skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pretty sure you'd have to steal tesla, spacex, etc from Elon's cold dead hands -- he's too attached to the companies at a core emotional level. There's no way he just decides..think I'm gonna sell Tesla today...if the price is right...
On packaging, can't this be solved by static linking or something like Nix?
Yikes. I know people who have the mentality that this sort of thing is ok.

I don't see a big problem with it. If it's OK to do the original illegal thing, then why wouldn't it be OK to try to avoid contact with law enforcement while doing it? If it's not OK to do the original thing then that rather than trying to avoid being punished for it is the fundamental issue.

I find it a little odd people are upset over this if they weren't similarly upset over Uber skirting regulations to begin with. Uber has been guilty of some other bad behavior toward employees, drivers and competitors that I find unacceptable, but Greyball seems fundamentally reasonable.
this is really cool! I always had in mind a project where you save every page you visit, and somehow expose them in the future to know what you visit and maybe remembering you important stuff based on some heuristic.
Yes, most wells are productive for about 30 years, and then you have to wait a bit (another 30) to let the rock heat back up. The NPV past 60 years is pretty tiny, so it is hard to amortize capex that far out.

Worst case, you run them continuously at half capacity, but then your cost per kWh is about 2x.
Apple should buy Tesla and make Musk their CEO.
> neither of them run macOS, and that's probably a dealbreaker for me

I strongly suggest that you give Linux a shot. Depending on the distro, it can be very nice, and it means that you get to keep both your money and your freedom, which I really appreciate.
Buying a company might help them double or quadruple their services revenue as they have stated that's a goal. I would love it if they bought Twitter and made it a public service. I know there could be some synergies (sic) there as the engineers could certainly help bolster the stability of Apples cloud offerings in terms of uptime and such.
I'm heading engineering at a startup that works on making the likes of Apache Cloudstack and Openstack work for telecom behemoths. I studied Russian at university. I've been writing code for the last 7.32 years. Personally, I don't care about the nanodegree, so long as the person demonstrates a natural affinity for writing code. That's all that matters to me.

I don't know where you're based right now, but I'd say most recruiters across the world wouldn't understand the concept of a Udacity nanodegree. Most of them don't understand that you really don't need a piece of paper stating that you can write code; recruiters simply don't understand that it doesn't matter whether the person is even a graduate or not, if s/he can write code.

I'd just tell the person to keep trying. I kept trying, and I got lucky with a media house that was okay with hiring me to write code without a relevant degree or experience. I'm sure I can't be the only one to get lucky.
Well, people have lot of different answers, some of them pretty ridiculous.

One fundamental reason why this is such a controversial and confusing topic with a wide range of opinions is that consciousness is meta-physical phenomenon. I.e. it's out of the scope of science in a way. But the concept that there's something beyond science is completely unintuitive to many people (by "beyond science" I obviously don't mean BS like spirituality etc., it's from a purely rational perspective). So trying to understand consciousness with science only will inevitably fail.
First I pissed off on Elm, and have been observed many the leader's reasons behind things people do not like. However, it is hard to make arguments against reasons from his point of view (e.g. https://github.com/elm-lang/projects/blob/master/roadmap.md)

Now, it really makes sense to me that he made it hard on JS interop and discourage js-wrapped packages. We should move forward, even WebAssembly team, as I imply, want to ditch javascript completely (But people don't want to say it out for unhealthy discussion) Here is a talk about what/why/some how/ on WebAssembly https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OH9NYzH3-74

We don't need "component" things in Elm, though if you mean "module", I'm sorry. I really don't understand why people still build things on top javascript that is fundamentally and practically wrong (No need to elaborate _this_!)
TL;DR: Yet another "financial/asset bubble soft landing is possible" prediction.
Lets try! For example this the math behind a 2x2 neural network:

http://htmlpreview.github.io/?https://github.com/aguaviva/Ar...

It is computing the derivatives of the error with respect to the weights.

If you feel comfortable reading that then you are good to go.
Covariance Kernels for Avoiding Boundaries
App gets approved by Apple, despite game not working--and the support links in the descriptions typically link to sites that don't have anything to do with the developer (the victim). So, when someone requests a refund from Apple, they're pointed to the innocent (victim's) site for a refund.
haha not likely, i know people that work there.
Pinboard offers an archive feature:

https://pinboard.in/upgrade/
> With the kind of control Chinese government has on everything in its economy l they probably are the one country that could deflate in a controlled manner compared to the rest of the world.

See, I used to think this, until as recently as 2014, but now I'm not so sure. I don't think "China" has the total control of the economy that everyone (including themselves) thinks they do. My impression is that the central government in Beijing understands the problems they have very well, and has the right solutions, but then when it comes time to translate that into "action on the ground", they struggle.

