skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
this could be used as a YouTube thumbnail generator for clickbait videos. take the image from the sfw video that has the highest nsfw score, crop down to the area with the highest nsfw score, and bam, instant automatically generated clickbait
We're pretty much post-PC froth/churn.
Six hours feels like you can function, until you can't. I think i remember seeing that people who could reliably function with just six hours exist but are vanishingly rare.

Juat be honest with yourself.
> I really, really like that "Why?" explanation page;

Me too. Especially the comparison of tcl to their language:

set x [expr {[lindex $red $i] - [lindex $blue [lindex $green $i]]}]

vs

x = red[i] - blue[green[i]]

I had to work in Tcl early in my career...80 hours a week for a straight year, so I recognized that madness immediately.
Does this mean you and the Azure team convinced Mesosphere to open source DCOS?
Machine learning, at a high level, is incredibly accessible. The basic technology has been around for a long time and has been taught over and over again.
You -- unless you are a Pygmy or Sen or the like -- are a species that lived in a protected niche for 100,000 or more years without making much of it. Then you -- we -- figured out writing and agriculture and pottery. The next logical step was semiconductor laser photolithographic doping and here we are on the internet sharing photos of cats.

So let's hear a cheer for protection from hostile environments.
Cool stuff. Also libsodium by default as I expected. :) You got a summary page listing the features and advantages of the CMS for those that don't do PHP? Other than probably extra attention to quality/security. As usual, I'll pass the info along to people online that might benefit from it.
man, I do believe the market in general is over valued. but not from the PE ratio. that metric is almost in shape:

https://www.quandl.com/data/MULTPL/SP500_PE_RATIO_MONTH-S-P-...

check how high it was in the 2000 and 2008, we're aren't even close
My thought too. Maybe it'll be an impetus to make their issue tracking software a bit more powerful, a bit more serious. Might be optimistic, but I'd really like to see it, especially as Github's clones copy the feature.
Thank you! Your response is extremely helpful :-)
Sorry, I was looking at this:

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/virtualization/windowsconta...

Which specifically mentions:

Windows Server Containers:

A Windows Container Host running Windows Server 2016 (Full or Core), either on-prem or in Azure.

Which I mistakenly thought was part of this offering.
They're hard to find, but I've finally tracked down a place in Australia (mechkb.com) that will internationally ship me one of these convertible Cherry MX key babies, that supports both Mac and Windows, both bluetooth (pairing with four devices) and USB (for low latency gaming and charging):

Filco Majestouch Convertible 2 review: the quest for a Mac-compatible, wireless, mechanical keyboard: http://johnscullen.com/filco-review/
Any support evidence?
Not quite "exactly" the same performance. A 20% improvement with today's stuff.

But yeah, its peanuts. A 20% improvement over five years is pathetic. I'm just calling out your hyperbole, in case others didn't see it. Apple had like a 50% improvement in a single generation of iPhones, so a 20% difference over five years is very ignorable.

SSDs and GPUs improved dramatically over the past five years. Well... more specifically... SSDs got dramatically cheaper and retained roughly the same quality. So its worth it to upgrade to SSD or to get a new Graphics Card. But Intel doesn't have any GPU offering, and their SSDs are "enterprise" (aka: overpriced). Mushkin / Crucial are better brands for consumers... even Samsung (although a bit more expensive)
Will this be able to be used in combination with the growth of Beta cells? (http://hsci.harvard.edu/diabetes-0)
If helicopter money is the next step after 0 to negative interest rates, the stock market may be a pretty good deal right now.

Get paid a lot more money, receive double digit gains on your retirement account year after year -- and be completely fucked in the process, ironically, because prices went up even faster and its more profitable to simply hoard things than sell them.
This will have a pretty bad effect on the company's morale. Depending on how long this layoff occurs for (1 month vs 1 year), everyone will feel extremely uneasy going into work knowing today's possibly the last day.
"$10 credit on sign up" vs "$10 credit for all existing customers" is a significantly different story in terms of the cost to the business. This is offered as an incentive to start using the service, not to keep using it.
Has it? I haven't heard of americanthinker.com before, but do you have a reputable source for that claim, such as an independant study published in an independent journal that has been peer reviewed? Such as [0]. Because other legitimate sources such as Nasa actually state the 97% figure too[1].

