skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is breaking a major concept of the internet. You pay for peering ports, not for bandwidth.
Unfortunately, their back catalog is getting worse and worse. If it weren't for ripping what they do still have for later watching I probably would. But I've started thinking of just dropping their DVD service and putting the money toward purchases, paid streaming, and Redbox.
Windows subsystem for Linux is what I spend most of my time in now.
> Applications don't really need to be well architected until they are hitting scale.

very True, 'a system Well architected' before hitting scale is considered OVER Engineering

> Then the parts of their system that need to relieve pressure will need to be re-architected.

> This is almost like a case study and there are a lot of good talks on youtube from places like dropbox and facebook that explain the problem and solution. Example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PE4gwstWhmc
For those of us city dwellers with on-street parking, there doesn't seem to be much talk about getting public infrastructure to charge them. Public charging stations? I'm not sure that will help a lot.

It seems like a future for those with suburban homes. I think those in cities don't drive that much, so maybe those car bound people are a better place to start.

I guess I can get an eBike at some point.
Does this include the energy in the refined gas itself?
http://en.bab.la/dictionary/danish-english/pik
"cock/dick/penis"
> So it's disingenuous to say that service providers (Google, Netflix), are extorting anyone.

I don't think anyone was saying that.

> With Netflix and Google, both were basically saying, "we're not going to pay you (Comcast/Verizon) for access to your network, because we're important enough that we shouldn't have to." They don't have their own ISP networks to exchange traffic at the same rate, all they have is their services, so they don't have anything to offer the ISP in return.

Generally peering agreements work on total bandwidth and generally you try to make it as balanced as possible, so there's no cost to either side, as traffic may traverse your network from the peer but not terminate there (it continues through another peer), and that's just a load you bear, but the other side has the same risk.

For an end service peering, that's not really as much of a risk, to my knowledge, so what you have is purely a win-win, where Netflix delivers content directly to your network so it's quicker, and you aren't using up peer bandwidth and backbone connections to serve that same content. In any market where Comcast/Verizon didn't have near monopolies over large areas, Netflix could easily charge for this access given their size and ubiquity. That some large ISPs are actually throttling the content only highlights the perverse incentives at play.
Which politicians are behind this, and where can I learn more? I wish to write them a letter stating my approval and donate to their political efforts.
I think the President is committing fraud by implying as President to the American public that AMZN holds an asset that it does not. How’s that for technical accuracy?
I used to have to clear out malware remotely from one of my grandmother's computers about twice a year, for several years.. I was so happy when it finally died, bought her a chromebook, which she was very happy with.

Chromebooks are probably the single best option for a computer with a keyboard. I wish the chrometops were a bit more compelling, as I'd probably switch my other grandmother (ubuntu 16.04) over. She has one program she plays a lot (since 1996) which runs under WINE.
When I type in a city to the "Where" box and hit enter, it flashes quick but doesn't seem to filter.

Also whenever I type anything into the "Keyword" box nothing is returned.
And yet another demonstration of how recordings of questionable provenance are superior in many ways to the properly authorized ones.
One way to divide job types is:physical/mental/emotional/creative.

It seems plausible that robots could do physical and mental jobs.

There's a debate regarding creative jobs, but we already have good preliminary results, and once we crack some of the mental building blocks(like conceptual representation and abstraction), it's plausible we could get creativity in many domains.

As for the arts: they require a complex mix of mental, emotional and creative skills, so we'll see.

As for deep emotional jobs, for example, like a psychologist - it's hard to imagine people forming deep relationships with robots, etc. So maybe emotional jobs are the future of jobs. The big question is - how could you create low-unemployment economy around that ?
Being allowed to access a health care clinic would provide much more than empathy, that would be a massive economic benefit when insurance costs are so high in the US.
Understanding SOLID Principles: Dependency Inversion
Yes the meme of the "coal powered car". TBF, I wouldn't mind that at all. That means we could be domestically self sufficient with our energy needs. Not to mention it's a lot easier/cheaper to have one big coal plant with one set of emissions controls, rather than thousands of gas engines with controls in various states of maintenance and disrepair.

