skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, I wasn't posing it as a common social problem, just an example of a kind of killing-for-food that would be widely understood as unethical.

Personally, I think consumption of more than a few ounces of meat per week is unethical, by the same logic. It's not necessary for health. However, most people in my country don't have the food culture necessary to make adequate non-meat-based dishes. We weren't all born in a family where we were taught thrifty cooking techniques. So it's a strange gray area of "unnecessary". One doesn't need to eat more than a couple ounces of meat, but one needs food and if one doesn't know how to cook plants into something that could stand in for meat in a satisfactory way, then they "need" meat.

The internet is there, so anyone could do it though. I think whether it's ethical comes down to how much free time you have and how comfortable you are with cooking. But again, that's my personal view. I wouldn't expect someone else to live by my ethics. I would expect them to have some measure of "need" in their scheme though. If their habit is "I eat as much red meat as I want I don't even think about it", unless they're and abuse victim or something that's probably not an ethically defensible position.
I've got an old 360 with the original blade interface; unfortunately, it's pretty unstable (high chance of red-ringing while playing anything). I pulled it out of storage a couple years ago to get the serial number when MS was offering a free memory card for older machines.

The interface felt so nice to go back to! Things were logically organized! Ads only showed up in the store tab (i.e. when you're looking for things to buy anyhow)! Going back to the current interface on my replacement 360 is what pushed me to start playing with blocking the ads using router rules.
The identity problem is being resolved. uport.me is the first implementation. The idea is so simple one wonders why we hadn't thought of it before. Of course it necessitates a working consensus algorithm, which is in its infancy. Some devs at ethereum are figuring out clever ways to get rid of proof if work. They're calling it 'casper'. Very clever stuff. Exciting times!
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Hi there! Yeah, that would be rather sucky. But for what it's worth, the Redgate tools we're integrating into Visual Studio aren't time-limited trial editions - they're the real deal. We know there are raving fans of ReadyRoll in particular, because of the way it integrates the database into the whole DevOps workflow. So we struck an agreement with Redgate to partner on integrating these capabilities more deeply into Visual Studio. These tools are not available outside of Visual Studio outside of the paid Redgate product.

While it's an optional feature that can be easily added or removed, we do take your feedback onboard: we don't want this to feel like an ad or trialware. We're certainly sensitive to that, and we'll keep working with Redgate to tune the user interface accordingly.

Thanks for the feedback, Tim Sneath | Visual Studio Team
I will never use Bank of America again, for similar reason.

On two separate occasions they "lost" transfers to the IRS (totaling $40k) that I only discovered when the IRS came after me for failure to pay taxes. I had full receipts from BofA for the transfers that apparently never happened. At least as disconcerting, the reaction of BofA to the situation both times suggested that sending money to /dev/null was a routine occurrence in their organization.
I know it's messed up, but this story makes me so happy.
The post I replied to sounded like it tried to justify it, like there was no other choice than to drive drunk. I also don't agree with you at all. You speak like it's some kind of technical problem that needs to be disrupted. If you drink and drive you're messed up and have big issues. Of course we should try to find ways to reduce it but you can never blame the system.
If he publicly mentioned a change, I haven't seen it. His turd-polishing comment about micro-emacs is a couple of years old at this point.
"Ow, My History!"
Respondent is the term for the party advocating against overturning a previous ruling during an appeal. Defendant is correct in this case because this is not an appeal.
It has nothing to do with that.
It's about driver cpu overhead, game optimization and specific driver shader optimization.
Ask HN: How to build a personal database for creative work
Hello HN,

I'm a film/VFX person and I've come to realize over the years that one of the most important things for me to finish a job properly is organisation. Yet more and more I've realised that no one is really offering a tool that can help me organize the vast amounts of information that I get from the Web and want to keep for later inspiration in my creative work.

