skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> you're overlooking that there are a lot of people that strongly disagree with us.

No - I am not overlooking these people. I know very well that they exist, and I often find myself wondering about their thinking process. I say this also as a former person of faith (Wicca), as I often wonder about my own at the time, my own today, and the what/why of the changeover. I have yet to be able to answer that satisfactorily for myself.

> To them, praying is an important act, and praying for you is likely something they will literally do because they think it will help.

I understand that, but it also goes counter to published research which indicates that those who are prayed for do worse than those who aren't (I believe the study was in regards to patients recovering in a hospital, and that they were told whether or not they were being prayed for). The difference in rates of recovery were very minor (IIRC, less than 1 percent) - and other studies have shown the opposite. Ultimately, everything indicates that it is no better than random chance. I just wonder why people, despite being presented such evidence, choose fantasy over reality.

> Granted, there are many people who say it as a platitude but don't actually do it.

Those who do this, I hold in high contempt - above and beyond those who believe it will actually help. Because the true faithful are showing compassion toward the less fortunate (regardless of the actual outcome), while those saying it as a platitude are just doing so to gain some kind of "social points", likely knowing fully that their words mean nothing.

Separating the two classes, though, can be difficult or impossible, unfortunately...
Thomas Schelling is dead
They could be used for other purposes. People filling their garages with other junk and then having to put their car somewhere else is so common already. The driveway can become a front yard.
That's one of the reasons I'm looking forward to AirPods. I can use Siri with the earbuds I have, but their microphones are crummy enough to require I do so somewhat loudly. While I don't always mind seeming like I'm talking to myself in public, and indeed there's the odd occasion when seeming unpredictable and potentially dangerous can be positively beneficial, having the option of greater discretion would be nice as well.
Of course, of course, this is unlikely to be an NSA backdoor. But maybe .... </CK_LOUIS>

i dabbled in this api way back in the past so i may be wrong about its capabilities.

skype used to be EXCELLENT at working in most networks, including "locked down" corporate ones. Network admins used to find it notoriously difficult to "ban" on networks.

so relying on skype to exfiltrate info may serve two purposes:

1) use another program's capabilities instead of reinventing the wheel.

2) hide the fact that some random program is doing network access.

skype could be one of a range of data exfiltration mechanisms with different levels of obfuscation.
Vue seems to be the flavor of the month
Are you seriously suggesting these are the first wireless headphones?
Thomas Schelling was the author of Micromotives and Macrobehavior and The Strategy of Conflict.
A lot of these problems can be solved by simply making them fly.

... that's right, now you know what the driving force behind all those flying cars in sci-fi was. It's simply a way to separate the autonomous and old-style vehicles.
I mean, you have to ask yourself what you actually believe about the climate.

Do you think that climate change is somewhere between "unbounded costs ranging in the hundreds of trillions of dollars over the course of 2050-2150," and "the death of humanity and/or all multicellular life on Earth"?

Because if so, the side effects of geoengineering probably aren't that bad, and even if they are, they're apparently only as bad as what you think the costs of doing nothing are.

On the other hand, do you think that climate change is either non-existent or some kind of relatively mild thing that will cause $100 Trillion dollars or less over the course of a century? Then probably geoengineering is not for you -- but that also means that you're somewhere outside the orthodoxy on climate change.

If you believe that climate change is a real big problem (ie, hundreds of trillions of dollars or much more in damages over a century timeline) AND that it is stoppable by being really persistent in asking people to use solar and wind power, then I don't think that you're being very realistic.
I think it's a particularly troublesome loophole in the common expectation of medical privacy. A whole amendment in the bill of rights doesn't apply to you anymore, maybe because an ER doctor who doesn't know you wanted to play it safe. I think that's a lot to put at the discretion of a random doctor.
Is there a MSRP for the RYZEN flagship that they showed off today yet, because I havent seen one.

