skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fyre Festival feels like something Jon Ralphio (Parks and Rec) would put together.
I don't understand what is the big deal. Google probably knows that a teenager is pregnant before her boyfriend.

It is also a good thing general if people could target people and offer them products which might help them.
Funderr ;) Not the worst idea I've seen.
From my dad, linguist:
"This is the classic example of an L-complex. A chain of mutual intelligibility can be established from Normandy to Sicily and over to Portugal, and in fact across all of Latin America, though Brazil is linked through Portugal and the rest of Latin America through Spain. An L-simplex is a grouping of dialects that are all mutually intelligible. In an L-complex there may be dialects that are not mutually intelligible. But on occasion you find a maximal L-complex that is also an L-simplex. Israel is one. The Basque country is another. But it's rare."
Nuclear detonation visualizer
Used Intel Xeon processor can be a great value... however, no enterprise is going to buy old engineering sample processors for their data centers.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14238786
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I often hear "brain size" argument, and can't help but remind that crow birds (brain mass: 13g) are smarter than sperm whales (8,000g). By "smarter" here I mean performing human (1,300g) IQ tests better.
So I took a infovis class and I think what the author means is that your visualization should have some objective utility. Exploration is good in a dataset as a part of design. But if you are doing some visualization for like th nytimes or five thirty eight you need to have the skill to communicate something useful to the user.

Exploration is a tool but giving people utility to actually use your visualization is more important. You should allow exploration but it shouldn't be the only thing that people will use your visualization for.

Link to the class I took https://www.evl.uic.edu/aej/424/
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I'm a total n00b to how this stuff works, but I can't seem to find any information for this sort of stuff online. I have an Intel CPU with a Gigabyte Motherboard and BIOS. If I'm running Linux without a GUI (headless) is this something that I have to worry about? If so, how do I turn it off? I don't see any options for the Intel AMT or ME in my BIOS settings.

EDIT: I have a Core i3-4130T. Looks like it doesn't have vPro so I'm hoping I'm safe?
It seems like you know the answer and you're being passive-aggressive about it. Are you thinking the OP doesn't know about David Chaum?
If your definition of "rational" excludes things with an actual impact on your ability to achieve your goals, then you either need a different definition of "rational", or you need to stop dismissing concerns that aren't rational.
Nevermind it being a little OT, little discussions like this make HN great IMHO.
In my country (switzerland), you can have unlimited data and call for about 30$ per month.
Italian itself has an interesting spectrum of shades seeing as how it was "standardized" a relatively short time ago (mid 19th century), at the same time there was massive emigration from the country, with the result that the Italian spoken by the expats is quite different from the standard Italian.

[0] http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/how-capicola-became-gab...

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10523661
That's a shame. Hopefully you've been able to resume your workouts? If at a very light level, it could help put things back in place.

I have a shoulder injury which means I'm struggling to get past 40-45kg on my press. However I'm happy to just keep doing it and terminate at first sense of a twinge; After doing this for a long time it now seems ready to go up a bit.
Even with unlimited budgets for inspections, repairs, and replacement, if we do not understand and anticipate the failure mechanisms, we will have unanticipated failures.

Specifically for I-35W, "photos from a June 2003 inspection of the bridge showed gusset-plate bowing" but apparently the inspectors didn't realize they needed to be watching for that.

"...inspectors did not routinely check that safety features were functional."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I-35W_Mississippi_River_bridge...
I didn't even know that you required a plan to do tethering, must be a US thing.
I was curious how much work it would be, so headed to ark.intel.com.

The filter for "Max Turbo Frequency" seems to be broken, BUT searching for "Cache: '4MB L3 SmartCache'" (which I assume means shared!) finds quite a number of results: http://ark.intel.com/Search/FeatureFilter?productType=proces...

The list is column-sortable by Max Turbo Frequency, and there are just 4 results in the 3.40GHz range:

- http://ark.intel.com/products/91169/Intel-Core-i7-6660U-Proc... - the only result with a Processor Base Frequency of 2.4GHz

- http://ark.intel.com/products/91497/Intel-Core-i7-6650U-Proc...

- http://ark.intel.com/products/88192/Intel-Core-i7-6600U-Proc...

- http://ark.intel.com/products/52231/Intel-Core-i7-2620M-Proc...
Ask HN: Find ex-employees of companies you're trying to sell to
I saw this, I think on product hunt, within the last ~5 months.

It helped you find ex-employees of places you're selling into, to find people who can help you sell to them better.

Anyone know the name?
First, check your CPU for vPro: https://ark.intel.com/Search/FeatureFilter?productType=proce...

Then look for the MEI controller: # lspci | grep "MEI"

I have a CPU without vPro, but a chipset that supports MEI.

