skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I see your company and this...

https://entercastle.com/experience/

...on same day. You compete with them? And, if so, what would you say are the advantages of your offering against their specifically?
There's another selection bias at play: the really good PhD's in CS who didn't go to academia and aren't doing research at a research lab, are making millions at Google/Facebook/quant finance, and not <foo corp>.
>if you don't give the people that put in the effort and money to do it then it will never get done in the first place

Perhaps the facilitation of some research should be a function of the government vs. a for-profit endeavor.
Concurrent JavaScript – Introduction
Secret Court Takes Another Bite Out of the Fourth Amendment
Interestingly enough a JSON alternative named "ION" was just posted as a Show HN[0] about three months ago.

So now not only do we have the problem of redundant and mutually incompatible protocols (cue obligatory xkcd), but that we have so many such protocols that name collision is becoming an extra problem.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11027319
I think that ethically that's problematic. I consider that to be coercion based on pseudoscience. There are people out there who are afraid of it for a variety of reasons - I can think of a few off the top of my head:

They are concerned they might ask a question unrelated to the case that incriminates them

They are concerned that they ask a question that causes them personal problems, even if they are innocent (like past infidelity from 20 years ago, etc)

They are concerned that the polygraph might be wrong and incriminate them for something they haven't done

If they don't use the results of the test for anything, then it's a deceptive interrogation technique and one that should be stopped.
So... it doesn't have anything to do with our culture at all, then?
The margins on Uber-like trips in self-driving cars might be better than the margins on day rental of conventional vehicles.

Self-driving changes quite a bit about cars. If accident rates can be low enough, they don't need as much conventional safety measures; air bags, metal armour that crumples, etc. Less weight there means lower fuel costs. The way they drive should mean lower maintenance & fuel costs compared with human drivers.
7nm Fab Challenges
Nvidia’s Tesla P100 Steals Machine Learning from the CPU
Yeah! I did my senior thesis in an 8-person biochemistry lab, graduated in 2009. I was probably solidly in the bottom 2 students of the group. I was just as smart as my labmates, and I had a lack of attention to detail and a weak work ethic. A handful of them went on to more education, and most of them stayed in the field.

I think I might be doing the best, career-wise, unless any of them pivoted to be a medical doctor. I got fired from a biotech job (that pesky work-ethic...) and learned python while working data-entry. Being a C student in college kinda paid off, if it helped me dodge a career in the life sciences.

Linkedin/FB stalked, of the 8 of us we have:
Research Associate (has a Masters now),
Phd/MD Student,
Scientist II,
Research Lab Tech (might be unemployed & traveling the world?),
Research Lab Tech,
PhD Student,
Physician's Assistant,
Senior Software Eng.

All but one of these people are harder-working than I am, and all are just as smart. I just lucked out by having an economist for my dad, who planted the idea that I should look at switching to a field in demand.
14 deaths out of 300 million people is close enough to zero that it's not worth thinking about.
The most interesting part is that up until recently Capitalism and Democracy were considered (at least for propaganda purposes) to go hand in hand. That was often sold to third world countries as a package deal. "It's ok if there is a bit of brutality and less freedoms, as long as the capital revolves, because democracy will come in time, it has to, right...". But it is interesting that in cases of countries like China, Singapore, Taiwan? maybe other Asian countries have shown the two don't have to go hand in hand.
Aetros: A Trainer for Deep Neural Networks
No matter how obvious and beaten-to-death a joke is, there's always someone who can't help themselves.
> “It’s an existentially relevant problem, because it’s not getting on with life itself,” he says. “You only get a certain number of years. What are you doing?”

Not working sounds fine.
ot: it's oddly satisfying to me that the Apple unicode is broken for my browser.
Sorry, my post was not complete. No doubt they are doing great with their ad business. But they seem to struggle with making money from any of the other things they do. And to justify their valuation at some point they have make massive amounts of profit. Much more than they do now.

