skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just the fact that they are listing their product on Indiegogo instead of Kickstarter signals to me that they probably got shut when trying to publish their project on Kickstarter—who is trying hard to distance theirselves from these moonshot projects that are likely to disappoint consumers. If you don't have a really serious working prototype now, Kickstarter is super-duper hesitant to let you on their platform.
Fertilizer contains a considerable amount of it and can be handled fairly safely... Unless you get careless: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oppau_explosion
“The Peak Is Behind Us” – Silicon Valley Real Estate Bubble Has Now Also Burst
We used the original Firebase database product to build http://socrates.io/ 3.5 years ago, and I remember getting Socrates running in a few hours. I’m looking forward to seeing them up the bar on speed of development / ease for their next 10 products :) Nice work team!
BlizzCon etc virtual tickets just got a lot more interesting in your scenario :)
Just to be clear, you're suggesting to use shared_ptr for every object you want to call methods that don't take "this" by move on?

(Which is not enough by any means to ensure memory safety, of course…)
CA police terrified of losing drug war $$$ to which they have become addicted
There's nothing odd about publishing something on Github without licensing it.

For example, imagine you have an MVP for a failed startup idea. By throwing it up on Github other people can learn from your project. Potential employers can review your code.

But if someone wants to fork your code and try to launch an identical startup, they really should cut you in.
> Why would the people building the housing be responsible for these costs? If new people are moving to a community and consuming city services, can't they pay for those services through taxes like everyone else?

Prop 13's property tax rate limitations made developer fees more important as a source of revenue to support city services (raising up-front property prices.)

Under Prop 13 -- both the rate limitations and the assessment increase limitations -- "everybody else" isn't paying for the (full, prorated costs of) services through taxes, new homeowners are paying full-freight from full-value assessment and direct taxes, and by paying (or, for new purchasers of existing houses, in effect reimbursing the prior owner) for the development fees. Homeowners that have held their property longer still paid (or reimbursed) the development fees when they bought the house, but pay reduced share through direct property taxes.
What more do you want? A gift basket?
Yup, basically killing most free apps, sad times.
Nokia Is Back in the Mobile Phone Business
I'm not sure I agree on IBM. I heard horror stories from folks at Watson, supposedly their big future money maker, complaining that they couldn't hire competitively due to salaries and work environment. In NYC they're around the corner from companies like Google which manage to pay people well, and have all the perks.

Of course I agree - show me the money. But not everyone else thinks that way.
This is meant to be a WhatsApp competitor.
I think it would be entirely possible within US legal framework for Echo/Home to be able to selectively switch from "wake word" to "always listening" mode, on the whim of Amazon/Google or a request of the government. Now, if the government isn't stupid about it and would use it selectively, then good luck tracking it down.
I've used Postgres out to the terabyte+ range with no probs, so it all works fine. Of course, whenever you approach huge data sizes like this, it tends to change how you access the data a little. eg. Do more threads equal more user connections, or more parallel computation? Generally though, databases aren't really hindered by CPU, instead by the amount of memory in the machine and this new instance is huge.

No idea about MySQL, people tend to scale that out rather than up.
https://xkcd.com/1367/
Computable things include CSSR (http://bactra.org/CSSR/), the considerably more bullshit Lempel-Ziv (yeah, like LZ compression) complexity, etc etc etc etc.

Lloyd(http://web.mit.edu/esd.83/www/notebook/Complexity.PDF) has a supposedly non-exhaustive list, but it is probably exhaustive enough for any purpose. Of those, the useful and non-banal ones in my opinion include Fisher information, Renyi entropy, VC dimension, the many ordinary computational complexities (of course), metric entropy, correlational structure and channel capacity.
I can just say that every time, as an engineer, I have tried to show empathy for end users, I have been punished by management.
I use it for its main selling point: a realtime backend.

With Firebase, Vue-Fire (Firebase bindings for Vue.js), crossfilter and chart.js, you can whip up a functional and sweet analytics dashboard or [insert pet project here] in a weekend.

