skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Is it so wrong to ask Nestle to at least pay the same rate you and I and every other citizen pays for water? Why can't they pay municipal rates for municipal water, like Coca-Cola and all the beer breweries do.

Yes, it is unreasonable, unless Nestle taps into municipal supply like all other municipal customers.
The biggest culture shocks working in a European city
Taser wants to build an army of smartphone informants
London Dumps Uber
I'm so fucking sexy then :p
Exactly. Why would you trade something that doesn't require power, has the most reliable, secure, and lossless transmission channel known, and is "configured" by plugging in hardware for something that requires power, has a less reliable transmission channel that can be easily snooped or forged, has to be configured in software? I literally don't understand why anyone would ever choose the latter.
I agree, a large amount of npm code is always going to be targeting browsers for many uses and the better the Node world converges with browser APIs, the easier it is for everyone.

It makes sense from the Node side of things too, because there's an ability to sometimes borrow the browser-hardened native implementations of "web" APIs directly from partner tools like Chromium, v8, and even ChakraCore. A rising JS tide can lift all boats, and the more "universal" the web platform is the easier it is to develop for.

Also, File I/O is still a bottleneck in Node, even if nowhere near the bottleneck of browsers requesting files over HTTP, and it feels like webpack/rollup is starting to be more of a thing on server-side/NodeJS side, because there are benefits to reducing the bytes you need to read from disk in startup times of NodeJS apps, too. So it's interesting seeing some optimization tools converge on that side of the fence as well.
The antibiotic problem has nothing to do with young people. It's old people that are always in the hospital and will die if infection is not treated immediatly with antibiotics. That's where resistance incubates, not in a bunch of 30 something's with cold.
Wanting to be "in the same timezone" as her (she's an early bird). Plus wanting to start a family somewhat soon-ish.
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Why did u not sit in a different seat where it did work ??
Did you even read the article? Or did you just jerk-reply in an effort to criticize people or the movement?

> First, the content in question here is essentially political speech, which the European Court of Human Rights has ruled as deserving of a higher level of protection than some other forms of speech. Even though the speech concerns a referendum that has been ruled illegal, the speech does not in itself pose any imminent threat to life or limb.

What the Spanish government did is considered censorship under any reasonable system of law. Justifying one "wrong" with another is not gonna get anyone anywhere anytime. But since the Spanish government is fond of censorship, this reaction shouldn't come as a surprise.
The downvote comment was ancillary to my message. I'm new here, y'know.
How a new species is named (2013)
Their stances haven't really changed, they introduced GDNative which is a system that loads shared libraries using a C API, which has made it easy to add and use any language (I'm guessing the original idea was to make using C++ in your game easier). Some guy made C# bindings with GDNative, so they're making it optional with the release. There's other languages you can use as well. GDScript is still the 'main' scripting language.
I'm trying to think of a software audio source that doesn't have its own volume control and I'm failing.
Thanks for the heads-up, that is indeed useful and interesting to know .. hadn't heard much of it, but I suppose its because A) my Linux DAW is rock solid and I don't need to change it much, and B) I'm an iOS/AVFoundation developer by day-job, so this is not on my radar as much as it should be. Therefore, I'm quite grateful for the introduction to Pipewire; its going to make a very interesting, Monday-morning/train-ride read .. ;)
Gapps for business are not mined by Google. If you don't trust that Google would honor their contractual obligations, that's a whole other issue.
The first set with a person (woman in front of leaves, sun from behind) are particularly worthless. They didn't control for whether direct sunlight was hitting the sensor. Even a wannabe photog like me knows how that can wreak havoc on a shot and/or create beautiful effects.
I've done this sometimes, I think it's pretty dependent on you being able to fall asleep quickly. Which you can train yourself to do. But it would usually be more of a 3hr/4.5hr split to match with REM cycles. Or just 3&3. I felt fine. If anything I prefer it, but realistically I've found it hard to do while working 9-6. I end up wanting a sleep time in the afternoon.

