skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can you explain your perspective on open source ideology as it applies to hardware design? I see people complain every so often about lack of open source tools for FPGAs and CPLDs and it doesn't make sense to me.

Most people seem happy to use a chip that performs the exact functions they wanted even though it's completely closed/proprietary. But they seem to balk at using a programmable chip where they can choose the functionality but the software that let's them do so is closed/proprietary.
Patients have reported relief and sometimes a complete cure
of celiac disease after treatment with medical marijuana

Umm.... I don't think so. More likely that the diagnosis was wrong. And while smoking marijuana may have helped these people find relief, there doesn't seem to be a useful way to characterize what has happened.

Joe Cohen, D.O., director of the Holos Health Center in
Boulder, Colorado claims cannabis can cure "leaky gut"
disease. Leaky gut happens in those with gluten sensitivity
similar to celiac disease.

Leaky gut is not a recognized medical condition. Again, it's difficult to claim a substance cured an ailment that cannot be readily identified.

Correlation != causation and all that. There's nothing wrong with admitting ignorance, and much to lose by putting stock into unsubstantiated claims and explanations.

But I guess people have a deep-seated need to have answers. I've always been comfortable with not knowing, but the older I get the more I realize that most people prefer to either 1) to have answers or 2) be blissfully ignorant of the question. So they'll latch onto a plausible explanation as gospel, or outright reject the reality of a situation. People just aren't comfortable possessing presently unanswerable questions and cautiously moving forward.
Have we reached peak Facebook yet? I started using Facebook quite early in my country and used it mostly as a social network, communicating and exchanging stuff with friends from all over the world. A couple years later I deleted my account, being disgusted by the potential abusive potential of all the information Facebook had. I came back years later as it became THE tool for ad hoc social initiatives and a way to follow news from things of importance to you, like the local climbing gym or a band I like. Though I did not use it as a social network, I nevertheless used it. That is currently changing and I experience Facebook fatigue.

The comment sections are either empty, used as a notifier for friends or are right-wing/left-wing troll battle fields. Everyone seems overly emotional to get the most likes and bubble to the top. I removed subscriptions for newspapers to not accidentally have to stumble upon the inanen comments, something I dreaded only with youtube comments so far. Have the social network aspects of Facebook (and youtube) been destroyed by fatigue, other ways (WhatsApp?) of exchanging stuff immediately and ideological troll battles?
Is this true of a cash account too?
You're right. The code example given in the ancient Windows manual for an assembly "bitblt" function seems kind of reasonable, thanks to the macros.

The thing that gives me the most shudders is the weird memory models (small, middle, large, compact, huge?) and all that manual management of those funky x86 registers.
Why is it that every little single-purpose-at-best company nowadays acts like they are out to save the world in the most noble way possible?

Mark, please! You're a spam-your-friends-with-fake-news-and-baby-photos service at best. The world will go on long after Facebook ceases to exist. Please stop pretending that you're Mother Teresa here.
Hostility reduced: https://github.com/kmatt/go-generic/issues/3
Ultimately I don't think it's fair to have BOTH short selling AND resolution of sale price YEARS later.

I actually don't like either of those as features, but both together is clearly incompatible.
Snapdragon 820 Lands on an Android Pico-ITX SBC
Javascript fatigue aside, this suffers the same annoying (to me) limitation that a lot of static site generators and CMS's do: it presumes that there will only be 1 main content area per page that you populate with a big chunk of markdown or html. ( https://phenomic.io/docs/getting-started/#the-body )

This is a sensible assumption for a something like a blog, but falls apart quickly on most other sites I've had to build for clients (e.g. more than 1 column, homepages with lots of "modules", etc).

Kind of ironic that React's "big idea" is that it's components all the way down, but when it comes time to structure the content, it's like "nope, just one big monolith of styled text".

