skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've actually seen a few projects that use this method over the past few years, and I think you're overestimating the challenge.

Once the servers know the fingerprint for a device, they can recognize that fingerprint in multiple homes. The device doesn't have to get everything perfectly correct right away, but it will recognize a fridge/freezer vs a dishwasher vs a television. A combination of use times, power load etc etc.

I'm not saying it's easy, but enough people have done or attempted to do it using the same method that I don't think it is probably as unreliable as you suspect.
very likely!!! I considered that name too for my next app and i didn't know about the Perl webserver :)
Lightweight ones? Guix already supports its own jails-like containers and they are a breeze. So are systemd ones offered by Nix.
Damn, I think you're right. I guess because I am always posting pictures of my dog facebook really thinks I want to get him Barkbox! Fortunately I know Barkbox is overpriced junk. I don't know why I keep getting targeted for MLM schemes other than a bunch of my idiot frat buddies quit their jobs to sell MLM junk a few years ago and keep trying to get me roped into their "downlines."
Your comment suggests evolution is an open question. It is not.
Death of Peach: An eerie echo of Meerkat’s collapse[0]

> A messaging app called Peach triggered a media maelstrom on Friday afternoon, peaked at No. 85 on the U.S. iPhone downloads chart on Saturday, and started declining on Sunday, slipping to No. 129 by Sunday at 1:00 p.m. The tepid peak performance and an early decline are vastly significant considering the heavy tech media coverage surrounding the app.

> Because modern tech media is a headless beast, you will no doubt be exposed to dozens of stories about how “hot” Peach is in coming days and weeks. Many tech reporters believe that if other tech reporters claim something is hot, it must be — regardless of whether there is any consumer interest.

> By now, it’s clear that Peach is a turkey, much as it was obvious that Meerkat was dead a month after its late February 2015 launch.

0: http://bgr.com/2016/01/11/peach-messaging-app-iphone-collaps...
Hopefully, you'll just cross anywhere, and they'll just stop for you. Maybe we can figure some way to indicate you want to cross, so that they can slow down smoothly - as posted above, Google software can already read hand signs by cyclists.
From what I understand, the iPad has had substantial impact in how certain students with special needs are taught. It enables communication with some low functioning students who otherwise could not communicate due to impairments.

Remember computers are not just limited to educating students about computers -- they can function as alternatives to pencil and paper in some cases. For example, they can help students compose papers who otherwise would not be able to write (a student might have a disorder that interferes with the ability to translate thoughts/words into handwriting motion, but otherwise the student might be perfectly capable of composing sentences and logical thoughts -- so dictation is groundbreaking.) They can also help teachers explore understanding of concepts in a way that's uncoupled from traditional representations -- for example letting students answer questions by pointing at pictures instead of speaking.

I don't really know the full extent of it, but from special education teachers I know, the iPad seems to have become an essential tool because it makes these alternative interactions so much easier than they were before.
I've seen various apps for that, including an enumeration of your rights by jurisdiction as to whether you're required to show an officer ID, stop & frisk laws, etc.
He he he, I had to install zOS a few years ago.. You think fixing a defect on zvm/zlinux is a PITA, just try installing zOS. Ugh, make me shiver thinking about it.

Apparently, just cloning a working system and applying PTF's is the common method of doing it. Otherwise you can pay IBM to build an image and install it (can't remember what they call it) but basically they generally install it the same way.
Another supportive (for your point) evidence is the Tensorflow Android example: https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/tree/master/tensorf...

It runs the network locally on the device. It's fast enough.
That's an interesting theory- I don't think I've heard anyone claim that before. Do you have any sources off-hand? It kinda sounds pseudosciency, but I haven't looked into it at all.
Just as an FYI looks like something is messed up with your directed quotes with your font like so:

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Thank you for at least using Afghanistan and Saudi Arabia in your ridiculous analogy instead of Nazi Germany.
YubiKey NFC support would be great.
Yeah, if you have enough clout to get Google or any other API vendor to care and make a special contract for you, then great.

