skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
(Spoilers)

The way I remember it - the universe was dying of entropy. The Reapers were created to solve the problem of entropy, but could not do so by the time of the events of Mass Effect. The purpose of the Reapers was to combine the intelligence of each species in order to attempt to solve the problem. Each cycle, species would be harvested to add to the computing power of the Reaper fleet.

The final choice of the series was to be:
1. Acquiesce to the demands of the Reapers, and join them in their quest to save the universe; or
2. Do not acquiesce, end the cycle of destruction, and trust that the races of the galaxy will be able to solve the problem.

This is an infinitely better ending than what we got. Although...the indoctrination theory would have been breathtaking as well. Too bad BioWare wasn't that clever.
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Eventually we will develop the game:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Game_(Star_Trek:_The_Nex...
For those who didn't read, allow me to briefly summarize the contents of this letter:

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This is a letter written by Knuth to the board members of the Journal of Algorithms. This journal means something special to Knuth, as he was one of the creators of the journal in 1979.

In this letter, Knuth describes the evolution of the journal. It used to cost about 30 cents per page in the 80s, but costs began to skyrocket in the 90s. The costs really began to skyrocket when Elsevier became the publisher.

Knuth argues that in the 80s, it was publishers who were responsible for all the typing, editing, and formatting --- things which were quite hard. But now (after Knuth made and proliferated TeX, which became still easier with LaTeX) authors and software do much of this work. So Knuth argues that costs should have gone down, not up.

The remaining several pages involve Knuth inviting the editorial board to consider the future of the journal. He paints four broad options:

1. Should they stay with Elsevier?
2. Should they switch publishers?
3. Should they go towards a SIAM model?
4. Or should they do something like the arXiv or PLoS and become pure open access, perhaps through finding some university (or universities) to host them?

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I'll also note what ended up happening.

The entire board resigned shortly afterwards, as they could not come to an agreement with Elsevier. Then Knuth (and other editors from the Journal of Algorithms) started the ACM Transactions in Algorithms shortly after.

The Journal of Algorithms (now under Elsevier but without Knuth) stopped being published a few years later, in 2010.

Some other editorial boards resigned from Elsevier as well --- with varying levels of impact.
Tizen is a joke, no serious developer would ever care about it.

- Branched from MeeGo

- Got the BADA SDK, with its C++ dialect similar to the horrible Symbian C++

- After the Enlightenment guys joined in, the SDK was thrown away and replaced by C one

- A new C++ SDK was created to appease the crowds that in spite of Symbian C++ like experience wouldn't touch pure C

- Recently they adopted .NET as the new apps tooling besides C

So no serious business will ever considere earning money on Tizen apps.

Salfish, nice idea but didn't learn from OS/2 and BlackBerry.

People don't want Qt/C++ and freedom. They want the apps their friends are using.

No point in getting an OS that emulates Android when they can get the real deal.

Windows Phone similarly to Tizen, suffered from the SDK changes between 7, 8, 8.1 and 10.

However Microsoft has the muscle to still push them as enterprise device. Apparently some companies are actually doing that.
Incorporating a limited company in Germany
I don't disagree with you, but that doesn't detract that the hardware is open-source.
The green ending is not that hard without multiplayer---it's having Shepard survive that wasn't possible, and this is what was changed with the DLC.
Completely wrong way to think about it. In fact, those companies are cases of fraud and lying, and we generally do not assume companies lie. When Google releases their quarterly earnings, we assume the numbers are correct, unless there is evidence to believe it's fraudulent.
Makes me wonder if Google will buy a substantial amount of Snap stock and if there were takeover discussions before the IPO. I'm not sure if I like this from Snaps POV but it seems like they expect massive growth and possibly want to focus more on the core business than on infrastructure (which could come back to bite them strategically but I'm sure they got a very sweet deal).
They are, for those of us that live outside US.

I might have seen around 5 total, on sale across European consumer stores, since they exist.
This is definitely a big risk to the country. The way things are going I am having trouble seeing an amicable resolution between the two sides of American politics.