(YAML front-matter helps a little bit, but usually is only intended for "metadata", not the primary page content itself.)
>"If you assume the cost of these autonomous vehicles, the very early ones, will be six figures, there aren’t very many retail customers that are willing to go out and spend that kind of money," Ableson said.

Oh well I guess it will be a few years before I can recline and take a nap in my robo car while in traffic
Ok, we changed the URL to that from http://www.pjon.org/why.php.
When you put it like that, it sort of reminds me of how Mir came about.

Maybe that's unfair.
> Slashdot

Whats that? I thought they went out of business after the dot com crash.
"""Might"""

Give me a break, Theranos is the biggest disgraceful excuse of a company that I've ever even heard of, and I've been reading this dumb board for 5+ years now.

That people aren't 100% dismissive of Theranos is absolutely mind-boggling. The level of corruption, incompetence, and just the poor organization of it all.

Other commenters have also noted that if they aren't doing well on cash, they're pretty much dead anyways.

I want Theranos to crash and burn as loud as humanly possible, so that people might pay attention for two seconds and look at what happens when you refuse to give a shit about the ethics and competence behind your business/startup.

Now, I suspect a lot of Theranos employees at this point are probably just waiting on that last check, but there's probably some poor souls on that list who really wanted to achieve something, and now they're more or less fucked from having to be associated with Theranos. It will be harder for them to find a new job with that black mark, I'm sure poor severance will make it hard for them to bootstrap their own ideas. They are backed into a corner, because of Theranos.

Life in an unethical business can be nasty, brutish and short.
No. Babies should be taken out of dangerous situation, but third party accusation should not be enough. Likely to harm the kid on itself.
The honest question is - how are they able to retain the 220 employees? I'd assume are very talented scientists, engineers, etc. Given this story has been going on for more than a year (or two), how do they keep people around?
While I live in Silicon Valley and mostly agree with the prevailing morality, it's alarming to see Facebook (and others like Reddit/Twitter) move so aggressively towards social engineering the entire world.
`node -pe “require('http').STATUS_CODES”`
Work on Startups Early in Life, Get Technical If You’re Not. A Chat W/ Garry Tan
yes - if someone wants to borrow, shouldn't the lender demand a fee? At many brokers there is a program to route a portion of that interest back to the client.

also - the interest rate is often negative : ie the lender PAYS THE BORROWER to take the shares. The borrower posts cash collateral that the lender gets to earn interest on...

it's a fun part of the market
I've had the most success in my own experiments using many dedicated Models. The first and most important model is a NN that generates a chord progression. After that is much easier to select good notes!
http://signalsandsorcery.com/
I have a feeling you didn't read the article.
The problem is the story's substance starts with poisoning the well by making the accusation that the state of fear described in 1984 and Orwell's other writing is due to Trump and the 'white nationalists' he has in his cabinet. Then, it gives sparse details about the specific connections between Orwell's writings and Trump, but because of the initial poison the reader is supposed to infer meaning that simply doesn't exist. That's why I called it a propaganda piece, because that's all it is. Orwell is fantastic, but Orwell in my estimation would be rolling in his grave upon hearing that the biggest hypocrites about 'government transparency' and 'fair free speech' in the world are using him to attack their political opponents.
> then learn how music is actually written first

Is not the idea to see if the ML algorithm to learn how music is written?
The Curse of Knowledge
It seems to be the same keyboard mapping that Reason uses: https://youtu.be/7maQ1zjvb-M?t=28
Oddly, most Americans won't (take BART)

Actually, BART is fine if your only venture outside of your destination inside SF proper is the airport (which is actually in the next county). But most visitors here with any optional time will want to venture out and will often get a rental vehicle because of that (beach, redwoods, wine country are all within an hour's drive, good camping within 2 hours, and skiing within 4 hours).

