skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for explaining! In other threads, I've seen people refer to them as fat binaries, but yes, I've also seen them referred to as statically linked binaries.
Other than being a statically typed language: Crystal AOT compiles down to native code (so, good FFI) and has a much better portability story (you can port it to ~any LLVM target).

All that Graal stuff, while a true open source project, has some "Oracle weirdness" around it (IIRC, only Linux (and probably only amd64) is supported in the "community edition") and requires JDK 9/10 (not available on FreeBSD yet..)
Talking to Duplex: Google's phone AI feels revolutionary
These are people who are so deep into their computer world, they forget there are real people behind the keyboards.
Not to rain on your parade, but it would still be very wise to have contingency plans around dying after age 30 (will, insurance) and to assume otherwise you'll die around 75-80.

The article is much less optimist than you seem to be interpreting it. It's basically "is there a hard cap on the age you'll die, or is it just random and independent of age past a certain point".

It says nothing about the aging process. Being older than 90 still sucks for the most part, and this article says nothing about quality of life.

It also is a very minor point, in a practical sense: is it impossible to live past 120, or is it possible with then odds of 1:10^9?
Heroku is currently very, very slow loading. This is the traceroute:

traceroute dashboard.heroku.com
traceroute to dashboard.heroku.com (151.101.2.49), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets
1 router.home (192.168.xxx.xxx) 0.355 ms 1.103 ms 1.074 ms
2 96.120.4.xxx (96.120.4.xxx) 9.575 ms 14.987 ms 15.859 ms
3 ae113-rur01.d9chamblee.ga.atlanta.comcast.net (96.108.191.229) 18.802 ms 18.846 ms 18.882 ms
4 ae-29-ar01.b0atlanta.ga.atlanta.comcast.net (162.151.88.217) 15.913 ms 15.978 ms 15.733 ms
5 be-7725-cr02.56marietta.ga.ibone.comcast.net (68.86.93.125) 19.719 ms 19.659 ms 19.528 ms
6 be-11486-pe03.56marietta.ga.ibone.comcast.net (68.86.85.254) 16.524 ms 17.280 ms 16.821 ms
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Walking around with 2 lbs of loonies and toonies in your pocket sucks to be honest.

That said, I probably use cash a handful of times each year.

Getting rid of the penny was smart though.
with an easy payment gateway and a rating system, you might offer a marketplace ( reverse auction, style ) for products and services... different companies might benefit from complementary specialties.
The things I mentioned are what constitute the superior UX that you get with Windows.

Also, the majority of programmers and the vast majority of desktop users are on Windows. So, outside of the tiny HN/SV bubble the market disagrees with you.
When the half penny was decommissioned in 1857 it was worth the equivalent of 10-15 cents in today's dollars. It was decommissioned because inflation had made it nearly useless and the metal was worth more than the coin.
Yeah, because nobody has a second internet connection through their phone these days, right?
When's the last time you had literally only one route available to drive somewhere and it was closed?

When your ISP goes down, you can't just switch to another one on the fly. Many people can't switch to another one at all in the first place. When there's a road closure, you just go around.
Let's consider the nonvanishing Weyl tensor case.

Instead of a dustball or a spherical glob of loose coffee grounds, drop a very loose "coarse dust" of extremely precise but low-mass radar-equipped clocks onto a relatively low-radius large mass, non-rotating (or very slowly rotating), like a small planet. Clocks at precisely the same altitude will report the same time and the same phase, but clocks at different altitudes will report differences (lower = slower); this is a metric effect, and can be represented using nothing but gravitational time dilation.

However, the upper clocks have much further to travel in spacetime than the lower clocks (assuming the clocks are collectively moving non-relativistically, it takes many nanoseconds for them to fall a light-nanosecond closer to the planet), the North/South/East/West radar distances between any pair of clocks all decrease but the Up/Down radar distances all increase between any pair of clocks not at the same altitude. This stretch-squash increases with proximity to the massive object the clocks are falling towards.

