skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No they won't; they'll be happy to cover it because they'll know who to recover from. At bottom insurance is a cash-flow management business. They know very well what the probabilities are and build those into the price.
This sounds like a subscription based service to me
Frogs try to jump out of boiling water. I understand you mean it metaphorically, but like the expression "you catch more flies with honey than with vinegar" it has no scientific basis.
Because people selectively cherry-pick facts to support the narratives they are invested in, and in doing so become more invested. Both narratives can be supported using data, provided one interprets the data in a certain way. Same with religions. Very rarely does a slam dunk case appear totally disproving one particular explanatory narrative.

Karl Popper's "Science as Falsification" essay is very useful here.

And furthermore, many of the propecies are self-fulfilling. For example, if atheism were true, it is still the case that Jews around the world have never forgotten about Israel and Jerusalem and have at long last returned there.

You can also see this in technical fields. The Black-Scholes valuation model may or may not have been a good way to price derivatives, but once everyone started using it, it BECAME the best way to price derivatives because everyone used it.
To answer your first question: I don't think there's any code running on the GPU in kernel space except for the DRM driver part of the GPU drivers. As for the second question, I'm not sure. nVidia at least uses the same driver for GTX and Tesla class cards, but I assume the driver runs different code based on what card is installed, and presumably turns features like IOMMU on/off based on the card present.

Whether SLI also requires working around IOMMU I don't know.
>easier just to keep a human around on more dangerous routes.

On the contrary, payouts for a driver taken hostage, injured, or killed on company business would be immense. Insurance companies would probably be quite happy about crimes taking place without humans getting hurt anymore.
Deep Reinforcement Learning (David Silver, Google DeepMind) [pdf]
You have controls to override the car if they fail and you shouldn't be purely relying on them, so you're at fault. If you don't have any means to override them and you're expected to purely rely on them, surely you can't be at fault because what could you have done?
> can drive evasively

so can an autonomous vehicle. in fact it has to be able to do that to avoid certain kinds of accidents.
Every 'transaction' should be automatically deducted from user's bitcoin wallet. Call it GNU Premium.
Sorry could you explain what CS is? I can't think of anything besides computer science.
Eh.. grep is also a tool? Every function you write is a tool. The whole industry is built on tools and tools that make tools..
So, can anyone make an open hardware version of this chip? Have the patents run out? It's been 45 years, and I understand they only last 25 years. A side question would be which CPU architectures are openly available now that are capable of running a modern Linux distro?
What other tech events did you have in mind?

And if you check out the hackathons website [0] and the previous hackathon [1], they are showcasing exactly the offensive content that I was describing in my post.

[0] http://stupidhackathon.github.io/
[1] http://www.stupidhackathon.com/
Six months ago I signed up for a family edition of Office 365, and I don't blink at the $99/year subscription fee. Everyone gets a terabyte of OneDrive cloud service, and the latest Office 365 applications if they want them. I did install the applications in my MacBook Air, but on my Ubuntu laptop and my Windows 8.1 laptop I just use the web versions of Word, OneNote, etc. Anyway a good deal.

If Microsoft charges a small charge for Windows updates, which I don't think they will, I probably won't mind.
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I remember this "news" being on the front page of HN a few times already. The change is radical enough that we want to talk about it over and over again.
There's more to progress than getting rid of jobs. I'll happy pay the same price for human truck drivers/supervisors at the cash register as we do now, or a bit more, if the benefit is lower accident rates and more efficient fuel consumption. I won't save anything directly but it will result in a safer and cleaner place to live.
But we don't owe it to make sure that no one is ever worse off. There are people who never had jobs in the first place. If a trucker loses is job because of technological change, why is the trucker now entitled to more than the person who never had a job?
It's more complicated than that. They adjust their position to whatever will lead to the most votes, but that often will include things that will not appeal to voters, but will appeal to donors that then will then provide resources to appeal to voters in another issue.

In areas that do not sway many votes, we might as well have an oligarchy: A lot of gain to a few often defeats a small loss to the many, even if the total loss actually exceeds the total gain. Then, whether a group can lobby for regulation depends on a variety of predictable factors. It's the whole reason right to work legislation destroys unions.

This is not new theory. The Logic of Collective Action by Olson covered this 50 years ago.
Just how does using `git init`, `git add`, `git commit`, `git push`, `git merge`, `git pull` force one to know Git's implementation details?

Even thinking of Git as a security camera watching your shop (working tree), a VCR (record, forward, rewind history), a videotape copier (branching, pushing) and video editor (pulling, merging) wouldn't be too far off the mark, without the need for any reference to Git's inner workings.

Sure, a lot of Git talk mentions SHAs, trees, blobs, etc., but they could just as well have been brownies, blurfls, gizmos or whatever, as long as the practical context in which one needs these things is clear. Branches, tags and remotes are still the most useful top-level concepts, with no need for knowing their implementation details.