Also, BART doesn't go to/from the SF airport all hours.
By resources, I meant training time, CPU/GPU resources, not availability of data.
I never see ads on youtube, since I use youtube-dl to download the videos first before I watch them, and the downloaded videos never have ads.
Ask HN: Is it just me or is getting another job in tech hard?
Finding it pretty hard to get another job in the industry even though I've been in it for a few years. Is it just me or is hiring slowing down?
API Monitoring: Up Is Not Enough (2014)
> Why should we deliberately under-provision transit

No one is suggesting that. Make transit great. I'll pay more in tax if need be.

I just don't want to be told that I have a choice between shitty transit or a deliberately shitty driving experience.

Honestly, the only reason why this is an argument is because people know that taking the bus sucks. I took the bus to work one day to see how it was (this was when I was debating takign my car, right after I started). It was slow, hot, uncomfortable, cramped, a guy fell asleep on me, and I felt sick by the end (motion sickness). So the only option is make driving shittier.
If Google Trends is somewhat right, we've definitely reached peak Facebook: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=Facebook
Ask HN: Is Google App Engine a good option for new startups with limited funds?
>"If you assume the cost of these autonomous vehicles, the very early ones, will be six figures, there aren’t very many retail customers that are willing to go out and spend that kind of money," Ableson said.

"Tesla Narrowly Misses 80,000-Vehicle Sales Goal in 2016"

https://www.wsj.com/articles/tesla-misses-its-2016-sales-goa...
Is LA a fair example?
This makes me think that sadly bootstrapping high tech in the silicon valley is nearly impossible in this century

Probably correct.
Not in the same way ReactOS is.
I'm not sure how this is answerable in a meaningful way.

I get just as many recruiter emails, or more, as I've been getting for years now. No slow-down that I've noticed, but I'm statistically meaningless.
>I consider that a subsidy for drivers.

And people who order from amazon!
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Where she ought to end up is in jail for fraud, but that's probably wishful thinking.
Theranos was still alive?
They're changing to 20 second unskippable ads. Big deal.
Yahoo open-sources TensorFlowOnSpark for deep learning with big data
I'm wondering what's the easiest, legal (for US residents) way to sign this type of bet.

No, I'm not referring to complex steps involving some form of cryptocurrencies. I'm talking about something super, super easy.

p.s. I am happy to take the bet at 1:2, not at 1:40.
I was not assigning intrinsic value to alternative historical scenarios but estimating the resource cost of a rocket program in the 40's being out of reach in any other situation. US and USSR bootstrapped their programs based on V2 technology and then perfected their engines driven by the need to rain orbital nuclear death on top of each others without the chance of interception.

Functional space propulsion became as a side product of these murderous efforts.

Sure, we all would be probably happier if none of that had ever happened. The original topic was - would we have had rocket engines without ww2. Perhaps, but not as soon.
What's wrong with reasonableness? (Check out the HBO show Bored to Death.)
Dunno, what doesn't seem "viable" is serving ads that can be trivially blocked.

We haven't even reached the real arms race yet, and people are already talking like adblockers won.

Let's pick this convo back up at least when ad networks like Adsense let you proxy through your server, ending an entire class of adblocking at once. And that's not the end of the low-hanging fruit.
This is a great topic.
We can think in this solution or in the Elon Musk solution, about that every person must to be a salary, working or not.
I don't know what solution should be, but this is one of the main topic for the next decade.
Oh this one?

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=inventing%20on%20principle&sor...
Oh, she'll be fine. For CEOs it's "fail big, gamble bigger". Only the little people have to carry the burden of responsibility for their work and track record.
> which means that you must drink and drive if you want to go to the bar and drink

Taxis? Transit?
Tsundoku
practically speaking - short selling helps the market find the right price for the security. this is a vitally important feature of markets.

philosophically, shorting is an emergent feature from basic property rights. I have a thing, you want to borrow it, we're both consenting adults and negotiate an arrangement.
TensorFlowOnSpark brings TensorFlow programs onto Apache Spark clusters
Author here. It's been awhile since I wrote this and we've learned a ton more about what good API monitoring looks like. So if you have any questions, let me know!
I literally can't buy Youtube Red. I would have done and I'd probably never have moved to Spotify if I could, but I can't so I'll just block their ads because they're awful. One day they might let me pay them, but unless their originals become competitive with Netflix I probably can't be bothered now.
Amazon would ruin the good culture growing at capital one.
"an imagined place or state in which everything is unpleasant or bad, typically a totalitarian or environmentally degraded one."

where the hell do you live? remind me to never visit.
I wondered the same thing, and this is a great explanation as to why. thank you!
Did you kill your own comment?

