skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I guess they are viewing RAM versus persistent flash memory as just another level of tiering/caching, and believe their swap is so good that it all blends together.

I think this is the correct long-term view, as persistent solid state memory gets better and cheaper. The old 20th century memory hierarchy, with nothing between RAM and spinning platter hard drives should fade into the past. As technology changes, this is sure to be an obsolete model of the world that no longer fits.
I love immigration. I loved it when it was people from Spain 30 or 40 years ago and I love it now from other countries, such as Morocco, China, Pakistan or Europe, both legal and illegal. I helped illegal immigrants with their paperwork to become legal immigrants. I do believe that the avalanche of ex-pats that decided to settle in Barcelona in the last 50-years has allowed Catalans to enjoy a more cosmopolitan environment. I even hired some of these ex-pats.

I thought about twice per your request, and I'm afraid that with my support for Catalonia's self-determination rights I'm defending individual rights. Otherwise, I would become the first ethnic totalitarian on Earth who loved immigration and helped immigrants to settle.

How do you like immigration yourself? I'm asking because the Head of the Partido Popular (Spanish central government) in Catalonia hates it [1], he is a declared xenophobe and such proneness to xenophobia often permeates to other supporters of Partido Popular and similar right-wing parties.

[1] http://ccaa.elpais.com/ccaa/2015/07/28/catalunya/1438078282_...
But you ignore the whole stack the OS, Libraries, the Java runtime all are written in C/C++
only the end-user server app is written in Java code(that obviously means C/C++ is obsolete and Java is the systems language as fast as C/C++).
With Google Now's design, as soon as emails for other folks are splashing into yours it's game over. I'd have been hyper-aggressive about blocking/fixing all such, and probably still would've given up, given a past experience trying to help a friend with a common first initial-last name combo, and he had a number after that part of the username!
The one problem with this post is the idea that past performance predicts future results. Do previously-successful VCs actually do better in the future?
how many accounts you had?
This is why I never bought into Apple ecosystem, even when it was far superior or even the only choice. Have you considered moving to Spotify for your music? Spotify has been working to integrate with other companies, e.g. it's well integrated into Sonos when you're at home, and into Waze when you're in the car.
Totally agree with your points!
Could you post the list (and if you're really feeling kind the plug in)?

I'd love to add this to my filtering layer. Between Quora and ExpertSexChange I really could do with some more blacklisting of sites that keep baiting me to click.
Disclaimer: not a woman, but this exact question just recently came up among several of my female friends in another forum I follow. I'm not sure I like or agree with their conclusions, but I'll pass them on in the hopes they'll be useful.

They came up with two big questions that have surprising predictive power:

1.) Do you have daughters?

2.) Does your wife work outside the home? (Probably couched in more neutral language like "Oh, what does your wife do for a living?")

[The women in question were director/VP level, and so were directing this toward CEOs and C-level execs. Presumably they'd be asked of your direct boss. Both questions can be easily worked into basic rapport-building smalltalk, i.e. you don't directly ask them this in the interview, you just casually inquire about their family. Also, this assumes a male boss; the conversation mostly ignored the question of female bosses, other than to note that women who had to fight hard to get where they are during the 70s and 80s can be surprisingly tyrannical towards younger women coming up.]

The daughter effect has been pretty well-documented in the media [1][2]; it appears that even the most sexist men want their daughters to succeed, and that rubs off in how they treat women in the workplace. (See eg. Ivanna vs. Ivanka Trump.) The reason for asking about whether the wife works outside the home is that in two-career couples, the husband necessarily needs to take on a larger share of the housework & childcare, which makes them more sympathetic to the constraints & sacrifices that a working mother has to make.

[1] http://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/relationships/fatherhood/1093...

[2] https://www.fastcompany.com/3032432/why-men-with-daughters-m...
The midwest is also experiencing massive housing inflation. I've seen rent go up 40% in four years and housing has risen at the same rate. I just had to downgrade apartments because rent was going to go up another 10% this year.

Any nice house in my city gets bought up in a week. Anything crappy gets bought in a day.
not necessarily; terms are fluid, words mean different things in different contexts.
There are a lot of small towns that are very livable in the US. Most journalists are in big cities, so you don't hear of them written up, except for the occasional "meth town crisis" piece. I have a climber friend who bought some land in Quincy, California. He designed and built his own house, along with a guest house and garden. He and his family live a quiet life of outdoorsy pursuits, rock climbing and backcountry skiing, while enjoying the small town's community theatre and organic food co-op. Cherry trees line the streets, and they taste really good.
I think there must have always been some way to do AR (Pokemon GO and other games) but I believe it always required a team to accomplish this and possibly work with engineers at Apple.

