skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just finished having a heated argument with friends living in India (that work at investment banks, so not exactly old people with some calling device in hand).

A bunch of them were complaining that Uber is being bad, requiring camera permissions, etc. The newer androids have nicer permissions systems, requested at runtime. But they are running Android 5* because the shiny turd of a phone they got supports only that, but looks awesome. AOSP is good and all, but I'll never buy anything that is not a Google device unless I magically have free time to root it and run an OS I trust (which might or might not exist).
In the whitepaper it references three vendors that will offer this- Dell EMC, HPE, and Lenovo.
>D3.js is quite low-level library, it's basically a wrapper around SVG with some sugar like animations and enter/exit/update.

While D3 is low level, it's in no way just a "wrapper around SVG with some sugar thrown in".

Besides the tons and tons of helpers for scales, mapping, projections, calculations and all that jazz (including the animation stuff with enter/exit etc which you did mention), it's also a whole functional concept on top of the drawing primitives.

One could theoretically even remove SVG and add another rendering backend with D3 with the same top level primitives.
I don't have the apple music service. I have itunes match sync whatever that uploads my music into the itunes cloud. Apple is assuming about my music.
https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/67221/how-to-remov... This is my issue.

I am not going to go through all my albums and manually remove what Apple has screwed up. I'd rather migrate away to a system I 100% control.
Errmm, simply the fact if someone had the last piece. You can't have one.
NoEstimates
I've met many critiques of the peer-review system (including myself), but have never heard a compelling suggestion with what to replace it and why the replacement would be better. Without peer review, editors would have to assign papers by gut feeling or perceived reputation of the author, or the scientific community would be flooded with massive amounts of papers that are way below acceptable quality or even entirely false, not the speak of the dangers of pseudo-science and fake scientists or even paid shills.

However, I believe open access journals can and should experiment with alternative forms of peer review. For example, forcing every submitter to anonymously score 5 papers before his/her own submission is accepted, a karma system, a good meta-moderation system, and a good document revision system taken together could work for online publications. There is a lot of potential for innovation in online publishing.

The problems are in the end similar to those on online forums and social media. It's hard to keep trolls and people who try to game the system away and equally hard to prevent people from scoring solely according to their personal tastes and with kind of 'political' (as in politics of science) motivations, especially when the process is anonymous. But ordinary peer review has the same problem.
> The company is also offering a preview of a database-migration service that takes data from on-premises SQL Server and Oracle databases and migrates it to Azure SQL Database.

That's awesome. While I'd personally prefer the migration goes to PostgreSQL... :D, it's still good to see more options for migrating away from Oracle to <anything else that works>.

Hopefully Oracle's "Cloud" platform dies off, followed by the rest of the company.
Google only guaranteed support for two years. Not exactly what I would call "longevity".
You can blame old browsers for this. In the old days if you returned a non 200 the browser could die in all sorts of interesting ways. Heaven forbid if you try and use any verb other than GET or PUSH, it probably turns the fan off your computer to try and start a fire or something.
I'm a fan of PostgreSQL, but I've found certain T-SQL features that pg does not have such as manual transaction management within stored procedures to be very useful in certain applications.
A combination of REST and Web Sockets works pretty well.
>> The only path forward now is via the public markets.

Is that because profitability is not an option?
Is that the version using winelib? I believe there is now native OSX support in wine in addition to x11drv. Could the Mono version be ported?
Same here, I've been in software for 15 years, and I don't do shit. I code on average an hour a day. Some weeks not at all, some days I'll put in 6 hours, for a deadline or whatever. Wtf is wrong with these people?
As it turns out, DataRobot does nested cross-validation for model tuning to ensure that the models aren't overfit. We also automate all the out-of-sample/out-of-time validation so you can always check your holdout to be sure.
Thanks! Yes, please do. I have a few dozen emails in my inbox that I have yet to get around to yet.
So many enterprises are going to go after this because of pre-existing relationships with Microsoft... not realizing how badly Microsoft is going to have them over a barrel when all of their software (on-prem and cloud) is built and automated to only work with Azure.

