skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Eugh, I know you aren't defending that CoffeeScript article, but it hugely exaggerates the 'problem' by not acknowledging module scope (see the comments).
I don't see how it's a monopoly: AMD's x64 chips are competent, and given that Windows now fully supports ARM it means that for an OEM working on a greenfield project they're free to explore non-Intel options entirely.

Intel has a monopoly in microprocessors today the same way that Microsoft Windows is an OS monopoly today: it sort-of is, but it isn't holding anyone back either.
While I can agree with you that entering waypoints is not quite analogous to software engineering, I think we are arguing over semantics.

Especially in 1999 and especially with legacy systems, the word "programming" means "providing computers with coded instructions for the automatic performance of a task".

This is similar to how a television network would "program" a list of shows to occur in order automatically.

I suppose my overriding point here is that there are credentialed people with smart sounding degrees whose maximum extent of interacting with computers is typing in instructions.

And therefore, we should be extremely wary when we use credentialing as the litmus test for "should they enter bomb coordinates that will be flying over civilian heads"
You don't even need to poke specific holes in this story. It's an internet story, so if it smells like bullshit it probably is.

Apply Occam's Razor to it. What's more likely; that some unknown person resigned on this guy's behalf or that he resigned and he's going with this b.s. story to save face or that none of this happened? One of the latter two is the most likely.

It's a pile of baloney.
Coronay Stents
Why you really need to make your Body text bigger
What would this list look like if it valued: You, your family, your loved ones lives higher than people you will never meet?
So, let's give credit when credit is due and call this the Intel Ryzen CPU :D
Looks great. I just wish they went with AMOLED. It'd be worth the increased price.
I know who he is and I cringed at the humblebrag.
Because there so many different things to do in CS. Knowing how to code will already give you a job, but mastering CS at a certain level is another realm of work, and CS keeps changing and evolving.

That's like working with cars, you need fewer engineers, and many mechanics and technicians.

Coding is like a spoken language. It's not so hard to write and fix code and there is already a lot of business involving just that, so my guess is that many students just learn to code and don't really do real CS.

The computing industry keeps growing and growing, so it means you need more technicians to keep up with growth, not nice degrees. Of course it's nice to have PhDs, but good luck training them. Education relies on constrained resources.
I wonder if the hardware at that scale isn't exactly stable - so to become a "select customer" comes with signing a gag-agreement not to publicly disclose stability problems - and I guess also requires the customer have suitably trained staff who can deal with any expected or unexpected problems - and software engineers who can write software that will fully utilise the processor's capabilities - much like how Sony took some PR flak for the PS3's Cell processor being difficult to program for given its atypical design.
About 70 kWh.

https://what-if.xkcd.com/105/

(Hey, you're the one that asked)
Reddit comment on outsourcing
My next home CPU will be an AMD Ryzen.
This discussion is very interesting to us, as we are building a workflow system for collaborative learning (students might do an activity individually, the output of that activity is aggregated and transformed, students are grouped based on an algorithm that processes data from the previous activity, output from one activity is redistributed to another activity, etc). (quick demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQ9AyzLOn3Q)

So this discussion about visual languages, data transformation etc, is very relevant to us. One thing we're working on is how to make data transformation more intuitive... Right now we are using JSONPath to enable selection of one field to aggregate on (ie. you have a form where people input ideas, and another activity that takes a list of ideas, so you can input a JSONPath for the field to get aggregated). However, looking at JMESPath (http://jmespath.org/examples.html), it looks much more powerful. Has anyone seen any examples of graphical interfaces for going from one data representation to another, with preview, selecting fields, aggregation etc?
In 6 years I never thought of it that way! :)

Thanks! Now I feel like an idiot.
Experiment to See If the Human Mind Is Bound by Physics
I like the idea of tougher phones, but to me it misses the mark to talk about the titanium phone case surviving corner drop tests, it's the glass that's the problem.

The number of people I've seen wandering around with cracked phone screens from drops is quite high, and is the reason I put a case which covers the front on every phone I buy.

So having no phone case here just means you get the usual after market screen protectors and risk of cracked glass that most other phones suffer from.
Court Documents Shed Light on Theranos Board’s Response to Crisis
Introducing open source E-Commerce front end in Angular
He dumped the pile of insecure garbage called Android on us and now he's moving on to reinvent iOS. Got it.
I thought you were being unimaginably rude until I went to the page and saw that there were actual dogs listed.
I found it ironic that they talk about how annoying dongles are, but still the phone requires a dongle for headphones
Yes, but many students are basically at the logo level at that point. They struggle with basics. Then there is huge sudden jump to compiler flags which you call the "wall". But that is exactly what I call bad teaching. There is no reason for that to be the wall, all you need is not to teach them everything at the same time in lesson one. This is combined with culture which tenda to attribute easily learnable skills to "natural talent" - so students conclude "I am not that talent" and go somewhere where they think they are talent.

