skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Omitting the obvious remarks on Twitter and APIs, this is clearly a good move. Most companies have a twitter handle and the public has already absorbed that fact, so it just seems more natural to offer a bot through twitter DM service than, let's say, telegram. I wonder what took them so long, considering that bots have also been natural to the twitter ecosystem for many years.

This can increase their growth and possibly, if a company bot goes over their future non specified limits, they can cash in. Sorry, could not help myself :)
> 41% is never a majority

In my country, 41% of people are red party, 38% are blue party, and 21% are green party. Which party has the majority share of voters?
Reading the other comments, it feels like the right thing to do is amend the law and permit the BBC to show ads in connection with content that is not funded by the license fee. Seems to me the hardest part of that is the accounting required to ensure all funding is kept separate for international and domestic projects, and that must have already been done.
>I'm operating under the assumption that Apple is more privacy friendly than Google under pretty much any circumstance.

I'm curious as to why...?
Let's Learn Already: Developers Guide to Galaxy
Ethereum financial inclusion app Humaniq announces public token sale
A Tick Fossilized in Amber Is Full of 20M-Year-Old Blood
> the Norden bombsight program cost nearly half as much

That's very difficult to believe.
If you're measuring cores per $ or GFLOP (single precision or double precision) per $ the ordering (decreasing) is the same: 1080 ti, 1080, 1070. Tesla wins on GFLOP (double precision) per $. At least according to current lowest newegg prices. It is all quite close though.
I agree with you in principle, but even as someone who regularly gets downvoted trying to make jokes, I understand the derision towards humor here. The problem is people just aren't as funny as they think they are, and at the same time jokes often derail the conversation.

While HN isn't perfect, I think overall it's extremely well moderated. Although I have to admit (and I have other accounts which are much older, so I'm not new here), it does seem to be slowly slipping in the wrong direction as it becomes more popular.
Agreed - I watch everything over Xbox since it streams audio to my headphones. Finding apps consistently took me weeks to figure out.

The other problem is that there is no unified control scheme for streaming apps. In theory, you are giving each app flexibility to create a unique experience. But in practice, you need to learn the random button mappings for FF, REW, etc. on every streaming platform.
I have to think this is not their mode of operation, but if it is, what the hell, Uber? If they actually do something like this as matter of course, goodbye. That's just unacceptable and very dirty.
I don't know why free software projects are so dominated by personnel issues, I wish they weren't.
Since 23andme maps your whole genome...

They don't go that far. A full genome sequencing costs around $2900 as of 2015. (Which is amazing, since the first one cost billions.) Maybe $1000 with the new Illumina HiSeq X Ten sequencing system. Data from a full genome sequencing is about 80GB. (Opportunity here for specialized compression - 98% of the genome for humans is the same.)

23andme is testing for about 100,000 known patterns using a much simpler approach for about a tenth of the price.
By calling bullshit on Science and opening our eyes to thousands of years of carefully planned deception.
Glimmer intro video, https://youtu.be/i2rwIApjz-4?t=175 might have some answer for you.
xyr point seems to be that your claim that e-mail addresses are decentralized is faulty. No amount of "Well you are not decentralized in your block chain, either." is going to rebut that. Indeed, it actually reinforces the argument that your claim was faulty, by implicitly agreeing to it with a "but neither are you" response.

So perhaps you would like to now explain how e-mail addresses are a system without a centre. Bear in mind that you yourself have just made the point about ICANN being at their centre. (-:
It's funny that list almost seems like the pay scale should be inverted.

The most important doctors get paid the least and the least important doctors get paid the most.
"Smarter Wifi-Manager" might be a way to mitigate this, I hope. And probably is a good idea in general.
Small targeted markets are good, though, especially when you have deep domain knowledge on them.

You should do it.
Yes. Reply to the email above with your info and identify yourself as an intern candidate.
https://scotch.io/tutorials/getting-started-with-flask-a-pyt...

https://scotch.io/tutorials/build-a-crud-web-app-with-python...

