skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Choice is irrelevant unless it’s an informed choice. It’s impossible to make an informed choice when people keep the information from you.

These people are responsible for hundreds or thousands of deaths. It’s a little less direct than shooting someone in the face, but it should still be considered mass murder.
The headset ... Sorry. I'm suspecting/hope that someone will integrate Alexa/google home/HK Invoke with XBox. Should be soooo straightforward. I'd do it myself for a hackathon.
Yes. It's ubiquitous now. It'll be a bit like everyone around you talking about the "Upside Down". And you have no idea because you never watch tv except for Emily Chang. Plus, you can understand it in under 1 hour:

https://training.docker.com/introduction-to-docker

If you are into Node, I'd also get up to speed with Serverless Deployments and Lambda Functions. Buzzwords, yes. But also modern, powerful and game changing. And most importantly, you won't have to worry about any devops internals ;)

https://cloud.google.com/functions/
Massive amounts of government speeding on defence and tech going back to ww2
Why wouldn't the following ordering work?
{(x,y) | (|x| ≤ |y|) & ((|x| = |y| & x ≠ y) ⇒ x < 0 < y)}
"Glorification of the Nazi Germany is pretty bad, and is ignoring or endorsing a history of violence and oppression, similar to Soviet supporters. Advocating National Socialism is emphatically not the same thing, and has absolutely nothing to do with "the extermination of ethnic and religious groups. National Socialism can exist without "the extermination of ethnic and religious groups."
Yet SV companies complain the loudest about having a hard time finding talent. In large part, I suspect, because of decreasing amounts of talent that want to put up with the area.
Doesn't seem too far fetched[1] if you read it as a nice house under 200k within an hour of Chicago.

I don't know enough about Chicago to know exactly how far our an hour's drive is or to know exactly what 'nice' means in this context but it seems like there are areas where the median price is quite a bit lower than 200k.

[1] https://www.trulia.com/local/chicago-il/type:home_prices_sal...
I have a place to live in, while if I would be renting, I would have no more money for rent and had to move. I am not speculating on that flat with intention to sell. I live in it.
I have the same problem with Amazon. Both of them favor the buyer because customers trusting their platform is a huge selling point for them. As a seller most people are honest, but enough of them are not for it to be extremely annoying.

Problem is you have plenty of scammer sellers too.
"From impossible to inevitable" from Aaron Ross and Jason Lemkin. Should help you getting started with sales and being more focused.
Johnny pocket.
> Eventually that will be the case for software engineering as well ... My money is on the first company that walks away unscathed after a self-driving car plows through a preschool or something like that.

I agree with you that "eventually that will be the case".

I don't think it will happen until some people in government -- politicians who can actually make/change the laws -- are personally impacted or affected in some really major way, though. Until that point, their lobbying friends will persuade them that everything is fine.

It's just like trying to warn management about "bad shit" that could happen. Nothing will change until it actually does happen -- and then you will see a swift, overwhelming response.
”You are fighting your own best interests. ... It takes incremental change. Glyphosate replaces much more harmful pesticides like atrazine, and we are all the better for it.”

Wise words. Big fan of incrementalism. Even though I’m currently freaked out about decline of pollinators, I’ll keep your viewpoint in mind.

If Big Ag owns this issue, and helps address it, I’ll ease up.

”...approach this topic reasonbly, and with an open mind.”

No such luck. I’m fresh out of goodwill. When Monsanto et al stop lying (being merchants of doubt), I’ll resume listening.

As my libertarian bestie teases me: the problem with you liberals is you can’t tolerate hypocracy. Guilty as charged. To my tribe, any good Monsanto does is completely negated by their (documented, proven) malfeasance.
And the Russians were defending against an invasion that critically depended on a short (~half year from summer 1942) invasion timeline.

The German generals (and to a lesser extant Hitler) knew Russia could ramp up tank production fast and had way more soldiers then them if it turned into trench warfare or even total warfare level tank vs tank or aircraft vs aircraft fights. Largely because Germany already had to deal with the UK+America+Canada on the other front and we themselves limited in their own production ability vs the much larger Russia (regardless if the Russian industry was less advanced, it was still more advanced than the biased Germans expected the slavs to be).

The simple fact the Russian's had ANY tanks that they couldn't easily deal with, let alone not destroy at all with their own tanks, totally caught the Nazi generals off guard and slowed the whole invasion down.

The technological advantage that Russia had early on can not be downplayed. It was absolutely critical.
Seems like Facebook would be best positioned to do this. They already more transparency than Ebay/Amazon with regards to who you're dealing with. They also have regional buy/sell groups already. Integrate with some shipping platforms and they'd be on their way.

That being said, its not really in their lane.
I would assume that there was a special policy in place for people working on teams with a requirement for that amount of RAM.

