skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hahaha, this made my day. 60 women indeed.
Wikidata makes Wikipedia a database. Let the fun begin
Make sure to consider exchange rates and costs for wire transfers if you want to go that route. I think Stripe charges an additional 2% for transactions in foreign currecies, and US banks will charge another 3% (or more) when you transfer that money to a foreign curreny. And there are lots of hidden fees for international wire transfers -- on a recent tranfer that I received, around 7% was missing and I had no clue where it had gone. Additionally, fluctuating exchange rates might eat a lot of money.
100TB should only be 5x (i.e. sqrt( 25 )) slower to access each byte sequentially than a 4TB drive (although shingling will screw up this calculation, since it provides more tracks, but not more density on each track).

Which is a long time, but not totally out of bounds for the way we're currently using disks.

The coming decade is going to be very interesting, SSDs are pushing forward on an insane trajectory, which could either fall apart as the benefit of node shrinks disappear, or accelerate through a virtuous cycle as unit volume increases.

It's even plausible that spinning rust is on death's door in that time frame. The price floor of SSDs is much lower than that of hard drives (i.e. how much does an 8gb hard drive cost to manufacture today in volume? As much as a 500 gb drive), meaning that both mildly performance conscious and price sensitive consumers both move entirely over.

Enterprise customers will still chase the price/gb and storage density of traditional hard drives, but without the consumer dollars to invest in R&D, that could start to stall, quickly leaving them with diminishing advantage and obsolete in the blink of an eye.
What's your system's A-Scan rate (SD-OCT, so I guess somewhere betweek 10kHz to 50kHz)? Sensitivity? Also I guess you already know, that there's a group that aims at producing a hyper low cost full field TD-OCT (they aim at far below 100USD per unit) intended to be used as a device that's given the patient for self administered diagnostics in ongoing treatment monitoring. There was a talk about this at the recent BiOS 2016 conference.

Personally, I'm working at exactly the other end: Ultra-High-Speed OCT. 1.5MHz and higher A-Scan rate (our group still holds the record of 20MHz equivalent A-Scan rate for a 60°×60° @ 1900x1900 scans posterior segment OCT system).
ThousandEyes Raises $35M for Its Network Intelligence Monitoring Toolkit
Works here (48.0.2564.109 / W7) - fix your setup.
If they add London everyone would be at or close to 0%. Total disaster here, need to plan an exit. You must have a large inheritance to buy or not have a typical occupation, ie millionaire busines owner.
Ask HN: Alpine Linux as a Desktop
A long time ago, I was a Gentoo user. I liked the fine-grained control over exactly which packages where installed (and managed to live with the compile times but starting them before bed). What finally drove me away from Gentoo was the constant clobbering of my configuration files.

I've been watching Alpine Linux and appreciate both the security posture and minimalist attitude and agree they're a good distribution for creating Docker images. Going through their documentation, there also seems to be plenty of information on running Alpine as a desktop system.

So I'm hoping one or more HN'ers can validate or refute my observation. What are the pros and cons? Any pitfalls I should watch out for? Any specifically for XFCE (which is what I'm currently running on Linux Mint)?

Thanks ...
Typo on "How It Works" page: "choose the rosultion". Also maybe change the wording of "You can also upload a new image if you were wrong." seems a bit odd as it is.

Also, it'd be nice if at Step 3 you actually showed some mockup on a device rather than the same "Your Design Here" image seeing as it's supposed to demonstrate a sample finished product.
EmiratesNBD and Open Bank Project Launch Global FinTech Competition
Apple Plans to Make iPhone and iCloud More Secure to Keep the Government Away
We just pushed a new pricing page as we speak! I'm sorry for this and I built it in a jiffy during the initial prototyping stage.

This is how the new pricing page will look like : http://imgur.com/O5zTDm3
Yes - rent seeking in both the economic and colloquial definition. :-)
And why would an enterprise go with CloudFlare? is this just a "we manage your domains registrations" service?

Edit: I see now on other comments, they seem to throw more humans into the process.
FUCK YOU MANDRILL. FUCK YOU MAILCHIMP
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Google’s AMP Is Speeding Up the Web by Changing How It Works
Off topic - thank you for producing such an awesome blog!
would beg to disagree with you about fiber (you are right about the healthcare, if anything the price is only higher now that more people have insurance rather than price reform)

after a few bad attacks over a couple years, it finally dawned on me to radically increase my fiber intake after reading up on it online

no attacks for years now

initially I had reduced my fat intake but now far less careful without any downsides

cannot imagine anything worse than gallstone attacks, I literally thought I was dying the first time it ever happened
It's especially frightening for us Europeans, that TTIP can overrule existing local legislature, and that officials representing EU states only have access to the full text of 600 pages for 2 hours every thursday, accompanied by two security guards beside you at all times, behind closed doors, after the metal detector where you have leave all your electronics and recording devices behind. Oh, and you're not allowed to take any notes, not even with a pencil. Good luck with booking a slot! If another representative is interested in reading a couple more pages this week, you'll need to wait till next week.
I remember spending hours as a child playing Bamboozle on Channel 4 Teletext. I distinctly recall figuring out how to always get the right answer by trying all options and seeing which one went to a different page than the others before the next page (Wrong Answer) actually loaded.
I didn't downvote it, but:

