skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're right that there are categories of products that this absolutely works. When I buy clothes, books, media... even tech, then I probably will buy something related. But there are some "one-off" purchases that Amazon doesn't need to hound be about.
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I dropped my s7, getting quotes of $170 for the screen + digitizer :( The phone is worth like $250 new on eBay, but it's $170 to have someone fix it.. so frustrating.
Not to mention that they would be riddled with security holes, with no regular update schedule or bug bounty in sight.

DRM isnt going away, this may be the lesser of two evils.
With all the cores it would still apply to inter-core communication and memory sharing.
Since the article does refer to these as desktop CPUs, I'm curious what kind of desktop workloads people are running that could benefit from / justify them?
Even rough interpolation converges pretty fast for plain vanilla square roots, especially if you don't need an answer accurate to more than a few decimals. Newton-Raphson or more sophisticated methods can be a big win for more complicated functions, of course.

Estimate sqrt(17):

Clearly it has to be between 4 and 5.

Try 4.5. Result: 20.25
Try 4.2. Result: 17.64
Try 4.1. Result: 16.81
Try 4.15. Result: 17.01. Probably good enough for most practical purposes.
Is There a Single Method for the Internet of Things? – ACM Queue
Bitcoin is cool, but I think people are over playing how revolutionary it is/will be.
Surely it must be more economical to recover/recycle it from waste?
Facebook hate speech: Germany law to fine Facebook over hate speech
Not really, but it's generally up to individual projects. Many support both gcc and clang.
It's a very difference experience going as a AP holder then the insane one day visit. It's much more laid back. I typically do the three fast-passes I can get, plus a couple of favorites that I can hit when the lines are not long.

As a engineer Disneyworld is _fascinating_. Every type of engineering is at play, from social engineering to mechanical, IT, operational research etc. Think about the complexity of dealing with 80k people streaming randomly into a park, who all want to be entertained by a combination of rides, characters and shows. in my experience, the average fans wants around 7 rides/experiences a day to feel like it's a good time. Think about the processes and systems you need to support that.
There's still plenty of room to grow into VR and/or 120Hz/240Hz monitors at 4k/5k.
Those charts are GDP per capita; the population also increased in this time
From April: https://medium.com/waymo/apply-to-be-part-of-waymos-early-ri...
Not every website is intended for a random person (or random developer), especially in the open-source space, and especially when the developers don't want to take on the support burden of users who do not have a certain degree of background knowledge.
My theory is that for some reason the class of Chinese people who can afford to travel to western countries somehow enriches for ones who are somewhat rude.
Fascinating. Thx!
That's too bad - there is a world of difference between DLP and Disneyworld.
That's pretty standard for a lot of consultants everywhere. Fly to a client site for the week and then back home on weekends. This is talking about daily.
This could make a good build machine.
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Please add a Java based web development option (ideally with JSF), I'd join in a heartbeat. The web dev is too javascript / front-end centric, and the CS (I'd assume) is too math-centric.

Java / JSF / MyFaces is the best of both worlds, imo. No need to write most front-end javascript, 80% of dev time can be spent on business logic.
So much this. My and my GF used to go to Disneyland Paris on crappy days in February or March. If it wasn't for the stupid rule that you are not allowed to stay in the cart after the ride we could've done Space Mountain a few times in a row without leaving the train.
You should maybe read up about what addiction really is. What it is caused by. I think you misunderstand what is meant by "dopamine hit".

Yes dopamine is part of a loop or cycle that is a survival strategy. In a healthy individual in a healthy situation.

When this loop works properly then yes, it is called being happy (there's more things to being happy but a properly functioning dopamine loop is part of it).

Think of a dopamine release and its causes like a particular message in a protocol that runs inside our body.

Our bodies aren't perfect or tested against every possible situation.

Sometimes the combination of the dopamine protocol and the environment causes a weird feedback loop that is no longer beneficial to this survival strategy.

