skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He did get into an env like that, later on in the thread he mentions he started shift.com which just raised 140m.
Exactly: "normal" and "simulated" should be indistinguishable - and often, for me having reg/green deficiency, that's the case. I'll often look to confirm that images truly are different before using them as examples.

Colour deficiencies vary, though, so even a simulation that works perfectly for some is not going to be a universal simulation.

These simulations are amazing in terms of illustrating to colour-capable people what we colour-deficient actually see: it's not black and white, to us the world is still bright, vivid, colourful. It's our normal and that mostly isn't a problem. But a bright red rose that's colourful and vivid to me, looks to my wife grey and faded.
I feel like its another case of the tech bubble. The projects with real causes and uses will come back from any implosion in the long run.
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I'd add more 9's to that number.
Having a hard time with this one--so many variables in play. I mean, maybe overpopulation causes a drop in overall intelligence and air pollution is just a symptom of overpopulation?
Those red lines on the graph are just awful: arbitrarily drawn to make things look worse. Fit an actual model and drawn on prediction intervals next time.

I have never owned crypto currency, I'm just easily triggered by bad graphs.
MIT and Harvard are co-founders of edX: https://www.edx.org/. While not fully online, MIT does allow students who earn a MicroMasters in Supply Chain Management online to apply that course work to the on campus masters program: https://www.edx.org/micromasters/mitx-supply-chain-managemen....
Biggest thing is something else. Performance of Ruby/Sinatra plus gems needed to make it workable is worse than actual Rails. Might as well directy work with Rails. Better support and more features on top of better performance.
Beijing central district anybody?
This World Resources Institute graph^1 shows intense growth in solar electricity generation in China so they are at least moving away from fossil fuel electricity generation at a rapid pace and fossil fuel electricity generation is plateauing^0
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_sector_in_China#/m...
[1] https://www.wri.org/blog/2018/08/distributed-solar-pv-china-...
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About time, the whole thing has been a complete and total scam from Day Uno.
Same with frontier. I hate that Verizon sold off parts of Fios to this awful company.
What's the funding situation like for the company? The GPL/AGPL model does offer some protection, but it's cold comfort to the typical user if the central server goes away and we're left with a fragmented ecosystem of free replacements.

Part of the appeal of Signal is that it's supported by a well-endowed non-profit.
Show HN: PortCast – multicast from one worker/iframe to other workers/iframes
It's very easy to dismiss life as an exercise in masochism. Take the idea up a few notches and question what underwrites your physical existence: murder and theft, involving the demise of countless plants and animals and theft of their carcasses as a personal fuel source (old India Vedic/Buddhist observation added for shock value). Very suckey. Then here by extension it would seem subordinating yourself to the synthetic distractions of psychopathic video games or maudlin RPGs as temporary anxiety outlets ultimately tends in idle moments to reinforce that sense of futility. And then why would you want to essentially 'sublimate' that synthetic psychopathic stimuli by replacing it with a process of being jerked-around by scripted pessimism? Doubt that it has to be that way. As old Milton pointed out in 'Paradise Lost': the mind is a world in itself and in itself it can make a heaven of hell or a hell of heaven. Since it's unlikely anybody is going to make the personal world that YOU would want for you, maybe a practical excursion into gnothi seauton (know yourself) then follow-up with scripting your own suitable world.
I technology is not about anything. There are people who try to use it for good of humanity and there are people who try to use it for their personal gains on the cost of others. It's always like this. And if we wouldn't develop technology, they would still use the old ones (e.g. horse riding).
It really isn't a good time for the US to "urge" Canada to do anything. There is no surplus of good will between the countries after Trump's bullying and insults. Canada can make its own decisions.
Unless there's more analysis than what's quoted in the article, this appears to be nothing more than trend analysis based on the last few months.
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Sinatra is not an "approach to web apps" -- it's a single purpose tool that maps HTTP requests to Ruby. Like Flask or Web.py (Python) and Express (JS).

You are comparing apples to oranges.
If anyone wants to reproduce the benchmarks, I put them into a reproducible article and added a Julia baseline: https://nextjournal.com/sdanisch/fastr-benchmark
I found the memes not that bothering, since they are mostly in the 'narrative' part of the article and absent from the technical part.
Again, all this sounds super complicated economics. There are a ton of facts I can cook up that are legitimate but are meaningless.

The president of the USA can also legally fart in an elevator with CNN and MSNBC reporters in that elevator... But I would guess the president probably won't do that even if they are entitled to.
So illegal transactions and money laundering it is.
Trick question: all of them are regulated, because they're operating within the legal environment of some country, plus the US tends to claim global jurisdiction on anyone selling things to Americans.