While total ignorance of statistics might lead you to expect suicide rates to be wildly unpredictable, and knowing a bit of statistics might make it obvious that they shouldn't be, knowing more statistics should make it not-obvious again.

So, from a position of total ignorance you might say: suicide rates are the result of lots of individual freely made decisions, and should therefore be completely unpredictable.

Then if you know a bit of statistics you might say: no, the population's suicide rate is the average of the individuals' suicide rates, and averaging things reduces their variance so we should expect it to be quite predictable.

But if you know a little more statistics, a few other things will occur to you. The first is a red herring: averaging things only reduces their variance when the variance is finite. Standard counterexample: mount a gun or laser or something on a swivel mount with a 180-degree range near an infinitely long wall. Point it at a random angle and see where it hits the wall. This gives you a position with the so-called Cauchy distribution, and the average of a million of these has the exact same distribution as a single one. (That doesn't mean you can't extract information from having lots of samples; e.g., the median is nice and informative. It just means that taking means isn't the way to do it.)

Why is that a red herring? Because an individual's suicide-or-not during a given year can only take the values 0 and 1, and therefore its variance can't be larger than 1/4 (and in particular can't be infinite). So averaging together lots of these should give you something well-behaved, right?

Not so fast. Those individual suicide-or-not random variables may be correlated (e.g., when Goethe published his gloomy book "The sorrows of young Werther", whose protagonist -- SPOILER WARNING -- kills himself at the end, a wave of copycat suicides swept across Europe). And they may depend on something that varies with time (the same example will do nicely, but you might also consider economic conditions, weather, polluted water supplies, etc.), and there's no reason why that something (or those somethings) shouldn't swing around wildly.

So no, it isn't altogether obvious to anyone who knows some statistics. It shouldn't be a big surprise if in fact suicide rates are pretty well behaved, but I think if you think it's obvious then you're not thinking hard enough.
Curiosity Depends on What You Already Know
Hi Grue, Michael from migadu.com here. Yes, sure you can. We are only email service. You can have your site wherever you want.
Use BigQuery, here is a nice presentation how to get going and some uses cases that get's you very familiar in the territory. I offer consulation also so you can reach out. http://www.slideshare.net/martonkodok/complex-realtime-event...
Bizarre candle:/
> How does the software you build change when reading & writing data sequentially is really cheap, but accessing it randomly is expensive?

I thought we were already in that situation. Cache is king.
If you are developing a web application and do not need to use any Windows APIs, then yes, you can compile and run on Linux without any headaches.
>democracy was dismantled a long time ago by corporate manipulation

In the US, yes. Now they are spreading it to Europe with TTIP.

Edit: Not that Europe is some sort of magical haven of democracy currently, but this surely won't improve the situation.
I'd be surprised if they didn't. There's a markup at which it'd be very economical to be a broader registrar. Future upselling is worth pulling users away from other registrars. Some of them will compete against CloudFlare sooner or later. Google's headed that way.
The article claims that they localised the revenue:

> "After finding the average annual salary for each profession in each city"

Whether the numbers are reasonably accurate is another question though.
Show HN: VR First-person flight for your drone
> Go is nice but when I tried it I really missed something like composer. "go get" and commit your dependencies to the repository?

Why is this a pb? Makes your app is more resilient to external outages and no need to git clone all the repos with historical data.
I didn't downvote it but I know why it's downvoted.

The downvotee could clearly imagine this being unintuitive if he were inclined to be so creative. The entire comment evals to "I inherently grasped statistical thinking from birth, what's wrong with you that you didn't?"

To borrow from a Hacker School post a long time ago: it's feigning surprise[0] at the ignorance of others. If you're on HN you probably work in an environment where learning is a non-optional part of your every day. Getting to the point where not knowing things isn't a blow to your self-esteem can be a pretty big professional hurdle for people.

Unless the downvotee was born with an inherently sound understanding of statistical thinking and also has some trouble empathizing with other humans then his comment was just going out of his way to tell a fellow human that their moment of learning and realization was remedial.

[0] https://www.recurse.com/manual#sub-sec-social-rules

Edit: After explaining it and rereading the downvotee I decided to downvote as well. The clincher was following up with the implication that the original poster was not only remedial but poorly educated.
Ask HN: Need your opinion–what would you use this for?
Hey there!

