skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I believe you but that is anecdotal. I know people that not only want to remain idle if their basic needs are taken care of but currently do, and have been doing it for decades.

Like most human traits, there is a wide degree of variance. As such there is no doubt in my mind UBI would allow a greater number of idlers because it would be more easily available. Just as it would allow more people to trade a job they don't like for a constructive activity they do.
You know, you are right in a way. It was just a knee jerk reaction, and the author has an extremely important message. How to present factual information so that most people will accept it as fact is an issue that is raging in our lives right now. Facts have died in the minds of many, with FB, the US president, and the media constantly just completely making shit up. That is why I have such a strong reaction to the word expert. And I fall victim to this myself, being, gulp, an "expert" at something that at times really needs people to listen to my advice and findings without spending 3 hours convincing them.

But in the media, on Facebook... anywhere, people say they are an expert at some random bullshit or non-bullshit thing, state some stuff, and if it fits within someone's world view it is then accepted as fact. If it doesn't fit within their world view it is rejected for any number of reasons.

To reach the people who will be the hardest convince, the people who run to the doctor and ask for antibiotics every time their head gets stuffy linking to studies is pointless. Saying you are an expert is pointless. Using any sort of logical reasoning is pointless. Because those people KNOW they feel better when they take antibiotics. You literally have to market your value to them and probably lie or cast things in an extreme way to be heard these days.

Yet on HN and among the technologists, though we are susceptible to the same things, as a broad group, we are one of the few that still respects facts and experts. If Richard Feynmann tells me this is how magnets work, I believe the guy.

My default approach is that someone claiming to be an expert is just a big giant red flag these days. It is a real problem of how to figure out who we can trust. I am just trigger happy and jumpy about people who claim to be experts because in modern media that usually means the opposite. Anyhow, I don't know what the right answer is, but I should definitely overlook writing style a little more and focus on what facts, if any, an author is providing.
I don't know. I have a hunch that lots of macros still will be better with the new macro system, but we'll see.

Anyway, regardless, there's certainly more work to do! And it's being actively developed quite heavily. For example, it will be on stable Rust very soon.
There's more to the "study" than plotting google search traffic and iPhone release dates, right? While it's a compelling graph, do they take metrics from devices?

Personally, when someone releases a new version or model of something I have - car, computer, phone, etc - I notice all the flaws and problems with what I have. I assume it's me attempting to rationalize "you know, maybe I should look at that new one.."
The major gap in your understanding: Bank insolvency != business cycle. Canada does indeed experience business cycles like every other significant economy. There are some examples in this article, if you don't believe me:

http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/business-cy...
Congrats. I remember watching Flexport get pitched to PG and Sam Altman during open 'Office Hours' at Startup School in 2013.

https://youtu.be/syoqjYLDs48?t=19m30s
The article mentions that GPUs are on average 50-200 times faster for deep learning, I’m curious on how he came to that number. It has a lot to do with the code and the frameworks used. I haven’t come across a good comparison, most figures seems to be taken out of the blue.
Is this an article from TechCrunch about how a company doing good, important, profitable work was previously called "unsexy" by TechCrunch and is continuing to do good, important, profitable work? Did anyone else call them "unsexy"?

> But as the mainstream embraces startup culture and aspiring founders flood Silicon Valley, there seems to be no shortage of people willing to chase things that seem like a bad idea.

... how does this company possibly seem like a bad idea?

I mean, if you find writing websites in $web_framework_of_the_month more exciting (or "sexy", whatever that's supposed to mean, I don't need to know about your tech fetishes) than delivering business value, that seems like your sense of excitement is off, not that they're doing something unexpected.
We actually do this at work; our repository is a full GOPATH layout with subdirectories for src/, test/, doc/, etc. We vendor our dependencies. To build, we have scripts at the top-level that compile all of our components (we ship a whole suite of tools in a single repo), run go vet, run tests, etc. The user never needs to set GOPATH. It's not a perfect system, but we've been using it for 3+ years without too much trouble.
We're hiring!

Product + Design: https://www.flexport.com/careers/department/design

Engineering: https://www.flexport.com/careers/department/engineering
Yes, but:

1. The UI is horrible and not amenable to sufficient customization. Xfce, bspwm, and i3 are all substantially better from a user experience and getting-things-done standpoint.

2. The availability of tooling for basically everything other than graphics design or video editing is significantly worse than for Linux.
All companies that are well run will have a queue of work for each employee, but not all companies that have a queue of work for each employee are well run.
That should have been AVX512. I blame autocomplete for the typo and myself for missing it.
I agree. The 7 plus camera is amazing!
I think there's merit to visual scripting, some people are more comfortable with it than code. The nice thing about Godot's visual language is that it's basically just a visual representation of functions already in GDScript.