Technically everyone running a bitcoin miner is violating securities law. It's just that SEC enforcement of this is going after the most fraudulent crypto enterprises first.
Is there any reason not to link to the MIT news itself?

https://news.mit.edu/2018/mit-reshapes-itself-stephen-schwar...

Why link to the nytimes when you can link to the actual source?
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My friend put a computer in their garbage bin last fall.

I took out its “worthless” video card and still sold it for $40.
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I doesn't rely on China because it decided to leave. Now it has to come back, or it will be shut out of a market of billions.

China is either the first or second largest world economy based on how you want to measure. It's rapid growth alone will assure Chinese economic power if not outright hegemony for the next century. China is also growing it's sphere of influence. Google is a corporation like any other, and if it misses the boat on getting into the Chinese market while it is still developing, it could be the Sears of search tomorrow.

Rich nations get rich by developing their economies. I don't think anyone has done that better than China. The US economy is exporting soybeans and shuffling debt. Who produces all of the high technology and is constantly innovating in the energy sector of tomorrow? China has seized the commanding heights of the economy.

But yeah, really, the world's biggest market is vital for Google.
That's a separate problem. If/when they switch to renewable plants, then they'll already have an electric bus fleet to take advantage of that.
I guess, but he's doing a note-taking app. I think that niche is as old as Detroit.
> Three Republican senators have sent a letter to Google today demanding the company hand over an internal memo based on which Google decided to cover up a Google+ data leak instead of going public as most companies do.

That's a loaded first sentence. Here's another way of writing it: "Three Republican senators have sent a letter to Google today asking the company to please provide internal memo based on which Google decided to not disclose a Google+ bug that could have leaked data instead of going public as very few companies would."

Or break it up if that's too wordy. ZDNet and the writer of this article should be ashamed of themselves. How much more clearly can you out yourself as biased garbage?

To the contents of the letter itself [0], just answer the 8 questions straight up, and give the memo. Doesn't appear like a witch hunt quite yet. On questions 3, 4, and 5 just make it clear that software bugs are rampant, many have the ability to get bad things when exploited, and on 6 either inundate them with a deluge of security bugs or explain that there are probably thousands. On #7, the answer better be an emphatic "yes" or I will be very disappointed.

If it becomes more political, there needs to be legal requirements for disclosing all security vulns (instead of just exploited ones) or they need to recognize it's untenable to ask for them. Can't have it both ways and just pick a company's vuln because of an article about them and not ask other companies for theirs.

0 (PDF) - https://www.commerce.senate.gov/public/_cache/files/4852b311...
One of these "other things" is buffering of slow HTTP requests. Application servers are usually not designed to deal with that and are meant to be run behind a proper load balancer/reverse proxy. This is usually very explicitly mentioned in their documentation, for example in https://bogomips.org/unicorn/PHILOSOPHY.html
Orwell (Blaine) was a policeman in Burma during the 20s.

More generally, colonial(ist) usually refers to employees (especially European ones) of the colonial state(s).
It’s weird how this headline and article makes it sound like Hawkins is being coy about his theories, or preferring to work in secret than explain them. But On Intelligence was published years ago, and contained a section on testable predictions. Likewise, Numenta has published papers, and made source code available.

So it doesn’t seem to me that the problem is that Hawkins has been uncommunicative, it’s that the wider academic and research community just hasn’t been interested. Perhaps that’s simply because his theories don’t have merit, but it’s also hard to shake the feeling that’s it more because his career, and therefore his theories, hasn’t fit the standard academic mould.

It seems to me that, if you want to be an influential theorist, you’re expected to study at a prestigious university, work with an older, respected researcher while getting your PhD, then become a professor, setup a research lab, mentor some PhD students of your own, then finally maybe spin off your research into some startups, or take a high-paying research position at a big company.

Hawkins hasn’t followed this path, so he has no network of peers and former students to evangelise his work and carry it forward. He’s done research and published it, like the scientific ideal says you should, but he’s missing the structure necessary to make it land in the research world.

It’s like a sort-of reverse cargo cult. He’s done the work of constructing a real airstrip and working planes, but he can’t persuade anybody to fly, because they’ve never seen or heard of air travel before.
Also, how many of the aforementioned bsds use drivers that were ported from the Linux kernel tree?
To me, cryptocurrency is about greed to the same extend money or stocks are about greed. There just aren't as many regulations yet.
That happened some time ago.
> the details should be released to the public

Details have been released. The Wikipedia page provides a good compendium of Huawei's intellectual property rights abuses, espionage and security concerns, workforce treatment issues and sanctions violations [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huawei#Controversies
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> Instead of teaching people how to do this portably across all UNIX-like systems, by sending SIGABRT to the process

Sending SIGABRT doesn't do what the article is talking about, on any UNIX. Perhaps you would learn something from listening to the kids these days, like the distinction between a kernel stack and a userspace stack.
Sadly I have been asked to use it. Horror story time.

