skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I remember back in 2004 when I heard a fellow grad student was working on using GPUs as a co-processor for scientific computing, I though "Wow, that's esoteric and niche."
> if you try to cut off money from phone companies, you can be sure you'll get jail time

What do you mean by that?
Lol Silverlight

"I’m delighted to hear that you have the foresight to make them cross platform"
AFAK this is what the codes are. When I see building frames under construction, I see an awful lot of "three floors of wood framing above a steel base" (usually mixed-use commercial 1st floor with residential above, but I'm assuming things here)
>What if I can ask my OS to do things I normally do over some protocol like HTTP in a RESTful style? Create user, list directory, find the last login, tell me linux kernel version.

The /proc filesystem is somewhat close to that when it comes to GET.

>I don't want to parse my command-line output if I can just speak in one human-readble, machine-friendly dialect

That's not what REST (the original concept) is about.
Thanks. Apparently I completely missed that in the FAQ.
> There are other ways to build a business that don't depend on search.

There are also other ways to run a household that don't depend on running water. (Heck, my great-grandpa never complained about having an outhouse.) Are you saying your local water utility should be an unregulated monopoly?
I'm not so sure it's astroturfing in this case... I haven't done much with GCE, but the UX does seem to be better than AWS and Azure. AWS is just horrible, and some of the defaults while more secure make less sense often enough. Azure seems to have similar options, with a less horrible UX, but still not great.

Though if you're using Ansible or another management system that's scripted over the top, it makes less of a difference. I will say that some of the hosted services (data in particular), Azure is really nice... Azure Storage Queues/Tables are solid and Azure SQL is easiest to get a grasp on setup/cost of the three.

That said Google Cloud is better in terms of compute with docker containers.
Being poor is expensive, indeed. Most people don't realize that until they experience it. If they ever do.

If you never have much surplus money, you can rarely if ever do the things that save money in the long term. You can't invest in good clothes or household goods that might cost twice as much, but last more than five times as long as what you can afford, for example. You can't buy a freezer and stock up on food when it's on sale, or cook large cheap meals and freeze them to free up time later. Often, things like good benefits from banks and credit card companies are simply not available to you. Et cetera.

Obviously things like being unable to afford preventative health care and sort of health maintenance stuff like checkups and new glasses and so on can lead to much more expensive problems down the road. "Noncritical" health services like dental and vision are big things there. It's not like you can get a root canal or new glasses at the ER.

And it's very difficult to fight back against mistakes other people make that screw you over when you have few resources on hand. Problems with your bank? In my experience, if you have money a bank is a lot more likely to help you than if you're poor. I was treated a lot better when I had thousands of dollars in the bank than I am now, when I'm scraping by. And that's if you can even open a bank account at a reputable establishment at all. That is not a given.

Then there's renting vs owning property. Owning property isn't for everyone perhaps, but if you're handy and don't need to pay a professional to do everything the house needs, it's a lot cheaper to own than rent. Plus there's the general freedom you have on your own property vs rented property which opens all kinds of doors for saving money or just better quality of life in general.

Having money means you have the freedom to live very frugally by making smart choices and thinking long term. Not having money in the bank, free to spend on the right investments and opportunities, makes that enormously more difficult. And it's only getting worse with time.
How will you test those apps? By installing a second OS no doubt. Why not run visual studio inside that, perhaps with vmware or parallels?