It gets the headache of a backend (and user auth) out of the way.

As for security - the Firebase security rules and server side authentication allow you to lock things down.
way too risky to use it for startups. Google may discontinue this project at any time and you have to spend months to rewrite everything for another database. IF google open source it and we will be able to install it on premise and patch without Google, that would be ok. So, I would recommend to use PostgreSQL instead.
Guess I am one of the few who got excited about the Duo launch. I always wanted a Facetime like feature for Android phones, a light weight one which just works unlike Skype/Hangout. Though, I feel they should have wrapper both in a same app(may be hangouts), i feel it's great to have a native video calling from Google.
So if someone were switching from Mongo/Mongoose to Firebase, what's the biggest difference?
Why not just use a real VR headset then? When the prices come down on this stuff it'll just be seen as another peripheral for your computer. It won't be this enthusiast toy. Are you walking around with your VR mask everywhere you go just in case you see a TED talk you like? That seems incredibly inconvenient. Even a low profile mask is a fairly bulky item.

I think attaching a phone to your face is going to give a subpar experience compared to a dedicated device. I still don't see a use case here that's going to get people excited. Especially after the largely milquetoast reception smartwatches have gotten. VR masks are about 1,000x more geeky than those. Image conscious people aren't going to be putting them on their face to consume content in public.
Ouch.

Coin was a company that stood by it's products, Fitbit is the kind of outfit that will find any lame excuse to not issue you an RMA.
Yeah, sorry about that! We're working to get more capacity ASAP. The response has been incredible.
How to Get Your Hardware Product to Market
I can reach netflix.com. I can now reach fast.com. I am skeptical that the results are correct, i pay for 50mbps, typcally receive ~40ish, and fast.com says avg of 56

edit: can't reach servers again. no idea why, currently behind vpn now. No disruptions anywhere. I wonder if the site is just under heavy load and failing but not returning proper status codes.
> I suspect your anecdote is just that.

Sure, take it for what it's worth. At best, it applies only to the town where I live. Still, the opening anecdote in the article resonated with me because Mercedes drivers around here have shown an unusually small amount of concern for my welfare.

As a cyclist, one tends to be more than usually sensitive to people trying to kill you with their cars. I submit that as the driver of a high-performance luxury vehicle, you may be more than usually sensitive to people driving too slow for your taste.
80% of the Vive experience at 1/10th the cost.
So if you're saying that alcohol maybe doesn't belong in the physical workplace, then I totally agree and see your point completely :-)
Your case is reinforced by clang's recent rise as a worthy alternative to gcc.
Yes, but VR needs something that's better than Google Cardboard, but more open than GearVR. I expect Android VR to become the "lowest common denominator VR experience".
This is probably a dumb question, but what does the hardware of such a massive machine look like? Is it just a single server box with a single motherboard? Are there server motherboards out there that support 2 TB of RAM, or is this some kind of distributed RAM?
Can we get the link changed to https://home.google.com/? Non-HTTPS just 404s.
Please email hn@ycombinator.com.
I really wonder how this pairs with Google's push for Progressive Web Apps. The two seem to be in direct opposition.
Why do all these "experts" always try to predict the future? I would much prefer if they actually gave some background about the present and the past so we can make better decisions.
This already happens. WADS, EADS, etc.
I really don't want to come off as super negative here ... but am I the only one who finds this one UGLY?

Compare to some of the other devices from previous years, and competitors:

https://www.google.ca/search?q=google+nexus+sphere&tbm=isch

https://www.google.ca/search?q=amazon+echo&tbm=isch

https://www.google.ca/search?q=amazon+echo+short&tbm=isch

It sort-of looks like a cheap air freshener. Maybe it'd grow on me, but I kinda think it is ugly.

Someone should manufacture a range of "tchotchke skins"

https://www.google.ca/search?q=tchotchke&tbm=isch so it could sit on your counter and look like something that you'd be happy to mix in with the rest of your decor. (angels, golden lucky-cats, porcelain hands, googly-eyed-wooden-owls https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/78/b5/80/78b580270...)

