skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> No person with a viable alternative desires to visit a physical Walmart store. It takes time, requires overcoming a variety of frustrations like traffic, parking, bewildering store layouts, and then you never know if the item you want will actually be present at the location. Compare clicking a button and having the item delivered to your door.

You likely haven't been to too many Walmarts, especially in rural areas without a real Main Street / town square. People congregate there and eat at the food court or just hang out. Being able to get an item immediately instead of waiting two days is convenient. Most people don't buy a specialty item, they buy conventional merchandise that is more or less guaranteed to be in stock. Many communities have Walmart as their exclusive grocery store.

The complaint about traffic and parking (Walmarts have ample parking in all but the more urban locations!) shows that your perspective is that of a large city with ample public transit, not the more representative American locale. There's no Walmart in Manhattan, but there are two just over the bridge in Jersey. Most Americans live in a semi-urban, suburban, or rural place.
If Americans can find north Korea on a map they're more like to prefer diplomacy
I wonder if the NSA is vouching for this, so they can snoop on laptops that get checked in.
Bear in mind this ENT surgeon is still in training, and probably close to 40 years old assuming he started Uni at 18. Training is often brutal because towards the end you are probably among the most important and useful people in the hospital in terms of delivering care, but also have very little control, so of course you get abused. Eg this guy has to write medical certificates as well as perform emergency life saving surgery at 2am and have crushing family meetings with patients dying from untreatable head and neck cancers.

Simplistic supply and demand analysis of this issue is annoying and ignores basic economic theory.

You don't want to increase doctor supply, you want to increase the capacity of the healthcare system to deliver good care (obviously?). Doctor supply is one part of that, but if you pump medical students in at one end and do nothing else, you will fail - this is what the Australian gov has done, and you can see the result here, where trainee conditions are poor (so much competition that you don't complain about conditions, power is concentrated in hospitals and senior drs in charge of training programs and hiring who align the system in their favour), and incumbent physicians like the one that committed suicide work like demons and burn out.

The financial corollary is fiscal stimulus without any production capacity - GDP doesn't go up, inflation does.

As always, it doesn't have to be this way, but nobody is in charge who cares enough to fix it, and all the stakeholders look after their own interests.
The Guardian reports that "some expensive hardware (such as MRI scanners)" may be locked into Windows XP.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/live/2017/may/12/england...
> GC makes everything much simpler up until it doesn't, and then it makes it much more complicated

I would say that's true in general, but in Go there's a lot more room to ask the GC to get out of your way if you need that than most.
The named routes example is probably pretty close to what I was looking for. Oh well, maybe next time.
Even today there are considerations whether packet switching is really better than circuit switching in particular if reliability is a concern: For circuit switching one can (often) guarantee, say, the bandwidth of the service offered over wire, for packet switching this is between hard and impossible.

So while I can accept that for many applications packet switching is the better choice, I can understand AT&T at least with respect to why they still wanted to offer a circuit-switched service.
So... because the supply of doctors is restricted but demand for doctors grows proportionally to the population, the amount of work per doctor gradually increases and doctors, persuaded by their ethical obligation of care, put up with it as long as possible until they snap.

Yeah?

I just recently had a friend completely burn out of medicine, sell his house, and start traveling the world. He was brilliant, a good doctor, a good person. It's a shame he's been driven out, and so many others.

I also recently had the experience of seeing a young doctor bright-eyed and busy-tailed treat me once, and then six months later see him again. The toll that those six months took on him was visible. He was just about haggard with the work. It's easy to imagine he won't last long.

I feel there's an interesting parallel with teaching. Teaching and medicine both have licensure requirements, both have a strong appeal to people who care and want to make a difference in the lives of children/patients. And in both cases the profession is gradually being taken over by administrators and subject to increasingly onerous regulations.

I also recently had a friend burn out of teaching. She's set to work in a completely unrelated industry now. She put up with crap for a long time due to her care for the children, but at last she couldn't take it.

My libertarian side says these are two improperly functioning markets, with massive human casualties. It's a shame.
I like to say (not sure if it's original or not), "anyone who says 'money doesn't buy happiness' has never traveled First Class". I got bumped into FC once, and it. was. amazing. Especially on a long haul flight, you actively enjoy the time spent there.
Yea I had never heard of that until I read today's Penny Arcade:

https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2017/05/15/supply-and-dem...

..which made me think Fiverr was some kinda of Twitch like site aimed at gamers, but no it's just a general site for connecting free lancers. It's interesting how you see really weird thing pop up on this kind of service. But I'm sure there's equally weird stuff on Kickstarter and Etsy.
Conversational AI: What to Expect in the Next Five Years
You don't. You buy a $200 beater laptop and use that for travel. Load only what is necessary to remote back into your network. Don't carry any other data on it.