But as long as it stays under the $1100 of the 6900K I think they can secure the mid to high-end enthusiast grade market which is good because I am tired of intel controlling that portion of the market
Sorry, edited my post after I realized I said AirPods and not EarPods. I don't have a pair. I would imagine they will be the same. Which is my hope because the EarPods fit my ears perfectly... I have pretty big ears (not sure if that typically translates to ear holes), which caused more than a little fun poking back in school, but apparently they are a good size for Apple's design spec. Take that BILLY you little jerk!
_> read code daily, write code when necessary, SQL, understand APIs, and be good in front of enterprise customers._

Where are you located? This is something I can definitely do.
It's Apple. Pretty much anything and everything Apple does right now gets lots of press, much of it of the fawning variety. Apple has a strong brand affinity, so people will shower love on anything Apple-related.
AMD’s Zen becomes Ryzen
Looking at the list of specs you mentioned, yes, you missed something. There's another guy right above talking about the non-music related features, take a look.
Based on the videos on YouTube, I would say Tesla are already shipping that.
You're right, of course. Sorry, I wasn't clear. I meant that a user might have stored a string with a zero width space at the end by the time you introduce this escaping mechanism. (I've already edited the comment to indicate this.) The same goes double if you append a common printable character. You'd have to rely on some additional indicator, such as the date and time the record with the string was stored, to know whether to unescape a string and also be sure nothing changed those date and time without escaping the data.
Why the “Class M” label?
Your examples aren't very good, sorry. We're talking about adding AI, autopilot, autonomous capabilities, whatever you want to call it to already existing hardware. It's mostly a matter of software and you're a living example that it can be done, in 20W, with nothing more than stereo cameras and mics.

If I had to compare, I expect the change to be more akin to what Excel has done to paper spreadsheets.
So now you have a greater disparity of vehicle speeds on a typical highway. Having just returned from driving on highways cutting through mountain ranges, I'm acutely aware of the "interesting" driving that results from having vehicles traveling at very different speeds on long uphill grades.
Sounds reasonable.

They already require other safety devices like lights at night and brakes.
Measure voltage with no current
I'm surprised this is news in 2016. Anyone who uses DynamoDB hits this immediately and suffers a bit from it.

Would you like more insider advice on using DynamoDB? My startup Level Money used it as a primary data store and has kept it throughout our lifespan. We're migrating away from it now, but I wouldn't necessarily discourage people from using it.

NEVER SCAN ONE TABLE AND UPDATE ROWS AS YOU ENCOUNTER THEM, OR USE NATIVE KEY ORDERING TO TRIGGER UPDATES ANYWHERE ELSE!

Secretly DynamoDB is just a bunch of SQL databases with floating masters, or so we surmise. If you iterate across things in native order without randomization and at a very high speed then you will overload individual shards. You can end up at 10X write provisioning and still get rate limit responses. Randomizing the traversal of the keyspace fixes this.

Which is yeah, really really bad for sufficiently large datasets. You have to get creative to randomize it sufficiently in some cases.

Still, it's quite nice to have something like DynamoDB handling your scaling early on. It's a surprisingly useful design for a database and keeps you rom over-relying on relational properties which eventually don't scale. It also forces you to develop a story for cross-table transactional queries and their failures quite early in your platform's life cycle. Forcing that discipline is almost always healthy.

If you're not careful though, it becomes frightfully expensive. Before we understood why we were rate limiting we panicked and ended up with >$12k/mo in DDB costs. Not really a sustainable cost for a very small company.
I think you'd find you wouldn't have any serious entries in the competitions any more.
On this specifically, I'm doubtful. The 'backdoor' isn't very high value.

