skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Greenwoods? Yes Amsterdam for me as well!
How is `repne` implemented?

It's a microcode loop. Here is the appropriate pseudocode (this is extracted from the Intel manuals):

http://qcd.phys.cmu.edu/QCDcluster/intel/vtune/reference/vc2...
Opencart:

The code quality is not good, but it has loots of good functionality and making small modifications is fairly simple.
Dubai: because it is the nearest most happening place (in terms of innovation) where I currently live. Although, it is very expensive to live especially if you're self-employed.
Why not Budapest then? Still fairly central, much cheaper, nice spas and amenities, closer to eastern Europe, and IMO the food is better
For keto isopure makes a zero carb shake. I use it with Almond Milk.
Just wanted to chime in (replying to GP as well), if you don't speak Dutch, you can still visit Amsterdam or even work there. Especially if you work in IT. The Dutch generally speak English very well, especially in the bigger cities. Living in Amsterdam is expensive, and its a city (not my preference). I live in Amsterdam Area instead; much less crowded, and also cheaper to live (although either way difficult to get an apartment). That is a downside. Amsterdam expensive? Depends, apartments are expensive (but not as expensive as SF). The tourist area (center), sure, it is expensive. If you want cheap food and don't mind making your own, go to a Turkish grocery store. You can get tons of vegetables very cheap.

PS: Food-wide, there are many local shops of high quality depending on your preferences. I can highly recommend Maoz falafel although there are also less well known shops selling good falafel. The salad bar has unlimited refills. Although the stores are so crowded/popular I never end up going to refill more than once.
CES 2017: What to expect at the biggest tech trade show of the year
do you have a link or source for this? not doubting you just curious to read more
I am hoping to finish up a new version of my food dishes by location project https://bestfoodnearme.com I decided to teach myself Go while I wrote it. The original database was a combination of redis and boltdb. I am moving things to postgresql and for the frontend bourbon.io

It has been a slow process, but I am keeping at it little by little.
Turn on an external VPN or switch to a personal hotspot during your breaks.

Hacker News could probably be considered industry related so I'm not sure casual browsing is any worse than reading other IT media assuming reasonable consumption habits.
My advice is to research on where it is practical to relocate, both legally in terms of immigration and socially in terms of communities, work, and the needs of your immediate and extended family. Then to travel to those places to form an on the ground opinion.

Relocating can mean giving up a lot of social stability and support.

Good luck.
Why is right side cut off on mobile? Looked interesting.
A lot of traders are losing their jobs, and many fear this.

As other mention, though, Wall Street makes a lot of money trading the edge cases. For instance, many people thought derivatives traders would become obsolete when the Black Scholes formula arrived. In reality, the model grew the size of the derivatives market, and traders made money knowing where the model was wrong. (Example: It assumes constant volatility)

Similarly, many investors use an OAS (Option Adjusted Spread) model to justify prices on one-off Mortgage Backed Securities. This also helps grow the market, as there's more transparent pricing. But traders know where the models are wrong, and make money off of them.

When technology enabled FX trade spreads to be less than a penny, people thought traders were done. But this increased the volume of trading (more hedging became cost-efficient) so while the % skimmed by traders decreased, the absolute $s increased.

Net, as long as the financial pie grows, traders can find ways to siphon money off. That amount may grow or shrink, but generally the story is more technology has helped them.

Perhaps the best analogy is a chess expert paired with a computer can beat either the computer or the expert alone.
> Just look of what remained of the copyright protected software market after 2000.

Bigger than ever? I mean, Office is still raking in cash, open source on mobile is almost irrelevant, right?
Tomatoes, or How Not to Define “Art”
I agree to this, but Linux gives other advantages in the long run like better updates and greater independence.

