skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nvidia rep: "Our latest MPU will train your models lots faster".

Potential customer: "What's an MPU?"

N: "Oh, it's the same thing we used to call a GPU"

P: "Why did you change the name?"

N: "Because it's a little bit weird to keep using the word 'graphics' for something that is being made more and more specifically for other things"

P (puzzled, and marginally less likely to make a purchase): "Oh right"
You could always put the phone away and actually watch the concert live, right?
I'm not sure I agree with the conclusion of the article: "When Wall Street screws up, the country is plunged into recession and poor families lose their homes. When Silicon Valley screws up, people who want a pointless Wi-Fi enabled juicer get a pointless Wi-Fi enabled juicer."

Silicon valley tech is funded by VC money. A substantial portion of that VC money comes from institutional investors (i.e. pension funds). The investors need to see a return at some point. If they don't, the taxpayer will eventually pick up the bill via pension fund bailouts.
The chain of causality isn't as clear as with the financial crisis, but all that money has to come from somewhere. If it's squandered, there will be a reckoning eventually.
I completely disagree. If you look at a recent video of Tesla self-driving real-world "debug" mode with identification/classification bounding boxes, that and Musk's bet on the simplicity of pure-optical CV they have a convincing argument for full autonomy reasonably within a few years.
If you've ever tried to employ someone on a UK visa you'll know why business, charities and academia are distraught about this. Even if you have no qualified UK applicants whatsoever you have to spend a lot of time and money fighting with UKBA papermill who reject applications on the slightest error. It would be fine if decisions were timely (like within a few weeks rather than years) or defective applications could be amended but the problem is the system is broken and deliberately so. Politicians have no incentive to fix it because that would increase immigration numbers for a year or two and thus they make it the next guys problem and broken it stays.
> What has historically been a system which favours EU candidates over other International ones has now been leveled.

It's still easier to hire someone in close vicinity than pick someone from anywhere
Best in-app attribution platform for Apple Search Ads?
I want to attribute my in-app subscriptions to Apple Search Ad installs. What are some good services that do this? Might even need Facebook and Google Adwords attribution later.
Aaand now I'm even more depressed and kind of infuriated.

I'm just looking for personal-use Internet, and I wanted to join all the cool people with their 1Gbps for $40/mo or whatever they have.

I don't even need a guaranteed SLA, I'm fine with consumer-grade "fair share" bandwidth QoS and stuff.

Seems to me that the NBN Co is merely a sort of centralized rebranding that doesn't really create a competitive advantage.

Can someone help me understand why Australia seems to be so unbelievably backward in terms of advanced technology? I mean, I know there are some decent tech projects here: the CSIRO's antenna array is fairly crazy, I remember seeing SuSE when the news was doing a thing on NOAA about a decade ago, if you ever see a tram's info dashboard reboot you'll see it's based on Ubuntu, the rail transport project being built near where I live is completely driverless, and NSW's existing/legacy rail network is so heavily fiber based, if you look carefully at stations you can see there are fiber drops where you'd usually expect RJ45 (!). That's just what I've seen, but it shows that competent installations exist here.

But the thing is, I reiterate the above because I need reassurance that Australians actually have brains (I say that as one), because the "IT tax" and the Internet situation here and related issues are all just monumentally stupid and frankly an embarassment.

The government doesn't isn't making the bold changes needed to get a Silicon Valley in here fast enough, if you ask me.

(PS. With the fiber drops w/ Transport for NSW - this was easy because the fiber can run alongside the tracks; and I figured out fiber is being done to get infrastructural latency to zero.)
The push name is not a username and if you don't want to 'expose' it, leave the group without sending messages. They won't see your name.
Exactly. Most french movies make pennies at the box office and the only reason they exist is because of outrageous financing by the State. Same thing happens in other like minded countries in Europe.
The parent is saying that the Rudd/Gillard/Rudd battles lost them power. It's a narrative which probably has some truth to it.

