skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do they? I was under the impression that I could sell as many pre-orders for my anti-gravity skateboards, and my marks would have very little recourse, as long as I had the right disclaimers, and I don't sell to Europeans. [1] [2] [3] [4]

[1] Product might not perform as advertised.

[2] Product might not be delivered in the promised timeline.

[3] Product might not be completed at all, due to unfortunate circumstances, such as exhaustion of funds, acts of God, or the laws of physics.

[4] All pre-orders are final, no refunds.
I don’t think throwing more computational power at the problem is the right answer to all ML problems.
I worked at Intel for 15 years in IT, and Diane, was by far, the best CIO Intel ever had.

I am conflicted about whether I would want her to return as the culture (as pointed out by others), is very stagnant (one of the reasons I left), and the classic good ole boys network (which is how Intel was really toxic) was still there and stronger than ever when I left in 2013.
Apple releases iOS 11.4.1, tvOS 11.4.1, HomePod 11.4.1, and watchOS 4.3.2
This article makes it sound like the reason for forcing updates is so that everyone has the same latest and greatest features.

While that is useful, the reason for automatic updates is almost entirely security. Microsoft gets burned every time there’s some major exploit happening, even when it doesn’t impact current versions of their software. Everyone gets burned because of the millions of people who never update.

People complain about XP not being fixed anymore which is bogus: Microsoft did fix it, with the software releases of the last decade that people refuse to use.
Not always. I once worked for a company that had an ombudsperson who reported only to the CEO. The ombuds' job was to investigate employees' complaints without fear of being fired him/herself. In that company, the system worked well.
Depends what kind. Real ale contains yeast is naturally carbonated as it continues to ferment in the cask or bottle. In keg beer, after fermentation the yeast is filtered from it, the beer is pasteurized, and CO2 is added.
Arbitrary Mercator Projections
> With its unique combination of capabilities, our platform aims to enable true innovations and new applications that could not be built before. It is designed to help users leverage and reclaim control of their data, and enable frictionless collaboration between mutually distrusting parties for greater societal good–all without relying on any central party.

Vague claims to solve the probably-unsolvable - Check.

> Privacy-preserving smart contracts

Heavy Buzzwords - Check

> privacy-preserving machine learning within smart contracts on our platform

Vague mention of ML - Check

My skepticism is at max here. This is awfully light on any kind of even vague detail and is super dense on meaningless buzzwords. They link out to their own previous research - which isn't by itself bad but isn't exactly trust enhancing either. Their staff seems to be all colleagues from previous research work.
Not so much debugging. Same create-react-app setup, but increment a counter on a button press. The solution is to add an event handler (which requires binding or an arrow function for the right context), and increment a state variable.

That and the debugging example are surprisingly effective at weeding out people who have "React" sprayed all over their resume but can't do one of the most common things.

We had one person who apparently had no fear of "3-1 pair programming with strangers" and instantly came up with the solution. She ended up taking a better offer though. Can't blame her. I wouldn't do as well as she did, and I wrote the damned thing.
Contrary to popular belief, porn was available on Betamax...

More to the point is there any evidence of the mainstream porn user actually adopting SpankChain (or any of the other supposed "blockchains for porn") as opposed to ICO profiteers adopting pornography as a relatively plausible potential future business model to sell unnecessary tokens at an implausibly high value?

Just had a look at the company page of the service. The CEO is a "decentralization laser gun" who boasts about how much money he raised in other ICOs (hmmm...) as well as his favourite computer games. In lieu of an actual testimonial, we get him in blockquote saying "we've honestly got the best team ever". Apparently this is one of the more promising ICOs and yet it's making me feel the SEC parody ICO site was a bit mild...
"Had Linux not gotten the money of IBM, HP, Compaq, SGI, Intel, Oracle, Sun, Google, ...., the outcome would have looked much different."

