skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, and like all trickle-down theories, it turned out to be complete BS. Those of us who lived through Reagan aren't surprised. It's really a genius example of doublespeak. How do you sell the public and regulators on a plan that takes wealth or benefit from the 99% and gives it to the 1%? You tell them it does the exact opposite of what it actually does. You tell them "Hey man it's all part of the plan! After all, the rich can't give you tons of money" [your money] "unless they have it first, amirite bro? Just sign here and all the riches will be yours!" Then later when the plan "just happens to" result in an upward rush of wealth & benefit, you say "oops it didn't work." Oh, it worked.
Haskell can defer them by producing thunks (values) containing runtime exceptions. But unlike a dynamic-only language, you still get to know about the errors at compile time, by way of a set of warnings.
One of the best tools for profiling I've used with python is gprof2dot, which analizes cProfiles output and generates a function call-graph that gives deep insights as to what is really taking execution time.

It can help you see a lot clearer why things are slow. Though it has its nuissances, it significantly improves your understanding of where time is spent. It's the same data from cProfile, but much better organized.

That tool, combined with the line_profiler (kernprof) can work wonders.
I'd like to see some real-world performance numbers when compared with gzip. The article is a little overzealous in its claims that simply don't add up.

My suspicion is it's going to be marginal and not worth the added complexity for what essential is a compression technique.

This project is a prime example of incorrect optimization. Developers should be focused on loading the correct amount of JavaScript that's needed by their application, not on trying to optimize their fat JavaScript bundles. It's so lazy engineering.
> This wastes real time on not-so-uncommon platforms like Cygwin and MSYS2, where spawning subshells is slow and running ./configure can take minutes.

That's true, but in my case it turned out to be insignificant. While changing all the autoconf junk in > 100 plugins could move the total build time from 50 minutes down to 40, I'd need an order of magnitude decrease in build time to warrant the work. I say order of magnitude because its only at a 5 minute build time that the entire dev process would see a paradigm shift-- at that point I could, with a straight face, stop shipping Linux binaries and just suggest that users compile the software themselves. (Of course that's not great usability for a whole class of Ubuntu users, but at build time == 5 minutes some other dev could easily come along and package things up with ease.)

Also, the extra wasted time under Windows isn't the fault of autoconf. Try doing `git any_subcommand` in msys2 and you'll get latency so high you'd think it were a practical joke.

Edit: added parenthetical
> The build script is easy to repurpose to your needs

No, it's not. This isn't under a free or open source license. The lack of license means that only an idiot would use it for anything.
But Netflix already pays for their bandwidth! Everybody already has incentives to minimize it!
This is a false and defamatory. I (Chris Vickery) have never ransomed any data. I have protected the private data of hundreds of millions. Post some evidence or retract your comment.
>Why should a hedge fund that takes advantage of the US social structure (funded by taxes) be allowed to not pay taxes in the US?

You seem to have a very US-centered view of the world. To those of us who don't live in the US, it comes across as bizarre.

"Takes advantage of the US social structure" is so vague as to be practically meaningless, and could be extended to almost any developed economy.

Not all of us owe Uncle Sam, you know.
I used to work with Infosys at some point of time. I believe one of the projects we did was very well received by the client, as their previous 2 attempts of getting it done had failed.

I also heard later that they managed to package it up and sell it as a product to other companies in the domain. I'd say it worked out well for all parties involved, even though my work hours got nasty at times.
Computers are tools. They don't reason; they do exactly what they're instructed to. A stick can solve a problem too, but it's still a tool, because it only does exactly what you tell it to. This will be true until we develop an AI with intrinsic agency.

Furthermore, I'd say that your over-focus on reasoning is misguided. There are many aspects of cognition and consciousness, and reasoning is just one of them. (And, as others have mentioned, there's plenty of evidence for various forms of abstract reasoning in studied animals.) Wikipedia's article on Animal Cognition has a convenient listing of different aspects that have been studied:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_cognition
I'm impressed with Cortex - All industry leaders (Google, Siri, Alexa) answer "Who killed John Wilkes Booth" with "Abraham Lincoln," but this gives the correct answer. It shows that it has a deeper understanding of it's data sources.
Yes. Ignore the naysayers :-)

Check out VirtuaGL and TurboVNC. It is possible to run these two things inside a docker container, install a DE and accelerate a GUI app. I've been doing it for quite a while.

Also for all those checking the OPs original lib out. It does work and it is great and also probably the most mature option, but my understanding is that future focus for GPU inside containers is with this newer lib, also looked after by Nvidia:

https://github.com/NVIDIA/libnvidia-container

I'm fairly familiar with this stuff, though not an expert, for my startup http://realityzero.one. But, I've not been paying that much attention to this area of late, so if I've got this wrong then please feel free to correct me. Perhaps they're for different things. I know there's been some discussion from the k8n crowd about the newer lib in k8n's github issues.
I think you should look again at my original comment. I'm not saying animals are unintelligent. They possess cognitive powers. But I'm talking about cogitative powers. That's introspection. It's not that it must be like humans to count, it's that humans are the only ones that show it, as far as we know.

