skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>We are pleased to announce that Mycroft Core 0.6 Alpha is available for download today. Mycroft Core is a lightweight, portable piece of software written in Python. You can run it on anything from a Raspberry Pi to a gaming rig. Mycroft Core includes Adapt, Mimic, OpenSTT, and multiple open APIs to create an experience that allows users to interact with their technology using the most natural form of human communication – speech.

I whole paragraph in, and I -- a programmer, who has worked with text-to-speech APIs AND Python for years-- still don't know what the duck this is.

Imagine the average programmer or layman.

"Mycroft Core is a lightweight, portable piece of software written in Python."

Wrong. I don't care what language it's written in, nor whether it's lightweight or portable, until I know what it is.

Better: "Mycroft Core is an XXX. It is portable and lightweight piece of software written in Python"
10 reasons start blog
A9 is not related to altavista. Altavista was bought by overture, who was later bought by yahoo. A9 is completely unrelated... developed some of amazon's features -- inside the book; product search; q&a.
Why Is There Such a Huge Shortage of Developers in the VR Industry?
Or they starved to death. With their kids. Or they started selling themselves or their children to get by.

If you go back a little further than 100 years (in the U.S. anyway). They were also relatively likely to get together a bunch of folks with guns and weapons and murder men, women, and children and take their land to make their own.

I'm not sure the hutzpa of 100 and 200 years ago is exactly what we should aspire to.
Leaving out:

* We see the waste and we don't want to encourage it.

* DC has a huge per-student budget, but the student performance is horrible. Clearly, budget isn't going to do the job. Perhaps there is an inverse relationship.
That may be how it worked before, but that isn't how it works now.

It is actually incredibly, mindbogglingly, difficult for someone who can't even get a job where they live -now- to relocate to someplace completely unknown with zero resources and no job even lined up.

In the old days if you were willing to do something lower end there was always /some/ job you could get. That isn't the case today, and the jobs that used to pay enough for someone to get by don't. (I blame rampant inflation in cost and deflation in wages over time)
Sorry - I meant "getting accepted". How long was it between applying, and getting accepted?
Oculus breaks promise, uses DRM to kill app that let you switch VR systems
>They worked hard, and got out of where they were to go to places with more opportunity.

So where are you suggesting that they go?
Pendulum Instruction Set Architecture – A Reversible ISA
How about all the tech companies just take their income and property taxes elsewhere entirely?
Techies: Make bank in government at CFPB
I'm not aware of any popular scripting language that supports utilizing multiple processors without starting new processes. Is this a thing? I don't do a lot of parallel stuff with Python but multiprocessing has met my needs.
For context, 87% of US children attend public schools. (10% attend private schools and 3% are homeschooled.)

In any discussion about poverty rates, the exact definition of "in poverty" is important. This article is defining anyone who qualifies for free or reduced-price school lunches as "being in poverty". The income threshold for free or reduced-price school lunches [0] is defined as 185% of the official federal poverty line. For a three-person household, the federal poverty line is $20,160/yr, so the threshold for reduced-price meals is $37,296/yr.

[0] https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2016-03-23/pdf/2016-06463.p...
I'm not sure I understand why designers should know CS. Most of them spend their time in Photoshop/Sketch, not programming. Unless I misunderstand.

Also from your other comment you would like Ajax to not be used in websites?
"invisible" is entirely dependent on your text editor
Updating Local Objects with Server Objects
That and "aggressive" for praising car designs. Great idea, we really could use some more aggression on the roads ...
I observed this myself when i've got worse surge pricing rate than my friend who was trying to get Uber in the same time.

I wonder if such practices are legal - because for example Uber can measure somehow wealthiness level of somebody to make additional surge prices just for him.

We heard stories when buying plane ticket from mac will be much more costly then buying them from linux machine.

Someday Uber will need a another disruption to prevent abuse of power and that will make on-demand transportation a commodity.
Here's one I made earlier:

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nip2 – Spreadsheet-like image editing with lazy rendering
Small typo in the following paragraph on the front page:
"There are plenty of amazing front end framworks -> frameworks already, such as, Bootstrap and Foundation. If you're looking for something feature rich with loads of components, those are both great choices."
Maybe that is why I see yellow all the time on the edges.
Levi's Commuter X Jacquard by Google Trucker Jacket
I doubt people learn to do that. Even in college with everyone riding longboards, only a small number of people were proficient at pushing, and most did not know how to footbrake.
We moved most of the comments from this thread to the creator's Show HN, which was posted a few days ago and didn't get much attention: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11717561.

