skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The term "coordinate system" isn't well-defined without context. I was taking non-singular implicitly as part of that - actually, not so implicit since that's sort of the point of the digression. Of course, other contexts are happy to say that, say, polar coordinates are a coordinate system even including the singular point at radius 0, so I probably should have been more careful and said a "coordinate chart."
The X1 is the only one with OLED, isn't it?
When there is filming on a street in LA, every home on that street gets a notice in the mail. I imagine a similar system here would make sense.
I'm not specifically talking about whether it's predatory or not, but whether the correct procedures were followed and if they weren't, whether that would have allowed the residents a chance to rectify the situation if alerted.

I wasn't really taking the predatory part of the original statement all that seriously so wasn't addressing it specifically, and wasn't paying close enough attention to your initial reply to note that you were specifically addressing that aspect, so that's my mistake.
The End of Typing: The Next Billion Mobile Users Will Rely on Video and Voice
Where is the excuse making? There is a question being raised. Why are you so fervent about silencing the questioner rather than refuting their assumptions?
If you don't support the practice when it targets the poor, presumably you shouldn't with the rich either

With apologies to Anatole France, "the law, in its majestic equality, allows the rich as well as the poor to have their parking spaces used for profit."
> If you're familiar with assembly language programming and understand how register contents are pushed/poped on/off the stack between sub-routine calls then it is easier to understand what is happening behind the scenes.

Assembly programming in college is exactly what made recursion really click for me!
Its a mistake to re-criminalize, just look at Germany when they legalized prostitution they were able to focus efforts on slavery and human trafficking, by separating the issues of human trafficking and slavery from prostitution they saw a 75% increase in prosecution of human traffickers.
Indeed. I think this is one of the best things about the proposal: it offers a way out of the current hardcoded behaviours. At the moment we barely even think about whether or not they're correct, because they're obviously too hard to opt out of.
My 2010 15 inch MBP is still getting OS updates. Installed 8GB of memory and an SSD a few years back. Other than the fact that 1.5 hours is about all I can get from the battery, I haven't been compelled to upgrade.
Real-Time Big Data Analytics in Health Care
Vive Studios releases MakeVR Pro 3D modeling software for serious creatives
I don't know how culture fit can be taken out of the equation. Work in modern workplaces (and in particular the office, knowledge-worker type we're talking about) is far from the conveyor-belt screw-tightening fully explicit work of our industrial past. Our whole output depends on shared mental context.

You may say -- "aha, but culture fit is a proxy for racism". Fine, then people are racists -- in that very implicit, system-wide way that's immune to sensitivity training and generic pressure in the wider culture. What to do then, shoot the racists?
That might work for Tesla because it targets the leisure class...or at least people with plenty of disposable income. That's not everyone. In the case of the charging stations near me, right now it is 34C and 80% humidity and sunny and the doors are ~0.4 km across a shadeless asphalt parking lot. You could shop for a fresh shirt because you'll want one by the time you reach the air conditioning. Maybe get two because you'll want another when you get back to your car that's been sitting in the sun for an hour or so. But at least it's not currently raining.

Shopping at the mall is great if I don't have to be anywhere any time soon and I've got some money to spend on things I probably don't really need. But having to do so every two hundred miles smells more of nuisance than of pleasure.
Apple's a big company with a lot of business units that are pretty hermetically sealed from each other. Various different people I've met who work at Apple have had very different experiences there.
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I also have a stutter, and I've blogged about being a single founder with it (https://justink.svbtle.com/being-a-founder-with-a-speech-imp...). I've had a speech impediment since I was a kid. I was told I would grow out of it. Still waiting for that to happen. :-)

I've noticed my stuttering has seasons/cycles of worse times, which seem to be tied to stress or anxiety over important calls or meetings. My stuttering has certainly been frustrating and frankly limiting as a founder, since my latest company (https://elasticbyte.net) requires more person-to-person interactions (talking to clients and closing deals).

