skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've experienced the "lip" issue on the Aeron - the transition between the mesh and the hard frame was very uncomfortable for me.

I'd also recommend the Leap. It was the first purchase I made when I started working from home - worth every penny. I have a V1, I haven't tried a V2.
I think your reasoning is flawed. Imagine Lee Sedol won the first three matches and AlphaGo the fourth. I think that news would have more upvotes than the former three matches.

The outcome was a surprise and therefore gathered more attention.
What do I do if I need to use another company's patent in my product? How do I approach the situation/negotiation?
>The power to collect evidence to resolve criminal cases is one of the most fundamental powers of the state.

I agree. But it is no where stated or implied that this should be an unlimited power. In fact, clear limits are placed upon that authority.

If I invent a cypher and store all of my physical written works using that cypher, can the government compel me to decrypt those works upon discovery that they lack the ability to do so? What if I taught that cypher to my family? Can they be compelled? If so, under what authority?

>You might just as productively suggest that we can't trust the USG to be a responsible state

This suggestion is inherent within the Constitution. It is framed upon a mistrust of any Government to not become tyrannical.

>therefore it should disband

uh, what? nice leap.. did you use rocket shoes to get over the gap?
I thought about one for systemd. I guess it would look similar to monit though.
Rsyslog would be interesting too, but it already has loganalyzer.
Parent might be in Europe and you in the US. Back in those days that's how the IM market shares were roughly distributed among my peers.
meanwhile: http://techcrunch.com/2016/03/15/ubereats-standalone-food-de...
I love the concept. There still seems to be some room for improvement, though. When searching for "Tom Merritt", it only shows podcasts that "mention Tom Merritt" as opposed to podcasts he's been in or hosted. I plan on checking back in a couple months to see how it has come along. Love the idea, though!
Did you have experience in hardware before this? Do you think that experience building hardware products is a pre-requisite to starting a hardware company?
Ah right, the gc. I doubt you will see much benefit, if you will have to compile him as well.
But maybe it is possible to code without ... and free memory yourself with
"delete x"
or "x=null"
Can someone tell me what I'm doing wrong with this site?
I think it depends a lot on the product. If you ask @liseman or Kevin Hale they'll say launch NOW! That was the advice we got. :) In all seriousness I think you obviously need a working prototype, and clear validation that people like your product! Most importantly you should know what it's going to entail to deliver on your promise.
Right, that makes sense. I don't have the link handy but the aclu post from a few days ago about a method to brute force the phone by backing up and restoring disk images after a wipe seemed reasonable to me. I also think that the fact that the phone wasn't farook's property but San bernardino government's is a strong argument that there is no expectation of privacy on that particular phone.

It's probable cause for the warrant against (??) Apple that I haven't wrapped my head around. Since apple has no known or suspected connection with the crime itself.

Who wants to start a key escrow company :)
What strategies did you use to get the word out about your campaign?
it must be exciting for pros now that computers have caught up, it is always fun to play somebody better than you at whatever game as it pushes you to improve, and if you're a top level pro opportunities for that seems they would be few and far between, so having a computer opponent always available to try ideas on and help you train would be really good.

I just hope that somebody will try their hand at writing software around the engine that dumbs down their play in a "human way", to make beginners and intermediate players benefit also, I wonder if due to the way it works it is possible to do this better than in chess where it doesn't seem engines that play "convincing human strong amateur" play really exist yet
Yeah, impressive... what percentage of the podcasts do you think you cover? I have searched for some programming related podcasts, but could'nt find..
U.S. banks make cool technology, realize it can be sold
Actually, this is standard finance terminology for "if I add X revenue to the business, how much flows to free cash flow" - what we can reinvest/pay back to shareholders.

I, for one, am surprised they shut it down if they in fact had achieved positive contribution margin. Probably just couldn't tell a good enough story for how they'd grow, and demonstrate good upside, for new money in, given all the preferences/dilution/creditors already in their capital stack.
Thanks for doing this!

How do I get started with hardware? I'm a software engineer trying to break into the hardware field. What resources can you recommend for someone in my shoes?
My favorite pi formula: https://xkcd.com/179/
The people search is something I've wanted for a while now, you've done a fantastic job in executing it!
"it's hard to find good developers".........who can implement a super-efficient malloc and free in a coding interview within 6 hours when applying to a CRUD/REST app job at a CRUD/REST app salary
I wonder if Google has any plans on using C++ in any of their web applications now.