So it seems to me that some of the smartest guys doing the coolest tech in the world is not sufficient to making money.
> absurdly reductionist view

> Do you think that this notion is new? Or that the rest of us haven't considered it?

> a pithy but pointless HN comment

> might expand your thinking on this topic

Just throwing it out there: http://paulgraham.com/disagree.html

It would be more helpful if you expanded on why it's a bad argument. Off the top of my head:

> They don't want it, as evidenced by their not voting for it, so they won't get it

Was there a vote on it? When exactly?

Here's a book about how election results can change people's opinions on topics. It applies here because X. I used to think Y, but it changed my thinking to Z. I'd highly recommend it.

Not that GP is any better, but hey... And to be fair, the guy is practically trolling, whether intentional or not.
"mesothelioma attorneys" is $50+ per click.

Expected value of a class-action asbestos lawsuit = Millions? 10s of millions?
It sounds like you have beef with your phone manufacturer and/or carrier. Your anger with Google is entirely misplaced.
For what it's worth, the username is used by a Jewish person.
If he would be safe in Noway I think the transportation issue is easy solvable. Wonder if the US would feel like they could kidnap him from the streets, and maybe Norway would promise to look the other way.

The plane would not have to go over international waters and/or other countries, but usually do.
Can you take me off your shit list now?
Yeah, that's not good. However, what's to stop the UK government from doing this after the product is released?

But yes, that sounds like one of the reasons they want the legislation. However, I think a stronger motivation is that they want to force the company to weaken their security and/or add a backdoor for government enforcement. So yeah, I wouldn't be buying any product from the UK that has anything to do with security.
I mentioned this Ion in that thread, if anyone is interested in the ensuing discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11028205
Yes, I completely agree that terrorism is something that people shouldn't worry about. However that doesn't mean you shouldn't investigate the murders, just like you would any other murder.

You appear to be saying that 14 murders is something that shouldn't be investigated properly.
> but I think I could do without "clobs", "sexprs", and "symbols" at this level of representation

I'm by no means a real Lisp programmer, but even I find S-Expressions more natural to write and process. And the simplicity of it allows for great editing tools too. This may be personal, but I always found JSON clunky.
Q&A: Dave McClure of 500 Startups on the State of Private Markets
I will now justify some jokes that I made four years ago.

Most of my work that you've praised so highly concerns improving software quality and the experience of programming. Wat is about one of the underlying causes of low software quality and unpleasant experiences of programming.

Specifically, none of that JavaScript behavior is undefined. Brendan Eich specifically chose to define all of those conversions in those ways. JavaScript was designed to do what the programmer doesn't want (silently perform nonsensical conversions) rather than what they do want (throw an error). There are reasons for this, but in its current use context that decision is not what we want. Many people watch Wat and go on to learn all of this; there are dozens of blog posts, Stack Overflow questions, etc. where the behavior in Wat is dissected in detail. For example: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9032856/what-is-the-expla... or http://blog.caplin.com/2012/01/27/the-why-of-wat/

Many programmers think that their tools work reliably; that they don't encounter problems often; that popular programming systems are fundamentally reasonable; that mistakes are always the programmer's fault. These people are wrong, to everyone's detriment. The easiest remedy is to show them, rather than tell them. Many people -- far too many now to count -- have said that Wat made them begin to realize how broken our tools are. That's a prerequisite to engaging with my (and others') longer-form work on improving things.

I could do a talk explaining all of this with examples and so on, but it would be full-length, not a lightning talk. My full-length talks get maybe 100k views, so the audience would be 5% of Wat's 2m views. Wat must be short, and therefore context-free, to work.
It could be restricted to a set of domains and only allow HTTP and DNS traffic.
Companies regard their employees as slaves. It follows that if your property says or does silly or unpopular things, you dispose of it.

