skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Personally, I look forward to ontologies becoming more common in orgs, as they are immensely powerful for getting everyone aligned on a body of knowledge - assuming that's what one is aiming for.

The Big Hedge Fund Bridgewater uses decision-making assistants in their common tooling. I assume that ontologies come part and parcel with that package, considering that "alignment" and cohesion is one of their key motives.
The problem are the many plugins that are not trustable
sigh... That's the internet for you. People were vandalising Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q21980377&action=...

It's been reverted now.
You couldn't contact the manufacturer? They probably would have a warranty unless they are a Chinese white label product. There's also credit card benefits that may apply, return protection and extended warranty. Then there's also the aforementioned charge back.
Yeah, with that price tag IBM could have rolled out multiple federated payroll systems and then iterated on the theme until they had a unified system, but they would not have been able to farm out the development to off-site contractors.
Predict intelligence or predict IQ scores?
Is there a breakdown of where the $780M went? As in, how much to engineer salaries, how much for hardware, operational support, etc?

I have a really hard time wrapping my mind around a project that expensive
Shhhh!

Many of us work in these kinds of industries.
This is great! I'm a Clojure guy who had given up on CL before. Will take it out for a spin for sure!

Check out Nightcoders[0] for a similar IDE for Clojure.

[0] http://nightcoders.net
Not for a long time, but I have no need to try anything else really. Atom does what I need it to. One slow day I must try VS Code again, for sure.
AI tackles the Vatican’s secrets
Cyberattacks Put Russian Fingers on the Switch at Power Plants, U.S. Says
The author claims that the rules described, "extending" the standard C++, are enforcing memory corruption, and it is this author described subset that is still unsafe, not C++ in general. Think about english vs. americanized english, largely the same, but two distinct entities.

In C++, you are free to shoot yourself in the foot. In Rust, you have a Government inspector ensure that you always point the gun not just in a "safe" direction, but only toward a crosshair target at a designated gun range.
Namehelp – better web performance with the DNS service you choose
That's a good idea, I'll add that tomorrow!
This is the actual paper for those interested [0].

0. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41380-017-0001-5
Yep - this is IBM's standard scam. I guess their branding is strong enough to obscure their history of catastrophic failure, to the VP level exec, at least.
Examining overlooked clues reveals how ultrasound could have caused harm in Cuba
The competent managers likely had no say in the matter.
you can say this, but if you look at the most popular mods on skyrim they tend to make the game look more photorealistic, not less. the general trend for video game consumers is towards realism.
It's amazing how companies can get so big predicting the future. The process is a glorified dart throw, especially in social systems. The variables are always changing, and the effect of reacting to a prediction (like increasing police presence) changes the expected outcome, so predictions become elusive even if initially correct.

Also, when the variables like homicides are relatively low numbers, there are huge percentage swings that happen naturally.

Macro indicators like weather and per capita income have long been known to be correlated with crime, but trying to predict and proactively reduce it is much harder.

The promise of AI and predictive analytics is huge, but it misses the mark in non-closed systems.
What's the major difference between Airtable and FileMaker?
I'm assuming they have an eye on all your data, or will so in the future? What's the catch?
Microsoft targets game devs with new 'device-agnostic' Gaming Cloud biz
Logo (https://logo.shapefactory.co) isn't free, and it's rather generic, but I like it.

Shapefactory (https://shapefactory.co) (makers of Logo) also have some free color picking tools.
5 advantages of the top-down approach in the creation of AI
IBM: I've Been Mugged
Not the first study showing this: see https://www.nature.com/articles/mp201185 and its citations.
I suspect people probably can do it a bit faster in Python, but like you say, you wouldn't necessarily end up with the same quality of work. The Rust code is likely to be quite fast and very solid, whereas the Python code is likely to be "eh, fast enough" and "stable as long as nobody says the word 'thread' within a 10-block radius."
All of those things are true x10 in the stock market, but people still seem to be able to consistently make money. I think you're overstating the difficulty of the problem a bit. There's a lot you can do with simple models to predict crime - they're not perfect, but as long as their users understand that, that's fine.
It's been longer than a decade. See Taligent and WorkplaceOS.
This is a great master class, if you will, on iterative optimization for core loops. They progressively make improvements to their method until they approach the performance of standard, optimized BLAS implementations. (About as fast as BLIS, less than Intel's MKL, which is about as fast as OpenBLAS. [0]) Timing Eigen without linking against BLAS is a little misleading, since Eigen is meant to be linked against a system BLAS.

