skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And that's only CPU prices, don't forget mainboards, which are overpriced on the Intel X99 side!
Live patching is gaining the momentum - see Ksplice, Kpatch, kGraft, XEN and similar
Swedish conscription (before it was cancelled) was very close to voluntary anyways.

When I did the tests for it, about 20 years ago, only about one in five or so were picked from the tests, and it was trivial to avoid being picked if you didn't want to do it.

You motivate people the same way you motivate anyone I guess - you're here, you can make the best of it and learn some useful skills, or you can be spending the next year miserable.

We're doing useful important things here, and you can play a role in that, while learning (medical care/mechanical work/computer skills/languages/leadership skills... whatever).

If you really dont want to be there, you have ways out (both civil service, and flunking tests badly, or in an extreme case, go to jail).
The last time I looked at Python (which was something like a decade ago) the impression I was left with was that there was a sort of cognitive dissonance or collective self-deception going on. There was a simple, clean language subset which was the one presented in the official tutorial, by and large; and lying underneath there was another language full of introspection and underscores, which seemed to be necessary to get (many) things done without a boilerplate explosion. The impression I got was that everyone writing Python was convinced that those other guys didn't need to think about these dangerous, advanced features, but they were in the 10× hacker elite for which the power was necessary and appropriate. Now probably that's an exaggeration and somewhat unfair, but I think it's probably not completely wide of the mark. ;)
Except for the whole development of science and technology apparently inevitably leading to the destruction of the balance in life's environment thing and its subsequent (temporary?) extinction. Will humans ever be able to escape this planet?
Many of these companies are having to choose control and the ability to continue to make profit from their intellectual property vs they're games effectively being free in a historical archive.

Wonder if any of them would be willing to partner with a company or non-profit (such as the IA) if they offered to archive the code and artifacts for safe keeping but not automatically release it unless legally allowed to do so. Some things would probably stay under wraps for a long time, but at least it wouldn't be lost that way.
current web design trend is using the most annoying / eye hurting colors possible.
Diving into ant-design internals: Button
Yes, I do care. A lot. Actually if it's just 50ms I care. Slow main thread is a huge annoyance, and that's 99% of my computer use. On the other hand, I don't care if asynchronous tasks (encoding etc.) take 30 or 40 seconds or whatever; I can get a cup of coffee or check my email. Also, major parallel workloads are done on the GPU anyway.
So... 9 month brainwashing camps? That doesn't exactly sound like a good idea either.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-35456535 :

> "I always had a dream to come back as an officer and to do it here on Gotland and establish a new unit, it's perfect," he tells me.

That's exactly the kind of people who have no business even being in charge of what they themselves eat for breakfast. This mess makes me ashamed of my country.
Use a Side Drawer and Feature Rich List View in a NativeScript Angular App
They seem to be planning something like http://www.computermachines.org/joe/publications/pdfs/hpca20...

Something like that could be a monster for HPC & ML type tasks. Provided AMD gets their software and tooling up to par; Nvidia doesn't rule HPC/ML because their GPU's are leaps and bounds ahead of AMD, but because CUDA is..

If so, might explain why they went with a (relatively) gimped vector FPU for Zen compared to Intel offerings (particularly the soon arriving Skylake Xeons with 512-bit wide SIMD).
For us proud members of the reality-based community: Giant leftist stronghold.
Conveniently, nuclear fusion is also 10-20 years away. With the energy problem going away at the same time, we won't need to worry about working anymore.
Becoming fully reactive: an in-depth explanation of MobX (2015)
Author here. Added another quick video on Youtube, check this out https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13774829

Guess I need help from someone because English is not my mother language, and I even got cough these days.
There are more details on the release blog post: https://blog.docker.com/2017/03/docker-enterprise-edition/
>Looking at it naively, it seems to follow the rules for the arguments object in Crankshaft

I've never managed to find a good source on the V8 internals and how to target these optimizations (the "rules for the arguments object" the author alludes to).

