skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of the people mentioned in the article, Svore, works at the QuArC group for MS and has worked on quantum machine learning. (QuArC generally works on how to actually design and use quantum computers.)

For example: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1412.3489.pdf

From my (shallow) understanding, you can get improvements by considering the space of possible states of your quantum system to be the space of weights for your model, and then annealing the quantum system (which is equivalent to optimizing the objective function). The quantum annealing is a (significant) improvement over other optimization methods... or something.
Artist Creates an Individual Coin Offering for a Tulip Token
Hmmm...I thought ParAccel was a derivative of Postgres:

https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/PostgreSQL_derived_database...
Wow, chrisper isn't the only one who hasn't been paying attention. It's news to me too. These slot right into the bus, just like a hardcard! Everything old is new again.
I just upgraded the gaming PC from an i7 2600 (ancient) to a Ryzen 7 1700. So far, video encoding is significantly faster with all 16 logical CPUs busy (but a GPU based program would be stupid fast). I'm having an issue where I get occasional lockups when gaming - updating the BIOS hasn't helped. I expect the game makers will need to ship updated code. One thing I found - the Ryzen is very sensitive to memory speed. Buy 2666 and don't overclock it much - if at all.
You mean like art directors do with Photoshop for pretty much every magazine with a celebrity on the cover :-)
One area I’d love to be discussed/expanded further in another post is about techniques around taking to users. Even getting people who have signed up or are existing customers to talk to you is surprisingly difficult. There are probably pearls of wisdom to share in this area. Taking and listening to customers is so important but with the noise nowadays I find it’s harder to get them taking, even as I say they’re already using the product.
I never find advice on how to grow when your customers are heavily competing with each other and, therefore, they are very unlikely to recommend your product no matter how much they love you. I feel this is a very common situation and I never heard YC talk about how to deal with it.
nothing, but at least you can try to fight it in court
I've read a lot of crappy code written by physicists (my past self included) who lack training and/or don't care about code quality. While I hate proprietary, monolithic programs, I'm not sure replacing them with R would lead to saner results or fewer errors. I would certainly prefer python and org mode to excel and word, thought.
My phone with LineageOS + microG is very usable. It does use Google's service for Push Notifications (because I do want them) — with an open source client for that service.
I don't see why an original battery would be a fire hazard.

But many laptops will run without a battery just fine.
The NUC codenames and model numbers are impenetrable. Here's a summary of these rumored new models:

- "Bean Canyon" is the expected annual replacement for the current NUC lineup. Same form factor, new Intel chips as usual.

- "June Canyon" is a new low-cost model using Celeron/Pentium CPUs. No word on form factor.

- "Hades Canyon" is a new high-powered model with quad-core CPUs and probably a new hardware design. There will be a special VR model that supports low-power discrete graphics. (All previous NUCs have been Intel integrated graphics only, unless you count the ability to use an external GPU using Thunderbolt 3 which appeared on this year's models.)
Brain Stimulation Partly Awakens Patient After 15 Years in Vegetative State
Reddit discussion:
https://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/72bnel/japanese_sc...

Full Text:
https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.06312
And I'm even more confused about how things should go about for more complicated Core Storage setups. I have several disks with Core Storage. All of them have multiple logical volume families in a single logical volume group. And some are encrypted and others are not. I also have Core Storage volume groups that span multiple hard disks and/or hard disk partitions. I read the Ars review but that doesn't cover APFS in much technical detail at all. I'm really missing those Core Storage deep dives in Siracusa reviews.
I like that you can inject your own moves, and try to make the AI to loose... it's really impressive. As someone else mentioned, it's really cool to see how it seems to "play freely" with no simplified strategy like the left-down-up.
It's admirable to me that unions protect low-skilled workers from losing their job, not by preventing them from getting fired at current wages, but by accepting wage decreases for their workers while getting them re-trained into jobs of higher cognitive skill.

