skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is really interesting, though it seems like some kind of container play primarily to simplify GPU workloads anywhere - local and cloud.

There is little mention of their plans to build their own GPU data centre - though they must already have one for their cloud gaming offering.

NVidia could likely destroy AWS and Azure for GPU instances since they have GPU HW for cost price. I wonder how they are going to walk the fine line between cloud GPUs and cannibalising their own hardware sales - this feels like a dipping their toes in the water. I expect pricing to be only slightly below AWS.

http://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-launches-gpu-cloud-...
> better data structures such as arrays or dictionaries or sets

POSIX sh doesn't have these, but BASH actually does have arrays, and even dicts (see https://stackoverflow.com/questions/688849/associative-array...)
Thanks for letting me know, I'll fix it :)

I'll email you.
I was told Q4 2017 for non-graphics consumer (what kind of consumer are you referring to), but that is earlier than most others are saying. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14310633
Open Marriage? Comes across as "Elizabeth" is cheating, and using her partners' previous dissatisfaction to justify her own behavior. I'm all for whatever works for peoples' relationships, but the particular example in the article about specifically these two people leaves me with the distinct feeling Elizabeth is a raging hypocrite.
It was the father who complained. The case as reported by NYT http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/19/magazine/shopping-habits.h...
Having just finished "Ready Player One" (Ernest Cline, recommended), I think the 'if you build it' approach may work here.

If the virtual world essentially becomes where you go for TV / film / music (which isn't impossible, when you look at how we're starting to consume) and where you chat whilst getting to be the version of yourself you really want to be, or using it for an escapist 'coworking space', or whatever else - I could see it having some future.

It would probably encourage interest if the inequality gap broadened and people struggled with terrible living conditions, or a more dystopian world, and looked for escapism.

All big ifs, of course...
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Seems to me that Whatsapp should be able to rate-limit these requests and work to secure the interface so only the legit website can actually pull the info?

The initial website display comes from a QR code you can on your phone, which the website then gets authorized by. Could they not then limit queries to that account?

I could be way off the mark, but it seems to me like the worst of this could be mitigated quite easily without much loss in functionality for users?
I'm a Brit. Have you lived there?

I have lived in London for 10 years, had my own house. I have lived in the EU as well.

Having lived in the US for 3 years, and in various states.
Here's what I found.

America Pros.

They get paid much more, and yes they work more hours. Which if done right, can lead to promotions and networking. Networking which leads to entrepreneurial-ship.

They have a much larger access to other entrepreneurs and entrepreneurial ecosystem.

They have more readily available ways of earning money. Earning $100 a day with a laptop in star bucks is possible. Much more opportunity.

They enjoy a much lower cost of living. Electricity, petrol (gas), food, takeaways, alcohol is much lower. Lets not forget taxes as well!

They enjoy much larger living accommodations compared to europeans and for less money.

They have better cell phone plans, with free calls and texts.

They have better access to weather. You can enjoy a nice climate in San Diego, spend hot summers in Southern Florida, or you can snow board in Utah for the winter.

Finally, they have much better social mobility in the US. In 12-18 months you can go from being broke living in a car. To being a millionaire.

America Cons.

Yes, health-care is higher.

UK Pros.

Better access to Healthcare.

Internet is cheaper and faster.

4 Weeks paid vacation time.

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America is an awesome place. It offers so many opportunities than other countries. It's something that you really can't get from a posting. You truly have to experience it. Then you'll get it.
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>>> I'm interested more in understanding why Caffe2 would outperform [...]

A vendor-made benchmark where the vendor is outperforming other vendors.

Let's not jump to conclusion on what's really fastest.
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Genuine question, assuming your not trolling, when was the last time you watched a concert video that you took?
The worst thing is that if they were Anglo children, the stolen generation is exactly what we'd be doing. We have to bridge that gap somehow.
But you are voluntarily giving that info away if you use WA and don't change your privacy settings. The 'last online' feature is quite important IMO, and if you're concerned about this then disable it.

Edit: On the other hand it would perhaps be better to have it on 'Contacts only' as the default, but you could still monitor your colleagues as they probably have you in their contacts anyway.
It's a shame since the Pirate Party does have somewhat of a presence here (they even had a representative in my electorate). :/
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I've seen the prediction, which I think is tremendously plausible, that there won't be a "big bang" Brexit disaster, but over a decade or so we'll forget that the UK used to be more prosperous than France or the Republic of Ireland, and it will start to become more normal for young people rather than moving to London to get jobs, start applying for work visas in the rest of Europe.

It's the only way to get net migration down: persuade people to emigrate by depriving them of economic opportunity.

