skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not. I'm doubting the availability of quality clothes. Moreover, my main point is that the price is not a reliable proxy for quality, and I don't know of any other way I could tell between good and crappy wear. They all look the same to me.
I'm super unclear on exactly what these nano-particles are made of, or the nature of the charged polymer coating that is required for binding.

There was an oil spill on the East River in NYC a month ago, about 5000 gallons of oil[0]. Since each nanoparticle binds to some small amount of point, then would we need some close fraction of 5000 gallons worth of charged-polymer coated nanoparticles to extract it all?

If the production of this awesome substance is even close to as straining on the environment (aren't most polymers oil-based?) then I don't see it as a magic bullet for solving all of our water-contamination problems.

Still super freaking cool though.

[0] http://www.amny.com/news/east-river-oil-spill-thousands-of-g...
Very true. Often a larger actor with even larger pockets can turn a winnable battle into a losing war of attrition.

In this case, it appears that Cyrix came out on the other side of the battle in a better position for their win. It would seem it was their later acquisition by National Semiconductor that eventually snuffed them out.
Very cool. What do you consult on?
Wal-Mart's Q1 revenue was $117.5B vs. Amazon's $35.7B ought to put that into perspective.
Understandably so, after all HN is its own little echo chamber. Technophobia is a real problem and we can't just tell people to "get over it" and join the rest of us, who have likely spent our entire lives working with computers for hours a day.

And asking someone to rely on their geek friend for deployment, education and support instead of relying on a stable platform like Facebook is just silly. Unless we can provide a similar, stable and feature-packed platform then there is just no perceptible incentive for people to make the switch.

I mean heck, Google couldn't even do it.

I think the problem needs to be attacked from multiple vectors. Simply building a technologically superior platform with better privacy control isn't enough. There needs to be a real shift in understanding about the dangers of big social media.
There's one more:

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E5%97%8E#Chinese 嗎 ma 'question particle'
George Church ascribes his visionary ideas to narcolepsy
Reminds me of how many Atlassian Platinum Partners offer "licensing support".

e.g. http://valiantys.com/en/software/licensing/

> Each company decides how to conduct their purchases. We let you choose your preferred currency (USD, GBP, EUR, CHF or CAD) and payment method (bank transfer or credit card).

This is just arbitrage! e.g., "If Atlassian doesn't accept your company's standard payment style, we'll bridge the gap for a fee!"

In other words Selling to Fortune 500 is hard enough. For a real challenge "Try Selling to Fortune 500 When You Yourself Are Also Fortune 500." :-)
Was probably going to happen eventually since Lyft and Uber offer a better product, but it's interesting that the big ride sharing companies aren't profitable yet either.
Was the phrase possibly this: 你敢罵我媽的馬嗎？

(roughly: "you dare to scold my mother's horse?")
Veteran-Run Innovation Incubators Are Training Soldiers to Run Startups
I wrote a Chip-8 emulator (VM?) in C# and then tweaked it so that Bridge.NET could compile it down to JavaScript:

https://blog.dantup.com/2016/06/dachip8js-my-csharp-chip8-in...
It's not just about direct litigation costs. If they could e.g. block a major product release, the damage becomes much greater.
Both can afford to spend hundreds of millions on a lawsuit. The lawsuit will be only a part of the budget for both and non-existential. So I don't think that the size matters here.

It would be different if the lawsuit is so expensive that one party could go bankrupt due to it.

This isn't about right and wrong. It's about money. Who has to pay how much to the other party? Both parties think they are better off if they fight. Both parties think they could win money in the end. It's a gamble in the courtroom.
If AMD can implement x86 in hardware, why can't Microsoft implement it in software?
Off-topic, but I think the idea is to have someone like your co-founder be an internal tester—no review required!
Linkers pt. 1
Google reveals when it'll stop supporting Pixel and Nexus phones
> You wanna join the evil 1% in the valley? That's relatively easy. Learn how to code and ship working systems, especially big data and machine learning systems. That ability alone is worth high six-figures income to Google and Facebook (cue people insisting that's not the case because they don't make that kind of money).

Lol what the fuck are you smoking? Making 7 figures is de facto NOT relatively easy and NOT standard for any engineer (in the Valley or otherwise; even with RSUs). I mean, even the article says it's very rare.

> Even then, I consider the election of Donald Trump and the existence of his base a far greater threat to freedom than the worst of Google, Amazon, and Facebook combined.

Donald Trump is gone in four years, GOOG, AMZN, FB will be around for a very (very) long time. The comparison is lacking at best.
Alright, let's say that I have a general mistrust of corporations just because from some modest reading of history I know that if someone has power they'll abuse it for their own interest. So my opinions about Google and others are admittedly influenced by that. It has happened before - all it takes is for someone who stands to profit from a law to make it happen, and then suddenly it's the status quo and everyone's fine about it, not even thinking about the alternatives.