Most tenancies are also dictated by a separate legally binding contract (the "lease"). The reason the law addresses tenancy separately, even though most landlords and tenants sign leases, is so that there's a baseline if no contract is provided or if the contract is unconscionable. The law also provides a custom-tailored process to address issues of non-compliance with that type of contract (eviction) instead of sending it through conventional civil court, which wouldn't resolve that type of issue efficiently.

These custom-built paths in law are useful. We have these to make sure things are as fair as possible for all involved parties in common arrangements, because just falling back on hastily-written contracts isn't always the ideal solution. API tenancy is becoming a common arrangement.

Maybe it's too specific though, you could be right about that. Maybe there's a more abstract level at which we can conceptualize digital property rights that would solve API tenancy issues as well as other digital issues.
That's today, though. If Musk can actually get the model 3 down to $35k it should be cheaper.
ON WINDOWS.

A couple of years ago, chrome joined safari in using the OSX KeyChain. (On Ubuntu, Chrome can also use the gnome-keyring)
But that's the state of things, we have impressive results but from huge neural nets that we really cannot run in realtime on a mobile device.

This is absolutely incorrect.

A mobile device can execute a pretrained model fine. See, for example [1][2][3]. Google's new TensorFlow NN system is explicitly designed to be able to run on mobile devices and comes with a pre-trained image classification NN that workd fine on mobile devices.

This doesn't mean that energy saving is unimportant on a mobile device of course. But there are very widely deployed production systems (eg all of Android) that use them now with no special GPU acceleration.

[1] http://googleresearch.blogspot.com.au/2015/07/how-google-tra...

[2] http://googleresearch.blogspot.com.au/2015/09/google-voice-s...

[3] http://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.co...
When I talk to friends about the existential threats to our country this is the other one I think of. Terrorism doesn't even make the list.

I'm totally with you on our country becoming more of an oligarchy. I think we're talking shades of grey here. Today, things aren't good. The trend also isn't in our favor. To paraphrase Robert Reich, money and power go hand in hand, more money buys more power and more power alters the rules of the game in favor of those in power. Sadly, elected officials aren't bought and the moneyed interests have undue influence over the legislative process. This is one of the most important issues of today and I wish more people realized this. The only popular presidential candidate who is talking about this issue is Bernie Sanders.
I guess you are thinking of other orientations than straight up, as it is trivial to clear three lines with a T-piece:

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Just remembered I wanted to update the website with some links to the many awesome open source projects we've built upon. Just to name a few right now:

Our game engine is a thin layer on top of http://threejs.org/. Our real-time collaboration is powered by http://socket.io/ (WebSockets). Everything is written with http://www.typescriptlang.org/, http://jade-lang.com/ and http://stylus-lang.com/. The app is powered by Electron / Node.js. We use CodeMirror, Browserify, Gulp, Express, lodash and too many other awesome npm modules to name them all.

Thanks to the community for all the cool stuff we were able to reuse :)
I think you've confused "stakeholders" with "shareholders".
That makes sense, but in my case, I actually have a lot of full app releases which are more complex, with higher ratings than most jobs I'm applying for. Skill level and interest is no question.

What I wonder is that sometimes it seems to be a moral stance. You can see all these companies proud of what they contribute to OSS, using that fact to attract engineers. So it's not just about skill and passion.
I think a good reply to that would be how much of the extreme human accomplishment can we call genetic? Could Neanderthals or primitive species in our lineage have accomplished this level of ingenuity given certain circumstances? Are our accomplishments really because of the currents state of our DNA, or because of a strange set of circumstances that allowed us to use our physical makeup to build cars rather than hunt tigers? If so, which other species were likely capable of this, but never had the means to build on it the way our culture has? Then, on the flip side, it's not even clear that many cultures we think of as members of humanity today would have landed on the (f--king) moon. I can see how it's not so obvious who, past and present, should even be considered members of this exceptional intelligence club.
If you've followed my posts on Hacker News, you may notice I'm a HUGE user of R. I actually started using R because the classes I took as a statistics minor in college required the use of R. And it sucked, mostly because trying to reimplement statistical algorithms can be very fussy (it's not as well suited toward linear algebra as MATLAB and Octave)

I note that because the curriculum seems to focus on more machine-leaning-esque algorithms like Random Forests and SVM, which are heavy in linear algebra, but the class itself states it is not math heavy.