Linux would win anyway. I've worked in the late 90s-early2k in places which
were then already planning the move from proprietary Unix to Linux, some of them also in pretty critical contexts.
Most of the companies you mention already had their own Unix: AIX, Digital Unix / Tru64, Irix, Solaris; they shoveled all that money into Linux (apparently against their own business) because they realized that selling products and services would pay in the long run a lot more than selling also the operating system, especially when the OSS competitor was gaining support every day. Soon or later that abundance in developers and testers would turn into less bugs, more features and faster response to vulnerabilities that no corporation in the world could equal.
Apple releases macOS High Sierra 10.13.6, highlights AirPlay 2 for iTunes
For instance when using google authentication, the user and the email can be anything, because google apps support custom domains for paying customers.

That's what delegation is for.
But.... You are missing all the ads!

Without those, nobody buys anything and companies go bankrupt. Hopefully you make up for your behavior by consuming more than average and watching Fox News.
> They're just not useful for all the things that are being promised (yet). Also, just like the internet wasn't.

Exactly. The early internet was full of promises of taking over retail. None of that worked, at first. Instead the internet was useful for messaging and putting up personal websites. All the responsible people at the time kept whining -- how is it going to make money??

Well, people kept working on it. For years. Business cycles came and went. Eventually the promise worked out.
How to Make Something That Makes (almost) Anything
Find an institution that will let you CLEP out of as many classes as possible.

https://clep.collegeboard.org/
What attributes about crypto, makes you feel the same way? i.e. that it is going to be revolutionary

Because the example you said about the internet (from loading webpage to video streaming) does sound amazing. What's the "parallel" for crypto that you see?
"Respect" doesn't mean "agree with". If you disagree with Trump, then you should vote on 2018 for people who will oppose Trump, and then vote in 2020 for the most reasonable alternative to Trump.

That includes the primary vote (if Trump is defeated in the Republican Primary, the game is effectively over), in both the Republican and Democrat races. The general election vote, and so forth.

Finally, if you disagree with Trump's Executive Orders, or the laws that come about through his administration, then I guess a bit of civil disobedience can be fine. But you need to ensure that whatever civil disobedience you do actually furthers your point and improves your political sphere. Any 2014-like "Occupy" situations is a waste of effort. "Occupy" without a plan to vote or otherwise obtain power in the future elections is a futile waste of time and effort.
Boris Johnson's self-belief is unbelievable
It often is -- when yeast ferments a substance, it releases CO2. During the fermentation of beer (or again most anything, but I'll just use beer as a shorthand), that CO2 is released through an airlock. When the beer is bottled, any beer made in large quantities will be sterilized first with potassium metabisulfite (I think) so that fermentation doesn't continue in the can, bottle, or keg.

If you don't kill the yeast, or if you bottle your beer with an extra batch of yeast (called bottling yeast) and sugar, you'll get fermentation continuing in the bottle, which will result in the CO2 produced being absorbed into the liquid. Obviously this is not as precise and will create different flavors and mouthfeel as a beer ages.

If you do kill the yeast but still want fizz, you just force carb your beer with CO2 from a container.
You're right! I was going to say that, but I didn't remember off the top of my head if that was true :)
I appreciate you challenging my initial post in this thread. Thanks for the reality check.

Finding a balance is constant and inescapable anyway, is it not?
10 years in and still nothing to show but vague promises about "things" being worked on. Ideas men all around and some fools are still giving away money for those ideas that will never see the light of day.
Life is basically consuming cow and dinosaur farts and some of their rotted poo.

Disheartening, but now I know. Enlightenment hits me in the form of a cow patty
Who owns a scientist's mind?
Analyze Games from European Soccer Leagues with Apache Spark and Databricks
> over 90% of their revenue from advertising(often sleazy), I wonder what Google's real interest is

Diversifying their revenue?
I'm long over arguing about HFT's fairness, but what I will say is that 'fastest trader takes all' is not a correct way to describe the current state of the world. The current state of the world is closer to 'soonest to best price' or 'soonest to best price with weird rules around quantity' for some markets.

