skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the article details well how useful you are to facebook even if you are a light user.

They get info you still say, they get what sites you visit and what content is there, they get what you and your friends say to each other... like even as a partial user you still get MANY of the bad affects.

Not to mention, for me and many other people I bet, "cutting down" doesn't ever really work. They spend tons of money trying to increase engagement and make sure you stay on making that quite hard.
Then Uber shouldn't have promised it.

I see this as Uber got everything they wanted and gave nothing in return that they promised. They even broke promises (charging for autonomous rides)
Transcode 4K Videos to 4K MP4 for PS4 Pro Streaming
Are you getting paid for your work? You mentioned "free prototypes".

You could always just write on your resume that you worked for "X Company", and then give details about the project you worked on, whether or not it sees the light of day is irrelevant. Employers want to see that you can work/code/do your job, not if past projects were a success or not.
I agree that there must be jobs, but with one important and subtle distinction. There should always be jobs for anyone willing to work. The difference is it leaves out the subtle dehumanization implied in your response (and I know it was unintended), and leaves out our limited, market-driven and popsci ideals about human intelligence out of it.

We have all met some damn smart people who never went to college, or learned how to read or write profeciently. My father was brilliant at arithmetic from learning to count money in restaurants and gambling. He was a middle school dropout. The trucker didn't all of a sudden go from stupid to intelligent once someone showed him how to read -- all he needed to do is for someone to teach him!

There is a wonderful TED talk about how our STEM-driven craze is a tragedy in terms of how it defines human intelligence by a renounced English teacher and professor, highly recommend it.

The short of it is we should never discriminate on arbitrary things like IQ, reading levels, etc, because we have no idea what even constitutes "intelligence", much less how to duplicate it from adolescent to adolescent.
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Coming from C++ (with C experience too), I too was hesitant about Nim because of GC. But I can turn it off completely or even better "--gc=stack" which makes it behave like C++ (dealloc when going out of scope). The compiler is also good at telling you what calls use GC'ed memory, so you can work around them if necessary.

But even with GC on, Nim is super fast. I use it in real time rendering and I honestly didn't see any significant performance loss. In fact, it made some routines much faster because the Nim compiler produced much better C code than I ever did.
> Many companies simply go for what works and throw money at the problem

So they went with the easiest option and now they are locked in due to lack of forward planning. Their own short term planning is to blame.

With the third party software you mentioned, how long have the relied on it and have they don't absolutely anything to mitigate this reliance? My guess is that they've done nothing or worse, written a bunch of integration points on top of the software that makes it even harder to replace.

One day the company providing that software will jack up the price and you'll be forced to pay it. Again I'll have no sympathy because the company has done nothing to unlock themselves.
Yeah, apparently IBM engineers built a projection keyboard back in 1992. It's not surprising we haven't seen it sooner because of detection issues like you mentioned.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projection_keyboard
Another server-side option is Macchiato (https://macchiato-framework.github.io), ie. Clojurescript on Node.js. The whole Clojure/script stack really deserves wider adoption given that it arguably enhances React while reducing the insane amount of JS tooling.
Well said, friend. Thank you.
For me getting something done for => https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ee/issues/1020

Patiently waiting for this since I reported this request to you in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11092066 :)

Unfortunately somewhere along the way this was turned into an enterprise edition ticket. Would be nice to have this available for my personal install as well.
It sucks that all of this is valid, but it's mostly avoidable. Eslint + Flow/TypeScript will catch most of these quirks for you.

Also lets not pretend that having a bunch of quirks like these is exclusive to JS. I'd say there are equally as many ways to shoot yourself in the foot in many other languages. For example, for C++, which isn't necessarily beloved but people don't want to "eradicate" like OP's comment states about JS, you can have an entire talk[0] on the quirks of type deduction.

I think where JavaScript earns its bad reputation isn't necessarily its quirks, but its quirks in combination with a low barrier to entry, lots of beginners, a large community, being a multi-paradigm language, and the fact that most people writing it were forced to write it because it's the language of the web not because they wanted to. All that in combination results in a lot of bad code...but if you take the time to learn it and use a bunch of tooling (which isn't ideal), it's actually quite nice.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQxj20X-tIU
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Limited because of glare glare glare. Still, neat.
Lets also not forget Weird Sony's pricing which usually makes most of their products unapproachable.
That's actually how Picolisp functions, and is quite convenient.
The Justice DVNO video is a massive homage to old school titles. They do the HBO one at 00:40. I can't believe the original was almost all practical!

https://vimeo.com/30371091
Do they realize their employees can use 4G to access SE?
We are most certainly not running out of space in the Bay Area. There are tons of undeveloped lots scattered throughout, and prosperous areas that have no business being limited 2-3 stories.