Over the past month I built a service that allows you to see your users browse your website / web app in real time. It's kinda like "session recording" offered by various services, but live, mainly to offer support.

To make it easier to market I built a Chrome extension that integrates it with Intercom and other live chat services, so that when someone chats you up you can see their screen live and troubleshoot problems a lot quicker. Some early users utilize it this way.

However, I personally like a lot more the idea of having a "monitor" with say 6 screens and being able to send a message to people you see struggling, to offer "proactive" support.
This comes from seeing way too many of my users on other apps make dumb mistakes and seeing myself losing money after they leave frustrated. I would really have paid to send them a message on screen saying "hey, let me know if you need help with this :)".

I'm not sure whether:
1. this "proactive support" is creepy;
2. it is scalable;
3. it only works in my mind;
4. companies would pay for it;
5. the ease of marketing something "for intercom/livechat/..." outweighs the coolness of the monitoring station.

What do you guys think? Would love your opinion!

Website is https://peekin.io/
This. I've never understood the convoluted logical gyrations required to get through "unions are bad" -> "free market should be allowed to set wages (without workers having freedom to collectively bargain)" -> "non-livable wages spread for workers without capital" -> "griping about welfare and lazy people who should just work more".

Yes, unions can metastasize and block their own effectiveness. But a properly bounded union isn't a terrible thing.
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This applies to all sexually-reproducing species, not just humans. The male strategy is optimized for low cost, so males prefer to mate with a fit female, but will settle for "anything with a pulse". In humans, this is evidenced by virtually all women having babies.

I don't know what the actual ratio is, and it will probably be different depending on the fitness of the male and how near the bar's closing time. The salient aspects are that the division is asymmetric, the strategy complements the female strategy, and that there is a hard cutoff (some of the females are so unfit they will never be considered).
There's also this one for iOS, which is pretty impressive (and has direct Latex output): https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/myscript-mathpad-handwriting...
It won't be too long before someone figures out how to de-product-place a show. Your dvr will scan for brand names like "Dell", "HP", "Ford", etc., and blur them out. The audio can also be similarly processed. Eventually, we'll only see what we want to see, which is what "on demand" should be!
I almost died in a mass shooting
What is really puzzling me is how the procedure for this got approved, and by whom. Who is telling MP's and MEP's that they have to follow these rules? And how are they bound by them?
Good idea, but don't you think it can get a bit crazy if you need to do that for multiple persons on multiple domains?

We were also doing similar combinations for our startup projects via Google Apps and Mandrill, but it was getting very messy. I just wanted a new domain / new email address, fast. Nothing else. Somehow I would end up with multiple Google accounts, and then Google cut of the free accounts... Interestingly, Mandrill announced the same thing today. I'd rather give up two cups of coffee a month and not waste brainwaves and worries on this admin.

Migadu is meant to get email admin out of people's way so they can focus on more important stuff.
IMHO the greatest inventions are those of the highest utility relative to cost of implementation. Such inventions usually arise from tenaciously scratching a particularly bothersome itch.

For example, I've seen many Scala programmers struggle with achieving maximal type safety due to getting bogged down in boilerplate. To attack this problem (as I see it anyway, but that's all which matters for now) I'm researching ways of utilizing Scala macros to cut down on such boilerplate while retaining type safety.

This has been huge for my own side work (which means the utility is definitely there), but I'm still uncertain as to the cost, i.e. what effects my approach might have on a "serious" commercial project. I'm just going to have to find out the old fashioned way.
I've got 60 so far. Unfortunately came to this thread late, so I'm not how much longer it will have traffic.

Haven't heard from any ESPs yet, but will reach out to them tomorrow.
1. If users are NOT aware of being tracked, it is HELL creepy
2. Scalability is now not an issue :) I think your concern should be to find the first customer.
3. not sure
4. I think they would, but you need to make sure users are not creeped out by it.
5. Unsure. You might want to try both ways. Start marketing a specific use-case and see what happens (if it works, etc..).
Ethics of Drones
In an alternate universe it may have been a plausible deliberate measure, but in this universe, it was a fuckup.
I'm late to the conversation here, but I think the real elephant in the room is the short shelf life of the average independent contractor/freelancer/consultant. Unfortunately, and all too often on this site, the meme of the happy-go-lucky, working-on-a-beach independent contractor is paraded out and extolled as some wondrous opportunity that will net your average "web developer" enough riches and leisure time to live the dream lifestyle. In reality, this couldn't be further from the truth. Being an independent contractor means you are a business, full stop. You are the CEO, the marketer, the HR department and the worker. Like any other business, a few will make it, but most will fizzle out, go bankrupt or be replaced by ruthless competitors. Unless you are able to find and acquire those in-demand, niche skill sets or product offerings (of which "web design" and/or "web development" are no longer in this set), your business will suffer a significantly short shelf life, just as any other business.
Your leap from DNNs to brains and "AI" is unjustified. Our brain does not work like a DNN (AFAWK), and we don't know whether DNNs are even the beginning of the path that would lead us to "true" AI some day. So I wouldn't try projecting anything from this result to our brains (which, BTW, are already known to be susceptible to illusions, but we don't know whether that mechanism is the same) or to some hypothetical future AI which we know nothing about.
Yes, autodestruct should probably be opt-in.

