skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, I mean, I wanna raise a privacy outrage over this news but like... If you put an Amazon or Google connected microphone in your house... You've already given up your privacy. Who else they share it with is just gravy at that point.
Yeah, we're going to plague a bunch of inanimate objects, and defile the sanctity of the asteroid belt. It amuses me that "atheists" have decided life itself is a plague threatening some great holy Natural-Universe. Your distaste for the people around you is showing.

Dunno if you've heard, but this Universe is condemned. In about a hundred trillion years it'll run out of hydrogen and burn out. Might as well enjoy it while we can.
Nevada DMV nabs criminal with facial recognition technology
Yep, no arguments here!
Founder of Viking here: Yes, we're the original online school to offer deferred tuition (have for almost 3 years). Basically, we are 100% online and offer an Immersive 12-week bootcamp that's very challenging to get into but comes with a deferred tuition option where you don't pay until you get a job (you even get your deposit back if you don't).
In theory that's why you vote for representatives that align with your interests.
"Peaced" (to peace) is a colloquialism which means "to leave" or "to abandon". In this case, it indicates the founders left the company.
And you haven't replaced it? The only time I had ECC memory report errors, I was also experiencing undetected errors as well. System was not stable. Pulled it out, happy ever since. I've always thought of ECC as a warning system (despite the correction ability). Like a spare tire.
It's possible that we introduced a bug somehow when we overrode the top color yesterday. If so, it's likely that #cccccc was what you originally had, since I can't think of why the software would have put that in there.
AMD has pulled up to match or beat Intel, so both companies were absolutely rushing things out. It will settle down and these bugs will get fixed by microcode updates.
Would one of the options be return to sender? If so, I can tell you the box most people would check.
Had nothing but problems with their product over the years. In 2012, they had a bug in their analytics.js which resulted in me losing about 10k new users. Last year, I was experiencing multi-day delays between an event and it appearing in Mixpanel, Intercom, etc. Prior this year, I was using Branch and then realized how many sacrifices you make when you use Segment – they will never be up to date with all the most recent SDKs/APIs, so you will always be pulling your hair out. We ended up using Segment + 4 other services, it would have been better to not use Segment at all.

I hope they sort these problems out, and build a better developer product. Right now, they're focused on the enterprise, and I'm amazed their product is sufficient.

I'm writing this because their team is amazing and kind, but I hope they improve their product.
I think a more apropriate title would have been "How we migrated our android app from kotlin to scala." There is a little talk about the benefits of using scala instead of kotlin, but that isn't the bulk of the post. I would be interested to see more of a cost-benefit analysis of the decision to migrate to scala, and the outcome.
No sure what you mean by 'more portability'. gcc compiles to a strict subset of the architectures than llvm supports (at least, last time I checked).
Just an FYI. In Star Trek at least the warp system works like this: warp-1 is the speed of light and it then increases exponentially with warp-10 being infinite velocity.

Source: http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Warp_factor
They do already take blood donations and then sell them for substantial amounts of money.
The typical PC-building online communities have been mindlessly drumming the line "Only servers need ECC" into each other's heads for so long that they'll probably end up refusing it, even when it's offered to them on a plate.
Does anyone know how Coinbase is going to handle this?
Something you might want to try is hosting a Kubernetes server on some more powerful machine (like a VPS or something at home) to run some of the Docker services you won't actively be developing against.
I can't say I'm surprised. Removal of privacy is an ongoing process as we, as users, continue to trade privacy for convenience. After each milestone, we settle in to allow for the next.

