skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would actually really like to see a "crossover" phone. Windows is trying this strategy, but of course then I'd have to carry a windows phone. I can imagine how nice it would be if I could just take my phone out and dock it and do some work or make a presentation.
They mean in standby, not in use.
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I was in second year of college and the Python 2 vs Python 3 was a couple of years running. Is this fight -still- not resolved? I'm not a python developer so I'm out of the loop.
Interesting. It seems that the same underlying dynamic would quite possibly have been present at a lot of other times in American history too. But it would have run in the opposite direction: rural voters steamrolling the priorities of the urban voter, causing urban voters to lean a bit toward whatever political party opposed the rural voters (if there was such a party).
One does not simply "raise more capital" to pay employees market wages in cash. That might very well be the morally superior approach, but it simply doesn't match reality. Most startups can't get that kind of capital at all, let alone on terms that would be worthwhile to the founders. Besides, the labor market is largely clearing, so you're not going to shame founders and investors to put more cash into comp. The much better bet is to educate employees so they can advocate for themselves.

> "Don't defecate where you eat; don't invest where you work."

That sounds pithy, but I don't see why that's good advice. If you work in a role where you can have a significant impact on the success of your employer, that can be a very advantageous situation compared to being a random investor in a venture you have no agency within. You also potentially have a lot more visibility than a silent investor. These are reasons one might choose to take equity over cash.

Had you argued that it might not be a universally great idea, from a portfolio management standpoint, to trade a lot of upfront cash for illiquid, volatile stock option, I'm with you.
With one AWS and 2 Azure data-centers coming to France (one of the Azure one is supposed to be in the "south of France"), this would probably help reducing the latency and increasing bandwidth between those data-centers and the US ones.

Apart from the name which I have a hard time to believe, (is it just a joke attempt from the post author?), the part I find interesting is, according to [1], this would be the first cable between France and the USA. I can see "FLAG Atlantic-1" and "Apollo", but those seem to have endpoints in both France and the UK. There is however already cables between the USA and European union countries, such as MAREA

[1] http://www.submarinecablemap.com/#/country/france
If I may recommend, softwareupdate.

I just run softwareupdate -dir.

Feel free to ad your own home-brew formula to run softwareupdate. But as it stands, having that handle OS updates, similar to freebsd-update works fine for me. I also personally use nix to handle package management on OS X which I argue works better than most linux package managers in general. If a bit finicky.

Sketch is a mac only app example, amongst others. I keep OS X for a few reasons:

- it upgrades fine, I've had issues with upgrades on almost every linux distribution ever

- it supports multiple monitors without pulling teeth and fingernails

- more recently, high dpi support, i tried windows 10 and its a bit of a tire fire based on what you run, not a fan, linux was pretty close

- overall just get out of my way ness of full screen mode works fine and the touch gestures
There's also a USB slot so? I don't want to deal with storage and SD cards that die when you copy large files to them.

I currently use the Samsung Note 2014 (with the Wacom digitizer) as my portable Media player with pretty expensive 64GB cards and it's not fun, they are easy to lose and you still need to swap cards and the media transfer speed to those cards unless you pop them into a reader is so freaking slow and then you get into problems because you can't easily copy large files to them (as in 720+ movies and 1080 ~1 hour TV shows) since exFAT or NTFS is often not supported which defeats the purpose anyhow.

And if "less than official digital copies" are not you thing then both Amazon and Netflix allow you to download videos on mobile devices and play them back while offline, and they do not allow you to use your SD card for the cache.
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Interesting, in Germany the people in the metal industry only work 35 hours a week, just 5 hours more, and they are one of the best payed groups. I guess it depends on how we can automate and how much we value this or that kind of work.
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Obviously "automatically extract the principles in an understandable format" is a long term and probably unachievable goal.

However there is hope that cluster analysis on data about the internal reasoning process can successfully identify groups of positions that "seem to share a common principle". Success in that is a first step towards lots of interesting things.
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Pretty sure they meant unemployment compensation or the like.
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Centaur chess players do not outperform the best chess engines. That is based on a misrepresentation of one of the first centaur chess tournaments. Human modified moves only reduce the strength of the best chess engines now. The benefit that was reported was one of tactics one centaur chess competitor had over other centaur chess competitors, not centaur chess vs stand alone chess engine.

