skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For a while, most non-Macbook Air 'ultrabooks' were hampered by the fact that they had to have an ethernet port, or I guess enterprises wouldn't buy them? It was weird. The whole entire computer ended up being designed around its biggest single constraint.

This is exactly what's going on here. "Bigger is better" is an attempted rationalization for the fact that graphics cards are determining the design of this computer. But then look at the Mac Pro: they solved a core problem of performance machines (cooling) with its weird looking design. There was a functional reason for its' looking like a turbine. Here, the rounded ends are pointless (haha design joke).

Edit: there's an interesting problem at the intersection of industrial design manufacturing process that this does solve for. The Mac Pro design process was obviously very involved, and it required lots of folks' attention. They obviously aren't paying attention in the same way, so the care that is needed to make something performant and beautifully designed isn't happening, and the releases aren't happening. This guy's design does an end-run around Apple-like industrial design, and in choosing compatibility with off-the-shelf stuff, probably makes the product more likely to be relevant to folks in the future than Apple's Mac Pro, which is just languishing in long product update cycles.
Because the software development was started 3 years ago on a platform that was spec'd out 5 years ago.

Over those 5 years, the software requirements slowly crept upward while the hardware performance stayed the same and couldn't be changed.
Points to consider:

- Influencers are key in social networks. They dont necessarily have to be famous or have a huge following. Some people are natural social butterflies. Leverage them.

- Having a marketing plan is more important than having a website. It is what you will execute over time in order to drive traffic. A plan does not need to be overly complex. It maybe simple and updated as progress is made.

- The initial rush will go quickly. Leaving you with a rather monotonous amount amount of work. Its boring. Dont chase the high. Learn to plow through the lows.

Best of luck to this team. Seems promising.
This might be one of the reasons I've always tended to prefer games that trend toward or actually are simulators. It's very hard to notice a "luck" mechanism designed by a skilled and thoughtful developer but those are few and far between. The more experience one has with a game, the more apparent things like the holy "RNG Jesus" become apparent.

The greatest enjoyment I derive from games is that of accomplishment. To me, there is no greater feeling of accomplishment than placing well in an iRacing league race or having a great dogfight against a human opponent in a DCS server. I don't even need to win the race or shoot them down to derive a sense of satisfaction as the outcome is entirely determined by skill and one can always strive to improve their skills.

I've always subscribed to the line of thinking that luck is where preparation meets opportunity. Whatever "luck" one experiences in a simulation type game, whether or not it is in their favor, is still something that required skill if it was to be taken advantage of. If I skip a yellow flag pit stop and make a fuel mileage gamble, I still have to have a feel for how far I can stretch the tank and how skilled the other drivers are as if they race clean all the way to the finish I'm going to still be a lap short. Sure, my opponents might say I "got lucky" but my luck was a result of a calculated gamble rather than an artifact of a lucky roll in the game's algorithm.

I'm probably the outlier but I think there's something to be said for games that refuse to introduce artificial luck. They aren't for everyone but they deliver an experience that can't be matched any other way.
I think that is closer to how you do things in Windows, first set up the process environment and finally call CreateProcess or something like that. Maybe someone who knows Win32/NT internals better could comment?
One thing I didn't get from the docs is some clearer explanation justifying what at first glance seems like a great deal of bespoke, custom crypto. Just browsing through the source I'm immediately hit with talk of running out of entropy, use of deprecated implementations, use of low-level functionality from a library that actually tries to provide safer, higher-level constructs, etc.

Maybe this is all necessary. But it isn't at all obvious why.
Although theological beliefs are rarely falsifiable, that doesn't mean they don't matter or render no benefit.
Part of the mechanism is that there are fewer layers of management so less room for bs.
Screwdriver: Yahoo's Open Source CD Platform
He was a associate professor in the early 00's.
Gotta love modern computing and defense in depth. Sometimes it actually really helps despite feeling like a hassle at times.
Hmm, I guess this means I should hold off on updating so I can still price compare with Lyft.
The most important problem with advertising is that it is competive waste:

If firms A and B can create a product a cost $X that sells for $X+$Y firm B can create the same product for $X, then A and B will waste $Y on advertising in an attempt to win consumers for each other, for no benefit to anyone (except in any artistic/entertainment value in the advertising, and the possibly useful wealth-redistribution from firm's owners to advertising employees).
I just applied! Thanks for posting.
Right man for right job. Obama had so many wrong people in very wrong jobs. It's amazing how nobody is questioning his methods as president ?
Technical level in obamacare (was) really slow/bad/terrible level.

