skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was really hoping they would tackle the harder problem of dealing with a production hive. Temperature and weight are fairly easy to monitor, but knowing activity would be useful in tracking hive health.

Oh, well, maybe a project for this summer.
Creating a Company We Love (Dharmesh Shah, 2013)
I don't believe that it is the divine right of the middle class of one country to live better lives than other people, simply because of location.

Besides, globalisation will overall increase the total wealth of the poor + middleclass combined.
Graphene use to make solar panels get more power
"You don't understand anything until you learn it more than one way." ... RIP ... The Society of Mind one of the best books.
Eddie Bauer has been just a "brand" since at least 1994 when Ford released an "Eddie Bauer" Explorer/Expedition trim level (I saw one in '97).
The "airship sightings" are especially fun(ny).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mystery_airship
They are absolutely easy to export.

Exporting with long-term net success (in savings or quality or both) is what's difficult.
There's probably a lot of this going. Comes to mind right now the way the Navy had about two seal teams in the beginning, and then decided to name the next one 'Team 6', to make it look like they had more. I've read about other examples, but can't remember right now.
Minsky used to give talks at the annual Boskone Science Fiction Convention. I heard several and enjoyed them greatly, he was an entertaining speaker.
Well it really depends on what you want the tablet for. As a device to just relax, browse the web and dick around, mobile OSes feel generally faster than full blown desktop ones.
If you upgrade the H1-B's to green card after 12 months, that "65,000" number is irrelevant.

Once you remove the "indentured" part from H1-B's, we'll never hit the cap again.
I think that they're glossing over the fact that many/most of these old narratives have been viewed as extremely difficult to relate to by different generations in different ways, all of which have rewritten, simplified, changed the morals of, and bowdlerized them in hundreds of different ways and abandoned the originals. Many/most of the Grimm stories were virtually unknown in their original forms over the past century - until they were published again over the past 5 years or so.

edit: of course, I'm calling the Grimm publications the "original forms" here - I'm sure that most were unrecognizable even then from whatever they had been when they were first told (if they were ever told a first time rather than just evolving from nothing through a continual telephone-game/repurposing process.)
I am amused that you think your feelings about perceived "racism" have any place in this civil discourse.
The bad actor is the company whose product grows too wide for them to support. Trimming back is a good actor.

Apple is a bad actor for letting iTunes become a bloated piece of shit. They'd be a good actor if they cut all the crap and released a new product, or products, with fewer features but more focus.
My account has various drag-coefficients on it - which "dang" can see ... all of which hamstring my ability to participate (anywhere near) equally on HN.
Ok, but I would need your email :-)

I added my email to my profile.
Shoppers are choosing experiences over stuff, and that’s bad news for retailers
I agree those are all things that should happen. But can Uber be profitable in that configuration? I would argue not, but maybe they pull it off.
Senators Whine About FCC's 25 Mbps Broadband Standard
Not just researchers of stories, but also talented linguists who saw evidence of the lineage between different languages, and some of the rules of how words and sounds moved between them.
One can hope that they'll make the attempt regardless. Alcor's position is to carry out their directive from a member regardless of third party opinions on viability where they can, as having the reputation for doing this minimizes the very real problem of interference from family members (for reasons economic, religious, etc). Also it is very hard to say at the time (as time is critical) how much damage is done via fatal brain injury of this nature, and of course at this point next to impossible to say what that will do the the odds and difficulty of future restoration.

Brain injury kept Roy Walford from being cryopreserved, though there it was clearly an extension of his own thoughts on the matter: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/dsp.cgi?msg=24045 I see that as a terrible shame; it is guessing in advance as to the limits of what can be restored.
Things that don't create value eventually collapse.

I don't think customers/employees would work with company if they weren't getting at least some value out of it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirage_Men

This one?
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>Artificial barrier: Something arbitrary synthesized by a party not involved in an A<->B transaction.

Yes, other than:

* Being responsible for the welfare of A and B.

* Being responsible for mediating any disputes between A and B regarding their transaction.

* Being responsible for cracking down on potential fraudulent activity between A and B.

* Providing the medium whereby A and B can discharge their debts.

The government has nothing to do with the transactions. Absolutely nothing.

>Does allowing a company from California hire someone from New York 'drive down wages hurt everyone except the top 1%"? If not why does it suddenly 'drive down wages hurt everyone except the top 1%" when you change New York to India?

Because they're capitalizing on India's relative poverty.
Actually, I am completely serious. This is the map on display in Chinese schools:
http://www.miniharm.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/worldmap....
There are periodic "devastating" events in the valley, maybe not quite as bad but there is a boom-bust cycle in the valley does something similar.