That seems like the fair and humane thing to do for workers, while at the same time not screwing over capital owners or stifling automation.
And the software can just put in the installer "click 'Yes' on any windows messages to install."
> consumers (especially kids) didn't want "department store brand" clothing from Sears/JCPenney because they were "uncool"

FWIW all my clothes were from Sears and JCPenney, my taste be damned. I know a lot of other kids my age (grew up in the 90s and 00s) were the same way, at least until quality tanked in the mid 00s.
There is definitely a value for this.

A useful integration for some would be using the hardware security/key modules in Amazon, Google, Microsoft, etc.
True, but big business behavior is often closer aligned with what society needs than small farmers.
For people just coming out of college, the advice given by YC might seem very "groundbreaking". But honestly, these are not new ideas. I listened to Sam's lectures at Stanford, and listened to Brian Tracy's business books, and they are the same advice. Not to hate on YC, but I just wanted to keep it 100.
Disconnected by Disaster–Photos from a Battered Puerto Rico
> Met Police Counter Terrorism Command officers stopped Muhammad Rabbani, 36 (03.03.81) from east London at Heathrow Airport

Giving his age kind of adds context, but I don't understand the reason for publishing his date of birth. Odd.
Ex-NSA hacker drops macOS High Sierra zero-day  hours before launch
Why aren't mothers worth anything to Venture Capitalists?
> Perhaps the people in charge of roads have discovered that if they were to remove that bus lane, the result would be congestion further into the city in a location less able to handle it than a motorway.

It's a well-known controversial bus lane, which became a political issue. Anyone complaining about it loses my respect on HN, as they didn't look at the traffic engineering problem, just the Daily Mail hate.

The motorway is 3 lanes until the final stretch into London, which has two lanes. The width reduction isn't at a junction, so the extra lane didn't help traffic flow -- it just caused congestion and collisions by making drivers merge. The lane was ended at the preceding junction's slip road, and a bus lane continued for the spare length. This improved journey time for buses (a minority of vehicles, but a decent proportion of people), and also improved journey times for cars!

But, the sight of the bus lane annoyed the Tories, so they got rid of it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M4_bus_lane

https://waronthemotorist.wordpress.com/2010/11/22/the-m4-bus... is where I first heard about it (I lived in London at the time, but didn't have a car.)
Most of these utility functions are fairly straightforward and will rarely require any changes or maintenance. Testing should therefore be straightforward as well. Having the whole community back something doesn't mean it's bug-free, and sometimes it makes it harder when their release cycle isn't as frequent as you'd like it to be.

Having said that, it's all about tradeoffs. Whether your project needs something as big as <insert JS framework or lib here> or if you can live with just needing a few utility functions, you make those choices, doesn't mean one is better than the other as it all depends on context and situation.

jQuery has become the defacto must-use library for javascript now which IMO is unfortunate, as a lot of sites and apps include it when they barely use most of what jQuery offers. I'm guessing most use jQuery for only a few things - Ajax, DOM querying, and events. I hope that sometime in the future jQuery would be more modular.
> It's a shame UK doesn't have a real constitution.

The UK has a real Constitution, even if it isn't in a single document; OTOH, it may not have the content you would prefer on this issue. But even if it did, a Constitution, like any set of laws, doesn't constraint behavior in the absence of people actually exerting effort to enforce it, it's just—absent enforcement—just words.
Really? Bluetooth audio seems all jacked up. Problems connecting, some applications like Safari still use built in speakers even when Bluetooth audio is connected. Dual Shock 4 no longer works over Bluetooth. I'm surprised they are releasing in this state.
Really ugly ads, too. There's just like 2 or three random cut-off strings of text randomly sprinkled around my login screen on my SP3, with little searchglass icons next to them. They're always totally incoherent and I'm not even sure how I would interact with them if I wanted to (clicking does nothing).
AWS Plans to Open Middle East Region in Bahrain in 2019
OneNote exports data in files with a defined format, so they can't ruin you that way. For search to be useful, it is going to have to work over email, documents, and everything else anyway. Otherwise you are going to have to search for everything in 15 places whenever you want to look for something.
not yet! Hoping someone from his camp will reach out to us. My understanding is that he is currently temporarily incarcerated.
See also:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baby_boomers
To me it makes little sense.

