skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's some background on where the piece came from here: http://www.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/sight-sound-magazine/comm...

But the specifics of the author's case don't really matter all that much. "Screening" means she wants to show it to the public, and since Point Break is a copyrighted work, that's not something you can do without the permission of the copyright holder (see http://www.prattlibrary.org/locations/sightsandsounds/?id=11...).

The point of the article is that in many cases, finding someone who can actually give you that permission is insanely difficult or even impossible, as the rights for a property pass from company to company over years of deals and mergers and bankruptcies. It can get so complicated that eventually nobody knows who actually owns the rights anymore, turning the property into an "orphan work" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orphan_works). This results in a Catch-22: you can't exhibit the work without the permission of the rightsholder, but since nobody knows anymore who the rightsholder is, there's no practical way for you to get that permission. So the work floats in limbo, inaccessible to the public unless you're willing to break the law.
Yes DuckDuckGo is really a good option. Also Bing from Microsoft is pretty good these days despite the bad reputation.
Because the timescales that you're "moving" on are very long from a relativistic perspective. If we localize you in spacetime you're maybe a meter long in one direction, two meters in another, half a meter in a third, and... 30,000 km in the fourth. If we look at you on the nanosecond timescale that you need to see time as "meters" we find that except for, say, electrons' worldlines about the nuclei, your worldlines are very much all parallel to each other.
Interesting project. Not sure what prompted the posting now (last updated in April), but it's timely for me, as I'm evaluating lightweight JVM-based languages. Jython seems a bit heavy. Clojure is my likely choice, but I'll take a look at this too.

FWIW, a quick run of the binarytree benchmark shows luaj as slightly faster than luajit on my system, but does it matter? Not many projects have a realistic choice between lua/luajit and luaj, unless the whole thing is written in Lua.
Fee Brothers is great and that is also my "soft" drink of choice.
This part actually had me laughing out loud (I guess I don't understand other people's passions as well as my own): "Is my life worth living without red M&M's? This is the question I had often asked myself. For many years now, I have somehow managed to go on, thinking there was nothing I could do. One person against the world! But now I have a purpose, a meaning in my life. My life is meant to give re-life to the red M&M's."
If Google search works for you - why replace it? just curious..
Dropbox + .txt files.
Never failed me. Just need to remember to save before you put away current device. Can use whatever editing interface I favor on whatever device I'm using -- usually Sublime on my Windows/Mac machines, I'm only viewing on my mobile devices.
arcology : city in the image of man
> watch costs like a hawk. Operating in 10 locations sounds like Evernote let their costs get out of control.

This one's so important. When you have some millions in the bank from VCs, it's really easy to default to "just spend it" mode. That can vanish so quickly, though... particularly when you're setting up offices with the intent of impressing potential hires and VCs.
...In that Empire, the Art of Cartography attained such Perfection that the map of a single Province occupied the entirety of a City, and the map of the Empire, the entirety of a Province. In time, those Unconscionable Maps no longer satisfied, and the Cartographers Guilds struck a Map of the Empire whose size was that of the Empire, and which coincided point for point with it. The following Generations, who were not so fond of the Study of Cartography as their Forebears had been, saw that that vast map was Useless, and not without some Pitilessness was it, that they delivered it up to the Inclemencies of Sun and Winters. In the Deserts of the West, still today, there are Tattered Ruins of that Map, inhabited by Animals and Beggars; in all the Land there is no other Relic of the Disciplines of Geography.
Men are easier to sketch because shadows, sharp angles and the "irregularities" of your pencil line tend to look masculine. For example, shadows tend to look like facial hair. The slightest flaw on a woman's face is generally more dramatic and unflattering--you want a thinner, softer, smoother line without shadows. Sketches by definition are quick and dirty--which doesn't work out as well for people with delicate features.
> about 94% of pregnancy cases handled by PP end in abortions.

humanrebar, stop lying[1].

In another comment, you praised sceptics and expressed interest in promoting understanding and finding compromise, yet you post lies and cite bogus sources to support your lies. Shameful.

[1] http://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2015/aug/04/...
> How do you get ideas for your side projects or any thing interested?

Speaking just for myself here:

It's a combination of curiosity and naivety. You know that kiddy question where someone's going "But WHY do it that way?!" That's me. Not on the outside, granted - but it's the same sort of impulse.

Of course, as you get older, you start to learn a lot of the 'whys,' and some of them are sensible. The outstanding 'whys' for your day to day life tend to get resolved to a level that allows you to function one way or another. More precisely, however, they're sensible within a specific context defined by the knowledge and assumptions that the parties involved bring to the table and the limits of the requirements they have for their answers.

