skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Slightly more recent, smaller (pi zero like form) http://wiki.friendlyarm.com/wiki/index.php/NanoPi_Duo

something like 9$ (shipping included)
exxon has a hell of a lot more power than one single individual. also barring some wild off-the-grid alt lifestyle pretty much everyone relies on fossil fuels
Even if, it'd be a net win for two reasons:

- big power plants are much more efficient than internal combustion engines, especially as the latter are operated over wide range of speeds

- it's much easier and cheaper to put emission capture tech on a power plant chimney than to put it in cars
How JavaScript differ from the rest of the world
Answer this: What is harder, CRUD-apps or building a OS?

I like how this totally get it:

Tao of Programming 3.3
http://www.mit.edu/~xela/tao.html

There was once a programmer who was attached to the court of the warlord of Wu. The warlord asked the programmer: "Which is easier to design: an accounting package or an operating system?"

"An operating system," replied the programmer.

The warlord uttered an exclamation of disbelief. "Surely an accounting package is trivial next to the complexity of an operating system," he said.

"Not so," said the programmer, "When designing an accounting package, the programmer operates as a mediator between people having different ideas: how it must operate, how its reports must appear, and how it must conform to the tax laws. By contrast, an operating system is not limited by outside appearances. When designing an operating system, the programmer seeks the simplest harmony between machine and ideas. This is why an operating system is easier to design."

that was posted early here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15063511
Given that the discussion is a research proposal to test basic income as a concept, rather than focus your comment on dismissing the concept of basic income (which it's worth noting is totally fine to do but isn't relevant to the thread), why not propose changes to refine the study so that it may more effectively assess whether basic income is viable?
People not being able to pay rent? They should simply buy property instead!

Germany is traditionally a country with low personal wealth, low homeownership rates. On the other hand renting is relatively cheap. Most people simply cannot afford to buy property. Already in Nürnberg, which is the second biggest metropolitan area in Bavaria after Munich where the housing prices are around half of that of Munich people with normal wages struggle to be able to acquire a home.
Ask HN: Would a product feed in your app help you? (Startup idea validation)
I'm really interested in the problem of delivering personalized product feeds in Mobile and web apps to customers as part of my startup. I was considering starting with giving the ability for developers to drop in a code snippet, allowing users to customize what they want to see, and an easy way to publish new feed items.

I'm wondering would you use it? (why or why not)

If it would be a product you would consider paying for?

Thanks so much!
Isn't just the title of this Hacker News entry and the connection with the book a massive spoiler? Could argue it got me intrigued, but wondering what Stephenson intended. (I always wonder about not putting spoilers in movie trailers for instance)
At this point I'm still betting the mass lynching of programmers (because of job loss due to automation) will happen sooner.
There's this framework for the PRUs that came out recently but haven't tried it

https://github.com/nesl/Cyclops-PRU
It's better to lose yourself, IMO. I've been most productive when working with product managers who delivered crystal clear user stories and precisely ordered priorities and took pressure off me having to deal with "that side" of the business.

If I have to deal with ambiguous specifications, vague priorities and to fill in the gaps I need to start modeling the business's needs, operational structure and priorities in order to make appropriate decisions then that means I have fewer cognitive resources to deal with the actual coding.

i.e. it's not just code that needs to be loosely coupled, it's businesses.
The beaglebone black or green would be a more practical portable computer. It has usb ports, hmdi out and supports debian and ubuntu. This looks like a shrunk down version of the black but missing the convenience of hdmi out and usb ports
I don't notice any typing latency on Slack and I'm usually pretty sensitive to it. That said, Atom with a bunch of plugins can chug a little.
While the suggested workout may be backed by science, there doesn't appear to be anything "scientific" about the method used here. Diet alone could have been the sole contributor for any difference in his body composition over the 30 days. Water retention based on his food choices is another factor. If he wanted to actually prove something with this, he should have tracked his measurements and diet.
The linked post literally talks about what happens in the book and says that it's half about orbital-mechanics so not sure how that's not a spoiler
> The way that question was worded was a straw man. I’m referring to a general principle regarding transfer payments. They’re usually more simple ways to reach a desired outcome than alternatives.

Yes, and I'm explaining that that statement isn't true (in the sense of consensus among economists) in any way that is applicable to public policies. Certainly not this one, because that's explicitly not a dichotomy being proposed - there's no tradeoff being proposed between the $1000 stipend and all of the other forms of public assistance that the participants could be or are receiving.

It's only true (in the sense of consensus) on a micro level, looking at the value to an individual of cash vs. in-kind payments, ignoring secondary factors, ignoring externalities, and ignoring positive or negative feedback. That's not a relevant framework when discussing public policy.
>IBM Canada was the only company to bid on the government's pay modernization project

If only ONE company bid on your project, then you honestly need to rethink it. Does the government really believe that IBM was the only company interested?

