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In no particular order:
1. Add Python programming to my arsenal of programming languages.
2. Project and People management
3. Data Structures
Linode's support has been excellent though I rarely needed that. for me it's all resolved on their irc channel really quickly.

DO support is of concern but I never used that yet. I hope Linode can match up DO's offering(pricing and features) then I will likely stay.
> Who collects the tolls? Is it a private company or a government body with motive different than maximum profit?

Private company with motive different than maximum profit. Motive: not to get subsumed and punished by the government allowing them to do this...then second motive is maximum profit. That primary motive one is an important one in all of these non-competitive industries, and can't even have a private vs public discussion without including it. Otherwise, it's just corruption/apathy and it's a different problem.
It would take exactly a year for Google to clean up Android enough. They had to scram because iPhone just outran them.

About the only major thing iPhone brought was direct carrier deals from AT&T and Verizon for big data plans.

Also lost the keyboard. (Not the first device to do so either.)
I just signed up. Thank you. I don't even care if it works. I get up to 6/day, and if I can turn even just one of those into a bit of fun, it'll all be worth it.

I've become irrationally irritable because of these calls. I have started subconsciously turning off my ringer, causing me to miss actual important calls. Jolly Roger may be my saving grace.
I thought it is worth pointing out, the newest rumours from Weibo, all latest iPhone and iPad in 2018 will ship with USB-C to Lightning cable. And all Charger will support USB-PD with 18W.
> Your response to scientific studies that demonstrate the VA actually provides better care than private counter parts is to dismiss them all as dishonest cherry picking. You offer up no studies or data of your own.

To be entirely honest, you alluded to research around the VA (but did not offer up any studies or data of your own). I responded by alluding to research around the VA which provides a different conclusion (but did not offer up studies or data either, although I did at least state the actual metrics used to draw said conclusion).

> Until people like you are willing to even look at the evidence -- and the evidence for universal healthcare is overwhelming at this point -- real discussion is pointless.

We're not discussing scientific evidence here. At best we're discussing your interpretation of (possibly-scientific) research that you've seen in the past but haven't actually named.

There is one point on which we do agree, though: that it's pointless to continue. It's pointless for me to continue a discussion with someone who starts a thread with bold claims and no supporting data, and then criticizes someone who responds in kind for the exact same thing. To be honest, it's also pointless to continue discussions of healthcare policy on Hacker News beyond a certain point too, because of the inherent political makeup of the site. Even the most well-researched comments which reference primary sources alongside research published in peer-reviewed journals are routinely downvoted because they express skepticism of monopsonic healthcare models. Instead, the top comments are usually low-effort criticisms that contain no rigor, depth, research, or citations, but do contain witty, biting criticisms of US healthcare and political soapboxing. In that sort of environment, there's not much of an incentive for people with domain knowledge who've studied these issues to participate in earnest.

So I guess that's one thing we can agree on: the futility of continuing this comment subthread.
Yamot – Yet Another MOnitoring Tool
I Bought Porn using Cryptocurrency and it was even worse than I expected
I don't think the argument is that they are stupid because they cost jobs, any more than the idea that smart speakers are bad because they will cost jobs.
Announcing PyTorch 1.0 for both research and production
That looks more like a very short pdf with a white background than a 'whitepaper'.
Measuring Consumer Sensitivity to Audio Advertising: Field Experiment on Pandora
FYI This triggers my corporate firewall's "protection". YMMV
David Goodall: Scientist, 104, begins trip to end his life
This just had a major discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16974067.

Please check before posting. https://hn.algolia.com/?query=H-1B%20Abuse%20bay%20area&sort... and https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=mercurynews.com are easy ways.
Acquihire.
Learn a little about AppSec: https://www.owasp.org/images/7/72/OWASP_Top_10-2017_%28en%29...
You might look closer at "why".
I don't want to get into an argument on the definition of "subway", but Chicago's is not like what this article describes, or what is in Manhattan.
If your intention is to make some money and they have trademarks and already existing similar domains you are not acting legal! There were other people who already had the same thought as you... they failed!
oh right cutlery!

Okay, i'm gonna try to switch to that, I like it.

"silverware" is probably the most popular in the US in general.
The CDC says insect-spread diseases have tripled–here’s why that’s misleading
Half of Hackernews is discussion about six figure tech salaries, the other half is complaints about 300mb (aka ~$2) ram being to expensive for an app.

https://www.anandtech.com/show/9864/price-of-ddr4-memory-dro...
Being that this article is 18 years old, I am quite curious the current thoughts of the researchers, and to learn of any continued work in this area. Fascinating area of research. http://reasoninglab.psych.ucla.edu/PatriciaCheng.html
There’s a problem with this approach, which I found out about the hard way.