Also, with the GDNative thing, you can plug in any programming language you want (it's a C API, and there's already bindings for C++, D, C#, Python, Nim, and it's trivial to add more languages).
Some conspiracies turn out true, yes. But a great many do not.
What about Amazon? they had a some similar plan, to become a global logistics network. And it's highly likely they'll be a competitor to flexport ?

What's Flexport's advantage in that case ?
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I've been using

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=io.github.hidroh.materialistic

For my day to day browsing. It has a pretty fully fledged feature set, including saving stories for later, and some neat aggregates (top last 24 hours is labelled "catch up" or something similar).
Communist countries often couldn't even produce food. Even during the Cold War the USSR had to import grain from the USA. Millions starved to death in China.
We are at the point where the incremental gains in voice-call quality we're seeing with each new cycle are not even mentioned.
Don’t underestimate how hard it is to say “no”.
The study examines search queries, rather than actually examining the hardware's performance. It is quite possible that this is a psychological effect, particularly since the (rumoured) release dates of new models are well known.
No VOIP system before Whatsapp reached the threshold of general usability for the unwashed masses (a complex matter conflating voice quality, software distribution, contact discovery, network effect, data usage, resilience, system load etc.). Facebook and Viber came close but failed.

Before Whatsapp, my friends in various African countries and their correspondents spent sometimes hundreds of Euros a month in voice communications. After Whatsapp: zero. It happened overnight.

Quite a few chat applications worked as well, but one cannot overstate how radically Whatsapp has changed international voice for users and telcos alike. That is not just success in entertainment but a significant social impact.
What? It's to prevent reinfection not resistance.
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hacker-news-enhanc...

> Show and highlight new comments since you last view a thread

discussions: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=enhancement%20suite (none really big)

elsewhere in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15310679
How to debug PulseAudio problems

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_debug_PulseAudio_probl...
My 4 year old Samsung received an update to 7.0 last month, and a security patch the week after. I agree android patching is poor compared to apple, but a lot of fault lies with the phone companies refusing to pass updates onto the end user rather then the company making the phone.
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> A well run company will always have more work for each employee than is possible for them to complete.

I'm not sure that's really true of a well-run company, but it's definitely true of badly run ones. In chaotic organizations, an unrealistic (or absent) sense of capacity and unclear priorities combine to create large amounts of work in process. Individual prioritization is definitely a survival skill there.
I did 100 hours plus my full time job 220 a month for the last 9 months. Helped me get more out of debt. Helped that I was doing different things. Helped and hurt in terms of switching mental mindsets.

Glad to be off of that train since September 1. Really takes a toll.
Meg is running this company into the ground. Carly helped kick off the process
Yeah, I've certainly had to learn a few tricks to debug audio issues on my Linux systems. Last one was a crash when disconnecting Bluetooth headphones, traced to PulseAudio unloading its Bluetooth plugin from code within the plugin. You don't get a backtrace if the crash is from returning into code that doesn't exist anymore. I still haven't figured out why this didn't cause crashes on all systems.

Factors which will have majorly affected people's PulseAudio experience over the years include audio hardware, what software they use with it, system uptime, local RF interference, use of suspend/resume, which patches their distro backported, and the exact stack and heap layout of the process on their system.
Note that WebRender won't be ready in time for Firefox 57 (yesterday was the cutoff for getting into 57), but the Servo devs tell me that it plans to be enabled by default in Firefox Nightly by the end of the year. So if you try Firefox 57 and find that it's still not as fast as you'd like, keep your eye out for when this lands early next year. :)
It says right in the article that the most likely cause is the way Apple only makes sure new OSes work well on the newest devices. I've found this to be anecdotally true myself.
Thanks, https://codisec.com/binary-visualization-explained/
I agree, these don't seem like carefully controlled experiments.
This has more to do with sugar (corn in the americas). For example, in Wisconsin it is possible to use dental information to identify if there was a diet of wild rice or corn. https://www.wpr.org/shows/wisconsins-mound-builders

Farming is in part responsible for the concentration of sugars that bacteria use.
I agree the logo is bland and lame, but 500k for a firm to develop their new 'eye catching' identity seems roughly fair. They didn't pay 500k for a rectangle, they paid 500k for essentially a new brand, and picked the lamest one (imo)

Also look like companies like BAE, General Dynamics, Medco, and other fortune 100 companies, most of them are just text. How much do you think they paid for those logos? I mean literally anyone with a text editor can make one of these logos, but for branding it IS a 500k decision to make
Not much of a Groundhog Day because the only google phone that was able to compete with iPhone in camera department was the latest pixel. All previous google phones had worse camera than an iPhone
really quickly:

matrix inversion is ~O(n^3)

gradient descent is ~O(np) where p is the number of predictors and n are the observations (n x p matrix).

for lasso, calculating that derivative of the multiplier is not possible (for all points), so coordinated descent is used.
In general, there is some sort of severance that is at least 2 weeks plus some additional days based on years of service.
With 3.0, Godot officially supports C, C++, C#, GDScript and D, with unofficial bindings for Python, Nim, and probably others (those are only the ones I know about).
Those are not a very good examples. While they are great and beautiful, they do not need any great tech.
Apple sells their old models as the low-their versions of their phone. I highly doubt they are intentionally limiting these device that they sell.
Could you say more about this? I was just talking with somebody about video game addictions, and I'd love to have more resources to offer people struggling with it.
Photos have never been about capturing the "real world". Photos have always been about what the photographer wants you to see.

