skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm mostly talking about minor cleanup like finding the best names, removing duplication, deleting unused code. That can be done quickly, and is often easiest once the dust has cleared and the design is finished and working.

If the code is working but is badly designed, that can take longer.

Occasionally, the new feature requires larger refactorings to redesign preexisting code. That can take days, but is of course essential to do.
Cynical me read this as Carlsbad To Finally Just Admit They've Been Photographing Every Car Entering City for Years.
So what's the over/under on when Amazon will be cluelessly selling commingled counterfeits of "Basics" items? A week?
Evolution of code design at Facebook
Are there any TensorFlow-tuned ASICs like Google's TPU available or planned for general release?

https://rcpmag.com/articles/2016/10/10/microsoft-google-ai-s...

If the deep learning architecture stabilizes for a problem with sufficient market demand, seems like ASICs could be economical.
Amazon will likely pre-weigh the items and give each a price embedded barcode, though it will be quite labor intensive even with the $100k wrap and weigh machines you can buy today.
It has also become harder from for legitimate sellers because Amazon are trying to respond to counterfeits. I suspect almost every seller of volume would get counterfeit claims made against them, having a buyer use the word fake in their correspondence is enough to trigger one. Get a few of these and your account gets suspended.
In practice any non trivial program will end up touching xmm registers as even plain memcpy ends up expanding to vectorized load/stores.

Apparently lazy FPU restore in Linux is deprecated and eager restore is the default [1]

[1] https://tthtlc.wordpress.com/2016/12/17/understanding-fpu-us...
Early stage startups are definitely not for everyone. If you're not prepared for the long hours, etc..., then it probably won't be a good fit, and you're likely going to be miserable there no matter what.

There's nothing wrong with people who don't like Star Trek, but they're not going to have a very good time at the convention.
It'd be really cool to send around a science lab like this. If you need any traveling scientists to live in a boxlab for a trial run, let me know.
Carlsbad is unusual among the small towns in the North County area for having its own PD. And it's gained some notoriety: https://youtu.be/WhYRYzzA244
Microsoft Cloud Down: Skype, Outlook, Xbox, OneDrive, Hotmail Down
Nope, the Red iPhones have literally just been released. They've been available in iPod Touch for ages.
I've been using Postgres for the past 20 years, and it's basically almost always been the right choice. Even when it's not, it's a good starting point to explore the problem until everyone's really, really sure that something else might be best for that niche.
Wouldn't this be the perfect time to do a chargeback?
People disagreeing with me does not mean that I'm wrong. Communism is defined as a stateless, classless and monelyess and anarchistic society in which peolpe are not paid with wages for work. Even in Socialism, the means of production are owned by the workers. None of the countries in this post have either of these qualities.

However they all exhibit the fundamental properties of capitalism: the primacy of wage labour, private ownership of capital and the means of production, and production is for exchange value to be maximised over use value.

I am an anarcho-Communist. I believe in the demolishing of the state and all unjustified hierarchical relations, including but not limited to the government and the bourgeoisie, to advance toward a society in which the means of production are collectively owned by the workers. Distributed networks of councils of workers, each of which implementing direct democracy to decide what is made and in what quantity. The workers take home the products of their labour, or agree to have them distributed to those who are unable to work, again via direct democracy.

My system is the abolishment of exploitation of the workers and with it the system of oppression aided by capitalism's power structures, including misogyny, racism, homophobia etc.
It's surprisingly not that rare for a website to be usable without Javascript.

