skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It isn't too hard to do Linux ABI emulation. The interface there has mostly been stable for the last several years. That would enable just using the same userspace as Linux distributions like Android.
Job security and Apple-ish custom OS may long-term reduce support burden because Linux is like OpenSSL: a giant refrigerator, stove, oven, typewriter, glass kiln, laundromat kitchen-sink. It will take a very long time to reinvent the wheel and also deliver a PG "quantum of improvement," but there are plenty of Alphabet employees to do it. Also, similar Apple, it's an OS they control so there's less rejection / ignorning of Google's desired direction as with FLOSS.
MIT scientist Regina Barzilay empowers cancer treatment with machine learning
A new runtime is very different then a new framework/API/OS. The former doesn't necessarily require code changes (dalvik -> ART did not), the latter requires new everything.
Ask HN: How would you go about marketing a new dev board?
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Samsung warns customers that Smart TVs are always listening (2015)
> the last thing we need is another proprietary OS on a device they built on the backs of the FOSS community

If Google builds this kernel from the ground up and chooses to license it MIT, how is any binary derived from that "built on the backs of the FOSS community?"
That only helps as long as there aren't many insurance companies. If there are many insurance companies, competition between them drives the costs down to marginal cost plus normal profit, in theory.
I am running http://selfracingcars.com/events in a few months... Udacity has arranged for some folks to run code on their vehicles as well.
Reversing outsourcing trend, many U.S. companies bring IT back home
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I don't particularly like how it has become a normal occurrence for people to try and ruin the lives of others simply because they have a different opinion.
Note that age of father may just be due to delayed mating among broad spectrum phenotype people, and not causally related. We also don't know about the male part for sure because of underdiagnosis among women, but maybe there are X-genes involved? We know some genetic diseases which are X-linked cause autism-like symptoms.
Not sure. Speculating here, but it's possible that it's because they're still working on building out GKE itself.

GKE is basically a wizard that just runs a pre-built image for the master and node VMs, and comes with some support for upgrades. There are very few settings [1] aside from the machine type. So it's pretty rudimentary. You'd think that GKE would come with a flashy dashboard for pods, deployments, user management, autoscaling and so on, but you're actually stuck with kubectl + running the Dashboard app [2] as a pod, which, while nice enough, is not integrated into the Google Cloud Platform web UI at all. Kubernetes runs fine, but GKE itself feels unfinished.

Anyway, a lot of people were asking for privileged mode back in 2015 [3], and it kind of looks like they turned it on by default rather than developing a setting for it.

[1] http://i.imgur.com/6pGRzl9.png

[2] https://github.com/kubernetes/dashboard

[3] https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/12048
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Go take a look at the stims subreddit if you want to read an actual meth binge.
Unlike how Java finds it classes I have clear memories about installing things that would update stuff in the registry.
Extremely, extremely? :) Apple kept Carbon apps running on OS X for a very long time.
>I understand that you think you know what this site is for

I would say that while probably imperfect, dang's understanding of "what this site is for" is pretty reliable, since it's his job to moderate it. ;)
I'd not expect it to work too well on even the newest Raspberry PI.

I would however expect it to work well on my 5 year old laptop.
It provides them incorrect context, if you really want to provide context then start with long addition which everyone understands and tell them that it was the first algorithm they learned. Physical activities are not algorithms, algorithms are sequence of calculations on data and there are many many examples that people know about that they learned in elementary mathematics and that can serve as the proper context.
You wouldn't have to do it all at once. You'd emulate the Linux user space, and do everything incredibly gradually. Both APIs would be supported for many, many years. But they could stop advancing the Android API within a shorter timeframe.
Articles like this one are counterproductive for not trying to understand the root core of the "jerk" behavior.

There's no such thing as a team where everyone on the team is on the same level - there's always some distribution, this guy has decades of experience and is brilliant, this guy is a junior straight out of college. To every brilliant person on a team (and every team has someone who is relatively brilliant, again because it's a distribution), the people at the other end of the distribution are dead weight. The question is about the personality types of the people on the team and the way that management decides to deal with them.

If management doesn't put the brilliant people into more senior roles, where they are directed to mentor lower-performing people to try and bring the entire team up to a higher performing level, then management is backing the status quo. This breeds frustration and resentment on the part of the high performers.

If management does get the high performers to mentor the low performers, but low performers fail to show improvement, it's management's responsibility to ask why? Does management need to help guide the high performer to help him become a better mentor? Or is the low performer a low performer not because he's inexperienced but because he has no drive for self-improvement? If the low performer remains a low performer over time, why is management keeping him on the team?

Too much management philosophy is falsely dedicated to "feel-good" practice. If your team feels good, then they will be motivated to work for you, and will work at their maximum potential for productivity, and succeed. Team happiness is, of course, important, but so many happy teams fail because happiness is not a cure for mediocrity, and their mediocre products are outcompeted by better options on the market.

