skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're asserting that this isn't multi-programmer friendly. I'll agree that it's not "code monkey" friendly, but I disagree that it is not oriented towards multiple programmers. And the APL language has almost all the features you would expect from a modern multi-paradigm language, including branching, control structures, recursion, exceptions, objects, frameworks, interfaces to other languages, and so on and so forth.

But APL was designed from the beginning to enable human communication. I would argue that almost all programming languages fail to be a good human medium of communication. The evidence I give in support of this assertion is that if you look at how people write when they think the computer won't need to see the code, such as in academic publications on computer science, see what they use in the paper. Almost all of the people who implement their ideas in one language or another fail to include the entire code in their papers, and they usually include some mathematical notation and diagrams to explain their ideas instead. They may include some small snippets of code, but they rarely if every include the full code. Dan Friedman being an exception that proves the rule, if you will.

If you then take a look at how APLers communicate when they have ideas, you see code all the time, all day long. The APL community is the only one I've seen that regularly can write complete code and talk about it fluently on a whiteboard between humans without hand waving. Even my beloved Scheme programming language cannot boast this. When working with humans on a programming task, almost no one uses their programming languages that primary communication method between themselves and other humans outside of the presence of a computer. That signals to me that they are not, in fact, natural, expedient tools for communicating ideas to other humans. The best practices utilized in most programming languages are, instead, attempts to ameliorate the situation to make the code as tractable and as manageable as possible, but they do not, primarily, represent a demonstration of the naturalness of those languages to human communication.
I was a previous Rackspace customer for over 10 years and at one time had 9 dedicated servers with them. Their Linux techs were top notch. IMO you are smart to want to obtain some of them.

Unfortunately stating in early 2015 the support started to deteriorate. That coupled with the cost we were paying for their dedicated servers/fanatical support stopped making since.
I frequently question the need for privacy. I usually conclude that it's selfish and unsustainable.

Rather than inhibit productivity in an attempt to preserve what's left of privacy, shouldn't we instead strive to make transparency more fair?

I'm having trouble understanding those who blindly defend privacy. Do they really think that in 100 years, we won't be collecting massively more information than we are now? Do they somehow think that technological progress will stop? Don't they realize that sensors, cameras and drones keep getting increasingly cheaper? Do they not realize how much we have to gain from collecting and analyzing this kind of data?

Is this whole movement only meant to delay the inevitable by a few years? Why bother?
Spoken like someone who's never interacted with a shark, dog, or cat.
I will and I appreciate the effort and care you took to explain them.

I guess I'm just jaded because I've been through so many cycles of 'this will automate your security needs' followed by 'every system can be gamed' a couple of years later - much as Phil Zimmerman commented The natural flow of technology tends to move in the direction of making surveillance easier, and the ability of computers to track us doubles every eighteen months.

Nowadays I worry less about my privacy on the assumption that it's probably hopelessly compromised anyway, and more about being able to hold an unpopular position or opinion without official interference. For example I think it's far more important that gay people enjoy full civil rights, be able to marry etc. than they had better privacy tools that would allow them to remain in the closet indefinitely.
Excellent. Might need to get an up-to-date iPad now. :)
I don't know Postgres, and I just consider MySQL to be the leading best-in-class open source DB engine available. I realize that's debatable. But personally my mind is made up on that.

I think relational-type queries are so common that any significant app will need them. For my own side project (meta64.com) I'm using JCR-SQL2, on Apache Oak jackrabbit, so I get to do lookups fairly easily, but it sure would be nice to have a full-blown ACID RDBMS engine sitting right there to use also, in the same engine.
Google Voice is another option for this.
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I'm glad to see Apple getting interested in web standardization again, but I'm not a big fan of this one. Wouldn't a WebGL 3.0 based on Vulkan make more sense? I'd much rather see Apple warming up to Vulkan rather than have so much Metal influence on a common web API.

From a dev perspective my thinking is this. If I were to learn a 3D graphics API for the web I'd like that knowledge to be transferable to native development as well. An API built on Vulcan - even if abstracted - would be more pertinent and more compatible with existing tools than one built on Metal.

