skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Java had the advantage that it not only worked everywhere, it had just so incredibly much built in. The Java standard libraries alone provide more functionality than in many other languages all third party libraries for a feature can do combined. Building cross-platform apps in Java is actually easy, even easier than in Delphi or VB.

Nowadays, in Node, we don’t even have timezone handling properly built in, or UI frameworks. Or anything.
This is why I'm hoping it doesn't end up in Boston proper. Traffic is already unbearable for a large chunk of the state during rush hours.
IMO, Purism's biggest innovation is their business plan, they're profitable selling a small number of phones. The Ubuntu Edge failed their crowdfunding campaign with $12M pledged; the Purism succeeded with $2.5M.

The business plans of Nokia, OpenMoko, Firefox and Ubuntu all depended on selling millions of phones. Built on the ashes of those efforts, Purism appears to have a viable business plan making good profits selling many thousands.
Norway's $1 Trillion Fund Curbs Holdings in Biggest CO2 Emitters
It's important to distinguish from visual/block-based programming environments directed at families and children, such as Lego Mindstorms, https://scratch.mit.edu/ , https://developers.google.com/blockly/ , etc.
That is somewhat negated by the fact that dissenting users from a post with a 'skewed' comment section can often go make their own post in response. This happens rather more frequently on Reddit than here since HN discourages duplicate posting on a topic.
nope, sounds VERY early honestly
> the manufacturer isn't getting the profits, the dealer is

Pardon my ignorance, but why doesn't the manufacturer open a dealership then?
computers have 1000x more capacity and throughput than the original 486's.

So a 10x bump in resource you say?! -- Hmmm not too shabby for such a faithful clone!
He's even able to make more creative licensing terms: royalty free license or "royalty free if you use the BFPF trade organization logo."
There was an issue a few years ago where you could send a UTF-8 code to crash whatever app was currently open on an iPhone. I guess this might be the same issue but slightly different?
It doesn't actually sound like he "solved" it. More like he put error bounds around it and can detect when the error is more than X.

> When the calculated result is no longer sufficiently accurate the result is so marked, as are all further calculations made using that value.

Solving it would be a pretty big deal. This doesn't feel like it is, though I admit I haven't worked on a similar problem in a long time. Kinda feels like patent trolling as I imagine that lots of companies have put bounds on detecting floating point errors when they need it. There are certainly lots of papers on it: https://www.google.com/search?q=floating+point+error+bounds
Here's an archived version: http://web.archive.org/web/20180117063656/https://iabem97.gi...
Denver appears to be the current favourite (also chosen by the NYT as the winner) but doesn't have any flights to Asia except for Tokyo[1]. But I guess being sufficiently connected within the US is enough, not sure how many flights to China they need.

[1] https://www.flightera.net/airport/Denver/KDEN
I used to use GIMP, but could never figure out how to use it. Downloaded Paint.NET, it worked _exactly_ as expected. I was able to get running and perform the edits I needed to perform in seconds.

I've never had such a positive introduction to a piece of Software, it works _so well_!
Yeah, I found similar information, but I was interested if you had more information, like where the trains are built, since a company can have its headquarter in one country and factories elsewhere.
Drone Find and Rescue Two Boys Drowning Off the Coast of Australia
Until it makes them nauseous, which is a real problem with low-quality VR.

Not to mention that avoiding the trap of "let's just make it shitty, kids won't care" is kinda Nintendo's whole thing.
1. Get yourself grounded in theory

Learning from Data by Yaser Abu-Mostafa, and its companion book.
Very theoretically heavy but worth the trouble (this is Caltech course)

Do all assignments in the course with Python/Numpy/Scikit-learn

2. Choose your niche

You need to NARROW down your interest. You can start broad just to know enough basics, but gradually pinpoint to making/hacking stuff that is most fun for you. Test waters on computer vision, speech, NLP, and games/robotics (reinforcement learning), or other less popular fields.