I guess I don't understand what sort of developer workflow you can have building windows apps and not actually running windows, even if it's just in a vm.
I think SilasX is not suggesting that it isn't a insult, but rather that a word being an insult is not what really matters as far as naming is concerned. What matters, according to him, is whether the word automatically elicits a strong negative emotional reaction. That a lot of words that elicit such a reaction are used as insults is mostly incidental to the argument.
No, HA straight out of the box is a minimal requirement. Foolproof HA is not a requirement, since neither MySQL or Postgres offer "easy" HA setup.
I haven't downloaded the app, so maybe this makes sense somehow, but the following text from the app description confused me:

Difficulty ratings:

- 2x2 board - Easy

- 3x3 board - Easy

- 4x4 board - Hard

- 5x5 board - Medium

- 6x6 board - Impossible

- 7x7 board - Hard

Shouldn't the difficulty rating increase with increasing board size?
Scientists show future events decide what happens in the past
But unlike Google (AFAIK), Microsoft played very dirty - they eventually paid for it (see e.g. [0]), but the gains from remaining a not-even-threatened monopoly where at 100-1000 times larger than what they paid.

I experienced this first hand at a company I worked for in the early '90s - we had agreements signed with many PC manufacturers to include our software (which was a DOS launcher of sort, that -- in those days of Win3.0 barely coming out, was more favored by users than Win3), and then all of a sudden, within 3 weeks, every single one of the manufacturers canceled -- and it later turned out Microsoft just visited each and every PC manufacturer and told them their MSDOS "discount" is going away if they bundle our launcher or anything similar.

In other markets, e.g. Office. in which, at the time, they were not a dominant player (Lotus123 was king, Borland Quattro was a strong player, Excel was less so; WordPerfect was king of pword processing), they actually competed by turning out better products.

[0] http://www.computerweekly.com/news/2240052523/BeOS-will-live...
REST actually has nothing to do with HTTP. It happens to map nicely to HTTP, but what it really is, is a set of architectural constraints.
Did they communicate any release date and price during the show ?
I would be more interested if the representation of the data was something other than identicons. I identify these too closely with people's profile pictures specifically on Github. I do think this is a neat idea though.
The biggest anti-pattern of all: marketing your API as RESTful, when it is really more RPC-like.

I agree on all points of this article. The only nitpick I have is that tunneling through GET/POST is strictly necessary for HTML forms, since they do not support other verbs.
I've essentially lost my Microsoft account. My password doesn't work, and it wont email me the security code. I try the "alternate email" option, which does work, but when I answer the validation questions it fails -- doesn't believe I am who I say I am, I guess.

And when I try to contact support, it wont let me contact a person unless I login to my Microsoft account...
I believe this is pretty poor interpretation of the actually science here. Would love expert feedback on what the real import of this is.
I mean, at what point will we go full circle of going back to a "mainframe" where consumers don't really own/posses the computing power, rather it's down in datacenters. Like, you play your game through a VM basically, and your personal computer is just an AWS instance...
How to monitor Linkerd the microservices proxy
Alright, if you really want to unpack the metaphor:

The bikeshed story is to illustrate overemphasis on something that is trivial. It uses the example of a bikeshed color and a committee wanting to spend a lot of time on it because a) they care a little about it, and b) they understand it well enough for hard-headed members to wade into the dispute rather than trust experts.

It's a failure mode -- by stipulation -- because the bikeshed color doesn't matter beyond minor (but real) aesthetic feelings among the committee, that are far outweighed the cost of high-level personnel devoting time to it. Had they been aware of the general dynamic of these thing, they could entirely prevent the loss by moving on; it's purely an internal matter.

The bikeshed model ceases to demonstrate a failure mode if and when the bikeshed color has impacts far beyond things under the control of the committee. For example, if the majority of the world's people had a near-religious devotion to destroying facilities that house a blue bikeshed, and that fanaticism was hard to defend against, this would be a valid reason not to make the bikeshed blue, and would warrant the committee's attention.

I summarize such situations as "that's not bikeshedding", though of course, to be more technically correct, I should say "that situation does not illustrate the avoidable failure mode in the parable of the bikeshed".

Similarly, if adoption matters for more than just that committee -- if they need to convince numerous other committees to adopt the design -- it's likewise "not bikeshedding" because the first committee doesn't have control over all the other ones; with respect to the first, it's an external matter, and they can't stem the loss just by saying "hey, this is trivial".