Might help them improve Google Docs a lot if they could utilize some mature C++ libraries from a desktop word processor.
Well, sure, but the over-approximation is surprising given that false is constant and "if" is supposedly a well-known construct.
We made our own storyboard, Carlos, my co-founder is very creative and a good storyteller so he crafted the arch of the video. We studied Nancy Duarte's stuff. We worked very closely with our videographer who also put his heart and soul into it. In short, storyboard/script in-house, filming/editing outsourced.
Show HN: Effe-tool, management of effe: open source alternative to AWS Lambda
Guardian gun control
It appears they were still at the "do things that don't scale" stage. Every company goes through this, even a diner. Why it took $13+ million to get there, though, is the real question.

Some companies (e.g. in biotech, autonomous vehicles) may take significant upfront costs, but anything requiring massive scale to be profitable means the margins are going to be razor thin (see: Amazon vs. Jet.com, freight shipping, payment processors).
Seriously considering putting a write up of how I repiped the natural gas lines in our house. One inch pipe to the utility room, valves on all tees and a stub for the meter so I could pressure test the whole house by zones at the first tee after the meter.

Systems, problem solving, engineering. Happens everywhere not just on a computer screen.
How Imgur Became an Image-Sharing, Meme-Generating Megacommunity
From your lips to gods ears.
I had nightmare of a interview experience with AirBnb in 2012. They asked me take 2 days off from work and fly all the way to SFO after I wasted couple of hours doing their coding homework. The first interviewer started with "your degree is not from a good school" like the very first sentence right to my face. He then asked me a string matching question, and insisted that I code up his brute force solution (with terrible insert complexity) and second interviewer asked me to code up a binary search tree and . After which the recruiter walked in asked me to leave the building saying the interview was not going well and walked me out of the office.

I felt so humiliated, worthless and traumatized that I stopped interviewing for atleast 3 years after that. I now have (irrational) fear of interviews.

This experience has dissuaded many of my friends from applying there.
Don't copy people's products. Other than that, companies spend too much time too early worrying about (and spending money on) IP. Prove demand for your product by launching; you've got a year post-disclosure to file a provisional patent.
Thanks for the test data
I don't remember the C++ Core Guidelines having anything to say about parallelism, nor proposing any sort of lint or static analysis involving concurrent code. Though I may be misremembering, it's a rather long document.
I think it would be a stretch to say that now. The neural net acts like a big lookup table atm , even if its states contain high level concepts. However, consciousness is a human concept, so the system should be coupled to another, expressive system that we could relate to, and communicate with. Thats why the turing test is proposed through language communication and not some other limited vocabulary.
Lyft to Launch Car-Rental Program, Aiming to Attract, Motivate Drivers
We built up a big email list. Starting with the team we had ~12k emails collectively (team of 6 people). Everyone we had ever emailed. And tiered the emails/frequency. We also did a lot of pilots beforehand and gathered interest from people who had ACTUALLY interacted with the product. And in our case had showered with Nebia!
Most if not all use CSS and javascript, but he mentioned a ton of techniques in such a way as to imply that most websites use all of them or that you needed to know all of them to do web development.

That is just not true. I am sure that most web developers don't know d3, svg (other than exporting it from a drawing program) or typescript.
GitHub updated their homepage design
Lots of pros and lots of cons here...

Crowdfunding:
Pros --> Big platform that you can piggyback on; somewhat well-understood form of funding; can leverage to build a brand
Cons --> Less control over your brand and your message (e.g. hard to A/B test); commission

Self-funding
Pros --> Complete control over your website, message, brand, etc. Can offer whatever incentives you want.
Cons --> Harder to get the word out, generate press, access early adopters

VC funding --> This is important should you want to build a high-growth business and avoid the pitfalls of a lot of Kickstarter campaign. We've supplemented our Kickstarter campaign with VC funding and used crowdfunding as a means to get early adopters, build our brand and fund our first production run.
Scientists may have solved the mystery of the desert’s ‘fairy circles’
a) is fine (which is what this "Gitmail" service provides), but shouldn't b) be preventable if you tied email addresses to the public keys uploaded by the user? So if I tried to push commits to Github with an email address that belongs to Linus Torvalds, Github should be able to reject the push based on the fact that I authenticated with a key pair that is not in Torvalds' keys.

(Perhaps I don't understand the way in which git pushes work well enough?)
Do you think US companies have any ethical obligations to manufacture in the US? On that same vein, is there a marketing value of saying, "American-made" that could justify the higher manufacturing costs?
Great!

We should make sure that browsers refuse to run any code in the future that isn’t available in its full source.

Yes, that includes ReCaptcha

/me looks angrily at Google
Do you think hardware IoT companies should eventually open source their hardware to solely focus on the software? (Based on the belief that if we can make it, there's always someone who can make it better for cheaper). How would we go about doing that in a way that does not greatly damage revenue streams?
Show HN: DRUMPF-9000, a DeepDrumpf that can run in your browser
I was interested in testing how big of a recurrent net can be run in the browser, so I wrote some code to convert a Torch model to RecurrentJS. The answer is: you can run surprisingly big nets, as I was mostly limited by the size of the model itself (you wouldn't want users to wait for their download for too long).

