skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
it's not even that, but in the OEM and server market, there's more than delivering 90% of perforamnce for 50% of the price - there's reliability, driver support and all other costs which means that a higher Intel CPU price might only translate to <5% higher TCO or something like that, in which case I'd have gone with Intel myself (no one got fired for buying IBM/Intel)
Hey HN, author here. This is more than just a random collection of deliverability tips. I propose a new abstraction which I think can start to solve the pervasive reliability problems with all the email APIs I've used. We've been working on this for months, learned a lot in the process. Please do reach out if you're interested in our private beta. Thanks!
Mossad's failure to capture fugitive Nazis
Right, it made them nervous but, in the end, there was no major activity taken. I didn't know it there are any international regulations about it, or treaties around it. This is one subject Google is not very helpful with, though I may not know the correct terminology to search effectively with.

In the NK missile tests, Japan (rightfully) was pretty pissy but the end result has been largely nothing. My guess, and it is only a guess, is that it'd be much the same if, for some reason, we sent a missile through space and over Russian territory.

Though, I guess, Russia really wouldn't have much ability to sanction the US or enforce said sanctions. We don't really require anything from Russia and they are not close allies with anyone we do depend on.
I wish social experimentation and progress happened at even 5% of the speed of technological progress.. why don't we just get rid of the idea that you 'own' your partner's body? It seems arcane and based in insecurity. If you can't handle even the slightest of erotic competition, how solid can the basis of your relationship be?

(Sorry for the overly controvesial wording if my post, I realize that filing more open relationships under 'social progress' is not obviously right, and would love to hear alternative perspectives, especially from people in stable happy long-term relationships)
With nodeJS using fs.readFile is basically the same as scaling across multiple machines. NodeJS kinda force you to learn how to manage concurrency, eg what people call callback/promise/future hell.
The issue is not the quantity, but the inaction, as explained: once made aware of the incidents, Uber should have reported them to the police.

(Also the operation of "greyballing"!)
Haha. Had I used my Apple Watch, Siri would have been better than autocorrect. :)
The reason it's ostensibly confusing is that the standard narrative of human sexuality—one sexual partner for life after getting married—is, forgive me, completely batshit insane. That's not to say that people haven't done it. People do, of course. And that's not to say that that's wrong or something, either. But the expectation of total 'fidelity' for life is unreasonable.

For more on this subject I recommend the book "Sex at Dawn."
> it talks only about Uber/ULL

Well, yeah, they're the only ones currently trying to renew their license.

> Where are the comparable numbers for other minicab firms (of which there are many)?

Utterly irrelevant when it comes to renewing Uber's license. Much like if I was to apply for, oh, a pharmacist license and using "But Frank has dealt more meth than I have!" as justification. Utter nonsense.
> I write this from personal experience, having seen teams been disbanded who did a great job shipping... stuff that brought in zero value to the company.

How do you get to this point? I have never been on a team where someone further up the business wouldn't come up to us at some point and ask, "Uh, what is the business value of what you are doing?"
Ah, so it has to cross teams in order to be considered an open office? I was not aware of that requirement, thanks.
I had the same issue, but I switched from Karabiner to https://www.orderedbytes.com/controllermate/ and I couldn't be happier.

It did take a bit of extra time to replicate my Karabiner setup, however controllermate is much more capable and the overall result has been worth the effort.
> But yeah, I'd be happy to work 70 hour weeks for $3M per year.

