skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A lot. They are the best at what they do. Look at what Apple does with their products. How many different ways they can bundle the same iOS on various devices? iPhone, iPad, iWatch. All essentially the same thing and there is nothing wrong with that.

Dyson's business model is making products with amazing suction or airflow. Whether it be vacuums, hair dryers, air purifiers, fans, etc. Their robotic vacuum hasn't even launched in the US yet. https://www.dyson360eye.com/

The reason you haven't seen cheap knockoffs is probably because they have patented their tech and a cheap knockoff isn't possible.
The actual reason for those subsidies is to protect the US solar panel industry. China's panels are artificially cheap because China massively subsidizes their manufacture. These are known as "countervailing duties" [1].

The likely alternative to that is allowing China's subsidized panels to undercut domestic producers, we have cheap panels until our industry goes entirely out of business, and then have prices get jacked up because the competition is gone.

EDIT: If you want to stop aiding the US oil/gas/utility industries, there are plenty of direct subsidies and tax breaks that could be removed instead of the tariffs on Chinese PV panels.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Countervailing_duties
To be honest, I don't know how much aviation past record is because of investigation quality, and how much is due simply to everybody's goal being aligned towards safety.

Rarely industry players will invest in security instead of just banking the money. But aviation companies, airports, manufacturers - nobody wants to have any of their products involved in an accident.
Me too.

"CEO of GitLab checking in" ... @syste?
Now my only remaining qualm with Xamarin is this: Having two garbage-collected environments interacting within the same program, as is the case with Xamarin on Android, just seems pathologically complex. Does anyone have enough experience with Xamarin on Android to know if this is ever a problem in practice?

Edit: I wonder if the Xamarin.Android developers ever considered compiling CIL to JVM bytecode (which would then be compiled to Dex bytecode), then reimplementing mscorlib on top of the Java standard libraries. So basically, IKVM.NET in reverse. Then there'd be no bridging between two environments.
I think you've hit on a great strategy to coast through these interviews:
"Gee whiz, that's an amazing question. I've never thought of that before. It's probably beyond my reach but let me try to stumble through it. Will you help me out if I get lost? You're so amazing, how could this company get by without your brilliance?"
By cross-correlating with performance shifts (ie, the pulling ahead comment above).

It's not a smoking gun, but it could be evidence perhaps to do more thoroughly audit that bike, for example.
>Internet/cable, phone plan, bars and restaurants, movies, education? We spend money on stuff they didn't even dream of in the 60's!

Internet/cable is the only thing on that list people didn't have in the 60s.
I was _just_ about to type this exact string before I read yours. Linking to Gitter is _wrong_ IMO.
In short, yes.

By interface I mean a "cage" of neurons connected to the inputs/outputs (similarly to humans) that can host different deep neural networks (and be used as a training environment).

The basic interface can be realised within weeks - that would include stereo-imaging input and basic motor tasks.
But the more complex it gets - the more work is needed of course (not mentioning development of the hosted AI models).
It's really not a red flag. Not knowing or having BFS memorized does not indicate that one can't implement it relatively quickly by refreshing oneself on the algorithms.

Unless, of course, you mean if all academic papers and material that describe BFS suddenly vanished and you had to come up with a solution yourself in 30 minutes with someone looking over your back. In that case, I agree, it's a red flag for whatever position you're interviewing for.
There's an old saying that goes something like, "When going to sea, take one clock or three—never two." The idea being if you bring two and they disagree, you won't know which one is right.
The Making a Murderer series on Netflix provides some specific case insight into possible FBI misconduct with regards to forensic tests they were asked to do when they didn't have the science to do them.
With Forms we finally have native FOSS cross platform that we've been waiting for. See ya Cordova / React Native / etc!
Chasing the light: Photographer fights to preserve young lives in face of death
I'm personally cheering for David Malcom (dmalcolm) and his work on gccjit. He started testing that on GNU Octave's JIT, so we could replace LLVM. We haven't done that yet, but maybe this year we'll be able to!
Well, if it happens before 2020, it'll be in 2018. That's just how the orbits line up (the next window is late spring 2018, with summer 2020 being the window after that).
I laughed when I pointed out the ridiculous price of this. Then my wife pointed to my desk filled with the Rift, HTC Vive, and Rift DK2 (and a couple variations of Google Cardboard). "You have $2000 in VR headsets". Oh... erhh.