Right now I use:
Pinterest for visual stuff
Pinboard for links
Simplenote for my own notetaking

All of this is labelled and organised, within its own platform. But there is no ONE platform that allows me to have all of this organised and searching through all 3 or 4 of them is hard. Not even to mention how many iPhone photos I have

Let's say for instance I want to make a short Film with some VFX work on it.

I need:
Celtx or Final Draft where I'll write the screenplay
Pinterest/instagram where I might look for inspiration for the VFX/locations/look
I might see things on the street and take iPhone photos
I'll use pinboard web links

I am visual guy, do some HTML/CSS and branching out into other languages. Now because this issue is getting worse and worse for me I'm starting to think that I might need to learn MySQL or something similar.

The idea of relational databases for my work seems very powerful. I need something that combines the power of Simplenote/Pinterest/Pinboard into one consolidated Platform.

I imagine this might take me 1/2 years to figure out, I'm fine with that. But considering the vast knowledge of the HN crowd, can anyone think of a better solution for this? Am I on the right Track? Does anyone have a better suggestion on what I could do?

Cheers
AMD also sells the console chips at a very low profit margin. They benefit a bit from their name being on so many products as well as hoping that games are optimized for AMD hardware which will benefit their PC business side as well.

Well, that's the plan, but NVidia is kind of wiping the floor with them.
Honestly don't have any of the same experience as you except that some things are buried behind too many clicks. I use the amazon stream all the time. I don't even remember installing it. Can't remember ever having a problem installing apps.

I have it set to always on, so I basically never even notice the updates since they happen while I sleep or am at work. So yeah, I don't share your experience at all.
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Ideal scenario? Are you seriously suggesting that it should be reasonable for a potential employer to expect you to burn a week's worth of vacation time on the possibility of going to work for them? No way!
Smalltalk isn't native!
Click on the "Web" link next to the story. Will take you to Google and from there is free
They patched it in the last release. https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT207688

How many years is it going to take for all the android phones to get patched....
Great! That's what I wanted to know! Many thanks!

I was more curious if Titans had some lower precision data type or better dataset packing than vanilla Pascals, or something similar that would help with ML.
Houston pretty much has zoning they just don't call it zoning.

https://urbanedge.blogs.rice.edu/2015/09/08/forget-what-youv...

>Matthew Festa [is] a land use professor in Houston...

>For all that’s been made of Houston’s infamous lack of zoning, Festa said it increasingly seems that reputation isn’t deserved or even accurate.

>“We do have a lot of land-use regulations,” Festa said. “We still have a lot of stuff that looks and smells like zoning.”

>To be more precise, Houston doesn’t exactly have official zoning. But it has what Festa calls “de facto zoning,” which closely resembles the real thing. “We’ve got a lot of regulations that in other cities would be in the zoning code,” Festa said. “When we use it here, we just don’t use the ‘z’ word.”
The Titan X was never intended exclusively for gamers. Do not forget that Nvidia is also emphasizing its AI-related products.
> JavaScript programmers have been mind-fucked into thinking that JavaScript is a good programming language

In the same way that English-language speakers have been mind-fucked into thinking that English is a great language?
I have noticed this phenomenon as well, although I'm not sure if it's just the kids being out of school or more people going on vacation because school is out. Or maybe people who were previously trapped at going in during the peak of rush hour due to needing to drop the kids off at the bus first can instead push their commute forward and spread the load.

Something is going on and it is correlated with the school year but I don't have enough data to pin down any specific cause.
Once I considered writing a Twitter client and the only reasonable option was to implement a proxy that would hold the API key...
Hopefully I ended up not wasting time building this!
How much money doctors actually make
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Wow. Lots of parties liable here. Reeks of those cases where banks forceclosed on the wrong houses.

Sad that one has to go public like this to get anything to happen, but I suspect that it will help showing the world how incompetent the involved parties were.

