skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "polyfill" that reverted the change that site owners could use as a stop-gap until they could properly update their apps to work correctly

then the site owners would just use the polyfill indefinitely, since it now works again. THe more expensive option of rewriting to conform is not going to give return on investment.

This is why breaking a bad thing is needed - the suffering has to happen. It's like getting the flu - to get better one must get sick first if you've been infected.
Scientists find key to unwanted thoughts
Is Broadcom generally better than Qualcomm? The later is a really nasty company known for patent trolling and attacks on free codecs.

While normally this would probably mean less competition, buying out an obnoxious patent troll for patent disarmament can actually be a good thing.
ah maybe this is was my issue, I was only trying with TWRP and it always failed (I tried last time May this year).
Well, are they not saying how the iPhone X compares to previous iPhones? They said it’s the most breakable.

Yes, you’ll have one in the first position, but do you expect that the most recent product would be in the first position? I don’t think that’s moot at all.
In the video you mentioned that you had to run the script as root. Can you explain why?
They are primarily there for safety, and had they not historically been required for safety (early cabin crew members were nurses), but they absolutely have service duties.
Sounds kind of like the wild west
This makes me glad I don't bother with FF miles and other airline gimmicks.
Because then someone might point at their PSP.
yup, notebookcheck is the only place I read for good reviews.
This is also the way most technology goes. You used to be able to fix any part of a car. Now engines are sealed and hard to repair and cars have automatic transmissions. Consumer electronics takes this path as well. This is why voice assistants have been so popular. They provide an arguably worse experience than using a computer to do similar tasks, but the ease of use of their interface is attractive.
Love the comments in the original article, talking about a Flat Earth.
Forget the 10,000-Hour Rule – Follow the 10,000-Experiment Rule
Ask HN: How are data companies planning to deal with GDPR?
With the tough data protection law to come into effect in early 2018, how are data companies planning to deal with collection of data?

Further, is this law concerned only with third-party data collectors, or does it affect first-party data collection as well?

For example: As a startup, it is recommended to collect data. How does GDPR affect this data collection analytics aspect even if you don't use third party tools, but develop your own ?
I think this highlights the disconnect between AI researchers and industry. This research focuses on image data and then makes the claim that they want to use it to enable millions of businesses to solve problems with machine learning.

However, image data isn't what most businesses are using for machine learning. They use relational datasets. If you look at the recent "State of Data Science" by Kaggle, relational data is ~3x more common than image data in every industry besides academia and the military [0]. While Google wants to 1000x the number of organizations using AI, they aren't focusing on the problems companies actually have.

Basically, academics love building AI for images, but what companies really need are better ways to build AI systems on tabular and relational data. Images will be a piece, but shouldn't be the focus.

Disclaimer: my company develops an open source library called Featuretools [1] to automate feature engineering for data with relational structure.

[0] https://www.kaggle.com/surveys/2017

[1] https://github.com/featuretools/featuretools
Excellent point.

Hopefully someday a "lean webpages" movement appears.
It was when Going Online was still a ritual, just like starting up the computer was - it took a while, sometimes you had to go through a menu or start up Windows or whatever separately still, you got this jingle when starting up, sometimes a login screen, all that stuff. Then going online, dialing up, telling the family (if any) that you're using the internet for a while, firing up the browser, etc. Using the internet was (for most people anyway) a very focused task too, given the per minute charge - get online, do what you want, get offline again.

I noticed that myself very quickly after getting DSL; while we had a bandwidth limit (1500 MB / month iirc), I still spent a lot of time online; freed from pay per minute, you get a lot more time to just browse and explore. Still do the latter. Usually it's browsing Reddit, but sometimes I fall into a rabbit hole.
It sounds like a lot but that's only about 40-70 milliseconds additional round-trip time which for a lot of things isn't that big of a deal.
> Companies, that are not hip, but have large codebases and large set of complex business-procedures, that takes long time to grok...

Like Nokia with its backend hardware for mobile networks? Or Ericsson? Or
Volvo? Or virtually any bank? It's not like they balk at programmers that
changed jobs every two or three years and don't hire them in bulk.

> Plenti of those steady businesses with long views (at least here in Europe).

I don't think you've seen as an employee that many big companies, even here
in Europe.

> (I have been working there for 5+ years now, as a part-time contractor).

And I am supposed to be amazed or what? 5 years is not that long, I've been
there myself and I've seen good programmers with modern skills that had much
longer relationships with their company.
Not entirely sure. But a friend and I have day traded IOTA as an example quite a bit. We have no illusions (well I don't) about how potentially shady this all is. People start talking in crypto circles. IOTA goes up double digits that says. Then usually just goes back to where it was a few days later.