I see this as a problem that is not caused by Facebook or a few other big players. And this problem would be the same with or without Trump. It is just too comfortable and easy to get into the echo chamber. It is almost like people enjoy being angry, because it makes them feel smarter. (I'll be honest, I looked at myself and that is what I saw.)

We need a popular news/information source that both sides can believe in. Maybe there could be some sort of peer review by respected liberals and conservatives?
Given that 21% ish of the population is under 16, that leaves a total of just under half the population doing any paid work. This seems surprisingly low to me.

https://www.census.gov/prod/cen2010/briefs/c2010br-03.pdf
> why not LXC

The git-like version control available with docker or rkt (and apparently these package manager based systems too).
> which part of Allwinner A64 SoC is open? Do you mean the open source code Allwinner packaged into their binary blobs loaded into black boxes on the chip (like image coprocessor)?

I'm just going by their claim that the hardware is Open Source. I definitely agree that their blobs make this claim not really true.

So your claiming that the x220 has fully open hardware? source for that?
The advantage is that there are no dependency collisions. With apt/yum I can't have multiple versions of the same library installed at the same time. Snaps fix this.
Fixed fees are much worse than gasoline taxes, because they lower the marginal cost of driving, making the already fixed-cost biased cost structure even worse.

(This is bad because it makes driving more very cheap for people who already have cars, the exact opposite what's good for extracting maximal utility out of minimal fuel use)
Thanks for sharing. Didn't know that. Always thought it was as suggested above: you loop around by going negative.
If you want to lose weight, you need to be able to actually measure your weight. Codebases with inadequate tests can't do this accurately, so they don't even know what changes to their diet/development process help.
There are other articles for those interested:

- https://blog.codeship.com/rails-migrations-zero-downtime/

- https://blog.engineyard.com/2011/zero-downtime-deploys-with-...

In the Ruby on Rails world, it's definitely a thing (made easier with attribute reader / writer, and db/migrations/)
Electrolysis? Servo? Rust?

I'm far from an expert, but the switch to multithreading has been perilous to not break everyone's favourite plugins, likewise the switch from XUL

Electrolysis is basically here and working, slowly rolling out
Being a 'random person' or a Twitter user should have no bearing on the merit of one's arguments.
Maybe if he spent over $.20 his actual balance would overflow to 42M. Just imagine that (and how poor their programming would have to be)!
Elsevier sounds like the Martin Shkreli of academic publishing. All class.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Shkreli
> the U.S. now has less class mobility than most of Europe does

Europe is big. I don't think the United States is less mobile than Italia.
If you're interested in reading more about the Lavi Wikipedia seems to have a pretty good article. The specifics of the cancellation story are here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IAI_Lavi#Controversy_and_cance...

Israel had previously designed and manufactured the Kfir ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IAI_Kfir ) though that design was based on the French Mirage. The Kfir wasn't really that successful though...
Large companies aren't always right, but they're not always wrong either.

Snap has competent engineering execs that have built a very strong company. I would have a hard time believing that they haven't put way more thought into this than OP.
I'm with you here. Sure there are a few irritations but overall I'm really enjoying Windows 10. If you turn web search off in the search bar then it's incredible. I don't have a single shortcut on my desktop, I just search for every thing I won't and it appears instantly.

I almost feel as at home as I did in Windows 7, but not entirely. Windows 10 feels a little all over the place at times. As the below comments say, the control panel is a mess. But when you learn you can just search for mouse settings, or anything for that matter then you don't ever have to find yourself wading through all their ridiculous setting screens.
I'm just fine with gas taxes covering EVs until a carbon tax can be imposed.
Montreal researchers “prove” that aging is the result of a genetic program
Yes, by default 4 times a day the OS looks if there are updates. Manually you can do snap refresh as well. If an update fails you can rollback transactionally.
I'm typically a naysayer when it comes to protests, and particularly hashtag activism- I (strongly) doubt their efficacy. However, #deleteuber seems to have been remarkably effective.

