skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Must be interesting to live that far north. FWIW further south people configure their phones likewise because the question of whether there will be rain is when rather than if - or at least during the rainier season(s).
Voice is a command line style UX and is a tool that is useful in those cases. You have to memorize commands although.
Yeah, well, don't assume Siri will help you with that. <Long press Home> "What's the..."

"I'm sorry, mikestew, I didn't catch that."

Maybe if you waited more than 2.6 milliseconds for me start flapping my pie hole, you'd have something to catch.
"Tesla loses money on every car too."
This is false, Tesla averages $18,000 margin on every model S & model X it sells.

"So how did GM pull off a $30,000 car with 200 miles of range?"
It didn't. It is $30k only after $8000 of federal tax credits.
Safari was against an explicit tail call syntax [0], and as part of that were against "TCO" as an optional optimization, however they are the first to implement PTC.

[0] https://github.com/tc39/ecma262/issues/535
Fewer tires than they would if a computer checked their air pressure diligently.

Taking small steps is fine, but the smallness should be in the location, not the density. Just a small neighborhood with only self driving cars, instead of a large neighborhood with a small proportion of self driving cars.

And of course, a deer-free neighborhood will be best to start with.
So a leaf with a +20 mile upgrade would beat it easily in everything including ugly points? Neat. Way to flop again, GM.

I've got a crumby idea: How about a long range EV with a dual pack system, like a dual tank pickup truck. You could get away with half the charger and half the wire capacity, and still get nearly 2x the range.
(That's Medium, a blogging platform. It's very fast for me at least, mabye your internet?)
Hopefully that is a dump as well. At least with Hadoop you have a little more control over resources with the right configuration. When we run Hive on our main HDFS cluster without limiting mappers and reducers it will happily bog down the entire cluster to give you what you need - but limiting the mappers, while slowing your throughput - eliminates the risk of resource hog for noncritical queries. Even then, copy of the data with dedicated resources is still preferred because without a lot of mappers and reducers your Hive queries are going to slow to a crawl.
I'm not a luddite.

I just prefer the best tools for the job, tools that can be used with any software project. The Unix IDE is the best in the world.
Or maybe the fact they do find the time for thing like this is why they are successful?
His "interlude" article on the same topic is epic:

https://medium.com/@cliffordoravec/expect-everything-to-be-u...
Trendeing with Anh Dao: Sophisticated and Affordable Target Style
Would he also buy an Aveo because has a bowtie on it? Badges mean a bit too much to some folks. Meh.
If accurate information is in fact one sided, it will look like the purveyor is pushing an agenda.

And in fact every competent news source including the Atlantic, WaPo, CNN, the Guardian, Forbes, the BBC, NHK and the Economist reported the same things.

Free societies decry false propaganda and always have. Authoritarians decry accurate information as equivalent and any information contrary to their goals.

But unfortunately there is no force on earth to dissuade the indoctrinated that there is no world wide conspiracy out to get them. That their facebook feed and extremest websites have no connection to reality. Particularly if they have found a charismatic leader to focus on who has no interest in accuracy.

>...what ruined its reputation and made it on par with various propaganda sites...

The is false. Generally, a thing does not become true simply because someone tweets it.
As if I needed another reason to despise Uber. It seems they don't bother to screen for psychopaths.
Because you shouldn't expose such micro-architectural details in an ISA which is trying to be stable for the next 50 years (yes really -- see discussions on the mailing list).

The very very low end PicoRV32 is not pipelined (unsurprisingly). More ordinary low end (eg. Rocket) has the canonical Hennessey-and-Patterson 5 stage pipeline and still doesn't need to expose branch delay slots in the ISA.

I should say also that the classical MIPS -- ie. no instruction dependencies -- was another mistake in hindsight.
Once you know the limit is there, you know to request the increase. For my students, this was less than obvious.