The selection bias for positive outcomes is pervasive. There were many, many apprentices working for guys like Verocchio, and pretty much the only one we know of is Da Vinci.

That said, just because you only hear of the analogies to Jobs/Woz, Ellison, Page/Brin, Gates, Zuckerberg, doesn't mean there weren't plenty of quite successful individuals. Likely, their work was lost as it wasn't of enough lasting value to survive the political and socioeconomic upheaval of a half-millenium, but I want to believe some merely-very-good people did well. Sadly there's no real way to tell...
Sorry the title was too long to submit:

Senators Whine About FCC's 25 Mbps Broadband Standard, Insist Nobody Needs That Much Bandwidth

The FCC wants to define Broadband as 25 Mbps and six senators are against it because they are paid by ISPs in campaign funds.
why is it a technology issue? not that there's never gray area, but this looks like more of a business issue than a technology issue. what's desired there (sending video to a server instance the user controls, instead of a third party vendor's servers) seems entirely feasible with current technology, though not necessarily profitable (or perceived as profitable) by the people willing to sell the equipment.
Do you even info war?
Explorer Henry Worsley dies attempting Antarctic crossing
We've also somewhat institutionalized the belief that all innovation would cease if those laws were even slightly more re-balanced in favor of more redistribution downward.

PG's essay seemed to hint at that kind of thinking, but I couldn't tell if he was advocating against higher taxes on the very wealthy, or whether he was more vaguely saying "don't mess with the startup machine's incentive system" without being specific as to what that means.
Will robots inherit the earth?

Yes, but they will be our children.

--Marvin Minsky http://web.media.mit.edu/~minsky/papers/sciam.inherit.html
The New UI for SaaS
> There's nothing that says you must let immigrants become citizens right away [...]

There's nothing that says you must let immigrants come.

Fixed that for you.
Ironic that he died from cerebral hemorrhage!

EDIT: I find it ironic - as he was my first exposure to the science of mind and thought etc... I find it ironic that his own death was due to a failure of the brain/mind in some way given how much he has contributed to the idea of thought and mind in his career.
The Man Who Forgot Everything (2013)
I reckon Scruffy is good for inventing a new field, Neat is good for pushing it to the limit.
The simplest way is to convert to a green card after being employed for 12 months. Employer is responsible for all legal fees, background check fees, etc. over the course of your employment.

If you quit at day 2, the employer is still on the hook for all the fees.

It can be gamed, but if you make the fees something like 30-40K, genuine employers will simply shrug as they'll amortize that over 3-4 years. Sweatshops, however, will lose bad.
This seems to be highly ideology driven, with a bit of cargo-cult science thrown in the mix.
Hello World, It's Me DELL.COM
Do programmers actually use those keys? I use Home and End in the web browser... but when coding, I just use the close-to-my-fingers shortcuts. Home = C-<, End = C->, Delete = C-d, Page Up = C-v, Page Down = M-v.
I think that thing works for enthusiast projects targeted towards technical users (like, for instance, linux distros), but I have to imagine doing that with a consumer device is a really really bad idea. I'm not sure if this is a great comparison (because it didn't really work out), but people are going to be a lot more patient with, I don't know, something like Firefox OS compared to Android.
Neil Gaiman: How stories last (2015)
This is sad beyond words. He was an admirable genius and a very candid person. May he rest in peace.
Because immigrants have different economic value.

Adding 65,000 day laborers is very different from adding 65,000 engineers.
Exactly. Between solid tech and a massive userbase, Soundcloud once had the monumental opportunity suggested in the article. But they have played their cards quite poorly which means this article is ridiculous.
What about offline support? This is one of the most tricky part.
Is anyone playing with GraphQL outside of js? Am interested in using it for a project at work and wondering what's it like in something lower like c/c++.
A.I. (1981)
We just lost a giant.

Hard to imagine someone more black bar worthy for Hacker News, hope we have one up soon.
> I'm not a constitutional expert but seems to me the one thing that ought to carry the severest penalty is government officials in a democracy deliberately trying to mislead the public about critical issues.

There's nothing in the constitution that requires the government to reveal the existence of classified projects to the public. Would you expect the Air Force to admit that "yes, actually, that's our new stealth plane, the SR-71 Blackbird, don't tell the Soviets" when someone sees one?
I have seen many posts where people are turning off notifications and stop using sync go save battery. Are'nt modern phones give good battery life and allow to use all apps ?? I have all notifications turned on + Greenify + amplify + powernap to save battery. I get 7 hours SOT on nexus 6p
This would also be an excellent way to trace recalls based on defective or otherwise harmful products; though the lot numbers involved would need to be in the transactions.
Agreed. Not trying guarantees failure; trying leaves some possibility of success.
...uh, still comparing apples to oranges, I see, and the American Arbitration Association hasn't published their full dataset, but according to their internal study that contradicts external studies, it's great? Here's a paper that digs into this a bit more:

http://digitalcommons.ilr.cornell.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?ar...

