skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Its hollow, phony Corp-Speak. Just like the “We at Company X take Y very seriously.” PR statement that always gets made right after Company X is caught not taking Y seriously.
Apple has enough money in the bank they could buy ML...somebody will before they crash and burn completely if they do at all...

I think ML will eventually be part of FB, MS, Google, or Apple, or even Amazon within 5 years. It'll be another 5 before AR is mainstreamed.
> Is it open source? No.

Yes it is. You can read the source code.

It's not FOSS, or Open Source per the OSI definition.
After watching the demo and reminiscing of my beginnings in programming experimentation, I feel like this paradigm will become the de-facto way to produce an app in the future. At least basic CRUD apps which are still tons of standard boilerplate today. I could see this mapping to React(+Native) and generating mobile apps, etc. The future is bright! Great work on this!
Yes why not? many well paid professions do even in the USA.
Tensor Ops Made Easier in CuDNN
I can definitely relate to that; after laser surgery (and I mean literally minutes after) I could see the wood grain on the window sill in the darkened room they put me in post op. On the drive home I could see leaves on the trees in the most fabulous definition. I knew my vision was rubbish, but to have it hammered home so starkly was literally eye opening. I marvel at it to this day and I advocate for people getting laser surgery so enthusiastically you'd think I was on their payroll.
> as if any significant amount of that money actually benefited developers

I don’t see a shortage of well-paid app developers nor multibillion dollar single-app startups.
Show HN: VueToolbox – Collection of the best Vue.js libraries
Why can't the silicon be encased in metal? Thermal reasons? Problems passing the wires through?
This is already such a useful part of the Reason/OCaml ecosystem in its current state, and has even more potential longer term. Great work!
For new projects, a lot of it has to do with what existing libraries and tools you can use to get to market quickly. For established projects, it's going to be a hard sell to switch over.

I really like OCaml for example but for web projects it's not practical. TypeScript is a decent compromise at the moment. I like that the industry is (veryyy) gradually moving towards strong typing though.
They worked under a contract. The contract ended. They could have gotten another contract with Microsoft. But they could have gotten a contract with any other software company, too. Why didn't Lionbridge find another contract?
Funny, I'd say it is exactly the opposite. :) FP makes easy things almost trivial but hard problems almost impossible. E.g writing quicksort is trivial in Haskell, writing an implementation of quicksort that runs efficiently in Haskell is very hard.
Presumably we would still have private insurance, just like Medicare patients have private insurance now. You'd use your private insurance to do things like skip ahead in line or not see your primary care provider first or getting drugs that aren't on medicare's schedule.

We would also presumably still have doctors who don't take Medicare and can charge whatever they want, and then you'd want private insurance to see those doctors, who presumably would be the best doctors, and the ones that could get away with such things.
It is not a radically different purpose as far as I understand; it is the same purpose: an extremely permissive and business friendly license with one, intentionally very narrow exception.
IBM looks for caffeine buzz with coffee delivery drones
while the qty will be low for some time to come, intel spent many many millions trying to prove there was even a market for a $1,000 computer and that it would provide performance acceptable to users...

we dont scoff at $1,000 phones hardly at all these days.

this is the first step, we should be thinking about where tech will be in 20 years at all times.
Strange how anti-GDPR HN is... Until something like this happens.
Not an easy thing to do. Getting a sat stabilized and orientated sufficiently to take good photos takes time. It would certainly be several days before such a small sat would be useful, giving them more than enough time to hide.
Thought experiment: what if the US government limited companies to a maximum number of employees, say 5000?

There would be new inefficiencies, but it might decrease the possibility or impact of monopolies and encourage competition. There would be a lot more specialized contractor companies. How much of, say, Google's search service or Microsoft Windows could be maintained or developed with just 5000 people?
I would have loved it if Apple had opened up some APIs (for example, the NFC updates coming in iOS 12) sooner.
Just a remark that playing a computer game with a kid is not spending time with him/her. Its a competely different type of attention which works short term but doesnt create/expand a bond between kid and a parent.