Any project that only receive one bid should be cancelled and rethought. If your payroll regulation is so complex that only one company wants to bid, then maybe you should address that issue first.

Governments are in many cases completely clueless about software and believe it's some magical sauce that once applied correctly will make up for poorly thought out and overly complex regulations introduced by the politicians. They fail to understand that the developers are required to understand the rules and procedures before they're able to implement them correctly.
I imagine the only reason Apple Maps is worse than Google Maps is because the community around Google Maps has been updating it consistently for over a decade.

Apple maps transit experience is, in my opinion, much more carefully though out than Google's, so I know they can do something with the right information.
cute one
That's strange. Vim and tmux work fine for me on MacOS.
Not to mention that the terms in the contract do not cover all retention and usage policies of the data. The terms are vague.
The bigger problem I see is it incentivizes them never to come forward, or to massively downplay an attack. I guess if the damage is small enough and the penalties for nondisclosure astronomical enough (or that pierce the corporate veil), it could still work though.
Yeah, it's not great, but it's at least back to being kind of uplifting sci-fi. I would have been happier with a book that was a more developed 'future world' with a few flashbacks to the big disaster, rather than dwelling on it. If I want to contemplate death and destruction, there's plenty of that in the real world.
I think the plane change would be small, since the velocity change experienced by the fragments would be small compared to the orbital speed. For empirical support of this idea, consider Saturn.
Check out the OrangePi Zero series too. They're comparable to the NanoPi Neo and NanoPi Neo Air in size and features, but seem to land in mainline u-boot and Linux a bit more quickly.
Samsung phones does have a lot more features. But iPhone is generally more polished and well thought out for general use cases imo. But "best" is highly subjective. Objectively, iPhones have faster processors and likely smoother animations overall, while Android is more flexibile.
My guess on how it will turn out:

1. People given Basic income and minimal addictions will fair best
2. People without basic income and minimal addictions will
fair second best
2. People without basic income and addictions will
fair third best(drugs, major alcohol, internet/game)

4. People given basic income and addictions will fair worst(drugs, major alcohol, internet/game)

I'm probably completely wrong. 3 and 4 could be switched in which case Basic income would be always better.

My general premise is giving people with a strong addiction money without some kind of life structure is a bad idea.

Please don't down vote me if you disagree. Please just comment on how you disagree.
Beautiful. Can’t wait to get Nerves running on one (or several)!
Cross-posting a comment I made 7 years ago when NYC had their $600 million payroll project blow up: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2716319
On Anonymity: Poe Toasters and Toynbee Tiles
This assumes people will enjoy a 5 year vacation though. In Norway if you're chronically disabled you can apply for something that seems very similar to basic income. I'm in that system and in my experience most of the people I know in this system are bored. It could be because all their friends are working so it's difficult to meet new people, there's also that this system is for disabled people and people with mental issues could find it difficult to meet other people, etc.

I remember working somewhere where I was being tested before getting into this system and I met plenty who said they were heavily advised not to go back to work by their doctors. They want to do /something/ because being at home watching TV gets boring after half a year. So they were sent to that place in the meantime. I have other friends who are in this system who end up working in charity somewhere.

But most of my friends i met in this system ended up finding a job, despite being promised permanent "universal income".

In the past if you tried to work somewhere while being in this system, and it worked but you got sick again you'd have to reapply (which is a very long process) but now it's changed so it acts more as a safety net in case working somewhere doesn't work out for your health. I've heard this is to encourage people to work and I've heard (from the people who work in the system) that it's successful so far.
This example doesn't do the entire numba project justice, but if you've ever written a for-loop in a bit of python code that does number crunching, you'll notice how much it slows everything down, and the numba jit provides a decorator that yields an extremely quick win to get often 1-2 orders of magnitude of improvement in calculation time. It's less of a win if you're only every working with already vectorised data structures and algorithms.

I was confused by your comment though, specifically the idea that you are using tensorflow because you 'mostly work with simple data that doesn't require complicated calculations'. This seems very contradictory. Have I misunderstood?
IIRC, there is a law/policy that the Secret Service has to pay the going rate for any accommodations or services they consume from businesses (which Trump's properties are).
Ideally, I'd have several separate threads each with fine grained (table-level, maybe even row-level with deferred index updating) control on reading and writing. I admit that I haven't gone sufficiently down this path to know exactly what I'd want though, as it isn't the top priority right now. (We are "fast enough" without concurrency, ... for now.)
I'm not sure I would consider the further cultivation of his megalomania and messianic complex a huge change.
These type of libraries are cool for small and non-complicated things. None of them can compete with the expressiveness of SQL, as it is based in relational algebra.
>>I can't tell if you're actually advocating...