E.g. Start with computer vision -> Basic convnet image classification -> Encoder-Decoder architectures -> End-to-end ConvNet monocular RGB to depth image generator

Read papers that have published code on github, this let you reproduce and understand how things work, so that after awhile you can hack your own models and stuff
> But having 10 good choices is clearly better

Not exactly.

tl;dr: Even if separate Lego pieces are really good by themselves, it's no good if you can't stack them together effortlessly.

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The problem I see with GNU/Linux ecosystem is incompatibility issues. There are many ways to do one thing, but all of them are incompatible (completely or to a significant extent) with each other.

This is how modern GNU/Linux desktop is a Frankensten's monster made from ton of software pieces somehow glued together with duct tape and compatibility adapters. No consistency, every app works differently etc etc. There are higher-tier projects that try to unify different lower-level modules (e.g. NetworkManager or PulseAudio), but then something still relies on something else, like distro-specific stuff like ifup or netctl or wants raw ALSA, etc etc. Really, it's a mess, and even though I like GNU/Linux as my desktop it's sometimes quite painful to make it "just work", hoping for some sane levels of consistency.

I know, this is not about desktops but it's just most visible there. The actual point is, too many different incompatible implementations lead to integration fatigue. Or frustration because you have to make sacrifices (get either this or that but not both).

This problem is by no means unique or specific to GNU/Linux or FOSS, but it's most visible there.
> Volt

Toyota Prius, a decade later.

> Bolt

A Prius with batteries. Oh my, I can't take all this innovation.

> relatively affordable

Because the billions in losses are paid for by other GM customers and taxpayers.
Considering the over-the-top language ("a game changer for the computing industry") and questionable or imprecise comments like, "[it] allows representation of real numbers accurate to the last digit" (um, who reads that without thinking of irrational numbers?) it sounds too much like a sales pitch and not like serious research.

I could be wrong, but based on the similarities to interval arithmetic everyone has already identified, I'm pretty skeptical. At best, this could be a patent on a more efficient way to build interval arithmetic into a CPU architecture rather than a completely new technique.

As my British friends would say though, I can't be arsed to actually read the patent.
Hah. View-Source takes forever to load (in Vivaldi). Wget says it's a 20 MB file. Opening it in Joe in Cygwin kills the Cygwin process. Neat.

Also the href attribute inside the <link rel="apple-touch-icon"> points to a HTML URL, but that returns a 404...
I assume it means accurate to the last digit of the representation, not the number being represented. obviously the latter would be absurd to suggest.
Has he solved http://0.30000000000000004.com/
I dunno, not a huge fan of those. I'd rather spend $60 on a game I actually want (or likely a lot less via Steam) than just get a ton of games I don't even play.
> a floating point operation raises the "inaccurate" flag, how do you deal with that?

You can trap. ...but then again, existing arithmetic traps are not uniformly enabled by default.
It's a dog eat dog world.
U.S. Women More Likely to Have Children Than a Decade Ago
Considering that's a very accurate description of Seattle, I'd say your doubts are well founded.
Don't wanna be that guy, but you really should. It's quite awesome and you don't need to deal with Origin hardly at all, just let it run in the background and it's 99% fine.
This is not a far comparison. IBM is the leader because they have a product that is specifically designed for this whereas the others do not.
Is there a way to get bumped up on the beta queue? Thanks!
A handy workaround is to use your mobile + usb tethering.

Plug it in, then enable USB-tethering while logged into a wifi (data will go to the wifi not towards your mobile data plan then). The usb-ethernet driver works out of the box for almost all distros.
If anyone "needs" it to crawl back to 20k in a period of a couple months, they've made some terrible investment decisions.
That company does offer this for one reason:

"We’re here to end your flying woes once and for all. We help air passengers around the world secure compensation for delayed, canceled, or overbooked flights. We’re also the first service to provide a free map with your personal travel stats in just one click."

Giving a third party access to my mails next to my ISP: no way.
Spotify Has a New Plan to Take on Radio and Reinvent Podcasting
Days-of-week, or indication if it touches the weekend or not.
I remember HTMLGoodies. Before coming across it I learned the basics from a site called Lissa Explains [0].