[0] http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/8/2/0240...
[1] http://climate.nasa.gov/scientific-consensus/
Not completely but I can certainly look at it, compile, and then side-load it onto my device knowing it's what it said it was.
Thank you for your feedback! I agree with all of your points. Your third point regarding filters and prioritization has proven extremely helpful to us with understanding what people want from email rules :-).
Oh man, i wish this had existed 5 years ago when I first started contracting. Estimating my taxes, doing withholdings, etc. was just a nightmare for me.

I might look into this if I go back into contracting at any point. Really cool! :)
Solving the vergence-accommodation conflict, as described by Kevin Kelly, is a big leap for AR/VR/MR. If they succeed in delivering, it will be huge. Hence the bet made by the investors.
I previously ran a startup that was entirely based around one-click survey emails, inspired by Netflix's survey emails, which was around 5 years ago. We definitely saw huge response rates but we couldn't find any customers that cared. Nearly everyone we talked to wanted more info than a single question/answer, in order to segment responses. For big customers, they were happy with low single-digit response rates since they could spam thousands of people.
"The stimulus mode is a permanent regime now"

As a general FYI to those reading -- please fact check before commenting.

The Federal Reserve's quantitative easing program ended on Oct 29th, 2014 (538 days ago!) It is difficult to assert that a program which ended over 500 days ago is permanent.

Additionally, one may be willing to assert that "ZIRP is permanent regime now" too, to tack onto the culture that central banking has entered a new era.

For anyone who did not see that news, ZIRP (zero interest rate policy) ended on Dec 15, 2015 with a rise, and is currently believed to rise again at the next meeting.
I'm not denying anything. I accept the data which says global warming is occurring. I accept the IPCC report which says humans "likely" have a small, but statistically significant, effect on global warming. My point is that, on the geologic time scale, 100 years of temperature records are meaningless, and these media stories are really designed to cause fear. The fact is we are well within natural long term temperature variations.

One poster says it's the rate of temperature growth that is important. Agreed, however, that is not in the article.

What really disturbs me is your use of the pejorative "denier". Is a denier anyone who is skeptical of your dogma? Galileo was a heretical "denier" for his theory that the sun was the center of the solar system. Denying a theory is a necessary step in the scientific method.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_method
DC/OS the incredible scalable container platform
Implementing IPv6 in a Home Network – Tips and Pitfalls
I imagine this approach is less effective than another recent approach where they put "insulin-making islet cells onto a layer of fat in the recipient’s abdomen", right? (http://www.endocrineweb.com/news/diabetes/17843-no-more-insu...)
Awesome company and awesome team!
How autodesk used DC/OS to slash their AWS bill by 66%
I wonder how many other "cloud" companies have stuff that users assume are one on one conversations or sharing, and aren't. Even something as simple as a dating site almost certainly involves employees reading private messages (a must because of scammers, spammers, and downright abusive users.)
Chomsky on the mind-body problem
One of the major problems with beacons is fragmentation and inability to scale apps across a real-world network. So my startup developed a beacon infrastructure API/SDK for app developers to hook into existing beacons that are already deployed. We aggregate beacon networks around the world and list them on a marketplace online so devs can use them for their contextual/hyperlocal use cases as scale.
Agreed. This system of floating prices can also be easier to understand when studying depth-of-order-books, or moving in-and-out of positions before an event resolves. Those are essential for peer-to-peer prediction markets, but often not offered by pure betting services.

(As an assist to people familiar to other systems, PredictIt could offer a display of effective-odds as an option.)
I use Google Messenger. Everyone has a cell phone number. No need to enroll. I can share pictures, audio, text, video. Text messaging is the only thing you need.

I have a group chat with 2/3 other friends I've know for 20+ years. Then I usually text others individually.