I interned on Chrome in 2013, and at the time all Chrome engineers got a computer with an SSD (which I was told wasn't standard at the time), since they had to build Chrome on their desktops (whereas most other engineers could use Google's distributed build system).
https://twitter.com/mxschumacher/following

Another great one from that list is @FermatsLibrary
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Why is the AC necessary for this recursive tree traversal?
How long until we can have Julia wrappers?
> But mostly Chicago just sucks. Its all the shitty parts of the midwest without any of the good ones. What you really want is Indianapolis, Columbus, Minneapolis, Louisville, etc...

Shameful Indianapolis trolling.
Do you have proof of this? What are these visible and documented ways?

I'm not certain I completely understand your argument. Basically every explanation of LVT that I've come across says that it will decrease the amount of blighted land, as a land-value tax increases the incentive for landowners to improve their land.
Trump had an Android phone while his handlers used iOS.
I know OP made the point that it was confusing - but my takeaway from the title is still that blockchain technology is as life changing when you learn about it as your first puff.
Management Lessons from U2, Radiohead, the Eagles, and the Grateful Dead
The contracts between users are all cryptographically signed in a system called Ricardian Contracts. At any point each party has a digitally signed copy of all the information they need to proceed with the trade.

Because this is a protocol for decentralized trade, and a network to engage in trade, there's really no terms of service or privacy policies that can be enforced between users. They connect to each other completely P2P, the devs or anyone else can't enforce anything between them (and don't even know a transaction is happening).
Am I misreading the data (Cumulative 2013->2017) or something? The Seagate 4TB are horrific, yes, but they look to have completely solved their issues above 4TB.

e.g.

6TB - BB have 4 times as many Seagate drives (and nearly 4x logged time) as WDC, but more WDC drives have failed. (4.6%WDC versus 1.2%)

8TB - Annualised failure is lower than HGST (1.1% & 1.2% versus 1.7%). Nearly 25,000 Seagate drives and 150 odd failures.

10TB - 0 failures over 13,720 drive days so far

12TB - 0 failures over 500 drive days so far.

Maybe I'm misreading something, but it looks from their data that the major Seagate issues have been put behind them now?
The thing I miss most about ebay are the independent sellers of "crap" - not sure how else to put it, but basically the random people who dig out stuff from the their "attic" and put it up for people to bid over.

You know - what Ebay was originally set up for.

I mean - one time I found a bucket of bolts for auction; just a bunch of random rusty bolts someone had in the back of their shed, they decided to auction off. And wouldn't you know it, a bidding war happened. That bucket of bolts went for close to a $100.00 by the time it was all over.

Those are the kind of stuff I like to see, and the kind of stuff I like to bid on and/or buy. Not the mass-produced junk from China - if I want that, I'll get it from Amazon or Ali Express (and I do).

You can still find this on Ebay, but it isn't as ubiquitous like it was in the beginning. I personally think their decision to compete with Amazon instead of sticking to their core users really changed perceptions and user base. Maybe it's better for them, but for users who like auctions, finding something similar that is trusted as much hasn't been easy (there are a few).
Findig programmers is not the issue VC money and culture make the difference.
Personally, it would be brilliant if we'd just go to permanent daylight savings time nationwide. The transition is hard on the kids and living in the northern part of the country, the extra daylight is appreciated.
You shouldn't need these kind of apps. Listen to your child. They communicate quite clearly what they need, and after a while you understand their patterns.

This is one of those areas where I believe technology will do more harm than good
Ask HN: What are you doing for home automation?
As most developers are, I am very interested in automating as much of my life as I can, especially if it saves me money. I have been messing with a mix of tech for home automation, but I haven't fully committed to anything really. "Smart" bulbs, outlets, some thermostats, music/sound, cameras...

Like the recent story[0], I would like to find some FOSS software for a hub and get some reliable hardware that doesn't depend on a company or its servers somewhere in the cloud.

What have you built, bought, installed, or use in your home?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15521743
With your ordering, what is the least element of the open interval (0,1)?
so, were farmers who actually planted and harvested te gmo crops less likely to kill themselves?

the data could get skewed to fit that narrative if you dont have a control group, no?

how validate

and also, note, im not trying to push the narrative - just relaying what i saw, which obviously has a narrative
“Putting your money where your mouth is” applies here. This is precisly the symptom of a risk-averse culture, and it’s holding us back.
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Twitter bans ads from two Russian media outlets, cites election meddling
I know it sounds tautological but makes sense in the context of the rest of the reply.
Part of your premise here seems logically incorrect. If land-value taxes is more heavily affected by neighboring properties then they should actually be harder, not easier, to manipulate since this is a two way asymmetrical situation. For any given amount of blight property values should lower by a larger percent than land values
The human microbiome: How bad science and junky diets gave rise to serious disease
Currently the vendor selects a list of moderators they are comfortable working with, and then at the time of a sale the buyer selects the one they prefer. If a dispute is opened the moderator the buyer picked from the vendor's list will resolve the dispute.
Jake from TileDB, Inc. In addition to the differences pointed out in the paper, I think SciDB and TileDB are very different philosophically. SciDB is architected very much like a traditional RDMS while TileDB is much more lightweight. SciDB encourages you to use their own query language (AQL), TileDB wants to integrate and extend the high level tools you already use (Python, R, etc.) with as little overhead as possible.
From Pony documentation:

Simplicity

Simplicity can be sacrificed for performance. It is more important for the interface to be simple than the implementation. The faster the programmer can get stuff done, the better. It’s ok to make things a bit harder on the programmer to improve performance, but it’s more important to make things easier on the programmer than it is to make things easier on the language/runtime.

This is an excellent design decision. Yes, performance sometimes introduces complexity, and I have been in teams where the philosophy is: "It does not matter if it is slower, but any high schooler that knows HTML has to be able to understand it". The purpose of a program is to satisfy the users, not the developers or the managers, and if the next developer needs to study a thing or two before understanding the code that is OK.

Simplicity should be sacrificed for performance.
Techmeme summary: Twitter: Twitter decides to ban advertising from all accounts owned by Russia Today and Sputnik and will donate estimated $1.9M earnings since 2011 to misinfo research
There really is no rational reason why the phenomenon of Silicon Valley should exist. And at this point if there were anything special Silicon Valley knew that nobody else did, that knowledge has been pretty widely disseminated. And yet for all that, I suspect he's still wrong.
Mixed-Precision Training of Deep Neural Networks
Stavros from TileDB, Inc. here: This comment gives us the opportunity to explain a bit the history of the company and our thesis. TileDB was my research project while I was working as a full-time researcher at Intel Labs and was stationed at MIT. This was part of a collaboration between Intel Labs and MIT, called Intel Science and Technology Center (ISTC) for Big Data. Intel funded MIT (and several other universities) for 5 years, while mandating that any tech produced in the center should be open-source with a non-restrictive license (like our MIT license), and without any strings attached. So ISTC was for pure research. We created TileDB, Inc. so that we can continue working on TileDB beyond the graceful termination of the ISTC, since we believed that the tech (and future vision) can significantly contribute to the scientific community (there was already some early evidence through our work with the Broad Institute on genomics). The company will continue to respect and contribute to the open-source community, while trying to bring together very talented people to transition the tech from a research project to a production-ready software.
Everything that you could do with Kinect + most Cortana features.
Amazon !== Silicon Valley
Subpoenas are quashed, not squashed, but maybe your phone did that one.
Chinatown’s Ghost Scam
Government has consequences. That's why democracy is so important. This is especially true with regards to foreign policy. If a country threatens another such that the threatened country's only viable defense is to attack the civilians of the aggressor, that would be a totally legitimate tactic of war.

Taking out North Korea's nuclear capability while preventing a counter attack on South Korea will probably involve the deaths of many innocent North Koreans, since North Korean artillery is spread widely throughout the southern part of the country. That is tragic, and no small part of why we've allowed this madness to go on for so long. But at some point a people must protect their security, and do what must be done.
Perhaps, but as long as participation is voluntary, I can live with that. That said, if I ever buy a house, it will very pointedly be in an area with no HOA. :-)
Yes. Someone needs to maintain and operate the weather stations, RADAR hardware, weather buoys, and weather balloons.
So do I. I wouldn't mind a return to some of the 50's/60's automotive aesthetics. It could look pretty futuristic at times. One of my favourite photos of Chicago: https://68.media.tumblr.com/67951c2780fe5c66863c2a31caa4d989...
> virtualbox running android x86

is it faster than emulator properly configured to use KVM or Haxm with x86 image?
I don't think a PhD is only valuable for a career in academia

I thought it was pretty well established that this depends heavily on your field.
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I guess that the problem with Avogadro's number (and others such, like the Coulomb) is that they are approximations and not specific counts.

The difference between the Avogadro Number and the new Avogadro Constant is that they will define it as a concrete integer value: 6.02NNNN... x 10^23. When the digits are agreed upon, I think the idea is that all subsequent digits are going to be defined as zero, making it a precise integer.

So then if it is a precise integer, we can then try construct objects with exactly that many particles (silicon atoms) and then weigh them, and so forth: masses can be tied to precise counts.

It's kind of analogous to declaring that an inch is exactly 2.54 mm: 2.54000000... not 2.5400XXX for some unknown X that is somehow empirically measured.
Out of professional curiosity, what are you looking for from ENA?

