skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Example: Your grandmother will meet 100 different caregivers for home care in a year"

French here. My grand pa is old and has caregivers (paid by his public health care + the local county) coming to his home every day, they're always the same 4-5 people.

It's not hard giving people a steady job instead of using disposable contractors.
You're focusing on just one event (the Commission suing Germany), an event that in the grand scheme is pretty insignificant; what I'm talking about is the overall trend. I never denied this enforcement action is happening, it would be pretty silly to do so. The GP claimed that water quality levels are declining (rapidly) and that some sort of enormous change in agricultural practices is needed to stop, let alone revert that (at least, that seems to be his claim; it's a bit unclear, upon rereading, whether he meant it narrowly for just those parts of Germany and what would be required to get within the limits of the Directive). That claim is not true.
The GP's using it for personal use (I think). OP merely suggested a hack to let GP get on with their life as quickly as possible in 2 lines of bash and one crontab entry - and without learning a new process monitoring utility's configuration. Obviously this wouldn't be suitable for a production site for many users.
If you're logged in, the videos are saved to your YT history (https://www.youtube.com/feed/history)
Oh didn't know this. Thanks.
The big issue with agriculture, both organic and conventional, is what we farm. According to who? The World Bank, the EU and the UN: http://www.fao.org/docrep/010/a0701e/a0701e00.HTM

The livestock sector emerges as one of the top two or three most
significant contributors to the most serious environmental
problems, at every scale from local to global. The findings of
this report suggest that it should be a major policy focus when
dealing with problems of land degradation, climate change and air
pollution, water shortage and water pollution and loss of
biodiversity.
I think you've missed my main point: reduced consumption is an increase in sustainability [1]. And it's not clear to me that grass-fed beef is sustainable [2] (especially not at the current scale of consumption [3])

Farmers are critical, underpaid, and deal with a lot of risk. There must be some insurance. But consumers should pay the real price for their goods at the counter.

1 - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/nov/07/tax-meat...

2 - http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/13/opinion/the-myth-of-sustai...

3 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_meat_cons...
Don't call me on the phone about anything unless it's an emergency. I don't need interruptions.

In fact, I no longer answer the phone at all unless I recognize the number, since otherwise I'd be listening to telemarketing spam every 15 minutes.

But even without the spam, I loathe the phone as a mode of communication. What about yet another recruiting offer that I'm not the least bit interested in requires a phone call? I don't care if it's better for the recruiter. It's way worse for me.
I actually learned something today.

I had always chalked up the Viking invasions to "more of the same" after the Anglo-Saxons had settled, but you're of course right that the two (well, three, I guess) groups came from different geographical areas and the Vikings would of course have spoken a distinctly different language.

I guess I conflated the common view that English is originally a Germanic language with French influences with "English is Anglo-Saxon plus French over time".
That isn't what that Tweet says at all. Notability he makes this very explicit:

Theano support will continue for as long as Keras exists. This integration changes nothing for existing Keras users, only for TF users.

https://mobile.twitter.com/fchollet/status/82109041065934438...
There's no better time to spam me than in a crisis!
Eat less.
> Don't confuse advances in technology with intentional churn generated by vendors and platforms. The latter is a plague, and it doesn't only cost people money, it costs them productivity.

Do you think churn is intentional within a single vendor, e.g. to force upgrades? Could churn be a by-product of competition between vendors, e.g. AWS refactored most of enterprise computing into "low-end" services that steadily improved, but were proprietary and increased lock-in.

> The dev tools I'm using won't even work on current computers. I code on a time capsule laptop and depend on the very simplified plugin formats I've chosen (generic interface AU and VST) to remain functional.

Is the time capsule laptop for old operating systems or old hardware? COuld the old operating systems work in a virtual machine?

> They'd have to break the most fundamental interfaces to kill my stuff (which doesn't make it impossible to do, just very user-hostile)

Apple tried to get ride of files (!) entirely, but they are slowly making a comeback on iOS, e.g. now you can insert an attachment within an email, with the right application plugin. Social networks have done their best to replace RSS push notifications with proprietary pubsub. WebDAV, CalDAV, CardDAV are thankfully still supported by a few good apps.

> niche markets exist and they're loyal, and (2) they're small, which is what makes them niche.

How do you market your services/products within your niche?
I completely agree with you.

I started in this field in 1992. I've seen the coming and goings of many flash-in-the-pan technologies.

If you are a dev and are selling yourself on your skillset, ask yourself, "is this sustainable?" The answer is "no." A fifty-year-old brain simply does not absorb new technologies as fast as a 25-year-old-brain. If your plan is to continually adopt new cutting edge technologies in order to stay marketable, I politely submit you need to rethink your long term plan.

As an almost 50-year-old, I promise you that the world is not a gentle place for older devs. Plan your exit into management, a related field, or some other job altogether. If you expect to be a coder at age 50 you're going to be disappointed.

