skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You need to separate the commercial value of art from the (for lack of a better word) intrinsic value of art. The halo effect happens in any field whenever there is a subjective evaluation. For instance, people tend to think expensive wines are better even though they often cannot tell the difference between cheap(er) and more expensive wines in blind tests.

I believe the intrinsic value of art (ie. how "art-y" something is) can be evaluated in a couple ways. First is technical. Does the execution of the art require some kind of technical excellence. If you take a look at some paintings and sculptures, you cannot but be struck by the incredible attention to detail and precise work done by the creator. Even features that the audience would probably never notice (eg. reflections in the pupil of the subject in a painting) are carefully rendered.

The second criteria is how much the piece changes the art form itself. Think about how renaissance paintings introduced perspective in painting to make more realistic images whereas earlier paintings were flat and lifeless. More recently, consider how Elvis created rock and roll or how Michael Jackson changed the definition of a singer from someone with a good voice and catchy tune to being an all round entertainer with skills in dancing, video and special effects.

The third criteria is something I call transference. It is when an artist can transfer an emotion from inside their mind to that of the audience using only the medium of their art. Listen to Chopin's Funeral March to see what I mean or rewatch the early scenes in Jaws (before the shark shows up) to get a more contemporary example.

Lastly, some art has a point of view and says something that asks us to look at the world in a different way. Most standup comedy is like this. Banksy's art is like this. Warhol's paintings were like this. Shit on a plate could be like this if executed well. This is the area where I feel a lot of modern art has lost its way. They mistake different for meaning. I once was at the Tate Modern in London and noticed that most people were not really looking at the works of art but fixated on the little white cards next to each piece explaining what the work was about. If the art work cannot tell its own story then perhaps it has not much to say or is not well done.

Art, like love, can only be truly measured in the heart of the subject. Your feelings for your mum would not be swayed if some celebrity stated that their mother was the best in the world so, unless you are an art investor, do not be carried away by the whims of the so-called connoisseurs of the art establishment.
I still don't understand how's staying at an airbnb rental is more compelling than staying at a hotel. From my experience, Airbnb has only a single upside: you get to stay at someone else's place, which has a quite different vibe from a hotel. One the flip-side, compared to a hotel, the prices are considerably higher, you have to negotiate with a host on checkin time (most of the times), and overall you don't have any guarantees on the quality of your rental the same way you have with a hotel chain. Correct me if I'm wrong, but Airbnb has not loyalty/rewards program available either, which could be quite beneficial for frequent travelers.

The whole "local experience" seems to be a mere marketing fluff. The Airbnb experience doesn't seem to imply much interaction with the host, the same way which it's predecessor Couchsurfing did. Once you checked into you Airbnb rental, you are on your own, the same way as if you stayed at a hotel, but with even less hand-holding. Hotels at least provide a (poor) local recommendation service.

I'm wondering what a typical customer of Airbnb looks like.
Tab Mix Plus is explicitly mentioned as something they'll support: https://wiki.mozilla.org/WebExtensions#Additional_APIs
Those screens gave me an instant hit of nostalgia. Sort of a fluff piece, but an interesting blip in history. Thanks for sharing.
"Normal" quantum computers are good at simulating quantum physics, or would be if we could build big enough ones. D-Wave's adiabatic allegedly-quantum computer is not, so far as anyone knows.

The only thing (so far as I am aware) that anyone knows how to do with D-Wave's machine is to use it to find approximate solutions to certain optimization problems. The last I heard, it did so slower than a standard-issue laptop running (non-quantum!) software designed to find approximate solutions to the same optimization problem that D-Wave's underlying hardware models.

That was before the release of the latest D-Wave machine. I don't think it was ever clear whether D-Wave's device scales better than a conventional computer when trying to solve larger problems. Perhaps it does, in which case their new $10M machine may outperform commodity laptops.