The singing technique (mysteriously don't stutter when singing), while it is effective, does not work in a business setting. Darn!
You know, I'm even fond of the quirky keyboard layout, in the end. I will dearly be missing the backspace/delete combo once I upgrade.
If it's a one-off thing, probably $200 per hour. I don't suspect 200 lines of front end code would take a full hour to review unless you're doing something far out of the ordinary.
> It's great having the vocabulary to describe recursion and the tools to elegantly recurse, but anamorphism tends to shut down conversations faster than mentioning the m-word.

Consider nudging the library authors to write a few words first [1]

[1] - https://hackage.haskell.org/package/recursion-schemes-5.0.2/...
> Long story short, all "research" is pretty much B.S.

I'm curious about this as it relates to Piglet. Are you monetizing on the idea that most people won't realize this and will pay for Piglet with the hopes that they signals they get there are somehow positively correlated to what's happening in the real world for a particular stock/idea/company/politics when in reality you don't think it really does?
I really don't understand this sentiment.

Sure, maybe its true rich people usually do this to poor people. But it's different rich people. We know nothing about the people that live on this street. Being happy because some random rich people are getting screwed over because other rich people are assholes is incredibly stupid.
The death of Ruby? Developers should learn these languages instead
I count 1001, 1002 and so on.
I scanned the list and attached a subjective clickbaitiness to each 'headline'. Of course without reading the article. Yours got 100%.

I learned two things, this network knows how to make HN visitors click. It is hard to extract knowledge from a NN.
Ask HN: Who uses the comand line?
Hello HN, I started Learning SSH, and started Learning about the comand line. I'm curious who actualy uses that ? What are the advantages ? Thanks.
Toxic how?
London Underground trains on the Victoria line are driven by computer and use a moving block system

this included the stations: you would have one train coming in the back as the previous train was still going out the front

apparently they special cased the stations to not do this, as this used to cause upset amongst the passengers!
Some people might see that as sexist.
Yes. You're working from an overly reductive perspective. Transportation, government subsidy, and population density are way too complex to cover with a simple "I don't use it, so why should I pay for it" argument.
Have you ever looked into the valsalva hypothesis around stuttering?
I agree with your sentiments about this style of article, but I’d say recursion is simple—the problem is that “simple” doesn’t mean “easy”. A lot of programming & math concepts were like this for me when I was first exposed to them—amazingly simple and clearly useful after they “clicked”, frustrating and inscrutable before.
The current version of the library achieves 13ms per binary operation on a core-i7 instead of 50ms in the original paper.

The improvements are described in the new paper: https://eprint.iacr.org/2017/430. Hopefully, the packing techniques will be also present in the next version of TFHE.
Application Network Functions with ESBs, API Management, and Now.. Service Mesh?
If this doesn't happen or takes too long, there's always lacolhost.com and *.lacolhost.com. I own this domain, have registered it out until 2026 and vow that the domain and all subdomains will always redirect to localhost.

It's easy to type and easy to remember and should always do a good job of expressing intent of usage.
It'd quickly turn into a regulated mess. The proper solution is a large-scale extrajurisdictional organization that can take both sides of the trade. Like Uber (without the sexism), it would answer to both the contractors and the customers.

Not being a government org would give it the freedom to maneuver. It could exact penalties on abusive clients (fines, banning or worse). It could engage law enforcement on its own terms to combat human trafficking. But also commercially it has many advantages. It would know demand and could thus implement demand based pricing and overall help workers maximize their earnings.

A government org is never going to do proper marketing! A company can, and will. And it is a lucrative enough business that it will be able to provide real top quality service to everyone involved without sacrificing safety.
Jeff Dean’s Lecture for YC AI
It's not a gimmick. I played it on my parents TV a bunch, moved out, and then played in the plane, played in Airbnbs, played at the laundromat, and now I bought a TV at my new place to be able to play on TV again.

