skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Realistically, no. The design is very clever, but nothing is truly new here. You could have made this out of wood 200 years ago, but it would have been much bigger and less precise. Using silicon for a mechanical device is neat, but not new. All the technology in terms of the movements- springs, levers, escapements, wheels, gears- has been known for a while.

New designs are pretty much all digital (for better or for worse). If a spaceship needs a backup timepiece, it will just carry a second digital clock. If a spaceship needs a mechanical lockout, it will just do it with microswitches, solenoids, and digital logic.
Nah, the high-margin vs "what the market can bear in terms of margin", are in conflict.

Textbooks reaching $200 is the problem.
> Can't put the toothpaste back into the tube.

Some seem to think it’s possible: The Digital Imprimatur (https://fourmilab.ch/documents/digital-imprimatur/) was written in 2003, and it’s mostly gotten worse since then; see The coming war on general-purpose computing (https://boingboing.net/2012/01/10/lockdown.html).
Sounds like an awesome new income stream for shady mobile game developers.
I may be biased because I have a background in mathematics, but after working with tensorflow for about 6 months now, I dont think you really need to understand linear algebra or multivariate calculus to work with neural nets, unless you're trying to implement your own engine.

Edit: I dont mean to discourage anyone from learning, as an understanding of the relatively simple mathematics behind NNs may afford the user an additional intuition about the behavior of neural nets, but it appears that one can treat neural nets almost like black boxes, given a suitable engine to work with like TF.

As an aside, TF is a pretty magnificent library. It pretty much works out of the box, and in addition to python and CPP bindings, there appears to be an unnoficial port to c#, although I haven't tried it yet. I strongly recommend the tutorials at tensorflow for anyone interested in experimenting.
"IR" as in the heat coming of a human body is very different from "IR light" that is used in setups like this. Just like a cheap phone camera might be able to see the IR from a TV remote, but can't see body heat.

And even if it could, heating a mask to body temperature isn't all that difficult.
These are very useful and practical. Especially 5 which can also be really hard to achieve.
You can set breakpoints in cweb. Knuth has even commented about liking that feature. :)
> What is the rationale behind defining child porn age < 18?

You are conflating two concepts that aren't relevant.

1) Dating and age of sexual consent have nothing to do with the legal rationale behind child pornography prohibitions.

2) Depictions of nudity of subjects under 18 do not run afoul of child pornography prohibitions (of course, contingent on if you can afford your rights all the way past appeals court)

The age in 2) is typically standardized by the federal government, and they just let people consent to contracts to exploit themselves at the age they can consent to any other contract.
In this case, it was the transmission that was the qualifier.
FreeBSD has dmidecode https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=dmidecode

So you can do:

dmidecode -t processor -t cache

which produces the following output on my system:

# dmidecode 2.11
SMBIOS 2.6 present.
Handle 0x0400,
DMI type 4, 40 bytes

Processor Information Socket Designation: CPU1
Type: Central Processor
Family: Xeon
Manufacturer: Intel
ID: 52 06 02 00 FF FB EB BF
Signature: Type 0, Family 6, Model 37, Stepping 2
Flags:
FPU (Floating-point unit on-chip)
VME (Virtual mode extension)
DE (Debugging extension)
PSE (Page size extension)
TSC (Time stamp counter)
MSR (Model specific registers)
PAE (Physical address extension)
MCE (Machine check exception)
CX8 (CMPXCHG8 instruction supported)
APIC (On-chip APIC hardware supported)
SEP (Fast system call)
MTRR (Memory type range registers)
PGE (Page global enable)
MCA (Machine check architecture)
CMOV (Conditional move instruction supported)
PAT (Page attribute table)
PSE-36 (36-bit page size extension)
CLFSH (CLFLUSH instruction supported)
DS (Debug store)
ACPI (ACPI supported)
MMX (MMX technology supported)
FXSR (FXSAVE and FXSTOR instructions supported)
SSE (Streaming SIMD extensions)
SSE2 (Streaming SIMD extensions 2)
SS (Self-snoop)
HTT (Multi-threading)
TM (Thermal monitor supported)
PBE (Pending break enabled)

