skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
General relativity was seen as a huge leap forward at the time, and it still is today. I offer two quotes in support of this:

"As an older frield I must advise you against [generalizing relativity to incorporate gravity] for in the first place you will not succeed, and even if you succeed, no one will believe you." - Max Planck to Einstein, 2 years before Einstein succeeded. It was a big deal to even attempt to do this, and people tried to talk Einstein out of it.

And why did Planck say no one would believe Einstein? Because Einstein was trying to do something fundamentally different; he was trying to create a new kind of wheel.

"Newton, forgive me." - Albert Einstein -- why ask for forgiveness?

Einstein's role was something quite different from the role that most physicists play. Most physicists add small refinements to existing theories. Einstein upended quite a lot of existing physics and replaced it with something new. Newton saw gravity as action at a distance. Einstein showed that it was something quite different.
This is for the madmen, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, fish out of water, for those who see things differently. They do not like rules and have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify them or slander them. The only thing you can not do is ignore them, because they turn things around, they propel the human race forward. And while some may see them as mad, we see the genius. Because people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do (Jobs). This week I received the news that our prototype is almost finished. I made the request for help: A unique opportunity to raise funds for a very important invention, which involves a market of about thirty billion dollars. Countries and governments will take advantage of this invention to clean and sustainable energy. Laws and rules governing the supply and consumption of electricity should be amended. The Chinese market is five times larger than the US for the use of this invention. The Indian market is fifteen times higher. The poor and the rich on an equal footing. Homes, industries and businesses use the invention to reduce energy consumption by at least 50%. For this we need to patent the invention in Brazil, also in China, India, the United States and the European Union; follow the process made by a specialized company and finalize the prototype of the invention. That is why, we ask for voluntary contributions to this good cause and energy revolution that our invention can provide. But the national and international press ignored the invention. I particularly like that. This motivates me. This describes the human race well. And it is at times like these that people like me get what they want and push humanity, charging a natural price for it. Persevere, this is our motto.
Thanks for pointing that out... this link will help with the missing gif!

http://www.pixibot.co/static/img/pixi_intro.mp4
It will probably not surprise you that this is also the reason I no longer contribute to Wikipedia. When you're an expert in a subject, writing an encyclopedia article about it is very tedious. It's easy for me to write an explanation of how the LRNG works, or what its faults are, or what the urban mythology is about it. It's much more painful for me to do so while backing every point I make up with some secondary source --- none of which can be related to me in any way, lest I be accused of injecting my own bias into the encyclopedia.

But while I'm not going to say that the way Wikipedia deals with expertise is perfect (it is deeply imperfect), there's a sense in which this is the way it's supposed to be.

If I have important things to say about the LRNG, why would I write them in Wikipedia? Should I not write my own articles, or a chapter of a book, or an academic paper, and let people who want to write encyclopedia articles cite them? In my own work, I can obey whatever guidelines I want to, and write in whatever fashion is most gratifying and effective for me.
Saying "no-op is faster than fsync" is just not as click-baity a title.

There is a good question though... do you really need fsync on Android? If you don't, why are you calling it?
>Yet computer scientists are so focused on the languages used to describe computation that they are largely unaware that those languages are all describing state machines.

That brings back to mind that someone corrected me on that, computers were closer to linear bounded automata. Now I'm even more confused.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12557351
This looks really nice. I sadly don't have an iOS device to test this, I wonder if there's something similar for android.

One thing that would be neat which I saw in a BlackBerry 10 app I briefly used: automatic class checkin based on location. You set the classroom location the first time you go, and then once you arrive it will mark you as present in a attendance list. This was useful to me as a metric but also to keep me going to every lecture.
According to which timezone?
Swapout: Learning an Ensemble of Deep Architectures
It's not a benefit in other countries, it's either a socialized system or a legal requirement.
Civilization literally depends on having children. It's not optional

It doesn't depend on high-consuming Westerners having children tho'. The human race will survive regardless of whether Western civilization does.
Uber's "Otto" is already making autonomous trucks.

You're describing a traveling salesman problem - which there are plenty of working solutions (even if we don't know the best solution yet)
And then an autonomous forklift problem - there are a few companies already making them. And packaging + placement can simplify any issues if they exist. Maybe throw in a robotic arm in the back of the truck for good measure.

Autonomously refilling a tank of gas could be a fun problem to solve. But full service stations already exist. Those should be able to stand in until there is a better solution, such as Tesla's battery swap stations but for trucks.

