skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wrote my 2 cents about this article, in a follow-up Medium post - https://medium.com/@preslavrachev/slack-isn-t-the-problem-we...). Here is a just a relevant comment to this discussion:

"[none of the arguments], has to do with the tools themselves, as much as it does with our way of using them. We have come to a point in our development, in which 24/7 availability is perceived as normal and expected behavior. Yet, to blame it on the tools we use, is like blaming it on the hammer for accidentally hitting your finger while trying to hang a picture. Indeed, the tools we use, have certainly made it easier for us to reach this point, but ultimately, it is us who pulled the trigger, not the tools."
Seems like there isn't a way to get a 15 without being forced into hybrid graphics.... :(
> For all we know from what we've seen, AlphaGo could win even if Sedol were allowed a one-stone handicap.

What do you mean by a one-stone handicap? Just no komi?

> In the case of AlphaGo, an extremely optimized strategy seems to have thrown away the 'typical' production of a visible point lead that characterizes human play. Maximizing win-probability in Go, at this level of play against a human 9p, is not strongly correlated with what a human can see as visible extra territory - so that gets thrown out even though it was previously associated with 'trying to win' in human play.

Pros have been aware for centuries that "visible extra territory" is a poor indicator of win probability. They use the term "thickness" (in English) to denote the positive potential resulting from a strong, safe, influential position, independent of current territory. Quite often a pro game will be a battle of territory vs thickness.
Please forgive me if this is a stupid question, but why does DeepMind use python instead of something more traditional like Lisp?
The WiFi may work without the internet working. Is there a plug that checks that? I get a lot of outages on the internet link side of things, not so many on the local wireless.
The problem is that most likely these routers will be locked as well because of mass production.
Cruise is an N=1, ironic to make this proclamation. And Cruise founder had massively successful exiting history. I wouldn't say this validates YC's recent bets on hard tech. People who do hard tech for a living (myself included) are more measured.

Sama sounds like Donald Trump with the "I told you so". Unlike real estate, science can't be bullied to success. This makes me increasingly bearish on YC's future.
if you have patents you want to enforce, yes. But I think most software folk kinda assume that if you're the kind of douche that enforces software patents then you deserve everything coming to you...
Newegg/Amazon product reviews are a good starting point. Avoid new models until they are well tested and bugs patched.
The right response is 'Sure.' (period). The analogy is a straw man. Whoever said it is 'just two ...etc.,? If you want to talk about intent then do it but you're in muddy water.
> My impression leaving the conference was that it was a complete waste of time if you did not have a PhD in your team who had some connection with the PhD at SBIR in charge of reviewing applications.

For the second part, it is standard advice from the granting organizations themselves to contact whomever is overseeing the solicitation (for DoD, they're the "topic author") to establish a good working relationship. Does someone who has a previous history have an advantage? Yes, in the same way that a SV startup founder with prior experience has an advantage seeking funding for a new venture.

For the first part, SBIR/STTR emphasize research, and a PhD (or equivalent degree) is the standard academic research qualification. Teams having technical members without PhDs but with significant domain experience are funded all the time. You're right that having research credentials is necessary, but it's not in itself sufficient. If I put together an application for an area in which I have no prior research experience and no preliminary data, I would expect my application to not be scored.

> In other words: Not a single Silicon Valley college dropout or "college-interruptus" need apply as the process seemed to exhibit favoritism towards members of the aforementioned club.

I don't see it as favoritism, I see it as a mismatch in experience and expectations. My "research currency" (PhD, publication record, patents, grantsmanship experience) isn't worth much if I were wanting to work at a SV startup because I don't have a GitHub account (or so I am led to believe). The kind of currency that an SBIR/STTR values naturally tends to be held by people with PhDs (or equivalent).

It's also important to remember that SBIR/STTRs are highly competitive. A few years ago, I applied to an SBIR from the NCI that ended up funding 1% of applicants that cycle!
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I'm not talking about learning the rules of the game. You don't need an AI to
model the rules of the game. You need an AI to model the winning strategy.
Winning strategy is what humans generalise to other domains and computers don't.

There's a lot that suggests that humans and
machine learning algorithms learn in very different ways. For instance, by the time a human
can master a game like Go they can also perform image processing, speech
recognition, handwriten digit recognition, word-sense disambiguation and other
similar cognitive tasks. Machine learning algorithms can only do one of those things at
a time. A system trained to do image processing might do it well, but it
won't be able to go from recognising images to recognising the senses of words
in a text without new training, and not without the new training clobbering the
previous training.

