skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
According to the government a slice of pizza counts as a serving of vegetables because of the tomato sauce.
> "At the end of the day, even the mightiest thinkers and philosophers are made of flesh and bone".

I like how words referring to abstract properties are used to dismiss the whole notion of abstract properties.
May be it's Time to get revise this - https://willrobotstakemyjob.com/33-3051-police-and-sheriffs-...
Did Musk warn her that he was going to be the alpha in the relationship?
FF has memory and rendering problems
> if the allegations were true, why continue to work there?

That question is probably easier to answer for Tesla than for any other company: It's the place to be if you're any engineer with an interest in renewable energy.

It'd be a tragedy to tell people they have to chose between freedom from sexual harassment and fulfilling their professional aspirations.
The team got $8.6 million in the initial token sale though. I'm pretty sure they also retained a fair number of tokens. Since there is s fixed amount of tokens the value per token should go up if Golem gets many people to use it and thus the value of the retained tokens rewards the team for their success. A scheme like that of course only would work for a very small portion of open source projects. I could see this work though for pretty much anything that needs hosting. In order to join the network you pay tokens to someone else who is providing that hosting. You could clone pretty much any social network that way. Want to have an account or make changes to your account you gotta pay for the computation.
IE6 was not updated for 6 years. On Windows.

On the Mac it went as far as version 5 only. And never made it to x86 (unless you count Rosetta)

So, through the dark ages, IE was very much frozen and Windows only, for all intends and purposes.
I'm not 100% sure about any of this (I've only listened to most of the video above), but I think the gist is that WebAssembly provides a compile target for applications, meaning you can pre-compile an application so that your source is downloaded essentially as machine code. Furthermore, that means your compilation can perform as many optimizations that you care for, because it's happening ahead of time (not on the user's machine).

Without WebAssembly, browser vendors have to strike a balance between optimizing the JS as much as possible (for increased performance), and running the script as soon as possible (so the user isn't waiting too long for execution to begin).

edit: Demo of this in-browser video editor charts a FPS difference between the JS and WebAssembly implementations.
https://github.com/shamadee/web-dsp
Interesting, but what would happen if companies start to print their own money?
Dude, your posting history makes you seem like an ultra die-hard libertarian:

https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=andrenth

You may want to check on that before you accuse the notoriously anti-Corbyn Guardian of having some kind of "Worker Party" allegiance.

Seems more like they're being even handed, while you absolutely need Roussef and co to be considered worse than capitalist-style corruption.
Intel Core I9-7900X Overclocked to 5.7GHz,
If you only think the poor become criminals you're wrong. I know 3 people who have gone to jail for big time crimes (drug trafficking and armed robbery) and they all came from wealthy and stable families.
Relevant: https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/30d00e54dde47b11f5b...
> Tesla added that Vandermeyden had been granted numerous positions “over other more qualified candidates” and was “given special treatment and opportunities for advancement that were unwarranted based on her qualifications”.

It makes Tesla look even worse, acknowledging that the only reason that person got the job is that because she was a woman, a man wouldn't have gotten the same job for the same qualifications.
Which python module lets me declare object methods like:

method foo(bar):
self.do_foo(bar+self.baz)

? Because I get tired of all those selfs
Ask HN: Best current book to learn JavaScript?
Offer HN: I will work for free. Anyone need a Sr. DevOps Engineer?
I have too much free time on my hands. I have 20 years experience in Linux and Open Source Projects. My Current responsibilities include Design, Architect and Support multiple Docker Orchestrators, DC/OS, Mesosphere, Marathon, Kubernetes. Toolchain and TechStack: Java, Ruby on Rails, Scala, AWS (Elastic Beanstalk, ASG, VPC, S3, CloudFormation, EC2 Container Service(Docker),ElastiCache, Terraform, Packer, Ansible, Jenkins, Datadog, New Relic, MongoDB, Redis, Vagrant, Virtualbox, GitLab, OSX, Ubuntu, Centos,CoreOS,Python, Bash, Shell. I'm available late afternoon and weekends.
Does the 'g' prefix do anything? On my Firefox it still searches for 'g com.scala.List' in Duck Duck Go, my default search engine. When I run that on Chrome it searches for 'com.scala.List' on Github because I've chosen g as a search leader for Github (which is super convinient and I wish I could do that on Firefox).
In federal and state government jobs, you can sue and stay.
You mean O(n^2). 2^n looks a more than 'naive' for most cases.
How would hardware emulation even work? Wouldn't it mean Qualcomm would have to support the x86 instructions on its ARM chip?

