs cheap SoC. It seemed quite in touch with the early netbooks where people would need a blend of capabilities (hardware video accel, compositing / CSS3 able GPU) instead of a compilation workhorse.

I don't know if the designs were really absurd, or if the market couldn't understand AMD's value prop. Or if the programmers couldn't (or wouldn't) tap into their APU idea.

Multiple papercuts made them fall I guess.
I don't know about recently—it looks like he's switched to Word—but Bjarne Stroustrup used to use troff to write & typeset his books.
Seeking help moving from academia (Econ prof, Math PhD) to industry (Data Sci.)
Hi, My name is David. I am Mathematics PhD ( received my Bachelor's and Master's degree from Oxford and my doctoral degree from UNAM in Mexico) and I am currently an Economics professor. Over the last couple of years, I have become increasingly interested in Data Science and Machine Learning and I would like to make the transition to industry work. I have spent most of my professional career as an academic, and would really appreciate any advice on making this transition!
But they should be compared. As you indicated and the statistics show the death primarily happen when people are impaired (drugs and alcohol, fatigue, distractions etc), the machines substitute these human errors by fewer and further apart potential engineering faults. With proper Root Cause Analysis of the investigations (helped with all the data collected of all the accidents), overtime fewer and fewer would be expected.

If you can go from 30000 to 1000 just by changing to good enough autonomous cars that's a change worth doing. Then you can look at improving it to 0 and encourage that process if not through insurance liability processes through regulations that require ongoing improvement in autonomous safety.
Arch is really the Libertarian's distro. Caveat Emptor :)
> their position in the market gives them a very good insight into the likelihood of a crash

LOL what? What insight into the market will opendoor have that is not publicly available? Sorry but this is magical thinking
Having long since ceased to trust automatic app updates in any case (cf. Uber location awareness creep and YouTube's perennial UI brokenness du jour), I see no problem there.

On the other hand, I'm increasingly sure I have never had automatic updates enabled on this device, yet I had the iOS 10 update downloaded regardless. Perhaps I forgot having done that by hand, or perhaps the setting doesn't apply to OS updates; in any case, time will tell.
Because if we do resolve these issues, our roads will be much, much safer with autonomous cars. 2k people die on the roads each year in the UK, multiples more sustain life long injuries. I was in an accident, which could have been prevented were it not for the 1 second it takes for a human to react to a situation.
Is it though? Tesla is selling them.

Admittedly pre-orders are essentially marketing, but marketing of an actual product with intent to deliver, I'm not convinced it's "marketing bullshit".
I understand. 1Password (in its classic model, not sure about the team/family/web product thing or how that works) doesn't store anything online by default either. In both cases (1Password and KeePass), you can combine with an online file folder provider to achieve sync across your devices. And I like that model.
Ask HN: What is a good place to ask a technical question?
I tried asking here before, but the post disappeared. I don't know why nor care.

So, any suggestions? What I can think of, and why they don't fit the bill:

stackoverflow & co.: Viable, but I am appalled at the terrible quality of the answers there--I always skip those results when Googling something up. Besides, if it's a complicated question chances are it won't get any replies anyway.

Reddit: This is the place that was first suggested to me. Took a look, immediately disliked it. The noise/signal ratio is a bit discouraging.

Twitter / Facebook / LinkedIn: I do not use them. I do not intend to use them.

Google Groups: See above.

GitLab / GitHub: As far as I know there is no forum-like feature. And it probably should stay that way.

NNTP: Those were the days, but now the traffic is low, spam is high, and I don't have an NNTP client installed and configured anyway.

IRC: This is what I normally use when my question concerns a specific product or technology and there's a channel for it, which usually there is. I don't know of a channel for more generic programming questions, but suggestions are welcome.

So, any good suggestions? Ideally something non-proprietary (the reason NNTP is dead is not spam, it's everyone's obsession with trying to get rich building walled gardens), without too much "community" bullshit (aka people trying to get "upvotes" / reputation points / any form of cred), and with a good quality of posters.

