skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No way. There will definitely be camera footage- multiple cameras on the drone getting multiple angles- and more importantly, from other drones.

Along with several GPS devices on each drone, each with redundant power supplies.
There's quite a lot, I'm afraid. For example, the precision of sin/cos (this led to bugs on real websites), the precision of random numbers (this led to a bunch of recent blogposts).

And there are also non-semantic differences that end up being important, like one browser running certain things too slowly or taking too much memory.

Multiple implementations is always more complicated ;) But in many cases it's better than a monoculture, in my opinion.
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"Still, many scientists back the goal because they see it as giving policy makers a clear-cut target to shoot at in the fight against global warming."

When your options are nuance or action, sometimes action.

Remember your audience.
It depends on python-pygments for syntax highlighting, though you can configure it to use front-end based highlighters like highlight.js.
HelpScout + outsourced tier one support
Is there a catch to the effectiveness of this?

I haven't seen it before and it seems pretty magical.
But doesn't a consumption tax just dis-incentivize consumption? Is that bad? (willing to accept LMGTFY link!)
> IE6 was never the most energy efficient browser on desktop or mobile devices

"Browsing on mobile devices" didn't functionally exist when IE6 was released (2001). It would be years before 'mobile browsing' would be a usable thing. I loathe IE6 as much as the next non-frontend-dev, but you're asking IE6 to be something that it was impossible to be.
> Frameworks shouldn't get outdated in just a few years, and any tech where they do is doing something very wrong.

I don't think it's that they get outdated. It's that they each try to solve the hardest problem of web UI programming: keeping track of state and binding data in an asynchronous world. Unfortunately, each one ends up with pain points in different places.

Each successive framework tries to solve the new pain points by rethinking the original problem, because reworking the original framework to ease that pain point would often require massive restructuring of apps built on that original framework - the issues are often architectural.

Angular, for example, is fantastic for getting a very simple CRUD app up and working. But try to do anything fancier and things get very hairy very quickly with a web of controllers, directives, scopes, etc. Getting into a place where one data change cascades and kills your app is a very real concern. That's the pain point React/Flux attempts to solve. Angular can't solve it without some major architectural changes - see the hubbub about Angular2.

We're still in the baby stage, I feel - while each successive framework may seem faddish, they don't really get outdated. Out of favor for new projects, perhaps, because the developers who used the older framework were so frustrated with the previous tool's rough edges. Things will probably settle down soon (especially with the fantastic language improvements in ES2015) :)
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(not serious) First thing I remembered just after reading the title:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hL1-340ODCM
You're correct, if you look at founders from Gates to Blecharczyk, this is what you'll generally find. A few exceptions have been mentioned in the thread.

It's something to bear in mind. I mean, of essays written and so forth - if you're say, black - they don't apply to you. This is obvious - how many black unicorn co-founders are there? I mean you rarely see a black programmer in the Bay area, never mind a unicorn co-founder. Most essays about joining startups, starting startups etc. are for the class, age group etc. of people who already joined or started startups. There's no warning labels that these things are not possible for certain people, but those people should understand that.

I mean it goes to all kinds of things, even what languages to program in. People ask why things like Lisp never made it big - well, most people don't have the time to devote to it. I mean even the idea of making something original a few people love, and putting making money off - it's a wealthy person's prerogative. People not born to the manor have to make money now, no matter how smart or hard working they are, and the amount of time they can devote to long-term or even medium-term goals is limited. This is how those who control the forces of production have set things up, and it's important for you to know it. People born on third base like to pat themselves on the back about how brilliant they are. They used to say they were put into their position by God, but in the modern world they have changed that to saying they have better DNA.
You pay lawyers to negotiate contracts carefully to protect against that risk, you don't need to buy the company.
I was incredulous that this was as simple as I first thought[1], but had my suspicions later confirmed when I read about it on lesswrong

[1] http://iaindooley.com/post/61292324101/the-two-envelopes-pro...
From the paper:

>"First, robust regression between each edge in the connectivity matrices and d′ was performed across subjects. The resulting r values were statistically thresholded at P < 0.01 and separated into a positive tail (edges whose strength indexed higher d′ across subjects) and a negative tail (edges whose strength indexed lower d′ across subjects)."

If they tried out different thresholds (I bet they did p<.05, p<.001, etc),then information leaked into the holdouts. So it is unsurprising they could get better than chance performance.
Read and replied, actually, if you'd bothered to read the replies to Coraline's piece ;)
Thanks for sharing! On iTunes U are there assignments or other course materials, or just the video lectures? I only see the videos there and I'd like to get my hands dirty practicing assignments and not just watch the lectures.
CS188.1x Artificial Intelligence by BerkeleyX at edx.org. [1] I took this course back in Spring 2013 and I really enjoy the course project of making an intelligent Pac-Man. :) Through this course, besides learning AI, I also learned Python (before this, I didn't know how to code in Python at all). And with the knowledge from this course, I made a simple connect four game with AI implementation as the player's opponent. [2]

[1] https://www.edx.org/course/artificial-intelligence-uc-berkel...