It was marked [dead], not [flagged]... I just vouched for it to reply, I'm a bit surprised that users can hide a mod's post...
t seems to be pretty "idiomatic" unsafe Rust, with unsafe used exactly where needed. I haven't really looked at the btreemap in a while.

The number of excuses associated with unsafe code in Rust is excessive.
Package maintainers aren't like the President. You don't need news media to get their attention. You can just e-mail them.
> if the workflow magically avoids conflicts, why not give them 2 commands to update/commit&push

The workflow doesn't avoid conflicts.

> keep all the power of git to who need it

Git provides no useful features over Fossil for what we're doing.

> you do know that conflicts are going to show up eventually right

And when they show up with Git, boy do they show up.
You assume the rest of the world will remain open to you as you slam the door in their faces. At best you might end up in a situation where you don't have to compete with Shenzhen in your local market, but where all other markets are closed to you and open to them. Except now you won't even have access to collaborating with Shenzhen and other significant electronics hubs. I think you underestimate how much wealth moves into the U.S. because of globalization and has since the early 20th century. Now, you can argue that you won't go completely closed, but I think you will lose out in proportion to how much you close things, specially if you do it to the point that other countries find themselves needing to retaliate with their own trade barriers and alternative trade treaties, and even more so if at the same time you are also restricting flow of talent into the U.S.
The Power of PCRE Regular Expressions (2012)
Yeah I click the comments first and then the actual link most of the time.
Elizabeth Holmes also has a special class of shares which gives her 100 to 1 voting rights:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/petercohan/2015/11/03/theranos-l...
ReactOS 0.4.4 is out
duplicate, please check before submitting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13666124
What makes you think they're talented? At this point I'm sure the only ones left are the guys who can't find another job with the same pay.
Tell us more about your evidence.
There is a lot of cynicism on this thread, and while I do think it is often justified I think it also misses the point.

This is not (necessarily) statement about fundamental human nature. It is not a political platform. It is not a legal standard. It is not an architecture for a perfect society.

It is merely a personal choice. A strategy or protocol for working with other people. We simply evaluate it on the grounds of its effectiveness versus the alternatives. By effectiveness, I mean whether it enhances or reduces our ability to live peacefully and collaborate with others.

I have found that simply giving people the benefit of the doubt and resolving issues privately mostly works.

There's certainly questions about how to deal with social predators or the emotionally immature, but I think that the correct approach is to build off of this principle rather than to reject it.
Yes, everyone knows that. The point is that if your company is bankrupt and you go to the bank for a loan and they say 'sure, but only if the CEO quits and forfeits all her shares', there's not much the CEO can do about that. The shares become worthless in a bankruptcy anyway. So I wondered why this never happened. But now I know: they have far more cash on hand than I ever dreamed would be left at this point.
Have they published the proof-of-concept code? I understand how you can use timing measurements to determine layout in theory, but what javascript statements are you running that can reveal where msvcrt.dll or kernel32.dll is loaded in chrome.exe?
>The whole point is that children SHOULDN'T do that, because it's horribly dangerous. However, that is exactly what any child in places with terrible infrastructure, who aren't driven or bussed, must do right now. Your argument is in favour of continuing this.

