skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also, people who pay for the software are not the same ones who use it / care about the quality. This may mean different things too:

- when outlook sucks, you're likely not the one who bought it for the company and they in turn likely don't even have a choice - it's a requirement

- when your company accounting package sucks, again you're unlikely to be the one who decided to buy it - it's a company / budget / b2b sales decision

- when the printer driver is bloated and sucks for 10k reasons, you're not the one who paid for it - you bought the printer, the company producing the printer bought the driver (paid for creation to requirements) and you don't get a choice

- etc. etc.

For a single person it's hard to bargain using money. I won't pay for Windows. My laptop came with it anyway and part of the price went back to MS. Even if I cared about the quality of Windows, there's nothing I can do at this point to influence it.

The big software packages are just completely detached from their users at this point. As long as they match requirements and don't break on global scale, they're not going to change.
Yes, it's a well-known fact that everyone contributing to a piece of software is working on the same problem and that multiple problems can't be worked on in parallel.
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Cheers Kumarski, good point totally agree! VR is just one part of our media. It has been looked at as the game-changer in the travel industry, however we have seen that users are interested in seeing realtime visual information, to see how any place looks like at any time as well as the option of VR.

Our focus is on creating and engaging a community in order to have our members review and rate the media to continuously display only what is relevant and updated.

We also try to portray each location through the eyes of its locals, rather than tourist/traveller perspectives, as many others rely on.

Also the visual domain is an extension of the end-to-end planning and booking experience we are working with our early users to achieve, to help make better informed travel and booking decisions, rather than just display visual tours etc
Beautiful. The next time someone asks what is machine learning about I'm going to send a link to this page.
One example of this is mechanical watches.

My wife is a photographer and buys glossy magazines as a part of getting inspired, so I picked up a Vanity Fair special on watch movements a few days ago and thumbed through it. I was struck by the fact that the shots of watches weren't accompanied by prices so I typed "tourbillon" into google. I got 5 returns in the "shopping" banner, with prices ranging from £380,000 to $22.

One of the things I learned from the Vanity Fair article, which is pretty obvious, is that the patents on automatic watch movements have all expired. New designs are not, by in large, technical innovations, the patents on them protect novel arrangements with novel aesthetic characteristics. Therefore if you have a little cnc machine or a 3d printer you can make a movement for pennies and sell with the comfort of IP protection. The gold and gems on a watch are worth ~£10k, leaving ~£360k as margin.

Staggering.
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The swiss roll problem also illustrates nicely the idea behind deep learning.

Before deep learning people would manually design all these extra features sin(x_1), x_1^2, etc. because they thought it was necessary to fit this swiss roll dataset.
So they would use a shallow network with all these features like this: http://imgur.com/H1cvt8d

Then the deep learning guys realized that you don't have to engineer all these extra features, you can just use basic features x_1, x_2 and let the network learn more complicated transformations in subsequent layers.
So they would use a deep network with only x_1, x_2 as inputs:
http://imgur.com/XBRjROP

Both these approaches work here (loss < 0.01). The difference is that for the first one you have to manually choose the extra features sin(x_1), x_1^2, ... for each problem. And the more complicated the problem the harder it is to design good features. People in the computer vision community spent years and years trying to design good features for e.g. object recognition. But finally some people realized that deep networks could learn these features themselves. And that's the main idea in deep learning.
A video would be nice :(
I thought that software development created wealth - how does it relate to trickle down?
"and get our major employers here to knock it off with their ridiculous IP agreements"

What's Pennsylvania like for non-competes? I often think what a state or province could do for startups would be to shift to California style non-competes.
it's hard to imagine people getting a bicycle this much wrong http://www.gianlucagimini.it/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Gian...

not that I'd draw it with perfect mechanical fidelity, but there are bicycle defining parts missing there.
The contract would pertain to any work ever made by the contracte. You said you wanted to abolish copyright, and that mean you can't pick and choose to keep copyright around when its suitable. It would also work indiscriminate, cover any past or future work in software, pictures, music and so on.

If you never intend to sue over IP, then the contract should be an no-issue. All it does is to write down that specific aspect into an enforceable contract. Contract don't need to use men with guns if everyone choose to honor it, which was the historically method used back when people lived in tribes and villages made out of a handful houses. No one would dare to break their word, risking that others would start to do the same.
Yes but they do have to keep working after those 50,000G. Which is the thing: provided they survive acceleration, the remaining problem is cosmic rays. But we're talking about such small craft here that we'll be able to launch literally hundreds, probably thousands - the real challenge is getting the 100GW laser array built. Once you have it...no reason not to use it.
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> How common is it for single engine single seat aircraft to be flown across large oceans?

