skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hah, I know that tree. The picture they used does not do it any justice. Its a beautiful tree. The lot is at end of the dead end street off Geary. Interesting one - double or triple size with main house and old carriage house on it, both set way back, unusual for that area and pretty. My guess is, it was bought to be torn down and build a couple multi-million townhomes side-by-side. Suppose it was easier for those guys to protect the tree than the home, carriage house or parcel itself. Is it that big of a loss of very unaffordable housing in grand scheme of things? The developer would not do affordable apartment building, even if it was zoned, the profit is just not there. I'd take that tree anyday over new small home. Looked at it every time I walked by it.

By the way, one fact thats rarely mentioned, that makes it far more profitable for developers to build small structures in sf is the earthquake code. Once you get over three stories, its totally different and far, far more expensive from time, engineering and materials standpoint. Dont get me wrong I'd love to see the city grow in height over some areas such as along Lincoln dr, its just not as simple as only zoning or nymbd blocking everything.
I signed up for an account on this site just to thank you for Latexmk. I cannot tell you how useful I've found it for writing all of my honours work. The nonstop mode especially is fantastic.
There is no single point in time where a rewrite is "more appropriate" than adding this one line of code. At least not when you have a deadline.
> Now, I just see an internet-connected microphone in a software black box

A little while back, there was a kickstarter for "The Ubi"... basically as you describe.

A non-mobile v0.1 Ziggy [Quantum Leap] where you'd plug it in and ask it generic questions. "Ubi, what's the weather?" and the like. IIRC, the Ubi is slowly but decently chugging along.

However, your questions on security are valid.
You can build an ASIC with fast external memory, it adds to the cost but then you can handle larger models similar to a GPU. Software support is an issue but for deep learning applications there's no reason in principle you couldn't add support to TensorFlow etc for new hardware to make it simple for application developers to adopt. Movidius has announced that they're doing this and it's likely that other ML chip vendors will do the same.
That's the theory. However, that wall doesn't really exist in practice at any bank that provides both equity research services and investment banking services. The entire reason for offering both services is the comflict of interest. "No conflict, no interest".

source: I used to be an analyst in the equity research department at a broker dealer.
Those are some great points, especially about how women's identities change as I've seen that from some of my relatives. But just to be slightly different, I view this as an observation of human nature in general rather than it necessarily being bad or good, although it does seem unfair. I doubt this will ever change unless we somehow genetically modify people to be more empathetic but could be jenga for something else.
Do you have any evidence of this beyond what you have heard? I believe the down votes are a result of your lack of evidence.

I'm not defending Facebook but I have yet to see any substance to the argument that they are manipulating the conversation on their platform.
Well few statists like whistleblowers, because they share the Sgt. Barnes philosophy of "when the machine breaks down, we break down". Republicans expressing the same sentiments are more likely to be pandering, because the demonstration of failure on the part of the state is more in line with their platform.
I went full time to grad school because of the pain that I saw others go through when they went part-time at night. If you're just in it for the learning, you might as well leverage Coursera. Whether it's a Phd or professional masters, full time is only justified if you want the networking or mentoring.
Asu Cast One Android Smartwatch Features a Projector and Touch Panel
I want one with all those features except for email, and anything that requires a data plan. I currently use a Nokia 301 which is great, but I would prefer it have a much more simplified OS with all the non-essentials removed.
I want one with all those features except for email, and anything that requires a data plan.
I just don't get it anymore. There are two primary modes for chatting, SMS and IM. Integrating with both has its challenges, but it can't be impossible. If someone could just create an app that makes messaging via the two systems seamless, they'd dominate the market.
Indeed. Facebook is one of those incredibly evil companies that has duped the public into giving them all of their data. There's no going back either.
The Spring framework is a good (or bad) example of this tension at work in Javaland.

If you did not use Spring, you'd have to invent your own configuration file format for your application. You'd work hard at it, wind up with something crappy, and you'd have to mess around with configuration system code whenever you change the system.

On the other hand, Spring exposes a huge amount of complexity to the end users and the error messages can be hard to understand. My experience is that if you read the Spring manual from cover to cover a few hundred times it will make sense, but if you try to learn "How to do X?" from Stackoverflow and Google you'll be driven crazy and if you have to deal with Spring files written by people who cut-and-pasted, you might be driven all the way to suicide.