He definitely not need any Nobles prices for peace eather.
In Canada, brand name EpiPens are around $100 CAD each ($76 US), and are 100% covered by OHIP when prescribed by a doctor (who will give you a few if you want).
There are plenty of other ways it creates value: user retention, analytics/data mining, and more I'm sure. In my experience, people who upload family videos are more likely to not have AdBlock installed, so maybe it balances out for them.
Thought I was the only one who found this really sad
What is also discounted now even, when we are supposed to be smart and all learned, is that religion not only has played a fundamental role in why we, the west and roughly central-European based cultures are where they are that cannot or is foolish to discount. There is a particular reason why other non-central European cultures have brought us basically every single human achievement and every single good and positive thing around you that separates you from a brutish and savage life, which other societies simply have not been capable of developing on their own. Not recognizing that only leaves as single alternative view point that it is somehow inherent to genetics and "race" which is a far more dark perspective than acknowledging the role of society and culture and, yes, religion and the particular values it bears in the advancement of society.

When, e.g., your value system is founded on the notion that you reincarnate and have many/infinite attempts at doing good and that "good" is of a certain characteristic, then your life and choices and values and priorities are driven by that frame of mind and world view. If you are driven by the murderous and pedophilic values of islam that demands total domination through lying and killing and the murder of anyone that does not submit to islam then your values are going to form your perspective on the world that is a kind of parasitic and rapacious.

I find it rather odd that the tech industry of all sectors and disciplines would not seem to understand that the parameters and the system define and confine the behavior and outputs. You can put the most pure and perfect data into a shitty system that is broken in so many different ways and it won't output or produce anything of value or might even produce things that are dangerous.

We really are underestimating the value or not only risk and failure by dismissing it altogether and assuming and taking things for granted, but we are dismissing the humanistic and spiritualistic aspect that has played a role in human development and advancement for eons and is probably the core driver of what separated humans from animals in so many different ways.
Now if only they could default to my primary means of transportation (cycling) when I search for a location.
The social psychology of cybersecurity
Input lag is a common complaint of mine, but absolutely _NOTHING_ comes close to the Sony BDP S300 https://esupport.sony.com/p/model-home.pl?mdl=BDPS300.

Key-press response time can frequently be more than 30 seconds, depending on what the action is. Of course, you might say, that is because of bluray bloat on more recent disks, but I can assure you that its been that way from the day I purchased it. Sure some disks were better than others, but the multi minute boot-up, disk load times, player menu popup times, etc have been there since the beginning. I used to use it as a demo against my HD DVD player of why bluray wasn't ready for primtime ,and it was a 3rd generation bluray player.
This ones really annoying and made me switch to DDG !g.
Definition of Absolute Zero from Wikipedia:

> Kelvin scale is an absolute, thermodynamic temperature scale using as its null point absolute zero, the temperature at which all thermal motion ceases in the classical description of thermodynamics.

> Absolute zero is the lower limit of the thermodynamic temperature scale, a state at which the enthalpy and entropy of a cooled ideal gas reaches its minimum value, taken as 0.

> In the quantum-mechanical description, matter (solid) at absolute zero is in its ground state, the point of lowest internal energy.

It's still possible to squeeze some energy from a system past Absolute Zero as defined using Casimir effect, so it's possible to reach temperature below 0K.

I know, that current interpretation of negative temperatures at Kelvin scale is different, but definition of temperature is different in that interpretation too, so let ignore it.
That wasn't "free", that was payment for working in the military for several years.
> The idea that necessary education is 12 years goes back a century

So previously it was 6 years, and you want to make it 16?

IMO, the opposite should happen. Germany got this pretty right. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0e/Ge...

There are far more varied education routes, it means not everyone takes $100ks of loans when they really just need a couple years of trade school.
This appears to be the case: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/12/the-best...

What offices have done is outsource the silence to their workers.

I find Metal Machine Music does a good job, however: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIMSbKU2oZM You know you've been working on a bad project a bit long when you can reliably hum along with it.
> Peter Norby, Teja Komma, Shijo Joy and Bei Wu formed the core team for our zero-storage-budget project. Many others assisted the effort.

Looks like someone's hoping to get hired
If the value in column X is less than the value in column Y, we don't fix the problem. Something like that, from Fight Club.
Surely the optimal way to proceed when faced with betting on a coin toss is to keep your stake and guarantee you walk away with some money.

Now it may be possible to evaluate the utility of engaging in a start-up and so act rationally in entering in to such an endeavour but I'd warrant that's not how it [ever] happens. Instead it's far more realistic to assume it follows the lottery model: that people's sense of hope, or wishful thinking, makes them choose to play [at lottery, or startups] despite the analysis indicating an alternate choice is most logical. We humans are not creatures of logic.
US gov't accuses Fiat Chrysler of cheating on emissions
Derek Sivers' Notes on Cal Newport's “Deep Work”
It is also worth mentioning it is all public domain.

He has gone to great lengths to ensure the algorithms are all side channel resistant. The breadth of his concern and the care behind the decision making is really impressive and most users of his software only really understand the tip/visible portions of it all.