[EDITED to add: see http://www.archduke.org/stuff/d-wave-comment-on-comparison-w... and the other pages linked therefrom for some comparisons between D-Wave's reported performance and that of some heuristic optimization software running on a commodity laptop. Disclosure: the author is a friend of mine.]
> Comparing it to Windows, it's almost akin to Microsoft requiring signatures on all software that can be installed.

The equivalent of a Windows app is a Web app. Nobody is requiring signatures on all Web pages that you visit.

A better analogy would be Windows requiring signatures on all kernel-mode drivers that you install. Which, in fact, it does, and has for 8 years now, starting with 64-bit Windows Vista.
So if a free search engine did this, then it'd be OK since it wasn't a for-profit company? Pretty sure that's broken logic.
Ask HN: What is the next revolution in Smartphone could look like?
Smartphones have revolunized the way we communicate. Wonder what will our kids use. Sure I am not saying wearables or IoT but smartphones in the next 5-7 years. is it possible to reimagine a Smartphone from scratch?
Reason I am asking is, I am currently creating ideas to rethink how future smartphones should look like..
One data point in support of this actually happening vs being a retention/recruiting tactic:

A financial analyst friend of mine was hired at Uber ~6M ago as part of a team to help with the accounting/etc. for Uber to go public.
The source is apparently, "Some Czech guy".

At least they plainly state at the beginning of the article:
"Note: Some readers have commented that the original source for the article is of questionably validity. If anyone can confirm or refute the original author's finding with actual data, please let me know in the comments, and I'll update this post accordingly."

It would be good to see something confirming any of this. Even if all of this article's claims are false, it would be good to see a deep dive into exactly what is actually being sent and when.
If I had a nickel for every time the existing solution was deprecated and the "right" solution wasn't ready yet...
The way I've understood it is, particles are localized excitations of fields. You know of the Higgs boson. It is the excitation of the Higgs field, which exists through all space. Similarly, an electron is an excitation of the electron field (not electromagnetic field), which exists through all space. Every single electron is a localized excitation of the same, single field.

I don't know how to answer the relativistic questions of fields yet. For that one would need to learn a lot of Quantum Field Theory.

For the layman, however, these two links are very informative:

http://www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/july-2013/real-talk-...
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/blogs/physics/2013/08/the-good-...
I generally agree, but China is getting better. Huawei comes to mind as a real threat to an established, trusted brand (Cisco).
Gifted simply means you're not being challenged by the coursework. It's a label they hand to certain kids, like ADD, that doesn't mean anything other than what they've observed. They don't have the time or the expertise in every school to drill any deeper.
Don't feel bad - you're absolutely correct. Really rough/unintuitive design here.
It's only surprising if you don't understand that Mozilla's core mission now is to promote a permanent JavaScript monopoly. Mozilla has committed to blocking any technology which could ever offer equal support to any other languages. Now they cannot even allow plugins unless they are based on JavaScript. "The Web" used to mean web pages and HTTP, now "The Open Web" and "Web Technologies" mean we are forced to work with a growing mountain of ill-considered, weird and unsafe "bad parts" forever.

In a strikingly similar parallel dimension, vendors have applied pressure to ensure that networked PCs would only run COBOL, and other languages could only be supported by compiling to a subset of COBOL that inherited its semantics so that nothing would ever be faster than COBOL. In that parallel dimension, this restriction is known as "Open Web", although nobody knows what is open about it.
Week 1: Introduction to Functional Programming in JavaScript
I think the same can happen almost anywhere. I've heard startup culture described in the same way: people founding company after company trying to "disrupt" something without caring what it is, trying to fit themselves into a system defined by VC's.

I'm not sure there's any perfect way to avoid this kind of job. If what you care about is sculpture or bird watching or travel, you probably won't find a nice paying job that lets you flex your expertise. You might, it's been done, but there's not the same kind of demand for renowned bird watching authors as there is for doctors or lawyers or engineers.

