skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is great. What about services which convox doesn't support (yet)?

For example SNS. Would convox ever support terraform/cloudformation for an App, or would you add SQS service in convox, then create SNS outside of convox, and then join them together somewhere else?
How are ephemeral tattoos any different than today's temporary stick-on tattoos or (as a sibling comment points out below) henna designs? I'm not seeing how the art form or value will be impacted as tattoos would, for the most part, still be permanent for those that are serious about their ink.

It would be strange if the value of tattoos is in large part due to many people walking around with tats they don't want.
It is not inflation until your wage rises.
“Mortgage-default rates are currently very low, but that shouldn’t be any source of comfort because they are always low when the economy is doing well and home prices are going up,” said Oliner. “That can turn around quickly if there is a recession.”

A chart of 2006-2016 mortgage default rates is instructive: http://au.spindices.com/indices/specialty/sp-experian-first-... (set the time period to ten years)

The first mortgage default rate doubled from August 2006 to September 2007. It then doubled again by November 2008, peaking at 5.67% just three years after it was at 0.79%... which is roughly the level we're at today.

These things can turn around quite quickly.
If it didn't leave scar tissue I could see people getting tattoos that evolve over time, where an artist re-works a patch of skin every year.

Imagine fashion week 2050 where models are rocking temp tattoos designed to last the season. Could be rad, could also be really obnoxious.
From your very link:

> Vehicles will be limited by regulation and an overhead bar on entry to 2m (6.6ft, 79 inches). The space to the ceiling itself will provide 57cm (22 inches) for signage and other overhead gear.
So? Get permanent tattoos. I don't want anything permanent on me, but I'd consider a non-permanent solution, so this is perfect for me.
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"Round hand" as demonstrated by penman George Bickham in this article makes me feel so pedesterian, I'm compelled to burn all my diplomas and degrees.
Bryan Cantrill has a very hyperactive delivery when giving a talk. Personally, I love it, though it isn't for everyone. https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=bryan+cantrill
As another poster pointed out, if you read the linked article or the CultOfMac article that it links to then it's clear that he is interested. And I don't see why you care that he make some meaningful sacrifice, or how you feel entitled to judge that off the tiny amount of information we have? From what I remember of being in my early teens saving $2000 from mowing lawns would have been a huge effort, regardless of whether my parents helped my hobby. Cut the kid some slack - he's making a public museum out his collection, after all.
It's as much the North TL as my block is. The "dark" block is actually unique in the area; the surrounding blocks are significantly more well lit. You have to travel significantly deeper into Nob Hill to find more blocks that are that dark.

I often idly wonder if it's kept that dark because of the tranny (and non-trans [0]) hookers that work the area.

[0] Does it count as trans if it's only crossdressing? Labels are weird, man. :)
The Magical World of Stucts, Typedefs, and Scoping
This is precisely right: "Similarly, a black box obfuscator would provide a way to instantly convert any private cryptography scheme to a public one that could be performed over the Internet by strangers. In a sense, obfuscation is the key to all cryptographies."

Ciphertext is a higher-order, or simply, highly ordered, deterministically derived version of plaintext.
iTunes is the reason I got rid of my iPhone.
>other nonsensical ignorant claims

Inflation is the rise in overall price level, not the increase in a few select asset classes. We aren't seeing inflation. The people who have been making that claim for 5+ years have been wrong. Period.
Google Analytics has Measurement Protocol which allows for posting data server-side.

All you need to do is proxy the data collection and then send it to them, taking advantage of all the scalability and features they have.

https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection...
Cabinets might not be continuously modified for years, but the house as a whole will be. The backs of the cabinets will continue to matter much less than the fronts, both for aesthetics and maintainability.

On the other hand, somebody's definitely going to regret that hacky thing you did inside the wall when you remodeled the kitchen and knew it was a bad idea at the time but did it anyway.

