skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
kind of different circumstances but seeking same..also in the midwest..if you want to exchange notes sometime via email..my email addy is on my portfolio site which is listed in my profile.

You probably have enough exp/skills to go pro-in-biz-for-yourself..have you looked at that as a possibility?

Hang in there..
Sweet. Was just lamenting its absence.
This is basically exactly what I would expect someone who has gotten rich from exploiting poor people to say. We need fewer people like you in the world.
Side note: "bar" as in bar association is not an acronym. It refers to the literal bar or barrier in courtrooms which divides participants from the public.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bar_(law)
Please don't post this sort of angry unsubstantive comment to Hacker News. It's destructive of the spirit of the site, which is intellectual curiosity.

We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11861314 and marked it off-topic.
Uniloc has this piece of Google Maps screenshot hosted at their web server. Isn't this not allowed? http://www.uniloc.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/Screen-shot...
Or, as revenue comes in from an app, adding more features to entice more buyers, then giving existing users more features (which in turn will theoretically result in better word-of-mouth) can have a positive feedback loop.
I'm not sure there is another way. But if you are in IT, and don't mind working with recruiters, LinkedIn is an incredibly efficient way to hook up with tons of recruiters willing to find you jobs doing exactly what you're looking (and qualified) for.

We just lost a guy with barely 2 years experience on a lark response to a recruiter on LinkedIn. He made some ridiculous requests and the recruiter hooked him up.
> I have been thinking about adopting a black kid myself, to give him/her the best education possible and the culture I believe in, I may do that sometime.

I think I just threw up in my mouth a little.
Latency vs bandwidth.

One has large formal teams and procedures and FAST updates.

The other ... doesn't.

If there's a problem found and released today, the first will have a patch in hours. The second will have a new beta every couple weeks, or maybe a stable release every couple years. That's a long time to wait.
Yes, there are correlations between genetics and IQ.

There are undoubtedly hereditary factors which will effect nurture, which will subsequently effect IQ. That is not synonymous with IQ being hereditary.

For example, there are hereditary factors which will effect career choices: temperament, physical strength, race, gender, height, and so on. Thus, career choices will correlate with genetics. That doesn't mean that career is a hereditary trait. This is an important distinction.

Likewise, twins being adopted and raised by other families does not correct for nurture. People are still treated differently depending on their genetics: temperament, physical strength, race, gender, height, facial structure, etc. As a result, seeing a correlation between intelligence in separated twins is not enough to prove a genetic cause.

Asking me to see researching backing up my view is asking me to support the null hypothesis. That's not how science works.

Wikipedia:
"In inferential statistics, the term 'null hypothesis' usually refers to a general statement or default position that there is no relationship between two measured phenomena, or no association among groups. [...] The null hypothesis is generally assumed to be true until evidence indicates otherwise."

Until IQ Heritability researchers can prove that twin studies aren't just measuring nurture as a result of genetics, the burden remains on them.
welcome to a political system (and indeed a world) run by lawyers.
@sjs7007

Where do you think a lot of the chicken you may eat comes from?
Ask HN: What are the modern approaches to robotic control?
I'm eager to find references on modern approaches to robotic control.

The coordinated robots from Boston Dynamics (acquired by Google) impress the most, with their ability to react quickly to perturbation and move competently over difficult terrain.

I assume they are not solving inverse kinematics problems continuously, and also assume that much of their progress was made before the deep learning revolution, so maybe they don't even use neural networks either.

So are they using any reinforcement learning? I have no idea so would appreciate any quick summaries or pointers to relevant information.

What other companies are working in robotics at the same level as Boston Dynamics?

Approaches to robot perception, path planning (e.g. A*), and environmental mapping (e.g. SLAM) are also very interesting, but not the topics I'm interested in for this question.
Considering that the government wants them to buy taxi medallions at $0.5M each, there isn't a lot of bending they can do.

Everything else is a smoke screen over the issue of losing medallion sales.

What people forget during these discussions is that this is not free money for the city, it's money out of every rider's pocket for an overpriced service, some small percentage of which trickles down to the city.

As for the battle, Uber is busily serving people elsewhere while Austin is stuck with cabs. The people of Austin are the losers in this.
I'm not sure I provided any real context. It is data, but I have no real clue what it means. Thanks though.
"Hash of the data defining the entity identified" is how version 3 and 5 UUIDs work (plus a namespace). If you really want a weak hash use version 3 - it uses MD5.
As someone who signed up for HBO Now and Pandora through Google's Play service in exactly this manner, I imagine this is the reason they are adding it. It's very easy. The one downside I encountered is that when my card changed and billing failed, it automatically unsubscribed me after what appeared to be a single failure, and I had to sign back up after adding my new card. That looks to be an implementation problem though.
VPNGate [1] is what I usually use for bypassing georestrictions, and it works quite well for that purpose. The client and server software is based on the open-source SoftEther VPN project [2], and the actual VPN servers are operated by volunteers around the world.