Most people don't stick their wills to their monitors with post-its (there are other secrets in there after all, and many people would like to know those); the legal system has mature tools that are surprisingly good at keeping such secrets secret until the release conditions are met. A will is a Solved Problem, with highly reliable solutions - consider the ways to prove that it is indeed to be opened. Contrast with most computerized solutions and "solutions" thereof, mostly hinging on some form of dead man's switch.
I don't know what I'm talking about or what you need, but I hear kdb is popular in the financial industry because supposedly it can handle large amounts of real-time financial information. http://kx.com
> cannot imagine anything worse than gallstone attacks, I literally thought I was dying the first time it ever happened

I know that just too well. In case one ever happens to hit you again, I found out that a hot bath will give you instant relief. Don't ask me how it works exactly, I just found out, that it works.
Note that TTIP still has to be agreed upon by the EU Parliament. Personally I don't really care what the lobbyists are writing in secret. At some point they have to present to the EUP (where we actually have representation) and they have been very consistent at shutting down the crap that the corporations try to get through.

It's not that secret. It's secret while they work on it, sure, but I've watched countless debates with the Commission vs. EUP. I still have faith that Parliament can protect us (and if not then there's still public outrage and protest if TTIP is ridiculous).
Ok, good thing. Good luck to you!
Looks good! Just beware that you don't give away too much for free though. A free plan is a good idea, but you've got to be fiscally sustainable and people are less trusting of services' longevity now because of the recent sustained wave of shutdowns.
But argonaut wasn't talking about having access to the neural net activations, but about having access to individual pixels in the image (which corresponds to individual photoreceptor cells in the human retina). Crafting these NN-defeating images seems to depend on tweaking individual pixels.

I'm not sure how far it really does depend on that -- whether, e.g., you can use a more sophisticated version of the same approach to make an image that fools the NN reliably even if it's slightly offset, out of focus, stretched, etc. I wouldn't be astonished if you could. If not, that suggests an obvious defence mechanism: feed the NN not the raw image but several slightly perturbed ones, and take a majority vote or something.

It's also worth observing that there are attacks on the human visual system, found by trying things out and observing their effects. We call them optical illusions, and some of them are very convincing.
The guys pushing ttip i guess

They're probably allowed to do it however they please, after all they wrote the document and are free to "license" it however they want

What puzzles me is that TTIP is even in consideration anymore with these measures and all the secret keeping in place.
If it truly were that good for us WHY on earth would you take these measures?
They should send someone in who has a photographic memory. In two hours he/she can browse those 600 pages, and later someone else can type them out. And this may all be done for a good hourly fee.
Interesting how a whole article can be written without defining what they are writing about. What the fuck is TTIP?
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> Welcome to Hacker News! We understand physics here.

I know you're not really supposed to make "ha ha me too!" reddit-esque comments here, but I waited until things had died down! And that gave me a hearty chuckle.
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"Proactive" desktop support is very common in larger organizations where the time needed to personally dispatch a technician to each user in meatspace would be prohibitive. Usually such remote proactive support is initiated with the user's direct approval.

In my opinion the "consenting adults" principle applies here: it doesn't hurt to ask for a user's permission, and if they agree, it's not creepy. If they don't agree, no harm is done.

One last thing: you're right to worry about scalability. High-touch support is fundamentally not scalable (someone please prove me wrong!), which is why you see companies like Google providing automated "support" that makes customers feel alienated and not valued.
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I have an easy wrapper to pocketsphinx here [1] - it has come in handy for me in the past. Another option is a gstreamer server with Kaldi [2].

[1] https://github.com/kastnerkyle/ez-phones

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/3pr4v4/are...
There were some disks with two heads once. They were mechanically too complicated.
Actually, you can also with Migadu, for free. You'll just get a "Sent via Migadu" signature on the bottom. And almost free without the signature :)

However, if you need to send thousands of messages a day, you are probably sending automated mails, transactional or newsletters. Migadu is not intended for that, just as Gmail isn't.

You don't need Mailgun for that either, you can setup your own server to send mails on DO, or go for Amazon SES (Simple Email Service), cost is negligible.
It had been on the cards for quite some time. Like everyone, I'm hoping for a massive change in pricing structure.