skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The charger could push more current by increasing the voltage, but that would be dangerous and most likely damage the device--unless the charger could somehow sense the resistance of the charging cable and compensate for the voltage drop, then the output would be >5V at the charger, but =5V at the end of the cable. That would take some sorcery I'm not aware of though.

LEDs use constant current power supplies with variable voltage, and I've seen some hybrid designs with exotic combinations of constant current / constant voltage regulation.
One thing that places do is support IPv6 on the outside and translate to IPv4 calls in the next hop beyond the servers that sit beyond the edge.
OMG, thank you for this. I love looking behind the scenes in video stream format.
Dubai builds robot police force
Where in the northeast? Because NYC companies are absolutely doing this right now.
I'm sorry, but this is the kind of low-effort response that I come here to avoid. There's no substance, nothing thought-provoking, just conjecture designed to illicit an emotional response.
You're adding an element of your own subjective knowledge/awareness. You could not know a secret or something kept private. The only thing that is the same is your not knowing. What you don't know could still be a secret, something private, or even public knowledge for that matter. The point is, you not knowing doesn't make anything anything.

A secret is an attribution to the contents of a description which are withheld for security reasons. Or at least, that's what it should be. And that's what it appears to be with the military.

Privacy is a right to withhold information based on a fair desire to not have that information be known.

Invasion of privacy is someone pulling the curtains when you're showering or opening the door when you're in the bathroom.

That should not be confused with invasion of secrecy.

Either way, the main point is that these two terms are confusing, and even the law confuses them. And yes, people would consider something they don't know a secret also, and your use of the word is intuitively correct. But a clearer distinction could and should exist, and we should all work towards that clearer distinction. I believe the words are already more than adequate, since we already see the correct (most practical and fitting) distinctions used where they are most needed in practice (military).
I managed SimplePie using a self-hosted SVN repository for the first 5 years of its life. Contributions exploded AFTER moving to GitHub.

The AWS SDK for PHP started life as a project called Tarzan on Google Code.

GitHub made code feel more accessible. It made contributions easier. It improved the visibility inside the project.
on the same level - one of the intro "computer vision" scenes to Escape from New York was performed by moving a camera over a model of a city landscape, where each of the buildings was outlined in fluorescent paint, as CG was outrageously expensive at that point in time
You could create a dust explosion out of almost anything containing small enough particles and you can learn how from YouTube videos. It's seriously that easy. Are they going to ban baby powder next? Sugar, flour, corn starch, whatnot?

But all you have achieved is a hole in the fuselage. That sucks but it's nowhere near enough to take a plane down. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southwest_Airlines_Flight_812 for example.
So given that neurons almost never divide (1), and other cell types like skin cells divide every few hours (2), based on your formulation how do we explain that we never find A-beta plaques in skin cells?

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1. It was thought that adult neurons didn't divided at all until like 1998; now we know some new neurons are produced from progenitor sources at very low rates.

2. 30,000 to 40,000 skin cells are produced every minute.
Warning: link's NSFW.
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> Users don’t mind clicking, as long as each step brings them closer to their goal.

Yeah, I've been in a similar struggle with single-page-application involving a product-manager whose primary metric was "number of clicks". This was for an internal ERP-type interface where it was trying to "unify business processes" between two companies that had merged. (Already scary, yes?)

Anyway, the unfortunate result is an interface where way too much information is eagerly loaded and displayed. The user is given choices with a huge "branching factor", and whenever they do click it takes so long to jump to the next big data-vomit that they stop being engaged and get bored.

My belief is that we should have been focusing on an interface where the user is presented with lots of fast an easy questions, so that they are funneled to data/forms that help them accomplish a specific business task which we've actually identified.
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> I think that yours is a typical viewpoint on this topic among white men. I don't mean this as an insult in any way; since that's most likely your entire life experience.