The market research Dyson did for something like this is probably absolutely insane. The Hacker News crowd isn't exactly the target market.
Interesting idea about packaging information/feeds as mini-magazines on reddit. Thanks!
I've interviewed at companies like this (Amazon / Google / Microsoft) and they do indeed tell you ahead of time there will give algorithms / data structures / coding.
Just a note that your math was off by a factor of 10; it would be 200 companies at $2mm each.
He just means that it's the same everywhere. In Australia, Germany, etc.
That doesn't even begin to scratch the surface. In order to even get to that point, you have to:

- Come up with the funds to get out of prison in the first place ($10,000 cash in my case, some % of which you typically never see again; 40% in PA)

- Find and still have funds to retain a competent attorney

- Navigate the interminable legal process, part of which means spending half a day sitting around in a courtroom, over and over and over again, either burning vacation days, or losing your job, or both (not to mention childcare, etc.)

- Reject the coercive and unethical plea bargain they try to scare you into

- Waste a day in court at least once a month, just so the judge can satisfy himself that things are moving along

- Research and retain your own experts, obtain mountains of records, go over what happened and everything leading up to it about a million times with a million different people (it's basically a part-time job)

- Try not to worry obsessively about every aspect of what happened and what you might say

- Take more time off to actually go to trial (and jury selection, and other misc. trial prep)

- Leave your fate in the hands of people who may not be competent, may not be educated, and by-and-large skew toward favoring law enforcement

I have about a million things going for me. I own my own (moderately successful) company, and I have a high profile in a relatively affluent community/industry. That buys me an unreasonably high degree of financial and scheduling flexibility that most people don't have. If not for those things, my family and I would be crushed. If this system is designed to do anything, it's designed to crush the people who get caught in it, with no thought to the consequences for society.
But that's just the point. If you have real-world users reacting to your real-world interface in the same way that TNG's scripted users (generally) react to their prop interface, you're probably doing something right.
Congratulations on your launch, but I couldn't tell what Vue was from this announcement post. I wish articles like this could include even just one sentence at the beginning that looks like this:

Vue.js is a library for building interactive web
interfaces. It provides data-reactive components
with a simple and flexible API.

(pulled from their GitHub README, which I was only able to find because of the comment here on HN from cdnsteve fifteen minutes ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11582600).

Edit:

Thanks, Evan, for adding the explanatory bit at the top of the post.
Is this construct commonly used in swift or is it an edge case? I've seen people referring to it as an edge case, but at the same time this is code which I find my self writing pretty often in other languages, for example when initializing data for unit tests.
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Presumably, they prefer to learn by talking to people rather than browsing repos.

The .NET community was, until recently, decidedly not-open-source, so the learning workflow of "open the repo, read the readme, browse the code" might be a new thing for them.
It would funnier if your family and friends were given messages about your intimate activities, jbob

Edit: I can't see the main being that this "is about sex" but rather that this is about privacy and privacy is things people do that for a variety of reasons they don't want some people to know about. Certain sexual behaviors are included here but it seems far from funny or far from "bringing things down to earth", given that what happening is a variety of women suffering in a socially repressive nation.
I can't remember if this is true of Airbii or if it's Boeings I'm thinking of, but I remember reading a while back that the three microcontrollers they run on are also from different manufacturers.
This article isn't really about Theranos, so much as it is about the unreliability of blood testing as a diagnostic technique even when the tests are working properly.
Yes, one can go too far in the opposite direction... "I don't need no book-learnin'!"
That post is great! thanks for the link, i hadn't stumbled across it yet.

From what I can tell from that link though, it is exactly as I suspected, and openface 0.2 significantly outperforms openbr for the LFW test set. (whereas openfaces 0.1 was largely equivalent). Moreover, I think that there is clearly room for drastic improvement with the openface architecture, either by tweaking the layout of the NN's, or simply throwing more data at it. It is not clear to me how openbr could be improved.
Other tools for developing / comparing RL algorithms:

* Burlap (from Brown-UMBC) https://github.com/jmacglashan/burlap

* RL Glue http://glue.rl-community.org/wiki/Main_Page

Also looks like some of the challenges come from ALE: https://github.com/mgbellemare/Arcade-Learning-Environment
I'm asking "why anything but the default URL?"

I'm asking "why isn't this handled by freaking CSS? We have a goddam tag for this!"
Typescript's following the usual JS scope closure rules: the namespace syntax is sugar for the usual sort of JS "IIFE" object pattern, which you should be able to plainly see in the transpiled output.

Because Date is a data type, not every browser may attach `Date` to the global `window` object. I can't think of one that does not, but it's one of those cases where JS has always been ambiguous.

That said, Typescript is more than happy to let you `(<any>window).Date` assert your way to that global. Or if you feel particularly strongly about this, you could in increasing order of strength of opinion: 1) add .d.ts file somewhere augment window yourself with Date, 2) fork the lib.d.ts and use your own instead of the default, 3) send a PR to Typescript adding it to the default lib.d.ts and see if they have a stronger reason for it not being there beyond it just being ambiguous in the JS language/spec/library.
I am going to go ahead and say that it will be successful. (I am a dude and will not buy one.)