Version: Intel(R) Core(TM) i3 CPU 530 @ 2.93GHz
Voltage: 1.2 V
External Clock: 5860 MHz
Max Speed: 3600 MHz
Current Speed: 2933 MHz
Status: Populated, Enabled
Upgrade: Socket LGA1366 L1
Cache Handle: 0x0700 L2
Cache Handle: 0x0701 L3
Cache Handle: 0x0702
Serial Number: Not Specified
Asset Tag: Not Specified
Part Number: Not Specified
Core Count: 2 Core
Enabled: 2
Thread Count: 4
Characteristics: 64-bit capable
If you want a watch with a neat movement that is widely available, get a Swatch Sistem 51. Granted it has 5x as many moving parts as the Zenith Defy Lab, but it is actually affordable and pretty neat.
Oh no! Not the MDA font! ;-)
(This doesn't necessarily apply to Caddy, I'm thinking more abstractly)

Licensing isn't everything. There's a difference in attitude between an open source project that provides commercial services to support itself and a commercial project that also has an open source version. It's a fuzzy line, but "is this good for business?" and "does this make it a better project?" don't always align.
Except it's better formatted than that. :-)
Yes you're an idiot with an army of trolls ready to downvote me. Read the above comments to get a sense of how much of an idiot you are about intelligence.
there are a lot of things high schoolers can get in trouble for if people reported it

fortunately most people don't report it

minefield out there

also, stop sending dick pics to women
* Should be: My wife and three kids and I live quite comfortably on my software engineering salary.
If history is any indicator, it is going to get very ugly. Between this, AI, process automation etc I am not convinced societies will gracefully migrate to a social state everywhere which then leads me to believe that population control will start to get enacted (ie in 60 years people may need a license to have a child) among one of many potential outcomes.
>The company provided few details of how it plans to get to its end points: no information about what tech they would use for these self-driving cars, and whether or how they would work with partners or if they planned to build everything from the ground up.

>Nor did they give any information about the progress of these common platforms for building electric vehicles — although they noted that they had sold some 500,000 EV’s all in across the group to date — still just a drop in the ocean of the multiple millions sold by the three, and the tens of millions of cars that are sold across the whole industry.

>The group was also thin on specifics when it came to its plan for transportation services offered alongside their vehicles.

What is there to even talk about here?
How much of the first 100k do you save for retirement? Because the “next” 100k can all be saved and invested. I would rather retire 2-3x sooner than work forever from home.
And promising to pay the artist. A lot of people actually want to financially support the creators of things they enjoy.
That is exactly what aimbots are. Sometimes you can make bots easier by using an addon system to export information(WoW), or themes to color your targets (CS), but at the root you read the screen and control the mouse.
Who says tools must be general purpose ? What's wrong with a set of domain specific tools(highly extensible with code) with a lot of advantages ,with some decent ways to tie them up(that might require code) ?

Isn't it similar to framework based programming ,which is most of programming ?
I wholeheartedly agree. To me, Knuth's literate programs feel more incomprehensible than sanely structured programs with few strategically strewn in comments. Yet to be fair, one has to consider that the Pascal Knuth was working with offered significantly fewer structural elements than modern programming languages, so his meta-programming language WEB helps to mitigate this, as well as given some abstraction over a variety of Pascal implementations. But at the same time it is drowning the source code in prose, which, as the parent comment notes, is not really helpful to the experienced programmer.

