skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Conventional desktop and personal search is limited to keywords or exact dates. Humans are not great at remembering those. We're using IBM's Watson, Imagga and our proprietary algorithms together to understand your files. For example; if you took a note about Pablo Neruda, Remember knows he's a poet and you can simply search for your "notes about poetry". If you're looking for a video from the skiing trip you took, just search for that "skiing video from last winter".

Next step for us is to make Remember train itself. Currently you have to teach the faces of people in your life by manually tagging photos in order to organise by face. We're working on using social media data that's already available. Remember will learn your girlfriend's face out-of-the-box because once you connect to Facebook, it will look for your relationships and use your girlfriend's public photos to learn her face all by itself.

All in all we belive this is "intelligent search".
If I didn't have a job I wouldn't be able to pay taxes, and a lot of poor people need whatever help they can get from the government, not to mention NASA and the national parks.
So maybe I'm misunderstanding something, but how is Zao Solid's biggest selling album? None of Zao's albums lasted longer than a week on the billboard 200. They've had much bigger bands signed - ABR, Demon Hunter, Underoath...

http://www.billboard.com/biz/search/charts?f[0]=tm_imprintla...
An attempt to derive a concept of “inclusivity” from first principles, complete with made-up jargon words and diagrams.

DeGoes wants to be thought of as “inclusive” but doesn’t understand that the purpose of inclusivity is to hear from marginalised voices you might be systemically excluding. He thinks “ah, we’ll achieve ‘inclusivity’ by including everyone, even the odious!” Thus achieving literally the opposite. But that’s okay, he can show his working.

His new reactionary fandom (~ 0 of whom give two hoots about functional programming) are fully onside. Everyone else has left them to it; it’s unclear if DeGoes understands in any way that this is what has happened.
Well a few things:

> and are not already wealthy probably cannot afford your insurance.

A product or service doesn't have to have a market with either wealthy people or people who are penniless. There are people out there, I'm sure you are aware, that could spend several thousand for this which is not the same as having to spend $100,000

> please put your creativity towards helping people avoid needing multiple transplant lists to begin with

This was just an idea that I was throwing out in a comment. It wasn't meant to imply that I planned to do the idea. It was something I thought of that I figured I would throw out there. Kind of like a request for comment. So saying "I wonder if there is a business model" is not the same as saying "I have an idea that I am thinking of pursuing or have been pursuing". I have other things which I spend my time on and I wasn't planning on spending any time on solutions to this particular problem. Just curious what others thought or thinking someone else might be interested in pursuing this. It's not my focus in business.
Once every two years isn't a bad failure rate. Easy to get another one.
Or the Chase Sapphire Preferred card
"Commando" and "naked" are both represented :)
Me too! That's actually how we came up with Remember. We were spending so much time searching for stuff instead of finding :)
how is xyz.dev resolved when I don't set a new DNS and don't edit the hosts file. Somehow I don't understand how this works, but maybe I'm not smart enough :)
> To be fair, the public isn't 100% blameless as a large number of people made poor choices to create the situation.

I disagree. Whether following the buy-vs-rent calculator (and opting for a purchase vs renting) or buying in hopes of selling at a higher price later on, everyone made a perfectly rational decision - people still buy real estate today when it makes sense to them, and every day investors buy growth stocks which produce no dividends, so the only plan is to sell them at a higher price later on.

Normally though a risky speculative behavior is constrained by market's readiness to finance it. Most mortgage originators will loan very quickly at 60% LTV, will due their due diligence at 80% LTV, and do a whole lot more for lending at more than 80% LTV, and would want to be compensated by higher interest rate. Same for investment properties - most likely I will have to accept higher interest rate, higher down payment, as lenders are trying to control their own risk.

The only time when lenders' guard is down is when a reputable third party tells them they will underwrite the risk in the event of a default. This reputable third party was known as AIG Financial Products, and if AIG tells the lender they will make them whole in an event of a default, then there's little reason to be diligent.

If AIG FP did not exist, a lot of loans would receive a higher risk rating, which would increase the diligence onus on the lenders and financial burden on the borrowers, thereby removing a lot of those questionable transactions off the market.
Stephen Hawking joins futuristic bid to explore outer space
I've lived in Boulder and San Francisco. Most people weren't upset, just a strong vocal minority. It is the same type of people that don't like tech jobs in San Francisco.
I wonder if NameCheap will ever offer this to customers, I guess it would take out from their profits if they did considering they sell SSL tickets, but I never bought a ticket from them, and unless I absolutely have to / am being paid to I wouldn't bother doing so either way. If domain registrars push this it could raise more awareness, that and web hosts elsewhere. I wonder how DigitalOcean can aid in this endeavour as well (LEMP / LAMP images with LE integreated as an option?).
Yes. It is too small.