You may be thinking of how the Android emulator supports hardware acceleration for emulation, but that's just because your laptop has an x86 chip in it and the emulator is actually serving you the x86 image of Android, not the ARM one, so the "emulation" is more like Apple's "native simulation" for iOS.
50 Companies Leading the AI Revolution, Detailed
I fear the future when rulers no longer need the loyalty of the police or military, the last check on their power.

Such a future is not inevitable - the development and production of autonomous human-hostile machines can and should be banned with the same fervour as making biological weapons.
You don't even know that they did anything wrong.
IBM unveils its most powerful quantum processor yet
How ArcaOS 5.0 Blue Lion Attempts to Drag OS/2 into 2017 – TechRepublic
It's the default browser I'm using right now on Android. Performance is still not on par with Chrome but it did improve since the last time I tried it a few months ago. The ability to install extensions surpasses anything else for me so I'm sticking with FF.
Could you talk more about the business angle, if you get the chance?

I'm curious how you view selling vs giving away books and how it ties in to other revenue streams.
We live in a post-Hey Arnold world. The national lexicon changed when this episode came out: http://blogdailyherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/BDH-St...
That is the point: I can spend a couple months hand optimizing a hot spot, but for what CPU? The optimizations I'd do for an intel core i7 are different and intel core i9 - and these are generations of the same architecture try to support AMD ryzen and things are very different. Now add in an ARM CPU (which?)...

If I can find a better algorithm I can of course beat the compiler on all of the above. However does such an algorithm exist?
Client-side rendering of a 3D medical image using WebAssembly
If every woman who was sexually harrassed just quit, the workplace environment for women would still be like the '50s. Individuals have to make a stand for better treatment for all.
"Not being sexually harassed" is not a political ideology, it's a fundamental human right.
but the static site does not need to be upgraded every WP security alert.
And Nate Silver got a lot of flak for that in the week before the election.
> Mozilla focuses on thousand of other things instead of making FF a great browser.

Mozilla focuses on thousand of other things in addition to on making FF a great browser.

See project Quantum, WebExtensions (some would argue that it makes the browser worse, but the goal is undeniably to make it better), and Photon.
> But then again, these Sheiks, Emirs and their cronies will only remain in power through the most draconian measures once the oil wealth dries up

Unlike its neighbors, Dubai is not primarily an oil-driven economy. Only 2-3% of its GDP comes from oil and natural gas.

The devaluation of oil would impact Dubai, as the other Emirates and nearby countries are much more dependent on oil, but Dubai's economy has never really been based on oil, because Dubai had very little oil in the first place, and it was discovered very late.
Ask HN: Should I be afraid of the JVM?
I've been looking to expand my programming language knowledge and have my eye looking towards Scala and Kotlin.

However, both of them run on the JVM, and the Java part sort of puts me off, since I make a conscious decision to not learn Java at the moment, due to a complex ecosystem that would take me a long time to enter.

Is this little feeling I have founded? I mean, I think that at some point I'll be debugging something and will hit some place where I have to interact with some Java code and will be totally powerless. Does it even make any sense?
> if a system's behavior can be characterized with a set of equations, use the equations to talk about the behavior

I agree, and I don't think Knuth's quote was saying anything different.

> If you find out that your equations incorrectly or incompletely characterize the system's behavior, Occam's razor requires you to assume that what you need is a better set of equations.