But then, I bought the best CPU available without vPro.
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Until they solve the UX problem, this is useless.
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iirc cryptocurrency was never described in cryptonomicon, internet-based gold-backed currency was.
Here's a direct link to the deck itself: https://www.scribd.com/document/346949516/Fyre-Festival-Pitc...
Whack-a-passenger: A lack of competition explains the flaws in American aviation
It's time to run for office
I think HN just has a low tolerance for willful incompetence, especially when charging gigantic fees to the consumer. As has been pointed out by other articles, despite many warning signs that this festival would be impossible to pull off as advertised, the organizers continued to crank the hype machines into turbo mode while slurping up cash from consumers till the last minute. It's a scam.
And if someone solves the UX problem, this is still useless.
If Backblaze is an indicator of large cloud provider spending habits then AMD will be given a thorough examination. Their annual HDD Reliability Reports show that while they may favor a vendor, they definitely do not put all of their eggs in one basket.
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Microtransit Startup Bridj Collapses After Just 3 Years
Java is consistently listed in the top three (and often #1) languages in current use.
Yes. I am.
It depends on why you are hiring them. There is always a place for people who will just take orders, and it doesn't mean they will rise to the top. If everyone was imaginative and didn't want to follow suit, it would be much more difficult to assemble enough people to cooperate and build something big together.
At the kind of scale you're talking about, I am pretty confident that 90% of people just won't need to do anything on that scale. For most people, business logic in the DB will serve their needs perfectly. And if some day they need to scale up to some level beyond a single DB, I'm also pretty confident that they'll have the resources to spend on a DBA consultant specialising in sharding or replication :-)
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I interpret that as SA got wind something like this was going down, guessed some of the details and possibly forced Intel to disclose but they didn't actually find anything themselves nor do they have the details. Which explains why Intel credits someone else and they overplayed their hand by claiming that either ME or VPro are breached when it really is AMT. (Bad enough...)
For sure - I can think of several other students who took his class and are now doing extremely well in Computer Science careers. Of course I don't have statistics on that or anything, but there's a large group of graduates from my school who were extremely upset when they found out what the school did to him.
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I've also heard the guys on ATP, rebound, and Gruber use nearly identical language. It would be easy to subconsciously pick up those phrases.
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I'll have to email him - I was planning on doing so once I finish my senior honors thesis in CS education (which I'm dedicating to him).
> Since we first started carving notches in sticks, we have used things in the world to help us to know that world. But never before have we relied on things that did not mirror human patterns of reasoning — we knew what each notch represented — and that we could not later check to see how our non-sentient partners in knowing came up with those answers

This is alarmist and completely untrue. The scientific method specifically involves forming a hypothesis, trial, and error. We don't know much until we experiment.

That deep learning makes things possible before we fully understand them is nothing new.

I can understand this fearful attitude coming from non-scientists who fear the black-box nature of machines. However, technologists should understand that the functionality of this tech can be reverse engineered, or verified, with additional legwork.

We should proceed cautiously and with vigilance. Saying we'll "never" understand the inner-workings of such algorithms is too much.
The soccer team would be Real Madrid.

The baseball team the New York Yankees.

They seem to do OK.
Not specific to the context but "despair" seems to fit.
I think the primary idea of an unincorporated town is that it isn't incorporated as a municipality with its own government?

In places like Montgomery County, MD (which doesn't have incorporated individual towns) it would be very confusing if all the mail had to simply be addressed to "Montgomery County" despite the fact that almost everyone refers to its individual unincorporated areas as if they were actually separate towns.
Hack has awaitables. I would highly recommend using hack over php (as it's mostly backward compatible anyway).
https://docs.hhvm.com/hack/async/awaitables
All cars to be electric by 2030:India
Kodi 17 won't play MP4
It was definitely cool - he had us writing python functions to estimate the area under a curve (and then visualize it), and other things I don't quite remember at this moment. Once he made us define math functions just based on there being a 0, and a successor function, which happens to be what I'm doing in a graduate Math Logic course at my university.
This is actually something which just got some more support if I recall correctly.
> ... why not having Postgres itself serve web requests?

At least two OSS backend stacks, PostgREST and PostGraphQL, are built on exactly this idea. And there's at least one commercial stack with the same idea: SlashDB.
As somebody that worked for a competitor and knows a lot about both of these companies, I can't say for certain what company is going to "win" local services but I can promise you both of these companies will lose (or I guess you could say Angie's List has now already lost).

Angie's List went from a membership based review service and tried to unsuccessfully turn it into a marketplace which never worked. In the process they didn't invest in their most valuable asset which was high quality reviews of service pros and a lot of consumer trust. Maybe they are still the best right now for reviews, but that is going to change very soon and this acquisition will just accelerate that.

HomeAdvisor is just a sales and marketing company (which has been around since 1999 as its old name, ServiceMagic). They aren't a technology company. They have huge teams of sales people calling pros and selling them on buying consumer leads. Consumers fill in their information for a job and their system just matches them with the pre-sold leads from their sales team. The experience is poor from the consumer side (you often get matched with terrible pros who aren't interested in your job) and is even worse from the pro side (they are paying to be matched for a job they don't want). Pros hate it, they churn at huge rates, which is why HA needs a big sales team. It's a business and they make money but it isn't the type of business that can grow very big.

