skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks - that's largely been my thought process as well as I think things over. I just want to make sure that if I do pass, I maintain a good relationship with the company to keep future opportunities open. I've never actually declined an offer before, so it's all new territory for me.
Yeah, that's what troubles me. My current Thinkpad has NVidia and is working reasonably well using the proprietary drivers, but I know support has been hit or miss over the years with various chips. There was a time when I was unable to upgrade my OS for several years until I decided to get a new laptop, because the updated driver dropped support for my chip, and the old driver wouldn't work with the updated OS.
Limit Internet access until your child makes progress on educational sites
If the $100 is a barrier of entry for you, I'm willing to purchase for the course for you. No one should ever feel that an education should be out of reach. Email me at Abe@Mamo.io and take me up on it.
In my experience, the amount of data many applications are expected to access is growing geometrically, while RAM costs are declining only arithmetically. There certainly are in-memory use cases, but for most use cases it is not now (and probably won't become) economical.
There were a lot of weird small vending machines in Austria too, like on some random street corner, you'd find a gumball machine. Stuff like this:

http://l7.alamy.com/zooms/48c88dd9aea741de95fec46fd33f47be/g...

I never really figured that one out.
https://historio.us/referrals/MTExNTM5MjAg/
Thank you for answering my question. I understand what it is now.

Congrats on the launch and good luck!
Isn't he a straight up monarchist?
Animals certainly don't care about your inner mental processes. They can only experience consequences of your actions. So your first sentence seems quite meaningless.
> If they had to act, they should have immediately given the piglets to the (a) farm’s management or (b) police.

You know very well yourself that this would not have been a good idea at all if their goal was to help the mistreated piglets and bring wider awareness for the farming practices.
One of the most-common complaints that I see about Apple is that they have allowed macOS' quality to steadily decline and the most-common speculation has been that this declination in quality is because macOS makes Apple less money than iOS.

The iOS-using products are Apple's cash cow. It does make sense that they'd prioritize working on iOS. However, what doesn't make sense is that Apple certainly has enough resources to work on both OSes. It's not like they don't have enough money to hire good developers.

That is the complaint, however. It makes some sense, except that Apple could easily afford to invest in both macOS and iOS.
The conversation ends up being "is is shitty? yeah its shitty. fuck it." which is the exact state of being that led to trump being elected.
I think the key to teaching chess is to gasp deliberately lose to the kid a few times. In my experience at the age of 5 I lost (in my recollection) about five times in a row and then lost interest, only to regain interest in my 30s. Not sour grapes at all, just food for thought.
The entire argument he was responding to defined the problem as a moral one.

I think the staggering amount of meat products consumed daily speaks for itself - animal rights isn’t exactly a new concept.
I have been using ixl.com with my 5 year daughter. We have fun solving it together. She always clap when she reaches challenge zone and receives awards. Not really a game but fun way to learn basic Math. Very highly recommend it for kids.
I’m afraid I don’t. I saw a documentary on NHK about it, but they’re unfortunately bad about distributing their content outside Japan.
9000 words that (I assume) explain that a provocative troll is... what?

Nazism isn't mainstream, everyone online talks about punching Nazis. Every "Nazi rally" has an even larger counter-rally attached to it.

And this isn't even discounting the fact that almost everything is called Nazism now days. I've been called a Nazi because I support a generous humanitarian refugee intake, but think illegal immigrants with no valid refugee claim shouldn't be allowed to stay.
It’s probably not your dream job, but SV is a unique place filled with dreamers. It’s hard to replicate the experience anywhere else.
Yes, technically: crime is about the action, not the victims.
A little random but I thought some of you might want to know what the stores were that were next to the vending machines in the photos.

