skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I speak from experience - you can leverage the cooperation of 3-4 successful consultants to fill gaps or land larger projects, but you'll make more money consulting than you ever will trying to make your process scale.

The only exception is if you target a repeatable market for business processes.
I completely understand the fun in solving a puzzle, but for my day-to-day machine I want something reliable - puzzles are great for the weekend. It's the difference between having a Honda Accord for a daily driver, and a 19600-something-or-other as a fun fix-up project in the garage. (Sorry, I'm not a car guy, that analogy went off track very rapidly.)
So, seeing as you brought them up. Nazis.

You realise - I hope! - that seeing large populations of other people as weak, inferior, morally defective, mentally limited and generally in need of being controlled or removed from public life is exactly the attitude that led to the Nazi horrors, don't you? It wasn't an excess of free speech that led to the concentration camps, which were secret inside Germany and their existence did not leak to the allies until troops actually found them. It was a set of beliefs that de-humanized entire chunks of the population. Those considered immoral or stupid by the Nazis were sent to the gas chambers ... but only after years of much lighter harassment and suppression.

Especially note that a key part of Hitler's rise was the belief that Germany's defeat in WW1 was somehow partly the result of some sort of conspiracy by people with Jewish beliefs.

So now what do we see? A strong conviction by some parts of society that other parts are mentally weak, that their belief systems are morally defective, yet that people with these beliefs are organised and dangerous and thus they must be suppressed.

The risk here is NOT coming from "free speech absolutists", as you put it, but rather people like yourself who look around and see a world full of people who cannot ever be persuaded or redeemed because they're just too stupid or evil, and thus must be prevented from organising. In the exceptionally rare case that genuine, actual Nazis do "raise their fists" the solution is the same as when anyone does: arrest them and send them to trial.
It's the network affect. More people using it, the price rises, more people buy, the price rises more, and on and on.
Could restaurants be successful by giving free food (vouchers) to people who make reservations but have no peference for the restaurant, i.e. are happy to go elsewhere? Sounds like Groupon, another bright idea pitched to small restaurants.
The choices of Arch/NixOS/FreeBSD are bizarre.
I'm at home on a Mac, but I also love to explore alternative OSes in general, so I'm comfortable with most Linux based OSes out there. My advice to someone truly wishing to leave Macs and/or macOS behind is to try out Elementary OS. It will be a familiar visual and contextual experience and is widely compatible with commodity hardware. The terminal is tweaked for speed and ease of use, the native apps behave themselves and follow Elementary's strict (for Linux) HIG, and it's one of the most beautiful OOTB distros out there (that's purely subjective but it comes from someone who loves the macOS GUI).

Before selling your Mac though, give eOS (or whichever Linux you're looking at) a go in VMWare Player or VirtualBox. Make sure it's a good fit, and please, please, buy decent hardware that is Linux-friendly once it's time to switch. You can even avoid hardware fumbles by installing Elementary on your Mac and keep the hardware you know and love.
Read the original Hyperloop paper.[1]

[1] http://www.spacex.com/sites/spacex/files/hyperloop_alpha-201...
A Handful of Tech Companies Decide Who Has Free Speech Online
Years and years ago, when color printer/scanners were fairly new, I tried to scan and print a $5 dollar bill. I was curious. The machine printed out about a third of the image but the rest of what it printed was a very official looking notice to please call the US Treasury.

(edit: HP was the manufacturer.)
>Again I'd like to ask, what's the free speech answer to nazis and white supremacists raising their fists to my friends and loved ones? How do we free-speech our way out of the violence that's already coming?

One, you respond to violence with violence, but that's not what we're talking about. And two, the best way to hurry along the violence you think is coming is to close down other people's free speech. Speech is the substitute for violence - what do you think will happen when you take speech away from people who feel marginalized?

>I'd love to be a free-speech absolutist but, right now, I can't square it with the suffering and violence being brought down on the most vulnerable.

