skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You may have meant this, but I want to make sure people aren't mistaken - you can't run a government like a for-profit company, but you still need to run it like a company.

And a company only exists as long as it has money. Our current government has a tremendous amount of debt. It's awesome to consider social programs like UBI, single payer, etc, but unless it's fiscally sustainable, we're stealing from our future generations. And that would be among the most horrific things a generation can do to another.
I love these types of books. I'm about to buy this.

Is there any reason to get the most recent version (says "with a new preface by the author") over the $2 paperback?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14704619
That's the competing theory.

Apparently there are two camps of Earhart searchers: Those who believe she crashed in the Marshal Islands and died as a POW, and those who believe she crashed on Nikumaroro and died as a castaway. The Nikumaroro folks[1] mount an expedition & issue press releases every year or so, now it seems like it's time for the team Solomon Islands to take the spotlight for a moment.

[1]http://tighar.org/
It is not. It is also a matter of education: many of the rural poor would simply not be able to take over non-manual-labor jobs. The severe sex ratio imbalance that resulted from the OCP has also had significant, negative effects on relationships in general.

https://www.economist.com/news/asia/21648715-distorted-sex-r...
According to navigant research (https://www.navigantresearch.com/research/navigant-research-...), it's GM (who bought cruise automation), and Ford (who bought a majority share in Argo AI) who are the most advanced.
Is there anything the family can do to be better prepared when the institution is not prepared? My wife is pregnant (high-risk) and we have been concerned since reading this article. We are in the SF Bay Area.
It's not imaginary, it's just uncertain.
Ordered by whether you have an attorney really saved me when I was 19. I sat patiently, and took notes from attorneys defending people with similar charges. I said the same things, and got the same leniency.
Yup. TIM goes on the die to transfer heat to the Integrated Heat Spreader (which is the lid you normally see). Intel has an issue with their thermal paste, it doesn't properly fill the void and doesn't contact the IHS well, so heat just builds up in the die. Check out this amazing chart from the Tom's Hardware review:

http://i.imgur.com/7BIJmxS.png

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/intel-core-i9-7900x-skyl...

Heat just is not getting to the IHS properly on these chips, and heavy overclocking just makes the whole thing worse.

It's really been a slow-burning problem since Ivy Bridge, where Intel switched from soldering the lid to TIM + an adhesive. Solder has long been preferred for its superior heat transmission, but Intel says say smaller dies have problems with cracking over time due to thermal cycling. However, AMD has been happily soldering the lid on much smaller Ryzen dies, so apparently it's not all much of an issue in practice.

Well, you can get away with that on a processor that puts out 50 watts during normal operation. It's been an issue for a while on the unlocked/overclockable SKUs, particularly on the latest 7700Ks, but even an OC'd 7700K only puts out ~100W, so it was relatively manageable. Extreme overclockers could delid and replace the thermal paste with something better (often liquid metal like Conductonaut), which does help performance quite a bit.

But, with the higher TDP of Skylake-X, this has become a pressing issue just for normal operation. Things change when we're talking about a $1000 processor that needs to be delidded to sustain boost at stock settings. That's just not acceptable.

I almost would rather have a bare die at this point. Mounting pressures are no longer insane so it wouldn't be as terribe an ordeal to mount as as Athlon XPs were back in the day (god forbid your screwdriver slip on that bracket, with 50+ pounds of force you are guaranteed to gouge something).
Dove is a woman.

(Source: I'm her husband.)

EDIT: the issue isn't the Hacker News audience; the issue is that you were wrong in your assumption that Dove was male, and your entire comment depended on that assumption. There is no audience for which you could write that comment where it would have been correct (though some audiences might have cheered it, that would be a fault, not a virtue, of theirs.)