I wonder if this will be enough to staunch the bleeding. How many installs have they list? I wonder what the equivalent cost would be for marketing to create that many new installs.
So many (ubuntu, sailfish, tizen) seem to be going down the Qt path which really only ever works well with c++ (and a particular dialect at that), bindings for other languages have always been unstable to non-existent. I wish they'd either go with GTK or something else in pure C.
> Always the HN expert to wag the finger.

Says the expert with nothing to support your assertive claims.
He wasn't talking about consumer purchases - he was talking about education.
> If you want to switch power, MOSFETs are the way to go today.

But, even the mosfet is old. IGBT (depending on loads, but especially for slower switching)
The other thing you get with GCloud is multiple datacenters around the planet. Assuming Snap are going after the 2billion+ people not in America, this seems like an advantage to use someone else's gear. 2billion seems high, maybe it's the maximum negotiated on paper for the deal as opposed to the guaranteed?

When you have Adwords dollars pouring in it makes sense to go send out a few people to buy up fibre and land/power/water for datacenters on the down low....
Yeah, same as VR, I don't suppose hypnosis removes pain - probably just provides a distraction to make sure the brain doesn't fill in the pain and discomfort the eyes are saying should be here.
IGBTs. Solid state, 0 crossover, lower voltage to drive. Similar failure mode, but many more switches.
Popular hacking toolkit Metasploit adds hardware testing capabilities
Why do you have special sympathy for Tunisia?
> Canonical, stop trying to be Apple, please.

I love that they try to be Apple, before them only Mandrake and SuSE cared for what actually matters to desktop users.

As for "yet-another-bifurcation of OSS solutions", that is the nature of the game.

Isn't that what so many praise about FOSS?

Welcome to the UNIX wars, re-edited as GNU/Linux wars.
The #deleteuber hashtag was not just about the CEO being an advisor but also the way Uber handled the taxi cab strike at the airport. I think different points mixed together to create this viral hashtag.
Carnegie Mellon AI won against four world’s best professional poker players
X11 only, no Wayland :-/
I'm currently involved in a monolithic refactoring and redesign task at work converting a C# application to C# (this is partially a joke) and it's hair raising. I can't even imagine all the moving parts involved in creating a new OS that's backwards compatible with the old but still be new...
That was the point
Snaps are also sandboxed apps, that is the goal.

To have something on GNU/Linux similar to what the mainstream desktop and mobile platforms already offer.
What's the significance of 250 Facebook posts per week?
Wondering if it can win in roulette in near future ;-)
OK but now you've forwarded your x you're not really containing the gui app very strongly anymore.
The author addressed exactly this fact. They were rarer and pricier (they're still pricier)
electric bicycle
Screen Stabilization on Android
Might be interesting to see a case study from this team, their engineering practices, etc. They seem to be remarkably productive and successful and to iterate quickly.
How does the speed compare to MondoDB?
And they are ceding all of it to Tesla.
I could be wrong here, but they kicked off the Arab spring and so far seem to be the only ones that have descended into Islamism. As far as middle eastern countries go, Tunisia seems like a good one to set an example.
>If you want to lose weight, you need to be able to actually measure your weight.

That's not true. There are multiple ways to track the progress of losing weight, starting from simple "look at the mirror" ending with fat percent measure.
Angry racer
Midi's are also used in streetorgans. (Which sounds way too 'computerized' in my opinion. Example[1])

[1] https://youtu.be/U9dxscRz5ek
Wouldn't it be helpful to have someone who's friendly to tech and immigration advising the president?