Admittedly, though, I may just be too emotionally invested in this analogy thanks to my house's previous owner's infuriating obsession with construction adhesive.
Fine art inflation is often just a form of money laundering and a tax shelter.
This has been happening in other US cities as well, and probably on the same scale. Several realtors I know in the Dallas/Ft Worth area have noted the same things - a large uptick in Chinese homebuyers over the past few years, often with all cash offers. Another friend sold her house, and the person that bid over their asking price and bought it cash and sight unseen? Chinese. They bought it so their daughter and son in law could live there while she attends TCU.
Erm.... you forgot to read the rest of the comment?

I think I touched a nerve. It's okay! My comment doesn't threaten the coolness of your tattoos!
What do you use for modeling?
But you can't just look at the rise in one good relative to the medium of exchange (money) and say that money is going down in value; people want a return, and stocks haven't provided it in the last 2.5 years or so, which about matches up with the author's timeline. If the buyers were actually _living_ in these houses as primary residences, it'd make a stronger case for genuine inflation. Commodifying them as value generators by flipping or renting them out may be the beginning of a speculative bubble - not a good thing, but a different phenomenon.
"So" it's a fundamental change to a thousands-of-years-old art form.
Well, but the point was MySQL + Piwik "does not scale" and that it's "expensive" besides, which doesn't comport with my experience and sounds like received wisdom.
> Unless the metadata becomes a first class citizen in the filesystem, any attempts to layer it on top will have problems.

Remember when it seemed like Mac OS might give us a modern era of rampant metadata (http://arstechnica.com/apple/2005/04/macosx-10-4/6)? Ah, those were the days.
> And if the FBI wanted to better prevent crime, they'd also come to the better conclusion.

But the FBI isn't rewarded for preventing crime. They're rewarded for putting people in jail. Hence the perverse incentives.

The idea is to have an agency with different incentives, whose job is not to put anyone in jail but only to improve security. Then they would get blamed for security failures which means they would fight against things that cause them.
The Amazon Flywheel
Your videos, music and pictures must be rather boring, if you can index them with OCR... ;-)
Then you've got to raise prices to support paying your employees enough to live in high cost locations. If they're not willing to pay rates to support that, then you can't offer the service (or you need to find employees who are willing to work in less than ideal work conditions like excessive commuting on personal time).

Market forces at work.
If they were to on-shore all of their funds, would all be forgiven?
"is quite strong"...yes currently, but the decline has already begun against major currencies, e.g. JPY:
http://www.xe.com/currencycharts/?from=USD&to=JPY&view=1Y
Also checkout the dollar index:
http://www.marketwatch.com/investing/index/dxy
But rates are extremely low. There is never a "right" time; there are only particular circumstances.
This sucks for everyone with the old permanent model
I specified they didn't have one for their car software, but I missed the part of that webpage that does actually list "vehicle" as a potential target. I was thrown off by the "This program is focused on Tesla's public facing web application" statement. So you're correct.
From the paper:

To train a CNN to do lane following we only select data where the
driver was staying in a lane and discard the rest.
It's not that far off. You can see the Milky Way from the Adirondacks, about 200 miles from the first picture.
Every civil liberty is a roadblock to total information awareness for law enforcement. No searching/entering without a warrant. No self incrimination. Miranda rights. Speedy trial laws. Dismissal of evidence illegally obtained, even if it proves most heinous guilt.

It is for law enforcement to work within these confines because of and in protection of those liberties.

So yes... There are hundreds of intrusions that could be opened up that would allow law enforcement to have a better handle on criminals, potential criminals, and heck, anyone who might like to speak ill of such intrusions, up to and including having cameras in your bedrooms. But they're not allowed to do those things because America, and the escape from tyranny that made anyone fight for it to begin with.

But have you no doubt - these intrusions are for you only. The second a lawmaker or law enforcement officer's liberty is threatened, suddenly they're on the side of civil liberties and God Bless America.

