skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He literally made a company for the sole purpose of getting her elected.

https://qz.com/520652/groundwork-eric-schmidt-startup-workin...
We're all throwing darts in the dark here with regards to the resource they gave the problem and its difficulty. I think the real takeaway is just that it could be something other than just stupidity through and through.
Uber pulls out of all self-driving-car testing in California
The writer talks about how the value of the documents on that account runs into the millions.

I'm not sure why anybody would use a cloud service without a proper backup you control. Let alone a cloud service with documents worth millions.
> the fissile material is kept well separated from the launch vehicles in Pakistan

Where does this information come from? I doubt Pakistan is allowing anyone to inspect their weapons.
"Experiencing outages"

Kind of a weasely way to say "are down," or "are having problems," or "are not working."

Like the outage is some kind of external thing. Hey we were just sitting here minding our own business and a random outage came by and jumped into our system.
Source code looks to be GPL3.
They're trolling o'caml, aren't they? This is wonderful.
I just read the green text in this and looking back at this white page afterwards, I can barely read anything thanks to afterimages... For a few seconds I felt like I was going blind. What is the purpose of them trying to visually assault the people they're purportedly giving advice to?
You can implement your own cuda no problem: https://research.google.com/pubs/pub45226.html

or write your own assembly
https://github.com/NervanaSystems/maxas

What you miss is there is a reason why OpenCL didn't get traction and lack of tools translating CUDA to OpenCL is not one of them. OpenCL 2.0+ is lot better than previous versions but it is too little to late.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooks%27s_law

Nine month analogy is widely known in software development.
Even before that it's already unfair to compare a closed-source product to an open-source system. Bugs are much easier to find in an open-source system. It doesn't even by itself mean that there are more of them. If you look at the big picture, it's not like Windows is known for it's security.
> That lawyers exist is a good thing.

The more common term is "necessary evil".
Lets see, the Cuban Missile Crisis is a nice place to start.

Set in motion in part because USA had placed missiles in Turkey and USSR attempted to do the same in Cuba.

Never mind having launch codes set to all zeros for a number of years.

And more than a few soiled pants moments where live nukes have been mismanaged (like having a B-52 fly across the nation with a live one in the bay, because someone got it and a training bomb confused).

Sorry to say but USA all too often come across as teenagers seen by foreign eyes.
The article makes a good point. Exaggeration is common when trying to raise money. Read the history of many startups and you'll find outright lies that seem mild after the fact since the startup was able to continue and deliver. We've all heard the stories as well as all the people that invest in startups.
Uber gives up autonomous vehicle testing rights in California
Scraping stuff from Facebook is tedious in the extreme due to all the obfuscatory javascript, but that doesn't seem like it would be a problem for a firm with Palantir's resources.
I'm really confused by the downvotes. This is the material evidence of

> The current division in the US is urban vs rural

I.e. you have to look at populations of states, not just state counts themselves.
It supports it, but it doesn't work that well in my experience.
I just lost a week of my life dealing with one bug in a Cordova/Ionic mobile app
I've been entertaining this idea for a while.

Train a NN/markov chain on enough of my own and publicly available facebook posts and comments that I can make it spew out realistic-looking posts and comments on demand.

Make another script that likes and unlikes pages, joins and leaves groups.

Make another that uploads random photos (or randomly generated image content) and tags me in them.

Stitch them all together into something that runs all of those on my account, generate so much noise that it becomes a tedious exercise to identify real comments and posts simply by virtue of volume.

For bonus points, run it from my home computer.

Would it be perfect? Probably not, there's probably way more you could do to simulate a real user, but it'd make a fun project if nothing else.
The United States was founded in order to protect slavery. The "enlightenment" stuff was PR. Check out Gerald Horne's Counterrevolution of 1776.
"try to mimic others, act normal" is mild-to-moderate autism, and leads to challenges like not realizing that it's so much harder (in mental effort) for one person to perform behaviors that are so easy for most people.