It is a misunderstanding that has been breathlessly repeated by futurists and transhumanists for years.
Would it sign back or simply display written text? Seems to me that signing back is just an artifact of the limitations of human body movements as an output channel... or are there many people who can read sign language faster than they can read letters? (honest question, I don't know the answer)
It's an amazing phrase. AFAICT it doesn't actually mean anything. I certainly understand why such a high-profile developer would choose such a "bland, yet poetic" phrasing; my issue is just with trying to interpret it as somehow insightful.
This is cool, though not having the standard library would be painful. Hopefully, there is some middle ground than jettisoning the entire std crate.
>All Elixir needs now is a viable ElixirScript that can compile down to JS/WASM

On the off-chance you pulled that name out of a hat, or for the benefit of anyone else who might not realize you are referencing a real project:

https://github.com/bryanjos/elixirscript
Thanks for your comment.

The PDF format will ignore some structures of paper and `draw` contents on a fixed-layout flat document. For a char, e-readers cannot know it belongs a paragraph, a figure caption or a formula. Plus, publishers render original paper with the specific style. It is a problem. Some research concentrate to improve PDF format, extract infos for scholarly papers, like articles on DocEng - a compute science conference: http://dl.acm.org/event.cfm?id=RE135. Then I read the spec of PDF format...

Anyway, that's hurt.
Which model, and how much did you pay? Your experience is not at all typical.
Yes, but that's what the PP was arguing wasn't the case (by linking to a "spec"). I'm not sure why you're restating the obvious (OPs position).
Interestingly, you do see it on the first page in Bing and DuckDuckGo.

And while I did initially think that might be deliberate (because hey, why bother showing a link to your search engine on the first page of results in your search engine?), Bing and DuckDuckGo are listed when you search 'search engine' in those search engines.

Makes me wonder why Google doesn't list themself here.
Do you have a link? Sounds like it'd be a very interesting watch.

Edit: I found one that has an example (I think) around 7:38 http://www.nicovideo.jp.am/watch/sm13963118 - the collision detection pushes megaman into the wall and jumps between different sections. Very interesting indeed!
Yes:

http://www.samsung.com/us/computing/chromebooks/12-14/xe513c...
Ah, what pray tell, does one do with all that fancy purple rock?
> The whole point of fact checking is that the fact check / rebuttal is put side by side or preceding the original claim

And of course, the original source's surrebuttal to the rebuttal is put side by side with that. Truth is so strong, it can let error have the last word...

Oh wait, that's not how it works at all. In fact I've hardly ever seen this "side-by-side" thing. Usually what I see is the original source paraphrased, then reduced to its most mockable possible strawman. Could you provide some examples of what you see as fact-checking done right?

> I would consider that progress in China

I would consider it progress in America. It would certainly be progress on Twitter. (I recall one tweet saying "So Twitter has gone from a sewer, to a sewer with unexplained disappearances.")
I think the NY to France link would be good for the simple fact that it would make it much harder for the GCHQ to mirror internet traffic locally as they apparently do with fibre that terminates in the UK.
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kind of, there's chroot hacks that let you run Linux distros on them :)
Nice read. Apart from the excellent writing I also think the interactive diagram was really cool!
>Good point. I think it's easy to forget how much work engineers can make for ourselves (Uber has >700 microservices)...

This! So much of modern development looks like a jobs program. Then one steps back and looks at SV development in general, and realizes that 95% of their engineering staff is redundant.

Worse, are these asshole companies crowding out the H-1B system with all these extra positions?
A few years ago a rich cycling enthusiast promised $50M to the Brooklyn Bridge Park to build an indoor velodrome on a bit of prime waterfront green space. A generous gift for sure, but the cost was a big parcel of extremely valuable real estate for a sport very few people are interested in. Thankfully it fell apart.
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I don't know how technology can best help people in different places make money and find the work they want. I think the author is saying that economies of scale helps bigger companies deliver better products and services, but I think moving forward on the other end by enabling the development of specialized software can also be beneficial. In fact by continuing to work on Ember I think the author is actually doing this.
No sorry a 500$ with 32GB of storage is not excusable.

Removable storage is pointless since they would likely not to support a filesystem which can be easily mounted on any computer (windows/linux/osx) and support files of 4GB or greater in size.