So maybe the best we can say is this: If your goal in taking a job is for it to be a life's work, the thing you think about in your spare time, and the kind of thing people remember you for, then you need to worry about this. You need to watch out for systems that eat up your time and effort without mattering, because there are lots of them. But if not, then you don't.
Does this mean that the FTP server will now offer a choice of:

1) Firefox without DRM, without lockdown

2) Firefox without DRM, with lockdown

3) Firefox with DRM, without lockdown

4) Firefox with DRM, with lockdown

...for every language?
Ask HN: What is your strategy for organizing your files or notes?
How do you organize your directories, files, notes, etc.? For example, how do you use Mac tags (colors) to label your files?

If a method of organization has improved your efficiency, please share with us!
Pincers Gem – Web Automation DSL on Top of WebDriver
> What Firefox can do, your add-on can do, and a lot of more things as well. You can customize Firefox to the point it really is a new browser (with thinks like Tab Mix Plus, Tree tabs, vimperator/pentadactyl)

Those are popular add-ons. See the post: "Over the coming year, we will seek feedback from the development community, and will continue to develop and extend the WebExtension API to support as much of the functionality needed by the most popular Firefox extensions as possible."

> What Firefox can do, your add-on can do, and a lot of more things as well

XPCOM has never exposed everything, and in fact has steadily reduced its scope since "de-COMtamination" began a decade ago.
Yes, but the point of responsive design is to make the content work and work well on all browser sizes. A two column layout doesn't make sense for a blog post.
EU should go after the publishers, instead. Actually fix the problem at the root. But they know that'd never go anywhere as people would see how much censorshil it actually is. So instead, they offload the work to Google and get to keep their heads in the sand.
When particles are created in the LHC, a huge number of particles are created when particles are collided. This is why physicists have to sift through mountains of data to find the one higgs boson in the flood of every other particle.
If you're choosing between "should I commit a felony or not" should it matter how often other are charged with it? What happens if law enforcement suddenly becomes more interested?
Nice work!

I think visual outputs are an excellent way of seeing what's going on in code, and semantic errors are often very enjoyable.

The other major thing that I learned through was about the open source community in general. The amount of intense work that people put out for free is incredible. So many people producing things and sharing and generally helping out. That then encouraged me to help work on code but also things like help critique work, answer questions, etc.
I hope that the computing part will migrate to our wrists or other discrete wearable while phones, tablets, monitors and televisions become wirelessly connected screens for it. You can see something like this already in the Asus Padfone, a cellphone with a tablet-as-a-dock:

https://www.asus.com/us/Phones/PadFone_Products/
This is what collecting and managing statistics[0][1] is about.

I know Oracle and Postgres implements this -- don't know about SQLServer, MySQL, etc...

[0] http://docs.oracle.com/cd/B19306_01/server.102/b14211/stats....

[1] http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/runtime-config...

edit: found/added info for postgres
I'm not entirely sure that comment needed to be made more visible.
Stupid Go(lang) Tricks
They'll probably be less broken, with a proper API:
https://wiki.mozilla.org/WebExtensions#Additional_APIs

That kind of keyboard permission could be used for keyloggers though, it's not something every extension should get.
Both games were very cool from my memory of them!

What led you to using No$, and not having an official dev kit? I have no idea what the relationship would have been like with Nintendo...but did they wonder how you'd written the game if they'd never issued an official dev kit?
I agree that those are valid concerns. And yes, the new API will be more restrictive, it sounds, and intentionally so.

But the post asks for feedback and input regarding what new APIs to add. You're right they won't add everything, but we don't know yet how much they will. They also say their team is hiring more people to help move this API forward and work with addon developers to port their addons, so slow progress in the past might finally be changing now. This sounds like it has become a high priority.

So overall it's hard to say how much of a problem the issues you raised will be. This path has some obvious benefits as well as risks, and it'll be interesting to see how it works out. I just think wholesale pessimism at this point is unjustified.
Isn't that quite contradictionary?