I'd hesitate to recommend VPNGate itself for anything that requires real privacy though. However, SoftEther VPN is an excellent choice if you want to set up your own VPN on a box somewhere.

[1] http://www.vpngate.net/en/

[2] http://www.softether.org/
Different kinds of risk. Normal insurance doesn't care if the stock market drops 30%. Something guaranteeing payout for decades has to buffer against that possibility.
Not unusual for me to grab something at a $9.99 or $19.99 introductory price. Have a half dozen or so. I happen to think it's a niche for music creation apps though.
Isn't everything?
> The insurance would cost more than the expected cost of the litigation which is of course how insurance works. The key with the patent system is that you have to pay millions to defend yourself, but it's exceptionally rare to be able to recover attorney's fees even if you win.

If enough people buy insurance to make sure that the patent trolls never win, then there's no money to be made and the lawyers stop suing. So the price of insurance goes down. It's not like insuring against tornados, which are going to happen regardless of whether the houses are insured. Furthermore, you can state up front "IP Lawsuit Coverage provided by XXX" as a disincentive for people to sue their members in the first place.
Have you got a specific beef with Friedman, or are you just generally complaining about prominent conservatives from the 80s? What position did he take that would support civil asset forfeiture?
This won't substantially change anything, given the existing power-law type distribution of app-store earnings.
When the ~app~ store debuted, I called it the K-Martization of software.
This is just Apple expanding into Rent-A-Center.
For sure - but you should ask yourself if you need to routinely deal with that blob, or just process it on the way in? If your upload functionality generates thumbnails and resizes images properly, you can isolate file handling to that section of the code and the rest of your app can just deal with nice, simple URLs.
That depends on if your network card supports TOE. If your network card supports full TCP offload then your routing latency can be as low as .6-1.4 us. If you have to go through the entire TCP software stack it's around 20-40 us, on 10Gb hardware. Full TCP offload puts it in the same ballpark a hardware router.
They'd have to tweak a few other things. I often download apps on my phone and remove them soon after. A few weeks/months later I notice the app on my iPad; never launched.
Wait until most apps have switched to subscription, sell yours for a one time price, profit from those users who hate subscriptions.

Maybe not sustainable, but hopefully keep you in the black until the next project.
United States V. Approximately 64,695 Pounds of Shark Fins
I was already doing this with ABCMouse for a while for my toddler, paying for a subscription through iTunes, which allowed me to use the app. So this isn't new, its just now not through a iTunes subscription, just directly through the app store, which is the same account and CC anyway.
It's time to call in John Oliver...He's our last and only hope!
Hi, in the US this data is openly available as shipping manifests are public info.

In the EU this is not public information, and as such there's no scalable way other than experience to find out if a company ships 500+ TEU.

After nine months I can easily spot what stands out about companies that ship 500+ TEU from a description, but this is by far faster.
I think if you watch a child play anything, even a video game, you'll see that when it's not immediately obvious what to do, a human will just 'mess around' and 'try stuff out' to 'just to see what happens'. As the paper says, the idea of novelty bonuses in reinforcement learning draws directly from discussions of curiosity and play and intrinsic motivation in animals and humans.
This isn't a random idea I made up just to dissipate some extra karma on Hacker News, you know.

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

Edit: Also, who's accusing anyone of anything (besides you)? I'm just asking questions here.
Just keeping roosters away from the hens will prevent that from being a problem. The eggs won't be fertile.
Apple wants a subscription service because then they can hobble the developers AND the users to prevent them from ever leaving.
I guess people feel the ability to vote out a judge balances versus the problems. It also probably keeps some flaky political appointees from becoming judges.
Roger Enrico and the Cola Wars
I find it oddly funny how Google hasn't stepped in to support their "clients", I'd think they'd help shutdown patent trolls so developers can continue to improve and distribute applications
Version 3 and 5 UUIDs are derived from the data. They can be a good fit some places, but you have to be sure the only (pre-hash) collisions you'll have are the collisions you want.
My app usage pattern is a handful of apps I use every day and a much larger number of apps that I use very occasionally (down to once a year for something like GPS Nav, an offline mapping app).

The problem with subscriptions is that it's hard for me to justify paying a recurring $12/year subscription for an app that I'll use once in that time. These kinds of apps I'm most likely to just do without if they go to a subscription model.
[6] http://gizmodo.com/jacob-appelbaum-has-allegedly-engaged-in-...
When writing the best possible software is often opposed to the interests of business we're stuck. Either you change how money enters the equation or we live with shitty software forever.

