skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Those are modular homes. And they can be just as well-built as traditional "stick-built" homes. The base pricing on them is really attractive, but the cost (and value) is in all the options.

Part of what makes them attractive is that the assembly on your lot goes really quickly, so the chance of exposure to damaging weather (and thieves/vandals) goes way down compared to traditional homes.
The Temptation of Co-Working Spaces
About 15% of Google's searches are handled by Deep Learning using neural networks.
But that's cheating, isn't it? I'm quite sure the quote the article starts with that mentions six degrees means that that is the maximum.
So why go to the UK at all in the first place?
>Error establishing a database connection.

I award OP the "Most Accurate Title Of The Day" Award.
No. If western countries let in 'everyone' who wants to come, they'd be horribly, horribly over-populated and huge swaths of the world would never develop.

The problem is (if you like game theory), that it's in everyone's personal interest to migrate somewhere richer. However, if everyone does that, wherever they came from experiences such massive drain that it'll be worse off. From a purely pragmatic standpoint, unlimited immigration is a poor 'equilibrium' for all involved. 'Developing' nations will never develop, and developed nations will face massive over-crowding.

The reason the west currently allows immigration in the numbers we do is because it's an easy way to get skilled, motivated labour - at once allowing for economic growth as well as driving down the relative cost of labour.

Freedom to travel/migrate should be a human right, however there are many problems with that, considering the current state of the world.
How the Simpsons Screenshot Search Engine Frinkiac Works
You need the NVIDIA drivers and the nvidia-docker plugin.

$ docker-machine create --driver amazonec2 --amazonec2-instance-type g2.2xlarge ...

$ docker-machine ssh <host> # install the NVIDIA driver and nvidia-docker-plugin

$ eval `docker-machine env <host>`

$ ssh-add ~/.docker/machine/machines/<host>/id_rsa

$ NV_HOST="ssh://ubuntu@<ip>:" nvidia-docker run mybuild/tensorflow

Step 2 can be skipped if you use a custom AMI.
Wow... in my countries, doctors are by far the best paid among "standard" professions, and most make about that amout - working 2 or 3 jobs and being terribly overworked as well, but I'm sure their standard of living is much better.

And many are tempted to move to Brazil or other countries. So I guess she should try to move (unless she likes the UK a lot).
The fact that even two or three years ago (pre 2012 for sure) tagging anything with AI outside academia was a surefire recipe for ridicule should make anyone very wary of something that explicitly advertises as such. It is convenient branding, but in research we are so far from something resembling the "promise of AI" that it is a little bizarre to advertise with that heading. Statistical learning techniques are great, but taking these tools into production in any robust way is hard.

There are a few people I personally trust to talk reasonably about such things (for example, OpenAI appears to be on the right track by and large), and as far as I know Grid is not associated with any of these people.
Do you think React Canvas is a thing you could have used?

https://github.com/Flipboard/react-canvas

I've still not had a chance to play around with it, but the Flipboard mobile site looks phenomenal.
Yes. Furthermore, there is no air hockey.

The winning design is a maglev.
For a different spin on that example, say you sold a directory of crack dealer's phone-numbers called 1800-dragon-chasers. It seems clear its aiding in a criminal enterprise and not a totally innocent knowledge product. I wonder if you could be charged for that.
I'd agree with this. (I also briefly lived in a socialist paradise myself.)

I'm not a fan of capitalism, but everything else has historically been worse. The only pre-capitalist system that may have worked well was distributism, but that was under an aristocratic rule.

I think the modern fair market issues we have in all 1st world nations isn't a feature of capitalism - it's the failure to reign in plutocratic tendencies.

Democratic nations have a tendency to ignore oligarchs as they initially grow industry and produce lots of growth. Long term though, they tend to become parasites on the budget and political vampires.
TL;DR:

Backup servers no matter where hosted, because two is one and one is none.
Great idea. But why limit it to just Foreign workers? Just think how Uber they would be if they would just encourage anybody to use their EU passport and move to Elbonia if they don't pull down $50k.
Fair enough.

Perhaps we can agree that there isn't enough transparency on the creditor side. You and I are creditors in that we have 401ks or money in pension funds. Do we know what is happening with that money? Not really.

Is it then fair that we have to take a haircut on our (guaranteed safe) savings if a bank screws up our investments?
"Renting gives people who already have a home incentive to build new housing."