Sometimes I do 6hrs at night and take a nap on lunch for about 45minutes. This is okay, but hard to do outside of winter as it's too hot to sleep in my car.
> I just want to know if Uber drivers can average the same income as cabbies working the same hours.

I have no data, but my prior based on conversations in London is "no way". Uber pays similarly to minicabs --- minimum wage-ish when car maintenance is accounted for. Pre-Uber, I heard cabbies made £40k-£60k pretty steadily.
The article say that they haven’t tested X yet but they are looking forward to it as it adds OIS on both cameras.
It is possible that the employer pays for some number of weeks, but does not require (or allow) the employee to do any work during that period. But in 2017, I doubt it. If it's a big company in an at-will state, they just show you the door and say, "Bye. Good luck out there!"
Sadly, there is another economic reality: most good businesses are actually very inefficient and could cut 10% without missing a heartbeat.

Here's the key: when businesses develop dominance in a market, they get fat margins - and they often just 'hire'. It becomes instinctive to think that 'people create value' and so they hire. Moreover - VP's, Directors, Managers are all trying to build their status, and they 'push to hire'.

I worked at a post-startup-stage high-growth company, and my VP was given directive to 'hire 100 people'. Completely not driven by business needs, or project needs, or ROI. 'Just hire'.

There is sometimes good strategic reasoning for 'just staffing' up i.e. scrape all of the talent in an area way from competitors, be a 'real company' to validate the upcoming IPO etc.. but it's really perverse.

Google, FB, MS - all guilty of this. Regular companies just the same.

I'll bet 1/2 of finance today could be replaced by computers - or frankly nothing. 1/2 of Hedge Funds could just put their money in indexes, drop their staff and get the same results.

Large successful companies often spend billions on 'new projects' that are doomed to fail - one could argue that 'failure' is part of the innovative process, yes, but it might be more efficient to invest/partner with startups.

When big, lumbering companies start to wane, well, they can't afford all the graft and have to start letting go.

It's an odd cycle, and it's surprisingly not as directly related to productivity as we might want to imagine.

I once worked with a large internal marketing team of maybe 25 people, they did almost nothing. Nobody was really sure what they were there for. They 'did stuff'. They were smart, nice. But they were very irrelevant - and I took pains not to discount their effort, i.e. not realize that they were 'important but unrecognized' cogs in the wheel. No. They were hired 'for hiring sake' and 'worked' for the sake of 'work'. This is common. A lot of big, entrenched industries are like this.
This article is an excerpt from the book, which I thought was a great read - very well paced.

There's more money in corporate relocations and military moves than I would have expected.

My big takeaway from it wasn't anything to do with trucking (the author is a professional house mover) - it was about the accumulation of stuff and how the mover took down all of this heavy furniture for customers from the northern states to Florida, only to find that they didn't really want their old stuff down there anyway.
From the article: "Flexport wholistically analyzes all its data to optimize shipping routes and simplify relationships with ports, truck drivers and anyone else that touches a container".

wholistically? ouch.
2 People show up for iPhone8 launch in China
Not tested yet. In the Conclusion, they say they're looking forward to testing the X.
WebAssembly is really going to bring some awesome fast processing for binary heavy tasks, like video and gaming, to the web. Essentially, WebAssembly is the new Flash, but it is an open standard, more secure, and language agnostic.

Despite this I really get the impression a lot of non-JavaScript developers are really hoping this is some holy grail to allow them to write in their favorite language for the web platform, which WebAssembly absolutely isn't. Everything running from WASM is in an isolated sandbox. For obvious security reasons this isn't likely to change.
Wifi has encryption. Bluetooth means I'm broadcasting my audio stream to anybody who feels like snooping on me.
And, I guess we should have some faith in our legal system to ultimately sniff out frivolous lawsuits and dismiss them. I understand that there's a cost to a lawsuit on both sides but it seems this could be (and possibly already is in the form of counter suits for costs) addressed.
10 Random Ideas for September 16, 2017
Kotlin 1.1.50 is out
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Our market (Sacramento, CA) is so hungry for senior engineers (for web or mobile), I'd wager max 2 weeks to be back in the saddle. But I doubt HPE has much talent for web-stacks, likely Microsoft/.Net and SAP experience which I can agree with your statement.