I think I might compromise to work 70 hour weeks for $3m for one year. The trick is, you don't get to pick when that year happens, and there's actually a lot of build up to get to where you're worth $3m a year. There's a couple of Paul Graham essays with this as one of their themes:

http://paulgraham.com/wealth.html

http://paulgraham.com/start.html

I love the idea, but I don't think I'm good enough to pull it off, and I don't like the odds.
I'm running VMs in a LAB and I need multples of 6 virtual machines so these high core count CPUs are exactly what I'm after and I don't mind the occasional bit flip as it's for testing only, not production. But I agree supporting ECC RAM wouldn't add much to the cost of the CPU itself.
Playing devil's advocate a bit here: maybe the negative impact of open plan offices is much lower than typical if every single employee is feeling exceptionally motivated through far beyond market rate compensation? Of course there would be more boxes to check than just that, e.g. how often are people on the phone.
Honestly, I haven’t even bothered doing that with Windows in a pretty long time—maybe since the 7 to 8 transition, after which they’ve had a pretty robust upgrade path. About the only place I do do that regular is on Linux, but that’s because it’s stupidly easy to do so due to the packet managers, not because I actually have to.
I have a large collection of images, many being accessible through google image search.

I wonder if there could be a way to "index" those images so I can find them back without storing the whole image, using some type of clever image histogram or hashing-kind function.

I wonder if that thing already exist, since there are many images, and since most images have a lot of difference in their data, could it be possible to create some kind of function that describe an image in a way that entering such histogram redirects to (or the closest) the image it indexed? I guess I'm lacking the math, but it sounds like some "averaging" hashing function.
Market would like pulling to because state change events may be rare. What if I’m listening to a two hour podcast but don’t pause it at any point? That’s a lot of possible data loss if something happens that pulling every five minutes (which is way too slow) would fix.
Sketchfab AR for iOS
Labeling training data
It's perfectly relevant when questioning whether or not the same scrutiny is applied to all players or if TfL are just trying to make headlines attacking the big fish.
I think these things are primarily aimed at gamers and overclocking enthusiasts. They don't care about ECC at all, or might even worry that gets in the way of overclocking (since at least for now, nobody optimizes ECC DIMMs for that)

Those who care are supposed to spend even more on Xeons.
Except for those, who upgraded their machine and the old OS release doesn't run on it. Or myriad other reasons.
Well we did shovel a big cart full of manure to the field, that sure did help. But the horses pooping during the work is pretty negligible in comparison.
'Artificial intelligence' is just a snazzier name for 'applied statistics'.

The goal isn't to create thinking robots, the goal is to extend statistical methods to the realm of unstructured dumps of big data.

We don't know what "thinking robots" might be and what they're good for, but we've known about the power of statistics for a century now.

Selling statistics + big data to businesses is a no-brainer.
I can assure you that Latvia does not use YYYY-DD-MM. Officially Latvia is using ISO 8601. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601#Usage
GitHub as a Fast Track to Interviews
> When shared, photos taken with standard point-and-shoot cameras, SLR cameras, or iOS devices have up to 2048 pixels on the long edge.

Wow, what a deal breaker. I always felt like something was off quality-wise but never took the time to delve into that.
Simply use create-react-app and don’t worry about setting up Babel and Webpack
Well, for at least a single year. I mean.. Work twice as hard for one year, and get paid close to what I can reasonably expect to make in 20.. yea, seems like a no brainer.
It's a personal thing. Some people don't like sharing one of the most intimate actions with their partner with other people.

If you can't handle even the slightest of erotic competition, how solid can the basis of your relationship be?

This is not helpful because some of the happiest relationships I know are very conservative (perhaps selfish in your view) relationships. Some people are monogamous, some aren't, no reason to judge either side.
TLDR; It is possible to like more than one individual.

I for one doesn't understand why anyone would marry except for economical benefits/security.

Personally, I would much rather have 2 or more girlfriends/partners who enjoy me and eachother than a marriage with one. Since I believe that the male sex drive is bigger than that of women, I don't understand why I should be limited to just enjoy one other woman. However, this is hard to do because many women like the idea of marriage and have this impossible romantic view of the world. Love is not static, sometimes you love someone more and sometimes less. This changes over time just like everything else. But in our upbringing we learn from movies and our culture that love should be this static, non-changing thing and of course it will not work in a world that changes all the time.

