skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know anything about your sites, and please ignore the following feedback, but I think you should focus on building 1 amazing site as opposed to trying to maintain 10.
That's why I use my toe.
Maybe it's just me, but I had no idea what the first task was until I closed the modal. Then I could see the block moving and have some idea as to what I was supposed to do. But still, not really. It isn't clear.

Maybe start by getting the user to build the block moving function. Better yet rather than obscure 'moving blocks', try to map these to real-world functions which would allow more people to understand what and why.
Well this also shows their commitment to Tensorflow if they willing to pay to fab custom chips for it. Then again, in the Google scheme of things that's probably not a huge cost.

They've probably carefully modeled the energy savings over GPU/FPGA and found it to be substantial enough, even taking into account costs of design changes.
In a resource constrained world, where a lot of energy is being spent on other things (like fighting), certain fundamentals may well get highly optimized, and indeed outright stolen.
There is a fully open source voice-controlled platform: Jasper https://jasperproject.github.io/
I'm sorry, because their horrible working conditions faded from the headlines, when Foxconn gets mentioned we're not allowed to criticize them now? To me the most notable detail about any deal with Foxconn is the working conditions implicit in carrying it out. Please tell me more about what to think, I wouldn't want to break step with the Hacker News hive mind.
Maybe you might have more success with affiliate marketing.
Are the Department of the Navy and the State Department still funding it or did they came to their "senses"?
There is an open source alternative to Google Home: Jasper (https://jasperproject.github.io)
> The Ethereum virtual machine has to be completely error free if any sane person is going to put their money into it. I just don't see that happening.

Your fear seems to stem from misunderstanding how Ethereum works or what it even is.

Most likely, Ethereum itself (the "engine") will be effectively error-free - probably as good as the Linux kernel - once it reaches 1.0. And smart contracts can be as simple or complex as you like. If you're afraid of bugs, don't put money into any complex smart contracts. If there's a lot of money involved, then spend some money/time reviewing the smart contract.

Also, contracts can set precedent once they are in the ecosystem. If a contract has been heavily used prior to your desire to use it, you can copy it, and be relatively confident that it will be secure for you to use.
This software wasn't. The number one requirement was 100%, or near 100%, uptime. The longer it operated the more money you made. Certain scripts could be guaranteed only a ~6 hour uptime, and required a manual restart which did not scale well to multiple instances.

But yeah, in general thats absolutely true.
One is fear-driven, and thus highly dependent on other people's granting of validation. The other is self-generated spirited enjoyment of anything one might do, with little dependance on the validation provided by other people.

Essentially, the difference is to do with which set of emotions are being dominant: loneliness/ validation/ approval-seeking versus enjoyment/ spiritedness/ play.

Think of the fun inherent in hobbyist programming, but extended to life at large.
That is funny.

So the motive of your friend is security for himself and surveillance of his wife.

The motive of cloud home automation stuff (e.g. Homeseer) is surveillance of its customers, e.g. your friend.

It is like turtles all the way down.
Is it inflating the results shown on Wi-Fi?

I am on a MacBook Air Early 2014 and my current link speed is 144 Mbit/s according to Network Utility, but fast.com shows between 210 to 230 Mbps on each run.

Speedtest.net results are consistent as before at ~38 Mpbs, which is what I would expect from the routers around me.
Withdrawal is a common reaction to stress (loneliness). However a reaction is not necessarily a solution.
The download speed is absolutely incorrect, I live in a 3rd world country and have a 2Mb connection I get max 200/kb max download rate, fast.com is showing a download speed of 1.2Mb I really wish it was true
Our Awful Prisons: How They Can Be Changed
by "everyone" I mean >90% of comments on this forum comparing aws to an alternative (90% of cases it's straight to colocation)

Building your own datacenters is also an alternative to aws-ec2, but you go to that step by step (I think?) (dedicated > colocation > datacenter). In some cases when you have crazy growth you can skip a/some steps (ex: dropbox going from aws to their own datacenter)

They don't even compare them in whatever $/request/latency/$metric since they don't even mention them. And dedicated has also many options from low-price+no-support-shitty-network to high price/good-network/support etc.
The suicide rate at Foxcon is/was lower than that of the general population.

