skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Looks very interesting, but the site is still lacking some important information (or not very clear) from an end-user perspective. Why is there no description of the features? Don't tell me "just try it". There are so many chat clients out there I can't try all of them. But I'm always on the look out for a chat client that also supports group voice chat and group screen sharing.

The page says "VoIP", but with no explanation or details at all. The demo doesn't seem to contain that. Does it exist?

Screensharing is not mentioned at all. Does it exist?

Does this run on Windows / OSX / Linux? Neither is mentioned anywhere.

Maybe even more important would be an end-user oriented site for the Matrix server. Is this a thing? The matrix.org site is very confusing as it has no clear focus. It's all a mix between detail-free overview of the overall idea and low level protocol specification. Where is the end-user friendly page about the Matrix server? What features does it have and how do I set it up? Where is the "tutorial" / blog post about how to successfully setup my own server and install a client in three easy steps to have a full team communication solution (group-text, -voice and -screensharing)?

One thing I really like about Slack is they have great documentation and great customer support. Matrix and Vector may be great, unfortunately it's too difficult to find out.
Hydrogen fuel cells are used as a way to generate clean electricity, which then is used to recharge the battery whenever it is needed. Basically eliminating "range fears" to some extent. However I think this period of using fuel cells will be short lived. <10 years. But they will be everywhere in the mean time. 10 years from now I see batteries with capitcities of 4x greater than we have today with at least 2x recharging time. So an EV could go 1,200 miles on a single charge, and recharge fully in roughly an hour or two. That would instantly make all fuel cells pointless
Oh how I hated to set up the network: We've usually gathered around saturday morning, everybody hauling up their gear and waving their parents goodbye. The oldes guy in our group had removed all network cards from the PCs at his office and we spend the next six hours installing the network, hooking up BNC cables, trying to get the IPX to work, executing all kind of arcane rituals in order to get the games to work.

Later on network cards got cheaper so we had our cards pre-installed. Still the expensive 3com cards didn't mix well with the cheapest Planet ones. (We had to keep the cheap cards on one side of the BNC part and the the others on the other side...)

Ethernet was a godsend.

A couple of years later Laptops made spontaneous LAN parties possible. I wouldn't wanna go back.
Why do they love electric cars in Norway?
I think the premise of their technology is humorously on target. I mean, there's no limit to how much you can compress things, right? :P

It's sort of a metaphysical overarching joke rolled into the show. Anything on the show talking about their compression technology becomes necessarily unbelievable as a result.

Causality caused the file to be deleted on both ends!
This reminds me so much of my own youth, except for the beach debriefing :). Especially the 4 hours trying to get all computers to "see" each other brings back memories. I remember a particularly puzzling problem where my computer and a friend's computer were unable to communicate directly, but could otherwise talk to everyone else. After half a weekend, we found out that the on-board network devices on our motherboards (which were identical brand and model, ordered from the same place) had been manufactured with identical MAC addresses. After all the black magic that we had applied to the problem, without luck, throughout the LAN, it gave a great sense of joy and relief to fix the problem by simply spoofing the MAC and changing one digit :). We had an epic 8 hour long Age of Empires session afterwards ...
In Norway prices can vary by 10-15% on the same gas station withing hours. In many places the cheapest gasoline is on Sunday evening with significantly higher price coming on Monday.
But it remains that this argument is a silly one, made by people who've never had brake dust under their fingernails.

If you look at common things which need to be fixed/replaced on a five-ten year old car, most of the things are also found on EVs:

* Brake pads, lines, discs etc.

* Suspension

* Steering

* Driveline, bushings, bearings

* Sensors (a big issue, esp. ABS/ESP sensors)

* Electrical wiring

* ECU/firmware/software errors

* Tires

And just a few ICE specifics, which are all on the cheap end compared to the list above:

* Exhaust system

* Timing belt

* Battery

* Spark plugs

And then there's the EV boogeyman: when will your battery need maintenance, and ultimately replacement?