Additionally, in general, free-falling objects have a vanishing Ricci curvature, so the volume of the boundary around the stretch-squashed cloud of clocks remains constant, and this can be confirmed by radar within the cloud as well as by external observers.

As we increase the density of the object that the cloud of clocks is falling toward, but keeping the object's mass constant, these altitude-dependent results become more stark.

While one might be tempted to think that some sort time distortion alone can account for the radar distance effects, if the clocks are large enough and the focusing of their geodesics strong enough, the clocks will outright collide. How would you explain that as a time distortion, rather than a spatial distortion?

You might recognize this as a gentle case of (animated gif) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Spaghettification.gif

Indeed, in the extreme case, the internal structure of the clocks themselves might not be strong enough under the squash-strain, and they will break before smashing into the surface.

Probably anything that's not a black hole that is dense enough to spaghettify an atomic clock made of metal and plastic would also have sufficiently intense magnetic fields to induce comparable distortions on the clocks' molecules, though. Here's the a rough diagram of the squash-strain distortion of a hydrogen atom in a strong magnetic field (left, B=0; right B > 100 000 Tesla) like one would find near a neutron star, so you can consider a very rough gravitation-magnetism analogy between this image and the animation above: https://gravityandlevity.files.wordpress.com/2015/01/distort...

This sort of rough analogy has been explored, tightened, and formalized as gravitoelectromagnetism (GEM). GEM is far from exact, but it is useful in studying the kinetics of small things moving near large bodies.
They don't forget, they just don't care.

A lot of people completely lack empathy, and our society hasn't done a good job at reducing that number.

However, this is kind of a non sequitur for the article.
100% agree with this comment. This concept interests me a ton and I'm tech-savvy, yet the second that I saw these were only available as a direct download I let out an internal groan and wondered if it was worth my trouble.

Is there any reason not to launch in all of the standard podcast spots (iTunes, Stitcher, etc.)? If you were there, I would have downloaded immediately.

I understand that this is just a proof of concept but see no real downside to capitalizing on the distribution. I think you're underestimating the friction/laziness of consumers here.
So health and rightness and validity are a popularity contest? On average, a lot of people do a lot of things that I am happy to be deviant from. A lot of people eat at McDonalds and bury themselves in credit and loan debt. That overwhelming popularity does not all by itself constitute validity.
Hey! Indeed we do have very good traction. But the fact that you can get business credit with zero assets or revenue is true if you're wiling to personally guarantee the card, because then it's just like getting a personal card but with your business name on it. I as an immigrant without a lot of personal credit history was unable to get a card when starting Brex. Today, we raised over $57m and we're still unable to get cards from banks. We're the first card to actually underwrite startups and give them a card with high limits and no personal guarantee.
I think this is consistent with backbone / fiber cuts. Local networks in the Atlanta area are pretty consistently okay. Other stuff is just down or slow, very slow.
Well, one problem is that longevity may not mean youth at all. Increasing longevity may simply mean getting (and looking/feeling) older and older.

Even if we perfect the art of 3d printing new body parts and using gene-targetted cancer treatment, that may not make you spry, less forgetful, or less wrinkly
If you're thinking of Flint, you may wish to update your reading material. It's possible your talking points could be more up to date.
Comcast Experiencing Nationwide Outage
React/Redux development on steroids
That's what the relationship was before Google withheld turn by turn directions and wanted more data than Apple was willing to give [1]:

>But multiple sources familiar with Apple’s thinking say the company felt it had no choice but to replace Google Maps with its own, because of a disagreement over a key feature: Voice-guided turn-by-turn driving directions.

>Spoken turn-by-turn navigation has been a free service offered through Google’s Android mobile OS for a few years now. But it was never part of the deal that brought Google’s Maps to iOS. And sources say Apple very much wanted it to be. Requiring iPhone users to look directly at handsets for directions and manually move through each step — while Android users enjoyed native voice-guided instructions — put Apple at a clear disadvantage in the mobile space. And having chosen Google as its original mapping partner, the iPhone maker was now in a position where an archrival was calling the shots on functionality important to the iOS maps feature set.

