skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To strictly answer the question in the headline, as in, is it an evolving or a dying trend? Yes. The answer is yes.

What ends up being the wearable tech that becomes so ubiquitous that even Indians and Chinese regularly wear it (similar to how they regularly own cell phones now, something that was considered impossible even 5 years ago), will be different and very removed from what we have today.
(Author here) Case in point where Elasticsearch shines is one of yesterday's hacker news articles

http://sujitpal.blogspot.com/2016/05/elasticsearch-based-ima...

Here Elasticsearch is used as a framework where "search" really means some kind of distributed feature similarity. But even text search where your incorporating a lot of data science, external signals, or semantic awareness can fall more into the category of distributed feature similarity.

Algolias strength is in a simpler path to straightforward and easily understood search. I'm not sure it's the path to amazing and deeply customized search (or search-driven features). Algolia gets far more right out of the box at a configuration level many need when they can't put a team around building an amazing Solr/ES experience.

My hope is Solr/ES can learn a thing or two in the ease of use dept with relevance!
> Only because your mental map is old, archaic and will not allow you to see things any other way.

I've done my fair share of acid and mushroom trips, explored the DMT hyperspace dozens of times, travelled through time and space into alternate realities, met and communicated with biological and machine beings and have thoroughly explored our planet.

My mind is wide open :)

Since you mentioned the Universe, then it would help to remember that in "galactic" terms, we've just climbed down from the trees a couple of hundred thousand years ago and our technology is still extremely primitive and it is not at all a proven fact that we can survive it.

More down to Earth, what I suggested in the parent post is that people who are bringing this technology forward should also be the people who come up with the political and social proposals for changes necessary to accommodate it.

We can't just unleash these "technological atomic bombs", which fundamentally change the social game and then expect the politicians to handle the fallout. Tech people and scientists need not stay on the sidelines any more - they must be the designers not only of technology, but of the social system too, since the two are merging anyway...

Of course this can't be "enforced", rather, it's an ethical thing to do on the part of tech companies, justified by the fact that deep down, our motivation is to make the world "better".
Yeah. What I though was neat about the Hybrid Synergy drive is how they use the strength of each component to compensate for the weakness of the others.

Atkinson drive: very efficient, but over a narrow speed and output range.
Mechanical gear train: Inefficiencies in the high nineties. But gear ratios are fixed.
Electric drive train: Not as efficient as a mechanical gear trains, but is efficient over a very wide speed range.

Add those up and you have a high efficiency mechanical power path through the planetary gear. And you use the electric power path to divert enough power from the engine to keep it running at it's most efficient. Because you have the electric power path you can cycle energy to and from the battery. Which gives you regenerative breaking, and allows you to stop the engine completely when you don't need power.

Genius!
Counter-argument: trying to hold a dinner conversation with people or have a meeting when people are glued to the latest bubble news on their phones.
What does that mean exactly? Surely you can't use a made up name in a contract for example?
WildUtah is referring to chemical modifications (methylation, associated with epigenetics: http://www.whatisepigenetics.com/dna-methylation/), the structure of [eukaryotic] genes (intron/exon, start and stop; things many elementary students know of -- and subsequently forget) and palindromic elements.

Palindromic elements are most closely related to what the linked paper is about. Basically, instead of existing as a normal double helix, the two strands separate and bind with the palindrome on the same strand; like making an X with DNA: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palindromic_sequence .

Ultimately, this is a crappy press release for a paper that, as _of points out, is scientifically correct but otherwise dull. The paper is going back to first principles, as it were, for DNA and looking at factors in DNA alone that contribute to its function (well, 'normal', non-methylated, potentially histone associated DNA).
IoT Needs a Cloud
I started a new job and the sysops guys works remotely. I had been communicating with him for over a month via email and chat before a colleague told me that sysops guy was blind. He is quite brilliant.
I take both points but the combination of snark and genericness is still an explosives-handling violation.