People might not agree but studies state otherwise.
This HN thread links to the original paper: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17817966
"Maths" is how you know it works.

Especially in fields like physics there are many limits that you can derive analytically. Some times those are highly non-trivial.
I think Cornett Joyce predates that :-) when arresting Charles I the king asked on what authority he stepped to one side and pointed to the men with guns behind him.
What kinds of places are you and the grandparent looking for? I’ve visited tons of places in Japan and talked to plenty of friends and coworkers about their apartment searches and never heard of one place with a foreigner restriction (including ten years ago and more recently).

Are you talking about super countryside or something? My searches have always been in Tokyo.
Canada too.
Considering how cheap apps are an extra 30% for some level of quality guarantee is a steal
> 11. If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.

I don't understand this, can someone elaborate?
30% percent cut is extortionate. Good agents with personal connections and an unearthly ability to land multi-million $currency_unit gigs get 15%.

But back in the naughties Apple's 70/30 split was considered reasonable in contrast to what was available. In the dark ages when flash games were aggregated on sites such as Newgrounds that could demand more than 80% of any revenue.

In that kind of situation the highway robbery of 30% sure looks like a bargain. But it's still highway robbery.
I don't think you know how expensive it would be to sail around the world. Especially if you'd like to do it somewhat comfortably.
Top Podcasts for Geeks
You can talk to people without having 'political discourse' with them.

Can have aquintances outside of class and race too, for that matter...
Is there a better wording? The wrapper is a native OSX app, adding some native features the web app lacks. Memory usage should be roughly the same as running it in Safari, right now around 23MB on my computer.
What hardware did you end up picking?

I’ve been looking to replace my RPi with something a bit beefier. Some of the components I’m running are memory heavy, and my pi is struggling to stay responsive.
Ground is where the power supply is. Although an orbital laser with enough solar panels would probably work as well.

Same issue though, except now you have a 100GW laser that is able to point to many different places on the ground from where its orbital position.

Even if it is short duration, 1mS @ 100GW imparts as much energy as 100MW over 1 second, or 1 MW for a bit longer than a minute and a half.
Is my EPP gone?
Neo4j graph database boss: 'The mainstream is always under attack'
> Yes it is. You can read the source code.

You can read the source of Oracle Java as well. Doesn't make it open source.

Open source has a defined meaning.

Common Clause even points out in their FAQ that it makes the software not open source.
Suppose you need to fix a problem with the source code or want a new feature. With the clause they've got there, you can't find a developer or company and pay them to fix the software for you. So you can't practically get changes made to the product. So, it might as well be closed source.
Not a single profitable company in the world has to increase revenue to achieve profitability. By definition, they are already there. The risk faced by all companies is that poor strategic decisions will cause a decrease in revenue, eventually leading to a loss of profitability. But that is a totally different statement.
Wow. Yes! I remember this.

It's also amusing how much humans are effected by century and millennial boundaries.

There was a show in the 80s, on I think Discovery, called Beyond the Year 2000.

As a kid it seemed like the simple fact that we were entering the next millennium MUST be meaningful. And popular media portrayed it that way.

But 15 years is 15 years. Doesn't matter what boundary is crossed. Hahaha.

I think that's part of what even got people worked up about Y2K. It's a new millennia! Did we plan for it?!?

Anyway, my point is, I think the millennial boundary may have influenced excitement about space progress as much as other forms of irrational optimism.

Plus, gravity is hard.
Up to 4%? Wouldn't that simply be considered cost of business for some corporations? Pay less in security, etc. and just consider the 4% a smaller tax of sorts?
The next line of code in JavaScript isn't always going to be executed after the previous line is complete. This is unlike Python, which generally executes each line after the previous line is complete.

