skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I do, 100%, and there's no reason they wouldn't know this from metrics sent by their apps/bridge.

Not a single Hue-using person I know, outside of HN, has any clue about ZigBee or interoperability or any of the stuff that a small fraction of Hue users care about. None of them. If it wasn't on the placard in Best Buy next to the bulbs, it wasn't even a passing thought.

I am pleased they reversed their decision. I don't actually care about interoperability, even though I am a technically minded user deep into home automation and relevant protocols. But I still recognize the significance of a big company offering up a mea culpa when they get heat from a vocal group of customers. Not many have the courage to do so.

Let's not diminish that they responded to customer backlash by manufacturing other reasons to hate them, or by generalizing. They actually did what the users wanted.
"Responsible working" is how you make other people rich.

Having fun and playing ("irresponsibly"), expressing your true essence, is the only way to create ANY lasting value.

It is also the only way to create any wealth. The OTHER (much more common) way that people get wealthy is by capitalizing on what others have created. Which is fine with me (I'm all for the wonders of capitalism), but I prefer creating my own wealth.
The useful solution from a customer [1] standpoint is to create value at the level of the interface by just making it work with whatever is hooked up...e.g. decoupling the service from other services. Imagine if Google search only worked for Android device owners. Making each part of a system excellent in it's own right is just better...here it would drive the bulb making team to make bulbs capable of frolicking outside a walled garden.

[1] Customers are people with an important relationship. Consumers are things with a behavior, e.g. my toaster consumes electric power. When people are seen as consumers companies do dumb things...like communicate with utter bullshit.
OT: I'm wondering what that big screen in the back of the header video on their company website is for and how it works. http://reaktor.com/
You overestimate humanity in general. Consumers will jump thru excessively convoluted hoops in order to get something working that was never really meant to work. Then they complain. Happens all the time.
The Chinese Room argument has always seemed to me a powerful illustration of the problem that "consciousness" is so poorly defined as to be not subject to meaningful discussion dressed up as a meaningful argument against AI consciousness.

Its always distressed me that some people take it seriously as an argument against AI consciousness; it does a better job of illustrating the incoherence of the fuzzy concept of consciousness on which the argument is based.
I work in facial recognition. When you say it does not scale, how so? I have a system with 975K people in it, the US registered sex offenders database, and with a single quad core laptop a lookup takes about 8 seconds. With a server class 32+ core system the lookup is nearly real time. How does that not scale?
My impression is that dentists are a lot like other sole proprietors, you will find some that keep up with technology and others that don't. I have visited fairly high-tech dentistry offices, with technology that appears to have been developed within the last 5 years at most. I also have a few friends who are (recently graduated) dentists and they are driving adoption of newer technology in their offices. Your local dentist may just not be informed of what's available. A quick search shows that Dentistry SAAS does exist (http://www.curvedental.com/).
10% of of any and all supplements at onnit.com. That's O-N-N-I-T dot com.
Not sure about that name. A bit too close to ActiveMQ's Apollo [1] for my liking. The functional areas aren't that dissimilar.

[1] - https://activemq.apache.org/apollo/
Why would they sell equipment below market price?
The database speaks a binary database protocol. The Gateway speaks websocket and http.

Access control is managed via channels, and you configure the gateway with a JS function that determines which channels a document belongs to, so you don't ACL annotations, the ACL is determined dynamically by your code at write time.

There's a tiny bit of write amplification as we persist channel membership in an index, but that's to avoid massive read amplification of irrelevant records when clients sync their subset of channels.
If Windows crashes because of an badly coded third-party driver, do you think people will blame Windows or the driver manufacturer? Most people will not internalize the workings of the system and just blame the system as a whole, which in this case has the brand name Philips on it.

I think it's a smart move and reasonable compromise, similar to Microsofts WHQL program.
> Dan Carlin

Exactly the name I think of when I hear the word 'podcasting', and I'm surprised to see no mention of him in the article. In fact, I'm a regular podcast listener and I recognized few of the names in this piece, which was confusing to say the least.

