skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Some people also wanted a hassle free device, which only runs curated apps, and that keeps the whole experience more secure, unified, private

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14526156

In fact, app store is opposite of all these qualities. Secure? It's provided by sandboxing, not app censorship. But almost every popular game in app store will read your contacts and send to its server. Unified? No one, except for top companies are able to follow UI guidelines, and most apps has weird UI. Even good apps have over-use of arcane swipe actions which makes them un-unified. Private? Most apps are very privacy-invasive. Even you are making app as a hobby, you will likely use privacy-invasive ad networks in order to pay back $100/year ad store fee.
Don't harsh their mellow, HN thinks driverless vehicles are going to "solve" mass transit. As if the driver were the biggest problem.
> For people using Sprint, they get to feel a little smug if they whip this phone out and it IS awesome

Except it's Sprint, so many people will whip out their phone and have no functional data service. (Yes, even in 2017). There are lots of really good reasons why Sprint has the worst reputation of all major carriers. And people don't always pick up on the distinction -- a broken network makes a great phone look like a broken phone.

I think Essential is letting their business/personal ties to SoftBank cloud their decisions on what's best for their users and what's best for Essential as a product.
"For the most general version of Sudoku" -- post doesn't detail what "general" means, but if the variable is board size, then it's O(N! * N!).
If you don't want a job I'm sure that's a good thing to bring up.

When I interviewed there I made some brief remarks about the downsides to consolidation to one of the 8~ people they had me talk to that day. His face turned a little sour. I wonder if it was that or my salary demands that made them not extend an offer to me. Oh well ;)
"Fuyao faces [...] a lawsuit by a former manager who says he was let go in part because he is not Chinese."

Somehow the opposite scenario could sound absurd in China. Imagine "General Motors in China faces a lawsuit by a former manager who says he was let go in part because he is not white."

I'm not implying anything. I'm just pointing out that for some reason, that scenario could sound absurd, even if irrationally so. It might not have to do with differences of the judicial systems, but with differences in value and prejudice between the two cultures.
If anyone is interested, I wrote an article on the experience of developing this app from scratch in 29 days:

https://medium.com/@raphaelcruzeiro/from-zero-to-app-store-l...

Any feedback you might have is greatly appreciated!
FWIW, I have 100Mbps on NBN fibre in Brisbane, and I remote work (for a WordPress agency, as it happens).

Fast internet is definitely possible in Australia, although right now, you might need to move to get it (alas). It's also not yet cheap (but we can partially expense internet, and you can also write it off for tax).
Tagsistant: semantic filesystem for Linux
Humans don't learn how to play Sudoku by staring at a bunch of solved puzzles. We are given the rules up front.
This book changed my life when I read it as an impressionable young man. I think all people could benefit from Viktor's words. Big up to the archive.org crew once again, they never cease to amaze me.
https://aws.amazon.com/workdocs/

"Users can comment on files, send them to others for feedback, and upload new versions without having to resort to emailing multiple versions of their files as attachments. Users can take advantage of these capabilities wherever they are, using the device of their choice, including PCs, Macs, tablets and phones. Amazon WorkDocs offers IT administrators the option of integrating with existing corporate directories, flexible sharing policies and control of the location where data is stored."
>~/desktop ls

MANIFESTO.lnk42

3d.lnk42

Arena 93.lnk42

...snip...

>~/desktop dir

dir is not defined

interesting
I am not saying it is not. My condition is in what if neural network can solve a problem without any domain knowledge. I think it's a huge win even if we don't understand anything about the solution. Be it well solved problems like approximate minimum distance in a graph to practically unsolvable like automatically proving unproved theorems in mathematics.
And at that point better advise would be to use DOS
I'd ignore the topic entirely till it comes up for a signature, then tell them you won't sign it.
What's that? Like I said, it's been withdrawn from sale entirely in my country and they imply it's never coming back. At least the Model 3 is confirmed to be available next year if you preordered.
Your extended family needs Chrome dev tools?
Yes, working remotely with kids running around in the background is not the easiest way to concentrate and get work done.

