skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As long as you're talking about non-sequential logic, then yes. You could describe any ROM data as a boolean expression mapping address to data lines, and you can iterate through all possible inputs of a boolean expression to generate an equivalent ROM image.
…non-commercial software you didn't pay a licence for (yet?), harsh email you regret…

We all have something to hide.
This. You can almost always find things cheaper than at Amazon. What you're paying for is convenience and reliability.

They're not putting anyone out of business through predatory pricing.
> I can see how heavy over-the-ear headphones would help in that they will dampen all noise, especially if you add in some white noise on top of that.

This is what I use. Only way to make offices bearable. You have to have music playing in the headphones though. Doesn't block out the office otherwise.

My Beats make the office feel like I'm sitting home alone. It's amazing. Sometimes people start talking to me from 2ft away and I don't realize they're there unless I see them.
Wireless charging will be awesome.

As a person who wants an exterior security camera, a wireless bluetooth speaker in my bathroom, smoke detectors placed in the highest parts of my ceiling, a completely wireless TV on my wall, to never have to plug my phone in again, LEDs in the ceiling of my garage for better visibility in the corners, and about 100 other little things, wireless power will change everything for the better.

A small battery and wireless power basically means no more cables for about 90% of home devices.
Expected to see a simple ray tracer break down on some edge case. Saw a simple ray tracer, simply ray trace. Was quite disappointed. Why is this posted? What value does it add?
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Do you commute? I often run unittests and re-compile whilst on the train.

Depending on the tech stack, these things can be heavy, or unexpectedly heavy.
I am all for encouraging startups and giving benefit of the doubt, but isn't this just a show?

I am curious how this is different from what she would have demoed to her angel investors several years ago.

Displaying that it's charging is very different from actually charging. It could look like it's "charging" but may actually take all day to finish charging, in which case the technology is completely useless.

I am especially put off by how the "startup community" people seem to be patting her on the back saying "it works!" even though none of them actually believes it to be so deep inside.

Literally ALL of the criticism around this company have been how there's a huge discrepancy between the demo and their actual product (hint: there is none), and she should have addressed THAT point (about how fast it charges) instead of doing another one of those deceptive demos that don't mean anything.
"The point is value can be derived from experiences uniquely tied to race and gender, especially given how we're taught race and gender. It often doesn't coincide with reality."

I can barely understand what you are saying (what does "coincide with reality" mean? What use is it for a company if it doesn't coincide with reality?), but perhaps you could clarify it with a couple of examples?

Also, isn't that argument a bit treacherous in that it implies that "diverse" people are different after all, meaning if they don't get ahead in some environments it might actually be because of their different ways of thinking, and not because of bias they face?

Edit: I was asked once in a tech interview to prove the theorem of Pythagoras. Yesterday I was in a museum for kids that also featured that theorem, so I feel inspired to use this classical problem:

Could you provide an example on how a woman, a woman of color, a white man, a black man, a latino, a gay person (or any other "diverse" person you can think of) would prove that theorem in different ways, unique to their race and gender?
If you read his followup tweets, he wasn't charging with the MBP charger, but off of his monitor.
I have a new 15" MacBook Pro with touch bar and can confirm that this OS X update (10.12.3) made a very noticeable improvement on my battery life. It went from 4 hours on moderate usage to at least 8... This relieves the majority of my anxiety with the new MBP and I'm now really happy with my purchase.
It doesn't recognize threefold repetition draw. Also, a couple times I saw it miss some tricky tactics that would have won. Very nice and fun idea with a bit of polish. It
needs a real chess engine.
The author of this story flatly ignores the fact that the Lifeline program -- by law -- was never meant to subsidize broadband. It was VERY explicitly intended to subsidize only basic telephone service. Read the law.

