skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can anyone comment on his point about Spark's ML libs? I note that was from last year (about 2015 code), not sure what level of beta they were at, but yeah, I use it for batch processing, but have never used the ML aspects, so just curious.

> And even up to last year, there’s just massive bugs in the machine learning libraries that come bundled with Spark. It’s so bizarre, because you go to Caltrain, and there’s a giant banner showing a cool-looking data scientist peering at computers in some cool ways, advertising Spark, which is a platform that in my day job I know is just barely usable at best, or at worst, actively misleading.
Literally never heard of this before, and the reviews are mixed while price is high. Mario Odyssey and Zelda: BOTW are some of the most amazing games ever conceived. Tons of content and countless hours of fun. I think the safer bet is on the Switch at the moment.
Trying to protect someone against their own urges to give someone money over the internet in return for nothing... I mean how suggestible would you have to be? Society and community is not meant to act in loco parentis, unless you have an IQ ~60.

This is not any kind of fraud, or bait and switch. This is, I show you an image and ask you to send me money. No, the world I want to live in presumes a level of self discipline and self responsibility, and offers a freedom of speech which I think is antithetical to the level of thought-police that your idea of community policing would require.
Not accepting his apology is demonstrating a lack of patience and diligence? Why should anyone accept his apology? He still has the money.
KIA/Hyundai have asked customers what they want for a couple years now and their cars are some of the best in their respective segments.
The book is coming out chapter by chapter, so I linked to the latest chapter that was just published.
wait till you see how other commissioners vote alongside the chair
Google’s “AR Stickers” app launches, puts Star Wars characters in your camera
Exactly. And SEC regulations are designed to stop dumb money from going into risky investments. If you comply then you can't cash in on that dumb money and there's no point to doing an ICO.
Hi tw04 - just as a heads up, none of the SSDs were furnished by Intel. We have a budget and bought all of the drives we used on this test. Some we had to buy second hand, some were scavenged from servers we have had to decommission.

Intel does provide us with hardware, as does AMD, Intel, Toshiba, Samsung, WDC, Cavium and etc. In fact, we have a full list of all relationships here: https://www.servethehome.com/about/editorial-copyright-polic...

Unlike virtually every other major review site (and a large number of bloggers), as of today we still do not have direct ad sales to any of these companies.

We also buy an absolute ton of gear for the DemoEval service we run which is why we have access to many different bits. For example, we have purchased a dozen Optane 900p's already since Intel would not furnish us with a U.2 drive.

Intel does not want to have the 900p eat into the P4800X which is a higher margin product. As a result, this is the kind of article (Optane 900p in servers) that Intel specifically would not want us to do. Since we buy hardware, we can.
I have no idea, it's bewildering to me frankly. Take two recent IPOs for example: MongoDB had 820 employees as of July 31st. StitchFix had 5,800 employees as of July 31st [2].

[1] https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1441816/000104746917...

[2] https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1576942/000119312517...
Black Op: If you heard even a hint of it, it ain’t black. Anyone who tells you about a black op is a liar. Does Stratfor do black ops? You’ll never know.

From "Stratfor Glossary of Useful, Baffling and Strange Intelligence Terms"

https://wikileaks.org/IMG/pdf/The_Stratfor_Glossary_of_Usefu...
> And no, that's not a good description, because it gives me literally zero information to go on in order to find out what the workarounds were, how many formula actually needed them, and what the problems were that necessitated this.

Why do you feel that you're entitled to this information? And/or that providing this information is a good use of the maintainer's unpaid volunteer time (and that it's immediately obvious to the maintainer that it would be)?

> Good projects are able to handle this in a way that doesn't alienate the community or future contributors.

Homebrew is one such project. Empirically, they have an active community and sufficient contributions to keep the project robust and growing. That doesn't mean that they're going to be perfectly nice and polite to everyone, bending over backward to every user's whim. Sometimes someone is going to feel off-put as you have. But, clearly, most of the time people have positive experiences, so I'm sure they're satisfied with their performance.

> ... doing this for free does not remove the obligations he has to the community.

The only obligations I expect from an OSS maintainer is that they won't be negligent or malicious -- that is, they will work hard to avoid catastrophic bugs that destroy data or open security holes. Even given that, I accept that those sorts of things may happen due to innocent mistakes. Beyond that, I pay nothing, so I expect nothing.

This sort of thing reminds me of really the only negative I've experienced as an open source maintainer: users with feelings of entitlement.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/uhenergy/2017/06/21/how-much-is...

This article from June 2017 seems to indicate that Saudi Aramco's IPO next year may be as low as 500 billion, while the Saudis are aiming as high as 2 trillion. So I'm a little skeptical of that 4.4 trillion dollar valuation in 2010 even accounting for inflation. Can anyone shed some light on this discrepancy?