If it gets stolen or searched, no loss. Just buy the cheapest thing you find at an electronics store at the destination.

My old org kept a bunch of used thinkpads for this purpose. International travelers were prohibited from taking their work devices, just a loaner and a Remote Desktop client.
Because you have O(n) for size of transaction and this O will quickly rise to overflow any buffers you have in hardware, for one.

Because Microsoft tried to add STM to the .Net and get 4x slower code after extensive effort: http://www.mail-archive.com/haskell-cafe@haskell.org/msg7973...

Should I continue from these two arguments?
The current ban which is in affect limits devices based on size and is different from devices being stowed during take-off.
It's amazing (and sad) the amount of mental gymnastics people are going over in the comments to justify piracy.
My guess is that MS needs an excuse to index the contents of your files.
I don't understand how (1) isn't a positive in your eyes. (2) is true for pretty much every large statically typed codebase I've worked on.

I'll admit, my commercial experience has all been in statically typed languages. But there are a lot of complex, well written pieces of software written using dynamic types. Maybe you don't meet their proponents, but they do exist.

FWIW, I quite like static typing, but I consider it a feature, not a religion.
microsoft has to operate under some form of law, and most countries have computer fraud laws (especially in the US, where it's a federal law). Writing a program to exploit someone else's machine for your own financial gain is certainly computer fraud, so they would be prosecuted for it.
You might be interested in ReactOS

http://www.reactos.org/
Trump, is that you?
> You had to go out of your way to break support for these browsers. Literally every HTTP package (including Rocket) out of the box handles uncompressed files. You had to modify it to add always-on Brotli encoding.

I did not have to go out of my way to 'break support for these browsers'. All I did was replace the gzip-compression code in my page cacher with brotli-compression code. In other words, I went from always-on Gzip encoding to always-on Brotli encoding! I have never supported serving uncompressed files! The web browsers I care about (Firefox, Chrome) support Brotli, and that's all I care about! There is no purposeful breaking of web browsers. That's just persecution complex talk.

> Why do you keep repeating this? That's completely irrelevant to the discussion at hand. Nothing about this discussion has anything to do with whether or not the HTTP protocol is wrapped in SSL.

You're the one that keeps bringing up that the only difference between HTTP and HTTPS is that HTTPS is HTTPS with SSL. I am merely responding to your comment that your comment about them doesn't matter! What does matter is that my website only supports the HTTPS protocol, not HTTP. The web server only listens on port 443 with TLS enabled.

> So, you want a web site that completely breaks HTTP such that only works with a handful of browsers and doesn't work with the probably tens or hundreds of thousands of pieces of other software that speaks HTTP.

This is nothing more than pure trolling. All major web browsers support Brotli over HTTPS. Apple's WebKit is the only man out, and they are, at best, a minority on the web. Firefox supports it, Chrome supports it, and Edge supports it. Even if Edge didn't support it, the fact that Firefox and Chrome support it is more than enough for me. Other browsers are just bonuses.

Furthermore, yet again, I do not have a HTTP server, so there is no HTTP here to break! HTTPS is implemented to spec, HSTS headers and all! My website is meant to be viewed by people, not machines. In addition, as the web is moving to being HTTPS-exclusive, it's about time that you start getting used to it. You're wasting your time.
I don't understand why it even happens. With all high-profile cases in the last few years, can people hold it for a while? Or everybody is hiring 19 year old boys who physiologically can't?
Affected airlines are already offering laptop and iPad rentals, and complementary devices for those travelling in higher classes.
> I was lucky. Our high school system shared a DEC PDP-8. This was in 1974.

Luxury! (Monty Python "Four Yorkshiremen" reference)

In 1974 I was (the equivalent of) a junior in high school in South Africa. Back then we called it "Form 4", fwiw.

* Number of computers at high school: Zero

* Number of computers to which we had access: Zero

A friend and I joined the school computer club. I think we were the only members.

We were allowed to sit in on a FORTRAN IV programming course at the local university, and use their IBM 360/50 mainframe via golfball ttys. We were even allowed to write the exam, which we failed spectacularly.

We would have killed for a PDP-8 (if we even knew what that was, frankly). There was no such thing as "online".

"And you tell that to the kids today? They won't believe ya!"
That's what would happen lol.
If you mean Java replaced C/C++ as the most widely used language, at least according to one index, then that's one thing. So if someday Rust became as popular, great for Rust. But that's not the same thing as claiming that Rust will be the One True Programming language in use that will cause all the other language communities to die out and convert to Rust.

That's what is being claimed above, and what some in the Java community were claiming in the 90s. Also, probably some in the Javascript community these days.

But it's never happened. If there was the One True Language to rule them all, then Lisp, C++ or Haskell would have done it by now.