Like you I thought I should keep my html “semantic”. The problem with this approach is that you end up tightly coupling the stylesheet and the html, because it requires you to recreate the html’s tag structure using contextual selectors.

Besides becoming very complex this means that every time you need to change the html you also need to change the css.

The other major downside is that all those mixins end up generating a ton of duplicate rules in the stylesheet.

Note that if you define everything using classes and then put those classes in the html you have none of these issues. The coupling is much more straightforward and the stylesheets can be much smaller. Besides that, contextual selectors are many times slower than a single classname.

The inline styles thing I can’t agree with, classes are much more DRY.

I found the methodologies outlined by Harry Roberts to change the ways I structure my css for the better. (www.csswizardry.com)
All H-1B salaries are public information, broken down by company and position. In a small to medium sized company you can narrow each entry down to a handful of people.
It's an existential issue for American society. Journalism has a function that has evolved in symbiosis with civil society. Friends and family don't fulfill that function, unless you have a very large family made of journalists.

Zuckerberg seems to realize this, given the comment about public funding, but that is just an unrealistic throwaway line in the current moment. I don't much like the idea that you can make billions by destroying the support for a pillar of civilization and then say that's not your problem to solve.
React 360 Replaces React VR for Streamlined Development Focus
Not really. The main innovation was business one that allowed Apple to steal US markets. They convinced two major carriers to offer expensive big data plans.
There's a weird loophole where law enforcement can get your emails in certain cases without a warrant. It's not the same as being public. https://www.cnet.com/news/doj-we-dont-need-warrants-for-e-ma...

Anyway I can't understand what the use case would even be here. You need FB to publish their rankings publicly which doesn't need to be decentralized, or you want each person to have their own rankings which don't need to be distributed?
Advancing state-of-the-art image recognition with deep learning on hashtags
To each his own, I exclusively use the self checkout line whenever I can (especially at costco) and it saves me a ton of time. Besides the point here was about innovation and working towards a better future, which the amazon cashierless stores might be. Just because the current solution for self-checkouts is bad doesn't mean we should stop innovating.
Show HN: A website to generate icons for iOS and Android apps in one step
>“Cloudwick has never brought resources from India,” Chhabra said. “All the resources are Master’s students that have educated in U.S. and then we hired and trained them.”

Is the excavator referring to humans?
To give some examples: quick-move folders, conversation view, feed view, one click filter-creation and newsletter/promo filter
My dad is a veteran and now uses the VA for everything he can now.

His first experiences weren't that great, but you could easily tell it was because they were understaffed and underfunded.

Once they got to the point where he could start seeing specialists and whatnot, everything since then was a breeze.

He had a surgery on his stomach. It wasn't life threatening, but he was in some pain. The VA was able to get him an appointment with a Dr. and schedule the surgery within a few days to a week or so.

He also needed eye surgery. This one he had to wait for his eye to get to a certain point before surgery. The VA was able to get him to see an eye Dr the same day he went in for something else. Then less than a month later he was going to go in for surgery but something came up so he had to have it rescheduled. They were able to reschedule the surgery for the following week.

I would consider this a success story. He was hesitant on getting the eye surgery because of costs that were told to him by the previous company, but the VA told him he would not be paying anything, and he didn't.
If you have more specific feedback about what you'd expect a whitepaper to look like, we'd love to hear it. We surveyed some stuff and didn't really find much commonality, but would prefer to follow conventions if there are any!
This is so dead-on. Having the idea is often the easy part—it's the execution that makes or breaks it. Yes a great idea can be valuable but it's nothing without the execution to bring it into reality.

Conversely, ideas which appear shitty or idiotic in their failure (Juicero, for eg.) might have thrived with sensible, correct execution.

This is why having the right team matters more than having the right idea and one should take a hard look at oneself as much as the product when facing failure.
"Smartphone" was coined as a marketing term by Microsoft in the early 2000s to refer to PDAs with cell radios that ran Windows CE. These early smartphones were bricks -- not Zack Morris phones, but hand-sized bricks nonetheless -- and required a stylus to operate.
I take properly to mean a structured approach to full understanding. However, the totality of math is beyond any single person. There are multiple approaches that all drift of in to different directions.

In short. There is no final Aha moment for maths at large. There are however a shit load of specific aha moments down the path
Remember, it’s not about learning a language that will get you a job. It’s about broadening your horizons as a developer and being able to recognize the right tool for the job.

It's almodt always about getting a job. Why not concentrate on a language that makes you immediately employable?
Umm it’s you who has no money vs. multi-billion dollar Google who out of nowhere is chasing you saying would you consider selling your tech to us? Let’s meet to discuss.

I filed a provisional patent before the meeting and later a non-provisional. I chased money and those who have strong ties to Google and their competitors in terms of working together, investment, etc. with no success. I’ve been at this for 11 years.