Also, why isn't it in the infographic with the other modern companies? That's strange!
That’s different than suggesting, as the poster above did, that someone like Talley wouldn’t be able to reach a “reasoned interpretation of the law.”
Did they actually, outside of happy Busicom calculator users? Even 8008 "looked okay, but nobody used it" - http://ethw.org/Oral-History:Masatoshi_Shima
Right, I think it's increasingly important to distinguish between (A) the end-result situation of neutral-networks and (B) any specific regulations/laws that are trying to preserve that status-quo.

I fear there are a lot of people out there who don't understand the distinction and are confused when they hear that NN is both the status-quo and that NN is new regulation.
If you know anything about the history of the world then you should know this has no adverse bearing on a project being able to secure funding or court the power Majority
> he's saying that some of these tokens should be classified as securities

If by 'some' you mean that some future tokens might be able to be offered for sale legally, then yes. But he also just declared basically 100% existing token operations to be criminal.
You’ve never worked at a big company like Apple or Facebook have you ?
My age group (and younger) seems to be trending towards a more conservative-yet-inclusive set of morals. This new stink about camgirl streamers is just one facet of something wider and more encompassing. Or maybe I'm just pissed that people are growing up and favoring more family-friendly stuff.
This is a straw man argument. WASM is obviously not a compelling alternative to JS. There are few people crazy enough to write web apps in C. Is that the "nice dream to have"?

However, I can think of two very compelling use cases for WASM.

As an addition to JS, it gives JS programmers access to a wealth of libraries and programs written in other languages. Codecs and compression algorithms, linear algebra libraries, image and audio processing, and a million other things have good libraries that just don't happen to be written in JavaScript. Adding a WASM blob as a library you can call from JS is a huge success. Suddenly you can do tons of client-side processing that was too prohibitive before (from an engineering cost standpoint).

As an alternative to Flash and Unity Player, you can write games for the web using WASM without having to deal with JavaScript.

Having used WASM personally, I can say with conviction that it is a compelling addition to the open web.
The next question is... after the detachment, social awkwardness and unreal expectations... what happens when you add the constant drum beat of "He asked me out now I'm charging him with assault"?

I'll be amazed if people are dating in 5 years at this rate.
Its a lot of fun watching you idiots play catch up.

I made my million and then some. I'm upset with you guys, I'm here everyday and have tried talking about Bitcoin all the time, just to get shot down.

I hope you all die.
>Why get rid of an icon that's already on everyone's phones that could be a funnel to apple music instead of spotify?

because it's not Apple
This is really nice and I'm definitely planning on giving it a looksee. I currently use Ubooquity since it's a very simply no-fuss reader that works fantastic on tablets and has pretty good format support. I currently have about 40,000 books, magazines and comics setup under it and I like generally how it works (with a few small problems that aren't deal breakers). Installing it involves running a jar file and that's it, so this looks pretty heavy to get setup.

One thing I really wish I could do with it (LibreRead or Ubooquity) is "add" books from the internet archive to it either as virtual links that simply opened up to the IA reader on their site, or with an option to download locally within the reader interface.
No ICO promises returns, you are an idiot.
Thank you. I'm so happy that there's opposite advice coming from you and siamtheman's top-level comment.

Whatever I finally choose to do, I'm pleased that there's a variety of perspectives here on HN. Cultural diversity is a wonderful thing.
Does this actually work?

Where do you find Remote jobs on Twitter, Facebook, or LinkedIn?
If they made a Switch with LTE capability and a web browser, that would also be awesome.

When I see how people react to their phones now that they are used to handhelds - with the constant feeling they've lost control and breaking changes are inevitable - it's only a matter of time before Nintendo wins other markets.
Why Private Schools Are Dying Out
Percentages my friend.
Scientists seem to take a strong stand against corporal punishment, but I do have to say, as an Asian dude I know _lots_ of Asian people (well really everyone from Asia) who are brilliant (engineers, surgeons, businessmen) and seem mentally fine and well and they were disciplined physically both at home and school.

My pet theory is that since in school environments physical punishment was distributed "equally", that's not as bad.

I really wonder how far back corporal punishment dates in the west, and whether brilliant people like Einstein ever received physical punishment.
>sure. I honestly don't see why that's a problem though, especially since "at every commit" can have clear markers for if it's expected to be buildable or not.

The value from this is the ability to always know exactly which thing caused which problem. If you know things are broken now, you can bisect from the last known good state, and find the change that introduced a breakage. With multi-repo, you can't do that, since it's not always a single change that introduces a breakage, but a combination.