One of the beautiful things about the HN community is that we expect and welcome disagreement -- but we hold it to high standards. We expect people to read whole comments and engage in the actual ideas expressed, not to skim and then rail at straw men. You are welcome here, and you are welcome to disagree with the ideas expressed in Dove's comment -- but we will not demean you by excusing low-quality, low-content, personally-targeted rants as the best you can do.
the Bolt doesn't sell well because they're only making 30,000 of them this year and the only place where they sat on lots was in California where they are competing against a dozen California-only compliance cars that you can't get in any other state.

Here in Ontario they sold out completely in the first month they were here and there's a waiting list that won't get fulfilled until next year at the earliest.

I've driven one and it's great.
There used to be a product called Kimono that did scraping well, but they were acquired by Palantir and shut down.
NixRay crowdfunding their RF-blocking, hack-proof device cases
If you want to see a truly terrible recommendation system try aliexpress.
Some people need the sugar, some do not. It's not always easy to work out which is which so you may need to err on the side of caution until you know your co-workers better.
This was already covered back in February: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13650665
UBI sounds a bit like minimum wage. Our normal tools of analysis will fail to find much of a problem so long as it's only a small difference from how things would have been without it, and a disaster otherwise.
Stock manipulation is a federal crime. I am sure, GS doesn't do this, otherwise feds would notice them.
For an example of how incompetent the GSA is, and why moving 18F underneath it was such a crap idea, look no further than the 2012 Oversight hearing on "Addressing GSA's Culture of Wasteful Spending":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0oekP6OGbo

The GSA is a living, breathing oxymoron. They try to simplify government purchasing by making 999 rules and hoops to jump through, burning through cash and taking a percentage of every contract put through the organization. It's a giant cancerous scam that was allowed to grow so big it can't be killed or stopped, like the IRS/Fed.
Apple was an established technology company with a wallet fat enough to see the iPhone through.

Cars aren't a new product line, they're Tesla's only product line. If they fail, Tesla fails. History is littered with good ideas that didn't get off the ground the first time and then got bought for pennies on the dollar by an established player in the industry.
Extensive discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14700382
I have been using it for a few weeks on a personal react native project, and it has made my life so much better. So I decided to package it up and see if anyone else found it as useful.
Right, but I think they mean for that particular cause of false negatives quoted (counter overflow). There's no good way I can think of to mitigate the false negatives caused by removing items never inserted into the filter since you have no way of knowing what was exactly added and what wasnt.

There's a paper linked in the blog post that goes into a lot of detail about minimizing false negative probability.
> Meet the Parents

Ah yeah, isn't the stern father in that movie supposed to be ex-CIA or something?

As of 2009 Fox News indicated that the DoD has over 27,000 "recruitment, advertsing , and public relations" employees. Even the Fox writer back then seems slightly perturbed by the bursting-at-the-seams state of the war industry.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/02/05/pentagon-spending...

There is also good evidence from the Stratfor hacks that the DoD is engaging in astroturfing.

And if you're younger they come to your school and speak at assemblies, call your home phone every few months (at least in my time), etc. I once humored the army recruitment guys by talking on the phone for about 2 minutes, but I was absolutely clear that I had no interest in joining before hanging up. A day later though, two soldiers in uniform showed up at my parent's house and demanded to see me!
What does happen very frequently however is a prestigious researcher being asked to review papers, and passing them to his/her postdocs.
But ~ is wrong, unless you're assuming that productivity is necessarily equal to population. It's not really right even then, because the ratio between GDP' and 2(Population') is not constant but rather equal to (Population).
Total parts, perhaps, total assemblies - not really.
And one factory that's not gonna do too well when the Pacific plate decides it's had enough of SV's BS and shakes things up.
At the desktop level I don't get why people care that much about power consumption? It means you have to dissipate more heat, okay, that means you can't use a cheap cooler. But it AFAIK even an extra 100w is cheap in the most expensive areas, especially when contrasted against productivity or cigarette breaks, or people sometimes being 20 minutes late to work...
Was there a tradeoff involved there? Is there content that is not in the Netflix catalog today because of the costs of closed-captioning the rest of the catalog?