[0] http://www.lissaexplains.com/
Because the whole patent system is broken and everyone who partakes in it shares blame.
The linked blog assures people that this can't be used to access data. Once something is crashing an app/OS, can you really say that? I mean, can you be sure there's no one clever enough to capitalize on the underlying software error leading to this state?
> “In the current art, static error analysis requires significant mathematical analysis and cannot determine actual error in real time,” reads a section of the patent. “This work must be done by highly skilled mathematician programmers. Therefore, error analysis is only used for critical projects because of the greatly increased cost and time required. In contrast, the present invention provides error computation in real time with, at most, a small increase in computation time and a small increase in the maximum number of bits available for the significand.”

I'm not sure how much it increases computation time, but software for exactly this is freely available, see for instance Arb:
https://github.com/fredrik-johansson/arb
> explaining one

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16176246
Orfox: A Tor Browser for Android – Guardian Project
Yes, I think so. It even does this on the newest Paint version on my Windows 10 machine.
Classification of Development Frameworks for Enterprise Apps
Someone like Nils Bohlin and Volvo for the three-point seatbelt patent?
These are 5 of the most likely but who is giving the biggest tax breaks?

Knowing how Bezos works, I guarantee he has a team who are creating spreadsheet after spreadsheet, and the winning city will be chosen by some algorithm which saves them the most money over time.
Maybe in the "real world" - its not about money, its about prioritization - and this is South Africa - the tender for water infrastructure would be awarded to a human resources company and money would be squandered on inferior infrastructure. There has simply not been enough priority put on upgrading water supply for the two decades we have known about the ever decreasing dam levels. Its not new - there were other priorities at national level and provincial level - and water problem was shunted, every time as a problem for later. Its not that government/municiplaities were not able to do the work -it was a question of who was paying for it. If a private company wanted to do this the expenditure would have been exorbitant - with very little hope of being remunerated because the income would have remained static - the municipalites would have less budget to maintain the systems and no private company would be able to invest that amount of money and make a profit in any short term.
Hey, this is a discussion forum, so can we please not appeal to authority here just to say (in so many words) "I don't care what your opinion on this linked article is because he's an expert and you're not."

What's the point of discussion if you simply say "Oh, but they know more so just shut up"?
Tech school students bringing the chatbot in education
The 6-10B increase is to connect Madera to Fresno - not exactly bustling hives of population... you can’t compare costs for 10% of a project to something then handwave the rest away.
Under a different system that doesn't incentivize holding back global progress for small amounts of individual enrichment.

There's a reason Linux and GNU utilities are so massively widely used, and overall they've probably provided billions in economic value. They do that freely, for any human to use, and in fact that's part of their main value proposition. Both were born out of the legal nightmare that was UNIX at the time.

How should he get paid for this? In a very-ideal world, people and corporations that used his idea and had spare capital would voluntarily give him donations. In a better-than-this world, governments (or some other entity) would pay bounties to inventories out of a pool of tax money, based on both perceived usefulness of the invention and how widespread its use came to be.
The location the Boston group has proposed for Amazon is the Suffolk Downs race track site on the East Boston - Revere town line. Perhaps with all the Amazon building the area would improve, but the place feels like a wasteland right now.

It's on the other side of Logan airport so there's a lot of airport service infrastructure around. There is a huge field of fuel tanks, big box stores and highways. It's also very cut-off from the city proper. There's no way to get to downtown Boston without going through the harbor tunnel and dealing with the associated airport traffic.

If might be interesting if they could build some sort of bridge directly over the Chelsea River into Chelsea.
"you want a clone for eBay/Facebook/Amazon? You realize they have teams of many thousands of people working on code bases over 15 years old right? And you think a single person, me, is going to be able to replicate that in 3 months?"
It's fortunate and we should praise him. I understand backlash against patent trolls, but this is pure bullshit.
Do androids cry after stripping in Vegas for CES?
You don’t have to take every handout or jump through every loophole
I'm not sure if "populist" is as pejorative as you think it is when describing HN.