Reasons are that regular hair dryers are just not very good. They are not pleasant to use.

And there are millions of women, primarily, who spend probably $2500 or more a year on cosmetics/makeup/hair. So a $400 one time expense for something that will last for years, doesn't seem that bad.
Btw. Ireland is one of the best examples why the EU doesn't work.
A lot of the good parts of Ireland happened, caused by the low cut tax rates. Even german companies used some tricks until 2014/2015 to get money out of the EU by using some 'double Irish arrangement' or other stuff. Ireland is actually one of the best countries for businesses inside the EU and it can't be good that one country is better than any other country inside the EU. In a group of countries with the same exchange it should be forbidden to have different tax rates and some other specials for companies.

Also I doubt that 90% of the stuff you said would be possible just without the EU. I also thing that actually most things would actually be easier.

Actually there is way more controversial stuff inside the EU that I know of and that is publicly available.
Also I live in germany and we profited the most from the things happened inside the EU, that's actually controversial as well.
I want to live long enough to see a Tesla rover being driven on Mars.
Woah dude! Super cool! Love the Tron-like UI!
Humans are animals.
I am a huge fan of Vue (which at work, we pronounce "Voo" to not confuse views as in "templates" or views as in "look of something"). Really appreciate all the work Evan You has put into it, it's delightful to work with.

It would be awesome if the vue-router, vue-resource, and vuex libs could be baked in somehow, if only to have them officially supported. All the same, it's great as is!
Partially because we as society likely reward "results" better than "good effort" or "team playing".

I'll leave it an open question whether the money involved in these activities is an influencer, or whether it's just rotten ol human nature (addictiveness to winning).

Perhaps the reality is that cheating happens everywhere and only in the highest-stakes competitions do we notice and punish it?
There's two ways we think this could go:

1. We make money from companies via recruiting fees. In this scenario, our goal would be to present listings that we make money from via "sponsored links" a la Google search. As we grow our pool of job-seekers, we'd concurrently be able to expand the number of companies we have recruiting agreements with, thus making our implicit incentive to be biased towards a small number of companies weaker and weaker. If we got a significant portion of all job-seekers using our service, we'd probably be able to introduce a standardized recruiting agreement that companies could sign onto online in a self-serve fashion, minimizing our need to do "on the ground" sales.

2. If that approach doesn't work, we'd hope to offer services to job-seekers that they're willing to pay for, such as resume reviews, interview coaching, and the like. There's also the possibility that we could come to some agreement with seekers for a (very small) percentage of their signing bonus/salary at a new job that we help them find. Obviously we have to provide excellent service to earn this, but that's what we aim for!
Real is real - when you make it real ,)
I think that DARPA's research (robotics) is lacking the scale (which VR and mass adoption can bring).
I mean... I'm 17 years out of college and I remember it. I don't have an implementation that I can just write out from memory or anything, but I remember the basics of how the algorithm works and I assume I could come up with an implementation that works.
VREAL – The Twitch of Virtual Reality Gaming Has Been Unveiled
SpaceX isn't standing in anybody else's way. Any and all other interested parties are free to pursue their own plans. Adding guidelines and regulations won't suddenly make it so that other people go, all it'll do is make it harder for SpaceX to do so.

This post sounds to me like sour grapes. "I can't go, so I don't want anybody to go unless we all can." I hope I'm wrong, because that idea terrifies me a bit.
Then two years ago, whatever. I wasn't referring to used phones, anyway. There have been "cheap" iPhone options for a long time, and a decent, brand-new Android phone didn't really pop up until the Moto X, which was something like 2012.
No it's not

http://www.defensenews.com/story/defense/air-space/2016/04/2...
(Oops...I noticed a couple minutes after posting that the present article is about hair dryers and the article I cite is about hand dryers. I would have deleted this, but someone had commented by then which disables delete. I could edit this to replace the entire contents with "[deleted]", but someone has commented on the assertions in the hand dryer article, so I'll leave this up, despite it being an embarrassing monument to my poor reading comprehension)

There may be a downside to these very fast hot air dryers: "Using a Dyson hand dryer is like setting off a viral bomb in a bathroom" [1].

There was some HN discussion of that article [2].

[1] http://arstechnica.com/science/2016/04/dyson-dryers-hurl-60x...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11507239
I'd be willing to wager that home (not salon, stylist, barbershop) use of hairdryers is significantly skewed towards female users. Perhaps the current man-bun trend (and the requisite long hair) is changing that, but that'd be a, presently, niche market.