I'm just being silly, mostly. I don't the answers.

I have been involved with legislation a little though, and quite a lot with “regulations” (in the regulated industries sense).

The 5 year old defence holds water in a surprising number of cases. The problem of definitions in law is real, and kind of reminiscent of the problem of specifications in software.

For example, defining “allowable uses” is tricky because determining intent is (notoriously) tricky in law.

Legislation is a tool. It has lots of hangups, a legacy from thousands of years of history. It’s not always the best tool for the job. I’m not an anarchist, I just feel we’re get more milage from better browser behaviour and defaults than laws in this particular instance.
False Choices in American Transportation
That's pretty interesting; I wonder how it compares to other, similar systems.
The whole point about Basic Income (at least the unconditional ly one) is that there are not going to be any jobs (or very few and only for highly talented people).

If there are no jobs, it will be because we designed it that way, not because it was inevitable. Tech giants proposing basic income as the solution to their lazy lack of desire to figure out how to better distribute work tell glowing stories of how lovely it will be for low paid workers to get this extra money. They never actually explore the scenario they are actually proposing that all you get is $10k-$20k and you have little or no hope of getting a job at all ever again.

That would be a dystopian nightmare and I think it is likely to end in bloody revolution.

Lots of hopeless people with nothing but time on their hands who are being completely fucked over by the system with no way out of this black hole but just enough money to keep eating well, even if they are living in a tent, sounds like a recipe for creating a well trained guerrilla army.
Ok, what then, Technology? None of the other handset makers are even close. 3D face recognition, computational photography, augmented reality, health, CPUs, security, privacy,display and build quality, App ecosystem. They're ahead of the pack across the board. The new multitasking, drag-and-drop and inter-app communications stuff in iOS 11 is so far ahead of Android it's almost cheating.
Will you put this html5 version on your github?
I AM NOT A LAWYER.

THIS IS NOT LEGAL ADVICE.

The problems with public domain dedication across jurisdictional lines, as I understand them, are:

1. Users (who are aware of how the law works, in general terms) in a country that doesn't recognize a right to relinquish copyright to the public domain will be afraid of getting sued, so they won't use the software. It might as well not be open source for them.

2. Contributors to your public domain software from those countries are not allowed to relinquish copyright in their works to the public domain, and as a result you're actually accepting work under copyright into your otherwise-public-domain software, which means it's not really public domain software any longer, because of mutual copyright observance agreements between those countries. Thus, for instance, because the US recognizes German copyrights, and Germany doesn't allow dedication of copyrightable works to the public domain, a German contributing code to a public domain work in the US actually contaminates the public domain work with code covered by copyright, thus making it no longer a (pure) public domain work, even in the US, because of US recognition of German copyrights.

If the German in the above example actually transfers the copyright to you, then YOU dedicate the work to the public domain, that might work. I'm just guessing, though, and I'm pretty sure it would require some explicit legally binding (and provable) statements about transferring copyright to you.
> An Unix socket has something like 1ns.

That seems implausible, given that you're lucky to get a context switch down to 1µs if the cache gods smile on you.
Thank you for this and previous articles, your blog is my favorite technical blog online. It's a great mix of technical detail and entertainment, and it's always impressive.
Derinkuyu: Turkey’s Underground City
This is pretty classic nuisance extortion through the courts. What were the oil companies meant to do in order to avoid this lawsuit? Shut down their entire businesses? So that instead Oakland could sue the new oil companies that would inevitably spring up, since our entire civilization still runs on the stuff?

Also, though the article doesn't say it outright, it looks as if there's not even given any evidence of current damages, just hundred-year-out projections. (And the record of long-term predictions in this domain is certainly not precise enough to base legal arguments on.) So they're meant to pay now for hypothetical damages that may happen later, as punishment for providing the energy that runs our whole society. Okay?
I wrote my comment vaguely on purpose, but 19 hours later: yes, I meant touchscreen as primitive input mechanisms, compared to a mouse pointer.
If you're getting a basic income, presumably you buy health insurance with it, right?
My bias is that inherited wealth passed down down through the traditional family structure remains the greatest guarantor of multi-generational financial prosperity and stability. Even a single member of your immediate extended family attaining professional status as Doctor or Lawyer results in a higher probability of entry to the middle class for the entire family than any other indicator.

The big question proponents of Universal Basic Income must answer is: does direct stimulus of aggregate demand result in real growth? Is risk de-incentivized when a labor market participant is not required to work for marginal increases in "happiness"?