It's also worth noting that Labor was slow rolling out the NBN. They did have 6 years in power, and didn't get NBN in the hands of many people at all.

Yes it was a big project, but it's hard to argue that more speed was impossible.
It clearly says so in the WhatsApp settings what people can and cannot see. This is the modern day equivalent of cold calling a range of home numbers and see who answers. If you don't want that information to be public, disable it. Simple as that.

This functionality is pretty much what made WhatsApp so easily accessible for anyone in the first place.
Sort of. Here's a sloppy analogy off the top of my head:

Evolution explains your musical taste in the same way that gravity explains why much of the rainfall on the Alps ends up in Lake Constance. It's not a detailed, step-by-step explanation, but it's an explanation at the level of "duh, what else could it be?" Evolution, on a pretty fundamental level, is the reason for every last difference in behavior (down to the chemical level) between a bacterium and you, and no serious biologist doubts this.

Now, evolution is not an isolated process; it's exactly the connection between real-world "external factors" as you say and the survival (or not) of our ancestors. So sure, parts of your genome may have been shaped by the climate in Ethopia or the prevalence of mammoths in Siberia. All those stories are _part_ of "evolution."

I'm not a biologist but I can speculate on what one might say about your musical tastes: Humans and other mammals enjoy rhythms of certain frequencies, maybe because those are what you hear as a child nestled against your parent's chest. Hearing that kind of noise usually meant you were safe. Music in general is enjoyed as a form of social communication (which is a vital to human survival), roughly along the same lines that howling together strengthens the unity of a wolf pack. Beyond that, your individual music tastes, i.e. the tempi, rhythms, tones and harmonies you like, are most likely learned behaviors (and that's why they're often not inherited), influenced by what you heard a lot of in a certain age range. On the other hand, the learning capability itself, your acquisition of your surrounding culture and its musical features, is almost certainly another survival-enhancing evolved skill.
Orbbec now offers skeletal tracking: markerless full body VR is coming?
The other element of this is that highly skilled EU worker would demand higher salaries than those from non-EU countries. How this will affect British workers is again hard to call.
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This post is so needlessly and so disproportionately aggressive, blunt and certain to rub people up the wrong way, I can only assume it's deliberately tongue-in-cheek trolling. Well done, sir.
The fact we don't have a Bill of Rights (or even an equivalent to the First Amendment) is ridiculous. But on the plus side we stopped with the ridiculous gun-toting crap 20 years ago, so some parts of our constitution are more reasonable than other countries.

One of the more worrying issues is that the Governor-General (and thus by proxy the Queen of fucking England) has vito power over our laws.
I have purchased/followed a number of Steam Early Access titles and very rarely have I been disappointed. I think the trick is, to wait a bit to see how often the devs update. There are some outliers such as RimWorld or Subnautica where updates happen only a couple times per year, but each update is game-changing and adds tons new content, features and bug-fixes.

Other titles which are still in EA but are releasing constant stream of information plus software updates:

- Space Engineers/Medieval Engineers (weekly YT blog)
- Rust (weekly blog)
- Rogalia (daily to weekly Steam blog)
- Project Zomboid (weekly blog)
- Kenshi (between weekly and monthly changelist)
- Factorio (weekly blog)
- Don't Starve Together (multiplayer addition to Don't Starve)
- DayZ (I only play maybe once per year but the blog updates seem quite frequent)

Titles which had a long EA period but ended up releasing IMHO amazingly polished products:

- Terraria
- Kerbal Space Program
- Prison Architect
Hmm, very interesting software proposed here that I did not know of (tried neo4j). Can you guys tell in a few sentences what differentiate your products? For example, GRAKN.AI is marketing as best for AI purposes but could not figure why it was exactly better than other graph DBs. DGraph says it is fast, is that only differentiator? Etc..
I agree with your last point, it's hard to trust, which is why I err on the side of caution and try to avoid sites pushing one radical opinion over others. Paleo, vegan, atkins, there are tons of people, physicians included, insisting their research is the best.
So I think it's prudent to hold a more moderate stance on nutrition, an attitude of 'we don't know, let's find out' instead of 'I know best, trust me'.
I suspect that more of a press obsession with pretty graphs and dramatic pronouncements than actual public interest. Give the press something more interesting to talk about and it'll pretty soon leave the front page.
The GTX 1070 for laptops is destined to be the most interesting price/performance opportunity for a while imho, you can even undervolt the CPU -0.100 to -0.150 to reduce overheating.
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Wake up 2hours earlier. Ge a coffee, work 2 hours on your code, then go to work. It works.
there is no good reason to use c++. it is verbose, needs two files for one class, it can cause memory leaks and security holes like no other and last but not least you need to be on the mensa list to be effective in it.

really we can make this argument about anything. c++ has its uses. so does node. so does php. as for myself the only language i have difficulty understanding the purpose of has to be ruby. its more difficult than php, not as readable as python, does not run on the client like javascript and does not offer real functional programming like haskell, it is not as syntactically simple as lisp and it is outperformed by almost everything else. but then i have not used it. maybe somebody could enlighten me?
I can see comparing node.js to go maybe, but it's just not in the same space as C++ and Rust. A comparison with Python and PHP or Ruby would be a lot more interesting. I just can't imagine scoping out a project and shortlisting C++ and node.js for the final two choices for implementation.
> What has historically been a system which favours EU candidates over other International ones has now been leveled.

If nothing else changes, it has been leveled at the worst level for companies seeking talent. Not a kind of leveling they can be happy of.
threading, agreed. but the way quote collapse features and is pushed in Gmail basically created or greatly exacerbated the very problem it's a solution for. People used to clean their quotes for relevance, but now they're hidden out of mind, and every mail contains nearly the full conversation, collapsed. it's useless extra data quietly dragging along every mail in a thread, hardly any human ever sees it, but I bet it's super useful for their machine learning (targeted advertising) priorities.
I'm sure your technology is great, but I suspect you aren't seeing it through your (potential) customer's eyes.

If you seriously don't understand why that solution could never have been politically feasible then to be honest it isn't surprising you were ignored.

Additionally, did you really suggest that people should be able to dig their own trenches and plug fibre in themselves? You do realize that does nothing to make you seem credible, right?
> Less tech people = more money

Hmmm. Only if the jobs stay in the UK. We continue to use the EU techies - but at offices elsewhere within the EU.
As some have already mentioned, Indonesia!

Gojek on its own is an amazing story and product. Its also a major player in a larger plot: Payments, chat, e-comm and on-demand platforms are being mashed together in an attempt to build china-style mega portals.

Its pretty exciting stuff. On the product side Gojek & Kudo are relativly unique. On the market side check out the recent Grab / Tencent / Ant financial investments and down the rabbit hole from there..
This isn't necessarily true.

I live in a new housing development (Zetland - Postcode 2017).

I tried to get NBN installed last week with Internode, one of our ISPs.

They said it was possible, they told me to be at home - I took half the day off WFH - then they ring me halfway saying, whoops, it's not actually connected for your building...err...we'll get back to you about the NBN.

I'm still waiting to hear back.

My parents are told it will be available between April-June 2017 - yet apparently they haven't even started planning it for their area yet. So they somehow hope to design, plan and roll it out in the next 30 days? I call bollocks.
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> as a result: for the highly skilled from other parts of the world it will likely become easier and cheaper to migrate to the UK (and the government has been making noises to this effect)

The government has been making 'noises to the effect' that it is concerned about the net migration number and bringing this down to the 'tens of thousands' [1]. This doesn't seem to distinguish between skilled and unskilled, it's just about reducing the headline number.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/may/08/conservativ...
It's working for me now.
The FTTN part won't be obsolete, it will be the copper cables limiting speeds and making my Internet connection drop out when it rains.