I doubt that's something that's actually needed. There's already plenty of incentive for that.
I uninstalled Facebook app from my phone. Don't miss it at all.
I have muted all the Whats App group conversations, as it is mostly recycled jokes. I still get notifications from individual friends trying to contact me.
I thought it was a pretty clever way to kill off the H-1B visa program. The downside is that the end result is probably just more companies outsourcing entire departments instead.
Skyrim's dev tools (the mod kit) should give you a hint. At least I know with Morrowind you could get a good idea of their naming conventions.
Given the glacial pace of Swarm development, it's not going to be a serious contender in this space anytime soon.
The Halligan is vim. Has weird modes of usage, and takes some explaining. But it is stable, ever-present, and all-powerful.
Thanks for the link. That made my day. =)

Here's a more realistic comparison between classic Java OOP design vs the more data-oriented approach to design encouraged in functional languages like Clojure for a simple board game:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tb823aqgX_0

TL;DW:

The classic OOP design of the board game ended up with 22 classes, 11 interfaces, 1 enum in total, with 271 lines of pure skeleton code with no implementation of any game logic whatsoever. The class diagram can be seen here for a better sense of the complexity involved: https://youtu.be/Tb823aqgX_0?t=688

The data-oriented design had 31 functions, longest of which is 7 lines, with a grand total of 144 lines of code that implements the entirety of the game logic.
I had the same issue on my phone. Unable to switch to a dumb phone because of job requirements. Along with using some sort of ritual, I use an app on my phone called "forest" (iphone). Does a pretty good job of locking me out of distracting apps for chunks of time.

I like this question. I'll see what other better answers come out out of it.
5% is more than 0. And over time, it does grow.
Tango's CEO takes its struggling messaging app back to basics
mcsherry is hilarious. best line:
"I will present a third option: The authors could take a fucking stats class and stop intentionally misleading their readers"
No, you're totally right. But Billy the Programmer who first looks at containerizing his application (or dev environment or whatever) is going to choose Docker, because that's what everyone else is doing. Not to sound trite, but most people defer technical decisions to other people. This is the reason so many Windows machines exist, and why it has such a huge market share: End users don't know and don't care, they just pick what the manufacturer installs on the device. They are outsourcing their technical decisions (exactly like most distros did with systemd and the Debian TC). It's the classic appeal to popularity, which is totally how most people (even technical people) make the decision of which software to use.
My blog is up again.
Every now and then I just delete the phone apps I think I'm using too much. If it's a stock app you could just put it on the kiddie block list instead, that's probably enough hassle to undo to make you think twice before impulsively falling into the email hole or whatever.

Come to think of it maybe I should delete Tweetbot from my phone for a while. It feels about time.

Coming at it from the other end, I find that the "Pomodoro Technique" [1] of timeboxing works pretty well to keep me on task, when I go through the whole ceremony of picking up the cute ladybug-shaped kitchen timer I've modified by painting out anything beyond 25min, giving it a twist, and having that kinesthetic memory plus the soft ticking reminding me that I have A Thing I Have Promised Myself I Will Work On For This Block Of Time.

I haven't been doing that much lately either. I should start doing it again.

1: http://pomodorotechnique.com
> This is just not true. Not all functionality enabled by XUL can be executed with Web Extensions. Perhaps this will be so in the future.

We should be careful to separate XUL-the-layout-system from XPCOM (really, Firefox's XPCOM components). The layout features of HTML and standard CSS have entirely superseded the layout features of XUL in the ways that matter. (There are some exceptions—the tree view control is often cited—but there are lots of HTML substitutes for these things, and XUL has so many problems that on balance the downsides outweigh the upsides at this point.)

What you're actually referring to is the XPCOM components provided by Firefox. It is true that Web Extensions, as of this moment, do not replicate all of that functionality. However, as I said before, that isn't a valid argument that XUL should be kept around forever any more than the fact that 16-bit DOS apps have direct control over the hardware is a valid argument that DOS support should be kept around forever.

> For example, why are Web Extensions mutually exclusive to XUL extensions?

Well, they aren't. But the reason for Web Extensions is to deprecate XUL extensions, and the reason for deprecating XUL extensions is that XUL is legacy, insecure tech.
Re: the pricing and accuracy: maybe there are humans on the other end... ;-)
It does a great job of getting you from zero to an app, but it breaks down terribly once you try to do anything custom with it. The fact that it hides code from the developer drives me nuts.
I use wiki for stuff the team would care about. But asking this for personal use. For eg, there might be some git commands that I learned that I want to write down, everyone else may not really care about it/ may already know it.
It sounds like he set his story too near in the future. Set your story 25-50 years into the future and then you can make reasonable predictions and avoid political things ruining them, for the most part (until a couple of decades have passed). Scottish independence could still happen, just not in the next couple of years. But in 30 years, it's possible. That far out, the state of the entire EU is in serious doubt.

Look at 2001: A Space Odyssey for example. In 1969, it looked like a fairly reasonable prediction of what things would be like in 2001 (42 years away), given the rate of change at the time in aerospace technology. By 1974, it still didn't look too bad. It didn't start looking overly optimistic until probably the late 80s, 20 years later.