Not saying people shouldn't be paid, but how we currently pay for software is broken and creates not just wrong incentives, but completely backwards incentives where going directly against the interests of the users is the most profitable path.
That's pretty nice - it's even better than what ING used to do. It still doesn't get around the problem of Wells Fargo charging for OFX access though.
About damn time!

I "cheated" the system by having a script that will redirect you to the HTTPS version if you click on anything from the HTTP protocol, which kind of accomplishes forcing the HTTPS encryption, but not really.

Then I've decided to switch to my own domain and just use CloudFlare (+ whitelisting Tor).

Now I'm kind of thinking about switching to GitLab Pages since they pretty much kick the hell out of GitHub Pages in every single way when you compare their features (like, you can use any static site generator and you can roll your own Lets Encrypt SSL certificate on them).
Remember, tribute is required when traveling through the United States.

Wow, so it's now safest to travel around the country with your encrypted Bitcoin hid steganographically....
The sole coffee shop in town isn't a monopoly. It's competing with all the other coffee shops that could also be there. When their profit margins get too fat, others will move in.

Whereas the city has a monopoly on Taxi services and licenses out to a very limited pool of providers. (And usually a closed group that you couldn't get into even if you could afford a medallion.)
Concatenating helps you with uniqueness, but not with whether things change (if anything that's part of a composite key changes, it can no longer reliably be part of a key). And it's the changing part that's not realistic with natural keys.

Once you get into application ids / timestamps / whatever you're no longer really using a natural key in my mind, you're just making your own algorithm for a surrogate key.
I would still expect Hulu to be loathe to give Apple even 15% of their subscription revenue.
Definitely.. That's something I'm working on for v2.0. Thanks for the feedback :)
> I don't think most programmers have the luxury of learning all the voodoo and lore that surrounds MongoDB from JIRA tickets and blog posts.

That's how I learned everything I know about most FOSS products I have encountered - through the code pages and social media surrounding the project.

Pretty much everything about the mongodb hate derives from their marketing and sales. The truth is, they've obviously stumbled onto something the market wants, otherwise they would never have become so successful.

For me, as a long-time programmer with no database experience, the mental mapping of JSON constructs as both data and query language was far easier for me to absorb than the relational model, which didn't fit the paradigms that I was used to.

At my present gig, we've used Mongo DB for two years, scaling up to quite a large production setup. Like any technology it has strengths and weaknesses, but it has not been the utter failure that readers of Hacker News would be led to expect. We adopted it knowing quite a bit about its history, and it has turned out to be an excellent choice that has held up over time.

Periodically we've considered switching to postgres, and we may do so for part of our stack. But for the core jobs of data collection and batch processing data with fluid schema, I'm pretty sure we will stick with mongodb for the duration.

It's just a tool, folks.
Unless they're storing my data or providing me with updated content (Hulu, Netflix, et al.), I have no interest in a recurring, monthly subscription for most of my apps.

I'll pay a subscription for an app that receives substantive updates. But most apps don't need that, and they don't provide them at a monthly rate (they may provide updates that frequently, but not pay-worthy updates).
What's the current cost per base pair? Is a significant portion of the funding really going into synthesis?

Do you foresee synthesis costs falling quickly? It seems like its a major factor holding back commercial applications of synthetic biology.

Congrats on the funding and best of luck as you continue to scale!
Yes, we ended up implementing just project specific parts, not generic enough for MLLib contribution...
Wow, a real patent lawyer in a patent law thread. You don't belong here, but I'll upvote whatever you have to write.

I have a comment and a question:

The comment. Summary judgement does not accomplish what I think sheepleherd was proposing. As you say, if you get a summary judgment against you, you go home. That means that a judge has to be convinced that there is definitely no case in order to issue one. What's needed, rather, is a speedy determination of who seems to be in the right. It should not be final but should determine who pays going forward.

The question. What do you see as the problem in cases like this? Or do you see a problem?
Better Honeypot Implementation (Form Anti-Spam)
"You requested package ABD, but we think you might mean package ABC. Enter 'yes' to continue or anything else to start over."

That'll be fun to automate around in puppet or ansible.
Wasn't really their fault. The project was abandoned way before and they just got dumped with it.
Seriously - what the fuck Google?

It's only a matter of time until a patent troll writes a for loop on the store index to send out infringement suits DMCA-takedown style.
4. "Free chickens from Gates" puts local chicken breeders out of business.

Fast forward a few years and their are fewer chickens, not more, in targeted areas.
How about a patent about placing the right foot into a solid hollow object with three to four cylinder shaped objects (with low height to radius ratio) separating that hollow object from the surface of the earth - yeah - and well, then driving with it ... will have to think about how to make that sound smart and original.