>And this caused Apple — which typically enjoys very tight control over its products — no end of philosophical discomfort, sources say. Apple pushed Google hard to provide the data it needed to bring voice-guided navigation to iOS. But according to people familiar with Google’s thinking, the search giant, which had invested massive sums in creating that data and views it as a key feature of Android, wasn’t willing to simply hand it over to a competing platform.

>And if there were terms under which it might have agreed to do so, Apple wasn’t offering them. Sources tell AllThingsD that Google, for example, wanted more say in the iOS maps feature set. It wasn’t happy simply providing back-end data. It asked for in-app branding. Apple declined. It suggested adding Google Latitude. Again, Apple declined. And these became major points of contention between the two companies, whose relationship was already deteriorating for a variety of other reasons, including Apple’s concern that Google was gathering too much user data from the app.

I think it was a major strategic mistake on Google's part. But this was the heyday of Andy Rubin, and during that era Google was letting the tail wag the dog in trying to differentiate Android. They've since come to their senses and Android is back to being what it was always designed to be, a vessel for Google's services that actually make money. But that forced Apple to enter this business when they otherwise wouldn't have and now it will serve as a core technology from autonomous cars to AR. And since they're already sinking the capital and doing the grunt work to make Maps from scratch, they might as well earn some incremental revenue from it [2].

[1] http://allthingsd.com/20120926/apple-google-maps-talks-crash...

[2] https://developer.apple.com/maps/mapkitjs/
I remember buying some of these inidivudal sour patches candies at a local deli for 10 cents a pop about 10 years ago. I wonder what the price is now. Probably a quarter I'd guess.
you just want to give a reason to indulge yourself. Every adult should clearly know the difference between good habit or bad addiction.
Missing: green tea with nana mint, as used in Morocco. Opens the blood vessels.
How about Germany? It seems people doing optics here like to connect their research to quantum computing.
IBM CIO Leadership Office – Update for TSB Board [pdf]
We're also having issues routing through Telia in ATL.
Are you and the OP intentionally victim blaming a person who was murdered for calling out an online troll?
I think we have a similar problem here in the UK with 1 & 2 pence coins costing more than what they are worth.

It's not entirely clear though as The Royal Mint doesn't reveal their production costs, but it really wouldn't surprise me if making the 1/2p coins run at a loss
UK got rid of farthings and halfpennies when they exceeded face value, and the £1 note decades ago.

Pennies and 2p became copper plated steel for the same reason. Pre 92 bronze ones are worth about double.

Coppers can't be worth keeping around much longer. I doubt even penny sweets still exist.
I've always had the drive to do things like this in my spare time. I'd love to get paid for solving technical problems for an employer. I think besides the obvious, I'd make a good candidate for an employee at something like Facebook.

More companies should encourage hiring developers who would solve problems in their spare time. When I applied for an apprenticeship at 8th Light, they had me write a tic tac toe game, and I wrote it in 4 or 5 different languages, just for fun. I think that's why they hired me.

Man, it would be good to have an employer. Any takers?
When a road is closed does the government pay us a fee? Do we have SLAs for roads? When a letter is lost in the mail, does the postal service refund the stamp? Your comparison is illogical.

Business internet accounts can and often do have SLAs. But, should consumers pay more for SLAs like businesses do? It’s a question of cost.

In France, I had a four hour outage on a business connection once; no refund, not lawsuits from the government. I have also had at least five or six outages that lasted 15 minutes or so. Expecting 5 nines uptime is just unrealistic unless prices rise. My gigabit Comcast connection costs me $101 per month, including taxes. In France, I paid €79 for a “business” connection that had 10mbs down and 0.8mbs up — with an 8 hour SLAS. I am getting vastly better service from a consumer Comcast connection than I did from a business Orange France connection. And France is heavily regulated. My point is to be careful what you wish for.
Predictive modeling of U.S. health care spending in late life
Lies, deception, intimidation, what's next? Is this America of the 21st century?
Why can't we do all of them?

