skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with most of your points, but saying that treating animals well is worse for the environment is pretty misleading. "Treating animals better" should include not feeding them growth hormones or pumping them full of antibiotics which enter the food chain via the meat and ground water. Treating animals well is good for the environment, and drastically reducing consumption or not eating them at all is especially good (think of Amazon deforestation to make way for cattle ranches).
> My understanding is that the anxiety isn't about a fear of programming being automated in the near future, but rather about ML growing into a required, essential skill for a software developer in the next few years.

Let's say you were an automobile assembly line worker in 1965, and you were hearing about robots taking over your job at some point. What would you do? That is, what would be the best thing you could do?

If you answer "Get an education in something that robots aren't doing, and try to get out of this career path" - go to the front of the line.

So - if you are a software developer - and worried that sometime in the future (I'd argue that "sometime" will soon mean "in 5 years, maybe less" - just as you note), ML is "rowing into a required, essential skill for a software developer" - what would you do?

Sit back, throw your hands up, and hope?

Or maybe get that education now on how ML works, how to use it, learning the hard math, etc?

Guess which route I have taken? Perhaps others should as well, if they want to continue in their careers...
I feel nervous admitting this, but I don't see much of value here. I am definitely not typical, I realize, and often the major benefits of technology don't become apparent until a while after they are announced. But, right now, before people show me why it's amazing, I see these things as small marginal improvements.

I'm an open minded person, though, so I'm interested to learn what I'm missing.
Definitely would be interested in an invite. Alternately, some information on where any former what people should be looking for more info.

Any observations you have about their apparent opsec would also be interesting.
In Love with Polygons
Yes. Thanks.

Submitters: please don't rewrite titles unless they are misleading or linkbait. This is in the site rules: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
IE 11 is a dead browser. Development stopped 3 years ago. There will never be an IE 12, it's just Edge now (which Mavo works in just fine).
You may want to remove EZTV from your support, it was subject to a hijack and unless that's changed (?) it probably shouldn't be trusted.
No such thing as 'fat but fit', major study finds
Back home.

Not at university in London.

Maybe I didn't make that clear.
not only the vestibular system is involved in your proprioception, there are other parts of the body that do, for example the neck is definitely involved (which can be a factor in whiplash injuries, or cervical vertigo), even if the vestibular system was solved it might not be enough.
And none of them were AA or Hispanic. I think Google's top lawyer is AA, but who is the highest ranked minority technical leader in the company? Adewale Oshineye perhaps?
Hi pkghost

We can help you go very far as long as you are able to pay for the underlying infrastructure. You can start out on of our normal plans, and transition to a dedicated installation when you need to.

We run customer databases on AWS Aurora and can scale up to 15 low-lag read replicas.

Feel free to send me a message at soren@graph.cool if you want to talk more about this. Also happy to jump on a skype call if that's more convenient for you
Could you expand on this? Was the dev a Superadmin of the domain or otherwise an "owner"?

Just hard to imagine companies having their domains shutdown for the acts of an employee who happens to have multi-login enabled.
It even works on FreeBSD https://www.freshports.org/java/openjfx8-devel/ so yeah, truly cross-platform open source GUI :)
Why would anyone want to use this over Kafka Streams? Seems a lot more verbose.
From their description it's probably a cantenna
A couple more things regarding the trivialization of the engineers work:

1: Just because work is done does not mean it is important
2: It is possible to say that the product is not special or unique and yet the hard work that is done to keep that product up all of the time and scale it to many of customers is special.
EBook “Empaths: The Journey to Personal Empowerment”
$1B for non military related scientific funding, I wonder how much it is including the military. Remember, DARPA created the Internet and DARPA related grants and research helped lift off surgical robots, self driving cars, and EVs. We're always gloom and doom about everything but I still find it fascinating that our country creates such an effective public private partnerships and how our IPs promote private companies to make use of public research that improves QoL and wealth for everyone. $60B R&D from 5 companies and $67B from the government per year is no small feat
Maybe it's true, but this article reads like self-serving PR: Houses are selling so fast! Redfin is desperate for inventory! But it's not a bubble so keep buying!
You'll find that a lot of people want equality when it means they gain something, but get quiet when equality means they have to do something.
Eh, it did well enough viewership wise. It's had 3 extra seasons and looks like it'll get a 4th.