In many other cases technology transfer, joint management/ownership, market access, political favors, lucrative contracts, direct infiltration, nationalist instincts, and bribery are all reasons for Microsoft to work with the NSA and other intelligence agencies. They were caught providing backdoor access along with Google to all outlook (and gmail) emails to the FBI, for example.
No, I have been to many places in Europe and was amazed at the places they did go; schoolkids into the Alps for their skiing lessons, for example. I meant here in the US where bus service is mostly an urban experience, as well as underground/trains.
> in a HandBrake-based video transcoding task, Ryzen scored a narrow win [against a stock i7-6900k]

Man, if that holds true in more benchmarks, that's fantastic news. AMD chugged along by "competing" further and further down Intel's product line more or less since Sandy Bridge, if they can genuinely compete with the i7 now I can't wait to see the next few years. Intel has always seemed content to release incremental improvements until they get kicked in the pants by somebody else, I wouldn't be surprised if they have a bunch of stuff waiting in the wings to maintain their edge over AMD.
Messages is too busy now, there's too much going on in that app. It's a mess of sharing options and emoji.
Virtual Reality Startup Survios Raises $50M from MGM, Others
Speculations AFAIK are that it will be presented at CES and go on sale by end of January... but don't quote me on that.

Personally, I will be buying a new PC with Ryzen as soon as they get out.
Yes, I think you're right. We'd need to update a lot of our infrastructure to make it friendlier for these cars.

I should also add:
- very fast mobile data, with no blackspots, so a remote driver can take over a car that's confused by a situation
- a replacement for GPS, it's not reliable enough, the signal is far too weak
- digital signal beacons embedded in lane markings, and edges of the road, and on traffic cones for roadworks
Anandtech article:

http://www.anandtech.com/show/10907/amd-gives-more-zen-detai...

3.4+ GHz for 8-core base frequency (TDP is apparently 95W) is good news.
Since you seem to be attempting to discuss things honestly, I'll give you my reply.

Answer 1: The document doesn't provide the number you claim it does, or if it does I still can't find it. Further, that number wouldn't substantively change my point and I'm pretty sure you know this.

Answer 2: Mainly because we all know a major chunk of the actual debate is about black people, and I don't see a reason to obscure what we are really discussing. But I freely acknowledge that you can get a similar gap between whites and Asians, particularly around FICO=500.

I'm very deliberately trying NOT to obscure the real issue, namely that you can't have both fairness and accuracy. You can't even have multiple kinds of fairness - pick one and you lose another. Unfortunately that's just how the math comes out.

Also, I do believe that in the contemporary US Asian people are directly discriminated against more than anyone else. They are also the highest performing on a variety of common metrics (academics, income, financial responsibility) and this is primarily due to difficult to change traits (some combination of culture and biology). Just mentioning it explicitly if you thought I was trying to obscure this point.
This book chronicles Arthur's struggle pushing his theories through mainstream academia and how that ultimately led to the creation of the Sante Fe Institute. It's a narrative mixed with an overview of the creation of complexity theory and many of the concepts he (and others) came up with that changed economic thinking.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/337123.COMPLEXITY
This is an incredibly cynical and deceptive comment, as the FOIA request has nothing to do with getting climate data (which has always been public--that's how scientists are copying it to non-government controlled servers) and was instead a fishing attempt to try to find something embarrassing in a scientist's emails.

Of course, AGW denialists have to rely on deception to make any headway, so it's par for course.
Los Alamos Labs and the rest of the DOE is not considered by most to be part of the surveillance state. It's not in their mission statement at all. The most overlap there could be the cyberdefense program for energy grids and the NSA facility at ORNL.

I'm actually not sure I understand your point though (honestly!). Even if the surveillance state was justified by those involved along the way, they do have a legitimate purpose that they can be constrained back to and not surveill the american people generally, right? Or is that not what you were saying.
Lovely. Framing a first amendment issue as a public health issue and getting public funding for it. Priceless.
Salesforce Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Twin Prime
Has a Bangladesh charity found a way to banish extreme poverty?
A lot of the time it seems like Apple just changes things on iOS just because, not because there's actually any tangible benefits to doing so. The UI changes for Messages iOS 10 is a perfect example - it feels cramped and complicated where it used to feel intuitive and easy to use.
Well, one way to solve the problem is to simply bring the car to a halt, then wait until the problem is solved by itself (or by the user).
I think on the other hand that vocation is a think since only a few decade. In ancient time, your only option was to do the same thing that your parents. There weren't as many professions.