Now I often undock it to play in the bed. I haven't really been into handheld gaming but this thing just makes sense.

That being said it really lacks games at the moment. Controllers are fucking expensive as well.
"Long range" is a marketing term. Right now I couldn't take a "long range" Tesla into rural North Carolina to see my relatives without serious range anxiety and/or careful routing.

Charging station coverage in the US is about where digital cellular coverage was in the mid-2000s. It exists in most places and in major population centers, but there are clear holes. Gas stations meanwhile are still ubiquitous.

The outlook may be different in 5-10 years, but right now in the US a plug-in hybrid is the best of both worlds IMO. Assuming your round-trip daily commute is within the electric range it's a de-facto pure EV, with the gasoline only kicking in for occasional longer trips.
It's worth the trade off.
> Copying manufacturing is easier than making new software.

That's a good one. Next you'll tell me supply chain and logistics is just as simple as buying SAP or even better, that SAP is for fools and you're betting off rolling your own solution.
It's possible to defend somebody's right to say something without defending what they're actually saying.

(Come to think of it, that's exactly what Google's official response did.)
Direct link to article: http://www.techrepublic.com/article/the-death-of-ruby-develo...
TFA: Still, perhaps even more surprising than the decrease in gonorrhea was another public health development. Sexual violence, or rapes, dipped dramatically. And this wasn't just amongst sex workers. It was across the board, according to FBI crime reports and jurisdiction level data.

"Reported rape offenses decreased by about 30 percent," Shah said.

That's another big decrease. Shah says, if anything, you'd expect rape to go up as when prostitution is decriminalized, sex workers are more likely to report rapes. She compared this to neighboring states, too. The drop was only in Rhode Island. So she examined other crime data in Rhode Island, like burglaries and murders, to see if there had just been a drop in crime generally.

It didn't match.
Is reddit using this? At times of high load, getting an error there seems kinda random.
I use it, automation, quick command reference, tab complete, much more powerful options, ability to chain/pipe commands.
That's 100% their plan, but a stupid idea. Don't pick fights you can't win.

There are 40 homeowners who would rather drag that couple through legal hell out of spite than pay a $1 parking fee. And they have the wherewithal in spades to do it.

Even if the couple gets passed all that, the homeowners are going to complain about every little thing. Crack in street? Fix it. Curb crooked? Fix it. Someone illegally parked? Deal with it now. Trash on street? Clean it. Leaves on street? Sweep it now. Grass too long? Mow it immediately. Don't answers these calls immediately? Get accused of negligent landlord.

If the couple thought they could just kick their feet back and collect checks... I just don't know what to say...
Jeff Dean’s Lecture for YC AI [video]
Sorry, I meant memory compression.

Memory compression is just awesome.
You sound knowledgable about these matters, and I am not. In my ignorance, "agg. market cap" sounds like an easily gamed number. For example, I could start an exchange and ask every company in the world to list 10^-10 of their shares, and so become the largest exchange in the world by agg. market cap. (Perhaps this doesn't come up in practice because most firms list in only one market, and so agg. market cap becomes a useful measure of how much of the economy a given exchange touches, in some sense.)
Exactly.

Although I think this is useful form of property, I also think there needs to be a way to value, recognize or sell the view or open space that people think they are getting when they buy a property. A beautiful view is worth something and somebody shouldn't be able to take it away arbitrarily. But you should also be able to sell your right to it so someone can build. And the same should apply to the expectation that a 100 story building will not be constructed next to your one story house.