Sure, "I support free speech but...". You'd love to be a free speech absolutist, as long as the people talking agree with you.
Some people get off on the feeling of danger. I read an article once about a solo free climber who had attached some handholds to the ceiling of his apartment for practice, but it wasn't enough, so he build a board full of steak knives pointing upward to place under the handholds for the proper feeling.

Sadly I can't find the article anymore. I suspect it may have been taken down out of respect for the dead.
I would really recommend the book "E myth revisited" it digs into this a lot, I found it very helpful to my thinking about building a business.
I never coded in the languages from your earlier post; I'd never have wanted to either. C was and is elegant and beautiful. It isn't so popular because of a AT&T. Look at Microsoft's power in the business world. Even with all their "practices", .Net still hasn't been beaten by Java in terms of popularity and widespread use. .Net is good, not saying it isn't, just so that's clear.
Not to defend Intel because I think Intel has become a Ship of Fools With a lot of money, but AMD has FP24, Nvidia has FP16 and Google has TPU 2 with an FP16 implementation so proprietary they can't talk about it. I think the valid concern here is that if this doesn't take off immediately they will end-of-life it and not so much the floating point format.
I prefer the failure modes of multi wheel vehicles.
At a minimum, they must be the best at marketing because I have absolutely no experience or knowledge in this space (electric or non electric boards) and I have heard of their company/product.
The cynic in my thinks that they are releasing a battery pack because they are not producing as many electric cars as they thought they would and are trying to get rid of a surplus in capacity.
Here's an educational 7-minute video on how hydrologists try to calculate flood plains: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EACkiMRT0pc
Does anybody know how long it takes for a 1950X to compile the latest Linux kernel? I know that for 2xEPYC it is circa 15 seconds.
Cached/uncached file delivery is close to the universal 80/20 ratio. Cached operations are not included in that number.

Unfortunately, I can't say anything more than that.
http://dailycaller.com/2017/04/11/facebooks-fake-news-is-loo...
ksql was the sql dialect understood by Kx systems k2 and k3 versions. It includes nice things like foreign key chasing.
Instagram was also extremely lean (13 employees, maybe?) from what I recall.
How long was it before those companies broke even though?
And having failed with that (though I don't know why he had to write his own PKGBUILD) why would you then try FreeBSD and NixOS?
They address the case of different users and differing inputs in the "Unified Pipeline" section.
Just to nitpick, Traits aren't (just) what make Rust fast. There's a lot of help from the compiler and the type system that allows the final compiled code to remove bounds checks in a safe manner.
I think Bitcoin has been growing in popularity since it began, but we first saw mainstream interest in 2013...then interest waned in the wake of the Mt. Gox disaster. Since then, I think the platform and tooling has matured. You've got exchanges like Coinbase that have developed methods of securely storing Bitcoin and have at the same time made it easy for the average person to link to their bank accounts.

I think Ethereum has come up with a novel use case for Blockchain as a distributed computer (as opposed to merely a distributed ledger). And all the alternative cryptos are trying to show that there are use cases for other protocols, too.

So the competition, the tooling, the ecosystem, all of these are exploding right now. There's a lot of money pouring in, developers are getting excited about it...It feels like a new paradigm, distributed apps have some exciting implications. No one knows what this will look like, but it feels a bit like the early dot com era right now.
They'll build their own, presumably. The decision they made almost 10 years ago to bring the PA Semi designers in-house is looking better every day.

The iOS devices don't use Intel chips and the Macs don't really need to.
It's definitely more contentious than saying Apple makes the best smartphones, but they do have arguably the most refined product; it feels a lot less like something from a kit compared to their most serious competitors (though their serious competitors can beat them in one or more technical categories).
To allow for training of the ML to differences of each users the authors describe have the end-user first play a game

Unsuspecting user downloads “Evil Flappy”, an app where they have to tap on the screen mindlessly to advance some objective. During this tapping, the app uses transfer learning to tailor the model to the user and test its own predictive capacity.

