skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was thinking about ad impressions as well; but God forbid websites are ever able to use my camera for eye tracking by bypassing the webcam permissions (or through the removal of in the future? I expect anything when it comes to content monetisation).
Robotics and AI have improved significantly and will continue to improve into the future. How much have humans improved over the last 30 years? People simply cannot compete, and this is a trend that cannot be reversed, or shouldn't be reversed.

Just as mass industrialization necessitated huge social change in response. The emergence of a middle class, the growth of cities, organized labor and work hours, etc.

As automation and AI continue to replace jobs and more and more people find it difficult to compete at any price. I predict you will see similar societal changes in response. I don't know what those will be, and they probably will not come easy. We could see a utopian future similar to Star Trek, or a dystopian one instead.

We live in interesting times. :)
>I think it's a rare person who doesn't have a single digital account without anything sensitive in it.

I'd wager they don't exist for anyone who uses the internet or social media on a daily basis. Most people don't realize how sensitive the information they post online actually is.

Many people don't consider the names of their family members to be "sensitive information" (hell, they happily tag them on Facebook!) There's a good portion of people who don't consider the town or state they live in and where they work to be sensitive information. There's a large portion of people who post unpopular opinions and don't treat their opinions as plausibly sensitive information.

None of this is sensitive information until they have an internet hate mob knocking at their employer's door trying to make them lose their job - or when their family members are harassed or get told things that said individual would have preferred to keep secret from them. Because in their heads they've convinced themselves they have never done or said anything wrong to anyone and what they said in the past will never come to bite them in the ass in the future because popular opinions will never change and they're always on the "right"/"winning" side.
If you want a true ELI5 on deep dreams, I like the top comment in this archived reddit thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/3cbelv/e...

He also links to the deepdream subreddit, which has much more information and resources:

https://www.reddit.com/r/deepdream
Recipe to help someone else:

1. Provide challenges near the edge of ability.
2. Ask tons of questions to help the child achieve the goal.
3. Congratulate.
4. Ask tons of critical questions.
5. Go to 1.
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I was curious, so I looked up what the press has reported on each company's most recent valuation (and therefore, these numbers could be off, because they don't factor in reported write downs / markups from individual investors [i.e. Fidelity], financing rounds not reported by the press, huge gains/downturns in revenue over the last year, etc.)

1.) The top 6 companies mentioned are now valued at $146.5b.

2.) The 9 midstage YC companies mentioned in the article are valued at $15.43b.
This isn't Realm related, but Lucene has a spatial extension. And Lucene has been ported to Android. So maybe you could use that.
I was about to ask why Bluetooth would come into play, but then realized that I replied to the wrong comment (the intent was to reply to the one about the "super cute cashier"). Though giving some thought, your way would work, too. Assuming that one can get the MAC address on a mobile device (never tried on either of the major platforms).
Ah, I get you, but as I say, it kind of feels like he's working on the easiest part of the problem. Not that it's particularly easy by any normal measure.
I listened to (repeats) of the radio show, then read the books, then watched the TV show. They all shone in their own, different ways. I can't bring myself to watch the movie because I know I won't be able to overcome the sentimentality of the originals.
What does "code" mean to a person who doesn't know data structures or algorithms? This man says he's a "software developer". What does that mean if all you know is JS and Angular? Web Apps?

I'm a web developer WITHOUT a CS degree, but with many years of JS etc. experience... what can I do to transition into the role of "software developer", which undoubtedly comes with a higher salary??
I have seen similarly weird results with flaky USB flash keys. A lot of those don't do any kind of hardware error detection.