Only when one needs to do really low-level stuff like efficient import/export, history rewriting (ugh) etc. does one need to know a little more about how Git works. Many people have used Git for years without knowing anything about the plumbing beneath its porcelain.
You could also host it on CloudFlare for free.
How about actually giving it a minute or two to form an educated opinion instead of spewing out cynical imaginations?
Well I wish I could refer you somewhere, but I do brick-and-mortar in person IT stuff. I wish you luck, sir. I met a lot of Somalis (I am familiar with Somaliland of course, but you would not be surprised I have not met many refugees from the north, well because it is stable).

Good luck, I do hope people like you make it. It is what makes the internet cool.
Great idea. Reminds me of a sci-fi movie (which one?).
Maybe it's the monitoring fatigue I have from trying out so many different services/systems prior to settling on Riemann+Graphite+VictorOps, but I don't really see the killer feature of OpsDash that would make me jump to it.

Not to deride the service, of course - it might be a fine product. It just seems like most of the other (modern) services available, if just a little bit more consolidated.
You don't have to use any Metro apps if you don't want to, and 10 brings back the start menu. If that's still to "Metro" for you you can install something like Classic Start.
You should rename software before it reaches a double digit version. Otherwise it's too stale.
>Now imagine the man-millenia wasted on all that hocus pocus.

my/mine imaginary deity/deities is/are the one true deity/deities, because, er, I say so, and so did my parents!

how people can buy into the fairy-tales which is religion has always baffles me, atleast unless you are indoctrinated from a young age and shielded from critical thinking.
Doesn't this imply that all political opinions and regimes are essentially equivalent?
> But insurance companies are founded on the assumption that they will only have to pay out in the exceptional case, no?

"Exceptional case" is still a well-defined rate for them. They calculate risks and adjust insurance premium accordingly. That's pretty much their business.

With sufficiently large amount of insured parties those "exceptional events" are actually fairly common.

And that's what I was referring to. If the insurance company is in the business of calculating incident rates anyway they might as well cooperate with the autonomous car manufacturer to drive down incidence rates to a covered level.
Just like car insurances will offer reduced premiums to experienced, accident-free drivers they can offer reduced fees to vehicle manufacturers who statistically cause fewer accidents.
We dropped MATLAB because the communal version refuses to work without internet connection (standard in the field) and we cannot afford a licence for all field laptops, where they will be used very little (but still to do things that need to be done).
I completely agree. The problem is that I, along with other people who lean libertarian in their ideology, read the word "we" and interpret it as "politicians" as they are the only party that can reasonably make these judgement calls. Did [Dick Cheney|Barack Obama|Hugo Chavez|Kim Jong Un] evaluate what property is legitimate? I honestly would rather not find out.

One can argue that we can vote but most decisions made are so far removed from the democratic process that its effectively meaningless. In my home town of New York City, I hear people argue that such and such should be allowed or disallowed and there should be more discretion from officials. I always then question them as to who these officials are or who the relevant party is that makes such decisions. If they cannot answer, which they almost always cannot, I ask why they have such faith that those unknown, probably unelected officials will make wise decisions. Maybe I'm just a cynic and regulatory capture isn't really as prevalent as I imagine it is.
I'd have thought that Microsoft still sells a monumental pile of Desktop licenses to business because a) they've got the money b) they don't want to risk being caught without legal licenses.

In fact I've felt that up until around the last 5 years Windows was primarily focused on business users and consumers were just a happy bonus because what else were they going to run?

So I could see them giving away a version that can't join a domain (no use to business) for consumers, but I'd be very surprised if they did the same for business customers.
Just watched it, I have to agree, it made a lot things clear that I just didn't understood before, like detached HEAD.

Here's the youtube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ffBJ4sVUb4
Regular use of popular antihistamines may cause dementia
The "magic" nature of databinding seems unavoidable. Either it's driven by reflection and then it's more or less understandable but the performance suffers. Or, the bindings can be generated through some kind of bytecode weaving or code generation, which are both opaque to some degree. Either way it's hard to debug and possible to screw up performance, and I've yet to see an implementation without such tradeoffs. But in the end I think it's worth it for the architectural wins.
Most consumers will never tolerate a montly fee to use their OS.
Your monthly subscription payments will come in the form of monthly Azure payments. People will accept that. This isn't 1996 anymore. People don't buy desktops, and laptops will soon be obsolete too. When your phone has a processor powerful enough to do all the work a consumer could ever want, there will be 3 main markets. Mobile, Server, and Gaming. Now they probably could keep charging for the OS for the gaming PC's, but servers and mobile are moving in directions other then Windows. Plus I think a lot of gamers were stealing windows anyways... so doesn't make sense to concentrate on that market.

