skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>duct taping together multiple CPUs

IIRC, according to Intel's slides, AMD used glue.
Are you keeping it on Windows or planning to throw Linux onto it?

Dell's XPS 13/15 line run Linux very well, as do Lenovo's Thinkpads.
Okay, but anyone making that argument should also consider that the existence of VCs and their money may well have been part of the reasoning that led the founders to create the service in the first place. Look at the almost total absence of such useful or interesting services created in places that don't have VCs.
I've been apart of two companies who did similar things DOMO is doing and neither ended well. Both had millions of VC money and the CEO burned through it all on executive boxes at several pro teams, remodeling an office that didn't need it, travel expenses, and paying himself exorbitantly.

Because of their spending, both companies slashed their runway in half, and within months, both companies went under before being able to ship a viable product.

I don't see a good outcome for this company.
How QuarkXPress became a mere afterthought in publishing
​Positive Thoughts on the GitHub Acquision
> Any formalization of the integers won't be "the" integers, the totality of which perhaps isn't even a reasonable idea.

"The integers" is whatever formal model we all agree has the properties we want of the integers. This is a language game, it's merely a label for a set of properties.

> Mathematics is a part of the world and does not stand apart from it.

If you mean that mathematics follows from naturalism, this is at best a conjecture. We could very well live in a mathematical universe (ala Platonism), in which case our world is itself a particular mathematical structure. This is actually a far less problematic view of mathematics, philosophically.

> There is no reason why such a "best" model should exist

There are many reasons why a "best" model of reality should exist. For one, as I mentioned above, mathematical monism is a less problematic philosophy of mathematics. It then immediately follows that positing a separate physical world is multiplying entities unnecessarily, ergo, considering the universe to be mathematical is the most parsimonious theory.

But even going a different route, as I said many posts up, denying an accurate and precise mathematical of reality entails some irreconcilable inconsistency in reality, which so far has completely failed to manifest itself. We very well could be a brief island of stability in a random output generator, but ordering my hypotheses by likelihood, this would necessarily be dead last (because its incompressible ala Solomonoff induction).
>in most SEA cities
I chose to link to the prefacing blog entry rather then directly to the PDF not just because it's a light and good entry but also because it references some other context and WEIS 2018, coming up on June 18th. Definitely check out at least the first few pages of the paper itself however, it's quite readable and the initial scenario framing wrt Nemo Dat Quod Non Habet rules, darknet stores and so forth is interesting and quick.
Algolia (YC W14) is creating a remote-first developer support team
I bought a Sandy Bridge CPU in 2011. 4 cores, 8 threads, 3.0 ghz.

Last year I went looking through consumer-class CPUs looking to upgrade. They are more or less all a very unimpressive 4 core, 8 thread, 3.0 ghz. Maybe they have a tiny bit more cache. There is absolutely no reason to upgrade.

Progress on consumer-class CPUs this decade has been utterly anemic. The only one I've seriously been wowed by is the Ryzen Threadripper. Now all of a sudden, Intel is readying better CPUs. Entirely coincidental, I'm sure.
You can freeze package versions, and there are also archives of older packages. But generally most of the repos only have the latest released packages.
> I also like to abstract away the non-sense part of a problem

Some boring problems need to be solved anyway, and they can’t be abstracted away. Just when you’re picking the right tools, it shouldn’t take too much time.

For example, that CAD/CAM app I’ve developed has a lot of very interesting algorithms inside. But the software still need to appear on the user’s PCs somehow, i.e. we needed an installer. I’ve picked http://wixtoolset.org/ It’s mature, well supported, first-party i.e. made by Microsoft, open source, integrates nicely into visual studio. Because of these things, I’ve spent less than a week in total over the course of 1.5 years working (=develop, test, and support combined) on the relatively boring installer part of that software.

The installer was just an example, many commonly encountered boring problems already have good solutions. E.g. need RPC, pick .NET and WCF. Need to store structured data, pick the highest level library that fits other requirements (despite I generally don’t like SQL, I still know it and I’ve used sqlite a couple of times when it fit well). Need to expose JSON HTTP API on MacOS without much performance constraints, pick Python + CherryPy, the Python is sufficiently high level and it’s already installed there. Without picking the right tools, I’d spent a lot of time solving these boring problems.
World Passport
Does that mean the end of its Chromebooks too?

The Toshiba Chromebook 2 was one of the best devices in its price range.
You pass butter.
My father-in-law mentioned something I find quite interesting to my wife: Don't look for a job that will fulfill every aspect of your life - that's what your family is for. And if you do find one, your family life might not suffer.

Not all of us are raising families, but I think it highlights a bigger points. Work is not what builds societies (certain jobs do harm society I think, mostly by destroying it's moral virtues). People relationships are what build societies and build happiness.

And you're right - there are a lucky, select few who get jobs that can also influence society.

