skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Isn't that what's being referred to by the shared working offices? I thought the whole point of the article was that these spaces are what people are complaining about. They're on a team that needs to collaborate but they want it to be swapped around from the default. They want private spaces for everyone and a shared area for team work. Apple wants them to work in teams for most of their time and to have private spaces for the rarer occasions where they really need to be alone and focus on individualized tasks. I think they're making the debatable assumption that the most valuable work is done collaboratively and that the menial work is done individually.

As for the engineering team that got moved to their own building, I don't see how or why a private area for everyone would make their jobs better. If everyone's coding and not talking to anyone else, then what's there to distract? If people need to talk, they go to the collaborative space. If they don't want to hear people talk, they can go in one of the private spaces. Some people will simply spend more time in the private space or will work from home.
A Study on the Coffee Spilling Phenomena in the Low Impulse Regime
Very light in my experience, usually just coffee and some bread and butter, maybe ham and cheese, and some fruit.
Comparing the Web versions, I prefer Amazon Prime video to Netflix or Hulu. Its interface is faster and simpler.
So much this, the whole article is unbelievably biased against crypto (not to say misinformed or intentionally deceitful).
After 16GB, the cost-density curve ($/GB) inverts because the density is super valuable for enterprise and other large customers, especially for ECC.
I hear value conflated with price in this discussion and most discussions related to economics.

Value is a completely subjective thing and does not dictate price (or necessarily influence it). Bitcoin's price says nothing about its value and vice-versa.
Yes, some. But how much, really?

https://www.rapidtvnews.com/2016031942170/netflix-moves-all-...
http://www.aberdeenessentials.com/techpro-essentials/how-the...
https://gizmodo.com/this-box-can-hold-an-entire-netflix-1592...
I think you are conflating "blockchain" with "electronic payment". I can use my Visa card without needing a blockchain. And banks will settle the payment electronically without ever moving paper money.

"No Timmy, I was not paid with paper money even in the 1990s."
BRPC: A faster alternative to gRPC and apache thrift
Without the vision that came from parc none of us would be viewing this today. The vision they wanted was vast and it still has more to offer today.

Disappointed many comments have disassociated this from where we are now.

Thank you Alan. Excellent read.
The fact the machine could sit on your desktop without causing you hearing damage.
I don't want to call up all of my business address book because one of them fucked up and leaked something.

They shouldn't even ask for it.

Currently fraud is held back by law enforcement. Which is triggered by fraud detection. Which is triggered when the wrong person gets a call from a collections agency.

And this chain of events is too long, but since there's no global (national) system to check if someone is a professional scam artist or a regular bloke, that's what banks are left with.
$70K for a Tesla Model 3 with a 660-mile range would be worth celebrating -- especially if it's $63K after federal tax incentives.
Looks like the drive inside it is 15mm thick http://www.seagate.com/products/laptop-mobile-storage/laptop...
Pedantically yes, but practically no. It's hard to impossible for ISPs to make use of that position. Much harder than, say, Visa.
Yes, please spread more FUD about cryptocurriencies. Work for 10 years until you can make the connections to beg for enough money to found your startup. Global capital raising on the blockchain is bad. Only the rich should get richer. Hate on radical ideas getting funded. You are smart. They are dumb. Success can be yours if only you play the game...
> What have the Deconstructionists done?

Deconstruction changed the way we think about what we read, see, and hear, and taught us to question the assumptions inherent in the same. It gave us the spaghetti western, cyberpunk, and arguably punk rock itself (and it definitely influenced hip hop and dub).

Always remember that postmodernism is "defense against the dark arts" for the left. The techniques of playing shell games with symbol and meaning were devised by the right and by corporations and weaponized against us; postmodernism exists to make us aware of these techniques.

