skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My father is a quantity surveyor and Autodesk rules his industry. If you're making, sending or receiving technical drawings of buildings you use Autodesk software (and/or PDF unfortunately). From watching him work I think the biggest feature they are missing is integration with smartphones. That might sound cliche but for a surveyor having an app that helps you measure rooms (like one of these[1]) that tightly integrated with Autodesk software would be hugely useful.

Edit: Another thing they are missing out on is some kind of storage system that integrates with Autodesk. The industries Autodesk are invested in have huge archival needs, and most smaller practices have an old server in the corner running a Windows shared folder that someone set up a while back with an unbelievable volume of huge AutoCAD files clogging it up. Companies would pay a lot of money for an integrated system like that, where they don't need to worry about it and it's easy for their non-technical staff to deal with.

I also remember seeing the old AutoCAD logos around the house when I was a kid and even installed a trial on my first computer, but had no clue what the hell to do. Growing up around anyone in the surveying industry is awesome - they use huge A2/A1 pieces of paper for drawings which quickly become outdated and those are super fun to play with when you're younger (paper planes, massive large-scale drawings etc).

1. http://houseit.com/blog/2015/01/top-5-room-measurement-apps/
> Unity and Unreal, which make their respective offerings available for free

The personal edition of Unity includes a splash screen and cannot be used by a commercial entity making over $100,000 a year.

[1] http://unity3d.com/get-unity
Trading algorithm shows how mass shootings, politics boost gun shares
Klipfolio?
Scalability covers spatial scalability, and so necessarily involves talking about physical size relative to energy stored in this context.
Was on a long motorcycle trip with a few friends. We had left our home in the US and were traversing Canada which, of course, uses the metric system, unlike the US.

As we passed one sign, it said something to effect of "Dawson City 1500km", which I remarked on over the radio as it was a nice round number (and, of course, quite some distance, and a large number you're unlikely to see on a road sign in the US due in part to the greater length of the mile).

My buddy chimed in "ONE POINT FIVE MEGAMETERS"

We laugh about it to this day.
Demand inherently varies at different times of day and different times of the year. Given variable demand, variable pricing is expected. Fixed prices are basically a leftover from when technology didn't support sophisticated metering for time-of-use pricing, and sticks around because people prefer simplicity in pricing.
I'm just a small data point, but I had the distinct "pleasure" of assisting an office-mate in installing one of their products[1]. Now, she's not not particularly computer-savvy, but she can usually install things. It turned out they were doing some sort of absurd web-install thing -- which didn't understand non-IE logins, btw. Even worse, it turned out that if anything interrupted the install process you couldn't resume... and here's where it gets really weird: You couldn't just click the installer executable to restart the download... you had to start THE WHOLE FUCKING "LOG-IN TO AUTODESKS SHITTY SITE TO AUTHORIZE THE DOWNLOAD" PROCESS COMPLETELY OVER. You... couldn't just click on the "install" executable again. Because that's what normal people do. Over and over -- until someone who understands shitty programmers reverse-engineers the typical AutoDesk programmer's thought process.[2]

Soooo much UX fail.

[1] Can't recall exactly what it was: I think it may have been AutoCAD or Rivet, but, no matter... same company.

[2] The people who programmed this should be fired. Even if they programmed it because "management" told them to, they should probably be fired because they didn't fight back enough.
Tableau is for business analysts. ELK is for Sys Admins. I think.
I think many prefer non-violent direct action, for good reason. The cost to the government to spy on you is so low, cryptographically enforcing privacy is the only way to guarantee it.
I see newer social networks that are taking the LinkedIn playbook and making it even worse.

As a recovering academic, I find myself getting incredibly scummy e-mails from ResearchGate which actually purport to be from people I have done research with, putting their name as the sender, without that person even taking any action to send the e-mails. It's a spamming/phishing tactic that for some reason hasn't gotten them banned from the major e-mail services.