I will forebear the idiosyncrasies, gladly, to get all the benefits compared to the current stew of crypto primitives I see getting misused almost constantly.
I work in AI, specifically in the field of deep learning applied to computer vision. Not trying to discredit your comment, but can you provide some sources indicating that the type of models being trained which you have mentioned are approaching the notion of a general agent?

I haven't read much of the literature around deep learning, mostly only what has been applied to computer vision. But from what I understand, the general consensus is that the current crop of state-of-the-art deep learning models are very good at performing specific tasks (machine translation, object recognition in images, etc.), but are not so good at generalising across multiple fields. This seems more relevant to the domain of reinforcement learning (which does indeed include deep learning), which has proven to be a very difficult problem to solve.
China and HK are completely different entities and cannot be compared. I was also talking about fights, not homicides.
They could just use Opera Mini, or have Google fix their Web Compression Proxy so it actually compresses HTTPS, and if you opt in then it's all good, and have it prompt users on slow connections to enable it like how Opera 12 prompted you to enable Opera Turbo.
Libertarians oppose crony capitalism and the use of state power for special interests in general.

The libertarian theory on regulation is that the market punishes bad behavior way more effectively than the government, which can always be swayed by political forces. During the Industrial Revolution, for instance, judges sided with corporations in pollution cases, thinking, "We can't hinder industrial progress for the sake of a few people's lungs." So the government granted monopoly pollution privileges to industry. Under a free market property rights scenario, any damage done to another person via pollution would be grounds for a suit against the polluter, no special government protection.

Edit: take a closer look at libertarian writings on environmentalism and pollution
Or you can simply just sound proof it. You're already open to spending money. Stop trying to externalize your failures.
I am really blown away by Vivaldi but I can't, sadly, start using a closed source browser. Browsers are an important (maybe the most important) programs today. I simply can't allow myself to get locked into a closed source browser today.
Adobe Acrobat Reader DC Update Also Installs Chrome Extension Silently
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Ask HN: Are these comparisons of Azure instances useful?
I have been benchmarking Azure VM's and written a couple of blogs like this one:

https://www.cloudrac.es/blog/2017-01-12/Azure-Comparing-F-And-H-Series-CPUs/post.html

Does anyone find them useful and would you use them to help guide which instances you choose?

Do people care about cost savings in cloud IaaS providers or is it more a case of, get it setup and move onto the next project and forget about it as it is now an opex cost?

Would really welcome any feedback!
In the Georgia Tech OMSCS program you have to pick a specialization. Machine Learning is one of the options.
Speaking as a part timer on Brain who's not a machine learning person, I've found and believe that MI just opens up more opportunities for good programmers. There are a ton of problems out there that we couldn't solve well with computers without MI, and so didn't even attempt. Now we can attempt them, and they're both fun and hard.

(I wrote a longer-form answer to a very similar question a few months ago:
http://da-data.blogspot.com/2016/05/dont-quit-that-programmi...
)
This sort of veiled insult is not friendly or productive. To provide useful input, I will say I get 100mbps for $50 now, and can get a lot more data for a little more money, but I don't need more at the moment.
Aren't EPubs just zipped HTML+graphic assets?
I think you would agree that learning is not only about adding more information to your brain. Concepts must be reconciled. For many people, feeling some internal inconsistency (call it cognitive dissonance if you like) is strongly associated with challenging one's preconceived notions. The trigger is often external stimulus. That's why many people find that feeling uncomfortable is a useful proxy to pushing yourself intellectually.
DOM elements with ID's are global variables
I think the boxes should require corporate branding logos to be stenciled on them. Say 10% of the size of the box and prominently located. People should understand each time they see one of those blight boxes that it is AT&T's box.

If the telecoms have to suffer from the eyesore boxes they may expend a little more money to locate them in less prominent places.
Google has long increased the rankings of sites that load quickly and are optimized for mobile. For good reason.

The speed improvements and mobile friendliness should be the only criteria that the Google ranking engine should use for boosting the SERP rankings of these articles using it, not simply the fact they use AMP. But objectively measuring the quality of these page vs other unoptimized sites - which I hope is currently what Google is doing. That way there is nothing monopolistic about it.

Considering how awful most news sites are JS/ad-wise Google is attempting to solve a problem the publishers themselves created. Sites like Forbes are notorious for loading mb's of ads and they have that ridiculous quotes splash page. It also does away with annoying pop up modals news sites love to use.

So if these sites rankings are getting hurt because of their failure to offer good caching, image optimization, reducing the size of JS assets, etc, etc, to offer a competitive experience with AMP pages then I see nothing wrong with that. The competition will be good for users.

As long as publishers are voluntarily using this because it improves their UX then I'm fine with it.

