skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Try to get an average user to copy their private keys onto android from their adium/pidgin install... Even just using adium with other people using adium with the plugin had all kinds of usability issues for me.
Don't be, Square
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Exactly this - There is a bug where if your phone is locked, and in a position where it thinks it's in landscape, when you say 'OK Google' the phone will unlock in portrait, start listening, rotate to landscape and in the process kill the app listening to your voice, and then rotate back to portrait and lock itself again.

It's also incredibly easy to fall off the blessed path where you can interact solely with voice - when setting a reminder, for example, if it doesn't hear 'Yes' when it's expecting to it'll just sit there and you need to touch the screen to continue - defeating the whole point of voice interaction.

Google's voice search has incredible voice recognition and text to speech and can tap into an amazing amount of information through the knowledge graph, but they don't seem to be capable of fixing the basic bugs and UX issues preventing all that technology from actually being usable.
It's heart-wrenching stories like these that prompted my wife and me to have our daughter at home. It was a beautiful birth. Birth is not a medical emergency, but hospital economic incentives are such that they're always trying to make it one.
K80s are only our next release, we do not plan to stop there.
What the heck does "ultimate language of the brain" even mean? I literally can't even speculate what it's supposed to mean.
Technical phone screens don't have to suck if both parties have a good attitude toward them - they should be fun! Just like our jobs should be more or less fun. Can Triplebyte match me only with companies with this perspective?
Check HackerRank. They have an initiative where several companies post screens, and if you clear them, they move you to further rounds.
Joins in ActorDB work great. Of course that is because we use an entirely different way of making an SQL database distributed and our joins aren't actually distributed even though the database is.

Best way to solve a problem is to avoid it.
> my medical malpractice reform would make medicine more like other industries with far better safety records

It's impossible in medicine because we're not at that level yet.
So you're saying that since some people are religious, brains can't operate on statistics?
Is whether or not the statement is true of interest to you?

edit: Or in other words, do you think there is actually such a thing as a woman card (race card, victim card, etc), or are these a completely manufactured ideas with no basis in reality?
The only reason it is no longer a medical emergency is because of modern medicine and hospitals. Women and children used to die frequently during childbirth.
The thing about a horse though, is that it knows the way home. You might think that this means you can get drunk and still have a way to "ride" home. I mean, that has to be better than driving drunk, right?

The US laws are crazy: http://duiwise.com/dui-dwi-answers/can-you-get-a-dui-dwi-on-...
Intel is doing a lot of layoffs. I'm sure many of them will be in the US, of American workers in high-tech. Granted, they're not as cheap as H1B workers, but still...
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The MIT book? No, it's just a fun book about MIT culture, the analysis doesn't run very deep IIRC.
This is the Achilles's Heal of YC's application process. The human "culture fit" test, where in (literally) just a few minutes they evaluate the founders as people.

The reason this experiment was so interesting was that it would bypass their biased human filtering and let in people based purely on their merit.

Not accepting Pinboard undermines the entire experiment. Pinboard could likely be a huge company with YC's help, and it would be fucking hilarious to watch.

Let Pinboard in and do the experiment again. He's smart and he's not crazy. Any founder able to win the votes is someone you can work with. Consider it a diversity program, which it would be.
I installed Firefox mobile and then NoScript, just to save bandwidth and battery.

but my god, how the web got better!

practically no ads. no frills. some sites don't work, but then I just move to one that does or allow js there.
Whoops, it turns out this idea maybe isn't as real as the pop-science makes it seem: http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMsa1308261
I think that "preferring strong state involvement in economy" is a very traditional "left-wing" policy.

Regarding social conservatism, even extreme left-wing governments have often been socially conservative in many issues, even if they wanted to shake power structures. Consider, for instance, how stalinist Soviet Union related to homosexuals.
You are assuming that rational decision making can't lead to mass-slaughtering cattle.

Also you're assuming that everyone has accurate evidence about the impact of weather rituals. In a society without written records, how is that supposed to magically happen?
If I pay $200 for a printer and they immediately send me back $150 as a rebate because of a special deal, then what is the printer worth? It is worth $50 because that is the actual net cost.

If I pay $2B for Zynga and then pay myself back $1.5B from its cash reserve then it has only cost me $0.5B to buy. Hence its net worth is $0.5B.
One way to deal with the wrong drug problem is to use different colors and shapes of bottles to represent different categories and dangerousness of drugs. Coloring can be added to the drug itself, such as using a red for more toxic medications, and green for more benign ones. A deeper shade of the color can represent an increased concentration.

Just like different shapes and colors of wine bottles are used for different wine categories.