As a hobby project I'm currently working on a replacement for web2c, the nightmarish program written in the 1980s that is used to translate the TeX source code -- written in WEB -- to C. And I must admit that I don't really like WEB. It is quite difficult to parse correctly, since the tokenizer to some degree needs to cover TeX, Pascal, and WEB and is not regular (there e.g. are nested comments), and the WEB macro system relies on applying text substitutions and reparsing the entire file until no further substitutions can be applied, which might be nice from a theoretical point of view, but at least from my experience, is quite hard to implement. Even the C preprocessor -- which in my understanding is just a single feed-forward pass -- is sane in comparison to WEB.
Not particularly. Judges are good at seeing through calls for magic; the situation in Philadelphia is a bit different because the judge doesn't believe that the password had in fact been forgotten.
Don't people tend to prefer services where the marginal cost of digital goods is ~0, or perhaps somewhere around the value of an ad impression? I.e. Patreon, spotify premium or netflix, but also free services like youtube and soundcloud or free apps with ads.

The value of bitcoin is actually that high above its production/maintenance cost because of the growing value of cryptographically-guaranteed currency - that said, I gather the act of copying bytes across the congested bitcoin network is particularly costly.
Bingo. You know what I never pirate? Music and games, because of Google Music and Steam.
Enjoy your city while it lasts. Most blue/"Progressive" states and many blue cities especially coastal ones are all heading in this direction: Seattle, Portland, etc because they're not building enough. Their future is what CA looks like right now.

There were studies done on this and they found a pattern of housing problems in the more progressive cities - because they often clamp down on housing, reducing the supply, in the name of progess.
I have to wonder if the restaurants in the study have also attracted new staff as a result of the pay increases ($8 to $13-$15 an hour).

New staff may result in those not fully trained (yet), perhaps a small percentage of new staff feel that certain responsibilities are beneath them, new hires may get dumped with more of the "dirty" work, previous staff dismissed in favor of new staff (for various reasons), etc...

Just saying that there could be other factors are play here.
Yeah, that would make sense. And (googles) you can get a tourbillon clock in your carriage today -- if your carriage is a Bentley Bentayga.
Stanford scientist says he built a gaydar using “the lamest” AI to prove a point
Hey Siri is keyed to your specific voice. A random person can't activate it.
Fear of missing out
Hyperbole and insults. Now you're just trolling. If I see a cockroach in the kitchen, I kill it and spray. I don't rip out the walls or move house.
you can use fstyp command https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=fstyp
Do you guys know if it's possible to programmatically alter ETS environment? (such as weather, brightness, traffic, etc). Thinking of using the simulator to generate augmented data.
Wouldn't it be easier to add some rope pulling the capsule to compensate for the air resistance? Or would it add too much "noise" because of the imperfections of such system?
Why? And how else would you describe the economic strata that exist in our economy and every other economy in the world?
Increasing minimum wage also increases tax revenue, maybe some of that should be appropriated to the health department to vigorously enforce they law against companies that feel entitled to profit at the expense of harm to others.
> … and one reason why it calls itself a "game"…

No: http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/sometimes-people-jus...

> … and disavows usefulness for actual programming language comparisons…

Not a definitive conclusion but a starting point.
Apple Cloud
What percentage of restaurant owners are making more than 60k/year?
Unfortunately, it almost never works that way, because Electron is what allows people knowing only (and willing to only ever know) JavaScript to make "desktop" apps. At the point you should switch to something native, the prototype has so much JS code you'd have to por that it's not worth it anymore.
> If you've chosen the right data structures and organized things well, the algorithms will almost always be self-evident.

Therin lies the rub: it’s hard to choose data structures.
> The key differentiator between open source and free software is ideological.

I very much disagree. There is a pragmatic difference. The ideology of capital-F Free Software derives from a pragmatic goal.

RMS wanted to fix a printer.

Today, we live in a world where the computers in our cars have been programmed to lie to us about the hardware they control. (Not to mention the lies were in service of poisoning the air for personal gain.)

RMS designed the GPL as a weapon against these people.

"Open Source" at best weakens this tool, and as we've seen today, spreads confusion.
Their prices are lower.
They've had almost 15 years since they published. Almost a full generation. An eternity in internet time. Wait until our kids get their hands on this shit. They were born without the notion of information scarcity.

Speaking of Internet Time, remember when Swatch tried to do that? :) Heh, I don't know what made me think of that, but man that was fun.
"After all, the pirates have long since been chased out of the music business (Gapper, 2017)."

