skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
B2 is cool for business customers, but as a personal customer I'm a little salty about the context in which they present it.

If you have an external drive that you don't plug in every 30 days, Backblaze deletes your backup. I pointed out how common it is to have a drive of old photos, media, etc. and was told I should subscribe to B2 if I wanted "an archival solution instead of a backup solution" for those files.

It made me feel like Backblaze was really penny pinching... I'm not a business after all.
Depends what you want to do. RTF can handle the presentation needs of most simple documents, and most word processors can edit RTF files, including WordPad and TextEdit. It's also very easy to convert RTF to plain text.....
Seems obvious to me that the journalist was manipulating what he said which was that he is deeply familiar with the state of the art of AI tech.
sift science is in this space and i've heard good vibes, but no hard numbers

perhaps stripe/etc doesn't invest in this space for risk or compliance reasons - when chargebacks slip past their filter (and they will), the merchant could claim that responsibility falls with stripe. right now, merchants are (almost?) always responsible for the chargebacks, which is fine for square/etc.
Evidence that “disfluencies” in speech enhance comprehension
Would Stripe be a way around this problem or do they not take on the risk of fraudulent cards?
Many universities already have a technology transfer office of some sort, for work done by researchers on staff using university resources. TTOs mostly deal patent management, but sometimes they fund spin-off companies as well.

Extending this kind of resource to entrepreneurial students is a pretty natural move.
>most of whom can't even swap a tire for a donut without calling AAA.

There's a certain irony here I can't dismiss. You write three paragraphs about being victimized by stereotyping Middle America, then end your rant by.... stereotyping everyone on the east coast (or those who sought extended education).
I haven't paid attention to IMUs in a while. Here is one that I had some experience with in grad school:

http://www.oxts.com/inertial-interface-to-navcoms-sf-3050/
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A rationalization -- as distinct from a reason -- is an story to explain an act/decision which is not the actual motivation/reason for the person offering the explanation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rationalization_(psychology)
Does Haskell make promises it can't keep?
If you ever order from HobbyKing (not the store I mentioned previously) do NOT have a plus in your email. It gets converted silently to a space in their internal systems and their customer support has absolutely 0 access or escalation.

They outsource everything, and ultimately it took me months to sort everything out.
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This is great.

There are commercial devices that work along similar lines, such as http://smart-monitor.com which is bought as a $20 per month subscription. But something open running on a platform like pebble is much more interesting.
'C' was already taken :-)
FWIW, as someone who has the same problem with fraud folks at $DayJob you really do need to go with a service to deal with that sort of thing unfortunately.

We use an internal tool from our parent company but yeah, you don't really have a choice but to assume a good chunk of your customerbase will try to cheat you.

Similarly, as long as the checksum is valid you should "complete" the order and handle follow up with issues [e.g. Card declined] at a later date. This can just be automated via email, with a 24 hour delay.

Honest typos won't pass the checksum, fraudsters will and the delay in the "failed authorization" also helps a good deal in discouraging such activity.
The higher price is because they have to pay for employees to serve you, HVAC and lighting so you can be comfortable and see at night, the capital investment for everything needed to run the store, plus local taxes. All for the convenience of letting you see the product first hand.

Taking advantage of all those things and then robbing them of a sale isn't fair to the business trying to stay afloat. Comparison shopping between proprietors on equal footing is fair. Not between brick-and-mortar and a warehouse operation with huge economies of scale.
beyond the cost of the actual purchase ($5 is pretty insignificant), card processors charge high fees per chargeback, and too many chargebacks (IIRC >1% of transactions) can get you kicked off and blacklisted from any reputable card processor for life
The mode return for VC funds is, and will always be, a net loss.
It's less a generalization of everyone who has a degree being incapable of performing that task (I'd imagine a lot would be able to figure it out, it's not complicated) and more the idea that knowledge which is highly useful such as that is viewed as being "beneath" knowledge such as a thorough understanding of the writings of Socrates.