No amount of speed on the traders side will allow them to beat me on a resting order* I put in 2 months ago, even if I did it on the phone with a human broker. Their speed is a risk management feature. They don't have to have the carry risk for those 2 months that I do. But they don't have any special access to the trade at that price.

*note that there is no such thing as 'the market'. There very well may be exchanges out there that have special order types that can trump mine, but they aren't common (or weren't last i was involved in HFT).
I would be alarmed if the person was an > medium level dev and did nor know what was up
within 30s. For entry level, it's not as easy. If a person did not find out within 45m, I probably wouldn't hire them.
Eddie Hughes MP on Why the UK Needs a Chief Blockchain Officer
Like it or not blockhains are here to stay. Nobody is going to run behind VCs looking for elite money in 20 years from now. Isnt it obvious? Blockhains are going to redistribute the wealth from the wealthy elite few to the masses. More and more wealth is being generated from nowhere. Just because there are some spammy ICOs now doesn't mean it's the end of the blockhain and ICO. This is going to be another rare instance in which hacker news is going to be wrong like Dropbox incident. Mark my words.
I have encountered multiple claims that in-memory analytics databases are often constrained by memory bandwidth, and I myself held that misconception for longer than I want to admit.

So if not memory-bandwidth, what is the constraining factor? Or specifically, what's the limiting factor that causes the observed benchmark speeds for LocustDB?

My guess would be that a well designed in-memory database should be limited by memory-bandwidth, but that real-world memory-bandwidth shouldn't be thought of as a single number. Instead, it depends on the size and pattern of requests, the latency of different cache hierarchies, and (crucially but often forgotten) on the number of requests in flight.

Is there a better terminology that distinguishes these two uses of memory-bandwidth?
This is really pro.

What more could developers want?
> The issue was on Windows (and macOS) where it used Intel HAXM which obviously didn't work with AMD cores.

there weren't really that many "official" mac products with amd.
To clarify: when I said "you can look at any violent crime stats to see masculinity has its problems" I'm acknowledging that the issue the feminists are trying to address is a real one. And that's an olive branch to avoid derailing the discussion into politics.
I sincerely hope you get the help you need.
I find it depends a lot on my level of understanding of the project I'm working on. If I wrote 20% or more of the code, or if I was involved in the design, etc., when there is a problem I know just where to look and can get there quickly.

For example, if I'm working on a Python script under 1000 lines I would never use a debugger. I might use wireshark or linux system tools if something was really wrong, but usually the trackback or program output is sufficient.

I've also tried to debug an Arduino project where I had a lot less knowledge of how the system works, and if I wasn't able to attach a debugger I don't want to know how long it would have taken me to find the problem (calling a null function pointer causes an interrupt that didn't have any handler).

I've also tried to debug other people's projects in high level languages, without a debugger where after taking about an hour to figure it out based on pure reason, realizing it would have been very quick and easy to find with a debugger.

I think if you look at what a program is doing, and at that point you can't form a testable hypothesis as to what is happening, at that point a debugger will certainly be faster if you know how to use it.
"Around" is relative. The last thing IBM innovated was Watson and they're downsizing that division because they can't figure out how to market it. IBM is mostly just a body shop for cheap overseas code monkeys now, isn't it?
Modern radios’ high power efficiencies are achieved through multiple means; adaptive signal strength and low duty cycles are some of those.
Both antennas being small and low on the ground means much lower RSSI, which causes higher adaptive transmission power and higher duty cycle due to lower SnR meaning lower bandwidth and increased retransmissions. Normally, device negitiates a paging interval at which it gets new data notifications from the base station. With multiple devices, you have to wake up N times as often because each of your N peers has a different paging time, and you’d have to also wake up even more for new peer discovery. Average one-way latency can’t be lower than half the length of your paging period when your receiver is off times the number of hops to the target.
Even at “warp speeds” you’ll likely live a life simmilar to this one on a single planet where ever it may be.