It is routine. SOCATA deliver their popular single-turboprop TBM aircraft from their factory in southern France via Ireland, Iceland and Canada to US customers. Likewise Pilatus stage PC-12s through Scotland as the first hop.

Spotters at Keflavik in Iceland have a great variety!

Cessnas flow in the other direction, though less frequently. Even a little piston-engined C172 has made the eastbound delivery journey and he skipped Iceland!

Usually the flights are made by contracted ferry pilots, from companies such as Southern Cross

http://southernx.com/
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And here I was thinking it would be a craft to travel the multiverse.
Ask HN: Why has Google not integrated Timely into Android?
Awhile back, this company called Bitspin wrote a very popular timer called Timely, which allowed synchronization of alarms across multiple Android devices (creation, deletion, start, stop), and is pretty much the most elegant alarm app I've ever seen.

However, due to changes in how Android works, and Android only blessing its own clock app to be able to properly wake sleeping phones, and notifications to appear on lock screens properly (as in, not having to unlock to view the notification contents or interact with the notification), this app quit being useful about two years ago.

Bitspin was bought by Google in 2013. No updates to fix Timely have happened (although a single release was pushed out post-Google).

However, given that Bitspin is now part of Google, a lot of people expected Timely's feature set to become part of Android, and that functionality to be rolled into the stock clock app.

This never happened, yet would make owning multiple Android devices that much more useful. Sadly, I found out about Timely after the app became useless.

So, is that integration ever going to happen, or is there a true successor to Timely out there?
Taking a look at his Wikipedia page, it seems like his PR company wrote it. The man is described as a "philantropist" ffs. The history of the page looks a bit suspicious too. There's very few mentions of any kind of criticism or negative statements about him or his ventures.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik_Prince
Renders also mean drawings. Scott Robertson's book "How to render" does not explain how to press the render button in Blender, it explains how to actually draw (render) a concept art.
I was referring to "actually using the X11 drawing primitives in a clever way" and "why antialiasing was never enabled for X core drawing primitives", not adding an entirely new set of stencil/paint drawing primitives that don't interact with the existing ones, or changing the way X-core drawing primitives work to enable anti-aliasing.

If adding graphics primitives via X extensions worked as advertised, then X would have solved all these problems we're still having decades ago.

But as the HP technical support person said, "Why would you ever need to point to something that you've drawn in 3D?"
Or Fertilizer and Diesel
Any bossy child is a bossy little [insert word here], not just girls.

I'm not familiar with work environments where women have to 'steep themselves in business passive'. My wife was never like that when I met her nor are most of the women I've worked with. Please show me where all these passive women are at work, might make my life easier...
A hash of the private key isn't actually bad to use for entropy. It's what's done in deterministic EC signatures, deriving the k value from the private key + message.
I don't know.. now every time I see smiling skiers posing, I can't help but ask myself, did they really confront their past ?
You could totally optimise network architecture by crowdsourcing topology discovery for different problems into a multiplayer game with loss as a score.
Entropy doesn't run out if your CSPRNG is good
He is working on the very problem we need him to work on. I'm telling him to get back to work and stop dorking around on HN, because there is tons, and tons, more work to do - and I fail to see how HN is anything but a distraction for someone working on this issue.
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Would not the FBI and the Subcontractor be bound by the US version of the offical secrets act.
Lidar isn't needed. Light rays themselves contain enough information to rebuild the scene.
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Furthermore, Pandora is only accessible in USA, Australia and New Zealand.
Thanks! Your comment reminded me of a discussion about this from a few months ago [1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10372898
Ask HN: Have you used Commission Crowd?
I'm looking to build a commission only sales team and came across https://www.commissioncrowd.com - have you used it? It's quite pricey (£600) so would like some indication that'll it work!
It's the usual way to turn when using your hands too - in fact, you (subconsciously) turn your handlebars the "wrong" way when cornering on a bike (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Countersteering). This is very counterintuitive and discussing it is a good way to start arguments...
I look forward to apple saying that they apply the same stance in the case of investigating miscounduct or if the CWA or Prospect in the UK started organizing apple store staff :-)
Declaring the app "useless" sounds a bit hyperbole to me. I've been happily using Timely since its launch, and don't frankly understand your problems -- the app hasn't lost any features as far as I can see.
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I wish Google Calendar on Android would let me use a keypad to enter the time rather than an analog clock.