Anything to stop that thing from lookling like a plug in air freshener really.
Do you know what's worse than an infant being hooked up to a morphine drip?

A spontaneously aborted fetus because the stress of withdrawal during pregnancy was too much for the mother's body.

If an addict becomes pregnant and seeks treatment (which during pregnancy would likely consist of continued dosage of an opioid in the form of methadone) then there is the risk that she will give birth to an opioid dependent infant (or not - it's only something on the order of 1/3rd of infants born to mothers who use opioids who suffer from NAS).

But yes...treat the parent as subhuman. Rip the infant away from its mother. To punish the mother because she's bad.

Nevermind the fact that there has been a strong link demonstrated by neonatal bonding between mother and infant and lower rates of NAS as well as overall better outcomes for the child.
> I don't really understand this motivation. Google profiting from your actions doesn't necessarily mean that you're losing something.

It has nothing to do with "I should also profit from my data" but rather, I want to contribute less to Google's dominance.

Google has become very powerful--it's in the top 10 of lobby spending in the US.

Their power is tied to their profits, and limiting my contribution of one, should limit my contribution to the other.
Visa wants to see how you'd use its APIs ($50k pilot)
Our startup KITE is powering Visa's 2nd annual The Everywhere Initiative, and one of this year's business challenges is around startups using Visa APIs, hence this post to the HN community.

Winning idea gets up to $50k for a pilot that could lead to a global partnership (same amount & opportunity for the other challenges - Global Events and Cardless). You'll find more details and can apply here: http://vi.sa/1rskMKG

Deadline is May 26. Happy to answer any questions. Thanks in advance for your consideration!
The right thing is probably an electromyograph that detects excess muscle activity in the neck.

Neck pain is something that is mostly caused by posture and the answer is not to stretch or strengthen the neck muscles at all (they are already working too hard, too stretched, etc.) They need to stop working.
Presumably you have also seen the IOS keyboard with google (and ads) built right in.

The pattern is pretty clear, one way to drive traffic and ad revenue for the company is to create ways that get you to use Google before you use the platform's chosen search provider, if you do it in Apps you get the "bonus" that you both get the traffic and you don't have to provide the platform provider for sending search traffic your way.

The way this plays out is going to pretty interesting. It gets really interesting if Apple deploys their own web search capability and starts freezing out apps that have a search component and don't use theirs (like the Microsoft phone ecosystem was rumored to do).

Really challenging environment for Google to be in. I'll be expecting lots of similar sorts of things from them in the future.
Harder to build -> harder to densify -> homeowners reap appreciation.

If you don't need work done, this is a great way to sit back and let your property values skyrocket (as long as you can pay property taxes, but I hear that's kinda sorta not a problem in California).
Reminds me of all those court cases of 'stolen' logos, using a small and fixed set of geometric primitives, the probability of coincidences is just high that way. Of course, some people believe all art is immitation and nothing ever gets created from first principles.
Watch an AI Learn How to Play Super Mario World
The Candles of Barry Lyndon
How exactly do they handle storm damage?

A 60 year old pine tree is a danger to multiple houses (depending on density). Better hope it stays healthy.
This isn't something we support out of the box yet, but I'll definitely discuss this with the team. Thanks for the feedback!
> New jit compiler, 75% faster app install speed, 50% reduction in speed.

Wait, you mean they made apps install 75% faster but otherwise run 50% slower? That doesn't make much sense...
I have plans to remove this. But it will take some time.
Another Amazon Echo. Not at all interested.

I wish there was a text box:

Please never send me the latest updates about Google Home.
You're probably not too far off (although nowhere else in Amazon's ecosystem have I seen very good recommendations, and most of their advertising elsewhere seems to be just showing me stuff I browsed on Amazon earlier and didn't buy), but if the ad inventory isn't there to really incentivize that sort of targeting, that's the same thing, isn't it?
NSQ is a cool piece of software. I've used it to distribute work. One thing that I miss from other queue systems are that it doesn't guarantee dedupe message delivery.