(I'm an engineer on Google Compute Engine with a deep interest in customer networking use stories, particularly heavy utilization customers, even if they're not my customers :)
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Worth noting in the article (quoted out of order for emphasis):

"Determining the R0 of a particular microbe is a matter of more than academic interest. If you know how many secondary cases to expect from each infected person, you can figure out the level of herd immunity needed in the population to keep the microbe from spreading. This is calculated by taking the reciprocal of R0 and subtracting it from 1. For measles, with an R0 of 12 to 18, you need somewhere between 92 percent (1 – 1/12) and 95 percent (1 – 1/18) of the population to have effective immunity to keep the virus from spreading. For flu, it’s much lower — only around 50 percent. And yet we rarely attain even that level of immunity with vaccination.
...
The calculated R0 of the West African Ebola outbreak was found to be around 2 in a 2014 publication, similar to the R0 computed for the 1918 influenza pandemic based on historical data.
"

All of you ladies and gents who blow off your annual flu vaccine because "you just don't seem to ever catch it" - you're just lucky. It's only a matter of time with modern travel and climate change until another virulent strain hits.
Unless of course the Germans did not factor in the idea Russians would have a comparable, let alone better, tank than them when they invaded.

They expected a repeat of the French army capitulation and found a far better army than their anti-slavic literature groomed them to believe they'd be facing.

They expected Russian farmer rednecks, not an industrialized modern army (although I refuse to extend my praise to their infantry which had plenty of issues, other than their dogged determination, which was a serious threat when Hitler was demanding quick wins, even when they did always eventually win).
“For Rent” signs are popping up all over Portland
Sleep as well. There is no way you are going to remember what happened last week much less two nights ago without a journal of some kind. Pencil and paper are great. But data accessible anywhere from any device is a use case that I can see being a necessity. Voice input may be a desired feature as well. For hands-free operation ;)
I took the advanced data structures course. That guy is chill.
"It's certainly true that Monsanto has been going after farmers whom the company suspects of using GMO seeds without paying royalties. And there are plenty of cases — including Schmeiser's — in which the company has overreached, engaged in raw intimidation, and made accusations that turned out not to be backed up by evidence."

1. Right out of the blog.

2. How much harrasement do we not hear about?

3. So---it's not quite a myth?
I'll echo this. The large majority of PIs I have interacted with (or know of via friends/family) could care less about their research. You get a skewed view from conferences, presentations, TED Talks, etc. They are 'on stage' at those events and are 'selling' their research largely. Get a beer in them and the facade drops quickly (ok, 3 beers for the people that really hate the mess, their tolerance is higher)
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I like how the project name is formatted as code.

It's missing a TOC though, scrolling through it doesn't give an overview what it contains.
Ah, right. Makes sense.
Techmeme summary: Joe Mullin / Ars Technica: Three female engineers sue Uber for sex and race discrimination, claim Uber pays female engineers less than male, white, and Asian-American counterparts
Youch, that is pretty bad 'Valley Think'.
My mortgage interest write-off basically covers the property tax, and the write-off goes down every year, as the tax goes up every year.

I live in my home, but that would still be true if I were to rent it out.
NWS runs the preponderance of weather radar in the US.

They probably run all of it, I'm just not sure if there are any independent ones.
Both being correct does not make them both equally correct.
Perhaps. Too bad we hit a GHZ wall, so the only thing we can do now is add more cores.

FYI: For 6K and 8K, both nVidia and AMD tech reps have said that "multi-GPU" (not CORE) solutions will be required to reach those. But they also said once they hit 16K, they'll have "real eye quality" in terms of DPI which comes with lots of extra "realism" for free. Like, watch the new Jungle Book in 4K and certain scenes of mountains will blow your mind and feel "real" (without any 3d glasses) and your brain is like "holy shit, I'm not watching a movie (for this split second), this is something real." But most scenes still don't. We're so close to photorealistic, I can taste it! (Like that GTA 5 photorealism mod on HN yesterday.)

That's why they're all moving to Vulkan. OpenGL is single-threaded and a PITA to easily exploit multiple GPU solutions. (Global state, one draw thread.)
That does not sound safe for the buyer at all; they’re forced to choose a moderator from a list completely decided by the vendor?
We are sexual reproducers, and as such, we require other people to further our biological goals. This means that the health of our herd has a direct effect on our own adaptiveness. Don't speculate about biological motives with the "rationality" defined by economics. They are different terms.
IF your goal is to work for google, facebook, Amazon or Microsoft, then yes, Google is a great place to be.

But if your goal is to work for next decades google, Apple, etc, then no, Google is not the place to be.

Start working on Bitcoin. Start working on Ethereum. Get to the cutting edge.

Everything you do at google right now is about 10 years out of date (and I'm including machine learning and all their "cutting edge" AI stuff) and targeted at supporting their existing established business.

Take this from someone who has been on the cutting edge for 30+ years-- the challenge for most people is that the cutting edge changes, and you have to be paying attention to follow it... by the time you learn mobile development, surprise, there's bitcoin! (as an example.)
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