Also, if Stross is one of those writers who makes multi-book story arcs spanning over a decade (like Herbert did with the Dune series), that's a sure recipe for total failure when doing near-term sci-fi. Stuff just changes too fast; Herbert's stuff worked sorta-Ok because Dune was set 8000 years in the future (IIRC), but even there one big premise was the idea of genetic memories, which were postulated when he started, but eventually disproven with greater knowledge of genetics, probably before he finished his last book.

This is stuff like Blade Runner worked well: it was a singular story, set about 35 years into the future. At the time, it looked like a somewhat reasonable depiction of 35 years in the future, though rather grim. Of course, now it's almost 2017 and things don't look anything like that, so it's interesting to watch from a historical perspective. It is a little disturbing that they now want to milk it with a sequel after all this time, when obviously things aren't going to look anything like that in 1 year, but I guess I can ignore it like I ignore the Matrix sequels.
rkt imports docker images quite well, so by using rocket you might get a "best of both worlds" type benefit.
Android L runs fine on a tepid single core ARM CPU with an equally unexciting GPU. I'm using a SoM like that in an embedded system. It should run fine for many years and several Android updates. High end handset specmanship is completely disconnected from actual system requirements.
> There's just no way in hell Steve Jobs would be putting up with this and I wish he was alive to tear some people a new one.

Remember Antennagate? The iPhone 4 had a serious hardware fault that significantly degraded it's signal. Jobs himself was the one who said to a customer "You're holding it wrong"
> There are many intercity distances for which a plane is sub-optimal but could definitely benefit from a faster terrestrial solution.

Can you explain the benefit of faster solutions to package delivery over the proposed network? Coast to coast is not likely given the layout. Many of the regions shown already have a network of supply centers that serve the local area. It seems like a much better investment would be automated delivery vehicles for the terminal delivery phase.

> you don't have to fill a whole jetliner to make it cost effective.

Is there a reference in any of the documents that show the cost of shipping good via the hyperloop? Is there any references to maximum capacity of the hyperloop given safe distances between cars?
Obama to propose $10-a-barrel oil tax
Years is still a long time to measure the lifespan of a laptop. Plenty of less-expensive laptops fail at the one-year mark, some fail at two, some laptops equally as expensive as a Macbook will fail before five years are up. Some Macs fail before five years, some last beyond that.

And five years is a long time when it comes to computers.
> single store sounds great from the conceptual point of view, but I'm not sure about the performance one

But the Redux "single store" is actually a composition of multiple stores, each with its own reducer function. Performance-wise, it's actually better than vanilla Flux, because, when an action causes N stores to change with vanilla Flux, you can get up to N renders of your components (depending on how many stores they subscribe to). At least, with Redux there is only one render when the whole store has been updated.
There's a big difference between default (one party not paying because of difficulty or choice not to) and a deliberate mass social decision to say "oh, let's just forget the whole debt thing" across the entire economy.

Lumping the two cases together is an unjustified equivocation.
> we will only have 'smart' TVs to chose from.

Maybe but right now, I just paid almost a $200 premium for 'smart' Samsung TV. Everyone in my family, hates the UI and complained about missing channels compared to our Roku and Chromecast. $35 later and everyone is happy again.
Research is largely conducted in two areas:

1. In academic institutions where grants are the core source of funding. In order to get funding (and extensions of it) you need to have publications (the more the better) in "high impact" journals. Over the years these journals have become the property of big publishing companies - hence the profit motive and the paywalls.

2. In industry labs, research findings are a source of competitive advantage and thus carefully guarded to maximise profit and to obstruct potential competitors. Patent protection is typically sought out as soon as any results from research are patentable.

In principle scientists share their findings, but the organisations that they work within are motivated by the usual business imperatives. Once you are employed in academia, you have good access to the paywalled material.

Depending upon your field of interest there may be some open access resources available. Furthermore, if you directly contact authors and ask nicely, they might send you copies of their work on a P2P basis.
How to Practice Creativity: Tools to Kickstart Your Imagination
That looked interesting but I didn't need the most important functionality it provides (click/touch handling, fancy text rendering, etc) so I stuck with just using the Canvas API. It's pretty simple to do in React: https://gist.github.com/thomasboyt/bcc496c823a01ac5f648
I'm well aware that this could happen with any hosting provider. Sooner or later everyone will encounter this kind of problems.

Forewarned is fore armed!
Having a Pomodoro [1] app on your desktop/laptop helps. It sounded lame to me initially (do work in 25 min chunks), but it seems to work for me.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomodoro_Technique
Could quantum mechanics be wrong? Yes.