Seems to me Uber's CEO had a much better chance of changing things by advising the president than by walking away. Buy hey, whatever makes people feel good based on their knee-jerk reactions. That's the most important thing.
I'm inclined to agree with the other commentators here, this is pretty much learnt in "Deep Learning 101" (cs231n)
According to other comments to the linked article, the former at the very least ain't universally true.
It’s Time to Start Caring About Ride-Sharing
And Nordstrom's now too: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/02/business/nordstrom-ivanka...
They have a serious case of NIH though. They put a lot into desktop linux but most of it seems to be a replication of effort.
http://energypost.eu/hydrogen-fuel-cell-cars-competitive-hyd...
New App
Hello everyone, I am planning to develop one new android app. Is it possible to add games like Temple run, Candy crush games to my app. My intention is user should play games through my app and will get points in my app﻿ to unlock further offers.
Also, the quote does not say that you have to avoid testing, it says that trying to improve software quality by increasing the amount of testing does not make much sense.
A single-board computer running Firefox OS was discussed last year here on HN. The post itself is now private. I think this was the demo, where they showed how to blink a LED from some HTML and Javascript:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10864089
Fine, then. Wind at night
Ask the Right Questions on BBW Dating Site
It's worth noting that the title and URL have since been updated.

Original: "Mozilla gives up on Firefox OS, lays off 50"

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/02/mozilla-ends-firefox...
"After the immigration order against refugees and seven Muslim-majority countries, many staff members wondered why Mr. Kalanick was still willing to advise the president."

That's exactly why someone should want to advise the President: to have the opportunity to advise the President against such things, or at the very least temper them.

This kind of "if you have any association with Trump, you must be evil" mentality is going to end up resulting in Trump being surrounded by people who already agree with him, rather than Trump being surrounded by people who disagree with him and can potentially sway him in more reasonable directions.
This seems like the key to me. Yes, if I'm a SaaS company with low bandwidth requirements but have a ton of users domestically, maybe I'll build my own data center (think IBM, or maybe Salesforce). But if I am raising money in the hopes of scaling my user base into the billions, and I need hundreds of millions of people to be able to upload to and download hundreds of megabytes of data to my servers daily, and have those images be instantly available to every user's contacts worldwide, I'll build on top of Google's infrastructure, which was literally designed for these kinds of tasks. Buying the metal is just the tip of the iceberg when. Snap would have to design a high-throughput, globally consistent network of data centers, likely lay their own undersea fiber (as all the cloud providers have done), and assume all the technical risk that comes with building and operating that kind of infrastructure. I think they made the right call on this one.
Forgot to add:
Original article:
http://blog.lemberg.co.uk/no-shake-screen-stabilization-andr...
How hard is it to spin off / startup a separate EV company?
I'm down-voting you, because of the character attacks, particularly of a person un-involved in the story.
As an Israeli gaming pm I think this niche as well as other gambling related activities like affiliates are a product of a lack of "resources". too many want web businesses, and too few get funding or help. It's easy to re skin gambling solutions and get started with a working business and the mission to convert as many leads as possible. Most of these "businesses" are tiny (4-6 workers) and are not yet at the point where morality beats "let's put food on the table and grow the business guys!"
Macbook loses charge on heavy load while being plugged in
On the other hand the same version supports indices on expressions that could be used to create an index on json values. Not exactly the same but could be used for similar use cases.
5 Hard Startup Customer Service Lessons
Recruiting talent thanks to Big Data
My mum learned that if she did not like something she can just press the super button and start typing whatever the annoyance is related to. I am sometimes surprised by the specific settings she goes for. Based on this i think users at least check the options when they are easily available. (Linux obviously)
Then.... take into account the cost to the environment of mining lithium and all the other elements going into the batteries and associated power electronics.
So 2.5$/year per user, I am not sure if that is a lot. How much does facebook spent on their infra per user basis?
What about Chef's Habitat [0], is playing the same league?

[0] http://habitat.sh
> Oh, and the whole "spyware" trope is becoming overworn. User analytics is here to stay

You calling things "tropes" or "user analytics" doesn't change anything, and having to use euphemisms tells me deep down inside you know this, too.

Also, no.
> And when EC2 falls over, like it tends to do a few times a year?

Multi-AZ, multi-region complete failures are very, very rare. How often do you get a failure in your data center per year (that you notice)?