I'd argue a text+images website does not need to be modern in any interpretation of modern.
Be interesting to see the JS to OCaml output put back through an OCaml to JS compiler just to compare it to the original.
The problem isn't compilers but bitstream formats and the device description database (according to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10653179)
As recently as 2006, Duke Cunningham was offering 10s of millions of dollars in defense contracts in exchange for a boat and a couple hundred thousand in cash:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duke_Cunningham#Allegations

That's guaranteed money, not just "influence." If you have enough money to play, Congressmen offer enormous returns.
https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2550
Obama (under whom Libya was decimated) did win in a historic landslide...
("Free-format") Fortran has a max line length of 132 chars, up from ("fixed-format") 72 chars on punch cards.
Pretty neat project. I for one am happy to see more OCaml in the wild. Minor nit: they mispelled jscaml as "jcaml" here https://github.com/facebookexperimental/JSCaml/blob/master/R...
this is a very elaborate and insightful answer. appreciate the clarification.
Yes! As a data scientist, an important point of my job is evangelizing the data consumer's point of view. It's easy for data producers (e.g. the developers who write the logging code that generates the data I use) to make decisions that make their lives easier, at the expense of making my life much harder.

Only by talking to each other can we find the balance that mutually optimizes our joint effort level. A little more effort up-front to log data in a format with well-defined schemas, translates into huge savings in processing, consuming, and understanding the data down the road.
Java: remote debugging from the browser
> We can't guilt trip a business.

Sure we can. We can complain to them, boycott them, post stories on HN so other people know they're unethical, etc.

> We can however expect ethics/morality from politicians because they are people.

Businesses are just groups of people. A business behaves ethically only if the people who make it up behave ethically. We don't lose the ability to criticize them just because they're acting as a group.
I think he's trying to say "you can't teach a goldmine to ride a bicycle".

Edit: Humorless. Sad.
> And of course you need an "API key". It is public data, just make it public

They will want some kind of mechanism to cut off abusive traffic, and API keys are a much better choice than IP blocks.
Yep, We're at That Point. Gorsuch Gets the Reddit Horse/Duck Question
One could just buy a certain percentage of those allegedly resold items that have a lower-than-suggested price, and then report every one that turns out to be counterfeit.
I can't believe they let this go on while trying to market groceries. There's no way I'd ever consider buying anything edible from them. Unfortunately, a lot of people don't even realize they're being sold counterfeit goods.
That's not a slow ORM. That's literally the model of every single ORM I've seen! Sets, who needs them!
I wonder if you could use APIs like this along with some pattern matching to detect rendition flights.
A few things that Amazon could do better compare to Instacart:

- they bring you huge green boxes and often put only one or two items in each, they are highly unsightly and take up a lot of room, this must be part of their marketing campaign since it has Amazon written all over it, they ask you to return them the next time after their logo has been imprinted on every part of your brain

- sometimes they put ice bags in said boxes if you forget to take them out they melt and not all the boxes are water proof so water can run through them onto the floor and it can also spoil even if you take the ice out since it leaves the box moist

- not clear where they source their items, Instacart is clear if I want Wholefoods I select Wholefoods, Amazon seem to have way fewer options and not intuitively clear if I'm ordering from a store that I picked or getting random access grocery (RAG)

- they mention they have Belcampo as a store when navigating to it they only allow you to purchase sausages!!!
> They won't tell you which deductions you are supposed to take.

They will for the most basic personal deductions. I have gotten a correction on a 1040EZ where my deduction was corrected upwards and the refund increased. It is impossible for the IRS or your tax preparer to know things like what kind of automobile deductions you can take for your sole-proprietorship business. This is an impossible problem to solve - every change to the deductions allowed is going to make some people pay taxes on what should be business expenses/losses and/or allow other people to claim legal-but-bogus or just plain fraudulent deductions.
Option 1: DRM concerns (exploiting the "analog hole" on digital level, or HDCP restrictions - how deep is HDCP actually enforced in Android?)