Hence all the callbacks, promises, async/awaits patterns to learn in JavaScript..
Reality Winner Sentenced to 5 Years, 3 Months for Leaking Classified Info
I'm sure this is not true for everyone reading this, but for me the answer to all those questions is zero times.
How would you go about getting started with the bounties for cryptocurrencies? What sort of skills or background is needed? It's not so good if you need to be a hardened c++ dev with 10 years of experience. :*(
Something like this?

Parallelism is inherent in most problems but due to current programming models and architectures which have evolved from a sequential paradigm, the parallelism exploited is restricted. We believe that the most efficient parallel execution is achieved when applications are represented as graphs of operations and data, which can then be mapped for execution on a modular and scalable processing-in-memory architecture. In this paper, we present PHOENIX, a general-purpose architecture composed of many Processing Elements (PEs) with memory storage and efficient computational logic units interconnected with a mesh network-on-chip. A preliminary design of PHOENIX shows it is possible to include 10,000 PEs with a storage capacity of 0.6GByte on a 1.5cm2 chip using 14nm technology. PHOENIX may achieve 6TFLOPS with a power consumption of up to 42W, which results in a peak energy efficiency of at least 143GFLOPS/W. A simple estimate shows that for a 4K FFT, PHOENIX achieves 117GFLOPS/W which is more than double of what is achieved by state-of-the-art systems.

https://memsys.io/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/20171003-Memsys...
Is anyone surprised that Iranian state media is behind malicious activities?
What is the purpose of your comment? No one needs this. It must be to make you feel better? Don't make comments where the only point is to make yourself feel better. It adds no value.
That is how I used the event too (I went eleven years, non-consecutively), but I think the Man also serves as a memento mori, with the event becoming a celebration of temporariness. That in turn helps drive the gleeful amateurism, experimentation, and participation that goes on there.
Apple already got a huge number of developers to transition their apps to 64-bit ARM with the iPhone, I feel like if they made it simple enough they could get a critical mass on the desktop just as quickly.
It could have been you who saved them from ruin!

I imagine the conversation in the back "Do you believe it? Gedy's megacorp tried to ddos us!" "Accidentally! they were trying to run ab" "Well, even so, we don't want to sell to them anymore."

And now they are going public.
There's been a lot of interest recently in the concept of diagnostic stewardship around this issue in antimicrobial resistance.
Burnout vs. Major Depressive Disorder (2014)
> Even at very low speeds, a civilization with a 10 million year "head start" (which is nothing on the timescale of the universe) would be able to send autonomous robots across the galaxy.

I see this sort of statement all the time, and we have no empirical evidence it is true.

As this article says, even this simple "Starshot" concept is "a monumental engineering challenge that will require huge leaps in technology for spacecraft design, propulsion and communication."

And all the challenges are fundamentally physical, involving issues of weight, strength, density, power density, thermodynamics, etc. Unless they make some near-magical breakthrough in physics, a civilization one million years older than our own would find it just as difficult as we will!

And what if some galactic civilization has already done this? Are we likely to detect a spacecraft "just 3 to 12 feet across and weigh as little as a thimbleful of water" passing somewhere through our solar system at 20% C?
Isn't it impressive that they're able to compete at such high level with these knowledge gaps.
This has to be one of the more depressive sentences I've read.

More and more I find myself being really glad that I work in software, where flexible working hours and companies that try to offer something to their employees (because there's actual competition) are more common than in many other fields I guess.
dont worry. wireless headsets are a lot closer than you think.
Why would MS try to find them work if they didn't need them any longer? Other projects were likely already provisioned for. mS doesn't employ these people directly, it's not their problem.
Could it be that, with no interest in ever attending burning man, the only perception you have of the event is through social media?
It’s not. We acknowledge that in our blog post, and our approach was definitely influenced by the BeyondCorp philosophy.

However google IAP requires that your infrastructure is all in Google cloud.