On those days it is nice to have another place to go to.
Is that for Chase, or J.P. Morgan? My understanding is that Chase doesn't offer a 2FA besides SMS and when I go into my account settings I don't see anything that lets me enable 2FA.
So? Webpage rendering is a well defined enough problem that I think a cross browser, cross platform comparison is valid.
Google's Eric Schmidt shares his best advice for managers
Ask HN: What book would you recommend for someone in their 90s?
I know the question doesn't really belong here, especially since it shouldn't be a technical book. But ugh, I thought you people would help me out on this one.

I'm thinking of "My century - Günter Grass" but I'd appreciate other ideas!
Netcat ported in Node.js. Modules written in pure JS
Honestly, I try to write code on iOS all the time, and it's not really the absence of tools that can execute that code that really stands in the way. Instead, it's:

- The absence of a really good typing story. The 12.9 iPad Pro with smart keyboard is nice for typing text but terrible for moving the cursor around. It's agonizingly slow to do it with keyboard (highlighting is worse, for some reason) and inaccurate to do it with finger/fiddly to do it with Pencil.

The only text editor with vim keybindings (an absolute must in an environment where it's hard to move the cursor normally...) of which I'm aware is Buffer, while the only text editor with both good syntax highlighting and good github integration (via Working Copy) is Textastic. Honestly, I really wish one of those two would just buy the other so that I could have both.

- The absence of a really good ssh story. Prompt is nice, but for some reason, whenever I try to SSH into anything, there's so much latency that it is really painful to actually do anything. Maybe I just have slow network connections? But anyway, so much for just coding on a linode or something in vim.
Registration tax.
The space is actually divided into two sections: the downstairs area is open, and designed to be flexible (for company meetups and such).

The upstairs section has a lounge-type area with meeting booths and working tables, designed for the 20 or so people who actually use it regularly.

There are some images of the upstairs area at https://automattic.com/lounge/
If you're not desperate, you should definitely push back on any non-compete clauses during hiring. You really shouldn't sign any agreement you aren't comfortable with and should instead make changes until you're okay with it.
I think reactions like this tend to sidestep the issue, because orgs should never adopt any one metric in isolation, but instead try to use many different metrics as part of a larger holistic picture, both of the organization and of individuals.

If you measure how much stuff got done on paper within its agreed-upon deadline, sure, people may skimp on quality in order to ship something on time, and it probably would've been in the org's interest to delay release until all the work was really done.

And sure, if you measure against the number of bugs opened against production versions, trying to incentivize the least number of bugs opened as possible, you may invite people dealing with issues through back channels, so that they don't show up in the metrics.

And of course revenue is more of a company-wide metric.

But if you combine all of them - if your teams are hitting their feature development targets, and customers aren't complaining through established support lines, and revenues are up... is that not what makes a successful company?
You're not citing any evidence.

Socialists supported him because of his full-throated support of socialism.

That he killed some of them when they became inconvenient is perfectly characteristic of socialists, who frequently purge their own ranks quite brutally.
Is't this is an argument for a better walled garden, not an argument against them?
Also, cron supports 6 asterisk for running cron jobs down to a second.
Which drives home the most important point about socialism. While capitalism is keeping up with the joneses, socialism is about making sure the joneses are kept in their place.
I've seen it first hand. At one large financial services company employees who came in early (before 7am) or stayed late (after 9pm) had access to free black cars for commuting.

That had a direct impact on at least one person I know's decision to move further from the office.
Three Principles of API First Design
Evolution of Drop Down Menus and Exiting Them
> the only things expecting anything from me at 2am should be my child, and Pagerduty if I'm on-call that week.

