skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Right To The Best Available Deal:

To have all applicable financial / tax regulations applied to you automatically.

This way you don't have to discover tax breaks/credits/deductions — they just get applied to you.

This is important and effects something like 250M Americans.

Outside of criminal and civil law, much of the US system of government is enforced financially through the tax code.

The benefits of the Internal Revenue Code are applied unevenly because richer people are able to develop the sophistication or acquire service providers who help them make sure they are getting the best available deal.

Can you imagine if hackers/coders got better deals on products Amazon then non-coders? It would be absurd to say "well, learn to code or higher an engineer and you'll save $1000 a year!" That's a pretty close metaphor—we say "get financially literate! The information is out there! get an accountant!".

Computers, tech, machine learning, and AI are great at making sure all Americans get The Best Deal Available.
The Right To The Best Available Deal:

To have all applicable financial / tax regulations applied to you automatically.

This way you don't have to discover tax breaks/credits/deductions — they just get applied to you.

This is important and effects something like 250M Americans.

Outside of criminal and civil law, much of the US system of government is enforced financially through the tax code.

The benefits of the code are applied unevenly because richer people are able to develop the sophistication or acquire service providers who help them make sure they are getting the best available deal.

Computers, tech, machine learning, and AI are great at making this easy.
I know that Roslyn the C# compiler visual studio taps into defiantly does support incremental compilation.
Agreed. Visual J++ was unbelievably easy to use "Java"
Anyway I have very bad news for new, I have a feeling your phone might have GLONASS in it.
Random advice from the internet.

1. One of my goto articles: https://blog.ycombinator.com/minimum-viable-product-process/

2. Don't build a landing page with mailchimp and A/B testing and unbounce. Do something easy. By "easy" I mean easy for you to do right now. Your landing page is not your product. A landing page is, in agile terms, a chore with no points assigned and does not contribute to velocity.

3. Focus on something people can use. Mostly an email list is not that.

Good luck.
Do every other thing you can but never ever pay.
We tend to use tests for just this case. You change anything you want, then see which tests break, and fix all the places.

I definitely agree that dynamic typing doesn't scale as well as static typing, though.
Well, I do! When I wake up I spend a minute or two thinking of what I need to do today in my personal relationships, what are the one or two most important work tasks I need to address, and generally plan my day. I then meditate for about 5 minutes and then get up and try to enjoy my day.
There's a PR that fixes one of them which was filed on December 22 of last year... Yikes.
Are you asking me whether or not you couldn't find it in the PDF?

On the actual web page the first line of its abstract:

"Even though over 70% of internet traffic today is digital media, the way images and video are represented and transmitted has not evolved much in the past 20 years (apart from Pied Piper's Middle-Out algorithm)."

From the PDF:

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1705.05823.pdf

The end of Section 2.2. ML-based lossy image compression
Right above 2.3. Generative Adversarial Networks

Theis et al. (2016) and Ball
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e et al.
(2016) quantize rather than binarize, and propose strategies
to approximate the entropy of the quantized representation:
this provides them with a proxy to penalize it. Finally, Pied
Piper has recently claimed to employ ML techniques in its
Middle-Out algorithm (Judge et al., 2016), although their
nature is shrouded in mystery.
I found that funny as hell and it was probably 100% intentional.
> I assume Google will try to replace Java with Dart

I would have expected this, but not after pushing Kotlin. Kotlin is shiny enough to temporarily distract the typical developer from the daily struggles with the abysmal Android API.

Kotlin and Java it will be for the next 10 years, for better or worse.

Dart is not very popular within Google itself, and Fuchsia is nothing more than a paid hobby project[0].

[0] See https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/6a026o/googles... for a pretty damning review
> maybe the appropriate US version is "Pearl Harbour"

That doesn't quite work—Pearl Harbor was a US base, so most Americans would be okay with it. The negative associations we have with it are what was done to it & the people who served there. We're not angry or upset about the base itself.
Babies from Skin Cells
does it work with expressions? foo()...bar()? I can count on no fingers the amount of times I've hardcoded the length of a loop in production code.
Job Application for Crypto Engineering Working Student (Werkstudent) at Mozilla
The mathematics of mind-time
38 are in western Europe, which has a similar population to the US. And many of those universities are much less open to foreign students (due to language barriers, not necessarily selection).
Been doing software for 20 years now, and I think the best advice would be to keep things simple.

Keep your software design simple, your code simple, your tools simple. Sure, it's nice to use new and shiny tech for your side projects, but real software should be done simply and efficiently.

Simple trumps everything else, but it takes a real master to know how to pull it off. Especially in the context of complicated software requirements.