If that is the case, are Netflix's customers better or worse off, individually and collectively? Is society better or worse off? (I don't have a clear answer, and I'm not sure there's an objectively clear answer, but I do think that there are tradeoffs in these discussions that are sometimes hidden/ignored.)
After the <5min interview he didn't believe that I qualified for the TN-1 Visa. Even though I had been granted the initial one 2 years prior. Since the decision is solely at the discretion of the CBP agent, that's all there was to it.
I owned a software company. Almost half of our software engineers are female now although historically it has been mostly men as typical.

I had to seek out recruiting female engineers. Now with more balanced gender ratio in the company, things are just better.
It's available online: https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/second-edition/ , a publisher that didn't believe in digital sharing that also agreed to publish it would be a little... surprising.
The 'Great Leap Forward' killed more people than the entire population of Canada. And that was only a handful of decades ago. The party that did so maintains an iron grasp on power, and corruption at all levels is rampant.

There are many, many Chinese who are working very hard for the betterment of their country, and there are many, many wonderful things about China. But it is virtually impossible to overestimate the difficulties they are going to be facing in the coming years. Their economic success, by becoming the manufacturing powerhouse of the world, has come at tremendous cost, and is not maintainable in the long term. We live in interesting times.
There's a grocery store across the street from me, connected by an underground mall. I don't even need to go outside to get to groceries, much less get in a car
Thanks for pointing me in that direction, I should have looked at the JS interop capabilities in Max.
The brain and consciousness need not be magic for the philosophical issue to arise. The fundamental question is objectivity vs subjectivity. Consciousness is subjective, yet science is an objective affair. Can the objective be used to explain the subjective, or is the objective an abstraction from intersubjective experiences?

If it's the latter, then the project to explain everything in scientific terms is doomed, because it will always leave something out. If it's the former, then subjectivity is not fundamental, but arises from the objective world. How this is so is a difficult matter (no pun intended).

Either way, there is no magic involved, just a question of where philosophical assumptions begin. You can start with matter or the mind and see where it takes you.
Thank You!

You did a fantastic job of illustrating the Tech vs Car yardstick!
In addition to the obvious political angle, it's nice to see an engineer talking about their duty to the populace. Software engineers hand waive this off because we generally aren't building things that can kill people. We are however building things that have tremendous impact on people's lives, and many in our profession do not seem to take that seriously.
Netflix isn't really a good example of something centralized. In practice, Netflix actually looks a lot closer to DNS with each ISP running a local instance that the user connects to rather than a single service run in data centers owned by Netflix.
Yes, the country is going to have more output than one company
Pffft...

You want a 5-star crash rating and GM ask which platform do you want it based on. Designing a good EV is a lot easier for companies that already design competitive cars.

You're right, they may survive. Surviving isn't gonna please the people who invested in them.
I can't create a comprehensive definition for it, but I can identify many components that are objective and purely technical in nature:

* Able to clearly communicate technical concepts. Evidenced by seeing displaying in wiring logical ordering of thought, separation of complex pieces into smaller, less complicated, and clearly delineated pieces, effective and actuate command of technical vocabulary.

* Able to code. Evidenced by watching them code.

* Familiarity with the data structures and algorithmic approaches native to the problem domain. Evidenced by discussion around that domain, perhaps a psuedo-code exercise with a relevant problem paired with discussion of design tradeoffs of different approaches.

* Understanding of the cross-cutting concerns related to maintainable software: testing, documentation, modularity, etc. Evidenced by Socratic discussion of said topics. "Given this problem common to sustainable software development, what would you do/have you done?"

I still believe in the value of meritocracy. Actually pursuing meritocracy solves a lot of the inclusivity problems we think we have. The problem is that people are inherently biased and unless we are purposeful in accounting for these biases it is easy to weave then into any system you design, no matter what the name or started goals.