The article for this post discusses this. Many animals have complex behaviors. For instance, the two links you have posted are examples. But faced with new problems they buckle and cannot deal.

The ravens are interesting, I will read that study. But saying they're intelligent is not the same thing as saying they are cogitative, for they don't possess the language to express cogitative experiences in the same we, and only we, do.

This has been a discussion point in Analytical Philosophy for a number of years, particularly during the rise of Cognitive Neuroscience. PMS Hacker, in particular, has written a lot about this topic, I would recommend his two books:

(https://www.amazon.com/Human-Nature-Categorial-Framework-Hac...) "This major study examines the most fundamental categories in terms of which we conceive of ourselves, critically surveying the concepts of substance, causation, agency, teleology, rationality, mind, body and person, and elaborating the conceptual fields in which they are embedded."

And;

(https://www.amazon.com/Intellectual-Powers-Study-Human-Natur...) "The Intellectual Powers is a philosophical investigation into the cognitive and cogitative powers of mankind. It develops a connective analysis of our powers of consciousness, intentionality, mastery of language, knowledge, belief, certainty, sensation, perception, memory, thought, and imagination, by one of Britain’s leading philosophers. It is an essential guide and handbook for philosophers, psychologists, and cognitive neuroscientists."

Both of which heavily interact with relevant research and articles in cognitive neuroscience and neuroscience more broadly.
I would actually agree with you on that. Many examples could probably be had in the area of policing. In my own area Cincinnati has some sort of evil monopoly deal with Cincinnati Bell.

But its about the possible scale of abuse. If the federal government abuses its power what you get is the early USSR. If a city abuses its power what you get is a city you can leave.
I felt like this with my Australian Cattle Dog/Australian Kelpie mix. It's like she could read my mind. I think that herding breeds tend to be especially intelligent and in-tune dogs - they would have to be, to work with their owner and often other dogs to manoeuvre sometimes very large herds of bigger animals in just the right way.
U.S. Military to Have Separate Unified Cyber Warfare Command
People are often nervous in interviews, though it can be hard for anyone to keep that energy level over the long term. Or perhaps you smiled?
what i really want to know, is how they got this reddit dataset =O
Can you give an example? I don't find this personally. I find static strong typing speeds me up because I don't have to restart the app, click some buttons etc. to figure out some code was wrong. This is true even for prototypes. Most of the time any type declarations you need are straightforward and once you know your code better you can start introducing more exotic types to capture more errors later.
The website (AWS) doesn't use U2F in that scenario, so you don't get the phishing-resistance U2F brings to the table. It's just regular TOTP, with the secret stored on your Yubikey instead of your phone (or wherever else you'd store it normally).
I don't know if it's genius. To those of us who have never lived in the Bay Area and are perpetually sticker shocked by housing costs, it's really, really obvious.

But it's definitely a good idea.
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I have stopped reading it for a while now. Too politicized and opinionated for my taste.
I use the one-click patent everytime I buy music from the iTunes Music Store.
Show HN: FitzyTV – A Cloud DVR app for any US cable provider. Any feedback?
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Amazon can't undercut manufacturers (not without becoming a manufacturer). If they undercut middlemen who weren't adding any value, what do I care?
Oops-a-daisy.
I average 12.5-15 on my commute, and max out at 22-23 on flats. I can keep up with most, but not all, ebikes, and am slower than most road bikes.

I probably couldn't keep up with you + ebike if you average 15 on a regular bike.

I wonder how the governor works. Does it just stop assisting at 20, or does regenerative braking automatically kick in?
Throwaway here. Since the research shows a relation between gut/microbiome imbalance and some auto-immune diseases, do you think probiotics are parts of the future medical response to such diseases ? (yes, I have one). I know this paper (http://sci-hub.io/10.1097/MCG.0b013e3181662455) but don't know how research built on it since.
> It's a myth that open source tools are more secure than closed source tools.

It's a myth that they are always more secure, but my experience has been that they are generally more secure. I'd love it if we had some statistics behind this.

I would argue that foss tools have an inherent interest in being more secure, while closed-source tools have an inherent interest in being less secure.
On days I wake up naturally, early in the morning, I am 100x more productive than a typical day. The problem is keeping that consistent seems to be really difficult for me, possibly depending on a bunch of factors, like stress levels, exercise, sleep quality. It might even depend on the season, with cooler months somehow being better for me.
> It's not so great when I'm trying something new and am still trying to work out if what I want to do is even possible, since I find myself trying to identify the right type to use in a given situation rather than proving that I'm even able to do it.