In my specific case, I am looking for API-related answers, and can't think of a good place to ask right now.
Hey Jason,

Amy Hoy says the best way for solo founders to start off is with in info product. Just to cut their teeth at marketing and such.

One thing, now that you have got that ball rolling I think you might consider another saas product in the future because you have so much learning about that.

The one good thing about a saas product with good market fit is that you will get years of recurring revenue from the same customers.

With pluggio I had some customers hitting $3.5k over time (and higher).

That is the real power of saas and why it's worth considering in the long run.

Edit: I guess it may be useful to note we have a bunch of articles here - https://blog.nugget.one/ - about how to avoid the kind of issues you spoke about in your blog.
Although I think the limitation is an incontrovertible issue in other ways, that specific example sounds like a domain modelling blunder to me, since it is overloading a scalar value to encode value-object metadata.
Is it just a matter of not trusting who has investigated? It would be weird to just reject whatever you haven't seen yourself as false. People have been wrong before but I think that there is a large line between scepticism and outright denial in these situations.
The answer is complex which is why the marketing is so muddled. These guides cover "experimental" 2 and 3 sensor 360 degree tracking (https://support.oculus.com/help/oculus/199906947113632/?help...). You can buy a 3rd sensor, in additional to the sensors that came with Rift and Touch on the Oculus store for $80. The feature is considered experimental because the tracking setup UI isn't fully finished IIRC.
Because for the less informed customer that is descriptive, and allows those customers to enter the reality distortion field.

It is the same with "Air", "Pod", iSomething", and "Pro". Meaningless buzzwords. Then again, every company has their set ("Surface", "ThinkPad", "Yoga", "Zen"). Trust me, it has nothing to do with real yoga or zen. I'll refrain to make a comment on "Pro".

Just ignore the buzzwords, insofar that they don't tell you anything about the quality of the product and instead look at price/feature/quality comparisons and make up your own mind.
Alot of companies do exactly that. Using systems like: http://www.tapbiosystems.com/

But it's not cost effective when producing millions of liters.
I would be interested in seeing the same thing done for here. I know I saw a website that had the top stories from HN for each day a while back. Just trying to remember what it was, then can scrape it and do the same thing.
> Now he's Chief Scientist and VP at Baidu

He's Chief Scientist at Baidu Research, which is based in Sunnyvale. So he's not really "lost" to the US, just lost to Stanford (and, I guess, to Google, since he was working with them before).
If they're still making an adequate profit at 500$ they're gonna grab a very healthy chunk of the market. It's more than half intel's competing product. Even price cuts ..
I've tried the new earpods and they seemed to fit a little better than the old design, but I agree, I'm not fond of the fit.
Probably the real price that such a processor should have. But we've gone so long without real competition in the PC chip market, we can't even tell anymore when Intel is ripping us off.

Heck, even 99% of the "tech media" didn't notice (or didn't care to make a big deal out of it) when Intel swapped Core-based Celerons and Pentiums for significantly weaker, but much more profitable to build, Atoms. The consumers never stood a chance against Intel's progressive rip-off.

Let's see how the market settles in 2-3 years, after the Zen architecture is fleshed out across device lines, and after Qualcomm commences its entrance in the notebook market with 50%-100% of "Core i7" performance (depending on which Core i7 [1]).

[1] http://www.laptopmag.com/articles/intel-renames-core-m-core-...
Skype used to be a peer-to-peer application and did not use nor require any "central" servers.

Then, Microsoft bought it and that all changed.
Your answer is entirely correct. This should be the top comment.
I dont believe you are locked in with AWS forever if you choose DynamoDB.

It doesnt use a unique database model that no other DB supports. Its based on NOSQL and it should be simple enough (with effort of course) to export a DynamoDB document store to another NOSQL solution.
Trains don't even need AI. It's the lack of good incentive (the required capital investment vs. potential for future savings) and angry drivers' unions that are stopping innovation there, I'm sure.