I'm not worried about that though (anymore - I was for a time though). With my job, I can provide and care for those around me (provide for my family and generally have positive, uplifting interactions with those around me).

I have resigned myself that it's not my job to fix society, it's our job to fix society, and I'm doing my part where I am. From my perspective I have more than enough to do locally anyway: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17176036
Can you tell us a bit about your Xamarin experience?

I want to create an app where the users would be regular mom and pop- my primary users would be windows and Android and a few iOS (iphone).

Would you recommend I go the Xamarin way?

Who is xamarin good for and who not?
Artificial Intelligence NLSQL Chatbot
There would be a ton of problems with that. E.g. PCI essentially requires credit card forms be served by a different domain now, so you'd lose the ability to use credit cards online.
Reading this whole article and it isn't until the end you find out what Domo even does. Can't believe they've built an 800million deficit this quickly. Besides the wasteful expenditures described in the article, where is the money going? This isn't like Uber where they have to spend to grow. They are a software-only company.
No, federation is still dead in the water.
Thanks for the input! Will give it another try.
The law is about transistors I believe, not about frequency or performance, isn’t it?
Thanks.

I'll be sure to let HN know if I ever come to any lasting conclusion.
There are two ways to write mobile app...

1. Write native app's for both the platforms, pay once and cry once.
2. Write web mobile apps, realize how sub par the experience is, rewrite in native. Pay twice, loose competitive advantage, and cry twice.

This is what, 3rd or 4th iteration of web app's are going to take over mobile cycle?. My first instinct about any blog that promotes this turd is, either their business depends on selling this solution or the person is huge web guy and never really worked on complex native apps.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/iceland-eliminated-syndrom...
Google Maps Platform new pricing moves to July 16th
Good thing the U.S. Federal government doesn't conduct business in Europe.
If you don't mind sharing, what are some of the problems in systems biology that you find more interesting, and who is working on them?
Uber rides do seem underutilized. Someone posted a picture of them hooking up their switch so passengers would be able to play mario kart and the response was so positive it seems perplexing that nintendo or hbo doesn't put in samples for passengers to try.
I completely misread this the first time round, so, to clarify just in case: the idea, as I read it, is to surface unanswered stackoverflow questions.

(I thought it was something about listing answers underneath questions or something, woops.)

This is indeed a VERY interesting idea, as the whole of Stack Exchange has pretty much hit saturation point now, where 99% of questions have already been asked.

The main challenge is that only Stack Exchange has the page metric data :) indicating what pages of unanswered questions are being visited the most.
Macbook pro (if you can find one without keyboard issues)

I also use an old Thinkpad 11.6" inch - it runs Ubuntu. I put it on a self-driving RC car and it won't die. Generally recommend Thinkpads.

I also have an HP Spectre x360 13" 2017. The trackpad is a bit buggy with Ubuntu but apart from that its seriously not a bad deal. It has USB-c and I can connect an external GPU enclosure for machine learning. Also great as a Netflix device
> We just all seem to assume that we can trust those entities to not misuse the data

I don't need to trust that entities will not misuse my data; I have legal documents on my websites that set out how entities may use the data that they download from my sites. The terms apply to my users and to any intermediary technology providers.

For the Silk browser, I don't need a data sharing agreement with Amazon because my terms say that service providers like Amazon may not copy and store data from my website for their own purposes. Amazon Silk can access my site only for the purpose of helping the end user visit my site. I expressly exclude data sharing from my relationship with service providers and users.

This is a standard part of website terms and conditions; here's an example from Facebook's terms of service:

> You may not access or collect data from our Products using automated means (without our prior permission) or attempt to access data you do not have permission to access.

And from their platform policy:

> Data Collection and Use: If you are a Tech Provider for an entity, comply with the following:

> a. Only use an entity's data on behalf of the entity (i.e., only to provide services to that entity and not for your own business purposes or another entity's purposes).

Data sharing agreements are only necessary when another entity (i.e. Amazon the company) wants to store and use data separate from, and in addition to, the service they provide to end users.

The existence of a "data sharing agreement" is proof that device manufacturers were collecting and storing user data, not just facilitating user access to Facebook. That's what "data sharing agreement" means. Further proof is that Facebook explicitly said that some companies collected and stored FB user data.
I for one am extremely happy if they work on stability rather than gimmicks (or worse, breaking my workflow which pointless changes for the sake of change).

The problem is, it's difficult to be excited in advance about a stability which is being promised, but can only be verified some months away.

But I don't care really. Give me an OS which works and doesn't get in my way. Something without ridiculous amounts of telemetry, please.
Amazon US ships it internationally, at least to my country.
In a closed system all three quantities would be preserved.

According to relativity, invariant mass is a property of a system of particles. You can not find it just by taking all the particles and adding their mass up.

