skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well until the regulatory situation is fixed then women of child bearing ages who don’t want to get pregnant have two choices: 1. Avoid sex or 2. Take medication [1]. I am not saying this is a good choice, but that is the only choice currently available.

1. There other forms of contraception, but all come with a significant risk of failure compared to the hormonal contraceptives. As a man I would like to have a reliable form of male contraceptive, but the current regulatory environment makes this impossible to sell.
I'll stop here but I honestly don't understand how the actual, real, referenced fact that this is an existing typographical convention is 'blowing things out of proportion'. It either is or isn't and in this case, it is.

A lot of language conventions, including typographical ones have implicit and explicit cultural biases. That's just how language works. You seem to be arguing this should not be a typographical convention because you're unfamiliar with it and some other general principles. Sure, maybe, but that's also very much not how language works. You're welcome to advocate for change but this does not instantly turn this into not-an-English-typographical-convention.
I remember back in Intro to CompE, we did the first project using handful of 7400s to build seven segment display driver using a bunch of switches to control the input 3-bit value. It required more chips and breadboard real estate than we had so we were only required to count up to 6. Immediately after that, we got our FPGAs and did the same project but with a button that would increment the 8-bit counter. The coding took about 10mins in verilog compared to the hours of logic diagramming and wiring.
This would be a great longbet.
I think you're missing the point that a car manufacturer does not care about autopilot for autopilot's sake. They care about the feature in so far as it can drive sales and revenue.

Think about it this way: Companies like Google or Amazon don't launch products just because the tech is cool or innovative. They only launch products that can become $1B+ drivers of revenue for them.

(fwiw I am not the one downvoting you)
One of those is not the like others (Facebook). Facebook is the only one that wasn't a huge next step in the progression of an established industry. It was an incremental improvement in a fledgling social network industry, and it's questionable how much value it actually adds to (or detracts from) society. Compare this to Google which is indeed a force of good (not just their main product, but the numerous free technologies they have given to society like Chrome, Golang, QUIC, Tensorflow, etc.) and Uber/Airbnb, which have made people 'freer' in the sense that it is much cheaper to travel and get out now, and then Tesla of course is ushering in an eco-friendly transportation revolution.

The grandiose self-vision is annoying PR, but at least some of the companies have a fair amount to back it up with. Facebook is just the next iteration of Microsoft in my opinion -- they took a huge early lead with a superior product in a new industry, but now they're kind of evil and they will ride their market share for many decades.
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Search engines easily handle things like [Chevy bolt] once they become popular enough. [chevy bolt size] in google already shows me stuff related to the Bolt.
it's worse than that, the poster doesn't understand what the reasonable person test for law actually is, even though a wiki article on it was posted.
Could you please share a bit more about your chip and when it would be ready ?
There was no manager above at that point. I loved to do it because it was super efficient for me. You get into the office when some problems had already came up and people already had tried a bit of effort to solve them themselves. Then you just do rounds after lunch and fix them. Then after people went home it was a good time to review code and catch up on the personal work.
Sony has been working on style (genre) transfer in music lately:
https://youtu.be/I9M8l2guPSo?t=21m30s
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I've used App Engine a decent amount the past 8 years and I would say it's great for prototyping and quickly creating CRUD tools or simple services. But stop there, don't build a whole API that powers your app / service on top of App Engine. Having done exactly that, I feel that App Engine is being treated more and more like the unwanted step-child.

The more "adult" Cloud services are taking priority which is noticeable in the monitoring solutions and deploy tooling. I've seen bugs that you wouldn't expect in a production class service linger for months, requiring you to spend time working around them. And the CPU cost overhead of their heavily abstracted runtime is not dismissible if you compare running Docker instances in Kubernetes (Google Container Engine).

I really enjoy using GCP, the APIs and tools are much nicer than say AWS, and Google's offering has quickly caught up with competitors. I've just moved over to Docker instances which is ultimately cheaper, faster to deploy, more predictable, and more configurable.
You are not entitled to a return on investment. When you make an investment, you expose yourself to risks, including regulatory risks. Nothing immoral about it and certainly no theft.