Severe autism has symptoms like nonverbality (unless treated with years of intensive communication therapy), extreme repetitive behaviors (tapping, bouncing, etc), and freakouts/meltdowns in response to unexpected situations and sensory inputs, of the sort of intensity and sensitivity well beyond what you'd see in the average person over the age of about 7years.

In years past people might not have been able to pinpoint "autism", but disregarding the minor important of the label, it was still easy to see a lot of what was going on with the person with the condition. (Effective _treatment_ is of course much harder than mere diagnosis.)
Because your government represent corporate interests much more than it represents you. (See Princeton study for more)
Again this has nothing to do with a subjective point of view this is something that can be objectively quantified with metrics.

Most things in life can be objectively quantified and evaluated despite the spirit of relativism which is way to prevelant today.

North Korea is an objectively horrid regime and I would not wish it on my worse enemies to live under such conditions.

We aren’t arguing about who’s better Belgium or Norway places like North Korea is about as black and white as it can get.

And it’s also a huge fallacy that from their point of view it’s XYZ anyone in Norh Korea that is capable of having a point of view knows exactly where they stand and why they do the things they and what the situation is.
Uber’s use of fewer safety sensors prompts questions after Arizona crash
On the subject of kids, I’d much rather my teenage daughter took a ride by herself in a self-driving car than a regular taxi.
In hindsight I worded that poorly, would've been better to say:

Targeted advertising that employs manipulative or otherwise dishonest methods is damaging to Capitalism and free markets.
You know it's going bad for them when Salon.com starts realizing how wrong they are.
I don’t see how that’s relevant to the actual content of the page?
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That's amazing!
We have 2018 and still find such important stuff!

The focus on the cancer PR bingo kinda plays the message down a little... This isn't just important for the understanding of cancer spreading. This could explain and effect so much more.

Just give them their damn nobel price!
Microsoft had 2-3 months, tops.
The most recent bond sale I can find was less than 2 months ago: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-31/when-it-c...
What did they expect? Non ECC memory in an engineering workstation is asinine. Using “prosumer” video cards for scientific tasks is too. They’ll have to pony up the $$ to get Tesla cards.
Not really. It's really a luxury car brand. They have sporty fast cars (I'd kill for a manual F type) but they're by no means a race car company. They had an F1 team but it wasn't very successful and it looks like they only dabble in motorsports a little bit as of recent according to wikipedia. If I'm looking for really performance-focused cars I'm not looking at Jaguars. I'm looking at Porsches, Ferraris, Lamborghinis, McLarens, AMG Mercedes, M BMWs, etc. With Jags you're really spending a lot of $$$ for comparable performance from something like an M3 or a Z06 Corvette (an admittedly difficult to compete with package).

I think the primary allure of the Jaguar brand is that dignified, beautiful, English car exemplified by the old XJ (the car from Shaun of the Dead is an XJ). It's allure is not "I'm gonna hoon in this thing and hit 0-60mph in under 4 seconds."
A medallion was never necessary to run a car service. There were tons of other car services operating in New York without medallions prior to Uber.

The medallions were required to be able to pick up street hails. Uber does not and never has accepted street hails. They operate more like the other car services where you request a car from a central dispatcher, and then that car comes and picks you up at a location that you requested.
A really simple test you can compile with cygwin - if it doesn't crash, the bug is present:

#include <stdio.h>

int main()
{
volatile unsigned long *ptr = (volatile unsigned long *)0xFFFFF6FB7DBED000;

printf("%lx\n", *ptr);
return 0;
}
I was a little worried until I read the replacement functions which are basically word-for-word descriptions of what I use the functions for:

getSnapshotBeforeUpdate, getDerivedStateFromProps
I don't worry about containing different personas online because I have only one social media account (HN). Therefore, only one persona. That + ublock origin is sufficient for me.
Ask HN: Cheapish, hacker friendly cities?
Hi all,

Young software engineer with a remote job wanting to see the 'world', what cities would you recommend?