Of course we all know that this is due to local zoning laws. However, there are many layers that compound this issue, such as infrastructure.

Local districts collect the tax revenue that comes with a large employment base, but then make it another city's/county's problem when it comes to infrastructure costs associated with more housing.

This in turn leads to a vicious cycle of higher housing costs in areas with more jobs/good schools/good public transportation > Leads to even more NIMBY laws designed to protect that investment > Higher housing costs.

Perhaps we need to rethink how we collect and distribute local taxes?
> “Depression began its ascent when the disciplinary model for behaviors, the rules of authority and observance of taboos that gave social classes as well as both sexes a specific destiny, broke against norms that invited us to undertake personal initiative by enjoining us to be ourselves … The depressed individual is unable to measure up; he is tired of having to become himself.”

I think I just threw up in my mouth a little. Are they actually blaming clinical depression on personal freedom and social mobility?
It concerns me that the creatures that devour dead stuff in the ocean are thriving. Is it not a possible explanation that there are a lot more dead animals in the ocean for the lobsters to eat? It wasnt suggested a possible reason in the article.
Ooh ooh tell us more. Which GeForces and which server chassis? Adequate power supply?
I've been building software myself and while I haven't officially started to sell anything yet, I must say, what I've gained in experience far exceeds whether the products I created are going to sell or not. I started out knowing almost nothing and just a year later, I can build just about anything with PHP and MySQL. So there is no waste there.

However, "selling dirt cheap" isn't always the way to go. Most companies think: "You get what you pay for" and that may be a mistake on your partner's part. Underpricing a product might seem great in order to beat the competition, but when it comes to companies and profitability: they want results and profits. They don't care how much it costs to get that. They will pay tens of thousands of dollars to have software that is reliable and suits their exact needs. When the client lets you know they expect to be paying more: it usually means they are going to probably have some demands for customization. He wants the clients, but then they will likely ask for custom features or not be happy with something, and.. it may just be a never-ending story, and there is going to be a time where you both have to just say no.. and take the hits and negative reviews.

OR.. say yes, but it is best to charge enough to stay in business and even hire additional employees. I have undercharged clients before... many times and many mistakes.. and after a while, when is it no longer worth it? When will you just bite the bullet and take the hit because.. you didn't ask for enough money to be worth maintaining the project.

Even if your project doesn't see the light of day, but you have the source code, and it can be seen somewhere, I'm sure its not career suicide. What you have probably learned is more amazing and useful. BUT... he may be thinking smaller or just not reaching the right audience, and you may need to be the one to advise him of a different method, whether he wants to hear it or not. Both of you want the same thing: A Saas in which you are both making good money and developing software as a business.
My boss is paying me. The financial services company hasn't paid my boss for anything. Hence the "free" part.

Thanks for your thoughts.
WW2, the original Worse Is Better:

M4 Sherman

PT Boats

Liberty ships

Almost everything the Soviets built
Fair enough. I guess I should have posted it. If you do some google searches you can find a bunch, but a lot of them dont work any more. The one that worked for me was CRAB YORI GATOR
The OP's comments are dead on this thread. If you want to interact with the OP, turn on showdead on your profile.
As other people have said, for MNIST, CPU is fine. One core. You can get over 90% accuracy with a network with just 1 hidden layer with only a few seconds of training. Or something like that. If you've never played with MNIST before, it's kind of amazing how easy it is. For instance, the following idea "works", in that you get results that are pretty bad, but much better than chance. (Even more than 50% right, I think.) Suppose you have 10 arrays:

zeros: each element of this array is a picture of a "0"
ones: each element is a picture of a "1"
...
nines: each element is a "9"

Compute the average of each array: the "average" 0, the average 1, and so on. Then classify new digits based on which average element they are closest to, using Euclidean distance. This sounds way too dumb to do any good, but the MNIST digits are normalized so well that this actually does something.