The first one whets the appetite with an overview/setup and the second one gets your hands dirty building a CRUD app.
How They Made That ‘X-Men: Apocalypse’ Scene Everyone Is Talking About (2016)
In a strictly literal interpretation of an entirely figurative figure of speech.

The money might literal be burnt in the form of fuel, but it will be only the cost of the fuel. Modern and older rockets had to burn that and effectively burn all the other disposable costs, like the whole rocket and every piece of gear sent up. The situation is certainly being improved by these new innovators, and that is the point that was trying to be made and it is highly likely that you knew that.
Exactly: While "identify theft" is worth keeping around to refer to a kind of criminality, at least 90% of the time the real problem is institutions which fail their due-diligence.

Then they deny their negligent role and try to unjustly shift the cost onto their customers. What we actually need (as a society) is better backpressure on this kind of stuff, so that the institutions and processes actually improve at the weak point.
Research 101 is about measuring and documenting results, even if they agree with popular knowledge.

It is what separate anecdote from data.
Yes, but you shouldn't expect it to have much more magic support for this kind of algorithms than other languages.
Ask HN: Why PDF generation is so hard?
I was working w/ PDF generation in the past, but once I finished that task I wiped everything from memory, bad experience, hacks etc. Back then I thought, hah it's .Net such a crappy environment and tools are not great for this kind of tasks.
But, now I work w/ Python and surprisingly I have even worse experience. Finally got weasprint package but it's already impossible to make it work in AWS Lambda because of environment differences (I use mac to develop), I do not really understand why that library has tons of reference libs, such as cairo, cffi or that or that. Is PDF generation such a complex tasks, or generation in backend, or ...
They probably will blame this on previous executives...
I think you're missing the forest for the trees.

Once upon a time, society was really really really unfair. Aristocrats ruled everything autocratically and justified it via divine right, etc.

Then stuff happened, people fought, and democracy came along. Many hailed it as a much more egalitarian form of decision making. We still pay a ton of lip service to the idea that democracy is amazing.

However, then more stuff happened, and now democracy is very very weak. We barely use it to make serious decisions, we collectively prefer to delegate to experts or markets, and decision-making power more and more blatantly now falls upon those who have cash.

This is varnished over by saying "the markets decided x". It's not even necessarily a bad thing, some believe the wealth was accumulated meritocratically and therefore it's better in the hands of those who know what to do with it.

However, it doesn't erase the fact that markets and democracy are opposed to each other. This doesn't mean one is good and one is bad, it just means that when it comes to making a collective decision about what to do with a resource, one cannot both do it democratically and according to market principles. It's one or the other.

Life isn't fair but we get to decide if we make it a bit fairer. The notion that the best societies limit themselves to a property right system, and not further, into an education and health and entertainment systems, seems like it's very much up for debate.

I see no reason why it's in society's collective interest to maintain a security system to uphold private property rights, and not others for other rights.

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People always like to talk about how "the invisible hand of the market" led to this or that conclusion. Even if a greedy horrible butcher wants to gouge people, the competitive nature of the market will stop him. So, pretty clearly, the invisible hand stops evil-doers from doing so much evil.

However, what's also increasingly clear, is that the invisible hand also works in the opposite direction. That is, if you want to do better things that what the markets allow, if you're a particularly benevolent butcher, the same invisible hand that stops the bad butcher, will stop the good butcher.

The market has a logic of its own, both for good and for bad, and we need to collectively decide when and where we want to utilize it, and when we want to use some other decision-making system.
Total phwnage!

Setup a malicious wifi hotspot in a busy place and phwn away. You don't need to target anyone in particular, just wait and see what you got...
The US was provoking both Germany and Japan. Presumably if we'd actually wanted to stay out of the war we would have stuck to our own knitting.