I think Microsoft is really spot on here.
Ah, but they don't have to stop, do they?

Unless a whole group of people starts crossing the road all at the same time and holding hands (in which case, well, you can't stop people from committing mass suicide I guess), even a very rapidly moving car should be able to swerve out of its way to avoid a pedestrian walking across a motorway, so long as it detects said pedestrian at a sufficient distance.

If you assume that the self-driving cars talk to each other, then each has access to the sensors of the cars far ahead in front, so even in busy traffic they should be able to detect a pedestrian standing by the side of the motorway and start adjusting their flow accordingly, well ahead of any drunken stumbling by said pedestrian.

Unlike human drivers, cars can adjust their trajectories at high speed with minimal risk of accident.
I think this would be awesome, but might be hard to make work. I don't know whether people run Elisp for purposes that aren't inside Emacs.
Looks very interesting. I will look over the code in next couple of days :)
I thought they switched to debian or ubuntu.
I'm sure it will happen, just like some people rob ATMs. But I don't think it will be trivial to do successfully, and the losses will almost certainly be manageable.
Autonomous vehicles will follow whatever assumptions we give them. Given that they will, for the first decade at least, largely be operating alongside human-driven vehicles, chances are they will have exactly the same constraints.

I'd be surprised if autonomous vehicles are allowed to drive faster than manual vehicles any time soon.
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I have to laugh a little at this. You just said, "Go through these 2 tutorials, and try out this tool, and then you'll be able to re-read the introduction and understand it (90%)!" I've learned Source Safe, Perforce, and svn in a matter of hours without having to re-read anything. It's absurd to have to watch 2 tutorials and read an additional book twice to understand something that you should basically already understand. Someone really needs to fix this!
No mention of believing what your parents told you to believe (consciously or otherwise). This seems to be the biggest factor among people I know.
I doubt they will do that for personal devices. I think they will have two tiers: personal and enterprise. Personal would essentially be bundled up with PCs for "free" to the end-users with money coming from the OEMs. They will then "upsell" the likes of Office for a subscription.

But I find the subscription concept interesting for enterprise customers who are already used to it. Bundle support services and extra add-ons tailored to enterprises in general or particular industry, could have a huge potential for them.
>to completely disable Modern UI

Except for random settings that are kick you into a Metro settings app for no apparent reason. It feels a bit like they randomly put some settings into the Metro interface and left some settings in the Desktop interface.

Before as well as after patching away the annoying parts of the "modern" UI, Windows 8.1 just feels like Windows 7 with less consistent UI and more asking for that Microsoft account I don't want to have.
Sites don't respond well to stuff that misleads users into thinking that they're using an offical product, and will take it down without regard for any legal arguments. I don't have a trademark for Pinboard, but getting stuff that uses my logo or site name removed has been dead easy the few times I've needed to do it.
I did assume that the reader is familiar with the metaphor irrespective of its truthfulness.

"Darmok and Jalad... at Tanagra."
This implies that government, in and of itself, is a conspiracy to perpetuate consolidation of power. That's enough of a broad generalization that I can't take it seriously - while it may be true for some forms of organization, I don't think we have enough data (or the right KIND of data) to actually make a call like that, let alone claim that political parties in particular are defined by power orchestration by a central entity.
Everything has a guaranteed failure rate higher than 0, so is all insurance unprofitable?

The warranty example is bad because warranties end instead of getting renewed. They'd happily renew the insurance for the cost of a new product minus epsilon.
Ask HN: Where do you find Hackathons near you?
I'm looking to participate in Hackathons (near Montreal, wouldn't mind going to nearby state or provinces) and can't seem to find much. Where do you find them?
Pac man with DRL in action

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62yr87NdP2k
Is there some kind of certification that the hackathon organizers got to be allowed to do this?

u wot m8?

More specifically, though it may be easy to forget in this age of all-corporate and sponsored and sold-out meetups, the only thing it takes to make a hackathon is to show up with computers and friends and hack code.

The only thing required to do a themed hackathon is to say "Yo, here's the theme for our hackathon."

That's the magic of being a hacker.
The problem is that hardly anyone is paying so much tax that it would be worth it to do this. any city worth living in is going to have government of its own, and some people living under that government's administration are going to end up feeling disenfranchised by it.
Just install classic shell (http://www.classicshell.net/) and that will get rid of almost all Metro crap, as you say.
You're naive if you think that's all what religion boils down to.

That tree includes Confucianism, for instance. Although it's considered a religion, it's secular and closer to philosophy.

Most religions are also mixed with creation mythologies, which have a bonding function inside cultures and ethnic groups.

So, the `religion` subject is much more complex than a simple pissing contest.
There is a very basic client implementation of client in examples/send/send.go.