We'll roll back the clock on that post so it gets to the same place on the front page that this one was.
Where is public education funding getting "slashed" (at least in the K-12 level this article is talking about). Inflation-adjusted spending per pupil in the U.S. is up moderately since the 1990's, with a small dip in the last several years due to the recession: http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2013/05/21/public-spending-pe.... We spend 25% more on education per student now than we did when I was a kid in the early 1990's.
You really can't ban things like that unless there is an agreement that it is, in General, a good idea. Keep in mind that Nordic countries have a low and very homogenous population so the solutions that work there won't always work in the US
I'm not saying it's a bad thing, but don't you think 27 years is ridiculous? You'll both have died from old age before you get appointed something.

Also, where do you live now then? In a non rent controlled apartment?
First thing that comes to mind: no helmet, why?
For me, the key is being honest as to when any hobbies or time / attention commitments become distractions i.e. detours. While it is possible a detour can become the shortcut, the likelihood of a "lightbulb moment" happen by refreshing X social media feed is less fertile than dedicated focus on Y.. be it a problem, project, etc.
I think part of the reason why memory / attention mechanisms haven't caught on quite yet is that they add a layer of complexity to reasoning about what DNNs can/cannot do, which is already challenging for researchers. It takes awhile to prove that these are scalable enough for a "killer app".

Also, industry applications of deep learning are at least 1-2 years behind academia, so I don't expect to see any use of differentiable memory mechanisms in production anytime soon.

Anyway, the workshop reading list looks amazing. Thanks for this!
I was accepted into the beta a little over a month after I applied.
tbh, I've been keeping tabs on alternatives to Pure because Yahoo is circling the drain. It's nice to have it there just in case.
Being in one of the darker red states on the map in the article, it's pretty frustrating. It's a well known problem how the state ranks in the nation and the governor cuts education budgets under the pretense of reform? I only see the problem compounding.

For some friends who are new teachers, they have less and less incentive to stay longer. They're under supported and know they can get much higher pay and support in other states.
Which cities in california are most dangerous?
Liked, subscribed, +1'd, followed, and cride evry tim.
> in theory you can use DASH with existing HLS segments (MPEG-2 .ts files), but no-one supports it (or likely ever will)

Twitch.tv does exactly that for their non-Flash streaming (MPEG2 .ts files delivered in pieces).
Link to Project Ara Developer Edition page: https://atap.google.com/ara/

r/android seems unimpressed because many of the initially removable components are no longer removable (at least, as indicated by marketing videos) [1]. However, it seems silly to me to get upset about this because this is a Developer Edition and Google clearly had to limit the scope of the project in order to ship. Though, one wonders if there are physical limits causing the CPU, GPU, battery, and display to be non-removable. We'll see.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/4k9bwr/project_ara...
Non-wired link:
http://venturebeat.com/2016/05/20/google-working-on-consumer...

Not going to disable my adblocker just to read a story. I consider it to be an anti-malware tool at this point.
>driving a car will result in your hurtling through the windshield

Specious.

>I am getting quite tired of repeating myself

You're missing my point. You're claiming that fracking can be done safely, but I'm not arguing that in the way that you think. What I'm saying is that there are frequently externalities brought about by the manner in which the fracking industry actually operates vs how you claim they could operate. Doubtless it's cheaper for them. Maybe the problem is that fracking can be done safely, but it's just not cost-desirable or even profitable to do so. I don't know. But you can't go jumping on people's heads for acknowledging the obvious: fracking can be dangerous.

>fracking is not inherently dangerous or error-prone.

What do you mean by "inherently"? If stringent regulations are required to constrain frackers from causing massive amounts of damage, then it seems to me that it is inherently dangerous by definition. This is where you seem to be mixing things up, as with your nuclear example. None of these things are "inherently safe". They are inherently dangerous if not conducted in a carefully prescribed manner, which is why the stringent regulation you advocate is required. So, you're really saying two different things here and trying to figure out why you're not getting your point across.

Anyway, therein lies the danger that people fear: even with the required regulation, mistakes can have and have had dire consequences. It's not unreasonable for people to have concerns.

So, It just comes off as a little disingenuous to exclaim that everyone has it wrong on fracking when the current reality is that they don't.
If I'm reading this correctly they're considering kids "in poverty" if they qualify for a free lunch. That's not the official definition of poverty by a long shot - not only can you qualify for a free lunch even if your family isn't official below the poverty line, but in some districts every child qualifies for a free lunch because they don't want the poor kids to feel singled out.

http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2016/05/when-al...
Isn't this a bit of a tautology? It isn't a good idea because there isn't agreement that it is a good idea?
I don't know if it's a law here, but every account statement I've ever gotten on revolving credit has always included a statement below the minimum to the effect of: "If you only pay the minimum payment, it will take you 10 years, eight months to fully pay off this debt."