The US was "lending" warships to the UK, and American destroyers were dropping depth charges on German submarines in an effort to get supplies the Germans were trying to choke off to the UK. In the North Atlantic we'd already joined the war, if unofficially and not wholeheartedly. This is one of the reasons Hitler decided to honor his ally's request to make it official.

In the Pacific US forces were essentially blockading Japan's oil supplies in an effort to force the Japanese out of Manchuria. Japan had to go to war with the US or give up any imperial ambitions (and we knew that wasn't going to happen).
We also have git over SSB!

https://github.com/clehner/git-ssb

https://github.com/noffle/git-ssb-intro
That's short-sighted. Eventually, things that are highly skilled become less so, and eventually integrated into the baseline running of society. At some point in history, the fact that you can read and write would be a big fucking deal, but it isn't today. At some point in the future, making the machines do things will be in everyone's skillset to some degree. This just seems like a step in that direction.

To use an example, this sort of thing has about as much impact to data engineering as someone coming to the table with Excel skills does - they both generate some lines of code to work with data, but we're not working on the same level of issues. Doesn't mean I don't want to raise the floor, though, that has value to the whole organization.

EDIT: To be clear, I'd never heard of Microverse until 10 minutes ago. I have nothing to do with them, but I think it's a cool idea.
related: http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/7235/what-is-a-wo...
I'm a big fan of what I'm seeing in Glimmer so far. I had fun adding support for xcomoponent yesterday, making Glimmer components work as cross-domain components.

https://medium.com/@bluepnume/introducing-support-for-cross-...

I'd love it if it were a little more flexible to get started with though. Rather than fire up ember-cli, I'd love to just be able to:

1. Load glimmer.js from a CDN

2. Extend glimmer.Component

3. Render my component into an element

I know ember-cli solves this problem for a lot of users, but I'd love for the number of steps to get a "hello world" working to be as simple as the above. I think that's one of the reasons React has been so successful: it's stupid-simple to get started with, and it draws you in from there.
One huge problem is that September never ended... (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September)

What I mean is, there are lots of people who are not as smart as they think they are, and they won't STFU and RTFM, etc...

Send not to know at whom the Torvalds curses, he curses at thee.

Frankly, I think the author's original position was correct: Emphasize credit for authors of RFCs and you'll get fools authoring RFCs for the credit. Sheesh!
I was talking about the software installed on your hardware...
One option is to take raw data from a service like 23andme and use imputation[1] to generate the missing data. This isn't as accurate properly sequencing everything, but it will get you more data to play with for free...

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imputation_(genetics)
Yup. General comments to the folks reading this from home:

For machine learning, you'll want as much RAM on the GPU as possible. I can't recommend a 2GB GPU card. 4GB cards can be less than $140, and then there is a jump in price to the 8GB cards (6GB cards aren't cheaper enough to consider, in my opinion).

Check that your power supply has the extra PCIe 8-pin power connector, though some of the GTX 10xx series cards don't require any additional power.

8GB system RAM minimum is also what I'd recommend. Some NN applications can benefit significantly from a faster CPU, even though it is mostly running on the GPU. For example, for training a Caffe model, an Ivy Bridge i7 was vastly superior to a Kaby Lake i3, using the same GPU card.
As an Uber user, I'm unaware of this "upfront" pricing model. I thought the price charged was based on the actual time/distance (which, incidentally, they email me on the receipt). I know I can estimate the trip cost, but I thought that was just an estimate.

Am I wrong? What is this "upfront" pricing?

And is the reverse true? E.g., can I commit to some committed price then have the driver take some crazy route?
Dating app Siren, which empowered women, shuts down after running out of money
Possibly. but don't just go down a tab hoping to get rid of a phobia.

LSD is a key, not a door.
Hey Dustin, thanks for the follow-up!

In your original story, I posted a request for Canonical to come up with some viable strategy to get Adobe CS (and related color-calibration HW/SW) usable on Ubuntu.

I expected a lot of traction for that suggestion, because AFAICT a lot of creative professionals are looking for a way to escape the Windows/Mac duopoly.