I totally get this sentiment but for me it's really nice to choose crazy work hours if I want them.
There is less to no friction to look for new employment when you work entirely remotely.
“Writing, Publishing, and Daily Emails” – [Episode #75] Make Money Online
What people want is car accessibility for their car in particular, but none of the pesky traffic that results from other people having cars. In other words, a fantasy.
One thousand cubed is one billion. Of course it depends on what the Big-O notion is hiding, but one billion 'steps' is generally okay. But if you had tested it with ten thousand players it would go from one billion to one trillion -- which we'd expect to take more than a day on the same machine. That scaling is pretty brutal. Whereas something like sorting a list with O(N log N) would only have gone from about ten thousand to about one hundred fifty thousand. In order to hit one trillion steps we'd need to be sorting a list of nearly thirty billion items.

I sometimes find myself working with ten thousand 'things', but very rarely with thirty billion.
>Then there's also a lot of gadgets or software that come with the untranslated "ok"

The word has been used a long time before gadgets and software became common here in Sweden. I would guess it comes from films and tv-programs.
Important vs. Urgent for Developers (audio)
I think I agree with you, even after reading all the other responses to your comment.

The long desks are what kill it for me. That's one seating arrangement that I just don't think I can get on board with unless forced. I worked like that for some projects in college and I always felt so distracted, and I really disliked what seemed like a complete lack of privacy and isolation.
See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychohistory_(fictional)

Snark aside, I'm definitely interested in whether or not this field will have impacts on future policy. In order to be useful I feel it would have to actively avoid simplifying assumptions that have trapped similar fields.
Nail on the head. When your concern is cost, electric vehicles just don't make sense. I drive 5-10 thousands miles a year, and at $2/gallon gas, I'm looking at a total expense of 4-500 dollars per year.

To illustrate, I recently spec'd out a honda civic, with the base model costing $19k USD, and looking at even hybrids like the chevy volt and prius, I'm basically paying a premium of $4k to $15k for what amounts to a nominal gain in mileage. It just doesn't make sense when the civic is cheaper and more fun to drive (huge consideration when you spend more than 10 minutes commuting every day.) Drop the honda to a fit, and the straight IC is even more of a hands-down winner.

Mileage standards are probably the most effective tool at reducing automobile emissions, and I wish more people costed that out and understood the economic impact, especially on poor people, before coming to any debate on the subject.

Edit: I realize this is more of an american perspective on an article about a european problem. I wish I could bike safely where I live, but the infrastructure costs would probably be tremendous given how spread out everything is here.
> (Hell, my wife's parents saved up a 529 plan, and then she went to a state school on a full scholarship. Now we're apparently allowed to spend the 529 money to put a down payment on a house as a young couple, without any tax penalty. How is this allowed!?)

I'm not sure it is allowed. There must be some other transaction happening to make this without penalty. [1]

Also, why is everyone on this thread [not you] speaking of a 529 as if it's some elite 1% benefit? It's open to anyone. Most states have a $25 minimum, a lot of states have no minimum contribution at all [2].

[1]http://www.montereyherald.com/article/ZZ/20111006/NEWS/11100...

[2]http://www.savingforcollege.com/compare_529_plans/?plan_ques...

Edit: after some more research, it sounds like it may have been rolled over into an IRA for use with a first-time homebuyer exemption. See (http://finance.zacks.com/convert-529-ira-10479.html) under "Penalty Exceptions".
If I understand correctly, the Space Shuttle's SRBs were recovered, refurbished, and reused starting in 1982?
I worked for a company that wrote software for a particular industry. It was bought and the buyers gave everyone three days to sign a no-compete or quit. Worked there a while until I found a new job writing software for a different industry. New company had a subsidiary that wrote software for old company's industry. Got a letter from new company saying I would in no way do work at the subsidiary, gave it to old company's legal office and got permission to work for new company.

It was a hassle, but not nearly as bad as having to get my own lawyer and such.
Gopher-OS: A Proof of Concept OS Written in Go
The companies with the highest revenue per employee
OO Wow there is a technical term for what I refer to as 'backwards speaking'.

This is good.