In R, you typically implement these algorithms...by installing a package from CRAN that contains the algorithm. (I skimmed through the linked book at that appears to be the case)

Nothing wrong with that, of course. Although a more proper intro to R would require teaching how to use the factor data type without going insane. (Processing data is half the battle, and something I wish I learned at college)
There is a world of difference between service rendered and sharing knowledge voluntarily. This article specifically described the former which is precisely due to the lack of latter, whether Business Insider Research realized it or not.

Once work collaboration is viewed not as an effective means to add value but the value itself, common job security motif can drive the work place to a popularity contest. Meeting invites and social connection are some of the examples of there are more to the service demands one must draw at work place.

Business Inside only scratched the surface and jumped on a convenient conclusion.
If you had written this comment, minus the last two grafs, you'd have made the same point more persuasively and without crossing the line into a personal attack.

The modal incivility on HN is probably caused by people commenting on issues that they believe are important enough to override the civility norms on HN. Everyone has issues like this. Coming from a very large very Irish very Catholic family, I find it helpful to think about pro-life activism when issues like this crop up for me. I'll wager you don't think that people who believe abortion is murder should be allowed to prosecute that argument uncivilly here. The same applies to things we believe too.

Aside: I agree with you about hitting children, but (a) corporal punishment is quite common in Europe, and, particularly, in the UK, and (b) the norms against spanking are still new, and it will take a few more generations before you can draw conclusions about how good a parent someone is by whether they believe in spanking.
Not at all. An assumption is "a thing that is accepted as true or as certain to happen, without proof" [1]. The goal of science is minimize assumptions and maximize knowledge (justified, true belief) [2].

One easy way to do this is to make predictions: "If $THEORY is correct, then under the same conditions, I will observe $OUTCOME. If $OUTCOME does not obtain, I either haven't properly conducted the experiment, or $THEORY is wrong.

1. https://translate.google.com/#auto/en/assumption
2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_method

EDIT:

In response to your rephrasing of "if...then", to "assuming...then", consider that we actually do (or do not) observe $OUTCOME -- we don't assume that we observe it. To use an outrageous (but hopefully clear) example, do we know decapitation is fatal, or do we merely assume it? A long time ago (but in this galaxy) someone had a theory that decapitation was fatal. Experimentation gave us knowledge on this issue. Doubtless, they did not have The Scientific Method in mind, but they used the same process.
Why do they need insurance? Poorly maintained cars will probably just refuse to go, so any flaws will be either deliberate tampering (which most insurances already don't cover, AFAIK) or the fault of the manufacturer.
Slack Beefs Up Executive Ranks
How a Modern Product Team Should Work
I don't know. All the places I've worked for so far had close to zero useful documentation, but the reason had nothing to do with people "keeping knowledge for themselves". It was simply because there's always something more important to do than writing documentation and keeping it up to date. Everyone tells themselves and each other that someone has to do it eventually, and in the end, it never happens.
I don't think that this is true...
I was talking about Ability to use Summon in Malls and Public spaces. Perpendicular parking has been around esp. in Luxury vehicles for a while.
This is simply untrue.
That may be because creating an OpenGL context on Mac OS would reset the Color LookUp table, which f.lux would then have to refresh.