More importantly media apps like Amazon Instant Video, Netflix and Spotify which allow you to cache/download media for offline use do not allow you to use removable storage for that purpose and my downloaded spotify songs alone would fill A 32GB device.

I can download a few seasons of my TV shows from Amazon Video, Netflix and my entire music library from Spotify into my iPhone but I can't download even a full season of a 8-10 episode per season show onto a device with 32GB.

32GB eMMC is also very slow because of how the storage channel works, so sorry there is no excuse with having so little storage.

Also SD cards are slow, die fairly quickly, can easily get lost, and buying 256GB of storage in microSDXC Class 10 cards from a reliable source (as in definitely not fake) costs about as much as the difference between an iPad/iPhone with a 32GB and 256GB here in the UK.
OK. So it doesn't work for your use case.

But: "a portable device without storage is pointless can barely fit 2 1080 movies on it...."

is not true. I imagine a vast majority of the population carries a portable device that can't fit 2 1080p movies. Indeed, the number of people watching 1080p movies on their phone is probably pretty small to begin with.
well, it is a chromebook. i think they want the users to keep everything in the cloud and use storage as cache.

i have the same concern, its a deal breaker for me. if i am paying $500, why cant i have some decent storage so i can do things offline and store movies and what not. i dont / cant stream 100% of the time
No surprise. Investigative reporting is very resource intensive, and the people who are good at it don't do it for free.

Opinions, on the other hand...
Ah, right! Thanks for the link.
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A large part of the reason I took the job I'm currently working at is the slightly shorter work hours combined with flexible work hours means that I can put in a bit less than two hours extra for four days and take the fifth one off. Do that on both sides of the weekend and your mini 3 day holiday becomes one where you get waaay more time at your destination and more than the travel time even if you're spending a large part of a day at each end travelling.
why stop olive oil? what is so bad about it?
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Everyone that left or escaped Maoist China has an opinion of the mainland that is fixed in time, and is used to shape perception and policy towards the mainland that is completely incongruent with the sentiment on the mainland.

Thats the only difference.
Because google isn't really a search engine anymore.

Search engines just do dumb scraping of web pages. Google understands the webpage, so that when I look up "pancake recipe" it will just show me the steps to making pancakes rather than pointing me to websites with pancake recipes.

It's more like an "internet integrator".
Go compiles down to native code (x86, ARM assembly etc). That's what Grumpy code generates as well but it still needs to be maintained in the original Python2 or Go (depending on whatever your original source is). What I'm suggesting is that Python3 is jettisoned and Grumpy takes the forsaken throne that Python left behind.

One thing is clear with all these new compilers/runtimes, you want to be writing Python2 syntax because that's where all the action is. I hope Grumpy succeeds and new features are added and becomes it's own ecosystem that plays nicely with Go code. These folks at Google have really done what Guido & Co should've done.

This is Python3 as most of us wanted it to be, it's worth rewriting all your code for... but you don't even have to do that. Valid Python2 is Grumpy already. I don't know what else I'd want. It compiles existing Python2 AND offers a legitimate upgrade from CPython at the same time.

As far as all of the lost C extensions? You won't need them with the performance that the Go runtime has. That's been the answer all this time, not maintaining C-extension compatibility.

They nailed this thing, it's the answer to "what's the future of Python?" that everyone has been wondering for the past 9 years.
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You mean Chrome, a calculator, a camera app, and a file explorer? Those are pretty much the only apps preinstalled on a Chromebook.
This isn't a phone, this is a laptop with a 12" screen....

A phone with 32GB is also not excusable when camera photos take up 5-10MB today, and most phones can shoot 4K video.
Cool concept. This should be built into all smartphones and tablets and automatically run when they open PDFs.
> The momentum behind the C ecosystem is so overwhelming that Rust simply will not get a foothold anytime soon.

You could also say this for C on Unix in 1990. Or x86 assembly for PCs in 1985. In 1990, the idea that, 25 years later, we would be deploying network services written in JavaScript was unthinkable.