Imagine the converse. If we had electric cars today and were proposing moving to liquid fuels. No one would recommend it. "Hey what if we brought all the pollution closer to us and where our families live. That sounds like a great idea!"
Quite the exaggeration. Yes Trump is causing instability, but a massive amount of US cultural influence on the world stems from private enterprises operating from within the US. Public sector chaos in the US isn't really having a significant effect on US private sector dynamism.

Where Trump does impact US influence in the world and benefit China is through changing global attitudes on democracy. As US democracy allowed Trump to come to power - and thus caused the instability we're seeing - people are more likely to question the viability or value of democracy now than in an era in which the US government was operating more effectively.

Chinese citizens are taking notice, and the Chinese Communist Party is obviously taking full advantage of the situation. The CCP can use the current debacle in the US and the relative (outward appearing) efficiency of a CCP dominated China as evidence for why democratic revolution in China would be unwise.
> allows me to fast from Noon to breakfast the next day with minimal hunger.

Do you eat your breakfast at 4 AM?
Based on comment history and personal facebook page (won't link but not hard to find) "I work as a stocker at a grocery store." Previous freelance seems to have been PHP/wordpress plus some nodejs.
Ask HN: What music do you listen to while you work?
Thanks for your comment. I agree with most of what you said:

"I can imagine people or companies can use this API to check their own functions in test cases"

Testing is one good application.

"But I believe this business doesn't trust anybody but well-known players or experts"

Take a look to the community mantaining quantlib.

"Also the time is essential so they will prefer a local library"

How long does it take to financial institutions to test all valuations for each modification to "local libraries"? Using external services could avoid that. This is not going to be the one, but it would be just a matter of resources to improve performance(ie big data platform for risk simulations)

"And again, the security can prohibit external APIs"

Why do banks rely on RSA for payment transactions but don't do it for other purposes?

"I don't discourage your work though, perhaps it is a step to your personal success, who knows"

Already did, I learned and enjoyed doing it :)
Open source project so not quite a "site": submitted goofys (https://github.com/kahing/goofys/) 644 days ago and had 40 upvotes on HN, and from what I recall I had a couple hundred stars on github right after. Now I am approaching 900 stars, a niche community of users, and occasional drive-by contributions.

Compare to catfs (https://github.com/kahing/catfs/) which I recently posted but did not make to front page, and right now it's at 14 stars. I would say both projects have similar audiences comparable in complexity, which would mean front page on HN gave goofys a 20x or so boost in terms of github stars.

Note that the first time I posted goofys it did not make it to front page. @dang emailed me to re-post it and the second time it was boosted to front page.
tl;dr we are a vISP that created a quasi-anonymous Tor/OpenVPN chimera; we used to live in the dark net, now we're trying the clearnet interwebs; we're giving out free accounts to those interested. Fire an email to sysop@encryptica.org with subject line "REGISTER REDDIT" and you will be credentialed in 72 hours max.
(Traveling-wave tube?)

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(Edit: What a cool device!! I've just been reading up on them and Wowee! I'm in the wrong field. No pun intend.)
And so now we have strict liability law.

Considering that, I don't believe this case, really justifies your (apparent) paranoia against the free market.
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What's wrong with client certificates? Instead of reinventing the wheel they should've just used those which would've given browser vendors a reason to improve their UX regarding client certs.
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Which reactor was it?
Looks like they hit the daily request limit on the Google Maps API (you'll see the error message if you hit Cmd-Option-J in Chrome).
Similar story. Lab is "out of network", declined insurance's offer of payment. No one bothered to check coverage beforehand. I didn't even know to ask.
Hahaha! That was funny. True Indeed that's the first thing they want to add.
Of lesser-known books, Avdi Grimm's "Confident Ruby": http://www.confidentruby.com/

Learning Ruby itself was a huge influence to me; hadn't considered that a language should be designed to make programmers "happy", as Matz said. "Confident Ruby" was one of several books that had this human-happiness focus. "Confident" is broken down into patterns, many of which can be found in books like Sandi Metz's POODR, but as a semi-experienced programmer, Grimm's way of writing really appealed to me.