Furthermore, decisions as to who were accepted and who rejected were really wacky. For instance, my co-instructor's request (who in her request included a link to the course and her linkedin, and who has a Duke math PhD, worked as a quant, and was a data scientist at Uber) was denied!
Illinois covers them.
> What would they gain by making their API interoperable with their competitors?

Because it also makes it easier to use those API's, and for people to adopt theirs.

So you will find the better services adopting this first, because they can compete on having a better service.
Oh, interesting, the pension limit being raised was the same as for us. We have to pay into a state pension fund, though, which is already bankrupt.
Did the US Dietary Guidelines Cause the Obesity Epidemic?
I know it doesn't seem likely, but these things have a way of creeping up on you. 25 years ago the prospect of everyone having 8 GB of ram was far fetched, computers still had 8MB and 8GB hard drives were years off. In 10 years we could have petabytes in our phones and from there exabytes aren't such a huge leap.
Capistrano: A deployment automation tool built on Ruby, Rake, and SSH
Amazon provides a service to those who need things within a short amount of time. If you don't want to do that work, don't do it.
> I've tried fighting that fight, because I too used to be naive.

Sounds derogatory to the person you're arguing with. Is that your intention?

> I now understand why estimates are good for the company, and I understand why they're good for me as an engineer.

I realize this might be a wrong interpretation from my side but you do sound like you were dragged in a meeting, and the mystical they "explained how the real world works" to you, and then you took their side. A bit extreme interpretation I admit but IMO you should've chosen milder language if that interpretation isn't your intention.

Look, I too think this "manifesto" is worded stronger than it should have been, and that it's a bit extreme. Nobody can realistically expect that the people paying salary to you will just leave you the hell alone and wait for you to contact them to announce stuff. That's not gonna happen. But the way you word your responses here makes me think you're more of a business person now and not an engineer.

On the building trust point however you're 100% spot on. I've found that to be an extremely precise description -- be upfront, try to serve the business needs as best as you can, make honest effort to make yourself a predictably producing asset and when sh*t hits the fan the people you work for will give you the benefit of the doubt.

I think the disconnect between managers and programmers always stems from if we should look at the programmers as assembly line workers or craftsmen. The difference between how you treat either is pretty obvious however, so I won't go there.
Tesla proved that eco-minded cars didn't need to be ugly, yet ALL other manufacturers continue to produce only ugly cars (they don't get points for bootstrapping hybrid models of existing cars).

I am amazed none of the other purveyors of electric cars have managed to figure this out. Even the BMW offering ranks high on the "God what the hell" scale in terms of its design.

The Prius started this stupid trend of cars friendly to the polar bears looking like hot garbage and I have never once understood this logic.
>In which realistic scenario would you ever need to ask such questions in the first place?

Not related to payment processing but I do this kind of sliding time aggregation a lot at my work we have two 12 hour shifts. Often you need to be able to compute data across shift boundaries and batch things to gether at set intervals. I.E 'How many alarms events occurred this shift?' 'What about the previous shift?' 'How many four nightshift's previously?'
Where'd you get +20 miles from? The Leaf has a 108 mile range, the Bolt has a 238 mile range - that's a huge difference.
The phrase "raw numpy" strikes me as funny. I would figure that's about as abstract as you could get while still working with the math (discarding symbolic engines).
The difference you and I have is that you seem to be arguing law and I'm arguing right and wrong. The two have a disappointing degree of correlation in many jurisdictions.

In some culturally regressive countries, the law is used to prosecute the victims of rape. Such law is wrong and immoral... but in those countries it's the law and as a real victim on a moral level you are not "safe" from the law as you say.