As for me, I jettisoned the "technical skill set" war decades ago. I do not sell myself on my technical skill set. I sell myself as the ultimate generalist. This comes with its own set of problems. However, it has allowed me to age more gracefully in my field, because I do not create the expectation that my primary value-added is code generation.
Theory lends transparency to how glass breaks
> It was tillage that turned the fertile crescent of Mesopotamia into the deserts of Iraq.

Any sources on that? Or on the bad effects of tillage, generally speaking. I'm just curious as my parents are traditional farmers and they use shoveling and the like instead of pesticides (which they couldn't afford, anyway).
Well in the case of BT (bacillus thurigensis) cotton and corn, for example, the GM plant produces the Cry toxin which is bad for the insects that eat the crop, so better than spraying it (Also BT is used in organic agriculture via spraying btw).

Herbicides like roundup affect a certain pathway in plants, not humans in animals.

"And pesticides are bad for people and animals in the longer term too."

Not at the concentrations that are used. The amount of residue is minuscule and modern pesticides have far less toxicity than older ones that have been phased out.

IIRC, the BT toxin only affects insects that have an alkaline digestive system. Animals and humans are unaffected as its acidic.
Redditors one and all!
Ecoinformatics and Computational Ecology is what you're looking for.
Paper Planes told me "This experience requires WebGL and a modern browser." I have a MacBook Air, fully updated, with Google Chrome. It redirects me to the Google Chrome download site. Any clue what I'm doing wrong?
Github and link it on HN i guess :D
I havn't time to read through it, but based on your comments, I could see it being accepted to a conference, which is where most CS publications come from (in europe anyway).
Google Pixel VS iPhone 7 (Customer reviews)
+1 for DyNet. Chris Dyer is a boss (and just moved from Carnegie Mellon to DeepMind)
Hiri wants to fix the workplace email problem
Looks as if the website is offline. Getting a database error.
I think this is a great opportunity for back-end developers who lack full-stack skills or don't have a front-end sidekick to produce valuable software.

Unfortunately, just like the app store, you would still suffer from discovery issues so the developer must also think about upping their marketing game.

Very excited about this new development from Amazon though!
Please suggest other products for this type of comparison
I remember the furore when Intel introduced a unique CPU identifier in the Pentium 3. Now they have a microprocessor and OS running as a computer subsystem on every Intel server and laptop which is able to do pretty much what it likes with your system and people don't bat an eyelid.

Don't get me wrong, I love some of the benefits like remote control of my servers, fan speed control, monitoring of temps and voltages etc. but I do think we've given up a LOT of security for the sake of convenience. It wouldn't take much for a well crafted worm or heck a simple script to disrupt a whole network of ME/AMT enabled clients and servers.
RAWGraphs 1.2.0 is out New visual models, new name and new website
In the movie The Devil's Playground there is a discussion about how the Amish adopt technology. If I remember correctly, the criteria was based on whether the technology was disruptive to the community (i.e. how it affects the relations between people rather than an individual's day-to-day life). It's been more than ten years since I've seen the movie and I'm going on memory, but that made a big impression on me.
I'm more worried about people constantly believing that every new framework is a major advancement for programming and that it's not just something that could be learned in an afternoon (e.g. React). Or about people following the latest hyped trend without learning anything and without producing much other than more hype.

AI,ML and VR are all really interesting, but as we all know they are not completely new and will not likely account for the majority of the future jobs.

Fundamentals are what matter, most of these "new things" are just something that you can learn with relatively limited effort if needed. Classic programming skills, analytical skills or things like the ability to reason about concurrency issues never go obsolete.
I think you are applying your own values to the population as a whole. Depending on ones ethnicity, social class, and other variables, one may, as a Swede, value family or community over the individual.
Most of the payments are made upfront and for milestones hit. As in a lot of it is paid up. The only reason that works is having the govt as a customer.

The Russians can any day drop their margins and put SpaceX out of business. They have the tech and the track record that SpaceX will take another decade or two to match.

SpaceX is being propped up cause NASA, Boeing, Lockheed et al have become such dinosaurs that they can't do anything by themselves.
I've seen a yacht that used only wind power and had unlimited range. :)
If everything goes as planned they will be immensely successful, sure. But when have they ever accomplished any of their plans on schedule? Clients are starting to get tired of SpaceX's wildly overoptimistic forecasting - see AsiaSat switching providers, and that was before the recent failure. A slow estimate you can deliver is better than a fast estimate you can't.
I know a disabled man in a kommun with excellent economy where the kommun employ companions to sitdown and chat with him daily. These are mostly retired or near-retired people who are doing their bit for the community and getting a small income at the same time. The system works very very well.