But I didn't really bring up the Derrida fan to argue about deconstruction or postmodernist thought.
Literally why TeX exists. Donald Knuth couldn't tolerate the poor quality of digital typesetting.
This title is very misleading... The reason for the "price increase" is the declining popularity of the once most popular BEV, the Nissan Leaf, and the increasing popularity of the Tesla Model S. Leaf sales got crushed when gas prices fell in 2015. The reason is the Model S is a luxury car, the Leaf is a compact car.

http://insideevs.com/monthly-plug-in-sales-scorecard/
I disagree.

To wit: most sub-100-mile BEV's, with incentives, have been priced at the same level as bargain-basement gas cars, while coming with top-end features. Here in CA, Fiat has been running a regular special on a 500e 3-year lease for $100 or less per month. Meanwhile, Tesla is holding cash deposits from nearly a half-million people for a 200-mile car that will cost $40k+ by the time it's optioned out, and Bolts are selling briskly at similar price levels.
Next thing you know, someone will be making $500,000 ICO loans to retail workers, and selling on the loans to be bundled into AAA-rated securitizations. I wonder if Moody's rates ICO's?
The Self-Made Heir
Free Total Wireless Reload Codes
Earlier discussion (3 days ago, 151 comments):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15235854
Here's my idea to throw into the ring:

You have a graph of 30 nodes. When a user votes for talks A,B,C,D, you add edges for all those 6 pairs with weight 1, or increment the weight if that edge already exists.

Find the longest path. This is your track in Room 1. Remove those nodes from the graph.
Find the longest path. This is your track in Room 2. Remove those nodes from the graph.

Repeat two more times.

The problem you want to avoid is: although talks A and B are popular, they don't share the same audience members. You want to identify cohorts, or cliques, or whatever you want to call it, and keep them in the same room. Call it a "Track" and give it a name.
I can see how you would think it is only about cost.

However, then you've had Amazon tell you "no" when you try to get more resources, and when you've had your business go offline for hours while you wait for news from Amazon, you may want more control.
What do you do with Dogecoin though? It's market cap is $91MM and yet its creation was a joke.
I haven't run the numbers, but my suspicion is that it would be more effective (both financially and environmentally) to simply donate your money to charity. I'm thinking of older, inefficient hardware that winds up using more money in electricity than the mined coins are even worth.
The point is that chopsticks are interchangeable resources, unlike forks and knives, and you usually need two of them to eat, unlike forks.

The story makes sense for me if you assume that the dining philosophers aren't going to use one chopstick per hand, but they have to pick up one to the left and one to the right before they can put two in one hand.
> Or, you know, whether he has returned or not (and dismissed his old beliefs or got over them), is orthogonal to whether he has the courage (or even the will) to apologize.

Or you know, maybe he doesn't feel the need to apologize because he still believe people should be killed for writing books, especially when these books have very little to do with Islam and when the people calling for murder didn't even read the damn book. I bet Yusuf didn't even read the Satanic verses either.
Issues with Stateful containers on EBS?
> I think there is a difference between a cryptocurrency bubble and an ICO bubble, and this article fails to distinguish between the two.

Not only that, there's no such thing as a "cryptocurrency bubble". There are bubbles for particular cryptocurrencies. Just as there are bubbles for particular investments. But generalizing isn't meaningful.

And furthermore, a focus on cryptocurrency trading is the fundamental problem. People trade fiat currencies, but they don't (as far as I know) trade any fiat currencies that are primarily used for investment, rather than in commerce.

Me, I just want an electronic currency that can be used anonymously. To get paid, and buy stuff. Because actually, I can't convert with fiat currencies without risking anonymity loss. So it goes.
Whatever you want. Crypto currencies are the fiat currency end game. Get enough foreign currency cross pollinated via bitcoin (and assuming enough political clout) and the world will suddenly change.
See also: Microviche plugin for vim:
https://github.com/q335r49/microviche

It allows one to "pan and zoom through text",
there's also a screencast:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YNiPUTGO28

I'm not a Vim user anymore,
but this is definitely the most interesting (also, peculiar) approach
to a non-coder's writing tool I've come across over many years of text editor geekery.
I tried to hack together something similar for Plan9's Acme and Sam,
but unfortunately those efforts led nowhere.
> If the 'false impetus' did not exist, that investment would go elsewhere, and create value for society in more efficient ways.