I'm not even sure why this transaction is interesting. Angie's List has been trying to sell themselves for a long time and has gotten to the point where their stock dropped enough that this deal today is "good" that was bad a year ago. HomeAdvisor has been around for 18 years and will go the way of the Yellow Pages in 3-5 years. Just rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.
[0] CineBench R15: 1800X = 1620 @ 155.1W = 10.4 CB/W, 6900K = 1486 @ 160.5W = 9.25 CB/w

[1] Prime95 SmallFFT, 1800X = 220W, 6900K = 187W

(anecdotal evidence: the ~140W package TDP I observe with Prime95 on a 6-core (analogous to the 6850K) is just about right for 178W total system power at 80% efficiency, so their numbers ring true here. I just ran another Prime95 SmallFFT test and I came up with 133W package TDP on HwMonitor64.)

[1.1] Prime95 SmallFFT: 1800X @ 4 GHz = 253W, 6900K @ 4.2GHz = 255W

Basically AMD is low-balling their TDP here (they rated the TDP for like 1-2 core loads with maybe a mild load on the other cores, is the official word IIRC) and Intel is high-balling their TDP, something like mixed-allcore with a decent amount of AVX thrown in.

In practice: both 8-core processors at default clocks are around 125W at a full normal (non-AVX) workload. Both 8-core processors are around 200W with an aggressive overclock. The 6900K tends to win modestly in most cases in either scenario (CineBench is like AMD's best-case). The general take was that the 1800X was a win on price vs the 6900X, not an overall win on performance or efficiency.

To sum up, the processors are within 10% power consumption on any given workload which is pretty much neck and neck as far as I'm concerned (normal variability). It's a good result for AMD given their Bulldozer track record but it's not an obvious win in efficiency. Again, of course the picture for server chips at 2.5 GHz might look very different than the picture at 4 GHz but that's speculation.

Sources:

[0] https://www.pcper.com/reviews/Processors/AMD-Ryzen-7-1800X-R...

[1] https://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/2017/03/02/amd-ryzen-1800x...

[1.1] ibid
Yep. The only thing they didn't accomplish was disappearing with the cash at the end.
I'm assuming your stack looks like mine: gevent has monkey patched everything.

1. fork'ing just doesn't work properly; something about the event loop in the child hangs.

2. You can't easily spawn an honest to god hardware thread anymore. (Since the typical call is monkey patched!) Yes, you can get the original threading module by getting it out of gevents hands, but…

3. …it doesn't compose well. Libraries, in order for gevent to play nice, need special "if gevent then …" sections.
With Apple's devices, you can copy-paste your 2nd factor token between devices, which makes things much more convenient. Although cloud copy-paste is still significantly slower than tapping "Allow" in a notification, it's lower friction than manually typing those numbers.

Although the security of cloud copy-paste I haven't investigated...
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[2] https://github.com/openbmc/openbmc/wiki
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14237283
Yep, that was just me bragging about my ultra-dirt-cheap video encoding build. I'm not implying in any way that that would be scalable for a datacenter.

Although in a lot of ways it does appear to be more stable than Ryzen given its memory problems. Especially regarding ECC. I trust a relatively mature platform like Haswell-E much more than something like Ryzen where even basic memory functionality is touchy and ECC is entirely unvalidated. Given a budget build I know which I'd trust.

I was more aiming at TDP figures there. Although I realize anecdotes are not super reliable data, I put the Xeon box together over the weekend and I was literally just looking at the power data last night to see how it was doing.

I was worried about cooling at first, before I knew the TDP numbers it would hit. It's on a Hyper T4 and it didn't break 40C during an overnight x264 encode so I'm pretty happy with that.
Absolutely. I didn't mean to imply that Governor Pawlenty was responsible for the collapse - it was a combination of engineering, not funding inspections/repairs/replacement adequately, and bad luck.
Java was not publicly released until 1996? That is when I first remember it. So does this mean you were working at Sun at the time with Mr. Gosling?

One of my clients is apparently friends with Mr. Gosling and was surprised when I recognized him from a photo at a Sharks game in the "oh wow! That's James Gosling". Never met, just from having read a wikipedia page.
"If it's only encumbered by the copyright and patents of the user (which is the case much of the time, because all rights are often waived), then it's free."

You can't guarantee that in the us. We're not even legally allowed to show someone a work with a copyright claim. We can't even reproduce a patented thing whether we knew it existed or not. Copyright and patent trolls increasingly sue businesses to the tune of billions of dollars. The risk is there so long as the system works the way it does.
> All of this may appear incredibly douchy, but they had a viable business model.

Where, exactly, did the viability of their business model get demonstrated?