Finding the right type is solving most of the problem. If you can find the right type, you can solve the problem. If you're having trouble finding the right type, then you don't yet understand the problem well enough, and modelling what you do know with types quickly points out what parts of the problem you haven't fully understood, without having to run broken, half-specified programs that cover only part of the problem space.

What makes you think being able to run such half-specified programs for part of the problem will actually help with answering this question?
Steve Bannon out as White House chief strategist
It's specifically not trying to reduce size. It's trying to reduce time spent parsing in the JS engine.
I actually get requests for EU-based region quite a lot. I think I'll have to start working on that soon, but I can't make any promises.
Neoliberalism: the idea that swallowed the world
> By high bandwidth users I am referring more to companies like Netflix or a bloated news site than to end users.

I'm not sure I understand. Netflix pays for it's high bandwidth to deliver data to users. And you pay for your bandwidth to receive that data.

You could have 10 services that are using bandwidth equally or 1 service using (and paying for) 10x the bandwidth -- what is the significant difference here? The total data is the same.

Net Neutrality isn't about the "what" it's about the "who". Netflix is a big popular service so your ISP wants to extract more money from them -- not because of what they do, but who they are. 1 big service vs. 10 smaller ones.
$10,000 is a strong relocation package but the fine print is pretty clear that it's for reimbursement - not as a signing bonus.

You'd have to pay me pretty well to even consider moving to the Bay Area with today's housing prices. But if I'm already there with the salary I want, it may take even more to get me to leave. Certainly more than $10k in moving reimbursement.
We have a lot of disparate information. So, you will have design information from Engineering (performance documentation, known issues in simulation) Testing information from Operation and then customer observations and resolutions from Sales / Application support.

We also want to improve how we track lessons learned in product development so that when a new project is kicked off the designers can look back at previous dev jobs.

We have used wikis and ticket systems but they are mostly in house built tools. Just wondering if there are more professional grade tools that you have used.
They recently announced they are going to build a huge $10Billion plant in Wisconsin to build LCD screens. (likely related to their Sharp acquisition)
The downside to doing this on my Nano is that the CCID mode causes the light on the Yubikey to blink constantly. The only way to shut it off is to disable CCID mode. Who thought this was a good idea?!?
David Byrne, “Eliminating the Human”
At FloydHub, we use nvidia-docker in production for running DL jobs. It has been very solid for the past 6 months or so. We have also built a collection of open source DL docker images for various frameworks and we actively maintain them.

[1]: https://hub.docker.com/r/floydhub/
[2]: https://github.com/floydhub/dockerfiles
> Any reasonably seasoned bicyclists easily bikes at 20-30 kph in the flats, so by far exceed the safe bike path speeds.

This is my point though that building cycling infrastructure for "all ages and abilities" means including people (eg. children) that aren't comfortable going these at the speeds that weekend warriors on road bikes are comfortable with.

I like the idea of pedal assist in helping people tackle potentially more strenuous parts of a commute, but bike lanes need to be kept as low speed, bicycle speed, zones somehow.
I really enjoyed the podcast! It was probably the most impressive CEO I’ve heard, love the idea that he tslks to CEO a year or two away from where he is and picks their brains!
Move to Washington State. Don't pay California income tax. Instant 8% boost to your take-home pay.
If net neutrality goes away, the burden of prosecuting anti-competitive behavior lies with the FTC.

God help us.
It's also offshore b/c non-US ICO's don't want exposure to "SEC risk" due to taking money from US investors. The fund will lose potential deal flow if it's US-based. This is a concern in the industry right now.
> Ah, see, here is the confusion. You don't spend much time listening to leftists.

No I understand I was making fun of your typo. You meant to say that "leftists say that liberals get the bullet to"

Honestly I think you go meet with some actual American socialists you'll find that they're a lot more moderate than the teenagers and shut ins who post on political subreddits. It's like turning to Twitter for an an "average American opinion." Small communities on places like Reddit and Twitter are not proxies for entire groups of people. Just like /r/The_Donald hardly actually represents all Trump supporters, just a vocal subset that gets the most attention.
> and everyone else (42 click checkout and one week delivery, if you're lucky)

Certianly in the UK the friction of buying from "non-Amazon" websites exists ( create an account, enter payment etc ) but Amazon just uses the same delivery networks as everyone else.

In fact a small company often dispatches faster in my experience than Amazon; for non-Prime at least they've
been stretching the 'Dispatching Soon' timelines to nearly a week[0]. Of course once it's in that status you can't cancel the order.