Edit: Not sure why the downvotes, would love to hear other perspectives about why I'm off-base. Thanks!
We are already machine hybrids. The alphabet is technology.

“I've come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies:
1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.
2. Anything that's invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it.
3. Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things.”

― Douglas Adams
you move in to selective enforcement. there will be recorded violations of something for pretty much everyone, and only a handful of people will have access to it, and they'll selective enforce as they see fit. but maybe if you do this one little favor for them, they'll look the other way (for a spell).
procurement, management, finance, and others you need to appeal to

They don't need to appeal to any of these suits. Just the technical decision-makers, whose express job it is to choose solutions on their technical merits, not their spurious emotional reactions.
This statement is both true and false as the same time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncertainty_principle
I did, there was no mention of specific models
up voted and copied to: https://ncomputers.org/news :D
Didn't Disney present similar technology a few years ago?
For reference on the cost side, the median home in San Francisco is $1.16M[1] (USD). The mean home in Toronto is $921K[2] (CAD; about $674K USD). Median figures are, unfortunately, not publicly provided in Canada, but given the nature of home valuations (especially in Toronto where you can find multi-million dollar mansions), a comparable amount is presumably quite a bit lower than that.

[1] https://www.zillow.com/san-francisco-ca/home-values/

[2] http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/real-estate-toronto-tr...
I find it so cool that technology created to make games like Quake look pretty has ended up becoming a core foundation of high performance computing and AI.
How does the speed compare to that of Postgresql and MongoDB?
In Norway we have variations on systems like this for tyres, electronic equipment and so on. Generally the manufacturer or importer pays into a fund that is supposed to pay for recycling of the product once it is scrapped. In addition shops that sell electronic goods have to accept scrap electronic goods (anyone's not just what they sold) for recycling. Petrol stations have public bins for recycling containers that contained toxic chemicals like screen wash, antifreeze, and oil.

Really it all just comes down to political will.
Very interesting DB service. If I'm reading the docs right it sounds like you can't do JOINs across documents?

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/documentdb/documentdb...
There are, check the bottom of the page.

"Affected models include the following ASUS routers:

RT-AC55U
RT-AC56R
RT-AC56S
RT-AC56U
RT-AC66U
RT-AC88U
RT-AC66R
RT-AC66U
RT-AC66W
RT-AC68W
RT-AC68P
RT-AC68R
RT-AC68U
RT-AC87R
RT-AC87U
RT-AC51U
RT-AC53U
RT-AC1900P
RT-AC3100
RT-AC3200
RT-AC5300
RT-N11P
RT-N12 (D1 version only)
RT-N12+
RT-N12E
RT-N18U
RT-N56U
RT-N66R
RT-N66U (B1 version only)
RT-N66W"
At my high school circa 1980, the introductory computer course (on a PDP-11/34 running RSTS/E) had us write our first BASIC programs onto mark-sense cards (the same size and shape as punch cards, but you marked them with a pencil). I recall a field for the line number, another for a keyword (pick from a list), and then the remaining part of the card was for variables and operators.

After a couple go-rounds with that, we were then allowed to use the terminals, mostly Visual 200, with a few VT100s, an LA36, and an LA120. The Visual 200 wasn't a particularly good terminal; it seems there was always at least one out of order at any given time.

It's kind of scary that a $5 Raspberry Pi Zero is much faster and has vastly more RAM than the 11/34, which cost well north of $100K back then. Not to mention that there was a grand total of 28 MB of storage on that 11/34 in the form of two RK07 disk packs - you could fit thousands of RK07 images on a single 64 GB MicroSD card.
This appears to be a common misconception that monopolies are bad from a public policy standpoint.

For public policy, the existence of a monopoly is neither here nor there. Monopolies are problem ONLY IF their operations causes negative economic effects to consumers - typically by raising prices. Indeed in many cases (eg. Transport, Infrastructure) a monopoly is actively granted in return for guaranteed availability and pricing.

