skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with the sentiment, especially with regards to terrible ideas like touchscreens. But open up any "smart appliance" and you'll still find the same simplistic sensors and actuators performing the core function. If things get bad enough a modding market will spring up, replacing "intelligent" control boards with versions that work for the user. Likely with non-mandatory network capability, but without the hostility.
There was Andrew Wakefield, who managed to get his fraud published in a legit journal.
Disney Introduces Surge Pricing
Huh. They're building a lot of housing around here, like a carpet spreading over the land. Nobody who wants a house has to go without.

Maybe we're talking apples and oranges. City centers and highly urbanized areas will work very differently. But is it a civil right to have cheap housing downtown?
Have you (or anyone else here) got tvheadend working on the Pi? It's supposed to work, but for me falls over at the very last hurdle of never actually tuning in any channels.
Developing a Microservices Pipeline
Ask HNs: Why do people expect so much from a free apps?
I publish a few popular apps on the play store. They have about ~10k Users. Most people usually say nice things or have legit issues and I try to look at them. However some users will hound me about a feature or a bug. One guy was like I am going to use a different app if you don't fix something by tomorrow. I didn't really reply.

Why do people think they are so entitled especially when it is a free app?
I grew up in Europe and then moved to US. In US, at least in some context (college admissions for example), there is a thing called affirmative action. It seems in order to right a a wrong from the past, or to promote diversity they would sometimes have quotas on how many students from each background to pick. So depending just on race, one could have an easier or much harder way getting accepted. Therefore people would play that card in order to game the system.
Right, maintaining a dozen sensors and integrations with other appliances is a pain in the ass. Also, I have no interest in moving the controls of the device from the appliance to my smartphone. 95% of the time it's more work to pull out my phone and launch an app than to flick a physical light switch.
It has porn. No seriously. It's the easiest way to have a coffee in the morning in the office and look at some boobs. Most "read" paper on my base when i was in the army.
I think this might get more traction if you were to post a link to the demo page, http://surunzi.github.io/VisualMusic/, rather than the project page https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=github.com.
MicroSD Card swapped out. Not more annoying spring ejection system that breaks.

What does this mean? I didn't see anything about this in the announcement.
Head in the cloud
So many agree with that. See the movie 'Zardoz' for a dystopian future taken from that premise.
Also here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11195337
There are many operations that due to their consequences implementing a proper undo is more trouble than it's worth, so a blanket statement about confirmation dialogs like that cannot be accurately made.

That said, there are a lot of situations where the article does have a point and an undo button is an objectively superior choice.
Fix Spotify's issues playing local files on Linux
Likewise, I'm amazed at how bad it is. Screen sharing issues, copy paste issues, lock ups (while everything else continues working fine), problems with not saving old messages properly, can't send messages because they are too long (really!?) ....on and on. Microsoft has been screwing up messengers for 20? years now - yes, I know different teams - and still, every new release or client is literally 1 step forward, 1 step back.
> The boomers are behaving disgustingly by ramping land prices in hock with the banks. It has sent living standards into free-fall for the young.

It's not them. You would do the same if you had properties and kids.

Realestate is a market. It's inside the money.

Some regimes tried to change that by force but it doesn't work. Even if you kill all the richs, they are replaced by another group (lawyers or bureaucrats):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khmer_Rouge

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Revolution

I think it's not a fatality. It's just a lack of knowledge. We don't know enough of human group behaviour.
The Barbie Doll incident kind of jump started this on a non-Luxury item.

Also surprised no one posted the video of the guy on tech support phone call while his webcam was hacked and playing The Police "Every Breath You Take." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUx8_JNNKsM
A lot of people don't appreciate the amount of work that goes into building an app.
I literally facepalmed at your comment. Google does so much that it's a miracle they get all this done with tens of thousands of engineers. Companies that create CRUD operations have upto 200k employees doing just that.
Thanks for the clarification. The new plan is still terrible, unless they plan on ramping up more bonus star promos.
but it means gene death

Sneaking suspicion that Tinder users are not exactly using the service for procreative purposes.
The new macbook is passively cooled.
Zuck is very articulate in this piece. He describes FB ops in a pithy sentence, and gives pointed answers to questions on Berlin's tech scene. I thought it showed his acumen quite well.
John Oliver Shredded Donald Trump for 20 Minutes and Then Dropped the Mic
Most comments here are so off topic. No one has so far discussed about opportunities at Google and how can one get in.