Option 2: Privacy (call recorders come to mind - unrelated: does anyone know of a working call recorder?)
One does so physically, and will charge you money to have the book shipped to you, and is trying to make you think that you're getting the legit book.
Sort of wish they'd focus on what they already have first. I mean I get it, it's a good market to get into ...but.. how about - making a single login for abebooks fr, uk, com, etc.. that aligns with your main amazon account and - audible account. Why do I need maybe 7 different accounts on services owned by the same company? Better yet, how about taking the databases of books on sale at the various abebooks sub regional sites and put them on the main amazon.com page. I collect a lot of old cookbooks, and old lectures (Rede, Chichele, Ford etc) and often find that to find better deals than what is on amazon.com I have to go on different abebooks sites to find them. Also - have had experiences where I go on amazon fr or ca and order a cookbook easily purchasable on those sites vs .com site. It's terribly aggravating! So I just wish they'd focus on making that easier to deal with before venturing onto other areas. That said, grocery should be decent.. I already hire taskrabbit individuals to do my shopping for me..they are hit or miss.. I never put them in charge of buying seafood..never.
"Another emerging trend introduces sparsity (the presence of zeros) in DNN neurons and weights by techniques such as pruning, ReLU, and ternarization, which can lead to DNNs with ~50% to ~90% zeros. " Does anyone have a reference for this ?
When helium behaves like a black hole
There are lots of scenarios where you need to represent an unknown/indefinite date, but this can be done with null; are there any reasonably common scenarios where you need to distinguish between unknown past and unknown future in the same context?
What is the problem with calling directly an inspector? I think they are more qualified than a realtor and I sincerely doubt that their fees is over $30k like the realtors depicted in this thread.
Orangesicle?
Opal Fruits, if the trademark has lapsed by now?
Sweet.js
Anarchism - belief in the abolition of all government and the organization of society on a voluntary, cooperative basis without recourse to force or compulsion.

Communism - a political theory derived from Karl Marx, advocating class war and leading to a society in which all property is publicly owned and each person works and is paid according to their abilities and needs.

If there is no government, who distributes things based on needs? Why don't I just kill you and take everything you own? Communism is total government, Anarchism is no government. Its oil and water.
Title should be "Schipol Airport...", I had to make sure it wasn't April 1 yet!!!!
Thank you for the information, very interesting. Increased inflammatory response seems a reasonable potential mechanism:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1994795/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25251956

Perhaps it doesn't cause cancer per se, but promotes tumor growth or otherwise creates a more favorable environment.
Desktop parts have no dedicated AVX clock (however, their base vs. all-core turbo pretty much does the same thing), while server SKUs (Socket R3 and later) basically have two distinct clocking ladders, one for non-AVX code and one for AVX code (the "mode switch" quantum is rather coarse, on the order of one millisecond). So both base clock and maximum turbo clocks are lower in AVX code compared to non-AVX code.

As usual, actual achieved clock speeds depend on thermal performance and are not fixed. If cooling is completely insufficient, the clock frequency will drop below base clocks, i.e. thermal throttling.

To clarify: This isn't a secret, but part of the specs and even in some Intel slides. (However, platform and processor specs, even at a basic (product D/S) level, tend to be a rather lengthy read, so most do away with reading all that).
They are properly called fermionic fields [1] as opposed to bosonic fields. I also want to note that the »super simple overview of Quantum Field Theory & Particle Physics« really is super simple. As far as I can tell - I am not a physicist - none of the statements is actually correct.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermionic_field
Reminds me of Tuttle/Buttle mishap in Terry Gilliam's Brazil movie. Life imitates (dystopian) art.
I didn't say that those don't have to be mined. I don't know the safety comparisons between the two.

Also, remark on deaths caused in comparison if you don't feel that that's too hard to defend.
Yeah absolutely. I'd love a free online solution from the government as it would make my life easier. So far, I haven't been willing to pay out to Intuit or HRBlock for a slight time/convenience savings.
From a legal standpoint I'm with the company -- if I pay someone to invent it's not unreasonable that I own what they invent.

From an economics standpoint I think companies benefit from attracting innovative people. If you are hiring inventors, you want people who do it habitually and the best of those will feel uncomfortable signing away their free time. From this standpoint a company should worry about a new hire who doesn't object to a 24-hour IP assignment clause.