To make it perfectly clear: I'm talking about separate instances of possibly the same algorithm, trained
on a different task every time. I'm not saying that CNNs can't do speech recognition because
they're good at image processing. I'm saying that an instance of a CNN that's
learned to tag images must be trained on different data in a different time if
you also want it to do word-sense disambiguation.

And that that is a limitation, that stands in the way of machine learning
algorithms achieving general intelligence.
This is just to create jobs. Insecure encryption means people have to be tasked at cracking it. More people are tasked analyzing the data. More people are tasked making an action plan in response. More people are tasked acting on it.

With secure encryption, none of this is possible. And should not be.

Obama and the government should be focused on actual bad BEHAVIORS not words that happen to float in the ether. Behaviors like the metadata of the terrorist's phone- who they called, where they went , etc. I'll allow them to see what I do and where I go on the net. But not what I am saying or thinking.
The Macbook, no-button trackpads also break constantly. Every Macbook I've owned over a few months has had a broken trackpad including Retinas and Airs. On my current Retina, it's broken twice and after the initial replacement during warranty, Apple does not give you any additional warranty on its parts or labor for repairs (beyond 30 days). The repair cost for a trackpad on a Retina or Air: $320 + tax. Ironically, the only trackpads I've worked with that haven't broken are ones with separate physical buttons like the old Macbook Pro ones and many crappy trackpads from companies like Acer that are unusable to begin with. I suspect this is why Apple went with a no moving parts design for their latest trackpads: they simply cannot build a proper trackpad with moving parts that won't break after a few months of even light use.
I think you might have realised I'm not really responding to the article, more of a "perhaps if the indy app scene isn't really a viable thing any more they could do this..." thought bubble.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_says_no

Savant literally means 'one who knows', and they're not required to explain to you how they know, it's up to you to verify that they do. Just like a chess grand master doesn't have to prove to you he or she is intelligent, it's enough that they beat you. They are under no obligation to prove their intelligence to you by teaching you the same (assuming you could follow in the first place).

> Meaningfully contributing to the state of the art of human knowledge requires being built upon.

No, it requires us to understand. But we will not always be able to (in the case of those circuits we eventually figured it out, but not at first). And in Chess we did too, computer chess made some (the best) chess players better at chess. But there is no reason to assume this will always be the case and that's a limit of our intelligence.
> Marissa Mayer ... has a “three-year strategic plan” ... that entails building and improving the services people use on their mobile phones every day, such as search.

It's a good thing they killed their own search engine and tossed the majority of their mobile apps, then. And that it all happened under Mayer's leadership. Considering they've lost a lot of experience and market share in search and mobile, I'm sure they'll be well prepared for this.

To be fair, streamlining the app portfolio isn't a bad thing, as they had a bit of cruft. But she's had years to make these changes into a reality without success. It's hard to tell if she's asking for three more years in order to continue the same ineffective moves or to undo them.

Who knows? Maybe if she runs the ship far enough aground it'll grow legs.
Show HN: Razor Blades Club – A small service for wet-shavers
Author here. I and my brother have been working on this for the past couple of months and would love to get some feedback on it. It's a small service for the wet-shaving community aiming at offering a variety of double edge blades (even in quantities as low as one blade) as a one-off purchase or as a subscription (which took a long time to implement:)). I don't know whether the message is clear, whether the idea could work and if there are things that we could improve (of course there are :))
Any suggestions or feedback will be greatly appreciated. Thank you very much.
Silver tarnishes.
TV as a platform? Seems like it's been around for a while.

Or do you mean Smart TVs? I don't know much about the app ecosystem there if it exists at all.
That would be awesome since then everyone would learn A LOT about javascript. But to work together with other people, one of the first things to decide is the technology; and if you create something from scratch as a team, you do it together, not each one their own.
Wish this had an app
Ethereum is a $1b Unicorn and Growing
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As I understood the article, it seems they're not being ported to previous versions of Android.
Well it's clear that she was hired to be a product driven CEO not just a turnaround artist focused on the financial/operational parts of the business. And from day one she made it clear she was going to get involved in the product aspects e.g. changing Yahoo logo, fast tracking certain mobile products etc.

But then everything's kind of stalled. It's all a bit strange.
They will play all 5 games in the match. The result can end up 3-2 4-1 or 5-0. Based on the past 3 which ended as sound defeats for Lee with different play styles and approaches (aggressive, calm and a mix typical of his usual game) I expect the final result will be 5-0 for AlphaGo.
Microsoft Has Just Blackmailed Linux Twice in One Single Week
What docker compose needs is a scheduler
interesting that "not losing" (avoiding mistakes that lead to "blowing up") also seems to be common philosophy shared among very successful investors of wildly differing styles, who are playing another sort of game in the markets
> The XPS 13's trackpad does conform to the Microsoft... Any failings of the trackpad in Linux can't be blamed on the hardware.

err, pardon? The hardware is designed for another operating system and its failure in Linux can't be blamed on that hardware?!

