skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Russian involvement was widely reported

Sure. UFO sightings were widely reported to. Protip: not everything you read on the internet is true. There's a lot of bullshit out there, and a lot of people whose job depends on peddling bullshit and making people believe it. Some of them are Russians, but there are more than enough of them right in the US.

> it was not a post hoc rationalization for election defeat (in fact, the election defeat has, AFAICT, been blamed more frequently on Comey’s interference than Putin’s

It was blamed on anything except the actual performance of the candidates, as usual. Because taking responsibility is not something politicians do. Both Comey and Putin featured prominently.

> the Russian intervention and apparent active collaboration

Intervention in what? Collaboration with what? It is very symptomatic that object-less phrases are used to describe that - it creates nefarious aura without presenting a claim that can be verified. Russians "interfered" with what? They spent 100k or so on ads? It's peanuts, Hillary campaign spent 1bn+ overall - you are saying they couldn't beat Russian 100k with that? If that were true, that would be a sign on incompetence so gross that one has to wonder how they are putting on their shoes in the morning. However, it is baloney - Russian trolls had no traceable effect except show some stupid (and look it up, they are stupid) ads to a bunch of people.

Ah yes, there also is the question of stealing and publishing some emails (there were several cases) - some of which may or may not be obtained by Russians (public evidence so far is beyond shoddy and basically is "trust us, we know it's Russians" and can not be independently evaluated). But that part - and especially the part where Dems staunchly refused to give FBI access to their networks to investigate what exactly happened - somehow is not discussed that much. E.g. how comes their IT practices were so shoddy that they fell for a primitive phishing scam? What does it say about IT security of people who are supposed to handle the ultra-top-secret materials and still don't seem to give a damn about security? Etc. No, it's better to blame Putin and Twitter of course than discuss this.

> not because the losing party painted it as decisive.

Which they definitely did and continue to do so.
Man, I'd like to see that sale get spiked. I like NXP's parts, but I wouldn't cross the street to pee on the Qualcomm building if it were on fire.
https://www.theverge.com/2017/10/4/16424740/google-pixel-2-x...
The Duck Tales reboot is decent. Bob's Burgers is at worst pleasant. Rick and Morty, Archer, Star vs. The Forces of Evil, ... there are plenty of good cartoons.

And that's assuming you're not including Japanese animation as "cartoons".
They have an electronic sim on the watch- I imagine that’s serving as a test bed for the carriers and for apple.
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CLIs are powerful because, like programming languages, are close to human language.

Not surprisingly the following transitions happened in many industrial applications, complex vehicles, not to mention weapons (e.g. submarines):

"few knobs and dials" -> "airplane cockpit" -> airplane cockpit + keyboard and a simple CLI -> full scripting
They did it with their most recent Apple Watch, which could be a first start to also bring it to the iPhone. They probably want to first get the adoption going, before making it available globally.
In terms of profits, yes.

But many of us don't buy Apple for the hardware, but because we want to stay in their software ecosystem. I'd rather use a Nexus running iOS than an iPhone X running Android, and I'm even more invested in macOS. That Apple builds nice hardware is a bonus for me (but I'd honestly prefer better software right now).

I mean, on paper Apple is making more money from hardware than from software, but how do you measure hardware sales that only happened because of the software?
In recent times, perhaps. But if you read the literature on the accidents and incidents that have occurred -- it is definitely due to luck.
Most of the population explosion is behind us. Many developed countries have sub-replacement fertility, and it seems to be a trend followed by developing countries.

"As of 2010, about 48% (3.3 billion people) of the world population lives in nations with sub-replacement fertility."[1]

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sub-replacement_fertility
It's resistive heating that does something that most resistive heating doesn't do: generate some level of additional income in the form of cryptocurrency.
Apple build something like this into the Apple Watch, I think.

https://techcrunch.com/2017/09/12/the-cellular-enabled-apple...
This is nice.