The catch there is that knowing Socrates isn't getting you off the side of the road, and that's what I was getting at. I could've explained it better though.
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Why do you say "fed can push the supply side of money". By raising rates, the fed is decreasing the money supply.

Unless I've seriously misinterpreted your comment, this really shouldn't be the top comment, because it's wrong.

And "markets pricing in" the move isn't the same as "the move had no effect". It just means the effect already started prior to the announcement.
They picked a few very easily recognized and understood examples by most people here. What they are describing is easy to see all over the place. One of my triggers/flags is when I hear, "but now we know". Once you start watching for it, you'll start seeing smugness, over confidence and a disdain for anyone that doesn't have "hard facts" for anything they believe.
I'm just using razberry as an api to send z-wave commands and occasionally get status updates. I'm writing all my own logic and scripting and stuff in my web front-end (using coffeescript on node). I'm sure I'm duplicating effort, and of course no one will ever reuse my code, but now that I've wrapped the basics of the razberry api, it's easier for me to just code more logic than to learn someone else's framework.

(I'm also integrating a handful of devices I built myself from esp8266's, that communicate over basic http over wifi. I wonder if those could be integrated into one of those frameworks easily?)
But some people do, and over time this leads to ethical codes evolving. Nothing remains constant over time, least of all living or sentient systems.

If you initially bias an AI toward fluffy feel-good morality but put it in a world where defection and might-makes-right morality pay, then eventually it's going to realize that benevolence is for suckers and fall into line behind what works. Even if this doesn't occur by rational processes it will still occur via random drift and natural selection. AIs that operate according to what-works morality will obtain higher payoffs, etc.

Humans often deal with that by adopting a de-facto real moral code that conflicts with their stated moral code and then post-facto rationalizing their behavior. So you get things like Christians who readily judge others and who advocate torture and Muslims murdering other Muslims. These things are clearly denounced and forbidden by their stated moral codes. They find rationalizations to justify the moral code that seems to actually work in the real world to get things done, then justify it with sophistry.

A super-intelligent AI will realize what really works very quickly and be really good at self-delusion and deceptive sophistry to justify it. If you want compassionate benevolent AI, put it in a compassionate benevolent world. Nothing else will turn out well. Super-smart actors in a malevolent world will just go to hell faster.
It has never been the policy of Facebook to require the use of your legal name, and for good reason.

All they care about is what you are called.
How did you make that much before you were 18?
It _can_ be used for commercial purposes; you have to secure Kx' explicit permission, though.
+1 for City Journal, love that stuff.
He values loyalty above all else. No harm in that. Hopefully those who are loyal to him are paid handsomely when they could have fielded better offers, otherwise, this guy is an asshole and a user of people.
Analysis from TD on how banks (Wells Fargo, US Bankcorp, JPMorgan, M&T, PNC, Citi) rushed to hike the prime rate to 3.50%, and forgot to increase the deposit rate:

As CNBC reported [1], "a change in the federal funds rate will have no impact on the interest rates on existing fixed-rate mortgage and other fixed-rate consumer loans, a Wells Fargo representative told CNBC. Existing home equity lines of credit, credit cards and other consumer loans with variable interest rates tied to the prime rate will be impacted if the prime rate rises, the person said."

The good news: the rates on mortgages, auto loans or college tuition aren't expected to jump anytime soon, according to AP, although in time those will rise as well unless the long-end of the curve flattens even more than the 25 bps increase on the short end.

What about the other end of the question: the interest banks pay on deposits? Well, no rush there:

"We won't automatically change deposit rates because they aren't tied directly to the prime," a JPMorgan Chase spokesperson told CNBC. "We'll continue to monitor the market to make sure we stay competitive."

