skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that this article might fall into the bucket of "pre-announcement announcement". I agree it's somewhat interesting in describing what to look for when the documents become available, but that's just it, they're not available yet. I'm not sure there's a lot of use in rehashing theories on what might be in the document dump when we can just wait and see what's actually in the document dump as it becomes available over the course of the next couple of days or weeks.
It's not. Try yourself.
How's that been working out for them? All the sales staff in the world hasn't made them ANY profit.
To me the frightening thing is that people seem to be unable to differentiate between no data and the negative case. For example

* No Fitbit data == "You're inactive

* No Open source github commits == "you dont like code"

* Few Facebook friends == "you dont have friends"

* Few Instagram posts == "You dont do anything"
Sure, you're making a mistake that is very common around HN. You're conflating technology and programming. If you wanted to study chemistry and be a chemical engineer, Houston is absolutely where you would be flocking to instead of SF. I think the next big tech market is going to be medical and genetics which means Minneapolis and Boston are the places to be watching.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't that just due to their accounting preferences?

Amazon has had the capability of making profit for years, but prefers to expense everything off in an effort to grow rather than pay increased taxes.

Their skyrocketing market cap hasn't been due to a change in the company's direction so much as investors gradually realizing this strategy and the raw growth potential of where Amazon has positioned itself.
> I never saw a 132 column terminal -- it's possibly you could get a VT100 into that mode, I'm not sure.

If you had the Advanced Video Option installed, there was definitely a 132-column mode available via \033[?3h (with \033[?3l to return to 80-column). The (very few) VT100s that my high school had were so equipped.

The VT102 came with the Advanced Video Option preinstalled.
MSFT also had earnings today. They beat with a (sustained) strong growth in their cloud biz.
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So Jake, how are the Julia bindings coming along?
That was me and my wife. I'm pretty sure our baby stuff accounts for most of that growth.
Yeah, but it's clear she's just documenting her learning experience.
i don't know why you claim it's rational to be a free rider with one breath and in the next explain how it isn't rational. only considering immediate considerations and immediate consequences doesn't have to be what rationality is. only considering your own self and your own interests doesn't have to be what rationality is. rationality is a nebulous term and i see people far to often use the word to refer to stupid selfishness and short sightedness.

if people tend to do something because it's easier for them but that will come the long way round and bite them, and a lot of other people, in the end then that's a demonstration of a failure of human to be rational.
As another comment pointed out the effectiveness hovers around 50% - which is better than ~0% from doing nothing. And there's no cost if you live in glorious socialist Canada. America's crazy healthcare system alters this calculus of course.
Got it, okay, so it is different from a traditional computer program, and more like a business or military unit, where the agent at a high level "determines" an action, and delegates the action to a lower level entity that doesn't necessarily have the knowledge as to why it's doing this thing?
This appealing theory founders on the rock of reality. Government build housing is if anything more expensive.
This is why the post office model is superior. The local post office receives the parcel and keeps it safe until you come to pick it up. Nowadays (at least in Canada) these post offices are colocated in pharmacies and other businesses that can spare a bit of space and are open outside of 9-5 hours.

If a Fedex or UPS would buildup a network of similar business partnerships in residential areas (or just rent some space in a shopping mall) then people would use then in preference to this expensive key gimmick.

Why hasn't anyone ever thought of that before? Delivering goods to people in their local shopping mall?

Maybe because Silicon Valley is hung up on disruption and replacement so they never noticed that simply taking over existing businesses could be a lucrative model.
> But in the future, apps could identify sexists/racists/homophobes by their social media activity and preemptively blacklist them from joining. (Maybe this would aid the industry’s problem with harassment, too.)

I don't think blackballing people due to statistical inferences about their behaviour is any better than harassment.

> I’d guess the findings were racist: OkCupid statistics show that even though people say they don’t care about race when choosing a partner, they usually act as if they do.

It's weird that wanting to produce children with someone of the same ethnic background as oneself is seen as racist. It seems quite unremarkably normal to prefer folks from a similar background. There's nothing wrong, of course, with those who choose someone different than themselves, but I think they're the outliers.
When there's a shortage of housing, $1000 units become $1500 units. If housing growth kept pace with population growth this would not happen.
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I don't know how to feel about this...
He seems to have forgotten the --no-preserve-root flag.
Their business outside of AWS is generating immense cash flow. That's a lot more important to Amazon's business than most headline measures of profitability. Overall they produced $8.1 billion in free cash flow for the prior 12 months and $17.1 billion of operating cash flow. That's what enables them to continue to invest so heavily.
"I’m used to writing in dynamic programming languages, which definitely do not process 1GB files in 0.25 seconds. Fun!"

