skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is super well written! I've seen a lot of benchmark queries show up on Hacker News, and I think this one is exceptional for calling out and justifying all of its assumptions, then comparing it to other benchmarks and explaining how they might be different. I really appreciate all of that clarity. That academic but easy-to-read style doesn't make for flashy headlines but it's so much more informative.
Another tutorial for writing a Forth interpreter in assembly (Part 3)
Forbes Article about ScriptDrop Token Sale
In countries where you have e.g. gangs they can be worse than that, but if you're in a peaceful country, as a [working] poor, bureaucracy is easy your problem #1.

They can make all your savings disappear for a clerical error, for starters, and you are stretched on time to stay in lines to make things right.
An official WhatsApp app has existed since forever and is actively maintained. You probably mean Snapchat?
Channel 12/13 don't work and 5GHz wifi does not work the last time I tried.

Usually you can make things kind of work, but a lot of things do not properly function 100% out of the box.
I gather that cheap quantum LIDAR[1] is their edge. Anybody care to provide more details ;)?

[1]https://www.quora.com/What-is-a-quantum-LiDAR
The privacy implications of email tracking
MIT Senseable City Lab Director: Flying cars is an impractical idea
Well, they could pull it off to make alternatives to Gmail, Google Maps, Google Play Services, and all the other things. Then they could position themselves as an alternative to the Google Android Platform Agreement or whatever it was called.
We own our registry. That's why we have the images for one project. We install from there.

What we don't do yet is storing a pristine a VirtualBox image for another project. We should start doing that because sometimes building those images requires a surprising amount of work. Bitrot, etc.
That's an interesting use case. You could use the `-l` flag to only list file names that match in combination with `-a` I suppose. That wouldn't let you see the non-binary matched lines though.

In any case, I filed an issue[1]. I think the UX is pretty tricky to get right though.

[1] - https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/issues/631
Less Than Half of Consumers Take Protective Steps
Human behavior being what it is, I don't know why we'd be surprised when people who know the pain of rejection are happy to inflict that pain on others.
Well the problem is, if you don't use an ORM, you'll invent one yourself...only poorly. And new hires will end up taking a ton of time to learn this "custom" orm framework of yours.

And there are many bad, or simply, "too simple" ORMs out there that really don't help you much. I haven't really found one better than Perl's DBIx::Class (though outside of Java, Python, Ruby, I have haven't really looked).

Case in point, I recently found this little gem[0] allowing easy correlated subqueries. I basically took a webpage that was loading in over 2 minutes, and reduced it to about 100ms and the outputted SQL was about 2 pages long (from about half a page of custom resultset orm code). I used several correlated subqueries to sort of pivot part of a table (well several tables actually). The original author of the code I was working on was fetching entire tables of data, with each row fetching (joining) to another entire table (it did this in several levels really) just to sum some values. This was all valid ORM code (even with handy 'if' statements checking every row id to do in ORM join (yes he didn't even use a dang where clause!)) but it showed a true lack of knowledge of the ORM at hand and even SQL in general. Nonetheless, I saved the day :)

[0] https://blog.afoolishmanifesto.com/posts/introducing-dbix-cl...
Good work - thank you :)
Why GoDaddy Promoted 30% More Women This Year
Do people use Windows Media Player anymore? At least, the one Microsoft puts out?

Most people I know use VLC or Media Player Classic with codec packs. And Foobar or some other player for their music. Though it seems most just use Spotify or Youtube now for music.

Which the author points out:
"It is not known if this happens due to a bug or whether Microsoft is removing Windows Media Player by default to promote Store apps like Groove Music."

Which is interesting because Microsoft just caved and finally added Spotify support on their consoles(as they were pushing Grove music).
they're not learned ai, they're built in classical hard coded logic perfected through the years, with lots of domain specific knowledge from the users. that's a much easier way to produce something that does okay than to innovate with a new ai scheme, but importantly it also has no chance of ever beating a player who's at the professional level of play, let alone a top one
Tor Messenger
It's been a couple years since I watched, but isn't Rust an extremely moral character, possibly even more so than Martin Hart? He has a moral code and is driven, to the point of his own self-destruction, by a purpose outside of himself. Nihilism doesn't mean "no believing in metaphysics".

Meanwhile: in what possible way is George Costanza not a nihilist?
Tone-deaf or not, you have to go where the work is. You might have to pick up a laptop and learn to code. Maybe that means uprooting your family and finding new friends. You have to make it work. To not find work is to not survive.
Does anyone know if their zprofiler is in the public domain?
If you feel you have made an actual contribution/extension of existing work I would try contacting the authors to see if they will review your work and potentially co-author something with you?
>It's a quest of mine to understand this subject mathematically.

