skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd almost say you might still want a GPU of some sort; you may not need the latest and greatest, but not something low-end, either. Nvidia 700 or 800 class, minimum.

Why?

Machine learning - specifically, I think we're likely to see more and more applications using GPUs for ML-based tasks. For instance, maybe Photoshop implements that relatively new Google super-resolution ML-based technique as a filter or something in their software. While it could run ok on a multi-core CPU - it would probably run much better and faster on a GPU.

I can see this becoming more of the norm on a lot of software as machine learning continues going "mainstream". Sooner than we think, we might all find ourselves purchasing high-end graphics cards for things other than graphics. At least until specialized ML optimized CPUs or other compute boards become the norm (right now, you can get GPU boards - mainly from NVidia - that incorporate a GPU specifically for compute acceleration needs - with no video output; you find them mainly used in workstation-class machines, and of course supercomputers).
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Show HN: Control iTunes over a server using standard HTTP requests (macOS)
There is a statutory defence if you can't identify the driver "using reasonable diligence", but it's a very tough sell. It's certainly not as simple as "Well it could have been me or my wife, but neither of us can remember which." - you'd have to be able to demonstrate what attempts you had made to identify the driver and why these had all been unsuccessful. You are expected to know who is driving your car at a given time.

There was a case which was successfully defended, where the defendant asserted that the "reasonable diligence" requirement only applied after the request was received, and that there was no such requirement for you to retrospectively exercise such diligence. In other words, you must do everything you can to find out who was driving when you receive the notice, but that doesn't mean you have an obligation to keep records of who was driving in anticipation of such a request.
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Would it be possible to make cogent arguments without resorting to stereotypical India bashing?

Would you make the same arguments using Chinese manufacturing and the fact that it leads the world in electronics manufacturing?

India is large.

Population: 1,250,000,000+

Population employed in IT: 10,000,000+ (i.e <1% of population)

In a group of 10,000,000+ people you will find all kinds of competencies, capabilities and behaviors statistically speaking.

I assume you have non-anecdotal data from which you have derived your generalizations.

I don't think any Indian child grows up dreaming that his greatest goal in life is to replace an American IT worker.

If you have been affected by Indian IT workers, blame it on your management. Somebody is definitely benefiting.
. . . how far advanced, and the lengths they would go to.
Not sure about the problem solved in the video, but Andrew Huang has done some interesting work over the years.

https://www.bunniestudios.com/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Huang_(hacker)
Evidence? 95 million adult Americans are currently out of work. That doesn't sound like "too little" to me.

What you really mean is "too few willing to do scut work for a pittance". That's an entirely different thing.

https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS15000000
So do the Americans like it in France and want to stay there? The wording of your comment makes it unclear.
the best explanation of this are Ian Goodfellow's talks (i think there are video transcripts online somewhere) or at NIPS this past year. He and a few others also have a new deep learning book just coming out this past month from MIT press
We have something along those lines, albeit not quite as long-baseline. Spektr-R is a radio satellite on a elliptical orbit that gives baselines up to 350,000 km (0.35 Gm), linked to Earth-based facilities.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spektr-R
You are not listening. It is not absurd.

Elephants are wild animals. They probably are smart enough to qualify as minors, - so they can and do adapt to a wide variety of conditions, - but it does not change the fact that to express the fullness of their being they need to roam free with a pack of their own kind.

Pets and other domestic animals are different in kind. They have been bred over many generations to form a symbiotic relationship with humans. Their natural environment is a human controled environment, and you would do them a diservice by releasing them in the wild. Again, some of the most intelligent (pigs and dogs come to mind) would probably cope and eventually revert to their predomestication baseline (over several generations, though). But that does not change the fact that they need a human element in their lives in order to express the fullness of their being.

I wont argue your ethical points, because it is ultimatelly a matter of personal values. But if you want to start a discusion about that, you need to get the facts straight... and the facts say that different species of animals do have different needs, regardless of their feellings and inteligence.
Someone said "we need crypto" but didn't understand it as a concept.
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I would agree. I'd much rather deal with people who are good at math or know something about a particular industry. If you are a little disciplined and accept that there are some rules to follow learning software development is not that hard.
Ask HN: Where is the voice-based artificial contact-centre agent?
Most large organisation employ hundreds of customer service reps in their contact-centres. Voice is still a major (or the major) service channel for most organisations. Even tough digital and self-service channels are on this rise, voice remains prominent. It’s a high cost and (often) a poor experience channel. Nobody really likes calling a business.

What are the developments in this field? Will the AI-rep replace the human rep in the near-future? Why (not)? In seems kind of quiet in comparison to the conversational ‘bot’ craze.
Just because the predictions in the past were wrong doesn't mean they can't ever be right...

