skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Google does not have a monopoly on using LIDAR sensors to train self-driving cars.

True. But they do have a LIDAR that's an order of magnitude cheaper than the competition -- which makes LIDAR practical as a use-phase sensor (not just a training sensor), as well as a patent on "zoomable" LIDAR with Levandowski listed as one of the inventors.
Remote Healthcare in the Backyard of America
I know kids and grandparents that use tablets all the time but not really anyone outside of those age groups. Is anyone else finding that to be the case? I know I personally haven't used the ipad in months if not years at this point.
Mozilla Proposes “Obsidian” Low-Level Graphics API for the Web, Based on Vulkan
You asked my logic, I gave it to you, you respond and say that I "pick and choose", with sarcasm.

Please stop being a childish.
Ah, mea culpa. I suddenly realized that the ban doesn't affect flights on the named airlines NOT ending up in the US. D'oh.

However, if I were the TSA and I were serious, I'd just require that you surrender your laptop at the start of the leg terminating in the US - as you started off in a place they obviously have a grudge against, &c. (That would require you to book two separate tickets, if nothing else.)
You underestimate how much people's time is worth to them.
Activity of restructuring firms is a good leading indicator of what's happening in private markets. These types of guys get involved well before public announcements of companies like Quixey. [0] It's also a very valuable service. Silicon Valley does well when people and assets from failing companies are freed up to join hyper-growth companies. Lenders are also more willing to take on startups as customers when they are confident that liquidators can get their money back.

[0] http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2017/03/09/quixey-al...
> SGD doesn't always play nice with parallelization since it's technically supposed to be a serial operation.

Ok, that makes sense.

> here is a "bag of tricks" that can be used in order to parallelize SGD, such as Downpour, Hogwild and most recently, Ring Allreduce. Unfortunately, these can all go unstable without any warning and debugging it is a nightmare (and sometimes impossible since it's a black box).

Because there will be a lot of synchronization and dependencies between the nodes and any deviation from the path will result in cumulative errors?

> You also have to move a lot of data between nodes, which causes problems.

Because of latency or throughput? (at a guess: throughput)

> The best way to deal with this is to not parallelize at all, which means you need to have a ridiculously fast single processor, which is what my startup is aiming to do.

But if you solve that you have essentially simply moved the bar further up where parallelization makes sense for other problems too. After all parallelization is just an end-run around Moore's law for special use cases, you are saying that you have found such an 'end run' for a special use case on one processor or even for a more general case?

> The other ways to do it involve a special (proprietary even though I dislike that word) interconnect scheme.

Something along the lines of transputer links?

> If you're interested you can contact me.

Yes, I'm interested, but I'm not sure if I know enough about this stuff to be able to follow you for very long, it is more of a layman level interest than anything on the level.

I could not find any contact info for you, mine is jacques@mattheij.com

Thank you for the explanation.
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>I've been trying for a long time to alter the common perception that Realtors add value; they don't.

I don't know anything about the law so I hire a lawyer I trust. I don't know anything about buying a house so I hire a realtor I trust.
On the bottom right of this page, a link entitled "Related Article" takes you to a US Department of Justice Press Release [0], although it doesn't really say anything new other than that the guy was arrested and had an initial court appearance last Friday.

[0]: https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/maryland-man-arrested-cyberst...
Credit Karma is offering free filing for more complicated returns:

https://www.creditkarma.com/tax

They want access to all that sweet financial data that appears on tax forms though (they make money marketing credit products), so I'd probably read the privacy policy pretty closely before using it.
I really like XtraFinder[1] and pretty much can't do without it. I wish it worked w/o that very serious (potentially dangerous) workaround but sadly it doesn't and after OSX upgrade broke it it is not as stable it used to be.

Where does Marta fit in among file managers (esp very serious ones) and Finder plugins for OSX? Are other features (for e.g. FTP or so? Though it says minimal) are planned or already exist?