Edit: note that people who are married to EU nationals do not automatically get the right for their spouse to remain, so I expect a few hundred thousand people to be forced to emigrate for that reason.
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I agree but I don't believe the average user realizes that it is possible to do that with the above data. And indeed, to do that manually is not practical, but if the info becomes scriptable, it's another matter.
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At least from version 0.15 on you don't need the enemies anymore to complete all research as the "alien relics" have been removed and the science system has gotten a major overhaul...
In other news, the music industry decides not to acknowledge any songs with a digital only release. Good luck stuffing the genie back in the bottle. [sigh]

Filing this under 'terrible ideas'.
The British public think a good trade deal with the EU is more important than cutting immigration when negotiating Brexit [0].

Remember that about 20% of the leavers are 'liberal leavers' - they are pro-migration. Once you add this group to the remainers it's clear that a minority of anti-immigration voters shouldn't decide politics for everybody else.

[0] http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/british-people...
To be fair we're already experiencing the beginnings of "Less tech people = more money"; the contract job I've just started hired me due to the "staffing adjustment" of some of their European coders.

The result is £925 a day for me, which in east midlands UK is a very tasty morsel.
Whatsapp has no setting to disable the "online" flag when i have opened the app, and a bunch of things mentioned can be built on top of just this.

I think this shows how some seemingly trivial data points on an individual level can allow one to build something way more than the sum of parts at a mass surveillance level.
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If you include companies who aren't in SV in an article about SV. What's the point? I guess any startup that is SV funded is assumed to be a SV startup?
I think you are absolutely wrong, just because of who writes the post. Minutes prior to reading this post, i was looking at Kaggle ( datasets and some competitions), for statistic analysis.

Mehul Patel ( who wrote this post), was COO at Kaggle ( i must admit, this is a unbelievable coincidence)

I think that someone who worked at Kaggle can get pretty accurate results from datasets. I think referring this as "just a blog post" severly ignores the effort that has been put into it.
'pick up gut bacteria as the next revolution of medical science as we learn how all this shit works'

well, quite :D
It's about $5000 in tax per household to fund a $38B rollout, and you don't get a choice. That's the unfunded half-ass costed guesstimate which was largely skewed by politicians to make it look better. Why not let people choose to spend $5k on fibre if they want?

The majority of connections opt for 12 or 25mbit anyway, sorry couldn't find url for nbnco statistic.

Technically, dropping billions on fibre in this day and age is stupid given that so much (vast majority) of the population is already in areas that can get faster IP (over 100mbit) from LTE, wireless technology is the future, imagine if it was spent on LTE sites.

Many people use the argument only fibre can do it, when that's just intellectual dishonesty about different types of layer 1.

4 million of Australia's households (roughly half) already have HFC that when upgraded will do gigabit.

It is illegal to compete with NBN.

The NBN was unfunded in its commitment. The same party implemented a $20b/year national disability insurance scheme which was also not funded. All these arguments saying it was bungled, but only the hollow commitments of the unionist/socialist party that implemented this were bungled. A lot of the angry people also don't pay a lot of net tax either which is the usual narrative of the ALP.

So it wasn't properly costed or funded, all these great things that party promised in power, but they still lost the next election anyway, so the people spoke.

Also NYT is fake news. :)
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Do you have any promo/marketing material you can share? I find the concept of self-install fibre (trench and all!) pretty wild and to be honest, practically ridiculous. I'd love to know more about what you had in mind.
What is the point of your comment? That it isn't a problem for you so therefore it shouldn't be a problem for the remaining billion of WhatsApp users?
Does your memory seem like it's big enough to require that much storage...?

Mine doesn't.
While I generally agree with you that America is an awesome place (if you can look past the income inequality), the weather argument does not stand. Let me repeat your sentence in European terms:

They have better access to weather. You can enjoy a nice climate in central Italy, spend hot summers in Southern Spain, or you can snow board in French Alps for the winter.
> The claim that taxi dribers cross red lights (and Uber drivers don't) is the weirdest argument in support of Uber I have heard about so far.

It's my experience, atypical or not.

> Uber Black is giving you what you want: An enhanced experience over taxi while simoultaneosuly following the legal requirements.

Incorrect. There's no legal difference between the two in my jurisdiction.

Maybe you're confused by Uber's names? Around here, like in other (all?) countries in Europe, UberX only uses drivers with professional licenses to drive passengers. The "free-for-all" model is UberPOP (which was never introduced in my country).

By the way, please don't tell others what they want. Obviously all other things equal I prefer to pay less, but I was very explicit in that I don't mind if they're somewhat more expensive, I'd still use it over taxis.

Having said that, while I like that Uber gave a kick in the pants in a complacent and frankly arrogant professional class, now that the market has been opened up I don't care if Uber itself sticks around.
That assumes if we had a perfect self driving car now that the replacement rate would be constant.