The issue is that the provincial government leaders don't share Beijing's incentives: they get both tax revenue and political opportunity by continuing to juice the credit bubble and looking the other way at the dangerous techniques used to do that. The last few years of economic news out of China have been like this:

- Central government orders reforms to try and gently deflate bubble

- Provincial governments obey for a bit, but growth slows and discontent increases. Provincial governments panic and pull back on reforms.

- Lather, rinse, repeat.

I've come to realize that even authoritarian governments in some sense depend on a popular mandate, even if it's in an indirect way. There might be some way for China to "thread the needle" and balance the opposing goals of deflating their credit bubble before it explodes without stoking popular anger at the hit growth will take, but it's not a sure thing, and if it does happen it won't be because they have total control of the economy.
Uber is the subject of a federal criminal probe to see if they have committed crimes. Lets not get ahead of ourselves.
He didn't say that MSFT and Samsung weren't competitors of Apple. He said MacOS and iOS are monopolies. Those are two different things.

You can switch from a monopoly over a specific service/product to a similar but not identical one. MacOS has applications and features that Windows doesn't. It historically enabled features (sealed batteries) that Windows didn't, that provided better performance.

And MacOS can run linux and windows. For people who value those things, MacOS is a complete monopoly.

iOS is even more differentiated from Android. Android won't support all the music/movies/shows I've bought from iTunes, does't work with iCloud, etc. It doesn't airplay to my other Apple devices.

These "monopolies" are why Apple is successful. When they switched to Intel they didn't lower costs by adopting commoditized PC hardware designs and outsource OS development to MSFT by licensing windows. They used Intel to provide more powerful and more flexible Macs, and continued to differentiate themselves by adding value with aluminum bodies, retina screens, mag-safe adapters, thunderbolt, etc, etc, etc.

I think Apple understands much better than most of us geeks that their customers spend a lot of time with their devices and on their Macs. If I pay $1000 more for an "equivalent" Mac than Windows PC, it costs me about 50 cents more per work hour. Which means my payback needs less than a 1% increase in productive. And it's trivial to get far more than that because despite having similar processors/ram/storage, they are in no way equivalent in build quality, flexibility, and usability.

Where Apple's model fails is for the people who don't make much per hour, so building your own, or getting the cheapest, makes sense.
The classic recurrence is if you're choosing K elements out of N, it either has the first element (in which case you choose K-1 elements out of the remaining N-1) or it doesn't (in which case you choose K elements out of the remaining N-1), so:

N choose K = (N-1 choose K-1) + (N-1 choose K).

Also, if you sum (N choose K) for all values of K you get 2^N.
I did a test of 'Bare metal Linux' vs 'Containers on bare metal linux' for our product. In this case it is just 2 processes a 'search component' and an 'analytics and logging component'. Under heavy load the 'search' uses a lot of disk reads, CPU and network, while the logging module uses a lot of disk writes.

The comparison was done on

1) Ubuntu server 16.04 with both processes running as they usually do (Search with higher priority)

2) Core OS - Both processes running each in a separate rkt container (search with higher priority).

I saw no change in CPU / Network / Disk access metrics and my throughput remained the same.

Please note though, in my case I do not have way too many microservices as the general usage is. Also I use host networking. I also had no need for orchestration services like Kubernetes / swarm etc.,

TLDR:; No change between running product in container vs no-container mode with host networking, minimal containers and no orchestration.
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It's not exactly what you want, but there's a physical keyboard mod for Moto Z/Play - https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/keyboard-mod-a-physical-k...

Supposedly it will be available to public in June-July.
Apple could issue more bonds and use that cash domestically for buyouts if they wanted.

Their last bond sale was just 8 billion. They can do whatever they want.
Seems like a lot of work and magic when compared to, say:

class Box(UserDict):
def __getattr__(self, key):
return self.__getitem__(key)
def __setattr__(self, key, value):
return self.__setitem__(key, value)

I know a few folks who prefer this method of access, so I can't naysay against it too much, but personally I just prefer plain dictionaries.
Also don't neglect the ad for auction of "one of only four" going on sale soon. This read as a very elaborate advertisement for that auction.
Agreed. IMO the other plausible theory is disguising a bladed weapon of some kind in stacks of paper. The rest of the speculation appears to be based on misinterpretations of the headlines (scanning vs X-ray).
I've been there many times, its amazing. Have a safe trip buddy.
Wikileaks Publishes Secret CIA Tools That Attacked Computers Inside Offices
> As an example, all my family use iPhones. We use PhotoStream to share pictures of family events and children and the like. If I were to switch to Android then I would lose all of that interaction, and so it's a big driver in keeping me (and other family members) on iOS.

