skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Artificial neural networks ignore neurophysiology, so even when they work, they tell us very little about how the brain works.

That is completely wrong. People like Geoff Hinton spend most of their time thinking about how the brain works (indeed, his background is cognitive psychology). The "convolution" part of convolution neural networks is designed to mimic how the optic nerve interfaces with the brain.

I keep hearing claims that symbolic AI is the wrong approach for anything, and that it failed. Yet there were quite a few successes (expert systems, discovery learning, common sense reasoning, for example) before sources of funding dried up.

The funding dried up because they ran into the limits of what is possible.
Reading the suggestions about form factor in the white paper, I'd love to see full-height 5¼" drives spinning at 10K that look like their MFM ancestors, only having ~200,000 times more capacity. :)

(Also, the part which discusses hybrid SMR drives that allocate a conventionally recorded section on the platters for GC and hot/cold data separation purposes – would a small SSD be applicable for this functionality?)
What's wrong with using Dropbox or something like that?
While it's sad to see people being laid off, on the bonus side there are jobs elsewhere in the country that could use great engineers. I know in Helena Montana there are a number of companies looking for engineers. It's a great fit for those who enjoy great beer and the outdoors.
The contraction is definitely overstated. If you can nail the technical interview, doors will still open for you left right and center.

I've had coworkers who have been laid off and were snapped up within a week or two. There's still a huge need for software developers who have a few years of experience under their belts.
You could also say the next big tech startup will come from a random town around the world instead of Silicon Valley. But somehow the concentration of capital, expertise and opportunity in one place has a multiplier effect that makes Silicon Valley unreasonably effective at generating startups.

Similarly, you are more likely to "hit the high notes" in research by concentrating effort in a few places. The alternative is lots of duplicated efforts that each don't quite achieve anything.

This applies especially to medical research where the barriers to getting meaningful clinical results are sky high.
Disclaimer: I haven't used any of the 3 extensively, but I do play around in them from time-to-time. The main difference to me is that ST comes as a bare-metal editor with the potential to do just about anything, while Atom and VSC come with some built-in features that just make life easier and the ability to extend it further.

A concrete example would be VSC's git support; out-of-the-box, it's a full-featured git client, and even if you prefer the git cli for most operations like I do, VSC automatically reads the .git directory and then creates a tab that shows your current changelist (modified, staged) with a visual diff of the files. Also allows you to easily do the common stuff like checkout a branch, commit, push, etc.

If you're a big fan of ST, you probably won't like the alternatives unless you have some frustrations with ST, because ST is probably more powerful overall, but compared to Atom & VSC, the learning curve is also quite a bit higher.
Unionize.
Ask HN: What are the odds that a startup succeed in third world countries?
Startups are really hard to start ,let alone making them succeed. However,in developing countries like Kenya,where most people are poor ,developers always find it hard to get started and show their ideas to the world.Some cant even afford basic tools like good laptops,ethical boundaries and corruption also play a role in giving incentives to budding programmes with no contacts of middle or established members of the society.The so called local investors also bite huge 'chunks' of the pitching candidate.What do you guys think,is it possible to change africa with startups the same way their goovernments puts it on their papers?
Amber was called "the gold of the north"(1), there was even established a trade route (similar as famous Silk Route) from the North and Baltic seas to Mediterranean Sea.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amber_Road
I think it's completely viable, although probably less so with VC funds. I plug this book a lot on HN, but in Managing the Professional Service Firm, David Maister talks about how a firm has 3 goals that must stay in balance: profit, job satisfaction, and client happiness. If any part is neglected, things will fall apart. In the long run, job satisfaction is not even a "nice to have," because if your employees (or you!) are unhappy, they are going to be more expensive, and they will damage your customer relationships. I know personally as I am trying to get a development partnership off the ground, enjoyment of the work and the team is a huge consideration.
I guess you're saying, stay monolithic, but with an eye to modularity later when it makes more sense. Might be wise advice.
In 60 years the software will write itself

http://techcrunch.com/2016/05/09/siri-creator-shows-off-firs...
The 94% success rate is in made up, limited tests. Real world, they fail constantly in weird horrific or laughable ways. See any Microsoft AI public demo ever. It's like the self driving car claim of millions of miles without accidents, except that humans took over anytime there was a chance of one.
At 3x the price (or 12x the price of a hacked button), it's not really in the same market as the dash button though
Skepticism is important, but if we refrain from drawing conclusions and acting until all doubt is eliminated, then we'll never conclude or do anything. There are even reasons to be skeptical about ideas such as evolution and relativity.

However, there are many more reasons to be skeptical about the alternative theories for these phenomena. We also should be skeptical about the alternative theories of what is happening with our climate, and about the people who propogate those theories and their funding and agendas.