If you're a Carlin fan, you definitely need to listen to Mike Duncan's podcasts - History of Rome and Revolutions. I'm also a fan of Skeptoid and Skeptic's Guide to the Universe. For lighter stuff, I enjoy Bill Burr's Monday Morning Podcast and Nerdist.
Oddly enough, Cosi Fan Tutte was the first opera I saw--purely by chance, forI didn't feeling like sticking around the house with my younger brother and the babysitter, and tickets were cheap enough at a college production.

I agree entirely about starting with Mozart. I prefer the soprano arias in The Marriage of Figaro to pretty much anything else in opera, and Figaro's arias are outstanding too.

"Amadeus" is OK if you don't imagine that it has any particular relation to reality. A friend with an interest in musical history got out of the theater and said, "Well, where should I start?", i.e. to enumerate the absurdities.
I don't speak any Chinese at all but people tell me that there are still a lot of similar words in modern spoken Chinese and Vietnamese. You can still see remnants of the old, pre-latinized writing system here.
"When Gmail launched as a public beta in 2007" - Wasn't it April 1, 2004?
No offence, fighting spam in that way is either an IQ problem or an EQ problem. Banning mainland China business completely for couple of years to clear blacklists? Brilliant. Actually you can buy any servers from EC2, linode, DO freely from China anytime. How can they deal with this issue?
Don't they deserve that

Of course not, unless of course they happen to be assholes. Tell them what you think they need to hear to make a terrible situation as bearable as possible and try to help them have a loving memory of you. Confessing your 'sins' on your deathbed just to ease your conscience without any thoughts of the consequences is an extremely selfish and narcissistic act which does nothing to help your loved ones.
From my observation, people are generally smart enough that if they bought expensive product A that works and is of a well-known brand, and then later they bought some unknown noname-brand cheap product B which doesn't wok with A, they'll blame the product B, not product A.
This article seems like it was "borrowed" very heavily from this book:

http://www.amazon.com/Inventing-Money-Long-Term-Capital-Mana...

Most people read this book but I think the above book is much better.

http://www.amazon.com/When-Genius-Failed-Long-Term-Managemen...

I'd recommend reading both if this sort of thing interests you, in the order that they are listed.

Since this article is mostly about LTCM, its kindof interesting to look at their downfall and realize that in the end they were right, their trades ended up being profitable, they were just so leveraged that when the markets started to diverge they couldn't make their margin calls.

Interestingly the reason things went south so fast was that LTCM and the banks had different risk models.

To LTCM they would do spread trades, where you take 2 very similar instruments, the article mentions 29.5 and 30 year bonds. You short the one you think is expensive and buy the one you think is cheap and hold them until the prices converge.

This has a nice risk management feature that the risk on both cancel each other out almost as if the markets move up, your long leg covers the loss on your short leg and visa versa if markets move down.

Unfortunately, partially due to secrecy(trying to hide what they were doing) and partially due to just who had the bond inventory to short from, they often ended up having the long leg and the sort leg at two different banks.

So to LTCM they were perfectly hedged, while to the bank with the short positions, if the market went up they needed LTCM to send them more margin. So LTCM, which was already heavily leveraged was required to send their prime brokers margin that they never figured they'd need to.

Couple that with markets that started move in an unprecedented manner caused too many of their spreads to diverge beyond what they could cover.

The firm ends up getting a margin call it can't afford, liquidates everything to its prime brokers and other investment banks and those banks end up making money off their trades in a time frame from 6 months (for Goldman) to 3 years for the longer term bonds.