1GB in .25 seconds = 4GB in 1 second. Kind of a simplistic takeaway considering the article's title.
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In-core algorithms require the entire array(s) in main memory to perform some computation. Out-of-core algorithms are typically block-based and stream the array blocks from persistent storage to main memory on demand, working on parts of the array(s) at a time, thus minimizing the memory requirements. If this is done asynchronously and carefully, for some CPU-bound algorithms you may be able to completely hide the storage-to-memory cost, thus saving memory without losing performance.
The general story, told by who exactly? Oh right, the corporate press.

I live in the UK. For every careless ugly tower (there are some) there are solidly build, even solidly designed housing units that hold up over time. Many built in the 60's in a more politically active era won design awards.
In general the initial construction quality of the public housing is much higher than private construction. From the thatcher era on maintanence was cut drastically which led to much of the decay.

The problem of insider graft and corruption is a real one. But it is fixable if citizens have real power and there is transparency and accountability instead of corporate funded elections which guarantee a disenfranchised population.
Even ICE cars use oversized grilles mostly as decoration. Look at the Ford Focus (http://i.imgur.com/DEhSO19.jpg), actual vents could be much smaller.
Why?

You would still need to create a system to keep track of local time of day. Hey, guess what, we already have such a system, people already use it and are familiar with it, let's keep using it.
> the robots are 50% more efficient than a human doing the same task. They can also scan shelves three times more quickly and are a lot more accurate. Human employees can only scan shelves about twice a week.

Personally, I want to see up-to-date retail stock mapping (that I can search)

Walmart is testing a robot from Bossa Nova (Pittsburgh and SF)

http://www.bossanova.com/

https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/bossa-nova-robotics-...
To clarify, for those wondering, the separatist leader Puigdemont has not (yet?) been assassinated.
Does anyone struggle with the fact that 1) people who are very sick or injured need pain control and 2) the only tool in a doctor's bag is an opoid and 3) we are somehow going after the people that produce the opoids that patients need, to live a less-painful life?

Far more people die annually of alcohol related illnesses, than do opoid overdoses. This is the "crisis" is not a crisis at all. In fact, if you review the CDC's numbers, the rate of increase in opoid related deaths and the total number, relative to other more significant causes of death, are unremarkable. [link] https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/leading-causes-of-death.htm

By the numbers, we should be tripling and quadrupling the amount of money for mental health treatment to reduce suicide and alcohol dependency.

Please, before you vote down or troll me, review the numbers yourself. The numbers speak for themselves [link]https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/hus/hus16.pdf#019
Kept waiting for the satirical 'turn', but it never appeared.

(not trolling) Are there any examples that support this claim:

>The market can never provide housing as cheaply as a properly functioning local/state government.
Your argument is clearly flawed because it goes way too far. It applies to literally any sort of economic activity it's possible to be engaged in. For example, I could make all your arguments as reasons why the California state government should take over pornography production from private producers. We know from experience that private industry is more successful than the government at many things…including building housing:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_housing_in_the_United_S...
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I'm sure you are much joking ha ha! Monsanto does not need properganda as it is a wanderful company who's products make everyones life better. Monsanto feeds the world, don't you know?
Uh, NL sucks. Unless you're local and you get put from birth on the waiting list (which you can now only apply on 18 years). So by 40 you may get cheap housing.
take your clickbait post somewhere else. hn is not your personal army
To anyone writing checks, these features are not intended to provide security, but instead to tick a checkbox on a compliance audit.

Odds are if something goes wrong, they'll find a way to pass the buck to another party. Or just get a gig at another bank.
Currently playing the same game with my health insurance, who suggest linking my watch health metrics to "boost my health score". (I'm currently bronze and I could be at Silver! Someone must have watched the gamification TED talk).

Not wanting my insurer to have that data presumably to them means I'm unfit, rather than skeptical of what they're going to do with it
> A study in 2011 infected 17 people with live active flu virus, and only half developed any symptoms at all.

That's fascinating. Do you have a link to the study?
Except all rental properties in the region would have to pay similar amount of land tax, so they would all raise the rent and the renter would have to choose either pay the higher rent or move to a cheaper area.
Gratz!

lol My wife and I just added our own registry there...
My personal favorites on the topic:

http://tbaggery.com/2008/04/19/a-note-about-git-commit-messa...

https://robots.thoughtbot.com/5-useful-tips-for-a-better-com...
Induced demand is also a thing. It's not exactly econ 101.
I'm not in support of a public candidate registry, but I think people who have toxic reactions such as this do warrant a shame&blame approach.

