skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sorry, I do have this evaluation in a spreadsheet somewhere (except against the Tesla K20, K80 wasn't out then), but I just quickly looked up the Mac Pro specs. We do use the D500, so I should have quoted those gflops. There is a benefit to off-the-shelf GPUs, but I don't see it as a make-or-break kind of situation for imgix right now.

I agree that some day in the future, it does seem like it will make sense to bite the bullet and rewrite for Linux. It probably won't solely come down to a cost rationale though, because there are a TON of business risks involved in hitting pause on new features (or doubling team size, or some combination thereof).

Fundamentally I don't believe in doing large projects that have a best case scenario of going unnoticed by your customers (because the external behavior has not changed, unless you screwed up), unless you absolutely have to.

The real reason to migrate to Linux would have to be a combination of at least three things:

1. Better hardware, in terms of functionality or price/performance
2. Lower operational overhead
3. The ability to support features or operations that we can't do any other way

Much more likely, we would adopt a hybrid approach where we still use OS X for certain things and Linux for other things.
I did not say that you should not get professional help. You make it sound like it's the same as calling an ambulance for a physical medical emergency. It's not. Care needs to be taken in how to get that professional help, and the story does not end with seeking professional help. Don't "Your mind is dangerously ill. I've called these professionals to cure it." Such a response can immediately turn a person off seeking professional help, the exact opposite of what you hope to achieve. Do "You are in a difficult situation. Here's what I can do to help alleviate these circumstances, and maybe it's a good idea to get professional help to help you deal with this situation." It's always better to convince a person to seek help than to do it for them. Frame it as if the situation is at fault, and it's normal to have such difficulties in that situation and it's normal to require help for that. Do not frame it as a "psychological medical emergency" if you can at all avoid that. If the person does not want to get help you can always call professional help anyway.
Be EXTREMELY cautious when using document-based auto-syncing DBs such as firebase. If you're not closely following the best-practice such as using flat document structure instead of nested ones, and dictionaries instead of arrays, you may enter a world of nasty disappointments as you struggle to query and update your local data structure.

Data syncing is hard and so far i've only seen two possibilities : roll your own solution using the fact that you have a knowledge of your business that will help you be smart and small, or use a generic solution but take some time to understand deeply its way of working before you build your real product.

I actually had to cancel what i thought would be a short angular/firebase project after two days struggling to sync one big nested data structure displayed on a page, and realizing i actually had to rethink my model from scratch to fit the technology (which ended up being completely overkill for my need anyway).
Relatively useless in that when most individuals go about their daily life, there is no demand for any of those materials.
This seems similar to Appcues (http://appcues.com/). Appcues is oriented at PMs though. I'm not sure what the market is for a product which requires messing with the HTML of the site.
In a one word answer: Mobile.

LZ4 might be better at compressing, but it has worse performance characteristics. But don't take my word for it:

http://catchchallenger.first-world.info//wiki/Quick_Benchmar...

As you can see, LZ4 uses 30x as much memory as gzip.
Someone did the same thing with my GMail to sign up for an Apple account. Of course I already own the account with my GMail; however, you can add periods anywhere in the address or add "+tag-name" and it all goes to the same place. So the following all route to the same address.

firstnameLastname@gmail.com

firstname.Lastname@gmail.com

firstnameLastname+tagname@gmail.com

So there are infinite permutations of your address that could be used even if you are successful in blocking your default address. Most systems including Apple don't recognize these as the same address.
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I could not disagree more.

I am never interested in building a social profile or entering preferences to some app I'm unfamiliar with. Like others comment, I'd like to get to using the product ASAP.

Signing up is already a hassle that should have been kept to a minimum.
PayPal co-founder raises $275M to reinvent credit
We use MK1's Mac Mini shelf (as seen at http://photos.imgix.com/building-a-graphics-card-for-the-int...), which is pictured at that page. I just wasn't in love with their Mac Pro shelf design, so we went a different direction.

Keep in mind also that 8 Pros in 7U = 48 in a 44U space. So it's a pretty similar density, but I don't think it is as ideal in terms of airflow. Instead, it's more ideal for working on the systems individually (such as in a colocation environment), but that isn't a particular concern of ours.
Not working for me:

"Cross-Origin Request Blocked: The Same Origin Policy disallows reading the remote resource at http://10.30.229.27:15871/cgi-bin/blockpage.cgi?ws-session=1.... This can be fixed by moving the resource to the same domain or enabling CORS."

Firefox 37.0.1
But there's a difference: Apple shareholders don't see their shares redistributed at a steady pace - Apple shares don't have a built-in basic income.

The reason why I think even a single exit might do a lot to the price of MusicianCoins, is that financial success (not only in the music industry) seems to follow some sort of power law: a very small number of members amass a large part of the wealth [1].