Annoying, but possibly not f.lux's fault.
I agree, although they do give you a generous 32GB of data. I just wish it was standard for all phones to allow SD cards to be added up to 64GB at the least. My LG G2 doesn't even allow one, I've heard the newer models do at least.
The light coming from LCD displays is different than single-color LEDs; that picture you linked isn’t a good representation of your phone/laptop. LCD displays use a “white” LED backlight (= blue LED + broader-spectrum yellow phosphor), and the various subpixels have band-pass color filters for particular wavelengths.

Here’s a sketch of the basic idea:
https://dotcolordotcom.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/filter-sp...

My quick google image search isn’t turning up any particularly good SPD graphs of real recent LCDs, but if you poke around you can surely find some.
In the... 2010, it was, Olympic games, NBC, the official broadcaster in the U.S., had so "sliced and diced" its presentation that I found its main coverage unwatchable. However, on one of its lesser affiliates, it was carrying... "second or third tier", per its judgement, sports coverage largely intact.

One particular item on it, that I ran across just by chance channel-surfing, was coverage of the women's curling. Complete games, quietly but informatively commentated. This introduced me to curling (beyond a passing "stones on ice" familiarity), and I ended up really enjoying it. To boot, it came down to Canada versus Sweden in a rather exciting set of rounds of elimination.

Some of it can be fairly parochial and/or simple, but the CBC et al. also put out some pretty good stuff. Including items that don't try to be more than they are, but do an excellent job at that.

Hopefully, under Trudeau et al., they will be released from the manufactured chokehold that has been squeezing the life out of them. And, any force that cuts down crap such as the ueber-commercialization of the Olympics, I welcome.
Blockchain, DHT and P2P: Q&A with the Decentralized Library of Alexandria
If you are using Firefox, you can also use the Add-on "HackTheWeb" [1] that automates the suggestion by moron4hire.

Right-click on the page, and select "HackTheWeb". Whatever page element you hover your pointer over will be given a red border, and then you use hotkeys to perform actions.

To do the same thing as the example above, it would be: right-click on page, select HackTheWeb, point mouse at the content you want, hit "w" (widen) until you have the whole section you want, and then "i" (isolate) to remove everything else. From there you're ready to print to PDF.

For some reason I had to be viewing the actual README.md file, not looking at GitHub's auto-readme-display.

HackTheWeb also lets you view the element's javascript, show the xpath of element, and convert text to black on white (very useful for content whose text and background colors don't work well together).

I've used it for several years, and wouldn't want to give it up. It's based on the old Aardvark add-on that did the same kind of thing, but Aardvark wasn't updated as Firefox matured and eventually no longer worked.

[1] https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&c...
I used to interview with a lot of companies on Saturdays. It seems that some people squeeze it into their schedule when they like a candidate.
This has bewildered me for years. I'd buy one.
While it's true that they don't have meaning to the lower levels of the system, file extensions matter a whole lot to the higher-level frameworks and the GUI that ordinary people use.
I don't see the justification for criticizing "shoehorning Tensorflow to run on a wimpy phone". Phones today are nearly as powerful or more [1] than laptops. Mobile and laptop processor speeds are outpacing network speeds, so it's often faster for a program/game to be able to run these tests locally rather than send data to a server. In addition, you might use Tensorflow more for the ease of use and pre-implemented strutures rather than simple speed, like the Python vs C argument, so not all use cases will be for huge data-crunching.

[1] http://fossbytes.com/iphone-6s-is-more-powerful-than-the-new...
That's not a T piece. It has 5 blocks. The subtlety is about a board like

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and if you can put a T piece inside of the gap on the left.
> If that were the case, you could simply exercise at the point when the stock was liquid and you would never have to pay tax before then.

Unless the AMT kicks in. Anyone with options needs to keep an eye on this. Consult a tax professional if unsure.
Drivers fail, too. Automated driving doesn't have to be perfect; it just has to be safer than people.
Maybe, but personally I think STL syntax is horribly ugly and not easy to read or work with, whereas Qt (at least to me) is much easier to parse, in addition to offering a lot more functionality and flexibility. (Qt has a lot more container types, for instance.)
3D Neaspace Project
I used to provide support on the Google Maps for Work API (any opinions are my own etc.)

