skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This question is aptly timed. I am strongly considering move toward consulting, with working part-time as part of the reasoning. I have had a few requests this year alone to consult on the side, but I find the extra work draining after a full day of my main job. Currently doing only small projects for old clients.

Of course, as I make this decision, the requests for my services has stopped. :) Anyone need Elasticsearch services?
but github is honestly so nice. I'll admit in a very subjective way. whats your favorite decentralized vcs?
Everything about this situation seems shady to me. It's really hard to take the story at face value. Especially given Gary's downward spiral afterward. There has to be _way_ more to this story than is widely known.
Apt-update with the Force you shall using these Star Wars themes for Hyper
The creation of goals - determining what things to do in pursuit of a higher goal - for example "kill John Conner" does not exist in AI now. You can do things in toy systems like mazes and atari, chess and go, but parsing the real world and deriving intentions from your understanding of it is a light year away. 300 years is a guess; no one has a clue any more than anyone has an idea about an interstellar drive.
I don't understand why is he letting the other people to define that there should be a conflict? For instance, in salary negotiations - I don't get why so many people (in IT) are opposed to idea of open salaries or at least a professional organization.
Apple helps out Chinese censors by removing VPN apps from store
And to think this would have been put together in the pre-PC/desktop publishing era. Total gem.
Venmo came first and there is no reason to switch.
They refuse to provide a XPS15 Developers Edition.
Ballots are split in batches. Each ballot in a batch is counted twice, by two different people, and results are then compared. If the counts don't match, the batch is recounted.
> bored developers

Bored? Git's a distributed version control system, so no excuses. Get back to work!

But in all seriousness I kind of wish GitHub provided a way to mirror things like issues and PRs so you never have to be fully reliant on one service. Not being able to read these really does make it impossible to get work done offline.
Despite being pretty familiar with window functions, I couldn't figure out how to do it for that example in the time I was willing to spend on this post :). If you have a better query, I'm happy to update the article and give credit.
Coding News Summary #3 –ES8, Flash, Gitter, NPX, OCI, and React 16
This report seems to discount the tail risks involved with potential future nuclear accidents. Lets ignore the very complicated question of risk tradeoffs vs other sources for the moment.

Nuclear power has extreme tail risk that is hard to quantify based on the few examples of it happening. For the thee major events we can reference how do we know we didn't simply get lucky?

With fukushima for example, "Japan's prime minister at the time of the 2011 earthquake and tsunami has revealed that the country came within a “paper-thin margin” of a nuclear disaster requiring the evacuation of 50 million people." [1]

Clearly the lack of deaths directly attributable to nuclear accidents does not accurately capture the risks.

So what exactly is the risk of a catastrophic event that has thankfully never happened but could? Its not clear but rather than rolling dice with those risks we can actually make better systems without those unquantifiable risks in the first place. That takes us to the tradeoff calculus.

Just in the realm of nuclear power there are far better approaches we should be investing in as opposed to traditional plants such as LFTR [2] which does not have proliferation, waste or meltdown risk.

Picking on coal is a little unfair at this time because coal is being supplanted by much cleaner natural gas purely on market forces and solar and wind are growing dramatically. Of course there are issues with these as well, scaling issues and their own kind of impacts but they do not harbor the same kind of unquantifiable massive tail risk of traditional nuclear.

[1] http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/japan/1218411...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid_fluoride_thorium_reacto...
The VCS is decentralized but they made the process centralized.
"when asking to "make all humans happy", the ASI might decide that the safest and most efficient way of doing so is to drug everyone and to turn us all into numb but happy creatures"

If the AI is so dumb that it doesn't know that happiness means different things to different people, it will be too dumb to take over the world. And by the same token it will not be a Strong AI, just a weak AI given too much power.
"hook into a LOT of places" - That optimism isn't well supported by acquisitions and IPOs in recent years. I maintain that the "pop-culture-image sharing" craze, which obviously includes gifs, hit its monetary-value peak when Yahoo bought Tumblr in May 2013 for $1.1B. It's been more than 4 YEARS since then, and what goin' on with Pinterest? I mean they are now 7 years into their existence and have neither IPO'd nor been acquired. Meanwhile, Imgur keeps chugging along--though downward, and since Reddit began hosting its own images, Imgur's decline has only accelerated, as even the Google Trends popularity graph reflects [0].

VIDEO is the future, and with AR, VR, and mixed reality on the rise (where the Almighty Facebook's Oculus is actually 5th place in sales [1]), images and gifs are looking about as exciting as innovations in the design of mobile flip phones. Snap, with Snapchat, went public earlier this year, but I don't think they ever could have done if they remained merely a photo-messaging app, rather than a photo-and-video messaging app, as well as a news-publishing app and now a TV app with its own proprietary programming.