Pictures:

1. Alcohol and food store

2. No store

3. No store

4. Alcohol store

5. Eel restaurant

6. No store

7. Egg vending store (direct from farmer)

8. Rice polishing vending machine (turns brown rice in to white)

9. No store

10. Sightseeing ferry office/shop

11. Apple store (actually name of company but they import brand name products)

12. No store

That's obviously only a small sample but as someone who lives in Japan I can tell you that usually where there are alcohol stores, there are vending machines. Of course there are other places they are too, but in my experience, it's rare to find one without vending machines.
Though if he hadn't used the phone, how did he notice that it had not been behaving properly?

Even if it was not used for official white house business, it is possible that it was tracking his location, or potentially even listening in or taking photos, depending on what the hack was capable of.
"Our daily bread" is particularly interesting.
They try to show an unbiased perspective, by no adding a narrator, or music. Just showing the process step by step.

The scene with the chicken vacuum in the warehouse explains what "cage free" chicken really means. I think it's rather misleading...
> a blatant act of animal torture.

If a German veterinarian would do this, he'd instantly lose his license, and the cops who "supervised" this would be under investigation for dereliction of duty.

There is so much that has gone wrong in this case, on all levels from the cops over a judge who actually authorized the warrant to the "veterinarians".
Depends on what you're doing. With video or 3D work, 64GB can often be a bottleneck. With After Effects and Maya rendering we've gone over our 96GB RAM limit using dual Xeon 6-core (i.e. 24 logical) on multiple occasions, especially rendering 4K+ scenes, forcing us to set limits on RAM/thread usage. I want to upgrade them to 128GB but getting bigger ECC RAM sticks in Austria (and EU in general) was (and still is) difficult and stupidly expensive.
Because you still need some kind of food to replace that meat with?

The point being that not all foods are ethically made. It's not as easy as meat == always the only immoral food choice and not-meat == always good. By reducing meat consumption, if you replace it with other non ethically sourced foods, are yo really helping? And if those new foods take advantage of human workers and slavery, is that better than an animal's suffering?

They aren't saying "Well plants can also be bad, so just stick with meat." It's "if you switch blindly without any research, you may actually ending causing more suffering for people and animals in the world than if you had stuck with meat."

Edit since I can't reply to posts below mine. It's not just about calories. I really think this sentence was overlooked from the parent post way up:

"What is more moral, eating a steak from a cow that was killed for its meat by decently paid, respected workers - or - eating a chocolate bar made with palm oil whose products were farmed using slave and child labor?"

Research conditions of cacao workers if you think this example is a joke or being made up.
Active speakers for studio use?

https://www.thomann.de/gb/topseller_GF_studio_monitors.html

Take your pick - so much choice for good speakers these days. Your room will be a larger factor in the sound than any difference between two decent pairs of speakers (of same size).
My impression was always that Maxis/EA were very aggressive legally against anyone else publishing games with "SimX"- style titles.

Is this not the case? Or maybe they're not as aggressive on this front as they used to be?
Nice article. I agree with the strategy. No matter how clever the OS is in general, it cannot be more clever than a well designed db kernel.

A little off topic, but I have been waiting over a decade for Linux to merge all async waiting into one system call.

Wouldn't it be nice if there was a kqueue system call in posix? It would then force Linux to finally implement it.
Just quoting CNN, NPR, etc.

The Puerto Rico Federal Affairs Administration tells NPR that the government is working with the truck driver's union to find a solution for driving with downed power lines and damaged roads, and the Department of Defense says it has sent teams to work on clearing blocked streets.

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/09/28/554297787/...
> particular cultural elements make vending machines seem so successful in Japan

Not being vandalized is mentioned in the article.

People in Italy were always kind of surprised to hear about US newspaper machines - the ones where you put in some coins - and you can take out as many newspapers as you want, essentially. They'd joke that people would regularly take them all in Italy, and in Naples they'd probably just haul off the whole machine, change, newspapers and all.
But "social media" was were you'd go to for all the unsubstantiated rumors back then. For the most part the news channels that day were sticking with the facts and weren't spending much time with rumors or speculation. I seems like the roles have flipped in the intervening years, for major events news sites are 90% wild speculation and reaction videos and slashdot-esque sites moderate better information to the top.
Yes. The post above was just dark enlightenment nonsense.
Facebook must kill its news feed. Democracy depends on it
I'm just saying I based my judgement on the content before, but having seen others dig through other posters' comment history to find pro-Russia patterns gives me pause now.

