skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Could be, but PS and Xbox don't support Vulkan for the same bad reasons (lock-in), so messing up the spec because of that doesn't sound convincing.
Lots of negativity in this thread related to non-adoption of Vulcan. But we've been waiting too long for generic compute and the sooner Apple leads something to the browser for GPGPU then maybe it will get everyone else to finally act - competing standard or not.
as an aside, Stripe are putting money in to support RethinkDB
Facebook to start giving 6 weeks family leave to all employees
That really needs to be the default.
One day postgres will be everywhere :)
But if you have the phone can't you just put the sim in another phone and read texts?
i was expecting to read about node.js
On Windows, Vulkan support is provided by the IHV graphics drivers from Nvidia, AMD etc. On Mac, Apple themselves ship the drivers (incorporating some portions of IHV code, but ultimately all under Apple's control).
The comments section on the article indicates the soon-to-be 501c3 he's associated with, ICEI, will probably be sending grant proposals to The Evil Men With Guns Who Collect Your Tax Money While Holding Guns Or Something shortly. "Had I been able to wait until that kind of fundraising was producing results, I would have."
Elsewhere in this discussion:

hellofunk: Then C++ is also garbage collected.

yourself: Kind of, but only because C++11 defined a pluggable GC ABI.

This is the sort of discussion that is far more fruitful than a pedantic argument over the precise meaning of a term of art in a field that is rapidly advancing. And if the academic community really is obsessed with this, then that is unfortunate.
oh no! property values are going up!

this is always bad, except when it's good.

Oh no! Gas prices are going up! This is always bad, except when it's good.

This article is a bunch of nonsense. Prices are prices, and the demographics of neighborhoods change over time.

The loudest whinging about gentrification always comes from the first wave of gentrifiers. The poor people who lived in these 'bad' neighborhoods for 30 years and sold their house at 20x to a couple of yuppies are not the complainers...
Congratulations on the nice work! It is very elegant to use combinators to formulate and solve this problem. Though my worry with combinators is that they introduce awkwardness with setting up 'long range' DAG edges, you can have to do a lot of shuttling of things around manually through tuples and whatnot, I'm not sure how it is with your framework.

Am I right in thinking that there is no bucketing going on here? In other words, each batch is fixed length, and a short-lived DAG is planned and then simulated with tf.while to accommodate the set of shapes in that particular batch? Are there any problems when the input shapes are wildly different in expense? For example, imagine a size-agnostic convnet. Maybe some of the images in the training set are small, others are large, how would that look in your framework, if it can be done? Is junk padding part of picture, to help match almost-equal tensors to allow them to be batched?
>If both times have mono time, then Equal() compares that, and ignores wall time.

Gotcha, I missed that somewhere. That's essentially fine - then the only real surprises are when you deserialize a Time (so it doesn't have a mono time), which should in principle have no interactions with this proposal.

And yeah, Equal vs ==, the meaning was clear enough that I didn't bother to be specific :) Thanks for the infos!
Numerical Domains of China
if you bought the stock without understanding the corporate charter i have no sympathy for you. This is ridiculous.
There's a bunch of TV animation done with Flash. It's quite a versatile tool.
2,000 installs after- How we are beta launching our product
I think the conclusions here are too vague and sweeping to have any merit. Privacy enables civilization. Without it we get tyranny. Primitive societies had little to no privacy and the idea that one day "humanity" will be so enlightened that the many compelling reasons for privacy will be outweighed by the benefits of having tons of data is unfounded imo.
I won, and it said it was a tie. The board looked like:

o x x

o x o

o o x
It might be good, as the ensuing obliteration of value might wake people up to the dark side of the era of cheap debt and crazy financial engineering that runs today's world.
It used to be the case that 3D APIs other than Direct3D couldn't be used from whatever Metro^H Windows Store apps are called this week. Which kind of blocks it at a platform-within-a-platform level.