[0] As a third-party seller through Amazon I am required to dispatch within two working days. One rule for them and another for the little folk.
Right now, almost everything is done from the command-line interface. We're building a web interface, but we wanted to be command-line first so it integrates with scripts and tools.
You should look at per capita suicide rates because populations are not distributed evenly by age group. Also, China in 1999 was a very different country so it's difficult to draw conclusions from this dataset about the situation there today.
Sometimes a very little thing ;-)

https://shop.pimoroni.com/products/cluster-hat
That, and Washington kicks hella ass.

Washington State. Not that Washington. The good one.(tm)
Anyone know if a company other than Apple currently licenses 1-Click?
You've got a fairly self-fulfilling wish. If we share a universe with Dark Foresters, you'll be destroyed! And if we don't, you won't!
Excellent idea for a process that merely speeds up something (recycling) that's going to happen whatever, given time.
It's definitely impressive. However it still fails at questions like "How old is the Earth".
The best known song by The Guess Who in the United States, yes. The Guess Who first hit top 40 in Canada with 'These Eyes' but didn't reach it in the US until 'American Woman.'

Unrelated, but if I had to pick a song about the US for a 'Quintessentially Canadian' playlist it would be 'The Gulf War Song' by Moxy Fruvous.

Cheers.
I believe you're thinking of Contact, not 2001.
Thanks for reading you might be the first!
I condemn the bots on both sides. They are both trying to galvanize their base rather than facilitate a discussion.

The FCC does profit. But its not like they are stealing that money, they literally create value out of thin air by being the authority that says you are not allowed to interfere with others' spectrum space. But the profit is undisputable, see https://www.cnet.com/news/fcc-rakes-in-45-billion-from-wirel...

The Federal Reserve does the same thing.
The downside is they're easy to break if they're left plugged in. I'm on my 3rd one.
I went to Shenzhen and worked for Egoman, a Chinese company that made the first batch of Raspberry Pis, before that manufacturing got moved to Wales.

The dormitories look typical. I arranged to stay in one through a different friend; mine wasn't arranged by the company.

Now I'm in Taiwan, and life is better here. Factories are newer and cleaner, and working hours are more sane. Chinese factories often set long shifts because there's nothing to do in the local area except work. Kaohsiung has much more local culture than Shenzhen, so the workers are more interested in time off, and happier for it.

I've been here for 3 years to get the necessary work experience for future visas. I'm now considering other options, particularly New Zealand or Australia, where my girlfriend and I both want to go.

Please ask me if you have any other questions, I'm willing to share my experiences.
You can either compile-before-run (as you would any compiled language), our you can leverage Cythons compile-on-import mechanism. Which does exactly the same, but you don't have to think about having to compile.

Compile time is usually down to a few seconds (or less), so it's not really a burden.
Cambridge University Press Removes Academic Articles on Chinese Site
Ask HN: You're on bathroom break, what productive phone app do you use?
Bonus: What productive app do you use when you don't have internet access?

Note: Productive could be anything like learning, reading, planning, etc. Not work-specific.
We have too many dead people - makes sense to me. I also like the idea of dead bodies as fertilizers for trees. But I'd way prefer to have my ashes help nourish a badass oak tree then just slowly rot away. Or maybe an apple tree...
May I kindly plug my upcoming book [1] for writing CMake in an effective and straightforward manner :-)
I was just porting a large Makefile based build system over to CMake and had the 'pleasure' to find out why recursive Make really is the root of all evil and just doesn't scale well enough for large software systems. At least to my mind.

[1] https://leanpub.com/effective-cmake
You can't blame TSA on the lack of competition, since it's effectively state mandated anyway. (Strictly speaking, airports aren't required to use TSA staff, but they're required to have the same intrusive security protocols.)
Agreed, the fact that I can drive to virtually any of the worlds largest tech companies and many of its promising startups from my current work is worth a lot more than 10k. Once that pressure is removed, I assume employers will pay market rate at wherever you relocated to.
Denver is even better—competitive wages w/ washington & lower cost of living.
It was Contact, not 2001.
Talking is not a natural state for a lot of people. Relaxing or smiling is not enough. You actually need to motivate them to talk.
I find it ironic that Linux itself is an application running underneath a microkernel.
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'Digital' implies the category 'digital' rather than 'crypto'.

It only implies that for people knowledgeable enough to clear know what "cryptocurrencies" are. Bloomberg is writing for a general business audience, using a more generic term is normal, and doesn't imply anything.

I believe PayPal is seen as having an electronic currency:

A random line in Wikipedia does not make for good evidence about how something is seen. Especially as the line says they "will sell" their currency, which is not something Paypal does currently.

Paypal is a bank, they hold money in existing currencies, they don't emit their own.
Of course - if nobody used it Amazon would remove the button. I doubt that adding 1-click to some other site will greatly increase their sales - that is all I'm saying.
... I'm not sure.

Since they're almost always powering, the freewheel never comes in. The motor is also quieter than most chain sets end up being under the abuses of the city.
That's the one Adam bought and described in the article. It totally sticks out.