Even when your models are right the market can still rip you to shreds:(

EDIT
As to book recommendations below is a picture of my work bookshelf. Id' recommend most of
the books on the shelf:
https://imgur.com/OdzB4aW

https://imgur.com/zdLSEek
I've invested in over 100 startups. Here's how it will change MY investing: not at all. If the rate kept rising and rising I might shift some startup dollars to bonds or whatever (if the return beat 7%).
We don't know what happened exactly. We know that a huge part of the budget went into the development of the Fox Engine, not the game directly, then Konami shifted focus and deemed AAA games not profitable enough. We don't know how advanced was the game development when Konami decided to cut the money. All we know for sure is that the game was supposed to be bigger than what we ended up with. We'll never know the whole story.
Classic 7 basic selling strategy
GraphQL and React Native
London or Exeter United Kingdom - Onsite

Crowdcube is hiring Front-end Engineers.

https://www.crowdcube.com/pg/front-end-engineers-exeter-lond...
London or Exeter United Kingdom - Onsite

Crowdcube is hiring Front-end Engineers0.

https://www.crowdcube.com/pg/front-end-engineers-exeter-lond...
Regular mplayer doesn't have tempo scaling, nor did the shitty mp3 player I used to use for podcasts, it simply sped up the audio playback. It is pretty common now though I suppose.
Visualizing the Data Behind a Great Star Wars Movie
That sounds like a terrible idea if you're rich person... ;)
Show HN: Art Genius – Photo to Art (iOS)
Analyzing the app stores in search of the best apps
8 reasons why I moved to Switzerland to work in IT
Good luck to you!
Geo Hotz amazes me!!
With that said, can he be prosecuted for using his driverless car on public roads without a license to do so?
I'm not getting mad. I reread my comment and I'm not sure what in there gave you that impression.

Your experience is irrelevant if it directly contradicts facts and math. Until you supply some numbers I'm assuming you're including things that aren't actually taxes or the math is otherwise incorrect.

The state you're in matters a lot.[0] I have a 3% flat state income tax and 6% sales tax on non-necessities (rx drugs, food, clothing, etc are exempt).

VAT is (almost always) higher than sales tax, and many states with sales taxes do not charge it on food, clothing, etc (Sweden charges 12% on these items). Income tax is always higher. Capital gains is always higher, up to double.

[0] http://taxfoundation.org/article/state-individual-income-tax...
> It's like complaining to your PC manufacturer that a program you downloaded doesn't work. Most people would blame the program and look for another one.

Have you met "most people"? They would blame PC manufacturer indeed.

Just remember Vista and how suddenly all kinds of software stopped working. Surprise: most of the time, this software used undocumented features and sometimes even bugs present in previous Windows systems.
Here is the scenario I'm imagining:

You are a typical consumer. You buy a HUE system because it has the best reviews. Then you realize you need lightbulbs as well. You go on amazon, look at your options. You can get the Phillips ones, but they're too expensive, so you buy the other ones.

You pair the bulbs. It's complicated, but you just follow a guide on the internet word-for-word to get through it.

A few months later, your system starts acting wonky. Regardless of what's actually causing the problem, the reality is that you now have to go to the trouble of figuring out what is wrong with your system and then fixing it.

Your experience with the Phillips Hue has been soured.
Looks interesting WHEN integrated with other software (Evernote, Slack, Trello, etc). If not is yet another app to deal with.
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A Darwinian Explanation of the Malthusian Trap [pdf]
And local property markets where prices rise above inflation forever (this is never always the case!)
I assume he more meant accuracy at scale - if you have a large population how does the accuracy do? Do you wind up with many close samples or are things pretty good?
The proposed text sends the wrong message at the wrong time. It's in the way when someone just wants to turn on a light but the bulb was bad. Instead, why not offer a helpful and fair priced mechanism for selling bulbs when one needs replacement? If the company gets a cut of the sale, it doesn't even matter very much what brand is chosen.
Is this based on one of the popular linux distributions? If yes, which?
I don't think it's bullshit. I also don't define people as "winners" or "losers" depending on whether they get cool jobs.

I think it's true you'll eventually get accepted in a nice job if you work in IT/software development, have a decent level of competency, and keep at it without getting too discouraged. It's easy to feel crushed when you get rejected twice in a row, so I think this is valuable lesson: you can have decent skills and you'll still get rejected (sometimes arbitrarily, sometimes because it just wasn't your best day), and you shouldn't feel crushed because interviews are -- sadly -- highly random, and even great developers get rejected. That's the point of the website: your skills are likely not the reason you got rejected, so don't get too discouraged.

