skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That MIGHT be true, but it's not apparent from their statement. Just because it costs N to build a product on technology X and costs M to migrate an existing product to technology Y does not mean that it would have cost N + M to implement the product on technology Y in the first place.
well the first thing you need to check in a pain killer is "is your product solving the most crucial problem" like something which can not be ignored, can not be avoided or cannot be dealt with later, if those three things are covered,then your product upto some degree is a pain killer.

second you need to check weither the product you are offering is the best solution to address the problem in the most possible sense, and with a good ROI, or is the product just fixing one problem while leaving the rest, your are not expected to build a swiss army knife of sort but even then, a product which is not usefull in the sense of usability is just a vitamin.

to summarize in short, any product which is handling a crisis situation and providing a good ROI, without being much of a hassle is a pain killer.

~there are other aspect as well but i believe these two are the most important one's among all.
It's an interesting question. Of course there are advantages to having these huge proprietary data volume, so I'm thinking along the lines of, how can we make useful software with the benefits we want, without relying on this kind of proprietary collection? Maybe there are alternate paths that even have their own technical or social or aesthetic benefits? Well, it's a question for the next decades, I think...
"Investment Bank" are words that should absolutely, when used in tandem, inspire feelings of incredulous contempt.
Sounds like an acquihire + hardware tech. Coin has a decent NFC lower power transmitter and I'd guess some smart embedded developers.

I'm also guess getting NFC transmitter though FCA inspection/compliance isn't cheap nor easy.
I'm not GP, but UHC = universal health care, presumably single payer health care
Method to passively detect motion with nothing but an Arduino and two wires
Training and inference are not the same thing.
If it's secret, it's not a real court. Even the founding fathers of the USA would disagree and they're kinda still fresh history-wise in terms of justice systems around the world.
Well, I'm sure that part of it is that Oracle committed to Harmony.
till google disables it ...
I've tried everything you have listed there. The high is the same for me and it all tastes like shit (literally, it is bacteria feces after all). If you enjoy it by all means, but pressuring someone else into it is silly. It's a drug like everything else.
Sure, but that's the deal. I'll buy the latest nVidia 1080 card as soon as I can but renting these custom chips per minute would be a way better option for me.
Of course horizontal gene transfer exists, but that's also a discrete event that we can track. And a horizontal gene transfer event is one directional-- We wouldn't have a world where all archaea and all bacteria share fundamental genes, we'd have a world where some archaea have some freak bacteria genes.

We're not talking about two species, we're talking about two domains.
Immortality, self-driving cars, internet through balloons, google fiber, modular smartphones (ara), flying wind turbines, smart contact lenses, disease detecting pills.

You're confusing them with Apple ;)
Horizontal gene transfer is underestimated by biologists, but I am not sure in what sense LUCA is confused. I would not call the root of the tree of life a disgusting mess, just fuzzy.
Midwives don't sell themselves on the increases risks, they talk about the (largely) cosmetic benefits of home birth.

Look up earlier in the thread for my comment, but anecdotally, almost every parent that I have told my story to has changed their opinion on home birth vs. hospital birth.
Ok a bit strong, but the self fulfilling dystopia really threw me off.
It took Apple, a multi-hundred-billion dollar corp., all its legal force to fight against being forced by FBI to crack the phone. A person being forced to do similar stuff (like backdooring Tor for example) by way of NSL wouldn't probably be able even to involve his/her lawyer.
I think you're missing a unit. 10-12 thousand? million?
No disrespect intended towards the GNU project. I'm aware that they precede Linux and am grateful for all the work they've done. I was specifically recalling having read Linus' original announcement[0]:

I've currently ported bash(1.08) and gcc(1.40), and things seem to work. This implies that I'll get something practical within a few months, and I'd like to know what features most people would want. Any suggestions are welcome, but I won't promise I'll implement them :-)

And took that to mean that the key rewrites were being done by Linus himself, and possibly other volunteers working on getting the "userland" apps ported. I suppose on cursory examination, it should be obvious that the mention of 'gcc' implies that the GNU compiler had already been written.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Linux#The_creation_...
This is super awesome! It's a good speedtest that works on mobile, which I had not been able to find.

Funny thing is I found this in the source.

<!-- TODO: add code to remove this script for prod build -->
<!--<script>
document.write('<script src="http://' + (location.host || 'localhost').split(':')[0] + ':8081/livereload.js?snipver=1"></' + 'script>')
</script>-->

Not a big deal, but kind of funny.
>If we believe the first form of life occurred on the sea floor, why shouldn't we believe that new forms of life are spontaneously occurring on the sea floor all the time?