Do people behave like this in real life (ie abandon their group when they strike success)? Well certainly not most people - men like Warren Buffett and Bill Gates haven't taken up citizenship in some tax haven to opt out of US taxes - but IIRC one of the Facebook founders did.

There are at least two reasons why it may be a bigger problem for MusicianCoin than it is for the USA: 1) the group size is bound to be smaller, so a single such event would cause a bigger shock, and 2) it's a much easier decision to sell your crypto-coins than it is to move country.

Of course this is all arm-chair economics on my part, and I actually hope you're right that in practice it's not such an issue - I love the idea and would love to see it work well.

[1]: see these sort of numbers, where the top 1% pay 23% of taxes: https://www.vox.com/2015/4/14/8406445/tax-state-local-distri... - and I reckon what would have been really interesting is if they had broken it down to how much of that 23% is carried by the top 0.1%
Tarsnap can have different write/read keys for each backup archive, so (unlike with Attic) you don't need to worry about a compromised host deleting its entire backup history.

Other than that, Attic is pretty excellent too.
Chartbeat receives $15M in new Series C funding
You do have to employ a bit of a twisting motion to remove them, since they have some gasketing in place. I wanted to add a dry ice smoke machine and blue LEDs, but alas...
AMD to Launch New Desktop GPU This Quarter (Q2’15) with HBM
In the US, it is not legal to drop objects from amateur high altitude balloons. That includes launching projectiles from them.

Laws relating to high altitude balloons vary from country to country, so I don't know the reason for people not doing it outside the US.

Speaking of laws, at the minimum some things you should probably check before sending up a balloon is your country's laws on:

• What notification you have to give, if any, and/or markers you have to place on the balloon so that it won't interfere with air traffic as it passes through the altitudes airplanes and helicopters use.

• What methods of communication with the balloon are allowed. Many in the US us GSM cellular devices hooked to GPS units, but from what I've read that it is not legal to use cellular devices from high altitude balloons.

The best approach in the US is to get a Technician class amateur radio license (and if you are the kind of person who can put together a decent payload for a high altitude balloon, you can learn enough to easily pass the radio license test in a couple evenings). You can then use amateur radio frequencies and equipment for your telemetry, and you are even allowed to build your own radios. A transmitter can be pretty simple and cheap to build if you are willing to transmit your data in Morse code (like, a transistor, a crystal, and a handful of resistors and capacitors and such). If you are sticking an Arduino or Pi or some such in there, that can easily convert the data to Morse and send it, and automatically decoding it on the ground with a computer is not hard.

Everything else I've seen seems to be either illegal, or involves using unlicensed bands where you are legally limited to very low power which could be annoying (especially if your balloon lands far away from where you expected, and you are trying to track it down with radio direction finding). When you make licensed use of the ham bands, you can use a good amount of power (but only up to what is necessary to accomplish the mission).

In the UK, from what I've read, the ham option doesn't work. Hams are not allowed to transmit from aircraft, and that includes balloons. Not sure what the best legal method of operating there is.

• What constraints there are on the balloon. In the US there are regulations on, among other things, total weight of the complete system, total weight of the payload, and on the size/weight ratios of the components of the payload, and on the strength of the ropes attaching the payload to the balloon.
Ok sounds interesting.

Because I'm dumb and short of time, I could only take it at face value.

I sort of want to come away lusting to have the feature on my site.

Be great to see some of the possibilities demo'd on the page in the future !
Graduates make a hilarious music video to crowdfund their student loans
I don't; if anything, I personally find them too charitable and reasonable.

Just admit that you (if you're the one who wrote that response; it's not exactly clear who's who in this discussion...) were being a bit of a twit and move on. We all do it; I do it, the girl next door does it, my grandma even does it and she's the nicest person I know. There's no shame in being honest about it.
An acre and a half of Amazon rainforest disappears every hour, and this is the deforestation you get upset about.

Don't you have better things to do, outrage junkie?
I think this article primarily aims for understanding, and to the extent that one sees a bias it says more about which side they don't empathize with.

> Usually they [police] confront situations of conflict they did not cause, but which they are required to enter as third parties

This is a good description of responding to a domestic disturbance or stopping violent crime. But I think a good part of police running amok is precisely due to situations that don't fit this bill. Traffic tickets, drug possession, "jay" walking, home raids. No conflict exists until the police create it, at which point they aren't in the situation as a mediator but as biased second party that still operates with impunity.
There's a UK group preparing to launch a small rocket from a high altitude balloon; they've built apparatus to do ground testing of release and ignition and guidance systems under realistic conditions of temperature soak and air pressure. Photos and description of the development process:

[1] https://www.flickr.com/photos/registerparis/

[2] http://www.theregister.co.uk/science/lohan/
Tesla announces 38,000 pre-orders for Powerwall home battery
I lived in Santa Fe. I got one of my toilets swapped out for free under the program mentioned in the article, or rather, paid for by those wanting to build a new residence in the city.