I'd argue that when machines replaced the most menial tasks in the past, people always had the opportunity to move upwards (in terms of required skills). Up until now, they were replacing either animals (horse->tractor, mule->truck) or people who were overqualified for the work they did.

The animals couldn't move to greener pastures, except for a few extremely well-adapted creatures who found new jobs as pets, or in sports. Humans in general were versatile enough to find something better, and the machines added enough free productivity to the system to allow us to consume what they were producing on top of the necessities previously consumed.

It seems plausible to me that we're getting to the point where algorithms start to replace people actually operating at the limit of their capacities.
They are even embedded in micro SD cards...

https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=3554
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Facebook ads were actually better ROI than google ads, by something like 2x IIRC. Still not enough traffic/value to save the company.
Since brits will probably be loosing their EU work visas soon you probably don't have to worry about having to learn another language any more.
Ask HN: Are people manually doing this?
Prefixing the title with Ask HN and Show HN? Is that a convention here?

I also notice some posts, end up on Ask/Show...so is there an algorithm behind that?

Ps: just a noob asking...
>Extremely unprofessional and irresponsible.

Agreed, especially considering the timing with Christmas and New Years holidays, they probably could not get the word down to their engineering team.
Nitpick: newton's method is intractable in Deep learning since it's computationally intractable to compute the hessian matrix
I'd say not only wait until you understand it, but to wait until it's your day-to-day job or business interest (or main hobby). Otherwise you'll be throwing money out the door (though you'll have one heck of reason to brag!)...
You realize that your number includes children, the disabled and retirees, right?

It's not an entirely different thing that people are refusing work because they prefer the laziness that government programs enable. That's the whole point. BI only makes this problem worse.
In the meantime in UK... https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/nov/19/extreme-survei...

Snowden: "The UK has just legalised the most extreme surveillance in the history of western democracy. It goes further than many autocracies."
That TLD will make any domain look like click bait.
You keep bringing up food. What of housing or healthcare? The costs there have risen dramatically at rates many times higher than inflation. Inflation adjusted the poverty line keeps rising while wages stay flat. I don't see how this is a sustainable system.
Yet another systemd post which

- Handwaves real criticisms and instead tries to look like an objective writing by presenting a trivial issue

- Have no idea about advances in sysvinit in the last decade that allowed support for parallel boot and dependency relations (and which was supported natively on mainstream distribution)

- Totally ignores the other "modern" and widely used init system and instead compares systemd with sysvinit of 80's (which wasn't used by any mainstream distro in that form)

- Overrates process supervision features which were already as equally as easy to use with supervision suites like runit (IMHO even easier)

Meh, what did I expect? Bandwagon is going full speed.
Here in India people fill these jobs and earn far less than what most western activists consider a "living wage"

That's nice. I prefer living in a first world country with a first world economy, myself.

"Why do you believe that the non-working Trump voters should be able to mooch off of the rest of society?"

Do you have any evidence that "Trump voters" are more likely to be on welfare than non-Trump voters? I will be quite surprised if you do (in fact, I'll be shocked).
confuses throughput with latency. has nothing to do with OO.
Yeah, to learn a language you have to use it. School is a good start, but that's not usually how anyone progresses to the higher levels. Basically, you have to move to the country first and learn the language afterwards.

But yeah, English being the modern lingua franca is a major benefit to SV, London, etc.
I found it through bunnie's tweet and wanted to credit him.

I agree about the title, but had no idea what to change it to.
But what percentage of the population actually uses a bullet train in a given week/month/year? (Not trips/population, the percentage of people who take one or more journies in a given timeframe.) Is this just a service for the urban elite? Or do farmers also use them?

The 747 and like jets made air travel affordable and now air travel is cheaper than by boat/rail over long distances (for people, taking into account food and lodging). If you need to attend a wedding more than a few hundred km away, you are going to consider flying. But high speed rail networks in many countries (uk, france) are either extreemly expensive or massively subsidized. All i see are suited office workers heading to jobs in downtown cores.

The carbon footprint of high speed rail, while not as bad as air, also remains much higher than other ground options. Speed always comes at some price.
And we're not moxie's investor meeting or senate hearing comittee. This is a layman discussion thread that he decided to join and answer questions in. (Big respect to him for doing that) So I believe even "stupid" questions should be allowed if they increase understanding or bring up new points.

Furthermore, this is an argument via authority[1]. Of course there are experts, but even an expert should explain and discuss his rationale in the interest of sharing knowledge (which moxie is doing here) - otherwise problems like this will stay "hard" for a long time.
Dereferencing null pointers
I could but someone beat me to it:

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2012/mar/...

