skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Saw your co mentioned in the Techcrunch round up yesterday. Sounds like you've found a great job to build a company around!

Quick thought re: your "Sorry we're not on iOS" page. You give some android phone options (great job at removing a barrier to use) but you leave the viewer with a bunch of uncertainty around timelines.

I driver needs to balance the idea of buying a new phone (and associated work arounds) with guessing how long it will be do develop an iOS app. There's friction there that will push most people to default answer "nah, I'll wait"

Providing some guidance on timelines, or otherwise overcoming the uncertainty around them would be super useful to the calculation / evaluation drivers will have to make.

Two cents.

Best of luck in your continued growth!
Duplicati is suprisingly easy to set up for Windows -> Linux. Installed the windows client, made an account on my linux box and pointed the windows client at it.

Is it a proper service on Windows? That's a problem. I want to configure it from an admin account and have it still work when non admin/non tech savvy users login.
chafmeister talks on youtube are worth a view, half for the lisp part, half for the biochem one.
The link to the Blitzscaling[1] article interviewing Reid Hoffman is a nice read. Good comparisons how Microsoft / Amazon / Google scaled up in terms of company org and even more insight with PayPal's customer service growth outside of Silicon Valley.

[1] https://hbr.org/2016/04/blitzscaling
Whose fines, in the rare instance they're actually fining companies, never come close to the profits reaped by the activities that broke the regulations in the first place. For reference: The judgement against the banks after the 2008 mortgage crisis, the fines levied against Wells after the debacle with phony accounts, pretty much any case involving a collections agency, etc.

When the profits are in the billions, even a fine of 600 million is a paltry line item. You either should fine in an amount relative to the amount made by the illicit activity, or even better, go after the executives behind it directly with said fines or prison. As long as these slimeballs can conduct illegal activity and sail away after "resigning in disgrace" with an 80 million golden parachute, while the company pockets several hundred million, they will continue to do so as has been evident so far for anyone paying attention.
It is a social dynamics (or the state of a society where this dynamics exists) that causes women to have significantly less power[1] than men. That dynamics is, of course, discriminatory, but the discrimination is not necessarily legal or bureaucratic; it may well be in attitude, pressure, education etc.

Occasionally, this discriminatory treatment is due to misogyny (disdain or disrespect of women), but much more often it is unconscious. This is why the first defense against sexism is knowing what it is and learning to see it, and why I like comparing it to germs. They're there, but we need to look for them to see them.

[1]: Power is one of the most important concepts in the social studies. I've already provided a link to the definition(s), but here it is again: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_(social_and_political) No one should engage in a debate over social matters unless they at least know what power means (which is covered pretty well on Wikipedia). That's like debating physics without knowing what force, mass or energy are.
That takeaway is more or less uniformly true, though. It also often comes up as saying that $LANGUAGE is slower than C or C++. Your algorithms aren't naturally faster just because you're writing in C++. You don't magically stop allocating and double-buffering all over the place just because you're writing C++. In fact, coming in from the likes of Java you're liable to underestimate just how much (relatively expensive) copying is going on if you're careless.

What C and C++ give you (and Assembly gives you even more of) is control. If you can, and know how to, capitalise on that control, you _will_ get more performance. But those requirements are non-trivial.
> Make the prototype, write the paper, present it at the conference, job done.

No. One's point is to communicate one's ideas. Code is the only specification of a system detailed enough to reproduce the desired results. You wouldn't present an unfinished paper written in the equivalent of crayon so that particular attitude is the worst kind of lazy bullshit for people actually trying to make use of your hard work.

> It's some engineer's job to do it properly in an actual production setting.

Fuck this attitude so damn hard. As an academic, one _is_ the _first_ engineer who has a duty to lead one's colleagues - to mark as clearly as possible the path for those who come after. This "fuck you, got mine" attitude is unacceptable and unsustainable.
Paging Elon.
Definitely. There was an effort to remedy this with draconian error handling (XHTML), and it badly flopped.