As an independent developer, I hope the AR kit will make it much easier for me to create something fun and possibly integrate with Siri and other kits. This is what I'm hoping for :D

I know VR is hot right now, but I've always had the thought AR > VR.
AI Predicted 3D Human Body Shape and Motion Test Using Just RGB Video
The part about ping pong and beer vs a more formal workplace is really interesting.

I've been reading more about this lately. One story that struck me was about a journalist whose newspaper was purchased by a tech company, and the culture changed. She went from having a private office to working in a huge, open office environment. I'm putting this together from memory, but I remember her talking about how strange it felt to have so many people able to see her screen, not knowing where to put her bag if she wasn't at her desk watching it, and having to take it with her to the bathroom (feeling somewhat self conscious about how her more frequent trips appeared to her younger, generally male coworkers).

I'm starting to think that there's something more insidious going on with an almost aggressively enforced "open office" culture in high tech. I also think tech is starting - but just barely - to wake up to the the value of the formality that we discarded and disdained.

I'm really mainly interested in hearing more from you on this, if you're interested in writing more about it.
Also I heard its bat country, might want to watch out for that.
This is going to sound cold, but we need to have an honest chat here.

I would like a way never to see another WSJ or Forbes article on the internet.

I understand their need for profit, and I applaud them trying various things. They might be the best thing since sliced bread. I applaud a free press. They have a solid reputation, and I wish them the best.

However, I'm never going to pay. Ever. So I don't need to see their ads, I don't need to follow-through on Google clicks. I just need them to disappear from my internet experience completely. If you're going to run a paywall, I would like to never be exposed to your brand name or the fact you have content online. There are simply too many of you and too little minutes of concentration that I have to offer.

If one day I see a physical copy of one of these publications and decide to subscribe? That might be a lot of fun. But for now, don't waste any of my brain cells showing me stuff I'm never going to consume. Worse yet, leading me down some garden path only to be ambushed at the end with a paywall. Life's short. Your publications are not an important part of mine. I think part of the problem here was conflating the fact that X number of people clicked through with the assumption that somehow these were paying customers just freeloading (see the title of the article).

That was never the case.
Firefox (Nightly at least, I don't follow stable :D) also has built-in tracking protection, only in Private Browsing by default (about:config to enable everywhere).
To their eyes is bragging rights that you were able to get last. It wasn't long before medals for places below 1,2 & 3 were removed.

Kids are pretty smart (way smarter than some people/parents think they are) and they know how far they can go, and what they can get away with.
This is part of why https://stackoverflow.com/jobs?q=&l=Baltimore&d=50&u=Miles&t...
What? Vuforia is extremely easy to work with. Are you sure your difficulty issues weren't just Unity being a garbage heap of bad UI and poorly documented processes?
I sent an email to see if I'm either mis-remembering or it got taken down.

Ok, received answer from Peter Norvig, I must have mis-remembered who wrote what I read, but in the interest of completeness here is a life implementation by Peter Norvig (but not hashlife):

https://github.com/norvig/pytudes/blob/master/Life.ipynb
I had a Note 2, then a Note 4, then switched to iPhone, and the stylus is the only thing I miss, so if they are stealing that from the Note series, I'm totally fine with it.
Including the 5K monitor?
There was no such study.

The story you're repeating is a parable, published in a book called "Art & Fear" (as sibling commenters have noted).

There is no evidence in that book that it's anything other than a fabrication, argumentation from "just-so story".

I happen to believe the theory, personally. But the ceramics story is not evidence at all that the theory is correct. It's just a bald-faced assertion.
> What's so bad about WebP?

WebP is based on VP8, which is now obsolete. It was meant to be a H.264 competitor, a generation behind H.265 and VP9/VP10. WebP compression efficiency is much closer to JPEG than H.265.

This format beats WebP by a margin wider than WebP was smaller than JPEG.
I have the iOS 11 beta on my iPhone and the Files app is definitely here and working as expected.
You forgot the Vega GPU.
I can't tell if you're being snarky or serious, but 1) the thermal dissipation on a 12-core (or is it 18? I forget) Xeon and a GPU like that is nuts, to fit that into an iMac must have taken years, and 2) you know that Apple prefers all-in-ones and has been wanting to take the industry in this direction for years.

I'd prefer a new version of the cheesegrater too but to suggest that they rushed this together is ludicrous. If anything, it's another reason why the Mac Pro got neglected for so long.
Please don't frame your response as a logical argument while ignoring the ambiguity introduced by your use of "that" to refer to my entire statement.