But since you said that what applies to Facebook could also apply to Google here are some examples - http://www.salimvirani.com/facebook/.

Finally, I'll admit that I have no concrete evidence that Google mishandles users' privacy. I will research that in the near future and perhaps my opinion will change accordingly. However, just the fact that they have access to all that data is insane. Potentially, Google and other advertising companies can know more about you than your closest friends and family. If that would be true wouldn't that bother you?
Even if they don't abuse the data now who says they can't do it in the future if that would make them more profit and they could get away with it?
Nice title, although I don't think the proposed solution (formal proof methods) is the answer. My own view is that building software is more of a design process than an engineering process, for the simple reason that software rarely has the kind of fixed requirements that make engineering solutions possible. Most software is constantly evolving and the factors that make it possible to evolve well include things like conceptual clarity and modularity, about which formal methods have nothing to say.

There was a movement around 20 years ago to establish a field of practice called"software design" but I don't think it went anywhere. The problems remain the same though. http://hci.stanford.edu/publications/bds/
Ask HN: Sorry for a silly question about a port speed
Just wondering if 2 Gbps Port Speed (VPS Hosting) is enough for streaming 30min. mp3 audio for about 10 - 15 permanent visitors of a website. And how many it makes (2 Gbps) in Mbps ?

Thank you so much.
One has to wonder why this approach hasn't been successful in litigation against game console emulator developers.
Every font. Every iOS version
Having recently made the mistake of diving too quickly into coding something, without having done enough analysis, I have to upvote this.

Sometimes nothing slows you down as much as being in too much of a hurry.
Boxes and Glue: The Typesetting Magic of TeX
When I read stuff like this I really lose faith in the human race.
Because the market doesn't reward useful, quality work as much as it rewards throwing crap together and investing in marketing.
AMD has a (non-transferable!) license to do so.
Ghost, Medium or Wordpress?
Patience Is a Virtue: Investing in Crypto
At some point, the individual losses from planting later become larger than the losses from birds. Then somebody plants, and then they all do. The first farmer to plant loses more to birds than everyone else, but less than he would by delaying more.
Ask HN: Transparency Report Reading
Hi,

I notice this article today: https://medium.com/@hackinglife7/how-we-grew-themeisle-into-a-50-000-per-month-business-3e94ffe2f8e4

and they have some transparency report. I feel like these reports bring a lot of value to me, and probably others as well.

So anyone know those similar transparency reports where the product owner reports the earning/expense/lession/revenue etc?
You wouldn't be alone as a philosopher-developer, there are a decent number of us out there.

However - shipping code is often very organic, cultivated stuff which foils attempts to establish a coherent philosophy, a through-line of "how it works" - it works because it worked the day before, all that changed was that a little bit more was added. Repeat till broken, then refactor back to sanity(else abandon ship). It's Sisyphean hill-climbing.

This in turn plays into the falsity of "engineering" as a way to describe what's going on with a lot of code. You can do it in the small, but at any scale the codebase habitually becomes a living organism. And that tends to get puzzle-solver types excited, because if it's alive and keeps changing, then they will have endless problems to solve forever!

So I believe the philosophers of the crowd ultimately tend to move away from the applications coalface and look for something relatively smaller that does allow some time for reflection and distillation of the problem.
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Almost contentless fluff piece, basically advertising that Google is hiring in Seattle.
Maybe they submitted it 100 times before it got approved. With the money at stake, the effort is worth it.
Just waiting for Uber to screw over their own drivers with autonomous vehicles and see if these same arguments will be presented.
Apple isn't actually much of a competitor where it matters: OEMs only have one choice which OS to license, which is why without major government trustbusting action, dozens of manufacturers have no choice but to build Android phones.

Google has no competition in this space, and any company that tried to break from them would go under.
In case you're wondering, this was submitted about 4 hours ago, shot to number 1 on the front page, got flagged to death, was vouched for, but never saw the light of day again. It's here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14527753

I'd love to see the story hit the front page again.

It's also here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14528447

And here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14528551
It's not true for all languages, but I actually like Erlang's boilerplate. Almost every OTP project has the same structure, and a very close set of primitives that drive the setup and structure of the application. It can be annoying to setup and get right, but its a common set of structure and patterns which make it much easier to dive into a large project.

So for me it is not always bad, just usually, with some specific exemptions that I think are done well.
Great essay. To me many of Thoreau's points seem like excellent ideas, the difficulty is putting it into practice. Everyone is aware that your work and property is not "you", but in practice, I feel many of my peers, myself included, naturally gravitate toward this behavior. Reading Thoreau is an excellent reminder that I need to have a cautious relationship with property, lest it own me.
No jobs have been destroyed. Chicago needs roughly the same number of drivers, just more are going to be driving Lyft or Uber in the future than Taxis. Taxi drivers might even do better with Lyft and Uber given they weren't getting any of the monopoly profits for driving.