> You're going to be writing a lot of the same fallover code if you're running on someone else's hardware, so why rent?

The answer is in the question -- when rented things fall down and go boom™, your code runs and someone gets a text message with the receipt.

When a handful of the "wrong" disks decide to revert to air-blocking bricks or your upstream network provider has an outage, you're lucky if it's something you can fix by heading to the data center. I promise that AWS or Google is better at running a DC, and unless you're trying to enter the hosting business, I wouldn't advise spending the time and money to meet their uptime and features.

I've only managed data storage in the scale of many petabytes (and this was a handful of years ago) and honestly, I think it required at least 20 hours a week of babysitting by various staff. At Snap's scale and traffic patterns (viral content, lots of writes, so on), I imagine this is a very non-trivial spend on scaling, staffing, tech implementation.

At 2bb over 5 years, maybe Snap would benefit from rolling their own -- hiring 50 great hackers at a mildly conservative 250k/head (say 200k average + benefits + taxes + employee support costs (HR, payroll, recruiting, legal, etc)), eating a year or two of transition costs off their cloud hosting providers, then probably saving a bit of money even after hardware, bandwidth, facility, insurance costs. Hell, maybe they'd even open source some software and recruiting would get easier after conference talks of how they did it. Or maybe they get bought by Google or Facebook in a year. Snap's in the business of selling ads and getting more eyes on those ads. Whatever enables growth and doesn't serve as a distraction or speedbump is a "fine" decision.
Correct, 2 days ago.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13503161
Tizen went that way and no one really wanted to go back to using pure C for GUI apps, hence the revamped C++ SDK, followed by the adoption of .NET.
Investing in Talents, Athletes, Need Feedback
Hi all,
We have a new idea, but we're not sure rather of not it is a good one, and we'd love to get some feedback on it.

The idea:
An investment/ crowdfunding platform that allows investors to invest into talents, such as athletes and musician for their future income (salary, sponsorships, prize money).

Please let me know if this idea is a good one?
We'll learn when they have to report quarterly earnings what their cash burn is, then we random people can tell them how dumb they were in hindsight.
SJW girlfriend? That seems out of line TBH.
Read the thread. It wasn't being powered from the original Apple charger, it was being powered from a third party monitor.

Move along.
Great feedback, I really appreciate you taking time to read the post. Though I would like to make a few notes regarding what we are trying to achieve and some improvements we've made:

1) Our target audience is someone who hasn't taken Deep Learning 101 but wants to solve a problem

2) We are focusing on users who don't want to setup their own deep learning machines and don't want to learn how to use tensorflow/kerras/caffe/theano and spend time maintaining their own boxes, they don't want to spend engineering effort in ensuring slas and uptime along with scalability

3) We have made improvements in both the model we use for our product and the way it is retrained. It's not the same as the tensorflow example

4)The model has a different dataset than ImageNet and provides additional value in being better suited to certain tasks.

Worst case we have something nobody wants and that's valuable insight in itself. In the best case we have made something that people learn in Deep Learning 101 that can now be used by anybody without spending time and get straight to solving problems.
I don't know which is more sad... that regressive leftists would shame someone out of positively contributing to society or that the CEO of Uber would fold to it so easily.
Could you explain "the way Uber handled the taxi cab strike at the airport" and how Lyft's handling differed?
Still an US only phenomenon, I haven't seen anyone in education related domains with a Chromebook, specially since in Europe it is up to the students to care for their own hardware, as consumer purchase.
dupe

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13555580
I think you might be right. I've long been bullish on Snap, but seeing their user numbers plateau this year has me reconsidering. 2016 was a year when they should have seen exploding growth among new user groups.

Perhaps, a bit like Twitter, there are only so many people out there who want the unique functionality that Snapchat offers.

That said, there are a lot of smart people at Snap, and they seem to have a culture that encourages imagining, and shipping, big changes to their core product. So they may be able to get things back on track.

But if they can't restart the growth engine soon I'll seriously consider shorting their stock.
and HN includes investors and people in financial services...