Edit: I don't mean "draconian" in a pejorative sense, it is just typically the word used to describe this.
The go board game has an extraordinarily simple rule set. On the other hand, it is an exceedingly difficult game to gain proficiency in.

A simple spec does not equate to a simple language. I would argue the opposite: a simple spec often means a large amount of hard work is punted on and left to the end-user.
I suspect if you asked most people when the 12 days of Christmas are, they'd say they were December 14-25 (or maybe even 13-24). After all, that's when you buy the presents!
There's a key corollary: you also either have to be doing this as a one-off or committed to maintaining it over time as hardware changes and those cool tricks become moot or even de-optimizations.
The expiration is written on your card.
who says they aren't? Seems like a pretty simple trick.
There is a difference between not knowing when there is to much stress and saing, that 4h are enough.

I do get more stuff done when i work longer.

I might get distracted by stuff but this is also a part of my work. Helping my collegues? Yes part of my job. I do not count my lunch time as work.

And no not the majority of my work as a software engineere is thinking, thinking and thinking. What i really think is tiring is making decisions.

Most of people out there have bad jobs and get paid little. But look at us: Earning good money and talkling about 4h workdays for the same pay. Its fucking arrogant.

I can only recommend to read this: http://bookofhook.blogspot.de/2013/03/smart-guy-productivity...

and no there is no 'but i did my work so i can go home' How about spending the rest of the time to improve something in your company? or bring the garbage out? Or whatever?

And if you are part of a team, you put less work in than others and let them down :(
Any chance you could add the ability to store files for more than 30 days? I doubt that it is actually that much data, but I don't want to come to my computer to see that some ransomeware has been encrypting my files for 90 days and now demands to be paid.
Karma eventually does work
> Is there any real life examples of achieved speedup?

Yes, most pages have significant speedups during the initial restyle especially. Wikipedia pages tend to get 3x or so improved style recalc time on typical systems with Intel quad core CPUs, for example.

Of course, styling is only one part of the whole, so your overall speedups are limited by the rest of the rendering pipeline. That's Amdahl's Law for you. But that's no reason to not parallelize at all; it just means that we have lots more work to do once this is done :)
That's the ballpark price of a standard Sonos 5.1 home theatre set.
Lin Clark's "Code Cartoons" series is intended to take a potentially complex programming topic, and break it down into easy-to-understand terms, using a combination of simpler language and the cartoons. She has previously written Code Cartoons entries on topics such as Flux, Redux, hot module reloading/time travel debugging, and the "React Fiber" rewrite of React. She's also written several entries specifically for the Mozilla Hacks blog on topics such as WebAssembly.
The issue is the unreasonable speed - not that people are using the road.
They mention this issue on their site. It seems as if they're helping to reduce driver churn (which can be as high as 90% after 1 year) and thus Lyft / Uber let them rock and roll.
But IPv4 headers could have a variable length too, it's just that we don't encounter that much in the wild. And what about the AH header, GRE and IPIP tunnel headers, 6rd/6in4 tunnel headers, etc. Filtering at fixed offsets sounds very brittle to me.
Isn't the real problem here that network providers and administrators appropriate the right to filter on OSI layers they shouldn't be touching? This problem sounds like the exact reason why Google insisted on having its QUIC headers ciphered: so network equipment can't pull of this kind of misbehaviour.
Very cool. The whole pandas API is huge. What was your focus for your implementation?
Isn't there another well known js library that allows SQL operations including aggregates? How fast is it compared to that?