I have a Dell Rugged Extreme 12, which is the XPS in wolves' clothing... it's fantastic. But in both Windows 8.1 and Windows 10, either the trackpad and the touch sceen would randomly stopped working ... often under suspend.

But the trackpad works and has always worked perfectly in Ubuntu Linux. Ironic.
768 on 11" is OK, btw, using it daily :)
Gotta agree with this one. I do app development for a living, and if you didn't put marketing in your budget, well, you didn't think it through.
Chinese cloners copy Supercell’s Clash Royale hit in just a week
> I assume this is not a new phenomenon. So, why does every president do it? Does he not have advisers who know something about the security apparatus? Someone that might say "you know, there's a lot of bad stuff you don't fully understand, so maybe you should roll back the rhetoric a bit?"

The issue I have with this point of view is evident in the current presidential race. The candidate who says unequivocally that encryption should be illegal, Snowden should be executed, and white hat hackers should be jailed, is the current front runner for the Republican party (Trump), a party which historically has considered the right to privacy an absolutely necessary one. Yet here we have him campaigning on a platform of totalitarianism when it comes to communications and privacy, and the people at large are eating it up.

It blows my mind that the very same people who hold the 2nd Amendment close to their hearts are willing to elect a man who wants to strip away their 4th and 5th Amendment rights.
Because Governance and Statecraft are difficult, and need every day tools. The Theory and rhethoric miss lot of nuance and complexity of the situation. I am happy that a Politician once becomes president changes some if not many of their policies. Yes, there is an element of accumulation of power in some instances, but over all, the forces are much larger than one person or one team. That is why I find all the election promises esp. during the primary phase to be so funny, and incredible.

I think Obama said it wonderfully in this article http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/04/the-obam... , No President starts with a Clean slate.
> The horrific stories you hear about are accidents, not deliberate. Due to incomplete information, poor decision-making, or just plain bad luck, soldiers sometimes kill innocents.

Not true. Just one example: in 2011, Obama authorized the assassination of an American man and his 16-year-old (American) son[0] by separate drone strikes. The father's assassination was completely deliberate. The son was killed two weeks later, when he went looking for his father.

Both the father and the boy were American citizens. Neither was even in a country with which the US is at war (although that wouldn't have been sufficient reason to order the extra-judicial assassinations of these US citizens them even if they were)[1].

Rather than "everyone agreeing this was a tragedy", it was pretty quickly buried in the news. Most news outlets actually refused to even acknowledge that they were American (using the euphemistic epithet "US-born", as if implying that either one renounced his citizenship).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdulrahman_al-Awlaki

[1] Before anybody takes issue with the characterization of this man and boy as US citizens, arguing that Constitutional rights [should|do] apply to everyone: I certainly agree that the US should not be ordering extra-judicial assassinations of any civilian, American or not. But it's notable in this case, because it highlights the absurdity of the policy. If we can't expect US citizens to be protected against extra-judicial assassination by their own country's government, then what rights can they expect?
Awesome complimentary program to the `jq` tool.

However... I do wish the name was `json` not `jo`. In my case more for personal reasons regarding painful memories attached to the name 'Jo', but I also think the tool creates JSON, so why not call it `json` or `jp` short for 'json print' ... but the matter appears settled. Oh well.
When i clicked on the link, i was really hoping it was a tongue-in-cheek medium article that just said to use jQuery haha.
Hardly unexpected. On technology, this administration has been as stupid and uninformed as any and all before it. When does the time come when the people have had enough and we stop listening to luddites and idiots and start listening to educated people who understand technology? We are at the brink of an economic collapse if the FBI gets its way and yet we're concerned with the work phone contents of a simple murderer? Obamacare and any other achievements Obama has so far won't fucking matter if we can no longer conduct any transactions online which is exactly where this administration and the shameless and incredibly fucking stupid and useless FBI are pushing us to.
If I work on projects for clients, golang is used as the backend of the project after I explain the benefits of the language and process I use as I'm able to get the job done quicker, that's all I mean by that.
> The primary challenge is convincing people that their data is safe with you, and that the service can be continued even if you go away

Isn't it possible to sell self-hosted software like AeroFS does?
I'm not a huge fan of Sanders but I think you might be right here.
It works somewhat well in con-go.net, even if I disagree with a lot of the move ordering as of late. But I am on the white team and we're winning, so I guess the black team made more mistakes.
>A lot of candidates' policies change when they become president. I feel like this is due to a few reasons but a big one may be that they are read into many secret programs (like the NSA one), which give them a new perspective on the "threats". From that the "Not on my watch" mindset kicks in.