I'd also like to add: we need to organize.
Ask HN: Why are the numbers out of order at the DMV and Social Security Office?
Since moving to the USA, I have had to get a SSN and a new drivers license. Both times I went to the office, I had to get a number and wait a very long time. Duringy wait they called out the numbers out of order, ie: 125, 121, 134, 132, 127.

Really curious if anyone has any behind the scenes experience with these kinda systems?
Please. The pins would be dull and rounded.
Google researchers create a scene-rendering AI
What's more likely: this guy actually lived to be twice the age of the oldest (confirmed) person ever - or the guy overstated his age to make people more inclined to buy his medicine?
No. Most purchases are not made with cash and fewer people are using cash every year. You're basically saying that all consumers should pay more with every purchase so that the mint can make <2% more revenue, a negligible amount in relation to the federal budget.

https://www.frbsf.org/cash/files/figure-3-2015dcpc-share-of-...
Yeah, judges that are constitutionalists are literally going to ruin the country! /s
Firefox OS/B2G 2.0?

I'll never understand the strong urge to use web tech UI rendering specifically for low-cost/performing devices.
inb4 "too bad so sad, stop flashing teenagers you pervert, you did this to yourself it's your own fault" - thanks, heard this a million times in my mind, let alone from other people, but thanks anyway.
Apple maps works in China and it’s the only good english option. Enough reason to use for me.
Living around the great lakes builds character. Cold winters, hot summers, lots of construction
Hi Scott

1. What do you think is the potential for emergence of a third computing model, apart from classical and quantum, which is sufficiently different in its fundamental computing paradigm from these? Do you believe biological substrates offer opportunity for computing which classical/QC cannot replicate?

2. If we achieve quantum supremacy, who do you think will be the biggest winners and losers, in terms of professional skill set and in terms of business models for private companies? Will physicists become much more influential if their ability to model and deliver new evidence (and thereby theory) and convert them into commercial products is advanced?

3. Would it be fair to say that d-wave machine is more an analog computer than a quantum computer; And do you think there is possibly a class of computing problems that might be better/more efficiently solved by analog computers than digital, and without requiring QC?
If Apple made a map that labeled every street on the map at a certain zoom level, I'd switch today. I think I'm the only one who wants to use a map, to, ya know, see what the streets are. Maybe I'm old?
"Selection" bias takes over at some point. Good genes, good habits, and luck result in a flat mortality rate. Nothing fishy here.
More importantly, how can gmail preserve your identity yet after every update it asks again if you want to view links with Chrome (which, by the way will have to be installed), no matter how many times you select "Do not ask again"?
DigixDAO works on tokenized gold.
If there is demand, we will see every possible good as a token. It shouldn't be that difficult to make an virtual product like an ETF into a token on a blockchain.

There are financial incentives to create and destroy DAI.
A user of DAI doesn't need to collateralize, he just buys DAI.

DAI demand will grow, if the use cases grow. It is also a good safe heaven for crypto traders.
> The writer Romain Gary was an inveterate fabulist.

So he was writing up his life as well. :)
OSM is orders of magnitude worse than Apple's current data set in my area, and I doubt that's unusual.

So the question for Apple is why tie themselves to a 3rd party platform? If they're going to go to this massive level of effort to generate the best data set they can achieve, they'll want to control the full stack for quality and predictability.

They could feed the OSM-relevant data they create to the platform, but that means a lot more work to create and maintain the integration tools and manage the workflow, along with potentially reduced revenues if they make OSM too good.

I doubt they'll care about any threat from OSM, but I doubt they'd see the overall effort as a good business investment. This isn't as straightforward as open sourcing some software.
By that argument I should be paying the state of Arizona a portion of this windfall because that is where it started. But as soon as it became profitable I moved to CA. I paid CA every year on our profits, payroll taxes, and sales taxes. It was mutually beneficial and CA collected plenty of taxes.