Also, your comment on "the best EV vs the best ICE" is completely besides the point. We could make an ICE vehicle last millions of kilometers without maintenance outside of oil changes etc., but it would be expensive, heavy and bad for the automaker's business. Same arguments apply to EVs. Tesla doesn't profit from having cars that last twenty years with almost no maintenance required.
I should add, that the ability to bridge networks, means that XMPP, IRC and others won't/don't need to be cut off from Matrix either. That's kind of the point and interop is one of the big features it will have going.
This will be interesting when paired with a 3D printer. The tango technology does a really good job of scanning objects and if you export them to a slicer it should be possible to print them. That said, it could also make for a really interesting data "theft" system, being able to derive detailed models from something in a display case for example. http://boingboing.net/2016/02/23/scanning-artists-de-loot-st...
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VectorIm, from vector.im url..?

I'd pronounce it as "vector-eem", which is probably odd, but also kinda cool.
Why I turned down $500K, Pissed off my investors, and Shut down my startup
$5/month is $60/year. That's already serious money for some of us. The list of software I'd pay $60 for is pretty short.
In SV, one of the characters asks a call girl if she takes bitcoin. She says "I hate this fucking town." It's funny.

In an episode of Betas, on character slaps a bitcoin down on a table to place a bet. It showed how well they they did their research.
My gut feeling is his support for Trump has nothing to do with policy and everything to do with throwing a gigantic wrench in the works.

In the best case it leads to a realignment of the electorate.

In the worst case a lot of things go to hell, but he's a billionaire so he can always just up and move.
The decoded code:

> http://pastebin.com/jWT37M2D
Japan is betting heavily on hydrogen, presumably because of concerns that they won't be able to generate enough electric power if they went all EV.

And importing electricity would be geopolitically very risky (it would have to be from China or Russia), but liquid hydrogen they can ship in from close allies such as Australia.
Garden stores usually sell dust for tomatoes. It discourages burrowing grubs from getting into them.

Broccoli leaves get decimated by caterpillars if they aren't protected from moths laying eggs on them. Same happens to cabbages, bok choy, etc. A fine net with 10mm gaps works fairly well. I use petal poles and arches of pipe to make a removable frame.

Looks a bit like this:
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_OJlKX8cCges/SoKz6rQJ3bI/AAAAAAAABx...

For slugs/snails, I use pellets but apparently you can use copper tape if you have raised garden beds.
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People really like to make their life complicate, do not change the design of an existing product. There are other ways to make life interesting.

On the one hand designs tend to be overcomplicate - any design that is noticeable is overcomplicate - and on the other hand every 2 or 3 years people feel a urge to fix things that work.
If you read up on research into innovation, you'll find that much of it does hinge on appropriating ideas from elsewhere. It's more like bacterial gene transfer than procaryote sexual reproduction, and very little like random point variations.

John Holland, W. Brian Arthur, and Doyne Farmer (all associated with the Santa Fe Institute) have done much interesting work. Farmer talks of Theodor Wright, and his studies of aircraft manufacturing improvements during WWII, though much of Farmer's discussion seems to borrow heavily from Wright's browther Sowell, a geneticist looking at genetic drift and fitness landscapes. Quincy Wright's study of war also seems apropos. Interesting family.
I believe you'd make a killing, but I'm not sure it would be legal (and if so, I'm pretty sure they'll put a stop to it asap).
Yes, the company that succeeds in the WWW is the company that has a monopoly in it.
> Why?

Because astroturfing.
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wow I can write a for loop for the frames of a film and call the google open sourced deep learning style transfer program.