Disposable income is around 3k USD per month.

Thanks
How does booting for remote login in such a setup work though? You'd have to be physically present in order to enter the passphrase.
Sounds a lot like Factor. I wonder how it compares?
My point is that the individual symptoms -- such behavioral rigidity and slow processing of sensory inputs -- can be treated appropriately (accommodations and therapy) without regard for whether they are "autism". It's not like "arm pain" -> "x-ray shows broken bone" -> "put a cast on it"
Mark Zuckerberg's VR Safari Through Puerto Rico
LA. San Diego. Salt Lake City. Atlanta. Houston. Dallas. Miami.
Ah, I took "doesn't really have any impact" as "doesn't really have any practical impact" instead of "doesn't have any legal impact". I thought you were making a point about it being Google's personal reasons they might justify moving on as opposed to reasonable ones based on precedence of the decision.
> just submit silence

433 by John Cage?
At the risk of a more glib comment than I usually try to make:

Having had my systems variously backhoed, struck by lightning, physically unplugged (backup and primary) by a sysadmin (cough who may have on another occasion been me not properly counting the rack I was on cough), and left without mains power for multiple weeks after an electrical fire in a substation, an outage is indeed something that can sneak up on you despite best intentions.

(yes yes "distribute" "build for failure" "it's apple we should expect more" are all valid answers, but wanted to make a tongue in cheek response to your wording.)
We know that it's geofenced, and I'm guessing anything within that is fair play. I don't see why time of day would be an issue, the 1 million trips probably come from the fact that they work all around the clock. Right now it's only available in Arizona, and weather is never an issue there. I also don't see why the geofenced area would contain regions with no data service.

In the New York Times interview a few weeks back, the CEO brought up the specific issue of store parking lots and loading groceries while the car waits, so it seems like they've thought of most corner cases.
Trump tariffed the EU and Canada because they allow China to buy companies in their countries to avoid direct tariffs from the US. It wouldn't have been necessary if our 'allies' valued our relationship more than making billions from the Chinese in exchange for stabbing us in the back.
Elephant 'smoking' footage baffles experts
Heh, I bet rust also wins on memory usage by a land-slide.
It's very quick on my phone in Australia, so it has to be your PC, lol!
They can also be establishing a minimum performance gain.

For Ruby, most of the expensive parts of shuffling around HTTP requests, fetching data from a DB, and serializing JSON, is done using libraries with native extensions. This means using a lightweight framework and ORM like Sinatra + Sequel can put you within striking distance (~3x slower) than Go + Gin on benchmarks like the TechEmpower benchmarks.

However, if you do something with multiple passes of tight loops over the data before you return it, Go will pull much further ahead.
Maybe automatic updates were turned on?
Of course 1000+ developers working on one single solution waterfall style in a short timeframe is a terrible idea. That's not how software works... and we all know that. You know that.

Jumping on the next worst thing does not excuse them either. Nor is taking another analogy to the other extreme helpful at all in this discussion.

A solid pool of talent with complete flexibility resource-wise and a strong critical-level mandate is nothing like a single person with a fixed biological timeframe, with relatively limited resources, no matter which way you'd like to spin it.
And yet the US has killed over 100,000 people using nukes.
Are you suggesting that nobody in North Korea with the power to stop the launch of a nuclear attack would be severely adversely affected by nuclear retaliation that reduces North Korea to rubble? I don't think that's a reasonable assumption. In fact, I think MAD is one of very few things that could provoke a mutiny against Kim Jong-Un.
Hyundai union head says electric cars destroy jobs
Came here to say this.

Their service is amazing + it's completely spoiled me when I end up in Vietnam or another country they don't have coverage and I actually have to get a SIM card.

Such a killer service and I'm surprised more people don't talk about it.
Great stuff, looks great and works great on my phone too.

Just needs more models in there...
"Hmm, but it appears that windows has fewer security bugs than Linux. Is there any data showing otherwise?"