You wouldn't want to use this code, but it shows you the sorts of things to start paying attention to in this performance-critical sections. I was most surprised by the fact that reordering operations to spread the same instructions apart made a significant difference.

(As an aside, your best bet in practical tools is using a metaprogramming library [Blaze seems to be the best], wrapping core operations in a fast BLAS implementation. I personally choose to use Blaze on top of OpenBLAS.)

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10114830
the price just went up (after their round) :-)

I hope they don't sell and keep building the mission
>* My 10 year old computer is doing real time transcoding in 2018.*

Yes, I got that point. And I'm saying 10 year old computers in 2008 were doing transcoding as well - just with standard definition streams rather than HD (the "HD" part seemed important to you but I was making the point that you're not doing 4k transcoding in 2018 with your 10 year old PC so why fixate on HD recording in 2008 when HD was just as new as 4k is today)

>* Again. That's the point. My 10 year old computer is running the current latest OS in 2018. A 10 year old computer in 2008 couldn't run the latest OS.*

Maybe I'm not making myself clear enough because this is the 3rd time I've now had to say that I've used 10 year old computers both in 2008 and in 1998 - all of which were running the latest OS. Like I said, in 1995 I was still supporting Windows 3.x on a 286s.

> My major point being that in the first few facades of PCs, technology was moving so fast that to run the latest software, you had to upgrade your computer more frequently. Now, a 10 year old computer can run the latest software.

And I'm saying that is bullshit. I have first hand experience - originally as an owner and a support engineer; and then as a developer and systems administrator - with examples over the last 20 years that directly disprove your point. Examples I've repeatedly cited. Frankly if I've seen any trend it's people replacing hardware quicker now that laptops have gotten so cheap - which is the exact opposite of the point you're trying to make.

> The smart watch and the phone to a lesser extent is still seeing the type of rapid improvements that you saw in computers until 10 years ago.

I've repeatedly demonstrated that your argument about rapid developments in the PC landscape is completely baseless and given numerous examples why.

>An electronic watch from 10 years ago can't do everything a modern smart watch can. A 10 year old computer can.

Again you're comparing apples to oranges. A watch is not a PC. Hell why don't we just compare it to cars and have the same meaningless discussion: a digital watch is like a small hatchback and a smartwatch is like a campervan. What we've now proved is that smartwatches have running water....oh wait.

> As far as the actual usage. A modern smart watch is used for a lot of things that a 10 year old watch wasn't.

That is literally the only accurate thing you've posted. The real question is whether the other stuff is enough to make people want to upgrade their watches (as well as their phones) every two years. I don't think it is. I think those kind of people are the exception and most people wouldn't want their smartwatch to become obsolete so quickly. I think most people see their smartwatch as a digital watch on steroids rather than a PC. And thus I think most people's expectations would be for their watch to outlast their phone.

At risk of repeating myself (but let's be honest, you've missed the other points I made on 2 separate occasions) the hardware is irrelevant to most people. Most people aren't techy. Most people will look at a smartwatch and see "something-watch" not "computer-something" like you and I.
I got downvoted. Emacs sure isn't popular.

Ha. Of course it is!
If I were looking at this through my eyes as a child (especially one that has reached the age of awareness of social pressures and advertising)...