That was minus 4 years worth of inflation and even then, if you take the most optimistic homeless numbers versus the most pessimistic housing numbers, it's still only a few hundred more. Frankly I'd much rather my tax dollars went to that than a ton of other things we blow way more money on.
Also necessity is quite a motivator and immersion helps tremendously. I'm terrible at teaching myself languages or learning them in school but can pick them up quickly when I'm living abroad where I am immersed in the foreign language and compelled to use it for daily interactions.
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Cisco went to court... and lost. Here's an article where I 've learned that there's a stylized version of the Golden Gate in Cisco's logo and that CSIRO's logo is the shape of Australia.

http://www.itnews.com.au/news/csiro-beats-cisco-in-fight-ove...
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There's a counter argument that in a situation where your wife is in labour and you're stuck at a red light, you made a conscious analysis of the risks and decided that a $100 ticket was an acceptable price to pay to get your wife to hospital in time. You elected to break the law and so the ticket should stand.
That's the naming convention used to categorize the Show and Ask section. You simple prefix the title of the post with either 'Ask HN:' or 'Show HN:' and leave the URL field empty, if you want to create such a thread.
Why isn't anyone thinking tapes? You can get LTO 7 tapes for $0.008 per Gigabyte that allow 100-300 writes before the tape should be destroyed. Quantum and HP make monstrous tape libraries that hold 5-10 petabytes per rack. You can also cartridge-ize your library for even more dense storage on a literal warehouse rack somewhere.

Tapes also match the slow retrieval speeds as you have to read the data out onto a drive linearly.
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So I tried to subscribe again and finally got a response, which reads:

`
Bonjour,

Nous vous confirmons que nous venons de recevoir votre email depuis http://visa.lafrenchtech.com

Merci. A très vite.

Bonne journée

Envoyé depuis http://visa.lafrenchtech.com
`

No big deal, I have a pretty good idea what that means, even though I don't speak French, but if they're trying to market to an English-speaking audience, me thinks they should at least have a version of that message in English.
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I really don't see the point unless there are grants and labor based tax credits. Canada has the right model but it's still tough for small businesses to secure grant.
Depending on what "being a physicist" means, I did. Went from EE undergrad to physics PhD. Then worked in s/w but still tinker on physics projects on the side.

GRTensorIII (https://gitlab.com/grtensor/grtensor/wikis/home)

An iOS/Android app for Three Body simulations (Three Body) and a Unity gravity simulator (Gravity Engine).

I would have loved to make a living wage in physics but the post-doc path is badly paid.
It doesn't support nokogiri yet -- a letdown for me
Others have replied on the salary ranges, but don't forget to factor in free healthcare, excellent public schools, ...
46k is really low in France for an experienced dev and that's outside of Paris. Junior dev engineer earn at least 45k when they begin in Paris, and it gets to 60k in about 5-10 years. Also corporate taxes are about 23% but you're right on personal income.
I'm French and I agree with this. I left a long time ago.

Add:

- the absurd administration burden to do anything

- the absurd prices of anything in Paris

- the lack of consideration for anything that is not in Paris

- the denial of your rights because there might be some terrorists

No way, no reviens Leon.
Show HN: Dropanon
Written in React Native and available on the App Store. An anonymous, geofenced messaging application.

Medium article: https://medium.com/@pmargaritoff/dropanon-e6429e8ead5b

App Store: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/dropanon/id1142800386

Dropanon: https://dropanon.com
Ask HN: Is it realistic for nuclear power to replace fossil fuels?
A negative assessment of nuclear power's capacity to replace fossil fuels[1].

[1] http://energyskeptic.com/2017/nuclear-power/
No, because humans were not meant to be cut off from their community and dropped in the wild. Human children, in particular, are less prepared to cope with the dangers of being isolated early in life, compared with the way other mammal species are.

Your example is about as accurate as saying that the circus owners are abusing their animals by not paying them a fair wage.
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Google in their "Disclosure timeline for vulnerabilities under active attack,"[0] states 60 days for disclosure for discovered security vulnerabilities and seven days for critical, currently known in-the-wild security bugs under active exploit.

[0] https://security.googleblog.com/2013/05/disclosure-timeline-...
I am using https://salaryaftertax.com/fr to compute the net salary, but I am not sure whether it offers the complete picture.
Could anyone familiar with the taxation in France offer more details?
We only speak this english in France, so now you're prepared.
But are they actually available now? The original batch were all rented out within weeks, and they hadn't got any new ones any time I checked.
It's disturbing that Glenn Greenwald is kept far enough away from mainstream recognition by liberal gatekeepers that people still have to come to this conclusion independently instead of just reading any one thing he's written for the past decade or more.