I remember there being some brilliant story in the reverse direction where someone sued a bank (I believe it was BoA) for something like this and won. When the bank didn't respond they got the court to allow property seizure to recover damages. Guy rocked up at a local bank branch and started taking computers and such with court order in hand and sheriff watching. He was legally robbing the bank. Bank reacted quite quickly then!
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Yes, the JavaScript world has gotten quite complex. Yes, there are a lot of different flavors of JS these days. Yes, the language itself has quite a few warts.

Maybe try to realize that there are actual reasons to use it on the server side like isomorphic/universal rendering and code reuse. JS is one of the most accessible programming languages that exists, making it easy to find developers who are familiar with it.

As far as linters go, I don't get the hate. Almost all of the languages the article lists as alternatives recommend the use of linters. Several even have linters built-in.

Take your clickbait somewhere else, and get over your "I don't use JS" superiority complex.
Yeah, part of what let word2vec make such a splash that it became the one word embedding model everyone has heard of, is that the word2vec team released their model.

This is a really cool example OpenAI has, but I don't know why I should ultimately care about their character model more than anyone else's if all we've got is their description of how cool it is.

I hope OpenAI defies their reputation for closedness and releases the model.
Calculating processing time complexity
Yes, the place you linked to is the best for interviews.

A couple of things to note.

These interviews with some leading schooners came about because Hayek was old and he had not given many interviews on video. So what you are seeing there is a very old Hayek who does not always get everything correct about the past (as always happens in these situations).

Second, Hayek changed his position on some topics quite a bit. Please don't watch the interviews directly assume his book that he wrote earlier are the same.

Hayek's arguments by nature are hard to write and talk about. Him not being a good speaker (or writer) makes this very hard. He himself multiple times tried to invent new words for concepts because he felt the words that existed did not capture the meaning. Mostly he was not successful beyond his own works.

If you are open to reading, I would suggest "Hayek's Challenge: An Intellectual Biography of F.A. Hayek". The auther is leading authority on Hayek and is the editor of Hayek Collected works.

Depending on what aspect you are interested in there are different more specialized books. For Hayeks own works, I think "Road to Serfdom" is a easy first read but its written for a very specific people in a specific context, that has to be understood. Some people recommend "Fatal Conceit" as a nice 'summary' for lots of stuff, but there are also some issues with it. I think also that the essay collection "Individualism and Economic Order" is required reading.

There are a couple podcasts that I can recommend, specially for beginners. One is with the author of the book above. They address different aspects of Hayek.

- Boudreaux on Reading Hayek http://files.libertyfund.org/econtalk/y2012/Boudreauxreading... (this gives a good overview about his books)

- Caldwell on Hayek http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2011/01/caldwell_on_hay.htm...

- Caplan on Hayek, Richter, and Socialism http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2010/06/caplan_on_hayek.htm...

- Larry White on Hayek and Money http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2010/02/larry_white_on.html
This is essentially linear algebra, not behavioural psychology. I believe that one shouldn't draw such broad conclusions from a 1% improvement on some evaluation dataset.
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Can't get fooled again.
It amazes me that otherwise intelligent people can observe this and still believe we live in a genuine democracy.
If you only read content that's given to you for free, you'll only learn things that someone else has paid to show you.
Interesting question: "How avoidable is this outcome with or without Scuttlebutt?" In Cuba, USB sticks perform this function, distributing all kinds of media - but mostly movies - throughout society in the face of heavy censorship of every other connection. Admittedly, though, that still requires a kind of common consent. The "and probably worse" stuff couldn't be passed around this way; certainly not so easily as the latest Hollywood movies.
Not sure about that. With regards to Browsers, we are only given ONE language to work with, and that is JavaScript.

So there is no bandwagon effect, I think everyone is just trying to work with the language they are given.

But the fact that there are transpilers (Coffeescript, Typescript, Clojurescript, etc) means that people want to move away or improve JavaScript.