In most of those cases, this results in a state called an addiction. (and in that case we call the dopamine release a "dopamine hit", to emphasize the role of addiction)

Fighting this bad feedback loop can be a constant struggle. A daily, constant struggle that lasts a lifetime once you get stuck in it. If you compare that to "being happy", then I can only assume you've never experienced it (and I hope you never will, but you can still learn compassion).

Sometimes these faults are exploited on purpose, very often for the commercial purposes of the amoral corporations.

It's also the case that certain people are more susceptible to these exploits. For instance ADHD is well-known to be co-morbid with susceptibility to addiction.

Peace :)
His name is not searchable in weibo, and news about him in China are like "Liu Xiaobo and Nobel Prize are double jokes". Feel so sad.
The easily available deposits on Earth are expected to last longer than 150 years. It's unlikely to be worth the delta-v to bring it here from Mars before known deposits are exhausted.

Even after that I expect deep sea mining or direct extraction from seawater to be more viable than interplanetary shipping.
There's a fair amount of museums, interesting areas and elaborate buildings in Shenzhen. But it's not like Europe where everything is in one place, it's a huge city. I don't think HK is very strong at public things, except national parks and to some extent transport.
I sometimes relax my mind and drift off to sleep by doing basic square root calculations in my head.
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PostgreSQL 10 Beta 2 Released
I feel like this article is confusing numerical precision with "precision measurements". The latter typically means that the focus has moved from discovery of a given process, to measuring its properties with high precision, where high precision at LHC is often an uncertainty below 1%.
This is why Russia wanted to help Trump
To get an idea of whan a mind-bogling number that is: Its about the amount of the GDP of the Netherlands. The whole economic output of a 1. World country with 17M inhabitants is slightly smaller than this budget.

[0]: http://databank.worldbank.org/data/download/GDP.pdf
That is a good thing if you care in the least about security. Being secure is a selling point of browsers, and hence they take code quality seriously-- bug trackers, bug bounties, regular and automatic updates.

History has shown that third party plugin providers care not even a little bit about how slow or broken their plugins are, because they have a monopoly on that content you want to view. As a result, in a world where the content creators control the plugin code, everyone ends up with broken, insecure, slow plugins.

We're trying to exit that world. Don't start getting nostalgic for it.
Universal does.

I loathe it.
"United Airlines piloting technology" -- I see what you did there.
Do you build upon an event sourcing library, or have you written everything from scratch inhouse?
I actually don't hire junior/entry-level devs, but I do get flooded with their resumes even though I'm very explicit that I'm looking for experienced devs.

If I were considering entry-level hires, I wouldn't hire bootcamp grads if their only experience were at the bootcamp. If someone has been coding for less than 4 months, I'm going to spend most of my time teaching them how to code. That kind of employment provides more value to the employee than the employer. That might work for some big companies, but I can't do it in a small company.

> There may be less variance between them from a purely technical standpoint but their backgrounds are far more diverse than what you'd get out college.

I agree with you, but it doesn't make it any easier to hire them. I have no idea if I'd rather have an ex-ballerina or an ex-salesman as my employee. Neither of those careers give you training as a developer.

So if I'm just trying to decide if someone can do the job, seeing 20 people with 12-16 weeks of experience isn't helpful. And, as someone who has been writing code for 20 years and still has a lot to learn, it's insulting to suggest someone can become competent in that short a time. I know for a fact that they can't. It sometimes takes that long for an experienced dev to learn a new stack, and bootcamps are claiming to teach people a huge array of technologies.

> A good hiring manager ought to take the time to treat a candidate respectfully, but I know this behavior is rare.