These cautious modifiers -- "I feel", "when you dig into the details" -- wouldn't be necessary if Greenwald's work was ever taken seriously by those in the media who could boost it, but it seems they are too cowardly.
There's definitely an entry barrier with this frontpage. I like what the "about" section says, but it's too big of a jump for a customer to create an account somewhere if you don't even have a screenshot or something similar showing what the webpage actually looks like.

Could you expand a little bit more on the matter of what it is that you do? Thank you!
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Yes, I agree. I would like to do something with Signed Languages. It would be both a business interest and main hobby.
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What % of VPN users will that get you? 10%? This seems a very hard problem to actually solve...
French salaries are much lower and taxes are extremely high for high income earners. There's more than one tax on your income! There's the regular "impôt" but also the "contribution solidarité" which is legally considered "not a tax" but cost you a percentage of your income. And a "taxe d'habitation" too (which is proportional to your rent rather than income). There's quite a bit of misrepresentation and wordplay all over, so be careful if you are used to different social norms.

France has been in a state of emergency ("état d'urgence") since november 2015, having been prolonged many times. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/States_of_emergency_in_France

Having said that, the longer vacations are indeed true but that's the case for other European countries too.

I don't see how making one administrative task a bit easier (while all others can be extremely difficult) is going attract talent, except through the usual misrepresentation.
Did physics undergrad, worked as a developer for a couple of years, then did a computational physics PhD, now firmly back as a developer.

I would do open ended research if there were any jobs going, but there generally aren't. And I'd be just as happy in computer science as physics.
I liked the story that the truck-mounted Snowball came from Glacier tech. Amazon has been putting data on a truck and then driving it around Virginia. The delay in reading it back is the time it takes for the truck to arrive at a datacenter and plug in. :)
This is wrong. High speed rail networks in France are profitable. Please do some research
If you want what you want component-wise then you have to build your own desktop workstation. You'll spend $2500 new. That's my current plan. Skylake Xeon, 32G ECC, 960 Pro, etc.

If you are willing to get used/prev-gen, then ebay is a good option, and you can probably get something <$1000 for a desktop workstation.

In my opinion ECC isn't something I want to be without. I run lots of VMs. Crashes will quickly eat up any potential savings from scrimping on that.
In 1997, I met my former professor of Quantum Mechanics and he said, "I hear you've gone over to the Dark Side". He was referring to the start of my professional software development career. I'd been an amateur developer for a decade prior to that, but took a break to pursue a degree in physics.

We had a long discussion during which I told him that I'd always wanted to program computers, but didn't think it made sense to get a degree doing something I could learn in my bedroom. Physics, on the other hand, was fascinating, and could only be truly learnt and appreciated from people who'd devoted their lives to it.

20 years later, I think those years of training in physics have made me a better developer, and taught me to better see patterns in data. To prefer "good enough for the task at hand and elegant enough to be proud of" over "perfect" (which is what many of my math friends ended up seeking).
Not that I would necessarily agree that the world is becoming a fairer place, I think that the stats that Oxfam use here are designed to be inflammatory rather than insightful.

Read this for some more analysis:
http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2017/01/oxfam-wont-tell-capital...
Ironic considering how systemd developers brag about eliminating race conditions and sleep calls from init scripts.
I think it is being used quite appropriately. If someone decides to create a service that uses this library to interface with an LTE network, they have to open source their software. If they went with GPL they wouldn't have to.
I know what will fix this: more tax cuts for the wealthy!
"Yes, the transition can be harsh for some workers. But let's be more specific: it is harsh for those who are unable or unwilling to adapt and develop the new skills required for the new work."

Aye, and there's the rub.

The problem isn't economic, though, in the sense that economics can be separated from politics; it's political. No one really cares about the poor. The fact that people are unemployed is unimportant.

What is a problem is social and political instability. A large class of poor are going to cause problems, from crime to religious extremism to good old fashioned bomb throwing socialists. Those transitions cause that kind of instability, in spades.

Unfortunately, hand waving that away with a minimum income probably won't work any better than retraining does.
That's false. The government of France never tried to pass such a bill. It was a mayor of a small town that tried to ban burkinis but this bill was suspended by a higher court.
FWIW, The CSIRO logo is in the shape of Australia (the dot representing Tasmania), as it's an Australian organisation. It also sort of looks like WiFi signal bars to me, and I guess the CSIRO has some legitimacy for that seeing as they were involved in inventing WiFi: https://www.csiro.au/en/Research/D61/Areas/Wireless-and-netw...
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