skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are millions of different soil types. The right answer is different for each. Follow is just one useful technique farmers use to build soil, it works in some cases not in others.
But this doesn't actually work yet. Oil prices are transmitted through to biofuels because the biofuel supply chain depends critically on fossil fuel inputs. For example, planting, harvesting, and transport of corn and soy feedstock is currently completely reliant on fossil-fueled machinery. This may change in the future, but the current reality is no better than a 1-to-1 transformation of fossil fuel into biofuel.
me too

i found after getting a new laptop that i really only listend to 2-3 records i bought ages ago.

iTunes can confirm, it says i only listened to 7 files (4songs and 3 albums) this past year
> Out of curiosity, where did you live and what sector did you work in?

On the east coast near a major city and in wholesale and distribution primarily.
Right - corn ethanol offset a lot of MTBE usage in the USA, which is a good thing.
We're talking soybeans at the moment. This is moving the goal posts. If you can't eat corn-based ethanol corn, you grow other crops on that land.
It's really not even surprising anymore. When you don't have a court/justice system that works, any ridiculous situation is possible. And somehow we as citizens are supposed to have faith in a system that leads to this outcome? What's the incentive for the defendant to stick to the rules now? If he had the chance, why wouldn't he bribe or even have witnesses/jurors murdered to advance his defense in a system that does not even respect his plea? The absurdity of our laws and courts is beyond comprehension.
Ask HN: What is the Bitcoin price level at which miners will leave?
Is there a price point at which mining is no longer financially viable. I'm guessing the point is higher for the smaller mining pools/miners and lower for the bigger mining pools. At what levels is the risk of a 51% mining power to one pool likely.
Then why does Youtube stop ALL monetization, they should stop only ad-based monetization to these channels and still allow the channels to be payed out of Youtube Red visits or any other (possible future) types of non-advertising income. This feels shady and short sighted to me and combined with so many other issues disproportionally affecting small channels (like the adpocalypse) it's just one more nail in the coffin of small content creators (note: any big content creator was a small content creator at some point, the question is, would they have ever stuck with Youtube and became what they are if Youtube had all these issues when they started?)
Do you think for something to be a JIT it must only compile code immediately before it's used?

In that case the only real JIT I know of is basic-block-versioning. I think almost all JITs will compile branches or methods to some extent before they are actually needed.

Yours is probably not a reasonable definition therefore. I think a JIT is just a compiler that can compile as the program is running.
I'm not diagnosed autistic but I definitely have strong obsessive and ADHD tendencies about things I get interested in.

For music, the pieces I find myself listening to repeatedly have a particular quality that I can't really describe, but they just sound so good, so perfect, that they make me feel transcendent
.. it's honestly like sex. I like all music and I'm cool with having anything on in the background while I'm doing work, but when I'm really determined to focus on what I'm listening to I need to listen to the music I love, and the list of that music is very short.
You could say the same about uservoice.com

I'd very much like one place I could monitor everything I use for changes.
By ideology I mean something like predictable clusters of ideas around large questions. On HN it doesn't much matter which ideology people subscribe to or battle against—it's all more or less off topic here. There are two reasons.

First, all of it is predictable. Each time something gets repeated, its potential to gratify curiosity diminishes. In the case of ideological squabbles, the repetition is so entrenched that there's no curiosity potential left at all. What is has instead is strong conflict potential, meaning that such discussions not only add no value here, they burn up and destroy what does have value.

Second, it's all generic. The larger a question is, the harder it is to say meaningful things about it. Signal/noise ratio goes down as topics get more generic.

I don't doubt that it's possible for people to find new, meaningful things to say about large generic questions. But internet comments are not the right genre for expressing them. Someone who truly has such ideas would write a book or an essay, for the same reason one wouldn't excavate the foundation for a house with a thimble.
I never understand why people obtain music only to put it on a listening To-Do list and then never get around to it.

I guess there's people who collect music and then there's others who listen to the records they collect.

Call me weird, but I'd feel ashamed to get a record and never listen to it. All of the 34,000+ songs in my music library has graced my ears at least once.
Calling it now:

1) Write a Windows app

2) Run it in the browser with wasm

3) Stuff that into Electron and distribute to Mac/Linux/Windows

Why distribute the electron wrapped wasm on Windows instead of using the real native Windows app? It's more consistent this way! Single codebase! Developer efficiencies!
I’m not faulting you at all, but... different people know different tools, place premiums on different features, and of reach different conclusions as to what they wish to use. It's just an opinion, and comparing opinions is such a sterile exercise.

Whatever value you assign to $LANG, you will always encounter a denizen on HackerNews that disparages $LANG and would've used $LANG-prime, but by not actually moving first to start a project to achieve that aim with the tool of their choice, they kind-of ceded their right to criticise.

