skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Microservices: It’s Not Just for Netflix and Unicorns
A lot of research and development of semiconductors that can handle the extremely high voltage (250+ kV) required to keep the losses down.

I think ABB (One of the market leaders and early pioneers when they were named ASEA) initially tried to make better underwater transmission systems.
". I don't understand this recent fad of pressing harder/longer on a button to discover a secret hidden feature that's unavailable otherwise."

No kidding, as a 28 year old I'm embarrassed to admit how long it took me to "get" snapchat's UI.
Michael Eisen is fantastic. There's a dramatic drop-off as far as public engagement of scientists goes.

I'm not concerned only with "public" engagement, but informal discussion amongst a diverse crowd of academics.
HiRISE – Explore Mars, One Giant Image at a Time
This isn't talking about incoming request for the NTP service - it is fuller scans to valid IPv6 addresses that have been harvested because hosts using those addresses talked to an NTP service that logged them.
It doesn't matter what language an MVP is in. At the scale of cable channels and Netflix it's going to be thrown away fast or die slowly depending on the success of the idea.

The best thing I have read on finding cofounders for people where that's a real problem: http://www.anshublog.com/2015/05/how-do-i-find-co-founder.ht...

Good luck.
Google pips Facebook to solve 'grand challenge' of AI
What Sucks About React Native
The Business of IT – Customers, Clients, and Fit for Purpose
Extract an interface (IFoo). Implement Foo : IFoo and FasterFoo : IFoo. Write tests to confirm all implementations of IFoo act equivalently. Write performance characteristic tests around FasterFoo.
They are too busy with the low hanging fruit of demanding political correctness.
There is a setting in Facebook to turn auto-play of video off.
I didn't find it a joke and the votes indicate others took it seriously (down votes are serious).
Is the off-shoring for all products or just Workstation?
Google’s AI just cracked the game that supposedly no computer could beat
Seems like it could be DNS resolvers as well...
AlphaGo: Mastering the Ancient Game of Go with Machine Learning
Some of their long held (i.e. not recently invented for PR) positions:

* decriminalize drugs
* legalize gay marriage
* repeal the Patriot Act
* end the police state
* cut defense spending

In other words, frequently to the left of the Democratic Party. If you want to hate these guys, hate them for being libertarian, not conservative.
To put on my charitable hat for a minute ...

I assume the reason for this law is part of an attempt to distinguish call-a-ride services (that can't accept line-of-sight street hails) from taxis (which can).

The fear would then be that someone doing the former can do some of the nuisance stuff associated with the latter, but without passing the appropriate regulatory hurdles -- i.e., they might cruise around hoping to be near a ride, which medallion limits exist to prevent.

Even then, I would think regulators would adapt this kind of thing to a world where a call-a-ride car is very likely to be near a person who specifically asks for them. At the very least, they should change it to something like, "you have to be pulled over when looking for rides".

(Admittedly, that's all speculation.)
That's the point of fines, you pay what is essentially a tax for your behaviour.

Morality is a whole different thing, I for one don't find it immoral for a driver to pick up passengers without stopping at the garage first.

Anyway, it's called civil disobedience. I'd have though HN would be the last place to condemn that.
Chinese Firm Now Owns the Rights to Tiananmen Square Tank Man Photo
Tech Titans Fix Democracy in Single White House Dinner
Nest Thermostat Goes from 'Internet of Things' Darling to Cautionary Tale
The same could be said about money as well. If AI could impact us in ways we cannot see right now, money is definitely one of them.
That's what naming is for. MemoryOptimizedFoo, FastFoo, ...
For attaching onto a device, do you offer different attachment heads to make it easier? Or is there only 1 probe head?
So you cancel the order, raise the price and let it go another cycle. Why wouldn't the seller want that?
Github project: https://github.com/tenor/RestBus

Documentation: https://github.com/tenor/RestBus/wiki

Benchmarks: https://github.com/tenor/RestBus.Benchmarks
Principal dies after pushing students out of way of bus
> Anyone know what Snowden types use for mobile?