Yes, but you might not have them, and they might not be easy to find. So you might have to face the fact that, now and for the foreseeable future, you might not be able to use your equations to completely predict or characterize the system's behavior, so you need to actually test your code instead of just proving it correct, as Knuth said.
Inside the stylish, cyberpunk future of Tokyo 42 – The Verge
Yeah, I'm not really buying the LTE being the "killer feature" thing either. I hope Qualcomm is not betting the farm on that. Its ARM processors will have to stand on their own feet in regards to performance alone. Few people buy their laptops based on LTE support, and although I do believe it could become more popular in the future, I don't think it will have a fast pick-up, with or without Qualcomm's promotion of LTE laptops.
If you'll notice, they were careful not to mention it was because she's a woman. It could be for any number of reasons.
First tip to employing robot drones in your police force: Don't make them vulnerable to being pushed over.

I seriously doubt that thing would get up on its on recognizance, after a nice shove.
Absolutely all the analysis (including filtering) works by generating SQL queries and that SQLite evaluates. Tad doesn't generate any table indices, and I'd be reticent about adding that. However you should be able to Tad as a sqlite viewer from command line (sqlite://foo/bar.sqlite/tablename) and it should make use of indices on your existing SQLite table if you have them.
Citizens United has nothing to do with why we rarely charge people who break the law while working for a corporation with charges that carry significant jail time.
Study suggests last-mile drone delivery could lower carbon footprint
Fired Uber Executive Said to Forfeit $250M Stock Grant
Windows 10: Get ready for PCs with 'beyond all-day' battery life – TechRepublic
> They've done pretty well at decoupling from reliance upon oil wealth in to the country by turning Dubai into a sort of playground-sanctuary for the super-wealthy. Only ~30% of their GDP is oil/gas.

Way less. 30% is for the entire UAE. Only 2-3% of Dubai's GDP comes from oil and gas.
Half off with a .edu email.
Looking at this interesting pdf:

http://www.nyc.gov/html/tlc/downloads/pdf/2014_taxicab_fact_...

It looks like Taxis are seasonal and so they'll see a drop in revenue over summer (page 4). Though elsewhere they note that airport fares are up over summer.

It also looks like there's a large, several day, drop over the Xmas period every year, which could potentially make Q1 better than Q4. Although I know in the UK at least Xmas rates are higher.

Still, without seeing the actual figures and just eyeballing it, it's hard to say.

As you say though, they could have decreased costs just by dropping what they pay their drivers. Ahem, I mean the rate they offer jobs to self-employed definitely-not-employed independent contractors.

(I wasn't able to read the source article, so don't know if they've addressed that).
Scalability Testing using JMeter
With the KEYone, BlackBerry threads the needle on retro smartphone appeal
ARM64 Windows leaked and can run on Qemu. (with screenshots)
Why don’t archivists digitize everything?
Its rendering and JS engine are, which is what matters to compatibility and portability
i'm always a bit unhappy with the comparison to the old testament. it think it turns people off unnecessarily. having read both, i reassure everyone that the silmarillion is way less tedious to read than the old testament (even if they're similar in their narrative structure).
People use uber because it is cheap and easy. If taxis and other ride services roll out apps (which they are) then uber has lost its advantage in ease of use. If uber starts to feel expensive as well then they have lost everything that made them popular. Uber has to start squeezing someone for $700m a quarter. That squeeze isn't going to feel good.
To MS's credit, Win10 does have a metered connection mode that tries to save data.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/instantanswers/633571e5-...

Not sure how this is worse than what Android or iPhone do. My apps are constantly chatting on the internet and I have zero visibility over it and any attempt to control it involves a lot of behind the scenes controls not obvious to the end user.
This was eye-opening for me. This explains actually the adoption scammy operations that are ponzis have: people are not against participating in a ponzi scheme at all, its just the lottery effect ("i wont be one of the losers").
Functions as a Service – Deploying Functions to Docker Swarm via a CLI
"All those laws exist for all cars, not just taxis."

I don't know where you are from, but here taxi cars have stricter safety, ecology, age (and probably more) requirements than private cars. Which makes sense as they usually spend more time on roads and carry more people.