I'd be very surprised if such spontaneous life could compete against life with millions of years of evolution behind it. As to eukaryotes, them arising seems to be a much more unlikely proposition so I'd be surprised if it happened more than once given that it took an order of magnitude more time to happen once the conditions were right.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_evolutionary_h...
That's not how markets work.
If an HFT firm saw your order resting, means that nobody wanted to trade with you at that price in the first place.

If you cross the market then there is nothing the HTF firm can do. When it becomes aware of your order it will be too late. Of course the order you want to trade with might have disappeared while your order is in flight, but that would not be casually related to you sending the order to the market.
You have the great advantage of all of the information. That clear advantage will greatly benefit you.

EDIT: by "all the information" I mean the sum total of all your health information. Even if you are at an HMO (e.g., Kaiser), not everything is written in your record and not every Dr. will read your entire record.

Also, only you can order a 2nd opinion, based on the facts you know. A Dr. will never order a 2nd opinion. I have literally never heard of this, but if it does happen, it is exceedingly rare.
A: "These guys make a great bourbon old fashioned."

B: "Really? I don't like bourbon."
Matrix uses an encryption protocol of their own devising that employs the double ratchet, which is one component of Signal Protocol. But it's not Signal Protocol, it's their own thing.
This only works because the HFT firm is confident they can immediately sell at that higher price. That is, they have more, or quicker information than the market is aware of. This results in a more accurate price, because if the stock was prices at that originally the market would have shown it, and the HFT would have had nothing to do.

You can try to classify that as the HFT taking money the seller would have made if they had noticed and repriced quick enough, or taking money from the buyer if they noticed and bought at the original price, but I think both argument could easily be extrapolated to the rest of the stock market and regular users (this plays out quickly, on fairly public info, but it's the same process that goes into someone making a decision on what price to buy at and what to sell at, just sped up quite a bit).
So you were forcibly separated from your laptop, yet are thankful that you only had to pay for overnight shipping to get it back?

Stockholm syndrome indeed.
OTOH - the technician doesn't need to be at your house if you have a good connection to the PoP. Field technicians may not be trained in troubleshooting network beyond the PoP and likely don't have the right access to tools to make the changes that need to be made.
Also, Tesla's valuation is still sky-high in comparison to comparable companies (automotive or tech), so converting some of their shares into cash now makes a lot of sense.
Vanilla? Boring?

I read "Vanilla" and "Boring" as "Horray, I don't have to spend time rewriting all this complicated code I already have!"

If I'm just dipping my toes into (say) Caffe or Theano, I don't have to rewrite it from scratch.

That is a huge advantage---not a disadvantage!---of AWS over google.
I think I have picked this up from an earlier thread discussing huge servers: http://yourdatafitsinram.com/

One of the links on the top points to a server with 96 DIMM slots, supporting up to 6 TB of memory in total.
The drug test is relevant to providing care to the mother. In the case of a delivery, I think it is reasonable to consider the results of the test while providing care for the child.

It's obviously a thorny question, but what should a facility that treats children do when it notices a conflict between the interests of the child and the interests of the parent? It's clearly going to happen.
It looks like they got clever, so what they are doing is getting 1000 links from each subreddit, indexing the comments and linking it back to the user. So yeah, they did figure out how to got back more than 1000 comments for some users, but they'll still be limited by 1000 links per reddit per sort. So for a very active reddit, you can't get really old comments.
Tech Talk: Fighting the Good Fight at the Hot Gates of Microservices(transcript)
I've been thinking for a while that with the end of silicon shrinkages, we may start seeing the final cycles of the wheel, with a final stop at mostly specialized hardware for greater power efficiency.
> I have a debit card, I don't need to carry anything else.

If your card hasn't been stolen (via a hacked merchant) and your account wiped out yet, consider yourself lucky. You might want to carry a credit card as your primary instead. When (and I do mean when) it is stolen, at least it's only credit instead of your bank account balance that is impacted (and which can takes weeks or more to get back).
That's how it's pitched, but I'm not sure if I buy it. AIM had over 50% US marketshare and had a ton of bots almost 10 years ago, and tech-y messaging services have dominated Asia for years.
What are the advantages of analog computing for this application?
beta.speedtest.net no longer requires flash
Next step, Are people actually using and paying for your product?