That's a solid response.
What happens if I extern a C function with no "void" then? Do I get a variadic in C++?
The company that makes Oil Dri doesn't make Nuclear Waste Dri.
Google is an advertising company. They're building superficial stuff, that hopefully the future will have nothing to do with. Their "moonshots" are for branding they rarely have major impact.
What’s new from Firebase at Google I/O 2017
Primary in the sense that we can utilize hydrogen directly for energy (terrestrial fusion and fuel cell) just like with coal and other fossil fuels

It has nothing to do with market share
No, hydrogen gas is less dense than hydrocarbons (at the same pressure) since it has a lower molar mass (volume is inversely proportional to the molar mass).
The newest version of Scala (2.12) requires a JVM with Java 8 feature compatibility which makes it unusable on Android devices. Google would literally be stuck supporting an obsolete version of a language that's not developed... or restrict the use of it only to Android O and newer making it dead on arrival.

Kotlin compiler generates code that's runnable on JVMs supporting Java 6, which makes it work on pretty much any Android device, even running older Androids.

Scala standard library is also huge and pretty much immediately hits the 64K method limit of DEX files forcing you to use the very slow proguard compilation step when running it. It also has issues with interoperability with existing Java 6 code.

All in all, Scala is a terrible value proposition in comparison to Kotlin which was built from ground up to modernize programming while still keeping full compatibility with Java 6 code and JVMs stuck on Java 6 language level.
Well unfortunately, you and your conservative friends differ in opinion from the conservatives elected into power, which is who we're talking about. People's anecdotes don't matter; it's the prevailing opinion fed to the masses through conservative politicians and media that needs to change.
Then it is metaphysical and subjective, putting it outside the realm of science.
And how do you keep your database schema under version control?

Edit: Do all you downvoters not keep track of your schema changes as you develop your application (via migrations, or even sql files), so you can easily roll back changes if needed?
You picked the most expensive city in Poland, that's like comparing median salary in UK to living in London - you would be borderline poor.

Krakow, Wroclaw, Poznan, Gdansk - 6250/month lets you live extremely comfortably.
Annotation processing has been improving a lot https://medium.com/@workingkills/pushing-the-limits-of-kotli...
Maybe use operating systems that have proper package managers then.

cough Arch cough
Still wrong, this process is a sink of energy, not a source.
A new kernel with SMP support suggests they have at least some source access.
Apple , Xerox and Microsoft in the 80s and 90s were building the future. We called them Graphical User Interfaces . So what's different now ? SRI and others were the research that those companies built it off of. This time DARPA was funding AI for a long time and now it's Google / Microsoft / Apple taking those to the next leve.
Please keep this kind of programming flamewar off HN. If someone is wrong and you want to explain how, do so civilly.

We've unfortunately had to warn you a bunch of times already about being uncivil on HN. This process isn't infinite and ends in an account getting banned, so would you please fix this?
Unfixable failures are very rare in critical systems. Usually the crew is able to catch incipient failures and take preventative action, or else repair the failure at least well enough to get close to a port. Ships engineers are good at jury rigging temporary solutions.

There are a few incidents every year where large merchant vessels lose power and drift onto rocks, or break apart and sink in a storm.
Those are good points, thanks for the heads up
I could believe that Swheat Scoop was the low bidder once someone in the purchasing chain had ruled out the clay options, but I'd be very surprised if any of the organic materials could compete with clay.
Is it so unimaginable though when the government has a President that has vowed to bring back coal and an FCC chairman that says net neutrality is holding back innovation?
Someone will now come here and point out that Google is using the internet, which was CREATED by the government, so everything Google does wasn't done by Google, but by government.
Rather than being the wagon or the puller of the wagon, the government should be the handle. It's just a tool to provide a means for leaders to lead a society.

The role of government, when it comes to minority rights, can act like a big fat rock under the wagon wheel though. As well it should.
I find this sad.

Government should be building the infrastructure of the future.

For example, Google Fiber may have been unprofitable, but the government should be laying fiber to every corner of this country.

Sadly, with 1/3 of the US stuck in propagandaland, this is the best we're going to do.
Got any reference on the efficiency and longevity of their fuel cells?

Hydrogen fuel cells have a sweat spot at around 30% efficiency lasting for several years, and another at around 50% efficiency lasting for a few months. I have never seen anybody get a different set of numbers.
I'm OK with that. If the problem is that life is expensive, solve the problem directly with a minimum income or more generous earned income tax credit.
How I used Stack Overflow and GitHub to get dream job before 19 without degree
Yup, we have! Here's the paper: http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2984551
and here's an open version: http://people.csail.mit.edu/karger/Papers/mavo.pdf
Look at the References and you'll find more :)
There's a whole area of research about end-user programming, though it doesn't usually involve languages, but more GUIs.
I have been meaning to read that book recommended by a friend working in tech. Apparently there's a movie out now too :)
"The typical home went under contract in just 40 days, 10 days faster than April 2016. As a result, 1 in 4 homes sold above their list price."