First job out of school, I joined a place with a lot of EE's writing VHDL tools.

So EE's--no offense--at that time viewed software as a solved problem if you did everything by a book (any book) and a spec and a waterfall.

So despite working in C, which was already plenty idiomatic with a fine K&R standard, they insisted that while(p-- = p--) was verboten and instead made a bunch of FOOL/LOOP, WHILE/ELIHW, IF/FI and other abhorrences to hide the idioms they didn't like (such as braces) and make it more like algol/pascal. This was all less important than actual CS principals.

Then to make matters worse, there was a SPEC, a binder full of PAPER pseudocode mostly in algolish, some hand written. But every piece of code needed to refer back to its spec. Of course those things got out of spec quickly so any new feature was always about triple work.

Yes, and it was uphill both ways.
I managed a bikeshop/tavern prior to my transition into tech and we did a lot of groupon promotions. Their sales folks were super greasy and it was almost impossible to opt out once you were in, whether or not it made business sense to continue. It was an effective loss leader at first, but sometimes we would get punished with a throng of grouponers at peak times and we LOST money in a bar. It was a greasy business and I never gave them a dime after I left that job.
An important harbinger of trouble to come is that the Tether (USDT) coin, which is supposed to be pegged 1:1 to USD, is now trading substantially below $1:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-10-15/dollar-pe...

Billions of Tethers were printed seemingly out of thin air and used to purchase Bitcoin. It's part of the foundation of the house of cards that keeps Bitcoin at its current price:

"Despite their modest total market value of about $2.4 billion, Tether’s coins play an outsized role on cryptocurrency exchanges. They were the second-most traded among all digital currencies after Bitcoin as of Oct. 15, according to data compiled by CoinMarketCap.com."
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-10-14/why-crypt...
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I was supporting the parent post about doing stuff in Linux only way, instead of UNIX in general.
Aren't coal plants releasing small amounts of heavy metals and radioactivity from burning coal too? I recall some discussion here couple of months ago mentioning oceans pollution (and thus mainly predatory fish) mainly comes down to all coal plants churning all this at slow but steady pace.

Somebody also mentioned that old decommissioned plants have their smelter quite radioactive and need to be handled accordingly. Can't find it now though...
I agree with u.
https://www.sherekhudahazratali.com/2018/10/safar-ka-mahina-...
That may not be a winning bet. It depends on the future of mall retail. I'm not sure that mall real estate will be as valuable in the future as Lampert expects.
> possibly others

Brit here. Off the top of my head: 'bladdered', 'blotto', 'hammered', 'pie-eyed', 'pissed as a newt', 'ratted', 'sloshed', 'squiffy', 'sozzled', 'trollied', 'wasted', 'wellied'

These typically result from a night 'on the lash' or 'on the piss',
Yeah, to my surprise there's a lot that I actually miss about that era.

I don't really miss the graphical excess of trying to make one's site look like a Starcraft map, but even when that graphical excess existed it was sort of a thin veneer atop good old raw plain fast HTML. As opposed to today's sites, which download and JIT megabytes of Javascript before they're ready to respond to a single click, and have often invented their own bizarre UI patterns.
Seems like it. Did you try this?:

https://www.google.com/search?q=onenote+file+parser
https://github.com/dropbox/onenote-parser
Any illumos-based operating system: SmartOS, OmniOS, Tribblix, or any BSD-based one: OpenBSD, NetBSD, FreeBSD.
Ask HN: What role do FPGA's play in HPC?
I'm interested in exploring the opportunities in HPC and I'm at the start of my career. Are FPGA's the future of High Performance Computing? I'm trying to understand what distinguishes them from the ASIC chips when it comes to the efficient computation of the algorithmic problems of tomorrow.
There is no subject under the name "Statistics and Nonlinear Function Approximation" that describes the algorithms involved in NLP. No subject or concept in the name "Statistics and Nonlinear Function Approximation" that describes the history and codification of breaking down an image into thousands of additional images and then performing the "statistics" - there is much more in ML/AI than what you'd like to call that college.
I guess they officially started rolling it out in 2012. I'm in Atlanta and I noticed my modem's IP mode flip to "IPv6 Only" sometime in 2011. I've been hosting from two different machines since then and about 30% of my network traffic is IPv6.
Iunno, if i were a billionaire, the idea of having $50m under nobody’s control but my own that I can take anywhere, anytime, doesn’t exist anywhere else.