That may have changed, I dunno.
My absolute favorite is http://zest.is/

If you are a marketer, it's awesome. It is hand picked, curated content that is pure gold.
The funnel shape of the scatter plot immediately reminded me of an article on the insensitivity to sample size pitfall [0], which points out that you'll expect entities with smaller sample sizes to show up more often in the extremes because of the higher variance.

Looks like the tags with the biggest differences exemplify this pretty well.

[0]- http://dataremixed.com/2015/01/avoiding-data-pitfalls-part-2...
I went to ut austin and after a long time using haskell for intro classes the administrators succumbed to temptation (and possibly pressure from dell/ibm for wage slaves) maybe ~10 years ago and started using java.

It was kind of horrible because the professor for (at least one of the) intro classes reproduced cons, car and cdr from lisp and had us construct a bunch of data structures out of this monstrous java lisp hybrid.

point being probably only top tier cs depts use haskell.
Whilst it's true that one can program in a functional style in almost any language, I fail to see how javascript would help someone learn about functional programming.
UBI definitely makes sense for developed countries. But, India is far away from it. Considering UBI is like taking a defeatist approach towards skill training for your countrymen.
UBI definitely makes sense for developed countries. But, India is way far from it. Considering UBI is like taking a defeatist approach towards skill training for your countrymen.
>KDB doesn't support unicode text.

Unicode (from 2011):

http://code.kx.com/wiki/Cookbook/Unicode
Matt Warren's blog is great to learn about the internal mechanism of .Net. I wonder if there is any similar blog for JVM world, so far I have only know Mechanical Sympathy[1] but it doesn't seem as comprehensive.

[1] https://mechanical-sympathy.blogspot.com/
>See: Enron, where deregulation of the energy markets led to artificial supply shutdown (the infamous rolling blackouts) in order to drive prices higher and profit.

Enron was no such case. California removed price controls on the wholesale power market while leaving them on the retail market. This was a recipe for predation by wholesalers on electric utilities. Besides the problem of inconsistency, price controls always lead to shortages and this is exactly what happened in California (and would have happened whether the partial deregulation had happened or not, because the electricity market prices exceeded the price control levels, at a time when electricity demand was growing due to population growth).

Moreover, new regulations (prohibitions) created in the 1990s prevented utilities from negotiating long-term power contracts with wholesalers, which would have prevented the manipulation that Enron traders engaged in.
Unfortunately, ain't no money in little "projects".
I used them for email for a while and I couldn't get my mail client to connect (Airmail, first gen). The guy on the phone spent hours with me and even purchased a copy of the app just to see if it would work for him. I don't remember what ultimately fixed it but I got it working - and it wasn't even a rackspace problem if I recall correctly. Still impressed by how far they were willing to go to help a customer.
Use SQLAlchemy, ORM gets easy :)
I work for a pretty large organisation (multiple office sites, multiple countries etc). Our intranet runs on sharepoint and every time I've had to edit a page or create a new page etc I find it frustrating as hell and don't get me started on permissions problems.

From the users perspective it is pretty handy. There are a heap of non technical people (HR, accountants, operators etc.) Being able to drag and drop spreadsheets from a Windows desktop into a sharepoint library is almost a killer feature makes it very easy for non technical people to collaborate on documents across multiple sites (provided the aforementioned permissions problems do not occur).

Our plant operators use it to upload overtime spreadsheets and share them between shifts, people use it to share powerpoint slide decks for meetings and upload the minutes afterwards etc.

I'm from the generation before we had Sharepoint back then we used Mapped network shares to move documents around (or emails - but we had 50mb limit imposed by exchange) - permissions issue were even worse.

We recently started using Facebook's "Workplace" which is basically a private facebook instance for our organisation. People are starting to use that instead of sharepoint - from what I've seen anyone can make a "group" in workplace and it is so much easier then setting up a sharepoint page.