In my mind, the body of research is far too large to doubt due to inevitable flaws here and there, the expert consensus is overwhelming and far too broad and deep to be a conspiracy, and the predictions have been relatively accurate. If someone can provide a better model for our climate and what is happening, I'd be interested, but delaying action further is an unacceptable, unjustified risk with such high stakes and exceptional evidence.
If influencing climate change is the main goal, aren't saving lives and making new people two of the worst things to do?

If people are the cause of climate change, then fewer people seems like the best solution, no?
Google is giving away the tool it uses to understand language Parsey McParseface
I might be mistaken but it is my understanding that in China, the business model is different : the mobile operators, eg the PTTs, and not the tech companies are the ones that capture the revenue. For example, if I buy a piece of content on my mobile phone, such as the next page or chapter in the story I'm reading, Apple would not see that revenue but the mobile operators would (and others in that value chain, but not necessarily Apple ). If someone can shed more light on the current mobile content business model and value chain in China, feel free to chime in.
Looking back on the Google Wallet plastic card
There were many wonderful things about TP, but it started much earlier than that. BLS Pascal on Nascom 2, COMPAS Pascal on CP/M, Turbo Pascal on CP/M, and finally TP on DOS. I met Anders at Herning Messen where he demoed COMPAS Pascal (running a Maze generator). From my recollection he was a few years older than me which suggests he wrote BLS Pascal as a young teenager o_O!

This thread has a big of this history: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10202299
Is it even safe to weld an alkaline battery? I don't know.

Why not just solder the contact? If it's soldered, you should be able to swap the battery with a soldering iron. Sure, heating the iron and cleaning it will take much more time than swapping a battery in a spring-loaded housing, but I've spent just as long opening battery compartments held shut with tiny stripped screws.
I would love a Zapier integration here
Ask HN: How did LaCroix become the de facto beverage of Silicon Valley startups?
I usually try to let these little nerd arguments go, but I'm going to make an exception. Your insulting response defending such a tenuous position deserves a swift rejoinder.

You don't give a scholarship to someone with a PhD. You give them a salary or a grant and occasionally an award or a bursary or a fellowship. You are arguing for the <1% case when someone has chosen a poor, confusing sounding moniker for what is essentially one of these other things.
Bodie Ghost Town, CA 2010-2015
Does he have cancer ?
Why Excel Vlookup Sucks (And What to Use Instead)
Ask HN: Are hackathons really effective?
Recently i attended an angelhack event in kenya and wasn't interested in coding but to see what happens at the event.After 24 hours hacking,the candidates presented their projects and the rest is history.The final contestant won,i kept on asking,what is twitter?what type of problems can be solved using twitter api's?are they suppose to be realtime problems like..you to guess.
I think your criticisms were pretty fair of the earliest releases of the Let's Encrypt client, but they seem to be less accurate now. We see the client (aka Certbot) being used successfully by many hundreds of thousands of site operators. In terms of full automation, the Apache plugin has gone from "experimental" to "works for most people automatically". We'll be working on delivering similar features for Nginx next.

But if lego works for you; that's great!
How does it handle the "translation" from that wiki page?

Bison from Buffalo, which bison from Buffalo bully, themselves bully bison from Buffalo.
Change IP address in Windows 10
From the Amazon official page (https://aws.amazon.com/iot/button/):

How long will the battery last?

The battery should last for approximately 1,000 presses.
When the device battery runs out of charge, there is no way to recharge or replace the battery.

How can you sell a button that has only 1000 presses in it for $20 with a straight face? Looks like overcomplicated, overpriced garbage to me.
I had trouble because the compiler errors were very hard to understand. If your code compiles then yeah, you can step through it. If your code does not compile and you don't understand what the problem is, then you're stuck. This makes me think it would be interesting to have a step-through compiler. I don't know if that even makes sense, but it sounds helpful.
tinhat on. Also consider where they get most of their money.
Why is everything English only? :( there are other languages too.

#otherlanguagesmatters
I'm guessing it's because of the hipster culture that prioritizes natural ingredients and healthy choices. Either that, or it's cheaper than more famous brands.
Tax reform has been kicking around for years in Congress (which would allow repatriation at a lower rate) and has fairly bipartisan support.

Note that while tax reform has broad support from both parties, the exact details of those reforms are fairly divisive.
Wise words, I'd like to add one thing: You are doing it right only if your customers are providing most of your money - if it is VCs, you're probably in a bubble soon to burst.
Dennis Ritchie. The father of UNIX. He's had a impact of how I've come understand UNIX to be today.
It's tricky, metal tabs are soldered right to the battery terminals. It's a lithium battery so you don't want to heat it too much so desoldering will be annoying and potentially dangerous. What you can do instead is cut both tabs to remove the battery then solder wires to the tabs on the board and connect a proper battery holder. Might need to move the battery outside it since the holder + battery won't fit.
Boaty mcdouble?
Or maybe Didi is a worthwhile investment.