Now, you are correct that, a high enough level, this could work as a bikeshedding example, if you could simultaneously get the entire world to collectively agree on the non-importance of aesthetics on technical matters, and on what counts as technical vs aesthetic. Then the world could play the role of that first committee and say "wow, this is trivial" and it's done.

But if that were actually feasible, then that should be your product (producing universal agreement on matters where you have a logical proof-of-correctness), not a database!
Wow... that Motherboard web page is packed with enough cruft to bring my brand new Kaby Lake i5 to its knees.
Impressions from RC and NYC
More great hardware being stuck behind proprietary CUDA when OpenCL is the thing they should be helping with. Once again proprietary lock in that will result in inflexibility and digital blow-back in the long run. Yes I understand OpenCL has some issues and CUDA tends to be a bit easier and less buggy, but that doesn't detract from the principles of my statement.
At my old company, I built technopedia.com, which used to hold all of this information available in a nice, convenient, searchable interface. That said, it appears they've retired that information since I left, and relegated the actual product to an animated gif on the homepage?
/me forks the damned repo, renames it, wins the Internet.
Mikeha, glad to see attention from my favorite 3D scanning company. Results you shared are awesome!

I do admit that my system lacks precision, angular resolution, and lot's of other nice bells and whistles. But hey it was build over weekend including software. Also this is more like rotary stage demonstration rather full featured 3D scanner.

--
BR,
Saulius
Visual Studio for Mac is now available to all
> Just for the record: you're defending an imperial colony in the 21st century

It's almost as if you didn't post this (in the 21st century) as an argument for an Argentine take over of the Falklands:

"Again: Spain asserted sovereignity over those islands as part of the colony way before that."
I think this is the DB Project of the year in the open source community. Cockroachlabs has done an incredible effort to develop and test a new Database and these guys are giving it for free (I read about the series B raise too ;)), for us to use it.

Thanks for doing this. You're very much appreciated.
(BTW I love the name and the logo!!)
FWIW, if the IT folks I know actually followed this "saying", it would eliminate 80% of the department.
Researcher sues Harvard for drug royalties
SPI CA History (Debian) (2002)
Well, the Nintendo Switch is an NVIDIA tablet, so there's that. It's selling like hotcakes, if you can even find one.
I understand you have declared we are at an impasse so I will just take the "last word". Your second paragraph is mere assertion. I assert the opposite. The existence of extreme outliers is exactly what we see in statistical distributions all the time. Being able to identify them in retrospect is childs play.Doing it in advance is the trick. That fund very likely does have great skills and plans at work that happen to have been met with circumstances that made them work. Yes you can attribute that to skill.
Here is a longer version with Dr. Lamport with more details https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_PPKyAsR3w&feature=youtu.be
It was "Shariat and Savard Saucier's book..." and the quote was taken from the foreword.

Thank you for the feedback. I'm going to talk to a few more folks to see if anyone else feels that way. I definitely don't want people feeling that way. Thanks again!
Code Fights – Do you write the best code?
Google Cloud got Postgres beta a couple months back. When it was announced, the HN discussion[0] raised the question of when Azure would get it.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13831277
can you flash asuswrt-merlin over the default asus firmware?
Microsoft PowerPoint can now translate presentations in real time
Z-transformed explained
You can see why they settled. Those documents are brutal and they would have lost so badly.
Wheeler's delayed-choice gedanken experiment with a single atom: Nature Physics
Ditto that or audio book.

I don't know the specifics. I'll read out to my editor and let you know.
May look into what the PostgreSQL option offers... of course plv8 is one of the main extensions I look for, but I know there's several that are very popular.
I wonder if the individual lane PCs will pave the way for implementing some of Andy Glew's ideas for increased lane utilization in future revisions?

http://parlab.eecs.berkeley.edu/sites/all/parlab/files/20090...
I think the fact that the name isn't milquetoast is a huge bonus. People are caught off guard by the name, which gets them thinking about it.

