skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The biggest problem: The overwhelming dearth of original ideas.

If you have the ability and time, I would focus on AI software and robotics to provide healthcare. I heard a quote on Bloomberg saying that we will be losing a million doctors by 2020. The cause? I didn't catch that part, but my guess is retirement or because the field is no longer viable between the high malpractice insurance premiums and low reimbursement rates. The coming generations will have less access to doctors at a time when they need them the most. That's an amazing opportunity for those who can deliver healthcare at scale and at an affordable price.
I think the business model of "selling things" may be out-of-date at this point, and instead we'll see companies giving away hardware that requires that you subscribe to a monthly service to use it.

A number of old-economy businesses already do this, eg. razors, printers, car leases, apartments. Kinda ironic that this comes on the heels of the "ownership society" though.
> Very cutesy title, but a very poor title

We moved the comments from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11423511 which had that title.
Well it was apparently leased, just the customer wasn't informed about that. The nice side benefit is they get to have a nice container of hummus at the end -- don't have to return it.

Then these companies complain and cry how everyone is pirating things and nobody wants to buy their products. A lot of people in Western countries, I feel use pirated products not because they don't have the money to pay, but because it is a better user experience -- no forced commercials to watch, FBI warnings over which you can't fast-forward, music doesn't disappear if they buy a new device and so on.
Wow.

I see you didn't reflect upon yourself. You really need to stop projecting. I suspect you are just having fun with us.

Normal people do not spend that much money on a car, new or used.

I would have to assume that all used cars were mass-produced at some point in the past, or were all used cars hand manufactured?

>> If you have nothing to add, maybe keep your nonsense to yourself.

Oh, yeah, you're just having fun at our expense.
I don't disagree. But it's curious that the gov't taxes corporations' profits and individuals' revenues.
This could be very useful in LA, where the traffic NEVER goes at a single speed for more than about 30 seconds.
So all the people who make the buyback decisions are paid in stock. It is in their own self interest to buy back as much stock as possible, and inflate the per share price, right?
Disk size, not RAM. How large a hard drive are you using?
Interestingly, all the robots are leased, not purchased, from US Robotics and Mechanical Man, in the fictional universe of Isaac Asimov.
> Sure there is. I have a creative skill to make information. If anyone in the world wants that information, they can pay me to make it, and then after that I've already been paid, I can release it CC0 and let the world go nuts with it.

You are underestimating the search cost problem there [1] I 100% know my company is in a niche market where our revenue can be > $ 50 million/year and where we have some unique offerings BUT the problem is how I can penetrate those companies or how they can found me, not if I can do the job.

So, what you are saying is true but how will the find you? If they try to find you by your skills how do you rank against others on a search engine/app store/etc? Even worst, probably they express the search query in a different domain that the one where you market yourself.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_cost
I wonder how far are we from being able to produce a completely open-source laptop with an open source CPU core? Quite far, it seems, judging by the facts that this is still in development, and protected mode is still being figured out. 5 years, maybe?
I'd say make sure that you are paying a fair amount of money. Otherwise you are stuck in a "kinda free"-Tier that might not get the legacy attention that you might expect.
Three if you count the one with the altered title:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11423712

And four if you want to count the business insider article:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11423411

Big day for Revolv
"if anything, sounds like incredible ignorance on part of buyer?"

I read the box. It listed a bunch of cool features. I bought it.

Nowhere on the box did it say, "We will keep all of your video and there is no way for you to use this device without Dropcam.com acting as an intermediary." I'm sure if I'd read some reviews, it would have been more clear to me what I was buying. But, I've bought cameras in this category before (first one I bought was a Panasonic Petcam about a decade ago, which worked wonderfully for many years, and didn't have the ability to hold my data for ransom), and never had one of them be this...um...useless, without the service associated with it. My expectation as a consumer of these kinds of devices was not, at all, met by what Dropcam is.

So, yes, I was ignorant of how Dropcam worked; but that ignorance was fostered by omission of key information on the Dropcam packaging.

"With that said... after Nest acquired them, there's been no new meaningful features, no decrease in price, no new camera features, etc. I cancelled the "DVR" plan and will be finding an alternate system later this year."

So...we're agreed, then, that you are at their mercy. You just have a much more forgiving attitude about their practices than I do. I consider it unethical (particularly the misleading copy on their packaging, but the general case of a device being ransomware, as well). Obviously, I'm not in the majority, since Dropcam is well-reviewed, and well-liked by a lot of people. I can't make people care about privacy, security, device re-usability, longevity of devices, reducing e-waste, and being able to make my own decisions about how I can use my devices, but I do still care about those things. Ease of use does not require giving up consumer choice.
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> But thinking I shouldn't be forced to pay to blow up innocent children or to subsidize the break down of traditional families...