Any recommendations?
Would be nice to also see how long a FreeBSD buildworld takes :)
Contact the hosting company. File DMCA take down letter.

http://www.ipwatchdog.com/2009/07/06/sample-dmca-take-down-l...
Though correct this author makes a key assumption I dispute. "Scala as a better Java" === "people code in the same way in Scala & Java". This assumption leads to the focus on various Libraries and accepted standards.

But, at least to me, "Scala as a better Java" === "Scala with better syntax and less boiler plate but access to Java libraries if you need them".

Java is a brilliant language. But nothing can survive without some assumptions being voided over time. Despite that, many institutions relay on the good parts of Java (which there are many). Scala is a middle ground which has that backwards compat but with fixes to invalidated assumptions (syntax that has gotten clunky over time, lack of functional constructs)
Large Amounts of Scientific Research Shown to Be False
Bitcoin’s Rocket Boosters on Full Throttle as Price Skyrockets
How is AI any different from other technology improvement such as electricity, automation, personal computers, steam engines, or the cotton gin?

All of them destroyed some jobs, and created new ones.

Are you sure that the impact of this one thing will be larger than other events, such as climate change, space travel, video games or war?

The only thing that is likely from AI of is perhaps increased productivity, which, on its own, will not create chaos. And, we have had several false starts in the past on that with AI, so even that is unclear.

My suggestion is to continue living your life in the best way you think possible.
The thing is this: For all the side effects one person might have, such drugs are life-changing for some folks.

For example, many people with MS get fatigue so badly that they can't manage to do anything during the day, though sometimes it happens suddenly without reason. Modafinil and the like are the mechanisms for overcoming this. Side effects are much more tolerable than suddenly having to lay down and sleep.
Agreed up until the XML bit. It's not "XML vs YAML", it's "Why do you need all this static markup at all?".
If it does happen, there would surely be a new wave of employment in areas unimagined before.
Simple: build a calculator. They are adults and should know basic math so they have a comfort zone and would know if the computer did it right.

Introduce loops (add a string of integers like "1 2 5 8"), functions to run those (add, multiply, etc.)

Don't get all computer science-y on them with recursion, sorting or stuff like that in the first 2 hours of an introduction.

It might be a lot of work to setup 20 computers with something like Ruby or Python - assuming you ask them to bring their own laptop. That might take 2 hours itself. Just find some online Javascript (shudder) editor thing which will allow them to build a basic calculator - no UI though, that's too complex for 2 hours.

Programming is just telling a computer to do things. They are parents and should be familiar with that concept, except the computer will do exactly what they ask, unlike kids.
War has a way of spilling over borders.
Why we are not leaving the cloud
Bicycling in the winter is fine. I've ridden across a frozen lake on my commute to school on a mountain bicycle for two winters every weekday.

Motorcycling in the winter on a street motorcycle with summer tires, on the other hand, is extremely dangerous.
Implement a Georgist tax regime[1], take the money production facility away from the banks (direct issuance by the goverment for infrastructure, profit share the results), implement Distributist[2] policies to spread capital ownership as broadly as possible, and implement a gently eugenic basic income regime. (Not happy about that last one, but it has to happen to make things sustainable.)

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgism

[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributism
If you post something to your story and that might be OK if only people your age see it but you wouldn't your parents to see it.

Just like how people use Facebook before all their parents joined too.
>'if this isn't for you then you can go home'

I did compulsory military service, including in a leadership role. "If you don't do what you're told, you don't get go home next weekend." Worked very well for conscripts, who usually get to go home for many weekends (unless on exercises). There are also many smaller privileges you can take a way for smaller infractions.

Although when you have a defensive military that does not go around the world fighting wars, and whose only objective is to retain the independence of your own country, most conscripts take it as their civic responsibility and don't cause problems.

Those who are fundamentally unsuited for military usually ended up getting discharged quickly. Most before ever stepping into service.