Furthermore you have a lot less problems these days with Linux IMO and so often the quirks are fast to fix. E.g. the full installation cost me 1h plus 1h for copying my old data and I could start working.
BDD Tests for Hadoop with Cucumber. Part I
In my experience Linux on Mac when the hardware is supported brings overall better experience for development than Mac OS. USB-to-anything dongles that just work without any driver installation, much better behaviour under memory pressure, container technologies that allows to run not-so-trusted software without overhead of VM, fancy networking setups for stimulating production setups.

For that I tolerate ocasional (like twice in a week) forced power offs when the notebook does not wake up or when wifi stops working.
Always Learning, but Never for the Sake of It
Still frustrating when you compare Apples to Oranges. You carry extra weight of Linux here: Weight as a Macbook Pro 15" but CPU performance (passmark) of a good Macbook Air 11" 2013 http://www.cpu-monkey.com/de/compare_cpu-intel_core_i5_6200u... & display SRGB coverage 61.55% according to Notebookcheck (Macbook Air 55,2%). No real improvements on Lenovo's side. For that money (if battery is a requirement) better buy a 13" Macbook Air (it's also 500-600 grams lighter).
I can confirm it from personal experience. I have A.D. and O.C.D.
I wasn't suggesting Westworld was some comprehensive scientific study of the matter. Rather, that it did a decent job exploring the relationship between suffering and memory, and some of the complexities that entails. For example, memory wipes intended to reduce suffering inadvertently creating more suffering via the unsettling emotional side effects involved.

>Consciousness, and suffering, are biological concepts. Computer code running algorithms on microprocessors aren't going to experience these things.

You seem so confident in this being the case. Who is to say cognition cannot exist on silicon?

If you accept the supposition that cognition is a requium for emotion, and emotion is a requium for suffering, then a digital organism need not have the pain receptors of its biological counterpart in order to experience suffering.
It seems like real estate is increasingly filling the role of banking secrecy any way. Real estate LLCs offer the same secrecy as a former Swiss bank account with the benefit with added benefit of having your investment grow potentially 5% a year long term. I don't see governments in the US or UK doing anything about this however.

This article provides a good look at this phenomenon in New York City but its happening in many cities throughout the world:

http://nymag.com/news/features/foreigners-hiding-money-new-y...

I think real estate as the new bank account has far worse implications. Hiding money in foreign real-estate deprives the local economy of tax coffers as these folks won't actually live there and won't contribute to the tax base in the form of federal, local and state taxes. As well it hurts the country where those seeing to hide money are domiciled. As cities become even more crowded and the housing stock tightens even further, developers "building safety deposit boxes in the sky" to lure hot money seems like it might have bigger societal implications than parking money in a passbook savings account in Switzerland.
As a school solution, we do not provide students with printed worksheets, but instead provide laminated white paper. We write (or print) the questions on them and they can be wiped clean. This however, introduces an issue with parents, as they often would like to know how their child is doing. They would have to ask us instead of asking their own child (which takes away some of trust building with your child, maybe?).
Which are the business in which machine learning algos can give benefits?
Hi,

I have been developing samples in machine learning but would like to know about any areas/domains having public data available so that machine learning algos can be developed that can be used to improve business or generate profits to business.

Thanks.
Sort of. Gold, the commodity, is a better analog. Its price might fluctuate with the markets but it shouldn't vanish at this point.
This post reminds me of the book, Build your own AngularJS

It's a little old now, but still worth a read.

https://teropa.info/build-your-own-angular/
Wealth tax means double taxation for Americans.
What is the difference between CakeML and StandardML in terms of Syntax and Semantics?
I object to the article just associating the term "IR" with LLVM IR.

IR is short for "Internal Representation". Most complex compilers have at least one level of IR, usually multiple ones that are progressively lower level.

The point is that an IR carries more information than machine code, and so potentially allows more specific optimizations.

This should at least be mentioned in the article.

Rust and Swift, for example, both use LLVM, but have their own intermediate levels of IR ('Mir' for Rust).

LLVM IR is already stripped of a lot of information that might be important for certain higher level optimizations. For example, numbers are all unsigned, and there are different operations for signed and unsigned arithmatic.
Ask HN: New Year's resolution – What projects are you planning to start in 2017?
surely there is far less freedom in expressing the simplest version of the echo program in ASM compared to, say, C?