I don't see this changing, at the end of the day, people value convenience over privacy, even if we yell about it.
This is really important. Even if you think that PHP is the worst thing humankind has ever inflicted upon itself, you are not making the world a better place by denigrating the work done in it with this spirit of contempt. If it is terrible, then speak positively about what can be done. If it is painful, then speak positively about how projects / devs can migrate. There are things within tech that deserve to be spoken about negatively, including within language design and software engineering practices, but when everything devolves into tribal signifying you are not making anything better.
Dean Baker, an economist, has written here and there about alternative ways to pay for drug research:

"There are clearly better and worse ways to structure a system of government financed research. For example, the Free Market Drug Act, a bill recently introduced in the U.S. Congress, called for establishing a set of competing government corporations that would be evaluated at periodic intervals (e.g. 10 years) for the quality of their work. The worst performers would be put out of business with new ones created to take their place."

More here:

http://www.paecon.net/PAEReview/issue32/Baker32.htm

http://cepr.net/publications/briefings/testimony/drugs-are-c...
I posted this earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14762299
I live and work in a city in the Northeast US. The number of easily accessible parking spaces to me is less than the number of vehicles and people who need to use them in my household. It's no different than college where parking is a "long enough to be annoying in the winter" walk away.

I generally walk anywhere under two miles and avoid driving between 7am and 7pm. Having a means of transportation under my personal control readily available to me is well worth it. Tonight I'm going to go meet someone selling something on Craigslist. It's about the size of a milk crate and weighs >50lb. I could carry it on the subway and do it for free (monthly pass).

Next week I have to get a coffee table. Sure, I could buy one online but I think buying a used high quality one for cheap/free on CL or from a thrift store and having the ability to get precise measurements in advance

I could take an Uber or taxi but it only takes a few Ubers a week to be more expensive than owning a car (if you own it outright).

If your life involves doing anything more than being a worker bee who goes lives by a schedule and pays someone else for assistance with transportation outside that scope then having your own means of transportation is invaluable in terms of convenience and possibly cheaper.
Waiting for Babylon.js 5.0.
For all the criticism that the USA is receiving recently, I am sure the world would be a worse place if China was the most influential country in the world (which they are trying become) instead of the USA.
DAG and not DAO of course... The mathematical description is straightforward however the implementation (for example mining fee distribution) seems fairly complicated and loses a lot of the beauty of a blockchain. AFAIK Iota is the first serious attempt at running such a crypto currency.
So glad I live in Utah -- where we have X-mission Pete Ashdown is a huge supporter of EFF and Net Neutrality and anti-NSA -- and Google fiber - google's a big supporter as well. Loved X-mission, but new landlord only has google fiber installed so using that, but both had 1GB connections..

Two great ISP's who WON'T be doing shenanigans like comcast/att when net neutrality is destroyed.

Too bad more people in America don't have good choices... I do think though the biggest thing they could do for 'action' --would be every Monday block all comcast/att users from using Google, Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, Reddit in protest... till the ISPs cry and beg and plead w/ the FCC to re-instate net-neurality.

If it's legal to prioritize websites over others... then it's legal for those same websites to prioritize certain ISPs over others...
> Are they going to release something even better in 6-12 months time?

In this segment? Almost certainly not. Intel doesn't even pretend to have a competitive product in this category ready for launch in the next 12 months. AMD is releasing one now, so will be delayed about that long.
I think that is is comparing Threadripper to other workstation cpus, or it rather explicitly does compare to EPYC. Since Threadripper has a high clock, it might work better in games as well. Parent is right in saying that when adapting expectations, that additional gaming performance is unlikely to be necessary.

Reminds me of using one of the Xeon E5-2670 for gaming, as in https://www.techspot.com/review/1155-affordable-dual-xeon-pc....
I'm already web developer, but I want to move into Software Engineering. I wish there was a bootcamp out there that would train people who already work with JS and coding, but are not as strong in CS. Bootcamp L2, for example.
AGAIN?
All these companies saying come put your content here and then they fold.