"Classic example of over-regulation, leading to crappy service, low supply, and high prices."

Um, no. Fare counter regulations and checks just make sure that it shows distance/fare correctly, and as far as I know, there's no monopoly in this market -- it's much like scales regulation in grocery stores.
Frivolous accusations that get proven false probably result in the opposite.
My first impression was "Oh great. The only thing we'll ever see from this is a bunch of luxurious overpriced Surface-branded hardware."

At least if they're sharing the spec with other manufacturers, we'll possibly get some reasonably priced hardware.

Myself, I'm crossing my fingers for some Raspberry Pi-class machines that'll work with this.
NASA Orbiter Finds New Evidence of Frost on Moon’s Surface – NASA
As a separate point from my other post, characterizing the system's behavior isn't enough. You also need to characterize the requirements that the system is supposed to meet. Even if you have equations for the former, you might not for the latter. So your equations might completely and precisely predict system behavior that turns out not to do what the user actually wants. I think that's part of what Knuth's quote is talking about.
I was speaking from the perspective of the female engineer.
Army taps super powers for vehicle armor – GCN
Aside from having something that resembles Backbone's events hash, I didn't see anything that didn't look like a React component/VueJS component. Did I miss the part where Backbone was mentioned?
Show HN: First POS using artificial intelligence for small retailers – free beta
In the spirit of HN then:

It seems like if the key value added is talking to the people, requiring a whole bookstore to do so was useful when you needed the bookstore itself but now it's a huge add on cost and hassle.

Effectively they were bundling two reasonably distinct services into one. One of which is now served (generally) better by Amazon.

So with that in mind, could a business be built entirely around the extra value added? Real, personalised recommendations that come from speaking to someone who loves the topic.

Pay for some time to speak to them, and get recommendations.

This could be extended into other fields too, films, tv series and games are the main ones that spring to mind.
Project Name:How to Create a Snake Game in React
Link to watch tutorial : https://www.liveedu.tv/maxim-filimonov/lMzJK-how-to-create-a-snake-game-in-react/
This tutorial will cover all details that are necessary to build a complete snake game in React using JavaScript. You will setup all the necessary steps to build similar the game yourself including framework setup and advanced concepts such as state management. We will start by covering basic setup(tools and frameworks), then we move to building the snake game in JavaScript without any user interface, and then add the user interface on top of the functional game.
This section will cover requirements of programming language, skills viewers should have to understand and follow this tutorial.
HTML/CSS
JavaScript(basic level)
React(basic level)
And the most important is: desire to learn
Path to coding
Heh, quite the ploy to get a raise. Takes the whole "get another offer" plan and turns it up to 11.
Not All Browsers Are Created Equal: Comparing Web Browser Fingerprintability
Microsoft's new Skype redesign is a radical change that looks like Snapchat
Still waiting for the Primitive Technology guy to do the same thing, with the camera opening on a pile of sand.

Sure, it's still cool to see someone use 4-bit binary full adder etc and build a computer, but the from Scratch always feels disingenuous.
Unusual metal could enable mid-infrared detectors
Those gains are often caused by globally applied optimizations like inlining and devirtualization.
These then can enable actual stream processing and loop chunking optimizations which are of important but lesser effect.
Perhaps dead code and constant elimination of you leave in flags.

In other words, if you rewrite the algorithms from object oriented into stream processing, you would get most of the gains.

This is caused by all CPU, FPU and GPUs actually internally being simple numerical stream machines.
Ethiopia cuts off internet after high school exam leaks
Fog Computing for Sustainable Smart Cities: A Survey
How many of those "water cooler" conversations you had with someone who actually knew and used perl for at least a few projects? Most of perl hate I hear is from people who've seen like 2 perl one-liners in life and got scared by $, @, and %'s in syntax...
> How would hardware emulation even work?