Sorry. Bit of a rant there...
Morphing hasn't gone anywhere, you've seen it thousands of times since the "fad" of the 90's and not noticed it. Similarly, Kai's work from that era was groundbreaking in terms of UI and visual possibilities and has inspired countless people to further challenge our preconceptions of seeing. Novelty fades rapidly, but to dismiss techniques entirely on that basis seems questionable. I remember the shader work mentioned from SIGGRAPH in the 90's. I loved that stuff, still think its great. Neural visualization isn't that. Yeah, these videos are amateurish - they're exuberant tech demos of possibilities that are at once unique and banal. I'd say the same of any technology
> Ciphertext is a higher-order, or simply, highly ordered, deterministically derived version of plaintext.

Sorry, but what in the fuck are you even talking about?
What are the differences between this and Lob (https://lob.com)?
My favorite example of this was when the owner of small restaurant brought me thr late statue of his dog that he had cast into silver.

We were taking stocks at my table, and he told me I'd change my tune when silver hit $200/oz (it was like $40 at the time). I remember walking out of there saying "I wish I had silver to sell"!
Tim Harford is a UK economist who also presents "More or Less" on BBC Radio Four. He draws attention to a lot of other stuff on his social media profiles.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qshd

So although it's not the original source (and the original source is better) he's not just some Internet random.
I wonder how much of this is due to Oculus's clear lagging behind it competitors.

HTC and Sony both have platforms that a more robust and better positioned to capture gamers than Oculus.

I wouldn't want to stick around either.
Well, in the context of traditional orgs, the board can fire the CEO. In this book, he speaks about making certain that the CEO & board members are all on board with the 'teal organisation' mentality.

In other words, I don't believe it addresses the legal structure as much as the organisational one. Unfortunately, I have to bring it back to the library today...but I'll be buying my own copy that I can cover in highlighter. It's really interesting for anyone interested in organisational structure and offers a lot of insights into potential workarounds to problems you might run into.
> Does it matter if there's fine art inflation?

Depends on how leveraged it is.
> oracle, they have been a great steward of MySQL

I'm not so sure everyone will agree with reports of closed source regression tests and source histories[1][2] (I know these stories are old)

[1]: http://techcrunch.com/2012/08/18/oracle-makes-more-moves-to-...
[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4400797
I agree. I think it's not really a bubble. It might go down a little, but not -30% like it did in 2008-2009. Which means we are all going to pay lots of $$$ to live in desirable areas.

QE benefited people who bought in 2009-2012
I'm not scared of machines taking over, I'm scared of the people currently in power staying in power and replacing us with machines.
In London there are tens of thousands of new build properties which have been built through Chinese investment. Currently unaffordable to most (£1m plus for a 1 bed) and so rather unpopular with Londoners. Many developments are 50%+ sold in China before they are advertised in the UK. however I am beginning to think the Gov may having been playing a clever long game.

Massive outflows from China the last couple of years. Encourage funds into the UK, mostly London, property market. Build huge number of new homes with Chinese money. Once (hopefully) the market crashes, glut of thousands of relatively affordable properties become available.

I am not sure whether this was purposeful, however I have stopped complaining about foreign funded real estate investment here as it will be extremely fruitful if the bubble pops. Unfortunately for those in the states mentioned, it seems the money isn't going into building new properties, but inflating a low and severely restricted stock.
1. Give a whole bunch of loans out. Profit!

2. Loans pay for houses to be built. Profit!

3. Credit crunch.

4. Take back homes in foreclosure.

5. Fed prints money to buy the defaulted mortgages. Profit!

6. Lend new bailout money to private equity buddies to buy the foreclosed houses. Profit!

7. Rent houses to previous homeowners. Profit!

All this is necessary because banking is the foundation of our economy, the most important sector of our economy and the source of all jobs and growth in our economy. There is no sacrifice too great that our country must endure to save the banks in step 3 as the whole economy revolves around the glorious "doing God's work"[1] cycle detailed above.