Therefore:

The relevant Hugo winner has you & thousands of others uploading your personalities into on onboard "neural mesh", resulting in everyone calling it the "Brainship". An in-voyage accident due to forgotten space junk sends you somewhere unexpected in space and/or time. During the trip the onboard community fragments and develops in a petri dish of experimental post-corporeal societies that promptly go to virtual war over control of the craft. The Bra{in|ne}boat encounters strange new lifeforms, which by a series of loosely connected plot devices involving convoluted theoretical and/or fictional mathematics, enable one small motivated group on board to seize control and return the device to Earth, over the objections of another group. In the intervening thousands of years, humanity has evolved radically and is facing destruction due to techno-industrial political forces wielding unimaginable power. The inhabitants of the Brainevessel join forces and use the wisdom and/or alien friends they gained during their epic voyage to save humanity, and the warring factions are subsequently reconciled and redeemed. One faction stays behind to help humanity recover, whilst the other goes on an unspecified voyage back to the stars aboard the upgraded Mindyacht. The End.

(c) every science fiction author since Homer.
The interstellar medium is holding it wrong.
When I click on your link the top entry says:

The second largest desert is the Arctic,
with 13.7 million square km. The third
largest desert in the world is the more
familiar Sahara, with a total size of
9.1 million square km. Antarctica is
the coldest, windiest, and most isolated
continent on Earth.

That clearly implies that Antarctica is the largest desert. It's then accompanied by an image showing a map of Antarctica.

Why are you saying that Google doesn't know what the largest desert is? It clearly does - it's Antarctica.
Again: I thought the goal was to make it as easy as possible to add a SSL cert to any website.

If you make the process require knowledge of acronyms like "ACME" or "LE CA", well. You've not attained that goal. You're not even close. That's the message I'm trying to get across here.

If I misunderstand the goal, then by all means, correct me.
I couldn't disagree with this more. For me, 3D is a gimmick. Always has been. Making it a wide field of view doesn't change that.

360-degree video, on the other hand, adds a crazy new element to how you experience things and how you shoot. It's easy to upload to Facebook and YouTube and it can be played back on any device. The coolest part of a 360 video is when you are standing in the same spot that it was filmed. It's like being able to travel back in time to when it was shot.

The coolest part about 360 video, in my opinion, is that it doesn't matter so much where the camera is. With enough resolution you can zoom crop into a standard frame. With just 2 cameras you can create all new kinds of linear content just by panning and cropping around the sphere.
I only skimmed - I'm curious which portion you suggest is an explicit warrant canary?
@WalterBright: (wrong Quincy, you mean Quincy Jones ;-)
Yeah, but are people in Dallas truly open minded? I've never lived in Texas but from my understanding, Austin is the only place in Texas which really fosters an truly open thought process. Without that, it doesn't matter how many of the other elements a city has.
Yep, it's not like we don't have open protocols with millions of users. Data silos and super nodes in the network are a socio-economic effect, not technical. What I mean is that as long as it's desirable to become a high traffic, high authority node, there will be people (and corporations) spending time and money to build them -- I think it's an emergent property of human society + resource scarcity.
There's no way X can do anti-aliasing, without a ground-up redesign. The rendering rules are very strictly defined in terms of which pixels get touched and how.

There is a deep-down irreconcilable philosophical and mathematical difference between X11's discrete half-open pixel-oriented rendering model, and PostScript's continuous stencil/paint Porter/Duff imaging model.

X11 graphics round differently when filling and stroking, define strokes in terms of square pixels instead of fills with arbitrary coordinate transformations, and is all about "half open" pixels with gravity to the right and down, not the pixel coverage of geometric region, which is how anti-aliasing is defined.

X11 is rasterops on wheels. It turned out that not many application developers enjoyed thinking about pixels and coordinates the X11 way, displays don't always have square pixels, the hardware (cough Microvax framebuffer) that supports rasterops efficiently is long obsolete, rendering was precisely defined in a way that didn't allow any wiggle room for hardware optimizations, and developers would rather use higher level stencil/paint and scalable graphics, now that computers are fast enough to support it.