The behavior described here can be explained by block device cache: You write a file to a device and the device doesn't report an error, but doesn't actually write the data due to some hardware error. When you read the file back, the content will come from cache in your RAM, not the device itself. Unmounting and mounting the device flushes the cache. When you then read the file again, it will come from the device and have the original content again.
This startup's v1 failed. They used our design sprint to recover
Another comment in this thread claims to have done the same analysis and come to the opposite conclusion. But neither of you shared your math. Could you show the analysis that led to your conclusion, so we can compare it to the other one?
What made you think anyone unhappy about the system would open up to you?
We've released an update to our Android Library to add social networks. So besides Cloud Storage, you can now integrate eg Facebook, Twitter, Slack, GitHub and many more via a unified API. Any feedback?
This guy is really great. He has a YouTube channel called Healthcare Triage, which I enjoy.

On it, he talks about commonly asked health questions (is coffee good for you?), and backs up everything he says with data and research (he tries to use meta-analyses when he can).
Hydrogen has problems too. There is a chapter in the Ben Rich book "Skunk Works" on trying to build a hydrogen powered plane and the supporting infrastructure before they did the A12 & SR-71.
> The answer is not 'no'. The answer is, 'It will take some investment'.

That's also the answer to 'can we move production under the sea?'
I'm sorry to hear that. But there are ways to improve one's looks and to at least fake being sociable enough.
In addition, James Simons was a mathematician prior to his work in the finance industry, hence his partiality toward funding a magazine that often writes about pure mathematics.
If you don't need much of a workforce the main thing is to avoid taxes and regulation. These "guaranteed income" people want to steal your profits. The robot factories will be in Somalia or similar. Pay off the local lords at a reasonable rate, rather than deal with the EU or American federal government.

Energy costs also become increasingly relevant as labor costs drop to a smaller fraction. Why not set up in iceland where geothermal electricity is free.
Will this decrease the cost of the chips and pass along the savings to the consumers?
When you wrote WP at first I thought Windows Phone, which made me happy - someone thinking about it.

on-topic:
$20/$30 is a tad too much for my taste. And even then I rather doing everything myself, so I know 100% how everything is done.
A bit drastic don't you think? Wouldn't it be better that whatever the person was making and now the robot makes becomes cheaper for everyone?
The science supporting this is super thin, isn't it?

Pretty sure it's still as simple as "eat enough calories. Eat enough vitamins and minerals to not get sick from a deficiency. Have enough fiber to keep the digestive system humming. Drink enough water."
My current job has absolutely zero labor as part of my responsibilities. I do not move things, I do not shape things, I do not package, weld, bolt, grow, or manufacture.

What hard work?

They need me to think. Clearly, intensely, brilliantly at times.

Someone who 'shows up and does the work" will never be able to do what I do, because "showing up and doing the work" is the antithesis of thinking clearly and intensely. It's what unthinking people do.

Here on Hacker News, I suspect most are more like me, and less like those who "show up and do the work". However, there are some vestigial counter-productive work ethics from the early 20th century that haven't completely withered. Or maybe it's just a metaphor that we can't let go of, one that feels important even though whatever it once described is now gone.
"Consumers tell us that they are struggling to remember what is now an average of over 100 passwords in Europe."

This is what needs to be fixed; there is no reason for most people to remember more than two passwords for personal use, one or two more for work in some cases, and maybe a few more in special circumstances. Decades of encouraging (or legislating in some cases[1]) users to do the wrong thing makes people hate passwords.

[1] Apparently in the US medical patient portals are required to (attempt to) prevent you from storing your password in your web browser.
I wonder if times are changing again. It just seems that meeting vendors or walking down the street for resistor strips is no longer necessary.

Rationale: you now just need to bulk order the raw materials / components and "feed the machine".

We aren't there yet, but jeez we seem to be racing there quick?
TLDR: Venture capitalist claims the tech sector is not in a bubble.
I keep waiting for the adults, and they never show up.
Biometric authentication is not meant to be an increase in security. It is meant to be, and is, an increase in convenience. Since convenience and security are fundamentally opposed, this allows security to be increased in other ways while keeping the present balance for users.
What a poor article, it doesn't go into any specifics or give reasons for why you should eat this or avoid that. The whole article really boils down to 'don't eat bad food, eat good food.'

