skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
a million dollars behind where she would have been if she went straight into what industry?
My summary:

* deephi built an FPGA based processing unit specialized for sparse low precision tensor operations

* Now they have a dev kit for turning your tensorflow/caffe/mxnet models into compressed (sparse/low precision) binaries that are optimized to run on their processors.

They published a paper about how they balance compression/accuracy. [0]

[0] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1612.00694.pdf
Sorry it won’t be about Cortana but Windows Search in general.

Windows Search was great in Windows 7 - you could configure the fulltext search index through control panel and use it from the start menu. I used to index all my markdown notes and pdf documents with it. Then it started getting worse and worse with later versions of Windows. The start menu search looks comppetely detached from the index settings and, as you noticed, can’t even find installed applications. The only way to use the „old good” search is by using the search box in the explorer window when you are on the computer level. I’m still wondering what was the reason for those changes.
In most services, the treating physician is rotating on a weekly basis. That's pretty much the most convenient/tolerable/safe period of continuous work, as long as you do not receive more than 2-3 calls per night.

Call number is dependent on the acuity of patients' condition, and the ability of the house staff (i.e. residents on site) to manage minors problems without immediately consulting the attending by phone.
Does anyone know why they use deadlock detection rather than deadlock avoidance (the simplest avoidance algorithm being simply to always acquire locks in the same order)? I can't find a good reference right now, but I was under the impression that deadlock detection, especially distributed detection, is extremely costly and basically precludes high contention workloads, but maybe I'm confused here.

The only two reasons I could think of were 1. You can't know all the locks you want in advance (because the postgres api doesn't require it), or 2. Citus doesn't expect customers to have high contention workloads where deadlocks are likely (or at least they thing they can be reduced primarily to single node deadlocks).

Am I overestimating the cost of deadlock detection?
Are you looking at the same market? The default market on OhMyCoin is Gemini which has fewer updates than GDAX.

GDAX does the fade-in and fade-out animation on the order book, which helps give it dynamism. It may have a bit more render frequency, as OhMyCoin orderbook is rendered every 200ms. I considered that fast enough, given it's nature nobody is going to read and process the data faster than that, and it consumes much less CPU than GDAX dashboard.
> What does that mean that "private keys only have value when you hold them."

What he's saying is that people would sell their old private keys and an attacker could then use these to create a fake history of stakers- The existence of this attack is a valid criticism against POS, though one that can be easily prevented by just syncing to the network at regular intervals.
Log Unexpected Switch Options
What do you mean by "nothing"? Weston includes a usable desktop shell by default. Without virtual desktops, but with a panel.
See this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1B0u6nvcTsI

Detroit communities building wireless networks from scratch. Hackerlabs style.
Why do American government not create a crypto dollar?
Trying Out New .NET Core Alpine Docker Images
"Mayor Lee — after touring the goofy Museum of Ice Cream but before eating ice cream and playing pingpong with its co-founder, Manish Vora — said he is working hard on these issues."

Clearly, this is a top priority.
You're not really considering the demographic here. Pretty much all of the vandwellers I met are surf or climbing bums and some girls are absolutely into that - not to mention a few were girls anyway. Not everybody is after the clean cut young professional life.
Moral of the story is though, do it then ask. Much easier for both sides in the end.
And TV was the tool before that, and Radio was the tool before that. What's your point?
A nice quote but getting data between SaaS apps is much harder than between Excel sheets, and modifying a SaaS app with that one little thing you need for your particular case is of course impossible.
KRunner on Kubuntu os a joy to use.
Dammit, I had no idea Congress needs 2/3 majority in both houses to override a veto. That seems to make it impossible, even if the Democrats do take control of both Houses.
Bitcoin Price: Tether Hack Pulls BTC Higher
That only works if there actually is a way to spend $51 and get a higher probability, and that's not necessarily the case. E.g. the Dfinity protocol uses threshold signatures so with any m-of-n stakers submitting, the same random number will be produced.

Besides, in Casper at least there are internal costs: the locking and potential loss of stake.
Don't be too hard on yourself.

The same people saying you shouldn't reproach clear and obvious incompetence are the same people calling you, the author, "some random idiot"... in this very comment section.
Ask HN: How do I choose a niche for freelance software business?
I've read that in order to attract inbound business, it helps to develop a niche where you can become an expert on something. Two examples include:

* Technical experts: People like Jon Skeet (C# StackOverflow guru) and Jacob Thornton (Bootstrap creator)

* Tangential experts: People like Patrick MacKenzie (blogged about his software small businesses) and Brennan Dunn (Double your freelancing, aimed largely at software professionals)

If I went technical, I'd probably choose the framework/language I use the most in my freelancing work and become a deep expert in that. The upside is it would achieve the goal of more inbound business. The downside is it would be a chore for me to be blogging about topics that haven't already been covered - language/framework niches are difficult to break into if you aren't the creator or early prominent member.