It's inevitable that a city will get denser as time goes on. If I had to choose between developers convincing city officials to let them build or their having to buy the rights to do so from property owners, I'd go with the latter.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/24/realestate/the-great-race-...
The progressive definition of a toxic person is someone who doesn't profess progressive principles at every opportunity. It's sort of like how Muslims think Jews are toxic.
The interesting part is this;

> The drilled cores give us the answer. As I mentioned earlier, they are surprisingly deficient in gypsum, although gypsum is abundant both in the more recent sediments, and in nearby sediments laid down before the impact. So the missing gypsum must have been destroyed by the heat of the impact, sending sulphur dioxide gas up into the atmosphere.5 We already know from studies of volcanic eruptions that over months or years this sulphur dioxide would slowly react in the atmosphere to form a haze of sulphuric acid droplets, scattering sunlight and cooling the Earth. That haze, rather than simply dust, is how the Mt Pinatubo eruption affected climate.

> Extrapolating from Mt Pinatubo and other recent eruptions, and taking into account the enormous volume of gypsum sediments in the impact zone, we can estimate that the haze produced by the Chicxulub impact would have blocked enough sunlight to reduce temperatures worldwide by more than 10oC (18oF), while acid rain would also have contributed to the death of much marine life. On land, trees would have shed leaves and shut down as if for what would turn out to be an unusually long winter. The dinosaurs, hugely diverse and successful as they had been through some 180 million years, had no such way of adapting. The herbivores, and the carnivores that fed on them, perished.

> Where did those ten minutes come from? From the rotation of the Earth. The asteroid is falling towards Earth on a fixed trajectory, but the Earth itself is spinning beneath it, one revolution every 24 hours. This corresponds to around 1,000 miles an hour in the region of interest. So arriving ten minutes earlier or later would have placed the impact some 150 miles further to the East or West. And if this had happened, the asteroid would have missed the shallow gypsum-rich continental shelf, and encountered only the oceans on either side. No gypsum in the impact zone, no sulphuric acid haze, no long deep winter. While things might have been pretty rough for anything living within a couple of thousand miles or so, the rest of the world would hardly have noticed.
You can't play Lego or minecraft with these, you need two pair of joy cons.
From an engineering perspective, I wish more technologists researched the intersection of speech and technology. For many who stutter there's a device called the SpeechEasy which is marketed as something to improve fluency, and reduce stuttering. Unfortunately for most it doesn't work, for those that it does work the effect wears off, it costs well over $3,000 for the intro pocket model, and typically not covered by insurance. What does it do? It creates an echo of your voice in your ear. Literally just an echo; the coral effect if you've ever seen The King's Speech. This device could be built off the shelf at a MicroCenter for a couple of hundred dollars. There are all kinds of technology for the disabled that is grossly overpriced, and I really wish technologists investigated them more, and found ways to disrupt these expensive devices.
Google Grapples with Fallout After Employee Slams Diversity Efforts
Can you clarify what you mean by a loss here?

> Investors bought US bonds at a loss

US Treasuries did not have negative yields last year which is the the closest thing I would consider a loss but would depend on the context.
Just imagine if it took them to a park or candy store where there were also children around. Terrifying!
You have to be rich enough to not need to work.
Many of the world's oldest subways have solved this problem through the use of specialized technology transition teams whose sole job is to develop minimal downtime solutions to upgrading technology. I'm no expert on these technical teams...I merely know of their existence through my own personal obsessive curiosity about infrastructure. But at least in terms of having relatively modern performance and technology, Paris, Madrid, Hamburg, Tokyo, Berlin, Osaka, Barcelona, and even Moscow don't seem to have any problems. Some might run what appears to be really old equipment...but it runs on time without any significant downtime. And with the exception of Tokyo (which has severe overcrowding problems which exceed the natural limits of subways) and London (which has extreme geographic, geological, archeological, electrical, and real estate constraints), they have mostly never let these problems impact the daily service.

New York is probably the most easily upgraded of these legacy subway systems, due to the insistence of the original subway companies on triple tracking. Not only does the triple track allow for express trains, but it also allows for zero downtime maintenance during non-peak hours. The electrical systems aren't a barrier like those in some cities. Even Tokyo and London, which have worse constraints, have fared better. If technology transition teams exist, I haven't heard of them. Upgrade engineering appears to be outsourced. The costs that the MTA quotes for transition seem absurd. Once again, I'm no expert on the engineering involved, but the upgrade costs are approaching new construction costs in other countries.