I'm definitely seeing this in my area (Beaverton, Oregon). A house down the street sold in a few hours this past weekend for $500,000; which is $300,000 above what the owners bought it for a year ago ($200,000). They had a steady stream of people going in an out of the house the entire day.

I'm tempted to put my house on the market, but where would I move to? I love my job and don't want to move out of the area.
You are talking about several hundred billion liters.

The inland reservoir here is 100 billion liters:

https://www.google.com/maps/@43.8937611,-86.4337261,8900m/da...

It's not very much water.
Net neutrality is a measure lobbied by Netflix. I'm not sure why you think it is a good thing.
If that is your concern, how would paying into the system improve things in anyway?
what's new? Bug fix that increases costs by a huge amount. It's a feature not a bug ;-)
you aren't factoring in the year of not getting paid as well as living costs. To start, costs outside of tuition probably bring it to 80k. Next, you could have made a good amount of money for that year. (varies how much)
no, this ML level still statistical inference. next step is about structure and generalization.
>> "So what's different now?"

Well, at the end of the month, instead of paying IBM for mainframe time, we are now paying AWS for the cloud time.

Similarly with the others.
I'd like to also point out that computers and spaceships are also objectively/scientifically testable and controllable, unlike the mind. There can be no objective control group when it comes testing the subjectivity of mind.
That cannot be updated by the non-technical people in the company.
Tesla Model S P90D vs. Nissan GT-R – Drag Races
Industry growth and its effect on Poloniex
Google most certainly does mine your data to sell ads. The incentives are very poorly aligned if you don't like ads and you want to use Google services.
You may be interested in Mariana Mazzucato's TED talk, where she calls into question tropes about the "sluggishness" or "innovation deficit" of government and highlights its central role in making high-risk technological investments.

After all, when it's not seized by a spasm of science denialism, the government is a chief backer of basic research, which is then often licensed on extremely generous terms to make a wide range of industries and products viable. One could argue that the government is, in fact, uniquely positioned to fund truly basic research, for which risk is often too high - and payoff too uncertain or delayed - to be fundable in a corporate environment. Put another way: the government is often, contrary to belief, much less risk-averse than private enterprise when it comes to research of this sort.

For instance, take this Internet thing we're all communicating over. Without R&D efforts by ARPA in conjunction with several prominent universities, or the willingness of CERN to place key Web protocols in the public domain, we might very well have had non-interoperable AOL-style fiefdoms. But what company would, in the 70s, have funded an unproven telecommunications network just to connect a handful of universities?
I find that the safest way to migrate DB schema is gradually, spreading out intermediate steps across a few deploys.

Migrate the schema creating the (initially unused) fields in advance. Step by step change your logic where it talks to the storage—start querying new field values with a fallback, use new fields for incoming data. Migrate the existing data. Remove the fallbacks. Ensure the old fields are not used at this point. Migrate the schema, finally deleting the old fields.

Don’t rush, let every step reach production. In deployment sequence, apply migrations after the new code is already running. Goes without saying, monitor error rates for spikes.

Yes, at some points in time your production DB schema won’t be fully normalized. In return for prolonged messiness you get smoother flow, no single fateful and stressful deployment that attempts to get it right all in one go.

Migration handling is the only part of the article I find a bit foggy and debatable. The rest roughly resonates with what I’ve arrived at through my years of experience with Django web apps.
Please don't get involved in technical flamewars on HN (or other flamewars). As agitation goes up, information goes down, and these discussions turn into back-and-forth spats that benefit no one, including the combatants.
Your argument is vacuous because you aren't translating between "revenue" and "profit." If that "15% of revenue" was also "100% of profit", then they're doing exactly what you'd expect a non-profit to do. The real questions are:

1. how much un-needed overhead their expenses consist of, beyond the minimum costs required to run the facility;

2. the dollar-amount of donations that reach the relevant causes by having this type of facility operating, vs. the dollar-amount of donations that would be given to the same causes if this facility did not exist, or if it tried to operate on slimmer margins (by e.g. only being a marine-wildlife gift shop or somesuch.)

My own suspicion is that the answer to #1 is "not much", and the answer to #2 is "a far larger amount." (Under the argument: people don't bother to donate money to wildlife preservation if they're not being actively reminded of the existence of wildlife in need of preservation. That "15% of revenue" still likely ends up as a larger absolute dollar-figure than the total amount of donations to the same causes made by all other individuals or organizations in the area.)

Even if you don't agree with my suspicions, I think those two questions are the only good ones to be debating here.
> And both beat out their predecessors, presumably largely because quality control was made much more difficult, and often absent, in the face of liberal acceptance.