I'd also agree with you if I were moving to NV to avoid taxes. But that is not the reason as I explained in my post.
Oh, I see, you mean credit cards. I was thinking miles accrued from flights and was confused, thanks.
> This is partly because, even assuming you accept the Many-Worlds Interpretation, "your" moral concern and responsibility presumably extend only to those branches that are in "your" future -- you have no contact with the other branches!

Would you say that the only moral way to implement quantum suicide is with a Doomsday Device that would destroy the entire world, thus ensuring your actions won't affect anybody else even in the worlds where you die?
For those wanting to undergraduate research basically in REU in QIT what's your advice for them?,what do they need to take on such an endeavor?,what are researchers looking for in prospective students?, and finally would a researcher take on a student who hasn't had much in terms of coursework but has been teaching themselves ?
How about bid on a variable price per bit? Just like is done with bitcoin transactions. If you are sending an important file, in an important conference call, or are receiving an important download that you don't want to wait long for, then you choose to pay more to get faster and more reliable service, but if you are streaming a youtube or doing something in the background, then you select a lower price for moderate speed & reliability.
I imagine like a closed membership site for businesses? That could be a really good idea, thanks!
Jason Calacanis' inside.com crowd note series 1 raise
I think that generally applies to most frameworks, but I've noticed it heavily with django. Developers get upset that Django isn't working for them when they are actively avoiding best practices and going out of their way to fight it.

If you are fighting a robust framework, you are probably doing something wrong and should take a step back.
Fishing offshore in the summer here in Florida a wet hat is traditional, at least in my circle.
>That's true for a minority of living humans[1]. In the US, it's certainly not true for LGBTQ people, women, or racial minorities, all of whom have more rights now than we did in the 70s.

It could just as well be true for all of them as well (assuming it is for the rest of course).

The "but now X group has rights" argument doesn't mean much. Such rights are a small, and rather insignificant part of life. Women, gays, lesbians, and racial minorities had huge great movements and tons of fan in the 70s in their everyday life as well. It's not like their whole existence was diminished by how others conceived them or whether they had this or that law.

A black who had a steady Detroit job in the 70s in a nice home, family and so on, felt much better off than an unemployed same-aged man in Detroit today, even if the second has more nominal rights and articles about him now (not to mention that there are probably more police shootings of blacks today than in the 70s, and let's not even compare Trump to Carter or even Nixon on that regard).

Or go talk to gay people, and see how they feel about the 70s and 80s, and various scenes that existed then compared to today. You'd be surprised Living in a looser and laxer decade can be more important than having some right in some law book (gays then partied far more widely and extravagantly than the meagre contemporary scene where they have rights, sure, but society is run by prudes and money spoilt most scenes).

Heck, in the same period we had a full blow military dictatorship in my country, and people can still wax poetically about the times and the fun they had. Even people persecuted then and even tortured by the police at this point or another.
Interesting. I did the same exercise with the pretrained Xception and 2 dense layers at the end and only got 83% accuracy. Thanks for sharing the tweaks you made, that's good to know. I wasn't aware of those techniques.
Not related. This time it's a backbone issue. We're seeing corporate users affected.
Our users are beginning to recover from the issue as well.
You do that in Arizona, white or silver.
Iconic Detroit Train Station Revival Inspires Return of Stolen Artifacts
I feel bad because I googled "man time" and then proceeded to read the whole manual of "time" instead.
United States Frequency Allocations Chart 2003 – The Radio Spectrum
Wondering if someone is collecting them and extracting the metals out and selling for a profit?
Parents need to actually parent their kids to teach them to see the humanity in other people, but I can easily see some families where the only guide is computer games and internet forums.
And I thought that having somebody whom you beaten in Counterstrike slamming at your door with baseball bat at 1am was bad enough.

What terrible times we live in
>Why can't people just be decent humans?

because everyone has a different definition of what it means to be decent - the people on the other side of the debate do believe they're being decent as well