How do I know that the person named in the e-mail is not choosing to send these e-mails? Someone I once did research with passed away last year, sadly. He started supposedly sending me ResearchGate invitations six months after he died.
That's very interesting. Thanks.
Sure, and here's a 13 page list of AutoCAD command shortcuts:

https://d2t1xqejof9utc.cloudfront.net/files/17331/AutoCAD_Sh...

This is software with a learning curve. It's set up so that you can learn it and then be very productive. From the number of Linux CLI people on here, you'll find a lot of people who are sympathetic to that.

If you want a friendly UI there's always SketchUp.
Combining characters are defined (in Unicode, at least) to always combine with the previous base character.
We already do large scale grid storage.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pumped-storage_hydroelectricit...

Flywheels are also used for short term demand spikes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flywheel_energy_storage

PS: This is one of those problems that seems a lot more important than it actually is. The current state of the art is fairly cheap and reasonably efficient. Going from 90% to 99% efficiency really does not change much and is a far harder problem.
https://shapeshift.io/ will probably have it once it's off the testnet.
Computers a still far too slow to exhibit any kind of real-time intelligence. I suspect we still need three orders of magnitude improvement.
Have some perspective. It's been a 6 year bull market. This is hardly a correction let alone a crash. You might prove correct, but it's just a guess at this point.
As part of Office 365 it's in E5 ($35) or as an add-on to other levels for $10 (per user per month). There's also a limited free desktop version.

https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/
So you basically injected yourself as a pseudo-landlord, paying yourself with a free room. Makes sense - since you are living there it would be fairly easy to turn down a family (or conversely no family would likely want to share the house with you) whereas it would be tougher for the landlord to turn down a family in preference to a group of 3 unrelated people (discrimination laws and such). It's just that typically young families present themselves as better, more stable tenants than groups of people :)
But it's clearly not, so he sought political asylum in Russia.

No, that's not what happened.

Go back and read the basic chronology of what happened to him after leaving HK, please.
^ This is why Hacker News is worth coming to. Snark and quick dismissal lead to negativity and thoughtlessness, which rapidly kills communities.

Thanks for everything you do, dang.
"Slowly start rewriting all of the stack, and transferring everything to more modern systems designed to be just as long term as their predecessors so that in the event of a replacement being needed it exists."

This process is obvious, and has been going on for decades already.

There are challenges of course, but thinking the problem is coding infrastructure and the lack of "modern" languages like ruby is a category error.
"One such story was from a couple who were out of town when their furnace went nuts and raised the temperature in the house high enough that it melted every piece of plastic in the entire home."

There's just no way that a home furnace can generate enough heat to do that. Sounds like scaremongering to me.
I am involved with a company called EazeUp, that also actively pushes for legalization to happen in the US - and I think precisely for reasons similar to the ones you list.
five people telling in detail horror stories that make every other devop feel the pain?

Check the timestamps of those messages vs mine. At the time there were only the two responses I mentioned.
Is this your real account? And if so does anyone at your current employer know it as yours?
https://www.npmjs.com/package/base65536
I don't think they will actually control anything, once it takes off; just like no single entity really controls Bitcoin.
Thanks for letting me know, but it's still open, right?

Besides, can't we all just get along and accept that I might want to do things in a specific way because I don't need the extra overhead? :)
> The truth is that even the experts don’t completely understand how neural nets work.

I'm no AI/ML expert, but I can't believe this is true... Is it?
It would make a nice acquisition for Microsoft...
Blender's UI is like Vim. If you don't put the time in to learn it, it makes no sense, but if you do it's the most efficient thing ever.
Having to program against its APIs recently:

1. No ability to use a 3rd party auth provider AFAIK, which means either keeping tableau passwords in a database or having users remember two different passwords

2. Embedded views use synchronous requests, which can easily hang the browser. Synchronous XMLHttpRequest has been deprecated for a while. I think I even saw a version of dojo from 2005 being loaded.