What happens if I load a 100MB csv file into a pandas.js dataframe in the browser and compute an aggregate? How fast is this?
A lot of the frameworks(keras, Theanos) uses Cuda close to the metal, so they would need to write alternative interfaces and the to be supported by these libraries
Yes, (without giving too much) but you know about it before knowing how it's called
Behind Those High End VR Price Cuts
This is really neat! Only thoughts: it assumes one's definition of 'best' is 'best weather' and that in turn means it matches with what your algorithm decides is most pleasurable (which I think it does a pretty good job at). This is probably ok for most people but e.g. I like to travel to see nature and rare species of plants and whatnot, and that completely changes what 'best' is for me as it makes weather not one of the top things to consider.
Ask HN: How or What applications does Android optimize before decryption?
I use full encryption but each time I restart my phone Android says it optimized 8 applications before I decrypt the drive... this does not make sense to me. It seems it is not full encryption, anyone know anything about this?
The IRS Has Been Using Bitcoin Tracking Software Since 2015
Two Words: Drunk. Flying.

I don't want someone intoxicated going 300/mph above my house.
That username though :)
VSCode has out of the box debugger, git integration, higher quality of extensions, etc... Overall it feels more polished and professional.

But the most important thing is alive ecosystem - a lot of Sublime plugins are either dead or in maintenance mode, developers lost interest and moved to open source alternatives like Atom and VSCode.

P.S. Even though I moved to VSCode, I still love and respect Sublime.
A) 99% of traffic on every road drives above the speed limit.

B) If speed is the issue, that's fine - address the speed. Increased traffic is not the issue in this case.
I don't understand all the whining in this thread. Their new offer is pretty unbeatable:
Back up for free until the end of your current CrashPlan for Home subscription, then enjoy a 75% discount for your next 12 months. After that, CrashPlan for Small Business costs $10 per device each month.

So after the first discounted 12 months it will only cost $10 per backed up device. And you get:

* Unlimited storage

* Unlimited file versioning

* Keep deleted files forever

* Encryption

* Headless Linux client

I'm amazed that people here (who probably take in pretty decent salaries) cannot afford to pay $10 for a backup service that gives you all that.
TBH I would watch that movie / tv show.
Thanks :-)! I'll be keeping people posted on a Linux version.
umm. green valve stem caps have nothing to do with TPMS. It's used by various places that fill tires with Nitrogen instead of ambient air.
That's kind of another problem though. No way to predict costs in advance. All you can do is know the upper bound.

I have approx 2.5tb on CrashPlan, so that gives me an upper bound of $625 per month. Maybe it might be 50% lower when deduped, maybe more, maybe less. Who knows. Not really a pricing model I can make a decision on.

Tarsnap looks great for certain use cases. But it doesn't really make sense for home users with a large amount of data.
We actually are solving a massive driver retention problem for them (96% churn) so we see ourselves as beneficial to the rideshare companies since we increase driver earnings and retention at no cost to them.

We have a framework built out that lets us rapidly respond to app updates and a team of testers all over the US.

We have also thought about how to best circumvent any active attempts to block us -- since we interface with the driver apps directly rather than any APIs that would be harder to do.
When people look for an emoji in their phone's keyboard to express something, they don't read the Unicode description for that emoji. When people receive them, they don't read the description either.

Thus why it's important that, even if they don't have the same style across platforms (like an 'a' in Helvetica and in Times), they have to depict the same thing.

For example, if from your HTC phone you send a smiley that looks pretty content and calm, users of most other platforms will receive it as "I'm freaking sick of this". The meaning encoded in Unicode for it is "face with look of triumph" ( https://emojipedia.org/face-with-look-of-triumph/ ), which isn't what you meant, nor what your receiver understood.
Mathematicians Tame Rogue Waves, Illuminating Future of LED Lighting
CrashPlan is shutting down its cloud backup service for consumers
none of those things in the list you supplied are capital gains.

when i buy a stock at $100/share and i sell it later at $110/share, that gain is not a wage, salary, profit, interest, rent or any other form of earning - it is called a "capital gain".
Title claims "transistor"; article and infographic says that only "diode" was actually demonstrated.
This reminds me of some words of advice I noticed in an even older manual for the Apple II floppy disk drive:

"To load a program named AGATHA, use the command LOAD AGATHA
and the program of that name, if there is one in the catalog, will be loaded. To test if AGATHA is loaded, see if it can walk along a straight line."

http://imgur.com/wWtR6wp
> The frame rates and resolutions of most cameras aren't great for precisely estimating speed.