We know we have a major cost problem in US transit infrastructure construction. But this is not just construction. We also have a problem with maintenance costs, operating costs, capital costs, etc. Everywhere you go in America, we have critical transit infrastructure that is hobbled by costs. Where is the cost management? Why can't we get system-wide cost audits? If annual audits are required of publicly listed companies, why isn't it required of public organizations funded by tax dollars?

I'm sick of the explanation that our problem is funding...its not. Our problem is mismanagement. When you manage your systems well, nobody has any problem sending money your way. The demand curve exists for government funding just as much as it does for markets. When you provide more for a given amount of money, you generally get more money. Give us better management.
The Frame Problem (2016)
CloudFormation vs. Terraform
> with speeds in the ms per gate

I wonder if you could write your programs in such a way that the bulk of the computation was done publically, and only sensitive ops were shunted out to the secure processing network.

Maybe in a language similar to Erlang, but instead of writing code that's amenable to sharing between multiple CPUs, you'd be sharing between multiple degrees of privacy.
I'm torn about this proposal. One one hand, I like that the feature generalized something that you can (for the most part) already do in C++, and I like the new expressiveness metaclasses would provide.

On the other hand, this is kind of insane. C++ is insane. And I'm still not convinced this proposal is more than another bandaid over the fundamental problems with the language. Why do our programming languages keep ending up as terribly complicated and incomplete specifications of scheme or smalltalk?

I don't have a better proposal though and do admire the thought and effort given to retrofitting C++ as a modern language
I wish they would have included Desitin (baby rash cream). I've seen it recommended to use in a pinch and wonder how it stacks up. (I've used it on little homebrew radios, and it seems to work, but I've never gotten around to comparing how it works against 'real' compounds.)
SoftBank in talks to invest in Flipkart, Masayoshi Son confirms
California mulls creation of a pot-industry bank
Well then, that solves that! :)
Yes and no. It depends what type of technical analysis you are doing... If your technical analysis has no other inputs except the price(over any period(s) of time), then you may as well go buy a lottery ticket.

If you are wondering which category you are in, if at any point during your "analysis" you find yourself looking for things with names like "evening star", "bullish engulfing", "head and shoulders", etc.... save yourself some time and money, and go buy that lottery ticket. Day trading is not for you.

If your technical analysis is looking at volume/price/depth-changes, then congratulations, you are on the right track. Next you have to overcome the largest and most devastating hurdle, which is your own psychology.
Who is the majority at Google though? You might be surprised that it is silent and the other kind of jerks would have to leave.
Re-identifying folks from anonymised data will be a crime in the UK
My team moved out entire platform to AppEngine to deal with the traffic spikes we get (among other reasons). It's worked out quite well I must say. It's also cool that if you know you have a spike coming that even AE can't handle, you can automatically tell the service to scale itself a few minutes beforehand in anticipation and then scale itself down later after it's passed.
Light Field Rendering and Streaming for VR and AR [video]
I don't see hatred here. Maybe a little cynicism. It's helpful to learn how to differentiate the two.
Hey, I'm the co-founder/developer and would love to know what you think and answer any questions. We're also looking for more beta testers if anyone is interested: http://blog.reallyread.it/jekyll/update/2017/07/06/beta-test...
My issue with this is that the classifiers always seem to change, and that no-one can ever seem to agree on what the relevant biological classifiers are and how they apply.

If men are drawn to broad, imprecise work, why are more men not marketers (tech or otherwise)? Or, if women are more "creative" as the memo implies, then why wouldn't women be more suited to coming up with a whole new language that compiles to PHP?

And, centrally to it, if tech hiring is broken on so many levels, why does it get it right in terms of gender?