In Google's case, it would be very very difficult for any lawyer to show how their actions actively hurt consumers - note consumers, not businesses.
What about support for Linux? I imagine it would be an easy move. At least easier than Win32 to Mac.
There are two keynotes: one today and one tomorrow. The one tomorrow will be about Windows et al.
Show HN: Generating Piano Music with Neural Networks
Time to play some games on it
> In Machine Learning, the standard expectation of research papers is to empirically demonstrate the increased statistical power of the model over benchmarks, and I wish the authors demonstrated that their model aligns with historical reality.

I went to graduate school in econometrics after taking several undergraduate courses in ML, and I was constantly astounded how paper after paper failed to do this. I don't think you can (or should) claim a result if you can't demonstrate that it works empirically.
Hi Cockroach Labs Engineer here,

On the feature FAQ joins are describe as 'functional' which doesn't inspire a lot of confidence but maybe it's just a perception thing. What exactly does functional mean?

A SQL db without joins sounds a lot like just a NOSQL db with a familiar query dialect.
From the link:

Affected models include the following ASUS routers:

RT-AC55U

RT-AC56R

RT-AC56S

RT-AC56U

RT-AC66U

RT-AC88U

RT-AC66R

RT-AC66U

RT-AC66W

RT-AC68W

RT-AC68P

RT-AC68R

RT-AC68U

RT-AC87R

RT-AC87U

RT-AC51U

RT-AC53U

RT-AC1900P

RT-AC3100

RT-AC3200

RT-AC5300

RT-N11P

RT-N12 (D1 version only)

RT-N12+

RT-N12E

RT-N18U

RT-N56U

RT-N66R

RT-N66U (B1 version only)

RT-N66W
Hi There. A number of factors.
1) FreeRTOS is ineffective, in many cases you have to code around the kernel to get sufficiently good response times.
2) FreeRTOS does not offer any means to schedulability analysis, as the internal overhead is very hard to predict and data dependent (and lacks proper characterisation).
3) The threading model as such is not particularly suited to concurrent programming (RTFM is event driven, reflecting the reactive nature of the hardware as well as the application).
4) Thread based programming is hard to get right, see e.g., https://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2006/EECS-2006-...).
5) Regarding FreeRTOS, the current license disallows to make comparisons with FreeRTOS without their permission, how about that for starters!!! /Per
Looks like anyone using third party firmware (such as https://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/start ) shouldn't be affected by the issues this advisory highlights.
Matrix multiplication is important for graphics and important for finding the weights of a neural network
The Xerox monopoly also produced a large percentage of the breakthroughs that power modern computer technology. It went into rapid decline after an antitrust settlement forced it to hand its patents over to Japanese competitors.
Azure Cosmos DB has been many years in the making. Azure Cosmos DB started as “Project Florence” in late 2010 to address developer the pain-points faced by large scale applications inside Microsoft. Observing that the challenges of building globally distributed apps are not a problem unique to Microsoft, in 2015 we made the first generation of this technology available to Azure developers in the form of DocumentDB. Since that time, we’ve been steadily adding new capabilities both in the database engine as well as, larger distributed system components. Azure Cosmos DB is the result. It is the next big leap in globally distributed, at scale, cloud databases. As a part of this release of Azure Cosmos DB, DocumentDB customers, with their data, are automatically Azure Cosmos DB customers. They now have access to the new system and capabilities offered by Azure Cosmos DB today as well as, as we keep evolving the service.
Wow, this is great. Thanks for sharing the link.
What's the accessibility story with this? And, while we're at it, what's the accessibility story for other charting tools? Are there good open source charting tools that can be used in section 508 situations?
Any chance we're going to get a Hololens development environment for the Mac anytime soon?
Most of my fellow classical liberals don't have an issue with state populations choosing to grow state governments, just the federal government (this fact is often overlooked by people who have not taken the time to understand the classical liberal point of view).
> People don't seem to respond well to the quant fund examples, so how about this - how has Warren Buffett consistently beat the market through Berkshire Hathaway? If he ceased beating the market this year, would it because he has been lucky all these years? Would it be because the market conditions that supported his success have fundamentally changed? If so, why does that indicate his performance was due to chance?