I saw a show once which traced a medicine overdose to the bottles for the different strengths of the same drug being identical. The doctor just picked up the wrong one.
But we can still benchmark the performance of the latest model and compare it to human average. There are some tasks where humans have been bested.
Solomon Golomb, pioneering scholar of mathematics and engineering, dies at 83
Well, in their defense, most documentation is terrible. You get used to being able to find something in two Google searches that you couldn't find in five minutes looking through the docs.
Well the Hindi alphabet has 52 letters with 28 "pure" consonants (which multiply with some modifiers). See here: http://www.omniglot.com/writing/hindi.htm Some other Indian languages have additional consonants that are not familiar to predominantly Hindi speakers. The key thing is that the written alphabet seems to have been designed to accurately represent all of those sounds. It's hard (actually impossible) to map all these to Roman alphabet.
Should scientists be paid to openly share ideas on the Internet?
The entire mammalian animal kingdom is fully capable of giving birth, autonomously and unassisted (if necessary). Human females, too, can tap into that part of their brains, if you let them, and don't distract or scare them with bright lights, beeping machines, cramped rooms, force them to make complex decisions that require cognitive function. Birth is operating from the mammalian part of the brain, not the pre-frontal cortex. If this wasn't true, mammals wouldn't exist. Think about it. As a male, however, you'd have to have seen it to believe it. I'm a male, and I saw it. It blew my mind.
There is more than one backend. The backend might be the server, or it might be the database/models on the device.
Comes from jazz idiom. Cool people, basically.
Great that they solved it! My company (degoo.com) had to use CloudFront instead of CloudFlare for our binaries because of this bug. Our conversion rate went down about 10% whenever we used CloudFlare instead. Perhaps time to switch back.
Alternative fee arrangements, billing analytics (Sky Analytics and others), and technology audits (http://www.abajournal.com/legalrebels/article/could_you_pass...) are slowly killing the billable hour for large corporate clients. You can think of an AFA as a fixed price contract. Billing analytics make it easier for clients to compare rates between law firms.
Eh, don't worry about it too much. People who leave upon seeing sign up pages are probably not your ideal users anyway. No need to optimize the product for them.
Mobile web Twitter is awful at this for me. I don't have a Twitter account; I'm not sure if the UI is as bad when logged in.
Wake up! It's happening already in places with lots of sun (or high electricity costs). Examples are, much of Australia, Hawaii, California and others. As solar gets cheaper the viable territory expands.
Hi Peter, sounds pretty awesome! Quick question though - on your front page you say that CockroachDB does SQL - but if it can't do a join, then how can you say it uses SQL? Or is distributed SQL a different thing entirely? It does sounds like a very limited SQL subset though... I'm sure I must be missing something as I'm not familiar with your product.

Also, what levels of isolation do you actually offer? Serialized snapshot isolation appears to be MVCC, but I see you also have just snapshot isolation - what is the difference?

Edit: oh brother, the proof you link to, I just realized I bought that book some time ago and never got around to reading it... Transactional Information Systems by Weikum & Vossen, right? time for me to hit the books I guess. Still trying to get my head around that second graph you have drawn, can't work out how you have gotten it :(
This is easy to do badly and very hard to do well.

It's not just about inferring intent. Most discourse systems have little or no model of the consequences of their actions. Systems that can act on the user's behalf need to know if they're potentially making a big mistake or a little one, as guidance of when to ask for clarification. This requires some degree of "common sense". AI systems still suck at that.

Systems that actually do something need to be much better at this than ones that just answer questions. There needs to be some cost/benefit analysis of whether it's necessary to repeat back info and ask for confirmation. Without that, the system will either ask for confirmation too much, or screw up too much. The system needs to have a model of how clear the user is in their intent.

Pizza ordering is relatively low-risk. Travel reservations are a higher-stakes item. Medical is a long way off.

As I wrote last time, I recommend watching "The Devil Wears Prada", the scenes of Andy's first day as Miranda's personal assistant. That's the level of performance you want.
Companies like spaceX tend to have several levels of failover that prevent a single exhausted person's mistake from causing huge problems.
What did the founder risk? OtherPeoples'Money?
"but when we dug into the data we found that the votes for Pinboard look dramatically different from the votes for the other startups."

Examining the data, we found that there were oddly more votes cast for Pinboard than the other contestants, which smelled fishy so they were disqualified. Seriously, don't ask for people to vote for things and then ignore the results. Just don't ask them to vote in the first place.
I took public transit to work for three years. It had its ups and downs. Then, within the span of about a week, (a) somebody peed in their seat about 12 feet from me, and then (b) somebody threw up all over the floor about 3 feet from me. After that it was goodbye Trimet, hello Honda.

The bus is not a great place to do any of the things mentioned above.
I am honestly so perplexed by the bot mania.

