skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They were innovating from their earliest days (earliest example I remember were the "break-away" pricing labels to resist tag switching)

They were one of their first big enterprises to embrace node.js, contributing in open source, and leveraging it to handle Black Friday traffic.

IMO the online grocery shopping experience is better than Instacart (it's a matter of when, not if, they add home delivery to pickup)

I think the idea that they aren't a technology company is the result of cognitive dissonance between stores and the back-office, that WalMart is the culture that People of WalMart mocks, a bunch of redneck bumpkins from red states.
The mythology of programming language ideas
How to make six figures in tech by programming
A Disadvantaged Start Hurts Boys More Than Girls (2015)
Because paying women less goes hand in hand with seeing them as not being comparable to male hires?
I honestly don't know what you're trying to say.
There's a bit of difference between mass surveillance and the infrastructure necessary for a viable chemical weapons program. Assuming a major nation state would even want to, considering their rather limited tactical value on the modern battlefield.

Anyhow, the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons out of The Hague oversees compliance with the Chemical Weapons Convention. That includes verifying the destruction of stockpiles and weapons facilities as well as industry inspections that closely monitor precursors, as well as investigating cases of alleged production or usage. As of last October, 93% of declared stockpiles has been destroyed and independently verified by the OPCW. You don't have to take the US government's word for their numbers.
I was really in to Supercollider a long time ago, and I remember there were synths floating around on the mailing list that included big arrays of weird looking values, and they somehow made drum sounds. My brain is remembering that they were called eigenvalues, but I tried searching and didn't find much.
No idea how someone figured out or calculated the values. I think they were impractical to calculate at runtime in supercollider.
Democracy implies voting. Maybe the Chinese and Indians don't "vote" for running ;)
I guess I am thinking of contexts like uploaded files, or shared network drives.
It's there a way to try it out without signing up? The first thing I wanted to do was test your claim for speediness. There is a road block in front of doing that.
Puerto Ricans have had numerous opportunities to change their situation, most recently in 2012. The results were ambiguous.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puerto_Rican_status_referendum...

Puerto Rico actually has a pretty good deal - no federal income taxes. I'd happily give up my right to vote for the same benefit.
> yet I never see this discussed

Weasel words. The discussion happens, it is out there, you can find it. Who is to blame if you ignore it?
I'm curious to know whether virustotal detects the infected dll.

My tin foil hat thinks no.
I have the non-developer version of the laptop.

Imho the only thing that really differs is the network card. And in the XPS, you can replace your network card. Having said that , I have the non developer version and have had out of the box experience.

In fact, it has been a long time since I saw network problems on any laptop for a long time. The biggest issues you will see are around secure boot and UEFI configuration. Dell has an excellent BIOS that takes care of this.
Amusingly, Ariat paddock boots have carbon fiber inserts. Riding boots need something to stiffen the sole, since all the load is on the stirrup bar. Ariat used to use steel, but this caused so much hassle at airport metal detectors that Ariat switched to carbon fiber.

But there's no energy storage, as with these Nike running shoes.
Funny how whenever I read that a company is 'launching an investigation' into something, I interpret it to mean one of two things "We're so incompetent we don't know what we're doing" or, more likely "We're feeding you bullshit while trying to make it seem as though we're actually doing something."
Can you give an example where the GIL is really holding you back?

Because with multiprocessing and greenlets, 99.99% of concurrency problems are trivilially solved by current Cython.
WalMart Grocery's online order/pickup in store option is great. Comparable to Instacart's shopping experience, without the markup - you just drive to pickup, and it's already bagged and brought out to your car.
You'd be surprised how quickly it comes back. I recently had to design a simple ~50 node circuit after ~10 years of not doing anything of the sort, and I had it simulated in SPICE and prototyped after maybe 10 hours of work over a few days.
Contained in "Buy Jupiter and Other Stories"
Available on amazon (https://www.amazon.com/Jupiter-Other-Stories-Isaac-Asimov/dp...)
WIKILEAKS VAULT 7 IS DONALD TRUMP'S PROOF OF WIRETAPPING
What evidence is there that math is easier to reason about than imperative programming?
> The Shatner reference is to one of the strangest Twilight Zone episodes, Nightmare at 20,000 Feet,

I don't know that earned a title for one of the strangest. There were lots of great episodes in the series, it would be hard to argue any of them were other than very strange.

[Edited to address astrodust's comment.]
Correct me if I am totally wrong here, but isn't the issue not with introducing new private frameworks or exposing new methods but with changing the behavior of the interpreted code that interacts with already exposed frameworks/methods? The relevant language seems to suggest that you could still be in violation of Apple's TOS if your script(s):

>change the primary purpose of the Application by providing features or functionality that are inconsistent with the intended and advertised purpose of the Application as submitted to the App Store.
Clerky actually doesn't provide their own; they line you up to use one of two services, neither of which is particularly competitively priced or well-thought-of.

