skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I read through the repo and it's basically a page about his work. There's very little there that isn't totally objective. Cults tend to go on and on about things that either don't exist or are being attributed great powers that are, at best, not objectively verifiable, or at worst, are objective refutable. This seems to have neither.
Quick update, if you prefer to have more of a conversation than Tweeting @sparkpost allows, we do have a Slack channel available here:

http://slack.sparkpost.com/
On that note, while idly looking into SD readers for the 3.5" bay, i came across one that could dock a 2.5" SATA drive.

http://www.akasa.co.uk/update.php?tpl=product/product.detail...
Excellent summary and some good points made, thanks.
People use us over Bitly because they earn rewards. What we know from the feedback we've received is users don't like seeing blatant ads (ex. banners) on the page. Our response has been to syndicate other content the user has shared; so far the design has received a some praise and nobody has complained (whereas w/ ads we received complaints), but the change hasn't been live for long (less than a month ago we were showing ads).

The money in a publisher deal flows opposite of the direction you described. They would pay us to get their content syndicated on the interstitial. From my limited knowledge, ad sales for bigger publishers start from 10k and go up, which means we need to guarantee (at $1 CPM) 10M impressions. Currently the service does about 3M monthly impressions, so we're not quite there yet.
Hack Day 2016: Tackling Challenges in Four Places at Once
From their blog posts and forum discussions, I have the impression BC was not exactly enthusiastic about the Pi to start with, but got convinced only after Pi v1 become a hit. Perhaps there is still some reluctance and resistance inside BC? After all, they did take ~3 years to upgrade from ARMv6 to ARMv7 while all the other SBCs were already using ARMv7 cores much earlier.
I think you're being a little too literal here.
Penalizing the language because the people who use it really like the creator seems like an odd way to approach languages.

That said, I will say that Rich's talks and his approach resonate with me in ways that none of those other guys you mentioned do.

It may just be how he chooses to structure his talks and how he expresses himself, but his willingness to both critique existing systems and provide (arguably) better solutions is really refreshing. I don't see that being communicated well in other talks.
what does "citing" here mean? in my experience if a job has, say, ruby, odds are it's a ruby job, if it has python often it's a job on something completely different where at the bottom they put "familiarity with scripting (python, perl) is an asset"
I'll go with "It works until it doesn't."

That was my experience with calorie tracking in MyFitnessPal. Did it for months, had a solid streak, then skipped a couple of days while traveling. I've done it on and off since then, but never got reliably back on the tracking wagon.
Sneakerheads are the right people! The good news is that you are going after a very well-defined segment. The ones online are easy to reach - the read the same blogs, hang out in the same online forums.

What if you went to the bloggers who are writing these posts? They might find the app even more useful than normal consumers, and they have large audiences they could advertise it to.

Phin Barnes might be a good investor someday, but he won't do the work for you, which is to get sneakerheads using the app. Once you've got passionate fans in the sneakerhead community, you should go talk to him.
A lot of current politicians would class any paper about climate change, or the dangers of fracking, as "lobbying or influencing policy."
I have. Last company I was the first the join, was acquired by a bigger startup, and left at 120 employees. I'm currently starting my own company.

Maybe idea is the wrong word. Vision? Strategic plan? Narrowly-focused execution with an emphasis on coherence? Facebook and MySpace are the same idea, but vastly different companies, no matter when you compared them. Communicating all the things you do differently isn't something that you can do with a website or a quick chat with a single employee. That structure of shared ideas is important, and in small companies, it's basically all that exists. Comparatively, the code and customer base replaceable.

And anybody can leave, at any time, in the same way that I'm allowed to fire anybody or sell the company with a provision to devalue the equity. There's a million ways for us all to screw each other. There needs to be trust in the company, because if you're just after short term cash, there's way better ways to find it than startups.
Stop Worrying about Deep Learning-Deepen Your Understanding of Causality Instead
Isn't that what the 'Confusion reigns' in the title referring to?