I mean, you can teach concepts one at a time and still be demanding and require certain speed. I am not saying it should be easy. You however should separate those concepts from each other and teach them one by one. Otherwise you just relying on them to have it "picked up" randomly which is not an expectation other majors have (like physics or math or biology).
> Your phone is your personal property. It’s a public expression of who you are and what you stand for.

Just no. It's just a tool that I use to communicate.
No doubt about that. Really unprofessional.
... my thoughts exactly.

And, just to make doubly sure there's no chance anyone will know WTF this is all about, let's present it all using an illegible (but no doubt extremely hipster) grey text on a grey background website design!
I got that it was a home device like Google Home or Alexa.

The phone part of the site didn't show anything for me.

I didn't see mention of a camera!
I cut and pasted. Ya, kinda silly. Oops!
The Ringer, Bill Simmons’s Site, Will Switch Its Host to Vox
Actually some counterintuitive results from Industrial Relations (the branch of economics that studies supply-side structure, amongst other things) and Game Theory indicate that competition might be greater between oligopolist firms than between those that exist in situations of perfect competition (mainly because by ”knocking out” an oligopolistic competitor you get a big chunk of market share and thus sales volume and economies of scale, whereas ”knocking out” an anonymous perfect competitor nets you (ideally) an infinitesimal additional market share shared by an infinite number of other competitors).
Moreover, their whole website is not accessible when JavaScript is blocked, leaving the impression that security-minded people are not their target audience at all - which is really a pity!
It definitely seems to be close to what I was thinking of. The validation and verification aspect of it seems well suited to applying pre-defined laws (such as a constitution, laws of Congress etc).
Very interesting article. Well written and it answers several questions that I've had but which I hadn't previously gotten around to investigate. Looking forward to the next article in the series.
> Attitudes like yours are not consistent with the principles of liberal democracy, which rest on the idea that we should be free to do with our body and property whatever we wish, as long as it violates no one's right to the same.

If so, then I'd say it's clear those principles (as presented by you) are wrong. They don't take into account the fact that human beings are not independent, perfectly rational actors. Decisions people make are directly influenced both by their situation/environment and by actions of other people. If you can predictably fool an average person into doing something against their interest and what they'll later regret, then there's no talking about "free will" here.

Fortunately, laws do recognize that fact. A lot of them exist to shield people from being predictably exploited. The question is not whether it's right or wrong to regulate some business models; the question is whether the model is harmful and whether it's worth to regulate it.

That's the practical reality of fallible humans with finite computational capacity.
There's a picture of a phone, a founder's story and a description of a separate camera.

It is not at all obvious what the webpage wants to tell me.
Looking Under the Hood of the UK Political Parties' Websites
Full screen has already been done by Samsung and Apple is likely to be releasing a full screen iPhone 8/X/? around September. And most people use cases so the titanium isn't that compelling. Accessories typically just use Bluetooth to communicate so that isn't much of a USP either.
If you mean humans, we don't destroy our habitat. We change it but we also adapt. There's no sign we'll run out of oxygen or food. As long as we have energy, we should be able to sustain ourselves indefinitely. We have an endless supply of energy from the sun. We can tap that with technology or simply by letting plants grow and eating them.
Virool – Video Ad AI Platform Is Hiring an Account Manager
3, 5, 7, 9. Makes sense to me.
This article makes Google look really bad.
AnyRoom – A self-hosted, Twilio-based system for temporary conference calls
Shipping to the US only...
Ask HN: How best can a software engineer prepare for getting into a Bschool?
I am fresher at a multinational company, and I am aspiring to do MBA after 2 years of experience, I am into R&D and just code day in day out, and as it is a product based company promotions take time (more than 3 years on avg). what do you think I should do to portray myself as a serious candidate for MBA program? what activities (in specific), what extra thing, etc. I am yet to give my GMAT.
The Lucas-Penrose Argument about Gödel's Theorem (2012)
"If Ryzen is more than that, I don't see it taking a big bite out of the market. Which isn't surprising, as Intel did just halve the margins on their enthusiast parts..."

Either it is more than that, and it will take huge chunk of the market, or Intel simply reduced margins out of the goodness of their heart.
There are very good reasons that aluminum is the best option for a mobile phone, rather than titanium. The most important is environmental. Aluminum is more abundant than titanium, it is easier and friendlier to extract/process. It can be recycled (very important!) and it is cheaper. Aluminum also has much better technical qualities. It is much lighter weight and easier to machine. It is softer, which means the casing will absorb most of the force from an impact when you drop your phone. And as others have pointed out; your screen or battery will break long before the structural casing. I have personally never been bothered with scratches on the casing of my iPhone. I'm much more worried about the overall environmental impact of the device.
Ya, I thought of that but that doesn't really make sense to me either. Open source projects tend to be free to use. Under this plan you need a token. Which costs money. That's a big change!