My argument about what is right and wrong comes from the fact that I do not lose the right to use my property when it is stolen and the criminal loses certain rights when they voluntarily commit a theft. Of course the likely most sensible case is to use tracking, monitoring, etc as you suggest to bring the criminal to justice. But, if you steal a device that can be remotely controlled and monitor you: you lose the right to privacy because part of your theft was to invite me (by way of my property) into your life. The victim didn't ask to be invited, but the criminal made sure the victim was there. By the way, there's a lot worse the criminal gives up at the moment of theft: the right not to be assaulted by me is lost... take my phone a start to run away, I may well cause you to trip and injure yourself to protect my property: I exercise retaliatory force to defend my property, and because you initiated force to take the phone (not necessarily direct violence) you loose the right to be protected from such action. Again: this is moral argument, not necessarily legal... there are plenty of laws around the world more willing to make a victim the criminal and the criminal the victim on criteria going well beyond any willful act (social status, group identity, etc.).
At first I read "Building Jenkins" and there I was thinking "Well, finally someone gets how hard that is" (trying it on Linux and not being a Java main)
Because I read it far more as "This is going to be fucking hard, it sucks. Welcome to the trenches." That's considerably different than "I just did this simple thing and then money fell from the sky."

That, and the rest of the article goes on to focus on validating why your idea might not suck, or can at least be refined.
> They use tonnes, hundreds or thousands of litres, and large areas. Outside America, they don't need to convert between units of the same type: no acre-feet, bushels, pounds, tons, or all that crap.

In America, anyone who would deal solely in tonnes can deal solely in tons; anyone who would deal solely in hectolitres can deal solely in barrels (traditionally, 128 quarts); anyone who would deal solely in kilolitres can deal solely in tuns (traditionally, 1,024 quarts). No-one in America has to say '7 tuns, 2 hogsheads, 3 gallons, six quarts and a fluid oz' any more than he'd say '7.2850546 kilolitres.'

> Calling them "French units" sounds like xenophobia.

Oh, I'm not xenophobic! I just don't think they deserve a privileged position.

> The American system was never international, and the British system didn't extend that much further than the French, at the time of the empire.

The American system was used in Liberia; prior to the Russian Revolution the majority of the peoples of the world used systems of measurement substantially similar to the Anglo-American system, and could (should have, IMHO) rationalised and standardised that, rather than adopting the objectively inferior decimal principal.
Microsoft, Facebook, Apple Aim to Keep K-12 CS Crisis Alive Under Trump
" they believe "

So the title is dubious, as they 'think' they have.

Sloppy reporting on something otherwise interesting is a damn shame.
Yeah, I see what you mean... I guess I meant that compared to running a multi-billion dollar company, changing diapers or reading Cat in the Hat for the millionth time seems pretty mundane.
much powerful maybe, but not much faster.
A Word on Lockdown
Version 2 of the transportation system is well known in outline. Undesirable elements are disappeared to remote islands, whose people don't want them there, and whose police, to the extent that there are any, aren't willing to protect them. The resulting rapes and murders are, well, results.

The people in charge of this go to extreme lengths to prevent anyone finding out the details, which is strong circumstantial evidence that they're doing something very wrong, and that they know it.
GANs are unstable and hard to train. Researchers have come up with a series of hacks to make it work in some cases, but it's not trivially applicable to arbitrary datasets.
Thanks for looking into it. I just added a couple more concerns to the post:

* The totally bizarre responses that requests received. For instance, my co-instructor's request (who in her request included a link to the course and her linkedin, and who has a Duke math PhD, worked as a quant, and was a data scientist at Uber) was denied, whereas some students who provided no justification were accepted, on the same day!

* Why some of our students, who were fully paid-up, suddenly found their access cut off in the middle of the course.
It works just fine with piped input actually, I use it regularly with zcat.
Ugly, fat and tacky. I can't imagine dropping £10 k on this, let alone the £30k or more it would cost if it made it to the UK.