I still remember mp3.com. I feel like we need some kind of distributed federated service for self-publishing music at this point.
https://www.starbreak.com/ uses WebGL.
Fun stuff. I write novels on the side and for a series of pulp supernatural detective books I'm writing I picked up the Lesser Key of Solomon which is a compendium of demons, their ranks in hell, and their specialties. Christian mythology is pretty crazy stuff once you start digging around in it.
Insurance against what? Lets assume a self supporting mars colony today, and that the asteroid hits earth tomorrow making humans extinct. Will the mars colony get off mars in time to avoid their asteroid? It seems to me that we need to get to a few earth like planets before we can assume survival.
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algorand is academic at this point with evaluation on ec2. Though the paper is available and an implementation will be following.

Peercoin is one of the first working proof of stake implementations that has been running for close to 5 years now.
> You hit a nerve. I've left academia for this and other reasons, but as you can tell I'm bitter about it.

Looks like I did! Sorry about that. I fully understand where you are coming from, as I've had the same experience when trying to help college colleagues with course work, tutoring for a few courses in college, or even giving private lessons to HS kids. Some people are 100% not interested in learning -- they want the bare minimum to pass the course and move on.

Not sure how we can change that, though.

I had one specific professor in college would would abuse those inquiry-based learning techniques that you have mentioned, and it was absolutely the best course I had during my 7 years in the university. Anecdotal, but students loved him. He ended up being my MSc supervisor :)
I know companies in the video game space that do this. They either are hired to write something or produce something in house. They staff up, write the title, ship it, do one or two patches, then essentially disband the team while they look for the next project.
I actually want a device like this that does not connect to the internet. So, I can ask for the time while half asleep without opening my eyes and more importantly while keeping my bedroom dark.

However the idea of having an always on microphone connected to the internet creeps me out.
You are assuming growth will continue.

A flash in the pan is also exponential, for a time.
>an actual copy of Dictionnaire Infernal is ridiculously difficult, and expensive, to track down

? https://www.amazon.com/Dictionnaire-infernal-French-Jacques-...
In your blind attempt to stereo-type the HN community, you've missed the obvious answer, there are many many sub-groups ranging from anarchists to full on communists.
Thanks, I have been using learnopengl.com because of the 3.3 support. That said, I have been reading the superbible on the side and it has been an incredibly useful resource for getting in the mindset.
Well, the new iMac Pro (8/10/18 core) will start at $5000 - I also feel ever slower development experiences on my MBP and it will be pretty much a solved problem on a 16 core Threadripper workstation.

I feel like I can't wait for another iteration (actually don't need to) or the planned December release date for the new iMac Pro...

https://www.macrumors.com/roundup/imac-pro/
I'm pretty sure Andras, at least, is in Persona 5. It's interesting how the cultural influence of something like this is still with us.
FYI the landing site css layout is broken at page widths between 1000 and 1200.
For the august 1th date user support for segwit2x does not matter at all. If the miners that agreed to run this software stick to it, they will start signaling bit4 on 21th July, when they reach 80% hashrate it will orphan non segwit blocks (kinda like bip148 but with miner support) and at the same time signal bit1 to lock in segwit which by then if that works has enough hashrate to overcome the 95% threshold to activate it. No user support at all needed for this.

Only the 2x part of segwit2x will need user adoption, but that comes 3 months after segwit has activated (next round of drama, long on popcorn)
Forgive my ignorance, but hasn't the historical value store of bitcoin eclipsed that of gold?
https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/6msyk5/comment/dk4...

And Luke's subsequent comment said if enough followed then it could still be called bitcoin.

Also Maxwell said he'd quit if BIP148 fails. If the soft fork fails, bitcoin will be something different.
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Ask HN: Why don't we have tags on HN?
I, for one, cannot spend all my day on HN, but I still find it very useful to visit it a few times every day. I rarely go to the second page, though. To me, it would be very helpful to have a tagging system that I can use, for instance, to look for "programming", "machine learning", "leadership" etc. submissions.
Thank you! Great reply.
Yes, I have been through the proposals. Love these new changes. Psychologically it still felt daunting when I first saw it! :P
Seems like you should go ahead and assume this is happening if you use one.
I personally think Google/FB/Reddit/etc should block users from ATT/Comcast/Verizon every monday as a sign of protest...