Taking our current central bankers experiments with quantitative easing (and now, perhaps, quantitative tightening) as a proxy for injecting liquidity into the system I think there is at least one evident result: bubbles forming in even the unlikeliest of places.

In any case, full support for YC's experiment and can't wait to see the data and results. Best of Luck and thanks for your vision and efforts!
Syncthing – Open Source Continuous File Synchronization
> 9. Don't drink the alcohol, even when it's free

For me it's the opposite. I always liked flying, but airport bars and in-flight drinks took the cake. A lot of these are personal preferences one has to figure out.

For example, to No. 8, I've learned I cannot do red eyes over land, particularly if I'm window. I get distracted by the speckles of passing cities, fantasizing about my 737 being a superluminal spacecraft, and refuse to fall asleep.

Or, to seating. I like watching the ailerons and gentle wobble of the wing and plane, as the plane rises, slows down from its fight with gravity, loses lift, falls, thereby gaining velocity before stabilizing and rising again. Or as the plane gently arcs, side to side, by enormous distances that you can't feel but will observe if you look carefully. Consequently, exit rows--from which the wing occludes one's view--bore me. (Which is a plus if I plan on getting work done.)
> I wonder what this says about AI in the future, since you can imagine that as AI becomes more powerful, it starts to make inferences that aren't explicit, and discovers connections that aren't obvious.

That's why we should invest more in AI interpretability. I heard some famous researchers saying that it's not important, but for these reasons it actually is.
Thanks, that's good advice. This happened in 2004, and back then I just wasn't as up on this stuff. If it happened now, I'd definitely approach the situation much better.
for all the reasons many explained below I want to add into the conversation. there is nothing completely off the shelf for a large organization. now I would have expected a city wide payroll system would be easier to manage but that obviously wasn't the case.

we converted JDE to Peoplesoft AR/AP and there are still those who refuse to let us turn off the older systems. all its tables are maintained and even parallel runs are done for verification. all because out of the box isn't going to fix every organizations tweaks and needed changed to the particular business they are in; hint the burden or government regulation and tax law easily explains this.

now, not in IBM's defense, one thing I have as a take a away from being on a contract to convert from one system to another about twenty years ago looked pretty simple. then came the data inconsistencies, the sheer number of exceptions of which many were known but only to a few, and finally resistance to the new software.
Thought you meant you were Neal Stephenson for a second!

Quick question: If I haven't read the book, but want to, are there any spoilers in the article?
EV's are still more efficient and less polluting.

http://www.latimes.com/business/autos/la-fi-hy-ucs-electric-...

The power from the grid can be made cleaner too by increasing usage of renewable energy.
Testing Node and Express with TypeScript, Mocha, Chai and Sinon.js
Yes, the AI example was not very good.

In Montreal, we have tons of AI people here - their code is sometimes a nightmare. They are AI guys, 'code' to them is like 'mathlab'. Fortunately, it's surprisingly not a lot of code.

But the general point stands: it depends what you're doing.

Developing frameworks is a good example: you generally want experienced people who have 'seen it, done it, been there' and have the 'wisdom' of that - plus - hopefully, an ability to actually 'get stuff done'. Doing 'new' is hard.

But 'in general' I think the post makes sense: 95% of companies need 'professional, thoughtful, collaborators' who can take mildly complex problems, write clean, safe, simple code, document, test, release and move on ...
Looks interesting thanks

http://nerves-project.org/

https://github.com/nerves-project/nerves
> jarmitage: if you're interested in making ultra low latency (as low as 80us) embedded musical instruments, check out Bela http://bela.io

> tyingq: The pair of PRUs in the Beaglebone black is a large part of it.

source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15121720 (Aug 2017)
Everything in the title and the linked article happens or is described in the first chapter of the book. It's effectively the premise of the book. No reading experience of the book should be disturbed by this.
It's pretty common to discuss creative works in a useful and productive way without spoilers. Just about any worthwhile movie or book review pulls it off.

In fact, you are commenting on an article discussing a work which has no spoilers for that work, so case in point right there.
Like putting the club on your car's steering wheel.
Yep, basic consumer staple price inflation is something I never see addressed with any satisfaction when people are talking about UBI. Housing prices and rent will assuredly rise proportionally to the basic income amount if this were to be implemented nationally, so wouldn't pumping all this money in basically just have the effect of increasing inequality?
Agile tour Paris 2016 by a product owner
Huawei takes aim at Apple with the launch of 'Real AI phone' next month
Isn't this already in java 8? As of update 20 you can set -XX:+UseStringDeduplication if you are using the new -XX:+UseG1GC garbage collector.
Thank you so much for your great work! This is exactly the kind of post I visit HN for!
Collection of generative adversarial networks(GANs) implemented in Pytorch