If you factor driver salary and depreciation on existing vehicles against cost of self driving car I'd expect a boom in self driving.

Most drivers of small vans earn more than their vehicle costs a year after all.
This is the first time I have seen anoybody hold up perl as the superior option. I don't doubt that it will work, but I need the next admin to be able to read my code.

Also, every system may have some Python installed, bud by the time I've dealt with versions (2.6 is the CentOS 6 default, 3.6 is the current version) and dependencies (virtualenv? system wide pip? PYTHONPATH? RPM Python modules?) I'd better get a significant improvement.
But those things ultimately translate as time: time fixing errors, time operators would spend if the task was not automated, time manually testing, time monitoring and scaling manually processes.
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Scriptable and available for anybody. That my contacts in WhatsApp can correlate my activities with my status, this is part of the purpose of WhatsApp, that any stranger having my mobile phone from my business contact can do it, this is another matter.

Edit: Discovered that one can share only with "My Contacts" these information. I am surprised I haven't seen this before or maybe the if you do not share, you cannot see info box misguided me into not restricting to my contacts these informations.
I used to have it on the wall too; I don't know whether we were colleagues :-)
https://xkcd.com/1205/
Excellent summary. Covers all the key points that I wanted to take away and put it so much better.

For me, the theme that runs through his work and talks is this: (Constantly ask) How to make use of computers to learn and create in ways better than we do currently?

Now yes, the above sentence seems like incremental and not so far out but lot of what he and some of the people he has worked with is trying to answer this.

And I completely agree with him that we haven't fully explored this new digital interface and in some ways have regressed.

His words are truly inspirational and at the same time it is slightly disheartening that I am not working on something great.
What's more. If you see their profile pic, you can image search google to check if that picture matches some social networks. Now you have phone->name identification.
House loans were also pretty secure at some point and we all know how that story went
London is as expensive as New York, where I'm moving. In fact, I will be paying roughly the same rent: $950 before bills in NYC, £850 including bills in London. In both cases I'm around 30 minutes from the city center.

My company is providing health insurance. I will be working the same hours. The biggest difference benefit-wise is that I get ten days less paid vacation (15 vs 25)--but I mostly used my vacation to visit New York.

A dev job in Indianapolis (or anywhere else between the coasts except Chicago) would pay what I make in London and the cost of living would be halved.
"I simply don't want to live in a society that will accept or reject me based on my utility value."

So where do you live now? I'd be interested to hear about this magical country which does not restrict immigration.
Nope, haven't watched Murdoch's media since the absolute rubbish involving their absolutely disgustingly biased election coverage a few years ago. According to Murdoch, the Liberals and co can do no wrong and everyone else is the problem! Haven't let that trash into my house in a long, long time. But it's a culture of disrespect and arrogance across the board from nearly every politician. Bunch of bastards the lot of them, especially since Trump has come up in America and we have spastic chumps like Hanson try and ride the wave of populism (thank god they're way waaaay too incompetent and divisive to truly capitalise on the anger at the system, their ugly policies will die out)
Am I the only one that thinks medical science seems vastly behind where it ought to be? Is there something holding it back or is it just phenomenally complex and difficult?
I assume I'm not your coworker. I factor in time savings for other people, not just myself.
I agree with most of your points. I'll probably sell the Nexus 5 (running LineageOS 14.1 now) and get a Mi 6 as a backup phone.

I used to run AOSP (stock) and root because of the camera optimization. I found it frustrating when Google introduced monthly security update. It has become a burden (especially when the Nexus 5X randomly failed to boot - that was in fact a sign of the hardware issue, I didn't realize at that time). root didn't give me too much other than playing around in Termux plus GNU tools, Titanium backup, Greenify and ES File Explorer/Manager.

I wouldn't call myself hacker but I am a 15+ year Linux power user and veteran, I cannot live without root on a workstation/laptop. But I keep asking myself the question: do I really need root on a phone? My answer is no for now. I'd rather spend time with family or playing StarCraft: Brood War with friends than flushing the phone...).

Losing the Nexus 5X for 2 days made me reconsider the phone I really need, ended up with an iPhone 7 Plus (cannot justify to buy a Pixel XL...). Reliability, data integrity/security, automatic backup, quality of hardware (camera) matter a lot more.

I have iPad Air and iPad Pro at home so I've been witnessing iOS making progress, borrowing lots of Android design to improve UX. I'd say iOS 10.3.1 is a very good one, APFS definitely is a huge plus (it'll make macOS great again) while the equivalent for Android I don't see it coming.

BTW: All above is personal experience and opinion based on my use cases.
My hope is Microsoft will use these emulation skills for security, too. I'd like to be able to instantly run an app of my choice in a secure virtual environment. Everything should be wiped out when I close the app by default, but I'd also want an option to keep the app's contents persistent.