You should not get all your news from headlines.
Two Hour Sydney-London Hypersonic Travel in 2018?
> subsidiary of Chinese manufacturer Foxconn

Foxconn is Taiwanese
What we need now is for HMD Global to acquire Jolla.

We also need an infographic of the migration of Nokia engineers between different corporate entities and the dollar value destroyed/created during each hop.

Let's hope this corporate re-engineering saga has a happy ending. I miss my Nokia N8, N900 and N9.
What are the fairly obvious flaws?
This article kind of reminds me of when a report was due in 7'th grade and I didn't really want to do it.

I'd just look up a bunch of stuff and reword it and jam it all together with no real thesis or point. It always passed.
It became something of a meme.

John Kerry: "Edward Snowden is a coward, he is a traitor and he has betrayed his country, and if he wants to come home tomorrow to face the music, he can do so"

Nancy Pelosi: "I think he should come back and face the music for what he did … [but] the music shouldn’t be the death penalty or life in prison."

All Democrats, I notice.
It's been part of Tesla's business model to progressively build cheaper products in progressively larger quantities.

Also, Tesla is still building the world's largest battery factory. "Reinvesting revenue into capital improvements" seems to parallel Amazon's early-2000s growth fairly well.
That sounds perfectly plausible to me; "languages of cars" are social constructs, after all, not laws of nature, and the same car can easily appeal to different kinds of people in different places.
I'd consider that, but I doubt my cow-orkers would appreciate me taking off my shoes.
Stop being the tool of your social life, Timenote helps you in your real life
The Corporate Integrations Committee will consider these feature request for a future release.
I might be reading this wrong but their evidence seems like its not consistent and they explain this away with this speculation.

"Neurons are somehow tapping into that subjective social experience of the mouse, and only producing a significant effect on the behavior of mice who perhaps previously valued their social connections, rather than those who did not"

So what exactly is the proof ?

They also explain that this might lead to two possibilities social vs antisocial mice . How did they even come up with these possibilities surely from their own experience and understanding of the world.So they are starting on with hypothesis that they came up with and end up with inconsistent results and claim that as proof.

tl;dr

hypothesis1: loneliness corresponds to dopamine -> not conclusive -> hypothesis2: results explained by social position of mouse -> further testing needed
I assume it's some version of him saying to the lender "I'm mortgaging my house, selling my wedding ring to put money into this company, is there any way you can let us get by with lower payments" and the bank saying "No. We have a contract, and we're willing to put you into bankruptcy if you can't pay us."
The private data should not be centralized in realms of Google, Apple, Microsoft, instead it should be federated. This is why in 2014 I issued the Private Internet of Things Manifesto (https://github.com/niutech/priot).
Why does his wife let him track her movements?
Sounds like me, though I went for full-time. Took a 4 month leave of absence. Signed up as an open studies student for the minimum number of courses required to count as full-time. Got all prereqs waived based on work experience. Rocked all my courses. Asked one of the professors to supervise my master's degree. Quit my job. Am now nearing the end of a full-time master's.

(I will note that full-time study is expensive in terms of opportunity cost. In the end, I'll have spent a few years making a quarter of the income I otherwise would have.)
Strange the way that article is written, it doesn't clarify which way the money was transferred.
Not necessarily. You don't need an HTML renderer for emailing, and even if you did, the difference between HTML rendering for emails vs. a full 3rd party, concurrently running application system is pretty big.
The email we've all been using is not all open-source and end-to-end encrypted, though there are open-source clients, some of which support end-to-end encryption.
When people at large start to notice that a given publication or platform -- reddit for instance -- has been compromised by certain left-wing ideologies, you will inevitably see a narrative about its behind-the-scenes/"subtle" sexism/discrimination in very short order.