That doesn't mesh with my experience of what made the sites popular at the time of their growth. Wikipedia was the only wiki that anyone had ever heard of, and SO was the only software focused Q&A site besides expertsexchange which had a freemium model that made it unusable (not to mention a funny domain name!).
If one were to try to make a judgement on whether to buy a copy of this book based one one or two images in the book, I'd recommend looking at the photos on page 423 and then 424:

https://www.wolframscience.com/nks/p423--biological-pigmenta...

...then you could start to read the on-line version to see if Stephen Wolfram's writing style rubbed you the wrong way.
Yes, I understand completely. The intent of the limit is obviously not to discourage legitimate issues from reaching our team. Limits like this are a blunt instrument, and it's possible that the time has come to remove it.

I can't promise a change immediately, but I am taking a very close look at what we can do here.
Jokes aside, you could get an apprentice for free
> With no controls on the ship, pirates wouldn't be able to take control.

It doesn't matter if there aren't any switches or touch screens. Once someone has access to the engine room and steering gear compartment, all bets are off. They can physically adjust valves to get the ship going where they want it to.

Even if they don't have any tools to gain entrance into the ship, they just have to block the air-intakes and the engines will shut down. If it's battery-powered, they just have to let the ship run over some appropriately-sized lines which will get caught in the propellor and seize the shaft.
Ok, first off, the whale deaths that sparked this recent controversy happened in 2016. Orcas and Belugas are both types of whale.
Second, I lived in Vancouver for a number of years and visited the Vancouver Aquarium a bunch of times. While the upside down Orca was disturbing, I also have seen the Beluga and dolphin shows there. So my opinion is not "hopelessly out of date".

Secondly, you are repeating this line that as a non-profit they are somehow more noble and different than Seaworld, for example. If that's the case, why do they loan animals to SeaWorld and other Aquariums for breeding?

"On breeding loan to SeaWorld, Shedd Aquarium & Georgia Aquarium are the following:

Allua, a female beluga is around 24 years of age. She was moved to SeaWorld San Diego on a breeding loan in 2005.
Imaq, a male beluga who is around 21 years of age. He is on breeding loan to SeaWorld San Antonio.
Grayson, a male beluga who is 8 years old living at the Shedd Aquarium. He was born at SeaWorld San Antonio in 2007, but belongs to the Vancouver Aquarium as he was born to Nanuq, who was owned by the aquarium and also fathered Qila. Until early 2016, Grayson was living at the Georgia Aquarium with his half-sister Qinu.
Qinu, a female beluga born in 2010 who is 7 years of age living at the Georgia Aquarium. She was also born at SeaWorld San Antonio and lived with Grayson until he was moved to the Shedd Aquarium. As with Grayson, she was born to Nanuq and belongs to the Vancouver Aquarium."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vancouver_Aquarium#Animals_at_...
Kotlin Is Better
I got the feeling that they were intentionally trying to push the point that their employees had families to try to counter the stereotype of the 20s, childless workaholic that many have about Google. But part of its feeling staged is likely due to the fact that the presenters are real Google employees who's skills as actors are pretty limited. If you had professional actors presenting, it might feel more authentic despite actually being less authentic.
The article says that the new home construction is mostly going to apartments because tight credit means more people are renting. But then laments the low inventory for sale that is driving up prices. So which is it? Too many buyers or too many renters? Or is it a problem on both ends?
> I do think Amazon’s culture is incredible and Bezos is the most impressive CEO out there

chuckle Very very few people who work at (or have worked at Amazon) think this. Having worked with Amazon since 1999, I have never been impressed by their technology or leadership. They have been very lucky and had to pivot. AWS allowed them to build their online marketshare, not some CEO direction.
i.e. [take chances in entering new markets, fail a lot] is not a particularly insightful strategy. Many companies do it when they have the capital.
Some background and context from someone tangentially related to the field:

1. The overall idea here is to take an intermittent energy source (e.g. solar power) and "store" it as chemical fuel, in this case hydrogen and oxygen. This is what plants do, and we can also view fossil fuels as resulting from the "storage" of millions of years of solar energy. Note also that you get the water back when you burn the hydrogen, so there is no net consumption of water, it's just a carrier.

2. While you can split water without a catalyst, most of the energy gets wasted as heat, so this is not a great way to go if you're trying to do energy storage.

3. Efficient catalysts exist for this reaction, but they are based on rare and expensive metals, typically Pd, Pt, and Ir. As a result, there has been a search for catalysts involving "first-row" metals such as Fe, Co, Ni, etc.

4. There are variety of metrics for an electrocatalyst (efficiency, stability, cost, etc), but it's a fair bet that if this were significantly better than state-of-the-art, it would be in Science or Nature rather than PNAS.
Completely. 2000CUR is nothing for someone who is looking at this. It's an apple laptop. Nothing smashing.

That said I still want my OS to fit on a fdd and have 64k demos generating the universe.