Even better: you can have a neural "network" that has zero hidden layers. This actually achieves almost respectable performance, believe it or not.
Volvo Takes the Right First Step in Autonomous Garbage Collection
Definitely Elixir/Phoenix. Front-end it really depends on the type of app.
I bought bitcoin at the first peak at $200, then next peak at $1000. Both purchases have paid off...
Hi Everyone, author of post here with an update for you. The most modern x-ray systems in use by the TSA at airports to screen carry-on bags can indeed see through lithium batteries. It also differentiates densities, and it seems to me that the latest tech should therefore be able to indicate the difference between a battery and C4 in a battery-shaped box. So is it that the airports subject to the laptop ban have the older tech? Well...

Read more: https://professional-troublemaker.com/2017/05/22/update-newe...
Not so comfortable when the shoe is on the other foot?

Edit: I see I'm getting downvoted for this. I stand by it because this is the exact same type of presumption that is made of women ("Oh, she's 30 -- we shouldn't hire her because she's probably going to get pregnant soon") all the damn time.
Those "higher level" tools are why you need a fancy IDE for android. Had they opted for simpler tools, more like swing then you could write an app with a couple of text editor files instead, just as you can do it for desktop apps today.

Android is actually the perfect example of adding tools to simplify development that end up making development much harder than it needs to be.
Thank you for your thoughts. I certainly have learned a lot - although I had learned how to build full stack applications before I started working for him.

Just to be clear - he's not my partner, he's my client. So I don't have any rights to the source code. Also, we're building a custom software solution for a business and not a Saas product.
Pricing is €1,499, according to http://bgr.com/2017/02/28/sony-xperia-touch-release-date-pri...

This would be awesome if it weren't for that price.
Fundamentally it's just a good level abstraction. Much like we still use writing for most communication even though we have audio and video options.
"A man must always live by his work, and his wages must at least be sufficient to maintain him. They must even upon most occasions be somewhat more, otherwise it would be impossible for him to bring up a family, and the race of such workmen could not last beyond the first generation."

-- Karl Marx

https://redd.it/1z5vfb

If you're not paying your labour what it costs them to survive, you're not operating a business. You're running a charity in which the hired help spills their life-force for the owner.
If I'm not mistaken, the truckers are generally 1099 contractors (owner-operators), so it's not that they are just clocked out when they aren't moving, but they are paid by the mile to the destination. Of course, that results in the same effect as described above, but it hopefully adds some context.
Waiting, having to provide a serial number, and then waiting a little longer doesn't seem that traumatic, especially so if this case is an outlier.
GTX drivers become crippled when the card detects the presence of a virtual environment. This means you can't run GTX in the cloud, otherwise, cloud GPU prices would be much lower. Without the availability of GTX, we've been trying just about everything at Paperspace to bring prices down and make the cloud a viable option for GPU compute. The argument being, there are real benefits to running in the cloud like on-demand scalability, lack of upkeep, minimal upfront costs, and of course, running a production application :) There are other indirect cost saving eg power consumption which can be quite significant when training models for long periods of time. Would love to see a total cost of ownership figure added to this post.
No, that is the brand new cost. I just bought one.

You may have to be logged in to see it?
Basic income is effectively the same thing as an employer-of-last resort (at a guaranteed wage), without the obligation to work.

I'm not saying that one is better than the other -- I don't have an opinion on that. I am saying that the market effect is the same.
The Normandy landings were not in the Bay of Biscay.
Sorry, I'm missing it. Is there something strange or remarkable about that statement?
Gresham's Law.

(Which turns out to be much more widely applicable than generally realised.)
Disclaimer: I work on Google Cloud.

I saw a lot of "should we use Cloud, no its crazy a GPU only costs $X". The key is that if you believe GPUs are going to get updated every year, and/or the best thing for ML may change (see TPU and plenty of startups with custom hardware) then suddenly buying hardware for 24? 36? months isn't as obvious.

We (and AWS and Microsoft) have K80s because Maxwell wasn't a sufficiently friendly all around part. We're all going to offer Pascal P100s and in the future V100s. The challenge for buying your own is that P100s are available now-ish and V100s may be available in less than 12 months.

Buying a P100 or similar part today doesn't mean it won't still be working in a year, but it will suddenly mean you've bought a part that now has much worse !/$ in just N months. If you have an accounting team that is spreading your $Xk over those 36 months, the reality is that you have two options: tell everyone they have to make use the old parts ("we're not buying new GPUs until it's been 36 months!") or realize you're going to get a lot less use out of them.

To be clear, the progress in this space is really impressive. And the same problem above applies to us (the cloud providers). Despite my obvious bias, if I were fired today, I'd be renting to do deep learning just based on the roadmap alone (not to mention the ability to suddenly spin up and down).