Shame on me if I ever allow myself to treat people who work for me like that. What people do or say or think outside of business hours is their damn business.
To me this sounds like the typical "teachers and firefighters" government PR tactic. The best response is an equally ridiculous knee-jerk public reaction. We need to call to defund the FBI by 1 million dollars to settle the accounting. Clearly they have too much money burning holes in their pockets if they are able to make large purchases of this nature.
They can definitely have more of an effect against ad blocking if they choose to:

- Disable ad blocking in Chrome

- Block browsers blocking ads from Google search

- Release tools for AdSense that block content when ad blockers are detected

The downside to this would be in the backlash that would follow, but they will resort to these measures if ever their business is truly threatened by ad blocking.
FCC Passed Devices Coming Soon: Omni Virtual Reality Treadmill, Smart Sleep,More
This post made my day! High speed photography prompted my true diving into the guts of computers. It introduced me to C, in very raw way, by my use of the AVR Butterfly demo board. Prior to that I had only tinkered around with Perl/PHP/Java.

I was able to get pictures like this [1] with a $25 microcontroller board (even cheaper now), about $150 in camera equipment, and a $40 pellet rifle. The setup was simple [2], with just a regular camera flash under a plastic bag (cheap diffuser!) and a configurable delay. The firing of the timer was controlled by the AVR's ADC readout of an electret mic. I ended up delaying about 20 milliseconds for the shots I took. [3] The AVR triggered the flash via an optoisolator relay. Pretty simple, I was glad to find out that even just placing a coin across the contacts will trigger the flash.

Now I'm excited to measure how fast that standard flash really was, with your article's advice. And then, for the cherry on top, compare it to my General Radio 1531-AB stroboscope. [4] It was the cheapest externally triggerable stroboscope that I could find on eBay at the time. I got that flash because it can produce strobes as short as 0.8 microseconds! I really want to recreate an old high speed shot and see the difference between the flashes first hand. But college happened and I haven't touched photography in about a decade. I haven't even taken a darn photo with the stroboscope, I've just turned it on and soothed myself with the rapid and loud clicking. :P I hope your post motivates me!

Your Vela One... so tempting...

[1]: https://www.flickr.com/photos/jevinskie/115619170/

[2]: https://www.flickr.com/photos/jevinskie/112758047/

[3]: https://www.flickr.com/photos/jevinskie/albums/7205759408438...

[4]: http://www.ietlabs.com/1531.html
A question for frontend devs: Will H2 being binary on the wire inspire more use of binary data representations as well, with conversion to JSON only on the client? Passing around JSON or XML across a big SOA (or micro-services) architecture is a waste of cycles and doesn't have types attached for reliability and security.
Why do you say it's cleaner than a gasoline car?
I think they're farther ahead than you think. Apple is having to stand up against this overreach because the public simply isn't. We here are an echo chamber, but we're hardly representative of public opinion, which it turns out support the FBI more than Apple.

http://www.people-press.org/2016/02/22/more-support-for-just...
> Decimal maintains precision: -0. != -0.0

What? This means their "arbitrary-precision decimals" are actually isomorphic to (Rational x Natural).
> Just keep in mind that it may not be wise to compare those in poverty to a smart, well-educated academic who sees an "obvious" value in computers for his children.

That was my point - the problem here is cultural, not economic. I was specifically addressing the "cannot afford" wording in the parent's post.
Binary values can be stored as base64 in regular old JSON as well. Yes that is bigger but same as email/MIME binary chunks are converted to base64. Email messages and attachments are handled this way, we do this everyday. Base64 does bloat by 40%ish, so the larger content could be compressed/decompressed prior to base64 encoding it and vice versa or even encrypted/decrypted on either end in software/app layer.

No need for a new protocol when doing it that way for basic things, if you need more binary (busy messaging/real-time) there are plenty of alternatives to JSON.

I love the simplicity of JSON, so do others and it is successful so many try to attach on to that success. The success part was that it was so damn simple though, most attachments just complicate and add verbosity, echoes back to XML and SOAP wars which spawned the plain and simple JSON. Adding complexity is easy and anyone can do it, good engineers take complexity and make it simple, that is damn difficult.
Finally! I've had to live the JSON nightmare since I left Amazon.