Yes, I think you are being a bit of a noddy comparing a kernel with an entire OS. That said, all software has bugs. Blimey, how on earth can you compare the paltry 3000000000000 odd source files of Windows tucked up in GIT with the gazzilions of source files that comprises a modern Linux based system (let alone the BSDs etc).

I will simply mention here that when I update an LTS Ubuntu or Debian box I run "apt update && apt upgrade && reboot" (or use a GUI if I'm bored) and it takes a few seconds to minutes to update the entire system. Everything. That includes Java, Flash, Office suites, graphics drivers, USB drivers, printer drivers, CAD suites, database servers, web servers, PHP, Python, Perl, Rust, Go, ... need I go on. Everything. The same happens when I use pacman or yourt, or emerge, or yum, or rpm or whatever.

I'm personally CREST accredited, so have a fair idea about security and prefer to spend my time doing stuff and not waiting for updates to install (if I can even find them) - you?
You can't live anywhere near a BART station, let alone a few hundred feet, without losing any sort of discount with mass transit... Not to mention the vast majority of the metropolitan Bay Area is miles away from BART.
In which event Huge Company finds the lowest level employee they can reasonably pin the blame on.
A lazy implementation of this idea might be to just have it post content from https://www.reddit.com/r/SubredditSimulator/
Against NK in particular the details of the retaliation are unimportant, considering China would probably not back them up for doing something so crazy, and NATO could easily crush them conventionally. I'm not advocating using nukes against a one-off NK attack at all, nor am I advocating revenge. I guess I was speaking more generally than just the hypothetical NK first strike scenario.

Although I agree with you regarding your scenario, I think it's inaccurate to assume that the decision to retaliate would only be made after the nukes have landed and the "rubble" cleared. The debates and decisions would be made in the minutes after the launch. Considering there would be no way to know whether the attack was perhaps the start of some more-international conflict (e.g. an unlikely NK-Russia or NK-China joint first strike), and considering such an attack would likely coincide with a land invasion of SK, a retaliatory strike might be necessary. Hopefully if this situation ever plays out in real life the US will opt to use low-yield, low-fallout nukes targeting military facilities with minimal civilian casualties.
According to the article, the self-mapping PTE is randomized in the latest Windows 10.
I'm actually curious to see what the difference in mileage is between human drivers and AI drivers. I'm assuming they can optimize breaking and acceleration to be more power efficient. I remember hearing that in terms of wear & tear, Waymo cars actually get far less of it compared to human drivers.
I hope this feeling passes, but I get nervous when code example syntax starts looking really foreign to me. Whether accurate or not, my brain is kind of in a place of, "okay so ES6 cleaned up a lot, we're all kind of settling on Webpack, npm, certain various toolsets and best practices. I don't feel constantly overwhelmed anymore, can we not rush into another flurry of change?"

On the other hand, it looks like we're streamlining some verbosity. I just hope we can be okay with the right balance and we don't end up with a really terse looking language.
> I can even point you to a post by a former lead dev who literally said that GIMP's usability sucks and then implemented single-window mode

It's ancient and of academic interest only, but here[1]'s a bug report where people ask for a single-window mode and are told it's impossible and undesirable. It stayed open for seven years before being WONTFIXed in 2008. I guess this might be before your time on the project, and of course things have changed since then, but I think this might the sort of thing that led to the GIMP team's reputation for user-indifference.

[1] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7379
They also announced their new fluerosinth-ai amplitudinal speech to text deep-cloudmind product, although I can't find a reference link...
>Even before that it's already unfair to compare a closed-source product to an open-source system. Bugs are much easier to find in an open-source system

Ironically, wouldn't that make it even more unfair for Windows? Shouldn't all the 'millions of eyeballs' looking at the linux code be making it more secure?

>If you look at the big picture, it's not like Windows is known for it's security.