What management really needs to ask is whether brilliant jerks are jerks because they enjoy belittling others, or are they jerks because they're frustrated at the team's mediocrity and genuinely desire for the team to write better code? If it's the former, then yeah, get rid of them, they're toxic. But most of the time it's the latter, and their the blame for their frustration lies not with the 10x programmer, but with the manager, for trying to inculcate happy teams instead of productive and effective teams.
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> Maybe "people will literally argue that formaldehyde is naturally occurring and exists in our bodies" because, you know, it's true?

Sure, as a standalone fact. But the context of this topic is as an additive in vaccines given to babies 10-30 lbs.

I'm still amazed people will argue that it's fine to add formaldehyde and aluminum, and then justify it with ancient people. The lengths people will go to to avoid giving an inch to any vaccine concerns is crazy. I'd even take a "Yes, ok you have a point there, BUT still...".
The Android API wouldn't be going anywhere. That's what I say in the article - Fuchsia would continue to support the Android API seamlessly.
A distributed java project
Tales in Tech History: The Pager
Student unions should encourage "welcome committees" to make sure no one whom wants to participate in the social scene is left out. (dorm life was the best.)
agreed - anyone know the source ?
6 Ways CXOs Can Cut the Cost of Agile Software Development
Can't refute any of the article's arguments? Go ad hominem instead!

This is a reddit-style comment, not HN.
I wonder how easy it will be to abuse this new system to bootstrap a company. First clone an already successful company, then find someone politically undesirably using the competitor. Finally release a virtue signalling statement that gets people to use your company instead.
Good points. I should edit the 'and now' detail out of my comment to avoid ambiguity, but it's not possible anymore.
The title is "Proof". The url has "proof". Not only is that a misleading click-baitey title, it is also false, because there is no proof.
They came. They saw. They conquered
No. Putting quotes around a word could mean a whole bunch of things.
The Historical Significance of Tesla’s Gigafactory
I think the parent meant don't waste trivial amounts of money buying individual stocks rather than don't invest at all.
Ask HN: The UX reasoning for grey on white?
I seem to run into more and more websites going the route of "white background with [light] grey text" these days. Personal blogs, project pages, informational sites and so on. Some of them get posted here, and occasionally I see a few comments mentioning it, as well.

It isn't much of a problem in a well-lit room, of course, but I am also not a fan of having so much lighting in my house that I can use it to help aircraft land when I am reading a summary. Usually I read the page with a dark theme in my browser's reader view or curl it into my term.

Given all of this, I have the following questions:

* Who - or what - started this UX trend?

* Is it really an issue, or just myself plus a small set of others?

Edit: As clarification, I am not the type of person to leave on all the lights (including overhead) in a room where my computer is. I prefer either eye-level or softer lighting. So even with a screen at reduced brightness, I find it difficult and physically straining to read with this particular colour scheme. It is why I use dark grey with a lighter text where I can.
I've read that, too. It's good.
because the android system was built off the labour of the Linux community.
There is also extremely useful option user.useConfigOnly, it was added recently though. Before 2.8 (iirc) you had to use weird hack "git config --global user.email '(none)'"
I disagree with both your premises. You could also argue that, by not allowing an immigrant in you can open up another slot for someone already in the US to attend MIT (or any other university).

If you read enough of these articles they all sound the same: We need immigrants because otherwise we will not have innovation and we will not have new businesses.

These arguments are not being made as mathematical or statistical realities, they are simple fabrications to produce emotional response.

I take offense to that. I'd rather we agree we need immigration and not justify it through fabricated logic.

> It's not that there wouldn't be any, just less. America will be poorer — not destitute, but less rich — if it keeps out smart immigrants.

I think you bought into the fallacy. We don't stop thinking, innovating or creating just because person X didn't come into the country. If Musk didn't get involved with Tesla someone else would have (another bit of misinformation, he isn't the founder). Would we have had SpaceX? Well, maybe not. But that doesn't mean we would have no new rocket companies at all. Look at what Jeff Bezos is doing.

Again, I am not anti-immigrant...I just want honesty in the discussion.
Yep, it's Russia.

(Well, and possibly others - that's just the one that I know of, there may well be others.)
They would likely keep a lot of the gnu userland. Let's not forget that google themselves are built on the backs of the FOSS community, without FOSS there might not be a google at all, certainly not an android.
Demolition Derby: The Impact of Autonomous Vehicles
It depends on what you mean by "rent". BI is about eliminating the need to work just to survive. In a more automated world, human labor has little value and in a labor based economy there's no way to prevent the capital class from extracting the wealth, it's the nature of the beast. I'm glad to hear you're at least in agreement about the aim of reducing that extraction however, BI aims to do more than that. It aims to eliminate wage slavery which is what allows the capital class to oppress the working class to begin with.