This isn't some feel good bullshit philosophy. It's true. Getting a job isn't about being a winner. If you have decent skills -- say, you have some experience and fizzbuzz isn't a stumbling block for you -- you are already marketable. You just need to have the combination of luck/being prepared/being in one of your best days.
SOX Compliance: What Is the IT Team’s Role?
> It's like complaining to your PC manufacturer that a program you downloaded doesn't work.

If I had a dime for every time I heard someone say "This _____ing computer!" every time a program crashed...
I'm not sure if your second paragraph is aimed at mainstream medicine, or "alternative" medicine. Mainstream medicine does not claim to have a cure for a cold. Mainstream medicine masks the symptoms so that people are less miserable while the cold runs its natural course.

What's curious with your list is that one is a disease ("cold"; the rhinovirus) while the others are symptoms ("cough, mild pain, sore throat"), and the other is an entire class ("psychological problems"). It's hard to respond to what you said because you called them all "illnesses".
If I recall correctly, Yahoo had a couple other offerings / search tools. They had something called YQL which you enabled you to treat a specific, public (supported) websites, like Craigslist for example, as a SQL table. SELECT * from <house_for_rent> etc, etc, etc.

I have no idea if this is what was used here but I know this is an example where I'm sure they didn't out source the search work to Google.
I think the OP was concerned about false positives, not processing times. If you ran, say, 10,000 faces through your system/day for a year, how many false positives would you get?
I assumed the article was intended as being tongue-in-cheek. Calling it unethical and farcical is, well, farcical.
It's also the area where non-math reasoning is most frequently wrong.

Examples include, but are not limited to: ignoring prior probabilities (e.g. misuse of p-values), Simpson's paradox, the Monty Hall problem.
Inflation 1926-2014 was 2.93% annualized
Inflation 1970-2014 was 4.15% annualized
Via IA-SBBI in Morningstar.

You are correct that inflation plays a big role, it always has, it always will. One argument for equites is in their ability to digest inflation (raising prices and returning ever higher earnings). There are many choices here, some simple (S&P500) and some more advanced. End of the day, if you are not making a return ahead of inflation, you are falling behind.

Here is a snapshot of annualized returns from IA-SBBI:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/l7gmcynm3tggnrw/Screenshot%202015-...

https://VestU.com provides investment courses, model portfolios, webinars for individual investors. We launch in Jan 2016 and are finishing up the courses now. The material is based on our co-founders experience managing investments at the B level for endowments (University of Texas System), Boards (BHI,CAM), and foundations (Meadows Foundation, Others) for over 40+ years.
I saw this and was a bit sad "100% of the profits (post-shipping, post-tax)"

Does Finland tax charitable donations? Seems like governments would want to encourage things like giving money to help kids with cancer.
It's a huge multi-user touchscreen. Nasdaq's got one as well: http://reaktor.com/work/nasdaq/ We (I work at Reaktor) use it to keep tabs on our projects and see who's doing what: http://multitouch.reaktor.com/visual-asset-management-tool

The actual screen is built by Multitaction (http://www.multitaction.com/) and Reaktor creates custom software for it.
How does that reliably work?
Because my impression from consumer products (say Picasa or Apple Photos) is, that starting with 35 to 50 tagged faces, the recommendations produce more false positives than correct ones.
I thought that Google/Apple also used Maschine Learning techniques for face recognition.
Google services routinely work better via Chrome. So, I think we can imagine it.

Turns out people don't care that much.
Having your representatives' votes be on permanent record seems like a great idea; having individual citizens' votes on record seems like a terrible idea.
Badly coded driver is a special case, because it often crashes the system in a way seemingly unrelated to the installation itself (or software it came with), showing you a nasty blue screen (which is known generally as "the Windows problem"). I know most people get confused about cases like these (and had more than enough experience with fixing them for such people).

