skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I must be missing something; all of this feels very uncoordinated.

The primary entry point into Android Instant Apps are normal URLs which get shared over Email, SMS, or Instant Messaging, but for those URLs to ever get shared, they must already exist and work on the current web. So you still have to put in the effort of building a full Web experience.

...and Android can automatically enhance progressive web apps to provide experiences that are capable of being indistinguishable from native. Plus, it will work just fine everywhere else. Because it's the Web.

And you pretty much have to get close to that point anyway, since Instant Apps are useless without preexisting, functioning links for the app to hijack... why would you then duplicate the effort to have a version written in Java? Access to payment APIs is compelling for the B&H demo, but for Buzzfeed?

...and wouldn't you already be doing your damnedest to provide a similar experience for iOS or desktop users, on the Web itself?
I never really understood Coin.

It is basically all the negatives of having one electronic payment method (If you lose it, you have no money unless you have cash on hand or can somehow get money out of the bank... if your bank even has a physical branch nearby) with all the negatives of having multiple credit cards (It is a lot more attractive to thieves / skimmers)

With a whole bunch of new negatives like, if you lose your Coin, that means someone has access to all your cards and even if you don't lose it, you are essentially handing people your entire wallet when you use it. Skimmers probably love this thing. Oh, and not to mention: You can't use it online. So all those pesky credit cards; yeah, make sure to keep those around because you still need them.

It just didn't make any sense to me. Pay $100 for no real upsides and a lot of really terrifying downsides.
The Processes of Life: An Introduction to Molecular Biology (MIT Press) Lawerence E. Hunter

This book great for people who want more than a pop-science book but less than a textbook.

http://amzn.com/0262013053
I'm still not seeing how registering for pre-check benefits this guy.
Yes. Singal and RedPhone require google apps on android device or using browser that is spying on you all the time, eg. downloads binary blob that turns on microphones, even when feature is disabled. NSA needs only metadata to send drone strikes on a village and Singal provides only metadata to Google services.
Rust dev baiting in a C++ thread...
I think the real issue is that they're administering a test with an apparently high false positive rate and then using that as a basis for depriving both child and mother of interaction and making an already difficult process much worse. I find the hospital's conduct reprehensible if they knew or should have known that a false positive was eminently possible, if not likely based on some OTC drug the mother may have taken. I myself would file a lawsuit for negligence and intentional infliction of emotional distress, which would likely make it past a motion to dismiss and result in a settlement. And yes, I work on high stakes lawsuits for a living.
Sure I understand, but my point is that they should be ahead of the game on basically everything else. Echo was released over a year ago so surely Google has been working on far-field tech since _at least_ then.

To still be aiming for end of year seems like some serious missteps and catch-up going on.
those documents are half a decade old. im sure amazon is as well now.
Yes, a single ecosystem would help adoption, but it would also significantly reduce innovation. It's so early in the lifecycle that we're better off emphasizing innovation.

Anybody buying now has to recognize that anything they're buying will be obsolete in a year or two. Once you realize that, you realize it doesn't matter too much if you pick the 'wrong' one. You'll be replacing your headset with v2 or v3 of the winner anyways.
Does anyone have links to the talk or the graphs?
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I don't think I'd characterize his blog post that way. The last sentence captures what I got from reading it: "It may not be as beautiful as federation, but at this point it seems that it will have to do."

Also, as djb points out: https://twitter.com/hashbreaker/status/732912508089032706
This boilerplate will have to be rewritten again in a few weeks when react-hot-loader 3 comes out and makes the hmre babel plugin obsolete
> That's just an ignorant response.

It's an educated and sourced one, as opposed to your flippant comment.

> There are plenty of board-certified midwives

Not only are there plenty of midwives which are not that, how meaningful board accreditations are depends strongly on the board, CNMs are true professionals[0], CPMs are pointless layabouts.

> birthing centers

The comment I was replying to was about homebirth.

Birthing scenters are usually professionally staffed, attendant to hospitals, carrying necessary emergency materials and will immediately transfer to their linked hospital in case of complications. And good birth centers will plain refuse at-risk patients and direct them to hospitals.

> Importantly, a great deal of risk can be ascertained before labor

Which is already included in the statistics above.

[0] and even with CNMs homebirth mortality is significantly higher than hospital birth.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11723858 and marked it off-topic.
>The scenario that worries me is that years from now, Google and Amazon may be coerced into turning over what I said yesterday

Amazon has said that they're only recording what happens after the hotword is triggered. That's why they can't do custom hotwords - listening for "hey alexa" is built right into the hardware and it doesn't do anything until it hears that. Unless they're flat-out lying, they can't provide any information about what you said yesterday to anybody because they don't have that data.
So to use it I have to get up and go to wherever it is plugged in? Why wouldn't I just use my phone which is always on me?
That "excessive overhead of choice" is what allows capitalism to function properly.
Only in so far as a traditional company, like Apple, might be a cult.
How could they? It is traffic going back and forth to the Netflix servers over https. The ISP can't tell WHAT is in that traffic, only where it is going. Thus, if they throttle Netflix, they throttle fast.com.
Uh, the tests weren't "known to be spurious" at the time.
>They wanted to ask her questions. Lawyer could be present. She didn't want to.