Many would consider annual registered agent fees as too little money to comparison shop for, but $100+/year before you're ramen profitable might make the difference for some startups.
I would check with your ISO/Processor...but you're pretty much fine as long as you charge a generic credit card surcharge and treat all cards the same. You only really get into trouble with Visa/MC/Amex/Discover when you start charging different fees on different transactions.

Source: I used to run a payment gateway & ISO.
Having seen both the tv episode and the movie episode, my recollection is that the tv episode was superior.
The magic in arm is in Risc. in an azure (or aws) cloud where 90% of operations are webserver events, those are less than complex operations. Relational databases with sums, grouping, etc. Not using every bit of x86. And once you start talking about geospatial, advanced searching, and cryptography, you might just offload to a graphics chip.
Very much this. It's the easy, trite, safe, politically correct position to take. You get a pat on the back for being a good moral upstanding person according to the mores du jour. You feel good. No hard conversations are had. It becomes a cult. People are burned at the proverbial stake for not subscribing to the Geocentric model.
https://syonyk.blogspot.com.au/2016/03/is-tesla-building-thr...

I read that blogpost and decided I would never buy a Tesla unless there are massive changes.
Probably taxes, where all SS funds have always come from.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFbWJJj9uFU
Let me get this straight.

SS would be a ponzi scheme if they paid current retirees with money taken from current workers via "SS taxes".

But in reality it's not a ponzi scheme because they'll instead pay out current retirees with money taken from current workers via "Income taxes", and routed through strange bond-like structures.

Is that about right?
What exactly is that doing? Is it analysing the song and trying to make a "perfect loop"?
Of course not.

But if (as in this case) we're trying to mitigate, broadly, against a threat with the resources[1] of the CIA, SHA1 should be considered completely inappropriate now, even though the recent SHA1 announcement was with respect to collisions rather than a preimage attack.

Surely requesting they post SHA256 hashes is the appropriate step?

[1] obviously after the leaks this specific attack is more likely to be coopted by many additional actors, but I don't think that's enough to explode my point.
As an attacker, you have a decent shot at doing UEFI/BIOS level exploits or even going after the Intel Management Engine.

This is why I run libreboot and I neutralized the IME by flashing my BIOS using SOIC-8 chip clips and a Bus Pirate.

I guess I'm paranoid.
Yea I agree, I don't have whatever hangup those people do: what I prefer to use lines up pretty comprehensibly with what's most efficient. I recently took an extended sabbatical and went backpacking and took along a small laptop. Almost universally, people who saw me on it assumed I was working. All of these people were _aware_ that you can do almost anything on a laptop that you can do on a smartphone, but for some reason everyone maps phone to leisure and computers to work. Web seems to fall into a similar category (regardless of the platform); people find it intimidating I guess.

In this case, I'm sure people would prefer answering these questions directly to a person, but that's obviously way higher cost and the point of this system is that you don't have to hire a lawyer. Given that direct human conversation isn't an option, and given the evidently common aversion to normal web interfaces, I'm not particularly surprised that some people might find this valuable.
For human level vision and speech (and even search) long term we might not need computational clouds and data centers. We don't see them in nature. The models/indexes will likely just come prepackaged on device.
I don't understand - what does/did it do?
You definitely can - I know that many of them still do. However, I'm not sure how many people do this 100% of the time.
> Which chips are you refering to, specifically?

Literally any ARM chip. What ARM chip do you think makes a fitting replacement for a high performance Intel core in a Macbook?
I've always been fascinated by this similar but broader image showing likely migration out of Africa over the (thousands of) years:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haplogroup#/media/File:Map-of-...
Wireless charging tech harvests your phone's wasted radio waves
The example on the readme shows a datetime(MySQL) and timestamp(PostgreSQL) for a field called birthday with a type of "date".

Both those database have a "date" type, why isn't it used?
Sleeping Through the Night Is a Relatively New Invention
Is this open source? We were looking for something like this.
The visualization is known as a chord diagram[1][2], and these particular ones generated by Echo Nest show repetitions in the analyzed songs (e.g. chorus lines). A circle is a good starting visualization because there is a linear progression from beginning to end (single path) and the chord diagram lends itself well to the metrics Echo Nest is demonstrating.

[1] http://www.datavizcatalogue.com/methods/chord_diagram.html

[2] https://bl.ocks.org/mbostock/1046712
It is incredibly hard to have a good discussion about this topic. I think it is getting better on Hacker News, but there is still a lot of work to do.

I sometimes write about such topics, but can't get much traction. A few of my pieces have gotten a few thousand page views, mostly on HN, but most of what I write is largely ignored. If you want something meatier, you might enjoy my personal blog.