Let's take this as a challenge guys
I'm Jeremy Howard, one of the people quoted in the article (and the one in the crazy photo!) AMA about applications of deep learning. My views from 18 months ago are in this talk on TED.com: http://www.ted.com/talks/jeremy_howard_the_wonderful_and_ter... .

In the time since then much more of the potential of deep learning has been realized, but we're still in the very earliest days - I'd say something like the internet, prior to the development of the first commercial ISPs or the web.

Just like today we don't really talk about "internet companies" (since the internet is just a tool that we use, not an end in itself), you also should not expect to see "deep learning companies" be successful as an end in itself. Rather, some companies will use deep learning as a key tool to fix key problems in current processes. For example, http://www.enlitic.com , my company, is first and foremost a medical company, and uses deep learning as a tool to fix some very specific problems in patient care.

PS: I greatly dislike the term "artificial intelligence". It's as meaningless and distracting as that other horrible phrase, "big data". I have no idea whether deep learning algorithms could lead to "intelligence", or what that even means. What matters is what a technology can do , and in this case, deep learning can do a great many interesting things.
Just upgraded to 1.8.2.3 - still can't stage multiple files at once like I used to be able to in 1.7.x; i.e. select multiple files and hit space. Also, there's no backup context menu option for this?
Why we don't do Add-Ons
Such as? It's a point-of-sale system that runs on PC tills (Toshiba, IBM etc) and also our own less general-purpose hardware (iMX6). It was written in the 90s as an MFC application. The original system the company was founded on was written in the early 80s in Z80 assembler.

The dedicated hardware uses a mixture of Flash and battery-backed SRAM to provide a crash- and powerloss-resistant transaction system.
LINKD – A Better Dating Experience (Free from the Appstore)
Very nice!

It would be cool if there are examples can help visualize more advance concept such dead lock, semaphore, mutex operations, GL/EGL APIs and shader programming.
I have a XU4 and the only reason I got it was for the 2gb of ram. I don't need 8 cores and I certainly didn't need a fan.

I'll be getting a C2.

Does anyone know if the USB ports are fully powered on the C2? As I can power a USB HDD from the USB port on the XU4 (this is a big thing for me as it saves another power source).
Flu shot too :D
Leo Won the Oscar – A Ballad
Trump says all the things his supporters want to hear.

"The problem is Muslims and Mexicans. We should deport them and build walls. We should obliterate their countries and take their oil. Torture is fine. We should kill the families of terrorists. Shooting Muslims with bullets dipped in pigs blood is a good way to teach them a lesson. The president should be able to directly punish CEOs who aren't protectionist enough. The freedom of the press should be curtailed. It's ok to use violence to punish non-supporters at your rallies."

If that's not extreme right wing, I'm not sure what is.
In mathematics, multiple authors are always listed alphabetically by family name; ie there is no "first" or "second" author.

In the situation you describe, the paper would probably be singly authored, and the author would write something like "Thanks to my advisor _____ and to my colleagues ____ for many helpful discussions" in an acknowledgments section.

If the contributions were more serious, then possibly the author would invite the others to co-author with him/her, and the others would then either accept (and then help write the paper) or politely decline and say "just mention me in the acknowledgments".

At least in my experience, co-authorship carries responsibilities: to help with the writing, the figures, references, dealing with editors and with submission to journals, speaking about the research at seminars/conferences, etc.
It's not "undue". It's a heuristic. It lessens the amount of effort one needs to get to a semblance of truth rather than to do all of the heavy lifting oneself for more precision. As mentioned by another commenter.