The folks in the military and at the NSA have long careers that outlast presidents, more likely they're pretty effective in manipulating politicians than there's some big secret that changes everyones perspective once they're in office.
English and Welsh teenage pregnancies – perception versus reality
Sooooo what is this supposed to be? Vague title and absolutely no description on the site....
Or "Gehemmtpinkler" - a person that is unable to urinate at an urinal if he thinks that somebody might be looking at him or even is in the same room.
> The worst turd looks just like the highest art in the app store

This, and the lack of trials. If I find an app that, for example, looks like a solid iTunes replacement but costs $25, well, if it works, that's totally worth it to me. But there's a very good chance it doesn't work.

Including trial periods would improve the ecosystem - the good apps could go for what their worth and I'd stop collecting $2 promising garbage.
Its not always the router though. I remember living in a shared flat a while back, and whenever one girl connected her laptop to the network, it would mess up wireless for everyone. I seem to remember the fix needing applied to her computer, as I have never done anything to the software on a router.
I was enjoying lurking, reading some of the freak out around what amounts to spending a day or a week learning a new framework. Whether you believe that this JS theatre is good or bad, learning new concepts and solutions is never a waste of time, even if only to internally validate some other method. But if you thought that being a competent software engineer only required a one-time, upfront educational cost you probably got into the wrong field.

But throughout all this I was wondering who would come out and mention Vue.js. While my own current preference is CLJS and reagent/re-frame, I feel like this largely unknown framework should get some representation.

(Disclaimer: I am not claiming this is the best framework out there, but it is very nice and I believe a great alternative for many of the commenters here who are coming from Angular, trying to figure out where to turn next, but not wanting to toss years of experience.)

If you come from Angular and like it's declarative markup but don't care for the outdated architecture, Vue.js[1] is worth looking at. It's beautifully clean and blazingly fast (v-dom under the hood). If you are willing to use a Webpack or Browserify loader you get a very straightforward single file component style[2], similar to a web component, where you can easily mix and match style (scoped or not), script, and markup language of choice. The script side of the component looks remarkably similar to React if the render function was replaced with an external HTML template in the style of Angular.

For the Angular developers out there who "like things the way they are" (mostly), do yourself a favor and check it out.

[1]: http://vuejs.org/
[2]: http://blog.evanyou.me/2015/10/25/vuejs-re-introduction/
A phone with Stockfish would beat the top players today, but I'm not sure how much energy a phone uses.
> One solution would be to simply automatically delete messages after reading.

As you can readily do with Signal or Telegram.
Even decent brands need a reset every so often.
I don't expect it to use the hardware in a sensible manner.
I really like Guix's ideas, but I think that project made a very unwise choice when it picked Scheme rather than Common Lisp.
Yes, exactly - I would have expected this to be called out much more prominently than in the middle of page 28, especially when it defines 'exported' and then fails to have an index entry back to it.
A few did end up making a living at it--at least for a while. But, right, it was a vanishingly small percentage. I probably did better than most and I still certainly wasn't about to give up my day job.

I think another difference today is that shareware, for the most part, was clearly separate and distinct from retail software. Today, the lines are much more blurred.
It's not so much about how long the platform existed already: mobile phones and mobile apps were around long before iPhone and Android brought the real break-through.

Timing is key, and though I think the time for VR, smart TV, IOT or wearables hasn't arrived yet, I do think that indie devs should keep their eyes open.
Trackpad buttons are a crutch for trackpads that can't reject small cursor movements while clicking the tracking surface.
Yeah, no one would just cut the label out, right?
I guess it is like Hacker News, but for AI code.

I like the tagging mechanism, HN could learn from this :)

In fact, with all the AI code available, it should be easy to make tagging automatic :)
echo 'alias json="$(which jo)"' >> ~/.bashrc
I have an idea for an app but can't code it. Offering 50% equity. (Quora)
I think it is quite different, at least if I read the docs correctly mercury is much closer to Redux / OM then MobX + React. MobX doesn't work with cursors and your tree doesn't have to be a normalized tree (it can be any (mutable) graph). In MobX data is not pushed through the root (which is when working with large collections still slow!) but rather each components observes exactly its own observables (deeply). This means that children can re-render without their parents and vice versa. This is done automatically and you don't have to write any cursors for it.

I'm not sure whether this answers your question completely, so just let me know if that is the case :)