I tried describing the problem in the Unix-Haters X-Windows Disaster chapter [1]:

A task as simple as filing and stroking shapes is quite complicated because of X's bizarre pixel-oriented imaging rules. When you fill a 10x10 square with XFillRectangle, it fills the 100 pixels you expect. But you get extra "bonus pixels" when you pass the same arguments to XDrawRectangle, because it actually draws an 11x11 square, hanging out one pixel below and to the right!!! If you find this hard to believe, look it up in the X manual yourself: Volume 1, Section 6.1.4. The manual patronizingly explains how easy it is to add 1 to the x and y position of the filled rectangle, while subtracting 1 from the width and height to compensate, so it fits neatly inside the outline. Then it points out that "in the case of arcs, however, this is a much more difficult proposition (probably impossible in a portable fashion)." This means that portably filling and stroking an arbitrarily scaled arc without overlapping or leaving gaps is an intractable problem when using the X Window System. Think about that. You can't even draw a proper rectangle with a thick outline, since the line width is specified in unscaled pixel units, so if your display has rectangular pixels, the vertical and horizontal lines will have different thicknesses even though you scaled the rectangle corner coordinates to compensate for the aspect ratio.

[1] The X-Windows Disaster: http://www.art.net/~hopkins/Don/unix-haters/x-windows/disast...
People in Boulder don't attack buses like they do in San Francisco/Oakland.
We do occasionally talk like that. Various security failures like credit card dumps are often attributed to the absolute lack of consequences for not giving a shit about security.
Well it is out of the box thinking, not sure how practical it is though. Sadly a paper on "Brane Craft" does not show up on The Aerospace Corp's website, although Siegfrieds work on cubesats does (https://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.aerospace.org/wp-con...)

One of my favorite "low cost / unconventional" de-orbit ideas was candle soot clouds. Basically a cloud of carbon black that is deployed in orbit, it coats objects that pass through it asymmetrically resulting in asymmetric thermionic emissions when exposed to sunlight, creating a small net impulse which pushes the stuff out of orbit. Not sure how you would prevent it from killing stuff you wanted to keep though.
Not sure if I understand the question, but for infra, I could say: version it.

Switches have config files or firmware dumps, the same goes for bios and raid bios, for documentation in the infra and connections, etc...

Infra will evolve, and so will do the "version".

While in "test" stage, it's "next version" infra, while in production, the architecture, firmware, connections and configuration, run a tested "version".

Is not easy to integrate/automate infra from different vendors, but it can be done. Been there, done that.
Fifth normal form live with a passion
The current market cap for all cryptocurrencies is less than $8B, which means that about 75% of all cryptocurrency would have to be focused on the sort of thing you describe to have a chance of competing with Facebook's $5.8B 2015 revenue.
I think 360 video is great for personal use. Earlier this year I bought an $350 Ricoh Theta S and shot some 360 video. Here is an example of my friend [1] colliding into me while skiing (might want to turn the sound down though, sorry). With just a 180 camera you wouldn't be able to see what happened and why.

3D cameras are great, but 360 takes you a long way toward immersion when used in a headset. Stereoscopy works well only when the objects you care about are between 6 and 20 feet from the camera. Outside of that stereoscopy doesn't give anymore depth cues simply because of how close together our eyes are. Here is a photo wigglegram [2] I took with a $20 Nimslo 3D; it's widest lenses are as far apart as your eyes. Note how flat the background starts to look after the second row of people? That is because they are too far.

As a weird camera and VR enthusiast, I have found it non intuitive to predict what will work or not. I hope this facebook rig and software that uses "optical flow to compute left-right eye stereo disparity" will be immersive and practical. 360 in 3D facebook and google promise sounds fantastic. In a few years, I hope we will have something for the non-professional content producer.

[1] https://www.facebook.com/fooladder/videos/vb.8800136/1010602...
[2] http://fooladder.com/post/115435676962/at-the-concert
> In California, anything you do on your own time belongs to you, and the previous employer can't enforce most non-compete agreements.

I work in Pittsburgh, and recently learned that my employer can own intellectual property that I created on my own time in my home. I was appalled.
Mostly spot on.

That said I can seriously see Rust giving C++ a run for it's money in about 2-3 years. All these things you have to learn the hard way(ownership, move semantics, dangling pointers) are dealt with up-front in Rust. They really aren't bolted on as an afterthought but a core part of the language(std::move I'm looking at you!).
Glad you liked the songs! Would be interested to hear what you thought of the other videos too (even if you didn't like them).

Whilst I can see that you're looking into nihilism, it's worth knowing that nihilism isn't the only alternative to conventional views and religious dogma. To start this exploration, let's look at reincarnation. My favourite way to look at this is... If you eat an apple, has that apple been reincarnated as a human?
A class project from a CMU class, PayTango, ended up becoming a YC S13 startup: http://www.cmu.edu/homepage/society/2013/spring/fingertip-co...