I haven't seen hard numbers on this but I imagine that patent applications went from more individuals in ~1900 (wright brothers era) to more corporations circa 1950 (IBM transistor era). I'm sure there are many reasons for this (larger companies in the 50s, postwar employment trends, less low hanging fruit in basic research). But it would be great to see that trend reverse.
Altice Snaps Up Teads for $307M
The only thing that makes any sense for me to get on subscription is cat food. Cat has prescription food, so it doesn't change in price, and he eats the same amount every day.

Not from Amazon though, I get autoshipped from Chewy.com.

Pretty much every other thing one would subscribe to I'm going to buy when its on sale. I'm sure Amazon predicting my needs would be at a premium cost.
Wait. So you got a selling agent (Realtor) to sell a property without using the MLS and I am assuming without using buyer's agents? Like just marketing the house directly to the public?

And then if it didn't sell in 60 days, she would get almost nothing, and would also have to split almost nothing with the buyer's agent?

And she agreed to that?
USB-A is dead.
Right now, people are lazy and pay Intuit or H&R Block because they don't want to deal with it or think about it. How does allowing people to use a free tax return prefilled by the government make this worse?
Lufthansa Developer Center
Those are some great points. He needs a constant reminder to do things. We've tried alarms before but it's only when we talk to him that he responds. I think the Amazon Echo could be a good first start with testing. I was thinking of manually dictating Alexa to see how effective it is and how he reacts.

He has social interaction at work but my mother travels often which makes it difficult for her because she has to constantly be calling him to make sure he is up and ready to get out the door. I'm just looking for a solution to help him be more independent and make it easier for her when she travels.
Supreme Court: A Patent Owner Can Lie in Wait
Yeah. I was working on an IoT system that uses NTP to set time. I generally plan a 20 year life span for tings like this. There's S/W I wrote over 20 years ago that is in devices still in use. The only good thing about this is that I'll not likely be around when trouble crops up. I didn't see any way to accommodate changes that are nearly decades away in code I write today.
Updates are all pushed at the same time when Verizon okays it. They don't want to be on the hook for any regulatory issues like E-911 problems so they test it. They also don't test security updates, only major updates.
They might go the way of Trader Joe's and just charge a blanket price per "piece" of produce.
"Physical supermarkets can still be really terrible. It always seems to take me over an hour to do my grocery shopping."

An accident, this is not.
I've always seen this simply handled by disclosure:

* At hire time provide a list of "my ip" and "ip from previous employer that may be controversial here"

* At personal project start time, get a document signed from management saying "this is not related to $employer, and does not count as related work"

* At exit time (particularly when there is post employment IP or non-compete) get a document agreeing that "this IP was from the employee to the company, this was not.

It sounds like a bureaucratic mess, but it's like 10 minutes of hassle here and there, and saves a bunch of issue, even in the future if say, the company gets bought out and the new owner has different views.
No MMU. It is hard real-time in the sense that there are events that need to be processed withing a small time window (a few microseconds (with help from hardware typically) to milliseconds).

The product is custom hardware built with off-the-shelf parts like microcontroller, power converters, sensors, memory. Texas Instruments MSP430 family of microcontrollers [1] is popular for this type of application. They are based around MIPS CPU cores with a bunch of peripherals like analog-to-digital converters, timers, counters, flash, RAM, etc.

I don't work on medical devices, so validation is more inline with normal product validation. We certainly have several very well staffed test teams: one for product-level firmware, one for end-to-end solution verification, others for other pieces of the overall solution. We are also heavy on testing reliability over environmental conditions: temperature, pressure, moisture, soil composition, etc.

The firmware is all done in-house written in C. Once in a while someone looks at what the assembler the compiler, but nobody writes assembler to gain efficiency. We rely on microcontroller vendor's libraries for low-level hardware abstraction (HAL), but other than that the code is ours. The tool chain is based on GCC I believe, but the microcontroller vendor configures everything so that it crosscompiles to the target platform on PC.