[1] https://www.trankynam.com/xtrafinder/
The problem is because Linux is just a kernel (not an entire system like BSDs) the syscall ABI is the actual kernel API. If you break it, you break the world.

On BSDs, or Window, or most every OS, there's a base "userland" library (e.g. libc) which serves as the kernel API and hides whatever ABI specific syscalls use, Linux doesn't have that.
Four options, plus all the sub-options: with cellular data or without, 3 or so different amounts of space..

With the larger iPads do some people get smaller space, even though larger display probably means more resources/larger resolution media will need to be stored on the device.

Spitballing but it's quite a few options.
UK brexit on 29 of march
Most people don't realize how big of a land mass Africa is. US fits in Africa 4 times over. It's the second largest continent after Asia.
President Trump Signs NASA Authorization Bill S.442
From my understanding, and this will vary from state to state since unemployment insurance is managed and dealt with by states, not the federal government, employees would still possibly be able to collect unemployment after that month of severance runs out if they are unable to get a new job (and are actively looking) and the unemployment claims will still ding IBM. That month of severance offsets their unemployment insurance rate increase(s). IBM is hoping folks can find a job in the next four months so they don't have to pay any out. Additionally, I would assume, part of accepting the severance might require the employee signing papers which state that the end of employment is voluntary and agreed upon possibly invalidating the employees claim to unemployment and thus hurting IBM's insurance rates. Whether that applies or works will depend on numerous factors, particularly the state the employment occurred in.
And what happens if the one who testified that you do have the records lied? Do you go to prison for not producing documents you do not have? How would you prove you don't have them? What if you had them but shredded them once you didn't need them (because you shred all bank information, nothing special about these records)?
How to Create a Virus Using the Assembly Language
I disagree that it's easy to do by hand, and I'm a relatively smart dude. It took me about 2.5 hours to do my and my wife's taxes last night including four W-2s and calculating an ACA penalty due to a gap. That was 2.5 hours longer than I would have preferred, especially considering the IRS already has this info.

But, I still prefer this to supporting Intuit & Co.
Bringing the Web Up to Speed with WebAssembly [pdf]
Yes, people absolutely cared about bits and bytes, because they weren't very many of them. (Programmers weren't necessarily thinking of them as monetarily expensive, because even today you don't just go slamming more RAM in to your machine if you need more. The problem is that there were only so many of them.) You could still see the residual hacker attitudes even five years ago, though I'd have to call it mostly dead now. But they were absolutely counting bits and bytes all the time, by default, in a way few programmers nowadays can appreciate.

It's why we have "creat" instead of "create", it's why file permissions are tightly packed into three octal digits (as one of the old systems Unix ran on was actually a fan of 36-bit machine words, so 9 bits divided things more evenly at the time). It's why C strings are null-terminated, instead of the more sensible in every way length-delimited, except that length delimited strings require one extra byte if you want to support the size range between 256-65535. Yes, the programmers of that time would rather have one extra byte per string than a safe string library. Pre-OSX Mac programmers can tell you all about dealing with one-byte-length-delimited strings and how often they ended up with things truncated at 255 chars accidentally.

In an era where "mainframes" shipped with dozens of kilobytes of RAM, yeah, they cared.
well, I'm very sorry you wished we stopped supporting our users, but this is the reality which we'll be stuck in for a while. python 3 adoption has been speeding up, but still the vast majority of old big projects are based in python 2 and those are potential uses for pypy.
Link to proposal text in browser friendly form: https://github.com/kvark/WebGLNext-Proposals/blob/obsidian/O...
Gilfoyle would point out that it's $6 of copper and rare-Earth metals.

(I have no idea what the actual number is.)
Nit: one fell swoop. It's from Macbeth.
Devils Advocate here (I don’t personally believe in the state run death penalty): Maybe its not about deterrent as it is getting an abhorrent person out of society permanently?
Anandtech's article is basically copy-paste from ARM blog, without the links for the relevant information, hence why the ARM site is better.
I was at SXSW but didn't have as much time for Interactive sessions as in past years. Can you expound on your SXSW observation?