When you see that beside a $2000 or $3000 balance, it paints a pretty clear picture of what paying the minimum is doing for you. I think the only way it could be improved is by adding in how much interest you'll pay over that time period.
This problem is directly connected to the true nature of the "wage gap". Women make less than men, not because they're paid less for the same work, but as a result of restricted career choices shaped by having and raising children. Where the wage gap shrinks, so does fertility. Wealthy, educated women are not going to have many kids, because it doesn't pay.

We need to recognize that raising children is vital but largely unpaid work and that this is unfair to women. Raising the next generation is a section of our economy that's not even recognized as productive labor even though everything else depends on it.

A stable society needs educated people to have kids. If you want middle-class women to have children you'd better start paying them for it like any other career.
Assuming this article isn't satire (I'm still not sure!), their position seems to be that they wanted the tech companies to stay in a designated "research park" area, removed from downtown.

So they're not trying to forbid it, just keep (their vision of) "small service businesses" from being displaced downtown, where they want those services to locate. (There's probably an inflammatory analogy in there about slaves, plantations, and mansions that a rabblerouser wants to make...)
Exactly, come in London. After 12 years and a salary above average I'm still nowhere near being able to live comfortably in the best areas. Hell, with a kid, I can barely afford the shit area where the school do not suck.

There is no magical solution to housing shortage. A waiting list is shit system, but I'm sure the Guinness Book would have no difficulty finding depressing record for rental price in other major cities.
I had a mildly negative reaction to this article which seems different from most people's reactions here

Yelp example: I get that yelp is limiting my options but what did I do before yelp? Pretty much I just went to the 4 or 5 places I already knew instead of seeing if there was something new nearby. I tried hundreds of new places because of recommendations from Google Maps or Yelp that I likely would not have tried otherwise. Certainly not before I had this thing in my pocket that let me research at the moment of desire instead of having the plan ahead

Similarly I look for meetups and have been to way more activities that I would have gone to in the past.

On the slot machine idea: Before smartphones and apps I'd flip through a magazines and hope there'd be something interesting. Before digital TV back when channel surfing tuned into each channel immediately instead of taking 3-5 seconds I'd flip through channels hoping to discover an interesting program. When I buy a book I'm gambling it's going to catch me. When I go to a new restaurant I'm gambling it's going to be delicious (it often isn't)

I guess I don't really see the difference between that and many of the things listed on that list.

I also do uninstall apps. I've un-followed 90% of my connections to keep it my feed actually relevant to me.

Sure I do spend too much time on (in my own opinion) on the net for various things. hopefully I can keep it under control.

It got more scary for me toward the end where he seemed to be calling for government regulation. A digital "bill of rights". An FDA for Tech. No doubt he's assuming he'll be on the committees to decide what's best for everyone else.
The kernel system call interface has a fixed set of error codes to work with. EPERM is the most applicable one available.
> Why should people who've lived their entire life in a region be forced out because somebody with more money comes along

Because they are renting and that's what renting means?
Some defaults are pretty damn ugly though, just missing or not consistent between browsers. For example the input type date or range to only name 2. The browsers errors on html5 validation are equally ugly imo.
Great trading, what'd you base those decisions on?
I found Bret Victor's "What can a technologist do about climate change" (http://worrydream.com/ClimateChange/) a refreshingly action-oriented exploration of your question ("but what?"). Its interactivity and richness of presentation are icing on the cake.

Incidentally, one can imagine a parallel message of informed empowerment to address the dark sides of OP's UI "mind hijacks."
Odd coincidence that A9 is in Altavista's old building...
> Even before ENIAC was finished, engineers realized that there was a much better centralized way to control such a complex machine, using coded instructions stored in memory and "executed" in sequence.

> For a discussion of how it was different from earlier ideas, see Tom Haigh’s recent article "Where Code Comes From".

This article links to "Where Code Comes From" at CACM, but beyond an excerpt it is members-only. Here's the full article on the author's web site (PDF):

http://www.tomandmaria.com/Tom/Writing/WhereCodeComesFromCAC...
Pagination rethinking
> I'm not sure I understand why designers should know CS. Most of them spend their time in Photoshop/Sketch, not programming. Unless I misunderstand.

They also write a lot of JS and CSS that face the web. I didn't want to say that they should learn/know CS, but just some basics of computing, if they're going to write code that runs on others' machines (JS).