>Conscription seems counter-productive to me.

Britain has 150k active military personnel with 80k reserves. Now imagine you're a country with less than 10% of the population and need to produce a force of 200k soldiers in order to have a credible deterrent against an aggressive neighbor. How do you do that without conscription?
I think they meant no one will be buying a Wii U for Zelda, not the Switch.
IntelliJ team contemplating one-click Scala+IntelliJ bundle. Vote if you agree
Very curious to see what will happen. My sense says that US citizens won't need a visa for European travel... it would be very inconvenient for both Europe and the US (and also bad for the politicians).

My biggest question is who will give in, Europe or the US? If I recall, the US keeps good records of the percent of people from each country that commit crime, overstay their visa, etc. There has been some kerfuffle that we require citizens of one of the US' best friends, Israel, visas. But the US backs up that requirement showing the percentage of Israelis in America engaged in various activities. I'd imagine the same is similair for Romania / Bulgaria. So the US has good reasons.

At the same time, Europeans have a lot of pride and don't like thinking America controls them.

My uneducated guess: the Europeans strong need to not be controlled by America will mean that Europe will either implement, or give one last ultimatum and then implement.

US citizens will start calling their congress people when they realize they need a visa for their trip to Rome. I'd guess the congress people will give in and make the change, as there aren't so many Bulgarian / Romanian people causing trouble compared with angry travelers wanting to travel.

If the rule does get implemented, then the question would be, who is the greater political force: the European tourism industry losing revenue or the American traveling citizenry dealing with hassles?
In Band of Brothers (the HBO docudrama), the featured unit are paratroopers. They discuss volunteering for the more severe duty because they think they will then be around similarly motivated individuals.
> How is AI any different from other technology improvement such as electricity, automation, personal computers, steam engines, or the cotton gin?

Because all new created jobs will be automated a few (days|weeks|months|years) later. At least that's what i hope for.
It sounds like they're referring to the Wii U; they're suggesting (correctly, arguably) that the Wii U is essentially dead now, and that no one will buy the Wii U just for Zelda. If anything, people will instead buy the Switch, hence their point about Zelda "saving the Switch" (although from what, I'm not sure, since it does have over a hundred games confirmed).
>YMMV. If you need legal advice, retain a lawyer.

So I need to find a lawyer and pay him $1000+ so I can see if GitHub is safe to use?

I guess I'll just stick with storing projects on my computer at home and skip this cloud-based stuff. I can't afford to retain a lawyer and consult with him for everything I do with code online.
For many it's a possibility, for Muslims it's an inevitability.
3 Floyd's Alpha King[1]... best IPA/Pale Ale ever. Let the flame war begin!!!

[1] https://www.3floyds.com/beer/alpha-king/?age_verification=e7...
> How do you motivate a conscript ?

Same you motivate anyone anywhere, except that in the end you have institutionally-legitimated physical threats to back up your orders. Field-proven method since about 6000 years !
Does that mean I have to use a government approved text editor every time I automate something with code?
But isn't kubernetes managing docker containers? or does it support anything else?
In my experience it's only preferable to: 1. parking/driving downtown, which is more expensive and 2. not being late for work because I lack the will to get up some days. The express bus line here will pick me up reasonably close to my house and drops me off across the street from my building, and can drive in exclusive lanes, such that Uber/Lyft often takes longer and significantly more expensive. I do not live in a dense enough area to really care about how packed the bus is and I certainly don't care about whether I need to sit or stand.
If I'm your customer, I don't want to feel like you're going to devote time and resources to finding the optimal way to fuck me over if I don't cough up more money. That sentiment is completely independent of the editorial content we're talking about.
If you like cheese and / or beer you owe to yourself to make a trip to Vermont and visit Waterbury and / or Burlington. Alchemist, Hill Farmstead, Lawson's Finest Liquids, Jasper Hill Farm, etc
>containerd is a different type of component entirely - in fact it is very complementary to kubernetes

You made the initial comparison.