I did notice the trade show seemed dominated by the country pavillions like I don't remember before. It made me wonder if they were basically bussing in international startups to cover up for the general lack of startups that wanted to buy a booth.
>In an ideal world, I want possession of real CP to be a crime ... that is, if it could stop there.

I partially disagree with this. I think it should only be a problem if it's actually real, and can be proven to be, and thus can be proven to have an actual victim. And that victim needs to actually be a child.

In today's age of Photoshop and life-like realistic rendering programs, it's entirely possible to create stuff that looks real, and really isn't. It's also possible for models/actors to look less than 18, while not really being that young. How do you tell for sure that a person in an image is 17 years and 364 days, and not 18 years? Pretty soon, the rendering technology will be so realistic you'll be able to create movies with fake humans that look entirely real. So if someone buys this software and makes some naughty stuff with it, why should they get in horrible trouble and spend decades in prison, when someone else can buy the same software, buy the same digital assets of child models (which aren't really real children, just fake but realistic looking children), and then make movies of these "kids" being slaughtered by dinosaurs or mowed down with machine guns or something, and that's perfectly OK?

The bottom line is: victimizing innocent people should absolutely be illegal and punished. Anything which doesn't victimize an actual person should not.
What are you talking about? There is now 4

http://www.apple.com/ipad/compare/
This is such a great concept for a job-seeking site; kudos!
Well done GitHub, I've had some nasty documents thrust upon me in the past in which effectively gives a company claim to anything you create, even if not company used property. Was post employment contract so I refused. This is turning the tide and frankly I applaud it.
The most comedic thing about Apple is that my raspberry pi3 with chromium has support for webmidi and webrtc but not even the iPad pro can do webrtc chat with mobile Safari. Sure I know they're not fans of the web but it has to be hurting them at this point when a $35 system has more browser capabilities than a $1000 device.
That's exactly it. The IRS would just tell you what they already know.
I don't know if your situation allows you to run off Local Cache, but that made a big difference for us in terms of stability with regard to Azure storage resets.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/app-service/app-servi...
I'm surprised the article and comments haven't mentioned CreditKarma's tax solution yet, which is (actually) free. [1] Presumably their strategy is to take the users and data they get from offering free tax filing and use them to advertise lending products. I think that's a sustainable and politically feasible way to get free tax filing, actually; I expect that in ~5 years Credit Karma will have eaten a big part of TurboTax and H&R Block's lunch.

[1] https://www.creditkarma.com/tax
>> How different is computing now compared to 1996?

Distributed computing went from being "something that is possible" to "the default". Otherwise, all the standard resources such as processors, RAM, disk, and networking all got faster and cheaper. USB revolutionized plugging in peripherals. All the CRT displays are gone.

From the Linux command line point of view, you're more likely to use tools written with python, perl, or ruby, but the big change there is package managers. You don't download source or binaries from FTP sites as often as you did in the old days.
i literally LOL'd at this :)
It's easy to forget that IBM is in the share buyback business. They're not a growing technology power. They have Watson, which isn't enough to save them. They can't invest money wisely, so every year they cut headcount and return some money to shareholders. It's the orderly returning of money to shareholders from a company that doesn't need investment anymore.

So why should this company offer perks to compete with Google or a startup? They only need a shrinking subset of lifers to keep the lights on.

If you want to telecommute, find a place that specializes in it.
>The graph shows the percentage of users that access Google over IPv6.

I'm finding it really hard to believe, as someone in Guatemala, that 6% of requests to Google here are made over IPv6. Is there any way to gain more insight? e.g. what ISPs are responsible?
I've heard a story about SV startup (onsite) employees stealing their startup's code base and launching their own company with it. It turned out to be more successful than the original one, which eventually tanked. The owners tried going to court, but they didn't have enough proof to get a search warrant (or whatever the proper legal term is here) for their fraudulent competition.