If I went tangential, I'd choose the topic of health and software development. There's clearly a market for this (see "The Healthy Programmer"[1]) and I think it's a niche I could dominate. I also would have no trouble creating blog posts, podcasts, and other material to develop this niche. The downside is I don't think this would achieve my goal of bringing in new business for software development - I could see this being a side project to build in addition to my freelance development, and it could become big if I put enough effort into it, but I don't see businesses needing health consultants for their development teams (who are also developers) as an immediate pressing need.

Does anyone have any insights into attempting these various approaches?

[1] https://pragprog.com/book/jkthp/the-healthy-programmer
(While negotiating salary:) "Gee, you know, we invest all this money in office space, monitors, chairs... do we really need to pay you to do this job? I mean, look at how much we're spending here."
Off-topic: It's sad how far away we are from sane personal computing (if I may use these laws as a definition of that term).
Wait, you can go back to native 'xbox' commands?

Oh wow, you can! https://www.howtogeek.com/265854/how-to-disable-hey-cortana-...

Thanks, had no idea - assumed that when MS shipped that update the old kinect voice recognition just went away. "Xbox, turn off" and "Xbox, record that" were the two most used voice commands in our house, but "Hey cortana" never seems to respond when you call her.
Do you think the internet is the same as it ever was?
I think the internet, it's uses, and the ISPs, have all changed and that it's worth revisiting regulations applied.
There are valid arguments, but the fact that we were fine without regulations previously does not mean we will continue to be as companies grow to the point where they can't be competed with anymore.
Congrats on the launch. Yes, some folks have mentioned about the UI not being optimized or whatever. But it's easy to defer launching with the hope that everything would be "perfect" from the get-go. In any case, it's a good enough MVP and hopefully you'll get some sales and valuable feedback to improve your product further.
See this[1] thread for some examples of where lack of neutrality can be anti-competitive and anti-consumer.

[1] https://np.reddit.com/r/KeepOurNetFree/comments/7ej1nd/fcc_u...
FWIW I built a little calculator project using Vue and Vuetify this summer and I really liked Vue's easy-to-run-with feel, but I couldn't jibe with how difficult Vuetify was to customize. Maybe I wasn't reading the docs correctly, or maybe it was my concurrent learning of Vue that made Vuetify seem obtuse, but I just found the whole experience frustrating. My god was the result pretty though. 7/10 would star on GitHub.
So the chosen chain will never include proofs-of-staker-fraud (since these destroy staker ETH)?
"If the excel team was blessed with a plague of inspiration tomorrow morning, Is there a way they could make it so that excel is the right way to manage an insurance business?"

What a professional software developer's workflow has and Excel lacks:

* principled way of sharing code across a team with distributed source control (or similarly powerful tool),

* automated regression tests,

* input validation,

* continuous deployment tools to automatically deploy working code (default mode for Excel I guess), and a mechanism to roll back to a previous version (not so much),

* build and dependency management tools for bringing in libraries from a vast open source ecosystem,

* systems for reporting bugs and feature requests and tracking their progress,

* networked database that is the shared "source of truth" for all users,

* security and auditing,

* hardware capacity planning (run locally or in AWS? what are the cost trade offs?)

So sure, get the health insurance people doing all of those things, and have Microsoft figure out how to do all of them well in Excel, and congratulations, they are now software developers. None of these require using a "real programming language", at least not directly.
>They have to detect and prevent DDoS from their customers, detect and prevent malware, as well as child pornography and stuff.

What makes you think they don't do this already?

I can't run a mail server on port 25. I call my ISP and ask why. They tell me they are combatting open relays, and I need to accept a business class agreement with them to open the port.

ISPs have data retention policies to assist law enforcement with investigations into criminal activity. They will terminate your account for breaking the law as well.

https://www.wired.com/2010/01/verizon-terminating-internet-a...

It's their network. They are motivated to protect it.
It's hard to undersell how massive a usability improvement the Start menu was compared to System 7 installed-application-launching, where you had to either manually mess with aliases or just root around the Finder each time.
Which one would you use, the CSS "pointer" one?

I want to make clear that the user can write in there in order to filter entries.
But cors[0] headers can mitigate some of the risk?

[0]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/CORS
The shocking thing is if you completely drop sugar from your diet you still notice plenty of sweet things. The only changes is the threshold before you consider something sweet.