Also, if your not getting any resistance about price you may need to look at charging more.
I'd be interested to know more technical details. I wonder if they're using 8-bit multipliers, how many MACs running in parallel, power consumption, etc.
Another point is that they will be able to provide much higher computing capabilities at a much lower price point that any competitors. I really like the direction that the company is taking.
> When they then exit the scan they clog up the line by standing right there trying to put everything back on or away

Um, excuse me? If I've just been made to disassemble my person and be less secure, you can damn well bet I am going to take my time reassembling myself and making sure I have everything back in its rightful place before proceeding. I'd recommend everybody do the same, even if that means holding your ground if the goons start trying to assault you into moving forward.
"Nonpareil" seems suitably uncommon.
an interesting side effect is that, until you open the box, the phone is in a superposition of both ringing and not ringing at the same time.
Oh sweet, I just noticed that under the new pricing, the free plan includes a custom domain and ssl cert. This was literally the only reason I updated one of my legacy hobby apps to the old Spark ($5 per month for the uninitiated).
> Sure it probably happens all the time, but there are 300 million Americans. The chances that it happens to any given person are nil.

But it sure sucks for the people it does happen to, and your odds sure shoot right up when FBI agents start to threaten you.
A thing one should clearly understand, if the FBI is looking to "talk" to someone in this manner, it is because they ALREADY have the warrant in the 'oven' and ready to go. They are simply attempting to chat to SIMPLIFY their work in hopes the subject of the warrant voluntarily or inadvertently incriminate oneself.
I think you just wrote Friday's xkcd
Thank you for your contribution to this thread.
https://deepstream.io is an open source server that's basically a self hosted firebase. It supports data-sync, pub/sub and rpcs and can scale horizontally to millions of connections.
> stayed and faced the music

What "faced the music"? That idiom implies she did something wrong. She's fearful of gagged coersion, not necessarily of being charged with a crime.

All she has to do is stop contributing to the Tor Project if she is coerced, but apparently she is more interested in moving to a country that has values more closely aligned with the Tor Project. Yes, the German government could potentially use similar coercive means, the CIA could do it while she is in Germany, or the US judicial system could extradite her (but AFAIK that would require charges being brought).
That isn't quite a reply. It's a second hand account of Moxie denying that he asked for money. This story seems very troubling. The Wire guys made very specific claims (where did they get the >$2M figure from ... and why would they simply invent such a figure). If their implementation is in Rust then it cannot be the same as OWS' code.

It would be good if OWS could publicly clarify that reimplementing the Signal Protocol/Axoltl does not trigger any copyright claims by OWS even if doing so involved reading the GPLd version.
None of the controlled objects in VR responded to any of the positional movement. You can see that the wand / pole is just rotating around a center-point attached to the user.

Positional tracking is a really challenging problem with a lot of limitations. If they were using computer vision to track the controller it would need to be held within the device's FOV and have identifiable elements such as a marker or LEDs. There are other approaches, but nothing I've seen that would work well on an HMD.

I've been working with AR/VR for the better part of a decade, and controller tracking's come up several times. I can tell from my own work that the device they're showing off is IMU only. It's too bad, something equivalent to the Vive controllers for mobile VR would be fantastic.

And at the end of the day - you're right. If it was spatially tracked then they definitely would have mentioned it.
Sega v. Accolade was over the actual string "SEGA".
>eople bought iPods instead of audiophile stereos

iPods fit in pockets. VR headsets don't. Did you even bother to look at the Google reference design? Its a huge headset and controller. Those aren't convenient mobile things. They're not remotely portable like a phone or ipod is.
A project for developing and maintaining universal, cross-project protocols
Ideas never fail. Just the execution of them. Which heavily depends on a wide array of factors.
Not expressly mentioned anywhere that I've seen: the Free plan now includes custom domains + SSL cert. Under the previous firebase.com, that was $5 a month.

Sounds good to me!
> FISA is a real court

No, its not. FISA (the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act) is a real law.

FISA creates two courts, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court and the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Review.
You're claiming those ideas as original?
> It would be unethical if the people who published the research note even knew anything about the offering.

Whether something is unethical is not evidence for or against something happening, it just informs your opinion on whether it happened. Given Goldman's past behavior, I wouldn't let it inform my opinion too much in the direction that they worked in an ethical manner.
I don't get why encryption and incognito (not leaving a trace on the device) go together. I should be able to have one without the other.
Oh that's good. I feel safe knowing that investment bankers are highly scrupulous and would never mention anything in the halls or in the lunchroom that might compromise their integrity.
Can we quit with the ridiculous speculation? If they wanted to do that they'd have done it, instead of spending weeks trying to contact her they could've just went to her in person.
PIMPL pattern is great for reducing compilation time and creating stable user-facing APIs but it has a runtime cost. The "implementation" part is usually heap allocated and calling its methods have extra overhead of crossing the pointer to implementation barrier.
"tag" is apparently not the correct word. I was downvoted for using the same term to point out the same thing for another article recently. No idea what the "correct" word should be though.
Who actually audits that? Is there proof?