Even the title of the book itself was revelatory to me. The idea that the functions and methods and conventions we create should be rooted in a "confident" mentality (such as the old adage of being promiscuous in what a function accepts, and strict in what it returns) really improved the way I designed code. Not just in terms of technical proficiency, but with less cognitive burden, which ultimately leads to the elegant simplicity we desire in our work.
That's somewhat simplistic. Peering that's somewhat one-sided can have fees built into one side. Still, getting a large chunk of your content quicker and without overloading your other peers or upstreams means that Netflix and the like should have the power here, and if they desired could charge for this better access (it is one-sided, as mentioned before). It's totally backwards that Comcast/Verizon would be throttling them instead, and is only possible because they don't really compete in a fully open market.
> It presumes that it will because it has so far.

that's the point though. seems like a standard example of the problem of induction.
See, you get it. Yes, there will always be some human jobs, but not remotely enough to have a wage labor based economy built on. We call them starving artists already, there's no demand for a hundred million more artists. Robots will eliminate blue collar work and that eliminates the foundation of our economy.
Snipping tool doesn't have shapes or text input, all the tools are freehand. I don't want to email a client with chicken scratch that looks like a child's doodle, that's unprofessional.
U2F adoption seems quite slow. Google were in early, and later github and Dropbox. But since then? Feels like nothing happened.
Indeed! I did not expect so much traffic! I'm working now to restore it.
> but W/E it's HN

Would you please simply type "whatever", instead of this "W/E" nonsense? Considering the amount of 8+ character adjectives you used, you clearly aren't trying to be less verbose.
I'm not talking about driving down consumer costs, I'm talking about driving down profit. In addition to the usual benefits of any consolidation, Amazon is generally not expected to be profitable in the way that grocers are. How can a company trying to maintain profitability compete with a giant who doesn't have to?
This would actually be a smart and ethical strategy, if the changes were made in a way that they were opt-in and clear about what they were doing. Unfortunately it looks like they got greedy, and this is what happens when you dance the line: much easier to cross it.
Russian 'beacon' satellite, predicted brightness -3 to -10 magnitude
I know next to nothing about iOS, so: Why can't the (usually public) jailbrake-exploit or another, similar potent (and probably quite expensive) be launched from inside the app? Sure, it has to be hidden to get into the store, but that looks very easy compared to finding the actually jail break. One just has to hide a arbitrary code execution vuln in the code of the app somewhere.

So, every apps seems to be an attack sureface.
Even if you're being throttled down to 150Mbit for Netflix streams, their 4K content is usually 15-20Mbit with their recommended throughput being 25Mbit. You can comfortably stream 6 Netflix 4K streams even at 150Mbit.
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Dude, where is my service?
False. He didn't put a single dollar into Hyperloop (idea that was researched since 100 years ago, and general conclusion is that it's not worth it, too expensive to maintain).
It's really not that much less secure than physical 2FA: I'm willing to bet that most people just leave their hardware key in their laptop at all times. (where "most people" ends up being corporate U2F users, who are probably given YubiKey Nanos and the like)

At that point, your laptop is basically your 2nd factor - which this software is pretty similar to.
What does your service cost?
Lets compare the 'horrible edge case' rate of the USA compared to Canada now.
Smalltalk Best Practice Patterns by Kent Beck.
Refactoring by Martin Fowler. Design Patterns by the Gang of Four. Domain Driven Design by Eric Evans.
I'm just gonna start naming my projects by rolling my face on my keyboard, that way I won't have to be afraid of naming it something offensive in another language.