Doesn't change the value of an actual meritocracy. Just highlights one of the challenges of being human.
This might be naive, but I wonder if the essential part of mouse data could be compressed if only we understood it better.
A UI testing tool which might be helpful for SMBs
> You sound like the kind of person I would avoid interacting with at all costs

And yet...
Interesting that despite this being an Australian speech reported on an Australian site, there is no mention of Nightingale's role in the development of nursing in Australia, at the request of the great Henry Parkes. Here's his granddaughter (herself a nursing educator) on the subject:

http://www.nurseuncut.com.au/from-nightingale-nurses-to-mode...

If only we had statesmen of the calibre of Parkes today, instead of the shameful and mediocre crop we've got now.
The US already has the best healthcare in the world. The problem is that it isn't evenly distributed. Improving the technology without improving the distribution likely won't substantially improve the statistics relative to other developed countries which are capable of adopting similar best practice but delivering it to more of their population.
Maybe they've worked out that showing people more of what they just bought makes people go on and on about Amazon's recommendation system all the time.

And when people are complaining about something they endlessly repeat "Amazon Amazon Amazon Amazon".

When you have nothing to complain about you're less likely to evangelise.
Your body is a big battery and scientists want to power gadgets with it
He mentioned them because their unique situation creates perverse incentives.

Your last line is one of the most frustrating parts of academia. Not being able to criticize misaligned incentives simply because it involves foreigners is crazy.
As a newbie to functions, serverless and Spring ecosystem, I got a few doubts:

1. Does it support other languages? If not, is it in the roadmap?

2. Can we expose it to our users so that they can create custom logic? If yes, how do we ensure that their functions do not pose a security risk to our systems? What are other security implications to be kept in mind?

3. How do we test, monitor and trace/log it?

4. Is there a concept of warm/cold in SCF?

5. Can we share libraries among different functions?

6. Can we call a function inside another? How do functions communicate with each other?

7. Can they share memory? How does it handle transactions, persistence, connection pooling, etc?

8. What is the failover mechanism? Does it ensure exactly once semantics for its execution? Does it automatically restart if it died in between an execution?

9. What is the difference between Apache Spark, Spring Cloud Data Flow, Spring Cloud Functions, AWS Lambda/Openwhisk when seen from the perspective of an application developer(writing business logic)?

10. Openwhisk has support for workflows. How does the provided SCF Openwhisk adapter handle such cases?
A ReasonReact Tutorial
Marketing is committed to it. But for new apps? We'll see.
I feel the same way, but the other way around: design is MUCH more predictable than the engineering side in my experience.
That's going to pretty much be a non-starter for most people. I'd like to use this software and I might be able to get a couple more people at my company interested, but that's not going to be enough to convince anyone to set up an on-premise server to manage the app.

Perhaps you would consider a hybrid approach where the actual app connected to the API and set up the required webhooks, which your server could then use to notify the app?
> Population decline due to low birth rate is mostly going to be on the tailing end of population age. You would expect tailing-end losses should generally skew towards retired non-productive members.

I don't follow. Population decline among old people is due to death. Population decline due to low birth rate occurs at the opposite end of the age spectrum, among babies. Those losses start among unproductive children and mature over time into losses among productive young workers.
Chinese bike-sharing startup Ofo raises $700M led by Alibaba
Create a news reader iOS app for your news website
Alternatively, it's a seductive metaphor because humans love to try to explain one thing in terms of another. Thus the universe is like a clock, and the laws of physics operate like clockwork. Until QM and the metaphor broke down.

Similarly, the brain is like a computer. Until it's not.

Interesting how nobody runs it the other way. A computer is like the brain. Why don't we? Probably because we understand computers a lot better than brains, and use that analogy to make sense of something otherwise mysterious.

None of this has anything to do with a soul, btw. It's all a matter of how we think about things.