Without good search, there's a discovery problem. How will people find quality content easily? Where'd you get "killing search?" Search clearly provides value.
I wonder how careful they were to distinguish between someone who cleared their cookies, and two people behind a nat. It's possible that the number of people abusing their system was smaller than they think.
First do no harm
I still maintain that even I can come up with a better naming scheme than "places in California you've never heard of."

https://medium.com/@nathanstocks/dear-apple-your-naming-sche...
Seems highly unlikely.
Use brown or green glas-bottles if storing out in the open. UV-light can compromise the taste over time.
So the best processor you can get on a macbook pro is an i5. Dell XPS comes with an i7. Same memory, same SSD, Mac has worse graphics card. Mac has soldered in memory. And it 600 bucks more.

https://www.amazon.com/Dell-XPS-15-15-6-Inch-i7-6700HQ/dp/B0...

https://www.apple.com/shop/buy-mac/macbook-pro
Sample RESTful single page web app written in Golang
If Apples actions have taught us anything it is that their products are standards hostile.

To list two relevant to this cycle: USB-C and WiFi Alliance TimeSync
Has Apple ever played well with others or made a device that could be reasonably called budget friendly?

I do wonder what their story is going to be for people who want a dot-like speaker in most of their rooms, since that really does need to be priced cheaply.
Wonder how Steve Jobs would feel about all these Dad jokes becoming a part of Apple's brand.
What RAM do you have in there that you were able to get 1TB of within that price?
Huge amounts of the web will break: anything doing anything layout-related with JS will likely break.

Changing line-lengths will cause odd bits of layout breakage, so just giving bogus results as if rendered with a different set of fonts won't work properly either.
Depends on what kind of work — some very very strong iOS design/photo/graphics apps exist. And music (Audiobus ecosystem).
Hrm, I don't see it quite the same.
OP is not from SF. I am also not from SF and find the OP's slant on the issue to be characteristic of a victim trope which doesn't reflect reality (through my subjective experience).
I don't know the OP from anyone, so would not expend energy attacking the OP (as others have done in this thread), but that doesn't mean the slant itself isn't worth calling out.

In my experience working with both men and women, those that find the most problems and find the most toxic environments are themselves the truly toxic ones; conflating personality conflicts with outright bigotry or special treatment as equality.

Again, I am not claiming this is what hte OP is doing here, and I don't see a point in accusing her of it; but the language and air of the post definitely suggests to me there is a real possibility that is what is going on.

It's a real trigger issue for many men who are sick of being told they are the problem; which doesn't excuse the overly-aggressive responses, but to me, does explain them.
When Apple did this blogger event a couple of weeks ago to update the tech scene about the future of the Mac Pro, it sounded like they were surprised their pro users wanted updated Mac Pros, not just iMacs. It appears Apple only then decided to work on an update (redesign) of the Mac Pro. So don’t bet on next year. They just started the research for a complete new design.
How does AR work without integration with the camera? They showed a demo of dev AR camera view where the camera identified "surface".
Introducing Business Chat [video]
> how much you earn is based on how much value you provide

define value and define to whom.
VP9 versus H.265:
http://www.streamingmedia.com/Articles/Editorial/Featured-Ar...

Also the link you posted is using x265 which as the article suggests was ranked 4th out the 6 available encoders:
http://compression.ru/video/codec_comparison/hevc_2016/MSU_H...

And whilst AV1 and H.265 are pretty close in PSNR where it is inferior is in vendor support. There are TVs for example available today that natively support H.265 whereas AV1 is still in development. Not to mention all of the terrestrial broadcast providers all using H.265.
You are actually incorrect. Tracking Protection refers to an IE feature that lets you set "Tracking Protection Lists", which block traffic to specified domains and URLs. You can see a bit about them here: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh273400(v=vs.85).a...

The whole "Do Not Track" default thing was, of course, a huge fiasco, as Google and others chose to ignore IE's default usage of it.
It allows to read with FB referrers. On desktop Chrome, use Referrer control extension with facebook.com http://www.jongales.com/blog/2014/02/13/how-to-get-around-th...

On mobile, make a private FB post visible only to yourself.
Look for diversity in activities (ex: If all the examples include alcohol, i doubt they're very family friendly).

Some environments will say something like "Not much" IMO its a good sign too, because that means people are free to do whatever they want and probably clock in and clock out and leave their personal lives at home. IMO thats a good environment for diversity because the focus is on just performing, not on "Are you like me?" .
> No battle took place on the soil of UK mainland.

Well, that's because the battle eventually took place in (mostly) France. But it's not as if that battle would not have eventually happened in the UK if the Germans had managed to gain air supremacy over the UK or if they had managed to pull a reverse Normandy. The UK could not have exited from the war at any time at all, their shipping would have been sunk and they would have been under siege from the moment they did so.