Are we going to discover that by surveying 100 infertile guys? No.
Because the objective of scientists is to get tenure, grants, and publish in top journals.
That Uber ad was seriously misleading and annoying when I was traveling last month. I wanted to walk across the city. WALK. I get directions, it gives me a route and a time, it seems quicker than I expected, but not by too much. Start moving and look at it while I'm going and realized they wanted me to get in a car. The time it would've taken a driver to get to me, I'd have been halfway to the destination on foot.

Don't insert ads into an app in a way that misleads users. You'd be pissed if you opened a book, started reading at Chapter 1 and found that the first 3 chapters you read were just a tease of another book, yours starts on Chapter 4.
Switch off all notifications to start with. That's an easy first step.
Which features would a dumb phone need for you to consider to switch?
Haha :-) It's up again.
Still waiting on Ansible to make the jump. As far as I can tell it's not even on their roadmap, which is a bit crazy given that _almost_ everyone else has solved this by now.

This may not be a blocker for the rest of our stuff though, since ansible can install its own python 2 on servers automatically.
Workplace surveillance's future: RFID tags, hormone tracking and mood monitoring
There are a number of excitation pathways for organic molecules in water across the spectrum. These resonances will, generally speaking, relax thermally. Of course, the medium is salt water, so dielectric heating is the dominant effect of kHz - GHz RF irradiation, far above and beyond whatever heat is dissipated by the absorbance of distinct molecular resonances.
I like this, thanks.
I could give you all my ideas but you'd say they're impossible and even if you liked them you'd never complete them anyway.

To be creative, you have to just create. Just find something small and work on that if you need a place to start.

One of my favorite projects was a (not illegal) archival site building off a private p2p tracker php app and writing a custom software that would automatically download and virus scan any uploaded torrents, and then approve the listing with the virus scan results.

If anything fishy had ever popped up, the plan was to remove it later. My partner and I were really the only ones who uploaded anything tho :P
I don't think it's the stock market. If anything, it's the CEO not focusing on making products that make people's lives better and instead focusing on what everyone else in SV (and the tech industry in general) is making.
>>Apple has the resources to approach software like aerospace. Formal interface specs, heavy Q/A, tough regression tests, formal methods. It's expensive, but Apple ships so many copies that the cost per unit is insignificant.

They don't have the time, however.
It seems clear its aiding in a criminal enterprise and not a totally innocent knowledge product.

What if I'm selling it to the police or to NGOs looking to help drug addicts?
You don't need to port Dockerfiles to anything actually if you don't want! rkt supports running Docker images, so you can keep using your Dockerfiles and the Docker build system if you wish.

However, you can build rkt images (ACIs) from scratch using any build system you like if you still wish (as detailed in the blog post).
I suspect people rooting and writing their own apps pushed them as well. If they didn't control the 3rd party apps, other people would.
I have never had as many ideas as after I had kids (and got married)

Children alone brings in a lot of first hand experience and perspectives which have manifested in lots of ideas around products, services etc. both for kids and their parents.

But also bigger areas.

But I think it boils down to priorities.
Mysterious spike in WordPress hacks silently delivers ransomware to visitors
+10 ! Your suggestion is great! A good strategy to follow for anybody who is seeking to accelerate their progress through the hierarchy.
They had to make space for the YC portfolio companies getting $250k of credits ;)
> Savings accounts are FDIC insured up to $250,000.

Where do you think this insurance comes from?
Agreed, believing these types of articles outright plays into my own confirmation bias (aka I'd really like to believe this stuff), but really my goal in sharing this to HN was to hopefully have an open discussion and hear the variety of well-articulated views this community is infamous for :)
Is speech recognition a viable technology for business?
This is the most trivial of all the changes introduced in Python3.

If you'd said something about string encodings, you might have got sympathy from someone...
As the site clearly states, this is the top 360 projects in terms of downloads on PyPI
> Studies also indicate a continuous decline in testosterone (in males) over 20th century. I'd welcome someone correct my biological knowledge, but I would guess that testosterone influences production of sperm, not the other way round. So they're probably studying the wrong thing.

Yup. And our society also happens to encourage activities which lower testosterone levels (various things like inactivity, weight gain, poor sleep and stress all sap testosterone levels).
"This site shows Python 3 support for 360 most downloaded packages on PyPI"
I understand your frustration, but you are not going to win any support or convince anyone to read somewhat obscure economic literature by being caustic and attacking old ideas simply for being old.

How would you structure society and how would this work in a more efficient manner than the government that we have now? If you a) define the problems and b) give me some tangible examples of how you/these authors think we should fix these problems I'm more than happy to read and think about them.
I definitely wouldn't recommend DO's built in backup service in production based on my experience. It brings my site down every week since all I/O freezes during the backup. Sometimes the droplet doesn't recover and needs a hard reset. Apparently it's a known issue but hard to fix.
Search engines must provide links themselves.