Again, Disclosure: I work on Google Cloud and want to sell you things that train ML models :).
> you can still sue the company where it has a "regular and established place of business."

Sounds like it would be a good idea to embargo East Texas.
Touché Bret Victor
Thanks for the comment. I suppose that is because I'm posting from a throwaway account.
This is the first I've heard of a stigma against people who don't have a facebook. Anytime it comes up I don't have one -- which is rarely -- seems to either be taken as a simple matter of fact, (usually by people older than me, it seems), or as something to aspire to, like I just told them I'm a vegan or something.

Maybe it's regional; I'm in portland.

Back when I was on facebook I had a friend who wasn't. I remember just being kind of annoyed that I couldn't just send a group message, I'd have to send him an email separately, but otherwise didn't attach any significance to the choice.
Ask HN: US Health Care for Independent Contractor
So I'm an independent contractor in Canada and I think my wife and I have fallen in love with California. Without dealing with cost of living adjustments I'm curious how independent contractors deal with health care - we're a family of 4 and my wife does not work but is doing her PhD so that may not be for too long.

Thing is, I've chosen family time over maximum income so it is possible that health care prohibits us from moving until my wife can work (visa issies aside for now).

Thanks!

We're think more Southern California but I haven't ruled out my contacts at Google and Facebook as possible job options. But I'm 42 with kids 10 and 12 and not sure if I really want to work in those environments.
I have a question for you! Back in the day, did the HBO intro give you the same impression as Mr Roger's Neighborhood intro, of miniature models? Or did it 'trick' you - did you think it was an actual helicopter flythrough?
Similarly, TRON's CG was only wireframes, which were then cel-painted by hand, as performing that filling by computer would have been too expensive at the time.
I'm a rock climber, and my first thought was "when will climbing shoes start advertising 'Gecko feet' in addition to Vibram rubber?" (Well, there's a fine line between refining your tools and cheating, which that would probably cross, but I still thought it.)

Based on the article, this looks like a system designed for machines requiring precision gripping, rather than for human use (although I'm not sure if that's just the use envisioned, or if there's some inherent limitation). Oh, well!
I'm sure some website has guys talking about their epic burrito induced shit.

They probably mostly don't tie it into gender relations, because the people who benefit from privilege don't think about their privilege; it's one of the inherent perks in privilege.
Do you have a citation for that? Looping films have been around for a long time.

Yes, physical films may wear out, but it seems like it would be easier to produce and distribute copies than to produce physical devices in many places.
Different but related. Color of movies by frame:
Corrected:

http://thecolorsofmotion.com/films
They definitely know because all the free goodies the trolls have gifted them. The whole operation is akin to racketeering.
Yes - I agree.

If this were a TV ad there'd have to be the word 'Dramatization' in soft white lettering at the bottom of the screen because this is definitely going overboard.

I've gone through this process and it's pretty damn easy - contact anker, send the the serial number (the rep even tells you it's so they can do proper QA) and get a new one in the mail.

The alternative would be for them to make you send the old one back which would be significantly more annoying. I think asking for the serial is reasonable on their part. Helps them verify you have the cable, prevents people from filing multiple times on the same cable, and allows them to control quality better.
I started wearing a regular watch after not having one for a while. Sounds stupid but being able to quickly check the time instead of awkwardly pulling out my phone saves a bit of time. I don't get emails/IMs often enough that I would need to immediately check that I can be bothered having something extra to charge though.
> Most of the issues you listed with the language itself are fixed by using either Flow or TypeScript.

Hence the initial comment about putting effort into fixing something fundamentally broken.
> if UFOs are visible ET manifestion on earth, this manifestation has puzzling and unexpected properties

The weirdest property being that they stopped visiting us as cell phone cams became ubiquitous. Camera shy little buggers.
What matters is how many divisions away from the fertilized egg. The "mainstream" idea has lead to many paradoxes:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25459141
Examining the NYC footprints of global tech titans
How to hack the hackers
"Is this improvement in the circumstances of the lower ranks of the people to be regarded as an advantage or as an inconveniency to the society? The answer seems at first sight abundantly plain. Servants, labourers, and workmen of different kinds, make up the far greater part of every great political society. But what improves the circumstances of the greater part can never be regarded as an inconveniency to the whole. No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable. It is but equity, besides, that they who feed, clothe, and lodge the whole body of the people, should have such a share of the produce of their own labour as to be themselves tolerably well fed, clothed, and lodged."

-- Karl Marx

https://goo.gl/LJh3Kh