skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's true, everything is relative and it also depends what scale of market data you require. I think it's quite cheap to get end of day stock prices but if you want real time market data it gets steep. The closer you get to actual real time the more expensive seems to be the trend.
Would you say 3,6 % is that stringent though? I remember GE under Welch fired 10 % of the lowest performers every year, that seemed kind of stringent. But Tesla is fast-hiring and acquiring, so seem to have a larger need to fix hiring-errors than GE. At the end of 2015 they had only 14,000 employees! In light of that, 3,6 % seems completely reasonable to me. Low, even.

Concerning the performance review: would expect that after acquisition, SolarCity would adjust to Tesla's performance standards. So even if they were based on prior performance reviews, still seems like a reasonable action and level to me.

As much as I try to squint, I'm having troubles seeing the smoking gun here.
<raises hand> We have a well here in Montana. You need 10+ acres of land to do it that way though.
This looks great. Two things that got me though...

The "picker" tool does not do what I thought it would. And for the modifier classes I'd rather see the word than the color if I had to choose one of the other. I.e. "danger" instead of a red square.

One of my favorite things about bootstrap is the way class naming is semantic -- it denotes purpose not color. So using a color picker looking square to change the modifier seems non-intuitive to me.
Taming Chatbot Complexity with a Bespoke DSL
Yea, total nonsense, the universe isn't 2d, and like I said, see the bullet cluster. Dark matter is here, in our 3d universe, mixed with normal matter.
But it is a dupe of this submission:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15551968

And the submitter commented in that prior to submitting this. So it isn't an innocent mistake where they didn't know it had already been submitted.
Many-faced threats to Serverless security
Academic ideas often precede cultural and social changes. While the terms in question were previously unknown outside academia and restricted to the postmodern milieu, they are now terms I hear quite often among relatively recent university graduates, even in the software industry. It isn't surprising. After all, one way to influence social changes, good or bad, is by influencing students who then take what they've been taught with them into the broader world.

On a related note, you might find Richard Rorty's essay "Universality and Truth" (found in "Rorty and His Critics") interesting. In it, he makes it clear that either you hold to liberal and secular views on the subjects at hand, or you're a “bigoted, homophobic, religious fundamentalist" and therefore ought to be ridiculed (and ought to have your children taught to see you in that light as well). Sadly, this extremist bifurcation of the world seems to be reflected in the unsophisticated politics of our times.
someday v8 Release v8.0 :D
> Really?

For me, for 3 years, yes. For you, clearly the answer is no. Everyone is different and that is great.

OP stated:

> That touchid on back is a huge fail from UX perspective.

This is a matter of opinion that was stated as fact. I've used both styles of phone (simultaneously) where the fingerprint sensor is on the thumb/home button v. on the back for a few years now. I prefer the sensor on the back. I am not alone in this opinion. Therefore, it is not a "huge UX fail". That is the point I was trying to make.
That's not accurate on breaking changes, there will be additional ones in the future:

> We’ve done our best to prevent breaking changes, but we had to sneak some in. Regrettably, we’ll also have a few more coming in Beta 3, too. However, we’re clearly outlining all of them for you to make the upgrade and testing process as easy as possible.

Source: https://blog.getbootstrap.com/2017/10/19/bootstrap-4-beta-2/
Powers of Ten (1977)
I rephrased it to: "The European Reinassance was essentially the assimilation of the cultural wealth amassed by the Islamic empire."

This is more accurate. But I think their influence was much more far reaching than just passing on Greek literature:

- Before paper, parchments were used. A bible took 3000 sheep or goat to print.

- They adopted Indian numerals and adapted them to the form we use today. Imagine Copernicus calculating trajectories of planets with Roman numbers.

- Nicolaus Copernicus started his studies using almanacs and tables such as the Alfonsine tables, the tables were originally in Arabic and were collected/translated by Alfonso X of Castile in Toledo. They included observations ranging from the days of Ptolomy onwards.