Actually no, it probably wouldn't. Most likely, the money would be hoarded and the people would be eking out an existence doing some miserable make-work. The unspoken assumption behind your position is that all resources are currently being used fully and optimally. Unfortunately, this is very far from true.
The tl;dr of this being that Sandisk is apparently selling 32GB microSD cards which have less than 32 * 10^9 bytes of usable storage. I just ran into a similar problem with a 64GB card, expecting it to hold at least 64000000000 bytes but got 63864569856 instead.
This might be humblebragging, since Crichton is certainly more famous than Gell-Mann.
You're kind of making an unsupported leap asserting that sexually harassing comments always have intentions behind them (Edit: and by this I mean intentions to assault/blackmail, not intentions to engage in something consensual). I mean there is a distinction between sexual attraction and the intention to actually force physical assault.

Obviously it's not authoritarian to stop someone who's actually threatening someone, or who is strait up assaulting someone. I feel pretty strawmanned in that regard. I just disagree that sexual harassment always stems from an intention to physically engage regardless of the other persons desires.

I just don't see how a comment like, "I intend to masturbate to you", guarantees an intentional threat. I see no evidence that the individuals here would have physically harmed the female in question.

The discussion of forcing sex through power is kind of a separate issue more alone the lines of blackmail than harassment.

Of course someone saying, "Nice behind", wants something. So dose the guy who compliments your shirt, potentially. We all feel desire for someone we find attractive, and sure some people may vocalize this desire in ways perceived pathetic and unacceptable, and some won't. The mere feeling of desire and the vocalization of it dose not guarantee an intention to physically assault. Nor dose it guarantee blackmail for sex. I think you have an extremely bleak view of humanity if you think most people are capable of going to the extent of assaulting/blackmailing someone just because they vocalize their attraction. I just don't see this...

Edit:

I feel like I'm really coming out in support of sexual harassment here. I hope you realize this isn't my intention. I'm just trying to argue against the endless tide of restrictions I feel are arbitrarily calibrated to the point where they may stifle life itself for many people.
Cyber terrorist shuts down schools
Yes. In a past life I did phone and email support for two wildly different industries (cellular and banking). I helped train new hires during the first couple of weeks that they answered calls, and several times people broke down in tears during the first few days. Average tenure at one company was only 3-4 months. The other managed close to a year.

I don't know how big your startup is, but I'd hazard a guess that you're small enough for your support to still feel "human." I think this is the biggest issue with most bigco CS.
Is there a cryptocurrency bubble? Of. Fucking. Course. Only those who are extremely naive or cryptocurrency zealots could possibly believe otherwise.

Now, here's the core problem preventing people from understanding the reality of the bubble: in almost all bubbles there is still a kernel of honest, real value inside the bubble. That's the impetus for the bubble, but it doesn't prevent the bubble from being a bubble. Housing values during the 2000s were based on a strong economy and increasing demand in some fast growing cities. In some places housing values merely plateaued during the financial crisis, in some they never stopped going up. But, of course, across America there was a vast drop in housing values, a huge increase in foreclosures, and a recession that spread across the entire planet. It was a bubble, the bubble popped, bad things happened.

A decade prior to that was the dot-com bubble. Many new internet businesses were growing like crazy, investment and stock valuations had gone off the deep end, leaving rationality behind. Businesses with no prospects for ever turning a profit were having money rained down on them from VCs and IPOs. Then eventually the bills started coming due, people became more skeptical of dubious business plans, venture capital dried up, stocks started getting dumped. Money stopped flowing so freely from investors into ridiculous startups and from there into the rest of the economy. The entire world economy was pushed into severe recession. But, of course, that doesn't mean there was nothing of value inside the dot-com bubble. Amazon cut its teeth in that era, and grew from a fledgling book store into a fulfillment powerhouse expanding into a variety of goods and services. Easily tens if not hundreds of billions of dollars in real honest to goodness value was built by internet companies during the dot-com boom, and many companies weathered the bust just fine, some even getting stronger. Google was born during the recession, in fact, in an era when basically the only way you made it with a dot-com company was to already be turning a profit or to have a very good and well executed idea.