I'd say it's the opposite, since it is often the case that more instructions (and thus ways to select and arrange them) are required to express an operation in Asm compared to an HLL like C. This implies that there is room for more creativity when e.g. writing a "Hello world" in Asm vs. C.
If discrete steps can take less than 5 minutes to complete, you could do it using their "step" tooling:

https://aws.amazon.com/step-functions/

Basically a form of state machine using Lambda.

Personally, I'd prefer to just use a regular EC2 instance for long duration tasks, perhaps even spot instances to keep costs low.
I feel for later generations - learning tech gets harder and harder. Of course as the sum of knowledge increases this must be true, but as we go HTTPS-only the ability to type commands to a web server over telnet as a learning experience will be a loss.
For year-round stay: Southern France. Good healthcare, good food, nice weather.

Alternatively (And this is something I'm actually going to try for software dev in 2017): winter on the Canary Islands and summer in Sweden.
Unless union labor was a majority/plurality of the project's cost, then they're not the biggest problem with this project. Seems like you're just using them as a bugaboo to pin all the world's problems on.
Already here. New York.

If you like urban life, as long as you can pay your bills it's the best and most interesting city in the world.

It also helps with a good view :)
http://000fff.org/uploads/PH6.jpg
VW Set to Launch Ride Hailing Service in Rwanda Later in 2017
"A smaller but still sizable eruption was observed at the supervolcano in 1538. That event lasted eight days and created the mountain Monte Nuovo. But since then, the volcano has been quiet, slumbering for more than 500 years."

I'm going to assume it's 1538 AD and that this volcano has slumbered almost 500 years. And if create a "new mountain" was enough to relieve the pressure then, how do they distinguish a major eruption from a minor one when performing these forecasts?
> Automatic image and video captioning is in a very sorry state. Machines can't do it.

You may have missed various dramatic improvements over the past year:

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?as_ylo=2016&q=%22image+ca...
This sounds interesting but the use case seems very specific to your internal infratstruture and tooling.

Can you elaborate a bit on use cases?
You could type them over openssl s_client instead.
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I got you bro!

$:openssl s_client -connect localhost:443

CONNECTED(00000003)

...snip....

lots of cert info

...snip...

GET / HTTP/1.0
Here's a government agency that calls things by their names: mostly.

How about this one? "the brother-in-law was treating the inspector to an evening with a lady of dubious morals."

I doubt the lady in question had dubious morals. She surely knew exactly what she was doing and exactly why. Why not call her a "sex worker?"

The dubious morals? the two men involved.
I'm still using an ancient Thinkpad T400 I bought when they first came out (2007, I think?), and I still love it. Despite heavy use, everything works perfectly and the case could probably last for decades. Doing normal dev work on Arch Linux (everything from low level C++ to Python/Julia, but no web stuff) is pleasant despite the dated CPU.

Every time I look at reviews of "modern" laptops or try a friend's machine (Apple, Dell, HP, mostly), I get a little sad over how the market has regressed in the past decade. Thus, the only upgrade I'm considering is getting a few T420/X220 machines to last me another decade or so. My dream would be a T60 case with modern hardware and there's a number of retro Thinkpad projects out there, but it's probably not going to happen. Not sure what I'm going to do when a T420 is finally too dated to be productive on, but thankfully that's a very long way off.
Julia Evans wrote a great article about the topic here: https://jvns.ca/blog/2015/12/30/do-the-math-on-your-stock-op...
You're comparing the entry-level Thinkpad CPU with the Top-Level Macbook CPU - not surprising that the 3 year old top level CPU compares well with the entry level of this year. It's not like the faster CPUs for the Thinkpad will be any heavier. The author also deliberately chose the "regular" T460 model instead of the lighter, more integrated (and thus less serviceable) T460s. The T460s is at least comparable in weight and power. The screen is a bit of a toss-up: I like the macbook screen since it's sturdy and doesn't scratch, but I also like the Thinkpad screen since it's not glossy.
Good luck learning Hungarian, though :P
I'm thinking of rspec in particular, as it's the framework I write most tests in. It's trivial to include the loop variable in the string interpolation that describes the "context" block for the loop inner test setup. But usually I wouldn't be using a plain loop, I'd be iterating over entries from a hash map.