FTA:

"On 6 February, the government announced that any groups in receipt of public money will be banned from using those funds to attempt to influence either the government or Parliament."

"In theory, this could mean that scientists at UK universities are not allowed to tell ministers what the policy implications of their work are, or respond to consultations that touch on their area of interest — potentially removing their ability to comment on everything from climate change to medical regulation."

I'm not 100% sure on how the UK works, but in the US, if there is some new research that is done, and I'm invited to White House (or even to meet with a local senator, or give a talk as a conference with government personnel present), it's likely that the money to travel, speaker fees, etc are paid with grant money. This is generally 'normal'. What's the point of doing any research when I can't actually talk about the results with the people who are most likely going to be able to use it (since they paid for it)
Finally, a language that exposes Go's polymorphism abilities to the user!
This girl's dad is a noted web designer in Detroit and a good friend of mine. If you're homeless in Detroit and in the minority of people who aren't addicted to drugs and alcohol there are precious few resources available to help you.
The page is basically The collected works. I have The Complete Works of Mark Twain, that doesn't make me a cult follower. The same with this page.
It seems to me that Beeminder has put a ton of thought and effort into the experience that triggers a penalty with the user always in control. I see this as much more flexible than the non zero day app. It also appears that beeminder has a freemium offering and this payment/penalty is a feature more than the whole point. In other words, I see the charges on beeminder to be similar to paying for extra lives on candy crush as a one time in app purchase... as opposed to model that the pricing gimmick is basically the core offering.

Edit: cool app btw, gonna give it a try :)
I don't think they did: the confidentiality period is now 45 days only by default, see http://acbcert.com/documents/misc-docs/Memo-Short-Term-Vs-St...

Certification took place at Track (now Element UK) on 2015-11-23, given the external picture dates, or 95 days ago, so it looks like it has been extended once.
Yeah good point, upon rereading that comment he's just saying he didn't invent it, not that he's never used it. But he calls it "the dumbest non-idea", which would suggest he doesn't think very highly of it...
You need a great developer. You can't offer more salary than Google or Facebook, so you have to offer a mission that they believe in. I think your mission would be really exciting for the right person -- you just have to find them.

Tip: if you're in the Bay Area, there'll be a lot of developer/artists here this weekend: http://grayarea.org/event/deepdream-the-art-of-neural-networ...
Conservatives in the UK are not alone; they're taking a page from the Tories in Canada where Harper did the same thing.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/faq-the-issues-around-muzz...
Interesting idea.

What are the existing apps like for this? Why are they lacking? What's your insight?

Would this be a paid app or ad supported?

On a technical note, do you have a way to get the data on the venues? Especially cost? If you do that sounds interesting. You might start with a simpler service: Search for event venues within a certain budget.
There's this man-on-the-street video where people at an organic vegetable market are asked to sign a petition outlawing Di-Hydrogen Monoxide. Many do, as they are advised it so corrosive that it cuts through rock!

I'm starting to think gov't spying is the techie's equivalent boogieman. I fear this is born out of a shallow understanding of dystopian surveillance state sci-fi.

Currently, law enforcement can already intercept your calls and emails - Yes that means compelling your teleco provider with extra work. They can already come into your house and take anything they want: read any document, open any safe. All provided they have a court order. If they do any of this without a court order then they go to jail. And all the evidence collected illegally gets thrown out from being used against you.

Because we have standards for what can be used as evidence in a trial, we continue to have liberty, not because law enforcement has been kept in the dark technologically speaking. In fact, it's some of the least technologically advanced societies - like N. Korea and Afghanistan (under Taliban i.e. banned music) that come to resemble sci-fi surveillance states.