Well that's presumptuous.
How to do serverless pixel tracking with Google Cloud Platform
If you don't address other costs, rising minimum wages can end up putting employers out of business. Now you have a decline in the supply of minimum wage jobs.

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2951110
Go to a graduate engineering program, find the worst speaking foreigner. He has passed the toffle exam and probably outscored the Americans in the English GRE.

Then ask yourself: how?

(In case anyone's offended, I'm a foreigner with ESL)
I knew a guy that was an orphan shipped around endlessly until college. An old friend of mine (since passed) found him pushing carts or something and got him into community college.

I lived with him when he transferred into uni. He couldn't read very well until junior year but he forced himself to learn to read and write. He was never completely illiterate but maybe a 4th grade reading level when I met him.

It's been 5 years since then and you would never know. He graduated college and got a solid job, and his reading and writing skills are basically normal.

Damn proud of that guy
Coding Bootcamp is over Now what?
Worked a place where a third of our office had 20ft ceilings and we were running out of space for people.

I used to joke that Ikea sold queen sized bunk beds (I dunno if they still do, but they did then), and that we could totally get a desk up on top of one of those...
This has the current info and some historic info (but not a convenient table!) for California, spread out all over the writing, the percentage of immigrants depends on the crop, for crops that require manual picking the vast majority of the workers are immigrants (everyone except the person in charge most of the time), 5% (800000/16000000) of the workers in California are temporary farm workers.
http://migration.ucdavis.edu/cf/more.php?id=174
> But what's the advantage of Facebook over email and/or texting?

Many people don't check their emails as frequently as you think. I know quite a few people (young and old) who are constantly on Instagram, FB Messenger, iMessages, WhatsApp, Line etc. but check their emails once a week. Especially if they aren't in an industry that revolves around email e.g. customer service.

Texting costs money in some places and lacks rich capabilities. It's antiquated.
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Why would you want to double your CDN costs for negligible benefit?
Why theguardian is making a hit-piece of this? This journalism 2017?
http://ambermd.org/gpus/benchmarks.htm
Question: if I'm learning about neural networks and want to e.g. train a network to recognize MNIST digits, do I need a discrete graphics card (probably attached to a VPS that I would rent)? Or can I use the i5 Kaby Lake (which has an integrated GPU) in my laptop to train my network?
U.S. Air Force Sends Robotic F-16s into Mock Combat
Recently I had bought my mother her first smartphone to help being her into the twentieth century (she never had the mental or financial capacity to do it herself). I decided to sign her up for Facebook, and as I was going through some of the TOS, I started feeling dirty; I felt like I was giving away my own mother's privacy to Facebook for their profit. Not that I fully grasp the impact either, but she will never even begin to understand the damage I've done by simply putting that app on her phone. Quite frankly, I have disgusted myself.
If rides show up instantly, wouldn't it be more efficient to just get another uber ride after your 5 minute shopping trip?
Python, in particular flask: http://flask.pocoo.org/
Split horizon would point you at the same data center, rather than the writeable one. So that's more of a .local than a .internal. We discussed this, but ultimately the AD version we're on (pre-2016 Geo-DNS) it's not actually supported the way you'd need, and it's a nightmare to debug.

We'd consider it for a .local, when the support it properly there in 2016. Even subnet prioritization is busted internally, so that's a bit of an issue. Evidently no one tried to use a wildcard with dual records on 2 subnets before (we prioritize the /16, which is a data center) and it's totally busted. Microsoft has simply said this isn't supported and won't be fixed. A records work, unless they're a wildcard. So specifically, the <star>.stackexchange.com record which we mirror internally at <star>.stackexchange.com.internal for that IP set is particularly problematic.

TL;DR: Microsoft AD DNS is busted and they have no intention of fixing it. It's not worth it to try and work around it.
The Let's Encrypt process is about validating control of the content on a domain, not about OWNERSHIP of the domain. To get a cert, you just have to be able to update a file at a Let's Encrypt specified location on the domain. This is only proving that you are in control of the website for that specific domain, not that you are in control of the DNS for the entire domain and all subdomains.