Model X to go, please.
I wasn't emphasising, I was quoting a hypothetical developer yelling in frustration because he just wants to write a safe web app and people keep talking about curves. All-caps is the correct markup style for yelling.
What I am trying to get in as I am not sure that this kind of thinking/speech is inherently imperative or declarative in (in the computing sense). The idea of modifying and controlling bits of state which other processes depend is fairly novel to the novice programmer, isn't it? I'm sure it tripped me up a lot.
I must have misheard the sales guy when I test drove one. Thought he said 180.
I don't think it is safe to assume this driver had a history of irrational behavior. If the driver had a record of irrational behavior and uber still 'hired' them, then I think you have a case, but I don't see that being true.
There's also the supercharger network which is often glossed over but pretty critical when you're considering it as a primary car.
String bridges to NSString, are you sure you need to cast?
Hear, hear. Indeed, "welcome" to everybody who takes the time to understand what (s)he is talking about.
Donald Trump Secures Electoral College Win, With Few Surprises
Dave needs to get a food thermometer.
Would strongly disagree with this.

For me a well designed house is actually, you know, about the design. And whilst the construction is important due to standards it is largely irrelevant.

The analogy to software is apt. Well designed, well architected software is so important. Anyone can write syntactically proper code. Far harder to design a system that has just the right amount of extensibility, performance, elegance etc to meet the requirements without going over the top.
I think it looks fine. You Americans have a weird dislike of hatchbacks. To European eyes, it just looks very normal. Good luck to GM but I suspect their dealerships won't bother trying to sell many of these.
The Ambition Interviews: A Table of Contents
Coming into this article, I was imagining a drunk passenger who belligerently made fun of the driver's vehicle. Instead:

> The victim tapped on the window to alert Allemon that they were entering the vehicle. Allemon felt his vehicle was disrespected when the victim tapped on the window.

Yup, from this side of the story, it does sound like the driver is unstable.
Uber lost $800M last quarter
> I'm confused, you think 12 is a better base unit to use than 10? Do you think we should all be counting in hexadecimal too?

No, in duodecimal. It's generally better: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duodecimal

And you can count by twelves on the knuckles of your fingers, so anyone who still needs to count on his fingers can still do it (I'm not certain why this is such a selling point for decimals: surely we're all intelligent enough to use higher bases?).
Show HN: Find gift cards redeemable near your recipient's address
There is no shortage of tech workers here. Can we stop politicizing tech for (or against!) Immigration? All this does is disincentivize their own educational programs.
Boiling it down to the core point, "the Bolt will let GM sell more swanky Silverado pickups at much fatter margins without paying penalties or buying credits from competitors".

It's important to know that fuel mileage regulations are calculated on a fleet basis, not per model. So manufacturers are actually trading off optimizations across their entire product line. The Bolt is just an iteration on the existing strategy of using cheap small cars to offset the emissions from larger (higher margin) trucks.
Same here. Dot in the kitchen connected to 10" subwoofer+satellites. Spotify/Amazon Music (kids' favourite), setting timers, listening to news in the morning. That's about it. Jokes and calculator sometimes.

I'd like it if the knowledge graph was better, for answering questions. Just wikipedia queries is a bit lame. I think Google Home will win on that one.

Oh, and I'd really, really like to be able to voice call/skype through it (presuming the array mic + software will be able to isolate my voice/remove reverberation well enough).

IM (with TTS) could be fun too
He also mention Python - which probably does most of the heavy lifting.
> compared to Python or Ruby, where because of the GIL you _must_ place an apache/nginx/haproxy in front of it and also run a bunch of unicorns or something similar on different ports

or you know, just call fork() a few times, like Apache has done for more than a decade
Yes but, like Brendan says (and I agree 100%), it's a long shot.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13081465

I was heavily involved with OpenSolaris at the time Oracle bought Sun. It was never an open source project and there was a lot of resentment from Sun employees that their beloved code had been exposed to the mass of ignorant developers. After Oracle bought Sun, the issues only accelerated to their inevitable outcome.

I wish the Illumos community all the best but, having seen first hand how the old Sun mentality is still going on there too, I makes me depressed.
One of the Bolt’s best features is a regenerative braking paddle behind the wheel, which simultaneously slows the car and recharges the battery when pulled.