Is it still the case?
So, Still no offline persistence for JS. What a huge disappointment.
Why wasn't this done under Nest?
Recommended reading: "Assholes, A Theory".[1] A serious study of the rewards and effects of being an asshole.

(I gave a copy of this to a friend who's an attorney for a major Silicon Valley law firm, and she found it explained some of the people she had to deal with.)

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Assholes-Theory-Aaron-James/dp/0804171...
>if i is between 0 and 11 before retrieving the ith element of a 10-element list.

Shouldn't i be between 0 and 9?
That's what the Database Security Rules [1] are for. If you want to learn more, check out my I/O talk tomorrow called "The key to Firebase security" [2].

[1] http://firebase.google.com/docs/database/security
[2] https://events.google.com/io2016/schedule?sid=af641ff7-0bef-...
The 2nd US Secretary of Homeland Security and co-author of the Patriot Act is the founder of a lobbying front for the the manufacturers of the body scanners.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Chertoff
Interestingly, tthe amphetamines were originally developed as anti-asthma and decongestants, and this continued for many decades. Some of the early amphetamine abuse epidemics centered around inhalers; you'd crack them open to take the amphetamine powder, or soak them, or otherwise process them after countermeasures were taken. (See _On Speed: The Many Lives of Amphetamine_.) At least one testing lab says salbutamol will cause false positives: http://www.phamatech.com/pdf/01-24-07%20Cross-Reactivity.pdf
I assume you just pulled a comically-large lever in your office, because it just worked!

Thanks, and congrats.
Yeah I was listening to hip hop mix tapes in the mid-1980s...I was hoping to see real old school.
One Dollar Board: interview with creator of the US$1 Arduino compatible board
Guess you are only thinking in the perspective of a power user who enjoys high quality games on the VR. But, Google wants to make this a utility by having one connected to your phone and let them enjoy the Youtube VR content, small games, netflix etc. I don't think carrying a small headset with me a problem and hope it evolve into a foldable/compact stuff.
Where is the business value here?

No shit the FOMC talks about the kind of stuff that is in this report.

Two sigma accuracy just doesn't cut it. Real world business processes aim for six, ordinary manual processes can reach three easily.

Just because academic ML people have a party when they get one sigma accuracy doesn't mean two sigma is good enough for commercial applications -- it just means you are always a bridesmaid and never a bride.
Another key point (in my view) is that these APIs are textual whereas BIOS / protocols / binary interfaces are purely functional. Copyright is meant to cover "forms of expression". Text can have "expressive" creativity, but binary interfaces can have only functional creativity, which is expressly the realm of patents.

Of course, the only reason code is copyright-protected is because it's text, and text can have expressivity and code can be creative. But that does not mean code has creative expression. Most code does not express anything, not in the way other artworks do -- most code exists only to solve specific problems and hence is functional. Sure we can use whatever names we want for the methods and variables but you'll notice they all tend to be very descriptive of what they do. Not much creativity in the text of the code itself (at least for "good" code). All the creativity in software is in the technical ideas, approaches, algorithms and abstractions we use to solve those problems, but unfortunately only patents protect that, if at all.

The real problem here is the use of copyright to protect code. It's a legal hack, enacted because there was nothing better around to use. And to make the hack uglier, binaries enjoy copyright protection because they are "derivative works" from copyright-eligible program code. We need something more appropriate, lying between patents and copyright to protect software.
I don't get it, our models have been accounting for latency for the last 30 years at least. We routinely use three level of caches and higly out of order memory accesses for trying to make latency manageable.

Now it is possible that our best coherency protocols simply aren't effective at high latencies, but that doesn't mean we can't come up with something workable in the future. Is there any no-go theorem in the field?
> I mean bezos vs sundar

What about Bezos vs Schmidt?
Seems insecure..
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The disconnect between traditional IT management and its clients ("the business") is, IMO, a huge source problems and costs for the organization.