Don't get me wrong, they have their uses, but how is this suddenly perceived as a multi-billion dollar market?
For enterprise mobile apps - we are working to address this problem with our docker like container platform with ready pre-built mobile app with a runtime to run your cross platform hybrid web. feel free to ping and I will be happy to share more details.
That's the entire point of Godwin's Law.
By coincidence I was looking around for a datastore. I almost settled on couchbase when I saw this; easy cluster deployment is my main draw after looking at how bad setting up master-master system is in other solutions (hbase, mongo, couchdb all have eterogeneus nodes and weird failure modes)

One quick question since I saw the devs around and I can't find a final answer on it on google: are there any strong roadblock or performance drawbacks against storing principally medium size binary data like images, say, < 100mb blobs?

Yeah I could use something more appropriate but I'd be back to figuring out hadoop installation or fighting s3 eventual consistency.
Just another reason to hate angular.
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Please don't mock fellow HN users.
This argument applies for any law.
You want a "regulating authority" and you want it to be effective. I don't see how this can happen without trampling the freedoms of people, which I personally value a lot more than "creators compensated for works of art".

I am saying this as a scientist. I think people should be able to share every paper/book/etc. I wrote. I refuse to think of people who share this knowledge (or some tunes) as thieves ---that's what corporations want you to believe. Scientists and artists already have other sources of income. In my view, laws tailored for publishers are hindering the progress and should be undone (see recent discussions on sci-hub, and also pirate party manifesto).

I am sure this goes against the beliefs of many people here: I am a scientist, and our job long precedes industrial revolution, rise of capitalism and corporations, and their byproducts such as copyrights (in its current form) and patents whereas majority of people are a part of Silicon Valley / computer industry (and art is probably older). But I'm quite certain that in its short history, copyright laws by and large worked for big corporations and not for the good of common people.

This structure was forced down through our throats, and of course it shaped today's working landscape. It doesn't mean it is fine.
Watch for this issue: https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-Desktop/issues/454
Check out this blogpost by Facebook on FB Lite (not vail in the US unfortunately, so I haven't had the chance to play around with it myself).

https://code.facebook.com/posts/1365439333482197/how-we-buil...

As much as I dislike FB for other reasons, you gotta give them credit for caring a lot about performance.
I have seen many more than one birth.

Your statement is a little ridiculous and I hardly know where to begin. I don't especially care where in the brain things originate (and I think you don't know much about the brain). If I get heart block, I want a pacemaker, even if it's not a part of the "mammalian brain". By the way, a mouse has a prefrontal cortex.

Continue your appeal to nature while I remind you that no one weeps when most mammals lose an infant.

For a lot of biological reasons, it's hard to compare human reproduction to mammalian reproduction at large, and there are even more differences during childbirth.

I'm really glad that your decision worked out for you, but it's dangerous to encourage others to engage in dangerous behavior. If something goes wrong during childbirth without medical attention, people can and do die needlessly.

You seem like someone who might not, but please consider vaccinations for your child.

http://www.hrsa.gov/healthit/images/mchb_infantmortality_pub...
Add rel="noreferrer". As you can probably guess, that also removes the referrer, but if you really want to be "safe", you need to do so anyway.
guys, I just had a great machine-learning startup idea...
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Slack amplifies "fishbowl" workplace environments. Imagine if you're only allowed to discuss certain topics in certain channels, but what you can say in each channel changes often. And your boss can't cut you any...slack...about these changes, because his boss is watching all of these channels too, telling him who should say what where.

We've been coping by hanging out in private channels. And so the tribal knowledge remains hidden among a small cabal because management doesn't want it discussed. They prefer the illusion that we are...all-knowing or psychic or something.
More than one pump per gas station. Still very impressive!
As an independent consultant it's your job to pushback and maintain realistic expectations (unless you're being paid by the hour).
Are you assuming that everything is flat?
You've managed to personally lose an astonishing amount of credibility, and this has managed to do a shocking amount of damage to the YC brand. I literally just came from three different bars (hey, it was a good night) in SF and overheard no less than five different conversations about this clusterfuck. Obviously YC/HN doesn't give a shit (because sama could easily drop 20k like a rock and not care), but it looks super bad.
The main problem is that Siri wasn't opened up to third party apps to hook into, and thus remained rather limited and stupid.

Each app could have bundled a voice interface, and Apple's phone would have been the first futuristic and extensible "star trek computer". Oh well, opportunity missed. And by a company whose founder had the Mac speak onstage. I think Jobs would have gone in this direction and demoed the crap out of it!

As usual, there is a systems level challenge to solve for building a foundation for app developers. Namely, how to make a fair and EFFECTIVE way for app developers to all share the same namespace / tree of commands?

If I was in charge of the Siri team, I would have made the following changes:

1) Fork OpenEars or another open source package and spearhead it as a first pass on the phone to eliminate the need for internet connection.