But I used a different analogy on purpose. You bought a Hue Bridge - presumably, with at least one Hue bulb (do they even sell Bridges separately?). So you know it works. Then you buy a noname cheap bulb, plug it in, and it - the cheap bulb - doesn't work. The Bridge still works, the Hue bulb also works, it's just the new, different one that doesn't. I find it hard to believe there are many people who can't connect the dots.
Yes, but that applies to china mobile chargers and a lot of other devices that nobody worries about (and also to CFDs and any led lamp that might be today in your house)

And of course it's not a software issue
How many developers does it take to change Philips lightbulb?
There are many reasons why Chinese is difficult for English speakers to learn.

(1) There are many thousands of characters, so you're effectively learning two languages at once: spoken Mandarin and written Chinese. Reading Chineasy might help you get started won't help much after that. Alphabetic languages have at most a few dozen characters.

(2) There are no cognates. German and Swedish, for example, have lots of cognates recognizable to English speakers.

(3) There are very few loan words. There are lots of English words in Japanese, and lots of Japanese words in English.

(4) There's a huge cultural gap.

(5) There are different languages all called Chinese. Learning Putonghua won't help you much with pre-revolutionary (1911) texts, as they were written in Classical Chinese.

(6) Unless you go to China, the Chinese people you meet will usually speak better English than you will Mandarin, so conversations will lapse into English.

On the plus side: The tones are the least of your problems, and pronouncing Chinese isn't much harder than many other languages. Chinese grammar is dead simple. It has a fixed word order, which is similar to English, and there's no inflexion. I'm also told that once you know a certain number of characters (still several thousand), you can easily guess and infer unfamiliar words. The Practical Chinese Reader series stops using English altogether once you reach Book 5. (It's been superseded by more modern texts.)
Google to Make Driverless Cars an Alphabet Company in 2016
I think what it boils down to is that Searle believes consciousness is a real thing that exists in the universe. A simulation of a thing isn't the same as the thing itself, no matter how accurate the outputs. The Chinese Room argument just amplifies that intuition (my guess is that the idea of a room was inspired by the Turing Test).

I think studying the brain (as opposed to philosophical arguments) is the thing that will eventually answer these kinds of questions, though.
We have a prototype threading implementation for Slack. Drop a line to <hn username> @gmail.com if interested to test.
Good to see someone approaching issues with an open mind, and not immediately catagorizing all decisions as either black or white...

/s
Setting Up a React.js Environment Using Npm, Babel 6 and Webpack
That's right. If you find you enjoy that code... Couchbase is always looking for great engineers!
Usually startups pickup new tech and slow moving corporations follow later(whatever by buying these startups or by hiring ex-startup employees).
that's exactly what https://matrix.org is trying to do!
I love what these guys are doing. Nailing the way recruitment should be done these days.
I wonder if the CV Dazzle[1] style will take off in the UK. Maybe we'll finally get the exact cyberpunk future promised us by Gibson, etc.

[1] https://cvdazzle.com/
When the rowing team at Oxford does this they post the pictures on the website.
Your last paragraph is where this all falls apart (assuming there is demand, a huge assumption of course). Paying $500 for 1000 clicks which results in 50 sales (given an optimistic 5% conversion) essentially just results in break even.
Deep-learning algorithm predicts photos’ memorability at “near-human” levels
I started with this one http://www.amazon.com/Teach-Your-Gentle-Revolution-Series/dp... I liked the dots concept. My daughter is only 2 but she can count to 40 in English and 20 in French. She can do basic addition using the counting method.
It refers to research, heavily publicized by Freakonomics, which claims that the reduction in crime rates in the US is not because of police interventions etc. but because more people are having abortions and abortions are legal in more states and so fewer people are born in dysfunctional environments that tend to produce more criminal behavior.
Would informing you be different from the 100s of "CCTV in operation" signs you walk past every day?
Uber in China is built on exploiting armies of underpaid, overworked interns