For Police work, time is "relative", as an example the cop that is held in the US for contempt of the Court for not revealing the password to his drives is suspected of possessing child pornography, whether he is kept in jail because he won't reveal them or because as the sheer moment he reveals them he will be proved guilty doesn't change things much (there is anyway other evidence against him).

Here it is not a "Police" case, but rather a "counter-intelligence" one, in these cases time is everything, a delay of hours, or at the most days in gathering the information is vital.

AFAIK Mr.Rabani NEVER revealed the password(s), he refused revealing it/them on 20/Nov/2016, now, almost one year later, he is found guilty of obstructing the search, still there is no evidence that he is or was - even tangentially - connected with terrorism.

So, £620+12 months' conditional discharge seem to me a lot of time/a very severe punishment if he was in good faith attempting to protect some sensitive data for his non-governement organization, and nothing if he was in bad faith or however protecting terrorism related info.

In any case, whatever the Police expected to find on the device(s) they didn't access it/them, and much worse than that they didn't access it/them in a timely fashion (and no charges of terrorism or connections to it were made against Mr.Rabani in almost one year) so - besides seeming more a petty vengeance than anything else - it is not like it helped in ANY way the counter-terrorism.
Use subscription billing, have patience, find upsells, read patio11.

Source: Bootstrapped a company to substantial profitability.
His Night's Dawn Trilogy also explores souls coming back to possess the living.
You're probably thinking of the "Great Filter"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Filter
That's no longer true. The Patriot Act enables government behavior that's functionally equivalent to this incident in the U.K.
> Even with the best isolating headphones (25dB)

Etymotic ER-4's are 35-42 dB; I've put mine in and not heard the bus zooming through the crossing I was about to stroll across…
The techniques (for example, removing fine details) are applicable to SVG too.
Let’s be clear the goal wasn’t to break new ground in fact it’s the opposite. To condense all the accumulated pieces of advice that we give in one place and provide links to dive deeper if needed.
This is a great summary of the current conflict between TfL and Uber, exploring the background of Uber itself. It does come off a little bit too much on the side of TfL - accepting all of its allegations without question, for example - but it's nonetheless a well-written piece.
> Both web client/server and X client/server nomenclature define what client and server mean in very specific (but opposite) technical ways

That's just false. A web server listen(2)s/accept(2)s. A web browser or other HTTP client connect(2)s. An X server listen(2)s/accept(2)s. An X client connect(2)s.

In either case it would not make sense to invert this relationship. In both cases a server is an endpoint that serves its resources to multiple clients. Are people advocating conceptually that the graphics card connect to its programs, and not the program request access to it? That makes very little sense. Just like a web server would not proactively connect to its end user web browsers. The requests happen in the other direction.
Further evidence that the ideas behind the American Revolution and the Anti-Federalists were important then, and now...
> This was very clearly politically motivated

Well, it depends. Though some information there might be protected by "attorney-client privilege" today's verdict doesn't seem to support it

> IIRC five if the magic word "terrorism" is conjured.

Well, there is another way, but when people are more preoccupied with the rights of outspoken jihadists (not saying it's the case here) and not appearing racist in reporting crimes pressure shifts to those who have less connections to wrongdoings
That certainly makes sense for files, which are read into memory and written back to disk, potentially corrupt - but I wouldn't expect most compiled code to be written back to disk? (I am still on an old cheese-grater Mac Pro, so my 32GB are ECC which means I'm not worried personally, just curious).
A tweet is a publication like any other; expecting it to be any different is baffling to me.
At the moment? Momentum of the general belief that, in fact, the Constitution worked .. for a while. It is only Americas belief in itself which perpetuates the mythos that Americans had rights (in the not-too-distant past) that most of the rest of the world, explicitly did not have...

