skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm missing something here. What is tying Karma and Vice Media to General Assembly to Google?

Here's my logic: Too few developers are developing on Android as there are few profits to be had. As a result, the Android eco-system is not sufficiently valuable to customers willing to pay for apps. To break this cycle, Android wishes to attack the supply issue and raise the value of the platform via working with groups to train more Android developers. Google is partnering with General Assembly on this initiative because of their experience running bootcamps. Karma and Vice are willing to hire every programmer because they're short on developers?

This is where I'm tripped up. Can Karma and Vice not find a sufficient number of Android developers? Or are they unwilling to pay enough to compete for talent? Are developers lured into GA's pipeline to find higher paying jobs? Is the $13.5k tuition not subsidized by Google or Karma and Vice to filter for 'serious' developers?
Sorry that you think think having repressed anger is justification for putting innocent people in danger.
<input type='file'> is unbelievable for its inability to be styled. IE is even more bizarre in that it displays the full path of the file chosen in a text field with a blinking cursor like you can type when active but ignores keyboard entry - except the backspace or delete keys that removes the file if there is one selected. IE11 changed file selection from double-click on mystery text field to single click on mystery text field. Browse always worked however.
"There is no way in hell that you can learn billions of parameters with RL." I really love LeCun's provocative stances, but I get suspicious when people talk about impossibilities. RL is making huge strides. People adopted the same tone with neural nets years ago, and LeCun proved them wrong...
I would not call that a definitive "recent link"; as many in that thread pointed out, that was not the greatest research and needs far more work to confirm
They aren't there to crush any form of protest that's absurd, should they be there probably not but take the orwelianess level down a notch or three.
If you are having trouble finding freelancing work, you may want to try these avenues:

How to find a .NET company?

Look for the company listed in .NET jobs advertised online and reach out to people working at the company through LinkedIn and personal network. Make an offer to be freelancer/on-demand help.

If company is not identified in a .NET job posting, just send a job application pitching to be freelancer. If company is not big, you might hear back.

Reach out to Microsoft Partners (Service, Consulting, Development) in your area. They are more likely to use .NET or know company/people working with .NET and might looking for .NET freelancers.

Search online for companies selling Windows and .NET based software.

If you visit a place of business, such as dentist, doctor, mom-and-pop shop and see them using any unique business-specific windows software, find the name of software, vendor and reach out to them.

> I have an aversion against freelance websites because they're just a race to the bottom where people from India will outbid you.

Change your mindset! Instead of ignoring a site because you don't like certain things about it, figure out how you might be able to get benefit out of the site while ignoring the negative sides or things you don't like. List your .NET profile at as many freelance job related sites as possible. You don't need to actively apply for low-price contracts. Just keep profile active and searchable for companies to find you. Apply to interesting projects only from companies/people in your own country/local area.
You'd prefer incomes to be more equal

The way you've worded your questions you are trying to lead me in to a talk of wealth redistribution. Incomes being more equal is not about distributing, but in countering things that are naturally regressive by:

Establishign a more progressive tax rate, ending on the cap of social security payments (which is the literal definition of a regressive tax), a livable minimum wage, equal access to education (education being generally a flat cost, and so affects the poor a lot harder than the wealthy), a singlepayer healthcare system which will put a much larger portion of income for the poor (than the rich) back in to their pockets ($300/mo for insurance is a lot more to someone who earns $1k a month than to someone earning $10k a month).

These happen to be points 1, 8, 2, 7, and 9 on the page you linked.

See? You can make income (and thus opportunity) more fair without redistributing.
Consumer genome raw data comparison – Which has the most health information?
I'm not involved with the project, but here's what I got:

- Programming/computing is very new.

- Many mistakes were made.

- Due to human stuff, mistakes stick around.

- It's pretty clear that computing as it is today is very far from optimal.

- What can computing/programming look like if we start from a clean slate?
Wow what a racket! For Less than $3 a month you could call the US / Canada with Skype, I don't imagine Skype does anything special that makes it more affordable to do the same things the prison system more or less end up doing, but that's horrible $1 a minute...
Surveillance can certainly be used to solve crimes. But one of the issues is to get right the level of oversight, transparency, and trust in the system to minimize abuse. Because we have a long experience that these systems are abused.

For examples: police have sold information - http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-22465173 . Intelligence people have spied on love interests - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LOVEINT . City workers have used cameras to spy on a naked woman in her house - http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/merseyside/460974... .

This extends to companies as well, as when HP chair Dunn 'authorised the surveillance of board members and journalists' - http://www.alphr.com/news/enterprise/93590/hp-chairman-resig... . (I use that as a proxy for a likely scenario; should a government whistleblower send documents to the press about an illegal coverup, then the same surveillance technology used to find criminals can easily be repurposed to find the leaker.)
At this point I think it's part performance-art criticism and part a serious attempt at rethinking the entire computing stack from the bottom up.