BTW this also shows that having on-site employees is not a protection against frauds/thieves...
Warping functions in python
thanks! you mean hn@ycombinator.com ?
It's been two years since my Samson died, and my whole family is still shaken up. He literally died in my arms an hour before we wore going to take him to get put to sleep. He had a tumor around his heart that was causing fluid to build up around the heart. He basically suffocated with his lungs working perfectly, his wheezing in that last hour still haunts me.

And he was such a good dog. "Obedient" doesn't do him justice: he actively tried to please us. He'd learn cues from us about our routines, and we'd train him without even realizing it. Like how he could lay in the bed with my Dad before my Mom came in and was ready to go to sleep, then she would nudge him off the bed. Within a month of this routine, he would just get off the bed on his own when he heard my Mom finish brushing her teeth, no matter how tired he was. And he had a special love for kittens, which we had in the house a lot because we provided foster care for cats, and he doted on them like a proud parent.

Rest in peace, boy
> Buy a hard-sided bag for checking your laptop?

Think before you write?

A hard case makes zero difference (or in some cases actively makes things worse) if the TSA fails to secure your laptop after inspecting it.
Except there are two iPad Pro sizes and one of them is the same size as the new basic iPad 9.7'. And the iPad Mini is now more expensive than a basic iPad 9.7' but are slower, but only come in a large storage option.

I love Apple. Read my other posts defending the iPad as a productivity device on this discussion, and defending the cleanness if the iPhone lineup, but the current iPad lineup is all over the place.
> 1) You go to a Free File partner.

I think this is already going a bit in the wrong direction. How about:

1) You download the info from the IRS in a publicly documented unencumbered format. JSON with a well-specified schema, for example.

2) You import it into your favorite tax program.

3) When you're all done, you upload the forms in a publicly documented unencumbered format back to the IRS, thus saving them lots of money compared to scanning a mailed copy.

Another major improvement would be for the IRS to publish all of the formulas backing all of the tax forms in machine-readable format. I suspect that a large fraction of the work involved in maintaining programs like TurboTax is manually importing all the forms.
The Most Effective Study Techniques for Every Learner
very nice also the "scroll up" looks to be more resiliant to "mouse scroll wheel" interference while auto-scrolling, while "scroll up" behave a little differently at least on edge, i dont know why, anyway it is very beauty
They don't sell on feature checklists
A New Form of Stem-Cell Engineering Raises Ethical Questions
Can you have too much history in one city? As it turns out, you sort of can
I don't like euphemism "human trafficking". Terms like "slavery" and "slave trade" are better at describing reality.
I'm not familiar with the politics in that area, but I would say this holds true even if the state has provided accommodation for anyone to run a competitive campaign regardless of the private resources they have available.

The talking point of "Would you rather trust someone who can't get promoted past a mid-level position in his company to play with the big boys, or someone who has managed his life such that he is in charge of things and has been able to accumulate vast personal resources?" is always going to be persuasive, IMO. "If he can't manage his own affairs..." and all that.

It's not an absolute non-starter, but I'm skeptical that any "regular Joe" would be elected for a significant national position as long as there are people who are massively more wealthy willing to compete (and there will be).
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The timeline where Hillary became President has already been ended. so yeah, maybe second.
Tablets are like nunchucks...cool but useless.
With pre filled forms the IRS just tells you what they already know anyway. You are still free to file a return with your own data if you don't agree.
> arrested for refusing to disclose that information

The information in the guy's head is the password. They're not asking him for the password. They're asking him to perform the action of decrypting the drive. They explicitly told him he could keep the password secret.
>I could send you the direct link via Twitter DMs (yanex_ru) or via an email (me@yanex[at]org).