I live in one of the kommuns with the very worst economy and the schools barely function. So the 100 carers thing is not because of the swedish psyche but because of the way healthcare is funded.
I think it's important to distinguish between "voluntary by the will of the government" and "by the will of people".

Your statement is 100% true for the former and only ~50% true (i.e., 50% false) for the latter.
Disclaimer: Very biased player in the space.

I'd like to personally see keras as the industry standard as an interface. We are starting to give classes with it for our customers and the feedback has been positive.

CNTK is adding one: https://github.com/Microsoft/CNTK/issues/797

Mxnet is there:
https://github.com/fchollet/keras/issues/1313

TF being there obviously helps.

//Begin blantant self promotion :D

No one will care about ours as much (research crowd,python,etc etc,..), but I'll throw our hat in the ring here too, keras has been amazing for our use case and we are personally pushing more python people towards that:
https://github.com/deeplearning4j/deeplearning4j/pull/2562

^^ that will bridge the spark ecosystem and friends so you can run on yarn/mesos/spark etc from a familiar interface.

//End blatant self promotion
I developed a checklist to spot technologies that are in an early stage of the hype cycle and avoid them.

The following are signals that a technology is in and early part of the hype cycle:

* It has the backing of a major corporation or a startup with a marketing budget.

* There are a lot of rave articles/blog posts about building relatively simple or small self contained applications using this technology.

* There is a small but vocal contingent of users who are passionately against the new technology. Their arguments often link to bugs on the bug tracker, cite edge cases that occur under heavy usage and indicate fundamental oversights in the design as well as assumptions (and often arrogance) on the part of the architects.

* The benefits cited are either A) vague or B) explicitly aimed at beginners.

* Arguments in favor often appeal to authority (e.g. "Google uses it" or "XYZ company use it in production"), popularity ("everybody's containerizing these days") or cite benefits which were already possible.

* A high ratio of talk to action: the technology is talked about on Hacker News a lot but there appears to be very little real life stuff developed with it and a lot of the talk involves jamming it in where it's not really necessary.

* Sometimes I experiment with a technology for an hour or two and I see if there's anything obviously wrong with it or if the criticisms are valid.
You can "Export" on any format :P
You've "updated" it from non-paywalled to paywalled. Please don't.
Mercedes Buys Bitcoin Service Provider in ‘Digitization Strategy’
Being a farmer doesn't mean you understand global food markets. Not knowing how to properly hill potatoes doesn't mean you can't understand global food markets.
Only if you're looking at consumer-facing business. Not every startup tries to create a brand and get articles written in TechCrunch and NYT: many are just developing revolutionary tech that is later bought and used by others.
> Controlling and maintaining a complex system of feedback loops (that we still don't completely understand) is a very difficult task though, so I'm not surprised that currently the most crude methods (genocidal chemical warfare) are also the cheapest / most efficient.

Blanket chemical warfare is like feedback linearization. Wasteful in terms of energy and has other flaws associated with stability. There is a better approach, e.g., passivity based control, which requires understanding the underlying nonlinear dynamical system.

Interestingly this has been the same problem in medicine. However, there are more nuanced control-oriented medical techniques being developed (need better observers and actuating mechanisms).
I don't know anyone who chooses freely to work with Tcl. It's a curiosity like brainfuck. Fun to look at and marvel at its simplicity but an absolute horror to work in.
> https://tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com/2017/01/photo-j...

Those containers look like worse than prison cells. A prison cell at least has got an window.
1) Having a BMI of 26.1 kg/m2, you don't lose 7.4 kg over one month just by eating less (unless you just stop eating), 2) I'm sure what the article explains goes a bit beyond "eat less"
One thing I asked before but didn't get a definitive answer on: IIRC the IME images are cryptographically signed, right? If so, how can they modify the images without breaking the signature? Or can they resign it?
because objection to it tends towards these vague emotive terms, rather than highlighting specifics.

You're not 'geon, so this may not apply to you, but if this is the case, a purely pedantic comment is very unlikely to do anything constructive to move the conversation forward. It's not going to encourage reflection (as they're vague and emotive). The goal is civil and substantive discussion.

You might sincerely speculate what distinction they're trying to make. Or honestly and civilly ask for clarification. If you don't think they're reasonable, do you think they're likely to be swayed by anything you consider reasonable? I think it's better to refrain from commenting if it's not going to move the discussion forward. On topics like this, the ground is well-worn. It doesn't need to be rehashed if people aren't actually listening to each other. At least not on HN.
> The GP claimed that water quality levels are declining (rapidly) and that some sort of enormous change in agricultural practices is needed to stop, let alone revert that (at least, that seems to be his claim; it's a bit unclear, upon rereading, whether he meant it narrowly for just those parts of Germany and what would be required to get within the limits of the Directive).

I can only speak for my state (Schleswig-Holstein), but the government has been saying this for years, that major agricultural change is necessary.