Vocation is a luxury. You gain money by serving other people's needs, not by following your vocation. It's a luxury humanity has been able to afford since only few decades (except aristocracy).
DevDocs – API documentation aggregator
One of my machines has a low-end Xeon because at the time it was basically 1:1 performance comparable to an i7, but cost ~$40 less because it had no integrated graphics.
It is rather describing the process of becoming a monopoly in the post-industrial economy. Mergers were the main mechanism previously, while now nobody needs M&A anymore: just bet on 20 great looking startups and one of them will become a monopoly.
The issue is they drive too slowly and obey traffic laws.
This assumption is quite accurate if the machine is under a relatively constant workload, which it often is. The time remaining is quite accurate in my experience as long as I keep on doing whatever I'm doing. If I'm programming for hours, I'll get about what it says. If I'm playing a game for hours (well, a while, it doesn't really make it to hours with games) then I'll get what it says. It'll only fail if I look at the estimate after programming for a while and then assume it'll last that long while gaming, or vice versa. But, that's easy to avoid, and that doesn't diminish the usefulness of the estimate in the scenarios where it is valuable.

"A user seeing a 3 hour estimate (that is probably wrong per the reasons above) when they are doing nothing that seems energy intensive and concluding that their machine is broken is the problem that Apple is trying to solve here."

I'm sure you're right, and this is a typical Apple move recently. Remove a useful feature because the bottom quartile of their users can't handle it. Never mind the rest of us who can.
Peter Thiel Poised to Profit Off Trump's Promised Crackdown on Immigrants
The concept of known non-existence vs unknown existence.
Not only is Uber no longer burning $1B to be in China, they now own a 20% stake in what is now a monopoly in China to (ostensibly) make all of it back and then some.
Ask HN: Tracking Desktop PC Statistics
Hi,

I'm currently using an app called "WhatPulse" to collect a limited set of statistics pertaining to how I use my desktop computer. It's nice, but I'd prefer something more thorough/comprehensive in terms of what gets tracked.

I vaguely recall reading here years ago about something maybe Wolfram was involved in that tracked far more data points than WhatPulse does. But I'm not fimding it in the HN search.

I don't know if there's anything publicly available to do tracking like what I'm after. With my luck, that functionality was some home-grown app I wouldn't be able to get my hands on.

What do you know about this?

Thanks,

-c
He's probably not impressed by the fact they're wireless because wireless headphones aren't new. I mean, even stodgy grumps like me have a pair that works well and cost $20. Wireless headphones just aren't impressive technology in December 2016. They've been done. Again and again. This isn't a Tesla situation by any means.

Apple might have executed particularly well, but I see his point.
A picture of pedestrians in the London smog, 6 December 1952 -

https://twitter.com/robnitm/status/806167347807535104

Lots more great pictures from London's past on Rob Baker's Twitter feed and his blog.

http://www.nickelinthemachine.com/
I recently bought wireless bluetooth headphones from Sennheiser. The pairing process consisted of holding the phone next to the headphones for a second, done (thanks to NFC). Not sure how you can improve much on that.
Indeed, this is a valid definition of backdoor.
That's just BS. It's accurate enough to be useful for many common workloads.
Per mile 2011

Vehicle-based

Fuel & Oil Costs $0.590

Truck/Trailer Lease or Purchase Payments $0.189

Repair & Maintenance $0.152

Truck Insurance Premiums $0.067

Permits and Licenses $0.038

Tires $0.042

Tolls $0.017

Driver-based

Driver Wages $0.460

Driver Benefits $0.151

TOTAL $1.706

So driver ~ 36%
It's the difference between "this value is unknown" and "this value is known and empty". It's similar to why JavaScript has both null and undefined.

Here's an example. Let's say a user is taking a survey and the last question is: "Please share any additional thoughts if you have them." A null could mean the user did not answer this question, probably because they haven't gotten to it yet. An empty string could mean the user was asked this question and actually didn't have anything to say.
Can you provide a link to your headphones so I can see if they are something I'd be at all interested in?
Doesn't load on Firefox 50.0 for me on Windows 10. Any suggestions? Works fine on Windows Edge, BTW . . . .
I don't know about visual studio, but I use IDEA which have a pretty good documentation. Far better than vim's one. And I need less because things are quite intuitive in IDEA.
There are rumors about $500.
"...the UI was clunky as hell..."