Yep. It sure is. Know how spammers that don't run afoul of the CAN-SPAM act get really salty when you call their spam spam? The is the same sort of wordsmithing. By arguing that this identifiable information doesn't fall into the the "personal" bucket, they want the public to think what they're doing is A-OK.

They use weasel language to suggest following a standard of what "personal" data is means everything on the "not-personal" side is perfectly normal operation the consumer doesn't have to worry about. All while trying to derive as much personal information as possible from the not-technically-personal data.
If you think it was a joy to fly then, you should have seen it before the security measures adopted around the time of the 1990-1991 Gulf War and associated perception that Iraq would target US flights for terrorist attacks.
I highly doubt the source was a Czechoslovakian guy because Czechoslovakia no longer exists. Maybe someone from the Czech Republic though.
Exactly what I thought too.

Why not have a bootcamp for a few basic finance rules/jargon? Assuming they see the same sort of issues crop up, surely a 1-3 day bootcamp is a lot less "fake work" than every founder now needing to figure out what they need to know and then know it?
We would also have pop-up ads on our arms because someone would definitely come to conclusion that free, ad supported e-tatoos are viable business idea.
I've seen this is in many businesses. The biggest offense is gross vs net revenue. "Oh, we're an X million revenue firm" is frequently tossed out, when the company only keeps 15% of that to pay the bills. This is especially prevalent in AdTech. I used to think this was lack of financial knowledge on the part of the founders. Lately I've started thinking it's deliberate.

I see Virtual being an example of this too, though not in AdTech.

Some of this does fall on the VCs. It's very important for the VCs to dig into financials before investing, and asking for precise definitions. It also highlights the need for professional financial talent in startups.
Compare it with temperature. If you run next to fast atom and you touch it, it doesn't actually feel hot. So temperature is not really a fundamental thing in nature but a higher level abstraction of the different moments of a large collection of particles. Temperature also becomes meaningless and the whole concept breaks down if you have only one or a few particles. It is of course a useful concept nonetheless.

So I could probably reformulate the question as whether fields are an abstraction of particles or particles are an abstraction of fields.
New crowdfunding site lets backers share in eventual game profits
7 skills software engineers can teach CEOs
And that "Czech" source is a Russian-affiliated propaganda mill that has a vested interested in making US companies look bad.
Sounds like the source is this same guy: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10053420

There's already lots of commentary there on the results.
I have, unfortunately, too much inside experience personally or via close friends of working inside NATO, UNICEF, and the ECB. All of the are dysfunctional, soul-destroying places where talented, highly educated people pass years without accomplishing much, all while drawing excellent salary and conditions. Many people hate their jobs inside these organisations every day but won't quit because the financial rewards are too great.

I got out.
Word of caution, linked server aeronet.cz is well known for spreading pro-russian propaganda[0], conspiracy theories and fake news.

[0]: https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeronet.cz
Anthony Zee's book on QFT (http://www.kitp.ucsb.edu/members/PM/zee/QuantumFieldTh.html) might be what you're looking for.

It starts off with a spring mattress analogy (like the one in the linked article, but with more math) and goes on to more advanced material from there. I remember it requiring little background besides LinAl and multivariable calc.
We can talk about "only approved extensions" after they have taken time to consider the pinboard extension.

For now I am happy someone have told me that Pale Moon exist.
To be fair, while I don't think we're doing it the right way it is really shameful how many American students do not have even the most basic proficiency in things like reading.
I've seen early stage VCs suggest hiring temp CFOs (though it didn't pan out for Virtual - highlighting that the onus is still on the CEO) and late stage VCs saying, "We'll give you $25 million, but we hire the CFO"
Source on this?
I don't know if they'll offer each permutation of all those possibilities. I don't see why not though, it's just a little more build time.