Ensuring that everything always builds at latest allows you to do a bunch of really cool magical bisection tricks. If you don't have that, you can't bisect to find breakages or regressions, because your "bisection" is

1. now 2 dimensional instead of 1
2. may/will have many false positives

That puts you in a really rough spot when there's a breakage and you don't have the institutional knowledge to know what broke it.
It is a little hard for us to do so since the M.2 devices came in 16GB and 32GB capacities. The U.2 Optane 900p comes in at 280GB only as of now not the multiples of 400GB that many other drives came in. We actually had, for example, an 800GB S3700 tested but left that result out as it was essentially the same as the 400GB drive.

On the full drive part, a several hundred GB SSD will almost always nearly "empty" in practice for this application. That is why you see 8GB and 16GB RAM based solutions (e.g. the venerable ZeusRAM.)
I like the distinction that a game has specific goals, but a toy is just to play with. You can make up your own games to play with toys.

So the more sandboxy a game is (Minecraft) the more it is a toy, but the more you are on rails or limited in what you can do (Tetris), the more it is a game.
Does this track current page in PDFs? I had a quick look and it seems like this feature is supported for epub files.

I maintain, for personal use, a self-hosted web service that does something similar to this. In my custom service I split each PDF into a collection of images. This lets me download limited sets of the book (10-page chunks) for quick load times and also lets me remember which page was the last one I was reading.

A similar feature in something like this would be cool. Automatically extract the image from the page, transcode it into the best format supported by the browser, and remember which page is being read (regardless of the source book format).
Very well said, Both of these comments , capture the essence of STATE of Crypto trading unregulated markets of today .

> I've always laughed watching the cultist end of the crypto community up on their imaginary moral high horses talking about how much "better" crypto was than banks and regulated markets..

> given the fact that crypto markets basically represent all of the shady shit manipulators in regulated markets would love to do but can't.
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> +1. It's laughable. Segregated accounts, position limits, circuit breakers, margin limits, spreads across duration to reduce risk, etc are all GOOD things. The counter party risk in the exchanges right now is HUGE in the bitcoin world. Pass on that.
I don't think American ISPs WANT to be dumb pipes though.
I think the parent's dismissal is unfortunate in its nonchalance, but ultimately is correct.

Look, open source maintainers don't owe anyone anything. It behooves them to behave in a positive manner in order to encourage people to contribute, and, well, just because being nice tends to give you a good reputation. But that doesn't mean they're not still people. Sometimes they'll be curt or terse after someone asks a question about a decision that has already been beaten to death because they're just tired of talking about it. Maybe they just had an argument with a friend or family member and aren't in the best frame of mind. Maybe they're just having a bad day.

And that's ok. That's just human nature. As long as the majority of interactions with users is positive, everything's going to be fine. A few people might get their feelings stepped on here and there, and that's truly unfortunate, but I'd also hope that those people give the maintainers the benefit of the doubt and recognize that one bad interaction should hopefully not sour all the positive value they've gotten out of the maintainer's work.

Sure, if there's a huge pattern of abuse, that's a problem. But I submit that a one-off issue submitter is not qualified to assess if there's a pattern or not, especially right after they've just been rebuffed and still feel bad about it.
> Every single existing token is either a security or a commodity

My optimism could totally be misplaced! But here's an excerpt from the SEC statement that seems to go beyond your "security or commodity" classification.

> A key question for all ICO market participants: “Is the coin or token a security?” As securities law practitioners know well, the answer depends on the facts. For example, a token that represents a participation interest in a book-of-the-month club may not implicate our securities laws, and may well be an efficient way for the club’s operators to fund the future acquisition of books and facilitate the distribution of those books to token holders.
A lot of that dumb money is being put in by wall street, so not sure you're right.
I don't understand what you think shutting third-world migrants out of first-world countries would do to arrest the spread of global capitalism, which, unlike immigration, is the actual phenomenon that explains the kind of "homogenization" you're talking about. But I think you are overstating the case; even in suburban areas, and even within the United States and Canada, there are perceptible regional differences right now. And, well, I don't really see claims of "white genocide" by immigration as worth any serious consideration. By this standard the US has also been "destroyed" a few times over (this is in large part obscured by our ever-expanding definition of which people count as white).
Why OkCupid is changing how you message
> as the Optane product line is a lame duck with memory that dies around the 1TB of writes mark, leaving you with lost data and a dead SSD.

You seem to be much more concerned with venting anger than conveying accurate or relevant information.
You could try giving normal, mainstream porn a shot.

I don't think adopting either far end of the spectrum view of womens' sexuality is healthy. On one hand you have people who think less of women (putting it lightly) who are sexually active, and on the other people who treat them like they're children and believe there's no way they could be enjoying themselves as performers and that someone must be forcing them into it.

Women aren't any different from men wrt sex - some like to have a lot, some a little, some with different people, some outdoors, some with members of the same sex, and some with members of both sexes. Like green eggs and ham, kinda.
Absolutely not, why shoul I sell my secret sauce to the competition? And make no mistake, everyone in the market is competing with you! I am hoping one day to give them to my kids to continue...
Do you have any examples of good pseudocode? I have tried this method but feel as if I am not doing it in an effective manner?