Finally: your smartphone's logs, your DNA, public surveillance video are far far far likelier to exonerate you if you're innocent than wrongfully convict you. We're thinking about this issue all wrong and technology will continue to play a role of helping the traditionally disenfranchised resist police over-reach - think what portable cameras have done to police interactions already.
Colorize black-and-white photos
Without looking for veggies that don't need pollinators, in a pinch, sprout your grain, although that won't take care of your Vitamin C requirement. Better, as some POWs held by the Japanese in WWII did, use a bacteria or mold to convert the starch to sugar, then culture yeast in that. By the end of the war, they were healthier than their guards.
The world-wide web of the mid-to-late 90s is a qualitative improvement over the internet of 45 years ago. Heck, when I was a kid, ubiquitous videoconference (on non-mobile terminals!) was Science Fiction. Today, when someone sees me VC'ing with my mom at the other side of the planet, using a thin screen I can hold in my hand, it's just a dull urban thing.
Is a ceramic wifi antenna's range comparable to that of a regular PCB antenna?
True, they called it HiMD. The drives could also up-format the older MD disks to get a bit more storage.

That said, i think there was a version of the original MD format sold as a data drive in Japan. I think Sony had a model or two of their Vaio laptops with it built in.

That said, what basically sunk the format was slow write speed and that the Sony Music tail was basically wagging the Sony Electronics dog. The MD was from day one laden with DRM, and the HiMD took it even further (want to put those MP3s on there? Had to format convert to Atrac via some crazy program. And the only way to get them back out was via the analog hole).

This just at the time as large capacity flash was coming to market, and you could dump any random MP3 onto them with a drag and drop operation.
Do you not try to negotiate then? BB is within their range, and presumably you can argue why you're more deserving than the lower end of their scale. Why would they not go for BB?
I wonder what people's thoughts are on Scott Adam's "Systems vs. Goals" approach? It would see compatible with a mini-habit approach.

http://blog.dilbert.com/post/102964992706/goals-vs-systems
Thinking of demographics is kind of a big company way of looking at things; you're not ready for that.

For now you should focus on finding any users that want to use it. The way to do that is to try to distill the value proposition. Why would people use WebArcs instead of going to an aggregator (Reddit, HN), another news reader (Pulse, flipboard), or content sites directly?

Then, show it some people and get some feedback. See if you can get people to use it as their default way to surf the web. If you can get even one person to do that (other than yourself), you've made some progress.
It'll be interesting, given the state of Broadcom wifi drivers on linux.
Yes, you're right. It's not sexy for business but for Wikipedia (for example) it can be enough.

It can also be a tool for programmers or geeks (like markdown). It's more a niche.
It looks like the ceramic antenna is the light brown SMT between the DSi connector and the upper left hole in the top view pictures.
As a younger programmer, it has nothing to do with being "programmers". It's just that we've never had the opportunity to experience working in a private office with a door that closes. If you have nothing to compare it to, working in an open environment seems fine.
Gopher was the coolest thing on the internet when I first came online with the advice of The Whole Internet Catalog [1]. Eventually, I found Project Gutenberg and gopher became the second coolest thing.

[1]: a printed book!
> They can introduce you to God, bridging for a time the seemingly unbridgeable gap between the human and divine spheres of existence.

Well, they can give you an experience where you think you've met God. Any relationship to a God who actually exists in reality is purely coincidental.

> Perhaps more importantly, they can help you get to know yourself. Your real self, defenses down, moat drained, drawbridge lowered. Because they encourage such ruthless honesty, these molecules are ideal mirrors for the art of self-reflection.

They can show you the truth about yourself. Or they can show you a lie so vividly that you believe it.

Psychedelics as a way to find truth is a sucker's game.
Thanks— I suspected as much. I'm in LA but even the prospect of finding events like this is very smart. Cheers.
No it wouldn't cause anything at all. Nobody sane would sue for that because they might as well be taking a pile of money and setting it on fire.
Perfect metaphor. Now go file off the serial numbers to some handguns and see how well your civil disobedience goes.
Ramsey Nasser's languages in Arabic:

Scheme-like: https://github.com/nasser/---

Ruby-like: http://animalnewyork.com/2014/artists-notebook-ramsey-nasser...
>> SOCIAL CONTRACTS (sovereign, high-trust) is the basis of the authority of sovereign territorial monopolies. Essentially theological in nature, unwritten, undefined, unconsented to. Institutionally epitomized by a Head of State, or “Leviathan”.