By the time the rollout is finished, they're going to need to upgrade to FTTP anyway.

They should have done it properly once. It would've been easier, cheaper and technologically superior.
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Yes - the runtime is added to your compiled source and provides a combined work. Not linked as a dynamic library.
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So is it a good idea to take supplementary prebiotic fibre and/or probiotics?
Yup, shellcheck 0.4.4 says this this code is fine.
I doubt it will force Netflix to show movies in theaters.

Cannes is almost irrelevant, commercially, while Netflix is one of the most powerful movie promoters.
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private industry (TPG, First Path etc) managed to cover huge swaths of the population with little-to-no government assistance.

Hu? You mean how they used copper put in place by telco incumbent Telstra, most of which were built when it was government owned? And how they relied on government mandated access to the copper lines to enable that?

Or are you talking about the small private fibre rollouts? Because they don't cover "huge swaths of the population".
What was the service called again?
I'm actively looking at leaving the UK post-Brexit and I'm a UK citizen
> like the philosophy of going out into the future and bringing it back into the present. I feel like a lot of startups are making an error in failing to do this.
> For example, in the not-to-distant future, we won't need parking spaces. You'll just hail the self-driving car (or similar) using your phone. People won't own their own cars.

You are right about the philosophy. But a thought regarding your specific example: even if self-driving tech were to be available tomorrow, it will take many years for all the cars (the "fleet") to be self-driving. There are about 2B cars on the road, and every year about 100M new ones are made. It would take 20 years to replace the fleet. So the "parking problem" isn't made immediately redundant with the invention of self-driving tech. There is still room (and in my opinion) worthwhile for a startup to solve the parking problem (however they attempt to solve it). Just saying that I wouldn't discourage anyone from attempting this :)
I feel sorry for you. Fanatism towards any language/eco-system, no matter if .net, Java, Ruby, Python (also have seen the same with Python developers) is something I really don't like.
"When Silicon Valley screws up, people who want a pointless Wi-Fi enabled juicer get a pointless Wi-Fi enabled juicer. Which by all accounts makes pretty good juice."

Nope. Silicon Valley screwing up has real world consequences. All the "wifi juicer" startups are taking up resources - money, people, time, materials - that would be better spent elsewhere. One of the biggest problems the valley has is that it wants to keep it's 'hey, we're just insanely great guys having some inconsequential fun' image while ignoring it's real world impact.
Anecdotal: I moved to London for my first software engineering job nine months ago. The week after I signed my contract, the country voted Leave and my salary was literally worth $15k USD less overnight.

I'm going back to the US in two weeks for a new job. I'll be making roughly 66% more. Sure, part of that has to do with the fact that I have experience now. But dev salaries in London weren't great compared to the US even when the pound was strong.

Honestly, Europe's best hope for keeping tech talent from going to the US may be Donald Trump cracking down on visas.
As an european tech, I don't really care about whaetherthe british electorate thinks I'm the kind of cattle they want or not. I simply don't want to live in a society that will accept or reject me based on my utility value.
Even if some jobs leave, if you're above average you'll probably be okay. You'll always need techies, and they'll always be business cases where techies in the country are needed, or where businesses need it done right now. Still not a great atmosphere though...
What logic did you employ to reach that conclusion?
Thank you! Can I suggest that you link to documentation from your pypy page? Nice work btw.
I've printed finer threads on my cheap 3D printer, although it took a few tries to get them the right size.

It's possible that he used acetone vapour to smooth out the surface of the threads.
It might be easier to set up a massive simulation in SpatialOS? And perhaps it's not limited to realtime.
My point is that there's probably an API call to get it.

Or is it sent by the client itself?
echo ... > "/tmp/all-users.sexp"

No, this is not a secure way to create temporary files.

Please use mktemp(1).
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This is nothing new but well explained and nice script.