I have no interest in wooden toys, (most) board games, kites, or nice dolls... I want the toys that have the cool movie or TV show tie-ins, I want the toys that exist in these expansive worlds I'm familiar with, I want the toys that all my friends have (and, to a certain extent, expect me to have)...

Projecting things like "children like it that their cousins play with the same toys they've played with when younger" seems extremely questionable (and, if I had to guess, hugely false - what kid wants old toys from a cousin).

This is not about a shift in the toy market, it's about Toys "R" Us.
Don't forget about tech giants to design what is probably a multi-million dollar system which allowed him to speak/move. That was sure good marketing from Intel... https://www.wired.com/2015/01/intel-gave-stephen-hawking-voi...
> their scarcity is "real"

Then why does every imagined new application of blockchain also create a new coin-type? If someone really does come up with the killer app for blockchain personal banking...well then why would they deploy it on the existant bitcoin network. And the next killer app, and so on. Now everyone is using the killer-app coin, why would bitcoin maintain value, or any of the clones.
Study: Mapping Apps May Make Traffic Worse
You can infact buy hosting and sockets with Nano :-) See Kaizen Sports and Lacicloud here:
https://hellonano.net:8081/

Also checkout BrainBlocks (developed by one of the Paypal devs I believe) - they are making integration into ecommerce stores quite easy.
Why do you have such a strong emotionally negative response to cryptocurrencies? It is pretty clear you are communicating disingenuously. The reasons for ending BTC support for many merchants and platforms were high fees and long tx confirmation times, which is what many altcoins have focused on addressing (eg Ether, Stellar, Litecoin, Nano)
How Tech Companies Built a Bridge into Finance
XiZhao any links that explains tool like I am 5(in a programming sense)? The tool feels like of importance to my current java project.
something gets marked as a dupe, but no op link?
How does sheets, airtable, etc... store data in the back end?
I've looked at VS Code a couple of times, but the Ruby support wasn't very good (syntax highlighting didn't even work completely). Is it time to switch or should I stick with Atom?
No, he's saying that some (possibly many) users know how to use the service, but not VPNs or TOR. Therefore, they are easily blocked, compared to advanced users.
I doubt the actual effectiveness or usefulness of the system mattered much to the police department. Most likely this was used for one of two purposes: a) as mentioned above, parallel construction and b) an excuse to arrest people they wanted to arrest anyway, with the system as cover.
Could be the size of the files. Atom at least used to just crash when you opened a file too big.
That's no longer the correct playlist. Watch the last video of that playlist.

The correct playlist is now this: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9wALaIpe0Py6E_oHCgTr...
Airtable is awesome.

We have been throwing out a ton of self-built admin forms and CRUD pages by Airtable bases. Now people inside the company can add new fields, versioning by default, super simple interface.

Largest con: No webhooks. Which makes you pull data every X minutes to find out if a record changed. I would throw them a lot more money (280$/month now) if they just had webhooks as it could replace a TON internal systems/reports.

Second con: Ids. I would want them to support client delivered record_ids. Right now airtable has it's own ID field (which can not be set). Therefore if you want syncing to work efficiently you need to store that airtable_id on your side to do REST updates (PATCH). Would be better that airtable record_ids could be provided by the client so I can inject database primary keys and not have to store/query their record_id
I know the other replies explained a bit, but if anyone's curious for details, the Qualcomm processor in question is Snapdragon Wear 2100.

This was launched in February 2016 [1] and there's hasn't been an update since.

Hopefully with Google going through this rebranding exercise they know something about upcoming hardware that we don't. As it stands they've ceded their position for Android smartwatches to Samsung and Fitbit and will have some catching up to do.

[1] https://www.qualcomm.com/news/onq/2016/02/11/snapdragon-wear...
You can also use http://lowendspirit.com/locations.html to get a VPS for as little as $3/year then use https://github.com/Nyr/openvpn-install for a quick openvpn installation.
Just hanging fabric on the walls should make a world of difference.
The definitions of intelligence these researchers choose to use are just as interesting as the predictive method.