> Nobody ever deploys kub alone in production. There is always some form of platform on top.

Which is another way of saying "even if there are some gaps they have to fill with other software". Sure, some customers pick a platform where the gaps are prefilled. Not terribly different from some of your customers that pair docker pieces with pieces from other vendors.
They were showing the comparative cost, not total cost.
Using Uber all month, it's $250. If they used Lyft all month -instead-, it's $500. Bus -instead- it would be $100.

On top of payments, when you factor in insurance and parking fees(stupidly expensive in some cities), taking Uber/Lyft can work out cheaper.
I hate having to collect specific hardware for specific games, that's the single reason why I never buy consoles anymore. It just feels very wasteful and becomes a storage headache over time.
I've always found it curious that Neural Networks get so much hype when xgboost (gradient boosted decision trees) is by far the most popular and accurate algorithm for most Kaggle competitions. While neural networks are better for image processing types of problems, there are a wide variety of machine learning problems where decision tree methods perform better and are much easier to implement.
This is a couple years old, and has been on HN before [1].

I'm resharing because:

1. It seems to be quite clever, and potentially applicable beyond JS. I'm curious what the limitations of this approach are.

2. It didn't get much discussion last time.
Certainly not all, but some people with criminal tendencies could and do benefit from the structure and support of serving in the military. How much crime do you think is caused by people who didn't grow up learning discipline and responsibility and can't keep food on the table or a steady job? You don't have to kick the shit out of most of those people to turn them into an effective soldier.
What I don't understand about this is if I'm using Instagram Stories, just because I happen to be an active instagram user....why would I ever switch to Snapchat other than audience? I can get alot of the same audience on Instagram already. Stories does the trick mostly
I'm sorry you don't like the new versioning.

Echoing @shykes below[1], Docker had premium paid products before this launch, but we're trying to make that clearer and to simplify the product lineup.

Note that Docker CE is _just_ as good as the Docker you were using yesterday. In addition, the version lifecycle improvements are designed to get new features into Docker users' hands faster (with monthly Edge releases) and to improve maintainability by overlapping the maintenance windows of free Docker CE quarterly releases.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13774420
South Korea you do 3yrs mandatory service or 2yrs jail and life long shame so motivation isn't a problem. After basic it often involves just working at a desk somewhere only a few stay as professional soldiers rest are moved into cheap civil service labor.

I suspect Sweden has brought back conscription to try and integrate it's new massive foreigner population as a way to make them more Swedish not because of any shenanigans in Kosovo. ...edit oops variable scope error, threat:= Russian shenanigans
Robot tax.
This is the claim made by Uber spokesmen. I also heard it directly from an Uber manager. It disgusted me too.

https://www.bostonglobe.com/business/2016/04/27/uber-resists...
Aren't unicorn valuations based on the likelihood of winning a winner-take-all race?
That'd be a fun test, too. One would need to control for disk io but definitely useful. I wonder how many HN readers run FBSD
I'm genuinely interested in how the sales numbers are going to go for the Switch.

A fair number of the Nintendo first party titles are going to be system-sellers, especially for Nintendo fans with pent up demand.

Once the dust settles, however, I'm curious if the sales numbers can show sustained growth after the Zelda honeymoon period, since most of the Nintendo fans by then would have picked up a Switch.
I understand how the personal responsibility plays into the climate change and already follow most of the best practices: biking to the office, driving electric (Ontario electricity), energy conservation at home, reducing consumption, but feel that I can do more.