If Congress wants there to be a broadband subsidy for the poor, it needs to specifically authorize one. The current law simply does not provide for it, and the FCC needs to obey the law.
+1 I disable the speakers on my computer most of the time, because I'm never sure what will come over them.
Obviously a line needs to be drawn, the question is where it is drawn. A good rule of thumb is that if it doesn't hurt anyone else and is between consenting people (adults?), you should be able to tolerate it. But you are right of course, some communities feel as strongly about killing animals for food as they do about killing humans. There are all sorts of edge cases involved in these situations. So I can't give you an ultimate answer to that - scholars have been trying to answer it for ages, and the only way to find out is to keep going with this muddled experiment that is modern civilization. :)
Both Muslim and Jewish culture have a strong dislike for Christians for different historical reasons. However, only the Muslims have commandment/permission in their religion (the Quran) to kill Christians. Neither Jews or Christians have this permission to kill others.

http://www.answering-islam.org/Quran/Themes/jihad_passages.h...
I've never had that happen to me, and if it does I'll send the item back. This isn't something that should keep you up at night.
Thanks for the comparison link. Do you think it would be useful to have a comparison with Subgraph OS as well?
What you're talking about sounds more like professionalizing than unionizing (although, outside the U.S., the contrast is less profound).

For the reasons you cite, it's a nice idea. The immediate answer is because nobody would agree on what a developer is (do front end developers count? web designers? excel macros?).
Ken Perlin has an interesting collection of Java applet based graphics demos that is rapidly falling into obsolescence

https://cs.nyu.edu/~perlin/
American criterias on how to divide Ottoman Empire cause Armenians to "totally-not-genocidie" local populations to secure Greater-whatever-its-supposed-to-be-Armenia. Retaliation is genocidiasfsdfsf

(as in both sides are equally guilty)
I didnt even know this is what my problem was until reading this article! My daughter is still angry about me going apeshit a few times when she was a child and rattling her spoon against her teeth when eating. And people eating loudly disgusts to the point of starting to go ballistic (and that happens a lot considering i live in China!). My best solution is to leave the environment. Second best is loud music thru headphones.

And yes I have the same problem of tuning in to all the conversations around me including those in other languages! Its a curse. Loud music thru headphones is again the only solution.
Foreign doctors can't even get licenses to practice in the USA. That's how they prevent getting socked with H-1B floods and maintain the highest wages for doctors in the world.

Too bad engineers can't organize like that to protect ourselves.
They got seriously owned by one in the past with their proposed solution switching to Mac's and Linux distros

Where are you getting your false news? You can't think Google's response to a nation state attack was to only switch to Macs and Linux.

Care to share what you're referring to?
The market is fluid enough - which isn't to say it's in good shape - that developers who are decent can usually find a high enough salary to stay quiet and cooperate.

Unions arise when workers have a reason not to stay quiet and they lack recourse. But in tech the response to not getting what you want tends to be to raise funds and start your own company, or at minimum freelance. This is imperfect and allows vulnerable people to slip through the cracks. But again, it's not enough to make for a turning point, at least yet.
Has anyone applied deep learning to the problem of identifying advertisement blocks in a web page?
Removing net neutrality will open the ISPs to being charged to access services like facebook and google. The big services hold all cards.

This what happens on the cable tv side. Content is king.
There seems to be confusion around what this specific decision is for.

This is not about foreign emails stored in foreign servers by Google. This is about US emails that Google decided to store outside the US. Why do that? I'm guessing Google has developed technologies like Spanner [1] that distribute data on a global scale, to help with capacity, disaster recovery etc. Even for data generated in the US and accessed in the US by US persons.

So if you have a US person's emails shipped outside the US by Google for no other reason other than Google's convenience, do US warrants still apply to the foreign-stored data? It's not a simple question.

The Microsoft Ireland case doesn't seem relevant as the person in that case was a non US person. Or, to be more specific, the Ireland datacenter that MSFT was running was meant for non US email accounts.

Overall, the US law seems to offer sufficient protection to non-US person with data stored outside the US. This specific decision is not about that.

If I am missing something please let me know.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanner_(database)
Leaving lithium batteries at their extremes of charge state reduces their lifetime.

Tesla recommends that their customers to charge to only about 80% for normal daily driving, and that if they need the full 100% range that they should start driving very soon after it reaches 100% charge. They also recommend not leaving it at empty for very long too as empty cells are more likely to drop below their minimum voltage, and die.
Many professionals like lawyers and doctors may not have Unions, but have strong professional oranizations.
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Depends. How annoying are the ads on Google Search. Yes, I know this is HN, so annoyance levels go to 11, but most people wouldn't go searching out for a blocker if all adds were not overly obtrusive.
Good question. Seems like people aren't using the flag function responsibly. I would like more transparency on this as well.