Then there are all the apps like Jetty and Solr that have something similar built in but worse...
Amazon provided this, which doesn't necessarily have to run on a Raspberry Pi, and could be used to build what you want: https://github.com/amzn/alexa-avs-raspberry-pi
Signal works nicely enough for me.
Half-quantization of a total optical angular momentum
i'd love to see some work done in oss router firmware like tomato / dd-wrt to enable simple home automation tasks. not everyone needs a cloud assistant or has the chops to hack a web server onto their router.
Surprised I didn't see MVP(Minimum Viable Product) in there. But still, good reference!
yes but the announcement can move the stock
"It's been at least, what, 8 years since Goldman Sachs was [caught] in any sort of financial crisis involving malfeasance."

FTFY
What do they do?

We use websockets in our realtime platform.
> IME, that's how the word affordable is always used; do you know of any counterexamples?

Well, the most relevant counterexample here would be the California Health and Safety Code Sec. 50052.5 [0], which provides the cost-based definitions of "affordable housing" which apply to various income tiers (which are also those relevant to the present proposal from Gov. Brown.)

(These definitions are often prerequisites to certain subsidies, but it is meeting the definition, not the subsidy, that makes it "affordable housing".)

> The "affordable" units are turned over to a government agency

Proposals (including the present one from Gov. Brown [1]) conditioned on a certain share of affordable housing usually require that the developer make a commitment that they will meet the applicable cost-based definition of "affordable" for a period of time, and that that commitment will be enforceable by a public agency (the present proposal requires that this be done by the developer recording a land-use restriction enforceable by the public agency.)

This does not require that the property be turned over to (or even managed by) a public agency, though certainly there are affordable housing developments that have occurred where there was either direct ownership or management of the units by a public agency, nor does it require that the housing be subsidized in any way (though at the "lower income" tier, the population for whom they are targeted to be "affordable" to is also the population eligible for Section 8 housing subsidies, I believe.)

[0] http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/displaycode?section=hsc&gr...

[1] http://www.dof.ca.gov/budgeting/trailer_bill_language/local_...
Here's a sourced article with the exact same claims:

> “We were a ratchet crowd,” said one. “There were afterparties in our office where people were having sex, there were drugs being done. That company has done so many crazy things that a movie should be made about it.”

http://www.complex.com/style/the-rise-and-fall-of-karmaloop

Breathe easy, nobody was wrongly slandered.
I'm the author, and I agree with Vitalik. I thought it was interesting to dig into the wild west of live contracts and see what was happening right now.

The early days of Bitcoin had many of these same business models, although with much worse security and trust models.

Getting security and secure practices together is going to be a large effort, and a simple post like mine is just a way of throwing my hat in the ring and getting some conversation going.
You're assuming the dataset is a file you can just mmap there. If it's more complex (built up from a network feed or something) then yes, there is more work involved than just an mmap call, coordinating shm segments is not zero complexity.

But the real impact is if you want to be mutating that data set. The default behaviour of "tear down the entire process on error" can of course be worked around even if you ignore data corruption errors, but not having to do things by hand is the point of managed runtimes in the first place.
The security history of the JVM suggests that one shouldn't be optimistic there either.
The article is kind of oversold. He starts out by talking about how there's an impending apocalypse of vulnerable contracts, but then the example is a contract that was clearly written as something between hello world and a joke.
Hopefully a lot better than the Linux kernel: http://www.cvedetails.com/product/47/Linux-Linux-Kernel.html...
I can't speak to tgat. What I do have is numerous writeups from journalists on spooks that did it plus lots of different slides saying it's CIA with a few referencing ISA. National Clandestine Service naturally. You got a solid, public source saying TAREX or NSA HUMINT is rarely CIA?
What obligations does Facebook have to include Twitter sources, or to ensure trending topics are unbiased?
I'd be really interested in seeing some additional data in this analysis, although it might be hard to come by.

For example, what are the demographics of FB's marketing/sales team vs. Twitter's? I'd be willing to bet on average that younger sales and marketing employees are willing to accept more SBC vs. salary because they have a higher risk tolerance and might be a bit less skeptical. Senior sales and marketing people have more expenses, families, etc. and I'd be surprised if many of them are willing to accept a lottery ticket and its associated tax burden in lieu of guaranteed cash and simplified taxes.

Additionally, without comparing the commission/bonus structure, I think there's a big missing piece of this picture. When you are a market leader and have an easy product to sell, you have less incentive to offer massive commissions than if market sentiment shows you to be on your way out and you need to be aggressive to court strong candidates away from "an easy sell."

Lastly, I'd be curious as to the average tenure of these various functional groups. If equity comes with vesting periods, cliffs, etc., do people stick around long enough to capture all of that SBC? If data says no, that might be an incentive to offer more to groups that are statistically more likely to leave a lot of it on the table.
Do the math. Calculate the suicide rate for China as a whole, them for Foxconn.

Do it, post the numbers here.
> working @ the most popular platform on the planet.