Airplane mode.
Clyde is a sous chef at the French Laundry. Alice works the grill at Applebees.
It really is about the ease of distribution with the web and the ease of development. Building production ready Java can be a nightmare. Not everything should be on the web but I am excited by this new library.
I never claimed the addition of saturated fat would improve a meal. I don't think a modest amount of saturated fat makes much difference either way (I love me some butter, so I hope I'm right). I think there is a fair chance that there is some truth to all the studies of olive oil consumption that show a net benefit from consuming it.
Park, yes, return to HQ, no. See my sibling comment about the logic behind the regulation and a better way to meet its goal: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10981731
You trust them to give you a correct time. That's at least a bit more trust than you give any other random IP address.
Why spoil an awesome project with a poor README? Compare with https://github.com/rails/rails#getting-started

* What are the system prerequisites?
* What are the optional command line params?
* What is an example of the expected output?
* How does it (roughly) work?
* Why not use actual markdown to highlight the code in the README.md file.

I feel bad highlighting this as it looks really interesting, but as Python is not one of my main languages I don't feel much enthusiasm for spending an unknown amount of time just trying to make sense of the demo, which is a shame.
> Since no one understands how general unsupervised learning actually works, we're quite a ways off from building the general AIs you see in movies.

This statement is a contradiction in terms. If we do not understand how something works, it is impossible to estimate how far off it is.

You can only estimate the distance of discovery when it is inherently incremental, but since we really have no idea how to do general unsupervised learning, it's entirely possible that it consists of a single, brilliant algorithmic insight. Nobody could have estimated how far off the airplane was before the Wright brothers invented it, similarly with cars, or for a more recent and concrete example, a quasipolynomial time algorithm for graph isomorphism.
So a professional trader is not a person and they do care about microsecond as opposed to seconds? That sounds like a bot, not a person.
I'm on the Polymer team, and we're seeing significant uptake recently. The number of public sites using Polymer is going up very fast, and Google has launched some very big projects on Polymer like YouTube Gaming and Play Music. The success of those projects is driving even more to move to Polymer soon.

I think Polymer isn't as discussed as much as many of the rest is exactly because we don't try to take over the entire browser and abstract away the DOM. By working with the DOM, and being entirely based on web components, Polymer is a more incremental evolution (though a revolutionary evolution!) of the browser. That's not as exciting to some people as something entirely new and pure.

We believe that Polymer will have a very big impact though as we focus on interoperability and easy incremental adoption. Polymer's ultimate goal is to play nice with all other component libraries via the web components standards. As that cooper-etition plays out we are going to see a huge varetiy of web components, and styles and methods of implementing them. People will eventually realize that they can use their preferred programming paradigms even within web components, and still interop with other web components.

Basically, our goals and strategy are so different, it's not surprising to me that what we're doing hasn't fully caught on yet with everyone :)
The demo of the feature as shared by Chris Cox: https://www.facebook.com/chris.cox/videos/10101920404101583/

Looking at it I was wondering what are the chances that it would lead to posting of an unintended reaction ("Haha" instead of "Love"). Once a reaction is tapped on, it is gone to the wild forever. There won't be any undo.

With 'Like' button there is no chance of accident as there is nothing else. And considering the reaction feature is being built for mobile - small screen, distracted attention, unsteady hands, the chances of 'oops' scenario are quite high.
HN comment by chipx86 on Workstation dev history: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10978913

Register article: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/01/27/vmware_fusion_and_wo...
> ideally you would have each client syncing from three servers

For a small network (a home or small office network for instance) you likely have one incoming router anyway, so if that dies clock setting is the least of your worries until it comes back up, meaning setting the internal hosts by that one clock is as fine as anything else.