Of course if I own a domain, I own all the subdomains. However, being in control of the site served at port 80 for a domain does not mean I own it.
The Subtle Effect of Hidden Dependencies on the UX of Git [pdf]
Here's a much more cost effective answer: Use https://cloud.google.com/tpu/

Unless you have an unlimited supply of free electricity and don't care about the increased hardware management overhead, it's a waste of money to buy Pascal GPUs for large-scale deep learning.

The following cards have much more optimized deep learning silicon and are publicly available /right now/:

- Nvidia Tesla V100 (Tensor cores only: 120 TFLOPS FP16)

- Google TPU2 (180 TFLOPS FP16)

Additionally, Intel Xeon chips with the Nervana deep learning accelerator built-in will probably be available early next year.

If you must control the physical hardware yourself and can't use cloud services, go buy Tesla V100s or wait for the Nervana Xeons.
The one time I took a train (Amtrak) I found it was nearly impossible to work due to the swaying of the train. The other down side was the return train was a few hours late (Amtrak does not own the track where I was traveling).

On the plus side, the seats were large and comfortable, and the food was surprisingly good.
And 0 people died.
I think if battery and drone technology increases sufficiently, we could see automated or semi-automated drone deliveries for the "last mile" for many things like that.

Drones that can deliver small packages will likely disrupt quite a bit of the delivery scene. Why hire five delivery drivers for an area when you can have one who drives the drone launch truck, they drive to the middle of the zone, deploy the drones, monitor them (or offshore their piloting to remote pilots), wait for them to finish their run, rinse and repeat.
s/toffle/TOEFL/ (in case anyone's wondering)

Test of English as a Foreign Language

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Test_of_English_as_a_Foreign_L...
> We keep feeling like we are getting close, but then we run into another issue. It's like a rabbit hole that has no bottom.

That's exactly what we experienced migrating a bunch of sites to https. There were so many things that we didn't anticipate.
Had a different response here before but this quote from the article suggests maybe!

"ATP kept proteins in boiled egg white from aggregating."

It also appears the concentrations they're talking about are quite reasonable (10mM or so).

That said, once an aggregate is formed you usually need pretty heroic methods to solubilize it. Much stronger detergents and denaturants at higher must be used, and in those cases you run into other problems.

After solubilizing the aggregate, you have to fold the individual proteins back up. But now you have to do it in an environment where you 1.) a molecule that keeps the protein unfolded and 2.) a ton of other unfolded proteins around. You could slowly get rid of 1.) by dialysis or something similar. But when you have a bunch of unfolded proteins hanging around together, you almost always get aggregates.

In practice, it's quite unlikely that ATP concentrations high enough to unfold an aggregate wouldn't unfold all sorts of other things. This would also mean the stuff you need to keep the rest of the cell working... so from a practical perspective this is unlikely to work.
The IPXL vs Amazon case probably has a bigger impact than this case. That case invalidated a large number of system plus method claim patents.
> Exactly how you’d do it, measure it, you know, it’s interesting for people to start talking about now.

This is an interesting allusion to the fundamental problem with this proposal - it doesn't bother to define what a robot is, the value of a robot's labor, or how to tell when the robot has replaced someone's job. If you start thinking about the implications for even a moment it's clear this is absurd.

If company A makes product X using 100 workers, and company B enters the market using machine C to make X at a lower cost that drives A out of business, how do we decide what to tax B? Does B pay the payroll taxes of 100 workers? What if B's lower cost expands the market for X and now they're selling ten times as much? What if the product A makes is hand-knit sweaters, and B is using knitting machine technology that's been around for a century? Are those the same products? Is the knitting machine a robot?