Does anyone know of a similar tool for c# ?
The recognized seems to be fixed to a limited UI language, so is it fair to call this freehand? Rather, there is palette that you access via roughly sketching out a predefined form.

This won’t be that useful for many designer sketches,l where the visual language is mostly undefined.
Diagnostics, developer experience and backups are all hard to do wirelessly, but I am sure they are thinking about it.
This is pretty cool! I would love to see this kind of tool (including the LaTeX output) available for other kinds of diagrams. Sequence diagrams, box-and-line diagrams, etc.
The sooner the better.

We'll finally be able to stop tying health insurance to employment in the ridiculous way that we currently do.

Skilled professionals will more often be able to make their own hours and find more variety/novelty in their work by taking jobs for a variety of customers.

And there will be so many freelancers that a solid industry for helping them connect with consumers of their services so that the hardest part of freelancing (finding work) starts to become a non-issue.

Transitions are messy, of course.
Something that helped me a lot was somebody pointing out that it's OK for code not to be 100% DRY - sometimes things are the same at a given point in time only by coincidence, not by some inherent logical connection. It's a mistake to refactor and remove these "redundant" parts because they are not truly redundant. This helps me chill out when deciding when it is useful to add an abstraction or a separate helper function or whatever.
Erlang / Elixir are 100% immutable inside the code (no var can ever be mutable).

However, they have a mutable in-process cache (living in the BEAM VM) that many people have written libraries around for stuff like mutable arrays, matrices, graphs, and many others.

It goes like this: do 99.5% functional programming and you have the imperative / stateful tools for when they are absolutely necessary.

This works. Extremely well.
But on a more concrete level, union fees go to campaigning, lobbying, and donations to candidates the union members may not support.

I don't think it's part of an American social contract that you would be forced to tangibly support candidates who have (by some accounts) immoral positions on abortion or immigration (to pick to polarizing issues).
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I don't know, but putting 4 cells into one box, versus 2 cells in 2 boxes at the iPhone scale might be more expensive.

My take is that still less expensive that constant replacement (warranty, recalls) that they do on daily basis.
It's the type of thing I'd love from plantuml
Well supposedly you'd use native data.frame's if you're using a faster R implementation.

However, I would agree with you that at this point in time it's fair to assume that R is no longer a language in and of itself - it's more akin to a collection of APIs around years of optimized C++ code, somewhat separated into a few universes (bioinformatics, time series analysis with xtz, data.table aficionados and tidyverse acolytes).

And thus making a faster R alternative should focus on 100% package compatibility along with speeding up native R code. Renjin, pqR [1], et. al. all seem to be compromises that work for some workflows but not all of them.

The project that I'm excited for is fastR [2] - bringing R, C, C++ and FORTRAN code together into one Truffle/Graal environment would be absolutely huge for this ecosystem.

However, I've tested fastR on my employer's [3] workflows and it does not work yet.

[1] http://www.pqr-project.org/
[2] https://github.com/graalvm/fastr
[3] http://syberia.io/
Not to mention the equivalent in software, designers forcing new UI's on us with each major release. Looking at you, MSFT. Especially when those changes are largely w/r/t what's now trendy, such as the recent iteration in design towards everything flat.

Not intending to start a design-related flamewar..
It's really nice to be able to call yourself senior after mere five years,
when you haven't even seen a quarter of the possible deployment scenarios, much
less seen their long-term results. You can't find anything like that in
any other skill-based profession.
Intriguing option but I'm dealing with the integrated GPU here. It looks like TensorFlow is for NVidia discrete GPUs.

PythonOpenCL is probably the best option: https://mathema.tician.de/software/pyopencl/

One thing about integrated GPUs for server is that there's no transfer time, since the GPUs share memory with the CPU.
> the UI/UX that transformed interacting in the digital world from using keyboards and mice to using our fingers on touch screens is already old.

The pencil is already old too. So?