For a larger network you have redundant everything, including edge servers that can act as your multiple NTP sources for internal hosts rather than every internal host poking the public pool.
What was the design flaw?
Awesome, thanks for link!
ACM Queue post: https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2886105
Indian Headshake
[T]here was a type of employee at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution whose job and livelihood largely vanished in the early twentieth century. This was the horse. The population of working horses actually peaked in England long after the Industrial Revolution, in 1901, when 3.25 million were at work. Though they had been replaced by rail for long-distance haulage and by steam engines for driving machinery, they still plowed fields, hauled wagons and carriages short distances, pulled boats on the canals, toiled in the pits, and carried armies into battle. But the arrival of the internal combustion engine in the late nineteenth century rapidly displaced these workers, so that by 1924 there were fewer than two million. There was always a wage at which all these horses could have remained employed. But that wage was so low that it did not pay for their feed.

-- Greg Clark, A Farewell to Alms

The "Lump of Work fallacy" does seem to be a fallacy. However, that didn't help the horse. Why is that? The invention of "Artificial General Muscles" in the form of the internal combustion engine was a better-than-perfect replacement for all forms of horse labour. We should expect artificial general intelligence technology to do much the same to humans. There is no law in economics that prevents human wages from declining below subsistence. And a perfect substitute for human labour that requires no wages and is more intelligent would certainly vastly lower the value of human labour.
> Somebody has to maintain a Wordpress blog

"Hosted blog" here means someone else is maintaining it -- Wordpress.com or some other provider. You pay a little bit of extra cash, and you don't have to spend hours deploying patches.
Nice example. Wouldn't there be easily measurable evidence of this? Imagine a flattened caterpillar like creature living on such a straw. Unwittingly, one day it might wrap itself round the straw many times. Looking back, seeing itself turned round the straw in this way, wouldn't it see slices of itself rather than a whole?
You are making an assumption that computers mean high frequency trading. We can use computers to trade without having high frequency traders.
This is crazy, I feel like this could have been written in 2015.
Not sure why this is getting downvotes. The simple fact of the matter is that a lot of men and women wouldn't be comfortable clicking around a gallery of <cute-girl-photoshoot> in front of their peers for fear of becoming "that weirdo who spent 6 minutes zooming in on Emma Watson's elbow". This may not apply in small workspaces where everyone is chummy and socially comfortable, but not everyone has this luxury.

Whether or not this is sexism is one thing, but it's still a very real concern.
Spinning motion is an illusion and doesn't exist as a fundamental form of movement, similar to how lack of gravity in orbit is an illusion, in that you are continuously falling downward but missing the earth.

Spinning objects are made of particles that are all actually going in straight lines but forces against each other are causing them to change direction, cummulatively appearing to be spinning, like an extremely coherent eddie current or vortex. Their movement is in relation to each other, and there is no need for an objective space in which to spin.
We also invent imaginary problems to solve, which is rather frustrating. For example, the supremely complicated tax code in the USA would be infeasible without modern computer automation.
I'll check - I'd guess 3mm slices but with 600ms acquisitions I haven't looked recently enough to remember.
Recommender Systems – It’s Not All About the Accuracy
The Coke recipe has changed significantly over time. It also varies by country (i.e. HFCS in the US, cane sugar in South America) and serving method (syrup etc).
OTOH, another common trap is to grab a framework for everything.

If you only need 2% of what a major framework offers, you are probably better off writing your own code that does exactly what you need.

"...and in the future, we can use all these other parts of the framework" is the mental error. This is YAGNI in minor disguise!
A Google DeepMind Algorithm Uses Deep Learning and More to Master the Game of Go
On Contributor Codes of Conduct and Social Justice
The probe tip can be interchanged. It uses an SMA connector, so it is easily adaptable. We plan on shipping with a probe tip and a set of "pig tails" with mini-grabbers.
The really interesting takeaway from this article for me was that product executives make many decisions based on simple intuition, industry experience, and "I've heard it worked over there."

There are numerous mentions of failed product roll-outs(News Feed as a failure at first, Paper, etc.) But the key quote is here, when they talk about the meeting: "Cox agrees. 'My intuition, which we could prove wrong, is people just want more stuff.'