On another note, I've recently given up sugar as an experiment after reading all the bad things about it (surprised it didn't even come up in the article!), and have had quite dramatic results. The first 3 weeks were a shock to the system and I had major withdrawal symptoms; cravings, sweating, migraines, insomnia even shaking. Then in the 4th week I was back to normal again and seeing lots of benefits. The biggest surprise for me was sleep; I used to need ~10 hours a night, but now wake up refreshed after 7! My skin on my face is also less red, acne on my back has cleared up 50%, excma on my arms nearly fully gone, and of course my waistline has reduced.

This was just from eliminating all the obvious processed sugars, ie. chocolate, cakes, desserts, honey, biscuits etc. Also only drinking water and eating oatmeal for breakfast. These days I don't have any cravings for them; the knowledge of all the long term problems they caused completely kills it for me.
StreamScope: Continuous Reliable Distributed Processing of Big Data Streams [pdf]
To follow up and mix in a few other sentiments noted elsewhere with my own experience, I'll partially agree.

For me, it's a bit like Monty Python's Holy Grail. I saw it alone as a young teenager and I just didn't really get what the fuss was about. But there were a few things that struck me as brilliant, like the glimpse of the guards just about to throw a cocunut attached to a pigeon just to settle once and for all the movie immersion-breaking issue of how that coconut got there (we don't see if it works). On further watchings the Holy Grail seems more brilliant than I expected, and I've gotten more out of it, but it's... well, hype is hype.

The HGttG style is also a bit unique, often inverting and twisting ideas in a way uncommonly stated. Needlessly so, often. And it just absolutely revels in it.

A word of caution about the series: it starts off with a silly apocalypse and really eventually gets dark. Like you, I may also be placed in the Total Perspective Vortex for this, but I really recommend slogging it through to the sixth book. It's only half Adams or so, but it's certainly a necessary palate clenser after the fifth book and I think it revives the spirit of the first. (By the way, I am absolutely certain both the Question and Answer show up in context with each other, but you've really got to get to the end of Mostly Harmless, and that story is anything but.)

Keep in mind too that nothing about the Hitchhiker's Guide is canonical. It always changes when adapted to TV or radio or movie, and it has a damn hard time being consistent with itself. Which is also part of the fun.
> a remote control that uses your Mi smartphone as its viewfinder

This seems like a strange limitation, unless of course this is just trying to push Xiaomi's other products, which wouldn't be so surprising considering this article is essentially an ad.

I hope the prices remain the same upon release, as I've been wanting to get one of these for a while.

Does anybody know of inexpensive drones that can be used just for hacking? Ideally, I'd like something with a remote API, a bit like the AR Parrot Drone 2, though it doesn't need to be as good (or expensive) as this would just be for experimenting.
For me, too. I'm on Firefox for Mac in Germany, and it gives me openstreetmap.de and openstreetmap.org as the first two results, then the OSM wiki.
Adams was a real word-smith. A lot of the humor in his writing comes from the sound of the words and phrases he chooses. This is one of the reason's why the 2005 hollywood movie isn't that funny. After Adams' death, it was put through a rewrite by someone who had no appreciation of Adams' use of language.

If you're reading for content and not stopping to appreciate the words, you might be missing the point. Reading Adams is a bit like reading poetry in this respect. Consider slowing down or, if this doesn't work, listening to the radio play. HHGTTG was originally written for radio after all. You might also consider watching the BBC TV series from the 80's. Unlike the movie, it's actually pretty funny.

Hopefully, you'll come to appreciate that Douglas Adams was a man who really knew where his towel was.
Cars 2 was pretty bad. I don't really follow reviews though so I'm pretty suprised when you say that Cars, Brave, and Monsters U did badly (I haven't seen the Good Dinosaur yet), as I loved all of them.
This begs the question: as human productivity is increasingly usurped by machines, what will happen to the human manufacturing population? Will we finally figure out a way to distribute wealth in a agreeable way (through, for example, basic minimum income) or will we go back to the a feudal model of living?