- Many Western discoveries came from innovations in optics (e.g: telescope, microscope). The Islamic empire did great contributions to the field of optics. They experimented with reflection, refraction, lenses, etc... and that is original work with literature to support it.
If you purchase with a loan, you can get a much better deal and it can make sense.

A lot of the solar companies were selling their low interest $0 down lease programs and they themselves were benefiting from the credits/rebates not the homeowner. Homeowners didn't really have to have a great credit score either. Once the credits and rebates went away, the lease programs weren't sustainable for the solar companies.
By coincidence, "Freedom to Roam" came up in a recent HN thread: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_to_roam

the general public's right to access certain public or privately owned land for recreation and exercise. The right is sometimes called the right of public access to the wilderness or the "right to roam".

In Scotland, the Nordic countries of Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden, the Baltic countries of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania and the Central European countries of Austria, Czech Republic and Switzerland, the freedom to roam takes the form of general public rights which are sometimes codified in law. The access is ancient in parts of Northern Europe and has been regarded as sufficiently basic that it was not formalised in law until modern times. However, the right usually does not include any substantial economic exploitation, such as hunting or logging, or disruptive activities, such as making fires and driving offroad vehicles.
Solarcity. Highly recommended.
What interactive code picker did you use? I don't see you talking about it anywhere. Useful site though.
> It's really not that hard to build a relatively optimal GraphQL server. Obviously it requires paying careful attention to performance, and to take steps to mitigate abuse (query whitelists, complexity capsi

I'm sorry, but I categorically reject the value of a query language for APIs if you turn it into something indistinguishable from a POST-body driven web framework with less cachability.

What is the point of a query language that may act across multiple sub-domains if your provider then says, "But only these queries are allowed."

AFAICT, it's a waste of time. You lose so much in the migration from a RESTful postbody API in exchange for what amounts to... well... a DSL for writing API calls that any javascripter worth their salt could have made already.
Does it support Project dependencies?
Isnt it private information only if its not plastered all over facebook and Google? How is it doxxing if the information is willfully exposed by the person online? Isnt it then just linking the results of a Google search? Doxxing usually involves posting information that person is trying to hide. If theyre posting it online themselves, it hardly counts as doxxing
Hey HN!

This is our latest demo for TensorFire (https://tenso.rs/), a Javascript library for running neural networks in the browser GPU-accelerated by WebGL.

Each of these models is a simple two-layer char-rnn (the kind explored in Karpathy's "Unreasonable Effectiveness of RNNs" post http://karpathy.github.io/2015/05/21/rnn-effectiveness/). When you hit "Tab" the editor feeds in the contents of your document letter-by-letter into a network which is trying to predict the most likely next letter. It samples from that probability distribution and feeds it back into the network to generate an arbitrarily long string.

We've published code and instructions for training new models on Github (https://github.com/tensorfire/cyborg-writer/tree/master/trai...). With about a megabyte of any sort of text, you can train a model and easily embed it into any web application.

We (@bijection and @antimatter15) will be answering questions in the comments.
I think we're talking about two different things here. I'm just talking about the fundamental prerequisites to do research in the field. I get the feeling that you're talking about something other, more ephemeral "thing".

if you do research in sorting/searching algorithms, even improving the performance of the best algorithm by a tiny bit would require quite a "special level of insight, or creativity, or whatever." Making a "BIG" advance would require genius level abilities, think a few dozens of people in the entire world.

Perhaps so, but we're not talking about research on sorting/searching algorithms. We're talking about AI. I would argue that the bar for publishing novel research is lower here, as the field is broader and correspondingly less developed (in areas).

I mean, right now, ML in particular is heavily based on empirical observation and experiment and lacks theory in many areas. So just trying some new combination of hyper-parameters that look interesting, achieving a "better than the latest published result" in some benchmark, and writing up a paper can constitute original research in this area. No, it's not the same as a major breakthrough in theoretical understanding, but then again not everything is. Which is at least part of my overall point.