[2] http://kenrick95.github.io/c4/demo/
I've kept a list of company ideas for close to probably twenty years. What works best is to not think of it as a startup but a project. Doing a project is less stressful, easier to commit and easier to quit than a startup. Projects have a way of becoming startups pretty quickly when you get customer demand.
Abraham is basically completely wrong.

The name is somewhat confusing. Rare earths aren't particularly rare. They're about a hundred thousand times more common than actually rare metals like platinum and gold, and about a hundred thousand times less common than common metals like iron, magnesium, and sodium: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abundance_of_elements_in_Earth...

Some of the metals mentioned in the article, like cobalt, ar neither rare nor rare-earth. Others, like indium and gallium, are about as rare and as expensive as silver, but are used in much smaller quantities.

Yes, rare elements help a lot with efficient wind turbines and CIGS thin-film solar cells (although note that CIGS contains rare metals, but no rare earths). But they aren't used at all in the silicon photovoltaic cells that dominate the solar market now and for the foreseeable future, which don't use any rare minerals at all. And you can build efficient wind turbines without rare earths if you have to; you just use field coils instead of rare-earth permanent magnets. (In fact, Abraham reports that GE wind turbines have already made this switch.)

In direct contradiction to what Abraham says, nearly all chips are 100% rare-earth free and rare-metal free, except for gold, which is in no danger of supply shortages. A small fraction of high-speed bipolar chips use gallium arsenide, which depends on rare gallium, but they're almost entirely limited to microwave-and-up RF analog circuitry these days.

And, of course, rare metals are 100% recyclable. They aren't a resource we can use up, except by launching them on space probes or burning them in nuclear reactors. If we're allocating them inefficiently, we can melt down our existing air conditioners and wind turbines to redeploy our neodymium to higher-priority uses. It won't be long before people are digging LCD panels out of garbage dumps to recover the thin-film indium: maybe five to thirty years.

This is a big issue if you're in the business of making motors, generators, or LCD panels. It affects your material costs significantly, and indeed indium cost volatility has been a major problem over the last decade or two. But it's not an issue at the level of human society as a whole.

I think the overwrought rhetoric here is deeply harmful because we really are facing real resource shortages: oil (though not this year), ocean-water buffers, and our atmospheric capacity to handle carbon dioxide. Hyping up bogus "resource shortage" dangers like this will just lead to the public dismissing the real dangers.
It's superficially similar, except that the Monty Hall problem is well-defined, while this one isn't (see my harping upthread about what it means to 'choose an arbitrary number').
I think your post is a little misleading in that #1 implies working for BigCo on the first read-through, but then working for yourself on your own business stuck with a single major client on the second read-through.

Perhaps some people will find this equivalent, should both stakeholders (BigCo/single demanding client) be equally unpleasant, but I for one still see a lot of value in having full control over my life and my time.
Love the track featured here http://labs.gooengine.com/pearl-boy/indexBelow.html
IMHO, and I'm just about starting on this journey myself, there is one way to test the importance or 'bigness' of the idea and whether you should commit to spending time working on it - does the problem affect a large swath of people (at least a 1M+ people?) and are the incumbent players missing out on an angle/aspect of it that you think you can do (significantly) better? The rest is your execution.
Missed opportunities
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Politicians complain ... but ... c'mon, they have had plenty of opportunity to fix things. Still do.
I've been playing around with different account arrangements for family sharing and it seems to work quite well so far, not too many glitches. I was expecting problems since I probably wasn't doing what the average user would do.
Amazing. I only had a chance to read the README.md but my question is this. What happens if you ask it questions that it could not possibly answer, as in if it were given a picture of the man playing tennis and you asked it what the score was? Is it capable of discerning between questions that cannot be answered (given a particular input) and those that can?
There are a few ways . . . typically I'm so excited about a side project I'll skip watching TV and spend an hour or two on it at the end of the night.

Time outside the typical 40 hour work week:

Getting up an hour or two earlier than usual.

Spending an hour or two at the end of the night on it.

Same on the weekends, early or late, maybe schedule a 4 hour time on Sat or Sunday afternoon.

Those are really the only three areas to find more time with a 40 hour gig.

Obviously make your main job your priority. Be careful of any IP clauses in your contract if this is building something you want to profit from.

One other possibility, depending on where you work. You could probably use your lunch hour to learn new things, do tutorials. You should probably bring in your own laptop and use your phone's hotspot for this to keep things completely off work hardware/bandwidth.