As yes, it can be abused of course.
Ok that's pretty soft. Used to be a time a shoulder or ankle was 'porn'. I guess topless beaches are really 'porn beaches'.
This article didn't touch on the happiness of those studied at all.
Apollo: Meteor’s New Ambition
Probably a stupid question, I don't know much about this stuff. Is there any reason not to just use a 2.5A even if you're not connecting power-hungry USB devices? If it doesn't cost significantly more and it doesn't hurt to use 2.5 anyway, it's something I'd rather not have to worry about.
Yes, a Wikipedia page is not on a physical resource like paper, so it does not have the resource costs that old-school encyclopedia's have. But I have always felt that argument to be besides the point. There still is a limited resource at play, and that is time and effort for editors. I can see how including as much as possible by that rationale could lead to something that is not manageable.

I am not certain that is true, but it seems reasonable that it could be true. That is the point to argue against, not the one about physical media.
It's not quite the value you provide. That's the ceiling. It's how much alternatives cost.
It praised the state’s “lockout” laws, which Baird’s
predecessor, Barry O’Farrell, had introduced in early
2014 in the wake of high-profile “one-punch” deaths.

Huh?

Googling around, a "one-punch" assault seems to be some Britishism for an assault on an unsuspecting person, where they're knocked out after a single hit, and occasionally die. Most the results are for the new mandatory minimum sentencing laws, but I can't seem to actually find the text of the law anywhere.

EDIT:

The result feels like a final victory in the battle
between Australia’s version of the cavaliers and the
roundheads, the larrikins and the wowsers.

Do we even speak the same language?
News and Internet Searches After Charlie Sheen’s Disclosure
What's the difference between this and a CCTV camera or cop on your street corner?
Here's an example in a getline implementation: https://github.com/eliteraspberries/ttyprompt/blob/master/ge...

/*@ loop invariant i;
loop invariant j >= 0;
loop assigns j, eol;
*/
for (j = 0; j < (size_t) i; j++) {
if (read_buffer[j] == '\n') {
eol = 1;
j++;
break;
}
}

Loop invariants are part of the ACSL specification language, and they can be verified automatically with Frama-C. http://frama-c.com/acsl.html
Add Barcode Scanning Functionality to Your Ionic 2 App
How Creativity Can Kill a Good Website Design
If anyone wants it, here's a pdf of the original study. https://my.mixtape.moe/lymbwb.pdf
Building relationships with other programmers – Interview with Amanuel Bogale
Why Using Bell Curve in Performance Evaluation Is Bad for Your Organization
> What do we want? Make some scifi become real? No, we just want helpful machines.

It depends. It's common to split AI research into 4 types, by asking 2 questions:

1) Do you care about the end result or the mechanism/approach being taken?
2) Do you care about mimicking humans or "doing the right thing"?

Hence the 4 categories are:

A) Systems that think like humans (mimicking the approach taken by humans)
B) Systems that think rationally (using the "right" approach)
C) Systems that act like humans (mimicking human results)
D) Systems that act rationally (achieving the "right" result)

For example, this breakdown appears in section 1.1 "What is AI?" in "AI A Modern Approach", which I happen to have on my desk.

Whilst not perfect, identifying which of these categories some approach/research fits into can avoid a lot of well-trodden philosophical debates which can easily derail any discussion about said approach/research.

In this case, you seem to be in the "act rationally" camp. That's fine, but it's unfair to dismiss the goals of other researchers who fit into other categories. For example, those trying to find out how the human mind is structured; what assistance and interventions could help disabled people; etc. In those cases, a data-crunching ear implant might be a useful commodity to have, in the same way that AI researchers probably have mobile phones, but wouldn't offer any insight into the problem.
"Yes you can poke Nokia displays with fingers too. But why would anybody do that?".

Why isnt this one of the famous quotes? (like "640kb will be enough forever")

I am 97.9% sure that Anssi Vanjoki said so. On the Finnish TV around 2007.
Resistance is futile, you will be assimilated.