There's a very real concern here - the concern is that technology allows the proceeds of increased productivity to all be funneled to a privileged few, leaving the rest of the workforce out in the cold. Luckily we already have a way to address that - it's called the income tax.
You actually don't even need the iGPU for simple MNIST training. The CPU is enough. Check out the sample MNIST training example with Tensorflow.

If you are asking about using the iGPU for a bit more power, most frameworks don't support them. The only frameworks with which you can use with iGPUs are which have OpenCL support, like caffe[1] (even for those you need to have a recent enough CPU)

Tensorflow either uses CPU or CUDA (Not even AMD, but the support is coming for openCL)

[1]:https://github.com/BVLC/caffe/tree/opencl
Not just for business names! If you're a company that wants to sponsor an employee for a green card as part of the certification process you must advertise for the job in two Sunday newspapers of general circulation in the area of intended employment.

You can bet the local newspapers in Cupertino / Mountain View / Palo Alto etc have a lot of tech job ads on a Sunday.
I must be living in another dimension, because my experience with Anker's products and customer support has been horrible. I purchased a Lightning cable from them in August that lasted a month before dying. From there on, it was a sh#tstorm to have it replace.

Step 1. Contact Anker (okay so far)

Step 2. Wait

Step 3. Wait some more...

Step 4. Three days later they finally reply, but want me to provide a serial number from the cable? WTH? A serial number 4pt type.

Step 5. Wait some more. When I didn't get a reply that day, I contacted them again and received an email with this lame excuse:

"In our continual effort to provide the best and outstanding service to our customers, we will be conducting an important training program from Sept 30th (Wednesday) through Oct 9th (Friday). While we are making our best efforts to respond to all messages in a timely fashion, we will be slower than usual for the upcoming days mentioned."

Step 6. Wait some more until they shipped the cable, which lasted another three months before failing.

Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice...
> except one of them causes cancer

I see Facebook as a type of cancer so...
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Ask HN: Why revenue rather than operating profit, EBIT, net income, etc?
People sometimes talk about revenue.

For example, Peter Reinhardt paraphrases Thiel in their startup school video, "to build a sustainable and compelling platform, you really need to get to $100 million dollarydoos in revenue."

Why is it useful to talk about revenue before operating and other expenses are deducted? Is revenue meant as a shorthand for something else? Or maybe, this assumes marginal costs are near-zero?
Long term, maybe. Short term, I think this has a bigger impact since even if method parents were invalidated, people could still scare tactic sue you with an invalid patent.
I won't argue that CGI can outdo 2001's practical effects. But those practical effects were the achievement of their century. Matching them in quality, in our century, has become nigh routine.
To train an NN to recognize MNIST digits you need any cpu made in the last 5 years. Last 10-20 years if you want to wait a little longer. MNIST recognition was first done by convolutional neural network in the late 90s.

With less than 1% error. Here's a link to the paper: http://yann.lecun.com/exdb/publis/pdf/lecun-01a.pdf
Magic! Thanks.
Where? I've contacted them through Amazon and they're quick. Maybe they direct contact isn't prioritized.
Why should I? I thought we were supposed to be making life easier by giving our lives to the six or seven companies that dominate our internet lives.
How much will we be able to trust archived digital materials? If I find a set of 100 year old handwritten letters, it's unlikely that anyone has tampered with them to change the message, although possible with a lot of effort. Digital messages could be compromised undetectably by some archiver.

Is it still "primary" if it has been downloaded from the internet, converted between formats, copied across various storage media...
There could be no greater irony: For all the sublimity of art, physics, music, mathematics and other manifestations of human genius, everything depends on the mundane, frustrating, often debased vocation known as politics.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/are-we-alone-in-the-...
This is easy to solve: make font size legally binding. If 2 statements in an advertisement don't agree on something, the more visible statement should overwrite the other
I don't know how understand this charts. Also are so many alt-coins that is hard to understand which one are better to chose.
The economist hired by Valve had something to say about this plan. He proposes a Universal Basic Dividend that purportedly more effectively taxes automation. [1] His goal is get rid of the incentive to dodge robot taxes by not taxing automation directly, but through giving everyone a portion of new IPOs. Then the capital gains attained by automation can be shared.