/s
>Will replacement batteries cost a reasonable price? Or will manufacturers use this as an opportunity to try and get you to buy another car?

The standard for now seems to be a lifetime warranty or similar on battery failure. Hyundai and Chevy have both done this to sell the Ioniq EV and Bolt EV respectively. Whether or not that holds as these cars truly go mainstream is doubtful though.
You know, I've never been able to pin down what the difference is between AR and VR, everyone has a different answer. Basically, yes, we'd use the non HL ones for 'home' visits while in the hospital, if the kids can handle the nausea (they tend to be on a lot of meds, things get complicated). Again, the 'hacker ethos' doesn't really work in a hospital, moving fast and breaking things is a no-go with the Hippocratic oath.
I find it hard to believe that "consciousness" can exist in a non-neuronal (or at least non-biological system) , i.e., phi greater than 0 outside of a nervous system. But IIT suggests it can, albeit a small amount, I guess because of back propagation. "If IIT is correct in placing such constraints upon artificial consciousness, deep convolutional networks such as GooGleNet and advanced projects like Blue Brain may be unable to realize high levels of consciousness."

http://www.iep.utm.edu/int-info/#SH4c
haha, if only you could.
In DevOps, Dev Is Killing Ops
You need to remember that when those ads aired Windows still ran everything as root and had genuine "viruses", not trojans or other malware. But a virus as in the definition of the term. That Macs and Linux had a sane security model really did make them essentially "immune to viruses" in a very real way.

Today, a genuine virus is a rare thing, most malware are trojans. But back then viruses were the dominant form of malware. It's quite unfair to criticize people claiming Macs don't get "viruses" by changing the context on them to include all malware. That's not the claim people made.
FRIULI – Collio Wine zones
Well, it was easier to spot from the outside.
I have seen enough MST3K to know that an actor that is skilled at the craft is worth quite a bit more than I had previously suspected. You really don't know what you've got 'til it's gone.

In a free market with intelligent consumers, these people would not make quite so much, but it would still be a significant amount.

People that can uphold a willing suspension of disbelief are rare enough, but those who can invoke it are the ones truly deserving of that reasonable income. Those folks aren't always the actors. Sometimes it's the writers, directors, or even the make-up or foley artists. Those people that don't get face time in front of the public might not always get the recognition they deserve, and they're the ones we really want to be paid for their art. But there are a lot of people shaving money off the wad before it gets to them, so putting too much cash in their hands is a small price to pay so that those who deserve it can actually make a living.
looks nice :D.
>Shouldn't imagination and planning be observed spontaneously as emergent properties of a sufficiently complex neural network?

No! There's never been any scientific guarantee that "sufficiently complex" neural networks will give rise to anything in specific as an "emergent property", let alone human cognitive abilities like imagination and planning.

>how do we know that we are on the right track to beyond human levels of cognition, and not just building "one-trick networks"?

Steps to write a deep learning paper (from the Cynic's Guide to Artificial Intelligence):

1) Use a training set orders of magnitude larger than a human could learn from, build a one-trick network that gets superhuman performance on its one trick of a task.

2) Hype it up.

3) Research funding and/or profit and/or world domination!

(World domination has never been supplied when requested.)
Most US banks I've dealt with (Wells Fargo, BoA, Simple) allow transfer for free to other members of the same bank, but wiring to another bank can be upwards of $30 (if you can do it at all).

They also often require using a clunky web UI without an ability to do it from a mobile app.
For 1)., if you use a LLVM backed language, XRay supposedly should be it: https://llvm.org/docs/XRay.html
It really is too early to tell, it depends entirely on how Trump is doing politically. It may look like he's doomed now, but there's always the possibility of something crazy happening like single payer healthcare passing that could change things dramatically. It's happened before. Reagan's approval rating was 35% in the beginning of 1983, and by the end of 1984 it was 53%, and he ended up winning 525 electoral votes and over 58% of the popular vote. And while there's nothing I can imagine that would get Trump numbers like that, I do think it's quite possible that he could be re-elected.
It's one thing to have Central Park West. It's another to have an entire region whose service workers commute from 3 hours away, whose public schools are off-limits to the poor, whose landlords got rich off of others labor.