Our overall trend has been massively down, and it’s similar in many other parts of Germany.

So, even then, it’s still the Ministry of the Environment and Agriculture vs. you.
> The law dissuades of from replanting patented seeds, if that is what you had in mind?

That works too, though I also thought of F1 hybrids (made so second generation crops are crap), an idea GMO can copy. Here in France, there's a law forbidding to grow any food outside a pre-approved list of crops —most of which seems to be F1 hybrids. Fortunately it doesn't appear to be enforced right now, so some farmers grow old local species anyway.

> Why single out Monsanto?

They're a symbol, often recognised as "most evil". I'm sure others have similar practices, I'm just not aware of them.
It's free software - so feel free to start your Rust fork whenever you like, and update us on your progress.
Something like AMP should be an opt-in for users that requires marketing, education and the standard process of trying to make your idea work in the market. Currently its being forced down users and websites throats and is a blatant abuse of market power.

There should be a opt-in for every search that specifies amp explicity to signify you want it. Google should be taken to the cleaners for trying to expand its market power so egregriously. Since its is not going to happen in the US at least the EU can step in. There has to be something illegal about these kinds of monopolistic actions.
What a shock about SK. I thought the US was more innovative. HAHAHA did I really just write that.
What would the process of being convicted of anti-trust laws for a website, when in order to use a competitor, you just have to type 'bing.com' or 'duckduckgo.com' into your address bar?
Kernel 4.8 will probably never be in distros, 4.9 is probably the LTS release they will use.
Guilt before innocence, got it.
Maybe Stanford got some courses on iTunes U, and properly other universities, i just use stanford for CS courses. :)
I was once invited out by business partners to a meal in Soeul where the highlight was an octopus, cooked alive at the table. They had to put a lid on the pan to stop it escaping. It was delicious, but I had to tell myself that it had been debeaked and was dying anyway and then stare fixedly at the wall until they told me that it had stopped moving and had been chopped up; luckily, they found this funny rather than insulting.

shrug Weirdly, I've found myself getting more squeamish as I get older, rather than less...
You are conflating ideas. There is nothing that prevents a startup from bootstrapping; they don't need to take on massive VC funding in order to count as a startup.

It's fine to reject the idea that the VC funding path is the best way to build a sustainable company though.
User here. I didn't realize I had an option to get the full site. As far as mobile web goes, I'm appreciative I don't have to slog through broken websites, CSS mishmash, flash ads, etc. Just the text, some basic structure, and fast loading times? I'm downright thankful to Google for this!

The bar has been set. Can you find a way to both resolve personal frustration and provide a better experience? Maybe a browser plugin?
I have seen a number of documentaries, but they're all in French. "Solutions locales pour un désordre global" and "Alerte à Babylone" come to mind.
What does chainer have that keras is missing?
> I just automatically downvote that.

We can both agree that one of us needs to change.

The guidelines are fine, the part you should change is automatically downvoting anything. Just jumping on a bandwagon makes for pretty boring reading too.
> Unfortunately, just like the app store, you would still suffer from discovery issues

To some degree certainly quite likely, but personally I don't think it'd be as pronounced in such b2b / dev2dev contexts as it would be on today's b2c app stores, to the (hard to quantify/guesstimate) degree that users in the former more carefully scrutinize more offerings and contrast them with their actual requirements.
At least 5-10 years ago. Most businesses were using technology from a decade a go. Many from two or three decades ago. Businesses in America are a joke. Maybe get are elsewhere too. So what. Businesses in America are a joke. Korea or wherever have to rely on the us for operating systems and stuff. What's the us excuse. We fucking design and build technology here. Pathetic. I don't like americans.
O smartphone Android LG G3 é simples e funcional
Yeah, I've read it too, but it's odd.

It's more difficult to move on ice or water than on grass. Moving on grass is convenient. But ice and water aren't impossible, we know that people reached Greenland from the northwest and stayed there, and we know that people reached Australia and even Easter Island.

Well-regarded books say strange things sometimes. Have you read Jared Diamond's Catastrophe? Its argument about why the Norwegians who moved to Greenland died presupposes that the technology that led to viking ships had nothing to do with fishing and, and states that Norwegians would rather hunger to death than eat fish.
As others have mentioned Figwheel and DevTools certainly improve the picture. There is also re-frisk which is an embedded, real-time, event monitor and database viewer. It's early days but already very helpful.
> So millions of people who feel strongly about things you don't agree with is bullshit?

Just ask yourself what were the consequences of the referendum, even if the separatists lost.

I do think some of their ideas (associated with separatists) make sense, but pushing for separatism has never helped the province.

And yes, the city of Montreal knows better than the rest of QC fortunately
Don't Rely on iTunes: the importance of your own backups
Strange; are you suggesting that being a CEO of a major corporation is bad work experience for secretary of state? Why?