IMO, we need to have a big fat "This is Candy!" label on anything that's got more than 1 gram of sugar/hfcs/whatever per serving. Yes, that includes Apple Juice and other 'hidden' sweeteners.
Real Time Bidding (RTB) – Demand Side Platform Framework
We have released small under 10K lines of code framework.
https://github.com/venediktov/vanilla-rtb
The bidder can process up to 50K QPS while matching on every impression. The examples are automatically built with 1700-1800 campaigns and regenerated with every build and the framework is shipped with small UI widget to view campaigns loaded in the bidder. We use shared memory for storing campaigns and allow multiple bidders paring with nginx for load balancing. The docker image is also built and released automatically from github on every official release. Please support our project!
Because price per pound:
Erythritol: $20
Sugar: $0.44

Source: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:mhVolO...

[Google cache, the original PDF is 404 Not Found]

Edit: looks like one can find erythritol for as little as $15, which is still 34 times more than sugar.
Public: Russian election hacking

Private: If we can't co-opt it then it's not useful to us
Has the definition of "passed" changed recently?
'I Don't Believe in Science', Flat-Earther Set to Launch Himself in Own Rocket
I think it is correct. They pushed for a cap, but are now pushing for an increase. ...the AAMC is now calling for an annual increase of 3000 Medicare-funded slots.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4978854/

According to the above article, new programs are not capped. However, the bureaucracy hurdles you are required to jump to establish such a residency program is huge.
There's no contradiction here. Some things we do became easier to do, but human nature did not change.
This has been an issue since MaBell.
Scanning for vulnerable components is different. All the tool has to do is find out the site is using the specific library, the vulnerabilities themselves are manually validated.
Er, those are both insanely large industries with untold amounts of money flowing through them (well, radio not so much but in its heyday).

If FB is an industry on the level of TV or radio, then it's almost certainly not overvalued.
There are plenty of places in the US where I can comfortably leave $8,000 of camera equipment in my van. SF isn't one of them.
Software development contractor, about 100k Euro/year after taxes, 10 years of experience, Poland.
DEFINITELY NOT CHECKING ANYTHING.
His original quote was

"Since 1920, the vast increase in welfare beneficiaries and the extension of the franchise to women — two constituencies that are notoriously tough for libertarians — have rendered the notion of “capitalist democracy” into an oxymoron."

He seems pro democracy but then seems to think that some people's voting patterns threaten it.

He clarified the statement with:

"It would be absurd to suggest that women’s votes will be taken away or that this would solve the political problems that vex us. While I don’t think any class of people should be disenfranchised, I have little hope that voting will make things better"

So he doesn't like voting at all? Isn't that a pillar of democracy? Strange and I am libertarian leaning...

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/peter-thiel-donates-don...
That's fine in theory, but it didn't stop my disk from being corrupted. If the computer hadn't panicked, my data would still be available.
The instagram links are broken.
What industry are you in now [as a DS]?
If more non-store Mac apps had an "Install" process, you would.

But you're just dragging a special type of folder off a disk image, so nah.

This was a weird coincidence or bug, nothing more. I've used free and trial versions of IntelliJ on Macs countless times without search ever having issues with them. It's hard to imagine how you'd even make the system work in that way, as an app developer.
If you work on crypto, or any application where sensitive data is handled, then this short post on the WIPEONFORK option may be interesting:

http://www.metzdowd.com/pipermail/cryptography/2017-November...
I've heard in most cases, banks don't bother investigating / pursuing (credit card) fraud for amounts <$10K.
Apple Replaces Black Diversity VP with a White Woman
How is the food industry supposed to grow if we stop becoming more and more obese?
The problem (and advantage of) Nextdoor is that it is hyper-local. It's great for anyone in an HOA or apartment complex or whatever. It really fills a niche there.

However I wish there was more to fill the spectrum between Nextdoor, which is really just a communication tool for people that live within shouting distance of each other (there's a standup routine in there somewhere..) and Facebook, which trends too far towards the national and global.

I wish I could close my facebook account, but it's essential for asynchronously keeping in contact with friends living around the globe now (I grew up in Silicon Valley, so my friend set in particular is rather global since everyone not in tech or other high paying professional jobs have been forced out of the housing market and moved elsewhere). What about at the level of my city, county, state & region? I really wish there were more local options.

I also wish there were better tools for building social networks around specific hobbies, industries, or interests. Where are the clubs of social networks? This requires more than just a "page" with a wall and like button. The anonymous and cancerous Reddit certainly isn't the answer either.
Sigh, net neutrality became a topic of conversation when it became apparent that ISP's were interfering with content they didn't like.

https://www.eff.org/wp/packet-forgery-isps-report-comcast-af...

https://www.extremetech.com/computing/186576-verizon-caught-...