Is it possible to have a forum on the internet with hundreds of active users that doesn't leverage a populist model (upvotes/favorites/likes)? Even places where the comments aren't ranked by the users they ARE ranked by activity (bumps/views) behind the scenes.

It seems like it would be very difficult to decouple "populism" from any large public forum worth reading so I'm skeptical of this criticism of HN. I would argue that it's disingenuous to accuse HN of mere populism without you defining your terms because even academics are skeptical of any one defintion. In many ways your use of "populist" is nothing more than a slur.
> You can already do this now via Uber, Lyft, or a similar service.

This is heavily location dependent, as smaller cities and even countries don't have these services. And as you said, much more expensive than a driverless car. Also having the car wait for me during errands would cost a lot more if there's a driver sitting in it during.
Deconstructing React Native Apps – Part 1: Features
The problem is that most software of today doesn't do much more than software of a decade+ ago. The capacity of hardware is filled with boilerplate, abstraction layers and an occasional UI animation sprinkled on top, instead of more powerful solutions to more difficult problems.
Uber is an unprofitable, non-public company with incredibly fierce competition that is expected to face enormous changes do to technological developments.

Why in the world would you think it needs a peacetime CEO?
Social sciences and humanities do not adress any problems or give objective, actionable advice or guidance.
To me the most obvious one is sharing economy without a completely useless money grabbing central authority (see virtually any popular sharing economies like uber, lyft, airbnb etc). These all can be created in a decentralized manner with blockchain tech, especially Ethereum.
Learning Curves for Machine Learning
Not true in Europe at least, I seem to observe all sizes on racks
Eh, what. You can connect any modern device to a tv through hdmi and hdmi convertor. Pc:s, phones, pads...
Chrome for Android Will Soon Support Chrome’s DNS Prefetching
I've heard it called "house hacking" in landlord circles.
At least patents expire someday.
Not really, the idea is to store the amount of error in the binary representation of the number. When converting from decimal "0.3" to this floating point representation, it's more like 0.30000000000000004 ± 0.00000000000000004
Wehe: Check Your ISP for Net Neutrality Violations – Meddle
State subsidy of certain agriculture, particularly beef and dairy, is definitely one of the biggest crimes of our times.
Fjallraven's stuff is outstanding, we've got a few of their backpacks and jackets, they stand up to a ton of abuse.
I would prefer games I might like instead of those my 'friends' (virtually non existent on steam and those who are having different preferences) have.

I am mostly unable to find puzzle games that are not rpgs nor adventures. No matter what I do I see same most popular games I don't happen to be interested in.
It's literally mentioned in the article too.
https://mega.nz/#!X4piUYwA!zXH1vCliaO00V2v2554vegCnXzQ69jdAX...

11.7MB HTML file. It crashes the tab in Chrome 65.0.3324.2 64-bit and locks up Firefox 58.0 64-bit on Windows for me.
E-Bikes Take Lead in Belgian Market
Integrate with Either of Google/Amazon/MS OCR/Image ML API Using One Key
What would be the most optimal Linux distro to install on a z620, Fedora?
I recommend Joseph's answer here:
https://www.quora.com/Why-cant-engineers-fix-the-low-level-o...
>How you were describing Jews in all those industries is a clear case of antisemitic canard.

A strawman attack. I was speaking of mafia in general in the first sentence.

>They are apparently so powerful they are the "Mafia of the Mafia"

Putting words in my mouth I never said, another strawman. There is a difference between saying they are the "mafia of the mafia" and saying they are a part of the mafia that even other mafia are afraid of.

>"puppet masters of international crime"

Far too simplistic a summarization of this much more nuanced and complex subject.

>You call this intellectually honest?

Yep, unlike your two comments.
Email jgc @Cloudflare
Hospitals start their own drug company
They could have used trade secrets. Konrad Zuse tells the story that back then, optical equipment manufacturers used to contract him for computations. Instead of rooms full of mechanical calculators operated by humans (the original "computers") they would supply his company with data and algorithms and he would reply back with results.