It's becoming a very predictable trick. I can't imagine I'm the only one who sees this.
Goldman isn't making the $2b investment in Tesla - they are being paid by Tesla to manage the sale of $2b worth of new shares to the public.

That said, I think its very unlikely there is any link between the offering and their analysis.
But the issue with humans is also interpretation. If a contract or set of clauses is detrimental to a specific party, because if the complexity of the structure of a contract, not the language used - then surely this is easier to spot and fix with software heuristics, rather than deciphering humalanguage
My recollection was from her blog post a week or two ago.
The mathematician in me is somewhat relieved to see there are some things I'm better at than Terry Tao :)
To suggest these are similar (which, to be fair, you are not explicitly claiming) seems to be to not understand the nature of what the banks are doing.

In investment banks, as a client you pay the research department for objective research into a security. By preparing research that is intentionally untrue, in order to benefit a deal team, there is a violation of duty from the seller of goods (the equities analyst) to the paying client (money manager). In today's world, that violation of duty is not only moral but legal as well.

The equivalent here would be you, as an angel investor, hiring a YC representative as an investment advisor on what companies to invest in, and the YC rep pumping whichever company in the YC program they wanted to get money for, without even disclosing conflicts of interest.

That same YC representative giving publicity to the general public ahead of demo-day has no financial conflict of interest at all. I have a hard time seeing what moral (much less legal) duty they have to not publicize their portfolio companies.
> There is no political bias that I know of and we were never told to suppress conservative news. There is an extraordinary amount of talent on the team...

I don't use Facebook, but over the last several years I kept hearing from a number of non-PC type news outlets (that I subscribe to) that even as their media platform grew and doubled and tripled, at the same time their Facebook engagement became a small fraction of what it used to be.

I've also heard that one of the quickest ways to get your Facebook account terminated in Germany is to say anything negative about the current migration situation that becomes popular or starts to get views.

This article IMO is a way to hide the real story with another story.
Yeah, that's why the improvement isn't as big as the 5,000x it was for SHA256 hashing.
or Jasper.
IME, that's how the word affordable is always used; do you know of any counterexamples? SPUR had to come up with a new term, "affordable by design", to distinguish housing that was built to minimize construction costs from housing that was government subsidized (http://www.spur.org/publications/spur-report/2007-11-20/affo...).

When bills like this talk about "affordable" housing in new developments, they don't just mean "the rent in this unit has to be kept below $X per month" (as in rent control). The "affordable" units are turned over to a government agency, such as the Mayor's Office of Housing in San Francisco (http://sfmohcd.org/), which administers them and decides who gets to live in them. For example, last year, the city of San Francisco decided that people who lived in the same neighborhood as a building would be first in line for that building's affordable units (http://www.sfexaminer.com/affordable-housing-lottery-being-t...). The building owners' approval was not required, because the program is run by the city.
In the example, I'm not sure npm can really do much to fix this. package.json entries can have any arbitrary content. "dependncies" might be valid as far as npm knows, and the dependencies section is optional.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/9006988... "Around 150 Chinese workers at Foxconn, the world's largest electronics manufacturer, threatened to commit suicide by leaping from their factory roof in protest at their working conditions." I'll let the weakness of the argument, "That's normal" speak for itself.
Goldman Sachs and Elon Musk are likely the largest buyers of this offering. So the stock doesn't have to go down much from this dilution as they are absorbing it.
It's not in the US playstore, so it obviously doesn't exist.
For naturalized citizens, this is a non-issue as they've had to undergo this process already, FWIW.
I work with some people who worked at Karmaloop. I've heard that it simultaneously was a great place to work (plenty of challenge and room for growth), but also a terrible place to work (bonuses paid out in virtual currency, very poor product management, etc.)
> > "Working at Facebook, even as a contractor, was supposed to be the opportunity of a lifetime."

> Does anyone really say that working at a tech giant as a non-engineer is an opportunity of a lifetime?