Either way it's undeniably fun to play with right now.
maybe I'm just a car nerd but I actually can identify most of the models in that pic.

i don't understand this article, is he arguing that car makers should stop making these massively popular vehicles and focus on design passion projects? if the people demand a bunch of wacky bespoke 50s style vehicles then the companies will make them.
I agree with you, but the title probably shouldn't say "Media Player" either.

The only reason I clicked on this post at all was because I've been using VLC for so long I thought maybe this was an alternative I've never heard of.
Why Magic Leap May Be Raising $1B in Funding
Looking forward to hearing more--reminds me of work done to detect cancer by scent with help from dogs:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canine_cancer_detection
Its actually been about a year, as I drive a bit more conservatively now, but probably around 18 times in my entire life (early 20s, tech worker money single guy expenses, high performance sports cars).

My point is, you should never have to worry that you might be killed during a traffic stop.
I don't understand the phrasing there, "She was adamant".

If it was a controlled test, why should she need to be "adamant" about anything, surely she would have merely identified it.
Have you ever tried hacking on any of Google's "open source" projects? Android is ~100GB just to download for example, but I think chromium is smaller.
Not sure if it is scientifically confirmed but it is believed that dolphins can see inside a body to some extent with their sonar abilities.
If we learn something new about the disease because of this, who's to say it won't be curatively useful?
It would be nice if i could read the docs without needing JS.

It is nice to see sanely written documentation though. Cheers on improving that. :)

Edit: Useful, thanks! vvvv
Bing Is Profitable
Several states already do that with legalized marijuana. The federal government has chosen not to get involved, so it's become a de facto state's right.
I wasn't bullied precisely because I knocked the wind out of a spike-haired punk that started slapping me in the hall. School staff didn't intervene until he fled and I gave chase - that was an important lesson in self-control.

With zero tolerance policies, often both parties get punished in an altercation. Even if the victim never hits back. So if you're getting punished for "fighting" while cowering in the corner, you might as well go down swinging.
> The primary reason for not introducing it here is the US is opposition from privacy groups, despite having been used successfully abroad to counter terrorism and organized crime.

No offence, but do you really think that giving the ability to to mass scans like this to police officers won't be abused? What's our track record on actually punishing police officers that can have provably (and demonstrably) abused their powers?

I'd almost trust the military more with that technology than local police departments and/or the FBI.

Edit: Also, what are the chances that this technology will spend a lot of time in the field at local police departments before there are any meaningful rules/regulations on how they can use it? During that period no one will get punished for "abuses" because without rules and regulations any use is valid.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10434723 and marked it off-topic.
Sorry for the delayed reply. I took a break to do useful things.

> The property's mere continued existence is adding that value.

And did you keep a straight face while you were typing those words?

Let's say that I own a car.

I purchased this car as a new car some time ago. I regularly fail to perform maintenance of any kind. I frequently operate the car when it is critically low on lubricants and coolants. I regularly strike deep potholes and large rocks during my travels.

I frequently eat inside the vehicle. It is littered with food wrappers and decomposing partially-eaten meals from months and years gone by. I also frequently transport unwell animals inside my car. These animals often vomit, urinate, and defecate inside the car. I have never cleaned the interior of the vehicle.

Because of my failure to maintain the vehicle, its engine and suspension are a wreck. They are dangerously unsafe. Because of my failure to clean the interior of the vehicle, it is -at best- a horrifying, ungodly, malodorous mess, and -more likely- a serious health hazard.

My wilful negligence has significantly decreased the value of the car.

Why does your assessment of the situation change when the durable good changes from an automobile to a multi-family dwelling? Is it because the on-paper value of the building has dramatically increased over the past couple of decades?

If it is, then you must understand that the credit for that on-paper increase in value is to be completely given to the local government, because of its zoning laws which have resulted in a dramatic undersupply of housing in the area.

The landlord in this situation is -like our negligent car owner- failing to maintain (let alone improve) his durable good. In a sane market, this would cause the on-paper value of his durable good to decrease.

I say again. $CURRENT_LANDLORD has done nothing to improve the value of his property. To this I add: The City is the one who drives the value of his property up and hides the deleterious effects of his negligence.

Now do you understand how you misunderstand the rather special situation in this city?
To all the skeptics...

I spent a year teaching the web development immersive program at General Assembly. I felt skeptical about the program too, but I always wanted to try teaching so I thought it was worth a go.

by the way, I'd recommend it to anyone. It's a great way to take a break from dev work and teach the next generation of developers. It is extremely rewarding to watch people go from next to zero knowledge to being able to build functional apps, and they are always looking for new instructors.

So, does it work?