Of course there is real, substantive valuable stuff happening with cryptocurrency. But is that the majority of what's happening? Or is most of the activity, most of the valuations and "market caps" driven by speculative investment? It's pretty clear that it is the latter and that cryptocurrencies are in a huge bubble. And just as with all bubbles, when it pops it's going to be painful. Maybe something of value will survive? But only then will we know for sure what the true, hard-nosed practical value of cryptocurrencies is.
Is that better than the alternative, though, which is not designing data structures?

Essential complexity [1] is still complexity. It has to exist somewhere; you just get to choose how to move it around.

[1]: http://wiki.c2.com/?EssentialComplexity
Interesting, thanks for sharing. My instinct would have been to rent a few dedicated boxes from a OVH for something like that. What made you decide to go with local boxes?
This comment thread suggests that Knuth's approach is better, i.e., the shell script version doesn't really explain why, what, or how it is doing what it is doing.

It could have been improved by being written in a literate style that explains how each UNIX command line tool is being used and why; and would have executed in exactly the same way.
Yes, the 3-phase synchronous AC locomotives driven with IGBTs seem to be quieter.[1] But the real advantage is precise wheel control. Here's the biggest steam locomotive ever built being towed out of the Pomona Fairgrounds for restoration. They're towing it through a very tight turn on temporary track to get it out.

The locomotive doing the towing is a 2006-model Electro-Motive Diesel-electric locomotive. It's towing the old steam locomotive at a very slow speed, smoothly, with no wheel slip. Nothing special about it; Union Pacific has hundreds of them. Six axles, each powered by its own motor. AC synchronous, IGBT power control. The motors are run as servomotors, all locked together. No wheel can slip relative to the others. This is a huge win when you need to get a few thousand tons moving.

This boring but useful modern locomotive, although much smaller, has more drawbar pull than the Big Boy. Multiple locomotives can be ganged together with wheels locked in sync, if you need more pulling power. Here's Union Pacific overdoing that.[2] They put together a train 3.5 miles long, with 9 locomotives spaced throughout the train, and ran it from Long Beach to Denver. This was just a test; they don't normally run trains that long.

All this is made possible by modern electronic motor controls.

[1] https://youtu.be/JRoIrFgcIjc?t=894
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdIzRFOaTCY
Some people say that moving Value from one exchange to another is cheaper when using DOGE than it would be using Bitcoin.
There is a huge difference between Excel and HTML: the former is Turing-complete (in addition to containing Turing-complete scripting language(s)) and was like this for as long as I remember, while HTML is not. I guess CSS nowadays may be Turing-complete (?), but HTML is most decidedly not.

That difference means that it's orders of magnitude easier to "abuse" Excel to do some things it wasn't designed to do than to do the same with HTML. I seriously wonder if the reliance on HTML to this day is not a kind of "job security" thing for web devs (like myself, btw)...
If someone around here takes something, they needed it more than I did. I live way out in an unincorporated township. People aren't inclined to steal when they know I'd just help them out if they need me to.

It's pretty great to live here. The only crime in my area is growing weed and that's now legal.
There are three lemonade stands. Two of them are giving away free lemonade; the third is giving away a free lecture about why I shouldn't feel so entitled to free lemonade alongside charging me for theirs. Who's really confused about the economics of this situation?
Exactly this. Brazilians do not care about breakfast. Only when in Hotels or something like that.
Kratom is still legal. However, it does interfere with many drugs because of the enzyme it inhibits.
Here is where's the bubble's at http://www.marketwatch.com/story/heres-how-the-us-got-to-20-...
This is what an unregulated market looks like, and the more chaotic it gets, the more I think people should understand why we regulate markets.
Do you need it to be local for GUIs, or for confidentiality reasons, or it's just cheaper? I assumed most people needing beefy VM hosts would remotely access servers in datacenters (whether cloud or company-owned).
> Bitcoin made currency decentralised and permissionless.