Change takes time, and C won't die, ever—but history shows that change eventually does happen.
I can assure you the Galaxy S didn't mention all the preinstalled s* it had.
It would be super-weird if AlphaGo became worse that the previous version.
Microsoft paid 26 Billion for Linkedin. I'm pretty sure they expect to extract revenue out of them.
I'm not sure why you want to compile Elixir or Erlang to JS... Most of the magic of the language is provided by BEAM and OTP which for a multitude of reasons cannot be properly implemented in any JS engine/backend I'm aware of. If anything I'd think the abstractions of Elixir/Erlang would be cumbersome and very awkward when writing performant code which had to be transpiled to JS. The biggest reason being is BEAM can do preemptive scheduling, interrupting a running process to ensure all have equal execution time. This is a stark contrast to everything I know about how most any other VM or runtime work (which cannot preempt).

While yes the language is nice, I think using something like Opal would provide most of the syntactic pleasantries while being easier to understand when it comes to tuning and debugging.

If what I'm saying is nonsense, I'm missing the point, or short sighted please learn me! :)
What makes that polarization horrible? Being able to take in so many different points of view, and trying to appreciate where they are coming from, makes it exciting and interesting. Discussions really become horrible when everyone agrees.
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Erlang doesn't compile to machine code, but to bytecode that runs into the Erlang VM. So you would probably have to run the Erlang VM on top of javascript... I'm not sure whether it's possible, but it sure sounds heavy.
It sounds like you got a defective unit. I've used half a dozen Chromebooks across the price spectrum, and none have had any of those problems (even the lowly Acer C720 from years ago). In particular, battery life and touchpad are usually excellent on most Chromebooks. Usually it's the screen that's the weak link, which is one of the reasons that makes these new Samsung models interesting (along with Android apps and possibly the pen).
What would you prefer instead? That they not hire these 50 people at all?
Haha if there's anything that doesn't need to be on the water then a velodrome is it. The fact that the velodrome wasn't built a few blocks inland after the initial site fell through, tells us all we need to know about those "charitable" motivations.
That distinction might be interesting if you're defining systemic racism but otherwise racism is having preconceived notions about a group, or attributing qualities and flaws to a group, based on race. That's exactly what the author of that post is doing, lumping all whites people in a single group, ignoring their multitude of opinions and experiences.
Awesome next generation bike sharing service
yes, many people can "read" sign faster than text. The language is not a 1-for-1 translation of English among other reasons.
Ask HN: Large inheritance windfall. What next?
Throwaway here, for obvious reasons, though I'm a regular visitor to HN.

My parents left me a bit more than expected in their will. We've discussed the matters before, but now that it's in effect, so to speak, I'm unable to ask them for their advice any longer. Thanks to my tech salary I've already paid off my student loans, and have no outstanding debt. My question lies not in what to do with the liquid assets my parents left me (we've talked about it), but with their surprise parting gift: about $1.5 million in ownership of multiple home properties.

My parents rented these houses out for a total of around $70k/yr (before taxes) as passive income in their retirement (though my father did manage the properties himself). They also left me the house they raised me in. The value for these houses has always been fairly stable, though recently they have been increasing in value at about 7-10% year.

I'm currently unmarried (my parents were old for my age), but I'm hoping to marry soon and eventually raise a child. What's the best course of action to ensure not only a comfortable future for me, but also to ensure the best possible future for my familY? I've always wanted to potentially take a break from my tech job to pursue a startup, and now I feel like I may have the means to do so without jeopardizing my family's future. Is temporarily living on the income from rent advisable to do this, or should I just sit on the houses until they accumulate some optimal value to liquidate and invest at, or should I keep my job and put the passive income from the rent into buying another property and snowballing from there (though real estate really isn't my favorite thing in the world... I'm sure I could pay someone a cut to manage the properties, though)?

Lawyers and accountants are helpful in making any of these options happen, but to do so requires I actually know what I want them to do. This is a very generous gift on my parents' part, but I'm a little overwhelmed.
This is what I took it to mean. It wouldn't be horrible if Starbucks was the only option for coffee, but take away all the small cafes and you miss out on a lot. There may be some trouble with that analogy but the idea is there's value in specialization.
So what were you doing with that whole "fishing" bit?

(I mean, I don't necessarily disagree with your position, I just don't think you should try to support it with entirely fictitious examples.)
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I seriously doubt the Percy Miller connection.

AlphaGo is the best player in the world, so a name like Master fits it :)

They also probably didn't want to choose a human looking name which could mislead people, and instead chose one which could presumably be either of a human or an AI.
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Oh, weird. I could have sworn I've seen errors for using parens with `print` in Python 2...