The author is a journalist, practicing in a field which has been decimated, writing about working @ the most popular platform on the planet.
Doctors are like cops in that they're used to being lied to, particularly by drug users. Telling a doctor "I didn't take meth" when he has a positive test result is likely to mean exactly nothing unless you have a long term existing doctor-patient relationship.
Unfortunately, the article provides no insight about the recent allegations regarding political bias in "trending" topics.
You're not wrong, definitely. It's just that criticizing iTunes feels like picking on the mentally-challenged. As rarepostinlurkr points out, even the "best of best" practices can't really guarantee bug-free software. And Apple is very far down indeed on any list of respected software development institutions.

The only rational approach to iTunes is to assume it will either delete your music or otherwise render it unindexable, and prepare accordingly.
Someone's building a product for this: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/biometrix-an-evolution-in...
Did the image change? I can't seem to find what you're describing.
> market makers ... without prices moving a lick

If orders are going though at different prices that's volatility, even if it's just bid ask spread. Reducing bid - ask spread is how HFT traders are supposed to reduce volatility in the first place. Trade at 10.10, 10.00, 10.10 is price motion even if the trades where buy 10.10, sell 10.00 buy 10.00 because a party needs to sit on the other side of the transaction so all trades are both buy and sell transactions.

That said, you can model only one type of transaction and talk about say sell volatility.
I've found the UWP Windows 10 API to be using shared_ptrs and stuff more often. A lot of things are done 'correctly'.

Its mostly when interacting with legacy code (ie: MFC) where issues come up.
Yeah, ok, I get that, it is nice. But I do not see some kind of revolution (I am sure I heard that term connected to home automation) that is often proclaimed.

For me the time saving is just too low compared with the alternative of wrestling with some kind of UI, but I may change my mind if I try it out for some time? Let's see.

//edit:

And I think turning lights on/off and playing songs is a really bad example. It is like the Fibonacci sequence of programming language PR. I really do not think one goes with a PL because it has a short solution to generate the Fibonacci sequence. It is nice. But not useful.
Has BitTorrent (the company) ever developed anything that gained wide traction? (Original client was developed pre-incorporation)

Looking through their Wikipedia page, it seems like a list of flops or freeware. Are they actually profitable?
Facebook/LINE stickers are a kind of preset response that's totally popular. Even the ones with words in them.
Could it be that Facebook is just a more compelling platform to advertise on, so they have less need for salespeople to shove it down their customers' throats, as opposed to Twitter?
ICYMI: Bitcoin will gain Turing-completeness via a merge-mined sidechain called Rootstock (http://www.rootstock.io/), that also offers a transaction throughput boost (300TPS right off the bat).

I highly recommend their whitepaper as it's also a great overview of the Blockchain ecosystem as a whole.
Yep, but if anyone else notices they lost corresponding bandwidth they could set up their own such tests and demonstrate the disadvantage.

Depending on their public-spiritedness, Netflix may make it easier for sites to set themselves up with it.
Hmm around $4/hr after a partial upfront. I'm guessing that upfront is going to be just about the cost of a server which is around $50k.
Yep, no way close to PouchDB.
This is very interesting. Can you expand on what you mean?
I'd love to hear more about those horror stories you mention.
Are you sure? They seem to advertise offline persistence for both mobile and web.

https://firebase.google.com/docs/database/#key_functions
Well, I'm sure this will be successful, but I have to say - Elon has been such an amazing innovator and rebel to the car industry I just wish he was able
To not do the BMW thing
It's really a matter of semantics, not science. Either party could be incapable of providing the needed input. But also yes, to address the controversiality, the withdrawal method, used perfectly, is a 96% effective [0] contraceptive method vs. 98% for condoms used perfectly [1]. Obviously the prerequisites for perfect use are different and YMMV.

[0] https://www.plannedparenthood.org/learn/birth-control/withdr... (there's no fragment, it's under the effectiveness section of the accordion)

[1] https://www.plannedparenthood.org/learn/birth-control/condom...
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/StrategyLetterV.html
But to get the best sales people you have to give them something easy to sell!