The mistake is when we take our metaphors literally and try to make domain B fit into domain A, despite obvious differences. Then we end up with a convoluted view of B that's been distorted by being mapped onto A.
Why Is There a Huge Difference Between Facebook Ads and Google Analytics?
Yes, it really is special. As you said, a few companies in tech do it. And they have a tremendous advantage.

My overwhelming experience at companies ranging from small $1-5MM revenue shops to >$100MM startups has shown onboarding to be an ad-hoc afterthought. No conscious design.

Many of these companies don't understand how much it's hurting them.

As I've grown more senior, I've learned to onboard myself... seeking out knowledgeable individuals and teasing out the big picture. This is not the default for more junior developers. And thus they lag like an unspun turbo, whining as they try to spin up.

To have full-spectrum -- internal- and external-faced -- onboarding baked into the company culture is a tremendous advantage. It promotes a clear, razor-sharp, global context that allows individuals to move faster with greater alignment.

I love what MailChimp is doing.
Is Millennial Guy the (relatively mundane) sequel to Bicentennial Man?
Macron’s California Revolution
How do you calculate what you believe is a fair price for Tesla shares? What would your current fair price be?
Dove said she’s a woman pretty clearly. And her comment didn’t make something that was about women all about men. She made it all about shit people deal with in their working life.
I think it'd be better for them to find another place to work. Not every employer-employee relationship is meant to be.

Mailchimp believes onboarding is company-critical. And their turnover rate speaks for itself.

There are plenty of other places to work.
It is just low on helium. It had ascended above its pressure altitude and vented helium, then descended again.
broke: having completely run out of money [1]

broken: having been fractured or damaged and no longer in one piece or in working order [2]

1. http://lmgtfy.com/?q=define%3A+broke

2. http://lmgtfy.com/?q=define%3A+broken
I'm sorry, but this is just stupid. You can take literally anyone who hypocritically asserts a belief in an ideal and use it to huffily dismiss the concept overall. And you can find such a person for literally any ideal.

For example, I could say: whenever I think of anti-racism, I think of [insert quote about someone who claims to be anti-racist and then says/does something racist]. Does that say anything about the concept of anti-racism itself? Or is it just irrelevant commentary about the fact that there are dishonest people claiming the mantle of every ideal while not living up to it?

Just because Irving Kristol is too dumb to understand the concept of meritocracy doesn't mean the concept is without merit.
I fully agree, and what's more Intel has the performance to back it up. This chip pulls a lot but it's wicked fast, it's a massive step forward in framerates. It combines the minimum-framerate improvements of HEDT/Ryzen with the single-threaded performance of Kaby Lake. Oh yeah and AVX512 too.

For a sense of perspective here, going from a circa-2012 2600K to a current 7700K is a 40% jump in performance, so it's roughly equivalent to 4-5 years of gains at Intel's usual tempo - only you also have 10 cores on this platform. This thing is an absolute monster for gaming or other tasks that lean heavily on single-threaded performance.

But the power consumption is really the triggering issue for the problems with shitty partner-boards overheating and the TIM. The TIM is really the showstopper right now.
> But yet the same pro-life people who want to save every child's life don't seem nearly so sympathetic to mothers, even mothers that want to have healthy children.

This is rather disingenuous if you're referring to the practice of making sure one's children are healthy by murdering the unhealthy ones before birth. If, on the other hand, you refer to the coexistence of pro-life positions with being unwilling to allocate money to healthcare... Yeah, that's unfortunate, although not inherently contradictory (in my experience, both frequently co-occur with a strong emphasis on private charity rather that government services).
Who will be first to break it into microservices
Haha the sibling posts don't understand what company architecture is. Like software architecture, it's a skill unto itself.

What Mailchimp is doing is fantastic.

Disclosure: I've never been affiliated with Mailchimp. I just think more companies need to refocus on onboarding and training instead of complaining of a talent shortage. It's a market opportunity people!