Very sneaky indeed...and I loved Evil Flappy :-)
> But the current management seems to be sprinting aimlessly after mirages.

I wouldn't say they're sprinting for mirages. They're hastily entering solid markets but relying solely on their name and prestige. They're not making any investments, beyond marketing, and when the customers don't materialize overnight they're exiting hastily rather than figuring out what they're doing wrong.
Journalists often use "best" and "most popular" synonymously, although they shouldn't.
Yes, absolutely. And OpenBSD may have been a better fit for his X260 with regards to device drivers.
Ah Phoronix tests. Run a lot of things, show a lot of numbers, but never worry about meaning (or correctness).

So, can someone explain the Scitkit-Learn 0.17.1 results?
It is more like having a simple tool that works reasonable well with minimal training (for example a shovel) vs. having a highly customized tool that requires quite some learning and "tweaking" (like having a hydraulic motorized digger)...

And after you have learned enough, the latter is as reliable (if not vastly more) that the former.. I haven't had a single day for the last half-decade, where my linux box let me down...
Show HN: Use Laravel-like accessors in your classes
> They don't make battery electric cars.

They've been selling partial-electric cars since at least 2014. The Prius Prime allows for electric-only driving up to about 30 miles per charge. That's enough for my commute. I got 3500 miles on my first tank of gas.
The biggest lesson I've learned is that working remotely is a skill that is practiced and improved over time. Working remotely full time is very different from commuters that 'WFH' periodically.
Just in case someone wanders along and is confused, Evil is a vim motion mode for emacs.
Honestly, I don't think having to learn some stuff before starting anything is nessecary, especially for learning a field as wide as ML/AI. It's much better to start out trying to learning something you're interested in, and then trying to fill in the gaps. This will also help you understand and motivate the underlying theory you're reading.

So for example, start with some source in ML/AI you'd like to read. If you get stuck, ask somewhere (possibly an online forum like this) what field you're having trouble with and how to get started there.
Yes. The Hyperloop concept Musk published in 2013 [1] was based on a partial vacuum with air cushions like a plane flying at 40,000 feet rather than a satellite zooming through space.

[1] http://www.spacex.com/sites/spacex/files/hyperloop_alpha-201...
LW has always been better at AOTing everything than cmucl derivatives. CCL is somewhat in the middle of the two.

That being said, how did I miss LW introducing a version that supports iOS? That's huge!
When your business owns you more than you own it, time to automate.
This is why I support Power/MIPS/RISC development going forward. It's just a shame that we allowed intel and amd to both put in cpu backdoors at such an obvious level (I like x86 but it's not the cpu of the future unless it's open). I highly suspect some national security letter type shit is going on in the background, ala Promis and William A. Hamilton who has claimed on Bruce Schneiers blog they (intel agencies) were infiltrating even low level chip manufacturers. Danny Casalaro's death was likely a required nastyness to keep it covered up.
Maybe? I've only been here about 2 years. First half was a bootcamp, which while intense certainly allowed for enough sleep (I would leave the bootcamp at 8pm, get home ~9, gives me an hour to relax, wake up at 7, and commute for an 8am arrival).

Second half has been at a company with a very pro-family-time CEO, and as a bachelor that just means a lot of time to explore this awesome new city :) So I haven't yet experienced the "utter madness startup" I guess?
The ships are surprisingly agile. If you were paying attention you could maneuver out of most of the things heading towards you in open waters. However in the environment these ships were in its less of a "look there is a boat coming right for me" situation and more of a "which side of the shipping lane am I supposed to stay on again" kind of deal.
I thought the fixie scene was saturated in 2007.
Uploading file in an isomorphic ReactJS app
The (muted) impact Whole Foods may have on Amazon’s bottom line
This NYT article from a few days ago covers this question, Naval Vessels, Shadowy by Intent, Are Hard for Commercial Ships to Spot: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/25/world/asia/navy-collision...