Whereas, the British (and the Australians, who have one of the most embarrassing 'constitutions' of them all) seem to have been fine, all along, to just roll over and expose themselves to their masters, the ruling classes.

Nevertheless, these constitutions are nothing more than smart contracts. I'm wondering if anyone has done the UDHR as a smart contract .. seems that might be the right thing to ICO.
Increasingly "real" security not only requires that data be encrypted in a way that frustrates those with greater resources, but does so while maintaining the appearance of compliance.

People have known this for awhile, but it seems like actual products suggesting security have been slow to adopt it.
After 15 yrs in vegetative state, patient becomes minimally conscious
If you don't provide the means to decrypt.

Absurd nonetheless.
Growth That Reaches Everyone: Facts, Factors, Tools
> Your average programmer isn't going to be able to write a linked list implementation that is correct, let alone a whole allocator and free mechanism.

Are... linked lists really that difficult to fuck up? How??
With very selective enforcement.

Almost everyone with an internet connected device possess encrypted data.
This is an informative article, it's a shame about the straw-man that repeats throughout it. Nobody is saying this is "about the app". Obviously, the usefulness of the app is tied into the licence. It's about the licence. Everybody knows that.
What type of Quality Control features do you have in place to ensure that peers take the time to provide quality feedback? I have often found that incentives alone do not suffice.
Incorrect. There are in fact three ways to completely disable it. You can get the Enterprise edition [0] or modify your registry configuration [1] or by a third party tool [2].

Even if you don't want to do any of those for some reason, reading about the Basic level of telemetry - it's nothing. At least it's nothing that I care about.

[0] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windowsforbusiness/try

[1] https://winaero.com/blog/how-to-disable-telemetry-and-data-c...

[2] http://www.thewindowsclub.com/tools-tweak-privacy-settings-w...
I would be astonished if switching from Excel to Python or R or something else yielded even a 12% (much less greater than that) error free rate.
> We've got to move past that.

No, we've got to move past lazy generalizations.

You've boiled down multiple issues to 'people only know jQuery'. Meanwhile the rest of this thread is dealing with more interesting and accurate specifics.
You are ignoring browsers support. One of the main reasons I suggest using jQuery is browser support. Another solution is to use a transpiler like Bable.
Would naltrexone also help against browsing habits?
Is it reasonable to use it for production environment? I've got set up a few servers on Google Container Engine and trying to figure out what's the best way to manage ENV variables and this tool seems like a good fit.
One curious thing is it's more selfish than a startup - after all, you're doing it for you, not for the business.

A business is not a real person; you're not doing things "for it" anymore than I'm being charitable by gifting my car new tires.
Node.js leadership is a toxic mess
I agree you are trying to do that with this post. But YC startup information sometimes markets itself as knowing what others don't know when it comes to growing a business, and say they know best since they've seen so many startups in their cohorts. It comes across as revolutionary ideas, even if those words aren't exactly used.
Binutils 2.29.1 Released
Reminds me of Baumeister's research on willpower and energy depletion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfnUicHDNM8
The difference is that nowadays, information and insight is propagated and digested much faster than it was in the 80s. It is much easier for Amazon to detect and react to threats than Sears was ever able to.

In my opinion, there's a threshold of information absorption and digestion, beyond which a corporation can be sure to survive no matter what, as long as it doesn't cease to adapt.
I bought a pretty good mattress and also a good vacuum from Sears. They're not high-end but they're pretty damn good.

The only reason I had a vacuum at all in college was because Sears still stocked parts for 10 or 15 year old vacuums so I was able to repair someone's broken vacuum.
Maybe your just not charging enough?