It's not clear to me that for things to be usable the way they get used has to change at some particular rate. On the contrary, the most usable user experiences (UXs) seem to be quite stable.
You're right that a lot of the cost increases is due to maintenance that has been neglected over the years. You're wrong in blaming shareholders--almost all U.S. water/sewer systems are run by municipal utilities. Taxpayers are shortsighted too, perhaps even more so than shareholders. Because water/sewer rates are subject to public regulation, there is a huge push to keep rates low. Consequently, needed upgrades (e.g. replacing lead water pipes) and general maintenance fall by the wayside.
No, that's not the only one. High on the list is, surely there must be some way to accomplish the same quality of network without requiring so much throwaway work.
I'm curious how they get around the challenge of slow startup and warmup time of the JVM.
> How do these Acquisition works?

You mostly answered it yourself. If it's an all-cash deal, of this size, they pay for it out of on-hand cash / short-term securities, and or raise debt from major banks or private equity types (eg Silver Lake Partners, as in the Dell/private & Dell/EMC deals). Depending on the cost of the interest on the debt, a company may choose to make the deal more or less cash, more or less debt, more or less stock.

Sometimes corporate partners do throw in on the deal. Microsoft for example helped finance the deal to take Dell private. It was obviously in their interest to have a healthy Dell corporation. I believe Microsoft put $2 billion into that.

It wouldn't be interest free coming from Apple. Zero chance of that. They also won't risk $100 billion. They could put in $10 or $20 billion however, with standard loan conditions including interest.

It's going to be difficult (expensive) for Broadcom to buy Qualcomm. QCOM is in a stronger financial position, despite the lower multiple on their stock presently. Qualcomm's quarterly earnings are about 50% (or more) higher typically than where Broadcom is at today. Qualcomm has $21 billion in cash, Broadcom has a mere $5.4 billion in cash.

It should really be Qualcomm attempting to eat Broadcom, rather than the other way around. In this case, Broadcom is being opportunistic when it comes to timing. The result of that will (if it goes forward) be very expensive for Broadcom shareholders. The sole reason Broadcom is able to attempt this, is due to the stock market bubble driving Broadcom's valuation extremely high (50+ times earnings) over the last year (the stock has climbed from ~$172 to ~$273).
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Wrong logic @realdonaldtrump is different from @potus45.
And pray tell, what is that reason and how is it related to this article?
I mean, they could. But does that mean they should? Personally, I don't think so.
So once it was worth 200k it became worthy art, lol.
This is fundamentally broken. There should be peer review prior to any such actions, given Twitter's importance in Internet speech these days. Yes, I realize Twitter is a company without any obligations to uphold free speech, but their entire PR schill plays up free-speech as integral to company culture.
Apple has been very serious about how they’re a hardware company vs a software company for like 30+ years now. Literally the first thing SPJ did after coming back was kill the Mac clones program. They’re obsessed with the feel of the hardware in every way. The software is just a platform.
>>> Just smaller and faster with new technology, never before seen delivered at this size, capability or scale.

That was happening every year and marginal at best.
I don't disagree but during my career I've found surprising amount of cases where ASN.1 and its practical encodings like DER, BER and PER work impressively well.

Human readability however has always been the selling point of terrible formats like XML and JSON.

Not sure how can a binary-compact format ever account for that. Maybe excellent cross-platform tools that allow you to inspect and modify the binary-compact format wherever it is? (I mean not only standalone CLI and GUI software; I also mean native browser support in the Dev Tools space and going down the line in the future -- transparent support for the format[s] natively in the programming languages / VMs themselves.)
Unless you sync app state with the router, then you cannot "Enter a command / url" => "Output a state / action".
Alphabet has lost another trade secret claim in its lawsuit against Uber
> Here's a thought exercise: Design an API for manipulating graphs, nodes and edges. The concrete representation of these three types must be hidden from the user by language-enforced mechanisms. Using `friend` is not allowed. Using the pimpl pattern is not allowed. Bypassing type safety is not allowed.

Perhaps I am not understanding your example, but...