Best.
>IIRC, PP can be a precursor to chlorine

potassium permanganate does not contain chlorine
It seems to work fine for me? I just searched for Nothing Else Matters by Metallica and am listening to it on endless mode.
Why not just use an off-the-shelf rootkit with off-the-shelf obfuscator + whatever exploits they discovered? None of the code has to be extremely valuable.

If I were CIA in the current political climate, I would simply slightly modify a Russian exploit toolchain and exfiltrate data to CIA controlled C&C. One dev can do the work and with a couple of days of effort it would get past all major AVs.
In its own way this is quite a profound piece on writing.

I like the basic idea that you needn't know the goal of a piece of writing when you set out, but you learn to edit it.

Some people are going to try to connect that with the way startups iterate. Perhaps that is right, and iterating is a form of editing, but this doesn't illuminate the insight. The actual examples he gives serve to make the idea clearer.
Is there info on how many times a Falcon 9 stage can be used before it's simply worn out?
Because those are typically flagged and down voted even faster on here because there are less people to unflag and upvote
> many manual tasks repeated over and over to set up the programs

In some ways, not much different to today
>>The commenter is explaining that potassium permanganate is harmless and usually used as a water purifier anyway.

Harmless at what level? Because even the most harmless chemical substance will become harmful at high enough doses.
I get it the point they were trying to make is that you cannot understand the software by looking at the hardware. But I also agree that the analogy is very weak.
While you're there, tell Intel to ignore HP and forget Itanium ;-)
Opensourcing our angular 2 experiment(production level)
> This doesn't mean anything.

And neither does your practically trolling comment. You could say that about anything.

> The only thing that matters is what (and how much) data you have and what queries you want to run. If a relational database can do that for you then cassandra/scylla isn't a good choice.

Theory aside what matters is what I can get to work... so prior knowledge is a big deal.

All I said is it would be interesting if Postgres had a better story for elasticity and that it might be a good fit for many. I think many are in my camp and a relational db would fit but are all to often pushed towards to NoSQL.

Again I don't want to hear about CAP this and that. You can totally take either system and make it have many of the properties that our touted for each one. People take relational databases and turn them into schemaless or columnar stores all the time with eventually consistency (often with mysql). Particularly with Postgres as it is a platform (it has a powerful extension model).

Regardless Cassandra is touted for analytics. The marketing really pushes it for that. Eventually consistency and columnar store is a good fit for real time analytics. Lots of data points, lots of aggregation, get to play with various queries in realtime, elasticity... etc.

We will probably hit a wall with Postgres.

All and all I think Cassandra is pretty good for what it does. Other than Redis, and maybe RethinkDB I think its my third NoSQL favorite (and yes I know each of those guys has a sweet spot for what they are good at requirement wise).
I was a team lead for an IBM operations team for 6 months in 2016. Aside from my first two days, I worked from home the entire duration of the role, based in Sydney. Most of my staff were in China, with handoff to the next shift in Europe (who were all remote staff as well).
Thanks for the recommendation! I will check it out for sure!
Move to Puerto Rico if you think that's a good deal.
I never thought that ipython notebooks could be used to build production models.

Can you talk about this? How big a machine do you need to run notebooks effectively ? Why a notebook...Why not a Python script,etc
High Times for Low Precision Hardware
Nvidia  Jetson TX2: 2x perf & efficiency for IoT, robots, autonomous vehicles
I'm not recommending doing it either! :)
"If" housing crashes? There is no "if". It is always a matter of "when".
I absolutely love these obscure pop sub-references. Thank you for the post, it tickled my funny bone.
Very interested. With processors becoming less power hungry, maybe in the future phones will be able to charge via surrounding 802.11 signals.
Sure, public transit can be done well. You can also offer guaranteed seating for a price, which changes the experience entirely. I'd love to spend the first and last hour of my workday on an Amtrak-like train (assuming it had reasonable on-time performance).

The proposal here isn't to do public transit better, though. It's to get more people to use the existing, shitty public transit by pricing them out of driving.
Not by design, but some end up that way due to looting.
Kinda painful to watch... thank god for the playback speed X 1.5
v3 does not have a native HTTP API. I suspect you still use v2 API. You need the gateway to make v3 works with HTTP: https://github.com/coreos/etcd/blob/master/Documentation/dev...

But that might impact performance quite bit depending on your workload.
Indeed, that's what we like to tell ourselves. But is that actually what's happening? Did you take the test?
This looks great. Definitely interested in the self hosted option.
I think there is at least an effort, recently, on Razer's side to support linux across their hardware, as per this recent official thread in their support forums: https://insider.razerzone.com/index.php?threads%2Fwelcome-to...
What have you tried both of?
Sounds like something that will never happen.
I think the Great Recession has proven this wrong. Globalization is too far progressed at this point to pretend that all the major world players aren't economically interconnected.
> disabling neurons sounds a little crude and may not help much in gaining a finer understanding

Yes it's crude, but artificially creating 'lesions' and investigating brain disfunction is a time-honored tradition in neuroscience. It's usually done with rats/cats/monkeys, but humans with brain damage due to strokes or surgeries also serve as useful 'natural experiments.' HM is a classic example [0].