Space is so big that it’s nearly pointless to travel for place A to place B because place B likely won’t have anything place A won’t, especially if we are talking on a solar system scale, so traveling to another solar system is nearly pointless.

While we might spread to the stars were likely going to end up with solar system scale separate civilizations rather than some huge inter planetary alliance unless there is a clear need for e.g. if we would have discovered an enemy.
Ah, that's good to hear. Sorry for the rant, and for interpreting you in the most negative way. As I've mentioned downthread, I've just annoyed with silly, definite, interviewing questions that's more like a trap and less like a discussion.
I worked on the Boeing-Sikorsky Comanche helicopter. That aircraft was also intended to be a multi-role aircraft, intended to provide stealthy armed reconnaissance and attack roles. The project was canceled after investing approximately $7 billion.

Multi-role aircraft are intended to save money, and it sounds like a good idea. You save money training pilots and ground crew. You save money with parts, support equipment and logistics. Unfortunately, the multi-role aircraft don't do the individual roles as well as aircraft designed specifically for the individual roles. I have yet to be convinced that the F-35 will be able to do close air support as well as the A-10.

When you put together the Marine Corps, the Navy and the Air Force requirements, it's really hard to come up with a multi-role aircraft that does each role well.
This is great stuff, I am so happy we've gotten this support on Windows when Hyper-V is there. Kudos to everyone involved across borders that made it happen.

FYI for anyone using Visual Studio & Xamarin, we've added support for this in Visual Studio 2017 15.8 Preview 1 or higher with the Mobile development with .NET (Xamarin) workload installed.

Miguel posted details in this blog post: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/visualstudio/2018/05/08/hyp...

Happy coding folks.

(disclaimer - I work at Microsoft)
What's up with Console.log?
Even if the user counts are low it's pretty cool you can see a history of this stuff.
>> Plastic wouldn’t clog our oceans or our landfills if we didn’t throw it there in the first place.

The big worry isn't so much the oceans being "clogged." It's the microplastics. It's the tiny bits of plastic that bio-accumulate. The turtle choking on a plastic bag is one problem, the repercussions of plankton absorbing tiny beads of plastic into their cells another. Making roads out of bulk plastic doesn't help the microplastics issue. Spreading it out over thousands of miles of road may actually be worse than landfill it in a single place.
Tribute to Star Citizen, new Amiga 1200 HAM8 video player
And yes, the high level execs do have to shape the culture, but it’s far from the formal “we want things to happen like X” and it’s usually a live/evolving process that happens over years, and it’s usually tailored at org and team level.

Sometimes the high level directives are great but the culture sucks, sometimes (less offen) the culture is great in spite of high-level.
Before I left Intel in 2013, they had recognized that the money was really in the value added chain of the mobile segment (i.e. iTunes).

But the same stagnant culture that prevented them from seeing and embracing the mobile revolution also prevented them from making things like the Intel AppStore work.

At this point, Intel really is just a vertical implementation of a company like TSMC.
Failing to find a startup name – Is it a sign of failure ahead?
I have an idea of an education/career development business, I have done some market research and I am sure it will work. I have a few potential clients and I need to register a business so that I can do business with theme.

---The Problem is I am failing to come up with a business name with a good domain extension for weeks now. Is it a red flag that this business is a non starter or how do I proceed? Your help will be highly appreciated.
Why not use another, more liquid cryptocurrency like BTC or ETH then?
Most important things:

curl cht.sh/:help
curl cht.sh/language/question for question about language
?Q to switch comments off
?T to switch syntax highlighting off
append /1 for the next question

Special client:

cht.sh

It supports tab completion, and so on.

You can find more examples on the project page:

https://github.com/chubin/cheat.sh

Vim integration: https://github.com/dbeniamine/cheat.sh-vim is very cool, you can make the queries (and access the results) directly from Vim.