Now, without a human driver the trucks can be working 24/7. No need for sleep. Which might be worth it even if a human accompanies the truck and just sleeps in a back section. Also who wants to pay a person to drive a truck, when the truck can drive itself for free?
The notability guideline is part of the verifiability requirement.
Would be cool if somebody wrote a technical blogpost about the product
Bizarre Story of the Girl with No Vagina Who Was Stabbed and Had a Baby (2013)
I suspect it has something to do with the author's accent. My ex-roommate was a brit with a semi-received pronunciation who majored in linguistics, and we had a lot of conversations about what words sounded like to each other. It's weird how often we were just completely unable to understand each other.

In this case, I bet the R is the clue. The author probably has some sort of non-rhotic accent where the vowels sound much more rounded. The R would give a bit of the brassy trill sound, and they would probably add the M to color the sound of the vowel so that the word has that bassy ending. I'm guessing that if they tried reading BWAAAA it would sound too rounded and lyrical, and BRAAA would start to capture the early timbre of the sound, but would still probably end of a higher, less aggressive note.

I can't really imagine exactly what accent causes his BRAAM to sound like our BWAAA, but you can kind of imagine what I'm talking about by imitating a guy from Boston saying BWAAA vs. BRAAAM.

Edit: It appears the author went to Swarthmore. My brother went there, and the general consensus is that it should be pronounced non-rhotically. To my ears, the way they say the first phoneme sounds like "SwaAH"[1] (like a person who is surprised, but also non-plussed), whereas I would say it like "SwaRRR", in kind of a gutteral/piraty way. So I wouldn't be surprised if he thought BRAAM approached the gutteral/brassy sound of the effect much better than BWAAA.

[1] I don't know IPA. If any linguists are reading this, I'm sorry. Please feel free to correct anything I've said.
Seems that it would make detecting it more difficult
This statement is not complete, almost all new Ubiquiti PoE equipment is 802.3af compatible (48V). Older hardware is 24V only. To cross this gap they released several switches (and routers) with PoE ports which can do both (passive 24V or auto sensing 48V).
Test predicts which children will grow up to be drain on society
exactly. it's all about association and the connecting and strengthening of neural pathways.
Yeah. Raising kids is not a matter of time, it's a matter of energy. When you have kid you have to (and, hell, of course, you want to), be 100% with them when they want you to be with them. You don't postpone them, you don't schedule them. So that's much more energy draining than time-eating
> can't interop the "operational" CUDA features

What exactly do you that mean?
Been using org-mode. Trying out vimwiki after seeing this and I like the simplicity of it better. It has enough features for me to remove the overhead of an emacs + evil install just for org-mode.
Could somebody give some insight about switching from AWS to Azure? I have been contemplating it over the past couple of months but have not yet pulled the trigger
Interesting that NVDA is down almost 4% for the day [1] while AMD is up 3% [2]. Is Wall Street realizing that NVidia is not alone in the ML Hardware space?

[1] https://www.google.com/finance?q=NASDAQ:NVDA

[2] https://www.google.com/finance?q=NASDAQ%3AAMD
Effectively everyone agrees that statistical bias is wrong. If you're on the wrong end of it you're being treated unfairly.

That's not quite true. An unbiased credit scoring algorithm would penalize blacks, subtracting 50 pts or so from their FICO score.

Is it fair to reject a loan because of the ethnic background of the applicant? That seems unfair to me.

Then again forcing a lender to give out loans that he knows will default also seems unfair, to say nothing of the higher interest rates that Asians must pay in order to subsidize deadbeat blacks.

I don't quite know what "fair" means here. What I do know is that the term "bias" is used to mislead; to hide the fact that whatever choice we make, there is a cost to be paid.
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It feels pretty performant and I don't mind the extra ram usage, however, I can't afford the constant 10+% cpu usage. Even when it's just sitting there, it's constantly eating tons of cycles.

Is that a problem exclusive to the Windows version? Is there any setting I should tweak?
This might be right place to ask; has anyone been using SP4 (not Surface Book) as their main dev machine?

I am debating between 13 inch MBP or SP4. I can get SP4 with same specs as MBP for significantly cheaper. But of course, it may not be as productive as MBP.
They wanted the hardness of "R" over "W" and didn't want to seem like they were screaming about brasserie?
Is there even any evidence that he attended this dinner?

... that and having a taste for pretentious shock-art is not a crime last I checked. I've had a little bit of contact with East Coast elite circles before and that kind of vapid modern "aaaaaht" is par for the course. Never saw anything quite as over the top as Abromovic but I definitely saw things in the same shock-jocking coated with art school babble genre. I always figured it was a stuff people pretended to like for social signaling purposes.

I don't consider all the pizzagate claims impossible. Blackmail has historically been a tool of political manipulation and so a high placed blackmail ring is not unthinkable. I just consider them unlikely, especially in light of the (IMHO rather obvious) existence of an intentional cyber warfare and propaganda campaign against the Clinton presidential campaign.