And even if it is still just about content, it's a lot easier to spread BS than it is to refute it.

> This idea that the Russian government spends its time/money trying to influence US politics by posting to Hacker News of all places should fail any basic test of common sense and logic. But it's so tempting to believe in this conspiracy theory, because then difficult questions like "why did Trump win" and "why do people hate Hillary so much" and "are there Trump supporters in my own circle of friends and family" can all be ignored. It's not really America, it's actually some vast subtle manipulation by a foreign government! And if anyone questions the unreliability of US intelligence, that's just more proof that it's really happening!

I am not totally disconnected from people who support Trump, unlike the stereotypical liberal coastal megalopolis dweller. But it seems pretty clear at this point that Russia has, and is continuing to, sow dissent in America. Not by hacking election machines or anything clearly aggressive, but by thousands of twitter, disquss, and facebook troll accounts. I do not ignore any "difficult" questions because of it.
Same in Finland. Lots of people who have no intention of going full vegetarian have nonetheless added meat-free dishes and locally, ethically produced meat for their diets.
Do you have an amplifier, or do you need internally-amped speakers?
Wow this is amazing, thank you for the link. I never knew about this.
I agree. It's not like our field is the only one with this problem, though. Take a look at professional football (soccer). There are a few teams that do not have an extensive youth program, but they pay through the nose for that oversight. Virtually every dominant team develops talent and secures them with good contracts. Of course, they have an incentive because they can sell players, which is unfortunately where the analogy breaks down.
Hurricane Damage in Puerto Rico Leads to Fears of Drug Shortages Nationwide
so another cryptocoin fork
I know it might be hard for you to understand, but some people gasp are able to abstain from eating meat even though they enjoy it. Maybe it's not just due to the moral argument, but a lot of times it is a large player. For myself, I have gone plant based for my health first and foremost, which is a common thread I find among fellow vegans. It is certainly still important to make morality important. I think your assumption that people can't overcome their desires for a greater good leaves a cavernous amount of room for people to surprise you. I'm not sure that's such a bad thing, either.
Getting into Other People's Code
It is clear to me.

It is hard to explain without attracting the attention of the moderators. I'm not sure it's possible to even talk about it without offending somebody, but fortunately I'm gradually losing the will to care.

A simple example would be this recent shooting in Las Vegas. Now: the fact is that this number of people die on a regular basis in certain cities, making it Vegas x 1000, but it doesn't attract uproar or congressional investigations.

Why not?

Another example would be the problem with certain gangs in the UK. I lived there for years and never realized the scale of it. It's not that the media doesn't report events, it's that we don't live in a world where posters line the streets saying "Watch out for Pakistani pedophiles". The media works very hard to tell us everything and nothing by neglecting to join up obvious dots.

We easily could live in a world of right wing witch hunts.

But we don't.

This is because the exact contours of the arguments that would be lost by one side are being routinely ignored.

Most of the public, especially the younger generations live in an unreality. Once you're old enough you become aware that the information streams are badly lopsided.
Nope, different. Many of those pictures have vending machines sitting outside neighborhood mom-and-pop stores. From my experience living in Japan, those machines are most likely owned/leased by the owner of the store, who stocks them and collects the profits. They function as a labor-saving device for high-trafficked items and a way to sell during off-hours.

My understanding of Bodega is that they want to replace the mom-and-pop store with a centralized vertically-integrated company (theirs).
The article both covers your point and goes beyond it. Did you read it before posting?
Apple doesn't allow 3rd party render engines in iOS. Everything uses same the same webkit engine Safari for iOS uses, including Chrome.