Kinda sounds like they're saying that if you change your open source project to a proprietary software project you can get people to pay for it. Now that may be true (for some projects at least) but that's fundamentally changing the nature of what it is you're building.
Did you read the entire article? It looks like he is making smart moves. Care to address what he has done so far? Or are you another arm chair commenter that doesn't like to read too much?
Chrome 58 for me. Blank page for ten seconds, then menu headers, but nothing else, appears.
'Technological "details" that do not seem to make sense'

It's not unusual for database servers to have functions available to send emails from stored procedures - it doesn't seem completely unlikely to me that someone could use something like this to send spoof emails.
Although that word has meant someone living outside their country, I think it has baggage and has come to mean westerners living outside their native country.

To my ears it has some colonial connotations.
Connectionism
"We want to make a device that plays well with others, so here's our new proprietary expansion port!"

Even better, it uses 60GHz wireless to get data across the fraction-of-an-inch gap between the phone and the accessory. That should be a fun one for battery life.
If you could see the email, look at the email headers. It should indicate what IP address and email program sent the email, as in, it may say SQLMail and it IP of the machine.
Shadow Brokers move auction Bitcoins
Tech Hunters: Rediscovering the Macintosh
"Ubiquitous computing (or 'ubicomp') is a concept in software engineering and computer science where computing is made to appear anytime and everywhere. In contrast to desktop computing, ubiquitous computing can occur using any device, in any location, and in any format. [..] This paradigm is also described as pervasive computing. [..] Mark Weiser coined the phrase "ubiquitous computing" around 1988, during his tenure as Chief Technologist of the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC)"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubiquitous_computing

I find interesting that the concepts dreamt in the 80's are becoming common, now that technology has caught up.
You leave out a clause, I think: It is possible to multitask while listening to audiobooks, so long as you're not doing anything else that requires complex thought or processing.

Walking, riding, driving, working out, washing dishes, doing laundry - these are tasks not at all harmed by listening to something while you do them, and indeed people have so alleviated their monotony since the commercialization of radio.

A task like programming is something else entirely, in terms of cognitive complexity, and attempting to partake simultaneously of something that requires attention to follow means one or the other probably isn't going to get done very well.
And that's absolutely fine, the site wasn't built for you

It filled its purpose of filtering those that are further on the adoption curve away
A forward-port of the Crowther/Woods Adventure 2.5 from 1995
you also get generalized predication which is nice for ease of vectorization. Still, it is very likely that these CPUs have two full vector ALUs per core.
Chrome 58, top menu only (only appears after ten seconds). Clicking menu items, nada.
> is it very likely not to check your email at least just before you show up at work 6 weeks later?

This very much depends on the country, and local employment expectations. There's the old joke comparing US and European "out-of-office" auto replies:

US: "I am on holidays, but I'll check in with my email about every night. I can be reached at $PHONE_NUMBER for an emergency"

Europe: "I am on holiday. I will return in 4 weeks."
Once you understand Prolog tricks, you can get code that runs circles around imperative code, even SIMD-optimized.

And it's currently hard for people to get high-performance SIMD and/or data flow code out of imperative code.
Formalism in the Philosophy of Mathematics (2015)
Wow what? A space that needs more competition? Android phones???
Trickle-down workaholism in startups
Audible lets you listen at up to 3x speed. I rarely go below 2x. I agree that listening at the default speed is maddeningly slow.
Docker is primarily for running Linux applications on Linux (yes, I know there are things like Joyent SDC, Docker Engine on Windows etc).

So if I run Docker in a Linux VM on OpenBSD, I don't think it counts as "Docker on OpenBSD", IMHO.
Ask HN: How do you focus?
Lately, I've lost my focus.

I am diagnosed ADHD, and even my Ritalian isn't working like it used too. I flail around, and can lose myself in topics that interest me.

But, for getting actual work done, I can't. For example I quit my job to focus back on my degree. It's a bit of a personal goal to have one, although with my skill set/background, it has never been a issue getting sufficient employment.

I've tried structuring techniques, calendars, planning out my days and such. No avail.

The best thing so far is having an alarm on my phone, and snoozing it every 10 mins. When it goes off, it breaks my focus and lets me evaluate am I working on something that I should be, or am I slacking. It's effective, but, a crutch.

Nootropics seem interesting, but, being a nomad in SEA, I am worried.