Blog post here: http://testuggine.ninja/blog/torch-conversion

I demonstrated this by building a demo that is similar to @DeepDrumpf, but with the added requirement of running live in your browser. You can find it here: http://drumpf9000.com
Ugh. I don't want to be a downer but it sure seems that the pace of Signal updates is quite slow.

Maybe Apple or another tech company will step up and donate some resources to this effort.

Heck, I'd be for Apple to help with the UX of Signal leaving the OpenWhisper team to focus on the security tech...
Mobile/Web App Developer (CO-OP):
FBI budget is 8.3 billion dollars in FY 2014.

NYPD has 4.8 billion and a lot more mundane duties.
Even though I try to be diligent about keeping my dependencies up-to-date, they tended to always drift away from truth -- updating is a sometimes frightening chore that's easy to put off.

I'm enabling Greenkeeper.io on all my OSS projects, and it makes this chore much easier.
Actually it depends on the package type. Chocolatey doesn't require an admin shell nor does it require PowerShell for packages that have the runtime executables embedded in the package. Those are known as portable packages.

The problem with a blanket statement for admin shell is that for almost everything you want to do with Windows, it requires administrative permissions to actually install things. So it's more that Windows requires admin permissions to run native installers like MSIs, InstallShield, InnoSetup, etc.

PowerShell is also been moved down to just an automated script install provider in choco. It will become optional once ScriptCS and others are supported as alternative automated script providers.
My company has you write a simple twitter clone using the php framework we use. If you know the framework, it shouldn't take you more than an hour, if that. I see nothing wrong with simple projects like this. We only ask you to do it after your initial interview to make sure you're a fit personality wise.
More importantly, will rust compile to wasm one day?
Ridiculously easy. It's all but done already via the emscripten port [1]. The emscripten port though is hampered by needing a large out-of-tree patch to LLVM. Once the LLVM wasm backend is ready upstream there will be little left but to just turn it on.

[1]: https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/need-help-with-emscripten-...
There are too many feats of strengths that pull a car, truck, airplane, heavy thing on wheels,etc. Stay tuned after this commercial as these robots prepare to do the impossible! It makes me kinda tune out the video.

It be cool to see if they had some ant like behaviour, like robots recruiting more robots.
Happy to help. My background is actually in food and business, so I didn't have any hardware background. Your best bet is to immerse yourself in the hardware world - meet as many people as you can; join maker groups; go to local universities to meet engineers; and read as much as you can online. Ultimately, try to find a co-founder that has the skill set and knowledge to complement you.
Are you talking about IoT? Presumably these devices don't have the large amounts of data locally that would warrant the complexity of a MapReduce framework. You could just run a simple WebSockets process that would do the aggregation in memory.
Indeed, some of my best friends are businesses.
Yeah, I utilize a CableCARD and WMC is the only thing that ever got certified to use it. If there was an alternative, I would use it, but there is none that I can find.
An analogy with printing press would be more apt.
Google's V8 JavaScript Engine Hits Version 5.0
But he said it, like it might be easier for him, to avoid learning html and co in the first place ...
To which I would say, if you are allready a pro at designing UI-Elements in OpenGL and c++, then yeah, otherwise probably no.
How can we balance effort, risk taking and authorship protection vs holding progress back because of the blocking some patents create? Product revenue will be enough?
Yes. I've had about 10 years working in hardware. Some of those years were at other startup companies.

Experience helps, but as in most endeavors, is not required. You gain experience by doing.

The most important thing you can do is get started and figure it out as you go.
Yes, but an epiphany is not evidence of an accelerating rate of epiphanies, nor evidence that such epiphanies will continue apace into the future.
If the project is designed to take that long, it's ridiculous. The project we give at my company should take maybe an hour if you know the framework we use.
When is the right time/scale to start knocking doors to find partners at schenzen?
Parent comment expresses incredulity at Obama's comment on the topic being discussed in the thread.

I point out said comment is perfectly in line with the policies implemented by Obama and his administration during his two terms and OP's incredulity is unwarranted.

Not sure how that's OT or inappropriate but furry muff, HN works in mysterious ways.
Thanks for your follow up!

Yes, it does look like I misunderstood your position a bit. It wasn't that I took offence as an "eastern european" (I moved out a decade ago and prefer to have as little to do with the place as I can), but more so as a computer scientist it's ingrained in me to respond to a claim of knowing something from "first principles" by asking what those principles are.

I agree with you that the two that you've mentioned are excellent starting points. In that light, yes, those are not the kind of things that the people I grew up around tended to do. (Or like you say, not a thing that a lot of people anywhere tend to do).