I think they're kind of doing this already with Windows Defender App Guard [1] thing, which for one is a mouthful, second, it should have nothing to do with the exploitable Windows Defender code [2].

It should be part of Windows' lower-level systems, so that not much can interact with it, and it should be available for all apps, not just Microsoft's own apps. Windows on ARM, Project Centennial, App Guard, and more, prove that Microsoft has the ability to do that.

If they don't do it, it will only be for political reasons like not wanting Chrome users to benefit from the same technology, or wanting to sell it as "value-add" to enterprise customers, or whatever (basically the same BS they're pulling with Bitlocker).

[1] https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2016/09/27/application-g...

[2] https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/05/windo...
Anecdotally I know a few non-Brits living in London who had been weighing back and forth whether they should move for a while and Brexit was the thing the tipped them into action.

So Brexit in isolation might not be the sole reason many people move, but it will no doubt affect a few people who where already considering their options.
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There is no upgrade path from the node with the way they are rolling it out. Doubt me? Ask NBN yourself and see if you get a reply.

They are rolling it out as cheaply as possible with no thought about upgrade. They are not running additional fibre to the node only what the node requires. That's why the quotes for the technology choice program are so high, it's not fibre back to the node but all the way to the exchange.
Ah, I see. I would suggest allowing lower fees. For example, many weekend breaks from the UK to Europe can be done for under £250, so if I search with that in mind and can't move any further, it's a bit jarring.
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Visibility issues with the sensors aside, I'd probably trust a computer in the snow vs. most humans. Less prone to be overconfident in their stopping/steering abilities.
Infantilization is a broader problem, actually. Overseas soldiers are typically "boys" (whether male or not). Teenagers accused of violent felonies are often "kids" whose grades are suddenly relevant.
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I guess if you only look at books at a glance, you are not the target market for this one anyway.. ;)
The IT screwups in this slow train-wreck of a story are fascinating (to me, anyhow).

email messages stashed on laptops? Why? decently secure web mail was at least five years old at the time in question. WTF?

using Microsoft Outlook for conducting public business? (It's unlikely "Carlos Danger" was using Thunderbird or Eudora, right?) Aren't that program's vulnerabilities well known? It's improved since then, but still. WTF?

email servers in residential cellars? Really? In rich peoples' residential cellars, people who can surely afford to pay a service provider and buy a TLS certificate? Bizarre. It was bizarre ten years ago; that's not hindsight. WTF?

The FBI putting legions of investigators on a thing like this and still taking many months to sort it out? WTF?

(You may remember that former CIA director Brennan had his AOL email account pwned by a teen. https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/teen-hackers-a-5-... CIA DIRECTOR??? AOL??? WTF?)

I wonder whether people in the public eye have gotten any better at this stuff?
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I was messing around with Amadeus and Skyscanner APIs the other week for a travel service I recently started. How do the technical set ups of both companies compare?
You're a bit low on the salary front. I started at £44k (including bonus) with no experience; Senior dev roles here that I've seen seem to be around £65k.

Of course it still doesn't compare to a Silicon Valley or New York dev salary.
The workforce is currently cheap compared to western countries because of the local currency's low value, and IT being one of the very few fields where people get paid in dollars.
So as a result, what would be a low wage in the west is an extremely high wage in Ukraine (e.g. $1k a month = 25k hryvnias, which is 8 times more than country's minimum wage).
Good for you but I was responding to the previous poster and his fear of the Window Phone platform potentially changing again.
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It was part of the deal Julia Gillard made to form a minority government. The NBN had to prioritise regional areas first.
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No - everybody wants an iPhone. Everybody has an Android, which they probably paid 200 to 300 USD in 6 to 12 monthly parcels.

An iPhone 7 costs 3 to 4 monthly "minimum wages" (300 USD) here.

I was talking about trend setters, media people, higher class, and elites...
Relatively safe 2002 cars to now is not actually that big a jump in safty. There are some surpingly minor improvemts such as VSA being slightly better at preventing rollover, but that's very much an edge case and generally speaking a rounding error in terms of safety.

The only significant new safty feature is automatic breaking but that generally has fairly minimal impact. On the other hand I think many people are more or less waiting for self driving cars, which may not be out soon but make minor improvements seem less relevant.
strongSwan for Android offers a lot more than just IKEv2.

- support for MOBIKE -> automatically reconnect when switching connectivity
- importing JSON format VPN profiles via HTTPS
- easy X509 certificate import
- 1 click IKEv2 + RSA authentication with X509 authentication

I am yet to figure out how to best do IKEv2 + X509 authentication on iOS 10.3.1 and adjust strongSwan accordingly.
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