In case you think we are talking hypotheticals here, what you are describing is exactly how rent control works.
Welcome to the world of 2017, where dreams really can come true!
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Precisely, and that was no accident, since the idea for both sites came from pg. Of course he knew it was in Reddit's interest to grow, but when it lost the property of being interesting for him personally to read, he created HN, a much smaller sibling, and kept it that way by design.
Almost half of the US gets their news from links posted on Facebook. Let's not pretend that it doesn't have a real, tangible impact on the world just because all you see are baby pictures.
React is a good paradigm to build UI. That's why people like it and use it more and more. If people both like React and need to create lightweight websites, why won't you let them do it?
I wish they would have compared a JPEG with quality reduced to match the filesize of their NN compressed image. It'd be useful to compare what artifacts are introduced and seeing just how much better it does for the same size.
No, it implies they can nicely ask the exchanges to stop all trading, and the exchanges can make that decision or not.
Classic m.o. of a fledging dictator. Begin to instil mistrust into the people of the very core of the political system, then once this mistrust permeates society enough, come in with an alternative system which, surprisingly, consolidates power at the top.

Bring in the family as well, because everyone else is untrustworthy; a classic ploy used in North Korea, Iraq (Hussein), and virtually every other dictator.
Each of those companies has the potential to significantly impact the world. Whether that change is for better or worse depends on your values. But given that they will likely have a big impact on society, I'd rather have them thinking through the ethical implications of what they do even superficially and grandiosely than not at all. A hypocritically preachy Facebook corporation is much better than an absolutely cynical one.
Guilty. Even in a digital age, there is just something about paper.

But I have the same issue with digital reading, as well.
The post quotes it, but does not mention it.
Assuming the accusation was made in the past then yes they would have a file on him, but he appears to not have been convicted of the offence. I can’t see how it would have been possible to have had the case heard in court given CPS was unaware of the situation until the live streaming and took the baby one day later.

As someone with children I would hope it would take a little more than an accusation from a potentially disgruntled ex-partner to have CPS to swoop in and remove my children from their mother.
Yesterday's discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13665132
Ah, good point, my mistake. And yeah, definitely agreed regarding voter hesitancy to elect someone his age.

It does seem like Trump has probably broken the mold permanently, in terms of the type of background one needs to become president.

I think it was a wake-up call for guys like Zuck, Mark Cuban, etc who desire influence but had never seriously considered running for president as a viable option.
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> Prior to this announcement we had disclosed the hack to the exchanges for them to assist in our investigations.

No, but it does sound like they disclosed the vuln to exchanges before announcing so that trading could be halted and patches applied.
Does this mean that if I build something with this framework, it won't work on iOS devices?
I'm gonna wait for the replication before I believe it.
It's not an excuse, I just don't think that your statement that the hashmap code uses unsafe superfluously is correct.
Older organisms have added time to ingest toxins like heavy metals (especially prevalent in carnivorous fish like tuna). I suspect this plays some role here.
I think they were actually referring to working conditions, not immigration (getting approved to begin work, getting feedback, etc.)
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Do you do automated load tests? What is the frequency on them if not. Also curious what your stack is?
Statically served isn't an opposite of dynamically updated, dynamically fetched and extensible with dynamic parts on the client.
Look, it sounds like your implying compute colocated storage in the analog properties of your system (which is exactly what a synaptic weight is btw), on top of using extremely low bit precision. So explicitly calling your system totally non-neuromorphic is a little deceiving. But even then I find this idea that you're going to be running the AlexNet communication protocol to pass around information in your system to be a little strange. If you're doing anything like passing digitized inputs through a fixed analog convolution then you're not going to beat the SRAM limit, which means that instead you have in mind keeping the data analog at all times, passing it through an increasing length of analog pipelines. Even if you get this working, I'm quite skeptical that by the time you have a complete system, you'll have reduce communication costs by even half the reduction you achieve in computation costs on a log scale. It's of course possible that I'm wrong there (and my entire argument hinges on the hypothesis that computation costs will fall faster than communication - which is true for CMOS but may be less true for optical), but this is really the only projection on which we disagree. If I'm right, then regardless of whether you can hit 50 Tops (or any value) on AlexNet, you'd be foolish not to reoptimize the architecture to reduce communication/compute ratios anyway.
My git "workflow" (if you can call it that) is to explicitly ban git from production systems. If your prod machine requires Git to get code, you're probably doing something wrong. Config files are better gotten from an HTTP API, where you can audit access; actual code/program files are better grabbed from something like Artifactory or a network share.
Do you load test before each release? Who does that, and what is the stack?
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> Now almost half of my feed is filled with photos of old Trabant, Lada or Opel Kadett cars, and I love that.

This is why some of my friends prefer Instagram as their primary social network. It's mostly hobbies, food, very little politics.
As an aside, I added Twitter to that for a sense of scale: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=Facebook... (Short version: Facebook dwarfs Twitter.)

However, the "Interest by region" is amusingly topical.
Actually since I am old enough to know x86 Assembly since 8086, that way of programming feels natural to me.