How is this even for real - why is Google not putting an end to it?
IANAL, but I don't think there's a reason they couldn't indemnify against patent lawsuits regarding the distribution of applications through their services, while not indemnifying for patent violations in the applications themselves.
IDB in Web Workers is a game changer for mobile. Fast background data access.
Swift: The joy of sequences
Unintended consequences are one thing to consider, another is opportunity cost. Gates should have two control groups:

A) Gets a bunch of chickens

B) Gets the money the chickens would cost (including all project overhead)

C) Gets nothing

My guess is that B would in-fact have the best outcomes for the simple reason that Africans probably know what they need to improve their lives better than do foreign central-planners.
>Which is a language extension and not a C feature.

In line assembler has always been C feature. I also fail to see the point of mentioning intrinsics being extension. Do you have an example of a compiler, which does not support cache prefetch on a platform that supports them?

>I would say you would need to make use of Data.Vector.Unboxed

I believe you are missing my point. The run-time layout of this type is not known in the first place. Making it unboxed may or may not change its layout to another unknown one. If you need a specific change, and not a change for the sake of change - there is nothing you can do. In C, I might want this to be a 12 byte type if I access the values sequentially and a 16 byte if randomly. In Haskell you can either have it boxed (and you have an order of magnitude more cache misses) or have either 12 or 16 byte in unboxed, but you cannot tell which one and if you wanted another one - tough cookies.

>Haskell tools can also improve if its acceptance in the industry keeps increasing.

And if they do we will discuss them then.
I detest subscriptions of all kinds. I don't want to manage them. I don't want to figure out how much I'm paying out per month across all types of subscriptions. I don't want a service to manage it for me, I just don't want the cognitive overhead. I don't want to remember the terms of each subscription, how long it takes to cancel (if and when I can get through to someone to cancel it). Or the fact that I lose access to something when I stop paying. I don't want to forget to cancel it only to find I'm bound to another 6 months. Etc, etc. I could go on.

I also strongly dislike that they know that x% of users after signing up will barely use the service and it's essentially free money. I know this is why they do it, and I won't support companies for trying to take advantage of users.
Death by a thousand cuts. All those apps that charge to turn off the ads? Suddenly you pay yearly for that. iAP to unlock those extra levels/features/etc, better pay the tax man because those will now be yearly. Apps will no longer be "upgraded" from 1.0 to 2.0 where you have to pay for the new version. No, you pay that yearly fee whether you like it or not. Sorry this isn't going to turn out well and I might just have to switch back to android where there are things like 2 hour to 48 hour return policies.
The Future of Podcasting
This is very cool stuff. I was just wondering what do you see is the biggest technical problem with this technology? I understand that the hardest part currently is transferring the modified genome into all cells, is this still correct?

If I'm interested in this technology how do you recommend learning the required techniques. As a machine learning engineer I know maths more then biology, but want to contribute to the open source movement. Where do you view the biggest impact of software/machine learning engineers can make to the open sourced biology movement?
This is flatly incorrect. This is a civil proceeding, neither you nor your property are charged with a crime. Instead, a civil (not criminal) forfeiture proceeding is initiated against your property.

I'm not just being pedantic, this is part of why it's so incredibly fucked. They have, no exaggeration, taken a portion of the criminal legal system with all the constraints and due process requirements there, excised it with a legislative scalpel and grafted it back on to the civil system.

I honestly to this day don't understand why government is allowed any access at all to the civil system as a plaintiff, at least not beyond the local level.

Oh wait, yes I do understand: It's specifically to fuck the people over.
How Social Media Can Improve Personal Branding
I think the mindset change that needs to happen is this:

Operating systems are a service.

I would actually prefer to pay developers of operating systems that are truly useful to me a monthly amount so I know they can continue to update and improve the OS. If an OS saves me $1000/yr in headache, I'd prefer to spend $30/yr on a subscription rather than lose the OS entirely because the developers can't keep the lights on.
States' rights, Fuck yeah!
The flipside of this is that I want to trust as few entities as possible with my financial data. I see some are questioning advice given by the bank (and I agree with that), but objective analysis != advice.
This seems very accurate. When I was younger it was a social taboo for middle class families in rural area to raise animals in out country. Then the government started blasting propaganda about how farming fish and raising chickens/goats was a noble "entrepreneur" like thing, and now it does not seem like that much of a taboo any more.
Serverless Reference Architecture for Creating a Mobile Back End
Bad if it is used incorrectly. That could be said of many things.
Better visual than watching the women throw out handfuls of bugs and worms (which chickens LOVE). Actually, you can feed chickens nothing but grain, but it isn't good for them -- they need more protein.