We live in a republic, show your disapproval of these policies to your representatives. There are people with similar opinions, I am one of them, and hopefully the change will gain momentum.

> how is that leaching.

The same arguments are piggy-backed upon by people who are morally opposed to all taxes. Hijacking issues that many people are opposed to, such as funding unpopular wars, is a convenient way of promoting an ideology.
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Yep, exactly. We're currently running the exact same code on both AWS Lambda and IronWorker, all that differs is a simple handler file.

We're looking to add support for Microsoft's new Azure Functions and Google Cloud Functions, and this will be a matter of creating a single file for each to handle the input.

You should always abstract your dependencies, especially if it's a critical part of your infrastructure.
This looks like it could be a drop in replacement for FoundationDB but I don't see enough documentation on the guarantees they give or limitations. Any more information? Maybe even translated from Chinese?
Because the chip-makers and chip buyers are using ARM and MIPS in power-efficient SOC's. They could do the same with SPARC. They just didn't for whatever reasons.

Far as power efficiency, kristoffer might be able to chime in as it's not in the data sheets for Gaisler. That's suspicious: either the numbers are bad or they leave it off given its meant for customization. Anyway, the Leon4...

http://www.gaisler.com/index.php/products/processors/leon4?t...

...uses 30,000 gates per core. Same ballpark as ARM and MIPS. Power use should be similar or at least acceptable if comparing ARM, MIPS, and Leon on same ASIC process. They often do rad-hard given it makes it resistant to SEU errors. That takes plenty of extra circuitry. Numbers I have for those, the high end, are 15mW per 1Mhz for Leon3RadHard and for Leon4RadHardQuadCore max was 6watts per one slideshow.

I'll take 6watts consumption in a router in exchange for quad-core, IOMMU-enabled, fault-tolerant, open CPU. What about you? Would 6 watts kill it for you?
FYI: The navigation says FETAURES which I assume should be FEATURES
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As a OneDrive user, I can assure you this isn't necessarily true.
Hah. I am too much of a hooligan to let myself acquire a proper sportbike; I get into enough trouble as it is. I'm actually thinking of switching to a BMW K75 or K100, since I'm no longer commuting via bike (nowhere to park downtown, alas) and something suitable for long weekend cruises might get more use.
I do trust the cloud. But I also don't trust other peoples' servers (what we usually think of the cloud).

Clouds I trust: IPFS (interplanetary filesystem), Tor.

I store .5 TB in IPFS right now, and it just works. Nobody can stop me, nobody can "remove" my access, and it's permanent as long as a single copy on the internet still exists.

I also use Tor Hidden Services, where I get my own domain name [hash].onion . With a script I wrote for Linux,every program can handle .onion addresses natively. Nobody can stop this, or even detect it well. That means every node on my network is secure and anonymous in its location.

I'm looking for a 3rd piece: a way to run distributed applications across a pool of machines. Ethereum seemed to be a way, but the speeds are rated in instructions/second. Undoable. I want to add all my machines to a computing cloud and do work on all of them. That still doesn't look like it exists, yet.
Google's done a lot of crappy and questionable stuff over the years, but intentionally bricking devices is unquestionably evil.
Is there are repository for this? Or do they still do the cathedral model?
How is it regarding GPU driver (or what Mali is)? Are you running binary mali driver or FOSS lima?
From the article:

> The fact is that I can fix the problem by purchasing a replacement device such as a Samsung SmartThings hub. (emphasis's author's)

No chance. Most'll never learn.

I wonder, how many hardware-driven-by-the-cloud businesses (home automation, "smart" routers, etc) have SLA contracts that require providers to actually maintain their service (including security updates etc) for any extended period. Guess, not many. Out of curiosity, I've tried to search for, say, "Google OnHub SLA" and found... nothing.
Furthermore, there's a lot to be said for a cooler that can get wet or covered in sand, be hosed off, etc. while electronics are kept protected. If I really wanted something like this for the beach, tailgating, or a boat, I'd just buy whatever size/price point cooler met my needs (assuming I didn't already own one), pick up an appropriate waterproof/water resistant bag, and fill it with a battery-powered blender and whatever other accessories and eating/drinking implements I wanted.
Does this work with modern deep learning based face detection?
With packaged softwares, yeah it rocks and it's seamless.