The point with Java is that even though it was targeting the C/C++ crowd specifically, and it became widely popular, did not cause C/C++ to die.
Harry's likes to try to upsell you on new products, but due to their niche it isn't actually possible to create new products. So they've ceaselessly sent me newsletters for years with nothing but new colors of the same handle.

I gave up and grew a beard.
I think you know the answer :)
No more than DELETE FROM ... WHERE ... wait, where is WHERE?
Sounds like a whole lot of work for me for absolutely no reason at all.
> Google android is "Free" as Windows 10 is free.. you paid for it with hardware...

This isn't true. I had to explicitly go out of my way to pay hundreds of dollars for a Windows license for my computer, which I assembled from components. It's not possible to pay money to anyone for Android; it's gratis. Google makes money on ads, not on selling Android.
ReactOS?
How would this be different from say, a pirated copy of MS Office/Adobe PS that detects it has been pirated and stops working?
It's also bad publicity for them. I suspect many companies will look into Linux/Mac in certain cases.
I am pretty sure that pirated Windows can update without problems. Source: someone I know pretty well since I was born.
I'm very curious it the attackers will dare to move that bitcoin given that now it's watched by half the planet.

If I would be LE I would spam tumblers with my own bitcoin, just to reduce the number of further leads.
The discussion seems to have pretty well settled on Google's policies around service deprecation, but in case anyone's interested in chatting about the replacement API, I'm excited about the long-term prospects of their ML Engine product.

The open-source distributed tensorflow stuff is pretty nice, but it still requires a huge amount of hand coding and tuning the machinery, reminding me quite a lot of just rolling the damn thing in MPI yourself. I'm very excited to see where distributed tf will be in a year or two, but it's a chore today.

The hope is that using Google's secret sauce to auto-distribute the execution graphs and associated data ingestion makes things "just work". At the moment, the documentation and examples for that are a bit all over the place at the moment, and require writing models to conform to the newish tf.contrib.learn.Experiment API, which is also a bit underdocumented and underexampled. Using it for very large datasets (say >tens of TB) seems to be pretty challenging at this moment (to me at least).

At any rate, I've been banging around on it for a few weeks and am really hopeful. I will follow Cloud ML Engine's career with considerable interest.
The amount of money this company has raised without putting a product to market is unprecedented. The track record for startups raising tons of money pre-launch is spotty to say the least. At what point does potential have to face reality?
Aww. Their LIDAR unit looks like a tiny sombrero

https://static01.nyt.com/images/2016/12/13/technology/how-se...
That is assuming they're telling the truth. Won't be the first time a business blames "overpaid labor" for its woes.
> Is music as a kind of social glue and lubricant also being eliminated?

I definitely grew up in a different decade than David Byrne but for me music has always been a digital experience. I know very, very few people in real life who have the same tastes as I do and where tastes do overlap it's often very surface-level (who doesn't like Radiohead?). However I've consistently found little communities online which have had a huge influence on the music I listen to -- from BBSs to Soulseek to 4chan -- which has allowed me to craft my tastes in a way that wouldn't scale to a local social network. It's not bad, just different.
The facts are very clear-cut and I provided sources.

> the chances of the publicly known story being accurate are pretty slim

That's empty speculation. If that's the only defense for his actions then there isn't any.

It's going to take a lot more than that to convince people to vote for him.
"learn Z80 Assembly"

There was a series of disassembled and commented ROM and OS series named "Journey to the center of the ROM" for the TRS80 family and that was very instructive for me. Sort of like "Lions Commentary on UNIX" but a decade later for Z80 rather than unix v6.

Something to realize is back in the old days even the old timers only had like two years of experience writing Z80 code. And you were limited by memory enough that scalability problems were not an issue. And people with more than 2 years of experience perhaps writing IBM360 assembler were making so much money they had little interest in these Z80 6809 6502 things.
> you buy something with Windows 10 on it

This isn't true for many of us that build our own computers. I bought a boxed copy of Windows and installed it. It certainly didn't come with or on anything.
FedEx got hit, but I haven't heard about much spread over here. I guess people here are more likely to have installed a windows update in the last month and a half? :p
End the FDA.
who doesn't like Radiohead?

We exist, and in greater numbers than you might realise.
> 2007: Jeff Raikes, head of the company's (Microsoft) business group, said at a recent investor conference that while the company is against piracy, if you are going to pirate software, it hopes you pirate Microsoft software.
Direct link to complaint: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3722345-UploadVR-law...

It's something.
In the US, yellow lines indicate a division between lanes flowing in the opposite direction. White lines are used otherwise. So there's a yellow line on the left because it abuts the barrier dividing the lane from oncoming traffic. The dashed line in the middle is white because it separates two lanes flowing the same direction. And the solid line on the right is white because it does not abut any opposite-flow lanes but rather represents the edge of the road.
They only get to live if the FSB isn't after them.
I've read that even after paying you don't get your files back. Might just be buggy software.
Tiresome article. This has been happening since the industrial revolution. It's nothing new.
Android is technically Linux, and has a higher market share than Windows. The economics of an attack actually do make sense.