INNOVATION!
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I also used to encounter it while using TOR. Not sure if it's still an issue however, as I try to refrain from direct use of Google.
I initially tried the Type=forking method, but systemd kept yelling at me (as it should have) because it doesn't really fork correctly. I actually just run the service in simple mode with a launcher script that contains this abomination of a command:

/opt/jetbrains/youtrack/internal/java/linux-x64/jre/bin/java -Dlauncher.app.home=/opt/jetbrains/youtrack/ -Djl.service=YouTrack -Djl.home=/opt/jetbrains/youtrack -ea -XX:+HeapDumpOnOutOfmoryError -XX:HeapDumpPath=logs -XX:ErrorFile=logs/hs_err_pid%p.log -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8 -XX:MaxMetaspaceSize=250m -Xmx1024m -Dorg.eclipse.jetty.server.Request.maxFormContentSize=5000000 -Dorg.eclipse.jetty.server.Request.maxFormKeys=10000 -Djetbrains.jetpass.admin.name=default_admin_name -jar launcher/lib/app-wrapper/app-wrapper.jar AppStarter com.jetbrains.bundle.bootstrap.Bundle
Any idea of why it has been flagged?

Were the ones that spread suspicion about Appelbaum flagged too? It looks to me as this would be quite relevant news.
I watched a few episodes but could not get into it. Too breathless. The kind of people Silicon Valley rightfully mocks.
People suck at technical interviews (2014)
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So far the site is just a quick one-page overview - we haven't had a chance to flesh out any of the detail yet at all; sorry about that :) To answer the questions:

* 1:1 VoIP is supported on WebRTC on the web version, Android, and iOS coming very shortly. On Web you hit the call buttons on the bottom right; on Android it's currently hidden behind the top-left menu.
* Multiway VoIP is very beta, but supported on the web version. Hit the call buttons when in a room.
* Screensharing is even more beta, but happens to be there as an undocumented easter egg on Web. Currently it only works if you're running on Chrome with the --enable-usermedia-screen-capturing commandline option, and shift-click on the video call button. Obviously this isn't intended remotely for serious use yet, but we're working on it.
* The three platforms supported are Web/iOS/Android. You can of course run the Web client fine on Windows/OSX/Linux. If you want a different native client, go experiment with the other options on http://matrix.org/docs/projects/try-matrix-now.html
* The page you failed to find for the Synapse server is probably the read me at https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse. Agreed we need to make this clearer, and provide much better simple overviews and tutorials for getting up and running.
* Agreed that Slack have amazing documentation - it's something we desperately need to do better at. I'd like to think our "customer support" isn't too bad, though; good luck in getting one of Slack's co-founders answering your feedback on HN ;D
Is it a phonebook when someone finds out and scribbles down phone numbers for a few people?
I do not represent the school, I speak only for myself and believe it's reasonable for me to express an opinion as someone who believes in and works hard for our school and our students. Further, 1) I am not tone deaf. The author's disdain was thinly veiled and their accounting was full of exaggerations and inaccuracies. This wasn't a simple sharing of how they program works and how it didn't meet their needs. It also raises concerns because I am dismayed that they apparently didn't raise any reasonable concerns they may have had during the program when I and my colleagues were in a position to improve their experience or they would have reported it differently here. Why do you suppose they wouldn't give us that opportunity to make their experience more fruitful given their investment? Constant iteration and openness to feedback is a regular mantra around HR. I wonder (reasonably) if there isn't something else going on here than they report. And 2) I sought to share another perspective. I provided full disclosure about my role in the first sentence, highlighted some specific skewed observations made by the author and encouraged readers to investigate for themselves.

Seems reasonable to me.
Most people run a newer .exe in higher resolution and a high framerate. You can run it moderately well with reduced settings on a Raspberry Pi, and we have people bring mini-PC's to LANs. A big CPU tower is no longer necessary.

What almost everybody lugs is their preferred controller (gaming keyboard, mouse, joystick, etc.) and a good monitor.
There aren't many Apps that can save you $1000 a year because there is no money to make them, because people aren't buying $100 software packages on the AppStore.