If it's something you enjoy doing it won't feel like work or like you're missing something.

Make sure you balance this with spending time with family and friends.

I was working full time as an engineer in another field, started doing websites for family and friends, then moved on to developing web applications for clients along with my own side projects during the time slots listed above. It can get tiring along with a 40 hour job. Now I'm consulting full time remote so I work on client work 40 hours a week and use any extra time for my own side projects.

The holidays is a good time to kick off a side project as you'll typically be taking vacation days so you'll have some extra time that you would normally spend commuting, eating lunch, working that you can use for a side project.

Good luck hacking away on your side projects.
To be fair, in the long run the DIY use case is more likely to be served via personal fabrication. For small finicky bits like screws, being able to print-on-demand is going to be quicker and easier than waiting for a drone.
Sure government or bank tracking could know where you spent that money but less so on what. Spending it in a supermarket will tell them food but not brands or habits or diet.

If you also have other people getting cashback at the same register the notes are then spread to someone else before collection.
> Unfortunately, most "web developers" have made the web worse over the past 10 years because simple, functional, minimal technology is not impressive, and hipsters love to show off

No it's because when I go into work someone says to make it a certain way and if I want to get paid I have to. If you want to blame anyone blame designers who see proof of concept stuff from developers and throw it in designs.
Remove icloud activation iOS 9.1 free on your iOS devices
Unicorn = lucky white or south asian man.

YC alums (majority) & Founders with VC = Ivy Leaguers
Ah! Thank you very much! I almost certainly internalized the sentiments of this essay when it was posted, and unintentionally forgot the source. I really appreciate the link!
It all sounds good but I can do almost everything in Python too right? That too with the cleaner syntax and easy to debug/read code. I hardly see any job openings that requires perl these days unless it's for some legacy Perl project.
I really wanna know the logic behind that decision. They probably thought ARM was not worth it? Despite it being used successfully in Pocket PCs?
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Here's a link to an article that summarizes one of the more interesting stories.

http://www.nationofchange.org/utah-ending-homelessness-givin...

About 1/2 way through it says:

"In 2005, Utah figured out that the annual cost of E.R. visits and jail stays for homeless people was about $16,670 per person, compared to $11,000 to provide each homeless person with an apartment and a social worker."
Minus what seems to be a bizarre loss of website data this weekend, I've always been a fan of a national sales tax, with all associated exceptions where it makes taxation less regressive.

http://fairtax.org
I blogged my experience with learning R here - http://datagrad.blogspot.com/2013/02/the-r-learning-curve.ht...

and with the class here -

http://datagrad.blogspot.com/2013/01/my-most-recent-mooc-exp...
It is hard, though: not least because determining where income is earned depends on defining "income". Revenue is maybe easy enough, but what about expenses? Depending on the industry, there's plenty of opportunity for chicanery which makes it far from "not that hard".

Example: you're a large tech company who can afford good accountants and complicated legal structures. Your high-tax jurisdiction European subsidiaries can "license" a whole bunch of "intellectual property" from their counterparts in Ireland/Luxembourg which significantly beef up their costs to the point that net income in the high-tax jurisdiction is minimal and it all gets booked somewhere which will charge you less.

Kind of like how Apple manages its assets via a Nevada subsidiary to avoid paying tax in California, and how Microsoft does something similar with software licensing. Except at least in the US case there's still tax revenue going to the federal government.
No one's mentioned OS X's "do not disturb". Just set it to be turned on after each login so you have permanent do not disturb.
Stanford isn't an Ivy...
I have some family members who are going through the immigration process, and they and I have talked to many others who have gone through the same; acquaintances, coworkers, friends. I was saddened the first time I heard these stories. After hearing them a dozen times I was horrified. It really shattered my illusions that people who should ostensibly have a similar perspective to me could be so radically different. One part of me hates to share these stories as there are many people in this country who would look at me and associate me with them by dint of the obvious ethnic similarity. But I think it does my fellow citizens a great disservice not to be informed.
Privacy vulnerability exposes VPN users’ real IP addresses
It's my invention, now I just have to get manier people to use it!
Art Meets Cartography: The 15,000-Year History of a River in Oregon
Although there is no catch, it's far from perfect and hardly magical. Its accuracy goes up to ~55% on the VQA (http://visualqa.org/) dataset (which is short of state-of-the-art by ~7%).
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10574646
NEVER outsource support. Never-ever lose focus on your customers needs by adding another layer of people and software.
Ugh. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGWiTvYZR_w
Don't do this if you consider your "customers" to be human beings (vs. resources to be exploited). Also, don't do this if you want them to keep paying attention to your desperate and cynical begging. If you "drip" them, most will just add you to their spam filters.
He said, with no citations.
Developing iOS 8 Apps with Swift https://itunes.apple.com/us/course/developing-ios-8-apps-swi...
Drew Houston - MIT (not Ivy)
Is this a duplicate of: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10639838
Anybody know where this was filmed?
UPS has been experimenting with drones for a while.
Me too, except I'm serious.
The person writing down the numbers can choose them randomly, or sneakily, or whatever. Only the person choosing has to randomness. This makes no assumptions on how the numbers were generated.
Finnish people drink a lot of coffee; in my place of work it's a mug (0.2 litres) every two hours or so during a twelve hour shift. Some people there have been doing that for over a decade and apparently their dosage and consumption interval has remained the same, keeping blood caffeine levels quite steady.