We just interviewed a PM from HPE and to our surprise, he makes ~$180k a year. We hired an awesome candidate for $80k.
I've started using webhook (from Debian stretch repo) on client/internal projects.

For the task of "listen for http, run a corresponding script for each request" it seems to work quite well.

What are you referring to by "too complicated"?
That's the gist of it, yes.
I love Helm. Tab completion is fine when you know exactly what you want and the point is just to save some keystrokes. When completion involves some exploration is where Helm shines and is way better than tab completion, as it doesn't requires knowing the order of parts of the string to complete and support regexps.

When exploring some large code base, or trying to get at a rarely used emacs function or variable whose name you don't remember exactly (but it's about foo and bar for sure) there is definitely this fuzzy discovery element. And then the Helm approach is a blessing. Helm is completion + efficient exploration and discovery.
Indeed. And it's real power starts to shine when rebasing interactively, working with diff ranges, etc.
I still think the best Git plugin for Atom is https://atom.io/packages/atomatigit-robdel12 It keeps the general spirit of magit which... is probably the best git client out there. Fugitive is a close second.
Honestly, I guess its because I chose my hardware wisely - i.e. I use only very well-supported hardware components (in my case, Presonus/BridgeCo.), where high-capacity, low-latency audio was sort of implemented on Linux first and then ported to the other platforms .. so I'm looking at a current Firewire- based rig of 2 19" racks, full of gear, summing up to 40+ channels of audio over a single cable to the main DAW controller running Ardour.

In other words, I don't need no stinking' "game/consumer Audio", which is what Pulseaudio represents to me ..

Therein lies the beauty, I guess, of Linux - and of F/OSS creative-tools, in general ..
There are some framebuffer[1] consoles[2] that work really well when you do need to mux outside of X.

[1] https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/kmscon/

[2] https://code.google.com/archive/p/fbterm/
Sleep deprivation hurts us in ways we aren't aware of
I am unaware of any such requirement and can't find anything to back it up. As far as I can tell, the VoIP industry seems to widely support Net Neutrality so I would be surprised if this is a significant issue.
Thanks! I just skimmed through this and discovered strace -k (Print the execution stack trace of the traced processes after each system call). TIL
Maybe it is a good thing that banking isn't more attractive to developers.

While banking is important I doubt it is the best allocation of resources. Banking accounts for 20% of GDP in the US. [1]

As Warren Buffet once said: "It has always been a fantasy of mine that a boatload of 25 brokers would be shipwrecked and struggle to an island from which there could be no rescue. Faced with developing an economy that would maximize their consumption and pleasure, would they, I wonder, assign 20 of their number to produce food, clothing, shelter, etc., while setting five to trading endlessly on the future output of the 20?" -Warren Buffet
http://wannapreneur.blogspot.com/2007/05/top-10-warren-buffe...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financial_services
"As of 2004 the financial services industry (finance industry) represented 20% of the market capitalization of the S&P 500 in the United States.[citation needed]"
Is deepmind moving back to (py)torch?
Hi,
I am working on natural language entailments tasks with keras but despite some searching around I couldn't find any convincing example of an seq2seq with attention model in Keras (or a neural cache model for that matter)
On the other hand I just looked at pytorch for a couple of hours and dynamic/control flow operations seems really easy to code in pytorch .
Is everyone progressively moving to pytorch while only using tensorflow as a backend for keras ? Is the pytorch movement even spreading inside google ?
Cameras have never "captured the real world" in the sense of approximating what we see.

We never see static images of the world; we have a rather narrow field of vision and move our eyes constantly. So whatever we perceive of the world is basically a function of our attention. Remember those videos where volunteers perform some complicated collective task and fail to see a gorilla passing right between them.