A lot of marriages fail, probably because people change over time and we don't always like that. Let's just be more open and enjoy ourselves when we have such a short time alive.

EDIT: I understand that my opinions can be controversial, but you don't really have do downvote just because you do not agree with them.
The improvements aren't just to the software. There's non-software reasons for a, say, iPhone 5 user, to upgrade to an 8 over a 7.
Dialect of brainfuck which uses emoji
Postmortem: Greater accessibility through audio in Killer Instinct
London Reconnections is consistently good. For anyone interested in public transport, it's worth disappearing down the rabbit-hole of their previous articles. (It also has a better-than-average comments section.)
Yep nothing exciting happening here yet. I'll wait until this evening.
"once made aware of the incidents, Uber should have reported them to the police"

Is that what other minicab firms do?
Even memory is a tradeoff. Assuming excellent memory, even then people won't use 20 character passwords because they're too hard to type precisely. The ability to store/copy/paste passwords makes for stronger passwords because size and complexity just doesn't matter
This is the current approach for large sale image retrieval. By using some model to extract features and then performing distance calculations. This is usually done with hashing once speed and the size of the dataset become large.
> Most of all though remember: it is not about the app.

Yeah, we get it; it's about bureaucracy and regulation, and you fucking peasants will do as we say.

I hope Uber does what they usually do in these cases: ignore this bullshit and continue providing value to common people.
#Adobe accidentally leaked online its Private #PGP Key
Asking "Why Skype is so buggy and unreliable?" is not a serious request, just a snarky comment. What are the bugs you have identified? When and how is Skype unreliable? If your comment is serious, you need to provide more information. And then you need to file a bug report (or reports) with the software owner, Microsoft.
+1, I'm not sure why people make their dates needlessly ambiguous. Writing out an abbreviated month removes any potential confusion.
You mean the monopoly is due to Office and DirectX?

There are plenty of alternatives still. I only use Outlook due to work but I could also get around that through several ways.

Maybe we just have a different definition of monopoly?

Definition: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/monopoly

1 :exclusive ownership through legal privilege, command of supply, or concerted action

2 :exclusive possession or control

no country has a monopoly on morality or truth —Helen M. Lynd

3 :a commodity controlled by one party

had a monopoly on flint from their quarries —Barbara A. Leitch

4 :one that has a monopoly

The government passed laws intended to break up monopolies.
TfL is a faceless bureaucracy, and while I think they don't have a terrible reputation many people have some reason to be unhappy about them. Makes an easier target than the mayor who is a quite popular figure and might be able to shrug off attacks against him personally relatively easily (e.g. by simply backing TfL without getting personally involved).
I think it's a waste of breath to promote or condemn one mode of relationship over another. All that matters is what you and your partner(s) agree on for the terms of your relationship.
The new chip is smaller (and I'd presume more energy efficient) while being slightly faster. Those characteristics are what a good chunk of the server market craves (more blade server density per rack at the same power draw).
The language of hip-hop
I wonder, what makes intel chips more expensive? Is it a matter of money sunk into research? Because it seems that in terms of FLOPS per $, AMD always wins, and I have a hard time understanding that.

What makes AMD more interesting?
For CSS you can still inspect elements with devtools, fortunately, and that will show you the style properties, even if the styles are set programmatically.
> The federal crop insurance program is based on farmers planting the same crop in the same place each year to have a record for production, and it is not flexible enough to account for practices like cover crops.

If you want to take an actionable item away from this article that fits (potentially) the skillsets of your friends and neighbours on Hacker News, it is this one. This is a data problem and an actuarial problem. Solving it can result in net social benefit disproportionate to the investment in infrastructure, politicial capital (to change legislation), and (already existing) government programs required.