In any case, if the specific combination of features you want is missing, the option to build from source is always there. (At least on Linux, building Firefox is also pretty easy.)
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It's kind of fun to stay in somebody else's place. I do think there's something to be said for that. And, it IS frequently cheaper than a hotel. Many times, depending on where you're staying, it could also be more convenient. It's a B(nB) for the masses, and I don't really mind that.

There of course is still room for the hotel industry, and I don't really think this is making a dent in their business. It's just different, and that's ok.
By your logic, Harvard should be to blame for the millionaires and billionaires from Harvard that are in prison for insider trading.
I'm talking about tinkering because that was the example I was responding to. I think your lack of logic in this thread is unethical. Saying so doesn't make it true though, does it? Actually, nothing you said is logical. You don't have to take a windows programming course, you can choose the many more nix based courses. Those are choices, along with my choice to use proprietary or open licences. You want to remove my ability to make that choice. Foss should exist, and so should proprietary. Anyone dictating that only one or the other should exist is an extremist.

Your arguments are framed as if to make them valid, but they are still fallacies. The MIT licence exists for a reason, and the reason it's the most commonly used. It's the non-extremist licence.

Anyway, I'm done. Arguing with extremists is a fools errand. I believe there is a place for all models.
Well nobody here seems to agree with you.
The average age of founders in YC startups is 29, that's not really straight out of college. I think you might actually have misconceptions of what YC does. It's not a school for sure.
Well, he only obsesses over that when you refer to the OS. If you're just referring to the kernel, he thinks it's ok to call it Linux. And he doesn't think Android is GNU/Linux.

I call that a bit crazy, but also crazy reasonable, because GNU really is the foundation of the OS, along with Linux.
Where did I say that?

If you're a small search engine, then it won't apply will it?

If you become a big search engine and you're free, it's another running cost just like servers, which you'll be paying for somehow.

If you run a free image hosting company you don't suddenly magically become immune from getting a knock on the door when you make no effort to remove kiddie porn?

That's why the logic isn't broken.
Ah, good point -edits-
Technicians the associate professions between craft and University.

Most of us where in the civil service hierarchy in terms of actual job title.

Research Assistants , Assistant Scientific Offices Scientific Officers.
I would agree that the examples can be somewhat misleading, but not because of computability. Universal approximation theorem for neural networks doesn't care about computability, but it does require that the domain of the function is finite (or to be more precise, compact).

For example, suppose that the function to be approximated is simply f(x) = x. For any real numbers a < b we can produce an approximation that works well for a ≤ x ≤ b, but it cannot be a good approximation for all real numbers x. (The sigmoid in the hidden layer means that every approximation has to be a bounded function, and a bounded function cannot be a good global approximation of f(x) = x.)

Therefore, the translation example works if we assume that the number of different Chinese texts is finite, but otherwise nothing is guaranteed.
If they are legit they should be straightforward for an experienced security researcher to confirm.
"The World Wide Web itself represents the largest implementation of a system conforming to the REST architectural style."

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representational_state_transfe...

"The first edition of REST was developed between October 1994 and August 1995, primarily as a means for communicating Web concepts as we wrote the HTTP/1.0 specification and the initial HTTP/1.1 proposal. It was iteratively improved over the next five years and applied to various revisions and extensions of the Web protocol standards."

- Roy T, Fielding, Architectural Styles and the Design of Network-based Software Architectures, 2000

Most interesting is Roy's presentation at RailsConf Europe in 2007 (http://roy.gbiv.com/talks/200709_fielding_rest.pdf):

Use your brains!

- don’t design-by-buzzword

- don’t believe everything you read
A major source of talent for educated workers is at risk. This is the visa that many of the brightest use to explore startups. I feel like this a major pathway that people from outside this country dabble in exploring the American dream.
Spotify gets super creepy but no-one really cares
Tried Pale Moon?[0] And no, I am not affiliated in any way just a happy user that assumes more users are better then fewer users.

[0]:https://www.palemoon.org