Working as a contractor.
I would say they're already not competing on the assistant side. Siri is considerably worse than Google Now, even though it came out first
Maybe I'm parsing your tone wrong, but what is so outlandish/surprising about people liking features but not the implications of them? (or often, of the way they are implemented, see every cloud vs local software discussion ever)

E.g. cheald's comment above is pretty clear "I always wanted that, but I fear its implementation"
Nokia ported the KHTML rendering engine back in 2004-2005 to their feature phone OS. :) A baby WebKit is in some of those feature phone if you want to call it that.
Or like 9/10 the picture
Miranda vs Arizona established that 5th amendment protections apply outside of a criminal case. That's why police have to read the Miranda warning when arresting someone. He's been arrested and read his Miranda rights and is invoking them.
No contest to the claim that there are conflicts of interests in silicon valley, but the firewall / chinese wall between research and banking groups is pretty spotty, despite all the formal processes to try to maintain it.

Personally saw tons of sketchy things going on with MDs on IB side influencing research analysts ratings.
> I wouldn't be surprised if this whole bias fiasco was an unexpected side-effect of Facebook hiring largely left-leaning editorial staff.

I always assumed that this was exactly what's going on. You don't need a handbook that says "stifle conversative stuff", you just need vague rules, managers playing the world's worst game of corporate telephone, and a bunch of disorganization.

Life at large companies...
End to end encryption ... with bots examining your chat to provide adds. Maybe we should call this end to _and_ google :-)
The term is pretty generic, Nervana also calls their chip a "tensor processing unit".
Because our culture has shifted strongly away from the phone call. Turns out we prefer async comms for most things. Think about how many of the successful app startups were really just manifestations of replacing a phone call for a particular use case. Chat bots are the logical next step in this cultural shift, enabling people to communicate asynchronously to get more things done. No singular big tech change to point at, just tons and tons of incremental ones. The momentum behind chat bots is cultural, not technological IMHO. The mainstream is now primed for them. The phone app on my iPhone has been partially replaced by every other app on my home screen and entire categories of remaining use cases will be replaced by chat bots (customer service as an obvious example)... Dot ai.
- grocery list

You could use your phone or take notes on paper, but being able to make a note that i need more flour the second i reach for the bag in the back of the cabinet is significantly easier.

- order $thing

Again, you might not think so, but instead of just making a note that i need more flour, i'd love to be able to just ask for more flour and know it will be my "normal" brand and will be here in a day or 2.

- dish washer

Because it's loud, uses up hot water, and at least I often forget to start it until it's too late. I'd love to remember "oh shit i forgot to start the dishes" and just call out to have it go (or say to start at 1am when i'm asleep).

- turn on the oven

Again, in a perfect world i'd love this ability. I start on dinner and can just ask the oven to be at 425 in 15 minutes. Nobody is asking for it to be connected to the cloud specifically, but if it is and is secure i'd have no problems with it.
I have no particular side on this debate, nor am I an expert, but wouldn't the current state still be possible if the recipients of the gene transfer out-competed all the other variants in its lineage?
It's funny you say the second paragraph - it feels like it directly contrasts the first (OK Google was first by a good margin).
From reading their site, it sounds like you expose yourself to massive counterparty risk using this, as a "federation" is holding your bitcoins.
> Miranda vs Arizona established that 5th amendment protections apply outside of a criminal case.

No, Miranda vs. Arizona set standards for how 5th amendment protections apply in a criminal case, and established remedies for violation of those protections in such case.
China proposes 'underwater great wall'
The GS audit department, of course. They are also firewalled.
A "newspaper job", how quaint!

Most editorial jobs nowadays want exactly "social media curator at <Big Internet Co>", because that's where the market is going.
San Francisco tried building some koban in the 1980s. One was at 16th and Mission, and the other was on Post St. in Japantown.[1] There was one in Chinatown, and one at the Powell/Market St. cable car turntable. Seldom were there cops in them. They just were not much more useful than cops walking around.

Larger storefront police substations have a better track record, but they're not common. They're expensive to staff. But that's not the problem. Here's what Japan's police agency thinks of their own police box system:[2]

Good security conditions are a fundamental prerequisite for the system. Although police boxes are institutions designed to secure public safety, they can only be successful in areas that are already safe. For example, in an area where terrorist attacks frequently occur, police boxes could become easy targets. It is still necessary for officers to make a lot of effort in order to defend a police box against less serious crimes such as vandalism and other attacks. A small number of officers are deployed to a large number of places under the system. Therefore, the police box system can be successful under highly secure conditions such as what Japan has.