It's probably also worth nothing that not all "research" happens in academic settings and not all researchers publish (or are driven to publish to the extent that academics are... especially tenure track folks). I'm thinking of corporate settings where simply achieving a useful result that helps the company make more money is considered a win.

All of that said, I'm open to the possibility that there are, indeed, fewer than 10k people who can do AI research, as I'm starting to wonder if there are fewer than 10k people who can write FizzBuzz successfully. But acquiring the basic tools necessary to do research in the AI/ML domain isn't so hard as to be inaccessible to a large number of people.
Why has "smooth as butter" become such an overly used phrase in the tech world? Listening to the last Apple product release I must have heard the word butter a few dozen times.

I don't know about anyone else but this phrase is really starting to annoy me. It's overly used, and the word "butter" in my mind is closer to "greasy", like "don't touch it with your finger because it'll get slimy and you'll have to wash your hands". Can't you just say "smooth" or "without any perceptible lag"?

EDIT: Seriously, this doesn't bug anyone else?
Sad to see this - I recently talked to a startup that was using Kinect for at-home physical therapy. By no means a replacement for PT, but really a huge opportunity for people that didn't have regular/sufficient access to therapy. Hopefully something equivalent can cut through.
Actually I would think that it divides the domain/codomain of the successor function into two disconnected regions. I just "6 is missing" as meaning succ(5) is undefined and that no x exists such that succ(x) = 7. You could probably still prove a lot of conventional math in such a system, except with extra annotations on equations like "given x != 5" much like how we have to add the annotation "given x != 1" on an equation that uses fraction like "y / (x-1)", to avoid invalid derivations from "y / 0".

How do you know we're not already in a universe which is missing a number, which is why we have to add annotations constraining denominators to not be zero?
Kernighan and Van Wyk, "Timing Trials, or, the Trials of Timing: Experiments with Scripting and User-Interface Languages" (1998)

http://web.archive.org/web/20000829071436/http://inferno.bel...

AWK, Perl, Tcl, Scheme, C, Java, Limbo, Visual Basic

What if k scripting language was included in those experiments?

http://kparc.com/z/bell.k

k3:

1. "Basic Loop Test"

\t 1000000(1+)/0

2. "Ackermann's Function Test"

\t {:[~x;y+1;~y;_f[x-1;1];_f[x-1;_f[x;y-1]]]}[3;7]

3. "Indexed Array Test"

\t x(x;|x:!200000)

4. "String Test"

\t f:{(x>#:){(i _ x),(1+i:_.5*#x)#x:,/("123";x;"456";x;"789")}/y};do[10;f[500000;"abcdef"]]

5. "Associative Array Test"

\t {+/("0123456789abcdef"16_vs'!x)_lin$!x}40000

6. "File Copy Test"

`f 0:(30000 _draw 300)#\:"king "
\t `f 0:0:`f

7. "Word Count Test"

\t (#:;+/(+/1<':" "=)';+/#:')@\:0:`f

8. "File Reversal Test"

\t `f 0:|0:`f

9. "Sum Test"

`f 0:100000#,"-123.456"
\t +/0.0$0:`f

Source: http://web.archive.org/web/20010501041644/http://www.kx.com:...
Seeds too. My local library has a bunch of different types of plant seeds, mainly foods. The idea is you take seeds in the spring, plant and grow them, harvest them, and then preserve the seeds and return them to the library to be "borrowed" by another person the next year. They have the seeds in an old card catalog case, and each drawer has the plant name on the outside and a color green, yellow, or red, indicating how easy or hard it is to save the seeds.
Market forces pushing her out of her rented home doesn't appear to raise any eyebrows.

Faux compassion for granny is how prop 13 got passed though, so sure, people fall for this shit.
I went to a few museums last week on vacation. I was surprised to see how ubiquitous the Kinect was - almost every new-ish exhibit had something interactive that made use of the Kinect. Just when I was thinking about how much fun it would be to get one to play with, they killed it :(
No, the argument against seat belt laws is similar to the argument against helmet laws, "If I want to fling myself through the windshield, I should be able to."
I suppose it's a quick way to kill of the competition.
> In mathematics, the fact that there is no absolute truth is merely a technical fact.