I think the dismissal that business people won't look at it because of the name is purely opinion-based. But what do I know?
So haven't I and boy am I glad. There seems to be a self selecting bro culture bubble.
If some mad gazillionaire decided to start paying people to hit their own thumbs with hammers, I'm sure she could find a price point where a lot of people decided they wanted to do that. If she kept doing it for long enough, self-hammer-mangler might even become an honorable profession to which a lot of people aspired. That doesn't imply that we, as a society, want people to be spending their time and energy hitting themselves with hammers.

As a society, we spent the last few centuries having the problem of providing a comfortable standard of living to ourselves and our peers and the problem of getting shitty drudgework done be two problems that largely solved each other. We are well on our way to actually solving the shitty drudgework problem. That means we badly need to find a new solution to the comfortable standard of living problem, but deciding not to fix the other, fixable problem doesn't sound like a viable long-term strategy.
Same title, different article from a few months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12479370.
You hit it on the head..

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_monopoly

I will strongly argue that most utilities are natural monopolies, google is not like that.. anyone could create a equivalent functionality search engine without massive resources to do so, this is most certainly not the case with say, a cellular carrier, where to build out one moderately sized market your're looking at starting cost ~100 million dollars, and around 5 billion to start for a national carrier (250k a site, times 20,000 sites)... and my numbers are likely too low by half, because they only factor in the site costs, not the overhead to get to the point where you can build sites.
But then these people are just very wrong. No point encouraging them either :)
Make your own bot
It's an old joke about driving, not IT. The guy was just trying to be funny, I guess.
My mother tongue is English, so I never made that association. But I've lived all my life in a Spanish speaking country. Mongo is usually used in the context to mean "retard".

Edit: Now that my memory kicked in, it's racist as well.
Discrete-time Signals and Systems explained [pdf]
I've used Wave before, they have a payments solution and I think they charge around 5% fees per payment taken on your behalf. At bulk you can usually get fees down to the 1% mark so they'll make their ~4% per invoice paid via their system.

I think they also have a paid support option but I can't remember, it's been a while since I used them.
Pretty much already there.
If calling your product RetardedDB or MentallyChallengedDB in a professional setting is OK by his standards because it's not spelled in english, then I'm OK with that. That's what mongo means in spanish, btw.
I agree with what you wrote, but the comparison is apples to oranges: Google customers are businesses; end users (who CAN switch easily) are the product.

Right now the only (supposedly) viable competitor is Facebook, but it's more of an advertising duopoly that divides the market - all the people I know who advertise say that you use FB for brand/interaction/marketing and Google for sales, and for a specific spend it is usually clear which one gets it (and seldom if ever anyone other than FB or Google).
But what if "Windows Phone" was marketed as "The Operating System And Desktop Environment you love, now on your phone"? :)
Nobody else is even bothering to compete, so standards don't really matter. Let them do their job: I'd rather have faster GPUs.
Erlang posts are also consistently at the top of HN.
Wait...

You gotten a response that's HTTP 200, but the JSON itself contained something like "code: 403"?

Well, now I know what I'm going to do if I ever really hate my coworkers/company.
Small Planes Over Big Oceans (ETOPS Explained)
How to Create a Repeatable Consulting Process
Have you worked IT in Florida?
I recommend you take a look at LINQ to DB ( https://github.com/linq2db/linq2db ) instead of EF.
Same, and I started under a guy who held nothing sacred and could swear paint off the walls.
Hey! Interviewer here. Willing to answer questions about the interview topic if you have them. Hope this helps!
Create a 3D of yourself
Pycharm is good, but it really depends on the project size - I'd use Pycharm for larger projects, but at the same time I'll open smaller separate scripts in Sublime even if I have Pycharm already open.
The FCC has received 128,000 identical anti-net neutrality comments
I've seen that, and also status = 500 with the body { ok: false, status: 404 }
To get rid of electrical noise.
In fact, you are self-defeating your arguments. Chrome was entirely built to be leveraged to force people to use Google Search, since people don't change their default search engine. Bear in mind, they paid Apple and Mozilla each over a billion dollars to be everyone's default search. Sundar Pichai, the current CEO of Google, got started by pushing the Google Toolbar as one of those bloatware add-ons when you install other software, that would hijack your default search when you installed it.