How good do you think the numbers would be? For example, the speed limit on my road is 25 mph but I know people routinely drive through at 40 mph. Would a camera system be good enough to record, say, 30 mph with error bars equal to +/- 5 mph?
Thanks! I agree with this, and we've actually seen many users buy Android devices just to use our app.
Just in general? It means to "grab" or "take" (or in this case, "steal") something.
Optimize Deep Learning GPU Operators with TVM: A Depthwise Convolution Example
I'm sorry but I don't. But also I cannot prove that NSA is listening on your phone conversations. Or anyone else in that matter.
> Amazon basically did the same thing recently removing unlimited storage.

I'm working out what to do next since they did this. I use Arq (https://arqbackup.com) and back up my desktop (Windows) and laptop (OSX) to Amazon Cloud Drive. Together it's approx 1.5TB of backups - and this is excluding a bunch of folders and accepting data loss on them.

The doubled price doesn't appeal, but I haven't found an up-to-date storage price calculator to see what my options are in the TB range.
The issue with ASIC is that when there is new AI algorithms that gets developed, they may not be even able to use those. General purpose hardware will be able to. You are stuck and need to upgrade.
Damn, this came out of left field. CrashPlan was a constant pain to use for me (slow uploads, weird bugs where it wouldn't start up after updating, actually deleting all my backups when I didn't renew my 4-year old subscription over winter holidays with barely any warning). But the other services simply couldn't compare on price and backup retention. Having old versions/deleted files always available saved my ass so many times. The new business plan seems only twice as expensive as my current one, but it seems like a rip off to be charged twice as much for the same functionality. I think I'll take them for the 75% discount offer, and then wait for any reasonable competitor to pop up.
Definitely -- right now Android Auto is something we're very interested in integrating with.
http://ycremix.com/js/define_data.js
recommended camera? and is it better to have an IR illuminator integral to the camera, or should it be separate?
That hasn't really been a thing since the PDP-11, which had an auto-increment option on the register used for pointer offsets. That's why that feature is in C. It really mattered in 1978.
Have a law which makes any loss in a class action lawsuit immediately make the company lose limited liability status. Also, settling out of court will do the same thing, with automatic admission of guilt.
No, but it mainly points out that some of the people which are globally seen as geniuses that advanced the world, with names that are written down in the history books - Newton, Einstein, Jobs - all had neurodivergent disorders.

It indicates that those people wouldn't have fit in in modern universities, but I don't know enough about those people, whether they were politically incorrect or whatever. I know Jobs was a dick (based on reading a biography), but again, not sure if that would've been different if he lived in the age of college speech rules or code of conducts - I think he wouldn't have given a fuck and would've done his things regardless.

The article mentions Newton too, who, or so I read recently, published some pretty blasphemous stuff - e.g. agreeing with the Copernican view of the universe - but managed to add some nuance and such at the end of his treatsie, making sure to point out that God works in mysterious ways and such.
Relax sparky. The chart demonstrates the decline only. Don't go looking to government to praise the private sector or free market solutions when their budget depends entirely on the opposite being true.

At 40,000 inspections/yr it wasn't much OSHA with their tiny, often negotiated fines that caused the decline. ANSI is pretty much the gold standard for safety, not OSHA regs, so their non-mandatory standards don't get a lot of credit. It wasn't a magical fairy tapping a gossamer wand atop a dangerous machine.

It was thousands of plaintiffs attorneys suing the shit out of manufacturers who designed and sold products that could be made more safely. It was the tort laws that let them to sue. It was the insurance companies who extracted hefty sums to write products liability policies on manufactured machinery. And it was the innovators who used sensors, locking mechanisms, new training methods and private inspection procedures that have made the US a workplace safety leader.