That’s my point of view, at least: don't criticise the artist's choice of tools. It's rude.
I mean, the local Bar would have a lot to say about lawyers that don't do what the client tells them to do. And, at least in the Common Law system it is typical that lawyers will argue that guilty people are not guilty all the time. Like, the news is full of these types of cases. And the ethics of representing the guilty have been worked out pretty well by now; it's really necessary. Most Bar Associations are pretty strict and hand out disbarments all the time for scummy lawyers.
Say you have a pet project that does 500 to a 1000 API requests per day. If you stick that into a Lambda, you have 0 running cost are close to zero due to AWS free tier.
I'm not aware of any effort to retire tiered compilation. It was even promoted to be the default in Java 8 (2014). http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/articles/java/architect-ev...

The only downside I'm aware of is that it increases the pressure on the code cache. If your code cache is not large enough, it will thrash as methods are discarded then recompiled. We had significant performance problems with a server and it took quite awhile until we realized that was the cause. A cache of 256 mb was more than enough for us running a 2 million LOC monolith under Tomcat, so the absolute memory use isn't that significant. (Reference we found while researching: http://engineering.indeedblog.com/blog/2016/09/job-search-we...).

Once you know this is an issue, it's easy to monitor, but it is one more thing that can go wrong in the JVM.
Shoe Dog, the memoir of Phil Knight and how he started Nike. Great read so far.

How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big by Scott Adams is another one I really enjoyed reading. The systems verse goals approach was something that really appealed to me.
Will Google also partner, like Apple, with some of the community colleges in the US to deliver the training to populations that might need the additional help?
You either are or you aren't, you can't be "more" carbon neutral.

Well, if you're going to be that pedantic about it, then nothing we know of is technically carbon neutral. We might be off by an atom or two!
datasciencemasters.org was reccumended by someone working inside the Tensorflow team at Google. It is a sophisticated collection of courses and books (Stanford curriculum...etc).

You would find that as a superset of what you need, you can just scroll till you find what you need to learn. (They are kinda sorted from basics first)
I'll do you another. If 2D screens ever cease being the main way of interacting with computers, something like a DOM-less WASM will take over consumer computing, and the DOM will get washed away in the process.
Where are they not allowed oxalic?
I used to buy my work clothes when I was younger from a local thrift shop called 'Savers'. At the time I was working as a welder in a factory, and being able to get used jeans/work-pants for $2-3 a piece really helped out. I'd wear them out after about a week(lots of hot debris burns holes in them), and couldn't afford to buy new clothes constantly.
Philip K Dick experienced a voice which told him to clean himself up & get his finances in order. Also to have his kid see a doctor, "When this presence warned him his infant son had a fatal birth defect that required immediate surgery, Dick took the child to the emergency room. It turned out that the voice was right."[1]

[1] http://www.signature-reads.com/2014/12/poetry-prophecy-and-m...

[2] http://www.openculture.com/2014/05/philip-k-dick-takes-you-i...
And how should I know that there is a captive portal?
I connect (connection is established after receiving IP address!) and use iodine (or similar).
It's very early days, but we have been working on an append-only key-value store that runs on top of a distributed shared-log [0,1]. We don't have a lot of resources, but it has been a lot of fun hacking on, and I hope it can fill a niche once it's more mature.

[1]: https://github.com/cruzdb/zlog
[0]: https://github.com/cruzdb/cruzdb
The biodiesel.org site, which is run by the National Biodiesel Board (a biodiesel industry trade group), references [1] a 1998 study that shows biodiesel to have a 78 percent reduction in net CO2 emissions. So not carbon neutral, but significantly less net emissions. I'd be interested in seeing the results of a more up-to-date study.

However, that's the net reduction for B100, or 100% biodiesel. The more common and engine-friendly B20 blend at 20% biodiesel / 80% petroleum diesel would be a 15.6% net reduction in CO2.

[1]: http://biodiesel.org/what-is-biodiesel/biodiesel-faq's
I expect this should hit bad WordPress developers hardest, since the throw-another-plugin-on-the-fire philosophy has led to pages that load 15 javascript libraries for features not even present on that page.
Like a bad strand of DNA bitcoin will probably die. The miners had too much power and so the chain didn't adapt.
See also (about ten years ago): https://bellard.org/dvbt/ - digital television broadcasting from a VGA card
Multi-user AR experience on mobile
You don't really write wasm by hand. You use a higher level language that compiles to it. I wouldn't mind using go for the web, for example, if I wanted more performance, and it takes care of all the concerns you mentioned above for you...
In many places in US you don't have separate bins for paper, plastics, glass and what not, but only one (usually green) recycling bin for everything that is somehow recyclable.
Of course they were forbidden, as it was every not authorized device. The physical security was tight. I just entered it during the building, before the certification (I was in a manager role in the building)
If you see that happening, contact your local Bar Association. Example: https://www.sfbar.org/about/contact.aspx
The Serverless framework is one of the most baffling and over engineered things I’ve seen in a long time. Instead of making thing easy it just a jungle of options and weird configs. No idea why it is so popular.
Despite the claim to make AI accessible to every business, this release is fairly limited in that it only applies to images. We will have to see how they extend it going forward. Given the technology it's based on, I'd expect things like text, audio, videos to come next.