2) Have apps register prefixes for commands

3) Have apps register for "voice intents" and verbs that connect like they have for inter-app audio and app extensions

4) When an app is open, have a way to speak to the app through using the iOS library. This can be used to issue commands or dictate an email etc.

5) Feature apps that make ingenious use of voice commands and have them pitch PR stories about how the iPhone is becoming like Star Trek and is far ahead of Android.
Solution: introduce a sufficiently long wait to allow for call to connect and pick up
I've seen people post SHA-1s on Twitter for things (like proof of an iOS jailbreak) that they aren't ready to release yet. I suppose this is a more reliable method for that.
https://thevirtualhorizon.com/2016/04/09/whats-new-in-nvidia...
(tl;dr - you have to pay more to wrap the GPU access in a VM. Like, $550/more, plus a year of software support, according to that article. IANAL and haven't read any of the license details, so I don't know if there are more gotchas.)
The "hate group" label from the SPLC has been reduced to a label used for any right wing or socially conservative organization. Ben Carson and the Family Research Council have both been labeled as hate groups, when neither have promoted hatred in an organized manner.

Here is a paper published by the Congressional Budget Office:
https://www.cbo.gov/sites/default/files/110th-congress-2007-...

It is a meta-analysis of this type of study, and although they do not draw a conclusion, the numbers reported are in line with the FAIR article.

Finally, I am still frustrated by the implication of your final remark. I am proud of the American immigrant heritage, and am in full support of legal immigration. Not only that, but this is exactly the type of accusation that started the debate in the parent - you are convinced that I am racist against foreigners, that I will be ashamed if you bring up my foreign ancestry, when this could not be further from the truth, and only serves to simplify my position so that it can be dismissed more easily.

Good day, sir.
> 190.000 words

The average TV vocabulary is 2,000 words. High school graduates average a 10,000 word vocabulary, college graduates 30,000, and there are over a million words in the English language. Hence having 190,000 distinct words in a reddit thread seems implausible.
This claim is only true because they included private garage based charging, such as in a home. A pretty big stretch in trying to generate a headline.
>when we dug into the data we found that the votes for Pinboard look dramatically different from the votes for the other startups.

What do the totals look like if you filter out new accounts, or accounts with little karma?
Whenever anyone discusses this topic, to shut down anyone who is strongly against copyright, they come up with "Oh, I don't see a way the artists get compensated." Maybe that's right. Maybe art needs to lead the way toward a sharing style pay-what-you-want economy.
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EchoPixel’s breakthrough VR tech lets doctors look inside your body
I think it goes both ways with the two candidates. I believe that Trump is also playing the political game here. I've seen examples of him saying things that are contradictory to things he has said in the past[^]. He does have skeletons, as every normal person does. I don't think he would want to go after Clinton on that basis.

[^] Much of this information is shown by shows like Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, a show that I love to watch but have grown sick of the super obvious political slant it has. It was cool when Jon Stewart was doing it 10 years ago. That was fresh. It was funny when Colbert parodied it later but now that each of these three figures are now so obviously and unapologetically slanted toward a particular political view, it's become unappealing to me. So while I take in the facts as I can, I do have to remember that in each direction I face, I'm consuming propaganda.

Edit: I hate you, markdown syntax.
There is a tradeoff, though. A doctor once explained to me that she did 24 hour shifts to minimize the mistakes that can occur when handing a complicated case off to someone else.
If you do that cross-origin, the script will not be executed, both per spec and in browsers. That would be a pretty wide-gaping security hole if it worked...
No, I mean soliciting upvotes, which is against the rules (and culture) of HN. We discussed this elsewhere in this thread.
Hehe, delicious is such a disaster
I also use "Call my wife" and "Text my wife" or "Tell my wife that ...". They work every time. Music playing is disappointing - if I want to open YouTube to play something, it can't.

I don't understand why they didn't at least add a few commands for YouTube. At least "play Band", "play Song by Band", "play Music-Genre", "play something like X", "I feel sad/happy/lonely/bored play some music".

If you want to understand the extent to which Siri is useful, you just have to look at the integration it has with the main apps. It's just Alarms, Calendar, Phone, SMS, Music, Weather and similar. It's not really groundbreaking AI, just a voiced command list to the main apps.

I am eagerly waiting for the moment when we could have more in-depth chats with our bots, but the current crop is dragging its feet when it comes even to simple commands sent to apps. Maybe they should ask the app creators to add hooks for voice commands, to make Siri more useful.

For example, if I can disgress a little, Google Now can't start playing the first video in the YouTube app on Android. If I am already in the YT app and say "OK Google, play the first track", it goes to web search instead and searches for "the first track" on the web! The same company made the chatbot, the app and the OS and they don't work well enough together. At least let users add new functions to the bot, if they can't be bothered to do it themselves.
anybody what is the exact query being used ?