> Also from your other comment you would like Ajax to not be used in websites?

I would like the normal behaviour of browser widgets (links, buttons, forms) let alone. New widgets are OK with me, e.g. an interactive map, a carousel, a dropdown menu. You get to define the behaviour of these tools, but a button, a link etc. has an associated meaning with them.
It depends on whether the numbers provided are the actual data points themselves, or the deviation from median (the second is what the article provided).
> I'm not aware of any popular scripting language that supports utilizing multiple processors without starting new processes.

Really, this is more about implementations than languages; a fairly-popular Ruby implementation (JRuby) supports native threading (and has no GIL); IIRC the main Perl 6 implementation also.

Elixir is up and coming in popularity (don't know if you consider it "scripting", which is a relatively fuzzy-bounded category), and definitely supports utilizing multiple processors without starting new OS processes (it uses "processes" as that term is used in the Erlang ecosystem, which are a different thing, basically M:N green threads.)
Consumer Finance Protection Bureau willing to pay nearly $250K/year for new CIO. VP Biden makes $230,700.
Yes. I disagree with paying to find out the ballpark, and compare it to paying to figure out the number of lines of code without writing them. It's not a good way to do business. I don't think the author's idea is viable and I agree with the other poster who said that the author was probably losing business as a result.
Why doesn't Twitch work in Firefox without Flash?
Have you seen this?

https://github.com/wting/hackernews
I believe this notion, below a certain threshold, has been proven utterly false.
Most of my friends (ages 20-ish on up to 50s), when told to write a resume, build a spreadsheet, make a drawing, etc. will reach for Word, Excel, Illustrator/Photoshop, whatever. Local computing, while fading in importance, is still the dominant mode for most people for some tasks.

Other tasks have completely made the transition for many people. Listening to music; everybody under 30 streams it, and looks at me funny when I talk about "owning" an album. Email and messaging; no such thing as local email clients anymore, except for us stubborn old-timers, or people who have to use Outlook for work. Nobody I know, other than nerds with their own websites and servers, has an email address that isn't @gmail.com (a few @hotmail.com and maybe one or two Yahoos). I work on mail admin tools, and a webmail client and still use GMail exclusively for my personal mail. Photos are on their way off the local machine, but I think it's about 50/50 among my friends, as to whether they keep local copies or not.

Anyway, I've already said how I think it's different. It sounds like you disagree with me, though I'm not sure what the basis of your disagreement is; it seems to be that a regular laptop can do everything online like a Chromebook. Which I haven't said anything about; I'm speaking of who I think will be immediately comfortable with the Chromebook way of doing things, and I think it's people who've not been trained to think of a computer as a permanent storage device.
Ask HN: How would you attempt a career revival?
Suppose you have fallen into the trap of gaining 1 year of experience repeated 10 times. Much of your value to your current company derives from knowing internal systems well but not much else. Your core cs skills are extremely rusty and you've programmed in 1 language your entire career. But you've now become bored and miserable and want to explore new opportunities. So you enlist the help of a recruiter who is able to get you some interviews. The feedback is bleak: 1) Not good enough with algorithm problems 2) Doesn't have the deep knowledge commensurate with 10 years of experience. 3) Salary too high

How would you go about refreshing your skills and ultimately convincing someone to hire you?
How Thinking Like an App Designer Can Boost Conversions
You forgot the part where the wealthy family no longer want to pay for the public education because they don't see a benefit from it any more and force further funding cuts.
Thank you for saying this! I'm just a struggling armchair intellectual, but it seems to me like every half year Taleb comes up with something to loudly hand-wring about, something that nobody else gives a damn about because they're not in the attention whoring business.
44+ minutes at morning rush now. Buying a million dollar property then watching your commute times increase 10% every few years is another joy of living in the area.
It really seems that you either have extremely high rents which almost nobody can pay. Or low rents but no housing.

I think neither is a good housing policy.
> There is no magical solution to housing shortage.

Building more houses works pretty well, and has the benefit that no magic wands are required.
The Rich can carve cities, the Park Cities in Dallas are a classic example, the upper middle class cannot, so any fiat effecting private schooling will screw the upper middle class and middle class, and I am not sure it gives any leg up for poor kids. One reason to move to burbs is exactly this, you are still part of public schooling but the ISD is oh so better because of various factors including stable households(relatively speaking).

edit: other factor that lot of people are not discussing is immigration - most immigrants are young and by American standards poor (not necessarily by their native country standards - but American standards), so this infuses into the student body, who are children of immigrants who are starting rebuilding life in a new country.