I assume none have any real value. Though IOTA seems like it has different spins on what it is doing and is trying to do real things with the coin. I've heard positives and negatives. I'm not entirely familiar with the details. Regardless for that reason and in general risk reasons, i wouldn't stake a claim in IOTA or almost small altcoins like the ones you mentioned for long.
Check out the Radeon ssg. Its a gpu with a directly addressable 2tb ssd built into the gpu.
Yes.

90% of the ML techniques you learn will be passé in five years. 90% of the algorithms you learn will still matter in five years.
Ah yes, thank you. It really is that simple:

6.6. Applications/Protocols That Use This URI Scheme Name

Web browsers:

Firefox
Note: Firefox has a unique interpretation of RFC 1738 (See: Bugzilla#107540), which affects UNC paths.

See Bugzilla#107540 from 16 years ago:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=107540

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If url format is file:////servername/dir/file.html Mozilla does not navigate to
the link. This format works in IE5.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Put url in page - format file:////servername/dir/file.html
2. Try to navigage to link
3.

Actual Results: Nothing

Expected Results: It should have opened link

---

reply from Neil Becker:

We have many links on our internal company website using the
file:////server/a/b/c/ convention to access files on our network drives.
mozilla seems to want file:///// (5 slashes) but IE and even the old netscape
accept 4 slashes.

It seems that to access a local file, if you write file://D:/qtdocs/classes.html
for instance, (2 slashes) mozilla automatically changes it to 3. so... when a
link specifies FOUR slashes for a UNC name, it would make sense if mozilla would
either expand it to FIVE slashes and check it like that, or accept the 4 slashes.

In our company's opinion, this is a bug, not a feature... It's a bug that'll
cause us to not use mozilla and instead use IE or another browser than can do
the file:////server/a/b/c links. it doesn't seem to be hard to fix - if there's
four slashes in the link, change it to 5 and try it. just like you change 2
slashes into 3 for a local hard drive file. cmon!

I would really like to see this bugfix in the mozilla 1.0 release. this is NOT
a duplicate bug (i checked the others that are claimed to be a dupe and its
not). so would someone please fix this?????

thanks.
Soulseek is incredible, discovered all sorts of smaller-time musicians that never wouldve been sold at the Best Buy in the suburban wasteland of my youth.

I can’t believe it’s under active maintenance after all these years!
I'm laughing my head off at how your comment, precisely about this point, has spawned a conversation that has included, "it's like a VM", "it's not like a VM", "it depends on how you define VM", "there are lots of definitions for VM", "you can use a volume, just use the --volume flag", "that's not for volumes, that for bind mounts".

OH MY GOSH CAN YOU PEOPLE NOT SEE HOW BADLY DEFINED ALL OF THE NOMENCLATURE IS?
Probably next Apple release cycle is the main motivation, but who knows?
Any recommendations for similar looking stylesheets?
My son is finally to the age where he needs to submit/present PowerPoint presentations for homework assignments. After walking him through the best practices for presenting + making sure his presentation was ship-shape, he received a C. His teacher sent a rubrick for the next assignment with criteria like: must have at least one animated transition; must use at least two backgrounds; must use at least 3 text animations; must not be in outline format; use complete sentences.

I was floored, but in the end explained to him that he's doing something for a grade, not for it to be good, and that there is a right and wrong way to do a PowerPoint presentation.
How is a hidden stop possible? Wouldn't you be able to look at total flight times and see that it's estimated to take an extra 45+ minutes on that flight than other direct flights?
Your view appears to be that if you don't need it, nobody needs it, ergo it's dumb. But as Shakespeare wrote, "There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy." If you don't need it, maybe it's for somebody else.
AI and Inequality – The Real Threat
Like, I'm ok with my employer reading my work emails - that's obviously in my contract. But there's something really creepy about automated software that automatically flags messages/actions for review because they are "suspicious". Same with using my webcam to take pictures of me while I work.
On MINIX, you would more likely compromise a process like the file system, and then induce a privileged service to fail, causing the reincarnation server to read your version of that privileged service from the file system; that is, assuming they haven't introduced pervasive load-time signature verification for this version.
>You might as well just keep on 80 until you hit Reno.

There's quite a few people who have done just that. I feel like every 3rd person in Reno is a California expat.
I also use S3, add also a bucket named www.example.com that redirects to example.com bucket.
1. Because every browser pretends to be each other and so the UA is worthless: https://webaim.org/blog/user-agent-string-history/

2. Because you're not going to update your detection every time a new version comes out, meaning that new browsers that support the features you need are still going to get served the wrong version of your site.