So here's where I think we're differing. You are looking at the end result: no or very few cars, no need for massive infrastructure, redesigned cities for this new post automobile reality, much safer walking and riding, etc. I think that's a wonderful vision, but getting from here to there quickly without something amazing happening (like ultra cheap, ultra range, ultra subsidized electrics paired with massive economic growth to offset the lost jobs of the industry and all dependent companies, etc) would be too painful for the economy.

Some of that vision will happen naturally, but like anything that useful, road vehicles won't go away completely.
I don't think people who say "I'm a conservative (now) because censorship on the left" had particularly strong liberal principles to begin with.

edit: I mean people who flip.

To be clear, I'm saying I have objections to people who censor, who claim offense about ridiculous things, etc... The type of people who would try to run someone out of a job because of a vaguely "offensive" thing said on twitter, who insist that language change for them, who flip out because Bill Maher invites Milo on his show. It is regressive thinking. I'm not going to become a conservative because of it. Both sides are very far from what I believe in.
I wonder if there's something to be learned/borrowed from carbon offset credits. If a product is produced in such a way as to encourage repair over disposal and replacement, perhaps they could be subsidized with carbon credits to encourage that. Or perhaps a similar concept that isn't necessarily that could be used here.
It almost felt random at times.
I think our viewpoints are so diametrically opposed that we each can't comprehend the possibility of the other being serious or well-informed.
The ViperRAT APT Group Is Targeting the Israeli Defense Force
Probably the US! /s
"Many of us saw Trump talking the way he normally does, and saying the things he normally says. Other people saw a raving lunatic, melting down."

I didn't watch the press conference, but I read a bit of the transcript, and it sure does sound like "Trump talking the way he normally does" - which is to say that it's such a rambling, incoherent mess it could serve as an amusing example of bad machine-translation output. Nobody is hallucinating here; Trump just comes off like a raving lunatic most of the time, if you're used to hearing people speak in complete sentences which connect one idea to another.
It's the tech delusion. I don't know a start-up that doesn't have some grandiose vision of themselves as the future saviors of humanity. Uber, Tesla, Facebook, Airbnb, you name it... it's all the same "save the world" rhetoric.

The scary thing is, I think a lot of people on the industry actually believe their own BS...
First off you can't self diagnosis yourself with a mental illness. Even experts in the field don't self diagnosis because you have to be objective. Someone that sees a pink elephant from time to time still has to ask someone else if they see it to. There might actually be a pink elephant wondering around.

Second you don't have to be a office social butterfly to have good communication skills. Communication skills is being able to portray information to someone so they can understand it. It is one of the most difficult thing for humans to do.

Thirdly even if you do have autism doesn't mean shit. I have a ton of friends that have been diagnosis with different kinds of autisms. They don't use it as a escape goat nor should any one.

Sorry you having difficulty fitting in with others and getting a job. You did it once so it is mostly likely you will do it again just keep grinding away.
Well shutting things down is likely better for the shareholders but not for the person at the helm ;)
In the old (not so long ago) military days there were the educated and trained officers directing the enlisted men who were trained to the extent necessary.

This model was then repurposed to direct commerical enterprise and while those enterprises consisted of a composite of simple tasks (eg manufacturing) things worked pretty well. The knowledgeable people in charge of the less knowledgeable.

However when the tasks become much more complex such as science based enterprises (eg pharmaceuticals and engineering) the model fails.

You still need someone to "be in charge", that is, to organize things at a higher level but now the knowledge required to do that is much lower than the knowledge required to do the actual work. And yet the sense still persists that the organizer role is a "higher" position in the organization.

Consequently you have situations where a young MBA (for example) is organizing a team of PhD's where he/she thinks they are the "the boss" rather than "the organizer" of the team. And this naturally, can lead to dissension. Health care for example suffers from a lot of this.

For these organizations its time to drop the military model and come up with a more practical abstraction with a better mapping to reality.
I think one common reason people are not reasonable is they lack proficiency in the needed social skills. I think books like Marshall Rosenberg's Nonviolent Communication can be helpful here.