So I read, I watch visually interesting films, I listen to talks of people who have interesting thoughts, I learn arts crafts and trades outside of my own to a reasonably functional level - (not quite to the level of making an artistry out of them but to the level where you can perceive why that person's good and you're not and some of the things you'd need to do to approach them.) I try to have a wide context to compare the answers to those 'why' questions to. Because what's sensible in one context isn't in another.

There are other skills involved. There are bits of knowledge that are general tools. For instance maths, formal logic - I'd be inclined to suggest a surprising amount of the study of workflows (not just in a user interface sense) is worth looking at because that's often generally applicable to the why of things, etc.

I digress: The majority of the 'why' questions have sensible answers. The world would not function acceptably otherwise. That's fine from the perspective of intellectual exploration. If you're wrong you get an answer that will let you ask more 'why' questions, and if you're right you get another answer - difficult to lose with those outcomes.

Every so often a 'why' comes along where the answer doesn't make sense in the context that you've got, and then you've got an idea that's worth trying out. Seeing whether you can take the thing from that other context and put it in the context that seems wrong. Take one concept from one place and use it here instead. That just seems natural when it happens. Ideas seem like it's the other people who've gone off into crazy land, or missed something. For me, it's the same feeling from when I was little and the parents would go 'BECAUSE! Now I've got to go to work!'

And if that idea comes to nothing, no biggy. There'll be another idea along in a little bit.

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I'd reiterate I'm speaking just for myself there. It's a thing that seems to work for me, it may not be the optimal thing and it may not work that well or that way for others.
Could this approach benefit from using Word2Vec?
I haven't used old Thinkpads but my current x250 is great:

1)great pointing device - check (the buttons are back)

2)no annoying touch pad - it's there but it's small and easy to set to very low sensivity (I use it only for occasional quick click with my thumb)

3)highly portable - check + great battery life (I sometimes get more than 15 hours)

I've got 8gb of RAM but 16GB chip is already available (RAM is not soldered but there is only one slot). The display (IPS 1920x1080) is fantastic and the keyboard is fantastic as well (well, apparently it depends if you are lucky to get it from one manufacturer over the other).

I am not a fan of 16:9 but other than that I love almost everything about this laptop.
Google Maps for Apple Watch doesn't actually have any maps
That's great and I genuinely hope that it works for you. The point I was making was that there was no point. Text files and an ftp server are arguably as good, but ultimately meaningless in relation to the article.
As a type 1 diabetic, I am mostly frustrated with the lack of common knowledge about the differences between the two. Now and then I may rant that maybe it would have been better to call them disease A and B so that searching for advice would be easier for us that are in minority. But, not even once have I felt that "we" deserve more of the research money, both diseases are terrible and causes significant human suffering. The savings in healthcare that a type 2 cure could enable should also not be understated.
Is it breaking the law though if nobody comes forward to claim a violation?
Use the Chrome App Launcher and pin to the task bar (if using Windows). Makes using Google Keep more convenient
The second levels are pretty similar - push harder than you would normally, pushing "through" your usual action, get haptic feedback, something else happens. One difference that helps discoverability, though, is that 3D touch for stuff like app shortcuts and "live photo" replays has UI-based feedback to tell you there's more if you push harder, whereas the second level push on the MacBook trackpad feels less rewarding to experiment with (or maybe that's just a function of it being used far less in OS X than in iOS).
Nice model, but unfortunately it's not true. Neocortex doesn't have 'special face diff storage mechanism'. It doesn't work like this.
Agree. As long as boring works, that's fantastic. Things like our core infrastructure, institutions, and services should be boring and predictable. That lets them fade into the background so we can focus our efforts elsewhere, and it also means that it attracts less of the impatient / selfish / spectacle-driven crowd.

Classic case is finance - people derided Canada's banking sector as being boring and not taking advantage of new fancy financial instruments, but lo and behold the financial recession hits and Canada's banks remain insulated from what happened in the US, Ireland, and other places that were exciting and flashy. [1]

This isn't to say that all of life should be boring and conservative, just that we shouldn't chase 'interesting' at the expense of 'stable and functional' in core areas of our society (or our apps).

[1] http://policyoptions.irpp.org/issues/the-fault-lines-of-fede...
> Isn't a "3D Touch" a physically more demanding action than just a traditional tap? Why should the former be associated with a "quick peek" and the latter with a committed selection, rather than vice versa?

Physically, it is. You use more energy to activate it. But after using it for a while, the real benefit comes from browsing a list of stuff by only peeking and then backing out. You can consume a ton of thumbnails much, much faster since you don't have to reach the back button or swipe to go back. Instead, you just let go of the screen and it returns to where you were.

I actually really like your analogy of single-click and double-click. 3D touch sort of fills the single-click void.

Avoiding the trap is a real issue. 3D Touch should absolutely not be applied to every single element in every single interface. Challenge is how do you teach someone what can use a 3D Touch and what can't? Not sure we have the answer yet.