And this isn't new, in fact it's a phenomenon that's happening ever since Neanderthals and their cave paintings.
However, this doesn't mean that the current courses that are being prescribed are in the sweet spot, and the article cites evidence showing that courses of certain shorter durations are just as effective as the currently prescribed longer courses at curing the infection, with the added gains of being less likely to produce resistence, more likely to be completed, fewer side effects, and cheaper.

It's unfortunate that the Slate article reprinting the The Conversation article discussing the British Medical Journal article used a title of "Stop taking antibiotics once you feel better" which is not what the underlying article is claiming.
I also like the part at the end, which is much simpler but also sounds pretty effective:

> Scientists found they could double the ballistic performance of the armour by introducing the holes to the steel, while halving its weight. [It works] because when a bullet hits, it's always near to the edge of a hole. This causes the bullet to topple over, turning it from a sharp projectile to a blunt fragment which is easier to stop."
Are they saying it's better than the X, or have they just not tested the X yet?
I've watched the slow-motion trainwreck that is HP and HPE though the lens of working with ArcSight, a very expensive and formerly segment-leading enterprise SIEM tool.

HP spent a billion and a half dollars to buy them in 2010 and then immediately didn't seem to be able to do anything with it. They ignored needed updates while competitors got better every year. They didn't even seem to be able to actually sell the thing - I had a large client who wanted to upgrade to the latest version (more than a million dollars in licensing costs alone), and couldn't get anyone at HPE to return their calls to actually sell him the thing; after six months of trying to give them his already-approved budget, they gave up and bought a competing product.

Now they've sold it off to Micro Focus, who seem to be a company whose business model is milking dying software for support and professional services money.

HPE is an organization that has grown so dysfunctional that it's essentially incapable of operating. Somehow I doubt laying off 5k people is going to help that very much.
30m gallons of water is truly worth nothing to people who have plenty of water, and truly worth billions of dollars to people who are dehydrated. In other words “true worth” makes no sense; it depends on context.
Basically they are saying tax water nestle uses and use the money to improve water access elsewhere.
>With higher level frameworks like Keras, how necessary is this?

I would wager that you've heard this line before, but it all depends on the particulars of what you are trying to do. If you want to develop a first principles understanding of what's going on its probably important. It will be less important if you just need to see the empirical performance of n established method on your new dataset.

>but have fallen flat on my face when learning the theory behind more complicated algorithms, e.g. Hessians from Andrew Ng's class

Reading in between the lines, maybe this is a question about Newton's method? One of the general strategies shared between software development and "mathematical" (for lack of a better word) science and engineering is to reduce a complex problem to a known use case. If you've got a grasp on linear regression, take a look at Newton's method in this case. You may be pleasantly surprised to see that the Hessian is constant. This might make it easier to make the connection to relevant topics such as the convergence rate of the method and the connection to the uncertainty in the fit.
This article here is the reason why Apple is killing others it competes with. No one else goes to these lengths to perfect some feature. They just don't care. It's the reason the iPhone 8 is also years ahead of android phones in speed.

https://www.macrumors.com/2017/09/22/how-apple-perfected-por...
Btw I see a lot of folks here always taking shots at the USA and it looks like there is a fairly large international audience in this “Hacker News” group.

But as someone who has somewhat extensively studied American history and government back in the day.

(I’ve read the Constitution, Federalist Papers, works by Thomas Paine, John Locke, Thomas Jefferson, and Ben Franklin, many of the majority opinions in many landmark Supreme Court cases, etc etc)

And there is actually a significant amount of misinformation and paranoia about America and the American government.

Now some of it regarding foreign policy is rightly justified given the actions by the CIA or military.

But on domestic policy, there is some misinformation every once in a while by someone’s comments.

Now while I usually prefer to talk about math and engineering stuff,

I feel most folks here already know that stuff and usually someone usually replies with the correction on Math or engineering issues/topics.

So I’ll limit most of my comments to perhaps pointing out what in my opinion are half-truths or falsehoods on American domestic policy or legal issues based on the limited knowledge I have on whatever is being discussed.