:-)
Awesome, would be even cooler if it could pick up specific features like faces and replicate the style. Now it kind of brushes over most faces unless it dominates the picture.
Seems like google could just move anywhere they wanted or threaten to and the city would have to comply.
> Python's Jinja templating language has the concept of "safe" and "unsafe" strings. By default all strings are unsafe (meaning they will be escaped wherever they are rendered) and you need to explicitly mark them as safe in order to be able to treat them as HTML.

That's good, but it's not ideal as it confuses HTML/unsafe. An unwary developer could output untrusted text "safely" and still open up an XSS vulnerability – because they could be outputting to JavaScript embedded within HTML. Yes, Jinja will encode it as HTML by default, rendering it "safe" in terms of the HTML parser, but that still doesn't make it actually safe.

Example:

alert("Hello, {{user.name}}!");

By default, Jinja will encode this as HTML, meaning that you can't trick the HTML parser into injecting your HTML. But it is still completely vulnerable to the exact same security vulnerability, except by tricking the JavaScript parser.

We should recognise what's actually the issue at play here. It's not really about whether data is safe or not. It's about correctly encoding data in a manner that's suitable for the context in which it is being output. Sometimes that's HTML, sometimes it's JavaScript, sometimes it's CSS, etc.
How you can use Facebook to track your friends’ sleeping habits
>and revolutionary product

I fear that the limited field of vision will severely cripple the experience.
What exactly do you mean by "advanced type systems"?
Right. Kids get more and more liberties as they get older, as your responsibility shifts more from life support towards advisor.
Over here in the UK, 24 hour pubs and bars was a new introduction about a decade or so ago. And shops selling alcohol are often open til fairly late into the night, especially the corner shop types.

It's variable though, so some pubs still close around 11pm, and some don't.

The jury is out about whether this decision was a good thing. On the one hand, there are some articles and studies saying the amount of alcohol drunk has gone down because of it, and on the other hand, others saying that people are drinking more because of it.
Ask HN: iMessage texts from iOS to Windows 10 possible but how tricky?
I've heard of devs writing abstraction layers that when combined with bluetooth profiles can pull iMessage texts from iOS to Windows 10. Has anyone played around with this before? How much work are we talking?
Yep, I'm in the same situation as you. Had almost no social circle in my early thirties, but then I started attending meetups as well as getting into the hobbyist board game subculture.

Now it's a real challenge to spend time with everyone and yet save some time for myself and my creative hobbies.
959.69 € with Tax and Shipping to me in Germany.

Not something of an impulse buy for me.
Kinect and similar depth cams really are neat but I think their potential won't be realized for a little while and selling an early one as a game controller belies that potential.

With VR, I think work on depth cams and software to "stitch" together data streams from multiple devices will become very important. It's one of the only ways you can currently record and transmit (admittedly low-quality in current iterations) actual 3d video that can be viewed from any angle.

When you look at early low quality webcams compared to digital video today, then apply that to something like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ghgbycqb92c

you can see how it opens up the possibility of real VR movies (not just pano) and even VR telepresence.
On a slight tangent, 9-5 first shift work is also kind of a boomer thing that's going away. I'm an old X-er and I've never, in my entire life, had a 9-5 job. Always "as needed" type stuff aka overtime or weird flex time. I've never had a job where I can roll into the office at 9 and left at 5. By my own choice I do four tens now, and as long as the market permits I'll never work five eights ever again. 9-5 means "real job" and since only boomers get the real jobs, do the math there.

I started out in financial services and per our change management if the building wasn't on fire I wasn't allowed to touch anything until 5pm on trading days, so I wouldn't even show up at the office until at least 4pm and if things went bad overnight I could certainly use a drink around 3am... I suspect this kind of work-life balance is not unusual here on HN.
Some more of the designs: http://imgur.com/a/Eyb6P
Exits and Return: The true measurement for equity crowdfunding
I think a good intermediate solution is a robot that is a perfect 50's housewife (minus any sexual connotations): the robot cooks, cleans, gardens, etc.