So if people don't have access to legal representation below a certain income level, the solution is not to increase accessibility to courts or to allow them to represent themselves in court, but instead to set up binding arbitration where they also have no representation? Do you feel that in abstraction, a neutral observer would reach that conclusion?
I totally sympathise, the US health system is just a disaster.

YMMV but - I had a US bank account (I was a foreign student, low income) for 10 years. Didn't cost me a cent. Made money on interest, and had a perfect credit rating when I graduated. Found a small community bank that was free provided you kept a minimum balance of $1000. Savings and Loan are an equally valid alternative (not even sure what the difference is got the same service from both - except the S&L would cash foreign checks for free).

Thing is, people think banks are evil for charging 14.5% APR for an unsecured personal loan. But they think these guys are great for charging a minimum of 29% APR - but as far as I could see more like 200%+ for an unsecured personal loan???

Holy math fail batman!

Don't bank with citizens or bank of america, and do your due diligence like you would any other purchase. There are plenty of good banks out there who would be happy to do business with you. Go in, ask to speak to the bank manager, explain your circumstances, ask questions you already know the answer to to calibrate, and treat it like any other business arrangement.

You're right a secured credit card is also better than these guys, they'll only charge you 27%APR or so. Still not as good as a bank.
UFO's are real. There are thousands of such events reported a bit everywhere around the world every year.

Of course, most of them never remain "unidentified" very long: optical illusions, weather balloons, discarded objects from actual identified flying objects, etc...

Too many people associate the term "UFO" with aliens. The two are completely unrelated.
"Delta Force" is not what it's called, either. The Army cycles through bureaucratic sounding names -- "Combat Applications Group" for example -- in order to keep it confusing. "Delta" comes from one of these names -- "Operational Detachment: Delta." This sounds like an unimportant support team for a Special Forces group. "OD: Alpha" is the main team of green berets (aka, "ODA" or "the A-Team"). They are supported by 'OD: Bravo" and "OD: Charlie" (logistics support, etc.). So "OD: Delta" sounded meaningless to an uninformed listener. By the time Chuck Norris made "Delta Force" a known name for the pinnacle of Army Special Ops, they weren't actually called that anymore in reality.
Sure, just like your computer monitor is only ever solid black or solid white because the picture is made of binary bits.
Voters behave like this as well. It's a well studied field.
I've been following Doze closely, there are still a bunch of quirks where Doze either doesn't force hibernate or other apps just keep polling. Also it helps that you had full bars the whole time. Low signal murders battery.
Mea culpa: I used the term "image recognition" very haphazardly. What I meant to say was "the service provides a lot of features that are only possible through heavy analysis of the video."

Have you considered the engineering effort that'd go in providing two different behaviors for the camera?

Let's say we decide to support the simplest case: FTP to your local NAS. How do you format the video for it to be consumable by a normal user? Filling your hard drive with thousands of small video files is not a great experience, so that's a problem. We could buffer as much as we can in-camera and then FTP a biggish (200mb) video file. Now that introduces a delay, because you can't really watch the video until you are done buffering, so no real-timish stream. So you have to come up with a third alternative that provides every other feature the online camera has, because users will complain if their offline experience is different.

Then again, your local NAS might be stolen by the same burglars that broke into your house, and the whole exercise was a waste of everyone's time.

Multiply that for each other possible combination ("I want Dropbox support!", "I want my files to be in an AVI container instead of MP4!", "I want the camera to have a SIM slot so it can send me SMS messages when there's a notification!") and you have a recipe for disaster. You get featuritis, lots of technical effort, and no actual financial incentive to do any of this work. Unless we sell a $700 camera, and nobody wants that.

As a small company, Dropcam had to draw the line somewhere. We didn't want to be the product that provided a solution for every requirement that came our way (and believe me, we've seen all of these before), but rather a good product for people that were happy with:

1) a product that worked as advertised (one day, a group of us were trying to setup a competitor's product: it took 4 engineers over half an hour before we gave up. This was supposed to be a "5 minute setup")

2) a product that evolved over time: running features in the cloud allows you to give new value to device owners without requiring a new device

3) trusting the company to have strict internal processes to avoid unintentional or malicious access to anyone's video (this was not treated lightly: a single case of anyone snooping on someone's stream could completely ruin the trust the users put on us.)
hahahah, yeah.
I agree. The problem is...no one is ever held accountable by violating the Constitution.
Mine are similar:

dssh() {
docker exec -ti $1 /bin/bash
}

dexec() {
img="$1"
shift
docker exec $img /bin/sh -c "$@"
}
Asantoo: Gentoo compiled with AddressSanitizer
As a matter of fact, I've never seen rabbits wearing glasses.
I don't mean democratized in the sense of it being equally distributed, I mean more available for those who can make proper use of it -- not restricted to the elite class.