[1] http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2009/11/09/goldman-chief-says-he...
Good point, though I really hope we're not basing too many derivative products off of fine arts
That's just in the US. Also, that sugar hasn't necessarily worked itself out of the bloodstream yet.
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How many cereal advertisements do you see marketing towards parents vs their children?

Companies know they influence purchasing decisions through the manipulation of children.
Can't blame someone for finding pigs getting tattoos quite amusing. :-) You know full well that it's not a big deal and you're just making edgy comments for the sake of edgy comments.

For fuck sake dude, it's a pig. If you actually care about living things, do something about the slave labor used to source raw materials for the computer you wrote that on. I'm going to guess your conviction is about living creatures in pain, not about pigs in particular. One of these is much more disgusting than the other. Honestly who gives a flying fuck about a pig getting a tattoo.
And yet, cereal is in decline, apparently because pouring two things into a bowl is too much effort, among other reasons. http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/11/business/cereals-struggle-...
Yea, I agree with this one as well. Hire slowly; fire fast. But, even if it's fast, firing wastes a bunch of time for a bunch of people.

Missing out on a good one sucks, but in the best relationships both sides will wait for the right timing if necessary, in my experience.
A simple solution to publishers:

Curate your ads and serve them statically.
Nvidia  DRIVE PX – Autonomous Car Development Platform
>Hence you're incentivised to put it into assets.

Why is this bad? Where else should you put your investment dollars, if not into assets?
A nation's banking system reflects its core values, its culture, its fundamental values

Not the other way around
Rates being low is a bad thing for buying a house. If interest rates were higher, it'd be harder to qualify for a loan at a particular value, so the house you're interested in would be cheaper. Plus, you make money refinancing at a lower rate, and there's no room for rates to fall when they're this low.
One problem with training a neural network end-to-end this way is that the system is susceptible to unpredictable glitches: The same principle that lets people trick a NN into [thinking a panda is a vulture](https://codewords.recurse.com/issues/five/why-do-neural-netw...) can happen randomly just by differing lighting/shadow conditions, sun glare, or who knows.

One can always train the network with more and more scenarios, but how do you know when to stop? How good is good enough in this regard?
On the other hand, if they do start giving people cancer or something the FDA probably would step in. The reason they don't currently is (presumably) just lack of evidence that there's a problem.

It's probably worth keeping future regulation in mind for them, lest they accidentally get themselves regulated out of business.
For those wondering why you haven't yet seen practical applications of this research, this answer[1] on Stack Exchange does a decent job of explaining:

> What must be understood is that in all these constructions, each circuit gate must map to an instance of Gentry's fully homomorphic encryption scheme, and at every clock cycle for the obfuscated circuit, all gates must be processed, regardless of whether they are "active" or not in the circuit (this is a big part of why the obfuscation theoretically works: it does not reveal active gates, by always making them all active). This[2] article gives performance result: on a rather big PC, we are up for minutes of computation. That's for each gate in the obfuscated circuit, and for each clock cycle.

> There are millions or even probably billions of gates in the envisioned circuit, given the setup of functional encryption: the "obfuscated circuit" must include asymmetric decryption and validation of zero-knowledge proofs. So now we are talking about using all the computers currently running on Earth, all collaborating on the computation, and they might make non-negligible progress towards running one instance of functional encryption within a few centuries.

[1] http://security.stackexchange.com/a/50972

[2] http://eprint.iacr.org/2010/520.pdf
I think the fact that I have not hiked into the middle of nowhere in Alaska and tried to survive is the indicator of good decision-making. Deciding to do that in the first place was dumb, and counter to all advice that anyone would have given him.
> why nearly every RDBMS post on Hacker News is about Postgres and almost never MySQL

You'll see the same phenomenon on Slashdot.

MySQL is popular among a subset of programmers: web developers. In corporations, Microsoft SQL and Oracle are more popular. Further, MySQL is popular among a subset of web developers: those who use PHP. Among web developers who use Python, Postgres seems more popular.