Facebook is an awful medium to conduct intimate conversations over. After two failed attempts to ditch it in the past, I've been off Facebook for a year. I can attest that you won't miss it. Just use SMS.
The Librarian Who Saved Timbuktu’s Cultural Treasures from Al Qaeda
hey! see reply above^^ :)
Veertu – Virtualization Solution Approved by Apple App Store
Thanks for the initial video.

For long, I've fantasized carrying a theater screen around if you know I mean. So if you don't mind, I'd love to see the maximum size the movie app's screen could scale on the hololens.

Also, if you're doing the vid, kindly add
lazy mode scene" where you lie down watching a video affixed to the ceiling.
Dark Web Market Disappears, Users Migrate in Panic, Circle of Life Continues
Maybe an odd, somewhat morbid question, but I dare to ask: what is to become of your digital legacy - your websites, trademarks, contributions, entitlements, books, twitter/facebook account, etc ... ? Have you given this any thought?
As a type 1 I'm obviously interested in such development. But if they do it only "for people unable to safely control type 1 diabetes" there must be a serious downside.

Ah, they only say this in the image caption but you have to take the immunosuppressives forever to keep the injected cells. Some of my own cells are still alive so I could just start taking these drugs to protect them from my immune system. I don't think I want to though.
I should have also said in the original comment that Little, beyond the website, looks genuinely neat and I'm looking forward to exploring it further.

I just finished skimming through the paper you have linked on the site and liked it quite a bit. It directly answered another question I had, which was what would it take to implement Lisp-style syntax in the same fashion as you did for C-style syntax? I'd normally talk myself out of ideas like that, but your paper is talking me into thinking about it more.

Thanks for sharing all of this!
You can't reject one form of power [as worse than existing power] because of externalities if you aren't considering the negative externalities of the existing power. It's not out of fairness, it's out of minimizing future damage.

If you aren't accurately considering the environmental damage of oil/coal/gas, then you can't say they're superior to nuclear just because you are considering its negatives.

I agree -- I look forward to a future of clean renewables, but even still wind and solar are inconsistent. Our storage systems aren't good enough to "just use batteries."[1]

We need a dependable, renewable form of energy that can bridge the gap for 80 years until our storage is good enough.

[1] http://worrydream.com/ClimateChange/#moving-storage
ok, somebody go train a generative network now
Yep. Haven't read, but you might like:Bright-sided: How Positive Thinking Is Undermining America https://www.amazon.com/dp/0312658850/ref=cm_sw_r_other_awd_d...
If you characterize the situation correctly your opinion would seem less reactionary.
>>What Intel needs is some reason for people to do compute intensive tasks on their computers.

It used to be that the frequent Windows version bumps had incrementally higher minimum requirements, and would drive the hardware upgrades. Guessing that curve flattened out...I have Windows 10 running on very old laptops, and it works just fine, so long as I have an SSD.
Me as well, I built an i5-2500K system backend 2010(ish), it's still my main home desktop, 32GB RAM and an SSD and it's as fast as the machine at work that is two generations newer (or more correct it's imperceptibly slower).

Things have really levelled out for average loads even developer loads (mostly do web dev, run vagrant machines that kind of thing).

I can't see me upgrading til this thing dies tbh.
We (MS) are one of over 60 partners that Mesosphere worked with to open source DC/OS. No convincing required :-)
If they have German customers, they are bound to German laws because they are doing business in Germany. Sure it will not apply to American DO customers, but if they to have German customers, they are bound by their local laws and those laws apply to protect citizens of that nation.
How about a punk music bar that sees people coming and going at all hours. It's soundproofed, though and let's say the patrons are fairly quiet outside, although they sure look out of place in the neighborhood.

The neighbors would not be happy.
Here are a couple who agree:

United Nations IPCC
http://www.grida.no/climate/ipcc_tar/wg1/index.htm

Exxon Mobile
http://corporate.exxonmobil.com/en/current-issues/climate-po...

NASA
http://climate.nasa.gov/

American Meteorological Society
https://www.ametsoc.org/ams/index.cfm/about-ams/ams-statemen...