I've become even more suspicious after listening to one or two interviews about "pizzagate" and hearing the following names and sources mentioned repeatedly: Brietbart news, gab.ai, 4chan, and the Washington Times. The latter is owned by a front for the Unification Church. The first two are pretty well known alt.right outlets, and 4chan is not exactly known for being a forum for unbiased rigorously vetted investigative journalism. (Nor is Reddit.)

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

The sources for this seem to have negative credibility.

I'm being equal opportunity here. If there was a massive push to label Trump as head of a child abuse blackmail ring and all the info came from hard-left rags and people known for supporting Clinton I'd be just as skeptical.
and Tnks for the MIT license
I'm surprised more folks aren't mentioning spending time to raise kids. If my startup were suddenly acquired, I'd certainly spend a lot more time with mine. This would be partly to educate and enrich them, and partly to support my wife's career (pre-tenure professor at demanding institution). I'd probably pursue side projects and go back to working full-time at some point, but I'd spend the bulk of my time working/playing/volunteering/traveling with my kids.
> Whoops!

I take race realism to be the sort of thing that posits an inherent relationship between skin color/other physical features, and other innate/intrinsic/genetic properties such as intelligence or criminality -- especially as a prior and when the trait is normative and negative. So "dark skinned people are less intelligent" is race realism, but "dark skinned people are treated poorly by the political establishment" is not race realism. (We're far afield, I don't mean for this thread to devolve into a definition or debate about race realism -- I'm just saying what I take race realism to mean.)

The important point isn't a precise characterization. Rather, the important point is this:

It's possible for race to be predictive without there being inherent differences between people of different physical attributes. Setup a system in which I take away all green people's life savings at the end of the day with probability .99 if they don't have a house and .5 if they do have a house. Both numbers are .2 for purple people. An unbiased lender can choose not to lend to green people without exhibiting statistical bias -- in fact, color has huge predictive power.

But that predictive power comes from the social system we setup specifically to screw green people, not from inherent differences that are causally related to color posited by race realism.

But this is an extremely obvious observation, so perhaps you meant something different by race realism? In any case, I don't think the disagreement you posited really exists.

The rest of the points you're making are covered elsewhere.

I deal with Real numbers every day, but I don't barge into discussions of epistemology and demand my axioms be used in discussions of a vaguely related but definitely different topic. And I'm careful in pop lectures to point out that Real numbers are just a mathematical object and no more more "real" than natural numbers.

If people in your statistics lectures don't know what bias means, then you should account for this in your teaching and lecturing. I know my statistics lecturer did.
Speaking of warnings about a nuclear war, there's a great 80's movie that centers around one such warning and how ordinary people react to it: Miracle Mile.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miracle_Mile_(film)
> population stagnation/decline and the multitude of economic problems that come along with it.

I'd be curious to know if there are any good books on the subject. It seems like this is something that we're going to have to figure out in our lifetimes.
Apple acquired FingerWorks[1] in 2005. They were pioneers in multi-touch pads. I believe their technology is one of the reasons the original iPhone was successful.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FingerWorks
If you have to do original research to justify a topic's inclusion, you're outside the charter of the encyclopedia. The only "research" Wikipedia accepts are direct citations to reliable sources.
Yet again, people who have family responsibilities through no fault of their own (e.g., taking care of a sick parent or sibling) are ignored while companies fawn over people who (largely) choose to pop out more mouths to feed. I'm not saying parental leave is bad, but it's entirely eclipsed the other reasons why someone might need to take time off work to help family.

Saying "I want 20 weeks paid leave and $35,000 to provide hospice care for my brother" would probably result in derision and maybe a pink slip at many companies, even ones that have generous parental leave.
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The United States is also much much bigger. It's ~130 times the land area of the Republic of Ireland. The distance between New York and San Francisco is ~4200 km. That's ~1700 km further than the distance from Dublin to Moscow. More like Dublin to Uralsk, Kazakhstan.

I suppose my point is that the US is not a local market in the same way Ireland is. You can get up in the morning, drive all day, and still not be at the other side of Texas even if you don't stop to talk to restaurant owners.
The network piece seems kind of incomplete and outdated when compared to what's being discussed in terms of compute and storage. Most of the new networking fabrics being built at this point are 100G, with emerging server connectivity focusing on nx25G for in-rack. Longer-distance 25G is awaiting implementations of FEC but the currently shipping gear can do 3-5M - which is about ideal for top-of-rack. The economics and development cycles of these link-types tends to dictate that 40GE doesn't make sense for a new installation.

The call for "SDN" is incredibly nebulous - to the point of being almost meaningless, IMO. What the big guys tend to be after is a way to control the fabric via standardized API calls - so capability for YANG/NETCONF or some mechanism for direct access to SDE calls. The other thing that's not addressed is how to efficiently get information about the network out of the network. Traditional polled mechanisms (SNMP/RMON, et al) have been shown not to both lack scale and adequate resolution while legacy approaches to push telemetry (sFlow/Netflow) miss the mark in terms of level of detail and compatibility with large-scale data processing needs.