Specifically:

Unlike the aviation industry, the shipping industry has not instituted emergency avoidance systems. Regulations in the United States, Europe and other large aviation markets require that the newest planes have electronic systems that communicate with each other almost instantly when a collision appears likely and recommend a coordinated response. One pilot might be told, for example, to “climb, climb,” while the other might be told to “descend, descend.” By contrast, collision avoidance systems in ships do not have the ability to coordinate actions with each other, experts said. Introducing that capability would be difficult.
I think the difference between 100 and 150 is that at 100 people, as long as the organizational structure is right, you can still play fast and loose with corporate culture. While it'll be a stretch, each person may be able to know every other person if not by name then at least by face and role. In other words, each person's "observable universe" inside the company is the whole company.

At 150, no one can stay aware of everyone else. Your "observable universe" becomes a strict subset of the company, no matter who you are. There's no longer one company, but rather 150 different companies as seen by every employee. Direction must be constantly supplied from the top to apply corrective measures to all those different visions of the company.
Mid-level pricing America brands manufactured in Mexico?
I am building the app with electron, so all desktop platforms will be supported right away, I am considering mobile apps porting most of my React code to React Native and web replacing the filesystem interactions with a cloud server
What failure modes? One wheel on a boosted longboard drops in a hole, you are screwed. Actually being able to steer more than a few degrees is a helpful feature for safety.
That press probably wasn't free. This article reads like it was written using a press release as it's sole source with the author doing a favor to someone at a PR agency.
Are deaf people allowed to drive? How do you think they handle these situations?
Thankfully, I haven't been in an on-call rotation since I was in Tier-2 support back at Opsware/HP

In my observational experience at various customer sites, though, the on-call folks are ops folks for infrastructure, and devs for application support
The question is CAN twitter be satisfied. I'm not talking if the investors, ego, or all those others will be satisfied, can it survive at all?

The question is how many people are actually needed to keep the lights on. One person can read the latest CERT notices every day and decide "we need to upgrade our servers before we are hacked", but from there the upgrade can get hard: how many people are needed to to stage and test the upgrade. How many people are needed to keep the servers running? How many people are needed to ensure that twitter doesn't become a has been unable to keep up with their competition (who presumably is adding new features all the time)?

The above is a complex question. I don't know the answers, so while I lean to agree with those thinking twitter should cut people until they are profitable I can never be entirely sure. Even if twitter took my advice and it worked out I can't be entirely sure their current path (too many people) wouldn't be better in the long term. Or alternatively if they continue on the current path I cannot be sure if cutting people would have been better.
No, I'm not using "evolution" in some sort of Enlightenment sense where only things that contribute to the onward march of Progress count. I'm saying changes in spelling are nothing like the process of organic language evolution.

Also, one wonders why the "great vocalic change" (maybe the Great Vowel Shift, you mean) would have changed the pronunciation of the consonants leading "ship."
I still have a hard time seeing them completely take over in places where 3-6 months of the year it is miserably cold outside. Sure, I know that "there's no bad weather, just bad clothes" but I still don't quite see that catching on as easily.

That said, if 90% of inner city driving was people on scooters or super small, lightweight, enclosed vehicles I would totally commute to work on an electric scooter, and probably make it work even in the winter. That said, when there's ice on the road and it's snowing, I'm not going to want to ride a scooter when there's a Suburban behind me trying to brake...

I hope you're right, though.
Why is the author comparing an OS designed to run on that particular hardware to manually installing an OS on a machine for which the author hadn't investigated compatibility?

If you compare OSX on Apple hardware to Linux on hardware that ships with Linux pre-installed (probably Ubuntu) I imagine the usability would be comparable.

edit: typo
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Facebook's 21-Year-Old Wunderkind Sayman Leaves for Google
Trump Administration Lifts Limits on Military Hardware for Police
Taxes aren't going to avoid themselves.
>It's easy to criticize such decisions in hindsight,

In this case, I think it's reasonable to criticize that New York had some foresight of risks when buying a phone with hardly any market share.