Adoption is pretty slow but some teams are starting to use workplace groups rather than sharepoint for recurring meetings etc. So I'm hoping it will finally kill Sharepoint here.
"too large to be my iPad for everything else"

Because it's too large to carry around all the time, or because it's not comfortable to use when lying down, or something else?
Agreement upon an existing implementation is not sufficient. WebSQL was rejected because it had only one implementation (SQLite).

https://www.w3.org/TR/webdatabase/
Haxe 3.4 is out – With lots of new Features
the bug was exacerbated by carp having teeth, thus giving them a bite. except they were able to bite across the water tile and onto the shore, thus engaging combat.

this resulted in death because dwarves, as a rule, dont know how to swim unless trained.
this is just dumb and shallow and I'm not a lefty.
There's also the factor of those jobs being more effectively performed by humans than by machines.
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> Blatant plug: Urbit (urbit.org) is a general-purpose OS built on the event-sourced model.

I've looked through its documentation, and while I couldn't make heads or
tails of it, Urbit seems to be everything but an operating system. Espeically that
it needs unix system to run.
Not trying to be uncharitable here, I'm just sharing how it looks to someone driving by.

That doc says:

"It[WebGL] was based on OpenGL ES, a cross-platform API for graphics targeted at embedded systems. This was the right starting place, because it made it possible to implement the same API in all browsers easily, especially since most browser engines were running on systems that had support for OpenGL."

And then it says later this:

"The major platform technologies in this space are Direct3D 12 from Microsoft, Metal from Apple, and Vulkan from the Khronos Group. While these technologies have similar design concepts, unfortunately none are available across all platforms."

And one imagines you could put up a big chart and have all the platforms as the columns and each technology as the row, and show all of the gaps. But the consensus is that Vulkan would show up on all the platforms except Apple's. So one might ask "well if you put Vulkan on your platforms, then you would be back to the WebGL situation where you had stuff that ran on all platforms and you could work on a Web API to that code.

So "optically" which is to say, to a casual observer, it seems like Apple is saying everyone put this new thing on your platform as this web api we're working on will talk to it.

I understand that you just want the best experience possible given the advances that have been made in GPUs over the last decade.
> We’re going to put our great miners and steel workers back to work.
Anti "regulation" people are usually pretty big on contracts being enforced. The phone company giving away a number in a world where numbers are used to verify identity is a big deal along those terms.
Would love feedback on the usability of the autocomplete and whether the output quality is up to expectations! Also, does the splash page make sense? Thanks!
just curious, what classes were they? I believe my university uses Unity for the VR classes
Yeah. That's going to be one that needs rigorous safety testing. Where are these medical trials? Are they double blind placebo controlled every possible effect (no matter the severity) reported?
Hey! Your API's been in the back of my head for a while now, so the help would be phenomenal. What's the best way to reach you?
Does anyone know ballpark salaries / bonuses for financial firms.

As someone who knows Scala and other functional languages I get a lot of recruiter spam with 200k+ tag lines bit I've never really pursued the issue.
I find this statement horrific.

You would condemn the women of the world, the poorest of the poor to backbreaking work because you won't identify with reality?

Even amongst the ultra rich, aka you (given you are on HN, most likely), women do more house work.

Yet you expect people who dedicate their lives to the ultra poor and get things done to be careful of your sensibilities?
My thoughts exactly. I think its the editorialized phrase "we’re now going to charge you for something that used to be free!" that smacks of entitlement right on the heels of detailing the problem solved by using disqus in the first place.
Ask HN: Has YC funded any space-focused companies?
The only one I found is Bagaveev. What about NanoSat or other rocket propulsion companies?