I'll be curious to see comments from other committee members as they'd have more insight on the subject.
Sensible move, though I hope it's not too disruptive for Fleet users. Don't think they have any option though. The list of easy ways to try K8s should include conjure-up on Ubuntu for either laptop-scale or large cloud/Vmware/bare metal deploys
> But of your job is to look at data and make descisions based on that data, you're gonna be the first to go

Manufacturing and agricultural jobs have already been automated away, while data analysis jobs are only just now starting to feel the pinch - and then only in companies with very deep pockets working on a niche problem. 'First to go' has missed the mark by many years.
No big surprise that nobody works on sharepoint or XSLT as a weekend hobby.
There's a build of Authenticator in F-Droid, and the source is on GitHub
My weekends are usually pretty rough and unstable, so I went with this one several months ago and it fits well into my life style:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainfuck
I'd be interested to see a source on this, if you have one at hand.
In other developed countries, I think universal basic income makes sense, but not in the case of India. India has several systemic problems and a significant portion of the population has little to no education. Any income that can sustain a household without any pressure to grow as people will probably hinder their progress more so than help them. For a country with no lack of problems to solve, they are much better off to incentivize people to learn, teach or do charity than to just hand over some money for being citizens. Similarly, I am of the opinion that India is better off spending that money by identifying all the organizational systems that it lacks like waste processing, water purification, security, monitoring, etc., and funding several startups in those areas. This is similar to how YC funds startups so it is using market forces to solve systemic problems without resorting to centralized planning and execution.
As it happens, OpenGL was so high level that supporting it on top of DirectX was feasible. A number of Windows browsers use the DirectX back end to ANGLE, so users don't have to download OpenGL drives.

Unfortunately, that doesn't work as well for Vulkan. Vulkan is the lowest-level of the three APIs, so it's hard to support on top of Metal or DirectX 12.
It might also be interesting to see which tags are used more in the early mornings or evenings vs during the workday.

Edit: I hadn't seen Kaggle before today, but it looks very easy to hack on the SO data set [1] with a Jupyter notebook.

[1]: https://www.kaggle.com/stackoverflow/stacklite
There are several very rich and rather common semantic standards for cataloging art and visual artifacts:

CDWA: https://www.getty.edu/research/publications/electronic_publi...

VRA: https://www.loc.gov/standards/vracore/

The Getty provides a partial crosswalk:
https://www.getty.edu/research/publications/electronic_publi...
Indian finance minister has already said that Indian politics is not mature to have this idea implemented. Activists/Politicians support idea of UBI along with all the other subsidies. So it won't replace anything, just an addition to already financially burdened state.

To put in perspective Indian per capita income is just 3% of USA. Even with PPP (Purchasing Power Parity) it is still 1/10th of US. I think most generous implementation might not even be able to provide 2 basic meals a day, forget housing and healthcare etc.
That's like saying "OpenGL doesn't run in a web browser"... and then it did, because someone understood that having 99% the same API and shader language support in a web browser as what is used in native applications is extremely high value.
The problem happens if the password can be recovered with the same phone number as used for 2FA since then anyone who steals the phone/phone account can get both the password reset and the 2FA SMS. However, using two different numbers means a hacker has to hack two phone accounts instead of one. At least I hope that's what they have to do.
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In some jurisdictions, you aren't actually allowed to release things to the "public domain". In many where you are allowed, there is specific language that must be used to make it binding. In some others, you can allow copying ... but you still are liable for uses of the work. So in that case you want to create something that waives the liability at matches the impact of US public domain declaration.

CC0 is just to tool to allow you to declare something in the public domain on world-wide basis that meets the standards of as many jurisdictions as possible and matches the expectations of most in the western world of what public domain entails.

If you just add a header to your software saying "I release this work to the public domain." You probably actually didn't.
> by all vendors

NVIDIA and ATI are hardly "all" vendors I care about. I'm personally not interested in the big desktop PCs. YMMV of course. But I'm personally very against "winner takes it all" and I'd really like some more universal web API, especially one that consumes less power on the iOS devices.

Edit: the answer to the question below by sydd: I'm honestly and pragmatically interested in iOS and Apple devices, not Microsoft, and not the Google-controlled ones. All these comments are about Apple's proposal for a standard for Web. I'm with the ones having the smaller market share here. I'm still sad Opera Presto is no more. I consider such "smaller" players extremely important for the web.
That sounds brutally frustrating, distressing (given your child was involved) and an epic waste of time. And that's on top of paying $1k/mo for insurance.
The camera forced one stick forward, the co-pilot pulled the other one back.

Since the two conflicted the computer decided on its own what to do, and didn't listen to either of them.
To the extent that Vulkan has capabilities or features that don't map perfectly to Metal capabilities and features, native Apple Vulkan support would increase the performance and capabilities, and reduce the complexity and bugginess, of a hypothetical WebVulkan implementation on Apple platforms. And by reducing the compromises that have to be made for platform compatibility it would benefit the API design on all platforms.
> I feel like universal basic income will only work in progressive societies that have gotten used to various social programs before. They might go bankrupt long before any of it's population actually receive money due to corruption.

I actually think it is the opposite. UBI might work better precisely because corruption prevents other welfare schemes reaching the target population.