Anyone agree/disagree?
ℤ mod 5 is a useful structure where 6 doesn't exist.
From about ages 12-21 or 22 I caught nothing. I consistently had a ~36hr period of very slight sniffles about once a year, and nothing else at all. Never bothered with flu shot, took no precautions, ate absolute garbage.

Then I started having 2-3 serious illnesses—very bad colds, the flu, sinus infections (I'd never had either of those last two)—every single year, and my nose is a little bit stuffy 100% of the time. 360 days a year, before, I couldn't blow my nose at all even if I wanted to—nothing would come out—but now I can a couple times a day, every day, when not actually sick.

Aging sucks and/or HGH is a hell of a drug.
citation?

Also it's natural that public housing is at least somewhat more expensive. They have to follow code and not take shortcuts. Also there isn't the predatory, crushing, pressure to exploit the workers on the job in the same manner as in the private sector.

In general the difference is not very big. The bigger problem is graft and corruption.
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The suicide rate among Indian farmers is 1.4 to 1.8 per 100,000

Since you're into stats, what do you think of this graph?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bt_Cotton_Hectares_and_Fa...

Point being, the story people "pushing" isn't about the overall rate of farmer suicides in the world's second most populous country - but about the rates in specific regions, and how those rates have changed in recent years, in response to specific events.
Was expecting something worthwhile. Was disappointing.

You could have made an nice ui with presents the information in a simple to understand way. Instead if showing stuff like seconds etc. you could have translated it into more understandable.

Instead of saying mx record, you could have used an email icon.
There are currently possible ways for early employees to cash out their stock options.

For example, EquityZen is a platform that lets employees sell shares before IPO:
https://equityzen.com/?utm_source=hackernews&utm_medium=comm...
Do you know there is actually a way for not only the VCs, but also the public to invest in highly valued startups?

For example, EquityZen is a platform that lets people to invest in private pre-IPO companies.
https://equityzen.com/?utm_source=hackernews&utm_medium=comm...
Yes, this was a major focus for the new Android Gradle Plugin. Unfortunately, this did mean breaking their Gradle DSL (part of reason for the new 3.0 version). Here's a talk discussing the changes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKRK4SvMtRk
I don't understand one things: the original scalar version sums bytes, while the SIMD version sums 32-bit values and returns the sum mod 256. The SIMD version might be much simpler if just byte-wide operations were used. Did I miss something important?
That's exactly what I'm offering you to discover.
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The monthly mandatory payment on my mortgage is now a lot lower then typical rent (I have freedom to pay more if I wish to). It was roughly same as rent for few years, but it went down as I paid the debt.

If my salary would go down to half and my husband would got unemployed, we would still be able to pay it. You don't have to buy the most expensive flat there is in the city. And if we were not, that would still be not that much different then not being able to pay rent.

In really really the worst case, you move to that lower cost flat and have bank take away your flat (since you aint paying mortgage it is theirs). But it is less likely to happen then being unable to pay rent because we got sick simultaneously with economy tanking.
No, because there are many other treatments for pain. The best one is often physical therapy and other repeated physical treatments (especially for back pain), but these are more expensive than a pill!

Additionally, there are other alternatives that people like this billionaire have vested interests in keeping illegal. Such as marijuana, there has been some decent evidence that it can be used to replace opiates as a pain treatment for some people (and has waaaay less side effects).

I don't even work in healthcare, so I imagine there are a ton of options I am overlooking.
How do I slice & dice TileDB with a query? Can TileDB compute aggregations or do I need to copy cells into main program memory out of TileDB and then perform all data manipulation?
Typically depends on what you do with scraped data. There is an interesting recent US court ruling [1]

[1] http://www.reuters.com/article/us-microsoft-linkedin-ruling/...
-Astroturfing can be done for free via botnet using other peoples machines

-If the truth dominates in the climate change debate, why is it still being debated while the problem continues to get worse?

-It remains that the majority of people on the planet have a religious faith, and those beliefs continue to affect government/state policy (i.e. bans on stem cell research, birth control etc) as it has for thousands of years
The comparison between Amazon Key and Bodega/Juceiro seems off. The latter, he correctly states, do not solve problems average people actually have.

But Amazon Key, the author admits, solves a problem a lot of people have: who the hell has the time to wait around in the middle of the day for a package to arrive? We don't all have a stay-at-home husband/wife/partner that can do that.

Now, the veracity of the idea of installing a security camera on your front door that goes to Amazon's cloud is another thing, but that's in the same conversation of whether having an Echo is a good idea.