Did you not read the article?

>Lovecruft told CNNMoney she had been willing to meet the FBI with her attorney present. But Rosenfeld was told by agents that they would circumvent him and approach Lovecruft directly.
Uber wants denizens of this fancy SF living complex to use Uber, transit more
I agree with the larger sentiment, but don't be so quick, it's a game of chance even when shit happens.

One of my daughters too didn't breathe when she was born. The midwives grew very very ernest very very quickly, and the little child was rushed off to hospital in an ambulance. All went fine. I was a little shaky that first night.
I wouldn't be surprised if Google is looking to build (or done so already) a highly dense and parallel analog computer with limited precision ADC/DACs. I mean that's simplifying things quite a bit, but it would probably map pretty well to the Tensorflow application.
I have an RPI running Sphinx. It's OK, not great. The biggest issue I have is that you have to pre-define commands.
The woman in the article needed a C-section because of emergency as well.

Just doesn't seem worth the risk to me.
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Obviously, full memory safety is not ensured if you ever move over to raw pointers.

But if you're copying shared_ptrs around, the reference counting almost always ensures that the memory is valid. The idea is to rarely use references or raw-pointers unless you know you have to.
It's strange because I've always witnessed BMW drivers being the biggest assholes on the road, and by a huge indisputable margin. I've always chalked it up to them having the type of personality to want to show off (so, German luxury car), but they weren't actual big shots enough to afford a Mercedes.
I have had to deal with CPS in behalf of family members more than once and I have come to the conclusion that there is no group more terrifying than one that was supposed to protect children and has turned into something entirely different.
I've heard the same statistic. I wonder where it comes from.

Also, the overall chance of pregnancy with unprotected sex involving a man and a woman of childbearing age is 1 in 4. So, would you engage in such sex knowing that there was a 1 in 40 chance it would lead directly to your own death? (Or your partners? Bees be Krayton!)

I wonder if that's where some of our cognitive biases around risk come from? It benefits our genes that we're cavalier about certain kinds of risk.
You know, I feel the opposite.

When I was younger, I wanted the same thing. To be kind of like Tony Stark in Iron Man, with all the convenience and power that future technology seems to promise.

But now that I'm old and boring, I'm perfectly happy with my non-futuristic life. We still have an iPhone 3G which we use as an iPod around the house (which we plug into our speakers the old fashioned way, by plugging one end of a headset cord into the iPhone and the other into the speaker's AUX jack), and we have our laptop computer which we use for facebook and reddit.

And that's the most "futuristic" technology I care to have. I don't plan to buy a VR headset. I take notes with a pen and paper when I'm not at my computer. We still write our grocery lists down that way and mark them off in the store with a pen.

It may be boring and un-futuristic, but it gets the job done just fine, and I really don't have any complaints. I'm probably in a tiny minority on HN though.
This is not really "Another Day, Another Hack" per the title. As the article states, these are data from the LinkedIn breach of 2012. The response from LinkedIn is here:

https://blog.linkedin.com/2016/05/18/protecting-our-members
Top Rabbi confirms identity of the Messiah
If you're still trying to figure it out, this is what "The DAO" is, in programming code. No more, no less. Money in, wonderful things out. :) It will seem like magic to most.

https://etherscan.io/address/0xbb9bc244d798123fde783fcc1c72d...
"But one thing is certain: the numbers and varietiesof bots are exploding. The bot diaspora has begun."
Is there anything you'd like to use the IP address for beyond throttling?
This person had no reasonable reason to flee to Germany. Beyond paranoia and maybe a persecution complex. The FBI isn't going to "disappear" someone they subpoena.
Oops, thanks.

Cross-reactivity studies don't seem to be published often but searching for albuterol + 'cross reactivity' shows some drug tests are cross reactive with albuterol and some aren't.
Huge feature set, thanks.

Any news on deeper/more complex queries (chaining, or something like joins without rewriting our data in multiple places)

Or faster queries (server side I've seen some very slow .once calls taking hundreds of ms)?

Also I'd love some tips on how to better scale listener/trigger functions. I have many listeners (server side) and am migrating them to explicit client endpoint point functions to handle it horizontally (more api workers).
> "I'm not worried about Amazon mining my personal information to start doing better ad targeting."

I get that better ad targeting may not seem like much of an issue at first thought, and may even seem like a benefit, but I'd suggest that the perceived benefits may start to unravel if you consider it from a different point of view.