I treat candidates with respect. I think (most) bootcamps should treat their customers with more respect and stop promising to teach them to code. Bootcamps are mostly "teaching to the test" in my experience -- they teach you how to get hired. That's valuable, but it's a totally different thing.
Yes, if you can find a place to spend your coins that accepts the old chain, and another place that accepts the new chain.
Methodology and analysis of letter distributions blog post
EPYC has double the PCIe lanes, double the DRAM channels, and will have enterprise level support. Threadripper is classified by AMD as a Ryzen family product, and is consumer focused (or super high-end desktop focused) rather than enterprise focused. TR will be on shelves, EPYC will not.

AMD's 16-core EPYC part (the 1P 7351P) is around $750, but supports 2TB/socket and 128 PCIe lanes in exchange for a good chunk of frequency (2.4G base, 2.9G Turbo). Threadripper is also single socket only - most of EPYC is 2P.

Though given Intel's pricing, if AMD has the ecosystem, then the mid-range of the Xeon line might migrate to TR/EPYC.
The area where they get things done is unmanned spaceflight. Politicians don't care for that so the people at NASA can just do their work without meddling.

I don't think they have got anything interesting done in manned spaceflight lately.
Amazon has far more mobile apps than you may think
A Chrome extension that intercepts all form submissions on all websites
Yep, I certainly don't mean to imply my code is right. But it's usually shorter, and it's mine. So when I find the bug, I can make the sane fix on the schedule I need.

For particularly good OSS libraries, I guess providing a PR would only be a little slower than fixing internal code. But for anything poorly maintained, or with closed development, discovering those bugs often means writing an enormous workaround or switching libraries entirely - they just won't be fixed any time soon.
Judge: Pacemaker data can be used in arson trial
Sure, and PCIe lanes will be key to making that work, not CPU. EPYC has insane capabilities there.
Been a long time since I saw this. Reminds of School math. Nowadays sqrt is just a calculator button press away and so I have all but forgotten how to do this. This refreshed my memory.
Best thing about this is that competition is back (in the high end x86 market) and the winner is the consumer, CPU market have been stale for a while.
Why do some neighborhoods improve?
You joke, but Penn Station and Port Authority are effectively occupied territory. There are at least four different law enforcement agencies present and patrolling, stopping and frisking anybody who "looks out of place", hassling homeless people, and generally making you feel "safer".
If you ask an enterprise vendor if their software has feature X, the answer is always, "Yes!"

FWIW, not all enterprise software vendors do that. We don't, for example.

Just last night I was running through a demo for a prospective customer, and my contact asked about some new features. The answer was "we have some of that partially implemented, another is trivial, and another one is going to take some research. Ballpark estimate is probably 6 weeks or so to do all that".

Of course maybe it's different when you're a founder who has spent his entire career as a developer and got sick of that exact bullshit routine. :-)
I'd look for the repair manual.
Intel likes to market these CPUs to people who 'mega-task'.

Video Editing while
Gaming while
Streaming while
Hosting a server while
Dealing with encrypted data while
Multi-monitor while
Contributing to science while
while
while

etc

AMD hasn't really declared which market they are after yet. It's likely going to be a big part of the launch event.
Reagan is gone, Carter is still doing good, and solar costs are falling at an incredible rate. No sigh necessary!
I suspect that falsely denouncing paywalled research as "not science" isn't going to work in bringing about the outcome that you want. Probably a strategy without so many scotsmen would work better.
> I would love to be able to buy more simple, well made things

Problem is, if we are a minority of folks thinking this way, it won't make sense financially for manufacturers. What's happening with the buy-and-dispose generation is that nobody really cares about quality anymore - which is why the market is going in this way.
Pretty much all the shared hosts I've seen use Apache (or lighttpd) specifically because of htaccess files.
A coldwar - creating the ilusion that the other side wants to get there first.
AIUI though this can be something of a false economy. Cash has processing fees too: you need to pay someone to count it, secure it, take it to the bank. Plus you need to deal with shrinkage.

I can't find numbers now, but I remember seeing somewhere that suggested all of this was not all that much less than credit card processing fees. The only citation I can find now is that theft is something like $40 billion, falling most heavily on small businesses that don't pay for transport.
A better question would be what 50K TPS means. Does it mean on average, or at peak, or etc.