Photos in contrast are static (the photographer has to hint towards the attention-point structure he thinks that reflects what attracted his eye in first place by framing and lighting) and two-dimensional (so the photographer has to select a focus structure that, again, hints at the attention-point structure).

This is why photos of crowds (think of the masses on the streets after the earthquake in Mexico) are either art-level pieces that basically employ the pictorial language of classical paintings; or don't seem to represent the story at all.
The main thing that needs disruption right now is conglomeration.
Super annoying! Fact is sound on linux used to 'just work' then pulseaudio came along and thensound on linux sucked ass and your 'naysayers' are people who spent days months years trying to get shit to work they had no right to hope to and engaged with their community but got nowhere - like all these things that get imposed people get ignored - they wouldn't be complaining if there wasn't an issue and obviously you hear them but because it doesn't affect you (much) everything is just fine - systemd garbage, unity crapola die in a fire, and pulseaudio. and maybe people understand the userland issues and maybe they aren't kernel devs but pulseaudio still sucks ass at the end of the day.
How Logos are Remembered
https://www.dxomark.com/google-pixel-camera-review-retested-... should we really be praising a 4 point increase from a camera that has been out for two years and cost $150 less on launch?

Don't get me wrong, the iPhone 8 has a good camera, and it is marginally better than the pixel's, but is this really enough to celebrate?
Every human knows water is usually a scarce and valuable resource and needs to be taken care of.

It's not a tenable position to wait for it to become scarce before taking steps. Water is a common resource and allowing indiscriminate abuse by private interests with lobbying power cannot be justified and inevitably leads to problems in future.
> We look forward to testing the iPhone X and comparing it against the iPhone 8 Plus

Not yet tested.
I was just coming here to post the same thing. It was a really interesting aspect of the show.
It's absolutely fascinating to me how corporations can have so many tireless defenders of their rights.

I wonder if you would feel as strongly about citizens being poisoned as you do about corporations being made to reasonably compensate the state for the natural resources they use to line their pockets.
> Being "innovative" doesn't mean that you have full reign to operate unethically.

You are right. Being "Government" means you have full reign to operate unethically.

Do you believe that if a government comission said that Uber cabs are safer than taxi cabs, that they would ban taxis?
I've used Omnigraffle for this one, but there are open source alternatives like FreeMind. Or you could use online tool like https://www.draw.io/
Also, the didn't government didn't ruled the referendum illegal a constitutional COURT did it. And the detentions and search were ordered by a JUDGE from Barcelona that not long ago was awarded by the same Catalan government that now is criticizing him.

Please read this to know the facts:
https://elpais.com/elpais/2017/09/20/inenglish/1505917320_78...
The study's methods are flawed, but I've had multiple experiences with iPhone users in bars asking me if I can do something about their recently updated iPhone being so sluggish (which they demonstrate to me, it's real), they all bitch about the inability to undo the update and how this is going to force them to replace what was a perfectly good phone.

It's too bad this study is useless since it just harms the very real upgrade treadmill case against apple.
Nothing like long-term legacy support contracts for a bit of cash injection...
Is it possible where cameras simply become so good on devices, that the next hollywood blockbuster is filmed on an iphone?

I know that is ridiculous, but I remember a "1mp" camera was advertised everywhere as a thing for a phone to have. It wasn't that long ago really.

Let's say your 2040 Iphone captures 4000mp of the entire visible scene. Then you have some special software that unicorns everything into amazing sauce.

I know this is all pretty whimsical, but none the less, I feel that the path we are going down is one that Nikon and Canon can't finish.
Saving people money != changing the world.

The telegraph changed the world, so did cellphones. Cheaper messaging or HDTV did not.

The difference is really one of capability not minor quality improvements. Otherwise you get into things like calling every single new generation of graphics cards as revolutionary not evolutionary.
You can set one of them as fallback and it will remember, each time you plug the device. See: https://i.imgur.com/iazUIo8.png
I don't know of any part of Amazon that lets you just ship a container full of copper bars to your loading dock. They are more competing with other bulk shippers than what Amazon would be trying to provide.
C++ is addressed by switching to Java. Use Java when you can and C++ when there is no other option.