Can someone suggest a few environmental charities that can be donated to?
Uber (and other startups) could die from Diversity Debt
As I have grown up with all kinds of animated cartoons on the TV, I always wanted a computer game which sported that level of graphics. It turns out, that from the raw hardware capability, computers long ago exceeded this ability, yet there is a big scarcity of real animated games. Windwaker (HD) is a really nice exception from that. It looks like an animate comic movie. From this point of view, I am actually happy that Nintendo did not try to make the next best rendering machine, and I hope that the games do benefit from that in an aesthetically sense. Of course I would not mind if Zelda ran at 60FPS, but the visuals look just great.
I think our society might be changing a little bit more. This talk explains it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMYYx_im5QI
> misses spinner

https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/javafx/api/javafx/scene/con...

> UI bindings require a lot of manual converters instead of doing conversions that p.e. WPF does out-of-the-box (like double to string when using a text box; principle of least surprise).

You can use String.valueOf, but usually don’t want to do that. And how do you want to represent the float? With Scientific notation, Engineering notation, or purely decimal? This is not simple.

> And (the worst) it's not conceptually compatible to the model classes (abstract tree model) that almost every UI framework (including Swing) provides. Instead, tree nodes have to be manually instantiated).

Or you use the FXML bindings for creating them from XML?
He has a lot of ideas about who is a real American. Does he also have a lot of ideas about who is a real Saudi, a real Yemeni, a real Moroccan, a real Indonesian, a real Nigerian?
I think the intention is to contrast it with the open world WRPG's this new Zelda is taking cues from.
World war.

History suggests that the massive devastation and annihilation of labor resulting from a multi-continental war is extremely economically stimulating to the survivors. So many opportunities for jobs rebuilding and restoring the things and people that were destroyed!

(I am, of course, being sarcastic, but it's useful in these contemplations sometimes to consider the stakes by putting a null hypothesis of sorts on the table).
Maybe marking them deprecated when they're launched?
Audi TT RS VS Porsche 718 Cayman S Drag Race
How do you motivate a non-existent volunteer?

If not enough people are volunteering for the military, how else are you supposed to defend your country? It's not as good a situation as if you had an all-volunteer army, but that doesn't seem to be an option for Sweden.
I don't think this is the intention. Personally, I think the name "CE" is a bit unfortunate, as it implies what you said. However, for the time-being at least, I would expect the core Docker engine to remain the same between CE and EE.
Any list for top hacker news posters?
Self-driving cars will kill the auto insurance industry
Building a Reddit Visualizer from scratch
I wouldn't cite propaganda to support that conclusion, precisely because it's propaganda.
> The problem seems to be that Java devs like to create things more complex than they need to be.

This was my experience as well when I first tried to experiment with Kotlin for backend web development (coming from a py/rb/jS background).

I would still happily use Kotlin if I had to be on the JVM, but I came away with the impression that most – certainly not all – of the libraries and tools in the ecosystem are... not to my taste.
The reverse happens as well. Consider DNA repair. Evolution requires a certain level of mutation in order to work. If a species evolves perfect DNA repair mechanisms, then it will stop evolving and eventually go extinct.

However on an individual level, DNA repair is highly selected for. Any individual with lower mutation rates is much less likely to die of cancer. Much less likely to have offspring with harmful genetic disorders. After all, the vast majority of mutations are either neutral or harmful, not beneficial. So individuals with the repair gene will tend to have more successful offspring than organisms without, and the frequency of the gene will increase.

Most genes that could improve evolution itself are not selected for. Individual fitness matters, not group fitness.

There are other ways evolution hurts itself. For instance there is a condition in mice that lives on the male chromosome. It causes all of it's offspring to be male. So all of them also carry this condition. Thus the condition spreads itself twice as much as the competing genes. And so it quickly fixes itself in the population and then there are no more females.
I use snapchat every single day. Not a Facebook user anymore. They've got a really stronghold on 18-25 year old market.

Facebook sees snap as a threat and they literally ripped snapchat in whatsapp "status".

I can't say that it will beat Facebook but I'm willing to bet it will be more valuable than twitter. I will buy if it's share price is not too hyped.
You'll have to wait for the APUs, then, which probably won't arrive until fall.