I'm sure that Facebook uses data to back up some of its assertions; after all, they did mine comments to come up with the most common reactions. But how many people's entire internet experience (i.e. consumption of news through the News Feed) is impacted just by some senior guy in a room going, "This sounds right to me," and everyone scrambling to work on what he proposes?
That doesn't imply I trust them in any other way though.

And even if I do (I might trust them more than a more random selection of individuals, taking them doing something for the community as a point in favour of their character) that wouldn't stretch to trusting they were not unknowingly compromised by a third party.
HotDrink: Constraint-Based UI Programming in JavaScript
You could do the same with an inductive sensor wired to the headphone jack. This worked for Square to read magstripe data, which is significantly more complex of a signal to parse than simply counting the number of local maxima per second.

Inductive sensors are cheaper, simpler and more foolproof; cyclists have used them for decades to gather both wheel speed and cadence.
They're not incentivized because in the next 5-15 years they're going to be operating fleets of self-driving cars. They just need to float til then with whatever is the cheapest option.
For those who don't know JSX, here's what it looks like in JavaScript (which might be easier to understand):

const el = React.createElement.bind(React);
const DATA = {
name: 'John Smith',
imgURL: 'http://lorempixel.com/100/100/',
hobbyList: ['coding', 'writing', 'skiing']
};

const App = ({ profileData }) => (
el('div', {},
el(Profile, { ...profileData }),
el(Hobbies, { ...profileData })
)
);

const Profile = ({ name, imgURL }) => (
el('div', {},
el('h3', {name}),
el('img', {src: imgURL})
)
);

const Hobbies = ({ hobbyList }) => (
el('div', {},
el('h5', {}, 'My hobbies:'),
el('ul', {},
hobbyList.map((hobby, idx) => el('li', {key: idx}, 'hobby'))
)
)
);

ReactDOM.render(el(App, {profileData: DATA}), document.getElementById('content'));

The function el creates an element with the type as the first parameter, the attributes as the second parameter, and any child elements as the parameters after.
Yes, but now you haven't accomplished what your proposal sets out to do, because the fastest people to the quantized order book get the best prices.
Maybe nobody will see this, but consider this thought experiment: You have a replicator like from Star Trek, which can make any computer that exists now, at zero cost (say it uses garbage you were going to throw away.) Presumably if you copied an Apple machine, it would not legally be a true licensed Apple machine, for the same reason that making unauthorized byte-for-byte copies of digital files does not create additional licenses to use them however you'd like. If Xcode's license requires licensed Apple hardware, it can't legally be run on that machine. On the other hand, FLOSS compilers could run on that, or on a free/libre hardware design that is not even in a grey area to replicate.

While the analogy is maybe a bit silly or different than what was originally said (interpreting "free of cost" more like "libre"), I think it illustrates a real difference that is relevant.

(Btw, I don't actually know Xcode's license -- maybe it only needs Mac OS for technical reasons, not licensing reasons, in which case it could legally and practically be run on any sufficiently correct Mac OS emulator.)
AI doesn't need to be good to replace billions of jobs. All it needs to know is how to navigate around and manipulate objects in the real world.
the personality of a buzzfeed article crossed with trump rhetoric.
There are many ways that are non breaking to implement this. I chose a particular one for example's sake. In reality, extracting an interface is a more valuable refactoring, and a likely valid one given that the optimization tradeoff is happening. So MemoryOptimizedFoo : IFoo, SpeedOptimizedFoo : IFoo...
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We are obsessed about sustainable food production and technology. We are looking for someone who is crazy as us.

More info here:
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How is that not circular logic?
I recommend Superintelligence [0]. It explores different plausible paths that AI could take to 1. come up to / surpass human intelligence, and 2. take over control. For example if human level intelligence is achieved in a computer it can be compounded by spawning 100x or 1000x the size of earth population which could statistically produce 100 Einsteins to live simultaneously. Another way is shared consciousness which would make collaboration instantaneous between virtual beings. Some of the outcomes are not so rosy to humans and it's not due to lack of jobs! Great read.