No way around it.
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It's the one thing I can't talk about publicly, as much as I'd really, really love to. All I can really say is that we're in the process of securing the trademark right now; and we definitely obtained counsel's advice, far before deciding on & moving forward with the name. =)
This is physics, not just maths, but the logic is interesting to all ages.

Why do you need a seatbelt in a car but not on a train?

The heavier mass of the train means the force to you is smaller, so you're less likely to get thrown as far forwards.

(I just explained this to my girlfriend when she asked on the train. Thanks, engineering degree.)
And this is exactly why I hate trendy buzzwords, especially when they involve fields that are large, complex, and been around forever. The Dunning-Kruger effect is running at 11 here.

Assuming that there’s a single “AI” technology that’s used and widely applicable is deeply flawed, as is the idea that all of googles computational power for such a peacock-oriented game can make its way into a query planner. It’s already the case that Postgres is based on genetic algorithms, so it’s already got “AI” baked in.

I’m sure there is plenty of room for improvement with query planners, including new paradigms, but you can’t just throw such a generic buzzword at it and have that be intelligible. You might as well say “it just needs better algorithms.” Well, ya. It has zero substance.
> Sure. But not in a form that's applicable for ML / AI.

You have a cost function you want to minimize. That can't form the basis of a search among valid program transformations?

> Just because a technology worked for one field, doesn't mean it's trivially applicable for other fields

I didn't say "trivially." I just pushed back on the idea that it's "magic."

There are precedents for ML-like approaches to optimization for regular compilers. For example, superoptimizers.
Yeah literally need to add an invoice subtotal for the items on that page
I've got an Intel NUC I could do this with. Is there a video player app for iOS that kids could use (i.e. Interface isn't super complex), that'd play remote media?

Edit: Looked into this myself just now. VLC Streamer looks decent, as does Infuse by Firecore.
It could be a conversational API layer for any underlying database. Intriguing idea, possible with existing technologies.. Tune in next week for ChatQL!
> If you know your read and write patterns very well you can effectively use this for nearly asynchronous IO without the pains of AIO and few to none extra threads.

This may work for sequential reads, but not for random reads.
Have you tried using Cython to see if it speeds up your code?
Holy crap thats alot of downvotes... I mean i was talking ephemeral on a pretty large time scale here, just to clear things up for all the people who apparently believe that USD is an absolute.
> Agile is worthless unless it serves as a catalyst for continuous improvement.

Agile is continuous adaptation of methods to the particular circumstances of the team (both it's tasks, and it's composition in terms of individuals.) That's all Agile is.

The problem is that concrete fixed methodologies that are applied in the same way in widely divergent organizations under the oversight of gun-for-hire “master project managers” and other consultants, the exact phenomenon Agile emerged as a reaction against, are now being sold with “Agile” attached to them as a hollow, meaningless buzzword.

The Agile movement is in part to blame, because while the Manifesto has a great statement of values, there is no concrete operationalization of them embraced by the movement that emphasizes adaptation of process. (Which is one way in which the Lean community is a somewhat better forum for similar values, since it emphasizes more high-level metamethodology around evaluating and adapting methods, making it somewhat more resistant to being converted into a label for fixed process.)
You are asserting that the provider of the website should have complete control over the experience.

But not everyone agrees with you -- the readers want control, too, and it's their hardware, after all.
A CloudFormation Template for Ether Mining on AWS
I almost do this. My main APIs are POST/GET sqlite databases (ie: I build a sqlite db and return it like a file, then in clients and use it. Not using stupid JSON when I need long rows!).

--

I'm dreaming about building a relational language and by the way build a RDBMS on top of maybe sqlite. I think exist a lot of potential for a relational store with more flexibility

Think: with both in-memory and on-disk data storage, fixed schema (as normal) + dynamic (like JSON) + Flexible.