People were asking this back during the dotcom boom, when he lagged the market by a huge percentage.

Gotta wonder how many Warrens were unlucky enough to have this happen early on in their careers.
Some of the fault for this lies with client libraries. Many, including popular ones[1], either don't provide a way to get the body of error responses at all, or make it particularly cumbersome to do so. For example, success bodies might be parsed automatically by registering the right parser for the content type, but to parse an error response you need to manually instantiate a parser and deserialise the body. Until error responses are first-class objects in client http libraries, devs will continue being lazy.

[1] Not to pick on retrofit -- it is generally awesome -- but http://square.github.io/retrofit/2.x/retrofit/retrofit2/Resp...
Phase One’s new camera only shoots black and white and costs more than a car
Ice+Cream+Machine+-+Best+One+To+Pick?+-+Ice+Cream+Maker+2017
Hi UntilHellBanned,

Thanks, we are super excited about releasing this project as Open Source, it's been such a trip!

Totally, D3.js is a fantastic low-level library and is super reusable in all senses (examples, low-level plugins, different reusability patterns). However, one of D3.js usability problems comes from its main advantage, how powerful it is!

This means that D3 has a very low-level granularity and a huge API, making it hard for newcomers to create a simple chart for a dashboard or a one-off data viz.

That's one of the reasons why we created Britecharts, to democratize D3.js charts, and at the same time, serve as a stepping stone to those who want to learn more about D3.

In our mind, using Britecharts, a junior developer could render a chart quickly, just doing d3 selections. Then, she can start tinkering with one of the charts and even create a new one, learning d3.js in the process.
Create Portable Web Development Environments in 5 Minutes
DataRobot also does some automated feature engineering including text mining, credibility adjustments, transformations of features, ratios and differences of numeric factors, and a bunch of other stuff, too.
Direct link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuvmV5O-qTA
One big difference is that Google is free its customers.
A lot of demos are, but the actual presentations are in PowerPoint. I was watching the people in the booth run them.
The paper seems to say they use 200 kHz sinusoidal waves for the field. If that translates directly into what I see in an FCC table of frequency allocations, then that is in the AERONAUTICAL RADIONAVIGATION regulated by FCC Rule Part Aviation (87) [1]. They are driving the signal at 6 Vpp (peak-to-peak), at most 0.42 mA current with the lowest-resistance spray. I don't know how to even crudely calculate radio interference from those specs, so would appreciate someone giving guidance on where to look for a start.

What worries me about this approach is the need for calibration. I don't see anywhere that indicates they've tested to see the effects of the wearing down of the topcoat and conductive spray layer upon the accuracy. It would be cool to be able to simplify a light switch installation to slap(electrodes)-spray-spray-calibrate, it would suck if I had to re-calibrate once every few years.

Now if we can figure out how to beam low-voltage, low-amperage power over building distances and through insulation, then we could remove a lot of copper runs. Beam just enough low power to drive and sense these kinds of control surfaces, and control relays sitting in front of the actual devices' electrical connections.

[1] https://transition.fcc.gov/oet/spectrum/table/fcctable.pdf
Announcing PowerShell for Visual Studio Code 1.0
I find this product slightly befuddling.

It seems like a "just throw all your data in this" kind of database, probably intended for everything but core application relational data (so, good for analytics, messaging, etc).

It sounds like the atom-record-sequence model at the heart of it is pretty key, but there's not a lot in the article about what that is and how it works. Is this a well-understood data structure used elsewhere?

The project seems very ambitious, and I could see it being used pretty heavily at a lot of companies. Thoughts?
From the mayor's facebook page (though not the original post): https://www.facebook.com/daniele.galliano.56/posts/143193966...

Translated:

"This will be my last post and I hope to be able to provide clarity.