Some of the benefits over JSON:

* Real date type

* Real binary type - no need to base64 encode

* Real decimal type - invaluable when working with currency

* Annotations - You can tag an Ion field in a map with an annotation that says, e.g. its compression ("csv", "snappy") or its serialized type ('com.example.Foo').

* Text and binary format

* Symbol tables - this is like automated jsonpack.

* It's self-describing - meaning, unlike Avro, you don't need the schema ahead of time to read or write the data.
awesome work. I like this, so easy to find the style.
>I can't really fault a chemical company for manufacturing chemicals when the DOD orders them.

Why not?
The CS:GO skins are purely cosmetic. I cannot, for the life of me, figure out what determines a price. There is the rarity aspect, e.g. a typical handgun is only a few cents while the lowest of knives is $50 or more. Beyond that there are "StatTrak" versions of each skin that visibly show confirmed kills on the weapon. Neat, but purely cosmetic. Those skins are usually several multiples of the regular version of the skin. Those factors will effect the price, but two comparable skins based on those factors will have drastically different prices.
If you can remotely login to the box, it wouldn't be that bad. And if you can lock down the box physically then it would be pretty tamper proof.

Anyway, it was just a thought. It's possible it's impractical :-)
> Seeds should be free and open source.

That's one idea. Another idea is that genetically modified seeds should be just as patentable as anything else.

I'm willing to consider arguments in favour of either position, but you haven't really put forth an argument in favour of yours.
You should look into Pentagon procurement, especially for the big projects like the F-35. Eisenhower would weep.
Oh how I wish. I would build and donate a machine if it were that easy. It makes it so much worse that I have 96GB of RAM here at home and remote in to 4GB that are probably overprovisioned too.
Volkswagen to buy back 500,000 defeat-device enabled cars
I use this
http://dataprotocols.org/tabular-data-package/
Exactly. The main "real" concern would be iOS. Even that can be handled, though.
That's unlikely because he would obviously have security (costing a $2-3k USD for decent-sized detail).

A chartered flight (light or mid-sized jet) would be around $30k USD.
Health Care suggestions in SF?
I'm quitting my job to start a company! Yay!

Any suggestions for a healthy 30-something US citizen on buying health care for himself in SF? Any horror stories with Kaiser? Is keeping a PPO (so I can stick with 1Medical) worth it?
I have more experience with DoTA2 which is another valve game and virtually (DoTA2 has way more worthless items) the same the situation.

You have people who want the status symbol of owning a golden e-hat and are willing to pay for it on the open market. The gambling portion is largely separate situational.
How Neuroscientists Explain the Mind-Clearing Magic of Running
I have mentioned this before. A large enough group of people on HN will flag anything that mentions gender or race. Posts on social issues, unless it's about class, never stay on the frontpage. Probably also why people assume HN is an echo chamber of sexist and racist attitudes. Maybe that's too harsh.
Sounds like a great way to get nabbed by a CIA snatch-and-grab operation. Even if his FSB protection plans the field trip and accompanies him, it's still a huge risk. It also provides an ample opportunity for Russia to divest themselves of Snowden should they wish, making the West look bad in the process.

Norway's NIS maintains a friendly relationship with U.S. intelligence.[0] NSA documents leaked by Snowden refer to Norway as a "Tier B" country.[1] The only thing higher is "Tier A"—Five Eyes member nations.

[0] http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-KW_21XnezyY/Usdezt9SifI/AAAAAAAABH...

[1] http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-NRWNh0OgZwQ/UrEBhQltzrI/AAAAAAAABF...
That's a fine pattern matching Markov chain generator. Is it open source? It looks like it crawls science blogs, too.
IDM 6.25 Build 15 Crack Patch Plus Fake Serial Key Get Free
Transparency. Transparent accounting makes sure financial problems are caught before they snowball. Transparent engineering -- including code -- will prevent this kind of engineering fraud.