It's one thing to make a bet on Microsoft Windows 7 smartphones in 2010 when reasonable people might it interpret that market as still being a 3-way horse race.

But buying Microsoft phones in 2016? That's an ok decision for a home gear enthusiast doing a review for youtube.... but not for a city buying 36,000 phones.
I totally agree, but this was one of the requirements of the editor to have a "good marketable" headline. And we have to admit that this worked quite well.

On the other hand I feel that the article is very light and is indeed more for layman audience :) In depth one would be 10-15 times longer (and 100 times harder to write).
Where did wealthy inventor live in 1991? California’s taxman wants to know
Microphones cost much h less than LIDAR.
I'll review your project/ app/ startup live on periscope
I'll review your project/ app/ startup live on periscope. I know stuffs about things so... post what you're working on and I'll try it out/ test it live :D. Disclosure: if it sucks I will tell you... live. But if its great I will show some love! I'm not an expert, just your partially informed Joe that loves trying to things/ ideas.

Periscope username: dannymullan
Streaming info: 2:30pm-4:30pm CST. 8/28/17
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Maybe ask gorhill if he would like to have this feature in the actual uBlock Origin? Users could be asked to installation if they want to block all ads, or use the community-maintained whitelist.
Introducing Social Hash Partitioner, a distributed hypergraph partitioner
Yeah, wherever there's money, there's valuable information.

POS' are a goldmine if you can acquire data from huge numbers of them (unfortunately that's hard).
SUPER MALE VITALITY!
The best way I've seen it done, is to version all of your schemas and have a database that signals all the transformations needed to be done for any given schema version. That way, when your reading a particular event, you can query for all the operations needed to be done on such event and perform them.
I don't really understand your comment. The "regular" version of the boosted board had a single drivetrain.

The higher-price one had a dual-drive train but if you are doing any speed at all and one of the drives fails.. you're going for a tumble.

I have ridden both, waited forever for the long-range boosted that was always promised as "any day now" and switched to onewheel and am glad to have done so.
There is actually no reason to predict this to be years away except for like just future shock or something. Which is the big thing holding it back is just general disbelief.

Waymo is actually testing for real in Arizona with selected people from the public.

Yes, they include an employee in the car to monitor or take over if necessary. But from the numbers I saw they reported to the DMV like a year ago, with Waymo's cars that happens surprisingly little. https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/wcm/connect/946b3502-c959-4e3b... Like very, very little. 635,868 miles and 124 reportable disengages. As of last year. Significantly improved now. In the rare case of a problem they can send a human to help.

If they had legal clearance or a waiver or something, they could TODAY just take some routes and times that had little traffic and not include the test/backup employee. Again, the number of times they report the driver needs to take over now is minuscule. They could then start charging for the rides. Then that would be a commercial deployment.

For them to make that widely available, at first for selected low traffic areas and times to reduce the risk of any incident or needing to send a human driver, is just a matter of scaling up their fleet and the legal issues.

Tesla is pushing very hard to the point of being unsafe to get their autopilot to actually work in as many circumstances as possible. They literally have been selling self-driving cars. The cars are collecting massive amounts of real-world data. They have hired many genius AI experts. Unless there are too many crashes or the company goes down in flames (which is possible considering how aggressively they are testing and releasing software even with issues), they will push to decrease the amount of driving the human has to do down to close to 0 as soon as is possible. Musk will try as hard as he can to get 75% to 100% there before the end of the year, because that is literally what he has promised. By the end of next year his actual conservative expectation is to be more than 80%.

As far as operating profit who knows, but there is no way that we will be waiting until 2022 for this to be deployed, at least in somewhat limited routes and times.
[swift-dev] RFC: bridging peephole for “as” casts