Admissions - We did have a fairly high admissions bar (as to not waste anyones time or money), but the bar was really about motivation and ability to learn the basics (they have to do some basic html / css). The program is VERY fast and demanding and people need to be able to do nothing but code for 3 months. Their personal life gets put on hold and they live, breath, and eat code.

Completion - Every class I taught had exactly one student drop toward the beginning, but outside of that everyone that started the program made it through (thanks in part to the admissions process).

Outcome - Every student that finished the program and actively tried to find work got a job. Each class (of 20+ people) had a couple people that decided to do something else with their lives, but everyone that decided they wanted a job in development got one.

I can't speak for all "boot camp" programs, but I can say that the program that I taught was very effective and IMO people got a great return on their investment.

These views are my own and don't reflect the views of General Assembly or Google, blah, blah, etc..

(edits to fix typos and some re-organization)
That you do not get special treatment from your government
if you happen to be rich or connected

Sure you do. Up until a few years ago you paid a significantly smaller tax rate, since capital gains were taxed at 15%. The rich also hit the social security tax cap, which means the rich pay a smaller tax rate there too. Not to mention tax protection shelters that having an expensive accountant affords you.

You also have access to better lawyers to protect you from crimes you commit, which means you'll serve a lighter sentencing (on average).

Being rich has very clear advantages beyond simply having more money, and to deny that is to be willfully obtuse.
Nope. My argument is with you. You are a dick.
It really depends. If you punch a bully in the mouth, they may go on to easier targets, but they also might retaliate later either by blindsiding you, or by outnumbering you.
I find this article to be very troubling.

Because there is something the article does not mention: that bullying often happens because the victim cannot escape. Bullying is an ineffective strategy when the victim can get away and/or has no good reason to stick around, so it is done mostly when there is no escape. That is why bullying is so prevalent in environments where people are trapped with a fixed group: public schools (in the American sense), prisons, etc.

FTA:

> But getting away from it has become more difficult.

And that means it will happen more often. It will also be more damaging when it happens.

By the way, I originally saw this idea -- that inescapability is what leads to bullying -- in one of those popular economics books (Freakonomics? The Undercover Economist?). It jibes well with my own experience.
would probably disagree that building on a Microsoft platform is a bad idea

But nobody said "building on a Microsoft platform is a bad idea". What is being said is that "building on anybody's platform involves risk, whether it's twitter, microsoft, facebook, google, IBM or $WHOEVER". The point of this post was to highlight an example of the discussion around this topic and to emphasize that it isn't a novel thing.
iOS 9 does include a breakdown now.

"To see how long each app has been open and onscreen, and running in the background, tap <clock icon>.

https://support.apple.com/en-ca/HT201264

Screenshot of the feature, since that page lacks it:

http://cdn.iphonehacks.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/ios-9-...
Also, the people making the decisions/laws (politicians) are usually the least likely to be directly affected by any of the downsides of the technology.

E.g.: How many Congressmen / Congresswomen have been directly affected by the idiocy of the No Fly List?
ToDo- create private to-do lists in GitHub's UI
If you eliminate private prisons entirely and leave everything else alone, a pitifully small proportion of the people wronged by the criminal justice system would even notice, let alone receiving fair recompense. It's not so much that they "should not" be fought against, it's that it barely matters. It is simply poor allocation of attention.

Forest, trees, etc.
Sure, but there are plenty of accounting tasks that you do need to be certified to be allowed do. Is there an analogue to that for software (in the US)?
Nah dude, I am just poking fun of someone one complaining about Daily Mail while peddling Guardian and Vox as they were the One True Source with no angle or vested interests.
Just in case i can save myself a bunch of time messing around: Will Kodi and PleXBMC run directly on android and connect to plex media server instances without needing an intermediary?
NSA panicked deprecation of suite B
Why are outsiders better equipped to decide what is and is not humane than members of the actual community in question?
The minimal sample size depends on the effect you try to measure. Big effects can be validated with smaller sample size.
I'm pretty certain it matters to the 20% of federal prisoners, and 7 percent of state prisoners in those prisons.

http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2015/06/private-prisons-prof...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorgon_stare

During the Global War on Terror, using unmanned aerial
vehicles for persistent surveillance dramatically changed
the way the U.S. military pursued fleeting targets.
However, their sensors provided very narrow fields of
view, referred to by warfighters as looking at the
battlefield through a "soda straw," allowing insurgents
to disappear from view and not giving information on what
was happening in surrounding areas. So in 2009, the U.S.
Air Force began development of a wide-area surveillance
system to enable the MQ-9 Reaper long-endurance UAV to
survey an entire small city from 25,000 ft (7,600 m).
Requiring fewer systems to recon a large area frees up
more available assets to be able to perform other
missions and enables operations to be more limited where
a light "footprint" is desired.

http://www.latimes.com/local/la-me-compton-surveillance-2014...

http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2014/04/sheriffs...