I don't think this is a great example of Silicon Valley being out of touch, this is just the author being big-brother conscious (which is valid).
Are you serious? Can you share the school and department? This is an honest question -- I always thought 4-5 lecture or classroom hours was normal. That's what I had and that's what my friends had. Most of us never even used graders assigned as grading duties were light and it would often be more trouble to explain how you wanted it graded anyhow.

I have never heard of a 20 hour TA load. Again, just wondering.
Pair it with a Fitbit to detect activities based on parent movements.
Earlier discussion at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15549632.
Oh I never do forget. I currently colocate and buy transit and it's blindlingly obvious to me how much of a ripoff cloud egress is.

Even their "direct connect" services cost more than my transit does.
To be fair, that's not actually what libertarian means. Well, not traditionally. It is the opposite side of authoritarianism on the political compass. Taken to absurd levels, it is anarchy and would mean no taxes to a government or whatnot.

But, it's a spectrum. It's left it right and a varied distance from authority. You have some libertarian principles. Well, I presume you do.
Amazon is the worst for a seller, much worse than eBay. It's completely in favor of the buyer over there, and can easily be gamed. Saying something is damaged, waiting to the absolute last second of a 30 day "trial" to return it. It's horrible. I will never sell anything on there again.
I think you should look into Insys before you use them to take a stance like this.
> it’s paired with the language processing company Receptiviti.ai to compute the compatibility between me and its user base using the contents of our Twitter feeds.

They're measuring compatibility on language analysis of your tweets? This seems inefficient and unnecessary.

Wouldn't it be both simpler and more effective to analyze who you follow for compatibility? In regards to feeds themselves, retweeting the same article could be a great talking point and measure of similar interests.
These guys are being roasted, and rightly so. But let's also cut them some slack. Lord knows what kind of trouble I would have gotten into if the Internet had been around in its present form when I was in high school/college.

So there was no Internet or WWW when I was young. Instead, when I was 14 or 15, I was into the BBS scene. I found a file manager utility I liked that was shareware. Being dumb and young, I took a hex editor to the executable and modified the name/address of the author to my own, and re-uploaded the utility, hoping people would send money to me instead. Nothing good or bad came out of that, but I can imagine doing the equivalent these days would land me in hot water.
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You changed the subject to alcohol though. No one said alcohol wasn't a problem or that opioids have no use. We might as well start talking about first addressing everyone killed in car accidents or unjust wars.
> But security experts and former U.S. officials have said those inspections provide Russia with opportunities to find vulnerabilities that could be exploited in offensive cyber operations.

That is entirely the point. The fear is that they would hide that vulnerability.

The idea that anyone, including a Nation-State, would find it advantageous to find and hide security vulnerabilities is ludicrous.

Hiding a vulnerability is advantageous to everyone who wants to use it, but disadvantageous to everyone who wants to be secure.

The only way to keep a vulnerability secret is to be absolutely certain that no one else knows about it. That is simply not even remotely close to possible.
What will the People of Walmart make of this? Personally, I think store robots like these don't really help much. A novelty at first, I think the image of Walmart as a cheapskate on all things human, will give the robot a negative reputation.
If it helps, I'd like to throw in my opinion and say Patrick is an outstanding founder, who would be great to work with :)
Anecdotally, I've started using Amazon FBA for things that I used to use eBay for.

Say I want a 2.2" ILI9341-driven TFT screen. That's not exactly something that you need everyday, so I could go to AliExpress/Taobao and get N for $3 ea in ~3 weeks, or eBay to get one for $4-5 in a lottery of anywhere from 3 days to 2 months. But now, I can get one from Amazon for $10 tomorrow.

It has prime shipping, which means you gotta figure they use the whole 'Fulfilled By Amazon' thing; I think that's like $3 a pop for small items. Heck, I was thinking of trying to make some money off of that kind of arbitrage, but it wouldn't be stable income since it's so dependent on a single 3rd-party company. Also, you'd literally be profiting off of China's sweatshop factories and lack of compunction around IP, which I feel sort of 'eh' about. At least using the things, you can argue there might be an end to justify the mildly shady means.

And it's just as likely to work as one from those other sources. If I wanted ethically-sourced reliable hardware I'd pay like $40 to get one with fast shipping from Adafruit. I really appreciate all that they do, but I also can't afford to ignore price for every purchasing decision that I make - and I am definitely not alone there, so there's probably still a lot of benefit to being "the everything store."
A bit too unforgiving for my taste :)
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That's precisely what Mastodon is going for, but I feel like the added complexity (i.e. choosing your instance) is a showstopper for the masses
Just get a dog and tie it to their collar.

I'm joking of course, I do not condone insurance fraud.