However, I'm curious if they plan to support structured/relational datasets which are definitely something every business needs. In Kaggle's 2017 State of Data Science [0] survey, data scientists said they spent 65% of their time using relational datasets vs 18% for images. Given that Kaggle is owned by Google, this must be something on their radar.

For those data scientists, I maintain an open source library for automated feature engineering called Featuretools (https://github.com/featuretools/featuretools). For people interested in trying it out, we have demos (https://www.featuretools.com/demos) to help you get started.

[0] https://www.kaggle.com/surveys/2017
For a pretty traditional CRUD web app or mostly static with a few dynamic parts website something like Lambda is probably not the right answer.

Where I think Lambda is interesting is in areas of high variability.

The sort of canonical example is image resizing. While you certainly can do that on the same machine as your web server it makes a lot more sense to put the images to a S3 bucket (keeps them off the server, out of versioning, etc.)

You can tie a Lambda to a S3 create file event. So when the file hits the bucket it automatically gets resized into all the appropriate sizes needed elsewhere on the site. This setup sidesteps a ton of potential issues, makes your app much more robust and is pretty easy to get going.
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Comments like these bore me, to be honest.

We all know C++ is a valid design decision. We all know more hip languages have underdeveloped ecosystems. Yet opinions on which language to choose are not devoid of value because it indicates interest, sparks conversations, and may initiate development of the tools needed to make them less 'underdeveloped'.

The only thing we don't need is people saying another person's opinion is boring.

EDIT: Also, they said they were disappointed they used C++. Maybe they wished they stuck with C?
Do you have a link to more information about this?
Without NN won't ranking pages by "page speed" simply enhance the benefits of purchasing "fast lanes" near end points (on previously dumb pipes ;-) to those willing to do so?
> Bitconnect was a Bitcoin-based ponzi-scheme

Do you know that as a fact? I'm not trying to defend bitconnect, I just think it's dangerous living in a world where people state things as facts that have not been proven.

People often cite the high rate of return from their trading bot as "proof" that they're a ponzi, but I don't buy that because run my own bitcoin trading bot and the returns are more than triple bitconnect's average.

People much smarter than I who are running the same trading bot get even higher returns than I do. I think bitconnect's return rate was low because they were skimming the returns, which explains why they would take other people's money even though their bot works... because they can make even more by providing it as a service.
That's exactly how I feel. I have a few pieces of music that speak to me and have done this for many years. Sometimes I find something new but that's rare. I am also not diagnosed but all the signs for some level of autism are there.
They’re adding all those things to wasm. I think you’re mistaken about the future.
I can only speak for myself. I’m unfamiliar with sql and don’t need complex queries. I am also not sure how to deal with sql injections and don’t want to spend time on figuring it out.

I also don’t have a clear picture of the structure of the database when I start a project . I want to have the flexibility of adding entries whenever I want.

I’m using mongodb now. I am aware it has issues, but its programming interface is convenient.
Broodless bees are worth treating and it provides a great knockdown at a time varroa are vulnerable. But bees aren’t broodless most the time or necessarily any of the time. It’s far harder to treat brood and that’s the key area as it’s where the varroa are.
> But I will confess that when peer-to-peer file-sharing came into my life about 15 years ago, I was not immune to its siren song.

Yeah downloading every mp3 in the world was easy, which I think is the point of the article.
Hey, deliberately setting your client up for a claim of ineffective assistance of counsel could be considered a vigorous, even self-sacrificing, defense approach, though it's quite unorthodox (as well as both unethical and unlawful.)
I had my history reversed regarding i432 vs Lisp HW.

You are right I also forgot about Azul, but eventually they dropped it, because it wasn't worthwhile anymore, just like it happened with all other specialized hardware implementations.
Exactly, most non-IT companies have very limited skills in this area. This is why they outsource. As an analogy, when I want to furnish my office, I look for an interior decorator who takes care of ordering furniture etc., within a budget. I don't screw around with a 3D printing API to make chairs and tables. It is too low level and not my core expertise.

And second, your comment that most folks achieve any accuracy is strange. These are not real businesses, they are mostly developers and hobbyists trying to learn. These folks sign up for kaggle and poke a few scripts and view half a class on coursera on ML. They are not real businesses and they have no money. Most of the real businesses are hiring startups or large companies that hire data scientists with domain expertise like in oil, manufacturing etc. (the IBM model). ML as an API is a disaster as a business model.