Now that WebAssembly is being worked on is a big relief. We now have options on what language we think would be best for the job.
Shouldn't it be supported by existing Pascal drivers already?

I've the original Titan X Pascal and Tensorflow works great with some old driver version, I even forgot which.
An Atlas V with the strap-on boosters is roughly equivalent to the Falcon 9 FT, it's about $150M (about $110M without the strap-ons). A brand new Falcon 9 non-reusable is around $65M?

You have a $200M satellite. Insurance on a Falcon 9 launch is $20M, your costs now are $85M. Even forgoing insurance on the Atlas V can't bridge the gap, and SpaceX's launch cadence is getting so rapid that you should be able to launch much sooner too.
Where Should You Open Your Next Engineering Office?
I suspect that requirements for degrees in STEM have much more to do with weeding out "undesirables" from your hiring process. Many companies won't even take candidates from non-ivies + soft ivies (Stanford, CM, etc).
There are recent developments but nothing really significant. AMD did say they were working on CUDA compatibility.
Discussed here previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14034092
This is a very interesting treatment of the famous paint:

http://rdemaree.com/blogs/emerald-green-the-deadly-pigment-a...
I think theoretically you're correct that the methods underlying Box2d could be used in such a way, but practically I don't think it's there, as that was never one of the engine's goals. Read up on the methods used (for instance, http://twvideo01.ubm-us.net/o1/vault/gdc2013/slides/824737Ca...) for some of the limitations that Erin chose to accept. In particular the fact that it misses multiple roots during the solve means that you can't use if for perfect tickless simulation; there are (were? I'm not sure to what extent they've been addressed since I was deep in that code) also issues with conservation of time that would be a problem, which are discussed elsewhere (for instance http://box2d.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=154).
No Shortcuts to Democracy
Yes. It should open up the market to stuff that most of us can't yet imagine, but I'm sure someone somewhere is.
I admit it's entirely possible most of my bad experiences with SQL Server is due to a horrible schema. I don't control the schema in this case, nor the majority of different types of queries that run against that schema.

What I do know is that I routinely get single, non-transactional select queried deadlocked and killed. That seems like something that shouldn't happen. If I had to guess, it's likely because of the subselects to approximate group_concat, as outlined above, and they have different lock times than the main query, allowing for this single query to attampt to get locks at different times. Unfortunately, this is an ORM generated query, so sticking NOLOCK all over the place is easier said than done, and since I don't control the DB, I can't change default transactional levels. Perhaps that would solve it too.

It just seems odd that what appears to be (from my admittedly non SQL server expert) eyes to be a fairly standard database schema is so easily susceptible to this problem.
Because their negligence results in harm's to entities other than the company.

Often to the firm's customers, either because the firm directly lost control of private data or because their customers got hacked through their software.
And that what I'm saying is wrong. The gold coin is the money. Also you can not disassociate the IOU from the underlying object, it binds the IOU.
Libpostal 1.0: Conditional Random Fields trained on  1B open street addresses
It would be a good thing if, with this announcement, Twitter made a commitment for how this would have a support for the future.

Like "this will be available for x months/years, you can make x requests per minute/hour/day, you can buy a plan offering x for $x dollars" and so on.

Yes, that can limit some better offer in the future? Perhaps. But that make things more stable, and people would commit more to twitter.

Can you change your terms in the future? Of course. But for newer customers. The ones that sign up right now will have that promises kept. Good for everybody.
Ask HN: Difference between custom and template design?
I have been browsing lately a lot of designs and I see a pattern, custom websites (at least this is how they are called) seems to be using parts of popular templates, like CSS/Grid Systems. So a questions to HN community - what do you consider a custom website? Are you OK if the custom website is using parts of commercial templates? Where is a line between custom and template? Can a template that was vastly customised called custom?
http://www.cnbc.com/2017/04/06/lyft-funding-round-valuation-...
Why do I have so many friends? Talk about not mirroring reality.
As they say:
“When you take stuff from one writer it’s plagiarism, but when you take from many writers it’s called research.”
The 1080 Ti was marginally faster than the previous Titan, while being significantly cheaper. This is a small spec bump to put the Titan back on top, so that people with money to burn still have an excuse to give Nvidia $1200 rather than $700.