Japan’s good security conditions have been underpinned by the police box system, and also by non-police factors such as sea-bound geographical conditions, a highly homogeneous society, group conscious culture, economic and industrial development, and strict weapons ownership control. In other words, the police box system has been able to contribute to the safety of Japan because it already had favorable conditions for maintaining public security.

That's why it wouldn't work in the US.

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/1988/02/16/us/latest-japanese-import-...
[2] https://www.npa.go.jp/english/seisaku1/JapaneseCommunityPoli...
Is there anyway to detect what hardware to being used by the cloud service if you're using the cloud service? (yes, realize this question is a bit of a paradox, but figured I'd ask.)
> A helmet won't make any difference when riding a bike into a hunk of steel; you will get badly hurt or killed depending on your speed.

That's a straw man. Helmet advocates do not imagine them as some sort of invincible armor. They obviously will not keep you from being injured in a serious accident. What they do is reduce your chance of being killed. The large majority of fatal bicycle accidents involve head injuries. (One source: http://www.rospa.com/road-safety/advice/pedal-cyclists/facts...) I would rather be in traction than dead.

I agree that children cannot be wrapped in cotton wool; they should be allowed to roam without supervision and make their own mistakes, even if that does slightly increase their risk of injury or death. But getting a bike helmet for your kid does not restrict their mobility or their ability to learn. It has no downsides, only upsides.

You've made the choice not to wear a helmet; if you ride safely, in a safe area, the extra risk is probably quite small, and if you believe it's a fair trade-off for a little extra comfort, that's your prerogative as an adult. But don't pretend that wanting to feel the wind in your hair is taking a moral stand.
Amazon makes $3B a year selling ads. You think they're just guessing about personal information? Please. They lay cookies everywhere (including off site) to target you properly.
Me too. I can't remember enough about what they were to pull up details, though.

I remember it was some combination of contractual obligations to supply a certain product at a certain price, obligations to supply a certain number of them, a clause that changed the price if a certain number of them were bought, that sort of thing. You can do things like create contracts where you can buy enough of the items to trigger the lower price then force the company to take back the ones you paid the higher price for, or if you can screw with the price of some component that is necessary for the production of the thing make it so it costs the producer more to make than you're going to pay, stuff like that. Legal shenanigans? Absolutely. But considered to be normal stuff at the higher levels of the game.

Hopefully someone can come up with some better examples. But I'll at least make a peace offering with this: http://thedailywtf.com/articles/Special-Delivery
Google patent: Glue would stick pedestrian to self-driving car after collision
And a huge ad business they support. Oh, they didn't tell you about that?
> As I understand it, Miranda established that the 5th amendment applies to all interactions with law enforcement, not just answering questions in court. So they can search the hard drive all they want, but the constitution protects us from being required to disclose what's in our heads which, in this case, should include the password.

The privilege against self-incrimination applies to any interaction which they introduce into evidence against you in a criminal case, or from which they derive information on which they then gather other evidence that is used against you in a criminal case.

It doesn't actually protect you against the police doing anything, or forcing you to provide information (other Constitutional provisions may, however), it just protects you against certain information being used against you in criminal court.
For the Windows world -- I was pleasantly surprised that Visual Studio Community Edition does a great job of enabling Python development. Intellisense is available for all modules I installed with pip. The templates are well-written without unnecessary junk. Debugging works very well.

I haven't tried the same for non-Windows platforms, but Visual Studio Code is free and should provide similar capabilities for OS-X and Linux.
Yes but we didn't have to wash their dishes. Ads are one thing, invasive popover interactive surveys are another.
It would be more preferable to get (e.g.) 12 degrees in a year and be done with it. Online schooling that has you take tests and gives you the degrees would be far and away more rewarding than getting hammered by years of invested time and a large debt.

Unless you're the kind of personality that enjoys academia, don't bother.
I have several small apartments where it's open concept and the dishwasher is loud enough to drown out the TV when it's at a reasonable volume. So, after you wrap up dinner and throw everything in the dishwasher, you can tell Google Home to start it in an hour while it's still fresh in your mind. Then you sit down and watch a show for an hour.

The alternative is to crank the TV up to hear it over the dishwasher or start the dishwasher in an hour after your show is done - but that's easy enough to forget. It's a very real scenario.

As for the pre-heating the oven. Maybe I'm at my desk (I work from home) and wrapping up my day. I look at today's meal plan and see I need to bake some chicken. I can ask Google Home to get the oven started while I wrap up my day.
From Krebs,

"Inexplicably, LinkedIn’s response to the most recent breach is to repeat the mistake it made with original breach, by once again forcing a password reset for only a subset of its users."

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2016/05/as-scope-of-2012-breach-...