Better firewall would be not even to exist within the same company.
where? sorry I cannot find this info, can you share your source/article?
Improved voice recognition maybe, also bots could be a benefit for handicapped HCI/accessibility. But mostly I think the popularity is just self fueled hype
At this point though Java is largely GPLv2 with the Classpath exception.

This case increases the risk of using platforms, libraries, and services in general.
I'm more questioning whether your home driveway is in any way useful as a base cost estimate.

I don't know either. But if it turns out that paving your driveway to the same standard would cost $100,000 the scaling looks much better.

It is generally good to be wary of things that are superficially similar being used as proxies for one another...
The OP never claimed that Dublin is highly dense but that it's one of the few places in the Bay Area building "highly dense" projects, which makes sense given the situation they describe of a local population complaining about increasing density.
I'm having problems using letsencrypt with domains with multiple dns A-records (round robin). What would be the standard way to issue certificates for a cluster?
Perhaps it's the growing user base of meta-bots/assistant agents/bots-as-a-platform-for-other-bots, whatever you want to call them, and a growing ability to have them coordinate and manage smaller "expert"/"skill" bots? Referring here to Cortana, Alexa, Siri, and Google Now/Ok Google, et al.

That sort of counts as a shiny new technology or at least a consumer shift, given the increasing ubiquity of these assistant agents today (every smartphone now has at least one installed by default and so does Windows 10 by default; the Echo has been a surprising sales hit for Amazon).
Nobody was threatened here.
"Insider Trading House" was a little too on-the-nose.
After one billion hours on HGST is the most reliable hard disk
Where do you get the idea that phones are only useful when a person is not at home? I use my phone for lots of things when I'm in bed or sitting out on my balcony, despite having a nice computer downstairs.
Coin 2.0 does not support EMV. They used slippery marketingspeak to dance around the subject (saying NFC enables "EMV payment standards") but the bottom line is your chip card would only work with Coin by reverting to traditional static magnetic stripe data.
That's a little pedantic. I would say that the idea includes the plan for execution, and in many cases perfect execution cannot resuscitate an idea that is too early.
no it's just that google has so many shiny things that come and go, if you build a business with shiny new things, you will propably fail if you do that over and over again, just because its shiny and new.
Can this replay messages like Kafka?
As an expat business owner, I carry six cards with me at all times: debit and credit for Spain personal, US personal, and US business. When you add in both local and home country IDs, office access card, and cash, having something that reduces the number of cards I have to put in my wallet sounds very attractive.
The simplest way would be to cheat and prioritize traffic for a few minutes and then throttle. That way, any speed test would come out fine but not actual shows.
I don't think you completely get how some of us feel about chrome.

Chrome is a good, modern browser but this constant pushing by google (telling me to download a "better browser" when I'm visiting their site in Firefox) as well as every lazy web developer annoys me (seriously, at least consider if you should test basic functionality in all major browsers even if you aren't directly paid for it) .
Why do people keep spouting this nonsense that Tesla is losing money on EVERY car? They make money on every car otherwise they wouldn't be selling any cars. The lose money due to their high R&D.
I'd just like to draw attention to this comment:

> The author seems new to webdesign.

The author of the post is Terry Tao, one of the greatest living mathematicians and recipient of the Fields medal.

I imagine that he may indeed be somewhat new to web design, however I doubt that learning it is high on his list of priorities.

EDIT: No snark intended here, by the way. I thought the context of who Tao is was important.
Oh you know me, just another random Glass-Steagall fan.
Newswires have been around for 100 years...

Edit: to be clear, my point was that "twitter-like" news alerts are not new; not that Twitter is some kind of successor to newswires.
Yes. 2 customers are paying, and we're never lost a paying customer. 2 others have signed service level agreements but aren't in production yet.

We get light pushback on price, but we've never had to give ground.
I've had only good experiences with firebase. They added an HTTP api, web hosting, multiple security rule preprocessors (pain point), and got faster and cheaper. Yeah only good things.
Link to Fussell quote

http://www.magnificentbastard.com/posts/paul-fussell-memoria...
For a different perspective: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/01/opinion/sunday/why-is-amer...
I work at a bank, we have the minimum of 5 9's rule for every app and transactional entity. Basically, it needs to be up 99.999% of the time.

Currently, we have a 99.9998% uptime for the main transactional cluster/mainframe/computer/etc. and that still means 20 minutes of down time in the last 20 years.

That doesn't sound like a lot, but that's like ~$1 million of transactions lost for every minute it is down.
http://www.valuewalk.com/2016/05/goldman-tesla-secondary/