3. Reports are either static size or dynamic size, and unless you're using the (clunky but well documented) JS SDK, there's no way to tell.

4. Viewing reports in the browser is sloooooow. Browser console output is filled with warnings.

5. In order to put together sheets from multiple workbooks into a browser-based view, you need to either a) load the jssdk for each of the workbooks and query for sheets, which is extraordinarily slow, or b) do it with the REST api, authentication with which is asinine in nature (see #1).
I'm Done with Macbooks
If they are "very close friends" why dont you just ask them if it was intentional?
Not trying to be dismissive or assume too much, but I genuinely think that Spotify probably runs some analytics to have a general understanding of what low, medium, and high human usage profiles look like. I mean, it just seems logical to me. Most of these cases seem so extreme that even cursory review would indicate suspicious activity.
That's called a towel.
The "spam" we're talking about here is from LinkedIn itself. That is, you give them your contacts, and it will spam them to sign up too.

If gmail started emailing your friends because you used gmail, that would be a good reason to not use gmail.
Denmark have no history of treating it's refugees or asylum seekers that way. They are just doing what Germany, Holland and Switzcherland is already doing. And you should turn it on it's head. The law was made to make sure people don't misuse the danish wellfare system. It's the same rule that apply to it's own citizens.

It is estimated that more than half of the refugees are economic immigrants/refugees not actually refugees. Sweeden is sending back up to 80.000 for exactly that reason. They aren't in any danger.

Claiming that it can be dangerous traveling across Europe is so absurd I don't even know what to say. Is it more dangerous than what they escaped? If thats the case why travel to Denmark? You are contradicting yourself.

Most people who seek asylum are actually muslims so yes.
That's called a shawl.
The human brain contains about 10^11 neurons. Each neuron has about 510^3 synapses, and signals are transmitted along these synapses at an average frequency of about 10^2 Hz. Each signal contains, say, 5 bits. This equals 10^17 ops.*

This kind of nonsense is why no one should take Bostrom seriously. We did not then and do not know even begin to know how to write software to "simulate" a human brain, or whether such a task is even possible with modern day tools. Multiplying random neurobiology stats times 0.5 bits pulled out of your ass == AI in 2004?

We have "AI" that can drive a car or a copter, play Chess or Go, translate speech to text, do image recognition ... but what we mean by human intelligence is something different. And I see no evidence anyone has made much progress developing a truly biological-like AI even at the level of say, a mouse. Which according to Bostrom's math ought to be doable in a 2U chassis by now, right?

If someone does succeed in writing mouse-AI or dog-AI, I'd believe that could be scaled up to human-level intelligence very rapidly. But it's clear to me there's (at least one) fundamental breakthrough missing from the current approach, because my dog can't play chess or drive a car, but he has a degree of sentience and awareness (and self-awareness) that no 2016 AI even approaches.
And he gave it to the media.

That makes it sound like he dumped it indiscriminately.

Which is very misleading.
"... and there was no one left to speak for me"

it may sound terrible, but one shouldn't put one's life into hands of Socialist and Trade Unionists, who might "speak" for us. one should possess a firearm and be able to defend one's life and freedom.
Extremely true.
Some technical ideas are stupid in a trolly way: it's difficult to actually put numbers to the reason this is bad, because you have not actually put forth a proposal, only an idea, and we would require a detailed physical simulation of your proposal to be able to demonstrate with proof "This is a fucking stupid idea".

Nevertheless, design enough things and mess around with energy capture schemes enough and you do develop some intuition in the matter of how hard it would be to implement, how much you would actually get back, how negligible that is. That intuition is screaming at us that this is a waste of time, your idea is bad, and you should feel bad.

What is easy to point out that you're trying to shift the burden for electrical power generation from solar/nuclear/coal, on to scarce and expensive oil, mediated through low efficiency automotive engines, and in the process increase road construction costs by orders of magnitude.