At least in theory, the direct cash transfer should help pull out a lot of people from abject poverty. The article quotes a jump from 22% absolute poverty to 0.5% - if it does that, it would go a long way in accelerating growth in India.
To be fair, choosing a scalable database even for a senior engineer still requires quite a bit of very specialized knowledge in distributed systems that most simply don't have. So they have to rely on what "feels right" anyway, rather than making an engineering decision, and are very susceptible to all the marketing and PR and authoritative opinions. There are no right choices for them. Although if in doubt everyone should probably default to a dynamo-style db, as it forces you to think about and organize your data in a certain future-proof way, which actually excludes all of the mentioned databases.
If IBM tried to do this I can see other players stepping up to outbid them.

Didn't IBM divest much of these business lines and focus on services?
That seems off. It's been 2 or so years now, but I worked for a company that had a five digit monthly bill from both Rackspace and AWS, and our costs to migrate from one to the other were within 15% when we did the math.

90% seems way off. AWS is known for not being cheap (neither is Rackspace), but I highly doubt that Rackspace was ten times the price of Amazon.
Sounds like living in a libertarian paradise. Except if you get stabbed and your doctor doesn't take your particular private healthcare plan. Then you bleed out while singing the praises of deregulation.
Happy to see Python-3.x taking over old Python.
The point is that MongoDB writes/reads directly to File system. It could have been (and still could be retro-fitted) to ride on top of an RDBMS for all it's actual IO, and create a hybrid. I'm aware of all the orthogonal points you raised which have nothing to do with ruling out RDBMS as I/O
Yup, I think the same (although, unfortunately, I don't think the legal/regulatory system is equipped to handle it as they're made up of the same people).

The earlier comment implied that there was some form of cost/benefit analysis being undertaken, which is is what I was disagreeing with. The current situation reminds me more of learned helplessness [1], in which people are effectively powerless.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learned_helplessness
Does it matter?

Alaska found a source of income (oil), and chose to spend it by giving a no-strings-attached check to every (eligible [0]) Alaskan citizen; instead of any other thing the government could chose to spend money on.

As a side note, my understanding is that the payment is not a direct dividend of oil profits, but rather from the Alaska Permanent Fund, which is funded principle from oil, but designed to be able to continue payments in perpetuity despite the eventual lack of oil income. As a result of this, payments are corralated with the general market which (from a macro-economic point of view) is probably the opposite of what we want from a basic income, which could double as a form of stimulus during economic downturn.

[0] It is not, however, means tested. Eligibility is based on being a permanent resident, and not having been convicted of a crime in the preceding year.
The bigger question is how they will fund this. India is know for the capital flight. Rich people aren't paying taxes in India so the government doesn't have much money to spend on social welfare. Unless I'm wrong here? I'm not too familiar with India so please excuse any cultural ignorances.
The first I found is 3871x2635 pixels, 2.7MB [1]. I always find these archives very difficult to navigate, though.

[1] http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/55612
Too bad that care didn't make it into the product.
I am sure that a move like this would make perfect sense for IBM, but it would hollow out great parts of the HPC vendor ecosystem. That ecosystem is already quite fragile with the ascendency of Intel x86 chips everywhere
I don't think the number of questions asked correlate with which languages are used the most. My weekends are mainly Java, but I don't need to post on stack overflow because all of my questions have been already addressed.
Those tables make no reference to indicated airspeed.
IBM market cap:$170B

Nvidia market cap: $65B

That's a tall order...
Coming from a previous Rackspace customer (over 10 years), I wouldn't at this point. AWS cloud offerings are superior to Rackspace cloud and LiquidWeb dedicated servers are much more cost effective with decent support.

Their support used to be the best in the business and we were willing to pay a premium for that but even their support started to suffer starting early 2015.

It is unfortunate because Rackspace was an amazing partner to our business for a long-time, which made it a very hard choice when we decided to move on.
I've read that on CC's website. Can you point me to some examples where US'ians (of which I am one) declared something public domain, and some country acted against someone who used the US'ians work?
I like the name Ceylon...simply because of my nationality. I am going to follow this thread just to see what kind responds we will be getting here.
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They might go bankrupt long before any of it's population actually receive money due to corruption.

The explicitly stated purpose of UBI here is that it can be implemented via direct electronic transfers to the recipients. That's pretty easy to audit electronically, particularly with biometrics which India is implementing.