And I'm curious to know what benefit analog provides to some people.
actual paper (pdf) link : https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/file/index/docid/112631/fil...
Thanks for the suggestion, I have submitted now.
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This. It's the way you approach a bike to mount so that's the way it looks inviting in advertisements too. I'm not sure if "stand fixed to left side" is a rhs traffic thing or something global?
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The regs are quite different if you are a foreigner. Were you in the USA when you opened the account.
I would say 8th one on the right. it could pass as his handwriting or a bike
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This is a very good explanation, thanks (even though I knew some of it already)

I tried the swiss roll with a shallow network on the demo (and the results are not excellent, but it matches)
These ancillary skills in management are developed in order to achieve well-defined objectives: overpower (i.e. shoot) the bad guys and conclusively win conflicts. You cannot apply them to mercenaries; even if you replicate the chain of command down to sergeant level or whatever, their incentives are fundamentally different: mercenaries have a fundamental interest in keeping the fighting going as long as possible, because they are paid to fight.

A regular army is supposed to go out, win a conflict ("shoot the bad guys"), go home, get decorated, enjoy pensions and glory; that's the core mission, and its core competency is (or rather should be) to get that done in the shortest possible amount of time (or even not getting engaged in the first place). A mercenary only gets paid as long as there is an ongoing conflict involving a wealthy-enough client. He's not interested in ending the conflict; thinking you can police him in seeing it some other way is just deluded.
the same API that people use with each other

Have you ever tried to do a "complex technical task" by directing an unskilled person over the phone? It's a tremendously frustrating experience.

Natural language alone isn't useful without your interlocutor having enough understanding of the problem domain to work out what you mean and help you. So a natural language interface to the spreadsheet would have to be on the level of "perform linear regression on these sales figures" in order to be more useful than mere speech-to-text.
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Yes, this is my guess too. Are all bikes mounted from the left even in areas with left traffic? Haven't thought about that before.
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Evacuation is never about "just" finding a new supermarket. For starters, it means total destruction of the economy of the evacuated area (= livelihood of its people), as well as a serious disruption to the area receiving evacuees. Then, the process of evacuation (and subsequent mess at the destination) increases chances of various accidents that can cause death or serious injury, and quite likely increases crime as well. Finally, at any given time in any area that's larger than a village there are people undergoing emergency medical care or who otherwise can't leave the hospital - massive evacuation will likely kill those (not to mention the strain on medical care resources the receiving area will experience).

Evacuations are serious business and are not clean and harmless.
I think the biggest change in that timeframe will be in whiter counties with the increase in prescription drug ODs. It would be interesting to see it broken down by drug type too.
And... there goes a lot of energy to neovim.

The only other feature request I have is expanded features for window drawing for plugin makers. I want to be able to draw over a buffer without editing the text.

If you've ever used jedi-vim, you'll see the function's signature appear above the line you're editing. What a lot of people don't realize is that is actually modifying the file and saving the prior contents of that line in another process. If you kill vim and recover from the swapfile, that line is gone... It's a dirty hack for a feature that people want-- scratch buffers suck for this purpose.

I'd be happy with either having function signatures formally tacked onto omnicompletion, letting omnicompletion providers do function signatures cleanly, or having arbitrary text-display over a buffer as a standalone feature, phasing out omnicompletion pumenu.c for this generic interface-- and omnicomplete would have to be rewritten to use this interface.
Even if the sequencing process has very high accuracy, the conditional probability these people having the genes but not disorders could be low.

By Bayes Rule:

PR(Gene & no disorder | disorder result) =

Pr(disorder result | gene & no disorder) * Pr(gene & no disorder)

/ Pr(disorder result | gene & no disorder) * Pr(gene & no disorder) + Pr(disorder result | no gene & no disorder) * Pr(no gene & no disorder)

Even if the test is incredibly accurate and so Pr(disorder result) is much higher for people with the gene, this may be outweighed by the relative likelihood of having the disorder given you have the gene (this could plausibily be 1!), making the conditional probability very low.
The garage will hurt people when it collapses.
Ooh, they still do, especially things by Elastic.
To list few of the new features: Asynchronous I/O support, channels (Vim can now exchange messages with another process in the background asynchronously), Background jobs, timers, packages for plugins!

Wow! This is huge. So many interesting features landing on Vim 8.0.
I've also been a long time timely user. Mainly as it's got such nice visuals. Not sure what an update could give me, it does everything I want, and it seems finished.

Google buying them did seem odd, but that was more as I couldn't see what they'd want with a simple timer/clock app.
This is a great art project, and I especially enjoyed some of the stats at the end. The motivation seems to be thus:

"There is an incredible diversity of new typologies emerging from these crowd-sourced and technically error-driven drawings. A single designer could not invent so many new bike designs in 100 lifetimes and this is why I look at this collection in such awe."