Intelligence is such an amorphous concept in our society.
> Hopefully the Rust re-write improves things.

To clarify, I don't think there are any plans to rewrite all of Atom in Rust; the UI will likely always use Electron. They are just rewriting some of the more intensive backend libraries in Rust for performance.

(Someone correct me if I'm wrong.)
I thought I was the only borland's blue background widow out there.
I've actually found the opposite to be true. Sites seem to focus more on preventing scraping and block VPS IP's more often than commercial VPN. For example, Craigslist on Digital Oceans IP's is hilariously throttled to ~256 bytes per second. Crunchbase always tosses up a CAPTCHA. This was mostly the same for Linode.
Disclaimer: I work on software (Linux) at Intel.

Spectre variant 1 is arguably a software problem. It's not about consuming "bad" data that was placed by an adversary like variant 2, or allowing a rogue data cache loads like with Meltdown. It happens as the result of normal execution.

The processor manuals are also very clear that speculation can be wrong and can have observable side-effects[1][2]. The processors also have ways to constrain speculation architecturally (like lfence) in the case that speculation can do something that results in exposure to a vulnerability. Those two things put together make it a software problem _now_, and perhaps forever.

This means that those of us who write security-sensitive software have a long road ahead of us to learn how this affects us and to continue to enhance our defenses. Adding array_index_nospec()'s in Linux, for instance.

1. Intel SDM Vol 3a, 4.10.2.3 Details of TLB Use: "The processor may cache translations required ... for accesses that are a result of speculative execution that would never actually occur in the executed code path."
2. CLFLUSH instruction definition says: "processors are free to speculatively fetch and cache data from system memory regions assigned a memory-type allowing for speculative reads"
Lately my google search results have been total garbage.

Google confuses terms. Whenever searching for something rare, it just "autocorrects" the search term to something common. It often modifies product model numbers and gives results you didn't ask for.

It helpfully drops search terms the user explicitly provides it. It doesn't even help to put + in front of the words, like some years ago.

There's advanced search, but the results are only marginally better and it's horrible to use.
Interbreeding can be ranked on a scale. The less related the groups are, the more problems there are with reproducing. Perhaps a hard boundary of "species" can be drawn where the probability of successful offspring approaches zero. However, that's difficult to measure in practice.
Today is a slow day.
Well I hope this turns out to be true instead of another one of those sci pop headlines that never turns into anything (looking at you type 2 diabetes).

It would really help a lot of people if we could segregate children as they enter the school system into more refined groups based on their needs rather than waiting for someone to select you for gifted programs like we do now.

Then each group could focus on its unique challenges in trying to eliminate whatever portion of intelligence is derived from the environment.
Hang in there - I applied for the Coda beta several months ago, but only got the Beta invite a few days ago.

First impressions, quite good really, but we've only created some small tables and pages in it so far. I am a developer by trade, and usually eschew apps that are based around "programming for non programmers", but I can see that Coda IS quite useful for people who are non technical. I especially like that I can create 'sub views' from a master table to share with users so they can see a summarised view pertinent only to them.

Biggest drawback, as another commenter has pointed out here, is that I have no idea what the costs (if any) will be for our company once they finish the Beta. For that reason we will avoid putting anything mission critical on there until we know more.
For everyone that does not get what makes this different from Google Sheets have a look at this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGUCqWa0Msc where the CEO of Airtable (Howie Liu) is live coding an example on top of Airtable

Google spreadsheets is a collaborative excel
Airtable is much more than that (forms, views, versioning)
That's not a UK thing though - all STEM salaries in the EU are lower than their counterparts in the USA. I don't think this points to an anti-STEM culture specific to the UK.

But that is kind of beside the point - you said they're socially looked down upon. Maybe I derailed it by anticipating you were meaning salaries ... but it sounds like you believe there's some overall anti-STEM sentiment and I honestly cannot think of a time I saw anything like this.