Doesn't sound like Twitter is easy to sell compared to FB.
> Still, the attorney general's office says the bill "contains more than minor errors."

> For example, if a person suspected of drug trafficking is stopped by local law enforcement on Interstate 80 en route to another state, it's possible Nebraska laws would provide no avenue to prosecute that person and therefore no way to permanently seize the cash, Shasserre said.

"You can't take their money if you don't have enough evidence to prosecute" is a feature, not a bug.
The whole point of them is to block analytics domains. If you don't value their users that's your problem.
So how would one address server side logic?

Like for example doing something with the data before sending it to the client?
Exactly.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass%E2%80%93Steagall_Legis...
Initially doing internal integrations, then releasing API access to trusted partners, then making APIs publicly available is how Google has done lots of things. So, I wouldn't be surprised if that's the route Google does with this.
What gets a neocon in a Prius? Fuel efficiency. Less oil burned means less dependence on the Saudis and more freedom of action in the Middle East. These days, we export oil rather than import it, so perhaps this isn't true anymore, but I remember of hearing about how one of the key Iraq hawks (Wolfowitz?) driving a Prius very early in the Prius' history -- 2006 or 2007, I think.

I'd never heard of the Subaru's reputation, but that's exactly the kind of thing I'm thinking of... and exactly the kind of thing that I don't know how to learn!

Perhaps a wiki of some sort could record people's knowledge of what sorts of people drive what sorts of cars. We'd just have to make sure that Something Awful never gets wind of it, lest we "learn" that everyone in the world drives Carry McCarface... :)
And you feel every ounce of those when reading them. Most good versions of this class of book are this heavy (typically prescribed for the late 'undergrad'/first year grad introductory class reading). The neuroscience equivalent (Kandel, Schwartz, Jessell) is 8.7 pounds, with very thin pages.
I cancelled my Coin preorder and got my money back once the EMV rollout became a done deal, fortunately.

I was in Europe 2 weeks ago, using a local SIM so I was not getting calls on my "home" phone number registered with my banks.

On a Friday night at the bar in Copenhagen, I happened to see an email from my one bank saying to call them immediately about possibly-fraudulant charges. So I called international to confirm that i was overseas and the charges were legit, and which countries I'd be traveling to over the next week. (Previously my bank said it was NOT necessary to notify them when traveling, so I hadn't up until then).

The very next day I flew to Frankfurt and had both of my chip cards rejected at a fast food restaurant.

That night I had to make a Google Talk call to both credit card companies; the first one to bitch them out that I had JUST told them about my travel.. but it turns out they had no record of the attempted charge, something must have gone wrong with the terminal. The SECOND credit card company notified me of fraudulent charges that happened while I was on my flight from the US. They cancelled my card immediately and shipped me a new one, which did me no good since I was overseas.

However, conveniently, the "replacement" card popped up in Apple Wallet before I even got off the phone with them, so at least in theory I could use NFC payments with the new replacement card.

I was extremely nervous because not 12 hours later I needed a credit card for a 6000 euro preauth for a track car rental. Obviously my 2 debit cards would not do, I couldn't use the compromised card (unless they had NFC and I could use ApplePay for it), so I NEEDED my remaining card to work. Fortunately it did.

I happened to have a 3rd credit card which used to be EMV but was replaced with a non-chip card a year ago, and which I haven't used since; that was my only backup plan (assuming they could take a mag stripe card, which typically is not an issue in Europe). (short of spending another 20 minutes on the phone with credit card companies the next day trying to figure out why my charges were still failing).

I absolutely never charge anything to a debit card, and I make sure I have at least 2 or 3 credit cards whenever I travel, in addition to the debit card(s) for getting cash.
>Most likely, Ethereum itself (the "engine") will be effectively error-free - probably as good as the Linux kernel - once it reaches 1.0.

"will be effectively error-free" != "probably as good as the Linux kernel", not even close :D