Thanks for the friendly responses.
India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh are common labor pools that many Mid East nations draw upon for physical laborers. It isn't just Dubai, though they are among the most egregious; you'll see these arrangements in nations like Saudi Arabia as well, even though it is not nearly as well-publicized.
incentives + social pressure to make gas car owners feel guilty. One of the top reasons from the interview was "clean consciousness".

This, I think, is partially because oil is the main industry in the country so they collectively feel more guilty than neighboring Sweden and Finland.
This is the right next ~100 year answer. I'm not sure what happened with this. It looks like the protest-vietnam machine didn't want to shut down when vietnam shut down and decided that nuclear was a cool thing to protest next. I haven't had time to verify that this is true.
Then it seems like a clear violation when you have the old employees train the new ones.
Matters so rarely that it's far better to rewrite in those cases when necessary.
It was never that automatic in the old days. From Ellis Island, for example, over 120,000 were sent back.

"New arrivals were processed quickly. In the Registry Room, Public Health Service doctors looked to see if any of them wheezed, coughed, shuffled or limped. Children were asked their names to make sure they weren't deaf or dumb. Toddlers were taken from their mothers' arms and made to walk. As the line moved forward, doctors had only a few seconds to check each immigrant for sixty symptoms of disease. Of primary concern were cholera, favus (scalp and nail fungus), tuberculosis, insanity, epilepsy, and mental impairments. The disease most feared was trachoma, a highly contagious eye infection that could lead to blindness and death.

Hospital Wards
Once registered, immigrants were free to enter the New World and start their new lives. But if they were sick, they spent days, weeks, months even, in a warren of rooms. Some, like the tuberculosis ward, were open to the sea, where a gentle New York harbor breeze cleansed their lungs, improving their chances. Other rooms were solitary, forlorn places where the illness itself decided when to leave or stay. Most patients in the hospital or Contagious Disease Ward recovered, but some were not so lucky. More than 120,000 immigrants were sent back to their countries of origin, and during the island's half-century of operation more than 3,500 immigrants died there."

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/goldman/peopleevents/e_ellis.ht...

And that's not even covering even less-friendly actions, like the Chinese Exclusion Act.
Why, I'd like see teaching and testing separate in that case, so the information stays accessible, while the capitalization on the students is left to those in need to submit to it. I suppose that's what you meant.

The judgment on exercises that is helpful to the students in traditional universities is a factor proportional to the size of courses. On the one hand there is automatic testing, that's feasible in basic matters. Take Khan Academy for example. A test that anyone can do with advanced knowledge is a simple application.

The motivation to really learn, that some get from deadlines, is learned and it's less direct than an actual want to understand a topic. In that sense, while a job doesn't need to become a passion, the drive to really dive deep into a topic comes as part of a hobby and so the tax payer would probably not want to afford that. But that is a different topic and I'm biased against taxes.

In any case, costs could probably be reduced so much per student, that it needn't be the driving factor, far from the tuition that is payed now.
Nice story! One thing I have been thinking about, for completely blind (English isn't my native language, so sorry for not using the correct/polite terminology) users, (that have 0% vision on both eyes) it would be possible to use a laptop without a screen, I guess.

Essentially simulating the screen for the screen reader to work with, but not rendering the output anywhere (or even having the screen hardware to render it on). Just imagine how mind boggling it would be to see someone working at a coffeshop with just headphones on and the bottom part of a laptop, or at a desk with no screen on it!

I get that it probably don't make sense to manufacture a product like this, but still, would be really cool I think! :)
First, would have to agree that there is quite a bit of history being ignored, but I suspect this deck is more to excite and interest investors than anything else.

The value of AI depends largely on perceived value IMHO, and the frequency of "winters" will correlate with that. I think we are still a bit too early for VR to really take off, but that did not stop a $2b acquisition and loads of investor interest. This will probably artificially constrain what should be an AI winter right now, just because so much money is continuing to go into it.