3. Because there are more browsers than you can count.

4. Because for non-syntax related features, feature detection on the client is usually pretty simple.

5. Because the UA is trivial to spoof.
AMD and Intel are reportedly teaming up to take on Nvidia
> US population growth has continued to erode toward barely expanding, and that's with immigration included. That decline is going to get worse by the decade, while simultaneously boomers continue to plunge out of the labor force over the next decade.

Universal health care might help. Having a kid is gonna be a really, really bad idea financially-speaking regardless, but the risk of their having even a middlingly-bad chronic health problem and ruining your finances for life (on top of the ordinary time lost and stress caused by such misfortune) make having a kid like playing Russian roulette with your bank account, credit, and retirement.
I'm definitely not likely to do something about it. My income is growing at a nice pace, I can afford all the necessities, plus vacations and leisure activities. I live in a miraculous age of fast travel and global connectivity.

It's the Global Economy, the Knowledge Economy, and I'm one of the "winners". I imagine most people who post here are on the "winning" side as well.

So why would I rock the boat? Protest? Protest what? Are these "rich parasites" even breaking the law? I don't know, honestly. Their lawyers are probably pretty convincing. Maybe the laws have loopholes, maybe I'd be exploiting those loopholes myself if I knew how to work the system.

"While we’re on the road to our Star Trek future, but before we finally get there, the rich are going to get richer—because they own the robots—and the rest of us are going to get poorer because we’ll be out of jobs. Unless we figure out what we’re going to do about that, the misery of workers over the next few decades will be far worse than anything the Industrial Revolution produced."

Marx predicted all this, to a T. It really is the logical end-game of capitalism. I have a feeling Marx is going to become very relevant again. We'll see if the NFL, Netflix, and cheap food will be enough to contain that genie this time.
Much better source: https://newsroom.intel.com/editorials/new-intel-core-process...

credit to trynumber9: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15635771
My last company started having design sessions to build a system that would monitor how much employees were actively engaged at their desk. I tried to steer them to "rewarding employees who were working hard" goal, but they were only interested in punishing people. It was a real eye opener into the culture that was forming.
Why Getting Home Owners Insurance Is Like Using Windows 95
Everybody loses.
Firefox (and IE) did the same thing for autocomplete=off, with the same rationale.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=956906
> To note, all of these are not mandatory and can be done in steps as it becomes interesting to do.

I agree with your point in general but would like to add a disclaimer. Local legal requirements if you target a specific non-domestic audience are mandatory. Sure you can skip that part and hope you fly under the radar but I wouldn't personally take that risk.
In a leveraged buyout, the resulting business will need to generate profit to service the loans, over and above whatever its overheads are today.
> "Almost overnight, the quality of [Google's] translations skyrocketed." In certain languages, and still dependent on the human brain to reparse the not-quite-gibberish into something that makes sense.

But it happened replacing a system carefully crafted for 10 years, for another one that barely needed a couple of months to get better than the old one. And it can be made better than google's, today: https://www.deepl.com/translator

> "Driverless cars soon" - and flying ones, too, "in production in a few years" for a century now.

We had driverless car prototypes for a century? Wow. /s
The opacity between implementation and understanding is large here and many fields. It depends where you want to contribute. I can build (i.e assemble) a computer. I could learn to build a small basic computer out of transistors and logic gates, etc. Theres a difference between a technician, an engineer and an inventor. To be an inventor takes a lot of work and experimentation probably proportional to the novelty of an invention.

Not to overdo analogies but you dont need to rebuild your own internal combustion engine in a unique way to drive a car or to contribute improvements to a car. The more you understand how and why tensorflow works the more you can do with it. It depends whether you want to build on top of that platform and use it, or build on the concepts for something else.
If they want to make flying more fun, they should start by not treating everyone like a piece of meat during security screening beforehand.
> Another way of phrasing it: Google is putting users first, ahead of developers.

For the most part, Google is putting its developers ahead of your developers. They could have e.g. jitted scroll handlers to bail out of passive, but did not, and instead broke all active scroll listeners.

> The vast majority of times scroll listening is used, a passive listener is the correct implementation and just wasn't available when the code was written.

And once again minorities get to visit the mass grave through no fault of their own.
To get anything useful out of Google, I often have to resort to using "verbatim" results from the search tools. Those results are much closer to the old Google than the standard search, but not perfect.

I remember how revolutionary late 90s Google was in how it would show you exactly what you were looking for, or pages with relevant content, whereas the other popular search engines was just be a jumble of stuff.

It seems like in order to monetize search, Google has had to regress what once worked well.
So this is a good thing because the gatekeeper is Google instead of Facebook?