What? No, it's not. Your attempt to justify this with the statement that "arithmetic truth cannot be defined in arithmetic" fails, because that's not the same thing as a there being "no absolute truth" in mathematics.
Instead of understanding the history of labor force exploitation in the United States, everyone wants to pretend that a high-tech gloss over a return to Gilded Age-style Robber barons is a “natural evolution.” Tech workers survive in comfort within the last remaining vestiges of benefits that union members fought and died to obtain. The gig economy is just what they called “piecework” a century ago.
> Welch has said his first rule of firing an employee as a manager is to avoid any element of surprise. Your workplace ought to be built on constructive criticism and feedback.

> Expectations should be so clear that anyone in the aforementioned bottom tenth of your firm knows they'll be there before the ranking and yanking starts. "Anybody who is fired and surprised? That's the bosses' fault," Welch said on Bloomberg TV in 2015.

Contrast the GE description to what happened here with Tesla: absolute blindsiding where the employees were not given any performance feedback before getting axed.

https://www.thestreet.com/story/14315785/1/how-to-fire-peopl...
I used to tell my son that there will always be work for computer security specialists and that he should go for that. This makes me wonder about my advice.
No, I was actually pretty surprised by how ridiculous some of her statements sounded. Still, encouraging traffic to a site like campusreform.com makes me feel queasy.
I totally agree with you. I would like to know if they actually have any reasons why they don't give people this option, because even though people could tend to opt-out in masses - there still is possibility to motivate them somehow. About the feedback, it may not be straightforward for the same reason that people tend to ignore it, so I guess they have it figured out already and I hope their metrics are set well enough to notice issues.
I think there's an important distinction missing here.

First, NET FDI (foreign direct investment) into China was 1.3 trillion USD over the last decade, not nominal: https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/BX.KLT.DINV.CD.WD?locat....

FDI is a pretty imperfect measure for a short period of time. If a Chinese company buys foreign assets, say mines in Africa or forests in South America, that counts as a net outflow. In the long run though, those investments may well pay off handsomely. For a rapidly developing country with a high savings rate, there's no inherent reason why Chinese companies investing abroad should be an indication of doom for China.

As someone who regularly does business with Chinese companies, it has been my experience that it has never been harder to remove currency from China. It is true that capital controls have become increasingly tight.

Edit:

Additionally, given the regulatory difficulties of foreign companies investing in China, it's not surprising that outflows of investment by Chinese companies outsize incoming foreign investment into China.
I've no doubt there was a chance to save some money, but saying this guy replicated an $86M system is quite a stretch. He managed to replicate the code to OCR the plates in a somewhat controlled condition, and use existing networks to access an existing web service. It's not going to work in low light conditions traveling at 55MPH with plates at varying distances while simultaneously fighting off attacks to jam/DOS/insert false results during a power outage. Additionally there's going to be a backend to store and process the data for whatever purposes. We really don't know much about what the scope of the $86M project was, and may have included a lot of unrelated things also.
I wonder what the "followon product" discussions were like and what they said "no" to as a next generation.

I mean this seems like an idea whose time will come. What could they have built if they were targeting a product to release before Christmas?
I think this is a relatively recent thing, maybe emerging around 2014.
Not consciousness, but intelligence. Big difference.
It's true that processing is low margin, but (1) you make a ton of money on a low margin as long as you have a lot of volume. Just ask Wal Mart, Amazon, Big Oil, etc. (2) Not quite the same, because verifone is not a processor. Compare to companies like WorldPay and TSys.

I'm not sure what proportion of square's revenue comes from processing vs services, but if I had to guess, I'd say most of the services are loss leaders for the processing. This is especially true with their rates so far above market. 2.75% is a fat chunk of change if they're processing 10 or 12 figures. (Working primarily with smaller clients, you get to charge that much, but it makes them less competitive with larger merchants who process more volume.)
Query whitelist: Takes the query language out of the game and makes the system indistinguishable from old pre-restful .cgi endpoints.