Interestingly, someone has to purchase the goods that these systems create. Thus, giving people the funds to do so, regardless of where they come from, seems like a necessity.
I can't speak about experiences with Ruby/Rails since I don't use that stack but I can give you advice about both Scala and Elixir.

I used to be a Java programmer and fell in love with Scala and functional programming. Scala helped me do things that I couldn't do so easily in Java in a more explicit way. However, I found doing web development with Scala to be more cumbersome than helpful but was still a great learning experience for FP in general.

Since late 2015, I've been all-in on Elixir. Elixir does everything I wanted to Scala, specifically pattern matching everywhere and how powerful it is. Since Elixir uses BEAM, it's incredibly lightweight but can scale without any configuration. The community around Elixir is fantastic and helpful and everyone is growing together.

Brian Cardarella (well known in the Elixir community) gave a conference talk at Rails Conf about switching from Rails to Phoenix (Elixir's goto for web) and that may be a good start to empower you to make a decision: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxhTQdcieQE.

A great resource for learning Elixir if you choose that route is Programming Elixir 1.2 by Dave Thomas. It's a great book for beginners and can help with you understand Elixir semantics and functional programming.
"Of course, I'm not seriously suggesting you'd ditch a 'proper' version control system, but it gives a good sense of what's possible at the file system level."
Regarding #1, this means that all six will need to double their value, or some of them will need to grow by more than 100% to compensate for those which don't. Five years is a long time, but 100% is also a lot of growth. There aren't too many tech companies which I can think of who could provide adequate comps, but if we use GOOG as a generic "tech company":

- from 2012-present they went from $350 - ~$725

- from 2005-2012 they went from ~$125 - $350, if you skip a short lull at the end of 2008 when everything was down

One doubling on a 7 year scale, then next one on a ~4 year scale, using the today as the arbitrary starting point and measuring back.

If we ask the question a different way, which of these six companies have 100% growth ahead of them, i.e. their valuation is huge, and either their current market penetration is low or there are large enough new markets available to them. To me, Uber and SpaceX are the only obvious ones on that list. Palantir and Airbnb are less obviously well-positioned, but I would push them both to yes if I were personally to take this bet. Dropbox and Pinterest seem to be clearly in the other side, and if they maintain their current values, then each of the other companies will need to split $25B in growth four ways in order for this bet to hold.

Distributing that evenly:

- Palantir was last valued at $20B, so this is a 100%+ growth target over 4 years.

- As of 2015, Airbnb was valued at $25B so it's a similar situation for them.

- As of the beginning of this year, Uber was valued around $50B, so they would need to grow by 50%+

- SpaceX is valued somewhere around $12-15B, so this would be a ~200% growth for them!

Yet, we all know that unicorn gains are not distributed evenly. Even among the unicorns this is true, so a more likely scenario is that one or two of these companies will experience outsized growth while the others will experience impressive, but "modest", increases.

It's a fun, but probably pointless, exercise to try and pick which of these will be the unicorns among unicorns. (But I'd say Uber and SpaceX still)

Just to contextualize all this -- it was 2009, 7 years ago, when the DJI was last at half its value today. It was also 2009 when the S&P 500 was half today's value. We're talking about companies doubling on 4-5 year scales, 33-50% faster than the rest of the market.
How does Heron compare to Spark streaming?
"blatantly lying" - did this guy forget to take his medication?! He didn't even apologise when it turned out to be a bug.
Precisely. It's much easier to move supply chains when you don't have to move the labor (people) with it.

Also it is not limited to electronics - as others have pointed out, Addidas moved automation back to Germany.
I presume this was downvoted for "even interested in," but the kernel is simply true: the larger the organization, the more specialization.