True, but security bugs are easier to reason about, than feelings.
EFF Asks Federal Circuit Not to Make It Harder to Challenge Software Patents
The attacking process could also put whatever code it wanted into the kernel, and so give itself full access to everything on disk as well.
Aren't most of GimpShop modifications actually easily achievable now in the vanilla GIMP?
It also erodes Google’s claims of fair use. Leveraging the Java language and APIs benefited Google much more than it benefited the Java ecosystem at large. Almost anything that targets Java can now be used on Android, but the reverse is not true. The sharing largely flows one way.

Google had little interest in expanding the reach of the Java platform—they wanted to attract Java developers to their “looks like Java, but isn’t” platform while benefiting from the years of work that went into the JDK.

I don’t necessarily think APIs should be copyrightable, but since they now are as a matter of law, I’m leaning towards Google’s actions constituting infringement.
I think we're all better off due to automobile crash testing, who's to say that optimizing for tests does not also benefit real-world scenarios?
Interesting!

I've only been to Mexico and Brazil since getting T-Mobile, but in both those cases I didn't have any speed issues with whatever they capped me at.

That said, I just looked and I can buy a 1GB international high speed "Data Pass" for $20, valid for 10 days. I didn't need one for any of my trips, but if that experience is atypical, I could see where Fi would be more attractive.
I know people who would be interested in translating such writings for kids if they can get grants for it. I doubt the latter is hard.

Email me with address in profile. In short, we can discuss privately how Islamophobia will not be an issue with me and my clique. There is also a nascent Arabic pedagogy demand for private schools in the east coast US teaching to non natives and significant numbers non-Muslim I'll see if we can find you an audience.
I think people are underestimating the difficulty of developing high performance microarchitecture for GPU or CPU.

A new clean sheet design architecture takes 5-7 years even for teams that have been doing it constantly for decades in places like Intel, AMD, ARM or Nvidia. This includes optimizing the design into process technology, yield, etc. Then there is economies of scale and price points.

Recent examples:

* Nvidia's Volta microarchitecture design started 2013, launch was December 2017

* AMD's zen CPU architecture design started 2012 and CPU was out 2017.
> Krita (https://krita.org) is 12 years old

No, it's not :)

"At the 31st of May, 1999, the KImageShop project officially kicked off with a mail by Matthias Elter."

From the very website you linked to :)
>I really fear for this project. Because if it blows up on launch, misses an orbit, or has a failure to deploy, or some flaw, basically decades have been lost.

The thought of this literally keeps me up at night. Watching that thing launch is going to be incredibly stressful.
Mutually Assured Destruction relies on the assumption of rational actors though, which we arguably do not have in power.

It also relies on perfect information. If one side is convinced they are being attacked, it's all over. There have been a lot of near-misses when it comes to nuclear launches due to bad information.

An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.
It doesn't matter, the US presidential election isn't very representative, it values some groups' votes more than others.
Software is all about capturing as many income streams with as fewest people as possible.
>they must have a plan lined up already

Coincidentally, people who should be responsible for such plan promptly left the company last month.

Tesla’s VP of Finance, Susan Repo, has left to become CFO of another company, Bloomberg News' Dana Hull reported late Tuesday. The departure comes less than a week after Tesla’s chief accountant Eric Branderiz left the company for "personal reasons," the company disclosed on March 7.

http://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/tesla-stock-p...
if they named themselves DeepMind WaveNet Blockchain, they could have acquired Googlebet* by now.

* that's how i call google/alphabet when it doesn't matter which side of the tax-avoiding entity i am referring to.
> This means that it's pointless for them to show their custom prompt if you've already refused access, because even if you agree, they can't get the system prompt to show up again. So you can probably make the repeated prompts disappear

No. I have seen this defeated on a few apps-- they harass you with the custom messages, and when it realizes it can't trigger the system prompt, it just tells you to go into settings and approve it manually. Failure to follow through means the custom messages will continue harassing you as long as the permission has not been granted.
Sorry, did you have a point? I honestly have no idea what you are saying.
Since it's voluntary, no, it's not.
It's "Ibn Battuta" in Arabic.