Also, AutoML is not even close to being better than humans even for a specific problem (across datasets). These click-bait titles don't fly outside of AI conferences.
curious is that Europe only?
I'm not sure that JVM allows for streaming code, its centred around class-loading and classes in general. Shipping in fragments of code will require quite an overhaul of that entire architecture. Lambdas and other constructs were added much later via JSR-292 and invokedynamic, streaming stuff in will require quite a bit of shoehorning.
Fast.AI is 100% focused on getting into DOING stuff. Its guiding philosophy is that teaching the math first instead of teaching you how to actually do some machine learning is backwards. The lectures start with a dozen lines of code that learns how to discriminate between cats and dogs and then follows up on that by slowly removing layers of abstraction. It's very cool.

That said, the lectures are pretty rough around the edges compared to something like a coursera class. And his goal is to get you to play around with stuff on your own using his stuff as a jumping off point. It works well for some people but not as much for others.
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playlist please
if the client tells the lawyer he robbed the bank

What reason would the attorney have for not believing the information that the client confesses voluntarily under the veil of attorney-client privilege?.
The African textile industry was killed by the used clothing market. https://www.voanews.com/a/used-clothing-kills-nigerian-texti...

Somewhat ironic, in context.
Apple commits to contribute over $350B into US economy over five years
As an aside it always grates on me that the marketing meaning of “fleece” as “plastic foam fabric” has wiped out the normal meaning
I wasn't commenting on the time aspect, I was commenting on "it's difficult to ride the bus with kids, because, uh, they exist."
That’s a different button: I think OP means the button that many people call ‘Backspace’ (it is labelled ‘delete’ on Apple keyboards though).
That frees up the developer to work on projects that would have been infeasible a couple decades ago. To put it another way, has the growth of high level languages like Python led to more jobs or fewer? I strongly suspect the answer is more.
> I did not realize that the WASM needs to be compiled into machine code on the client system

It doesn't need to be. This is a choice they've made. Other implementations of WASM could interpret it they wanted.

The Church-Turing thesis tells us that any program you can compile to machine code can also be interpreted, so it is not possible that any language needs to be compiled into machine code.
This is so well-known there's even an oeuvre appropriately titled “IBM 1401: A User’s Manual” by Icelandic neoclassical composer Jóhann Jóhannsson that involves recording the noises made on a radio by running different code on an old mainframe.

https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/9583-ibm-1401-a-users-m...
> To grossly overgeneralize, most men aren't as inclined as many women to get rid of clothing just because they're tired of it after wearing it a few times.

I don't even think that's an overgeneralization.

I wouldn't be surprised if studies and stats show that men buy less clothes and reuse existing clothes more often than women, as verified by the fashion market size.

If I go to my local mall which has a mixture of high and middle end in the world, I might find a handful of stores which sell only men's clothes, but they are both rare and tiny. In comparison, the stores which sell only women's clothes are extremely common and take up a huge portion of the mall.

Furthermore, it's rare for me to see a women's only brand also sell men's clothes, but invariably nearly every men's only brand I know of eventually expands into women's.
What country are you in? It's technically illegal in New York to put anything but PAPER in the cardboard bin.
Thisk about it this way:
Scenario One: you imagine a nail being hammered into your hand.
Scenario Two: your hand is in an apparatus where by a series of mirrors you see a nail hammered into your hand, causing you to pull it away.
How terrorists and provocateurs are using social media against democracies
I recently interviewed someone for the new company I just started working for. This candidate was recommended by someone already in the company for a position we're trying to fill. The company reached out to their staffing firm, and contacted him through them. So, that's what I mean by D.C. tech companies, they seems to LOVE using recruiters.

Thank you for the article. To actually get to the point, I'm not sure how helpful it is to me. It seems to me like a game: if you're sure you have a strong hand, it makes sense to not disclose your salary. But if you have a weak one, disclosing early/knowing the salary range makes it worthwhile to disclose the range that you're looking for.
Why not "5 notable people"?

Why segregate humans by looking if they carry a penis or a vagina around with them?
I'm not surprised.

I recommend being extremely skeptical of all acquired savant claims, and mostly skeptical about other savant claims in general. At least keep in mind that there isn't much real evidence for those claims.

Practice and technique can explain just about every case. Even well-known "experts" have many incorrect ideas. The popular media then amplify the incorrect ideas.

"The weight of evidence for an extraordinary claim must be proportioned to its strangeness."
Total Aside. As a compiler and runtimes guy, I'm super excited for streaming compilation. I think stuff like this and ethereum for distributed computation is really cool stuff! :D
Then why do they exist? They are there to persuade public opinion, right?
Isn’t that the Yahoo “search” approach?

Didn’t Google crush their directory of vetted content model because they were able to give users what they actually wanted?
What is authorized and what is not? It is (usually) not presented.