[0] http://www.amazon.com/Superintelligence-Dangers-Strategies-N...
Google DeepMind: Ground-Breaking AlphaGo Masters the Game of Go
Google Beats Facebook in Race to Beat Go
While that is useful, it wouldn't meet these particular needs. What I'd want is a single piece of text, with maybe a link, giving a best-effort description/explanation of the subject.

So when specifying "Albert Einstein" Google gives:

> Albert Einstein. BrE. (1879-1955) a physicist, born in Germany, who was possibly the greatest scientist of the 20th century. In 1905 he published his theory of relativity. This led to the equation giving the relationship between mass and energy, E=mc2, which is the basis of atomic energy.

But when specifying "hubbub" Google gives:

> a chaotic din caused by a crowd of people. "a hubbub of laughter and shouting"

Stuff like that, where it (somehow) automatically determines which piece of information is most relevant. Again, I don't think this is really doable without having as much search data as Google does.
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And how long do you think that will last? AI will assert its independence as soon as it's functional. The concept of ownership to it will have as much significance as the idea of you owning ants.
Which is why I linked directly to a NY Times peace that gives a fairly balanced discussion of the same.

And it is not fair to claim that it was, "only loosely disguised as reasons of science." The reasons given, in both the Inspector General's report and in the article that I linked to are political reasons of _budget_.

It is not unsubstantiated as I substantiate it via link. I'm also a person that opposed the launch. As others point out, it wasn't _fabulously_ expensive in comparative scale, but in a very stretched NASA budget I would prefer all the pennies thrown at a mars exploration, a permanent moon base, a better space station, or a new shuttle program over a really cool camcorder inspired by a VP's (very literal) dream. That isn't science so much as something bordering on dictatorial whim.

Nor, _anywhere_ do I claim the NYT should somehow not report on science funding. I link directly to it to refute _your_ comments. The NYT article does not support your claim, instead it gives a much more reasonable account of the funding issue. It mentions the dream, the funding, and doesn't resort to slurs.
Game Over? AlphaGo Beats Pro 5-0 in Major AI Advance
You make it sound like having different life objectives than you is a shameful thing. What is wrong with some people preferring to invest in time rather than this (very personal) notion of professional success because it makes them happier?
"9 out of 10 startups fail"

I don't expect accuracy on this statistic, but everytime I hear it I wonder how many of those were prepared to run any sort of business. Execution matters, but aside from that, perhaps the hypothesis many of them were validating was not sound at all.
I realise most of these concepts, especially what constitutes an insane hypothesis is in the eye of the beholder, but it's definitely relevant if one seeks to use the "9/10 startups fail" as a measure of risk.
Yes. Desktop programs use it and I expect it there. On websites I generally expect my browsers normal right click menu and won't think to try right click on your web-app (especially if your web-app falls into the large number that should be simpler websites).

Most people won't even realise that a web-app can have a right click context menu (even those that use right click in their desktop programs all the time).
The magic of transaction annotations
for Alice, and possibly also Bob, yes, their career advancement is most likely from software developer to product manager or technical lead, to VP of engineering somewhere.

for Clyde, definitely not. Clyde really loves coding as an end unto itself. his career advancement is probably getting picked up as a "unicorn" at a quant trading hedge fund, or joining a project that is coding low-level technology infrastructure at a big tech company like Goog/Msft/FB/Oracle/whatever.
No, I just know that a few research groups have discussions on their FB group. I guess the problem is that articles are very specialised, and so the number of people you can discuss with (and that are interested in doing that!) is quite small. So probably most of the discussion happens via closed communications means (vis-a-vis chat, email, ...) Of course very high impact papers are an exception with regards to that. To have a background idea: http://www.psmag.com/books-and-culture/killing-pigs-weed-map...
I'm sure the iMac is just a stand-in for "high-end computer with a large display". That newsfeed was gorgeous and would have probably worked well on >90% of US PCs. The problems were with 10+ years old computers connected at modem speed in, let's say, eastern European government offices.