The problem comes from anything that's not packaged. Things that exist outside the nixos ecosystem.

For instance, the Android SDK is a bit of pain in the neck to install via the nixpkgs : it's a mutable piece of software with pieces that auto-update themselves, made of lots of smaller packages that aren't bundled in the main package, etc...

However, the binaries google provide doesn't run properly on nixos by default because of the non-standard install (has to set LD_PRELOAD so it can find the libc).
I use KeyPass and save all the security questions and answers too. I should use fake answers next time though...
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It makes sense just fine. The research about latency tolerance informed the design constraints for packet-switched digital phone networks, which had been proposed since the 1950s and began to replace POTS in practice in the 1980s (e.g. System X in London in 1980).

Latency requirements constrain routing and buffering specs. Packet switched voice could not work until the system could meet human tolerance of latency.
How much does MySQL consistency matter?
It is not obvious whether big or little endian is better. For a nice overview read https://fgiesen.wordpress.com/2014/10/25/little-endian-vs-bi...
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11422369 and marked it off-topic.
You can buy a Libreboot-compatible Thinkpad X60 for $50. It is absolutely not the case that fully free firmware is only available by paying lots of money.
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One github repo mentioned in the article is the exploit, and a basic functional webpage to "do stuff" with it.

See, https://github.com/kR105/PS4-playground/blob/gh-pages/js/exp... for example.
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I want to study a machine learning specific topic, but what's hoy today or what will be tomorrow's trending topic?
Thanks for the feedback. I'll add it to my collection for this subject and think on it in the future.
Yes, but it raises barrier of entry.

Furthermore, the proposed firewall will be trivial to bypass with VPN. So that is not exactly fool-proof either.
> Szép világ lenne, de erre minden bizonnyal még több évtizedet kell várnunk.

> (A beautiful world it would be, but we will have to wait decades.)

It seems that the current generation of Hungarian journalists has forgotten the lessons of overzealous policing during the bad old days from the late 1930s to the early 1990s.
There's "smart", as defined 20 years ago...which is timers, complex schedules, etc. And, then there's "smart" as we define it today, which is WiFi, browser or app-based UI, etc. I'm unaware of a Nest competitor that is not tied to the cloud-based service of the provider. I am not super attuned to the market, however. Things have likely (hopefully) changed since last I researched things like Nest a year or two ago.
The design seems decent enough (especially in the admin dashboard and post editor), but I'm not quite sure what the appeal of this software is.

I mean, it's a forum script. It seems like it does a decent enough job as a forum script. But the amount of competition is this market is enormous, and you're sort of competing with names that have hundreds of thousands of sites using them along with large developer communities and lots of styling options.

If I was a developer wanting a forum on its own, then I'd probably check out XenForo or IPB or Woltlab (paid) or MyBB or SMF or phpBB (free) before this, because I know I'd find more help and documentation online and be assured that development would continue for the foreseeable future.

If I wanted to integrate it with another script, I'd use a forum plugin for the script, like BBPress, or Kunena.

If I wanted a modern, 'hip', looking forum, it'd be something like NodeBB or (maybe) Discourse.

The forum market is so crowded at this point that you need a bit of a gimmick or hook here. Simple and aimed at developers seems like it could work, but I don't see much that suggests either in the screenshots or demo. Does it have a well designed and documented API for extending the script and what not? Does it let you remove or add features you don't/do want without writing code? Is it easy to integrate into an existing site?

That's the sort of thing you need to have if you want it to be a forum script for developers, and unfortunately, I don't see much evidence of that.
>Huh? So walls killed more people than they saved but studies showed that they are safer with the walls..?

Studies was done with average tsunami heights from previous tsunamis. 2011 was magnitudes higher than previous ones, walls were no match for the tsunami.

>I googled this, cannot find any information that the anti-Tsunami walls caused more people to be killed.

I remember seeing this in a documentary, where they were interiviewing poeople whose famalies died becuase they thought walls are going to save them.

I googled it now, this was the first result

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2015/03/22/japan-to-build-massi...

'The paradox of such projects, experts say, is that while they may reduce some damage, they can foster complacency. That can be a grave risk along coastlines vulnerable to tsunamis, storm surges and other natural disasters. At least some of the 18,500 people who died or went missing in the 2011 disasters failed to heed warnings to escape in time.'
Many companies that exist today seemingly couldn't begin in 2016.