So the biggest company on the planet is pursuing you for your blood/sweat/tears/dreams(all u ever wanted to do was to create amazing technology for a living and u believe you have a knack for it)... what else would you have done?

Again your one dude with no money or strong connections vs. Google. A company whose motto is Do No Evil!
I've about given up on per-capita studies whose results rely on cultural differences too (but of course can't account for them). We have to accept places are different in more ways than population size. It's like saying where in the world is it easiest to have blonde hair.
Billiard ball computer
Yeah! You can mainly work with images and arbitrary vectors (that's what the bounding box examples we show are using, for instance) currently, and have plans to include native support for text, video, etc. as time progresses.
The first quote in my other comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16978395
The product wasn't even new. It was just popular due to Microsoft-class backroom negotiations with carriers to sell data plans and the fact that the launch perfectly coincided with launch of 3G networks in the USA.
> “evading wage and hour” laws. But that’s my point: Why do you count it as “evading” anything when you buy labor from someone who offers it as a freelancer, and that rate is under the minimum?

Working for less than minimum wage is against the law. Are you actually suggesting that minimum wage is a bad idea, and so of course the rest wouldn't hold up. In this case, a minimum wage is considered a premise of the entire decision.

I cannot see an issue about gifting people something. I do see an issue with allowing paid work at less than the legal minimum wage, which I expect is why this was framed as an evasion of the wage and hour laws.

To go very off topic, my quick reason for why minimum wage laws are desired is as follows (note I don't think any of this works as follows in real life, but this is the reasoning I can come up with):

We as a society do not actually want to subsidize businesses where they shunt the cost of their employees to the public but privatize the profits - i.e. if Walmart only "makes money" because the local governments have to pay 1/2 the employee wages in poverty avoiding benefits - we don't want Walmart to succeed. So we set a wage minimum in law where if you make that amount society thinks you wouldn't need welfare etc. It may also be seen as a moral value that an employee should make enough to survive at a job. I.e. we should treat employes "this good" in a developed country.
This ATT app is getting better, you still need to block some numbers, but it auto blocks others.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/at-t-call-protect/id11816325...
We've been surprised how little data folks have needed to use. If you look at the examples page you'll see in the lower right hand corner of the screen shot the number of examples they uploaded and trained on. Some examples, like the water tank, it's fine to some extent if it overfits on the training data, because the nest cam will only ever be pointed at the water tank, and it's worked in all situations and been robust for us with only ~500 examples. Other times folks are more interested in prototyping out an idea to see if it's possible on a wider scale, so a small dataset works well to prove out an idea.
Let's bring this back to the topic at hand. We have the entire history of the US up until the 1940s where the government had basically no say in healthcare and there was nothing like the scale of human suffering brought about by Marxists.

FWIW I don't support stateless anarchy/utopia, but when we grant someone a monopoly on force, it's rational to keep their power to a bare minimum.
I don't know where you live now but private insurance is much cheaper in countries with universal healthcare. Probably because the insurance company only pays for "extras" that the existing system doesn't. They don't pay for ambulance rides for example.

Also, universal healthcare does not mean private insurance does not exist.
My compute resources are not an all-you-can-eat buffet. I'm sick of inconsiderate developers writing software in wasteful frameworks that waste my electricity and time.

You can make pretty x-platform apps in JavaFX, QT Quick, GTK, hell even Lazarus, and they don't eat CPU and memory like Electron does.

It is a shame that nearly every app released in the latter half of this decade is just wasteful Electron garbage. Don't forget your 300+mb needs to sit along side Slack's 300mb, Discord's 300mb, and so on... fuck even my Crashplan Backup client eats up three processes and another 300mb. It's inconsiderate as hell.
Great set of complaints per Jupyter. I think the project is an excellent idea, but it needs to become more mature. I've used it for some prototyping, but it isn't the polished experience you'd like. The web browser is good for looking at the results, but pretty terrible for editing and developing. I'm hoping that with time there will be:

- better front end integration - e.g. a separate vim process connecting/editing cells of a running notebook and updating the browser view on each change

- Fewer bugs and more parity between the python kernel and non-python kernels
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> The bigger the organization, the more muddy the waters. Cryptic territorial fights, all up and down the chain, become a shade coloring a great many decisions.

I heard a story recently of a fairly simple decision that put two territorial groups in conflict. It escalated to the person at the split between branches, who made the decision.

Which is fine, except that the arguing parties didn't overlap one or two levels up. A question of "who wins over this one task at one site" landed on the desk of a senior VP overseeing dozens of sites after wasting the time of a half dozen managers who escalated it and fought with each other. At a conservative guess, it cost $2,000 in salary just to decide who would do the task.