Do you also find it odd that electric shavers for facial hair are also gendered and targeted towards men?
I really like Glenn Greenwald, but he's really jumped the shark on reporting on Brazil. The amount of corruption surrounding Dilma, Lula and the PT in general is crazy out of control. Greenwald likes to wash over and not mention or barely mention the petrolão scandal like it's a mere footnote.

Dilma was chairperson of the board of Petrobras during the entirety of the scandal. Given the magnitude of the corruption, either she was involved or was incompetent. Furthermore, her administration has cooked the books in terms of reporting on the economic health of the country and her administration is responsible for the biggest economic decline in years. Furthermore, we can't really investigate wrongdoing because without things getting political because the constitution in Brazil makes it so only the STF, the equivalent of SCOTUS, is allowed to investigate and bring to trial the president and congresspeople. This bottle neck and the politics of bringing a trial mean that almost no one can be investigated. Dilma even used this fact to shield the former president from investigation by appointing him to a cabinet position just as he was about to be deposed.

I'm not saying those other side of this (politicians and media) are without wrongdoing. He does a good job of pointing out why they are scum too, but to gloss over many details in order to make Dilma out to be some sort of blameless victim of injustice is laughable.

No one on either side of the aisle is innocent in all this. It's positively shameful.
Honestly? Mainly, reviewing it and debugging it in my mind. It works - you should try it! It makes you a smarter and a better developer as well. The try-refresh-repeat cycle is for amateurs.

But that comes with the way I write my code - modular, i.e. broken into small, readable and reusable units. Well, if I'm doing a something that requires shaving off any redundant CPU cycle, that's another story, but as we know, premature optimization is the root of all evil. You won't see anywhere in my code long functions/methods, endlessly nested IF-THENs, and similar junk - writing simple, unfancy, DRY code drops the need for unit tests to almost zero. Using long, but meaningful identifiers drop the need for inline documentation.

I mean, I don't have to repeat things that have been known for ages - just buy some old books, it's all in there!

There are way too many coders today and very few engineers!
Getting a better hairdrier is probably not the best way to speed up hair drying. If you haven't already, try drying your hair with a microfiber towel. It's much more effective than a conventional towel. It leaves your hair dry enough that only brief use of a hairdrier is needed to completely dry it. It's a lot cheaper than $400.
The main vue.js web site is here: http://vuejs.org/
Not to mention the fact that some research suggests they blast bacteria all around the bathroom/environment. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/04/13/dyson-airblades-s...
I just wish they didn't kill RoboVM. I get the warm and fuzzies when something big is open sourced just like everyone else. Then I snap back to reality and remember that it's ultimately the same organisation that close-sourced RoboVM then killed it, screwing over a lot of people depending on it.
Yeah, I know, but it's been unreliable.
Wow... this is truly spectacular work.
From my understanding, a "cycle" of the drug is some amount of weeks but that doesn't imply that it cures whatever ailment / you never have to take it again.

More importantly, the difference between a regular dose and a doping dose is very severe (by a factor of 10).

When the blood tests are revealed, it would be easy to tell if she was just taking the doctor suggested dose or downing 10 pills per day for its increased endurance.
That's what RemObjects does.
The only thing missing is the Internet connection, this is the IOT age, after all.
VC's have little incentive to openly and honestly talk about or own up to their mistakes, and indeed they rarely do so. Far too often they inappropriately pass off very real mistakes as simply being part of their spray-and-pray "portfolio strategy." That not all investments will be winners has nothing at all to do with an individual investment going south on account of poor or nonexistent due diligence, investing largely on the basis of lemming behavior and so-called "social proof", dramatically over-valuing companies, investing in companies that obviously have no feasible path to profitability, etc.

What are we blaming Silicon Valley for (insofar as we're really talking about VC's)? I don't know about "we" but I'm blaming them for being dishonest. Do I go around being mad about it all the time? No. But I won't pass on an opportunity to rub a lemon on their noses.
> It is funny how many technologies are introduced the mass market by relating to sex.

This kind of claim is often made (often by smut mongers), but I don't remember (though may have forgotten) ever seeing any examples that really back up the claim. Can you list some?
Not only that but you can even create a struct inside a function and overload operator(). I don't know if this is possible in C++03 or not.
Not only does the author try to avoid blame in this case, he tries to take credit for everything else: "15 or 20 venture capital firms ... account for almost all of the successful companies."
Also, the typical borrowers tend to have at most a rudimentary knowledge of finance so they don't understand the terms of the loan. Sometimes they don't even bother reading the loan agreement. This makes anecdotal evidence extra unreliable.