The same thing in something like junit is less workable, and copy and paste becomes more viable simply because the language is so clumsy and inexpressive. I've seen various extensions and annotations that let you parameterize junit tests but I don't think they make things much clearer.

A key benefit of driving the test cases off a table of inputs to outputs is that missing cases in cross products are much easier to spot. Visualising the state space and its coverage is easier when you can see a map of the covered space in one block of code.
I think you need to check your facts a bit - a lot of Japanese civilians were killed by these bombs
Living in Copenhagen, Denmark I'm not sure that moving here necessarily will make you more happy. Maybe the results would be different if one looked at what makes expats happy when moving to a new country.
SpaceX says it has found cause of rocket explosion and plans to fly again Sunday
Trackpoint only lets you move the cursor or scroll. The touchpad can do a lot more things with multitouch.
I lived in west LA and I managed to find a place walking distance from restaurants and a supermarket, and one short bus ride to Malibu/Venice. It is doable.
Typing this from a refurb T410 with added SSD. It was dirt cheap and the only issue I have running Ubuntu on it is a funny wake-from-sleep issue that sometimes makes some text display badly. Apart from that it has a lovely keyboard and does what I need. Battery life is not an issue for me, I have a laptop due to lack of space for a desk, but I am normally plugged in. Screen res could be higher, but it makes no practical difference in writing Python code or browsing HN

I wont upgrade until a) it breaks or b) someone pays me to get a new one
> While it's not difficult to imagine scenarios where we create bioweapons of unprecedented ferocity, state actors have probably already done this to some degree.

There is still a difference between "created" and "deployed at large scale".
AFAIK dubai has sales teams from different companies situated there but no real innovation. Could you please elaborate?
I have a very good friend who actually worked on this project. He was a supervisor level guy and would send me pictures from the tunnels. I believe his exact quote was "the MTA burns barrels of money like it's going out of style." The waste was unbelievably extreme. I kept telling him to write a book but he said if he did he'd never work in civil engineering again.
I don't know why Lenovo doesn't just flat out copy the behavior of Apple's trackpad.
People really evaluate computers by the ratio of weight to CPU throughput?
Okay, I'm jealous of that view... that's literally my ideal apartment. And you've provided a great counterargument for everyone who says you can't have children in a city. As someone who just finished grad school, there's no way I could afford that though haha
Anki deck here: https://ankiweb.net/shared/
au contraire - many find Clojure code extremely readable (even compared to other Lisps). It's possible to write some obscure functions in any language, developing good taste and habits to write nice and reasonable code is just a matter of practice. I believe Clojure gives you enough discipline to learn that fast. It just seems there are certain types of devs who are inherently dyslexic - they struggle to read Lisps. Where a Lisp developer sees structure and beauty they see nothing but quivering beehive of parentheses.
Webhook.org

A great open source CMS based on Firebase that outputs a static site.

Easy to do relationship fields, create JSON templates, customize for clients.

Only issue is developers have stalled out on project dev and basic support. Would love to pay more if someone could fork and take up the charge.
A Picture of Language: The Fading Art of Diagramming Sentences Ed
> I did cocaine every day, multiple times a day for over a year. It was easy to stop though, unlike marijuana for me. I've also done heroin and meth, but I never felt compelled to do them often unlike I did with certain psychedelic drugs.

You're an outlier -- your experience does not match addiction patterns in most people.

> Spread of disease from sharing needles would be drastically reduced with basic harm reduction / needle exchange programs.