I think people undervalue how much benefit startups get just from having fewer disagreements that Need An Adult. Passing decisions down from the top is fine, but pushing conflicts up and back down is ridiculously expensive in time, money, and goodwill.
The Age of the Consumer Contract Wallet
> We chose Rust for this rewrite because it combines best-in-class speed with low resource usage while still offering the safety of standard server languages. Low resource usage was particularly important to us because some of the performance issues with the old server were caused by the garbage collector.

Reading between the lines here, they didn't go with a more mature language like Java because they were worried GC tuning would be a problem?

Given all the other issues they noted with using a less mature language like Rust in production, that's a pretty heavy load to take on in exchange for not having to tune GC. Isn't GC tuning a fairly well understood problem? Is there something about encoding large documents that makes it a significantly greater obstacle?

Or are there other unstated considerations at play here? For example, I mean this completely earnestly and not cynically, but there is a lot more PR and recruitment value in blogging about a hot new cutting-edge language than "how we rewrote our TypeScript server in Java".
Good point. Totally remove the profit motive from healthcare. Establish a monopsony on medicine through the US government.

Hang the ghouls that enrich themselves by throwing families into lifetimes of debt only to further enrich themselves.
What's wrong with trying to get the attention of the CIO at a regional widget-factory? Do we not have C-levels of all locations and stripes in this community?
exactly -- that and write down those horrible and stupid passwords on sticky-notes and attach them to their monitor bezel or keyboard.
Just because you "can" use a bunch of memory without issues now doesn't mean you "should" not make any attempts to cut resource usage whenever possible.
> To correct one misconception, the project is not bound to ptrace. There is a generic platform interface, and the repository also includes a KVM-based platform (wherein the Sentry acts as guest kernel and host VMM simultaneously) described in the README. The default platform is ptrace so that it works out of the box everywhere.

Doesn't have even worse perf than ptrace? The time I tried to do that, I ended up getting bit by the rough 4 contexts switches to get most anything done. Guest->host_kernel->host_user_vmm->host_kernel->guest

Or are you just saying that if/when some third option that doesn't suck as much comes out, you'd be able to hopefully transparently switch to it?
Apple has plenty of non-aligned incentives, they control the store (+30% subscription tax on Spotify, taking down apps that compete with "core functionality"), they don't want you to repair your phone (and planned obsolescence) where ewaste and their profit is connected.
Yes, sorry by not being clearer from the beginning. I guess the bulk of the 'app' market will move towards PWA, which is a good thing.
This is true, Go is not memory safe in the presence of data races, and data races are possible in safe Go.

But they're also generally easy to code-review out. There's definitely a huge difference between C and Go, regardless of this one caveat to Go's memory safety guarantees.

They aren't using single threaded Go from what I can see.
Ask HN: Why does everyone use a MacBook Pro despite saying they suck?
About to buy a new machine for a dev position and was just curious about the thought process of using a MBP. Any good alternatives?
Scanned, not collected. Specifically, scanned recursively to mark embedded objects as alive.
I have a couple of questions -

Do you have a team implementing most of the new state-of-the-art model architectures (given how fast new ones keep getting published)?

If so, I'm assuming you keep associating some types of model architectures to the type of data being input?
I'm just curious how you'd pick a particular architecture.

On the other hand, AutoML comes to mind, but IMO, the biggest hurdle of AutoML, and its ilk is the massive computational infrastructure requirements.

But great job, it looks really good and seems pretty intuitive!
I just started using Jupyter a couple of days ago as I'm starting to learn ML. I'm really impressed by it. Would love something similar for Ruby.
This seems like a recipe for disaster.

I read "The Wise Men" and was under the impression that the State department was staffed with incredibly smart folks who served out of a sense of duty to the Country rather than as a job of last resort.

Makes me wonder: how do you think the State Department would have changed under the leadership of Tillerson and now Pompeo?
Costs are high, largely, because we have a fragmented mess of a system rather than a single payer.
In his biography, Jobs bemoaned the utilitarian brutalism of the medical devices he relied on in his final years of life. He absolutely would've oversaw the development of slicker accessibility.
Well, opaque algorithmic censorship might be the worst one.

The algorithm will probably "nerf" small papers with insufficient data and boost big ones. Papers that are controversial in some political camp will get flags and instead people will get food articles and CNN/ABC/Fox etc.

I liked Facebook's old "show stuff in order" (pre 2011?) way more.
I wasn't suggesting the article needed to be more technical in nature or lacked details but rather pointing out that the improper use of a grammatic article demonstrated a lack of editorial oversight by a technical resource.

In other words, the authors are speaking with authority about something they demonstrated ignorance of by improper use of an article and they went out of their way to use language that would lead a non-technical reader to conclude the failure that occurred was a result of 60 year old code when in reality it was due to 18 month old hardware.
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