My best guess is that because the site is offering very similar functionality to what is provided by the Google Maps API Drawing Tools [1] is the reason you've been flagged. The Elevation chart appears to be the same as the sample provided in the API documentation [2].

Yes, you offer additional functionality with the sharing of the routes and other features on the site. The flagging of sites for TOS violations can be a bit peculiar at times.

For reasons that I shouldn't get in to, I'd guess you won't much of a reply if you try and discuss this notice by replying via email. I'm not sure who the current Maps API Developer Relations contact is but they would be your best bet for any proper discussion.

[1] - https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/javascript/...
[2] -https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/javascript/...
My gpu is fine, but Firefox + Linux doesn't really like it too much :(

Still, no website but youtube in fullscreen has made my poor pc do these unspeakable things to its fan speeds
Scale-Up Leadership Lessons I've Learned Over 9 Years as HubSpot's CEO
No! Humanity has not fundamentally changed. We are still made of flesh and blood, we still have the same cognitive biases, we are still fighting religious wars, we still feel jealously, greed, fear and yearn for power. In that sense, nothing has changed. The only shot we have is learning from history.
One of those JS devs who gets really defensive when people are talking about JS and not screaming about how awesome it is.
You cannot hash passwords in a password manager. It has to be reversibly encrypted and turned back into plain text before utilisation.

So when people complain about password managers storing plain text (as opposed to hashing) they're barking up the wrong tree, it is a necessary evil.

You just want to see them encrypt those plain text passwords so that offline recovery is harder. That's what both Firefox's master password, CryptProtectData() for Chrome/IE, and the key-chain in OS X provide.
Very helpful course, I highly recommend it. If nothing else, get a copy of the book:

http://www-bcf.usc.edu/~gareth/ISL/ISLR%20Fourth%20Printing....

Even though the book is introductory material, it explains everything with great clarity. I have yet to find a better resource for someone wanting to get into data science. The theoretical material side-by-side with coded examples is very powerful (although the labs could use some work). Even if you have been using data science for a while, this is a great refresher on theoretical concepts.
40 years ago we thought(well,some of us did) that accurate image recognition is a matter of few months of work, at most. It's 2016, and our most advanced image recognition software can't tell a zebra and a sofa in a zebra print apart. It's an insanely difficult problem. We can't even do voice recognition completely right. Automatic cars rely on that exact type of challenge - recognising patters accurately. I'm sure in certain settings they work exceedingly well. Spectacularly even. But to be safe for human transportation, they need to be 100% accurate. Not 90% or 95% accurate. They need to work in snow, rain, when a huge sinkhole appears in the ground or an infant walks into the road. They need to consider legal, moral and ethical implications lest they be allowed on the road - is it allowed to hit a pedestrian to save 4 passengers? Is it allowed to hit 4 pedestrians to save 1 passenger?
Can you at any time take manual control? If yes, how do you regulate insurance? If no, how do you tell the car that you want it in that particular spot and not any other, be it your garage or a middle of a clover field?

Yes, there already is software that can drive safely on lit, dry roads, while there is a human behind a steering wheel tracking its every move. But I still believe we are at the very least a few decades away from fully autonomous vehicles.
I love your reasoning, very insightful thanks a lot for sharing. This is the kind of wisdom and out-of-the-box thinking I like to read.
I'd rather have no answer and keep looking than the wrong answer that stops the questions.

This is dependent on the type of person you are. Many people simply can't stand the lack of an answer[0]. This dovetails with the general tendency to accept the first explanation for anything that doesn't contradict what they already believe[1].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambiguity_tolerance%E2%80%93in...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anchoring
1. the cloud - No. I'm trying to get more off my data off the cloud, not on it.

2. (censored) swearing in marketing materials - Not classy. Or to put it the way nextbit's marketing would understand, F*ck no.