NOAA
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/globalwarming.html

EPA
https://www3.epa.gov/climatechange/

National Center for Atmospheric Research
http://eo.ucar.edu/basics/cc_1.html

Royal Society of the United Kingdom
https://royalsociety.org/topics-policy/projects/climate-evid...

Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society
http://www.cmos.ca/site/ps_pos_statements?a=7

Science Council of Japan, Russian Academy of Science, Brazilian Academy of Sciences, Royal Society of Canada, Chinese Academy of Sciences, French Academy of Sciences, German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina, Indian National Science Academy, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei (Italy), Royal Society (UK) (PDF File)
http://nationalacademies.org/onpi/06072005.pdf

Maybe the consensus number is only 95%, or 93%, but it's pretty clear that there is broad scientific agreement. Even that 'debunking' only claims that the papers do not explicitly take a position, while virtually every major scientific body who have taken a position say that human-caused climate change is a major issue. There is pretty undeniable evidence now that the world is getting warmer (example: http://www.crystalcruises.com/OfferDetail.aspx?OG=220). So the shift in thinking should be away from "is there anyone who doesn't think this is happening" to "who has the best ideas for how to limit this".
I have not yet worked for a fortune 2000 enterprise that would allow a VPS to be used that did not offer actual private networking. Which ones have you seen that used DO?
But it rejects some of the best passwords practice, Diceware http://world.std.com/~reinhold/diceware.html
Huh, when I saw the headline I assumed they'd gone into home sales.
A tool that does automatic withholding of business deposits in a savings account for taxes is something I've been dreaming of for a while, to the point where I even sat down for a bit to see if I could cook up my own tool to do it. Alas banks do not exactly go out of their way to expose a money transfer API...

This sounds exactly like what I wanted.. but I don't know if I want to be the early adopter guinea pig for something that involves setting up new bank accounts and automatically routing my finances around. I was kind of hoping my bank would eventually build conditional features into the automatic transfer / bill pay, as I'd much rather keep all my cash within my banking institution rather than sending it to an unproven 3rd party. Either way, I will be watching this closely..
I hope it's understood that I wish Pieter to stay with us for a very long time. Yet, this news made me reflect on my own digital legacy and wanted to hear what his thoughts were about this subject.
I don't see why job losses are a bad thing. The last generation of machines was built so well that people don't need new ones. Good! This should be a great thing.

Valuing growth over sustainability makes these backwards ass goals of hiring more, building more and growing. The way this is spun is pretty horrible.

Amazon and Wal-mart losing is a good thing for the environment and society as a whole.

You yell, "But people lose their jobs..." There are more jobs, plus why does everyone need a job anyway? Can people in Silicon Valley not make $150 ~ $250k a year, everyone else get a minimum income and we work together to make better art, smaller factories and a world that will last much longer by recycling and rebuilding and not needing to buy an endless supply of shit?!

"Ending is better than mending. The more stitches, the less riches." -Brave New World, Huxley.
the CFO being let go

He's not "being let go".

From the article: Stacy Smith, who has been chief financial officer since 2007, will move to a new role as head of manufacturing and sales

I'm not sure what to make of the move, but if they really wanted to let him go they wouldn't have given him this different role.

Edit: just to elaborate, Intel is first and foremost a manufacturing company. Their manufacturing currently has a 61 percent gross margin. You don't put someone in charge of that if you want to let him go!?

But I'm not an Intel employee or close observer of the company. Maybe some Intel insiders can chime in with that they think this means.
Considering their wallets are untouched, it doesn't appear to be an exit scam or a hacker stealing their coins.

One possibility: Owner was arrested through blockchain analysis.

Redditor's Evidence/Theory: https://www.reddit.com/r/DarkNetMarkets/comments/4fiy1g/this...
can you imagine the ai bots that get to work on this assignment? once computers become more like the AI in the movie ex machina, would a bot be "turned on" by the nudity? it would affect them. The bot would be distracted by it and have a hard time concentrating on other things when it's around. Sounds human to me.
Just a moment ago you argued that China is a nation of laws and Cisco didn't break them, so they are not criminals. Now you question the ability to make "straightforward comparisons." Which is it? Or are we getting at the essence of American exceptionalism here?
> Intel can't try to be a brand the way Nike is

You'd be surprised -- they already are. Their original "Intel Inside" campaign was groundbreaking and helped them immensely in reaching domination in the PC space. A lot of barely-technical consumers will not have heard of AMD or other minor competitors, but they will recognize Intel and buy accordingly. Techies don't care too much about brands, but non-techies do.