However, it looks like my suggestion didn't make the cut for the list you just posted.

Can you share any thoughts on why getting Adobe CS usable on Ubuntu is / isn't a strategic priority for Canonical?
Sublevel.net has a nice community. Why don’t you join in?
It always been about what you stated. Christ, when me and my buddy ran the intel gaming DRG lab in 1997 we were testing all games (this is when SIMD came out, and we proposed stacking cores... but thats a different story) against optimizing (specifically Intel wanted to pay game companies to optimize against SIMD, and would give them $1MM for marketing if it could be proven the game (subjectivly) ran better on their Celeron processors vs AMDs anything... so they were paying devs to opt for the SIMD instructions and then using that as marketing material... it was a fun job.

aside: That was my personal golden age of gaming... Intel had an OC-48 to SC-5 building... so playing UO on 6 machines simultaneously when everyone else was modeming at 56K made us like gods against lag in that game... I still think fondly of that time.
Meet the $21M Company That Thinks a New iPhone Is a Total Waste of Money
Just because you specialize in a field doesn't mean that you can't be a good generalist.
Because Google is primarily (not solely) an advertising / information company, so there's a financial incentive to sacrifice privacy.

Apple is primarily (not solely) a hardware / product company, so the financial incentives are different.

There's also a stronger history of Apple fighting for user privacy against government requests, etc.
The Xbox Scorpio SoC is RX480 again, Polaris chip on steroids - coupled with more GDDR5 6.8GHz@326GB/s BW vRAM 12GB with reserved to OS @1.5-2GB Plus a quad core Jaguar cluster added in with Vapor Chamber & full DX12 HW improvements. That should be a slightly OCed GTX 1060 level of perf looking from the specsheet, Plus they are banking on that DX12 due to the CPU being Jaguar still, Also the GCN HW of the AMD thus helping it to boost the ASync compute. Prev gen was also a RX480 based but cutdown chip less than cut down GM204 perf (<980M)

And It did 4K forza which was a direct port from the Studio 10 to the Scorpio from XB1 @60FPS/~64% GPU usage, Mobile GTX 1070 and up should be still outperforming it & when it comes to proper optimized titles like BF1 / TF2 / TW3 / MEC etc will aid further to render more details, Also running old 4K forza on Console GFX options vs PC GFX options is not an apples to apples comparison. Note that TF figure on AMD and Nvidia aren't same either...

Consoles can never reach PC levels of detailing due to the market and targeted audience. I'm a PC gamer, I can't stand to the degraded visuals on the Consoles, Also the Nvidia Tessellation is superior to AMD. Sad part is due to the % of market the PC games get downgraded / unoptimized mess due to these consoles Also the XB1Scorpio doesn't add any significant advantage over the PS4Pro because of less than stellar exlc. titles & Checkered board rendering used. Finally the native 4K@60Hz or 30 isn't out, I highly doubt an RX480 can run the games at 60FPS 4K, the power isn't just there for the recent games and upcoming powerful engines developed with Pascal HW will outperform this weak chip soon..
Writing in first one won't save you since "in" splits by whitespace, not newline. If you really have to do that, use "find ... | while read file; do" instead.
I don't know... I use Linux and have successfully transitioned some family to free alternatives.

I think what really needs to happen is someone develops and packages a Linux distribution as solid and as easy to install as windows. Honestly, it's nearly there and all it'll take is a few dedicated engineers creating a solid updating mechanic.
Curating exercises of freedom of speech, eh? Sounds like decentralization won't lead to more digital freedom after all with attitudes like this.
Uber has deliberately fostered a culture that thinks it's acceptable to rip off people and institutions. We should never support companies with behaviour like this.
64% of Developers are still using Angular 1 vs. Angular 2+
"How would the war have ended if America had not intervened? The carnage might have continued for another year or two until citizens in the warring nations, who were already protesting the endless sacrifices required, forced their leaders to reach a settlement."