(That doesn't necessarily mean Free Software, but certainly auditable by the public and regulators.)
It sounds like True Tone, especially if you're not concerned with pure color accuracy, is a pretty neat trick that actually works.
Forget scripting languages -- Where's our Photoshop for (web)apps?
Acorns – Rounds up daily purchases and automatically invests them
> Touristy Things: The museums and cultural options are more limited …

CHM is ten minutes walk down Shoreline. If you don't think that's worth the trip to the otherwise insipid sf bay area, then I don't want to be your friend.
That's not true. Avro at least existed at the time. However they wanted something self-describing to replace JSON/XML usage. Avro is better suited as a data storage format rather than a transit oriented format. Of course, both Ion and Avro can be used for either, but Avro will give you better compression on disk, but Ion is less cumbersome since it doesn't require a schema
If you raise power consumption by a factor of 4 in the ALU and ROB, you'll still take less power if you go 4x faster, assuming other parts of the system remain at constant consumption.

Also take into account memory clock speeds and power on time. Every nanosecond your CPU spends with the memory bus powered up and the memory at top clock, is an important nanosecond.
Detecting VPN (and its configuration) and proxy users on the server side
Which UC was this, if I may ask? I heard isolated rumors of this happening at Santa Barbara, for one...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11543798
If over $1M is reasonable, I wonder what Comey would deem as an "unreasonable" amount and the rationale behind the calculation.
Is this still operational? Site copyright and most recent blog post both say 2013.
Though if your code size is smaller, your icache more likely has what you're looking for.
Great idea but a few things concern me.

1.] If you put $20,000 into Acorns, their fee starts to become more than trivial -- $50 a year.

2.] There are management fees (.05% to .20%) charged by the ETF's in addition to Acorns fees.

3.] You lose the points by not using an airline or hotel credit card.
Inspirograph: For Those Missing Spirograph
It's pretty great. It's less accurate, but it seems better for casual (non-photo editing) content since it appears to behave more like a sheet of paper would look. It helps the screen "disappear".

I've heard reports that photo editing apps (such as Photos, and 3rd party products) disables TrueTone while they're the foreground app to prevent TrueTone from causing you to mess up the color balance.
These aren't your grandfather's PhD researchers.
His comparisons of computer files to public goods are meaningless. Think of a web service. It is the same as any other type of service, physical or virtual. It does a job. It costs money to maintain. It charges money to users. Competitors can create competing services. No where in here is the web service a public good.
The struggle is moving the relative needle. I doubt they have trouble making money, but is it going to move that $20.3B number? Because in order to actually move it, it needs minimum revenues of $100,000,000.

I'm sure they make money in other pursuits (I'm sure GCE is doing some, and I hear their government contracts are sizable) but $100m just to tick up the revenue decimal point...
I think this is great for beginners or people learning for sure.

One thing that is consistently frustrating about these kind of projects, for machine vision specifically however is that they don't even give you a framework for building your own training sets - which in my view is the most valuable thing you can have. I mean sure, if I want to find cats/flowers etc... in my program, ok fine, but for the vast majority of possible machine vision sets there are specific things you need to find that aren't in the standard trained datasets.

Sure wish "trained network as a service" was a thing.
How Social Media Is Changing for the Future
Are we talking about a different YAML, or has Ion existed for ~15 years?
Unfortunately, that option is not there.
So many threats along the way: 1) kidnap before reaching the airport 2) not be allowed to leave Russia 3) be intercepted between Russia and Norway 4) be caught in Norway after arrive 5) be caught in Norway before departure back to Russia 6) be caught during travel back to Russia 7) not be allowed to go back to Russia at all 8) be caught after arrive in Russia 9) be caught before going back to his apartment 10) be caught soon after arriving on his apartment 11) be caught later on