Debugging is done by attaching to the target microcontroller through a JTAG interface and stepping through code, dumping memory, checking register settings. We also use serial interfaces, but the latency introduced by dumping data to the serial port can be too much for the problem we're trying to debug and we have to use things like togging IO pins on the micro.

We don't model the hardware and firmware and don't do exhaustive all possible inputs test like one would do in FPGA or ASIC verification.

I need to go, but if you have more questions, feel free to ask, and I'll reply in a few hours.

1: http://www.ti.com/lsds/ti/microcontrollers-16-bit-32-bit/msp...
This is the correct answer. Use this reasoning.
Since the title is a bit misleading (talks about database choice: SQL vs NoSQL), I comment about the big data/data analytics point of view in case anyone comes to this post for the same reason.

The only problem I have with SQL (I use Postgres, in the form of Redshift almost daily: it's excellent when it works as expected) is the not-great readability of the code and the abysmal testing/debugging/checking of SQL code. Have had to write lots of boilerplate (Python, mostly) for that, and it feels like we are reinventing a wheel someone else is using, somewhere.
What's missing from this analysis is a price comparison between FPGAs and GPUs.
I think SQL is a great basis point for awesome databases, but I don't think it's necessarily the only option we should have. Options are good!
I found myself in a similar situation with a company I worked for. If I didn't know any better, we interviewed at the same place.

I worked for a company for six months before we decided to renegotiate our contract. Thinking back on it, they offered me a few days of extra PTO but like any good business, they used it as an opportunity to sneak a few of these IP clauses in. (and a few other clauses).

It literally said what you're saying: anything that the employee creates or invents, in any field (competing or not) and at any time belongs to the company.

I had a hard discussion with my employer about this clause. It was one of my first jobs so I was pretty frightened. I also had a pretty awesome blog and some open source work. One of my open source projects was a Wordpress theme boilerplate (I was at a WP shop). I worked on it for weeks, trying to get it right, trying to use it to quickly generate new themes. I worked on it in my spare time, never during work. And I worked on it on my own equipment.

I was really proud of it (and still use it today) and got a lot of great feedback on it in the community.

So imagine having that discussion and knowing there is already something that they could claim their rights to.

I asked my boss directly about my theme.

> You used your experience from your job. We SHOULD own the rights to it and use it. What if we wanted to sell it and make a business out of selling Wordpress themes based on that boilerplate? We have a right to that theme.

I was taken aback. I asked about my technical blog:

> We reserve the right but we would most likely not exercise unless it would really benefit the company.

I asked about my sci-fi book.

> Yes, that does fall under the IP clause but why would we want your sci-fi book?

I asked about how that would conflict with my freelancing work (that was my stipulation on the original contract):

> You should not be devoting any energy to anyone else. If you're working, you should be working on our projects. You're wasting mental energy on other work. If you can work extra hours freelancing, you can surely work extra hours for this job.

I asked how they can justify that kind of reach with IP and otherwise:

> It's industry standard. Do you think Google lets their employees keep IP to the things they make? Of course not, that would bankrupt them. And Facebook? Or any other tech companies?

Lastly, I noticed a non-compete clause that stated:

> You may not work for any possible competitor that may reach any field that we have ventured into or may venture into within a 40 mile radius of the company. This includes tech, marketing, sales, etc. for the next two years.

I asked my boss WTF because that covers my entire field of work and pretty much the entire city. I'd have to move or work somewhere completely different:

> Well, it's a pretty big city! And anyways, it's industry standard. You'll find the same clause at Google.

I delayed signing for a couple of months, got my resignation ready and got fired a couple of days before handing it in with some severance. Never signed anything about IP and I bought my work laptop out in case they try to pull some shit.
Why would that happen? US government appears quite happy to allow massive companies to operate as they please. There hasn't been much "trust busting" since, well, the "trust busting" era, outside of finance anyway.