During my career I've met very few programmers who are capable of doing this well. It's the true art of the profession IMO.
No. Most of the people just don't really have high ambitions and are quite content as regular developers, designers and artists. They know that becoming a studio head or something like that means working 80 hours a week and no social life, for a long time, and they chose not to pursue this.
Google Firebase gets Fabric integration, better analytics and an alpha program
NSA Brute-Force Keysearch Machine
"To think that any entrant no matter the size could come into the space and successfully develop a device in such short order is amazing."

Is this a fair statement? I mean , this is Google. Hardware development is not easy or cheap, and they've been at it for years. They ponied up lots of money for AI starting as early as 2012, and this company is all about running huge jobs on lots of compute on giant data - it is hard to think of a company more suited to developing this kind of hardware (same for Facebook, in that sense).
Distgusting that you propose to dictate others life. If you and people like you have a problem with something, you need to come with solution on your own on. Its people like you who makes others hate their own governments.
Even more amazing is that Bach (and others as well) could build a fugue while improvising. It's like live coding multi threaded software. Even late in life Bach was given a challenge on the spot to build something from a given set of notes, and the Goldberg Variations are the result (he remembered what he did and wrote it out later). I still love listening to the last thing he ever worked on (a quadruple fugue in the Art Of Fugue) where he died essentially in the middle of writing the piece, the stopping of the music is so stark you feel the death.
I worked at a large aerospace company which had a large contingent of business majors needed for all the required compliance reporting. They weren't paid well compared to the engineers. Those business people always joked that if the could have they would have become engineers, but they couldn't handle math so they became business majors.
On my Mac 2 groups, only a few channels using 1,440MB across 5 processes
What were even her options to marry? Marrying somebody in a royal family from another country? European monarchs did that for a while, but it doesn't seem in the spirit of Japanese nationalism. Or does she have to marry within her own family?
More like urbit.
If someone hits your animalistic self, you'll buy everything they're selling, unless you're aware of that.

They just need to get to your not so gone weaknesses.
Yeah, my first impression was "This is exactly like Haxe". They definitely went through some steps to make it familiar.
technically they have to adhere to EU laws because all of them have EU subsidiaries (mostly in Ireland) through which they act in Europe. But the irish government is obviously happy about all the jobs and taxes they bring to a small country without a lot of industry or natural resources, so all the lawsuits kind of go nowhere.

See http://www.europe-v-facebook.org/EN/en.html
a discussion, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14024486
It's nice to say that the jobs where machines are replacing people are jobs people don't want to do anyway, but he doesn't address the worry that the people that get replaced won't be able to find any other job.

It's plausible new jobs will be created due to all the AI, or everyone will get some sort of basic income, but neither outcome is guaranteed, so just dismissing those worries seems very unwise.
The state of the car computer: Forget horsepower, we want megahertz
I love the fugue even more than the Toccata, because Bach violates the rules of the fugue on purpose and being Bach, it sounds amazing.
AES Encryption with HMAC Integrity in Java
AMD is bringing its new Ryzen processors to laptops later this year – The Verge
Would be great if someone could add a third column for Java.
Wonderful to see AoB mentioned on HN. It's an audacious project with consistently fine performances and gorgeous video.
Make sure it is actually idle, the gif reactions under messages use up a lot of CPU. I often switch to the slackbot channel when not using it to save CPU/
This is why this kind of software should have an interactive 'feedback' function that allows the user to select among several, equally likely rules.

The experimental Lapis editor[1] did exactly this, by the way.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lapis_(text_editor)
This, thank you. So many people seem to think that freedom of speech == freedom from consequences. The reality is that freedom of speech == freedom from government consequences.
You're basically proposing that a single person (ok, a group of persons) comes up with a solution against $60+ billion behemoths.

Ever heard of Don Quijote? :)
Thanks for sharing your story. A couple of thoughts, from a 90s-era student:

- $121k in loans is a lot in absolute terms. But compared to the other big purchase people often make, it's not expensive at all (and has a shorter period to expected ROI). The expected ROI on a degree is still massively positive.

- The opportunity to be able to earn -- in one's 20s -- a spare $2,350/mo from a job (versus starting a business) is remarkable. That's close to 70% of the median personal income in the US, which after 5 years will become disposable income for you. At 30, you will be able to basically throw away most of the salary of the median American worker (who is more senior than you). That's remarkable. A 5-year ROI is tremendous for most investments.