My suspicion is that MySQL's popularity is tied to those web-hosting plans (1 GB of storage! 1 TB of bandwidth! 10 databases! $10/month!). They were almost always MySQL databases. Web hosts that offered Postgres databases were few and far between. This article corroborates my theory: http://rodner.blogspot.com/2008/01/what-makes-mysql-so-popul.... MySQL's company (which at the time was "MySQL" not Oracle) pushed it in at a critical time in the development of the web.

I have written applications that use: Postgres, MySQL, SQLite, Microsoft SQL, and Oracle. My favorite by far is Postgres. The strangest thing to me is not that MySQL is more popular than Postgres, but that anyone uses Microsoft or Oracle at all. Not only do they cost a lot, but from a purely technical standpoint they are worse.
How did Mac Classic make use of that?
Wow I guess having a self driving car is the new thing next we'll have self driving sli, can drive two cars if they are joined together with a proprietary cable :-)

More seriously, this is amazing work, I am really impressed, I just wonder if we can't get something more topical like training lasers on mosquitoes or something. I feel like I did when 3D graphics was the new thing, every day it felt like there was a new advance, now the same tech is doing the same thing to machine learning.
The eternal NIMBY conundrum. It'd be saner to bite the bullet and accept that they don't really want the jobs either; they just want the revenue, which means the _productivity_, which could be accomplished with the (relative) wages for _existing_ jobs.
Some cross platform tool that we've developed for our company which has some nice features

https://github.com/franela/vault
We have all sorts of associations -- our brain is fundamentally an association engine. One kind of association is simplification/abstraction. This perhaps proves to be one of the most useful kinds of associations, because it helps us make decisions quickly without sifting through massive amounts of data.

I'd say it's fundamental, not any kind of mystery.
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Sure, but a backdoored cryptosystem would only be billed as a failure if the key were to leak, which can be made unlikely through engineering. And if it does leak, blame can be shrugged off as the next better system is implemented. The government simply cannot perceive itself as a threat, only individuals can.

I'm certainly not in favor of backdoors. It's probably best if the public discourse maintains them as being "impossible" to securely implement. I wish that were the actual reality.
You can write full OS X apps in JavaScript:

http://tylergaw.com/articles/building-osx-apps-with-js

JavaScript bridging works on iOS too!
Ok, that is sad. I get it, really I do, but its sad to see what were once machines doing service to some goal somewhere, being smashed together for kicks like that.
So if a conservative human driver from a peaceful low-traffic part of the country goes to California and drives there, and an aggressive Californian causes the accident between the two cars, the conservative driver is to be blamed?

Sounds like a textbook example of blaming the victim.
I think Rails might be a framework that nobody complains about, in the mid-term future. It is showing signs of age. And, though I say this with strong respect in my heart, the Rails governance is as opinionated and inflexible as the framework itself.
Another obvious problem with having the neural network map from vision to steering is that you can't make it take decisions based on what it hasn't seen yet, but will see. E.g. changing lanes because to reach your destination you'll have to make a right turn. The authors note that E2E learning makes for a better smaller system, on account of being free from human-imposed concepts. That's fine if that's your only goal. But I think it's essential for autonomous cars to be able to reason in terms of those human concepts.
> Really; you voluntarily visit those sites.

That's an assumption you're making, and not a correct one.

This solution also doesn't in any way address anything I said: it is still not ethical to serve malware to your users.
I agree wholeheartedly. The grim reality is there are no market forces presently that incentivize the system you are describing.
I'm not sure this is an issue either. The advertisers were buying advertisements, not space on a trending list.
While I hear the argument, I'm tempted to think that the framework is largely irrelevant and that it actually is the ecosystem (package management and lack of quality control) that is harming platforms at large from Rails to Django to, obviously, node. I was very interested to hear of Elm enforcing Semver at the package manager level and I believe that this is a step in the right direction.
Caricature to shorten the example.