I guess like you, I've spent a lot of time looking at all the sides of an issue that I can find, but I guess I reached a point where I'm just like "so what now?" For all that analysis, I never really figured out what to do with it.
Testdouble.js vs. sinon.js
> it is arguably harder to play well and has a way larger search space, which makes it less amenable to brute force, and this was precisely why people thought it'd be impossible for a computer to play it consistently at champion level.

Are human champions not subject to those same difficulties of the game, though? When you're pitting the AI against another player who's also held back by the large branching factor of the search tree, then how relevant really is that branching factor anyway in the grand scheme of things? A lot of people talk about Go's search space as if human players magically aren't affected by it too. And the goal here was merely to outplay a human, not to find the perfect solution to the game in general.

(These are honest questions -- I am not an AI researcher of any kind.)
How the Royal Mint produces two billion coins a year
> Type tracing in particular is the big win, and with a dynamic languages you simply can't prove enough to do it ahead of time.

The post I originally replied to brought this up in the context of TypeScript with the aside that TypeScript is basically JavaScript. Do you think that using TypeScript's static typing and compiling to wasm could/would be faster than JIT-compiled JavaScript?
Wish I could say my experience was different but no. Well, at least I've been given quick rejections.
Not sure there is a black and white answer to this, but that piece of the puzzle takes time. When you're getting close to a prototype that you think is manufacturable (and that is a big assumption that you should vet as much as possible), start reaching out to partners and CMs.
There is an open bug report on firefox' bugzilla to incorporate servo's css engine (afaict):

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1243581
The good ole days of ICQ. I felt honored to hold a low six-digit user id which I still remember. On the other hand, I still haven't memorized my wife's phone number.
And it's on the top of HN. Come on guys, really?...
> "It's an extension of their new language, and R&D."

I'd suggest there's another set of aims that comes out of the work to make Servo easier to embed than Gecko, but the time isn't right to make the most of that yet.
> But aren't those the goals of every browser?

They are but they're Servo's goals "for reals".

Parallelism: All current browsers are written to do layout in a single thread and the specs were written assuming this. When Servo started, whether you could write a parallel layout algorithm for the web was an open question. Servo has a multithreaded layout system that's faster than Firefox per-thread.

Security: The Rust programming language is memory safe. This prevents a large class of security vulnerabilities from happening. The number I saw was ~50% of the critical security vulnerabilities reported in Firefox in 2014 wouldn't be possible in Rust. It's also architected from the ground up to be multi-process sandboxed. I think there are other layers of defense but those are the two I know about.

Modularity: The pieces of Servo are in seperate repositories and the repos (crates) are actually used by the Rust community. Similarly, Servo pulls in crates from the broader community. This combined with the desire to port bits and pieces to Gecko makes the browser a lot more modular than you might expect. It's also designed for embedding and (I think) matches the CEF api so it should be usable wherever webkit/blink are but I haven't been keeping up with things there.

Performance: Parallel layout with a GPU-based scene graph [1] should result in a browser that's several times faster than anything currently available. The Servo team has been hesitant to really push benchmarks given the incomplete support but everything published is really promising.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11175258
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Native performance is only better in the cases where you can explicitly control memory layout & access. That's why asm.js runs so fast. You're explicitly translating C/C++ to arrays.

I don't really see how a js -> wasm compiler fundamentally changes things. You're still working in JS which has poor memory placement semantics.
Geoff Ralston and Tim Brady, Y Combinato Partners Are Doing an AMA on Reddit
Good question. I'll take this one since we are trying to do all of our manufacturing in the US. I do not think companies have an ethical obligation to manufacture in the US at all. Make the product where you can make it BEST. And you have to self-define what BEST is. In our case we care a lot about high quality and cosmetics. So it made sense to focus on the US, where you can have more oversight and be on the line.

As for marketing value of "American Made" I think it can be very helpful, but you have to make that a part of your brand. Otherwise it won't make much of a difference.
Earthquake,

flood,

hurricane,

severe blizzard,

fire,

riots, political unrest, lynching,

epidemic disease,

while all unlikely, happen with regularity in the USA. We are lucky we don't need to deal with famine here, but in the rest of the world it is a real threat.

1. Do you know police shot and killed unarmed people at Danziger Bridge during Hurricane Katrina?

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

2. Have you read how, during Katrina, the New Orleans police and federal agents disarmed people illegally, leaving them unprotected?

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/09/us/nationalspecial/police-...

3. Google

police and national guard disarm citizens during katrina

and read about what happened - I dare you.

Don't you have armed police/military who, while a blessing in some instances, are in others a curse?
Wait. How many drones were there in Vietnam?

And I guess experienced combatants with surface to air missiles are "regular people with guns".
I'm already on it. iTunes/Sticher/libsyn. The only places that have access to mine.