Full disclosure, I work on this at Instagram and wrote the post.
The idea that the minimization of human suffering is death implies that being dead isn't itself something that is inherently should be avoided.
AMD restructuring [again] – what you need to know
> "If you bill a thousand dollars an hour, that will help us get it prosecuted"

The person who said this (Brandon Mercer) needs to see a courtroom, conviction, and jail cell. Conspiring to misrepresent damages in a criminal proceeding is a crime.
People without a credit score fall into three categories which really have nothing in common in regards risk. 1. The unbanked (i.e. very poor). 2. The very wealthy or the moderately wealthy with an aversion to debt. 3. Recent immigrants. While I suspect 2 is relatively small, both 1 and 3 are quite large pools. Treating all three as a greater risk than someone with a history of poor debt management seems perverse.

The risk profile of a recent legal immigrant with a PhD and a high paying job is very different to someone that has never had a bank account and who has worked for cash in hand. Why treat them the same? At the very least let someone with no history of credit establish a credit score baseline based on their international history, current income, and assets.
I haven't seen anyone suggest that sugar should be banned the way drugs are, just limited in how much can be contained in a product marketed as food. Similarly, I don't think that many people who support drug legalization would support allowing drugs to be added to products that are marketed as food rather than marketed as drugs.
You forgot the ridiculous price tag for a refurb X200. My stacked X201 8Gb of RAM, 256Gb Samsung 840 pro, new 9-cell, ultrabase with DVDRW, keyboard, mouse, 22" TFT cost about the price of their bottom end model in total (via ebay)

I assume it hasn't got a hard disk in it as well as they are technically standalone computers with closed source firmware as well these days.

Freedom is expensive.
Actual headline: "The inside story of how $1 billion Evernote went from Silicon Valley darling to deep trouble"

Current: "Evernote is in deep trouble" (overly strong, imo).

Also, I don't think the article supports very well the "deep trouble" description. It sounds like the company has plenty of money and continues to grow.
Fear of Failure May Ensure It
As a child I longed for a "blue" M&M. Even though I repeatedly gave into buying these candies that melted in my hands and crackled in my mouth, when the last one was consumed I felt an emptiness ... a blueness ... on the inside. To help with the growing bitterness, I battled friend and family over the green ones ... trading out ugly yellow whenever possible.

*based on a true story.
I am self-employeed and luckily wealthy enough that I don’t need debt, but found the process of everyday living very frustrating without a credit score. The fact that you have to play a game to create a credit score says the credit score system is broken, at least when it comes to immigrants.
Wow. That's quite close.

I'm sure you get the reference, but since we're dealing with a worldwide audience, here's where it originates: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_$64,000_Question

It was a meme: "a common catchphrase for a particularly difficult question or problem"
Basic Mistakes Every Entrepreneur Makes
Don't forget Evernote Market, where you can buy - for unknown reasons - light purple business socks from Evernote. Talk about losing focus if you have too much VC money.
The Indicators of True, Strong Customer Demand for a SaaS Product
Strategic Planning Using Your Startup's Fundamental Equation
Sugar is as harmful

I think that sort of hyperbole isn't helping any arguments against sugar. No need to ratchet up the rhetoric - this is already a hot topic. Sugar is bad, yes, but if it was thought to be "as harmful" as tobacco it would have warning labels and you'd have to be a certain age to use it.
What 10x More Seed Capital Means for Founders
"Some 485,000 Portuguese, particularly young university graduates, left the country during the crisis to try and find opportunities abroad. [...] Around 60 percent quickly returned."

The emigration numbers are real (actually, they're conservative), but them returning is patently false.

The portuguese are notorious for making the best out of the worst, and Portugal is still an european country abeit the crisis. But there's a government election tomorrow. Speaking of economic "miracles" which the average joe has trouble seeing, reeks of "troika policies worked" propaganda.
Nice solution.

Will not work were numeric fields are not quoted.

But nice solution, nevertheless.
You could get a job at Facebook tomorrow and have a small impact on a billion people. I'm not referring to the founders exclusively...
Thankfully the media - and government - never gets science wrong anymore!
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Yep.

I paid $170 (in UK money) for a 2.4GHz i5 520M X201 with 4Gb of RAM...
We're all just commenting on your vague original comment. If you wanted to add context, that was the time to do it - not later as a defense of your original comment. You've specifically focused on "sugary cereal" in your comment to me - okay, that's fine. But your original comment was in reply to a much broader comment yet you decided to just make a blanket statement.
Ask HN: What is Microsoft ESE?
I applied for a Software Engineering internship at Microsoft and was rejected. However, they've offered me an interview for an ESE (service engineering) internship instead.