The Interface Hall of Shame website (a now defunct, but once popular website with examples of badly designed UIs) did a critique of Lotus Notes back in 1999:

http://hallofshame.gp.co.at/index.php?file=lotus.htm&mode=or...
I made a tool to estimate the cost of app development
I found that modgod used to cause my battery life to suffer. Completely idle, it hovered around .5 - 1.0% CPU. Looking at the issue [1], it seems that they solved the issue this summer (I haven't been doing anything with mongo lately, so I can't say if it helped my battery life or not).

[1] https://jira.mongodb.org/browse/SERVER-2114
I think this just makes the estimate more important. When your estimated remaining time goes from 6 hours to 3 hours when you fire up a YouTube video, you'll immediately understand that you've started doing something that will greatly impact your battery life.
Well, the 1st and 3rd iPhones were revolutions. The Mac screens are stunning. It wasn't BS when Apple used to use it. Until they kept the same language and dropped innovation.

In the same fashion, I was in a company whose motto was "Be the change you seek", which is really entrepreneur-minded and active. They changed their motto to "Advance humanity". Most employees said "It's ok, it's the kind of marketing bullshit that no-one even listens to". It wasn't about building something awesome together. The motto was here, hanging in the hall, just saying "We're strongly delusional, we all speak bullshit now, and we know you won't even debate about it because no-one believes it anyway! Look at us, we're kings of the universe!"

As you say, it is insulting to the audience.
AMD unveils Ryzen brand for Zen processors, base clocks, and additional details
Checkr (YC S14) is hiring Full Stack Engineers to build the future of online trust
Wow. In the mean time, Toronto has a homicide rate of around 2.0 (in 2012 [1]), making it almost 18x lower than St. Louis.

Genuine question, why do you continue to live there? Why wouldn't you move somewhere safer?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_Toronto
> The 2 major mistakes of mankind in the 20th century are fascism and communism.

That's a bit misleading cause fascism is just inherently bad while communism has had some implementation problems.
AMD Impresses with Newly-Branded Ryzen CPU Demonstrations and Product Details
Perhaps, considering that I don't recall having ever had Automatic Updates turned on, and yet my phone had downloaded 10.1.something and was nagging me about installing it. (Automatic Updates already wasn't turned on when I followed the steps to disable it.) Deleting the update from the storage UI is a piece I hadn't previously run across, and I've gone ahead and done it.

I'm now seeing the 10.2 update available, but it hasn't (yet) been downloaded; if a day goes by and it still isn't, then I'd have to say I owe you a beer, or several, for pointing me at a way to relieve what was getting to be a real pain in the neck. (Although why I failed to find this clue for myself is a curious question in its own right - it's certainly not for want of looking! In any case, I greatly appreciate you taking the time to point it out.)
I assumed all trucks stop at a truck stop and the driver sleeps while another driver continues the journey? That way the valuable truck and cargo never stop moving.

Is that not typically the case?
Sort of. One could release sulfur dioxide (or burn sulfur to form sulfur dioxide) at high altitude, or release slower-reacting sulfur species like carbonyl sulfide from surface locations. In any of these cases what will happen is that reactions with nitrogen oxides, ozone, light, atmospheric moisture, and other particles will ultimately convert the sulfur to sulfuric acid, which will then form additional particles of high reflectivity.

It would somewhat increase the surface precipitation acid burden, similar to the acid rain that was a byproduct of 20th century industrialization, but most sulfur oxides that come from power plants or metal refining are flushed out of the lower atmosphere by precipitation. By directly or indirectly adding SO2 to the stratosphere instead of the troposphere, the ratio of reflection:acid content would be higher than that of incidentally produced waste-product SO2. (That's why we can't start cooling the planet just by removing sulfur controls from existing coal plants; most of that SO2 would produce acid rain accompanied by little additional sunlight reflection.)