There's always Flickr, Facebook &c. Many folks in my family use iCloud or PhotoStream or whatever it's called, and it does mean that I'm cut out of seeing those updates (because Apple are apparently unable to design a cross-platform webpage displaying pictures and text, in 2017), but I just don't care: I'd rather live without the restrictions of iOS and have the (relative) freedom and flexibility of an Android device.
To me, Twitter goes against anything stands for. Twitter is like the wild wild west. I really can't imagine how they would fit in with Apples very polished M.O.
Beware: RT=Russian propoganda
[pdf] Teenage hackers motivated by morality, reputation not money
I live in the US now but was born in the UK and lived there until I was almost 30. Each time I tried to give blood here in CA, I was told I was ineligible because of the possibility I was a carrier for "Mad Cow Disease".

Anyone know if that's still the case or if there is a way to get tests and cleared for donations?
Applications matter.
Yep, I'm getting a 408 error here.
Recognize that one's conception of Jesus/God/the divine is not necessarily universal. In modern times there is a heavy popular focus on Jesus as "socialist" (understand that I mean this term in a completely neutral sense, not as a slur), paying special attention to welfare for the poor and eschewing trappings of richness or ornamentation. The rise of liberation theology is also intertwined with this.

Such approaches are of course not only modern, but it's good to recognize the other facets through which Christian believers have viewed Christ, such as the idea of "Christ as King" or "Christ as Warrior." The long history of, say, the Vatican's art and riches need not be snarkily dismissed as mere hypocrisy but also another dimension through which people saw their connection with and reverence for the divine.

Of particular interest to this article is the idea of "God as mathematician" or "God as watchmaker," which was something held by intellectuals around the time of Newton. The focus on craftsmanship in a timekeeper has a certain applicability.
I see these kinds of arguments as being something that any message board nerd of sufficient experience can generate in any situation; it's just catnip for flame wars. If you try to generate an all-encompassing framework for the ethics of your project, bored nerds will chase you all the way back to Gödel with nitpicking inconsistencies.

To me --- and, let's be honest, to pretty much the overwhelming majority of all other people --- it's enough to say "we've decided we're not going to work with spyware companies", just as for the most part it's fine to say "we're not going to work with people who publicly lobby for racism or misogyny"† without connecting the dots on that statement all the way back through Rawls and John Stuart Mill.

I think at present it's a courtesy to announce those kinds of beliefs, preferably in the simplest way possible, just so nobody is shocked when you exercise your prerogative to enforce them. I obviously don't think the resulting "code of conduct" statements need to be formally impregnable.

† You could make the opposite statement as well, as I think at least one project has sort of done implicitly. I don't begrudge anyone that right; why would I bother? If you want to pour kerosene over your professional reputation and light a match, who am I to stop you?
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You can buy ICOs with eth.

Did you ever consider that the currency part of cryptocurrency was a misnomer and has nothing to do with the value of the asset?
As a dark middle Eastern, with known troubles with the law, he might not pass airport security no matter what.
please stop dragging US politics into much broader topics.
yet another anti-systemd troll. haters gonna hate
Depends a _lot_ on the specific camera (and lens). Pro SLR lenses and bodies are generally more effectively sealed than consumer equipment, and generally more robust. A Nikon D5 with a well sealed prime lens will stand up to an awful lot of mistreatment. More, in fact, than the Mamiya he used.

However, medium format cameras are the best you can get for still image quality while still having something you can reasonably call "handheld", which is likely why he chose one. Also, this Mamiya (like most film MF cameras) is massively cheaper than a nikon d5, which means you care less about risk from dust damage etc.
Redux Router Kit
What restrictions are you talking about? Apple has no prohibitions against making the vast majority of applications.
Having observed kids, including my own, it's unpredictable what will spark their interest, and it's good to have a few things to try. My kids both enjoyed Scratch for a while, before moving on to other things.

In my view a benefit of Scratch is that teachers can learn it.
They should really stop linking things to "phase transitions". This is most likely something that follows the Tracy Widom distribution, that has popped up in many areas of maths and physics. Linking this to phase transitions is like saying: "weather predictions linked to the physics of a dice being rolled"
The article title is almost identical too.
Why is it beyond the scope of science? No experiments have shown that consciousness can violate the laws of physics and steady progress has been made in explaining consciousness from neuroscience.
Theoretically ETH can easily replace bitcoin as a payment method for anything that can be bought with BTC currently. I would imagine some people investing in ETH are expecting that to happen.
Significant overlap in the concepts such as avoiding companies into firearms, profiting from conflict zones, tobacco sometimes and other vices.