You need to answer your own question, that is even if Apple's intention is to please government, why would they choose to invest in a ride-sharing company? Why not choose to build a completely isolated iBooks/iTunes store and grant government free access for censorship, that won't cost 1 billion.
WhatsApp baked into Mailbird? Yes please
Holy cow. That video demonstrates exactly what must have happened. You just double tap the park button, exit the vehicle, and without any further interaction with the key fob the car starts moving forward!

That's insane.

What's worse is Tesla must know this is the likely scenario. Shame on them for blaming the user in an attempt to cover their ass.
You're setting up a company that expects massive growth. I would expect most text editor companies to start out with one person only, and expand only later if they have a steady revenue stream. The extra personnel are nice but not at all necessary when you are at a low sales volume with a single product.
Why is it so much faster than atom?
Something similar: https://bt.tn/
When I said "better", I should have said merely that Sublime's improved, not as a qualitative statement for comparison to others :)

I pretty strictly follow the idea that you pick something that works for you and use it. I happen to be familiar with Sublime, but man, I really like IntelliSense when I'm in SSMS (or when I did Excel VBA hacking - don't judge me!). Honestly, until Sublime Text 2's vast improvement in startup times it wasn't my go-to editor, and oddly it's what kept me off Atom the few times I gave it a cursory whirl (my previous alternative? Notepad++). I have zero doubt Atom will eventually be just as snappy - heck it may even be now; I haven't checked.

That all said, I think the VS Code team is going to eat everyone's lunch within the next few years if no one watches them and keeps up. And my money is everyone does try to keep up and we're left with a new browser war situation where we have lots of ultrahigh quality options!
Sure there is. Apple has already accumulated a dangerous amount of debt, given their business is declining and global smartphone sales growth is inching closer to zero.

Outside of the financial sector, they're now one of the world's largest corporate carriers of debt at $69.3 billion. At the pace they're picking up debt, they'll hit $100+ billion in debt in two years, while their annual profit and stock price declines simultaneously (upsetting investors, increasing pressure for greater dividends). Given their position in the smartphone market is in no way guaranteed or a monopoly, it's an extremely dangerous position they're putting themselves into.

Apple would accept a 5% penalty on their pile of cash any day of the week to repatriate it. Their financial situation in the very near future will become such that they start to get threatened with credit downgrades as the debt piles up and their growth keeps going backwards or otherwise stagnates. What they're doing can't continue for more than a few more years before it causes serious problems.
I feel like speed often takes the backseat, especially in large big corp projects designed by committee. At the end during user testing everyone realizes the architecture is just too slow and all to often this leads to a failed project.
Definitely at least one other person: http://www.sublimetext.com/blog/articles/sublime-text-3-buil...

And despite their lack of "social media engagement", they do have a Twitter account (@sublimehq) with nearly sixty thousand followers - and they tweet just about as regularly as updates for Sublime Text are released!
Because C (or C++, I do not know exactly) and not vast amounts of layers of abstraction?
> kid could understand literally every character of the Nile source and start making major, sweeping modification

This also improves security: auditing correctness and writing mandatory access control policies in another DSL.
Dissonance and causality are related. Not sure how yet, but they are.
Bhukkad Patlu – Motu Patlu in Hindi
Three of my friends have switched jobs to higher paying positions in the last three months and my employer is hiring. My social circle is doing all right. SF, Santa Clara, SJ.

There may be trouble but lucky so far.
I'd probably make your work visible by counting the hours spent in the review each day or week. If you are able to roughly calculate the costs associated with those reviews, you may be able to push your organization towards adopting better coding or testing standards.
Alternatively, instead of reviewing the code and pointing out the bugs, suggest or write a few tests which will uncover those. Showing good test coverage in action may be better than just preaching it.
Bitcoin is fundamentally flawed, not in its technology, but because it solves the wrong problems - most consumers want verified identity, reversible transactions, accountability, a centralised source of truth, central insurance, and real-time transactions.

They don't want a federated pseudo-anonymous crypto-currency, just anonymous enough for theft without consequences, which requires them to hoard tokens on their home computer or a trusted server with extraordinary security measures as if they were gold coins and then pay a variable fee and wait a variable length of time (10 minutes!) to actually verify a transaction. I suppose gold bugs might be happy with it as a replacement for gold or stacks of cash under the mattress but as a currency it has glaring shortcomings. I don't think many people hate bitcoin, they just find the hype for it and its blockchain overblown and myopic. It's an interesting experiment, but it's unlikely to replace the currencies we have, I suspect that will happen at the transaction layer, not the currency layer (the underlying currency to a transaction is in many ways uninteresting).