I've been thinking of something similar, basically a formal language to hold authorities accountable and consistent in their actions. Sort of an instruction set for government.

But, realistically speaking, trying to put an API on top of human behaviour is not easily done and it will most probably not lead to more happy humans.
Haha thanks! Pretty big topic, anything in particular? Time management? Focus? General things we learned?

On the technical side, big multicore Xeons and SSDs have made it possible to run a veritable server farm in only a few physical machines recently.
The departure of the modern web from text that has links -> full heterogeneous application suites that run in an elaborate VM has been wonderful for users of desktop applications, in that they no longer need to maintain several stacks of software, but just their browser.

However - those who enjoyed text + links were left behind. I really just wanted text with some links. Thinking about setting up my own websites as a gopher site, just don't know the best ways to proxy it back to HTTP best.

I think pocket, instapaper, readability etc were all essentially peeks into a style of web we could have had where content presentation was something a user has decent control over.
>Back in the day they had to close their eyes and ignore. Now in the day they craft software that ignores and filters out toxic behavior before it even gets to their eyes. ;) You think we're regressing?

Yes, I do.

Software could have been, and always can be, improved at the "regex level" (finding bad worse, slanderous words, etc.) but the money is now in catering an experience to where things one simply disagrees with can create a false positive as "toxic behavior." And it often does.

The dialogue has completely regressed, and will continue to do so as long as catering to as wide an audience as possible is the Modus Operandi of Internet 2.x

And it's quite simplistic to write off the past as "closing ones eyes and ignoring." At the very least, IRC channels had moderators.
As someone who is about to embark on a similar route, that's interesting and exciting to hear. Was it both Android and iOS? If so, how much of the codebase/time was spent on shared code versus needing to write platform-specific portions?

I've seen the Facebook post about developing Ads Manager (though it glosses over some details), but it would be interesting to hear other people's experiences.

https://code.facebook.com/posts/1189117404435352/react-nativ...
Another one in which it works really nice
https://audio-analysis-application-starter-kit.mybluemix.net...
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10864801
If Samsung distributes Android in their devices, they can be held responsible. Were companies not responsible for third-party products they distribute, Ford could include infringing patented Tesla technology in its products by buying from some disposable company like "12345678 Ltd." in China and claiming "well, they sold it to us; go after them".
Are you sure that's the antenna? It looks more like it'd be a balun. It even has what looks like a feed line going to the keepout that's right next to it. I feel like the one in the picture is missing the actual antenna.
I also want USB slave/device/OTG. I've been running a BeagleBoneBlack which does have it.
I think you vastly underestimate how far those guys would go to eek out every last bit of practical performance.

Going with second rate option simply doesnt work when you're spending hundreds of millions per machine on the high end.

I mean do you really think it told really be easier to port a thousand heavily optimized applications/libs CUDA to OpenCL than the handfull of librsties that dont alrady work with BSD from Linux?!
I've heard worse from a pull request on an open source project.
Nono! Typesafe, I mean Lightbend, declared that random strings of symbols are just method names, so no need to worry about that operator overloading thing! Except methods with ":" in the name tend to work differently wrt. precedence.

(Look, I'm not on a crusade against Typesafe/Lightbend, but they've been hugely disingenous on a lot of things like this. I could have accepted it if they'd just said "yes, it's operator overloading, but better". Instead they chose this ridiculous disingenuous "nono, it's just method names!" approach. In my book, the only people who can get away get arbitrary method/function naming are the LISP/Scheme people. Because in LISP/Scheme there is no precedence to worry about.)
I'm curious. Do others see this (among other faults) as a criticism and attack on everything masculine? It's pretty thinly veiled to pretend to be egalitarian.