I'd have a Node class, an Edge class, and a Graph class. None would be friends of any of the others. Many of the API functions would take a Graph (plus other parameters), but you might like them to be able to operate on an Edge or even a Node as well. But the way I think you handle this is by having a conversion operator (which is also a constructor). That is, if I have a Graph constructor that takes an Edge parameter, and one that takes a Node parameter, now I can use an Edge or a Node as a parameter to a function that takes a Graph.

Note that this does not require Graph to know about the internal details of Edge or Node. Also, it does not bypass type safety. It does sometimes return a different type than you passed in, but I'd argue that you want that: If you call addEdgeToGraph you expect to get a Graph back, and you will, even if you passed in a Node in place of the Graph.
I, for one, don't give a shit that they think they own it. I care about the level of service, and I'm entirely in favor of eminent domain to just take it, since they've proven they can't provide service worth a damn.
Roads certainly limit where one can drive, but the alternative is pretty disastrous.

As with anything: there is a time and place. Design systems are wildly powerful for scaling, creating a cohesive language across a brand or product, and moving quickly.

Just because you have a design system doesn't mean the buck stops there. You can keep building new roads if you know where it is you need to go that the existing roads won't take you.
PC sales have stagnated since before 2015. Apple continues to gain market share, despite not increasing unit sales.

Apple's Mac sales are around

• 7% in worldwide units (up from 2% at it's nadir two decades ago)

• 15-20% of worldwide PC revenues

• >50% of the entire PC industry profits.
What the guy did just sheds more light on twitters double standard with @realdonaldtrump account. They are just treating him with kid gloves.
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I recently switched my workflow to all linux compatible free as in beer software. I like being able to produce music on pretty much any hardware no matter where I am.

I love audacity and want to say thanks to the team!
I made all diagrams in my thesis with this tikz gui: http://tikzit.sourceforge.net. Tikzcd looks more polished, Tikzit more general.
I could always resell the video cards I bought at near cost

You sure about that? There are so many miners these days, if the mining market tanks, the used graphics card market will be flooded and prices will likely plummet.
What about reification of failure?

One supremely nice thing about *nix-style systems is that most programs will barf a number of complaints along the way to failure, while Mac/Windows counterparts typically fail silently or log errors to a mysterious per-app location.
I recorded my first songs on audacity, I love this piece of software!
I am so glad for Audacity but the UI always feels more convoluted than it needs to be. I wish they would copy Sound Forge's controls
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Misleading title.
The marginal tax rate would be 46%, but the net tax rate you pay on all your income would still be less than the 39.6% marginal rate. The article explains that it's equivalent to setting the marginal tax rate for a different chunk of your income up to 39.6%.
true, Qualcomm was hostile to OSS, until it bought Atheros, and it kept Atheros open, so Qualcomm is only partially friendly to OSS.
Electricity costs are probably subsidized (since otherwise in places where it gets super-cold it wouldn't look nice if people froze to death for inability to pay their power bill).

Electricity costs in Irkutsk (place where the place that the video is describing is located) are 0.7 RUR per 1 kWh for rural areas. That's about 1 cent per kWh. For comparison, California's lowest tariff in about 20c per kWh and if you are consuming a lot (which you'd do if you mine) you'll get over 35c/kWh. If you qualify for low income subsidy, though, you might get it for significantly cheaper :)
It's not terribly hard to do by hand once you get the hang of it. I used to do my control systems homework with TikZ.
If you happen to visit Badlands National Park, or western South Dakota in general, make time to visit the Minuteman Missile National Historic Site mentioned in the article. I toured Delta-01 last summer, and it was fascinating. The tour guide did a fantastic job of conveying the gravity of the mission and just how scary the Cold War was.
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Here are the prices: http://energovopros.ru/spravochnik/elektrosnabzhenie/tarify-... (if you read Russian, or use Google translate). Yes, pretty close to 1c/kWh.
That's not my experience. Most great copywriters I know like to take something convoluted and make it clearer and crisper.
It's not a good reason. If you force private companies to take on the government's role of providing a safety net, you're basically guaranteeing that only mega-corps will be able to take that deal. It would be better, as you suggest, to let municipalities perform the traditional governmental role of building the safety net.
"Is that really a common belief?"