Technology, education, and capital have been increasingly democratized over time and I think this trend will continue. Technology is the primary reason for this because 1) costs become so much lower that it can be provided for virtually free, 2) new business models can be created that were not possible before.

Now with an Internet connection anyone can create a business.

With things like Coursera, Udacity, Khan Academy, etc education has been more accessible and free.

There are also more options for financing, both from traditional banks being more liberal in their lending as well as new routes like Kickstarter style crowd funding and peer-to-peer lending.

That being said, the distribution for people who will be motivated to educate themselves, work hard, build a business, will stay the same because human nature doesn't change as fast as technology. If various kinds of human attributes / behaviors / motivation fall on a Gaussian distribution, then any kind of leverage will make it sharper (more inequality).

So what I think is going to happen is that inequality will get worse but it will be more fair because it won't be the case that that leverage wasn't available to them, it will increasingly be the case that they just didn't take advantage of it despite having access to it.

That being said, it's a generalization and a trend but the opposite has some weight as well. Yes, capital will pool and that creates concentrations of power. But at the same time, disruptive technologies like Internet based education, P2P lending, etc make those concentrations of wealth irrelevant.

In the long run, technology disrupts and democratizes everything. Google for the 6 D's for a longer explanation

http://bobmorris.biz/the-six-ds-of-exponential-development
I hope not. The black bar has become a meaningless exercise in political posturing.

Edit: allow me to clarify - just having to choose whether or not someone is "black bar worthy" is distasteful. Ian Murdock didn't get a black bar that I can recall, and I don't remember seeing one since then, even though other people relevant to the community have died. Are we to expect someone to change the color of the bar every time a death in the tech community occurs, and how to we judge relevance in that regard?

No, it's an arbitrary gesture that doesn't really honor anything or anyone. It just gives people something to argue about. Why did someone get a black bar and someone else didn't? Why was this person deserving of it, and not that person? It's best to just remove it altogether.
People also forget that vocal communication is "imprecise and slow". Even with the most powerful AI on the planet--other humans.

I can go through your crappy PowerPoint deck in 5 minutes, or I can listen to you drone on badly for 60 minutes.

I ban PowerPoint from meetings where I need communication to occur explicitly because of this. Of course, if we're just "flying the colors" for management, then PowerPoint is required.
It is now several decades later.

Do TensorFlow/CNN builders use random initial configurations, or custom designed stuctures?
Author here. This is currently at the stage of an afternoon thought experiment, but I’m interested in your feedback and help!

Probably the most important open issue is that simple names aren’t a sufficient identifier with a decentralized registry: you need a URL. So once Crom learns how to save package metadata, it should probably map any specified short name (e.g., `d3-format`) into a full URL (https://github.com/d3/d3-format) to ensure stability.

Mutable releases are also a concern, but Crom could save the hash of installed packages so you’d know if anything changed. And of course, since it’s decentralized, you could still have third-party registries that make immutable copies, if that’s your thing.
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>Or is this a guise for xenophobia?

Would you be in favor of increasing the general US immigration cap by 65000 and abolishing H1B completely? Because I would. If you are not in favor of that then perhaps there is a motive to your concern other than racial harmony.
These stories weren't meant to be children's stories. They just became popular as such and have been edited to make them more child friendly to the point that with Disney they're hardly recognizable anymore.
That's an oversimplification of the research, and misleading.

OK, I concede that I simplified there, though I think you’re being a little harsh. When we’re discussing shorter vs. longer functions today, it seems fair to say we’re usually considering scales of perhaps 5 lines vs. 25 lines vs. 100 lines. I did write “longer but otherwise reasonable”, and by the time we’re talking about 200+ lines in a single function, I expect most of us would consider most such functions undesirable for reasons other than their length.

I wouldn't advocate for a strictly short functions either, but the overall body of evidence definitely does _not_ suggest the opposite conclusion: the opposite conclusion would be that we should endeavour to write long functions!

Well, some of the evidence does seem to suggest that that might be a better strategy, within the bounds of common sense and other things being equal.

However, in reality, I don’t think other things are equal most of the time in programming. Personally, I find criteria like having one responsibility and clearly describing how it is met more useful for writing good functions than crude metrics like the number of lines.

Given that there are a lot of correlations between otherwise undesirable features and function length, we should be wary of assuming causal relationships in any case. But we surely shouldn’t be advocating the trendy very-short-functions approach as some obviously superior style when if anything the balance of evidence is against it.