But most are trend-followers of corporate (and broader business) cultural norms--much like open offices or similar concepts, once ops becomes part of "what they (we) do," the more typical and expected it will become.
Hedging is a thing in investing, yes. I do agree the press reports when businesses are perceived to not be doing well. I don't know I agree they usually point heavily to that being a venture thing. I'm still not sure much of this is the indicator of a bubble, that's all (it's a pretty boring bet?).
Apple to open up Siri
I've seen a decent amount of complaining about the difficulty of supporting a kafka infrastructure. I'd be interested in thoughts from people who have used Heron as to how it is running it in production.
You're wrong, simple as that. Being dominant simply is not enough. The FTC couldn't even make a case against Google, a far more dominant company than Facebook. You're just making shit up dude, just stop, there is no case here for anti-trust nor will there be.
You're describing the exact use pattern touch ID was designed for.
Twilio Notify – SMS, Push, and Chat Notifications
I've got it disabled on my phone, and you couldn't pay me to have something like an Echo at home. I feel like it would be another underused tech device I'd have to find an outlet for, and I don't ever want to feel reliant on cloud services.
The recent move of Adidas back to Germany seems to contradict your assertion: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/may/25/adidas-to-sell-...
Maybe. Improving efficiency can sometimes increase consumption of a resource.
Interesting analysis by Scott Adams (Dilbert creator) [1]:

"Slander is illegal, but hard to prove. And if you lose your case in court, it can be super-expensive. You’ll end up paying your own court fees and those of your opponent. In other words, the government can’t help you if someone slanders you in public. You’re sort of on your own.

So when publications such as Huffington Post, Salon, or Gawker come after me with out-of-context claims of outragism – as they have – I can fight back as a citizen, within the laws of the land, but that’s all I have going for me.

In my case, I do what I can do (persuasion) to destroy those publications out of a sense of both revenge and making the world a better place. Those two incentives work together great. And given time, I could have taken out Gawker on my own. You never would have seen where the bullet came from. All you would know is that fewer people went to the site, for some reason.

But apparently I won’t need to work so hard to take down Gawker. We just learned that billionaire Peter Thiel is secretly – until now – bankrolling various lawsuits against Gawker, including the famous Hulk Hogan case that will probably break them. And it should.

Thiel’s play – assuming it is true – is totally legal. Thiel just makes sure the lawyers get paid whether they win or lose. Like me, I assume he is acting out of a combination of revenge and a desire to make the world a better place.

This is another example in which I think citizens are taking a more active role in fixing the world when government isn’t the right tool for the job. There’s something in the air now – maybe because of Trump – that feels intensely American. And by that I mean not waiting around for someone (such as the government) to fix your problem. We’re a nation of problem-solvers. I would argue that problem-solving is the most basic American character trait.

You need something invented? We’re on it.

You need a dictator removed? Can do.

You need economic stability in the world? Working on it!

Don’t like having a king? We can design a better system.

At the moment, citizens see our government as defective and they see Donald Trump as a wrecking ball. Step one: Demolition.

Step two is the scary part. What happens when you break the government? Do we devolve into chaos, anarchy, or dictatorship? Well, that might happen to some countries. In America, when stuff is broken, we fix it. And if it ain’t broken, we’ll break it anyway, just to fix it better. That’s sort of our thing. And we’re good at it.

I predict we’re going to see a wave of citizen involvement that is unprecedented. People everywhere (especially billionaires) are seeing that government can’t do everything. So they are stepping in. Gates is fixing Africa and whatnot. Thiel is planning floating cities to solve some types of immigration issues and more. And Mark Cuban probably has some good work ahead of him.

Let’s solve some problems. It’s what we do."

[1] http://blog.dilbert.com/post/144908299636/citizen-government
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/philippines-55m-voters-exposed-fing...
Redmi 2 prime vs. lenovo k5 plus
For which open-source projects owned by Oracle has Oracle's stewardship been a benefit to users?