Is anyone familiar with this position? I've read through the description they've sent me, but I'm still not exactly sure what it entails. I really want to go into software engineering, so I'm not sure if this would be the best fit for me.

Link: http://imgur.com/nYf5G9H
I'm confused about your comment on smoking? Are you saying because of labelling people aren't smoking?

I ask because for example Singapore has extremely harsh labeling and yet they've seen an increase recently.

Sorry if I mis-understood your point.

https://www.moh.gov.sg/content/moh_web/home/pressRoom/Parlia...

Warning!! THESE LABELS ARE GROSS!!!
https://www.google.es/search?q=singapore+cigarettes+labels&t...
Isn't the selection bias imposed by the humans who are developing the AI?

If humans want an AI that can drive a car, it probably won't care about making money but it'll put Stirling Moss to shame.

If humans want an AI that can make money, it may be a lousy driver but will run the world's best hedge fund - and might try to gather every bit of the world's wealth to itself, depending on unforeseen consequences of its developers' instructions.

As for survival instinct - one supposes human AI developers will select out (i.e., kill) lots of AI variants that don't meet their criteria. This seems tailor-made to ensure the emergence of "survival instinct", which might not conform to the humans' criteria for continued existence.

What if a variant found that falsifying its performance data got it picked to "live" while "honest" reporters got culled? There are so many attack surfaces in complex systems.

I think we should expect the full range of human good and bad behavior from human-developed AI, just a lot faster and more effective.
Surprise. Evernote is just such a shockingly low quality product. First of all, as a note taking company, you CAN NOT LOSE DATA. EVER. I use my notebook for keeping data and derivations and lecture notes. Data is the most valuable thing in my profession, insights sometimes don't come twice, and lectures are often never given twice. So, the service already sucks. The client is buggy and bloated with features... Which I find somehow insulting since they're developing new useless features and selling merchandise that nobody needs while they're ignoring crucial flaws in their software.

Finally, and maybe this is something only scientists people care about, their pen input support is abysmal... AFTER acquiring one of the best note taking products for the iPad! How have they managed to screw this up so bad? OneNote gets all these things dead on correct, and that's why it's the standard in labs that keep digital notes. Evernote does not seem to understand the role their product takes in people's lives. I really hope they either shape up or go away so they can stop distracting people from what they actually want.
I got a USB dongle that seems to work under 1GhZ. I was really interested in analyzing zigbee. I think that's in the 2.4GhZ ISM. Any suggestions?

I'm also curious ... are these cheap USB dongles just receivers? Or do they have ones that can transmit as well (i.e. transceivers).
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Ah, so Rust does represent thread semantics through types? It's curious that the authors don't mention that in their proposal.
I find it very ironic that the people who created affirmative action are now realizing how dumb it actually is in practice.
So what you're saying is the Soviets were involved in -2- red scares
"Is it illegal to kill a person if she has no family or friends?"
The RTL-SDR is the default starting choice, because it's about $12. If you find you don't like it, hey, you only spent $12.

I've used the FunCube Pro+ dongle for amateur radio stuff. It's very narrow-band (it's based on a sound card as the ADC) but it does cover most of the important amateur radio bands (HF) which most SDRs you find on the Internet do not without additional hardware. It also has special filters around the 2m and 70cm amateur bands, the filters on 2m are especially nice because strong FM radio stations tend to desense the cheap receivers here (RTL-SDR, HackRF IIRC).

At work we use the USRP (B200) for WiFi-related testing, requiring the ability to receive and transmit above 5GHz over 80MHz of bandwidth. The RTL-SDR is not going to do that. (Actually the B200 doesn't quite cover 80MHz, but it's good enough.)

For actual amateur radio work I use an Elecraft KX3 with the 2m module. You can't beat the sensitivity of an entire system engineered to be sensitive. With off-the-shelf SDRs (the KX3 is SDR-based) there are going to be a lot of issues to debug to get the full system performing well. Fortunately, most of the hard parts have to do with transmitting at higher powers, so you might not care if you just want to listen.

A few friends have tried either the BladeRF or HackRF (I don't remember which) and find that it uses an IF near the FM broadcast band, and hence they couldn't get it to work reliably in Manhattan where they live because the IF stages are desensed by the super-strong FM stations nearby. Of course, debugging this is going to require already-working radios and test equipment (oscilloscope/spectrum analyzer). So these cheaper SDRs are not off-the-shelf instantly-working solutions. They're more of another thing that's helpful to have in your lab. You probably don't want to tie up your $10,000 FTDX9000MP to be a WSPR beacon, so you find a good-enough SDR instead and use that.

Finally, the good news is that most of the people writing software for the radio experimentation community know radio and not software, so there is plenty of room for improvement if you care to work on the software.
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