It would be cool if the mods would add a required text box for stating the reason something is flagged. HN just makes it too easy to flag something you disagree with.
There's probably some element of the Prisoner's Dilemma at play here. I'd join a union if I knew that we'd all have normal working conditions, no forced or coerced overtime, guaranteed health care, a pension plan, and a reserve in case of strike (the only thing unions have to negotiate with management). I'd accept a sizable pay cut if all that could be brought to the table.

But unless there's critical mass, it's every code monkey for his or herself. So I contract myself to the highest bidder and wait for the revolution :)
Haven't people been saying that for decades now?
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I can see my origional point was too broad to be defensible. But I was trying to explicitly talk about fingerprinting when I said...

> unless you sign in while in private browsing or the site is using some sort of user-agent / IP trickery it won't be automatically tied to your accounts

I am aware fingerprinting exists. I have done fingerprinting.

I am also aware that for advertisers fingerprinted data is not as valuable as login keyed data and a lot of places don't bother to do it. Acting on fingerprinted data often triggers the "creepy factor" and actually turns off the consumer from the product. I know several advertisers that will not allow using it for that reason.

I was not saying it can't be done. I didn't imply it did. In fact I believe a study a few years ago showed that fingerprinting is something like 99% accurate if you can execute javascript code to read things like screen resolution.

I was taking objection to assuming it is absolute that it does not prevent tracking and that it is automatically useless.

Does it stop Google? No way. Facebook, doubtful. But does it stop some sites? Absolutely. On many sites it is very effective.
It seems like they should publish a directive clarifying this, if they really want to make it clear. In any case, viral licensing exists in the US, which is enough to make the EUPL toxic to nearly all companies.
This explains and demonstrates, piece by piece, how a ray tracer works it's a "breakdown" in the sense of "an explanatory analysis", not in the sense of "a failure."

Good for you that you already know how ray tracers work, and so possibly this adds no value for you. I already knew how they work and I thought it was a nice clear demonstration.
Nice speech, Tony Robbins.
Yup, I see 8-10 hours of real use since 10.12.3
If you don't get any internet at all because you can't afford it, net neutrality is irrelevant.
Chatbooks[1] - they're not glossy or high quality, but then a lot of the time the photos aren't either beyond the associated memories. And they're cheap so you don't have to stress over whether to hit the favorite button.

[1] https://chatbooks.com/favorite-photo-books/
Maybe I'm mistaken, but I feel like people unionize when they're being taken advantage of and need to fight for better employment conditions....but developers have it pretty nice, all in all, most of us. I don't feel much incentive to unionize when I'm making $50/hr+ and have unlimited vacation.
Well yup. There are some blinkenlights on that stage.
Facebook prevented you from becoming acquaintences with doormen and baristas?
After going through a few of these articles, this is my very general takeaway summary:

"The new MacBook Pro's battery life is not as good as the previous generation but is still decent for its class. The decrease in battery life, compared with the older model, is mostly due to a brighter screen, better cpu/gpu, and slightly smaller battery. Ultimately, it is up to the user and the user's use case to gauge the actual battery life and tradeoffs of upgrading to the new MBP."
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I feel like Multi-View reconstructions from a combination of high resolution ground and aerial photography are the only way we can hope to do better than Google Earth. Earth still suffers a lot on reversing lighting. Maybe a sunlight raytracing model could reconstruct neutral diffuse textures from a combination of time information, position information, and surrounding geometry.

Maybe some day we can get angular and spectral reflectance, normals, refraction, and subsurface diffusion maps. Each of these would be essentially the same optimization as the diffuse maps.
People have speculated that sleep is meant to organize your thoughts for years. I know when I worked in a Neuroscience lab years ago that is what many researchers thought. But to say it is to "Forget" is almost certainly an over simplification. It might be to optimize to remove the extraneous, but that is probably not all of it either. Nothing about how the brain works is simple.
I've seen MagSafe-like USB C third party cables.

I wish Apple went this route. They could place the magnet between the cable and the connector. It'd be a win-win, safe & standard.
This reminds me of the "you're holding your iphone wrong" explanation for the signal problems.
HN is at times astonishingly driven by brogrammer conventional wisdom. Look at all of the "why I'm ditching the Mac because I totally need a laptop with 64GB of RAM" stories that got posted after the latest MacBook Pro got introduced. Amoung the "creative" in New York there's the phenomenon of "why I left NYC and moved to LA" stories that some people—specifically dumb people—think are somehow representative of the zeitgeist.
This is correct. There are rural programs like CAF to subsidize the construction of internet connections in rural communities. I'm not sure if anything exists (or needs to) for the urban poor.
Is it possible to ban buzzfeed from HN? It's like posting YouTube comments to HN. Nothing valuable will be lost but many people's time and nerves will be saved.
A bit of both. I just checked, and in my specific examples the curry was sold by another retailer and fulfilled by Amazon and the Ear Plugs were sold by Amazon. Both with similar markups when compared to brick and mortor retail.
This is exactly why I picked up the older 2015 13" MBP for work a couple of weeks back. Just trying out the keyboard and the annoyingly large trackpad for a few minutes at the Apple store was a big NO.