Google also leverages Android to force people to use all sorts of Google products, using their agreements with OEMs which ensure things like default search, default maps, default email setup, etc. That's the whole point of Android.

Google's anticompetitive behavior is extremely active, and they make Microsoft look like an innocent kitten in comparison. It sounds like you don't know a whole lot about how Google operates as a business.
Does it say what the pre-configured amount of RAM is?

Also, does it talk about what level of admin rights I can get to these machines?
> a small change in one of the parameters can lead to a very significant change in the optimal portfolio.

Isn't that the definition of chaotic?
Taking this a step further we see the growth in completely meaningless jobs. For example, low power administrative jobs, that are impossible to automate.
That makes more sense, actually. I haven't heard a person use the term "Oriental" for a group of people in several decades. Makes sense that it's from an old (and stupid) joke.
FTA: "GV100 supports up to 6 NVLink links at 25 GB/s for a total of 300 GB/s."

The math doesn't add up.
Request an Uber from your menubar(Mac)
Where Did the Term “Screw the Pooch” Come From
As with many high performers he did it by fantastic returns at some point. I just looked up his returns in a business insider article and a quick calculation indicates that although someone who invested year one got rich, his returns over the past 30 years average to 6% (by my calculation- willing to be corrected)

I recall reading a stock book back in the 1980s that claimed that Buffet's legendary status at the time was entirely due to his purchase of Geico
You moonwalk away
Gaming GPUs still more than 50% of revenue for NVIDIA:

http://www.anandtech.com/show/11361/nvidia-announces-earning...
> You obviously haven't

Could you please not do this making-it-personal trope on HN? It's internet incivility that mars your otherwise fine comment.
On Reddit, maybe...
As tech startups surge in cities, inclusive economic growth must be a priority
Never mind free. In the UK most people would save £200/y with no interruption in service simply by switching energy suppliers, and yet they don't...
Also ... https://developer.nvidia.com/digits
I've had a great time using DC.js - highly recommended...

It's a wrapper around both D3.js and crossfilter.js and makes building linked interactive charts / dashboards really easy.
That is still a permission to build, not an obligation to build, no matter how strict the zoning is.
Interruption of everything.. Terry macmillan
Tesla: Solar Roof
I haven't really seen that many comments about the name, though?

So now the top thread is about how terrible HN is for bikeshedding instead of talking about the actual topic... except this top thread is also not talking about the actual topic. Worth considering, imo.
Private Secondary markets are a huge opportunity.

I'm not sure the lack of transparency is a big issue, except for employees. The VCs generally know what's going on, if not the mutual funds that get in late.

What generally corrects markets quicker is the ability to short. When you can't short (or make a bet that something will go down) then it's only the optimists who are setting the price.
Why YouTubers are losing so much ad money (and how they can survive the crunch)
This reminds me of a comment i read here ages ago about a scientist using the "processors" of the univercity's postscript printers because they did the work much faster than their scientific workstations.
Would SAVEPOINTs offer a viable alternative for meeting that need?
Does restarting the app pool reload the application? What about changing the config file?

Is IIS just configuring http.sys at this point? Are modules still invoked during the request?
No. Google is free to its users, but the users are the product. The customers -- the advertisers -- pay dearly.
Surprised to see so much hatred for self-checkouts.

I find it a pretty frictionless experience most of the time.

It's usually quicker than using a cashier, and if I'm getting my goods cheaper through reduced payroll costs, who am I to complain?