This is a common misconception, that cryptocurrencies can somehow exist outside government control, and it makes me doubt some of the long term value of Bitcoin. A government can basically make anything it wants illegal, and once cryptocurrencies become large enough, there will be tons of additional regulations and control.
Show HN: A curated and targeted list of Deep Learning-TensorFlow resources
In every discussion about some social ill or technical issue, there's always the person that says, "it works for me."

That person is never helpful to the discussion.

A single anecdote of good fortune carries exactly as much weight as a single anecdote of misfortune.
>I don't buy it that everyone would be a digital creative if they just had the right tools. To make _quality_ content,...

who cares about quality ? who is the judge of what "quality" is ?
As long as someone can create the content _and distribute it_, they are a digital creative.
We're already at the limit - we take many more pictures than we care to see again later, we have many more books than we could read, our phones already have a resolution higher than the eye and the cameras are so fine we can hardly see the difference when the image is not zoomed out. What counts now is not quantity, but selection of content, to help us find what we care about in the mountain of things we will never get to see. We've come to the point where Google recommends our own photos to us, for rewatching.

But the enemy of large HDDs is the broadband connection, not our limited ability to consume. If it weren't for the broadband connection, we'd have to host the content locally.
Same here. I'd use mine to just do regular stuff my laptop handles right now. But I'd know I'm browsing facebook on a freaking supercomputer. And that'd make me happy :P
What makes the "cloud" data-centers energy efficient? Just oversubscription of VMs to hosts? Can't most datacenter-operating businesses do that with their vSphere installations?

Or is there something about the actual power distribution, machines, cooling, etc?
KISS

Local Filesystem - hierarchical directory names that make sense to you

Meaningful filenames (with the appropriate date of the item up front in ISO8601 format).
Gas stations disappearing will
coincide with government figuring out how to fill the gap in tax revenue. Such as special rate charging stations.
That's brilliant! I really wish Twitter had a better way of letting me follow the conversation between these two accounts without having to read through a few dozen tweets from other random people (and if there is one and I missed it, please let me know)
>>The same argument is used in the US to thwart limitations on sugary beverage purchases and other junk food with SNAP

Those living under the poverty line don't like being hit with condescending statements coming from those who are supposedly trying to help them, either. Conservatives/Republicans at least call the poor lazy. Liberals/Democrats who want to restrict sugar/luxury items from EBT/SNAP often make ridiculous statements about "knowing better for them," which you can imagine plays real well in their population.

I've collected EBT with a family and been under the poverty line. I know very well how people think and feel about those above them. Sometimes the single father or mother of two kids who struggles with daycare and a tough job 10 hours a day with 2 hours of commute time would like to buy their kids some ice cream and "bad" food to escape from the terrible life they have, rather than eat some broccoli or toasted kale. Let's have some sympathy.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/08/gab-the-right-wi... gives Google's explanation for the rejection.

It seems all that's required would be for gab.ai to explicitly disallow hate speech in their terms, but permit (and optionally profit from) it in practise. Like Twitter.
Hanzi is a better interface between man and computers than phonetic systems, which add an additions compilation step (from phonetic to logic). The keyboard was the problem for hanzi, but now with motion, touch, speech interfaces boosted in their accuracy by ML, hanzi will dethrone Latin as the no1 man-computer interface.
The fact that "2TB is addressable" is irrelevant. Putting NAND on the board doesn't improve latency/bandwidth nearly enough to function like vram. Nvidia has also supported unified virtual memory since Pascal, meaning you can address your cpu's ram in GPU code. The "SSG" card still has the 2tb of flash on a PCIe interface, so not much difference from existing systems beyond marketing. I'd expect very few real world perf wins.
Death is inevitable, but a bad death is not