This is a very early stage project though. I agree that some parts of the API might need to be rethought and other approaches considered.
Ask HN: Why do I not need an antivirus on Linux?
I'm an Ubuntu Linux and OS X user and have been trying to like Windows 8.1 in the last weeks. The problems I have in no particular order ...

- network management in Windows 7 was usable, whereas in 8.1 it is totally fucked

- Microsoft accounts are on their way to become mandatory, as creating a regular account is not user friendly and there's a big and scary warning when you go that route; they are basically trying to resurrect Windows Live ID

- Microsoft has started to force people on using their products - I could not figure out a way to turn OneDrive off completely, or to use anything other than Bing as the search engine in their "Search Everywhere" (this also happens on Windows Phone)

- I haven't seen a "modern Windows" app that I like, they are all pieces of crap, including stuff from Microsoft; modern Skype for example is lacking crucial functionality; their app store is filled with trademark-violating malware and I've never seen such a low quality app store

- from a usability perspective Windows 8 is a failure - there's something inherently different about a PC with 21 inch monitors, keyboard and mouse, versus a tablet, yet Windows tries to unify both worlds, becoming hostile in the process - see this funny video on the subject - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTYet-qf1jo

- of course, you can totally ignore the "modern Windows" side of the coin for now, except that's where Windows is headed

- I bought the standard edition, then I discovered that I needed the Pro version to get disk encryption or to connect to it through Remote Desktop; plus you need the Enterprise edition to make it boot from an USB stick - apparently Microsoft considers disk encryption and Remote Desktop to be meant for businesses and not for personal usage

- for software developers Cygwin is the only thing that makes Windows tolerable and Cygwin is awful

The only thing that Windows is good for is for playing games. I'm only keeping it around for playing Heroes of M&M 3 (the classic one) and Path of Exile.

And every time I try Windows, I end up appreciating just how awesome Linux is.
I don't know where you are from but my forefathers wrote up mailed all the 'certification' I need to king George in 1776.
It seems to be attempting to list the church organisations rather than the faiths -- for instance, the Anglicans and Presbyterians have an entry for each country. If you were to list the faiths, you would have something very much smaller.
Social referral hacking
I think this is impossible. In democracies where everyone has a vote, the majority tends to vote in politicians that promise more 'social services'. That's a euphemism for using the government's monopoly of the use of to take money/time/effort from some groups and divert it into inefficient policies like the war on drugs, war on terrorism, war on poverty, etc.

This is one reason that in the US's early history, only land owners were allowed to vote.
An atheist, a vegan, and a CrossFitter walk into a bar.

I only know because they told everyone within two minutes.
I don't think Microsoft makes much money off of shrinkwrap copies of Windows. Almost everyone I know just sticks with the version of Windows that came with the computer, and when they switch to a newer version it's because they bought a new computer that comes with it preinstalled.

The probable advantage to Microsoft is that they have a less disjointed platform to support. For example apps released for the app store don't run on Windows 7 and earlier, and apps that work on Windows 7 and earlier can't be put on the app store. That sort of thing has been an enormous success killer for some of Microsoft's newer business initiatives, and that in turn means it's a threat to the long-term success of the company.

It might also save on development costs. 3-year release cycles mean you're at great risk of sinking tons and tons of resources into gold plating ideas that ultimately bomb on the market. This new approach means they can fail fast, which means they should be able to produce value more efficiently.
Does it work with scripts as well? E.g. if I run a makefile, will my gcc fees go through the roof? Maybe it should have safety warnings.

The real killer feature would be a periodic upload of your transaction database to the cloud. You could call it "OneGNU". The possibilities are endless.
>So like everything else in life then? For instance I just saw a TV commercial that said that Miller Lite is the best beer, but my past experience knows that that is not the case. Surely we can recognize hype and advertisements when we see them.

Not really. That's some conscious processing that you did, and that we can do -- but only to certain degree. When we go and buy stuff, the advertisments we've seen affect us, not just in what brand we'll buy, but in the very basic act of buying something over nothing, and how much we'll buy of a product.

It's a whole, much studied, field with tons of tunable parameters, from the psychology of a tv, to the height of stuff in Costo's shelves, the colors and smells inside a supermarket (and lots of stuff for web shops too), down to the $x.99 kind of pricing.
There is no "correct" position. But there are positions that are objectively better if you measure outcomes like health, education, safety, prosperity etc etc.
> "running on what?"

Let's hope, reliable hardware.
They have lower reaction times than humans, therefore they need lower safety distances to the car in front of them which can improve traffic flow.

There are significant efficiency gains that can be obtained on highways and for road convoys.
Or the idea that you rebel against whatever politics your parents held. Conservative parents? I'm a liberal! Liberal parents? I'm a conservative!
How is this any of negative, demeaning, or NSFW?
It is a buffer (so is any array in C or C++), but it's usage is entirely different from the style described in the article.