The only free lunch you get in automotive regenerative power for every car that passes, is on the downslope of very long hills at high speed. You can regenerate power here through the wheels (and that's slowly being put into the fleet as we start to use wheelhub motors & large battery banks), or through in-road baffles. You could do the same thing at traffic lights, but they don't have a predictable deceleration curve and speeds are much lower (making it feel choppy) and it's not an environment where you want to mess with people's sense of acceleration, for safety reasons.
Hah, I am really surprised this was the first time? No matter how legitimate it is, I can't see underpaid staff at a WalMart not getting all out of shape when you shop up with $20,000 in gift cards that you want to use to buy money orders. Even after explaining the math to someone I imagine they won't believe you.
The almost worst thing that smart watches do is tell the time.

Back in 1978 i had to press a button to see the time on my digital watch. now I'm doing it again.

When will the makers realise this and move on to the true benefits of wearable technology.
It looks like there's no episodes indexed past season 15, and this quote is from season 20.

https://frinkiac.com/?p=episode&e=S20E14 Should be the episode.
I can't believe how fast it is.
Wow, how much capacitance is that?
A lot of “being smart” consists of getting comfortable with feeling stupid
Abstractly, we understand how neural nets work. However, looking at a specific trained neural net, it can be difficult to determine the exact reason why certain weights are they way they are, and what effect they have on the whole.

Just like how we can know somewhat how neurons work from a modeling perspective, but when you bundle millions of them together, what exactly each one is doing is not quite clear.
Addendum having just looked at the blender "hotkey chart" you linked: That's not a hotkey chart. That's a detailed description of every command with a hotkey.

If you added similar descriptions in the AutoCAD commands list it could probably hit 100 pages.

Besides, if your finger memory hasn't picked up all of blender yet, tap spacebar for command search. As long as you remember vaguely what something's called you'll find it in there.
I'm more concerned with when I can expect to see the regular variety of intelligence.
I think the underlying issue is about rendition flights - so it's relevant to Snowden for historical purposes but is relevant for Assange (another target) for very current reasons today following the UN decision on arbitrary detention.

The original comment therefor seems pretty valid.

Are you saying you don't think it is a valid comment dealing with the underlying issue because it's not restricted to purely Snowden?
Brace yourselves, the redditors are coming.
I agree, that is not the way I feel.

You must remember that relatively speaking compared to Fortran, C is a "modern" language.
Yes, it's available here at the end: https://mxs.sbrk.org/aerodynamic-everything-en.html
> But the business model here seems to be showing growth for the sake of wall street as opposed to growing the business in a meaningful manner.

Welcome to the world. Version 2.0. Codename: pointless.
https://github.com/Spreadsheets/jQuery.sheet/issues/91#issue...

>There has been a big push to move to native Dom rather than jquery, in pretty Much every way. The default wrapper is still jquery, but the internals are 99% dom only. The speed gained from that move are substantial.
A lot of things that were impractical 5-10 years ago are now moving out of the domain of the biggest companies to the smaller ones.

Applications involving computer vision and speech recognition are now buildable by small companies, which will hopefully yield a proliferation of really interesting novel applications.

Sure, we don't have terminator-style AI, but honestly people using the term AI need to shut up, a lot. There is no AI, these days, just massively creaky giant ML systems with a host of ph.d's being thrown onto the fire to keep them running. But the ML applications are super cool.
I think this moral panic (for lack of a better term) is omnipresent because it's actually true to some degree. You can't seriously claim these groups wouldn't benefit from anonymous, secure payment systems. However:

- They already have anonymous, secure payment systems (cash, drugs, jewels, shell companies, etc)

- The cat is out of the bag, so they're going to have it anyway

- These proverbial Horsement do more than just move money around; there's still plenty of room for detective work.

Splitting the atom gave us nuclear power, viable cancer treatment, smoke detectors, and also Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and the threat of radiological terrorism. The proverbial sword is always double-edged.