Good luck. Computer science-types try to do this all the time with music, and it always falls flat.

Typography/visual aesthetics has to be just as hard or harder, considering it's not exactly a linear function underlying visual perception - just take a look at all the different types of optical illusions that exist.
A tangential curiosity, perhaps you can give some insight on a very naive question I've had regarding nonprofits:

You mention re: avalanch of regulatory activity if you try to make money; where does the line get drawn between providing competitive salaries and "making money"? I've always been somewhat curious of the band Non Profits have to operate in to maintain that status vs. what pragmatic benefits it gives. (I realize this is a very broad question, so any "sparknotes" breadcrumb you have would also be welcome)
I dare say the Russian fake news didn't do anything that Fox and Limbaugh and Brietbart haven't been doing for decades.

I'd really like to see some samples of Russian planted news and comments. I wonder if they would even be detectable compared to "normal" stuff the aforementioned organizations produce.
ORMs are a great idea and can save a lot of time and prevent a lot of errors. However, they are not a silver bullet. If you have performance bottlenecks you still need to know SQL and should be looking at the SQL that the ORM generates. There is also a 'mixed-mode' ORM or a lightweight ORM such as Dapper. Dapper allows you to write the queries in SQL but it makes it trivially easy to convert those to actual objects and allow you to parameterize them.
If that happens you increase it, I guess.
Ask HN: How do stop alerts from Facebook (without deleting yourself from it)
We all know how facebook makes it easy to join in, participate, like, message. But how about removing yourself from groups, pages you liked, etc? I just noticed it takes at least 2 clicks (not counting the load-time between clicks) to leave a group or unlike a page.

It's just unethical that they think you don't need confirmation to join something, but you need confirmation to removed yourself from something.

How do you bulk-remove yourself from (unless) groups and pages in Facebook?
How to pick a design agency
In the time of the aspect book and the many small birds, the word piano was the primary means of communication.
But the question then would be: what If I want to pay more for even better care? Why wouldn't I be allowed to? Assuming I would be allowed to (unless there is a law against paying more), then providers should be allowed to deliver it (unless there is a law against better). At that point, some will get worse care than others, and because the line is qualitative (since politicians mostly know nothing about care), then this creates worse care for those who can't pay. It is those who we need to solve for.
I learned here at HN that tobacco is compelling for many people because of the combination of MAOI chemicals and nicotine.

Niacinamide is very similar to nicotine. I've read reports of niacinamide supplementation helping people quit smoking.

There's a cheap blue aquarium chemical that has MAOI properties...
I think you mean 1789, if you're really meaning revolt against the ruling class.

1776 was a rebellion of bankers, wealthy landowners, merchants, and industrialists, against relatively minor tax hikes and slight imposition of oversight on long-neglected possessions...
Github with code samples is more useful thesedays.
It is happening. Hemophilia being cured at Marin Bio [1].

There are a bunch of therapies where Cas9 is being used by to therapeutically knock out or repair particular proteins. Indications currently targeted at Intellia: ATTR, Hepatitis B, AATD, PH-1, etc. [2].

[1] http://investors.biomarin.com/2017-07-11-BioMarins-Investiga...

[2] http://www.intelliatx.com/pipeline/
If you have an HSM in the loop for all authentications, why bother with hashing? Just encrypt the password database with the HSM and be done with it.

There are cheaper ways of keeping secrets secret. Using a TPM on the server would be one way. SGX would be another.
it's not a bug, it's a feature!
Yeah, I won a WOWZAPP competition by making an HTML5 game in 2 days, wrapping it up in a Windows 8 app and publishing it to store. I got a Lumia 800 for it which ran Windows phone 7. When they already had Windows 8 devices out and the competition was to make Windows 8 apps. I still don't know what they expected me to do with this obsolete phone.

That phone was useless to me because there were literally no apps on the Windows 7 store. When I tried to sell it few days later, no one was even willing to consider it and I had to sell it for peanuts.
Yet you do care enough to create a new account just to post this comment, complete with dedicated account name. If you truly don't think it's such a big deal, why post in this way? Why not stand behind your comment with a non-throwaway username?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_HyZ5aW76c
It should, if you find that converted model doesn't work, it is a bug, please file it with PyTorch and/or Caffe2.