A single photon has zero mass, but a system of two photons does have mass (except in the case where they are heading in the exact same direction) and if they do collide mass is preserved.
I mean, everyone and their mother has a laptop line at this point. I could see buying another company's brand of laptops as more about securing a new label than about something you actually want to make.
Sex robots with health benefits are a giant tease, experts warn
Web app can be easily blocked by government. Look at telegram in Russia. Native app still useful without vpn.
How would they react if you say to them that it is starting to burn you out?
Eventually everything becomes "just a job."

In my mid twenties this was hard for me to grasp. I was working as an electronics design engineer for a company that made low-end industrial controls. We had a customer who had what seemed like the dream company to me: he made robots for animatronics and lab applications. One day I was talking to him about how exciting the work was and his answer surprised me: it used to be fun in the beginning but after doing it for a few years, it was just another job.

I work with wireless sensors now. Yes, it's technically interesting, but it's pretty boring.

Why? I've discovered over the years that I am far more excited by making customers happy than by doing technically interesting work. I've come to see the technology as a means to an end, not the end in itself.
My concern with this is how well such apps will integrate into the native Chromebook environment. I don't think just being able to run arbitrary Xwindows apps will be all that interesting outside the geek/developer community. To be truly useful the apps need to work well with each other, with ChromeOS services like notifications, etc. How will application storage and file sharing, and backups be managed? How will integration with Google Drive work?

On all these points, the details of how the user experience works really matter. I hope Google has seriously thought all this through for once, and isn't just throwing this in as a feature because they think it's easy. I would actually much rather this was a custom native app framework specifically for the Chromebook environment, than just putting in a Wayland server and calling it done.
Deep research uses aside, I often prefer to use IPython because it's simply a better shell than the default Python shell. You get basic niceties like tab completion and being able to up-arrow to revise an earlier multi-line command (like a function) without it being an exercise in frustration.
The title is misleading if one doesn't know that Cloudflare Workers are a thing. I honestly thought that it was about Cloudflare employees sharing food recipes with each other.
2015 is the last good model for Macbooks, and they can be had (relatively) affordably secondhand or even via Apple Refurbished.
The idea that open source was better when mailing lists were the norm is somewhat absurd.

Back in the days when everything ran on lists, I did not contribute once. With Github, I started making two or three small improvements per week and took own responsibility for a few projects.

Maybe larger projects worked more smoothly, with people being more involved in development. But that experience could easily be recreated on Github. Just make it as difficult as possible to contribute, and you'll always end up with a small circle of dedicated contributors.
All generalizations are over-generalizations?

GP is a fair comment, actually: nobody that knows anything about how risk works wants to see a returns number. If a fund doesn't backtest against IR, or penalize for volatility, it's not going to be getting significant investments.
I'm a software developer, and I know this is a bit heretical to say, but I think sometimes we need to set goals that are overly ambitious so that we can work hard to meet them, even if we end up being late. I've been a contractor to a couple companies that didn't have real goals and there is this kinda easy going attitude that results in many things taking 4x as long as they could and often a lot more office politics as people spend more time jockeying for position than cranking out features or squashing bugs.
There isn't any profit in being just a commodity PC maker.
I have the chromebook plus and just want to caution that this support is super early and there are significant shortcomings at the moment (lots of apps crash when trying to use the clipboard & java based apps seem to crash intermittently for unexplained reasons) but likely this will clear up in the coming weeks, given the fast pace of bug fixes in crostini so far.

In contrast, the Pixelbook (currently on sale for $750) has the exact same feature set but is very stable- This is the one I'd recommend any person to buy who wants to use a chromebook for development.

Also, I have a clojure project and it takes 24 seconds to build on the Pixelbook, but takes 64 seconds on the Chromebook Plus- Keep in mind the Chromebook Plus uses the same ARM processor as a typical phone, so this is still very impressive for a compiler running inside a VM.
> turd

> conflict of interest

> ~simpleton

Says the guy that deliberately says: "both the platforms". Talk about ingrained propaganda
>Why is it so hard for a laptop maker to not completely fuck up software?

the demand for $400 laptops means you gotta sell out somewhere, sadly. the first thing i always do when a family member gets a new laptop is ask to see it first thing so i can format and reinstall windows. some of those oem-added bloatwares are downright toxic
The same thing goes for family. One should not look for family to fill every aspect of your life.
Tesla won’t give drivers their own crash data without a court order
I had a look at the website, but don't quite understand how this will work, as there are no animations of the keyboard in action.

It does sound undeniably interesting though.
They are a BI dashboard company with lots of data integration connectors. They've been burning money with ads declaring 'spreadsheets are dead' and silly Domopalooza[1] lifestyle events

[1]https://www.domo.com/news/press/domopalooza-2016-to-feature-...