Any reason why YC would not fund this domain?
The thrust FMA (flight mode annunciator) will show "A. FLOOR" alpha floor or "TOGA LK" (takeoff/go-around thrust lock). The former means Fifi just took over and is applying full thrust for an immediate high AoA situation. The latter means the emergency is over but Fifi is so white knuckled and panting that she's ignoring lever position and keeping full thrust. I say microblog because you have to make a conscious effort to read these things. I just got curious and did some googling and it I'm not the only one who can be confused... The aural warning for low speed is the last thing you hear and unless you actually see TOGA LK and turn off autothrust you'll be overspeeding soon. With flaps down (lower max speed) this happens pretty fast. https://news.aviation-safety.net/2013/12/21/loss-of-airspeed...
Absolutely not. The owners of IT systems need to be able to assert control over what enters and leaves the system.

Allowing uninspected outbound traffic makes it trivial for an attacker to exfiltrate data, an employee to accidentally or purposely release data, etc.
I think you hit on one of the biggest risks in my opinion. Right now there is a strong motive to educate yourself, because it will likely result in a more comfortable future. Having a highly educated population is hugely beneficial. I suppose if UBI provided just enough to keep you alive, then it might not be so bad.
Paypal is risky for sellers because you face two levels of fraud vector from fraudulent buyers. Even if you abide by all of Paypal's requirements, if the underlying bank/network does a chargeback, Paypal takes your money (plus a fee, so you've lost the full value of the item plus your shipping cost plus an additional Paypal fee).

For buyers, in cases where they are on the hook because they were defrauded, they have been known to throw up ludicrous barriers to refunds. I had a case where they insisted they had "proof of delivery" of a never-received item... and the tracking data they provided as "proof" showed a destination in another state.
I hadn't heard of either, but they both make perfect sense - so I for one say thanks for that great post. :-) Did study up on CQRS/ES year and found it very exciting.
RethinkDB Joins the Linux Foundation
In 1995 the real median US household income was $52,664. In 2015 it was $56,516 [1].

US Hourly Wages for nonsupervisory workers has certainly grown over the last 20 years, but not in the past 40 years [2].

[1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MEHOINUSA672N

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Household_income_in_the_United...
The Malthusian argument has never been tested for an extended period in a situation where resource usage has been decoupled from resource generation.

From the brief experiment we've had with massive forcible income redistribution (social democracy), we've seen the following:

* slow down in wage growth and improvements in life expectancy

* slow down in productivity growth

* explosion in the rate of single parenthood (perfectly in line with economic theory on how availability of resources affects child rearing choices)

But hey since 40 years of social democracy has failed so utterly, clearly we should keep blaming the free market and doubling down on social democracy.
urbit won't necessarily solve the personal web server costs too much to run piece of this although with the right specialized for urbit hosting provider it is solvable.

urbit does help solve some of the mailserver woes though. Since identity is a first class citizen spam is theoretically more controllable. No one can spoof an address in urbit because your address is cryptographically verifiable. If your urbit get's blacklisted you lose a real investment so it's in your economic interest to not be a bad citizen.

urbit in theory will make distributed true peer2peer social networks possible in a way that the traditional attempts have not. Mostly because they move identity ownership out of the application and into the networking stack itself. In urbit you own both your identity and your data and can run any application you want against them without having to give up your control over either of them. No one can pretend to be you. No one can remove your ability to login or access your data. The most anyone can do is refuse to accept networking traffic that comes from you. They can ignore you and that's it.

In urbit a social network can have automatically sharded data by user since allowing each urbit ship to store that data but still use the same social networking application to operate on it really is trivial.

Keeping the software updated on your urbit is automatic and done without interrupting service. Maintenance is almost non-existent.
Thank goodness this problem is finally solved.
Great! Email's in my profile!
I'm actually hard-pressed to think of any non-gaming interface that is better suited by a native app than a web app in 2017.

Five years ago native apps made a level of UX possible that was unheard of on the web, to say nothing of mobile. But today not only has HTML/js closed the gap, but whiz-bang native animations aren't impressive just on account of being novel anymore.
How is this different from many other approaches like Sandstorm, or any other effort to "decentralize the web" by giving people their own servers?