Whilst we do use GCP, most of BuzzFeed’s infra is in AWS, we needed a solution which worked for both.
So basically the fix is to disable hyperthreading?
Do you really think that makes any difference? It's not like the App Store isn't full of shovel ware. I think it'd be much nicer to have an actual 3rd party curated alternative app store. Maybe one with a working search. Too bad we can't do that.
If they need that money, just put it in the base price and don't charge extra fees.
> Commons clause means the software works as liberal easy-to-use open source

Common Clause is — by its own admission — not open source.
Think of the kids has always been an excuse to restrict people.
Effectively there will be no consequences. Technically Zwiebelfreunde could file charges against the judge who signed the orders or the police who executed them, but effectively they will not be prosecuted, let alone convicted. Nearly all illegal police activity in Germany had no real consequences, because there is a „high trust” in them by ruling parties.

Some examples from the last year:

http://www.spiegel.de/panorama/justiz/g20-polizei-soll-recht...

https://www.hessenschau.de/panorama/durchsuchung-des-asta-st...
It's liberally licensed in the sense that it's freeware, but you don't get the benefits you'd have from it being open source.
It is usually mentioned in very small print on the back or bottom of the menu.

Part of the healthcare mandate is that the restaurant must provide health insurance coverage for the employee (which was not previously required), so they are benefiting in a way. It probably isn't completely fair to subtract it out, but the majority of restaurants now have this.
But you can always Hoogle for them: https://www.haskell.org/hoogle/?hoogle=%3C%24%3E
Apple and people who buy into the apple ecosystem believe that it's actually better, and not that it's simply what they personally prefer.

Forcing a perceived "best path" means that the path is going to be the easiest / only way for everyone to follow, and therefore can receive the most attention / most bug fixes / most thought from executives & developers / etc.

Now of course, some people will still disagree about whether that was indeed the best path, and whether it should've been forced. These people strangely never seem to become Apple executives. :)
How the heck would we detect a 3 foot spacecraft that weighs a few grams, passing anywhere through the Solar System at speeds over 10% of light?

We might be getting them once a week and we would have no idea. We can't even find or track most of our own asteroids, and they're already in solar orbit.
You can bring your kids
Specifically, he says the key period was 1900-1930.

I guess something like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_scientific_discove... can be helpful, but I think none of the discoveries in the last 30 years are quite as world-changing as general relativity, atoms, quantum physics, or galaxies.
So, black box, closed source - e.g. history repeats itself.
Minor tidbit, but "optimised" is correct British spelling, so the disdainful "[sic]" is not needed.
They booted Amazon before for similar. Amazon caved.

Edit: actually, it was Google, not Apple. Google Play's brand isn't as strong as the App Store, but Amazon still caved to Google, which only underscores my point. https://www.techradar.com/news/software/applications/amazon-...

But there was a case back in 2011 where Amazon removed the Kindle Store from their iOS app at Apple's request: https://www.cultofmac.com/105966/amazon-caves-to-apple-remov...
As I read this paper, the attack used a training set on the target hardware with the exact antenna setup; then ran a test set on the exact same configuration to demonstrate key recovery. This seems like it would be much more difficult to execute in the wild on a random device at Starbucks.

- The device would have to be profiled ahead of time.

- There's nothing else running on the device but the key decryption at some point.

- The device is quite close to the detection apparatus (within 20 cm in the paper).
Amazing how many people are still doing mental gymnastics to give Intel the benefit of the doubt. This should have stopped being the default position a while ago.
It's a lot to dig though and not everyone is as obvious that they really want crappy pizza for $5 and went to the wrong restaurant as others might be.
Do these apply to all computer games? I can imagine this being true for, say, FPSes or puzzle games, but collaboratively building with Minecraft seems like a different sort of thing.

Are there similar studies about whether playing Legos with your child creates a bond? What about baseball?
Millions of Texas voter records exposed online
How to Get SaaS-Y on Social Media
No. I'm an adult. I handle my own issues.
This is interesting, but I thought the title was "Quantifying happiness in my (relationship with data)", not "Quantifying (happiness in my relationship) with data". As in, "how much value do I get out of tracking my life's data?", which is a question I'm afraid to learn the answer to myself.
Work for us: http://enveritas.org/jobs (YC S18, NGO)
I've been poking around the cooperative space. They would seem to be a way to keep more wealth in the hands of the labor that creates it.