Implementation details of course differ between frameworks, but luckily neural networks are very robust to noise. In my experience, changes like using Winograd/Fourier for convolutions, or even running the whole thing in FP16 do not result in noticeable artifacts, and these are among the biggest differences you could have between frameworks.
Sure, it's not 1:1, and I don't think all GMOs are created equal. I'm just saying chasing profits in the short term might have unintended long term consequences that could be avoided in certain situations.
Azure makes some complicated things simple and many simple things complicated.
In their Windows client PureVPN's default setting for a long time was 'No encryption'. The company had some fast servers but technically they were never privacy savvy, far from it.
I really like all these debug and analysis reports coming into HN lately.
I love this idea. I use to work for a "The WordPress of $INDUSTRY" startup and letting people rum their own thing and self brand was very fulfilling work. I think it's important to protect specific categories of small businesses (or simply markets that shouldn't need to be overly centralized) from the growth of underhanded heavy hitting centralized monopolies. I call it AmaZoning when a large player comes in and says "I'm the new middle man".
You can't buy books via Kindle app on iPhone. You have to manually open Safari, go to amazon site and buy a book there. I believe it's exactly because Amazon does not want to give Apple the cut of the book profit.
Office Depot, Best Buy Pull Kaspersky Products from Shelves
Worked on GemFire prior to Pivotal acquisition (before Geode) and currently work for SnappyData.

You can imagine GemFire/Gridgain as an apples-to-apples comparison. Both are "enterprise" in-memory data grids originally intended for managing data in low-latency OLTP applications which later added analytics/OLAP features. Geode/Ignite are the open source options for these two IMDGs and also a good apples-to-apples comparison. (Hazelcast also has enterprise/OSS verisons I would compare accordingly)

I can't speak to the current comparison between these systems, but I can compare them to SnappyData. SnappyData deeply integrates GemFire with Spark to bring high concurrency, high availability and mutability to Spark applications. In the world of combining Spark with a datastore over a connector (cassandra, hive, mysql, mongo etc) to enable "database-like" features in Spark, SnappyData has taken the next step of integration. In Snappy, the database (GemFire) and the Spark executors share the same block manager and VM so the systems no longer communicate over a "connector." This, along with our database optimizations, provides the best performance for Spark applciations in what I like to call the "Spark Database Ecosystem."

As such, comparing SnappyData to GemFire/Hazelcast/Gridgain does not make much sense unless you are trying to use Spark in conjunction with these systems. In that case, the main difference I would point out is that SnappyData will necessarily perform better as any of them would need to use a connector to interact with Spark. The better comparison would be between SnappyData and Ignite, as Ignite contains a direct Spark abstraction called "IgniteRDD." That said, the majority of the comparisons/benchmarks we've run have been against MemSQL+Spark and Cassandra+Spark, so I don't have much to say about Ignite vs SnappyData.

User manigandham mentions SnappyData's Approximate Query Processing features (called Synopses Data Engine) which is unique within this space, but a discussion of which would take this too far afield.
Might have some interesting comments. https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/45191/is-it-pos...
Online-money exchanger rating
I'm not sure that you are in touch with the average person if you truly believe that. Because I'm just not seeing the same thing.

The people I talk to (which admittedly are people 35+ or kids, just due to where I am in life) couldn't care less about iPhones, social media, or SV. They don't actively hate it either... they just don't care. They have their own lives, which mostly revolve around their own family, friends and work. And tech exists as tools, sometimes toys, but not the focus of our lives. You are right that we aren't out laughing at mistaken funding choices. Because we aren't noticing.
"Thoughtfully, Fast Company asked McDonald about that. He replied, “We did surveys in the Latin American community to understand if they felt the name was a misappropriation of that term or had negative connotations, and 97% said ‘no’.”" (https://www.eater.com/2017/9/13/16302386/bodega-startup-corn...)
If the title has an anti corporate slant, especially FB/Google, it will continue to be upvoted on HN regardless of actual content
I'm just saying that the creativity usually is separated from the actual act of preparing a dish in a professional kitchen, robots or not. It lies in the receipt, good techniques, ingredient selection and sourcing. The creative part will always stay in the domain of skilled and experienced humans, no doubt about it.

Mastering a technique might mean constant adoption to changing ingredients and parameters, temperatures, timing etc. That is not fundamentally impossible to teach to a robot.

Massive knowledge, excellent sensory inputs of all kinds, precision motor skills etc are not creativity. Certainly there is a long way for robots to improve before they can handle what a human is able to. But I have no doubt that they will get there sooner or later.
Original iPhone didn't have 3G, which many definitely considered to be a huge flaw. It also didn't have native applications.
What Sephora Knows About Women in Tech
Lock free systems are often worth the effort. A classic example is the operating system thesis done by Henry Masslin. http://web.cecs.pdx.edu/~walpole/class/cs510/papers/06.pdf
Challenging Founder’s Fund/Peter Thiel’s Motto
> The secret key (“cryptographic toxic waste”) generated during this phase can be used to steal money - currently in the form of creating counterfeit coins, stealing from everyone collectively.

> As one of those participants, here’s my account of what I did to ensure that secret was destroyed.