Obviously in any case it will be faster than Bitcoin.
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"should Apple be the most profitable company - or someone that literally cures cancer?"

Nobody needs an Apple product. Life is a basic need.
Adult kids living at home is perfectly natural
“Brvty” in the Go Programming Language (2014)
Here's the article from which that graphic is sourced:

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/what-is-driving-growth-i...

I'm shocked that they are so brazen as to frame one of the categories as "entitlement spending". The neutral terms for the contents of this category are Medicare and Medicaid, pensions, retirement benefits, Social Security, welfare, and unemployment. You can also call them health insurance, retirement insurance, and unemployment insurance.

Technically, retirement benefits are things to which retirees are entitled to. Workers took lower-paying government jobs after weighing the value of the salary now against the value of the promised pensions later, or contributed to Social Security (not so much a choice by individuals, but a choice by the government of the past) which allows them to take the benefits of the program now. This is the literal meaning of the word "entitle", not the pejorative that it's become.

As far as health care and welfare go, I would argue that simply being human in a wealthy, modern society ought to entitle people to the right not die on the streets of preventable causes. I don't regret my tax dollars going to those causes, except insofar as they exceed actually providing health care and instead enrich the bureaucracy and megacorporations that are paid to provide it.
Sounds like a decent idea overall, except once again they're sticking to those stupid useless travel vouchers instead of paying people actual money.

You want to solve this problem? Offer cash. I'd volunteer to be bumped 99% of the time if they offered cash. As it is, my percentage is 0.
The private sector can only make significant moves in this area (at the moment) with investments and funding from NASA.

NASA has been a massive customer / subsidizer for entrants in the new space arena.

I'm a huge fan of private sector space innovation, but having a large and well-funded public entity helps make that innovation possible. Advocating blanket defunding of NASA would put the private space sector into jeopardy.
I think hotels have cut back drastically on this, now that most reservations are guaranteed with a credit card. At some magic hour, say 5PM, they charge everyone's credit card for the night whether they checked in or not. For most of the reservations I've made in the past year, the cancellation period is actually one day prior to arrival.

In years of business travel, where I frequently arrive at the hotel at midnight, I've only been walked three times. Once at a trade show, where the hotel was renovating and didn't get the rooms done on schedule. Second, where a guest got ill and was unable to depart on schedule. Third, on a trip to New York, where they walked me to a sister property located literally across the street (I got the feeling that these two hotels frequently traded guests).
It's sad to see many people quoting npm as a good example while version ranging has been mastered by package managers on Linux and earlier Unix systems for decades.
I don't even know where to start with this comment, only seeing your family on the weekends? Doesn't seem like much a life to me.
The CS Academy does teach Java. It's our main tool for understanding a lot of the lower-level stuff such as architecture, scaling, etc.

We use JavaScript as the front-end web language, for reasons that are likely obvious (as well as React/Redux), and also use JS learn a lot of the data structures/algorithms portion, but Java is our main compiled language.
The Quebec that's in Canada? I'm Canadian but not from Quebec.

The last time I was there (in Montreal) at every corner I had to wait for three or four cars running the red light and even then sprint across the street since I lost valuable crosswalk seconds.

I think you're a Quebec driver trying to lull me into a sense of trust so you can run me over when I visit.
What I really want is a WYSIWYG/M editor which saves/reads from markdown. I suspect that one or more of the various editors out there can do it, but it seems that all I can find are editors that will substitute the wysiwyg part for MD rather than the HTML part.
It is a massive pain for average users but it's well supported by browsers is because big corporations have IT departments that provision (and admin) computers for their users, average or otherwise, and the provisioning process includes setting up client certs.