So their tech is so crude that there is no regenerative braking built into the standard floor mounted brake pedal? Even my 2006 Prius does regenerative braking based of the brake pedal, with no need for such hacks.

Is there any fast recharge system for these? Eg, does GM have a supercharger network? If I buy a Bolt, can I purchase / rent access to the Tesla superchargers? Or is the tech different?
Not an expert, but I'm pretty sure that the first rule of crypto is that you should not roll your own, at least not in a place of any actual importance.
Most companies try to keep their high end products as profitable as possible.
Intercom Web App Down
The Nissan Leaf looks about the same as other Nissan cars - check out the Note or Juke. And I think the Bolt looks fine. You just have a weird fear of hatchbacks in the USA.
Free society isnt pushing a false news narrative, that is the mainstream media in its death throes.

The google trend analysis shows how artificial the fake news narrative is.

As for the new york times, they published a plea for subscribers, large losses, and even down sized their real estate. That is all very strange for a once trusted institution, outside of our hackernews bubble there is real sense the times is now just propaganda.
People should be weary that this is not 'Scotland threatening to leave' necessarily, it's the SNP ginning up their audience. Obviously, there is concern, but anything existential the SNP will use.

I lived in Canada throughout the 20 years or so of near-Quebec separation, it's similar in rhetoric.

Absolutely every bit of legislation, every policy, every cause - is run through the separatist opportunistic filters.

Because they don't really have a majority, they're pressed to do anything they can to 'keep the base' and to find that bit of anger that gets them over the top.
It's a web log analysis tool, not a general data viz platform. This may be more what you're looking for though: http://www.cyclotron.io
This seems a bit biased.
I sometimes wonder what the industrial designers on these things are smoking. Are they really that bad, or does someone above their pay grade just have no taste at all?
Thanks for the thoughtful response. I think I see where you are coming from now. Now that I think about it, I even have some personal experience with the benefits of canonical learning.

I was a copy and paste web-developer for a while and it got me by but just barely. At some point, I discovered Michael Hartl's Rails tutorial. Rails was pretty foreign to me compared to the basic HTML/JavaScript stuff I was doing but I found it interesting and gave me the opportunity to learn web development from first principles.

Learning Rails in that environment made me a much more thoughtful and deliberate developer. All my applications since, even though they aren't in Rails, have benefited from that experience.

I have had personal experience with being commissioned to write a comprehensive resource for work. It is really a futile task in a lot of cases. Things change so quickly that they are different before, during, and after the writing and editing process. This does allow for the room for the learner to fill in the gaps and develop critical thinking and discretionary skills.

I think I was seeing this as too black and white when there are many shades of gray.

Once again, thanks for the education.
This article (like many) misses why people buy Teslas. Teslas are amazing cars that just happen to be electric - not the other way around. The large car companies think that "electric" is enough to sell a car, whereas Tesla knows they need luxury options, autopilot & the supercharger network.

I've got a Model 3 reservation myself and wouldn't even think of switching to the Bolt. I want a nice car, not just an electric one, and Tesla's got that in spades.
> People complaining about having to implement backprop in a ML class?

Wouldn't that suggest that other classes the students take have not been academic enough - i.e. that they focus too much on "things you might use day-to-day" vs "this is how/why things work"?
I hacked this site together to help me purchase gift cards that my friends and family can use easily, and not have to drive out of their way to redeem. I feel like the messaging of what the site does is hard to convey, but I hope you find it useful.

Feedback is most welcome!
No, but I said this the other day, Google made things worse by spreading its "Java 6.5" hybrid mess. Now we have Java 6 with 7 features and Java 8 with no Java 8 APIs being called Java 7 and Java 8 by people new to Java...
And yet every commercial home automation suite ties you into the manufacturer's online services.
Introducing Group Video Chat in Messenger
its not a bad way of testing out a selection of roasters to find the better ones but it seems a bit pricey (i dont know for sure though as im not US based so im not sure what is normal pricing for you guys but stuff here is usually more expensive)
I ADOPTED a KITTEN