Complexity caps: In the absence of good query scheduling this is a defense mechanism by GQL server providers. Great. But why are we doing it in the first place. This is still more complex with nearly identical outcomes to restful endpoints.
butter is known to generally render at >=60fps
SF Open Data: Map of the Most Ticketed Areas In San Francisco
well one Uber driver interviewed in the UK used to own his own private hire firm he's seen a huge drop
> landfills in the 3rd world will be inundated by more hardware which could be still perfectly useable if its life didn't depend on the wishes of a single company.

Well that's a silly comment, because by choosing not to make more then there would actually be fewer kinects in landfills than if they had decided to continue manufacturing. The decision to "build more" has absolutely nothing to do with folks deciding to throw away the ones they've already bought.
The attack being overly generalized, even to good quality evidence and reliable working processes while not being constructive.

Not being constructive is the major failing of the whole postmodernist philosophy.
Odd that the title here has been edited to not match the source when usually titles are edited to match the source. If ars uses a click bait title why should HN fix it?
What did you except of the Picker if I may ask?
It is no more an oxymoron than "locally optimal". There is always a scope for claims of optimal in practice.

Perhaps it was "superfluous" to say. But then, so was your post.
Appreciate the link. Until now, I've used aws-vault with the `exec` command to run CLI tools with a quick return, so the role TTL isn't much of an issue.

I'd like to employ the tool to support local development on a containerized web application. The assume role TTL may prove to be the real issue, so I need to weight the tradeoff of allowing a longer life on the STS keys. I suppose I could set up a profile without a role and override the AWS_PROFILE environment variable within docker-compose. And I know that aws-vault also supports the virtual meta-data service.

Either way, the benefit of something like aws-vault extends beyond security. We've discovered numerous inconsistencies with the profile-based credential handlers in the Java API (https://github.com/aws/aws-sdk-java/issues/803) which beg for a simpler solution in terms of supporting developers.
As a former pastor of a main stream denomination church, and who hung around with those of much more conservative denominations, I think the second theory assumes way more thought about one’s chosen religious/philosophical framework than happens in practice. Generally speaking, those less “into it” at best would use religion as an excuse to drive their Suburban. Those that are actually amateur theologians tend to see the Earth as something God expects us to be good stewards of.

In summary, people don’t give religion enough thought to let it influence their actions WRT climate change, except out of convenience.
A broad range -- Python programs are "as-fast-as-C" when they are C :-)

http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/compare.php?lan...
Tangent:

There's a link at the bottom to Google Finance.
If you click through, the charts required Flash.
Google Chrome is blocking Flash.

I bet that's a source of strife for the Finance team over at Google...
How to determine your salary as a Startup Founder
Thank for the answer
There is https://www.alphavantage.co which is free now but we've stayed away from them since they were not replying to our enquiries and they do not have any ToS available.

Cheapest realtime stock prices I've seen were ~500$; don't remember where that was though.
"Smooth as butter", "smoother than butter", "butter smooth", et al is a common western phrase. It's as old or older than the King James Bible itself (Psalms 55:21 if you're curious). It's a quintessential English idiom.
My understanding is that QE caused asset inflation which increased the price of land and therefore increased the price of housing. So wage gains have ended up in the hands of landlords.
I freaking LOVED that game. Serious time suck though.
Yes and guess who subsides those peoples benefits - I don't mind subsidizing nurse or dr training but a taxi company no way
Thanks for pointing out that site. That is an awesome map. I find it very interesting / telling that the US has bright red areas for CO2 as well but all of them are at major shipping ports and in the ocean. Not surprising seeing how much pollution shipping creates.
Except that Face ID does not work on photos at all. It's a 3d technology and requires the phone's 3d sensors (more than one) for recognising the face.
Caddy comes to mind. There were extensive discussions about their pricing model and open source product a few weeks ago.
Doubtful, the other players wouldn't be in any different scenario than they were before Amazon tried this.
Hitting tab crashes Chrome for me.