My it was an idea to propose to the region of Liguria, with which I am in contact, and extended only at national level.
The news was reported in the wrong way and has reached a worldwide audience.

Italy is a beautiful country but like others in the economic crisis, to today are followed by more than 17.000 people and unfortunately it's not really possible to find a help to all.
Thank you for your interest.

I don't have other profiles, so if there were more news in my name are fake."
What about trees? I think none of the wrappers around d3.js support trees. That's one area you guys could improve and differentiate from others.
Real-time translation is the type of technology that has practical implementations. I could care less about finding designers on LinkedIn via a voice command. But if I am stuck somewhere in another country and unsure where to go or how to communicate, I guarantee I will be happy to have that translation service available.

Here is an idea for a service: You lease the translation service for the term of your trip for a dollar a day. You can lease on demand for 24 hours for 5 dollars.
The tech scene in the Midwest is expanding rapidly right now. It's exciting to see what businesses are growing up here. I joined G2 Crowd in Chicago almost a year ago and it couldn't be a better company to work for and Chicago could be a better place to work.
Do you mean POST?

Also, these days, I think the blame is more likely lazy devs, poorly complying frameworks, or compromises to make things easier for some frontend library.
Given that this makes bolder claims that Cassandra, near-parity is pretty impressive, no?

(I don't know a ton about either technology, please correct me if I'm wrong)
I've had exactly the same experience with Azure and GCP. Started out with Azure and got so fed up with the crazy interface that I switched to GCP and have been consistently impressed with the attention to detail - especially with the tools they provide in the browser.
No, this is a PaaS offering that includes high-availability, fault-tolerance and disaster recovery, and uses a customized version of PostgreSQL behind the scenes.
Where can one find those elusive uncorrelated income streams?
What do any of these things have to do with building "from the internet up"?
Please post link where they talk about transactions - I can't find it in the docs anywhere. Availability SLA is clearly not 5 9's - https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/support/legal/sla/cosmos-d...
Second this recommendation. Hackers was a great history of early computing. The photos in this post are especially cool as Felsenstein, Captain Crunch, and others are prominent in the book.
Hi forvelin,
Britecharts use case would be essentially the same. If you need a simple chart, you can use one of them out of the box. Although if you know a bit about D3, you could easily fork the chart and customize it to your needs, making use of our Demo page as a sandboxed test space and our current test suite for keeping the quality of your chart high!
Yep, hard to imagine though that the original creators of the Nvidia TNT or Voodoo had any idea that GPUs would become fully programmable computing hardware used for non-graphical applications.
Just finished my code, I'll commit with git.
Scaling A.I. Hardware: A Hedge Play
Companies that enable the non-Amazon half of ecommerce
Good point. For the first paper, I bet that group would have put me in a top-5 list, and they certainly would have put my group (or someone from it) in the first place.

But that slightly anonymous element helps, because typically you aren't sure who reviewed your paper.
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You don't think being intentionally misleading should be an issue to people who might otherwise agree with your base claim? There's something seriously wrong with your compass here.

> You've used a lot of words to say close to nothing at all.

Alright man, that says a lot about how willing you are to change.
So, when is consent revocable? Should it be presumed by default?

How do you prevent someone yelling fire in a crowded theater using only consent? or spam for that matter.

How does consent work with humor or theatrics? Just shoot me... did I just consent to being killed?

If I know the outcome will harm you do I have any obligation to you? What if you are unaware it will harm you? is it different physically versus financial?
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Sounds like a free consumer product to me. What exactly is the profit model you see in this?
Mini.css – A modern flexbox-based Skeleton replacer
The landing page says "With Azure Database for PostgreSQL, you can scale the performance of your database with no application downtime". I don't see an option to scale the Postgres database in my Azure Portal.

Is this feature not available yet?
In what universe is people who want to build more Microsoft Windows executables for other users of Microsoft Windows using Microsoft Visual Studio not part of Microsoft's target market? I have an operating system on my computer already. I don't want two.