I wonder what rendering software was used to generate the drawings?
Victim blaming is used to vindicate a perpetrator of a wrong doing. That isn't being done here, nor in the mugging example.

You can say a victim is stupid without giving any vindication to the person in the wrong.

Namecheap are saying "be responsible for your backups, but yeah we screwed up on our security policy" - They are seperate things, that the victim here has conflated, but are seperate problems (in regards to namecheaps offering).
Another fun fact about chain stays is that modern bikes are not symmetrical on either side of the vertical plane. The drive-side chain stay is noticeably thicker on the right hand side (drive side) to deal with the very high stresses in this area.

This photo shows this asymmetry quite clearly: http://velonews.competitor.com/files/2010/09/IB2010_cervelo1...
Regularisation methods like dropout are often good enough that you can build a network with too many parameters (for the amount of data you have) and rely upon the regularisation to find the subset of that network that is actually useful. People have recently got good results from also randomly dropping weights, or even whole layers.
Most photos of bicycles are facing right to showcase the drive side - all the drive-train components like chainrings, derailleurs etc.
That's not very wrong, it's just missing things (rear triangle, drivetrain).

At least you could ride downhill on it (though stopping may be an issue).
We already had grammar nazis. I guess it's time for the semantics nazis!
Quote "It is a time based database of my life"

Exactly that's the reason I want to drop all Google products. Until now I found an alternative to Gmail. Google Reader went bust and I live happily without it. Google Calendar is the last bit I need to find an alternative for.
I thought that all you hackers here are more independent than me. Why don't you create your own local "Google Calendar"? no one will judge you for the quality.
Lol no one's getting access
You find it interesting? Interesting enough to justify mentally torturing animals?

This is cruelty disguised as science.
The idea that one would install node + npm + some linter + linter configs + some method of automatically running the linter against the config before sending it to the thing being configured seems pretty insane and unnecessary to me. At the end of the day, it can suck, but being able to look at a config on a running system with inline comments makes debugging infra problems much easier. What the heck was wrong with # comments and the types of configs Apache et al. Have been using for decades?
I have vim, neovim and emacs (and spacemacs) installed. Right now I'm trying to get into emacs a bit more.

What's interesting to me, and the reason I try to keep up to date with the latest changes for all four editors, is that it's been now, what, 25 years (?) since emacs and vim started "competing" and they still are. I guess we could be saying the same in 10 years about firefox and chrome, but it still is amazing in my opinion. It's amazing that so much work has been done to vim and emacs, and so many changes, so many users using them for different things. And there is still no clear winner. I'm not trying to start a discussion about the strenghts and weaknesses of each. Just expressing my appreciation.

Thank you for your great work, to everyone involved with vim and emacs, and more recently neovim and spacemacs. You are awesome.
By the way, I have a question: what is the best learning material for intermediate/advanced Vim users? I know quite a lot of Vim features but apart from vimtutorial, I never learned them in any organized way - it was more of a bunch of tricks I found via googling. It would be nice if there was a book (preferably free) on this editor.
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Your contract is worse than marriage (no divorce), and a terrible strawman. Lifelong written contract with a stranger? Ugh. What if I change my mind? I'll just continue releasing things permissively, and gradually abolish copyright in the process. (I don't really care about attribution which is generally all that's left.) You're free to use what I make in your copyleft projects!!
Question 4 specifically discusses the point tat entropy does not "run out".
Async I/O, plus JSON is seriously enormous. I'm very excited for how much faster things will be, and I can imagine JSON support will definitely make integration just that much easier. My one minor gripe was plugin speed, as syntax highlighting, linting, etc. can take long enough to be jarring.
What are the developments in ecommerece sites?
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Both France and the UK effectively employ Mercenarys the Foreign Legion and The Gurkhas. And arguably the Swiss Guard are as well.
Same with horses, boats and airplanes... and yes, I think in all these cases it's the global convention.
You'd think based on how fast software 'evolves' one of them has grown highly venomous, and the other extremely poison resistant :P
That's very good point, thank you. I'm adding "supertitles", "captions" and "surtitle".
There are probably cases where the company does not sue though. I do remember a case where a long time employee of sears designed and patented a novel and useful ratchet wrench. Hazy memory but he tried to sell it to sears. Sears instead claimed they owned it, and the court said nope.
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And their are Uk nationals who join the US armed forces
I would just put it on Youtube and work on putting out a new song every few days. Prolific talent trumps all.