Ross McNutt of Persistence Surveillance Systems told the
Center for Investigative Reporting, which unearthed and
did the first reporting on this important story. The
technology he's trying to sell to police departments all
over America can stay aloft for up to six hours. Like
Google Earth, it enables police to zoom in on certain
areas. And like TiVo, it permits them to rewind, so that
they can look back and see what happened anywhere they
weren't watching in real time.

If it's adopted, Americans can be policed like Iraqis and
Afghanis under occupation–and at bargain prices:

McNutt, who holds a doctorate in rapid product
development, helped build wide-area surveillance to hunt
down bombing suspects in Iraq and Afghanistan. He decided
that clusters of high-powered surveillance cameras
attached to the belly of small civilian aircraft could be
a game-changer in U.S. law enforcement.

“Our whole system costs less than the price of a
single police helicopter and costs less for an hour to
operate than a police helicopter,” McNutt said. “But at
the same time, it watches 10,000 times the area that a
police helicopter could watch.”
Price theory shows how businesses don't 'mark up' to generate prices; they sell for as much as they can, whether at a loss or a profit.

>"policy unilaterally advantage the capitalist at the expense of the local worker"

This is obviously untrue, and can simply be demonstrated by looking at how many of the supposedly disadvantaged workers strike out on their own, and form new businesses; if it were so easy and so sure, everyone would be doing it. Most employees with enough money to form a business in their field do not, because they do not think it is worth it.

>"people feel they are being treated unfairly"

People can feel they are being treated unfairly for a number of reasons, but we should make it clear that there are a few kinds of fairness that people care about, and they are not always mutually compatible. Fairness of treatment refers to procedural guarantees, and fairness of outcome refers to how equitable people feel the result of the process was. Conservatives tend to value the former, and liberals tend to value the latter.

>"I believe we will eventually progress to the mean here but until then there are people feeling cheated. The trade agreements and bank bailouts did not consider the displacement in the near term and thus has created a growing group that is angry due to feeling that the system is not fair."

You should be careful about making sweeping predictions based on simple theories, as they have the unfortunate tendency to be wrong. Tetlock's book is a good read on the subject of predictions and judgement if you are interested.[1]

[1] http://press.princeton.edu/titles/7959.html
No, it doesn't happen all the time. It happens, on average, 1 time in 649,000. That's what those odds mean.
Not really actually, I was going to recommend Solarized[1] and base16[2] but both fail to pass AAA according to WAVE[3]. I'd recommend installing the WAVE extension for Chrome or Firefox as a start point.

[1] http://ethanschoonover.com/solarized/
[2] http://chriskempson.github.io/base16/
[3] http://wave.webaim.org/
I wonder how influenced this is by a incomplete awareness of how different social media is from other contexts. If I say "David Cameron can go fuck off, cutting tax credits is a savage attack on the poor." to my friends in real life, that's relatively private. But if I tweet ".@David_Cameron [...]", it's broadcast to a much wider audience (my followers, and their followers if they retweet it, etc.), is public, and can perhaps be seen by the person in question. (Cameron's perhaps not the best example here, mind.)

Social media is weird, basically. It's public, but people don't quite seem to treat it like that. Even though anyone could theoretically find it, people make tweets as if only their followers can see them. Hence perhaps-unintentional public shaming? Especially when someone's venting.

(I hope this comment is at least semi-coherent. I'm not trying to justify such behaviour, FWIW.)
Richard M.Restak – The Brain: The Last Frontier Excerpt [pdf]
Link to the final report: https://www.aaafoundation.org/sites/default/files/strayerIII...

One obvious thing that I'm not seeing addressed is the fact that the IVIS / voice control is probably better than the alternative (manually using the phone to dial numbers and type in messages). It's useful that the study points out that distraction is still happening and quantifies it, but I would have liked it if the authors measured distraction levels with doing the activity without voice control as well.
He's saying you won't learn billions is parameters with RL /alone/ because "one scalar reward per trial isn't going to cut it".

I find that convincing and a key insight. RL is going to be fundamental to AGI, but he's saying curiosity / unsupervised learning will be necessary. And I say this as a big believer in the need for more work on RL.
She was adamant that one of the control group members (i.e. no Parkinson's) had Parkinson's.
I work on the VeriDrone project. We did not receive any funding from the HACMS project, but we have begun working with some folks from the SMACCMPilot project (http://smaccmpilot.org/index.html) that was funded by HACMS. We hope to eventually integrate with their platform in order to benefit from the guarantees they provide such as memory safety.
Because human rights are, as they say, "inalienable"; the local community doesn't get to vote on them.
Could a drug engineered from bananas fight many deadly viruses?