How's about adhering to standards? We gave Microsoft a hell of a time for not adhering to standards, but Google gets a free pass now? Because "performance"? (read: some negligible gains on some synthetic benchmarks)

Then let's stop pretending: let's scrap the W3C and go back to the good old days of "Best viewed on Netscape Navigator at 800x600".
>the low income, unstable jobs, low literacy, blue collar jobs or are already on social support.

The few times I've been to a casino, I was really surprised by the crowd. It wasn't exactly Casino Royale. Just a lot of people who came off as lower class to me (clothing, speech, mannerisms, etc) and/or retirees, who also weren't exactly living it up. Heck, I even saw a woman slyly shove a $5 prime rib into her purse for later. The entire steak too, and without a ziplock or anything. She just shoved it in there to eat later. She was also wearing a bedazzled sweater with a pair of dice. I suspect a lot of these people end up identifying with a 'casino lifestyle.'

There was also something depressing about the slot machines that had cute cartoon characters on them. I wonder what the emotional and intellectual age of the people playing are. They seemed more like children who have yet to have the maturity and education to understand risk and financial security than adults.

>This industry is highly regulated

I imagine its regulated like most regulations in the USA: by the whims of the industry itself. They'll tolerate gambling hotlines and will fund them because ultimately that keeps real regulation away. The same way cigarette makers tolerated labels but, of course, were never pulled from store shelves.
I'm actually quite surprised Apple didn't go with Ryzen/Threadripper already in their Mac Pros, considering what a huge multi-thousand dollar margins that would have offered them (at least if they went with the same absurd prices as the Xeon Mac Pros). And they could've still claimed a significant boost for their Mac Pro performance compared to the old Intel chip in the last generation.

They could've also replaced all of their dual-core laptops with quad-core Ryzen APUs for about 2-2.5x increase in both CPU multi-thread performance and GPU performance. And I don't think it would've cost them more, or not significantly more at least. AMD seems to price their cores at 50-60% of Intel's cores.
Also, with bad reviews, you can keep in mind if the bad reviews seem to be legitimate complaints, or whether they're just written by either someone with an axe to grind or someone who doesn't understand the purpose of the product. For example, some negative reviews of textbooks on Amazon seem to be people who are reviewing a course they took using the textbook. And some negative reviews of restaurants on Yelp seem to have wanted the restaurant to serve a different kind of food than they do.
The public alpha of the Blockstack Browser
Dear developer,

I hate you[1] when you interfere with scrolling. Yes, some people do it right and so on. You are not one of them. Please. Stop.

Yours,

A user that will close your website when scrolling is messed with.

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[1] not OP, but the average developer, which, under time pressure and without many resources, cannot test all desktop/phone and browser combinations. Assuming they even care.
Comcast asks the FCC to prohibit states from enforcing net neutrality
It's possible using loans. If you get a big enough loan you can buy anything. And if profits hold steady, you can pay off the loans and everything works out great. The profits just have to be higher than the interest rates.
I think you're misunderstanding what I was trying to say. I am explicitly saying that lots of other schools are fantastic, and also that schools which aren't pitched as the "best" produce fantastic alumni. So, as you say, I agree.

Yes, I think that there are schools around the world with harder curricula than MIT, with the caveat that every university has different strengths. I could go into my accomplishments in undergrad, but it's truly besides the point.

At some point it's truly ridiculous to compare as if it's a linear ranking. It's counterproductive to worry about rankings, and causes completely unnecessary friction between institutions. Pride and insecurity get in the way of solving problems, and all of us are ultimately struggling against a much more interesting challenge than each other.

I think the professor here is really not making a compelling argument, to be honest. None of the listed things are unique to MIT for sure, though strictly speaking he doesn't claim that they are -- he says that they are lessons of an MIT education, rather than unique aspects of an MIT education. He's a mathematician so this may be intentionally precise.
I'm unable to find it, but I'm pretty certain this was already submitted shortly after the original post in 2016 - may be some other interesting HN discussion already if anyone can find it.
This prove how dominant Nvidia is, Intel and AMD is literally shaking in their boots to even consider partnering up to attempt to defeat a common enemy
Japan and especially Europe are even worse off than us (at least we're reproducing near replacement-level), and China has a looming demographic problem due to the lasting impacts of their one-child policy (recently softened (though too late), so I hear).
Isn't this a reaction to moronic use of autocomplete=off in a user-hostile way by various websites? In a similar vein to how abuses of disabling the back button, popups etc have led to defensive measures by browser vendors.
Ask HN: Is there a Hacker News Saas version, like HN on-demand? Wanna build one?
That is a microcosm for how awful (and non-educating) school can be.
I also disagree on this one.

We manages our own cluster for years. Even had an expert in that database technology help us optimize the config. Then we switched to RDS...

Sure it was a few hundred dollars more per month in AWS fees but we saved thousands a month in consulting fees.