Alternatives:

howdoi (need to be installed to be used; uses google and stackoverflow)
how2 (the same)

Cheat sheets tools:

cheat (not cheat.sh; it is another project)
tldr (need to be installed).

cheat.sh provides access both to the cheat sheets and to programming language answers.
No offense taken. To be honest, HN is often very receptive to controversial ideas, but there's certain unwritten shibboleths. You break one by effectively saying "I think chem-trails are to blame" without more foundation. That sentence in isolation is like a hand-grenade. It's pretty much exclusively divisive.

Maybe try acknowledging people's skepticism, list a few reasons why you personally believe in it, and bring it around to something a little more focused on the article (your picture was too big, it's hard to follow). I bet something like that wouldn't get dismantled like this was.
MY CAT IS AN ISTP
Large scale breweries are CO2 consumers not producers small scale production with natural carboninzation can potentially produce CO2 but the majority of it is produced form lime stone and other minerals afaik.

I’m not aware of any breweries actually collecting it for sale the amounts produced will be so minute and the collection process will be so expensive that it can’t make financial sense.
It's a total waste of time, but at least it would be exceedingly easy. If you already know the material, homework should be quick and studying should be very, very limited.
Just have them self-drive to a charger.
More likey we’ll see combined strategies. Some missions are better manned and some unmanned, while some scenarios would benefit from a hybrid approach where manned fighters operate among a fleet of autonomous, semi-autonomous, and remotely controlled air vehicles. Among the later, the lines between missile and drone are likely to blur.
Something in the Water: Life After Mercury Poisoning (2017)
Can someone please explain to me what a "1x1 convolution" is?

I've been wondering ever since I first started reading about 1x1 convolutions a while back.

My background is not in artificial neural networks, but I understand their single neuron operation: a linear combination of inputs (optional extra input or offset), so this part behaves like any linear correlator, and then a nonlinear but typically differentiable compression sigmoid.

I understand how convolutional neural networks operate, and that the synaptic weights correspond to filter kernel weights (like point spread functions, or impulse responses).

Given this engineering-like interpretation I have, can someone explain to me what use convolution with a 1x1 filter has??
>This title is misleading. The post actually says that the reason "simple" comes first is because without it you can't have "correct" (nor "fast", not that that matters so much). So he's not saying simple is most _important_, just that it comes first chronologically, and has the other two as consequences.

If that's what he meant, he's flat wrong. Simplicity is neither necessary nor sufficient for correctness.
Jokes aside. Since February you can already buy RISC-V SoCs that run Linux... at pretty high prices, e.g., https://www.crowdsupply.com/sifive/hifive-unleashed costs 1000$ bucks and the expansion board costs 2000$...

Still not practical for the masses, but not more expensive than similar extravagant architectures like PowerPCs (IIRC a PowerPC9 desktop system costs about 9000$ today).

Someone joked that you could get a 30$ xeon system on ebay from a couple of years ago that would crush these on pretty much any benchmark, but who knows, maybe some day riscv chips will become cheaper and more powerful. What we are seeing in the market today are the very first such systems, from the very first vendors.
> I am sure it will work

That is the biggest red flag you can have. There's no such thing as being able to bring a new thing to the market with complete clarity or confidence in any one plan.
yep. the internet was around for years before it was viable. So were computers.
Our good friend Al Gore. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Performance_Computing_Act...
You can run vagrant boxes and docker-toolbox on top of xhyve, which uses Hypervisor.framework under the hood.
Technical details of this plant can be found at https://foodandbeverage.pentair.com/~/media/websites/food-an...

This is possible because Molson Coors has the largest brewery in the UK and can brew CO2 producing ales and CO2 consuming lagers on the same site. For other brewers this investment wouldn't be economical.
Real ale is an arbitrary definition large scale commercial brewing will not risk secondary bottle fermentation for many reasons from quality control to health and safety.
Why don't more people put their beers on nitro? A few local breweries have nitro IPAs which are freaking delicious.