To make an actual point: I think we'd do well as a community to acknowledge the degree of truth these moral panics hold, because I suspect we frustrate a lot of people by being dismissive of what they perceive to be an apocalyptic problem.
What's new is transparent client-side public key encryption with a database of verified keys.
"The general idea is to decompose web pages into small re-usable chunks of functionality called Pagelets and pipeline them through several execution stages inside web servers and browsers."

Whoa.
Employees whose compensation included stock units (if that's a thing at LinkedIn and I assume it is given the industry) certainly lost something.

If Google's stuck took a hit like that I'd be out a significant part of my compensation.
Fraud is always combatted by making it cost-prohibitive, not impossible. You could write a botnet that plays a random song via 1,000 user accounts 24/7 that looks imperceptible.

It's the same issue Google had with black hat search results. They try to make life hard for people who break the rules and generally don't affect people who follow the rules.

And as long as there's a reasonable alternative, they have a financial incentive to keep the service from onerous restrictions.
I'm afraid this will result in even more spammy emails.
I wonder how that will affect this:

"Tableau confirms big Kirkland expansion, plans to hire 1,000"

http://www.seattletimes.com/business/technology/tableau-conf...
I'm sorry, but it's not possible to know how many fewer people would die each year in the entire country if we did not drive gas-powered cars. It's not possible to tie a case of lung cancer to the fact that cars exist. "If only we drove electric cars charged by solar plants, grandpa would have lived 7 more years!" No, it doesn't work that way. Even if you strapped masks to everyone's face that measured the fumes they breathed from birth to death, you couldn't make a statement like, "If we didn't use fossil fuels, Bob Smith would have lived 5 years longer."

By the way, how about the greatly increased life expectancy brought on by the amenities of modern life made possible by the use of fossil fuels? You know, abundant varieties of food in-and-out-of season, medicines, transportation, HVAC, communciations... the list goes on and on.

If you want to go back to the frontier lifestyle, be my guest. People didn't live very long back then, and life was very hard.
Hi, I'm Ian, one of the scientists behind ZCash, Zerocash, and Zerocoin.

-laptop being stolen:
An attacker will get how much money you have, and if you have kept around the private keys for all your addresses, when and how much you were paid, but not who paid you or who you paid. The attacker can use those keys to go back and decrypt the notifications that get posted to the blockchain that allow you to access a transaction. This gets them how much funds you have been sent and when. It doesn't tell them who sent it unless someone put identifying info in the memo field(e.g.'For Homer Simpson's bar tab'), because senders are anonymous even to recipients. It also doesn't tell them anything directly about who you paid or how much. It does let them identify when you made payments though.

If you move your funds to a new address and delete those keys, then all an attacker gets is your current balance.

- deanonymize every transaction.
We can't. The zero-knowledge proofs(zkSNARKS) we use to hide transaction data are zero-knowledge no matter what. The information simply isn't there.

The confusion is there is an issue with setting things up to ensure we can't forge coins. The zkSNARKs that ZCash uses need to be generated correctly to ensure the proofs are sound (i.e. actually prove what they claim) and someone therefore cannot forge coins. We plan on doing a multiparty computation setup where if at least one party is honest, the parameters are correct. But zkSNARKs provide statistical zero-knowledge without trusted setup. So assuming the software correctly does the protocol, no one can ever deanonymize transactions (see my other comment on post quantum security for the caveats) unless they get your keys.
I saw the headline and immediately thought: Gopher? Do people still use that over HTTP?
Gh-nag: Never forget a PR or issue again
We understand how they work mechanically, but not why they work from a theoretical stand-point (which is I assume what you're trying to say by "abstractly").

Why it is that ASGD and backprop converges on a non-convex optimization problem, and what kinds of model topologies make it do better / worse? That's all basically art right now.
>full personal info

>access to private repos

>read and write access to github

that's a little too much
but thanks for the suggestion
I use pilbox on production behind CloudFront and I like it very much. Couldn't be happier with the results. I suggest you to take a look as well - http://agschwender.github.io/pilbox/