The article points out that "Santa Fe has the most expensive water out of 30 American cities surveyed by Circle of Blue ... and the city’s residents are among the thriftiest when it comes to turning on the tap."

One of the reasons is that Santa Fe has very little in the way of watershed. It's under 200K acres (map http://www.santafenm.gov/upper_watershed ). That supplies about 1/2 of the drinking water during non-drought years.

Much of the remaining water come from groundwater. The Buckman well field drills down about 1,000 feet to get to the groundwater. Once at the surface, it's pumped up over 1,000 ft to get to the city, which is about 15 miles away. (See http://academic.emporia.edu/schulmem/hydro/TERM%20PROJECTS/W... ). Over-pumping has damaged the aquifer.

Instead the city and county acquired water rights for the Rio Grande and build the Buckman Direct Diversion. It still needs to pump that water up 1,000+ feet. (See http://www.water-technology.net/projects/buckman-direct-dive... .)

Necessity helps change behavior.
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It actually helped me to more appreciate a funny episode in Star Trek: Next Generation where the hologram doctor becomes an esteemed musician among a species that previously didn't have music, because they saw it as an amazing mathematical feat.

I think it was Star Trek: Voyager and not TNG.
You can't depend on outside world's behavior. You simply can't . It's just outside of your control so there is no point to worry about it.
For newbies like me who don't Vim nor Emacs
Flexibility and trust: how to know when to bend the rules at work
The crash cart is the method of last resort, and it's come into play a fair amount as we were figuring out how to do this.

The better solution is to have a NetRestore server on the network, and configure the Macs to boot from a particular server with the bless and nvram commands. Then on the server, you control if the image gets served or not based on some external logic (in my case, an attribute in my machine database).

At the moment, NetRestore is running on an OS X Server machine hanging out on the network, but integrating it with our existing Linux netboot environment is on my to-do list.
Sleazy. This has lawsuit written all over it
That's clever with the table flip and all; it gives you a unique way to get just the responses from this. It's great, seriously, that you're using the tools you have to try to make this situation better.

I bet it's frustrating, though, that you can't do more to address the real problems, like lack of (apparent) incentive to keep this stuff up to date. You have to resort to clever sort-of hacks like "put this magic string in your request so someone will read it". A solution which, I might add, sounds a lot like the problems people are talking about when they talk about inscrutability.
I also drove for Uber in DC for a few months while I was between jobs. I thought it would be a fun and easy way to get a few dollars for beer. My experience mirrors that of the reporter. Towards the end, I would only drive during surge pricing hours, as that was the only way to make a reasonable net hourly wage.

I have no problem hailing an Uber - they are really, really cheap. However, it's a raw deal for drivers. Uber turns a blind eye to driver-contractors driving without commercial vehicle insurance. It has to, as the additional cost (which is pushed onto the driver) would cause the driver's hourly rate to plummet even further. In addition, there is no way to purchase commercial insurance on an hourly basis - therefore part-time drivers would be squeezed out. The flat-rate $1 safe rides fee causes low-distance fares to be even more unprofitable, even when many short trips are already a bad deal due to the overhead involved in each pickup and drop-off.

To fix this, Uber should probably cover drivers with an on-demand commercial policy while they are logged into the app. The flat per-ride fee should go away. And while I doubt this is going to happen, Uber should probably also reduce the commission they take per ride.
Very simple graphics with flawless 75fps+ and very little lag is highly preferable to dropping frames in a complex scene. In fact Minecraft is a case in point - it works great in VR!
So there is no way to stop people from using my gmail account to get on sex and dating sites?

If I block one form of my address there are countless others they could use?

I don't see how I can prevent this, and I don't want to lose my Gmail account because I have bank accounts and other stuff tied to it.
How to Port iOS and Android Apps to Windows 10
> You can get to a point where "it just works".

For months and months on end of heavy usage without a single restart or issue?

EDIT: to expand a little - I was developing/compiling all day long on my ~2008 MBP with it plugged into an external monitor, network, mouse, kb. I'd close the lid and walk home with it, then watch movies, torrent, develop some more, surf etc. Close lid, and repeat for months on end. The only time I ever restarted was for OS updates, I never had a single app even crash in ~2 years of doing that.

My hackintosh (and the windows 7&8 HP machines here at work) don't hold a candle to that.
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Best advice in this situation is "Out of sight, out of Mind." Set up a rule to automatically delete emails from said domains.

Outside of that, if you're worried about how your wife will react, just get out in front of the situation and tell her; hopefully the worst that happens is that she makes fun of you
I imagine there are some renowned physicians in Europe and Asia who also don't know that Toronto is a Canadian city. Or other arbitrary pieces of trivia for that matter. It doesn't stop them from being successful at their job.