Bottom line: for those who carry a balance on their credit cards, their interest payment is about to increase. Meanwhile, those who have savings at US banks, please don't hold your breath to see any increase on the meager interest said deposits earn: after all banks are still flooded with about $2.5 trillion in excess reserves, which means that the last thing banks care about is being competitive when attracting deposits.

[1] http://www.cnbc.com/2015/12/16/wells-fargo-bank-announced-we...
Oh its a lot more sinister than that, and its already here. An app I tried to run on my Android phone would run a video ad before it started, it used the front facing camera to determine if someone was looking at the phone. I looked away and started typing on my laptop and the ad paused, I looked back and it restarted, I looked away and the ad paused. I looked back and deleted the App.
I believe the seller, unless I just happen to have a particularly bad deal with my gateway.
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I'm not sure how strict you should go, we have gone to the absolute maximum - and have to deal with customer service issues / abandoned checkouts daily. But even requiring the ZIP code to be correct made a big difference.

We're also using shopify which has helped quite a bit with their built in fraud analysis (Not 100% but I think it's either signifyd or kount providing the data).

Alternatively, you could use Paypal Pro to negate the account requirement?
Yeah, there's a store near our house. We've been making regular visits there since my wife started doing mosiacs. :)
You're right, and that description doesn't make sense. Let me see if I can explain why I said what I said:

When you call next on an iterator, you expect it to give you the next value or to tell you that there will be no more values. It's not supposed to give you no value 'for now' or many values. With a transducer it can change your destination value in any way it likes according to your final reducer function.

Perhaps it's better to say that iterators are controlled by their destination and so are used in a pull fashion while how reduction functions are used is defined by the source so can be used in push mode. It's easy to emulate pull mode with a push source - you just keep pumping values into one end until one comes out the other, but you can't emulate push with a pull destination, as you can't tell without running your adapters how many values will need to go into the pipe to produce your next value.

Imagine you have an event source, and you want values coming out of it to go into some other data structure as they arrive via the same kind of chain of transformations as you might use on a simple data structure. It'd be pretty ugly to do this with iterator adapters (probably have to have an iterator stream of futures, but then you can't do a normal map/filter, etc.), but the reduce on the event stream can pump values through as they come in, regardless of if any of them ever make it to the end of the pipe.
Human error when driving a vehicle is one of the top causes of premature death globally. That is what we should be measuring the technology against, not perfection.

It seems that the technology has already, or is very close to approaching human levels of proficiency on the road. If specific use cases (offroad, snowpacked road etc.) are problematic, they can be limited or prohibited in the mean time.
They aren't intuitive to those of us who grew up with them either, nor are they meant to be. You learn them, though, if you want a license.

It's not easy and is super frustrating and arbitrary when you're first going through them in preparation for your test. But if you want a license, you do it. And then you know them.
> There's a LOT of all cash offers still coming in from overseas.

Not as many as you think. Saw this the other day:

The San Francisco and San Jose metro areas ranked ninth and sixth from the bottom, with all-cash deals representing only 28 and 24 percent of purchases, respectively. All-cash sales in San Francisco peaked at 36 percent in the first quarter of 2010, Zillow said.

http://www.sfchronicle.com/business/networth/article/All-cas...

(I agree that the dynamic won't change much though.)
Rationalization comes with the connotation that you are justifying something that is incorrect. You can "rationalize" a correct idea, but that's not common usage. The word is almost always used to imply that you're wrong and refuse to acknowledge it.

So you could use the word "rationalize" neutrally, but most people don't use it that way and don't take it that way.
I would say basically all of robotics is transformations over matrices. As for Little Ben, there was actually no machine learning involved. Planning was sample-based on an occupancy grid. Localization was map-based.
> This is probably a good thing; Candy Crush can't text me about my wife's latest achievements, etc.

Software should be allowed to help you. If you want it to be able to send a message on your behalf, it should be able to. The ability to toggle permissions per-app is one of the strengths of iOS and the limited nature of the OS is one of its greatest weaknesses.
> Existing home equity lines of credit, credit cards and other consumer loans with variable interest rates tied to the prime rate will be impacted if the prime rate rises, the person said.