Apparently, there were design reasons why for electronic calculations a different mathematical formulation was more efficient. The competing manufacturers would discover this fact one by one, and Zuse was worried that someone may question his integriry, thinking he was the source of the leak. But no one did.

Michael Hanack (the materials chemist) used a different strategy: he would not patent anything so his inventions could be used my any market participant, and he would consult for all of them.

On the other hand, everyone is looking forward to the day the aptamer patent runs out. Uptake is limited (and you'd think that CRISPR/CAS9 has the same problem) because of unreasonableness (in case of CRISPR uncertainty) around licensing.
> “Apparatus for Calculating and Retaining a Bound on Error During Floating Point Operations and Methods Thereof”

It seems to be a system where the hardware design itself keeps track of the accuracy losses in floating point calculations, and provides them as part of the value itself.

The title is (predictably) exaggerated, but it's an interesting idea, and could potentially be a significant improvement in particular use cases.
the actor model in Erlang and (recently!) in Pony implements something even better: explicit backpressure by deprioritizing senders to busy mailboxes. The model can do this because it includes the scheduler in its scope, which doesn't happen in CSP.
Haha, hey, I appreciate your response - I recognized your posts, I figured you were an alright guy, so I gave you my honest take. =) Like I said, I've totally been there. I still rip on Golang more than I probably should, but that too is out of knowing how the whole thing works. (Before editing, I wrote "the whole tire fire" here. Old habits die hard.)

I think being disillusioned with tech is also part of the cycle. You can't be frustrated by something until you really know it and really like it. Usually anyway--my exception is Golang, I got deep into it but never liked it. I haven't hit the frustration point with Ruby personally, but I also don't use it as a substrate on which Rails runs. I think I would be much more frustrated by it if I did, because Rails seems to have gone down some weird holes (ones that make a lot of sense--if you're writing a Basecamp framework), but Ruby-the-ecosystem, not so much.

I do think React is going to be a Thing for at least five years. There's too much momentum behind it and, unlike Angular, it seems to have a straight-up smart basis for existence. Making the UI fundamentally stateless (or easily made stateless--I think component state is going to be left out of "React: The Good Parts") will age pretty well, and it's already really fast at DOM rewrites in ways I tend to think browsers can key in on with batch APIs down the line (to avoid context switches into/out of JS-land).

Couple that with already having stuff like React Native out there, and it seems pretty open-and-shut that it'll be a worthy choice for a while even if Facebook abandoned it--which I don't expect them to do unless something clearly superior, and worth the cost of migrating a lot of stuff, comes up.
They don't really talk about it on their website, but IIRC the Brooklyn Microgrid project uses a blockchain to keep an immutable ledger of transactions between net consumers of power and net producers and handle transactions between the two. The website is directed more toward potential neighbourhood participants, so it doesn't really get too technical. Heard a talk last spring on the subject by a professor from Ryerson (Toronto. I can't recall his name off the top of my head) who went into detail on how the project works.

http://brooklynmicrogrid.com/

I'm not sure this necessarily couldn't be implemented otherwise, but it is a core part of how it has been functioning as far as I know.
Cloudflare has a transparency report[0], updated twice a year.

In the transparency report there's a warrant canary:

Some things we have never done
Cloudflare has never turned over our SSL keys or our customers' SSL keys to anyone.
Cloudflare has never installed any law enforcement software or equipment anywhere on our network.
Cloudflare has never terminated a customer or taken down content due to political pressure.
Cloudflare has never provided any law enforcement organization a feed of our customers' content transiting our network.

[0] https://www.cloudflare.com/transparency/
Relevant XKCD [1]. It's the one about identifying birds.

https://xkcd.com/1425/
Mathematica has the cool ability to do symbolic tracking of numerical precision, for the ability to tell you when, for example, your differential equation solver is giving you meaningless results.
Lua can be as accessible as Basic in the right environment, it has a very simple syntax for most things.
Well, Idiocracy was release over 11 years ago, so young adults might not have heard of it. Hope I haven't made you feel old :)