The pirates were doing the chasing. Without the pirates, we wouldn't have multiple competing services that grant unlimited access to practically every note of commercial recorded music for a very modest amount of money.

If scientific publishing had a Spotify or Apple Music, then there would be no need for a sci-hub. Your move, Wiley.
Psychics do exist and some of them don't even know they have this ability.

I have a friend whose Father is always winning at the race track. I asked him did he have some system and he says he just feels it. He could have psychic ability and not even know it like some lottery players might have.

Science also tells us that the future can influence the past. Like Einstein said the distinctions between past, present and future is just a persistent illusion.
I would prefer to see the reviewers of a paper getting paid than the authors.

I was a founder of a startup in the 80s that was part funded by Elsevier. I spent a fair bit of time discussing the possible impact of computer networks and graphical displays on their business model with their then CTO.
I agree, although the fact that pinch-to-zoom still sucks big time in Firefox (in comparison to Safari and Chrome/Chromium) annoys me so much, in the end i always keep avoiding Firefox: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=688990

It sooo much easier when reading articles to be able to zoom in to the 'article text only' in Safari/Chromium.
That is actually solved separately with things like Patreon, etc.
Why would you teach someone C++, a language that has a lot of problems because it started as C with some sugar on top and then against all odds went ahead and added a ton of things that are very un-C-ish while still supporting all the C-ishness it had (has).

Teach new languages to new programmers. Then when they have firm grasp on these concepts, and for some cruel trick of fate they have to do C++ development, then they can look this up.
Publishing costs: Peer review as a business transaction
The "Who did What" dataset seems much better in this respect:

Passage: Britain’s decision on Thursday to drop extradition proceedings against Gen. Augusto Pinochet and allow him
to return to Chile is understandably frustrating ... Jack Straw, the home secretary, said the 84-year-old former dictator’s
ability to understand the charges against him and to direct his defense had been seriously impaired by a series of strokes.
... Chile’s president-elect, Ricardo Lagos, has wisely pledged to let justice run its course. But the outgoing government of
President Eduardo Frei is pushing a constitutional reform that would allow Pinochet to step down from the Senate and retain
parliamentary immunity from prosecution. ...

Question: Sources close to the presidential palace said that Fujimori declined at the last moment to leave the country and
instead he will send a high level delegation to the ceremony, at which Chilean President Eduardo Frei will pass the mandate
to XXX.

Choices: (1) Augusto Pinochet (2) Jack Straw (3) Ricardo Lagos

https://arxiv.org/abs/1608.05457
Paying the middleman in the hope that they in turn will pay the artist is a little naive though.
That was confusing, thanks. I thought "Gold" meant "Put up a paywall and charge lots of money," "Green" meant "Put up a paywall and charge moderate amounts of money," and "Black" meant "Hoist the Jolly Roger and don't charge anything at all."
Some people might disagree but I also believe that piracy has played a huge role in leading to those better and higher-quality results such as iTunes, (and especially) Spotify.

I can clearly remember that the cost of a single album on CD was (and still is) equal to the amount of money I pay to Spotify each month for completely unlimited use. Since Spotify (and other similar services) are still alive, I think you can still make some decent amount of money without being too much greedy.
There are also some niches where Julia already has a strong position compared to Python (which I use and like), e.g. optimization and differential equations.

I think these are areas where the 2-language model makes Python quite a bit less productive than Julia.
> The answer is using technology as a lever to help people do higher-value-adding work and incentivising people to upskill into those jobs after a brief period at entry level.

Ideally this would happen, but those jobs just aren't opening up for most of the country. Socioeconomic mobility is on the decline[1], and like I showed already, the lower class is growing considerably. The ladder is already being pulled up & automation (and outsourcing) is already occurring, regardless of the current minimum wage.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socioeconomic_mobility_in_the_...
There are plenty of really good uses for oil, but nothing on the scale of ICE powered vehicles.