Part of the problem they have today is precisely that their brand is basically worthless in the only growing segment (mobile); they must find and occupy all other niches just to stay alive, and marketing is part of that.
Perhaps if you are the author of the 20,000 line header file, but from my experience, this is certainly not the case when developing software in a team. Having all the code in one file is significantly more difficult to understand for a new team member since it becomes more cumbersome trying to understand the dependencies between different modules.

On the same note, proper modularization of source files also encourages better discipline for dependencies among modules, such as discouraging circular dependencies.
Yeah, I am not doing any development work on a mobile device. I have yet to go to an office where the cubes are filled with people working on iPads.
Except you can never uninstall or disable MSIE period because the actual browser canvas element is depended on by both Microsoft and non-Microsoft apps and is a core service of the OS. Modern Windows Update, modern Help, Outlook/Outlook Express, anything that uses ActiveX, and third party browsers that just wrap Trident wouldn't work.

That's like telling Apple they have to unbundle Safari, then breaking all the apps that depend on the Webkit framework.... which is a shitload of apps.

The only thing N/KN editions of Windows do is force you to download the Windows Media Player if you choose to use it, and simply unhides the MSIE icon in your Start menu if you choose to enable it. And as for Windows Media Player, N/KN doesn't disable things like DirectShow and Media Foundation, which Windows Media Player is just a fancy front end for.

It was a waste of both EU and US money for our respective DoJs to have sued. Microsoft didn't stop you from using other browsers, and allowed any app to be assigned to htm/html file associations and http/https/ftp URI scheme associations, even back in Win98 when they introduced that weird "Active Desktop" shit (a Trident canvas element as a background image on your desktop, it was weird but interesting), Microsoft never stopped you from downloading Netscape Navigator and using it as your default browser.

Windows was the first OS to have a browser by default, and the second OS to have a media player by default (Quicktime came before the original Media Player in Windows 3.x, which used DShow's predecessor, Video for Windows). In fact, Apple sued Microsoft over allegations of stolen source code from Quicktime, and Microsoft settled over it.

Notice the EU hasn't sued Apple for having a bundled media player first (since 1991, or 25 years ago), nor having a bundled browser (since 2003, or about 13 years ago, or about half way between MSIE 6 and 7). Also please note that the EU antitrust case was in 2004.

Why is the EU so protectionist towards Apple? It isn't their company, they have no more interest over Apple than they would Microsoft or Google, all three are American and all three have about the same amount of involvement in the EU for local services.
How Accenture is using DC/OS
Thanks! I'll look at showhn link!

I built the first version to solve a problem that none of existing Log Viewers dealt with (namely, having several views of the same log + persistence of settings from the get-go).

After that, I improved quite a bit on filtering, based on some of my ideas, feedback I received privately, or via issues on github.

Best,
John
I felt this brief blog posting was disorganized but still full of good advice in many domains.
Exactly.

The article is an exercise in optimizing for the wrong metric.
They are profitable in the U.S. They are unprofitable world wide because China and India are newer markets and Uber requires scale to turn profit. As they continue to gain market share and overall ridership/driver-ship, they will become closer and closer to world wide profitably.
It's basically like Digit, but instead of helping you save, it's helping you withhold
Wat? Nothing you've said above or below would incite the ire of 50¢A. If anything they would upvote you.
So basically the main motivation for this is that Windows makes it difficult use shared C++ libraries?
Indeed! That's kind of the funny thing.

I started doing the 'crazy thing', determined to do it until something problematic happened. I was in kind of an ornery mood.

Now, after many hundreds...perhaps thousands...of forced crashes, nothing bad has yet happened.

Amazing, really.