--installation (SaaS pricing with

--sounds like on site implementation

--support and training(outside of basic documentation on a website)

--security reviews(part of on site implementation)

Shouldn't all that be billable hours?

or some kind of add-on fee
You can run the laptop without a battery in it if you're worried about a fire.
As a bonus you get zero precision as manifested by endless fiddling to set the control just right. If it is digital, give a nice digital input. If you want, feel free to also give a clickable interface of the knob but please let dragging die, and always provide numeric input.
The UK does have a constitution. I’m puzzled as to why you think it would be more effective were it codified in a single document.
I suspect a lot of reasons this functionality isn't available is due to power concerns.

Why is some of this functionality available if you're a workout app then?

1) People are aware that running workouts on the Watch is a big battery hog. Apple makes that pretty clear and it makes sense.

2) Most people don't do enough working out in a day to impact the "all day battery life" 18-hours on average claim.

Clearly with the release of Apple Music streaming is possible, but they are probably being careful with how they design the networking for that feature. I'm curious to see what battery life will be like when streaming on the watch.
We tried that with kolkhoz system in USSR. The results were mixed. It occures to me that responsible, competent and forward-looking management of some resource can happen when that resource is privately owned.
Launch early and iterate!
Many complicated development tasks also require a high level of collaboration -- because there's simply too much for one person to be an expert in all of it.

I'd imagine that most highly-paid engineers are effective at both.
They had root inside a jail, which isn't the same as being root outside the jail. To be able to gain arbitrary code execution in kernel mode from a jail is a security vulnerability.
So the exact same haptics tricks that homebrew folks have been using for years, but with more micronization?

Okay. Sure. But they'd better not cut corners in the security of the handshaking and integration or someone's going to be able to hack your pants and make them buzz forever.
Everyone in this thread is forgetting 1 thing:

PHONE shopping.

Yes. Where you have a phone and call someone to place an order.

Digital switching and the 1800 (nationwide toll free) number developed in the early/mid 1980's I'm sure had an impact here...
Craigslist is a great example of exercising exactly the right amount of restraint in the cost-benefit equation. Most SV startups are subsidized (with attendant inflated expectations) to the point that they can't possibly live up to their valuations.
How would you trigger a remote wipe?
stopped me from innovating though
> punishing the person who's worked to build up some knowledge. ... I disagree that the solution is to let everyone interrupt the one who is trying to get stuff done.

In essence we are talking about training new people and so this opinion seems selfish and unethical with respect to one's obligation to the firm.

The senior person should sacrifice some productivity until the new people are up to speed so that eventually the team has 5 senior people instead of one. If the new people are forced to figure out everything on their own, they might be only 5% as productive as they could be for perhaps their first 1-2 years. If the senior person simply gave up 20% of his time in order to answer questions for the first couple months, these 5 new guys likely would be closer to 80% productivity, representing a huge net gain in aggregate.
Would have been nice if they'd used 3200 memory. Would have boosted threadrippers.

No OC vs OC?
DHTML, the framework!
Those departments aren't responsible for maintaining the infrastructure your company relies on and customers expect to access 24x7.

Having just one person who can manage your ops is like having a single cop and wondering why crime goes up when he's off duty.
>> To me it makes little sense.

It isn't supposed to make sense. it's suppose to reinforce the "you do whatever the police ask you or face the consequences." Apparently the law backs them....
Not sure I understand your point here? Do you mean it's peculiar that the casting technique (if true) was not documented by the builders? Maybe we simply haven't found the evidence (yet).

Please clarify.
Thanks Geoff. I'm happy to answer questions on this topic. However some things are company and situation specific so can't be generalized. Also IANAL!
As does the fact that we now consider "the border" to include anything within 100 miles of the border.
Translations into English have happened in the last few years, which is why I've enjoyed several of his books.
Agreed, I only work on my desktop, my phone is for not essential tasks. But we might be the minority, I’ve seen people use their tablets for Everything