The gold standard has no bearing on this problem. Interest rates have no bearing on this problem. People aren't poor because we don't use gold, they aren't poor because interest rates are low; they're poor because they were born into it and few can clime out because living on the edge is psychologically harmful and interferes with long term planning and thinking. Being poor is a catch 22 in many ways, like a bucket of crabs, getting out is impossible for most. This is a systemic problem, not an issue of people not working hard enough: the need for work is dwindling reducing the supply of low skill jobs which are all many are capable of in the first place.

Your attempts to drag the conversation to these other things are red-herrings, your attempts to conflate BI with the problems of existing welfare, and then say it'll suffer the downsides are straw-men.

We're in disagreement because as far as I'm concerned, you don't want to talk about the real problem, you're just finding ways to inject the standard conservative fiscal talking points into a conversation about an issue those things don't address.

So if you actually want to talk about it, I'll frame it this way; unemployment is suddenly 50% due to the sudden rise of automation. Now what do we do when half the population can't find work? People who don't have an income don't want to hear about gold standards and interest rates. They don't want to hear about welfare programs that make them jump through hoops to find jobs that don't exist. What they want, is food, water, shelter, and medical care and if you tell them to pull themselves up by their boot straps they're going to kill you and take your shit. That's the problem BI is attempting to solve. And yes, the death of wage slavery would be a huge change in the structure of society.
Some people (like me) just wanted to experience living in the US for some longer time. Some people (like me) just wanted to experience something else than just the home country. Eventually getting a job here was on the plan, but since I over time started to dislike this place, I will be going back home in a few months. I am glad I came here because it allowed to learn more about the US.
I'd love to explore how this data could be used to enhance recommender systems.
> So your argument that MIT is acting as a "business to maximize its profit" is not very convincing.

Please don't put it in quotes because this is not what I said at all. I said it's a business protecting it's revenue source.
There are a lot more challenges than just ABI and 32 bit. Swift is not dynamic, lacks many of the features the ObjC runtime provides - so most of Apple's frameworks cannot actually be implemented in the same way with Swift. Basic stuff like KVC, KVO, responder chain, etc. go out of the window. And many of Apple engineers are not convinced throwing these technologies out of the window for some imaginary benefit from Swift is the right direction.
Not sure you get it...
If anyone is looking for benchmarks, the most comprehensive comparison of scheme implementations can be found here: http://ecraven.github.io/r7rs-benchmarks/benchmark.html
But this can largely mitigated by switching off Javascript. I am not sure whether this is possible in Chrome, in Firefox that is easy. This might be one of the reasons that the Tor browser bundle uses Firefox over Chrome.
Right. And we have tools like git which are able to handle large codebases. People shouldn't conflate high LoC counts with bloat.
I genuinely can't tell if you are being sarcastic.
AFAIK, Jinni is doing exactly that.
The only answer is to disassemble every new TV, and disconnect the microphones and cameras.

Perhaps I can make a business out of this service.
From the article: "Maya Ajmera, president of the Society for Science ... said Intel never gave the society a reason for dropping the sponsorship." Shameful.
That's true. I couldn't care less about televised sports and professional athletes. Watching a game on T.V. feels like watching someone else's vacation videos. I'd rather get outside and do both activities myself.

That being the case, guy conversations that start out, "Hey, did you see the game last night?" typically end in awkward silence when I say, "No."
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Maybe not existing anti-vaxxers, but we might stop making as many new ones if we are able to tell people their child is autistic before it has been administered the any of the vaccines they are skeptical of.
> If you say that MIT makes a ton of money by charging more from foreign students, I don't see how you can argue that by taking in none they can charge a lot less for tuition.

You missed my point. All of these institutions are grossly over-priced. This has been discussed on HN in the past. The cost of an education in the US is ridiculous. When a university has 40% foreign students and they --one way or the other-- pay exorbitant rates this only serves to skew the cost scale up for everyone else. Regardless of how it's paid, we are talking about $200K to $250K for an education, that's obscene.
It's in quotes. It even talks about the quotes. It's obvious from the tone of the thing it's not presented as real proof. And again, "I don't like the title" is not what makes "fake news".
North india also uses leaf plates, which upon usage, are normally disposed by feeding them to cattle (in villages, this is very common)
Jeremy Howard's course (http://course.fast.ai/) is much as you describe, the downside is it's a little too boring for people with mathematical education.
Ask HN: Where do you host your db's for your side projects?
I'm looking to create a project that would use MongoDB, and I've never created my own back-end before, so I'm exploring options. I'm not sure what people's go-to solutions are for this.