Thats the demonstration. Shouldn't bother you that much.
Yeah, the term "vaporware" doesn't fit in the traditional sense. But the market for VR is very much vapor.
So have a portfolio of work to prove competency?
You mean the ex culture secretary? With no experience of healthcare, finance, or anything else that the job entails? Crazy. The only thing more ridiculous is having a Chancellor with no real world business or financial experience who is known to dodge tax... oh... and now Editors a Newspaper.
Does it really need spelling out? Buying Netflix or Disney gives them access to large and valuable content libraries and distribution infrastructure. Buying Tesla gets them access to the electric car market that they have tried, and so far failed, to move into.
3D motion experiment
My mentor, the late David Crane FAIA, spent a fair portion of his career in projects that involved designing and creating projects for poor people. His one rule is:

Poor people want exactly the same quality
as people with money.

And by implication, a designer/architect/engineer's job is to provide that. Providing something less than high quality is poor design. So my suggestion is to figure out how to provide fast full regular internet just like everyone wants.

Because when it comes to grant applications, its not about funding a solution someone wants to build. Right out of graduate school David Crane had designed a precast concrete emergency shelter for Caribbean hurricane relief. Months into the project he was proud of his design only to discover that the only place it made economic sense was lower Manhattan. Booting around the Caribbean probably would have suggested that earlier.

Good luck.
Not entirely. Adding more middle men isn't a good thing, and depending on the terms for renting the car, they can be obscenely predatory. I know Uber and Lyft's rental terms are pretty shitty.
I think you've put your finger on the strongest implication from his piece. Platform has always mattered. What does Apple do if software application out of their control becomes the only platform that matters?
Team-oriented software development has become somewhat infantilized, and it's a worrying trend that keeps showing up in our society, in general.

We need to stop approaching team development with the expectation that one or more team members will need checking up on because they're goofing off too much or not working on what they're supposed to be working on. Professional software development is a career, and we should be able to start all employer <-> employee relationships with the expectation that a) we're all adults, and will treat each other accordingly, and b) we're all, ultimately, responsible for our own work and the work of the team. If someone repeatedly demonstrates that they can't execute in this fashion, then they're gone. There's simply too much to do, and dragging the entire team down to the level of the least-responsible member is ridiculous. You're better off just distributing the extra work among existing team members.

For example: want the team to bond and communicate ? Ditch the daily meetings, and every Friday take the team out for a meandering late work lunch where everyone talks about the week, what they're working on, the overall project, etc. Any other time, everyone knows where the other team members are working - if there's something that you need, you ask in the least-intrusive way possible, depending upon how busy the other team member is and the importance of your task.
One can bootstrap a system with a source-based package manager too. Here[0] is the process for bootstrapping a new architecture on Exherbo Linux. Note that the package manager is built on the host system and installs to the new system.

Exherbo supports cross-compiling with multiple concurrent architectures (both called 'multiarch') and installing into non-host environments.

A lot of other cool stuff, but the biggest point is that one can do what this blog describes with dependency management taken care of. The other point is that simply by managing the special 'system' set, one can pare down the base system. The OPTIONS flag can reduce system size by minimizing unneeded features (similar to Gentoo's USE).

[0]: http://exherbo.org/docs/bootstrapping.html
People seem to ignore one of the most promissing things for stable load. Solar can actually do it, solar thermal.

It is clean, relativly easy to build, shared tech with gas on the turbine and can have it produce power 24/7.

You just heat up a pot of something and let it cool during the night, still producing energy.

Cheap, green, stable.
Yeah, just feels a little more transparent when you know you're competing with them. This deal where Facebook is like "hey, we're out of this game" seems like a setup.

But, that's coming from someone who built on F8 years ago and witnessed their treatment of developers first-hand.

And, we've all seen what they've done to some popular apps on their platform. As well, their shameless capacity to copy successful apps (e.g. SnapChat) is just unnerving when you're considering partnering on their platform.

I also fell for their "Hey, come build a free business page on FB and drive your users to us; in return we'll make it easier for our users to find you". Sounded great, until they started charging you to reach your own audience after undertaking so much effort to corral them on Facebook.

All together, the sweeter they make the deal sound, the more wary I become.
Yeah. Their biggest purchase is Beats at $3B, which is astonishing low for a corporate giant like Apple. I'm not sure whether this is due to prudence or just NIH syndrome.
Indeed, I was taught very clearly that civil disobedience includes accepting punishment, and that this is a very, very important facet of it.

(Noted not to dispute your point about civics education, but to stress this to other people who may not have been taught this.)
Last summer I said to myself, "Okay I need to know what all the fuss is about." So I sat down and read the Redux source. I thought, "This is it?" It does almost nothing but issue loquacious console warnings when you're doing something you're not supposed to.

My conclusions were:

- it's as much of a discipline than a tool

- the complexity must be added by the middleware