I don't know if, politically, there are any groups who would be organized to swing into action in opposition to federal crop insurance reform, but they or any who may shake out of the math (presumably there's some practices and crops cough corn that benefit from less information, relatively speaking) have an uphill battle to fight against a variety of constituent-motivating narratives. It's hard to argue against big government spending when tens of millions of dollars is at stake.
Yes, but docker has created an incentive to publish them. When I want to install something, I search for a docker image that has it preinstalled and I read the dockerfile. I can choose either to use the docker image or to perform the installation globally on my main system. And, by the way, I have learned the installation procedure.
Agreed. Though always does come down to the weakest link. Such as if a person had access to just your email account password then they could reset most any other password on other accounts you have in the middle of the night while you slept. Which is why 2 factor on your email is most important though, depending on what software/methods you use for 2 factor always a chance that could be bypassed.

Also if someone gains physical access to your device(s) while you are in the bathroom or what not, if they know your laptop password which is usually something easy to remember, then they have access to all your keychain passwords no matter how complex each of them are.

Still million times better than attempting to memorize custom passwords for each site, since most people will just have one password, and will add a few characters based on the site name/domain which can also easily be cracked.
Or a USB_A-to-USB_C adapter.

It looks like the USB-C sticks already exist.

https://smile.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_1?url=search-alias...
Ask HN: SendGrid Transactional Templates, or no?
Has anyone here used SendGrid's Transactional Templates feature before, and what are you thoughts on it? And in comparison to building your email templates in your application directly?

It seems the Pro is that the template work can be offloaded to designers/marketers and developers only need to reference the right template in their code, they don't have to write the template code themselves. The Con is that the templates live in SendGrid, making it difficult to move to another email provider in the future if there was a reason to, as you'd have to redo the templates in the next provider, or reimplement it in your application.

Thoughts?

SendGrid Transactional Templates: https://sendgrid.com/docs/User_Guide/Transactional_Templates/index.html
> Is that what other minicab firms do?

If they still have their license, I believe they do.
great - but the logo and the text ruins part of the experience for me.
You can also not put in username and password for a Google account. Without authenticated account, Google Play Services won't work.

What you can do, is to install apps or plugins for CalDAV/CardDAV-like services. The account system works with any generic account, not just with Google accounts; you can implement any service you want talking with any protocol you want. You don't need Google Play Services source for that.

Removing apks for android installation is cannon for sparrows. Remember, /system is not only for running the system, but also for factory reset/recovery too.
I haven't coded a page in years. So, pardon my ignorance, but is Bootstrap really required?

I ask because I too am marginally interested in creating something. Though, I suspect I'll just cheat and use a CMS like Wordpress and a bog-standard theme.
I would much rather have 2 girlfriends/partners

There always seems to be at least one partner in these relationships singing their praise through gritted teeth.
Of the 154 assults. So you could say the vast majority were not in Uber?
> delegating to the C++ modules in the background

Eh, what are these if not part of node?

What kind of definition are you applying so that a thing is suddenly no longer the sum of its parts?

Edit: JavaScript may be single threaded. Node.JS is not. JavaScript is but a part of Node.JS.
The consumer market was also forever growing at the time. Now companies are shipping less and less. Different situation I suppose.
Those pages are so much more readable and responsive. Scrolling is not smooth at all on the OP.
Apparently morality is "arcane."
It’s even easier now; the keyboard prefs in settings allows caps to esc reassignment through the UI.
Having only read the 'reception' part of the wiki article, especially about 'Sex at Dawn' 's allegedly sloppy methodology.. do you happen to know of any book(s) with similarly 'non-standard' views of human sexuality, but which are considered (more widely) to be argued for using a strongly rigorous methodology?
Other way around: AMD has to be cheaper to compete with Intel, which until now basically could charge what they wanted.

And this specific example here is clearl in the high-end enthusiast space, where whoever has the best can charge the highest price and the target market will pay it.
Do you have any reason to believe they don't? I'm struggling to find numbers about it, but either they do and there's no news about it, or they don't and not only should Uber be under speculation, so should they. How do either of those change the fact that Uber did something wrong?
TLDR: commits indicate ChromeOS will be able to host virtual machines.