I see we welcome immigrants sign on the homes of people who have driven out anyone making less then $100,000 a year. It's shocking to see so many want to slam the doors of opportunity and a better life in the face of the less fortunate.

Go have your enclave, but don't ask the state to help pay for your schools, roads, and pension costs while higher education support is massively cut.
>Have you tried stripline as a benchmark?

No - just pulled the paper on it and put that on my to-do list. We've been focused on large problems recently and people seem happy to stick with scattering by spheres (PEC or dielectric) and comparison with the Mie solution. Way too much symmetry to serve as a comprehensive benchmark, but a decent way to compare computational efficiency. Our current benchmark run for a 100 wavelength diameter PEC sphere is 48 minutes on 256 CPU cores with 0.13% RMS error in the far field. We recently got 1.8% far field error for the 500 wavelength case on 300 cores in 17.8 hours. Our preliminary 1,000 wavelength numbers are very promising, too. No GPU/MIC or unusual hardware for those tests - all on a cluster of modern servers with Intel Xeon CPUs with 2-4 GB RAM per core.

Finding good benchmarks for sharp corners has been more challenging. The one we've been using for that is planewave scattering by a PEC cube and we test that the fields inside are 0 everywhere (including arbitrarily close to the surface at corners and edges).

Thanks for your other comments - geometry translation comes up often. Post-processing as you mentioned elsewhere is a common pain point, too, but solutions there seem to be pretty application/domain specific.
Small-battery all-electric cars (everything but Bolt/Tesla) have already had a lot of replacement batteries sold, so you could always look at that.
Design patterns exist because common solutions to problems exist, not because OO has serious problems. I understand both paradigms and Lisp is hardly free of design patterns. Every time you pass a lambda to a higher order function you're using a strategy pattern. If you only see design patterns as problems with OO, you're missing the point of design patterns. All languages have design patterns. Common design pattern in Lisp, with-X macros to deal with scoped resource cleanup.
I agree with your tone.

Those who claim that most fact checkers are completely biased, will also claim that most mainstream media is "fake news", that <opposition ideology> is responsible for most social ills, that <person's ideology> is the eternal victim, and so forth.

Recognizing that the truth is not on your political side requires both honesty and clarity of thought, which the average political ideologue is functionally incapable of.
I actually meant more the speed rather than the accuracy. At least on my phone, it takes a fair bit longer to listen to me and process my voice than to swipe in two words.
50+ links from 14 days ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14745343
Fixed! Sorry everyone!
Well, nobody is forced to create models they don't believe in.

But besides some models being useful, as that old adage says, some are also useful-er than others. Adding stuff such as "imagination" functions as a constraint on the number of behavioral patterns that we are willing to consider, and that might lead us to find that one which we're looking for (i.e. "intelligent behavior") faster than a naïve approach.

Besides, it might not be the case that the likelihood of observing "intelligent behavior" increases over the complexity of the behavior generating process.
>Shouldn't imagination and planning be observed spontaneously as emergent properties of a sufficiently complex neural network?

Not necessarily. I think it comes down to what you mean by "sufficiently complex". If we took a classic feedforward Multi-Layer Perceptron and gave it massive amounts of good data, a long time to train, and a nearly unbounded network size, I'm not sure it would ever develop architecture within itself to plan or develop a robust internal model.

Our neurology took millions of years/generations to get where it is today though natural selection. We might want to tip the scales a bit by engineering the broad architectural pieces and letting emergent behavior fill the gaps.

Although it would be fun to try producing human level intelligence by seeding a physics simulation of primordial soup and letting it run for millions of "years", I don't think that's feasible for most researchers.