The financial industry may well be ripe for disruption (indeed some startups in the UK have started), but the founding tenets of bitcoin are such that it is not a suitable replacement.
Second bank hit by 'sophisticated' malware attack, says Swift
Larry Ellison has cancer.
> Now we need a technical writer, to handle API documentation etc.

Sorry, but you've already lost me there. That's firmly in the "nice to have" camp. For example: the documentation on Sublime's API is shoddy at best, but enough plugins still get made that I'm incredibly happy with it as a product. Your math adds up to what would be a great team, but there's no way you can call it the bare minimum to create and maintain a great product.
To be clear: this was a UX failure on the part of Tesla, not merely a sensor failure. And they are super wrong to blame their faultless user for their screwup.

The UX failure is this happens if you simply double tap the park button and exit the vehicle. That's it! It starts moving forward. No fob interaction, no confirmation, nothing. I'm not making this up, it's insanely bad UI. [1]

A double vs single tap is super easy to do mistakenly. And there we get to the really sh*tty thing: Tesla must know this, and hey are selling out their customer to cover their ass. The whole "the logs prove the user is in he wrong" is wrong and disingenuous. All the logs show is he double tapped the park button.. Probably meant to do a single tap!

Shame on Tesla for disingenuously blaming the user for their design error with such a safety critical feature. I hope they are more careful than this as they move forward. (No pun intended.)

[1] video of this "feature" in action (thanks to user schiffern) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-JoZL9edlA
> I'm not specifically wanting call verification I'm wanting them to detail origin if they have it (they can use the callerID field to forward that information to me) or to refuse to route calls that are clearly spoofed.

The phone company that provides you service simply does not have this information at the time of the call. They only know for certain who to bill. Changing this requires replacing a lot of deployed equipment.

Furthermore, it is already illegal to spoof caller ID in the USA[1], and the UK[2] and elsewhere.

You can indeed tell your phone company to reject calls without caller ID, and indeed from various switches. If one gets through, you will need to note the time that you received the call and file charges with the authorities.

The phone company will then research the call, and produce for law enforcement who in fact made the call.

> If the callerID is 0 then the phone company knows it's spoofed and can block it, but they don't get paid for that

You are confused: The callerID field (aka "presentation number" in the UK) is in-band and transmitted by the calling station, the billing field is out-of-band and transmitted by the receiving station's "next hop". It is also not normally presented to the callee, although with a special kind of connection you can receive it.

> when I look at the callerID display and it says my number I know that it's not possible

You should contact law enforcement. This is a crime.

> Are you telling me that at the point the company decides to carry a call from an external source they don't know if they're going to be able to bill that company for the call?

Yes.

Your phone company doesn't bill the caller. They only bill the other phone company that handed them the call.

> Surely they know the network origin of the call

The "network origin of the call" as you put it, is the phone company that handed them the call. It is not the person who dialled the number.

Even if all of the phone companies are really one (limited) company, the individual switching offices don't send this information down with the call for efficiency reasons.

> So when I get a foreign call centre spammer on the line the company knows at the very least that was forwarded to them from, let's say, France Telcom

No. "The company" only knows the company that switched them the call. It takes research to work out who actually made the call that is normally distributed by separate offices because it's more efficient.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caller_ID_spoofing#United_Stat...

[2]: http://stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk/telecoms/policy/calling-lin...
In my case it'll be the only one that I can understand, innit?
In my experience it's a weighted list though, and things like having a compatible personality and a personal drive for wanting "this" job, often counts a great deal more than the technical skills on the job description.

Unless we're talking contracts of course, then you'll simply want the best technical candidate because you need someone who can deliver good quality on time.
Knowing what I know of the man, having worked for him, and met him.

Probably.

I won't say he's a bad guy - he's not, but Larry Ellison is only out for one thing - Larry Ellison.
> no one starts a company solely for creating an amazing place to work.

I have some friends who did exactly that. Their company is a small consulting firm that focuses on a rather uninteresting space (enterprise content management) but they have a small profitable company where hires are treated right.

The "problem" with these kinds of companies is that you are never going to read about them on HN, they aren't a lottery ticket for the employees, and the work is not that sexy. However, I have several other friends who are employed by said company and have been there for years because it is a great place to work.
Ð/đ may also be Croatian, where it sounds like a "dj". Technically it could also be Serbian (which is pretty much the same spoken language, called Serbo-Croatian), but Serbian is usually written using the Cyryllic alphabet while Croats chose Roman letters.
Bitcoin or some derivative is better as a foundational bank reserve currency or wire transfer replacement than the actual direct thing you use. Someone else will build the next equivalent of visa on top of it.
I don't think it's quite fair to classify
Sublime as a text editor.

While I may not agree with the totality of what @_RPM states, there is no doubt that Sublime is "a text editor" when the official site states thusly[0]:

Sublime Text is a sophisticated text editor...

0 - http://www.sublimetext.com/