The government legislated accountability.
The free market made it happen.
It can be the same with data privacy.
Forgive me, both with oredog64, I was told it was the bluetooth tire pressure sensors. I am not familiar with the other systems.
And your point was refuted. Brainfuck not being mainstream is irrelevant; either a short language spec correlates with speed and easiness of mastery or it doesn't. And the counter-evidence shows that it doesn't.

You can't just casually ignore inconvenient exceptions to your beliefs. I mean, you can, but it's not something that reflects positively.
For simple types that's true, and that's part of the 99% I was talking about. Where it makes a difference is class types, C++ iterators being a prime example. Maybe the optimizer can make the two cases generate identical code, but why take the chance?

I chose that example because it didn't need a full paragraph to explain, but you're right that there are probably better ones. Edit: maybe a Python example? ''.join([a, b, c]) is faster than a + b + c, but again 99% of the time you won't be using it in performance critical code. But it's a useful idiom to know.
1/128 + 1/4 = 0.2578125 = 26% approximately
Funny how people think that throwing a syntax error is "Draconian" just because it's HTML.
CNN Launches a Daily Snapchat News Show to Reach a Younger Audience
> So what exactly does the tech industry have to do?

That's a very difficult question about policy, and one that I do not have a strong opinion about (though happy to discuss). Experts believe that certain diversity programs are effective, and so I think we should defer to them to try them.

> It seems to me that you feel that you think it is reasonable to demand positions in the tech industry independent of qualification because it will help rectify your imagined "power imbalance".

The problem -- like that of affirmative action -- is that the state of affairs is one when women have already been discriminated against. For example, for a long time women were prevented from studying a lot of professions, and their lack of knowledge was then used against them. We are at a place where things are much more subtle. One thing is clear: if women are somehow deterred at any stage, then that deterrence must be removed. When it comes to affirmative action, the debate gets more heated, but it may help to realize that hiring underqualified people is already very common, so at the very least, underqualified women should not be hired at a lower rate than underqualified men. Now we get to more contentious grounds. I think it is fair to prefer a woman over a man, with otherwise equal qualifications.

> And other flowery phrases that mean nothing.

They don't mean nothing, but they do require a much more precise study of things.
> they were suing for whiplash

The point is - at the risk of becoming boring and repeating myself - that this has nothing to do with being insured or not but with such a suit or claim being brought in the first place. That's an absolute rarity in Europe and a case would have to be pretty severe to get any compensation.

In the United States there are plenty of people who see wrong or harm (imaginary or real) done to them as a potential payday, whether through the courts or through an insurance company is immaterial.
Yup, last night. Upvotes after the time window has expired are now recorded, but they still don't alter the point total. From a user point of view the only effect should be that you'll see the upvote arrow disappear (i.e. the standard indication that you upvoted this item). We'll see how this works for a while. If there are unintended consequences we might revert it.

We did this because users seemed to dislike being told that voting on an item was closed. Before we added that message, the software used to just silently drop votes on old items and no one complained. It was an interesting case of giving more info leading to a worse experience.
I'd say that nowadays, anyone can be an author - which is the problem. Without marketing or going viral, whatever shit one writes will go nowhere. It's not enough to write something good, it needs traction.

Which also means why bad writing also becomes popular - more marketing / traction.
Twitter is needed precisely because there is nothing like twitter.

Where else can you have completely clueless unfactual stream of consciousness garbage being sprouted 24/7?

As a libertarian I think this garbage is as much a requirement for a free and stable society as alt-right, neo-left and msm outlets. It provides views and opinions that you don't want to hear but that you probably should know about.
The people that don't care one way or another are mostly using Chrome.
if(vendor.name == "Apple") open(arms);
You mean brosectomies????

https://www.wsj.com/articles/its-a-vasectomy-party-snips-chi...

>It’s a Vasectomy Party! Snips, Chips and Dips With Your Closest Friends

>Pals willing to spend a few thousand dollars are getting together for ‘brosectomies’ at clinics that look more like club lounges; ‘I guess it’s from the alcohol, but we had such a great time’