They should be redirected to a page saying - your ISP is against Net Neutrality. Contact them and tell them how you feel about this...or find a new ISP. Your access will be restored on Tuesday. If you don't like this, get used to it-it's the way a net neutrality-less internet works.

Those same ISP's will be begging to bring back net neutrality in a month or two.
> If the problem requires a certain amount of overhead, than an implementation of that solution is considered zero-cost. Rust can't change the laws of math.

His contention is that languages with GC don't require reference count updates, and so manipulating the BDD graph is much cheaper in these languages since the resource accounting overhead is deferred by some non-deterministic time.
You cannot just make up one sided terms and conditions, it would be thrown out in court.

When I buy something, I should not need an hour to read a contract.

Airlines are able to get away with this cause they haven't been challenged in courts. But once challenged, it will be deemed illegal.
Every time I read something like this, I further justify my decision to buy into the Apple ecosystem. They may be proprietary, but they haven't done anything privacy-wise to upset me.
Let's wait:

https://affluentconfidante.com/posts

>Public access is scheduled for Monday, July 17th at 10am EST.

>Until then, access to all anonymous statements is restricted to members only.

Surely there will be by then hundreds or thousands of interesting/ispirational posts to read.
Verizon data of 6M users leaked
Speaking of Great Space Ideas(TM) that I was incredibly excited about in highschool, whatever happened to space elevator research?
I normally send to admin@, abuse@, phishing@, and hope that at least one don't get kicked back.
Is it? I know there are workloads when it actually can hurt performance, but are they more common than ones when it helps?
Sorry, that's completely wrong. "UAHF" is even less likely to happen and gain adoption than UASF. BitMain does not directly control all of the hash power of people using their miners and cannot successfully fork by themselves, plus again they would have no support from exchanges.

Core absolutely does not support Segwit2x, because of the hard fork later. If they do, why don't they merge it and end this standoff?
I've been burned far too many times by tasks that started as, "glue this API to that API", only to discover that "that API" anything remotely like what I needed.
Thank you. My error on million kW (I should have caught that), and very poor reporting.
Ask HN: How HN-like community websites get monetized these days?
Is a community website model like HN, growthhackers.com, Product Hunt is easy to drive revenue from? What are some ways these sites are got monetized these days?
Every time I read something like this, I further justify my decision not to buy into anybody's ecosystem!

Free software and decentralisation is the answer.
Speed up your Firefox (I'm impressed by the difference)
The whole point is that the miners within the pool can change to other pools if they want to!
Which are risks similar in nature to the risk of getting cancer after one has been infected with any other virus that integrates into one's genome.
The "licensing" and "better design" arguments are not really compelling. As for "licensing", basically no commercial operating system distribution ships the compiler in the base system. As for "better design", LLVM still doesn't generate code as well as GCC, especially for the kernel; but over the years as the codegen has become better, the performance has come down to match GCC. LLVM has some pinhole optimizations which don't exist on GCC, and some slightly different behaviours around exotic non-standard types, but they are largely becoming the same compiler.

Turns out that GCC is actually really fast for the quality of the code it generates, and Clang/LLVM take almost exactly the same amount of time to generate similar code.
Aye, for me XFCE is the sweet spot of does what I want without getting in the way and speed.

It's funny really because I mostly use it on an 8 core 32GB Ryzen 1700 desktop.
I must be missing something silly. What is the purpose of the original rectangle?

This describes how to find the side length of the square, who's area is smaller than the rectangle​.
Natural monopoly? In what way does that make sense. Where google put down fiber people suddenly had one more choice. When Chattanooga put down fiber people suddenly had one more choice. In areas with multiple cable ISPs, multiple companies are laying their lines down. That's it, there is no natural monopoly, there are only monopolies granted by governments.
Ask HN: How are Senate/House bills prepared?
Specifically, how do tens to hundreds of senators or representatives collaborate on documents that often grow in excess of 1000 pages? How are changes tracked?