I personally applaud that so much enthusiasm is going into AI right now, and though we are repeating history to some extent I still think we are making incremental advancements (however small) - even if this just means applying old AI techniques to new advancements in hardware.
Yes and this will without a doubt take place too. In fact, some would say it's already happening.

My point is that the process, if we might call it that, will be osmotic and not discrete. Of course there is also the notion of people believing that there is a layer of central planning somewhere and that "we" (groups, organizations, nation states) actually have high-level organizational control over what is happening.. Watching Taleb talk about tail events will quickly put these notions to the ground.

We shouldn't waste time inventing such control when there is none or even inventing the illusion that such control will be effective. All we can do, I feel, is guide.
H1-B isn't just abused to depress wages. Mediocre managers love it because docile H1-B body shop contractors are no threat to their careers. This leads to bad corporate IT quality and reduced competitiveness in US enterprises. You can even get them to pantomime the Agile thing and look all progressive and shit, even though those H1-Bs will never rock the boat.
My point being that in the two generations of one-party rule in SF, there has never been any semblance of fiscal responsibility. I wouldn't rely on that happening now.
Any suggestions of other good sources of similar articles?
All the lonely people
Walmart Canada will no longer accept Visa because of “Unacceptably High” fees
Bash aliases for Harry Potter enthusiasts
Neural style transfer is extremely fun to play with.

If you have a system with a recent-ish graphics card (I'm doing fine with my GTX 970), put a linux on it and check out the many GitHub projects that implement this stuff (some of the tools will only work on linux).

It's a great way to start learning about deep learning and GPU based computation , which are starting to look like very good things to have on your resume.

Plus, you get to make cool shit like this that you can actually show to your friends. I'm getting more interested in the text generation stuff as well too - I'd love to make a Trump speech generator :-)
NAFTA did that anyway.

We just systematically deprived those workers of their rights while they built stuff, worked in meat packing plants, restaurants, etc. Meanwhile the urban poor deal with 50%+ unemployment rates.
Meta-reply:

(Edited. I fucking hate autocorrect sometimes.)

Why do people compulsively inform the internet that they edited their posts after the fact. No one cares. Everyone here can see the edit link.

So I quoted the parent, so what?

If you edited your post, after a reply, each have the opportunity to either further edit, or even delete irrelevant posts. Deleting your post and re-posting can quickly disconnect your comment from bogus replies that jumped the gun, and landed in between the first post and the edit.

We all can see how long the post has been sitting, and if it's only been there a matter of minutes, an edit would not be surprising.

Do people feel guilty and dishonest about making edits to their posts? Why?
“Given that writing good English is a rare skill among programmers, we can ill afford to lose manuals this way.”

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-doc.en.html
People escape reality when reality sucks. I'm not sure without technology their lives would be much better. Less isolated? Maybe, but also possibly not for the best. Isn't no company is better than bad company?

I mean nowadays someone can spend the whole day on internet without talking to anyone. Is it sad? Well, consider that during this day he can have worked on a state-of-the-art free and open source software, discussed about it on IRC with developers all around the world, played chess online with a Grandmaster, followed free physics lessons on Coursera, asked a question to a famous personality on a reddit AMA, and so on.

What would have he done without technology? I don't know, but if he's the typical lower class worker, his day would typically have ended up drinking a few beers in a pub.
I agree that neural style transfer doesn't mean much in terms of art, but it sure makes some cool looking stuff!

Also, as I've mentioned in my top-level comment, it's a great way to explore GPU programming and deep learning.
If you like this article don't forget to listen to us chat with Algolia CTO on our podcast Search Disco

http://opensourceconnections.com/blog/2016/05/31/algolia-sea...

It's like the liner notes for the blog article...
I'm not awesome and chill -- I'm just old. And I am very very afraid that the rules are changing under my feet and I don't have a handbook.