This still fits the "device for google internal use that they also sell outside" model since the Pixel 2013, with perhaps increasing emphasis on selling outside.

Making ChromeOS a stable, durable hypervisor that also hosts other OSes (better linux support than Crouton, and possibly adding windows support) just makes it an ever-more viable replacement for those-other-companies' high-end laptops.

Is there any benefit of a VM-friendly ChromeOS retaining Chrome as root-level functionality? Why not move the Chrome-browser-UI into a client VM as well, parallel to Linux and Windows clients?
Read the article. It's not about the quantity of assaults, it's about Uber not reporting them to the police.
That Uber drivers of London alone have been accused of 32 sexual assaults in the past year [1] is hard to swallow.

How does that compare to the regular population?
argh! i can't believe people are still arguing about whether we should do MM/DD/YYY or DD/MM/YYYY or anything similar to that. here's how you should write a date that you are going to show to a user:

Jan 11 2016

if you accept that premise, it doesn't matter (much) what order you put the elements in, because none of them can be confused with any other. a word is a month, a one- or two-digit number is the day of the month, a four-digit number is the year.

i feel the same way about websites that expect me to input phone numbers, credit card numbers, social security numbers, etc without punctuation or spaces. why are you making this my problem? if your backend requires that, then strip out everything i typed that wasn't a digit and do your own formatting. geez.
Because shitty people can still be happy people.
>I'd really love to see languages like Ruby tackle this next. It's sorely needed.

Could you expand on that? Why Ruby?
Uber C.E.O., Reacting to London Ban, Apologizes for ‘Mistakes'
I mean, I wouldn't say that unreported sexual assaults is "bullshit". That's serious stuff, and they didn't report it to the police.
Yeah, and it doesn't make any sense as they already have the pictures in the original quality stored on their servers already.

I think (but I am not sure) you can use iCloud Photo sharing even if you don't use iCloud Photo library, but that's a special case. Then you could limit the quality of those photos, I guess. But why degrade the quality of photos that you already have? Sharing doesn't use any extra space than non-sharing. They are in the cloud anyway.
While I agree, I speculate that Apple doesn't allow this simply for iCloud Photo Library backup aspects. The HEIC/HEVC save backup space. Backing up RAW/DNG would be data costly. I realize there are ways around this, but it's not Apple's style.
> I wonder, what makes intel chips more expensive?

The fact that if you want a chip that powerful, there is only Intel. An example in GPUs are the NVIDIA Quaddro cards. If your frame needs more than 16GB memory to render, there is no other card available. So they sell the same chips packaged as a Quaddro at 5x the price of a Titan.
That sounds like a pretty painstaking process, I would've been a bit deflated after finding the requirement was more than halved after you were done!. BTW what is meant by "attract mode" ?
Ask HN: I recently lost everything and I need advice to rebuild my career
I recently lost everything, I closed my business and my shares on another, after working on them for 10 years. Now I see myself with 35 years and needing to start from almost zero. I do not have the strength, time or money to create a new business, so I am heading to the IT workforce. I can support myself for a few months that I am going to use to renew my knowledge in IT, since everything I studied years ago is not relevant anymore nor I can remember (jsp, ccna, etc)

As I have been outside of IT for such a long time and my age is starting to be a problem, I need to rebuild myself asap.

So, my ask HN.

What should I start today to study to get a decent job in the next year? I’ve been thinking to get a helpdesk low tier job in a few months to at least have some salary and resume, but that’s not enough, I want to plan my future and I need to start studying now. I need to know where should I go and what technologies and fields can offer me the best outcomes for the future. My research says that I should probably invest in machine learning and IA, but I also know that most of the people working there are mathematicians and physicist so could be difficult to land a job there.

Any advice?

Thank you