The next point is the selection of topology and the integration with multi-site planning. There's a lot of cool stuff happening in this regard and there seems to still be a pretty big disconnect between what the systems folks seem to understand and what's happening in the network industry, which is a shame because there's probably more opportunity for neat stuff (read: scalability, performance, fault resistance, manageability) than seems to be discussed (at least on HN).

Finally - there's a certain conventional wisdom among the systems and some sections of the programmer crowd that network control planes are just another mostly simple bit of software to be implemented. It's not. It's a hard problem and is the manifest reason why only a handful of organizations have been able to produce software that runs a meaningful percentage of large-scale L3 infrastructure in the world (hint: Arista is a great company but isn't included in this number quite yet). Truly rugged, useful/usefully-featured and performant network code is hard. Making that code work in the context of 30+ years of protocol implementations, morphing standards and a world of bad/clueful actors is REALLY hard. There's an inverse relationship between the amount of money spent on a solution and the amount of specialized expertise you have on staff. A more traditional commercial solution might be more expensive but it also relieves you of the need to keep some relatively rare, likely expensive and almost certainly non-revenue producing skill-sets off-staff.
An exploit in bash or ssh would be fixed by a patch to bash/ssh, and has nothing to do with any given bash script.
Berlin is currently the best european city to launch a startup
You can't call your own Tweetstorm important.
Hey! I just fixed this yesterday for Wishy.gift (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13159528).

You need `muted` for videos to autoplay in Chrome/Native browser on Android, elsewise it just won't play. Try it out :)

edit: Oh, btw. Pixibot looks slick! Very cool application of OCR.
For the first example, if you're willing to risk a stage-0 transform, you could try using a shiny do expression:

render() {
return <div>
{do {
if (loggedIn) { <a>Logout</a>; }
else { <form onSubmit={ ... } />; }
}}
</div>
}
sounds like a typical case of "perfect is the enemy of good (enough)"
> Every store's shopping experience on black friday ranges from barely tolerable to unbearable.

This is true and I would be completely sympathetic to this if the same thing hadn't happened to my brother-in-law (also purchasing a Surface Book) a couple of weeks prior. Note: this isn't a dig on Microsoft or even the product - I was more trying to make the point that I went into the store super excited about a product, and the experience alone completely turned me off to it in the long run. Granted, I probably didn't give the product enough of a chance in the end.

I'm glad to hear you're enjoying yours.
I use www.puphpet.com to set up my Vagrant environments for web development. You basically configure your environment in the browser and and then download the generated Vagrant configuration that gets everything going for you.
Just this weekend I created a Docker image to run the UniFi Controller on my Raspberry Pi. Works like a charm: https://github.com/praseodym/docker-unifi-armhf
Show HN: Linux Kernel Module to listen to Master Tux's heartbeat
> Yeah, I read it, it was a bunch of Marxist buzzwords

I tried to keep it buzzword free, if it was understandable, what's the problem?

> You also draw a really simplistic and ignorant call to action here...

Well this is a critique of an ideology. The majority of the text deals with what's wrong with it, and only general pointers are given as an alternative. However I believe they are enough to get free software people to question parts of their approach and start researching important topics for themselves. I never set out to write an article titled "How to free the whole society in 10 easy steps".

> I am a free software activist. I write, use, modify, and evangelize free software for my paycheck.

That's great, this article was aimed at you. What concrete problems do you have with the article? I hardly said "Stallman is not a socialist and is therefore wrong about everything", I created arguments from the ground-up, and I believe they deserve to be engaged in such a manner.

> I also think socialism is a garbage philosophy.

All of us have our personal backgrounds and beliefs which are hard to get over. You say socialism is a garbage philosophy, well, what do you think about exploitation of workers, of the huge amounts of labor we waste as a society, of unequal distribution of wealth both inside and between countries? What do you think about imperialistic wars? Do you believe your interests align with the interests of those who own the means of production and exchange, those who control finances? I hardly believe you like any of this.

You don't have to identify as a socialist to begin thinking about problems which the current system has. I certainly didn't, in the start. But as I started reading more and more, I slowly realized how Marxism was the most thorough analysis of capitalism and its problems, and how it formalized the most effective ideology of the working class.

I suggest, if you haven't already, that you give The Communist Manifesto a read--it can't possibly hurt you. If you have, try Engels' Principles of Communism: https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1847/11/prin-com....
Nothing in my department yet, but we actually have a guy actively looking for a reason to implement some kind of ML so we can say our product "has it" I guess.
Hence why I phrased it "encodes insider information"

So you get your tip, and you generate a data set that will result in some data analyst getting the conclusion you want.