[0] https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=imgur,re...

[1] https://uploadvr.com/psvr-vive-superdata-sales/
Well the parent was implying they spend most of their time in Github.
I wouldn't be surprised if this became an issue in the future, with Atom's popularity on the rise…
The limits of properly-tuned MySQL on appropriate hardware are impressive. Note that the size constraint in the examples given here is almost always administrative (ease of doing backups, replication, archiving) rather than hitting insurmountable performance limits.

I have a theory that a lot of people who are dismissive of modern relational databases for 'big data' simply never took the time to learn to tune them properly as the data sets grew in size. It's a painful process, and there is an intimidating number of switches and knobs, some of them in the filesystem and kernel.

In particular, running large databases on virtualized hardware like AWS really brings the pain.
Thanks for that! Out of curiosity, do you use any of those alternative keyboard layouts?
Reddit raises $200M at a $1.8B valuation
What do you mean "politicization"? Please saw the movie the China syndrome and then 3 mile island happened. Then people were very afraid. These were real possibilities. Does anyone want to live near a nuclear power plant? Do you? I sure as hell would not. How can you twist fear of a disaster in "politicization"?

You are also looking thru the lens of our current situation. Very little was being discussed about the risks of global warming and greenhouse gasses back in the heyday of nuclear power, i.e. the 1970's. The last nuclear power plant in the US was built in the 1970s, which was when the last major accident that happened in the US (3 mile Island). That's not even considering Chernobyl.
But could it print a CNC machine ?
There is no better evidence of her bias against Travis and Uber than how she conducted herself in her interview with Adam Lashinsky. Here's the full transcript:

https://www.recode.net/2017/7/16/15980006/transcript-journal...

She isn't a journalist. She's an activist pushing an agenda, facts-be-damned. Long gone are the day's of Walter Cronkite's "And that's the way it is."
Cons of using Typescript:

* Lack of purity. You can unintentionally trigger side effects from a function that's a supposed to simply return a value.

function add(x: number, y: number): number {
fireTheMissiles()
return x + y
}

* It's impossible to validate that external JSON data is the correct type at runtime. If a JSON API returns something weird, you're going to get a runtime error.
Not necessary much higher. I've measured screen flickering in Lenovo T500 (probably one of the oldest laptops with LED backlight) with small solar cell and oscilloscope and it's 220Hz, with lowest brightness setting only 100Hz (although this brighness level is not too useful):
http://commonemitter.blogspot.com/2017/06/lenovo-t500-measur...
The problem isn't the VCS part so much as all the code review/project management features of Github.

I seem to remember there was a decentralized VCS which included issue tracking besides commits, but it never was mainstream.
The blind tests show something useful - consistency of throughput, which people notice, regardless of how benchmarks work.

Benchmarking software should do more to provide a clean and meaningful representation of the distribution of performance - people care more about a card's worst case than its best or average.

Another significant consideration - as alluded to in the TensorFlow comment - is the compute performance.

Although compute performance is not yet that important from a gaming perspective, I would be rather surprised not to see some games start to utilise it for engine functionality - especially after Vulcan and OpenCL merge.

Wait to see the performance of the card as a whole, and consider the implications for the next generation before you declare the card a non-starter and evolutionary dead-end.
This is problem that happens in the German/European electrical grid right now, not at some point in future.
Hi, I am the author of this report -- thank you for the interest :-)

Just wanted to add that you can find the library at:
https://github.com/koka-lang/libhandler

The `dev` branch contains a sample of `libuv` integration. There is still a lot to be done in terms of creating a better interface and providing implementations of standard effects but the core is working quite well by now.

Enjoy!
Stances of highly effective product owners
> have to be fully reliant on one service

My inner cynic says that that's probably the reason why they don't provide this service.
It's interesting, if you go to the support tab and follow the link to the maker's support website, you end up on https://spoofer-extension.appspot.com/ The contact page there links to "Glenn Willson" as the author - and their G+ page has a link to The User-Agent Switcher Has A New Owner: Google! http://www.glennwilson.info/2017/02/the-user-agent-switcher-...

Now, is that trustworthy or not? Good question.
According to the UK Electoral Commission [0]

> The use of pencils does not in itself increase the likelihood of electoral

fraud: while pencil marks can be rubbed out, similarly, pen marks can be
crossed out. What is key is that the integrity of the process from the
point that a voter marks their ballot paper to the declaration of the
result is maintained.

Anecdotally, I've head people make the argument that pencils are more reliable than pens (mechanical failure etc.), that pens can be liable to smudging (especially if folded immediately after marking), and that the pencils they use are difficult (though not impossible) to rub out.