- The comparison with alternative career paths makes it entirely rational to borrow six figures for college, at least in the US. The existence of a few well-paid jobs that do not require a degree aside, several studies have consistently shown that college degrees increase lifetime earnings. Basically it boils down to borrowing a lot of money for college is a better bet than the alternative ("either you're slinging crack rock or you got a wicked jump shot.")

- Folks are comfortable financing houses and cars. It's interesting that they get squeamish when financing the one major purchase that's most likely to earn them money.

- Presumably stretching repayment out to 10 years or more would make the burden much more bearable. We finance houses over 30 years; it does make some sense to finance education over one's entire career.

- Obviously I get that the math is different for different career paths/majors/schools. But I'm kind of surprised that the math works out as well as it does.
Interesting story on the making of Silicon Valley (the show) from the New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/how-silicon-va...
I think if you look at some of the other sub-threads comparing TPUs to Pascal and Volta, you'll conclude that the Cloud TPUs are cutting-edge technology. Your conclusion makes sense in the context of TFRC, but not when Google's creating a cloud offering that they hope people will pay for.
Ikea: behind the scenes at the retailer's top-secret furniture lab UK
Wanna Cry some more? Ransomware roundup special edition
I'm a huge fan of Grails, but this definitely interests me. Spring Boot has come a long way. Groovy is still a great language (as far as being approchable from Java) but Kotlin looks like a lot of fun.
I would, as long as it can replace Java.
Not only doctors, engineers as well.
That's the pain we all feel on more accessible topics and their treatment in mainstream entertainment. It's just more acute for you because you're an expert.

Did you enjoy the Sneaker's "can decrypt anything" plot line? How about that stupid TV show with a magical button that turned on and off electricity? I couldn't be in the same room when my wife watched that crap. Happens to everyone. I'm not dismissing what you say, more like welcome to the club. :-)
I wonder if having tax breaks apply to everyone that could take them would genuinely cause a Cloward-Piven collapse (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloward%E2%80%93Piven_strategy, it's a strategy for collapsing a welfare state by doing exactly what you described, based on the theory that welfare benefits and tax deductions are not designed to handle 100% use).
The right to innovate and invent without anxiety. To me this means clarifying copyright and trademark, reducing their abuse by claimants, and abolishing all patents altogether.
Libecc – Library for elliptic curves cryptography
Very impressive work, though it seems like a mistake to focus on compression, which gets less valuable as storage and bandwidth gets cheaper. You need only look to the staying power of jpeg, which is so far from the state of the art, yet it's not going anywhere. Why? The demand for replacing it is not strong enough.

They obviously have some good image priors here, if I were them I would consider applying this tech to other image-related things, like image manipulation, or image search. Although competition is heating up quickly in these fields...
Why You Hate the Sound of Your Voice--And How You Can Change It
While I've always preferred static over dynamic, Powershell is what finally got me to actively disliking dynamic languages. Not strongly disliking, but enough that I'll put up with a bit of pain in order to use a static language over a dynamic language.

I made the mistake of trying to build a system in Powershell because the ability to remote into windows boxes was core to it. That was a mistake I didn't see coming.
For those unaware (I had to look it up) The Spectator is a conservative magazine. Boris Johnson, the UK's chief bafoon-at-large was the editor from 1999-2005.
IBM Nudges Ahead in the Race for Quantum Supremacy
Interesting. I don't know what's with Prof. Lindzen, but I remember reading the letter he sent to the President regarding withdrawal from UN climate convention, which was opposed by 22 Professors and assistant professors via another letter.

http://climate-science.mit.edu/news/featured-stories/mit-fac...

If we are just talking about numbers, there are far more scientists backing the claim with valid research data than those who don't.

Lobbyists like Shell even pay many researchers to come out and talk crap.

Also, there no harm in taking the direction for clean energy alternatives and making policies that support such initiatives. In spite of the data, high carbon emission will certainly not help the future generations.
15 Blockchain and Bitcoin-Focused Startup Incubators
Nasa’s Van Allen Probes Find Human-Made Bubble Shrouding Earth
I agree with this but think you've missed what I think of as 2nd and 3rd order effects.

So 1st order problem: Adverts are harmful in that they distort markets increasing the effort required by consumers to make good decisions & increasing poor decision making.

But they also create a whole bunch of activity that is now not a buyer / seller interaction. Why do you get click bait and fake news? If the viewers had to choose to pay for it then this would never occur but with advertising the viewer is the product. So you get content that is compelling but worthless. Fake news & clickbait. You even get HSBC dictating content to the Telegraph [1].

I honestly think Google originally had good intentions "Don't be evil" but their business model is fundamentally at odds with the wellbeing of their users. If you have a market optimizing for user manipulation you will evolve effective manipulators.