I haven't heard of the idea that the UK is a place to get good cheap engineers. I have heard of Southern Europe, Eastern Europe and India talked about this way but never the UK. Good maybe, but certainly not cheap.
There are a lot of merchants that accept Nano and this number is rising very fast.
Check this link:
https://www.reddit.com/r/nanocurrency/comments/83w51x/25_mon...
This is especially true for SaaS where the margins are huge and business models are designed to simplify and obfuscate the true costs of running a business.
Perhaps we really should be called Homohumpian or Homomuttus.
One at work and one at home:

MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Early 2015)

But I'm glad this thread is here, because at some point these will both die and I'm not sure what I'll replace them with.
Doesn't the article state that the founder of Airtable sold his previous startup to Salesforce and regrets it and doesn't want to go down the same path again?
Streaming is hugely successful, but why can’t content creators make money?
A Scalable Concurrent malloc(3) Implementation for FreeBSD (2006) [pdf]
New Mexico has a long history of landowners screwing others over water rights.

John Nichols' New Mexico Trilogy ("The Milagro Beanfield War" is the first and best known book) covers some of the problems.

In addition to the premise for that story, another example was water rights by seniority, but they depend on the fields being in use. But when men are conscripted to fight in WWII, they can't plant, so they lose their water rights. While the rich (and Anglo) landowners can hire people to make sure they maintain their rights.

There are other examples in the series.
The Raiblocks / Nano white paper says:

B. Transaction Flooding
A malicious entity could send many unnecessary but valid
transactions between accounts under its control in an attempt to saturate the network. With no transaction fees they are able to continue this attack indefinitely. However, the PoW required for each transaction limits the transaction rate the
malicious entity could generate without significantly investing in computational resources. Even under such an attack in an attempt to inflate the ledger, nodes that are not full historical nodes are able to prune old transactions from their chain; this clamps the storage usage from this type of attack for almost
all users.

and

"D. Penny-Spend Attack
A penny-spend attack is where an attacker spends infinites-
imal quantities to a large number of accounts in order to waste the storage resources of nodes. Block publishing is rate-limited by the PoW, so this limits the creation of accounts and transactions to a certain extent. Nodes that are not full historical nodes can prune accounts below a statistical metric where the account is most likely not a valid account. Finally,
RaiBlocks is tuned to use minimal permanent storage space, so space required to store one additional account is proportional to the size of an open block + indexing = 96B +32B = 128B. This equates to 1GB being able to store 8 million penny-spend account. If nodes wanted to prune more aggressively, they can calculate a distribution based on access frequency and delegate infrequently used accounts to slower storage."
Soccer balls also curl toward the spin. Kicking a ball to impart left spin will make the ball curl to the left in midair.
I got my last two Pi Zero units from Vilros[1], they have the Zero W for $10 which is the intended price from the RPi Foundation. To me, it's worth the extra $5 for WiFi/BT with no dongles.

[1] https://www.vilros.com/shop/raspberry-pi/raspberry-pi-zero-w...
You've explained why there are HOAs, and your explanation makes sense, but it doesn't address my point. GP was complaining that HOAs cause shit neighborhoods, which from a temporal perspective is unlikely. HOAs don't exist before homes get built. Cheap-ass, insufficiently-regulated property developers build shit neighborhoods (and, as you observe, often set up the HOAs that infest them). HOAs are merely the crabs in the bucket, pulling down neighbors who attempt to live better lives in the horrible suburban neighborhoods that already exist.
Using zeit's now on that demo. Damn that service is so convenient.
Nothing wrong with a bit of competition, right ;-)
Yes, it's definitely time to switch away from Ruby...
My fiancé studied there. She’s still waiting to hear if anybody she knows was crushed under that bridge. This isn’t funny.
Unilever will not invest in online platforms that create division
I'm sure segregating students based on a genetic test that tries to predict their intelligence wouldn't cause any kind of reinforcement of those trends at all or create disadvantages for those now branded dumb for their entire school career.

Surely this could never happen.