Like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmeta_Crusoe

In fact, most high-performance CPUs be it ARM or AMD or Intel do instruction translation internally.
CrashPlan on Raspberry Pi
The Internet as Quantitative Social Science Platform
I'm sure her complaint has plenty of stuff about her trying to address this internally. I seriously doubt any serious lawyer would take the case without it.

There's a difference between tarnishing an image and drawing attention to illegal behaviour. In particular, the intent of the second can be done with the intention of improving the firm by getting it to stop the illegal behaviour. The managers may not see it that way, but corporations are not their managers and are not their shareholders.
Preferably to the website owner, optionally to Mozilla: https://testpilot.firefox.com/experiments/pulse
Agree, but just to throw it out there - nautical miles are actually an SI derived unit. It was originally defined as a minute (1/60 of a degree) of latitude, which doesn't convert exactly to km since it is not a constant measure. Although now it has been defined as the mean value.

I'd be surprised if a unit-converter plugin didn't exist already, but it should definitely preserve the original measures since the units do have contextual significance. e.g. nautical miles in navigation

edit: here's one
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/autoconvert-auto-c...
I miss bookstores, but it's mostly sentimental. Back in the early 90s I used to love to peruse the tech section of our local Borders (a former competitor to Barnes & Noble, in the huge bookstore category).

It was the only place I could go to easily be exposed to technologies and products that I had never heard of. Also great where the game development books that would have a CD just full of the weirdest and craziest games that they got from who knows where.
I've had a stressful couple of months. Someone recently posted the Box Breathing method. It is the one thing that has consistently worked for all things stress and distraction related. I am not sure if this is what you are looking for, but it is worth giving it a few tries before dismissing it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13508038
Hasn't this market for small/light/cheap "net PCs" been proven out by Chromebooks though?

I know this isn't exactly the same thing, and the baked-in LTE is an interesting feature, but I feel like this is Microsoft going after that market specifically..

I know that if the price point was low enough, I'd get one of these as a travel machine, especially if I can get it onto my "share everything" data plan and split the usage between it and my phone ..

I already tether my Macbook Pro to my phone when I'm travelling and need on-the-go internet anyways, so it would amount to the same thing.
FWIW here is my (rough) monthly spending for a family of 3 (husband, wife, 2yo son) in NYC. My income is in that range, but I've always been a saver (and I've had more than my fair share of lucky breaks) so I do not live paycheck to paycheck.

https://gist.github.com/harryh/970743e082bc7c9857ac9149997cc...

(I'm going to delete this gist later. Maybe silly but I don't feel 100% comfortable posting this data on the internet forever).

I live a nice life and have nothing to complain about. Last year 40% of my AGI went to taxes (fed, state, local + fica). There are plenty of good reasons to think that number should be higher.
Microsoft's Windows 10 mobile plans are becoming clearer
Data Analysis: Everything Depends on X and Y – Ilexa Yardley – Medium
Those people don't understand what a pyramid scheme is.

The acquisition of bitcoin by newcomers in no way enriches earlier adopters, as in a classic pyramid scheme. Miners continually invest huge sums in capital equipment with the hope that the price continues to rise. If it does not, they are toast. This is not gambling or a Ponzi; this is just a risk/reward business decision. It's the exact decision that the capitalist makes when she decides to build a new production line at the factory.

Buying bitcoin early is like investing early in any new technology: it could be worth nothing, or it could go bananas. Many alt-coins have trickled down to very low prices over time or stopped functioning altogether. There are no sure things in this space, even for the early adopters.
Isn't the point of that comment precisely to discourage someone who might otherwise think the task to be smaller than it is? It's okay to discourage if it helps people understand scope.
They didn't mention "b/c she was a woman" at all.
I think what you're describing is the real problem here. If there's some sort of (informal) "old-boy's-network" that keeps people from legitimately using the law when they have been wronged, then we should support those willing to publicly start fights with that establishment.
That is very useful feedback. I may need to revisit it.

I read Patrick O'Brian's posthumous and unfinished book, The Final Unfinished Voyage of Jack Aubrey, and it contained O'Brian's final hand-written notes. Truly from a "master at work".
Metadata is the real data