I've been riding that horse for a long time: https://genehughson.wordpress.com/tag/fixing-it/
We were part of the Early Access Program for the expanded Firebase and used it to build our music collaboration app Kwaver. With the new features, they did a nice job of collecting a bunch of related mobile products (Analytics, Push Notifications, Storage, Authentication, Database, Deep Linking, etc) into a pretty cohesive platform, and it's saved us a bunch of time.

With Firebase Analytics we can track events, segment audiences (according to user properties; active, dormant, inactive) and take action according to the user segment. We are able to send push notifications (also using Firebase) to dormant male users who play the piano for example. Another cool feature is Remote Config, which gives you the option to ship a number of separate experiences and track the user interaction. Like A/B Testing but way more flexible.

For us, the best product is the existing database product they had, as it really improves our user experience to ditch the 'pull to refresh' button' and have our app respond to changes live.

We have been waiting for Google to provide developers a more complete mobile solution for a while now, and they’ve done it superbly through Firebase!

Feedback; It would be really cool if Firebase could implement UTM codes to be able to track user acquisition and be able to automate actions according to User Properties.

Shameless plug: if you're a musician (or a music fan), we'd really appreciate if you could download our music collaboration app, try it out and give us feedback. It’s available for free on the app store; The following link will re-direct you there later today. http://kwaver.com
Was anyone able to glean from the video if the controllers/HMD provided positional tracking, or just orientation tracking? Either way, a more open mobile VR platform sounds great (though a little disappointed in that Daydream feels like an "us-too" announcement). I was hoping they would announce solving positional tracking on a mobile device. Nothing all that earth shattering here at the moment. :/
Unfortunately, this kills my primary use case for heroku which is small personal projects. I have a dozen or so of them on the free tier right now. Heroku was great because I could throw them up for free and not really have to worry about hosting.

Now, howerver, I have to weigh any given project against my overall budget of hours. If I put up my weekend project, do I need to kill that project from a few months ago? Do I want to start paying for hosting for a site that will probably never go anywhere?

I suppose I'll just go back to hosting on DO/EC2/Etc. A single small instance of any major provider could handle the traffic for all my projects put together. It's slightly more work, although there are some cool projects like Dokku that make it less so. Heroku's main selling point for me was convenience and simplicy, and it's been progressively losing that over the last year or so.
Google supercharges machine learning tasks with TPU custom chip
They put a pretty good show on Android Studio and Firebase.
Group Seeks to Pave Way for Nationwide Adoption of Driverless Cars
>>Rasmus Lerdorf (Creator of PHP)

>> I’m not a real programmer. I throw together things until it works then I move on. The real programmers will say “Yeah it works but you’re leaking memory everywhere. Perhaps we should fix that.” I’ll just restart Apache every 10 requests.

At least now I understand why PHP is such a miserable language. It's not incompetence, just apathy.
Recommend looking at Rethinkdb :) They just announced Horizon too.
I don't really want to quibble over whether or not the 9-11 hijackers were sane. Maybe they were, maybe they weren't. The point is that no sane person can fail to realize that you can do a 9-11 style attack exactly once. It will never work again as long as people remember what happened that day, TSA or no TSA.
> Sure it does. People aren't living in tents (generally speaking). Population can't grow unless the housing supply does.

Population can grow even if the housing supply does not, if the existing population becomes concentrated into fewer dwellings.

Bay Area residents who used to have their own apartments or houses are now renting rooms and sharing apartments or houses with others.

The people moving here are generally wealthier or higher paid than the existing residents, and will not be deterred from moving here until the number of high-paying job openings decreases.

Regarding living in tents, there has been a noticeable increase in the homeless population in recent years. It's not clear if they were displaced from housing or came here from somewhere else, but there is no denying the increase.
[citation needed]

Last time I checked, the only connection Google had with PRISM was their fiber optics being hacked by NSA. I don't recall any proof Google was actively cooperating with them.