Companies that are involved in delivering targeted advertising are basing what ads to show you on the profile they're building up about you and what they perceive as similar people to you. The idea being to give you more of what they think you'll like. What this leads to is a filter bubble. When you're in a filter bubble (and I'd argue most of us are), the culture you're exposed to is increasingly limited by your past likes and dislikes, increasingly tailored based on market demographics, far less likely to broaden your range of experience.

We shouldn't welcome the filter bubble, we should act to break out of it, and resisting the mechanisms behind targeted ads is one such way of doing so.
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The Signal protocol is for all intents asymptote the state of the art in the design of a secure messaging protocol. There doesn't seem to be any meaningful improvements to the design without changing the requirements.

New requirements might be

- Post Quantum forward secrecy

- Groups messaging with transcript verification

- Security weakness in x25519 or AES-CBC-HMAC or SHA256 primitives.

If you don't have any new requirements, crypto protocol developer time is a scarce resource. Why reinvent the state of the art?
MongoDB's In-Memory storage engine would be pretty sweet to try out with the X1 instance :)
I've tried it. Didn't like it, reverted back.
Does anyone have numbers on memory bandwidth and latency?

The x1 cost per GB is about 2/3 that of r3 instances, but you get 4x as many memory channels if spec the same amount of memory via r3 instances so the cost per memory channel is more than twice as high for x1 as r3. DRAM is valuable precisely because of its speed, but the speed itself is not cost-effective with the x1. As such, the x1 is really for the applications that can't scale with distributed memory. (Nothing new here, but this point is often overlooked.)

Similarly, you get a lot more SSDs with several r3 instances, so the aggregate disk bandwidth is also more cost-effective with r3.
Well, I'm glad I kept my FB profile photo too small for automated recognition (not enough detail), and disabled automatic tagging (I have to approve others' tags of me before they apply).

Flipside? I'm waiting until waitstaff start refusing to seat Goldman Sachs assh-les. I can dream, can't I? (Yes, this second paragraph is somewhat rhetorical, but also with a legitimate point about the possibilities of such technology.)
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Was it a great episode? I felt like they added a lot of silly soundclips and used a lot of bad analogies. And per usual, you can almost literally hear the gears in Robert Krulwich's head grinding.
The drawback is that now VM manager is at mercy of what Hypervisor.framework provides. For example, Veertu does not support redirection of USB devices into VM because the framework does not support it. That makes it rather useless for my usage and I stick with VirtualBox for now.

Of cause, this is not an issue for Docker as the framework covers all its needs.
I thought that too but I successfully raised our limit after they made it a soft limit, so give it a shot!
And several more contenders as well that don't get talked about as much.

One major problem is that none of them are open, and none of them have pushed to create standards; they all want to unilaterally define themselves as the standard. I think we'll get a more unified ecosystem when someone starts looking to collaborate on standards rather than exclusivity. Perhaps Google will do that with Daydream, or perhaps someone else will.
Nest and Tony Fadell have a deeply product oriented philosophy - they clearly define what their product do and then go iterate till they get to the most aesthetically appealing, polished thing and release. Fadell brought that way of thinking with him from Apple, and from everything that's been published about his management style he's been able to sustain that attitude at Alphabet.

Home or any other AI/machine learning driven product needs to take a much more iterative approach. With those products you start by defining your platform goals and release that. Your product gets better through invisible improvements in your backend, not in the physical thing you sell to people. It makes sense that this product belong to the same team that built Chromecast.
Google, thanks for shutting down Freebase.com on 2 May 2016. By taking it offline, and using it (Knowledge Graph) for Google Home you effectively locked out all competitors. WikiData is a far cry and a fraction of the size of what was Freebase.

Freebase was a large collaborative knowledge base consisting of data composed mainly by its community members. It was an online collection of structured data harvested from many sources, including individual, user-submitted wiki contributions. Freebase aimed to create a global resource that allowed people (and machines) to access common information more effectively.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freebase

Google is using a lot of data collaborative collected data from closed Freebase and Wikipedia without giving it back.
* add $thing to the grocery list

* order more $thing

* schedule an appointment with (doctor|vet|dentist)

* start the dishwasher at 4 P.M.

* turn on the oven when I get home

etc. Just because you can't think of how it will benefit you doesn't mean it's bullshit.
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The cost of those machines are tiny compared to the SAP HANA licenses you'll need for your "Enterprise-Scale SAP Workloads" mentioned in the blog.
The oldest code that I wrote that I suspect is still in use is RoboGen, an editor for robots.txt files, that I wrote in Visual C++ 6 with MFC. I remember working on it while not paying enough attention in my high school physics class. We were allowed to have laptops in class at the time. You can see it at https://rietta.com/robogen/.