In contrast, something like the LPG subsidy (which involves the physical delivery of gas cylinders) is insanely hard to police. How can the central government ensure that cylinders don't go to people who don't need them, that they contain the appropriate amount of gas, etc? It's virtually impossible.
One way I use Stackoverflow’s dev stats is to make educated guesses about the easiness of finding developers in 2-3 years time to maintain now-greenfield projects. Does Ruby seem to go down while Python is in steady growth? Let's move away from Rails. Swift is picking up steam? It's safe to switch from Objective-C. This dataset seems to be just fantastic for that.
>Also, Metal was announced June 2014, released September 2014. Vulkan was announced March 2015, released Feb 2016.

It was rebranded then, but OpenGL Next was announced in August 2014.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/8363/khronos-announces-next-ge...
Ask HN: Is there a public database of plants?
I'm looking for greenhouse design resources and would appreciate links to good information regarding that.. but then I realized I don't know nearly enough about what I can actually grow (and why) so I would like to know if there is a database/wiki documenting everything you need to know about plants like: utility, ideal conditions (inputs), lifecycle (outputs), synergy (with other plants) etc. ?

If not, which sources would you recommend for aggregating the information required to build one? (I've found several already but none is comprehensive enough to be a total solution).

I'd like to know how much is possible with a fully artificial climate, how expensive/efficient current designs are, bottlenecks etc.

This feels like a pretty important project, a place for people around the globe to collaborate on improving agricultural knowledge. Especially since interest in urban agriculture seems to be rising and urban people like their apps :)

Normally I start by doing my own research but I thought it would be interesting to ask here to get the discussion.

Thanks!
I believe the TensorFlow Fold paper came out before PyTorch.
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It looks like the conflicting stick inputs (once the copilot managed to manipulate the controls, from the cockpit ceiling) caused the autopilot to retake control.
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Why does the GitHub page say this is not an official google project, yet it's on the google blog?
If you can protect your nude photos from getting on the net, you can protect your private key from getting on the net. Browsing the internet used to require the command line.
Expect some friction :)
I would also suggest that humans are an incredibly social species, and while some of our more complex social behaviors encourage privacy, the vast majority of our social construct is based on sharing and not privacy. There are very fundamental reasons why social media sites are the largest human networks ever created.

The defensive position for privacy in western psyches are also very correlated to modern history coming from extreme social change around religion, the world wide trauma of the holocaust and WW2, and more generally rapid social change as a whole which threatens our tribal motivations.

Our species ability to closely integrate as a pack is almost as fundamental to our success as is our pattern recognition. If we can survive the rapid breakdown of tribalism(interpret as social association) that we are traveling through now, and arrive out the other side, privacy will certainly then be a hindrance too the species progress in that future. Pattern recognition is the trait that enables us, and the gasoline for that engine is Data.
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Concrete example: The PS4 dashboard is actually WebGL via Chromium (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIhtcUvi0BQ&t=55m25s) I don't think PS4 supports OpenGL, DX or Vulkan. Sony has their own API.
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Say someone broke in to your house, rifled through your stuff, and put pictures of your personal things on instagram. Would you not want to press charges?
It literally says "indicated air speed." There's no need for interpretation or assumption.

If I saw a raw airspeed without and qualifier, I'd probably assume it meant indicated speed. But I fly small planes where that's the only airspeed available. If you want true airspeed, you have to take what's indicated and convert manually.
> probably did not agree much with Swedendemocrats in other issues except foreign aid.

He did not agree with them about that either. SD used that rethoric, but their actual policy was to substantially lower foreign aid.
uBlock Origin + BetterPrivacy + Disconnect + Privacy Badger + I don't care about cookies.

One of them did the job.
Vulkan is a new API distinct from OpenGL. It's lower level but has a nicer API in some respects.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vulkan_(API)

Apple decided to not support Vulkan as it had been developing a competing API called Metal at around the same time. I don't know why they don't also support Vulkan.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metal_(API)
To be fair, they are proposing a JS API, not a native one.

Though I do agree.
From the headline, I could not figure out how an A330s flight control system could have any influence on spacecraft launched in 1977. Surely there would be no way to port the code and the storage on the Voyagers is tiny... at least until the V'ger Mk. I upgrade.
Apple proposing standards is ridiculous.

They only care about standards when they're basically forced to adopt/support them, or they're their own.

These are the same guys that:

- use lightning instead of mini USB

- removed the headphone jack

- are creating yet another proprietary connector for accessories

- don't allow their OS on third-party hardware

- only allow developing for iOS from macOS

- only allow apps on iOS if you install from the App Store

- only allow their own browser engine on iOS

- etc.

Everyone wants their own standard to be the standard, if they really cared about it they would contribute to Vulkan and create WebVulkan.
IMHO you overestimate the use of macs as development machines, doubly so in parts of our industry that works on projects where high performance GPU APIs are actually needed (games, cad, simulations)
Not many Sharepoint enthusiasts out there, it seems.