Look at Venezuela to see what will happen to other oil powered economies.
Thank you for your perspective :)

High end as in iphone 5c, iphone 6, or iphone 7?

My iphone 5c, cracked screen, was like $40 off of ebay or something. When it came out, the original price was like 200-400 depending on contracts and gb capacity.

I think you will see the same thing happening with iphone 6s too.

But if you told me that you see a large number of fast food employees and janitorial employees and etc riding the bus to work, with iphone 7s in their hand in the first year of launching, I'd definitely be surprised and interested.

I too rode the bus for 3 years and never really noticed that trend among those types of workers who are struggling the most. I just saw a ton of galaxy s3 phones, which are awesome phones from 2012 or whatever.

I don't doubt your experiences however! It is a really interesting thought to have. If they are affording it, I can only assume they aren't purchasing something else, like a car or high end laptop or house.
I spent over $1,000 one quarter on books because I couldn't buy ANY of my books used as they all had half of the content in one-time online codes. Even worse, the online codes expire every quarter.
> This is not meant to be inflammatory or political, simply factual. When inequality reaches a tipping point, revolution and violence is inevitable.

Don't disagree at all, but if people are coordinating their revolutionary activities with any of the technology that they couldn't learn to leverage to empower themselves when this time comes, I foresee more metadata drone strikes at wedding parties outside of the ME, with a lot less casualties defined as collateral damage, powered by a industry that prefers profits from wars when they have indefinite timelines…
I wondered if this had either inspired, or was inspired by, Lazlo in the movie Real Genius.

Apparently, Lazlo's scheme was actually based on one by a group at CalTech.

https://filmschoolrejects.com/5-brilliant-things-you-should-...
The great writers like Shakespeare and Proust probably deserve a spot on this list.

Also I'm not sure what Said is doing on that list with all those geniuses. Not saying he isn't great, but why him?
The iPhone X from an Android user’s perspective
That exchange was always odd. Knuth was showcasing a style of programming. McIlroy was solving the problem.

That is, the critique was somewhat orthogonal. He even agreed that it was a great exposition of the data structure used. What he feared, was it would bias people to overly complicated programs. Instead of solving problems, they would craft elaborate solutions.

And to a large extent, this is somewhat appealing. It is a large part of my fear working with some folks elaborate abstractions in code I deal with. Sometimes, they are absolutely needed. Often, they are not.

For pedagogical reasons, literate programming is tough to beat. Look up wc done literately. Quite easy to read. Even Knuth's programs are easier to read than you would think. Helped in large by his style.
Eclipse OpenJ9 – Open-source JVM
Torvalds version of rule 5: “Bad programmers worry about the code. Good programmers worry about data structures and their relationships.”

Brooks's version: "Show me your flowcharts and conceal your tables, and I shall continue to be mystified. Show me your tables, and I won’t usually need your flowcharts; they’ll be obvious."
Worth dying for?
I concede the first point, but I wouldn’t really consider bosons and yoga to be as important as a numerical system.

EDIT: Also, Bose, along with Einstein, did not “discover” bosons; instead, they created a model for them. Experimental verification came later.
There is quite a lot of interest in a self driving car simulator. I wonder if we could use Kickstarter to raise some money to get the game maker to add simulated radar, lidar, and cameras. You should be able to customize the position of these sensors.
...and Rob Pike now works for Google, where the prevailing ethos is "If your service cannot run in three distributed datacenters with a million simultaneous connections, why even bother?"

Well, I guess engineering is all about being successful and boring, in the long run.
I imagine many would also like to show support towards the author of the paper. But the money paid for the paper pretty much only goes to the publisher.

Weirdly, sometimes the author has to pay the publisher to get published. And then the publisher again gets money from people buying the paper! All in the name of getting published in a 'respectable' journal.
> Pike's rules 1 and 2 restate Tony Hoare's famous maxim "Premature optimization is the root of all evil."

Looks like wrongly attributed to Hoare? That famous quote is by Knuth

http://wiki.c2.com/?PrematureOptimization

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Donald_Knuth