As you did heroin, you must know that the issue is getting people to _use_ the exchange programs and resources.

> Availability is no issue in any major US city.

I legitimately do not know where to buy drugs in my current city and not wanting to deal obvious drug dealers acts as an effective barrier.

> The police will be plenty available to serve their communities because currently they spend an enormous amount of time policing drug crimes.

I'd like to see some statistics on this -- my understanding is that police typically end up finding drugs as a secondary crime to responding to an existing issue (e.g. noise complaint/erratic behavior/etc).
...as is the ability to inspect the traffic in your network to and from the devices you own. I think that is an even scarier situation, considering what others have discovered about "smart" devices precisely because their traffic was not encrypted. E.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6759426

Personally, I'm for HTTPS connections to things like government websites (which is what this article seems to be mostly about), but against "HTTPS everything" in the way it's going to be implemented.
The comment I was replying to was saying Australia's GDP growth was comparable to the rest of the world, I said it was not. Your first source shows a consistent 2 - 2.5 growth rate except the last two where one was 3 and the other 1.8, majority of OECD countries would be very happy with that sort of growth.
i think that's more a tooling problem. Making tech accessible to someone new really important.
Found an Anki deck for memorizing biases, seems useful to share: https://ankiweb.net/shared/
Dubious morals is a more prozaic title than sex worker. Horizontal service provider would be another one.
There's no evidence the service provided was horizontal.
But isn't governments having monetary policy a good thing? I thought government control of currency leads to more stability and ability to help the economy without having to use fiscal policy
Drawing the Solar System
Thank you for providing Central Tokyo's density; it is certainly the best comparison to Manhattan in Japan. However, you are incorrect about Manhattan's density, which is 27,812.2/km²

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

and therefore still significantly larger than Central Tokyo's 15,146/km². The 10,194/km² figure you quote is for all of New York City (all 5 boroughs)

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

which is to be compared with 6,225/km² for Tokyo Metropolis (i.e., the city proper, not the greater metro area, which is 2,662/km²).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokyo
>By definition, a person using a union to extract above market wages (I.e. rents) is a rent seeker.

The definition already assumes that "market wages" reflect some optimal (for society) balance. So it's just circular reasoning.

In the real world "market wages" also reflect power struggles, and in those power struggles those paying the wages have numerous means to get the upper hand -- from forming cartels and controlling the media, to downright buying politicians and favorable legislation.

Unions help balance those power struggles to the (much more numerous) worker's side. You know, the people that, unlike Ayn Rand's heroes, actually produce something.

Not to mention that the rich are the ultimate rent-seekers, especially in this stage of the economy. And "too big to fail" to top.

>He resorted to name calling, but which of his names do you think is actuslly incorrect?

Rent seeker is already incorrect as I showed. Then there's racism (doesn't even apply in this context), nepotism (as if union members hire their siblings?), cronyism (ditto), etc.
For a decade now, I can't figure out why we still bother with Realtors. It's basically eight courses, and an easy test. Oh, and the experience. Don't get me started.

It's the biggest purchase most of us will make, so I understand the need for hand holding, but times have changed. The typical buyer is educated, and in all likelyhood knows about as much as the typical ex-cheerleader Realtor.

I thought the profession would be gone by now. It is ripe for elimination.

The only reason I would use a realtor is out of convention. And believe me, I would want to see a fresh copy of their omissions & errors insurance premium. (Need someone to sue, but that could easily be the Seller if they lied.)

Sorry if I sound bitter. I just don't get giving away 3% on huge amounts of money for essentially hand holding.

(In CA, the Realtors Lobbyists tried to cut down on new Brokers by making the Brokers licence harder to obtain. Gov. Schwartzeneger saw right through the ploy, and vetoed the bill. He knew they just wanted to decrease the amount of Brokers, so the Cheerleaders would have less competition. Gov. Brown let the bill ride right through. All of you should remember that when paying thousands of dollars (full commission) for a few hours of a Realtors time. When that bill passed, I became an Independant.)