The oldest code that I distributed - it was written by a friend of mine - is Whois Web Professional which was a whois client written in VB6. I know it's still in use because I have to maintain the version file on my website and even keep my server running Apache because its update checking was written by a 12 year old in WinSock and doesn't handle the protocol very well. If I change anything, the VB6 program crashes on startup and I get emails about it. You can see it at https://rietta.com/whoisweb/.
I don't see much a fit for payment features in fitbit products. They should probability focus on iterating the hardware and experience regarding the "sport watch" idea. Their strength is also the simplicity of the product.

EDIT: interesting examples provided in the replies, thanks. To buy things while running without having anything with you is a good thing, also if this technology allows to, like, register in a gym or alike and enter without any other token.
> According to Healthcare Triage, home births have an overall lower risk of complications. It's only in the cases of things going spectacularly wrong that being in the hospital helps.

"Complications" is a broad categories and includes many things that may not lead to adverse outcomes if managed appropriately, and which hospitals may be more prepared to manage.

According to this study of Oregon births in the NEJM, planned out-of-hospital births studied have substantially higher rates of infant death and neonatal seizures than planned in-hospital births (and these results are, per the study, in line with other studies of out-of-hospital vs. in-hospital births.)

http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMsa1501738
No insight into what Amazon uses, but we've got HP DL980s (g7s, so they're OLD) with 4TB of RAM) and just started using Oracle x5-8 x86 boxes with 6TB of RAM 8 sockets. I believe 144 cores/288 threads.
Indeed. I kind of realized this more recently when I saw some new chips promote that Tensorflow works on them. This is really what it was all about - getting chips everywhere to support Google's version of AI, which means that in the long term they can get those chips themselves in volume - chips that are optimized for their AI out of the box.
I would like to disagree with that thought because neither are good options, but regrettably agree.

Would kind of prefer to see more bubbles because then at least you increase the odds of more companies/people to deliver innovation (in the true and non-cliché meaning of the word).
It's hypocritical because not all people who talk about privacy, pay for a good service!
Except the numbers that aren't bogus seem to suggest that birthing at home can be much more dangerous for mothers and children. I'm not saying that there's no room for improvement at the hospital, there always will be, but when we don't use fake numbers your point doesn't hold water. I'll refer to another user's comment in this article's thread for the citation.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11724332
The article doesn't mention this, but I'm curious if this chip accelerates training or nn forward computation?
And to prevent a run-away script from suddenly spooling up thirty of them. Besides issues with their hardware capacity, they're generally pretty good about refunding mistakes like that, so they're eating the cost...
Probably the XOR dataset.
Yes, it was yesterday on HN but I cannot seem to find it.
This is just not true -- there are tons of highly informative, relevant kinds of Bayesian evidence that are excluded. For example, remaining silent, illegally-obtained evidence, hearsay, opinion of experts (in many cases).
Will Magic Leap get its own conference?
Can you really not think of anything better? Let's put it like this, if you had billions of dollars to create something new, what would you want to create?
Sometimes I think that the HN crowd is less prone to very non-scientific biases than the general public, or a place where I'm less likely to see people throwing around things that sound like facts that are mostly psuedo-science. Then threads like this happen.
To me it seems like Open Whisper Systems are accepting a lot of concessions in order to have Signal included into products. The trust I once had for moxie is quickly dissipating.

* Privacy is only provided in Allo in a secondary mode. Not by default.

* Federation of the Signal protocol has been rejected for non-technical reasons.

Also, on a personal note, the desktop client requiring chrome is pretty awful.
You mean this? https://developers.google.com/vr/unity/
Freedom has always been fragile and eagerly bartered away for perceptions of safety and prosperity.
> because you didn't learn to weld or repair manufacturing machinery.

Why would you, and how would you do it better, once robots can cheaply and perfectly do almost all the current blue collar jobs?
The mother and child possibly had to stay longer in hospital while extra checks were being done. In the US that has some financial implication.
This AI platform beats Apple and Amazon head-to-head
#2 seems like it could be tested.

#3 seems like a decent model, but is the model actually consistent with how "all organic life" functions? And what is the distinction between Organize&Analyze and Analyze&Decide and Decide&Execute?
Economics are the reason high end housing gets built. The fixed costs of development are similar regardless of affordability. Assuming uniform margins gross profits are higher at the high end as are internal rates of return [due to constant fixed costs].

Going further, there's more money to be made on larger loans and hence incentives for any developer financing purchases. Easier to sell on mortgages backed by higher quality assets.

Affordable housing development is a specialty. It requires relationships with politicians willing to forgo maximizing the property tax base, specialized lenders, and a unique deal flow pipeline. E.g. think about the attractiveness of the 30 year affordability requirements in the legislation to the commercial market.

Anyway, the effects of legislative changes will be felt ten to twenty years out...many of the shovel ready projects funded by the stimulus are still under construction.