It's a chicken and egg problem.
Given the karma and the comments of the previous years I think you're being somewhat ironic. 400,000 bits, table layout and all the rest, a 1997 startup? :-)
I have a handy page I knocked up that I use periodically to minimise my Google footprint:

http://www.jaruzel.com/How-Much-Does-Google-Know-About-Me
Why Agile Transformations Fail?
>"I’ve never run a Kickstarter campaign, nor have I been involved with one in any capacity."

stopped reading right there
What I found more interesting is that 652 looks a very nice chip and its priced at $500, 1440p, 64G with all the tagno stuff for a specialized product.

Why can't we have a $300-$350 phone with snapdragon 652, 1080p from most manufacturer even Lenovo? I guess they have this ZUK 2 now in the similar price/performance but a sub brand.
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I took the SCJP (Sun Certified Java Programmer) exam back in the day. You did come out of it knowing details of the Java language very well. The Microsoft certs at the time were mostly how to use Visual Studio. The SCJP opened a few doors (many moons ago not in Silicon Valley), not bad for a $150 test. Once I had a few jobs, the cert disappeared from my resume.

One minor nitpick, it wouldn't be Sun née Oracle. The right side is the maiden or former name.
Have you seen Guernica in Madrid?
OK- the tagline WAS click baity, but we've been planning it for weeks. It just happened that John Oliver did his thing last week

We also just did a Memorial day campaign for members of the military (you can see the page on our site)
There is something that escapes me regarding this very cool neural style transfer technique. One would expect it to need at least three starting images: the one to transform, the one used as a source for the style, and a non-styled version of the source. This last one should give the network hints on how to transform the unstyled version in the styled one. For example, what does a straight line end up being in the style? Or how is a colour gradient represented? Missing this, it seems that the neural network should be able to recognize objects in the styled picture, and derive the transformation applied based on a previous knowledge of how they would normally look like. But of course the NN is not advanced enough to do that.
Can someone explain me roughly how does this work?
Broadcast.com was more like corporate earnings calls on the Internet. Real Networks was radio (or more accurately audio) on the Internet.
Without demand, the test for pricing power (the ability to raise prices from some level at which there are nonzero sales without losing sales) cannot be satisfied -- you can't have market power with no market.
It's essentially design vs. evolution. Evolution has no taste -- it only cares what works. If a system is full of contradictions and inconsistencies and redundancies, that's OK. What survives is right, by definition.

Design implies a coherent intention achieved by a single person or small group of people. Unix was designed by a relatively small group Bell Labs, with a distinct culture.

Linux is probably the best example of evolution, and Linus has explicitly pledged his allegiance to this force. The irony is that Linux would have never succeeded if it were a greenfield project; it needed the "bones" of Unix in order not to collapse on itself. It needed the 20+ years of tribal Unix knowledge spread throughout the world. (See "In the Beginning was the Command Line" by Stephenson)

I do think McIlroy is right. You need taste to "correct" the ugliness of evolution, at least in software. Evolution is important, but so is design. Like all things, neither extreme is right.

Linux exploded on top of the design of Unix. It's time for more design.

Here is a good example of design errors Linux has been making, when it has been trying innovate without the lessons of the Unix model: https://lwn.net/Articles/574317/

"To begin with, he said, much of what is being done with control groups is new; all of it is new to Linux in particular, and some is new in general. So the community did not have any sort of model to follow when designing this new feature."
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Yes, you enter by signing up to the free service, which then takes you to a page informs you of your legal rights to protect against harrassment and fraudulent debt, and gives you a bunch of useful resources.

If people are in debt, we want to give them more than just money.
Came here to make the exact same statement.
I remember pitching to her in 1997. Bessemer Venture Partners.
Google will give app developers a bigger cut of the revenue
I am really glad that you love the concept. We'd appreciate some HN love because we have something that I think can make a huge difference for people.
If it's like the rest of the military industrial complex, odds are those companies are getting paid.
The Myths and Reality of Cloud Security vs. On Premise Security
Services like these are just the start. It's not going to be too long before background social media checks such as these get absorbed into your Experian credit report and become part of the general information a landlord or anyone else has on you. You won't even know about it or have any recourse if the algorithm gets it wrong.