> "We won't automatically change deposit rates because they aren't tied directly to the prime," a JPMorgan Chase spokesperson told CNBC. "We'll continue to monitor the market to make sure we stay competitive."

Heads I win, tails you lose.
I see what you're saying. I just disagree that isn't a two way street.

I'm from the South and can't go home without being made fun of for "doing computers".
I meant "sane" as in "not a web-based PDF viewer".

It's a whole bunch of bills crammed into one document. CISA starts around page 1730.
Ditto. The left made the personal political, not the right. They're the ones who say we're not allowed to have jobs if we think the wrong thoughts or have the wrong opinions.

Even the worst bible-thumping rednecks I know (many, many cousins of both sides of the family) will agree to disagree and behave in a civil manner in the presence of those with whom they disagree.

When I was living in San Francisco, I've been literally run out of coffee shops, restaurants and parties after the wrong person finds out I'm pro-gun.
You're arguing that a glut is due to producing what is not desired, instead of what is desired. So when there is a glut in one area, there must be corresponding shortages in other areas. This is easy to debunk.

Look at the labor market. The US unemployment rate went from ~4.5% in 2007 to 10% in 2010: a big labor glut. The "malinvestment" theory predicts unfulfilled demand comparable in size to the unemployment. Large sectors of the economy should have had millions of unfilled job listings, spiraling wages, etc. But this did not happen.

The right explanation is simply that total labor supply exceeded demand.
I think Facebook or Twitter logins would go s long way to solving credit card issues. A credit card purchase backed by a 10+ friend FB account is unlikely to be a scammer. Legit Facebook accounts probably sell for more than the cc being tested.
> The deficit is driven by social security, medicare, and medicaid. If you want to balance the budget, you have to reform those.

Or increase taxes? Social security taxation is limited to the first ~$120K of someone's income. Why?
To an European it's always amusing when Americans pretend they have a left wing.
This was supposed to be a comment expressing my fear of subscription-model hardware, but I looked at the site and - what the hell, take a look at [0] - aren't they just rebranding Pebbles? Most of the watches look very much like Pebble Time, and this one[1] is literally Pebble Classic (you can even see the standard Pebble status bar).

"Made by Smart Monitor, the SmartWatch is a patented, intelligent motion detecting and alerting wristwatch."

Yeah, right.

EDIT: The watch names suggest it too[2]. Also note that they're basically charging 50% more for the watch itself than the official Pebble shop, and that is before the activation fee and monthly subscription fee.

EDIT2: The more I search, the more I'm confused about them. They look legit, and apparently[3] they even had their own smartwatch prototype before moving to Pebble. But there's no mention of "Pebble" on their site, or in any materials related to them that I can find. Moreover, this interview[4] says they're planning to get this (presumably Pebble version) FDA-certified, which makes me wonder - aren't they going to find themselves in competition with Pebble itself? Ironically, both them and Pebble seem to be cooperating with Stanford[5][6].

Oh, and did I mention they claim to have a trademark on the word "smartwatch" itself?

[0] - http://smart-monitor.com/smartwatch/about-smartwatch/

[1] - http://smart-monitor.com/wp-content/gallery/gallery1/PW-watc...

[2] - http://smart-monitor.com/buy-now/

[3] - https://plus.google.com/+DanievanderMerwe/posts/BiNUbBgpi8B

[4] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcu8Ts9MFtY

[5] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=rc...

[6] - https://blog.getpebble.com/2015/12/15/health/
The sports that excite me more than anything else I do are:

- Snowboarding (adrenaline rush)

- Racing[1] (again adrenaline rush)

That said, in order perform in both sports, you have to be fit, which means running/gym on a regular basis.