Though (M) I definitely use ellipses in instant communications to imply a pause in expression. And 'yar' instead of KK.
The downtimes described in the article sound like BGP black hole routing. The vulnerabilities described by the L0pht in 1998 (e.g: which they claimed could be used to take the Internet down in 30 min) were also BGP based.
Pictures of the carnival stand at different times:

http://www.theblaze.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Infant-In...

http://www.neonatology.org/pinups/ConeyIslandBooklet1.jpg

https://ichef-1.bbci.co.uk/news/720/cpsprodpb/D28F/productio...
I did the SF -> Google commute from 2011 through 2014, and it was usually 1.5 hours each way, up to 2 hours on a bad day. I assume it has only gotten worse.
I love how greyed-out this comment is. When your moderation is deficient, the meta-moderation of HN has accomodated.

This is 1 of maybe 4 instances I've seen your moderation be 100% off, but I'm glad it didn't go unchecked.
These guys are building a business in this space: https://slackarchive.io/

The claim to fame so far is free archiving for public channels, often useful for open source projects that have accepted the trade-offs that come with directing a community to a free public slack.
Yeah, that's what I've heard, that one of the hard parts was mapping positioning of windows.
Just do the head bobble..

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Head_bobble
If Apple allowed sideloading then you could have what you want and I could have what I want too.
WWDC 2017 Highlights: WatchOS, iOS 11, Apple Pay and More
> Not in the middle of downtown because that's what their peers or customers expect.

Clients expecting you to be there is a perfectly valid reason. Peers isn't.
Yep. Same programming. Details hidden by compiler.
http://slackarchive.io/ is neat, you might be able to get utility out of that, depending on what you're doing.
Another interesting Wayland project (window manager):

https://github.com/way-cooler/way-cooler
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14534295
One thing I can't figure out is how they implemented shaders in the FX program with the whole thing being rendered on the DOM instead of a canvas.
Ask HN: How will pure functional languages impact the web? (PureScript and Elm)
I've lately had some experience functional languages targeting web browsers, such as Elm[1] and PureScript[2] which feel very native to the web. Then there's some pure Haskell Compilers such as GHCJS[3] and Haste[4].

So now I'm wondering how HN readers think this will impact the future web environment?

[1] http://elm-lang.org/

[2] http://www.purescript.org/

[3] https://github.com/ghcjs/ghcjs

[4] https://haste-lang.org/
Trump Style Tactics Finally Stopped Working for Uber
> Uh... GPUs and CPUs fill very different niches.

I think they actually mean CPU = Intel, GPU = NVIDIA because strictly speaking Intel is also a GPU manufacturer, albeit low end GPUs. NVIDIA will play a major role in AI and simulation, that is clear.
Taxes are high in Denmark, but this isn't _import_ tax, which seems to be something that is getting a lot of attention in the US at the moment. It applies to _all_ cars, but electric used to be exempt.

The tax is for "registration" when you purchase a car, and I think its primary (official) purpose is to limit the use of cars and pollution, as well as being aligned with the Scandinavian socialistic mind set -- If you can afford a luxury item such as an expensive car, you are also likely to be able to contribute more to society.

Obviously, people buy cheaper and smaller cars than in the US, so owning 1-2 cars is still quite common despite the high tax rate if you live outside the city centers and need a car.

Some countries have very high taxes on cars -- I think Singapore's is just as high if not worse.
How can I get into this field? I'm a senior CS student.
In Hungary you pay 54% of it + 27% VAT.
I get your gripe with the overuse. I now agree with the point you are trying to make. Thx.
The fact that all the same restrictions still apply to the iPod Touch and the WiFi-only iPads shows that Jobs's infamous "Cingular doesn’t want to see their West Coast network go down" excuse was bullshit.
Have heard somewhere else this was widely spread in WWII era or thereabouts since it was good for radio communications and there were many USians around
Yes, there's modules to fake SafetyNet but Google's really invested in it and it is kind of a losing battle on the side of the Xposed module writers[1][2]. (tl;dr It's quite a hassle to get a workaround on your phone and it's pretty trivial for Google to update SafetyNet.)

Xposed is a bit like torrents, jailbreaking, etc. A lot of people use it to pirate stuff or to cheat in games but there's also genuinly useful usage like:

• why does my banking app not allow me to take a screenshot?