Subprime is less than 20% of car loans, because it's easy to get a car loan if you have good (decent, not great) credit. Car loans are relatively safe because they are collateralized. This is why my bank is offering new and used car loans at 1.99%, and manufacturers/dealers can offer even lower rates. Even with poor credit you can get loans for less than 10%, which is fantastic by historical standards.

Even for the drivers who have terrible credit they can get still get a subprime loan and keep driving. Even at absolute worst case 20%, that's $6,000 a year, about $3/hour for a $30k car being used full time for Lift/Uber. Leasing a cab from a medallion holder for one shift a day probably cost close to $10,000 a year. In the case of the sub-prime loan you can refinance when your credit improves or pay it off over time. The Medallion lease costs were forever. And the driver likely can get higher utilization with Uber and Lyft than they ever got with their cabs, so they should be able to make more money.
"A gene" ... what gene? The article itself states:

> we are all “a bit autistic,” and we all fit somewhere along a spectrum of traits.
No the waterfall method was a misquote by a non-tech reading a report on iterative, software development. The misappropriation took a life of it's own for control-freak managers. Anyone wanting an example of where sensible people went with software engineering can look at Cleanroom from the 80's:

http://infohost.nmt.edu/~al/cseet-paper.html

The results speak for themselves. A modern approach is Altran/Praxis Correct by Construction method getting nearly zero-defect software. Some provably correct in SPARK.

http://www.anthonyhall.org/c_by_c_secure_system.pdf

Today's work can add symbolic analysis (eg KLEE), assertion-driven test generation, languages like Haskell, certified compilers, and so on. What you're seeing in mainstream isn't software engineering. It exists, though, in s niche by academics and industry.
May just be me, but article does seem a little sensationalist (as the website is geared toward machine learning on a Mac).

Can someone with more knowledge on the field elaborate on if this really is a breakthrough/a 'stunning' technological achievement?
"<...> pure colour forms using Dan Bruton's Spectra approximation<...>"

Approximation or not, you cannot assign a unique wavelength or frequency to perceptual (extra-spectral) colors if for no other reason than that the given λ(f) is factually incorrect. Moreover, even an approximation doesn't make much sense, as simply human vision perceives magenta as a very different color to say various shades of pink (white + red) or any other color near red [orange. orange-red, etc.]. Basically, there is no single λ(f) - spectral - color that looks even vaguely like magenta (similarly for cyan, 'fuchsia' etc.).
On principle you're right, but at least for computer vision the number of layers you mention are a bit off. VGG16 worked well with 16 layers without any special handling. ResNet went to >150 layers by using shortcuts, which kind of cracked the problem already. This paper gives us more insight and maybe a more elegant solution.

edit: Just realized you said 2/3 _fully connected layers_, which is right. But for convolutions we needed skip connections, too, to get them to work. Any reason you single out fully connected layers?
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Actually, NTVDM on 64-bit Windows is implemented as a prototype - and it works.
AMD and Intel have agreements (mainly due to x64).
How did you get from 10k to 350k in one year? Was it the SaaS products + consulting ?
Main discussion from this week: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14494337
They're paying money so that I don't see ads? That seems quite nice of them.
Emulation is only an implementation of the ISA. The x86 ISA is hardly "as great as possible". In fact, it's downright crummy: x86-64 is as bloated as RISC architectures usually are without any of RISC's benefits. At best you can make the argument that x86 has done well in spite of the ISA, not because of it.

The silicon-level implementation is another matter entirely, of course--but emulation has nothing to do with that. In fact, that's the definition of emulation--using a completely different implementation to offer a compatible interface.
Intel & AMD have a patent cross-licensing agreement. The x86-64 instruction set was designed and first implemented by AMD.
I wonder if this kept AMD alive during the hard times.

x86 isn't going away for the next 10 years or longer.
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Please don't conduct flamewars on Hacker News. We're trying for thoughtful discussion here. When you do things like the following:

> Despite your disgust with the poor

> Spreading a lot of ridiculous nonsense about how these people are worse than animals

... you're pouring fuel on the fire. Please don't do that, regardless of how correct your underlying argument is.
And that's a big part of the problem: People don't realize privacy is essentially about fragmenting your information. 10 different little specialized services are far more private, even if they're subject to more breaches.

Thinks like your coworkers not knowing every last detail of your family, nobody you know IRL knowing about your weird online kinks, etc.

Your privacy is largely reliant on your different social circles being separated, your various identities being apart, and Google has made it so they can link all of your data together.