I have tried to play with ARM Assembly, just for fun, and it isn't the same thing.
all these blockchain currencies seem to have really good bug bounty programs, this one gave out almost half a million dollars (410BTC)
> See, the thing is, I understand this.

I believe that. And of course the middle class is of concern as well, however the middle class is dying, we're becoming only the rich and the poor and the poor make up the largest part of society in that sense, so that's where the focus belongs, in helping to recreate a middle class we haven't had in a long time.

> Sure, but this a reflection of their stressed state and immediate needs, not proper analysis.

No, it's a reflection of their lack of capital; interest rates matter in terms of savings to those who have enough money that the interest rate actually matters. It takes quite a lot of money before you need to care about savings interest rates. To most people, it only matters in terms of what they're paying for debt and those people want low interest rates, not high ones. To most of the population, low interest rates are far better because it decreases their debts and most of the population is in debt.

> or their mandate clashes with technology. What is the result of this clash?

Agreed, and that's where i'm going as well, we need to get past this notion of trying to attain full employment, employment can no longer be the goal in an automated world. As we move forward, what the Fed does will have to adapt to the new world where it's no longer about employment, but about how to effectively share the benefits of productivity created by technology with everyone, not just the capital class.

As to stable prices, that doesn't mean preventing things from getting cheaper, it means fighting inflation. Nothing wrong with things getting cheaper, everything wrong with them getting more expensive across the board. So they aren't in conflict with tech there, tech does make things cheaper, unfortunately, it also tends to make workers poorer as it makes them unnecessary which will eventually destroy the market for said products when no one has money to buy them.

Automation at the end of the day, is a poison pill to an economy based on low skilled physical wage labor. And an economy based on high skilled mental wage labor simply doesn't align with the realities of the human condition. Half the population has an IQ below 100, they will never be capable of high skilled thinking jobs. So the very foundation of our economy must change in order to continue down this path of automation. For the basics of living, we need more socialism and less capitalism. We need a more social democracy that takes back enough from the capital class to ensure the lower classes don't revolt take what they require through violence because they won't be able to take it through working before long.
100k is the most generous interpretation of "6 figures". Would ride sharing companies still buy them at 350k each? At that point it may take 5 years to break even compared to having a human driving a 35k car
It will probably take longer than that. I've yet to see a non-tech demo fully self-driving car. If I'm being optimistic, I'd say 2020 at the very least for early models.
First of all, that doesn't include linking debug info (dsymutil), does it? That's usually bigger than the executable itself. You can get away without linking it, but that just means the debugger has to read a ton of object files at startup. dsymutil isn't part of the linker, but AFAIK there's no reason it couldn't/shouldn't be.

Anyway, an incremental link should take a small fraction of a second and be O(1) all the way up to something like chromium. Well, there's the need to stat the input files to check for changes, but that's something the build system also has to do, so ideally there should be some sort of coordination.

It's true that the output of an incremental link will generally be nondeterministic, unless you add a slow postprocessing step. After all, the whole point is to take advantage of the fact that most of the desired content is already in the output binary. Ideally you never have to touch that content, even just to do a disk copy; you should be able to just patch in the new bytes in some free space in the binary, and mark the old region as free. But of course the ordering of symbols in the binary then depends on what was there before.

I don't know why that's particularly problematic; incremental builds are mainly useful during development, not for making releases, which is where reproducible builds are desirable.
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Make me think about the movie "Electric Dreams"

https://youtu.be/aVE8taDWmMc
Which is exactly what the article says - these cars are not going to be sold to the public but will all go to Lyft, which GM owns a stake of.
That $200m could probably be productively invested in more promising companies in the VCs' portfolios...
>The article overlooks a very important factor, that only Europe had colonies in the Americas, and that brought massive wealth to the continent since the XVI century. Before that, the Middle-East, India and China were , in general, more technologically and scientifically advanced than Europe.

That's an important point. However, what was important over the long-term is what the West did with that new wealth, namely feed a significant portion of it into helping the self-propelling dynamics the article describes.

The other civilizations, in contrast, had self-perpetuating dynamics that prevented growth and technological progress beyond a certain level, as least for the most part.
Because somewhere along the line, rather than going to the US and becoming some sort of dotcom millionaire back in the late nineties, I didn't.

Now I live vicariously through this site, dreaming of a nice office job with my own desk and a chair that isn't knackered...
Totally agree and glad other people feel the same way
Parodied perfectly by Silicon Valley in their bit about the Disrupt conference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-GVd_HLlps
You may be interested on http://mithril.js.org/
> I honestly don't understand how the actual, real, referenced fact that this is an existing typographical convention is 'blowing things out of proportion'.