When working with something as complicated with the brain, taking out pieces and seeing what changes is a reasonable way to investigate its operation...depending on how you feel about utilizing animals in this way.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Molaison
Awesome, thanks for the encouragement! I'll keep at it :)
IBM's policy seems to have changed recently. https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/02/08/ibm_no_more_telecom...
Can we stop measuring data storage in units of 'song'?
Right, but Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo also make their entire systems (both hardware and software), not to mention that they don't provide games for other platforms, so it's obviously going to be a little different for SteamOS, which is essentially a second-tier platform from Valve and is running on arbitrary hardware.
No, but you can do this yourself quite easily. I am way too tired and sleep deprived to do more on this for at least a couple of days. Even then I have other priorities.
I see you got downvotes, but any semblance of a distinction has been lost. Whatever legal standard federal agencies have used to shut down private versions of these has been totally muddied revealing the moral relativity of all institutions that slowly pay your money back to you.

So yes, today, in 2017, "Ponzi" is used as a pejorative, and comparing accepted good things to a pejorative will garner you downvotes, but there is no distinction.
Xweb: Minimal python web framework with no dependencies(less than 500 lines)
It is a plan for a followup post to have that.
Oh, I agree. I just think it's going to be awhile.
'Later this month'?

Spaceflightnow.com says the next Falcon 9-SES launch is SES 10 on March 27.
Does Google not have any guidelines that say to keep pages small and fast? Seems like they should have a list of things to keep in mind when looking at search-rankings
> The second part of the problem is societal: women are discouraged from pursuing higher-paying jobs by society. This isn't the fault of the women themselves

I really think that point of view is both wrong and harmful.

It's true that society influences people in various ways. But you're assuming that what men do is the "default", and so if women do it less, they are discouraged.

Instead, looking at it from the women's side, perhaps it is men that are overly encouraged to do certain things. For example, men are highly overrepresented in prisons compared to women, and that's not good.

That might be an extreme example, but the fact is that many studies show that men care more about careers that make money, while women care more about making a positive difference in the world (obviously, both only on average). Given that, perhaps society pushes men too much towards tech and finance and so forth. It would be better if we nudged men instead towards nurturing professions, where you help people every day, like nursing or teaching.

In other words, society influences both genders in various ways. Any difference could be either women pushed one way or men pulled the other.
A small plastic drone with a blue light on top rolls up to the front door of your house and knocks angrily. You answer.

"Your parcel was delivered, but the contents were damaged. According to the picture provided by the purchaser the person inside died while in transit."

What? A person? "It was a mannequin. It's a piece of plastic."

The bot prints out a thermal receipt onto a tray. "You are charged with: Manslaughter. Fifteen to twenty years. Sign here."
Clearly you haphazardly skimmed the article as the juggling metaphor was only a piece of it. And not even the most important piece.
Enhanced git command line experience
Imagine 2 scenarios where social security needs $1B more than it has in revenue.

Situation A, Social security trust fund as exists today-The trust fund redeems a bond from the US treasury. To get the $1B, the Treasury either raises taxes or takes out $1B in its own debt.

Situation B, no trust fund- To get $1B, social security either raises taxes or takes out $1B in its own debt.

The point is that you can call the trust fund an asset (something you have), but you then also need to call the money the federal government owes a liability. But the federal government hasn't accounted for it in this way.

This is equivalent to John Doe writing a check for 2.8T to himself and saying he has a 2.8T asset (he does), but not mentioning he also has a 2.8T liability.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/merrillmatthews/2011/07/13/what...
A microprocessor is admittedly a poor metaphor for a brain. However, I think the article still makes a strong point, which is that neuroscientists use many experimental and signal-processing techniques whose utility hasn't even been demonstrated in principle, much less in practice. To me that's the largest take-away from this article.

To use a set of techniques to investigate the operation of a device whose function we fully understand, and still fail to draw meaningful conclusions, raises serious questions about the usefulness of those same techniques in a much more complicated and less-well-understood domain.
Sadly I didn't like it. The various measures the British system used to keep women down were very interesting but there was an assumed cause-and-effect that wasn't believable. British technological and organizational incompetence doesn't seem attributable to their misogynic biases. Rather the they're just another data point of systemic bad judgment.
The patent on the technology is a solid read: https://patentscope.wipo.int/search/en/detail.jsf;jsessionid...
According to their Reddit, it's going to ggo offline in the next week or two.

https://www.reddit.com/r/infinitejukebox/comments/5wh9hn/met...