• root permissons for Greenify and Amplify so I can make my battery last for days

• better privacy management than what Google only recently implemented

[1] https://phoneia.com/google-updated-safety-net-and-there-is-n...

[2] http://phandroid.com/2016/08/30/chainfire-suhide-root/
One of the things Richard Thaler points out in Misbehaving (on behavioral economics) is that traditional economics cannot decide whether out is descriptive or normative.

Descriptive economics would be the science of how people actually engage in economic activity. Normative economics describes how formally defined rational actors should behave to maximize their formally defined utility.

Unfortunately, what economists do is create a normative model and then retroactively assert that real people follow the model. As a result, their conclusions don't necessarily relate to the real world.

https://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2016/book-review/behavioral-eco...
For a moment they made me feel like it was 2007 again and I was watching an Apple keynote. I didn't expect to have that feeling again from any company.
Most of developers are not working with code that requires top-notch computer power; I don't think that Nvidia/Intel rivalry will affect the market for people who know JS, CSS and HTML to a significant degree.

But generally speaking, learning Caffe, Tensorflow and math in general sounds like a much more important investment than low-level libraries for specific hardware.
Update: Links in the article isn't clickable so I've attached them below as well.

[1] http://elm-lang.org/

[2] http://www.purescript.org/

[3] https://github.com/ghcjs/ghcjs

[4] https://haste-lang.org/

------

I've previously been programming in Haskell and lisps before that so I have some experience with functional programming. From my experience the Haskell to JavaScript compilers aren't great in practicality as they provide a quite clunky developer experience and does not feel native to the web.

Elm and PureScript however integrates almost seamlessly and Elm in particular provides a smooth developer experience. I also find a nice resource[1] which eases the transition for a haskell developer.

Would love to hear your thoughts!

[1] https://github.com/eeue56/haskell-to-elm
> So imagine my horror at discovering that the United States is more calcified by class than Britain, especially toward the top. The big difference is that most of the people on the highest rung in America are in denial about their privilege. The American myth of meritocracy allows them to attribute their position to their brilliance and diligence, rather than to luck or a rigged system. At least posh people in England have the decency to feel guilty.

Heh, riiiiiight. They feel guilty.

Color me skeptical.
It also makes former Amazon employees radioactive; if you're an employer and you know you might get sued by hiring someone from Amazon, you might pass.
But how much of that saving is because AlphaGo is so great vs a baseline machine learning algorithm?
> Trade dress is a legal term of art that generally refers to characteristics of the visual appearance of a product or its packaging (or even the design of a building) that signify the source of the product to consumers.

I'm aware of that. My point is the purpose of that is solely to prevent confusion in consumers, and two stores with similar trade dress in geographically and jurisdictional separate areas should not cause enough confusion to warrant a legal judgement (especially one by a foreign court).
I prefer the

YAR!

prompt.
This generally works out well no matter how big the number or reports.

People realize that there's x people reporting to you, and tend to be very careful about deciding to bring something to you. If someone wastes his time it looks bad on them.
Are you serious.. SAT solvers have some of the hardest code I have seen. Look at the SAT solvers that won satcompetition. On the other hand IMO, implementing a neural network on your own is very easy. But the point is not that. I consider the neural network libraries(e.g. tensorflow) as given, as it is in not related to the problem, and can be used in many different problems. I will consider only the code above the neural network API for the complexity(like models, encoding etc.). But a SAT solver has a specific function and is core part of the problems it is trying to solve.
Apple Silicon and Machine Learning
As someone who does martial arts (ranging from muay thai to aikido) if it doesn't work in the controlled environment of the ring it often won't work in the messy environment in the world. Krav Maga is really variable in quality and the best gyms are still ones that have a lot of "aliveness" in training, which is generally sparring or some close facsimile thereof.
7 tips for a productive development setup on Linux
20% off for a while with the launch of Affinity Photo for iPad at Apple's WWDC last week.
Reinventing retail: the magic solution that leverages AI and commerce