The larger cities were receiving a good number of aerial bombardments and V2's (ok, also a form of aerial bombardment). And then there was the shipping tonnage sunk with all hands.

War very much came to the UK, even if the eventual battle took place in France, Belgium, NL and eventually Germany (where whole cities had been obliterated).
You are an unadulterated jackass.
millennials should be ashamed for abstaining from it

I know - such selfishness! Think of the shareholders!
I wouldn't be so sure. They probably rely significantly on enterprise/university/library subscribers. Journals haven't gone anywhere despite being paid forever. This will also switch to the journal bait and switch model. Show the abstract in google results, but require money to read the full article.
No one disputes that other factors are important. For instance cultural attitudes about violence are important. As is the reach of civil government. Not to mention that in the US violence is a particular problem because of ready access to handguns.

My take having read about this theory for about ten years now it looks like the preponderance of the evidence says that lead exposure is at least as significant as the above. Meaning it's not just this study, it's all the other ones as well. With the lead thoery you have the following.

1. A known mechanism. Lead cause brain damage with poor impulse control.
2. Dose response correlation between lead exposure and violent crime.

Thing that freaks me out is what did exposure to lead and resulting poor impulse control do to politics in the US.
This dialogue is awfully reminiscent of a certain talk about Oracle.
It says that they're a company with a motto. For me that is enough to brace for something cringeworthy, and this list confirms my worst fears:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mottos#Business

Pretty depressing.. except for the fact that the "Pony" motto links to the animal, not the company (please nobody fix that).
... which must hurt Google. Well played, WSJ, well played. :)
Probabilistic machine learning is usually considered to be mostly statistics. The two classes aren't separated cleanly by a high-margin hyperplane, but we can clearly see the structure within the clustering ;-).
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here? https://developer.apple.com/documentation/arkit
No, 4K. I am not sure if 5k makes all the difference (at least for me, as a software engineer/researcher). However, I understand it might be important for many people.
One evening a two weeks is a no go for me - I have small hobbies I don't want to give up (sport to be healthy and little craft), I have long term friends I want to meet with occasionally occasionally and most importantly I have a family.
> I assume the vast majority of the 1 million are casual readers who don't have $300 discretionary income to splurge on a subscription.

Or that the vast majority have much better uses for $300 than paying for a newspaper.
This breaks HN's civility rule. We ban accounts that do that, so please don't.

There's a second problem. You've been using HN primarily for political and ideological arguments. That's an abuse of the site. It's one thing to use HN as intended—i.e. to gratify intellectual curiosity—and occasionally post relevant comments on political topics when those come up. That's what most people do and it's fine. But it's different to treat HN as a platform for political battle. That's destructive of what this place is for, and we ban accounts that do it, irrespective of the politics they favor. So please stop using HN that way.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14491608 and marked it off-topic.
> This is objectively false, and part of the myth of a meritocracy.

But that's not what meritocracy is about at first place.
If you change your browser's UserAgent string to Googlebot, then your client will be treated as a first-class citizen, by many of these sites. Google always wins, so let's all be Google.
I'm seeing a lot of "I fear that..." in this thread. I just have to laugh. This isn't a new or unique situation. The only thing that has changed are people's preferences. My Great Aunt lived in NYC with 6 other girls. Roommates were required to survive the high rents of post-war NYC.

California has always been gripped by NIMBYisms and choking regulation. You get what you vote for.

What can you do against the tyranny of good ideas? It's a good idea to make use environmentally friendly building materials. It's a good idea to build earthquake resilient homes. It's a good idea to require certain standards of home building. It's a good idea to rent control the apartments of the elderly so they can continue to live in their home of the past 50 years. It's a good idea to X..Y..Z.

Is it a good idea to create a generation of serfs?
It's been pretty clear for a while that OpenGL on Macs is dead, and that it's "Metal or GTFO". If modern OpenGL is still a requirement for you, grit your teeth and choose Windows or Linux.
Then go to that source, not to Google. If you go to Google, expect to find content that provides Google users value.
The liquid cooled Mac Pro G5 I used to own agrees with you...
I'm someone who rants about PC culture so much that I'm sure I'm very boring. However, are you sure that's nature not nurture? And if it's nurture, why should we "accept" it, instead of helping our culture evolve? Certainly, the "nurture" part comes from some pretty fucked up history when it comes to gender roles and treatment of people other than white straight males in western society.
5 downvotes huh; anyone able to explain how the above is compatible with a strong pro-privacy stance? That's like saying you're a vegetarian, except for saturday noon.
I honestly don't have much interest as things stand. I'm on a theoretically unlimited AT&T plan for my phone. I might pay a few extra bucks to get other devices onto cellular. But, for the fees as they exist today, I'll just make do with my phone if WiFi isn't available.