I don't even know how to count teams that large -- I suspect the way I process "team" and you do are different.

I was getting my sea legs back when I was in semi-conductor, and (I don't recall, to tell the truth, but I think I'd never had a girl friend), I asked a lady for a date. She was very cool and said "no", and that she had a boy friend. I was a little mortified that I didn't already know this, but she was a (the?) sales engineer on on of my two accounts (Canon and Sony were "mine"), and I don't think it would have occurred to me to NOT work with her.

I guess I'm saying that I was embarrassed as hell, but it was my fault for asking for a date in the first place.

I am so sorry you had people (probably people like me) get their own ass embarrassed and treat you like that.
I'd argue that higher prices also mean the resources are consumed by those with the greatest need (as demonstrated by willingness to pay).

Take another example. After Katrina hit, some stores got investigated for "gouging" on water. Obviously, water is a necessity of life, post-Katrina municipal water supplies were unavailable in many areas.

Now, imagine that it was selling for $1/gallon two weeks prior to Katrina. What's the "best" price for the water to sell one day after Katrina? $1/gallon will likely yield rampant hoarding and scarcity of water for someone who might need it. Allowing the price to float will ensure that someone who really needs water will be able to buy it, though the price might be $5/gallon. I'd rather have thirsty people paying $5/gallon and drinking clean water than having a few AHs having hundreds of gallons of surplus water and no water available for sale. This is how I view rent control.

This would also serve as a strong pull signal to get more water into the area, but I suspect that was already underway.
If the thing is anything evolving from an internet, it would surely know how to shut off or have a strong incentive not to. We would have, but then you don't want the plans known. I see.
€10/m/location is damn impressive. I've run servers for a turn-based asynchronous and real-time casual game for the past three years. With ~700k unique monthly players (about 200k/day) we do about 1500 request/s at peak and pay thousands a month for our AWS stack. I'm not mad at it, I think we get great utility for what we pay, but this is lean and mean for realz.

Kudos!
Are you suggesting Intel has implemented hidden backdoors into all of their systems?
> What happens when the Silicon Valley boom is over? What happen to those neighborhoods?

When the supply of SF housing overtook demand in the late 1960s, and this oversupply led to incredibly-affordable rooms, it brought about the Summer of Love.
Oh wow, that looks amazing! I wonder how long it takes to transform those clips though...basic neural style transfer takes a few minutes on a standard gaming rig, so it probably takes a big machine or a few hours to do this.
Capitalism, aye. Is this Shirky's Law in action?
Haha the guy was a really top notch troll.
Fellow Vim user here. This has always been my reservation regarding a change of keyboard layout, too.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRESOR

OS X has a setting called "destroy FileVault key on standby" in `pmset` which mitigates cold boot attacks.

I kinda want the CPU/MMU to support loading encryption keys to transparently encrypt some or all of RAM (could also toss in error checking while we're at it). SGX has this in the trusted containers, but I think it makes sense for general use too.
"Ludicrous speed? Sir we've never gone that fast before. I'm not sure the ship can take it!"

Sorry. I had to. :P
I agree with you (at least assume strongly that I do), but I couldn't find a dictionary with that as the first definition. Most of the first definitions were more along the lines of "make full use of and derive benefit from (a resource)", making GP technically correct.
Where are you living now?

In DC its a lot better. Lots of people work remotely, or handle contract jobs, so there isn't a whole lot of politicking because the roles are pretty much set---hardly anyone gets fired unless its a cost-cutting measure from the owning conglomerate which politics doesn't help with, and contractors know they don't offer any loyalty to their companies.
Early 1800s: "Then why is slavery still legal in England et al?"

Right now: "Then why is gay marriage illegal in Japan et al?"