These network operators are easily swayed by organizations willing to wave money at them. With the repeal everyone expects this kind of behavior to return, and extend as ISP's come up with more creative ways to leverage their networks for financial gain. I don't think anyone would mind, if the results were better networks, but the telecom industry in the US has repeatedly demonstrated that their absolute last priority when it comes to spending their profits is network upgrades. Literally everything else comes first.
Ex Google employee creates an A.I worshiping religion
Is that just when they reporter picked the time to ask that question?
This is a nice tool and I would like to use it for my side project. My project is called "closet.zone", but when I typed that in, I got logos for "closet". When I instead typed in "ClosetZone", the tool seemed to interpret it as "closetz one", and stylized "one" in most logos.
In my experience, work before play is the most productive strategy. Two things that I think might help your situation:

1) Pomodoro technique - I modify this to be 45-60 minutes of work, 10-15 minute breaks. I do six of these throughout the day. When I'm in the work phase, no news/social media/any distractions, focus is important. Do whatever you want in your breaks. And stick to the timers, don't go over on either your work periods or your break periods.

2) If you're doing client work 8am-12pm, stop at 12pm, regardless of whether you've accomplished what you were hoping to. Stopping when you say you'll stop makes it a lot easier to stay mentally focused when you first pick it back up the next day: even if you don't like what you're working on, you know you only have to focus on it until lunchtime, and then you get to work on the fun stuff.
I think it's an absolute statement about the lack of awareness to this risk.

Of course some of these site would not actually be vulnerable, but I would bet the vast majority of them don't even know they're using a library with a known vulnerability.
>nothing bad happened.

That is your perception. Maybe you weren't around for Compuserve, AOL, and similar attempts at walled garden networks that fortunately crumbled largely because there was an open Internet.

A better way to look at it is that a lot of good happened with net neutrality. Both before and after the regulations. Before, because we effectively had net neutrality already without the regulations, as I'll expand on more below.

The Internet thrived, and the blossoming of the entire world of web content happened.

Small startups had the opportunity to expose new innovative services to customers and markets that they might have otherwise been locked out of due to entrenched big companies feeling threatened.

The creative explosion of stuff that ensued has been fantastic.

Not all of it is good, of course, but it's hard to deny that overall it's way better than what we would have had in a walled garden world.

Some of this happened before net neutrality regulations, but in an era that had a kind of defacto net neutrality simply because the stodgy old companies hadn't yet figured out how to get their grasp around the Internet. So when thinking about this it's useful to look past just the era of actual on-paper regulation to the previous era of defacto openness of the Internet. The regulations were about preserving openness which already existed, but which was threatened by greedy corporate interests as they increasingly gained clues about how to lock things down and stifle competition.

Why can't we go back to having net neutrality without regulations? Because as I said big corporate players have now figured out how to exploit the system to the point where they would quickly threaten the openness of the net. Not that they can succeed in doing it 100%... the internet is self-healing to an extent... but without the net neutrality regulations being in place, they can choke off more of it, which would be bad.
Indeed, and it's not even a joke, but a real phenomenon.

Sources :

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2896592/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21747093
This is one of the main reasons I am not panicked about net neutrality. Net neutrality favors giant, centralized entities that have more than enough issues of their own. Net neutrality is, in effect, designed to preserve the status quo of the Internet, as it is ideally beneficial to net neutrality's primary sponsors: Google and Netflix.

I think there are ISP options that net neutrality prohibits which are worth exploring for some people, and if repealing net neutrality benefits decentralization or creates a radical shift in the Internet design instead, I won't consider that a catastrophic outcome.

Fragmentation, in this context, is the negative connotation of the word decentralization.
I wonder if people 80-100 years ago were as hysteric about radio and TV as we are today about social media.
> probably closer to ~15 TWh/year

or 1.71ish gigawatts -- https://www.google.com/search?q=15+terawatt+hours+per+year+t...

I'm pretty impressed google handled that conversion. I mathed it out independently but not even wolframalpha got it.
One thing I can say is that it's possible to feel the way you feel even for someone in a situation where they seem like they "have things figured out".

Read Seneca's On the Shortness of Life. It and other works of Stoic philosophy help me at times when I feel this way.

Changing jobs/cities/partners can sometimes be the answer, but finding a source of value that is robust to changing circumstances is the only hope we have in life.
It's in a real scientific programming language, viz. Fortran, as SELECTED_REAL_KIND().
Also a lot of people would be killed, some promptly by charlatan idiots, others more slowly by charlatans with half a brain.