Ideally in the long run this is just a stop gag until these publishers learn how to optimize their own sites. Then they can move off the platform. I don't see it as a viable permanent solution given the compromises involved and nor should the publishers.

My only complaint is the URLs are prefixed with Google.com making it harder to share direct links. But otherwise the UX improvements are worth the tradeoffs - in the meantime at least. If it's still the default in 2-3 yrs and news sites haven't fixed their sites I might take issue with it.

Edit: I did some testing and it looks like Google puts AMP articles in a carousel at a higher prioritized position vs other news stories. They aren't mixed with other news sites... that's not cool.
/me grabs popcorn.

It'll be fun to watch.
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And the FDA was right to withdraw it. But the only reason it was around in the first place was that it was a sophisticated but also relatively complicated improvement on the EpiPen. It's Europe's 8 different brands that are basically just as simple as an EpiPen that the author really wants in the US.
Just saw this now :). I write it all myself, but sometimes get pointed at resources by others.

https://aha.betterexplained.com - forum to discuss ideas. It's in the background currently but I'd like to make it into more of a public place.

If you like, shoot me an email, I'm putting together a list of people who might want to be contributors. Thanks!

https://betterexplained.com/contact
It should be as simple as stipulating a requirement of "sub 100ms response time to all user input".
So you're saying that there is no arbitrage going on between the bitcoin price in different currencies/exchanges.

So be the first one to write such a bot, you'll make millions...
Yes you have talked about the truth or lying but you have not yet made any argument pointing to where that have changed compared to before. Still waiting for that.
Isn't that effectively what AMP does?
I got the opinion it would be much more complex, like deciding if saving a value is faster than reordering, and deciding the best place to request a load. It is also a large instruction word architecture, what means it's mostly similar from the compiler point of view.

The one thing that I think makes the Mill simpler is the no-value values mixed with lazy error conditions. I have no idea if those are powerful enough to compensate the rest.
I guess my general assumption is they don't mind because these same people are then probably popping around through other videos, which do have ads on them.
Leaders Artificial Intelligenc: Jack Porter, CEO of Razorthink (Part 4)
Another picture : https://9to5google.com/2017/01/12/google-fiber-san-antonio/
I'm not entirely sure how this is such big news. It costs the same as doing it on-campus here, including all hardware and books etc. you might need over a ~4-5 year span.
I agree with all your reasoning, except I'm unsure what you mean to say with the link.

Are you saying we bought the bullshit when Oracle claimed they wouldn't monetize it? If that's the case, that was never a verifiable statement, or better yet, was never an immutable state either way. I don't think anyone convinced themselves they knew anything from that claim.

That's not the same thing as accepting that someone claims that man landed on the moon. While still hard to verify (really), it still either happened or not. Monetizing Java could change at any time, what was the case yesterday might be changed today, and could be back again tomorrow.
There is no unicorn in your BigData
I know of at least a couple of ex-dogs who lurk around here. The article's pretty much correct, if memory serves.

I started at ND in 2004, around the tail-end of Jak 3. After Andy had left, I picked up the Goal compiler, and hacked it around to generate code for the PSP. After about a week or two, we had the kernel booting, and hot-patching working. We built a whole engine that looked amazing, but unfortunately the project was shelved. Still, it was some of the most fun I've had in my career.
The Downsides of Being Very Emotionally Intelligent
Depends, is non-monetary benefit rational? Doing something that risks your food/shelter/comfort/family without guaranteed material return is probably always irrational; doing something for the thrill, or out of love, for friendship, to have the experience, etc.. All ultimately irrational wastes of energy.

There is no rational reason for you to live, you can - and hopefully do - want to, but that's not rationality. That's irrational humanity, or based on irrational axioms.
One 'answer' would be to vault these things. A lot of fiber infrastructure is in under ground vaults. When you do that you end up with a concrete pad, a cover where the elevator is, and a bit more work to cover drainage issues. But the infrastructure is not an eyesore.
Very nice! loved the graphics.
Nobody puts bash on their resume either but in my observation interns that come in with extensive command line/tooling experience from school (myself included) are much more likely to be seen favorably and converted to full time because they can spend less time fighting with their computer and more time delivering.
Gibbon is Netflix's proprietary form of the DOM. They found that the standard DOM was too hard to optimize for embedded hardware, but that it was much easier if they removed the parts they didn't need.

I believe Jafar gave a talk at one of the React Confs about it.
NaOH is a super cheap, common chemical. It's the principal ingredient in Drano and similar plumbing cleanout products.

High concentrations of NaOH in water are strongly basic. It will corrode many oxide-based ceramics (like toilet bowls) and aluminum, but it's no problem for most other common metals and plastics.
Wow, looks like you're right! Then why do epub ebooks suck so bad in general? Probably publishers don't care enough to make them nice.
This reminds me, I need to go back and read Diamond Age again...