I only meant, let's not make too big a deal over this tiny issue.

I understand your claims, but do you have evidence that in non-Christian, English-speaking cultures, the cross[0] is used to indicate death? Wikipedia isn't the best source, and I'd expect it to represent the views of people in mostly Christian societies. I admit I'm not doing the research myself, so I'm not complaining if you don't.

EDIT: Also, from the Wikipedia page you cited: While daggers are freely used in English-language texts,[citation needed] they are often avoided in other languages because of their similarity to the Christian cross.[citation needed] Certainly that could apply to non-Christian English-speaking societies. An uncited Wikipedia statement is even less reliable than a cited one, but so far nobody has pulled in any solid evidence.

[0] I don't agree that the icon on the map is a typographical dagger. Of course, any cross could be a dagger and vice versa, but otherwise nothing about it indicates a dagger. Also, as the Wikipedia page you cited says, "The dagger should not be confused with the Unicode characters "Latin cross" (, U+271D),"
In addition to native mobile apps, we do have a desktop app. It does require internet connectivity though (similar to Slack's app, it's built on electron). Airtable.com/downloads
GM sold a lot more cars, but in my line of work 2% definitely counts as "moving the needle."
the mice ate deer meat, I wouldn't call that "cannibalism". the fruit flies and the yeast, though, I would.
So what is your explanation as to why the West charged ahead, but the Middle East stagnated?
Yeah, Bittorrent has actually gotten more decentralized in recent years, both on the tracker front and on an increasing number of Torrent search engines being small operations.

I just find it sad that apparently the only reason that things tend to get more distributed is to evade some powerful authority. I wanted distributed systems to become mainstream, because of their freedom, equality, & competition benefits, but it appears that when given the choice, the mainstream would rather play kingmaker and live under centralized overlords.
Of the three experimental groups in the article, it sounds like two, the yeast and fruit flies, were all lab grown grown. Where would the toxins have come from.

In the third, the Deer meat fed to mice was 25 years old and clearly had fewer controls, despite this room for toxins, the mice had the smallest effect of any of three groups.
I agree with you, but I don't think GNU/Linux can compete with Windows at that point. The things you wrote about should have been implemented in most distro years ago.

If you speak about this in /r/linux, the people there will tell you that "if people are not willing to learn how to use the terminal to install apps, then they're just lazy/too stupid". This is the kind of mentality we're dealing with and that's why there's 288 ditros without any chance of mass adoption.
I've just tried it and it works flawlessly. Will add more shapes to see how it behaves.
Yes; "event sourcing" is a niche term for "maintaining a change log" which is quite literally the idea: keep patches, not states.
Very pretty. Nice effect!
I guess the answer is complicated, but clearly one factor is the Arab golden age of science ended when it was suppressed by islamic conservatives, but modern science was then adopted by the West.
To me, the biggest advantage is cross compiling

Not all system linkers have this problem. For example, Solaris ld(1) is perfectly capable of cross-linking any valid ELF file.
I don't terribly mind the "bait" -- it's an attempt to be topical. But the article is shallow garbage. There's plenty of other commentary on Orwell that would better serve as the basis for a discussion.

Two examples:

- Orwell's 1984 Still Matters, Though Not in the Way You Might Think / Charles Paul Freund / http://reason.com/blog/2015/01/15/orwells-1984-still-matters...

- The Importance of Being Orwell / Christopher Hitchens / http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2012/08/christopher-hitche...
I subscribed to your blog and your newsletter some months ago, and I must say I like what you do. Although I'm focused on C++ now for some courses I'm taking, I still hope to catch up on Go later, and I think your book will be helpful.
Personally, I wouldn't mind a hands-on exploration of a programming language having some pages, and links to good resources, on version control. Learning 'git' in such practical way (as part of a project) seems better to me (Harvard's CS50 now takes that approach too:
https://github.com/blog/2322-how-cs50-at-harvard-uses-github...).
Ask HN: How Does Google Spanner Affect CockroachDB?
Does it make CockroachDB more attractive as an on prem option or make it redundant?

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> Your brain is not a perfectly precise or reliable organ, but it's taken you this far.

...and it took only four billion years of evolution. (Or maybe 100 million years of mammalian evolution, or 20 of primate evolution, or 200 thousand years of human evolution. Whatever you pick, it's slow.)
Something happened with this Zucker guy lately. This bizarre Manifesto... how can he not feel that just everyone, left or right, would just throw up reading that? Is it his idea of a Better World? In which everybody pukes nonstop?
It would be nominaly better for her because it would be fair thing to do and would leave at least some good impression, not that I think anyone would give her more money.