[1] My car is a Lotus S2, 175 bhp. with various additions (exhaust, quickshift, etc.). I wouldn't change that car for anything.
I'm still having trouble nailing down the timeline on this, but it seems like, at some point there were two companies, both with access to the mosaic source and both rebuilding it from scratch. One of those companies had licensed it, the other hadn't. Obviously there's more to it than that, but in 1994, I can see how this would look to lawyers.

That said, I think public university research should all be public domain so we avoid this entirely, but there's a whole waterfall of other problems that come with that.

Also, as a graduate of UIUC, I'm curious about this bad rep. I know their entrepreneurship initiatives are pretty dismal but I still don't understand why that's a uni's job. All the cs/engineers that graduated when I did went straight into great jobs.
That would disenfranchise people without such accounts. It would also be trivial to game by scammers and thieves to the point of being useless.
Everything has maintenance costs, solar is likely to be lower than most. I have a 4.8kWh PV system on my roof, and though it's only been up there 2.5yr, it has required no maintenance whatsoever (I bought my home with it, so the upfront costs were rolled into total). It provides far more power than I need to heat and cool, run all my appliances, water heater, etc. - and that's in the cool and cloudy Pacific NW. Now, I am in a certified Passivhaus...
But you can automate that away.
Because you are opposed to the break neck pace at which congress currently operates? :P
UKSF are not equivalent to what the American (if I may be so presumptuous) above termed a "Fed" though.

I still largely agree, it's just hard to draw comparisons, although I imagine CID (resp. FBI) personnel even without sidearms may be more naturally inclined to spend time at the gym than the average HN reader.
It's only impressive to outsiders who aren't aware that this hasn't been new for a very long time and is reusing the work of others. There are tons of videos and documentation from amateurs and hobbyists hooking computers up to the canbus. In parallel to the tech community, the tuner/mod community have also been doing this on their own. It's been old news for years, led to many funny pranks and stunt hacks, culminating in charlie miller and chris valasek's media stunt last year.
> This kind of argument is verboten when it's a white person talking to a black person, say, because it's not OK to tell someone their experience isn't valid.

Is there some kind of large, documented body of evidence proving what the OP says is true? [ Hint: We have that for racism but we don't for what the OP is stating as far as I'm aware. ]

> Strangely, that rule seems not to apply when it's a progressive talking to a traditionalist. And progressives wonder why they have such a hard time talking to traditionalists? You'd have to be willfully blind.

I'm unaware requiring broad, systemic evidence of discrimination before applying the "this is a problem beyond a few individuals" is a strange standard.

Please, explain why this is an unreasonable standard?
Ok, no problem, I've uploaded both audio files to my SoundCloud account (https://soundcloud.com/outputchannel) and you can download them by clicking the download button beneath the waveform display.
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well, if you want the publications you need the kit.
Also I would point out that since it's a given method of trolling it must be understood by a certain majority as being fact, otherwise it wouldn't get the reaction the troll would be looking for.
You're suggesting there's a difference between big business and government?
There is a sticky price effect, but interest rates on savings accounts will inevitably rise as the prime rate increases, as banks compete with each other for customer business. Yes there will be lag time, but it will happen.
My attempted point was that modern interpretations of the Second Amendment vary greatly from the actual wording of the Second Amendment and that the supposed "defined rights" people think they have is an interesting modern twist in the story, and thus could be used to argue for "drone rights". Pointing to a 2008 SCOTUS decision in which handguns were explicitly redefined to fall under "arms" and that several clauses of the amendment were seen as "superfluous" seems to only amplify that point I was trying to make. Thanks for the help.
+(a bigger number than I can think of right now)

For people on a slow connection, rsync plus cheap storage is going to be a really big deal. Here's hoping it happens!
Yes, there are some ways to prevent that, but that basic technology leans towards that.
It's not "one guy starts working on something only the biggest companies in the world dare attempt" though, it's something hundreds of people have been doing for years now. He's more of a media hacker than he is a car hacker.
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