(EDIT @joshuamorton: Security and privacy are actually distinctly different concepts with very different implications. A former Googler told me this is not well understood inside the company.)
So Accenture does due diligence on the expected ROI from the product?

What if you're offering a SaaS product that no one there (but everyone on HN) gets - Is it possible to be both Accenture (review and craft a deal and explain the benefit to the business really well) and also be the software-as-a-service if the client has never bought anything like this before?

Context: I am trying to sell DL consulting/productized models but enterprises either say 'we don't really do that' or 'we do that but we don't work with consultants'.
Well, GeekWire is a Seattle publication, so new details on the further expansion of the tech-focused SLU area are interesting to those of us who live and work around here.

For me, it's basically one more reason not to take Mercer anywhere, since this will add another thousand or so cars to the usual mess.
Given that Google can revise their privacy policy unilaterally at any time (and, as far as I know, they are under no legal obligation to delete or restrict access to data collected under previous iterations of the policy) I don't see why any of us should feel comforted by the existence of some mutable words on a webpage somewhere.
Were there any new licensees in the last 15 years?

Nvidia reportedly had issues getting the necessary paperwork: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Denver#History
Obviously, we're leaving LibertarianLand for a moment, but the law generally makes it impossible to split up a parcel of land in such a way that one of the lots will be landlocked. If that lot is going to be landlocked, they must create an easement allowing travel across the property that does have access to the road.

Similarly, easements don't go away when they change buyers. For example, if you own a landlocked property, and you have an easement with your neighbor that allows you to drive across his property on his private road to reach yours, and then the neighbor sells his property, you can still use that road - the new owner cannot say "tough luck."
Intel uses that for their x86 Android devices - and as far as I know, ARM did not sue.
“I don't have enough”
The Uber result for me also gives me 5 internal links to uber.com and a "more results from uber.com" link. Also in the sidebar I get a link to Uber's wikipedia page, as well as various information about the company, and links to competitors such as Lyft and Sidecar.
Understood. I'll throw out one: Allen Edmunds shoes. They are the only shoes I have (not counting tennis shoes), and all cost $300-400 each. The oldest pair I have is 27 years old and still look good. The youngest pair I have is about 5 years old.

They are classic American shoes, solid build, excellent leather. Unlike fancy Italian shoes, they last forever with care and maintenance.

I will never, ever, buy another brand of shoes. And I really don't care how much they cost because they are clearly worth it.

I have to say, it's fun getting compliments on shoes and then seeing the look on someone's face when they hear the shoes are a quarter century old. :)
This marks a distinct shift for Intel. Historically, Intel's IP approach has focused on trade secrets, because they had a huge advantage in manufacturing and implementation techniques that are not easily reverse-engineered. Patent-protecting x86 didn't make much sense during the long period where nobody could make a general-purpose CPU as fast as Intel running native code, much less while emulating x86. As Moore's law has run its course, Intel's lead on that front has been shrinking. Apple's A10 is shockingly close to matching Kaby Lake on performance within a similar power envelope. And Ryzen is within spitting distance of Broadwell at the high end. All on non-Intel foundry processes. That was unimaginable 10 years ago.
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Actually, many open source app platforms like Sandstorm and Cloudron offer managed hosting as well!
Not sure if you're being facetious or not, but they're paying Google to not show ads for their competitors when a person searches for "uber".
Historically Apple's primary strength is product quality. This kind of apps should not pass the App Store review. The App Store should not allow ads, since they reduce overall product quality. Google web search is different. Google does not control web contents. Google's primary product/service is the free web search, and they have to make a profit from it. App Store search is a tiny part of Apple's product/service. Apple makes tons of money from other parts.

Steve Jobs was the creative artist in the IT industry, and obsessive in product quality. It may be time to ask the question "What would Steve Jobs have done?"
> Intel has done a lot of work

> copying someone's technology and emulating it without paying a license fee

You are contradicting yourself.

Intel built an instruction set for hardware. Emulating it on an ARM would completely negate the usefulness of it. There is no copying, since the emulator is built on software. The patents concern hardware design, not software.

The whole case should be laughable. It shouldn't even be thinkable to take something like this to court. But I'm sure some layers are going to make a lot of money.
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Use Expo.io ... if you're building in React Native, Expo is the easiest way to distribute apps (even on the Web with Snack)
Can someone explain this:

> AMD made SSE2 a mandatory part of its 64-bit AMD64 extension, which means that virtually every chip that's been sold over the last decade or more will include SSE2 support. [...] That's a problem, because the SSE family is also new enough—the various SSE extensions were introduced between 1999 and 2007—that any patents covering it will still be in force.

AMD64 requires SSE2 which was introduced in 2001, right? So isn't it just 1 year until Microsoft can put in what's required for the AMD64 architecture?