This narrative was probably true years ago, not in 2017.

Where is the global Android ransomware scandal?

Malware targets Windows because Windows is the low hanging fruit.
I think ReactOS was taking a stab at that.

https://www.reactos.org
From what I gather, one of the reasons physicians like Direct Primary Care is that it is a saner system than what you see in most American medical facilities.

I am sort of a medical system drop out. I took my toys and went the fuck home. (No, I was not a doctor. I was a patient who could not get my needs adequately met and walked away from conventional medical treatment for my condition.) So, a lot of people assume I am very anti medicine. They think I am some crazy who just hates modern medicine.

This is absolutely not true. But I do hate certain aspects of the system. I think Direct Primary Care would be a step in the right direction.

If you are interested in reading a bit about that, I have written a few pieces about Direct Primary Care.

http://micheleincalifornia.blogspot.com/search?q=direct+prim...
Ya I have, it is the 1 that does best so far besides a custom fine-tuned model. It beats google, msft and clairifai.
The research paper cited:

"Two Artificial Neural Networks Meet in an Online Hub and Change the Future (Of Competition, Market Dynamics and Society)"
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2949434
1. A preliminary injunction was issued, just not a sweeping one

2. "is striking evidence" is a phrase that to me implies that the Uber lidar likely infringes, please explain if you disagree.

3. Speaking of bias, elsewhere in this thread you say "As far as I can tell from reading the injunction, there wasn't a single case of a trade secret from those documents making its way into Uber's technology." [0]. Given that Alsup believes that Waymo has demonstrated "striking evidence" to the contrary, will you revise that position?

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14342469
I had the same feeling when I did that exercise last year, I think their headcount was in the low hundreds back back then. They personnel demographics still seems disproportionally skewed towards a "imminent" product launch, I see only a few photonics phd's, most of which don't have product experience.
How do you confirm this?
I am unsure what you are implying with your comment which leaves me thinking your claims are baseless.. would you mind defending the validity of your claims by elaborating and providing sources supporting your opinion?
Alacrity is insanely fast OpenGL terminal emulator [1]. I use as my semi-daily driver for most VIM'ing

AgiData built a MySQL proxy [2] out of it... They manage sharding MySQL servers for enterprises. They claim their working it into production.

[1] https://github.com/jwilm/alacritty

[2] http://www.agildata.com/building-scalable-mysql-proxy-rust/
Netregistry doesn't support MFA either
I think a large part of it has to do with the fact that young college students and/or recent graduates building startups and hitting it big with VC funding.

It's effectively giving kids that haven't grown up a large sum of money.
Because it's reasonable to assume that you know that a statement like that will arouse their curiosity. You're dealing with humans looking for some kind of actionable information, and with reason to believe that you may be trying to deceive them on some level or another.
In my opinion this kind of thought is what happens when you refuse to consider things structurally. The reason for the elimination of humans in these models is to drive down labor costs. Humans are expensive to pay, they get sick, they steal things sometimes, they don't always come to work, they need silly things like buildings to work in, close to where they live. Perhaps a mundane point to Mr. Byrne, but with all due respect it's much more salient than "coders are nerds who hate social interaction".
It's a curious fact then that the author is James Livingston, a 67-year old professor of history at Rutgers, who has also written numerous books.

> all you need to say is "Robots are going to replace us, jobs are going to go away and we need basic income"

Each of these points would need to be expanded upon for this to work. A lot of people don't believe that robots are going to replace us, or that jobs are going to go away, or that we need basic income. Also, there are a ton of issues with the process involved in this transition. How big of a change? How fast? How disruptive?
That was my first thought, too. I'd love a file system that was more like a relational database.

Also see the Pick operating system.
Until they have a chance to answer the complaint, we should probably reserve judgement. However, if even 10% of this is true - I can't comprehend how anyone would think this was a culture that would work in 2017.
Great website, never heard of it before. Will definitely be using it as a resource in the future!
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I'm sure you're well read and educated. I won't ever be as knowledgeable on the subject as you.

I have the benefit, though, of not having my entire livelihood and career dependent on my faith in the systemic health of mainstream medicine.

Maybe you're right. Honestly based on the tone of your initial comment, I have written off your impartiality, and so have little desire to learn from you. I'm sure you feel the same towards me. So here's to coming to a stalemate while putting other people down on the Internet. Maybe that's the important learning point, for me.
Reducing otherwise involuntary interactions can be a good thing.
You're thinking it too rationally. Sexual harassment begins as a test of power and turns into a perpetuating abuse of power.

A well-known American described its appeal thus:

"Just kiss. I don’t even wait. And when you’re a star, they let you do it. You can do anything."