[0] https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/pencil
Facebook is how far you can go.
I'm curious how it matters, can you be more specific? You didn't answer the question, what is the "correct" way to breath? What bad things happen if you don't breathe correctly, aside from passing out or dying? You'd have to be consciously trying to not breathe for that to happen, right? If there's discomfort, what adjustments am I making naturally that might be "incorrect"? What about breathing is so non-obvious that it requires training and not instinct?

I run a lot, and I normally don't have to think about breathing. If I need more air, I breathe faster or deeper without thinking about it. My cadence very naturally goes at a multiple of my stride, because it's more comfortable. I breathe through my nose sometimes and through my mouth sometimes. The deciding factor is usually whether my mouth is dry or there's a lot of dust in the air. I rarely notice which. Both my nose and mouth are holes in my face that facilitate getting air into my lungs, so I'm not getting why there's something "correct" about using one or the other?

What does this notion that there's a "correct" way to breathe have to say about normal variations in human physiology, e.g. larger/smaller lungs, skinny vs heavy, larger/smaller sinuses, mild asthma, etc.?
yep, my Circle-CI deploy fails, the following URL is not available: https://github.com/rancher/cli/releases/download/v0.6.0/ranc...
The joke is that git is decentralized–it's just GitHub that's a single point of failure.
I've found that it was useless until you start to learn what apps end up having a better experience with touch.

I use it a lot for document reviews, working with spreadsheets, and anywhere that touch corresponds more with manipulation of the object on screen.

I completely disregard it when the laptop is docked though. For me, mouse/kb habits take over.
Yea, when faced with an impending apocalypse you should be trolling internet forums!
What are Chatbots and How can one make them without knowledge of AI
> Is this a fact about the U.S. legal system, or about legal systems in general?

I can't speak to other legal systems, but the fact that here in the USA we have a large "private prison industry", coupled with the fact that these prisons often sell their "prisoner work services" (or whatever they call them) to other companies, and they lobby Congress for these new laws, and for more prisons to be built, etc...

Yeah - they kinda have an incentive to make more people break laws - so they continue to get more "employees" (and more "campuses") to be able to sell these services to more companies (who like the access to these cheap services - much cheaper than hiring their own employees, sometimes even cheaper than overseas workers - prisoners are pretty cheap to employee as a group!).

I'm sure that this is a trend, though, that might expand worldwide, if it hasn't already...
A friend attempted to send me money via Square Cash without asking me my preference. Square Cash can only be used at mobile app. You cannot use a website at all (at least not last year). No thank you.
Natural gas kills 4,000 people per PWh generated. Fukushima killed zero immediately, and might kill 100-200 eventually through increased cancer incidences.

Fukushima made a few hundred square kilometers briefly unsafe, and some tens of square kilometers temporarily uninhabitable. (Or really, inhabitable but slightly unhealthy.) Fossil fuels are wrecking the entire planet.

It's interesting that Fukushima seems to be all people remember about the Tohoku earthquake. 16,000 people died (for comparison the worst natural disaster in the US, the 1900 Galveston hurricane, killed 6,000-12,000), hundreds of thousands were displaced, and many towns were destroyed, but nobody remembers that. A dam failure triggered by the earthquake killed 12 people but nobody uses this to argue against dams.
You sure about that? Most of them have WiFi cards in them; they're connected to something, that is likely reachable from the net.

You can also imagine a single person compromising the firmware to be used in the next election to randomly flip enough votes over to a specific side to cause a win. This could be done by either an insider, or an outsider that has managed to hack the voting machine company's network.
Chromium Windows builds now use clang by default
I've been using the XPS 9560 full-time since February, and have experienced precisely 0 of the issues you describe whilst running a number of Linux variants, including several Ubuntu variants, Fedora and Solus.

> So I don't even have a way of getting a working version of Ubuntu on this laptop if anything happens to my hard drive.

You could simply download Ubuntu directly, or any other distribution. Dell isn't doing anything special to the version they distribute.

> For example, updating BIOS to a version that fixes an important CPU bug causes the computer to freeze and shutdown every few minutes at random.

Have you tried talking to Dell about this issue? Their support, particularity around BIOS issues on their XPS and Precision range has been fantastic in my experience, and they often supply pre-release BIOS versions if they believe it will help, otherwise they tend to replace the laptop.
Sorry to be that guy, but it's "whet your appetite"
Musk vs. Zuckerberg on AI
Pay $1 to see how many people paid $1
If safe storage is really the goal (I think part of the thinking is that we might someday have a use for the "waste") it seems highly technically feasible to encase it suitably, and drop it on the subducting side of the Mid-Pacific Subduction Zone.