So the 2nd order problems of advertising are that advert supported activity doesn't have it's interests aligned with it's users. Even if the people in these industries want to do good the market will eventually evolve corporations that harm their users since the more efficient the harm the greater the profit.

But the biggest problem in my mind is the 3rd order effect of wasted human capital. Much like the biggest problem with wall street is all our gifted peers who ended up doing zero sum bullshit for banks. Advertising, regulatory capture and other corporate innovation that isn't making a better product signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.

[1] - https://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/feb/17/peter-oborne-t...
Hopefully you're three years into the "Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years" program (http://norvig.com/21-days.html). If not, Norvig's advice is short and to the point, and well worth following.
Probably her descendants won't be in the line of succession.
I studied mathematics with the Open University in the UK, what I found is graduates of traditional universities frequently find ways to disparage the OU despite it having a rigorous curriculum and requiring a great deal of effort and discipline from its students.

I'm not saying that is what you are doing but it does seem to have hints of it.
Coda is the most powerful text editor for iPad
It isn't 'very impressive work', it is marketing for Silicon Valley (impressive marketing though).

Literally the first sentence of the linked page:

"Even though over 70% of internet traffic today is digital media, the way images and video are represented and transmitted has not evolved much in the past 20 years (apart from Pied Piper's Middle-Out algorithm)."

EDIT: This is embarrassing that not one person in this thread seems to have actually read any of the paper. Now with obvious evidence that this is fiction, people still don't want to believe it.
Leave It to Beaver's Tony Dow Corvair
Why is this on the front page of HN?
Anything I'm missing?
Yet Another Java Rant.

In my book, Java is a fine language, and has been since Java SE 6 was released back in 2006. It keeps getting better, too. "Glacial" pace or not.

Whenever any kind of discussion about Java comes up, people start ranting about XML configuration or annotations. These are not language problems. These are developer problems. If you don't like XML or annotations, then don't use them. Problem solved. Very few Java features require the use of either.

I rarely run into issues with the Java language, syntax or productivity wise. I've run into a couple of Sun/Oracle/IBM bugs in my 17 years of Java development. I've greatly appreciated productivity-increasing features like try-with-resources and Streams, but the lack of those features have never held me back as a developer.

Given the sheer amount of Java code out there, I would say it deserves a little more praise and a little less negativity.
I think a big problem is that good documentation about SELinux is hard to find. When I was looking for how to allow nginx to work as a reverse proxy, most of the 'solutions' were just 'Turn off SELinux'. It took me a while to find the permission I needed to give it (it was a one-line in the terminal in the end).

This was on a server so no popup - you also need to know where to look (/var/log/audit/audit.log) to actually work out what is causing the 'Bad Gateway' error in nginx.
This is obviously true in the abstract, but there literally are lots of well-paid jobs that simply will not consider applicants without degrees from 4-year accredited institutions. Given that reality: yes, having a degree will increase your probability of earning more over your lifetime.
Bach invented programming
Yes that was it. I can't vouch for the accuracy of his claims, but it was interesting to hear his discussion on the topic.
Does anyone else find it a little odd that something as big (and corporate as BAE) are running a blog from blogspot on an unsecured domain?

Is this site legitimate?
Exactly, this sounds like just the right move to me if you're Google and would like to see a nice transition period out of the Java dependency, but until then, also support JVM. I'm sure such a move wouldn't come abruptly. Would be cool if they could get that strategic move and a more fun/productive language than Java in the same bang.
Ask HN: Is Digital Ocean safe enough for production?
I am in the late stage of developing application using Firebase, Google App Engine and some Compute for my application backend, primarily because it is less pain than managing own servers. But the post yesterday "Firebase Costs Increased by 7,000%!"[1] made me rethink my decision as I can not afford any surprise bills now. So the cheaper alternative would be to use Digital Ocean, but is it production ready and if anyone using it successfully for running a large production app ?
[1]https://medium.com/@contact_16315/firebase-costs-increased-by-7-000-81dc0a27271d
Student loan debt now is also far more common and larger as a percentage of expected income than it was back in the 70s. The University of California didn't start charging residents tuition at all until the mid-1970s and didn't really ramp up until Governor Reagan slashed the budget:

http://www.dailycal.org/2014/12/22/history-uc-tuition-since-...

If random internet sites are to be believed, the $630 combined tuition plus fees in 1976 is roughly $2k today. An awful lot of students could manage that without aid.
Apologies, I meant to type "the large majority of great universities". Obviously there are more universities across the planet combined than there are in the United States.