China is already trialling a 'Social Credit' system that aims to achieve similar. The only difference between China and the West is that as an authoritarian state they can be more brazen about it.

Sadly, it being Britain, there will always be a fair share of people willing to go along with it because they 'probably know what they're doing' and the 'innocent have nothing to hide.'
> a sign that the applicant doesn't know how to program. Just like all of Sun's nee Oracle's and MS's (well, and Oracle's) cert programs 15 years ago.

That's unfair. Don't tar everyone with vendor qualifications with the same brush. Many of us obtained them because the companies we worked for needed minimum numbers of vendor "qualified" staff to attain or maintain the various levels of partner status available. For example, I worked at a consultancy that needed to maintain a pool of Microsoft and Cisco qualified staff to maintain the levels of official vendor partnership (Gold was the top MS partnership back in the day, don't remember what the Cisco one was) that would keep opening doors at blue chips.
The move to npm scripts is such a regressive fashion choice in the frontend world. Which of the following sounds better?

- Write your build with the full power of the language you use everyday and orchestrate it with a thin layer like Gulp
- Write uncommented (and uncomment-able) bash scripts where parallelism, streaming, and cross-platform compatibility require nontrivial effort

Gulp isn't as complicated as some have insinuated. You don't even need to use Gulp plugins if that's a concern–it's just Node!

I'd much rather write Javascript to build Javascript than memorize CLI arguments and break all of my scripts on Windows.

I will say that the best part of npm scripts is that they're not Grunt :)
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There's already a place for those cancellations: the home screen. Delete the App, and subscription goes away.
And... the python release manager sadly decided to revert to the slightly inferior /dev/urandom.
Can You Upsell and Make Customers Happy at the Same Time?
> I can't really think of anything that is actively trying to kill people.

[... proceeds to list a bunch of animals that kill people ...]
The issue with your comment is that it is based on the idea that supporting a platform is the goal. As per your value metrics, the more platform-rich the experience is, the better it is.

This is however not how business works and not how businesses work because it is not what they need. What they need is to transfer value to move their business forward. It is also the only thing they (should) want.

Full Android or iOS support is not what smart business leaders aim, I would tend to say it is the opposite.

I don't care for 1 second about the Metal/Swift you talk about when I can have people get their credit card out with an HTML page without CSS.
I had a professor in university who was frequently saying he developed a thousand application and he didn't use any if.

I know it's extreme but is there any way to reduce (lets say 5 to 1) conditions?

I think he was developing Fortran apps.

Anecdote: This very same professor asked us to do a matrix operation (I don't remember what) without using if once. He said it would be faster than using ifs. Many of us couldn't. Then he revealed his solution, he was getting first indice of first row and doing some operation and getting the last indice of last row, then second indice of first row and so on.
One of my friend told that if he wrote the algorithm plain using ifs, it would be faster. Professor told it's impossible.

In the end of the day the version which was written using ifs was a lot faster than the version without ifs. Because of the changing indices cause a lot of cache misses but getting matrix elements sequentially used cache correctly.
If you have 128 bits of entropy, you can generate an infinite stream of random bits with perfect security. This is why urandom should never block, except to gather these initial bits.

urandom should also periodically re-seed itself for forward secrecy. Resuming a VM session may require re-seeding as well. It seems unlikely that these operations should require urandom to block.
Because resolutions change, for example. And it's the truth of most single player games.

Apple is not forcing anyone to adopt this model, and most people won't be comfortable with a subscription based game anyway.

However, for MMO's, subscriptions make sense.
A paper called Precomputed Real-Time Texture Synthesis with Markovian Generative Adversarial Networks (http://arxiv.org/abs/1604.04382) uses a different approach with similar results and runs about 500 times faster giving 0.25M pixel images at 25Hz. It also seems to result in less randomness from frame to frame https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRD8LpPvdHI

Code at https://github.com/chuanli11/MGANs
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