It was in the pre-iphone era.
If the OP is here, I found the cup on their site. It lets me put it in my cart

http://store.wolfram.com/view/misc/index.str#heart-spikey-mu...
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What other free-as-in-beer software do you use to produce music?
I checked out his blog that is linked in the crowd fund page. Here is the 2 posts I found about the battery:

https://drpballen.wordpress.com/2017/05/19/all-iron-battery-...

https://drpballen.wordpress.com/2017/06/02/negative-and-posi...
Trump has actually proven his bone fides for small government in the sense of reducing regulatory burden.
the RPI is an exception, it did not come easy.

Freescale would love to open its GPU etc, however it is licensing the IP from other vendors that Freescale has no right to open source it, yes it would be nice if Freescale can get that part work. Otherwise, Freescale is fairly open on everything it owns and makes.
Some CLI utilities have code completion but it's not great. I don't see any reason why you couldn't have good code completion with pick lists and inline documentation like IDEs. Its kind of frustrating that we are stuck with bash when this problem (API discoverablity) has been solved a long time ago.
Meanwhile, OpenFaaS supports every programming language out there...

https://www.openfaas.com/
Not OP, but there's Ardour, Rosegarden, or Audacity
RPI is an exception instead of norm. Other than that you got nothing, not just software, you got nothing on its chips either. I avoided Broadcom on all my designs as much as I can.
Some History of Functional Programming Languages
The History of Standard ML
What are some companies (and initiatives) that are actively working to protect privacy online?
This one most likely: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irkutsk_Hydroelectric_Power_St...

Siberia has huge rivers which are very suitable for building hydroelectric because the accompanying flooding happens in mostly uninhabited areas and thus has relatively little costs.
Sure, though 20 ms getting you to a fat node is pretty good, especially if you're in an underserved area. The net time cost is actually the difference between this and straight-line overland distance, which is both not in vacuum and hits node latency.

10 ms is roughly datacenter lag (or was a few years back). 100ms is good cross-country pings, 300-600 is continent-to-continent links.

Figure on edge caching aas well.
Ardour (https://ardour.org/) and LMMS (https://lmms.io/) are probably the two most popular open-source DAWs. I also really like MuseScore (https://musescore.org/) for composition.
I’ve been toying with an idea for a while. Mathematica/Wolfram is a surprisingly interesting language from a design p.o.v. — everything from the Lisp origins, syntax sugar, syntax highlighting and formatting, all the things mentioned in another comment etc.

I’ve been thinking about writing about some of these details and how other languages and editors could be inspired.

Anybody who thinks there might be interest?
How Silicon Valley Plans to Conquer the Classroom
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15603371
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This one was also extremely close.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1961_Goldsboro_B-52_crash

3 of the 4 arming mechanisms activated. I would say it's a combination of good luck and good controls :)
SJWs, free speech, and safe spaces are all indeed reactionary talking points.

From Wiki: "A reactionary is a person who holds political views that favor a return to the status quo ante, the previous political state of society"

Seems dead-on to me.
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Or maybe he posts all that stupid shit to keep Americans distracted and focused on it instead of how the people he's appointed to various places in government are destroying your country?
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> Design-wise, the iPhone was just an iPod with a bigger screen

That's revisionist at it's best, and ridiculously untrue at it's worst. iPods in 2007 were about 1/3rd screen, and 2/3rds clickwheel. They were shaped like, and as thick as, a pack pf playing cards, made of plastic and metal (not glass), and basically shared nothing with the iPhone's design. When that device was released, we'd never seen anything like it.
Back in my day, we had Windows Recorder and Cool Edit.
you dont need to install CUDA or CuDNN to install pytorch. We package and ship all required dependencies with our binaries.