I can’t do that with gold. Bank deposits are always available until they aren’t. But Coinbase can’t do this either.
Sorry, you're right, if tether is working as marketted, it is a taxable transaction, but taxes are due on $0 of gain, so....
Cyclomatic complexity seems like a great example of Goodhart's Law [1]. I absolutely agree that on the whole, code with fewer paths tends to be easier to read. However, taking deeply nested code and arbitrarily pulling chunks of it out into functions which only have a single caller and don't really abstract anything that's ever going to be terribly meaningful on its own seldom makes it better in my experience -- and can force a lot of skipping around if you're actually trying to understand what the system as a whole is trying to do.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law
> You can contest facts, he said, but not images.

with the ubiquity of photo editing, and ai driven video manipulation, i'd argue one can contest images too(i):

>> Ghost in the Shell addressed this issue in 2005(o)
>> The Tachikoma units are debating how to stop a nuclear strike and one suggests that broadcasting a live feed of the nuclear sub would help, but the idea is reasoned against due to the technological capabilities to fake such a feed:
>> "Pictures don't prove anything anymore. It would just end up as a source of amusement for the uninvolved masses, an image from an unknown source that showed up at an all too convenient time."
>> beyond this inflection point one must now trust both the content and the source

(o) https://youtu.be/yAoj3AskFMI

(i) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16522643
I've done a similar project in 2008, only it was about the backlight of the LCD itself. Also, we used a CPLD, not FPGA; there was an effort to improve it (and it was supposed to run on a Spartan 3E) but then the customer's own funding ended, and the project was halted.
Here is the expanded URL of the tinyurl link to halve the changes of getting a 404 or similar in the far future, and maybe allow finding the content via the Wayback Machine in case infoq also disappears.

https://www.infoq.com/presentations/We-Really-Dont-Know-How-...
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That IBS chart seems a bit baloney, why does the cost and cost share of software grow so dramatically at smaller nodes? It seems like most of the cost share increase would come from validation and physical design.

I personally think that at this point, success (and hardware interest) in commodity RISC-V server hardware is mainly contingent on the availability of major compilers and runtime libraries, but that is necessary regardless of process technology. I don't know of many operators/users of server hardware who have any considerable investment in any ISA-locked software (except the odd proprietary package which would not honestly be too difficult to convince vendors to basically just recompile).
Listening in and loving it. Probably going to listen to this all day.
At risk of tangenting the conversation, comments like that from the guardian continue to drive me nuts. I understand that an identity-driven narrative suits their politics. But to say the crypto community is started by "white men" really rolls up a ton of geographical and cultural diversity between even the founders of the top few coins: Bitcoin (unknown), Ethereum (Russian), Litecoin (Asian-American).
The only tech job that mentions remote work is the one titled "Open Source Engineer".
Cooper's four rules: https://www.americanrifleman.org/articles/2011/5/18/jeff-coo...

NRA's three rules: https://gunsafetyrules.nra.org

You'll often see the Cooper rules slightly restated: https://www.hunter-ed.com/gun-safety/

I'm not a fan of "as if".
From a libertarian lens, I find blockchain technically interesting, and see some promise in it's usefulness, but I own zero bitcoins (etc) because the whole cryptocurrency landscape looks immature, treacherous and fraught with peril. Each of your points seems absolutely spot-on. I think readers of any political point of view should be able to spot this as a notably poor article.
Maybe it's just me, but having gone through all the stats and maths behind ML, it seems like ultimately the less interesting part (though to be fair, algorithm design is similarly uninteresting for similar reasons). We're talking about a lot of very long-in-the-tooth concepts that are still the basis of many, many approaches. They're important, but it's well-worn territory.

The underappreciated parts of AI, in my experience, are more philosophical; about the nature of reasoning and approximating or beating human thought. About autonomous agents, non zero-sum games and ethical, non-maximizing functions. There's a huge overlap with logic (philosophical and mathematical) here, and I haven't seen that really broached at any of these big programs.
A city that was never designed for bikes is hell for bikes, so you end up with only the most reckless bikers on the road.

I commute with a bike every day in Paris, France. The infrastructure isn't great but it's OK, and it's improving. The thing is: I'm a big, strong guy who can legally outrun most cars and motorbikes in such a big, dense city. I can fight my way in traffic, mostly because the law authorizes bikes to go both ways in most streets, to run red lights https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idaho_stop, to ride between traffic lanes, etc. Most people are terrified to ride here so you only have the most reckless persons on bikes, including me. Although I'm respect the law (which does not make riding safe because no one wants to be anywhere near a big bus/truck, or between vehicles, or stuck in a diesel tailpipe…), I end up riding dangerously making people think that biking is only for reckless guys.

The worst is that, the more I respect the law, the more drivers get angry at me for taking to much space or slowing traffic down. So you move as quick and close as possible to vehicles and pedestrians. That's absurd but that how it is.

It's an infrastructure problem. The more you give space to bikes, the more reckless bikers can finally ride prudently, or prudent people dare to ride (making reckless bikers a tiny minority). It's the same with cars: what would happen if the infrastructure made car driving dangerous? You would only have road hogs and people would just hate cars.