[1]: https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/bill-gates-tax-...
Very true. I prefer anker over oem parts. Part of that is because of fakes from those brands and anker can actually be contacted.
Should it be an option there?
> (Have a look at what dir() returns on a regex pattern object).

Python 2.7.13 (default, Dec 20 2016, 16:00:28)
[GCC 4.2.1 Compatible Apple LLVM 8.0.0 (clang-800.0.42.1)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import re; dir(re.compile(''))
['__class__', '__copy__', '__deepcopy__', '__delattr__',
'__doc__', '__format__', '__getattribute__', '__hash__',
'__init__', '__new__', '__reduce__', '__reduce_ex__',
'__repr__', '__setattr__', '__sizeof__', '__str__',
'__subclasshook__', 'findall', 'finditer', 'flags',
'groupindex', 'groups', 'match', 'pattern', 'scanner',
'search', 'split', 'sub', 'subn']

Looks OK to me. What am I missing?
It'd take longer than the universe has left to find a string of N zeroes by generating random numbers, for sufficiently large N. And N is surprisingly small.
Great implementation. I love the wireworld cellular automaton so much.

A while back I implemented it in typescript and ran the computer startup file through it for the web. It is such a fun piece of logic to squeeze every nanosecond of performance out of.

https://github.com/dested/WireWorld/blob/master/WireWorldTyp...

https://dested.com/projects/wire/index.html
Neither is it entirely clear to me, but this could be a pun related to him saying:

> bits to get dropped... and the data lost... and the card corrupted.

So as to say that's the Schrodinger's bug that causes several issues at the same time.
Zillow: Is profitability in sight?
Mere server-side logging can include the negotiated encryption parameters (but doesn't by default, IIRC).
FYI UPS has a Supply Chain division that will do warehousing and fulfillment for other companies:

https://www.ups-scs.com/logistics/warehousing.html

First I heard of this is when I found out that some "mail order" companies let UPS handle their returns. (I think it was Lands' End.)
Great team, solid concept!
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"From there, Anker ventured into smartphone batteries…"

"Yang says he and Anker’s small team “definitely saw the explosion of smart devices”…"

This quote made me smile in light of recent issues with exploding batteries.
>The minimum wage is an effort to increase the welfare of those whose skills are in excess supply.

It's an inefficient one. We can do a better job at improving their welfare at a lower overall cost.`

>The idea that removing the minimum wage would result in full employment is ridiculous.

I'm not arguing that at all.

>It would make businesses richer and subject millions of people to worse poverty.

So combine abolishing the minimum wage with a complimentary policy that makes businesses poorer and alleviate the poverty of millions. A minimum wage is not the only way to make employers pay to alleviate the poverty of the working poor.
Ask HN: How do you handle sign in and user accounts?
I recently started working on a side project using React, Express, and Node. I've been running into a lot of trouble trying to set up account management. Even the libraries that are supposed to help like Auth0, Stormpath, Passport, etc, are super confusing to use and I have a feeling that they are making it more complicated than it has to be. Anyone have advice on a straightforward way to handle sign in, especially in a React world?
Well, Tarsnap[0] also exists, although granted Dropbox is more popular so I guess won in that sense. I think they have a slightly different target audience anyway.

[0]: https://www.tarsnap.com/
Connecting the Dots: Social Media Microtargeting and Russian Election Interference
Spending trends for Americans over the last 75 years:

https://howmuch.net/articles/american-spending-past-75-years
Ah, I remember this Fedex comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9282104 ++
+1 for their ~$20 bluetooth headphones. I'm not sure why wired headphones still exist unless you're an audiophile.
There is no guarantee that that is a successful strategy.