The major computing platforms now have gatekeepers (Google Play, iOS App Store).

Personal computers with attached storage are disappearing and giving way to thin clients attached to the mainframe - without computing power, individuals have less choice.

I think we need to focus far more on hardware - it's never looked darker - Secure Boot and the ME make me worried for the future of x86, even.

I'll be fine as long as my old machines survive - but how are businesses going to produce mass market software when all the popular hardware is locked down?

Just to pick an arbitrary example - how does a project like Bitcoin take off when all we have are tivoized devices that won't run un"trusted" code? The community of a few hundred hardware hackers isn't big enough.

Not only that, despite the fact that 256GB of flash can be had for ~40GBP, the latest smartphones come with piffling amounts of storage and seemingly no expandable slots. It's a deliberate design decision to force the use of the network.

The IBM compatible desktop computer produced the revolution we see today. What's the next step?
Dang it...dang. Just minutes before I hit "Submit". I'll post over there, delete the one I just posted if you like.
As it is right now you're giving up your liberty (debugging/inspecting/tinkering) in exchange for security.

That's generally a bad trade. Sadly one that many people are willing to make until it bites them.

It would be a lot better if secure mode had its own supervisor mode that worked through a master key that could be installed at boot time.
I wish Synology would get on the stick and and make/acquire a Dropcam-like device for their NAS products. Why would Synology, a maker of mass storage appliances, head off to the topsy-turvy world of consumer products? Look at their software offerings that run on their hardware. DS Note, an Evernote/OneNote competitor? They have put a non-trivial amount of work to produce it, and it's good enough I use it in lieu of aforementioned products. Does it sell more NAS products? Dunno, I'm assuming it must. I just know that all of my notes stay on a machine that I own. That machine is five or six years old, and Sinology continues to crank out updates for it. When they stop, my box will still work.

DS Note is just one example, there's buttloads of software that Synology cranks out for these little boxes, including security cam software. Problem is, tracking down which camera works with the NAS is non-trivial, and frankly more trouble than I care to expend. Now if Synology said, "here's a $200 camera. Point it at your NAS. All data stays on your local network, no 'cloud' services to rely on. Sorted.", I'd buy four of them that same day, no questions asked, shut up and take my money.
I believe they were using a DJI industrial, which as a takeoff weight of 11kg, which is more than enough power to carry a small chainsaw.
This is great. Looks like Chrome's stats are sourced from anonymous user tracking, whereas Edge's come from crawling top websites.

It'd be interesting to see an analysis comparing the two. Theoretically, they should be pretty similar, right?
>but not every customer cares about this

They also don't care about your company not wanting to support a 10 year old device anymore. They bought and paid for a device and they will expect it to work until it dies or they choose to replace it. In this case it will die, but not because it's broken.

Devices like the Nest, TVs, refrigerators and so on are still expected to last many many more years than something like phones and I don't think a company like Google is capable of committing to something that long term.

The alternative to not make that long term commitment is to design devices that work without a hosted service.
Why didn't you just call him RoboTop? /s
There are a bunch of different examples out there, just search for "face detection black people." In one example, Google Photos tagged a pair of unfortunate folks as gorillas. In another, HP had some webcams that tracked faces but couldn't track black people. Kinect had a similar problem. Nikon had a "did someone blink?" message that produced a lot of false positives with Asian people.

My point isn't to excuse it, and indeed I'm not even trying to address the moral dimensions of it. My point is just that if this is a Chinese product developed for use in China, it's entirely possible that it won't work well on non-Asian faces without additional work.
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Empathy is not a core competency of google as an enterprise.
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$10,000 * US_POPULATION ~= $3.2T ~= The total annual tax revenue of the US federal government.

Just something to keep in mind when discussing this topic.
What's the benefit for society that poor people have the ability to marginally add to their income by writing words that they don't care if anybody reads?

Generally, the reason I say things to people is that I want them to hear what I'm saying, not because every time I can sneak in an endorsement of a product (that I haven't even selected), I get a nickel. I can want them to hear because I want to improve their lives, because I want to appeal to their consciences, because I'm an exhibitionist, because I want to coordinate activities with them, or even because I want them to give me money (not for a long time, and I'm sure my parents are happy about that.)

How did the last become the only one that is legitimate, and the only one that it considered a realistic source of motivation for providing the public with a range of things that they want to see or hear?

It's weird that the preservation of purposeless words is a concern of people. I would expect the people who think that we need a financial motivation to express themselves would largely conduct themselves through life silently.