Ok no more rants from me for a long while. Apologies!
Samsung did this with the Note 3, and I suspect other flagships around this time.

The rear-facing camera would default to their 'Auto' mode, switch to the front-facing and you have to switch out of something like 'Beauty' mode with tons of post-processing for selfies.
Wait,what? So who is Jonathan Peters (a dj, re-mixer, and producer) to tell us what music is? Excuse me, but I happen to think my air conditioner is making a kind of music. The dude works with Mac Quale (American Horror Story) , and Quale seems to think sounds and textures are music. Also- can we please move beyond this "universal language" thing? What is universal about sounds and contexts? For example, the 12 tone scale is western, while other cultures enjoy microtones but these sounds sound "out of tune" to the average westerner. Steve Reich thought the utterances of a victimof race riots was music as evidenced by his piece "Come Out". John Cage showed that chance ambient sound is music with the famous 4'33"... and well, there are hundres ofexamples. Why can't we reach for a more culturally and intellectually and conceptually expansive defenition of an artform here on Hacker News? What "emotion" was John Cage going for in his prepared piano pieces? What about Richard Serra, the sculptor? I read stuff like this time and again by truly intellectual people on HN and I am always surprised at how behind the developments in artistic thinking are here.And really, it is 2017-- how can anyone think "music" is a universal language. As a composer myself, this defenition of music shoves me into a time machine and thrusts me back to old Vienna where I'm having tea with Brahms and Clara Schuman! Please! I need my modern brain, modern concept of the history of music and art, and my ability to redefine the parameters of my artform! How would you like program in COBOL all day for the rest of your life, denying the existence of modern coding languages? By the way, do yourself a favor and listen to "come out"---- drop in at some middle or later point innthat composition or even anywhere in Reich's "clapping Music" and tell me what emotion one is meant to feel... get back to us on that please.
The real takeaway here is that the barrier to reporting bugs for your project is too high.
99 percent invisible has a podcast discussing this issue with a designer who takes the opposite position. A main point is that a simple, reproducible logo is ideal.

http://99percentinvisible.org/episode/negative-space-logo-de...
They use the same sensors as all the other phones. But I think they are perceived better because on default they apply lots of (destructive) contrast, while other Manufacturers use less to keep more Image Information.
Never mind that ESD and like is a leftover from the OSS days. Alsa has its own sofware mixer, dmix, that these days can be transparently inserted when the underlying hardware do not offer hardware mixing.

I wonder of Linux's biggest problem these days is the amount of "herd knowledge" that is floating around that is obsolete to say the least, yet is being used to justify some dev's latest weekend glory project.
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In other news, the ocean is wet.
Similar but different problems in India and around the world. The only way to keep yields up to feed their population is to continue to ramp the fertilizer which continues to destroy the soil requiring ever increasing fertilizer.

We need to fix this and soon but it is "someone else's problem".
I'm not convinced. You can see a little bit of flare in the 8 and 7 Plus photos, but global contrast doesn't seem to be affected.
According to my direct manager, HPE's management structure is going to be the hardest hit with these layoffs. I think she used the term "streamline" to describe what they're trying to do with the management structure.
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You may be interested in the Pocket CHIP, it's pretty much what you asked for minus the sleek case, and I don't think the battery lasts quite that long (but it's open source and hackable so you can add your own if you want):

https://getchip.com/pages/pocketchip
You can, yes, but inverting a matrix is computationally expensive, and for a large X, numerical optimization methods can be much more time/space efficient.
My old school used grey water for sprinkler systemss It was like 99% clean but not “drinkable”. Big red signs everywhere, seems fine. I would think golf courses must do something similar but don’t know
The Pixel photos are the best of the lot. I don't understand why the author thinks the iPhone 8+ is better, except that it's newer and from Apple.

Pixel: https://cdn.dxomark.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Pixels-IM...

iPhone 8: https://cdn.dxomark.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/ip8Plus-I...

That's not even close. Wider angle. Better range of contrast. Better sharpness of details. Hard to say which is truer to the colors without being there, but the colors look better on the Pixel.

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Edit: By their own ratings, the Pixel phone beats the iPhone on every metric scored:

Pixel v. iPhone 8+

90 - 89 :Exposure & Contrast

85 - 78 :Color

93 - 74 :Autofocus

93 - 64 :Texture

89 - 68 :Noise

84 - 73 :Artifacts

88 - 84 :Flash

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89 - 96 :Final Score

How does the iPhone receive an overall rating substantially higher than its highest individual rating?
Everybody knows the blackcabs have been lobbying tfl and major for a long time.
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For 15 years, I've had a totally stable, rock-solid, perfect Audio environment on Linux. My main DAW is Linux-based, and completely stable. Best latency of any platform, to boot.

So, just as a counterpoint, I'm guessing you're a Pulseaudio user ..