Java didn't cut it for Google because see my previous post.
Context:

- 8+: 94

- 8: 92

- Pixel / HTC U11: 90
Among other clients, HPE is a giant defense contractor supporting military hardware and software.

HPE also inherited HP's research labs, which Dell never quite had anything similar too, and medical division where they make a lot of very important medical/hospital devices.

ETA: HP at one point was much more similar to GE than Dell, and HPE is all the "fun" stuff that wasn't Dell-like. (The Dell like side is what got spun off into "new" HP.)
Hmm, I imagine nuclear winter scenarios widely depend on how much is actually deployed.

In one article in the New York Times from the 1980s (http://www.nytimes.com/1984/12/14/opinion/in-the-nation-tamb...) the estimate used for exploding half of the world's nuclear arsenals is equivalent to 6,500 megatons of TNT.

Mount Tambora, in contrast, a much more powerful explosion than any 20th century eruption, is widely quoted from various sources as being equivalent to 800 megatons of TNT (example: https://books.google.com/books?id=NuFfCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA15&lpg=P...). And Mount Tambora definitely had climate effects (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_Without_a_Summer).

Climate cause and effect is difficult to nail down, but it seems with that much firepower back then a "nuclear winter" scenario was much more plausible. We have dismantled a lot of the nuclear arsenal since the 1980s these days -- estimates I see of current firepower vary by quite a bit, but I'm not even sure there's 6,500 megatons of nuclear weapon firepower in service globally anymore.
That's nice, but the thumbnails appear to be of the site layouts, rather than thumbnail metadata, which would seem to make them less than useful since it's not contextually relevant. Most of what's visible is the header of the page (which is repeated in the link) and some thumbnails are even blank.

That said, having tried to make a HN clone that did use metadata for thumbnails, even that seemed not to add value in most cases. Turning a URL into a useful thumbnail seems to be kind of a hard problem.
I am trying to follow the situation in Catalonia, and I have one question: Is any kind of publication (done by private citizens) about the referendum actually illegal in Spain? Thanks.
Thanks. I will update the home page as your advice.
Leak chooses which source documents to show you, therefore shifting the narrative you interpret.
Programming without coding
(author here)

The support I received during the last three weeks has been phenomenal! Thanks again! The only disappointment was that the campaign did not get a lot of press outside the Emacs community, which was a bit frustrating because I published a lot of the articles that are intended for potential users who are not Emacs users.

Until now that is - please have a look [1]. I found it quite challenging to explain why someone who is not familiar with Emacs would want to use Magit even though the majority of those who have given it a chance swear by it. It's a bit like explaining to someone who has only every used GUIs, why the command-line can be an empowering interface. But I think I did a fairly good job at [2].

Also, please excuse the crappy video - the Magit campaign might be the Kickstarter campaign with the least polished video to ever succeed ;-) Luckily a few users have created more informative video tutorials in the past [3].

[1] https://emacsair.me/2017/09/01/campaign-articles/
[2] https://emacsair.me/2017/09/01/the-magical-git-interface/#st...
[3] https://magit.vc/screencasts/
Although it hasn't been tested yet, it's expected to be even better.
How is babby formed
the only times i have ever taken antibiotics is only for strep. the unfortunate thing is that i get strep at least once a year. it really sucks.
> What the Spanish government did is considered censorship under any reasonable system of law.

That's simply put... bulshit, I'm far from supporting the ultra right wing catholic goverment from Madrid, but spreading plain lies to victimize yourself doesn't make them true.
Yeah, but it’s not as much of a “you’re crap out of luck” as it was in 2.x land. They’re approving of it enough to announce it as a feature now.
Switzerland is definitely Europe's richest country. I left Germany to start my programming career and later recruiting agency here in Zurich; read my story from back then here: "8 reasons why I moved to Switzerland to work in tech" https://medium.com/@iwaninzurich/eight-reasons-why-i-moved-t...