Etc. Your point has nothing to do with the drug war itself, it's broad enough to apply to any early-stage progressive proposal.
The city wouldn't have to look like Tokyo; we could end the housing crisis by increasing the supply by 30%, and we could do that by replacing just 6% of the city's single-family houses with six-story apartment buildings. The other 94% could be left alone, as could every other parcel in the city, and nothing over six stories would be necessary.

http://tinyurl.com/6storySF
Maybe it depends on where you are?I have several (male) french friends in the DC area, and they are some of the most structured and, frankly, unplayful parents I've ever seen. They almost seem uncomfortable even being around children. But, DC is pretty serious and high strung in general, so maybe it's the type of people the area attracts.
This was really great to read, in-depth and interesting, thanks a lot for taking the time to write it. :)
You can get around D.C. without a car---by which I mean the city proper and not the other metro areas.

In fact in the city, you're burdened by having a car.
Tangent: I've been looking for an update of the old Unix screensaver of "all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy" using a similar technique with a typewriter font. Anyone know?
And yet they are very anti-drug right? You'd think they'd somehow allow the use of amphetamines or Ritalin. Much more effective than caffeine.
My dinner with Peter Thiel
The history of Japan in 9 minutes
Most of these lose on weather, culture or proximity to the ocean for me.

All of SF isn't easy car free, but I live downtown. SF could have significantly better mass transit. In order to get completely car free in my lifetime would probably require opt in to a new city due to people who have jobs related to things that should be removed.

NYC is too dense and the main prominent industries appear to be wall Street, advertising, and fashion which are not things I like. Car traffic is also pretty horrible.
I think you're spot on with the observation that 2012 refers to when VCs discovered machine learning. Anyone who has recently interacted with VCs will tell you that they look for anything to do with machine learning (and VR/AR/MR), even when it makes no sense. There are going to be some companies who will be able to leverage machine learning to advance their business, namely, Google/Facebook who will probably claim they can offer better targeted advertising and such. Most other players who merely try to force machine learning on other fields are likely to realize that while the technology is cool, it's still too early for it to be generally applicable to "any" problem.

Especially dangerous is going to be the mix of machine learning with healthcare. I believe Theranos tried it and found out it's not that easy... I'd watch this space with skepticism.
Assuming the off-shore worker is 10% as effective as the on-shore worker, which, I'll be blunt, I'm not so sure about considering the anecdata I've amassed over the years working with some of these outsourcing body shops, like Tata, HCL, Cognizant, Infosys, etc.
> According to the US Code, the United States organic law is comprised of the [...] Constitution (1787). While mainstream academia says these have no legal or constitutional force, I'd disagree.

To be clear, you are stating that "mainstream academia" purports to hold that the "Constitution for the United States of America" does not have constitutional force? I find that more than a little hard to fathom.

(By the way, you do note that the Articles of Confederation were superseded by the Constitution through the acts of the state legislatures at the time and subsequent resolution of the Continental Congress, yes?)
Moonman: Save file serialisation
We're all familiar with the quality piece of software OpenSSL is.

Most people regard OpenSSH as very well written software. But guess what? Poor procedural controls at Debian meant that lots of systems generated weak keys. Certification of a known, verified build process helps with that kind of problem.
> Usually scientists try to get their paper published in other journals first (e.g. PLOS Biology), and if it is rejected there they submit it to PLOS One.

In fact, the higher PLOS journals push this path. Here's part of a rejection letter I got a few years ago:

"And while we cannot, unfortunately, proceed with your paper, we would like to suggest our sister journal, PLOS ONE (www.plosone.org), as a potential forum for the study. PLOS ONE aims to present the results of sound scientific research from across disciplines and implements new tools to allow discussion and commentary on your paper after publication. If you are interested in submitting your paper to PLOS ONE, we can transfer your files directly to their manuscript handling system."
Do you have a data citation to go along with that anecdote?
Building a SuperH-compatible CPU from scratch [video]
Came here to say exactly this as well! This definitely makes one feel better about the world! :D
The Tragedy of Eagle Computer