I'm totally shocked... maybe I will make a story or picture on my public Instagram about that issue ;)
Immigration was arguably the central topic for the Leave campaign and it was known to "resonate" very strongly with certain groups of voters.

Not sure how you can argue that there is no "actual public interest" in the topic.

See: "All Out War" by Tim Shipman for more on this - a really excellent book.
We don't either, and we're mostly a Linux shop.

We only have ~10 employees. About half of them are technical staff with some access to certain systems (git, mostly). Only two users have global root access.

Vault (which was mentioned somewhere in these comments) looks interesting, but at our current scale it looks like it might be overkill.
I think the concern is that the information is now associated with your phone number. Personally I don't care, but who cares can just enable correct privacy setting.
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If I ask the semi- and non-technical people within my rech, I find that the majority is shocked by the described possibility.

Sadly not shocked enough to even change the privacy settings. Or - beware - deleting WA.
AFAIK no employment laws or freedom to move rights for EU citizens in UK has changed yet?

So this is the effect of what people expect there to happen wrt. EU and UK in the future. Judging from the numbers the effect is quite strong but obviously also something that may change quickly once the arrangement between EU and UK after brexit is fully settled.
India | Telecom | 110M subscribers on-boarded in 100 days

To summarize: Jio, which is our cellular telephony play, now is the world's largest cellular data network (pumping 22,000 TB per day) and onboards a million customers a day! We now have 110 million subscribers (in ~100 days).

This became possible when the telco regulators here gave a go ahead to use the Govt of India's pet biometric auth project Aadhaar[1] to accept electronic KYCs(proof of identity+address). A typical SIM issue took us <3m enabling Jio to issue 1M+ SIM cards a day in a developing country where printouts of PoI and PoA were mandatory.

This infrastructure as the physical layer coupled with the fact that India has 40% YoY growth rate in Internet penetration[2] has opened up a fintech opportunity in a $50B market that BCG and Google estimate[3] to be in the tune of $500B+ by 2020.

Disclosure: I work with JioMoney's product team in Bangalore. We are building the payments infrastructure on top of Jio and other telcos. We're hiring![4]

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aadhaar
2. http://www.kpcb.com/blog/2016-internet-trends-report
3. http://image-src.bcg.com/BCG_COM/BCG-Google%20Digital%20Paym...
4. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14030014
Don't kid yourself that you're not already being judged based on your utility.
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It's petty, but when I left the most satisfying thing was knowing that an ungrateful system no longer receives my above average tax contribution, let alone benefit from my work in other ways.
Non-executable content is really quite different from my perspective.
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"It depends".

I dislike that Github doesn't explicitly mention that it publishes your public keys, because they can be used to figure out your identity across multiple services. I believe someone a while back posted a demo on HN, where you could SSH in and it would greet you with "hello $yourname", which it derived from your github keys.

My advice: if you use different (user)names for different services, you should probably consider using different SSH keys for them as well. That is, if you don't want those two identities to be tied together.
There's some pretty exciting stuff happening in the startup scene in Nigeria, most famously Zuckerberg's PR visit to Lagos a few months ago.

Konga (a Nigerian company) is trying to upset Joomla (a South African company) to become the Amazon of Africa, and co-working spaces are starting to sprout all over the place.

There are over a hundred different mobile payment solutions, not just in the micro-payment sector, but for traditional middle class spending.

There's also been a recent boost for Nigeria to get back into agriculture (~80% - 90% of produce is imported. Welcome to the Resource Curse), there are some entrepreneurs trying to approach this field with the advantages tech can bring to the African agriculture landscape.
They can see your name under "Group Info".
you know there is thing called custom ROMs right? every heard of CyanogenMod (aka Lineage OS now)? so much for problems with certain updates or Samsung bloat. there are also more brands than Pixel and Samsung
I don't care to compile my own, and I want a version I can trust; I want to be able to sue someone if it violates my privacy. What are my options?
Somewhat related to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox