skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are selfies and jazzed-up status updates really part of the nostalgia phenomenon?

I think status updates and other posts are actually motivated by reward seeking: the approval/admiration of others via likes etc. Therefore a photo in the moment is not a nostalgic attempt to capture the present but rather a judgment that the experience itself is less valuable than the social reward that can be gained by sharing it.

Selfies are interesting; I think they are slightly related to the mass availability of media. However I don't think it's exactly as the author suggests. Rather, the problem here is that everyone has seen a picture of Niagara. So a selfie is a way of personalizing (and thus making, in a way, exclusive) a well-documented experience.
There's a link called "web" on this page that links to Google:

https://www.google.com/search?q=%E2%80%98We%20have%20a%20fir...

It lets you into news sites that have some sort of paywall/registration requirement, but that whitelist Google.
You're correct, very interesting. In summary, Daniel Negari paid $185k for the .xyz, purchased a few other gTLDs, and Alphabet supposedly only pays $9 per year for its domain. I presume Google is confident in xyz having no security breach and a good disaster recovery procedure ;)
Ask HN: I own wethepeopleofthe.us What should I do with it?
Ask HN: I own wethepeopleofthe.us. what should I do with it? I've owned the domain for years and always wanted to do something worthwhile with it. It now seems like the right time but I'm not sure what to do. Should I develop something? Should I give it up for a good cause? Should I sell it?

I don't mind developing something with it but don't want to be the target of anything as well. Maybe I give it up to an organization that isn't worried about backlash? What would you do?
I wish we'd see this more often. You fucked up, but came clean about it, apologized, and gave a working solution. Congrats!
exactly this, there are people that need to access testing and could have this sort of problems.
I don't get how someone can write about Libor and not get into more details about the structure. I consider it one of the most important and yet most under-reported key stories of the 08 crash.

My primary issue isn't with LIBOR persay, because, as the name implies, it's a London bank rate. My primary issue is with the fact that the Fed board of governors so quickly and easily chose it as the rate, in effect ceding a huge part of their power (interest rate setting) to fucking London bankers! They had all the power to choose an American rate or create one of their own, but chose not to.

To me, this is a perfect example of the danger of the Fed and it's unsupervised, unchecked power of agency, and it leads credence to the anti-fed sentiment and documentation I have read.

That the Wall Street bankers truly are subservient to The City (London) is more of a threat to US national security than ISIS.
I actually traded with these guys. Not personally but definitely through agents.

It's interesting to note that whenever there was a fixing of any kind in a visible market like fx or equities, people who held dependent instruments such as options would always comment on how it seemed fixed.

You'd stare at the graph during the fixing and wonder why on earth it was moving so strangely. They'd typically be rumours of someone having a large interest via barriers and such but of course your broker would not actually tell you who.

I'm not surprised libor was also rigged, it actually seems to suit the culture. Add to that the fact a lot of these guys (these types of traders and brokers, not necessarily these exact guys) knew each other from childhood, or at least had a very strong common culture.
I'd prefer shorter sentences for non-violent drug offenses.

Tom Hayes interned at UBS in 2001 [1]. Most interns are about 20 years old; we can thus estimate his age at about 35. A man born in the UK in 1981 is expected to live about 70 years [2]. Hayes' 14-year sentence thus represents almost 40% of his remaining life.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Hayes_(trader)

[2] https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsde...
I feel like the most interesting part of this is the effort to stop Aurora from using their tech. Anyone know if there is legal precedent to doing that from a civil suit?
> your broker would not actually tell you who

Former algorithmic options market maker. Brokers don't tell because they don't know. (We did, along with the one broker whose client placed the order did.)
Agreed. The tooling around deep learning is not as mature as the tooling around software development. There is a fair amount of engineering and grunt work needed to even get started, let alone build on others' research. A few problems from top of mind:
- Setup: Installing DL frameworks, Nvidia drivers and CUDA is an exercise in dependency hell. Trying to run someone's project, which has different dependencies than what you have is difficult to get right. Docker images [1] and nvidia-docker make this simple, but are still not the norm.
- Reproducibility: This is big as Denny mentions. Folks still use Github for sharing code. But DL pipelines need versioning of more than just code. It's code, environment, parameters, data and results.
- Sharing and collaboration: I've noticed that most collaboration on deep learning research, unlike software, happens only when the folks are co-located (e.g. part of the same school or company). This likely links back to reproducibility, but there are not many good tools for effective collaboration currently IMHO.
[1] https://github.com/floydhub/dl-docker (Disclaimer: I created this)
What if you take the photo for yourself (and don't share it)?
Hint: Jira support might sell fast too (if you're looking for a second platform to support). All the people I've know who had to use it hated it (myself included), especially the UI.
There was a good talk at Strangeloop about userland thread runtime scheduling in both the Go and the Erlang VM.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8g9fG7cApbc
Given the origins of the term, Van Jones is definitely an anchor. He's a regular on the program(s) where the content (news) is ever changing. That's why they call them anchors. He's not a reporter, he's commentary. Most of CNN is commentary.
I see I've been downvoted to -1, if you disagree with my advice let me know why you disagree.

The advice I've offered is gained through my personal experience, if you've learned a different approach please share it and help the entire community. :)
Hulu, Netflix, Whatever Amazon has, Sling TV...

So every time there isn't enough competition there needs to be laws saying what the monopolist must do? This is the opposite of the type of law you want in this situation.
Toshiba, desperate for cash after scandal, will sell chip business
MTCP – Scalable User-Level TCP Stack (2014)
> That includes Google, GitHub, most social networks, that includes Google, GitHub, most social networks,

Nearly all websites do not using pinning.
> things that wind up preferentially at the top of Google search result pages

I feel that this really should not be the worry of Wikipedia.
McKinsey report on automation
How Great the Fall Can Be
Key paragraph:

The activities most susceptible to automation are physical ones in highly structured and predictable environments, as well as data collection and processing. In the United States, these activities make up 51 percent of activities in the economy, accounting for almost $2.7 trillion in wages. They are most prevalent in manufacturing, accommodation and food service, and retail trade. And it’s not just low-skill, low-wage work that could be automated; middle-skill and high-paying, high-skill occupations, too, have a degree of automation potential. As processes are transformed by the automation of individual activities, people will perform activities that complement the work that machines do, and vice versa.
HBR: Technology Is Only Making Social Skills More Important
Hi - I wrote that article - let me know if you build some, I would be excited!
I'm wondering why we don't see robotic chips and pretrained models that solve basic tasks such as vision, audio, NLP and behavior. We already have good models for all of them, but no simple way to mix and match. It would be great if this evolved into an open-source bazaar of neural net models and hardware parts.
> My primary issue is with the fact that the Fed board of governors so quickly and easily chose it as the rate

What are you talking about? LIBOR was a de facto standard because the market overwhelmingly chose to use it as the short rate by writing it into private counterparty contracts. The market could have easily settled into something else (right now it's moving towards Fed Funds and OIS rates).

If you look at how the LIBOR rate is actually set, it's a trimmed average, meaning you poll something like 18 banks, then you discard the highest 4 and lowest 4. This is actually a good fraud-resistant design.

The Fed had little directly to do with what index banks and other private counterparties chose to use with one another at the time.
Just a few months ago they fired their editorial team https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2016/08...
What does time resolved mean here?
> LIBOR...[is] a London bank rate

In 2014 "a private corporation called ICE Benchmark Administration (IBA) took over the daily production and administration of [LIBOR] subject to the regulation and supervision of" the UK's Financial Conduct Authority [1]. ICE is an American company that trades on the NYSE.

> the Fed [ceded]...power...to...London

Of the 18 LIBOR member banks, 3 are American and all have a presence in New York City [2]. That's how the Fed is able to regulate them. Also, I don't think the Fed pushes LIBOR. Lenders baked it into their private contracts much as the Wall Street Journal prime rate is baked into some mortgages.

> Wall Street bankers...are subservient to The City

Other way around. If Washington cut London's dollar clearing privileges the City would implode.

[1] https://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/speech/powell20140...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libor
As another user mentioned, this idea (stationless bike share/rental) has been white-hot in China since the past summer, with a lot of extreme incidents occurring in the past couple months. The article doesn't exaggerate about 10ft tall piles of bicycles. Vandalism is a major part of the competition between companies as well--it is a regular sight (in Shenzhen) to see bikes with spray paint over QR codes, falsely reported damage, missing seats, etc.

Overall, the system works extremely well and is super convenient, but Shenzhen has very good public transportation to begin with and most of the sidewalks in the city are very wide compared to those in San Francisco. Those are two of the key things that have enabled this type of service to emerge and take off in China--it's really just solving a "last-mile" problem of getting to a point that's too far from a metro station to comfortably walk but not far enough to take a cab.
get a friend to host it for you!
You forgot sex/porn. It has to satisfy all our needs.
This is great, I wish I had it on my windows now.
Looks really lovely, would be great to see GitLab integration, I'm seeing a lot of people move from Github Enterprise to GitLab CE/EE which (IMO) is a lot better to work with.
In a galaxy far, far away
I stopped using the Bay Area Bike Share bikes and just bought my own commuter bike for a couple hundred bucks. The lighter frame and narrow tires have improved the biking part of my commute so much. The difference is just astounding. It could be a big difference.
You put data into the neural net -> it's called training.