I noticed that today's Senate healthcare reform bill appears to be laid out in TeX (https://www.budget.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/BetterCareJuly13.2017.pdf). Does anyone on HN have insight into the production process that resulted in that final document?
I just spent some time in the Owens Valley. This summer it is much greener than previous summers -- a faint echo of what the valley must have been like before the LADWP started sucking water out of the valley.

For those of you who have never done it, take Highway 395 north to Reno. The landscape is amazing. Old western movie landscape. Go to Mono Lake (after eating at Mono Cone in Lee Vining). That's where High Plains Drifter was filmed.

Then go north and visit Bodie, a well-preserved ghost town. Take sun block. :-)

I personally hope the eminent domain strategy works. It would be wonderful to see a lush valley between two massive mountain ranges with snow-capped peaks. Green valley floor, cattle grazing beneath tall cottonwoods. That's what we lost.

But then, I do not live in the City of LA so I would not be directly hurt.

The problem of course is money. These are not wealthy counties. Mono County has 25 or 26 deputy sheriffs to patrol the entire county. :-0 Can the counties fund the purchase price -- and the litigation costs? I don't know.
I expect that sewage treatment to fertilizer will solve the problem before we reach that. Our current time where we are not putting manure on all fields is an anomaly in time.
> Physics grad student? Consultant? Chem-E engineer? Founder of a successful startup? Product managers?

Those would be the same in that they don't have coding experience. Those people might be great hires, but they're not going to be great coders after a few short months trying to learn HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and possibly a backend language.

I didn't say that they're stupid or anything. I mentioned that even a highly experienced coder wouldn't be competent with a new stack in that amount of time.

> People in my cohort were contributing right away.

Contributions aren't the same as good contributions. Bad contributions are much worse and more expensive than no contribution at all.

> launching successful open source projects, becoming team leaders, giving talks at conferences, etc.

Again, none of these things indicate competence necessarily, and they certainly don't indicate that someone is a great hire. Coding is not just knowing facts and writing code. It's having the experience to know how to structure things, what tradeoffs to make, etc.

> If you're insulted by their success, maybe that's on you.

I'm not insulted by their success, but I am concerned that bootcamps are taking lots of money from people and not delivering what they say they're delivering.

Edit: If you look at other comments in this thread, I think many bootcamp grads agree.

There's also going to be some survivorship bias here: you succeeded due to your bootcamp, but does that mean it works for everyone? Would you have been able to do it on your own? Are you smarter than the average person who would be interested in a bootcamp?
I strongly support net neutrality, but this is dangerous.

First: this is pushing the onus on the consumers. Not just pushing---forcing, even. My grandmother, my wife even, doesn't care about net neutrality---they want to use the Internet. I've seen suggestions of using a VPN, and I use Tor for all of my Internet traffic, but this is an even _greater_ onus on consumers. It's a far bigger impact than the abolishment of net neutrality itself.

Perhaps more importantly, this is subverting the legal/regulatory system by using your market dominance to essentially declare your own law. The system is failing us (those who support net neutrality, at least) right now, but it's there for a reason, and it's a slippery slope to try to reverse legislative and regulatory decisions by force.

Civil uprising is fine. Campaigns to raise awareness (like the blackout for SOPA), okay. Many other things are okay. But leave innocent people out of the crossfire. They should care, yes, but it's up to _us_ to make change---those of us who understand the issue and why it's important. It's up to us to raise awareness. I'm not going to go hold people hostage over my ideals. What if Google weren't on your side? What if they did _not_ support net neutrality? Would you be okay with them using their dominance to push an agenda you didn't like? I'd think not.
Julia JIT compiles C calls via LLVM, so there's no libffi performance overhead (similar to LuaJIT's CFFI, though that does not use LLVM).