[2] https://www.domo.com/news/press/kesha-joins-the-domopalooza-...

[3] https://globenewswire.com/news-release/2018/02/15/1349133/0/...
The encryption is a separate step done on top of the compressed data.
In practice the difference in guarantees between a static type checking system and a runtime one are so vast that I think they're mostly incomparable. Runtime checking is like doing most of the work of modelling a program with static types but achieving a fraction of the benefit.
In the beginning was the Plan.

And then came the Assumptions.

And the Assumptions were without form.

And darkness was upon the face of the Workers.

And they spoke among themselves, saying, "It is a crock of shit, and it stinketh."

And the workers went unto their Supervisors and said, "It is a pail of dung, and none may abide the odour thereof."

And the Supervisors went unto their Managers, saying, "It is a container of excrement, and it is very strong, such that none may abide by it."

And the Managers went unto their Directors, saying, "It is a vessel of fertiliser, and none may abide its strength."

And the Directors spoke amongst themselves, saying one to another, "It contains that which aids plant growth, and it is very strong."

And the Directors then went onto the Vice Presidents, saying unto them, "It promotes growth and is very powerful."

And the Vice Presidents went unto the President, saying unto him, "This new plan will actively promote the growth and vigour of the company; with powerful effects."

And the President looked upon the Plan, and saw that it was good.

And the Plan became Policy.

This is How Shit Happens.
Site is down, cached version: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https:/...
Because then you'd have to expose how you did the hashing.
Nowadays you should use jsdom rather than cheerio, jsdom is identical to the DOM specs, effortless
I seriously do not understand why this question would be downvoted?

It's almost as if your question is being interpreted as either:

1) as defense of the manila envelope (how is a question a defense?)

2) as indicating you are the author of the envelope (that probability would be incredibly low!)

3) as being written by the same author who made some other unliked comment in this topic (since when do we downvote all comments of an author as soon as we dislike one of his comments?)
it's out of fashion already :-p
So I have another silly non-physicist question at this point: if Higgs is what gives particles mass, and it has a mass of 125 GeV/c^2, why doesn't this imply mass can only be conferred in units of this amount? We obviously have smaller particles with "real" masses (e.g. nuclei lighter than iodine). Is it that the Higgs is coupled by a varying degree which confers only part of its mass to the coupled particle? In that case, can a single Higgs be lightly-coupled to several distinct particles? Does this imply some other spooky connections/behaviors between multiple particles sharing partial couplings to a single Higgs?
the problem noone mentions with PWAs is that simple users do not know what A2HS means. They dont know what a PWA is so in the end we are talking about a web page that is mobile friendly.
Same here. I used to seek jobs in technologies I like. I finally got some. It made me realize that even working with my favourite tools becomes a chore if the product is bullshit.
I have been building my FOSS using Tabler: https://tabler.github.io
This doesn't even make sense. Blocking is blocking of network connection. Native apps still need that to talk back home
How many problems out there are really apropriately solved by runtime metaprogramming?
Linus Torvalds' BitKeeper blunder
iOS App Guidelines: must allow the user to see information used to target them
I first heard of Domo last year when we were trying to find a better alternative our BI system. And boy, we were in for a ride.

The first warning sign was that their pitch was full of cool sounding words. They kept referring to the product as a "cloud based operating system", whatever that meant.

When we asked them to demo, their presales consultant struggled to create anything other than a canned demo.

Personally, I even find their site annoying:

https://www.domo.com/
This is a much more concrete possibility than people might realize: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/deep-learning-...
In my experience talking to hundreds of software engineering managers, running a software project management business, and being involved on software dev teams for 20+ years, there are two reasons why teams don’t ship or ship poor software.

1. Poor engineering planning. The way to do this well is to break down a feature until they’re at about half-day sizes tasks. Identify any obvious risks or ambiguities with the technical approach and communicate them to Product and figure out how to de-risk them. Communicate costs to Product so PMs can make cost/benefit trade offs (eg “if we built it the way you specced it it’ll take two weeks. But if you make these trade offs it’ll take two days.” As a Product Manager I might not want the feature if it costs two weeks but do if it costs less than 5 days. Without costing the features in dev days I can’t makr this trade off).

2. Failure to make trade offs that drive towards shipping software. The way you ship is by declaring it’s done, even when it’s not really done. When code is being written unexpected issues always arise. It’s Product’s job to make hard trade offs that drive towards shipping. Eg “that’s an edge case bug, let’s punt it to v2” Or “let’s cut that nice to have feature and squash the showstopper bugs and ship”.

People bring up impossible deadlines set by management. In my experience most deadlines are movable and a strong PM/Eng team can convince management to push a deadline back. And if a deadline can’t be moved, it’s all the more important to know how much features will cost and make hard trade offs to get the product out the door.
I just got a chromebook plus 12 hours ago. Nifty.