If you ask me the 1080 Ti is still a better choice, but there are always a few people out there who just have to have the very fastest thing and Nvidia is happy to take their money.
Why are people being so critical about this work? Sure, the blog post provides a simplified picture about what the system is actually capable of, but it's still helpful for a non-ML audience to get a better understanding of the high-level motivation behind the work. The OpenAI folks are trying to educate the broader public as well, not just ML/AI researchers.

Imagine if this discovery were made by some undergraduate student who had little experience in the traditions of how ML benchmark experiments are done, or was just starting out her ML career. Would we be just as critical?

As a researcher, I like seeing shorter communications like these, as it illuminates the thinking process of the researcher. Read ML papers for the ideas, not the results :)

I personally don't mind blog posts that have a bit of hyped-up publicity. It's thanks to groups like DeepMind and OpenAI that have captured public imagination on the subject and accelerated such interest in prospective students in studying ML + AI + robotics. If the hype is indeed unjustified, then it'll become irrelevant in the long-term. One caveat is that researchers should be very careful to not mislead reporters who are looking for the next "killer robots" story. But that doesn't really apply here.
I wish Apple would pay attention to the pro users out there who still want a workstation.

*Still rocking a Mid 2010 Mac Pro since the 2013 model was underwhelming and nothing has been released since.
Why are people being so critical about this work? Sure, the blog post provides a simplified picture about what the system is actually capable of, but it's still helpful for a non-ML audience to get a better understanding of the high-level motivation behind the work. The OpenAI folks are trying to educate the broader public as well, not just ML/AI researchers.

Imagine if this discovery were made by some undergraduate student who had little experience in the traditions of how ML benchmark experiments are done.

I personally don't mind blog posts that have a bit of hyped-up publicity. It's thanks to groups like DeepMind and OpenAI that have captured public imagination on the subject and accelerated such interest in prospective students in studying ML + AI + robotics. If the hype is unjustified, then it'll become irrelevant in the long-term.
Heh. I only saw Hong Kong nightlife... and Victoria Peak. (It was a very productive 24 hours, I think we only slept about 4 of it LOL)
I bought a VPS from CloudAtCost for a one-time fee of $35. Set it up with nginx and GNU Social and pretty much haven't looked back since. My instance is https://kwat.chat.

Ideally, the end solution would be dead simple. Download the Windows app, run it, put your credit card in if you need a URL registered, and it does everything, including daily backups to a folder on your disk.
I think precision in language is like scientific knowledge. No matter how far we extend it, the limit will always be there when we want to enjoy it. Not way out there but right here, like you never have to reach far from a set of rational numbers to find a real number outside the set.
I believe Voynich Manuscript will be solved not by a Human but a Machine.
That was already possible. You can make any number of 'target groups', each of which have one or more instances. In your case you would have all 4 instances in your 'service1' group, and 1 instance in your 'debug' group. You'd then point example.com/service to 'service1' and example.com/debug to 'debug'.

With this announcement, you can point service.example.com or www.example.com to 'service1 and private.debug.example.com to 'debug'. And you could also have free fully managed SSL on all subdomains as well.
You have made a small step for a better, naked women-free world.
I have a California LLC (sole prop) which is a disregarded entity for tax purposes. LLC is perfect if:

a) you don't plan on raising investor capital
b) are a single founder, who just wants liability and corporate benefits and protections
c) want to easily pass money from the business to personal

Do be aware there is a flat $800 a year California LLC fee even if you don't make a cent (which is unfair and anti-small business), but is what it is.
Lyft said to have raised $500M at $6.9B valuation