You give it problems and it generates answers -> that's inference.
If this is what killed the dinosaurs this seems like really bad news. Being on Mars won't really be putting our eggs in multiple baskets then.
Unlikely that it's the TPU. Unless there's a multi billion dollar market for something, Google's official policy is to ignore it.
Wow I'm out of touch with front end dev. Someone please explain to me why this hasn't been standard already.
You must not live in San Francisco.

Bike 'chop shops' operate in the open, disassembling stolen bikes outside the many tents that line the streets in the Mission district. Here's a good article on the problem: http://archives.sfexaminer.com/sanfrancisco/fighting-sfs-mob...

Thieves will use 'angle grinders' to cut bike locks in broad daylight, on busy streets. Here's an example video: https://www.reddit.com/r/sanfrancisco/comments/4fcy9y/sparks...

These bikes have an uphill battle before they will survive unmolested in San Francisco, particularly the SOMA/Mission area. I wish them luck!
The way I like to think of it is that Google has a wondrous faucet that constantly exudes liquid gold, about a cubic centimeter every second. It is our job to keep the faucet open. Occasionally we also do other cool stuff.

(19.32 gr/cm^3)(37.88 $/gr)(60 * 60 * 24 * 365 s/year) ~= $23B, close enough.
Swift would be a better comparison - both Crystal and Swift are general purpose languages that compile via LLVM. Neither has any special story for concurrency (yet). Go and Elixir/Erlang on the other hand, change your approach to programming.
feelix - what kind of models do you typically run? I've spent a fair amount of time getting Neural Nets to run on Raspberry Pis and other platforms. In my experience it's possible to do inference with most models but often it's intolerably slow. For example the stock inception model that comes as a demo in the tensorflow code base takes about 10 seconds per image to do inference on my Pi 3. What domains are you typically working in? Do you have some tricks to make things run faster?
The other trade-off that comes from mutable versus immutable data comes from clustering. With Go, you have the ability to make remote procedure calls very seamlessly if you want to implement them, but because of pointers and shared memory, if you call a method on another box with an argument that references to something on your machine, it can’t be expected to function the same way.

I would be happy to know how we can make RPC seamless in GO accross multiple machines (clustering). I've missed a nice lib?
I believe it means dated, meaning they were able to determine roughly how old those atoms are, presumably based on the age of the sediment in which it was found.
It happens basically everywhere, including politics.
Former broker.

We know, but it is important function of a broker not to tell.
Future of blogging
Oh ya, I shouldn't have said answer, because uniq is not a way to the answer, just something I naturally reached for while trying to figure out an answer.
While speech synthesis is okay, NLP is a problem largely unsolved. We need to improve reasoning, attention and memory, and also to ground concepts in perceptual data.
For no #2 , have tested https://github.com/devfd/react-native-workers ?

it works pretty well, but havent done anything other than syncing and notification pushing. other API s should work
Your photo showing Trump had little people actually came from 8 AM in the morning, as by the upload time-stamp here:

http://imgur.com/cLiofdu

Notice the time-stamp.

The following photo show way more people: https://i.redd.it/romblz2zsxay.jpg

Here is a photo showing near back end, showing the crowds goes all the way to the back, almost comparable to Obama's.

https://i.reddituploads.com/a3495b511eed42509c6f3a82b853996f...
For those curious, this supernova is unfortunately too old to find the supernova remnant that was left behind. The most famous SNRs are Cas A [1] and M1/the Crab Nebula [2].

When the core of a massive star collapses, the resulting explosion launches the rest of the star surrounding the core outwards. Near to the star, this explosion proceeds as an unimpeded free expansion for a few hundred years, but the ejecta eventually impacts the gas between the stars, the interstellar medium. The ejecta then goes through two phases, an adiabatic phase (ie can't efficiently radiate away the heat) and radiative phase (ie can efficiently radiate away the heat). The adiabatic phase ends after around a couple ten thousand years, and the radiative phase ends after a few hundred thousand. As the remnant evolves, the gas becomes cooler and less dense, until eventually it's indistinguishable from the rest of the interstellar medium. So, if this supernova occurred around 2 million years ago, we shouldn't be able to observe the remnant. A shame!

[1] https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap050615.html
[2] https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap150816.html
I wonder if they are able to avoid misuse of regional content download by different people. Who pays for bandwidth? Just wondering...
Anyone with a decent CS degree should be able to produce working compilers and interpreters, otherwise it wasn't a decent degree.

Of course, writing very good ones is a different matter.
Don't be a dick
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Because they were politically biased?
> The biggest difference between the two languages is that compilation for the destination architecture has to be done on that same architecture. The documents include several workarounds for this scenario, but the simplest method is to build your release within a Docker container that has the destination architecture.

@brightball Go has had first class support for cross compilation for a while now, no?
> He attracted the ire of some wackjob when he referenced printed materials. Given his somewhat unique position, he had some stuff digitized and posted, ...