This is crazy talk. Germany was a de facto military dictatorship at the time. The legislature and citizens had no say. The only reason the war ended as quickly as it did is they realized the stream of fresh troops from the US doomed them.

Like most military leaderships the Germans were delusional about their capabilities. It's amazing they surrendered when they did, instead of fighting the allies inch by inch in germany. Because they surrendered in a "moment of clarity" it created the whole "stab in the back" theory that Germany could have won victory but it was taken from them.

If the US doesn't enter, the privations of Germany aren't as awful, and their delusions of victory would won out over pragmatism. The war could have lasted years longer.
Spanner vs. Calvin: distributed consistency at scale
All things considered this sort of drama doesn't happen all that often in free software projects.
IT is still a risk. High level executives can go to prison for some failures, and tax issues are on the list. It isn't clear if courts will accept software issues as an excuse.
The idea is that if the US had not entered the war, then the UK and the continental powers would have worn themselves out (they were already pretty worn out by the time we joined) and have sued for peace (armistice) and hammered out an agreement. It wouldn't have been ended up being lop-sided, because there would have been no winner(s) dictating terms -- just a bunch of tired people agreeing to quit and not fight again. Who knows if this is true or not, but the Treaty of Versaille was negotiated between clear winners and clear losers - which was enabled by the US joining the war late on one side.
With this new mobile site, does each twitter page still run javascript constantly?

EDIT: it seems they do not, thank god for that.
do you actually listen to NPR? they are hard left. most if not all of their stories are SJW-type stories. I can't even listen to them anymore.
The general theory is that advertising companies profit from software that decreases privacy.
That's good to know.

But that wasn't the only reason I wasn't hired, I'm sure. I was only given a week and a half to prepare, while working a stressful job at the same time, where the Google recruiter basically gave me ten links (including a long TopCoder algorithms link I think) and said "Prepare by doing and reading everything on these links")

During the interview, I struggled with a couple of the problems in particular, and I was late to the first interview because I under-estimated just how bad the traffic would be and how lost I'd get on Google's campus.

Google's gotten in touch since, and I basically just have to tell this one recruiter to set me up for another interview if I wanted one, but I've been hesitant to go through that again and I'm no longer sure if I want to move out to SV (I'm from Chicago).
> And its not just VC funding

Sure, I do not know many people getting non-VC funding, but I guess if that exists for you, you can consider it..

> If you want to build a big business, it can offer some significant limitations.

Not sure that is really true. There are some HUGE LLCs. Say, Koch or Cargil.

https://www.forbes.com/largest-private-companies/list/
> No wasting of CPU cycles to scan every files in the system, typical < 3 seconds to check all the running programs - Light up green/red in GUI.

THis sounds good, but it can take much less than 3 seconds to compromise user-space data and ship it off.
In this case I think the author is railing on BofA too much, unless the court said "pony up any money from any account" I'm guessing they specifically asked BofA for the money from this particular account. The person responsible here is the Sheriff's office and they are the ones that should be pursued.
We likely would not have gotten nuclear weapons when we did, but they would probably have happened by the 50s and 60s, as would rocketry. There was already research on nuclear fission happening in the 1930s (in Germany, of all places), and people had already speculated on its use as a weapon. The German nuclear weapons program had already begun when Germany invaded Poland. WW2 massively accelerated this research and let researchers get away with things they wouldn't otherwise have been able to do (like building a nuclear reactor under the bleachers of Stagg Field in Chicago). Given the scientific progress made in the 30s, though, it's likely that it would've happened anyway by the late 1950s.

Interestingly, if WW2 had not happened, it's very likely Germany would've been the first country with nuclear weapons, and hence the world superpower now. Most of the original researchers on nuclear fission were German, and many of the key scientists on the Manhattan project emigrated from Germany or Nazi-controlled countries. The key uranium mines of the 1930s were in the Belgian Congo, and the ore that was eventually used for the Manhattan Project was sitting on the docks in Belgium when the Nazis invaded.