You need to freely provide the download. No one is going to give you their email address to download what should be an open source project.
That would break systems that relies on time stamps earlier than 1970 though.

int main(void)
{
time_t epoch = -100;
printf("%s", asctime(gmtime(&epoch)));
}

The above would for example print a time in 1969.
A new CSS Grid demo on mozilla.org
main reason for Linux to not be my desktop choice is lack of Total commander equivalent in terms of productivity. much better and more experienced backend/linux developers starring at me in awe how quickly I can do a lot of tasks. "bbut-but I thought explorer was what everybody was using on windows". "wow you can be fast. I wish we had something like that natively". Every time I see a much more senior colleague working with explorer windows, he takes 10-20x more time to do same simple tasks. I love power of pipes and sed, but this can only take you so far.

I can easily edit files in archives directly, synchronize folders, have by far best text file comparison I've ever seen, ditto multi-renaming of files, connect to sFTP. tabs on both sides are amazing once you are working on more complex tasks. embedded file viewer is very handy when facing file encoding issues. and so on and on, and on and on. not even going into plugins. I use it primarily even at home. Concept of 2 panels is just so intuitive and works greatly once you get used to it (have an advantage here, used it since norton commander for DOS).

tested few linux alternatives and they leave so much to be desired. linux desktop will never be a thing for me unless this is fixed.
The sad part is he has provided the password, but it's "fuckoffI'llnevertell"
UK flight ban on electronic devices announced
I don't think so, but Google Maps does on both iOS and Android. Quite handy when abroad.
Free SSL.. for all paid dynos. Apparently, if you're developing an application, you are expected to be okay with having your stuff MITMed.

Yes, this is me being excessively negative. Not having SSL-by-default in 2017 is excessively stupid. The certs are free, the system fully automated from both sides. Why hold back?

There is no excuse for not having it system wide. Unencrypted HTTP needs to start being treated as the danger it is.
They both are pretty minimalistic I suppose...
I think this is an area where Intel is sort of mucking things up for everyone.

Because of licensing issues, we'll never see a modern version of the nForce/XBox design where the CPU and GPU share relatively fast RAM via a common MMU from Intel/NVidia.

The best we can hope for future shared RAM designs are Zen/Radeon (or a new HyperTransport), Intel/Knights Landing, or an ARM/NVidia solution.

But I'm surprised NVidia doesn't make something like a Tegra on steroids for this application. Basically an ARM running its own Linux, a 10GigE ethernet port, and a Titan/1080Ti, all in a single blade/PCI-E card. I guess the market demand isn't there yet.

edit: Looks like the Drive PX2 is more or less what I'm talking about but meant for cars, so the market demand is there: http://wccftech.com/nvidia-pascal-gpu-drive-px-2/
It's not just enforcement that matters though. The threat of enforcement is far more common and has come up at every company I've worked for. That ends up creating a tense environment for employees in a similar way to how a criminal feels when they've committed a crime, but have not been caught. The threat of life-altering damage is a huge stress to carry.
As a counterpoint I^H millions of people use the white ones without a problem.
I'm afraid I must agree. They must be working on a bunch of new things or one huge new thing, trying to find their next big hit, because nothing seems to actually be advancing anymore.

(What's new here, apparently: they dropped the price by $70 and bumped the processor.)
I know, I'm saying it would be nice if the Linux kernel could set up a method for breaking ABI's in a planned fashion. I'm not saying it would be easy.
May I ask what alternatives you feel are usable right now?
In push for more live video, Twitter officially announces the Producer API
Right, and on the flip side, when I was at Cambridge, if you failed you would be "sent down" (expelled) there were no resits. It's possible that the pass fail mark was really low though, because I did spectacularly badly in my first year and still managed to graduate
Stripe supports iDeal btw.
I'm wondering how they obtained the hashes. You can't hash images on an encrypted drive. How are they able to obtain a hash of an image without actually having the image? Were the hash values from what he has downloaded stored somewhere?
The Communication Loss Function