I'm asking in terms of actual benefit it provides, not the technical part. I think at this point it's pretty clear that these efforts have failed due to lack of traction in that department (not enough people care about "owning their own server" or "controlling their own destiny")
I donated to them a few years back and got a drawing in the mail from them. Not sure where it went, I should try finding it, it's a pretty cool gesture from them.
vim-fireplace is much improved. I had been using a heavily hacked version matched to my own preferences for years but recently upgraded.

What you really want is just to run

lein repl

in your repository and then fire up another terminal and edit code with Vim. Then you should send whole top-level forms to the repl with :Eval from Vim and it should just work. You can then test them in the repl. (I alias C-c C-c to :Eval (:no <C-c><C-c> :Eval<cr>) because I'm used to the old vim-slime)

And it should all work automatically. With the new versions of vim-fireplace it does just work automatically.

I'll write a 'process-data function in Vim, send it with :Eval, and then test it in the repl with (process-data {:some "data", :more "other data"}) and it all just works. There's a little reading up on namespaces necessary once your projects get complicated, but it works on a bare repl right out of the box, too.
And I, in turn, find your outrage misplaced. I am certainly in no position to condemn anyone to anything. Most women in most of the world are in a social situation that forces them to be domestic slaves. So what's the solution to that? To automate their domestic slavery, by buying them washing machines?

Well duh, of course not. The solution is to change their societies so that they don't have to be the ones who do all the bloody washing. Until then, selling them washing machines is primarily of benefit to the people who sell them the washing machines.
Off topic: I've found that IMDB has the best advanced search of any media website I've seen: http://www.imdb.com/search/title

Amazon, Audible, Goodreads, etc are all crap / offer nothing compared to this. I love it, but it makes me sad that other systems don't support such well featured sorting. I wonder if it's because other ones are using document stores instead of relational or something that makes it architecturally difficult.
Ubi should never be about owning anything. It should be about providing housing, food, healthcare, clothes, and nothing more. It should be for all citizens, including children. This way you can have a family. But if you want a tv, phone, car, you're going to have to work. Since people are living to their 70s plus, lounging around isn't a big deal. I think you'll find people become very creative too, or focus on high level education.
I'm glad I'm not the only one who cringes at the term "Customer Success".
Fair enough. I wasn't knocking him. Quiver is a terrific little app, but rather niche and I can't imagine it nets enough money to be easy to carve out time for. I had a brief email correspondence with the developer a year or so ago, as I was considering building a commercial Android note taker based on the same file format. He was very open & willing to help.
I hope so. It sure as hell can't mean 300g, and anything other than mg would be crazy, but I'm not feeling very confident here.
All regulations, except on natural resources like land, should be eliminated in my opinion, as they are forceful interventions against people exercising their legitimate right to freely contract and utilise their own private property. In industries where network effects emerge, the government should fund open-source protocols that can compete with privately owned options. For example, applications built on a distributed consensus public blockchain (e.g. Ethereum) could be competitive with many existing centralized services.
Random stupid algorithm questions from CS 101...

If you think I'm going to reinvent mergesort as part of my job for this company you are utterly mistaken and do not even understand what job you're interviewing me for.
That sort of database would be great to have, and I wouldn't be surprised if it exists already in one or another national agricultural-extension service. ("Agricultural extension" is an old -- 1914 -- term for continuing education for farmers, giving advice on crop selection, land management, etc.) The US's is CSREES:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooperative_State_Research,_Ed...

(Wikipedia describes their homepage as https://nifa.usda.gov/ . If that's really the right link, it could use a serious redesign...)
You can use an onion article as a force to motivate activism, unleashing a very real effect upon the world. But it remains satire.

Your post is more about real vs. not real, while I think the question was supposed to be satire vs. not satire.
The title could be read to mean that 68 things are done before every line of code is executed. Got me to read it.