They seem like they could develop like an business/economic version of what the GPL was in software - a way to form a community space using the rules of an unfriendly/indifferent system itself to maintain the space. But I think they need some better supporting spark. It feels to me like coop organizations are at a pre-growth period right now and need better ways to capitalize, coordinate, and compensate organizations.
2nd book lays out the foundations of cosmic sociology, and it's a dark, dark universe out there. 3rd book expands on that, reaches epic proportions.
This is a really insightful article. However, I feel like point 2 somewhat contradicts point 1. I.e. In my opinion, being product-driven often forces you to innovate in some way. I guess there is a balance to be struck here and in the end it comes down to feedback-loops from customers directly rather than pondering over what they may want to use.
Could a super snake emerge from Everglades pythons? DNA study raises possibility
If there is intelligent life on the star next door, the Fermi Paradox would bite extremely hard. So, no, we're not going to find intelligent life there.
Just AWS's UI confuses me sometimes....
I'm not sure if you are running OSX on a multi user server, but is this something we need to worry about on our laptop? It's not clear to me what needs to be done in a single user situation.
> They are being redirected to the mobile web version of the app and asked to enter payment details with Netflix directly.

Sorry, but if Apple's policies are applied consistently (I know they often aren't), this won't fly.

I have an app with a basic email/password sign-in screen (the app represents a small part of a larger web-based SaaS product). Apple has rejected my app for including anything in the app that even remotely hints to the service existing outside of the App Store. This includes a "Sign Up" button linked to the web signup, a "Learn More" button that links to the website, or even a "Support" button that has navigation that can lead to a signup or pricing page. After a long chat with someone from the App Store review team, I learned that you can't link to any page of a site that contains other links that can indirectly lead to a signup or pricing information. It's a pretty harsh policy.

So my app was finally approved, but without any links to support documentation on my site. Congratulations, Apple - you win :)
1) What I stated was not anecdote: a car accident can kill you at 35 mph but they usually didn't (and don't).

2) I simply don't agree with your use of relative statistics, which reeks of alarmism. My doctors use such arguments in attempts to convince me to take statin drugs, which would at best extend my life for only a few days if I took them for 30 years. He always tells me that I'm "X times as likely to die from a heart attack" unless I take statins. I always remind him of the nature of his statistics, the side-effects of statins, and the non-present longevity payoff of taking them.

Once the number of fatalities per MVMT is below a certain value it ceases to be likely in the overall scheme of things and becomes unimportant.

Relative statistics ignore the prior probabilities - the fact that I'm unlikely to die driving in the first place. Yes, 4.46 deaths per MVMT is about 3 X 1.18, but both are low deaths per MVMT.

I may die from falling off a ladder or get eaten by a shark but neither is likely, nor am I now nor was I likely in the 70s to die in a car accident. Some other damn thing will most likely get me (that isn't anecdotal either).
You get a BIG INFO by AWS that you are changing the bucket to public access if you do (by default they all are private), how incompetent you have to be to not be able to read?
i think both of you guys are correct.

for me, being in tech my whole life and growing up solidly a nerd and in the cyberpunk culture of the 80s, when the iphone
hit, it was more of a sigh of relief of "ok finally we are making the steps into the cyberpunk future weve been fantasizing and thus building for decades"

it wasnt until the snowden stuff hit and all the current tech problems we have that the sentiment is "oh crap, the dystopian cyberpunk future is a heck of a lot more of a slippry slope than we were ready to deal with as a society"
The part where the Trisolarians try to make the Special Thing was hands down one of the dumbest things I've ever read in science fiction.

The first 3rd of the book that dealt with cultural revolution fallout was awesome, though. But yeah---back half was bad enough to ruin the whole thing for me.