Finland has the highest coffee consumption per capita in the world with ~12kg annually; compare to the US with ~4.1kg: http://www.worldmapper.org/posters/worldmapper_1038_coffee_c...
I think the pragmatic approach is to just let that be a type analysis failure and force the user to deal with it. We don't need the module system to be automatically perfect in every imaginable extreme, we need it to be fundamentally safe, and then do sane useful things in the situations that are safe.
What is it with this post... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10645000
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=u0wj38qTtFU
Kik, Ted Livingston, University of Waterloo
Let's say I write a book and make $1 million in sales from customers in 100 countries... Do you think that each country should collect taxes on the profits (not on the sales) from the customers that reside in the country? And if yes, how would the profit be determined? What if I took a $999,999 salary to write the book? Do you also think I should pay income tax on that salary to each country I sold the book to?
Priors from the language play a much bigger role in the answers that are predicted than the image itself. So for example, if you ask 'What color is ...?', irrespective of the image, it is more likely to spit out colors as the answer. The answers are usually well-aligned with the question that is being asked. 'Yes/no' for binary questions, 'red/blue/etc' for 'What color...', 'tennis/baseball/etc' for 'What sport...' and so on.
> I suspect question comes from status anxiety. I don't really think it matters.

Depends on your perspective. If it's mere "status", then no it doesn't matter. Everyone has Buddha nature, etc., etc.

But from the perspective of "does privilege matter?" you'll get an entirely different answer, which is why people in tech are paying a lot more attention to questions like this. A very, very narrow slice of the population has any possibility of becoming a founder at all, much less of an ultra-high valuation tech startup. That slice is far from random, it encodes a lot of history we're not too proud of, and it is not just a star awarded for merit.

If you're reading this and this word "privilege" doesn't make sense in context, it's time to do some homework. There's a lot being written on the 'net about this now, but I'll throw this out as random current starting point:

http://gregorykatsoulis.com/2015/07/and-it-worked/
Why do so many people hate US airports?
works pretty well on a samsung laptop, with FF42, no audio issues at all :-)
I think you're taking idea effects and clothing them in the trappings of execution. In order for a business to get really big, it has to provide 10x the value that the current incumbent provides. Microsoft beat out IBM because software had many times the potential that hardware of the time had. Sure, IBM failed horribly on software, but that's because IBM didn't think software was important, not because it couldn't build decent software. The thinking behind the idea gives you the zeal to execute on it.

If the idea is right, meaning it is 10x better than the current best offering, and it's executed properly, then network effects can go screw themselves. Nobody took search seriously before Google did, that gave them a leg up over the competition. (who were they again?) It's just not the right time to start a Facebook or Craigslist challenger. Maybe in a few or ten years the market will change such that most people interact with the Internet differently enough that it's worth building a social network to serve their needs. Right now it would be foolish to do so, because their needs are already being more-or-less perfectly served by Facebook, ditto for CL.
Jack Dorsey of Twitter and Square dropped out of NYU and went to Catholic school.
I clearly should have known, but: oh my god the comments section…
Yes.

[EDIT] And here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10643788 and here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10642472 and here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10641336

HN should be stripping the non-existent anchor from the URL.
There have been a few submissions, but all only got a very small number of comments:
https://hn.algolia.com/?query=Why%20Hackers%20Must%20Welcome...

Generally, a few double-submissions are ok, as long as none before has created a significant discussion, this situation is a bit weird...
I used something similar on http://AnthonyDavidAdams.com/memescope
Then I suggest the website of the course where you can find homework and lots of material. You can follow the course as if you were enrolled. Also the free pdf copy of the book will certainly be useful.

http://stanford.edu/class/ee364a/index.html
http://stanford.edu/~boyd/cvxbook/
The Mythbusters guys did a segment on the Monty Hall Paradox.

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2mykzd

Cool...
I just want to know what the web can not do today,because I think the web can do everything today.
The loophole is setting up a multi-national structure to implement the base erosion and profit-shifting strategies discussed here:

https://www.oecd.org/tax/aggressive/beps-2015-final-reports....