So while browsers do support client certs, there has been very little effort to make them easy to install due to a chicken-egg situation. They're hard to use, so no one uses them, but no one (random sites on the Internet, that is) uses them for client auth because they're hard to use.
Interesting argument, do you know of any CPU that, combined with an FE VEGA or GTX 1080Ti, reaches > 144fps in modern games at max settings and 4K resolution?

Because that’s what your monitor can display.
Not even remotely close. No major distribution uses the LLVM toolchain.
Interactive Go REPL
Go 9gag yourself. Though 9 out of 10 posts are bad the tenth one always makes my day.
While what's idiomatic is subjective, I think there's plenty that everyone can agree is not idiomatic, so I think GP's quote is still pretty commonly used
Resolutions has nothing to do with it. To the contrary: You need less cpu power since you will get your FPS limit from the gpu, not the cpu. Similar for VR: Current cpus are strong enough to get the 90FPS current VR headsets want. 240Hz maybe, but those processors won't be faster in games than a Intel Core i7-7700K, as games don't use that many cores.
Its because mars has twice the gravity-well lifting costs against it. Asteroid/ Moonmining does not have that against it.
Does it cover JSF?
How about if they just did the legal work to file for USPTO reexamination to invalidate the patents?
For regular gamers I totally agree with your comment. But, since there are Twitch streamers out there the Threadripper might be a good fit if you want to stream since encoding must be done and preserve a high FPS (60 FPS or more). Also, it would future proof you maybe for VR streaming or 4k and higher streaming.
Amazon Invests Rs 130 Crore in Amazon Pay India
Clock distribution is already quite complex in big circuits. It should arrive at the same time everywhere but it does not. You need to add extra components to de-skew them.
Not to be flippant, but isn't a "virus that cures cancer" exactly how the Will Smith movie I Am Legend starts?
I see nothing wrong with it as long as they pay bumped passengers enough to secure their consent.

Where it becomes a problem is when the airline decides they don't want to pay "too much" and start bumping people involuntarily. That should be illegal. If a flight is oversold and nobody will accept being bumped for less than $10,000, then the airline should have to pay $10,000 to resolve the situation.

As it stands right now, the whole thing is skewed in the airlines' favor because they have a nice, low cap on payouts.
How do people with many CPU cores find it helps their day to day, excluding people who run VMs, or do highly parallelisable things as their 80% core job loop (ie you run some form of data.paralellMap(awesomeness) all day)?

Does it help with general responsiveness? Do many apps / processes parallalise nicely? Or is it more "Everything is 99% idle until I need to run that Photoshop filter, and then it does it really fast"?
ES8 was released and here are its Main New Features
I'm looking forward to those things as well. But bicycles don't have brake assist. It takes a very sophisticated collision detection system to prevent right-hooking a cyclist.
> you also can't enforce that someone won't sneak C++ modules into a code base written in another, safer language.

In Java and .NET projects you can easily ensure that, and that is a common scenario in some of our customers.

The machines are provided locked down by IT with the project sanctioned tools, including the configuration for in-house Maven and NuGET repositories.

No native code compiler gets installed, servers are configured to disallow unsafe code.

Any library not available requires a change request to the IT team.
AMD stated that the full EPYC stack will be available for top-tier OEMs end of July. You're unlikely to see them being sold at retail directly until the tier 1/2 OEMs have had the opportunity to take their fill for their customers. That will take a few quarters.

Compare it to Intel - their top-tier partners had the hardware last November, but Intel announced 8 months after that. AMD launched its parts at the start of that 8 months, rather than the end. That's where some of the confusion about EPYC's availability lies. No-one complained they couldn't get SKL-SP back in November because no-one said anything: I'm guessing that AMD had had to make some announcement, given the delays, the projects, and to drive up OEM cooperation/customer anticipation (and show something to investors).
> but only have fake explanations that modern human mind can accept

Thank you for this, it's nice to see some people still have the ability to think beyond propaganda.
NASA is made up of people, they can move freely. I just don't beleive in blind forced investment in a stagnant organization.
That's why it is level 4 ...

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