Is the older MBP still value for money? Probably no. But its still a better choice for most.
Wow.. what a strangely specific rant.

I'm not going to go over every misconception and only address the "female authors" point as one example:

With regards to the Brontës, I found this quote:

"For example, when a 20-year-old Charlotte Brontë sent a selection of her poetry to England’s poet laureate Robert Southey, she received the following response: "Literature cannot be the business of a woman's life." [..] Along with her sisters Emily and Anne, she assumed a male pen name under which she released her work. Charlotte became Currer Bell, Anne became Acton Bell and Emily became Ellis Bell.

"They never used their real names on the title page while Emily and Anne were alive," says Emily Auerbach, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and author of Searching for Jane Austen. "But the pen names helped them open the door and at least get a reading"

So there... How is this contradictory to the narrative that female authors had to use male names to succeed? Did you fail to comprehend this in your TV show, or are you wilfully misrepresenting the facts?

And Darwin is different because he got into trouble for the Theory of Evolution, not for being a man. By that logic, you couldn't talk about the plight of slaves in the US without also highlighting that white farmers at the time often died of Tuberculosis.
FlatPak is a rename of xdg-app, which is the successor of Glick2, which is the successor of Glick, which was released in 2007, all by the same author.
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Generally unionization is fought fairly hard by companies for the simple reason that it restricts what they can do and takes some control out of the hands of management. In the Bay area in the late 80's there was mumbling about unions after the great semiconductor flame out. A lot of people were laid off without warning and since it was widespread the ability to walk across the street and get rehired was limited. Since you can't really unionize when you aren't working somewhere, and when the people working somewhere are just glad they weren't the ones laid off, its hard to convince them they need to come on board.

As employer abuses, such as the 'no poaching agreement' came to light, or sudden changes in salary compensation etc. That provides incentive but it often isn't enough incentive to start the really vicious knock down drawn out fight that unionizing would entail.

Bottom line I think it would take a perfect storm of events, gross employer abuse, a large group of people who feel they have nothing to lose, and the prospect of a very bleak future unless something radical changes. We saw what happens when those forces align last Noveember, it doesn't happen all that often.
I want to see this data over time.
I see that it is a _nice_ demo, but don't see how this ends up as #1 here?
Why would a pay cut be involved? It's not clear to me the would be a pay cut. And without a pay cut how is the Prisoners Dilemma relevant?
No offense, because this isn't directed at you specifically, but developers on Upwork selling themselves short are doing so because they lack the social skills necessary to thrive in a freelance environment.

There are so many business opportunities to build quality software for a very steep price it's incredible. But developers can have a pretty hard time understanding how to sell themselves.
Before I clicked it I thought it was a necrophiliac spam site!
It was in multiple sources like NYT and Business Insider that they initially blamed Microsoft with a switch planned. Looking it up again, Wired reports they didn't go that far: just gave employees options with extra information informing them about the pro's and con's of them.

https://www.wired.com/2012/05/google-and-windows/

Of course, this is almost equivalent to original claim given they think switching between operating systems will mean much against nation states with China levels of labor. Especially if it's an Ubuntu derivative. It takes a lot of different elements to deal with them which include strong protections on an endpoint designed with that in mind. Lots of configuration checking and monitoring too.
I submit the points address questions over his economic analysis credibility.

I'll add that his writing was good enough to trigger a response from Bezos in a letter to shareholders.
I think part of it is, there doesn't appear to be any penalty for sitting and waiting for that Unicorn candidate that checks all the boxes and works for peanuts. Most employers already feel empowered to have their existing employees do the work of 2 or 3 people, so not hiring someone for a couple months doesn't affect them.
None of what you said addresses what I wrote.

U.S. courts are constrained by existing treaties, as long as they are ratified by the U.S. Senate.
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