What happened afterwards? Everyone moves to SV for YC, then 3/4 of the founders went to Google.
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> so you can use that payment info with the Messenger platform integrations too

That's not supported by the platform yet.
Thanks for the correction! Fixed.
...even worse, HTML. Someday Facebook will decide that HTML is not enough for them and will make users install its own pseud-browser.
I agree 100% with second point. I enjoy writing c++11/14 and it's not my primary language. 10 years ago i would say no to c++ but today it's like writing in different language.

Qt is another huge argument why i use C++, there is no alternative (or i don't know any other cross-platform framework as good and mature as Qt is).
Magic Online simulates paper Magic. You buy packs to get cards, each card is its own individual digital object which can be traded and sold, card sets go out of print or have limited runs, and rare promos are released. It even has its own digital currency, "tickets", which are reasonably easily converted to cash.

Magic Online accounts can be worth tens of thousands of dollars.

And at least back when I played, if your account got compromised and all your cards were liquidated, the response from customer support was pretty much "that's too bad, shouldn't have let your account get compromised". I seriously doubt they ever added 2FA or anything either.
I live in the Midwest and would be happy to continue living here. Pittsburgh would in many ways be ideal.

But if start-ups flock to Pittsburgh and start engaging in cargo-cult replication of the idiotic open-plan madness of SV, poor wages relative to cost of living, poor employment culture that places importance on inane things like how much alcohol you consume, then count me out.

I frankly don't understand why a region would want to become like Silicon Valley.

Don't get me wrong. I understand why unrealistic founders would want it and I understand why exploitative VC firms might want it. But why would employees or residents want it? It will only accelerate wealth concentration, establish monoculture, lead to absurd corporate corruption, gentrification issues, and on and on.

Quick, Pittsburgh. Stop this before your local politicians have completely sold you out!
http://m.imgur.com/lHRyrAg

The big heading says "sahara", while the text says Antarctica.
So basically project something that we are never going to know or measure whether or not it has succeeded？
> Why would the US be upheld to "higher standards" (whatever it means)? Are we supposed to believe in some form of American exceptionalism?

here's an example: i think most people would agree that every country should have a strong, maintained infrastructure to support their country's operations. but it is clearly a different situation for an economically challenged country to have bridges in disrepair, than for a rich country to have the same issue despite it having the resources available to it. "higher standards" doesn't necessarily mean "superior".

that said, i'm not completely clear on what the post you replied to was expressing.

if i were to guess, it was about so-called "social progress". north america/europe generally provides a better opportunity for LGBT peoples to live their lives as they see fit than other regions. MENA (such as Saudi[1] and Qatar[2]) have traditionally been seen as decidedly unwelcoming to LGBT, perhaps even supporting violence against LGBT, but this isn't exactly unique to MENA.

MENA's disinterest/lack of "progress" in this area is rooted in cultural, historical and religious norms. as such, it's perhaps "unfair" to hold them to the same standards (achieving "higher progress") of how they treat LGBT people.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_Saudi_Arabia
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_Qatar
Cool idea, but I may have missed how the VR aspect comes into play?
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Similar problem on Android.
MTGOX was purchased as a domain name for a possible MTG exchange, but it never went further than a domain name. There was never even a site.
I'm only a quarter of the way into the book, and it's really pretty funny, but also insufferably harsh and cynical and misanthropic and holier-than-thou and self-righteous and downright mean. Oh, and I guess I should apologize to Dan for being 25 and therefore knowing nothing at all and being useless. In my opinion as a business owner, the world doesnt owe you a job and if you immediately think you hate the place maybe you should quit. I understand that he had twins though (and thus was doing the wrong thing for the right reasons).

I guess I'm not used to reading something so mean-spirited.

Disclaimer: I don't work at HubSpot and they do indeed sound like a stock-pumping cult that has a large boiler room selling average software.
I think it should be clear from the context that this discussion was about macroscopic objects. Cosmic rays don't carry the kinetic energy equivalent of a medium size nuke.
"Expect bad deploys: Bad changes will get out, but that's okay. You just need to detect this quickly, and be able to roll back quickly."

That's an amazing statement to me. I've always worked in smaller environments where we roll up many changes and try to deploy them perfectly. The penalty for bad changes has been high. This is a really new way of thinking.

It's an exciting way of thinking, but I'm not sure I love it. I wonder how well "sometimes we break things" scales with users of smaller services. I guess the flip side is that "we often roll out cool new things" definitely is desirable to users of small services.
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