Since the containers would be very dense, they'd embed deep into the sediment, many thousands of feet underwater. Over geologic time, subduction would draw them deeper and deeper, eventually into the Earth's mantle.

Problem solved, if permanent disposal is truly the goal.
I don't think so. A lot of my issues are with BIOS and various linux apps or the window manager, not technically the distribution flavour itself. Also, I'm done spending time on this :)
Sabre lays off 15% of its workforce
Sabre, the largest Global Distribution Systems (airline reservation system) provider in the United States, is laying off approximately 15% of its workforce (at least 900) worldwide (Southlake in DFW, Montevideo, Bangalore, Singapore, Krakow).

https://www.thelayoff.com/sabre-holdings

Edit: this article says 9% of the workforce

http://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/airline-tech-firm-sabre-cuts-1000-jobs-9-of-workforce-affected-including-those-in
http://www.seas.upenn.edu/~cis197/

This course (offered at my University) has some good material on React, not to mention the fact that you can even download the starter code for the assignments and work through it.
Mostly cost & benefits over existing metal 3D printing technologies.

Current metal 3D printing machines cost well over $1 million, and have some significant caveats for part design. Due to the residual stresses in the parts, supports structures are required for many part geometries. This means your parts that have been designed to be unmachineable, now have support structures that then need to be machined off. The easily removable supports are a huge win for Desktop Metal here.

Repeatability has also been an issue in metal 3D printing. This is partly due to the nature of the sintering/melting process, but mostly because the majority of parts produced on metal 3D printers are actually designed to be manufactured using another process. I have higher hopes for the production system than the studio system for improvements in that area, but remains to be seen at this point.
Hey! Grakn person here.

The Prolog syntax is very elegant but it could be clunky, I totally agree. Our syntax has resource and role names instead of relying on position:

e.g.

match $x has lastname "some last name";
Google’s native ad blocker for Chrome shows up in Android developer build
4 Reasons for Cryptocurrency Regulation
It doesn't actually contribute to the discussion, it just derails it.

You did not quote my post in its entirety. Before the saying anything about the US being a free country, I asked a pointed, important question that the parent had left undefined. The OP glibly asserted that this was "unacceptable." I asked: "unacceptable to whom?" The glib question about US being a free country was rhetorical and intended to provide some context for interpreting the first, more important question.

In retrospect, I probably should have left it off, given that only one of six responses even attempted to address the more important question. It's no surprise that soundwave106's comment is far and away the most thoughtful and interesting response. (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14851330.) I intended the 1st question to be literal and the 2nd question to be rhetorical. Instead everyone appears to have read the 2nd question to be literal and the 1st one to be rhetorical.

For a more detailed version of my own thoughts on the matter, feel free to review this follow-up: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14851549
Massive displacement with ongoing disputes between residents and the government over whether it's safe to return seems like the obvious one.
I was once called "snobbish" because I used the term " transitive" while discussing a similar issue with non-technical people in the legal field.

If only the legislator understood technology instead of simply using the "everything is a contract" and the "website is like a house people can break into" (failed) analogies.
I think at this point we're talking past each other a bit.

As I read the comment in question, the concern was not whether the (article -> comment) reproduction was faithful, but about the original (speech -> article) reproduction. That's not an unreasonable question to carry some skepticism about in the general case, and it's not something that checking the article can answer.

I agree that the cited reason for increased skepticism in this case - the insertion of ", said ..., " - isn't actually cause for increased skepticism.
Right, but in the context of a world where 30-40% of the grid is solar/wind, it's easy.
> observable trends atm is that physical location still matters

Sure, we're still in the shallow part of the disruption curve. The real world (established player) has two features that Skype/Hangouts/Slack/VR (disruptive player) can't do yet:

- eye contact

- a semi-conscious background channel

Group video calls are confusing without eye contact. You can't really pay half attention to Slack. You read, or you don't read.

But within 5 years or so you should be able to buy a $400 VR headset which lets you make eye contact with someone, and place a semi-interesting conversation between coworkers in the background behind your virtual desk.

And of course the VR workplace has many benefits which will never be replicated by a real world workplace. It's a classic disruptive technology. Small market now. Will eat almost all of office space within 20 years.
Did Chernobyl? The reactor next door kept operating after the accident. A coal fly ash spill closed a river to fishing for weeks.

Nuclear accident badness is massively overplayed by the media.
Oh, so you're in favor of electronic voting for instant results plus a write-only auditable paper trail. That's what I favor too. I didn't quite understand what you were getting at the first time; sorry about that.
All previous attempts at centralized services failed, except the ones backed by banks. Bitcoin works because it is not centralized.

You are free to design a better alternative. If you do it, you will be rich.