Conversely, knowing which city has airports named after a WWII lieutenant and a WWII battle doesn't protect from malpractice.
We use http://www.walkme.com at Top Hat, how does this compare?
Lemme know when I can order a few on cut tape from DigiKey.
Can knowledge of these strategies reduce their effectiveness on the part of the buyer?

For example, even though many items like gas are priced at 2.1999, I calculate it to be $2.20.
Yea, but this one has more similarities than just being another tron-like game: all the items that can be picked up is the same, the ability to add local player and the arrow that marks you at the start is the same. It's not a big deal since it's free and open-source.
Yes, but I mean something else as well. We're taught that free enterprise is the socially optimal way to allocate resources. Part of that is the assumption that 'the market' that is doing the allocating represents a wide cross-section of society. In this case it's a very small clique, and it takes advantage of our cultural esteem for free enterprise and capitalism to mask the fact that there's not a lot of contact with "the market" as we normally understand it.
I'm pretty sure the point is more that - had Weave used a standard and already-vetted encryption method instead of rolling their own crypto - they could have put that free time into more useful things instead of now having to maintain yet another crypto implementation on top of their main project.

This isn't to say that there's never room for improvement in the crypto space - I personally disagree with the assertion that rolling one's own crypto is inherently bad in all cases, and instead believe that we need a maximum of innovation attempts now so that they can be evaluated and audited and identified as useful - but unless you're actually fixing a problem, Not-Invented-Here syndrome is dangerous and a waste of time better spent elsewhere.
that will install bare bones drivers and services, but not startup daemons, control panel software or anything that could give you a message telling you you need to install a power utility.
Pretty sure they just trimmed the branches a bit for the box to drop.
I guess you could use the reverse approach. Make up a tag or tags that are valid and delete everything else automatically. The hard part would be updating your email everywhere.
How many ah-ha moments can you have?
> Uber reassures drivers that they've got them covered, but their vaunted $1 million policy is secondary for collision — that is, drivers must try to get their own insurance companies to pay the claims first. If the claim is rejected because the insurer figures out it's Uber-related, then Uber's policy kicks in — but the driver's almost certainly going to have his personal insurance policy cancelled, and in some cases be investigated for fraud.

What? Has this ever happened before? Surely by now there would be specific examples of this taking place, if it were indeed a real thing.

> CP: Yeah, not really — when they take UberX into a new market like Philly, they start off by paying drivers a lot. So in the beginning, you get a lot of drivers who look like the drivers in Uber ads, like, suits and bottled water and no accents. And everyone gets the idea that Uber drivers have suits and make a ton of money. Then after a while, usually when a competitor comes in — you know Lyft just started up a couple weeks ago, right?

(CP is the person who wrote the article, not anyone being interviewed) -- How impressively unprofessional. The entire section that quote comes from is just the person writing the article yelling at someone she's ferrying around as an UberX driver. A more obvious hit piece could not have been written.

Also, the site keeps refreshing on me, losing my place in the article. I think it's related to the graphs, but I can't be sure. They randomly go into "loading..." mode when this happens.
may be cutting 2 trees in general isn't that big a deal in some situations, but looking at the photo it was definitely overkill in that situation - these trees were easily climbable and once up there it would be enough just to cut the branches the payload stuck onto.
Memristor crossbars are exciting even outside of neural network applications: it can be used as a very dense, non-volatile memory. If this design can be scaled up, it could potentially replace both flash memory storage, and RAM.
Tried it just now. Site is woefully slow, which is ok to just load questions and submit. Problem is only supporting C/C++, Java, and Pascal. I'm trying out making Scala my 'go to' language.
Having worked with some rack mountable apple servers, I have a feeling they either don't care about having their hardware installed in the data center or don't know how to do it well. Believe it's the case of don't care.

I personally felt it was a disgrace to see Apple logo on the apple's rack mount servers.

Considering how little rack mounted equipment is replaced versus consumer hardware, I can see why.
Basic income could work as a segregated portion of the economy for basic essentials. Food, shelter, transportation, and hygienic items.

Some combination of a tax on luxury goods and services, low income housing, and regulation on food production might be one way to offset the resources required to sustain the basic income output.

The scenario of thousands of citizens living purely on basic income in free housing projects should also be considered. What is the minimum level of contribution we require from citizens in return for the minimum level of support that the State provides? In some countries, it's required to do a year or so of public service though the equivalent of peace corps. It seems fair to ask for a minimum level of work contributing back to society in exchange for society providing a minimum level of life support.
Title editorialized. Makes it less useful.
Yes. That's what I was trying to say with the "morally wrong because having and acting on those expectations reduces the opportunities given to members of those groups" bit. Creating uphill battles doesn't allow the situation to improve.
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Love the creativity of teachers. The microscope is all kinds of amazing.