Regardless of what he did or did not do to destroy this secret, doesn’t this make ZCash inherently non-trustless? If we trust that these people are honest, why not just have them sign messages with their keys to resolve double-spends, rather than build an elaborate system on top of this trust?

In other words, the ZCash crypto might be trustless itself, but if it’s employed on top of a base that requires trust, what’s the point in the first place? The weakest link is at the base.

“If you just trust me, I have some really cool trustless crypto to show you”
Nobel goes to a man who can explain why Americans overeat and pile up debt
People would just stop using Office then. Google has seriously eroded Microsoft’s dominance here — I’ve worked at a few major companies who have switched and Google is a far more cloud-native solution. It’s honestly more intuitive to the workers that we’re hiring.

Microsoft’s Office leverage is gone. If they try to use it as a hammer in defense of their platform, their market share will drop. Their only option now is to try to increase the platform buy-in again.
Sorry, my information was out of date since I switched projects a while ago. Supporting all M+ phones was the original plan, but after observing some severe bluetooth audio bugs on certain phones, the team decided to support Pixel only for now to derisk the launch.
Edible Gelatin Robots That Can Function Inside Your Body
Every time I buy a new computer I find the old hard disk fits in its entirety on the new one, leaving me with plenty of space to spare. I think I have four or five generations nested into the current one.

I suspect storage will remain cheap enough most of these artifacts will survive, but it's going to be very difficult for future researchers to get a good idea of what 21st century life was like because the crap to content ratio is so high. Sorting through all those kitten videos and posts hardly anyone reads today will probably be more expensive and time consuming than it's worth.
> Growing wealth inequality in the United States in the last twenty years was caused mostly by globalisation

Which is caused by two major factors: easier shipping, easier communication--both of which the tech sector encourages, facilitates, and pushes forward. And yes, automation is a nontrivial part of wealth inequality's growth, especially over the last ten years rather than twenty--you don't move a secretary's job elsewhere, you destroy it. Capital requires fewer hands than ever before and enables further centralization of that capital--and this is direct fallout of automation making workers superfluous.
> How about taking a look at DC, Virginia, and NYC, where the real power is?

Uh, SV is an area with a concentration of power, money, and influence as well. Think of the incredibly influential power a company like Google could have on a democracy. Think of how they are trying to shape popular culture to suit their needs. If you don't think it is powerful, then spend some time in rural Arkansas and see what a stark contrast there is.

If inequality triggers a war, then it will be a war against the rich. It wouldn't be a matter of creating change, it would be about getting screwed by the rich so they can make more money off of us.
If they don't care about internal company information landing in the hands of Google.
Cold Sales Robot – The new employee for your company
Sure, ideally everyone gets well-paid, fulfilling jobs...

So, when do we start talking about practical solutions?
Oh right, I use the keyboard cursor movement all the time.

Haven't found a single other place where it does anything I find useful.
Instead of basic income wouldn't it make sense to have some sort of basic "lifestyle" provided by government. Out of the box you get a very small government built apartment (no rent or utility bills, all part of the package), vouchers for 3 meals per day (government run canteens in these government apartment buildings), free healthcare and education also provided by the government.

So you would get all these basic necessities as part of the basic government program. To actually make any money to buy nicer things (car, bigger apartment or house), you'd need to find a job.

This would make sense as the basic income would not work as free market would adjust and increase prices as reaction to the new source of free money to spend available every month for everybody.
E-readers save you the time it would have taken to manage the inconvenience of handling physical books.

The time spent acquiring, storing, and carrying physical books adds up a lot faster than managing digital materials.
Route-less HTTP services in Scala
> People generally do love Silicon Valley and what it creates. It’s the media that doesn’t.

Befuddled by the Pinocchio Press again!
anyone can upload to arxiv.org.

I, and many others, regard single-author publications with a higher degree of suspicion, so you should still reach out to other researchers in the area and foster collaborations first.
> For these researchers, incredibly, enjoyment is not the primary reason why we play video games. Enjoyment is not the primary motivation—“it is rather,” they wrote, “the result of satisfaction of basic needs.”

Isn't this just the definition of enjoyment? Satisfying basic needs is the only reason anybody does anything.
UBI is the answer when you believe that all economic productivity must come from the US coasts.

This is a failure of a common way presenting the UBI as "you should be able to have a comfortable life without working", which is both economically infeasible and not actually desirable. A UBI, at least in the form that I support, isn't something that you should be happy to live off of indefinitely, it's just better protection against homelessness and hunger than our current convoluted welfare systems. The expectation should still be that you'll find something productive to do, and a UBI incentivizes that because it avoids the welfare trap of losing a dollar in benefits for every dollar you earn.
Teachers who leave Oklahoma make $19,000 more
What do you guys think, use or dont use? For me, i just switched to Kaspersky.