Unicorns and rainbows, every reference is to a woman, how girls are suppressed, bad behaviour is like "football" fans. They even slipped in a misogyny! Feminist bingo!

It fascinates me. We condemn the KKK for treating groups of people differently. Yet, when feminism (referred in the article) makes sexist and false statements, it's lorded by the media. For example, in Australia, domestic violence was a "man" thing. When a mother killed her daughter/son is was never domestic violence. "Men" need to be educated. However, when you have a group (feminism, KKK) that prioritise one group over another, you get these propaganda campaigns that tend to spread worldwide. They encourage intolerance and demonise others.

Now, a fundamental problem with this article's proposal Is that you can be as intolerant as you like as long as you don't say curse words (unicorns and rainbows) and threaten to hit/kill someone. The truth is that far more damage has been done by far more subtle propaganda campaigns, especially in the last 5 years. Not one of them would be stopped by this proposal.
Thanks, Trevor, that makes a lot of sense.

With the rise of streaming video, there are new players entering the broadcast market, so there is an opportunity to sell an inexpensive compression/decompression system for integration into these new systems. The time to develop a JPEG 2000 codec from scratch is quite large, so decreasing time to market is another part of my value proposition.

On the server side, it looks like my focus should be on total cost.

On the client side, for example digital cinema post-production, a user typically has only a single box, so
speed is important in this case.

Thanks again, I really appreciate your feedback.

Aaron
Down the rabbit hole: purpose (2014)
DEA needs to be dismantled. What are useless organization. They are thugs that go after the poor. Founded by Nixon to basically do just that.

Some interesting facts:

"The total budget of the DEA from 1972 to 2014, according to the agency website, was $50.6 billion." So in 40 years 51 billion dollars, or a billion dollars per year.

"In 2005, the DEA seized a reported $1.4 billion in drug trade related assets and $477 million worth of drugs.[20] According to the White House's Office of Drug Control Policy, the total value of all of the drugs sold in the U.S. is as much as $64 billion a year"

So basically they are robbing poor and not really making any dent in the drug trade.
Are the BTLE and WiFi the only changes?

Still same CPU and RAM as the 2?
Kids may be ready for math earlier than you think, new research suggests
Timed-release crypto. Encrypt data using key generated for a time period
I feel like your answer comes from you wishing to charge money for a product (understandable obviously) more so than it comes from any actual scientific or even observational basis.

Put another way: you would say that wouldn't you.
I think the market of "tools for teams" is virtually limitless. The question you should be asking is whether people want your tool in particular.

I spent some time on your site and it took me a long time to understand what your tool does. You need to make it a lot clearer. Here's a good exercise for this.
1) Find someone you haven't told your idea to
2) Show them your home page. Let them read it for 30 seconds.
3) Close your laptop. Then, have them explain what Grobyk is in their own words.

If they can't do that, you need to improve your home page.
Cool stuff. Although I'm getting a little tired of seeing Haskell-like languages everywhere, it is interesting to see it target Go.
That is why my college did. It worked well putting all the more advanced students on a fast track class.
ESP32 is coming with both Wi-Fi and BLE:
http://espressif.com/products/hardware/esp32/overview
Too little, too late. Twitter has the most abysmal UI/UX I've ever seen, especially when you consider its clout and popularity (although that is fast waning).

Any meaningful change will be so jarring that the dyed in the wool users will balk at it, kicking up a storm of protests and it will not serve to bring in new users (they come in not for good UI but for the network effect - but they don't use it and leave because of the UI).

I honestly can't believe how insanely horrible twitter UI is - and it seems to be something that all twitter users have agreed to never mention. It just leaves one breathless after it opens the FOURTH modal window on top of the previous three that it had already opened.

On the bright side of things, for anyone teaching UI, twitter is a fantastic example of what NOT to do.