How did you overcome your lack of focus?
It's also not really our personal property when we can't use and repair it at will.
Wondering where are they now: the MA toll both employees who used to push the button and hand me the toll ticket as I passed through the booth.

Now I drive through without stopping and a camera takes a picture of my license plate and mails me a bill.

Seems like countless better things to do than that job. Likely the incentive structure was out of wack. I wonder how many other jobs are like that where the value returned is unequal to the value payed.

Seems like much of the first wave of AI will optimize that. It will be interesting when the next wave comes and machines optimize the creatives out.

I have a hard time believing we'll all be poor and destitute. Who knows though.
Writing a soak tester in go
Once you get past the point of "energy I would have expended anyway for exercise/to relieve boredom" you run into the fact that humans just aren't a very good way of converting resources (food and the energy/minerals needed to grow it) into mechanical energy.

The modern food system is woefully inefficient at converting primary energy into food calories and the human body isn't all that great at it converting food into mechanical work. Useful amounts of heat are even more elusive. Toasting a slice of bread might take a half hour of vigorous exercise.

I'm pretty sure it would take more energy to heat a jacuzzi than one could extract from a dozen people showing off in front of it.
I was thinking of car control systems, among other things, when I mentioned "exceptions". If this sort of catastrophe happens, there are bigger issues than technically underqualified people making it past technical interviews.

And I wouldn't call safety critical software that can kill people "mundane". It's a minority of code out there and it tends to be really thoroughly vetted, in my experience. I can't comment on Toyota's quality assurance, though.
I am a freelancer, so I need to protect myself much more than a regular European employee would.

On top of regular public healthcare and pension, I have three policies:

1) sickness daily allowance (the dictionary says this is what it's called in English). This will kick in after 20 (half sum) and 40 (full sum) days of continued (but temporary) inability to work, and should be enough to keep the lights on. IIRC it stops paying if I turn out to be permanently unable to work.

2) occupational disablement insurance (again, according to dictionary). This will pay out a monthly allowance for the rest of my life if it is determined that I am permanently unable to perform my profession for health reasons (including mental health).

3) "dread disease" insurance, which pays a six-figure lump sum if I contract one of a finite list of common dangerous diseases (cancer, heart attack, stroke, ...) Keep in mind that I won't need this money for healthcare as I would be protected by health insurance. This is really to protect my family's and my lifestyle and future.

BTW both 2) and 3) have a contractual clause to pay me out first, and then go to court if they disagree with the assessment. That way their lawyers can't just starve me while I enjoy my chemo or something.

Talk to your insurance broker. They will have options for you.
If you've applied for a CS degree and not done any programming though why (outside of financial incentive) would a Uni want you, surely it shows you've no interest in the field - that has to correlate strongly with failure. From nothing to doing bubble-sorts with something like python shouldn't be more than a couple of weekends for someone of the caliber to study CS at Uni.

Say you apply to study marine biology but have never been to the seaside then sure, you might do fine, but really I'd be wondering why you weren't taking a gap year and doing some self-directed study at a beach (hey, that sounds fun!).
"ain't passed the bar/ but I know a little bit"

He probably does not work in a 'right to work' state as the employer would not need to justify their action with a resignation letter.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right-to-work_law

The scenario is odd - I understand dropping things to take care of a relative. But a 6-week interval is too great in this day. There should have been some further communication of intent.
This is the first phone since the iPhone that triggers an "I want that" feeling. Why the negativity?
But they could have stuck with prime numbers!
„Why 360 changes everything“

Where does all the excitement for 360° videos come from? In its current implementation it adds absolutely nothing for the viewer and strips away the possibility for the creator to tell a story by choosing what the viewer sees.

Useful for VR yes, on a flat screen just no.
I definitely did, but my friend had a ton of cars. We used to build huge forts with ramps in them for the cars to roll down.
Sadly, my Oneplus 3T rendered the A and the F of your "what the fuck" as black boxes.

Mind boggling that this is still a problem today.
People with creative personalities really do see the world differently
The OP stated

you can learn computer science without needing a degree at all

Then proceeded to give an example of programming, which is not the same thing.

I agree with the assertion that one can be a successful programmer without a CS degree but let's call a spade a spade.
I doubt this is more accurate than humans are, or is that possible?

Wouldn't an AI that can be a judge in a Turing test be able to pass the Turing test?

Or is this just testing how "real" the voice sounds?
Since it's integrated in Telegram as "@gif", I tried to use it many times to search for famous gifs or famous clips of some movie/series that are relevant to the conversation... 19 out of 20 I can't find it, results are irrelevant, and I have to search something like "site:imgur.com <thing>" in google images and select type: animated.

If at least this worked half of the time, I may say it is valuable.
>knack for math and a pure creative interest like painting //

You mean a pure creative interest like maths, surely ;0)>