The only option I see is hosting via DBaaS with Compose or mLab or similar, and these cost $31 and $15 per month respectively for one gigabyte of data.

This seems insane to me. How can anyone afford this profitably with anything less than a total success of a side project? Surely a successful project might use hundreds or even thousands of GB of db space when people start to really use it, no? My project would involve storing thousands of PDFs, among other files.

Do people use DBaaS for such cases, or manage their own on Digital Ocean, AWS, etc? I have no knowledge of how to do that (yet).
Mark Zuckerberg had "lots of cash" compared to most folks (his father, a wealthy dentist, and his father's friends bankrolled Mark's business). He's not the best example to use when it comes to "bootstrapping."
> "Chosun" is not widely used in contemporary South Korea unless you're in a self-deprecating mood ("Hell Chosun") or referring to the Kim dynasty up north.

I rather see it as a tongue-in-cheek name, it doesn't necessarily convey a self-deprecating mood (though it somehow implies the comparison itself).
And that's yet another horrible part of the problem. Loans and grants don't help make tuition and the general cost of an education reasonable. They have an inflationary effect because people are chasing that degree rather than a reasonable ROI.
Not quite. You only get the 25K if you graduate in the US from a graduate program. If you graduate with a Bachelors you are not eligible for the extended cap (25K). But the OPT still works.
Why not just spend your money on a TV without mic and camera? My lg smart tv have neither.
I presume sometime in the not too distant future, all TV's will have cameras and mics.
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From my layman's perspective, it's really counter-intuitive to see the satellites which appear to be dropped towards the earth. What is causing the rapid separation between the launch vehicle and satellites? Are they being propelled down?
Knuth's Metafont book.
I agree with the premise but not the conclusion. Worked at/have seen a few start-ups close up; people don't know what they are doing-- I mean this in a "cliff jump build parachute" way not pejoratively.

With that in mind, you have a fragmented ecosystem and a lot to gain. I don't think people are organized or agreeable enough for an "illuminati"-esque conspiracy, but people and groups can scheme so well here w/ little oversite.

Article seemed to say that small specific task goals can get done but because some large groups can't execute a large scale goal there is no "scheming". I disagree.
And while I'm sure he does a fine job, I'm contesting his assessment of my motivations and insinuating that I broke any rule. You really like to drag things out. Why don't you just drop it?
You plan to store PDFs in your database? Why?
The word "telescreen" comes to mind.

Then again, cell phones are more ubiquitous and close at hand, and are also always listening ...
Unless there's another free hosting site with unlimited pictures up to 14mpx and unlimited vids up to fullhd I'm giving all my trust to Google <3
> The threat to a major profit center is not a small concern to MIT and they are rightfully interested in doing what they can to fight it.

And there's nothing wrong with that. They just need to be honest about it and not claim that we are doomed if we don't accept foreign students. We have lots of very smart, creative and motivated people in the US. We don't need to import them.

In fact, one could argue that our national interests are better served by improving our educational system (K-12 and beyond) in order to ensure that we produce better, smarter, more motivated and entrepreneurial people than anyone else in the world. If it is true that we need immigrants because we don't have them here then we have a serious problem that needs to be addressed at a national level. In other words, we are under-serving whole generations of students all the way down to K-12.
Because you haven't demonstrated that the aluminium is harmful. Babies eat it every day, do you suggest stopping breast feeding because breast milk contains a lot of aluminium:

http://www.chop.edu/centers-programs/vaccine-education-cente...
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> TensorFlow, which appears to be winning chiefly on Github stars

I was under the impression that a lot of TensorFlow's reputation and image comes from the fact that it's Google-backed and -dogfooded, meaning that it will stay in active and useful development for the foreseeable future.
So if you got a full body MRI each year/month, you could track the lumps and probably tell the bad from the good.
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I thought Racket was a scheme implementation?
Quoting from the disadvantages section: "Second, Kubernetes excels at automatically fixing problems. But it’s so good at it that containers can crash and be restarted so fast you don’t notice your containers are crashing. "

A key part of Kubernetes is to the bring the state of the system to that of the spec, through a series of watches - and in some places polling (config maps watching in kubectl as of 1.4.x) - this may look like magic, but it's not fixing problems per se its that your desired state of the system (the spec) is different to what is observed (the status). This is not a disadvantage. Kubernetes if not for someone sitting at the terminal expecting a bell or stop the world when problems happens, although I guess you could configure it that way and fight against the system.
except, you don't see engs getting pouched for tens/hundreds of millions of dollars.
It's happening already, but with pretty limited success. Voat is reddit for people driven off reddit. Gab is twitter for people driven off twitter. Neither of these is a roaring success just yet, but they're better positioned than the average clone.

In general I don't think the splitters are ever likely to gain half the market share of the original because 99% of people do not care for this kind of thing at all.