I agree with you that the robot probably won't look like Rosie from the Jetsons, but probably more like the Fetch and Freight robot duo (http://fetchrobotics.com/fetchandfreight/).
What companies have 200k employees to build CRUD operations?
Free image search app for furniture (MVP)
Well said. I feel like this is a response to how negativity or sarcasm even in small doses is dog piled on. I get that communities become toxic in this way but I think that on HN the pendulum has swung way too far to the other side, so to speak.
Incompetence is convenient to state actors, hence why there is a panic that people are waking up to its consequences and will end up using encryption competently.

I wouldn't say it is at all intentional.
More money, more staff, more market validation and demand. It's quite striking how a Pi launch reminds me of games console launches, with all the excitement and units selling out everywhere.
Writing content for everyone
Need Deep Learning? There's a Cloud for That
not complaining, just observing. I realize that we have been bastardizing TLDs for a long time to cleverly apply them to programming terms (I'm looking at you .io). Perhaps '.foo' is the TLD that could mean anything?
wow cool
This is exactly correct and it happens on many sites that have upvoting and downvoting functionality (reddit and even digg back in the day had this; hell you can even find this on slashdot at times).

Ultimately I'm not convinced upvoting / downvoting is a good metric but I'm not sure what is better. The same goes or ordering; if you arrive at something on social media where you're the expert / can provide possibly the best feedback but there are already 100 comments on it? Good luck. You'll be drowned out.

This is a fun aside topic though :)
I'm 23. Here's a few things I'd like to see progress on:

Affordable education and access to high quality teachers.
Bringing our healthcare cost/efficacy profile into line with other advanced economies.
Repairing and rebuilding crumbling public infrastructure.
Environmental reform, especially wrt carbon emissions & how we treat the oceans.
Revisiting social security to ensure its long-term viability.
Reducing the government's ability to invade privacy.
Ending the "war on drugs" and regulating/taxing it like the alcohol or tobacco industry.

I'm happy to pay more taxes on my relatively small income if they go towards reforms in these areas. As ex-fed president Kocherlakota notes [1], exceedingly low interest rates and cheap labor are creating a great environment for gov investment. Unfortunately, fiscal policy is stuck in a quagmire due to deep-seated ideological divisions in Washington D.C.

[1] https://sites.google.com/site/kocherlakota009/home/policy/th...
I did this album:

http://imgur.com/a/Gliwg
Docker and wordpress for a better world
The innovators: Skeleton car that is driving open-source design
I'm guessing Jeff Dean is not a typical Google engineer.
Since when does early dev kit pricing have anything to do with retail pricing?
Oh thanks for the heads up on that. And that's for the words of support.
And the full lists have info about all of them, just grouped in batches of 50. I don't think the pokemons are a good example of "lost content".
I honestly don't think that future is worth the cost. Some of those things would be great, but controlling lights with Iot? Why? Aren't we solving a problem that doesn't need to be solved? I currently spend roughly 0% of my time thinking about and managing light switches, the system works great as is. Same goes for turning on media and setting the temperature. These things just work and they are bug free. I can only see them getting worse by adding networking and software.

Of course, it's a different argument when your house starts making food for you, but but I think I'll still lean towards maintaining my current system.
Netflix VPN Ban: Netflix Starts Major Crackdown on VPNs
"Millenials will experience a lost generation and things won't start to look good until we're well into middle-age."

Reading between the lines you're a millenial (if so, sorry) and "they" are trying to manipulate you by claiming if you wait a decade or two, things will be better, just warning you they pulled that trick on us X-ers. I would not be pacified by the same old line. At least make them tell you a new lie.
It's also a question of maintanance. What does it matter, if you have articles on every little thing but 3/4 of them are outdated?

People critizize Wikipedia based on the concept already quite a bit. If you can't maintain article quality for all articles to a reasonable level, it ends up hurting the project.