By flexible I mean to use Union Types and return mixed rows:

//A union of several schemas:
Table Log =
| Customer
| Order
| OrderLine

SELECT Log =

Customer(1,...).
Customer(2,...)
Order(1, ...)
OrderLine(1, ...)

Also, maybe allow to directly acces indexes (so a index is just a KV store!), to allow logical log manipulation, etc.

In short, what about a relational-redis?
I saw a tv show that presented those facts, yes. It also features the Goldman family celebrating that he got any kind of jail time at all. And it was a long sentence too!
yes there are still beer vending machines in Tokyo as well as other liqour but they now require a special liqour id card to prove your age.
M-DISC's are archival grade DVDs/Blurays, and when properly stored M-DISC DVD recordings are claimed to last 1000 years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M-disc
You may want to take a look at pdf.js
According to the suffering and environmental damage line of reasoning, the reason meat is strictly worse is because if you grew plants instead of animals you'd have 8x as many calories to eat. I might be off, it may be some other factor, but I do know it's much larger than 2x.
The video that autoplays for me is "Bitcoin is like airline miles says JPM's John Normand". Wall Street is sounding pretty dumb with the methods they're using to deflate bitcoin.
3-D quantum gas atomic clock offers new dimensions in measurement
Is artificial intelligence going off the rails?
It's odd that people keep saying to trust the intel agencies, since much of the best research on the propaganda side is done in academia, and the data is out there.

Here's a Tableau of the influence of just 6 of the ~200 recently banned Russian-run groups on Facebook: https://public.tableau.com/profile/d1gi#!/vizhome/FB4/TotalR...

Here's the raw data: https://data.world/d1gi/missing-fb-posts-w-share-stats

Here's some analysis: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2017/10/05...

I also like http://dashboard.securingdemocracy.org/

If you want to look at research, Oxford is doing some good work in this area. They have a whole research group on computational propaganda: http://comprop.oii.ox.ac.uk/category/publishing/academic-art...
A new solution to protect Java class from decompiling
Cooperative Groups: Flexible CUDA Thread Programming
I agree with ECC in general.

What ZFS really needs is native encryption to be generally available.
The daydream that never stops
10^60 computing elements (presumably doing some computing that we humans want done) with only ~10^80 atoms in the universe? I'm as optimistic a technologist as they come but that seems a bit... extreme
What defines a "powerful" passport?
I'm sure they could have done that anyways. AMD kept backwards compatible sockets with the physically similar AM2, AM3 and AM3+, while increasing memory speeds, introducing new chipsets, and introducing their Hex cores.

I would prefer the option to accidentally buy an old motherboard and have my CPU not work at optimal settings than Intel's solution where the CPU won't work at all even though it fits.
> I've been using it for general casual computing and machine learning development with Jupyter Notebooks

Must be working with very small datasets given so little RAM.
[RETRACTED].

My bad.
For anyone who wonders why HN mods are overly strict, then note that Kuro5hin tolerated trolls and they utterly destroyed the site. It doesn't exist any more.
Then you should publish PDF's or JPEG's because the user agent has always had final say in how a page renders, your style hints are merely recommendations.
> not operate in the background on American soil against hundreds, thousands of nation-state and criminal organizations.

Actually, this space, this sphere of influence, is well recognized and the problem has been well described by the senior folks involved since at least 2001:

* Ash Carter (SecDef) Keeping the Edge: https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/keeping-edge

* Michael Hayden (chief of NSA and CIA): Playing to the Edge: https://www.amazon.com/Playing-Edge-American-Intelligence-Te...
I would argue that small command-line tools "the unix way" combined with a competently written -h help page is quite discoverable. Maybe not for a general computer newbie, but certainly for people used to /other/ cli tools.
IMO the killer features of the airpods are the instant-on when you take them out of the case, the auto pause/play when you remove/insert them, and the in-case charging.
Energy Firms in Secretive Alliance with Attorneys General (2014)
I remember more than a late night or two building slashcode sites (those perl scripts took a long time) while playing 'America's Army'. Fun times.