And while writing pseudocode how do you know the level of depth and detail to include.
I hope these individuals and companies fight for and win the change they want to see in the world because I agree with them. But I hope the vote passes tomorrow and ISPs no longer fall under Title 2 regulations. A 100 year old law cannot possibly fit the world of global, decentralized digital information sharing that the internet has become in the last 20 years. We need a new law for the new time. And it's this passion and energy we need from these luminaries and large companies to get people aware enough of the problem to pressure congress to do something about it. So the fight doesn't end tomorrow, it starts tomorrow.
Those vestigial back seats are probably there just to make the car cheaper to insure. A 2-seat sports car screams "death machine" to insurance companies. Not a big deal at the Corvette/Cayman prices level, but arguably quite important at the $30,000 USD price range.

(caveat: this is largely inherited folk wisdom, and I'd be glad for evidence that insurance, at least nowadays, has enough data to realize what car is likely to end up wrapped around a tree)
To quote myself from the last FB thread:

> Same here. But different people value different things out of relationships. I prefer to have a handful of people close to me and don't seek out daily updates on everyone else.

> In fact, I enjoy running into those people or meeting up with them periodically even more because then they can tell me everything they've been going through in person. To me that's more fun than getting a stream of micro updates on everyone.

Keeping up-to-date with multiple people using FB is like trying to watch multiple shows in one line snippets concurrently mixed together. When you could just wait a bit and then watch it all as a contiguous story or have a real meaningful conversation with a person to catch up over dinner or something.
From what I know, error correcting codes wrap around information (in a manner of speaking) so as to provide a measure of consistency, which then enables error correction properties. If the information itself is riddled with errors then the error correcting code can't do anything here.

People using Babbage's machine would have entered raw information into that thing. No error correcting code would correct the human induced flaws in that. So the question was absurd at the time.
Turbolinks is OK, but I prefer intercooler for HTML-based apps because it gives me a lot more control:

https://github.com/LeadDyno/intercooler-js/

I don't use it for everything, but it's great for a lot of my work.
Sure jobs are going to disappear, but with each new generation of technology new jobs are created. My job as a web developer didn't exist 30 years ago, and who knows, it might not exist any more 30 years from now. Labor markets evolve as technologies evolve, we just have to teach our children to be adaptable. As far as retail/service jobs go, I think enough people value human communication that we're not going to see a total robot takeover in these areas. People are going to want to go to 'premium' places that employ humans just like people are willing to pay extra for organic groceries.
I think the difference here is who's minting coins. I don't see a reason the disenfranchised couldn't band together and create their own validator. This gives them currency internal to their community, which they can start using right now. A huge difference from what exists now. How would you possibly do this with our previous technologies, youd need enforcement to stop cheaters and scammers, youd need trustworthy regulators to distribute coin equaly, avoiding bias and discrimination. Both of these very real negitive behaviors are now very difficult if not impossible, and it didn't require a military and a complicated beaucracy to enforce.
? I thought that Zuckerberg was for internet freedom?? Project Free Internet in India and his non-profit??
Yeah cause upvoting Reddit and Hackernews posts and typing your name into some website is really going to do anything.

If this guy is going to play dirty then I don't see why others shouldn't fight back.
I suspect horses were cheaper than cars back then, but cost is an interesting question, including the cost of hay versus the cost of gas.
6 months later - "Google retires three photography apps"
Iirc, it was all cylindrical.
Ask HN: Scale of 1-10, how much did you trust Cloudflare before and after ban?
Just curious. Cloudflare published this a while ago: https://blog.cloudflare.com/why-we-terminated-daily-stormer/

What is the temperature, though?

Scale of 1-10, how much did you trust them before the ban, and how much currently?
There were projects to capture/recruit scientists, intelligence agents and propaganda experts.
AI-Assisted Fake Porn Is Here and We’re All Fucked
Even in 2017, the average American watches television for over 35 hours per week.
The first thing that came to mind was Poul-Henning Kamp’s “A Generation Lost in the Bazaar”: https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2349257
This is not my impression. It seems to me that the dumb money is people who made early fortunes in crypto or regular people looking to ride the next pump and dump. If Wall Street money is coming in it's mostly to take advantage of the dumb money for a quick profit, for example by getting preferential pricing or timing so they can sell to later investors).
Thanks for the link. Very interesting. I found this [1] from 2015.

Reading your cite, the practical issue seems to me to be that the optimizer's memory footprint costs may in fact negate any benefit (e.g. ~40% over LRU) obtained in reducing cache misses.

My gut feeling is that this approach (for online systems) may work best with a hardware component (a card hosting the 'experts' and their virtual model e.g. the "virtual cache"). The distributed variant also seems worth exploring.

[1]: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1403.0388.pdf