Were these published documents, which reviewers could independently obtain and verify?
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http://golangcookbook.com/chapters/running/cross-compiling/
Everyone’s Convinced Trump’s Press Secretary Just Tweeted Out His Password
You're google and you still take a print screen of a spreadsheet instead of using an HTML table to display tabular information on a blog post.
I had now clue "KDE Neon" was an operating system.
The std lib has RPC support https://golang.org/pkg/net/rpc/

Never used it, but lots of people in conferences are happy with it.
I'd like to hear more. Can you be more specific about what you think led to the fall of the Soviet Union?
It's probably the right balance of nature & nurture that comes into play. The only thing to note is that both those learnings happen subconsciously but the real masters seem to be making the right decisions consciously which leads me to think that they tend to have overwhelming self discipline & self awareness.
China’s debt-trap diplomacy
If something has has been officially published, and is available to the public, it's a reference. That's entirely distinct from someone citing their own stuff.

Edit: ... their own unpublished stuff.
shotguns have terrible range
I'm amazed he got any jail time at all. Look back at the 2008 financial crisis. The crisis was riddled with fraud, and yet the executives from many of those banks that caused the crisis left with multi-million dollar bonuses and zero jail time.
Basically:

- Code either "C code compiled with C++ compiler" or C++ OOP Spaghetti like in the CORBA/DCOM days before JEE was a thing.

- functions/methods that span several screens

- barely any kind of testing

- due to emphasis on C style programming, lots of fun tracking down pointer misuses

- re-implementation of code that is already part of C++ standard library, even the ones from C

- lots of copy-paste on the same file because devs don't understand neither source control nor modularity
Right click the web link and open it in an incognito window (or your browser's equivalent).
> Were these published documents, which reviewers could independently obtain and verify?

That doesn't stop some of the people at WP from reverting everything. Which means OP's friend is left to either leave it reverted, or trawl through the various arcane dispute resolution / meta pages, arguing their case, building consensus, to eventually get people saying it should be left in. Or saying it should be left out because those meta pages sometime feel as random as tossing a coin.

Unsurprisingly this optimizes for people who tolerate vast amounts of meta bullshit, and not people who know what they're talking about and know what the good sources are.
For the integration side you should take a look at http://home-assistant.io - they support a huge variety of hardware already, and almost every type of device includes a configurable MQTT adapter if you're building your own.

Once your hardware is integrated with Home Assistant it can handle automating things. The whole system is a big state machine so most automations will involve reacting to state changes and sending commands to other devices in response.
Top 20 MCQ on I/O Management and Disk Scheduling – InfoTechSite
No go. Shitty keyboard. Learn from Thinkpad T400 how good keyboard looks like.
They definitely did push back against the mandate and that was one of the arguments that went to the supreme court.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/29/us/supreme-court-lets-heal...

Furthermore all of us are consumers of health care at one time or another. I admit I am resentful against the many people that take terrible care of themselves but the fact is 40% of americans will get cancer. http://www.upi.com/Health_News/2010/05/06/41-percent-of-Amer...

Due to laws like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_Medical_Treatment_an... and of course for ethical reasons hospitals can't turn you away when you can't pay.

I do feel it all needs urgent reform but I do feel the ACA was an attempt to expand competition and fairness while not leaving it completely unfunded like so many government plans seem to.
I wish people wouldn't downvote someone for an alternate opinion. It's interesting to see the Russian view point on these things. I think the parent poster is indoctrinated with the typical anti-western mindset, but it's still valid and adds to the discussion.

> He basically ran a superpower into the ground in 6 years flat, from space shuttle to hunger and abject poverty

The Soviet Union was in free fall economically long before Gorbachev. It was a systemic failure. To pile the genocidal failings of 3 generations of communist rule onto the first leader to free his people from that oppression is a terrible perversion of history.
The problem is that institutional investors seem to really care about CPC. Even when RPM is up due to greater CTR, CPC drops have allegedly affected their stock price.
I only like Iranians who call themselves Persians. The rest of you can sod right off.
Ask HN: What ideas, books or essays changed your life?
Several times now, I've had a book or idea completely change how I see the world. Each time, I had to start over and reconsider my place in the world.

If you've had this kind of experience, what was it that triggered it?
I'm sure there is a galaxy close by where they are saying something similar...
Tech Quiz of the Week: Trump and Technology
In my experience the questions tend to cluster towards a small group of individuals; so from their perspective, you're the 5th interruption in line for the day and they've barely been able to start their own work.

That's one reason why I like the idea of taking forced breaks; they give you a scheduled time to handle brief interruptions, and if you're fairly regular people can tune in to your schedule(e.g. if you're always "working" the first 50 mins of an hour and "resting" the last 10 mins, it's easy to know whether you'd be able to quickly answer a question). Of course, the forced breaks are another form of an interruption from flow; it's still a trade-off.