skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>A possible way forward is to concentrate on the central processor, treat peripherals as hostile

Reminded me of http://blog.invisiblethings.org/papers/2015/state_harmful.pd... (via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10787614).

>or to independently create an open SSD design

http://www.openssd-project.org/wiki/The_OpenSSD_Project
In my experience Sikuli/X was too slow for image search on high definition desktops.

UIs also tend to change more than keyboard shortcuts.
When the watch came out, I thought, "Oh that's neat. Not neat enough to buy, but neat." Eventually, I got a good discount on one and bought it.

While it may not be life changing, I love it. I use it daily and for lots of things. The reminders and notifications are extremely useful. Siri works great for me. I send texts from it, I set timers while cooking, I check the weather and time and next event I have scheduled. When getting dressed in the morning, I immediately notice when I don't have it on because it's become such a part of my life.

So I guess your mileage may vary. It turned out to be just what I was looking for without even realizing it.
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I've just spent months research different CMS alternatives and I've found vanilla Django to be far more pleasurable to work with than any of the add ons. Most of my clients can't be trusted to pick their own URL structures or deal with unnecessary buttons in the back end. Django gives me full control :)
Ask HN: Advice for building a live streaming website
I'm researching best practices to build a website for an educational institution who wants to live stream their classes.

Does anyone have any recommendations/experience with a project like this?

Thanks
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Measuring the right things is very important too. I was at a company that lived and died on user counts. We grew 30X in users over my year there, but no revenue so we ultimately died. (And costs were out of control too, and we lost focus, so much of this article hits home)
"Accustomed to being always at the top of his class, Heisenberg found it hard to accept the lowest of three passing grades for his doctorate."

The only sad thing I can see is that, according to the story, receiving such a low grade at his final oral exam in experimental physics undermined his confidence in his own skills in experimental physics.

I would hate to sound blunt, but receiving a low grade for being unable to answer basic questions should not be a surprise to such a theoretical genius. He got his doctorate anyway.
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Relax, there's still Gentoo and others which don't depend on systemd.
That is a misreading of the story. This story outlines a method that allows law enforcement to confiscate money stored on pre-paid credit cards in a similar fashion to how they've previously confiscated cash. It says nothing at all about judicial oversite.

There are, in fact, well established and relatively simple procedures for contesting civil forfeiture. There is a fair argument to be made that they sometimes don't work as well as they should but when you say that there is "NO judicial oversight" at all you are just just flat out wrong. You need to update your worldview if you want it to conform to reality.
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I'm surprised that the libertarian Misces Institute doesn't mention the mainstream theory that fringe benefits like health care were due to high taxes - %93 was the top rate. So employers were incentivized to attract employees using benefits.
Really? I found having my watch constantly buzzing on the steering wheel incredibly jarring. There is no substitute for a dashboard mount - directions should be a quick visual scan away, not a "let me take my hand off the wheel, raise my watch, scroll down to the dismiss button, and press it." Google Maps was the first set of notifications I disabled, with vigorous prejudice.
so full of himself...
> True, although for some things I do still like a visual test. Your users may be used to clicking a button that looks a certain way in a certain place, and suddenly shifting that might be worthy of requiring a change to a test. You wouldn't want all your behavioural tests done like this though.

A decent example of this would be that i've implemented frontend features before but did not notice an unintended pixel shift. I introduced a bug, albeit just visual, but a bug nonetheless - and i had no idea. Likewise, a minor visual issue like that can get through many stages of review and even deployment.

Pixel interaction may be terrible for early prototyping, but the idea has merit. Or, at the very least, perhaps it could identify by css/dom, and throw warnings for pixel alterations.

I like the idea of letting design people programmatically enforce standards (Though, no idea how to make them do that programmatically lol)
I would argue Android does have that...replaceable launchers, dialers, address books, a full open-source repository of apps (F-Droid) and built-in side-loading of APKs make it more open than any other mainstream mobile OS, even if it isn't perfect.
There’s a new entry-level Tesla Model S, and it’s even cheaper
That's actually not true at all. You can be held in jail for months pending completion of a trial depending on your ability to make bail and the seriousness of the crime in question.
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I'm pretty disappointed. If anything Silicon Valley really screwed up by achieving the exact OPPOSITE of what the FOSS movement was striving for.

The commercialization of software has resulted in these walled gardens of proprietary software, closed data, closed formats, etc.

It's a sad day, for example, when a large percentage of the population actually believes that Facebook is the Internet.
I'm inclined towards thinking that it might be a joke.
It's actually due to the well established legal procedures of our country.
I'm pretty sure this is only because the current state of the art for software development is too hard, too risky and too inefficient.

Algorithmic and structural thinking are achievable by anyone. Most people just aren't willing to deal with arguing with a machine about what you mean (syntax), dealing with the accidental complexity and risks that modern languages and runtimes thrust upon you (memory management, declaring types, distributed consistency, persistence not being baked in, caring about where on the network your app "really runs"), and how much work it takes to go from a simple formula, some data and some money to a result.

If I am a scientist with a megabyte of numbers, a trivial map function (x^2) and a reduce function (x+x'), how many steps does it take and how many concepts do I have to learn and how long would it take me to run it? What if it's a gigabyte? How about a terabyte? A petabyte? A constant stream? What if my numbers are "weird" to computer science people like being bigger than a 64bit int or being n-dimensional arbitrary-precision vectors? Depending on these answers, why the hell are the steps and concepts I have to learn widely different? This is like the simplest problem to solve, and we just haven't. Software is solving problems it has invented for itself and failed both other disciplines and the layperson.
You weren't in that 5 min cutoff. And no excuses about being on the other side of the world
This one hit so close to home for me too. Your comment is what I would have written except my cofounder was a non-technical guy. In the future I am going to voice my concerns a little more forcefully.
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Correction: that is (probably obvious) supposed to say, "reward people for doing good things, and punish people for doing bad things." My comment is uneditable now, though.
Is this the course that you were referring to in 4)?

https://lagunita.stanford.edu/courses/HumanitiesandScience/S...
Nothing, and I presume they're making fun of IBM.
It is somehow reassuring that even a mind as brilliant as Heisenberg's had its limits.

Mandatory lame joke - "I love driving my Heisenbergmobile, but every time I look at the speedometer I get lost."
For me it comes down to this. Step 1 invest in some skills. That also means skills demanded by the world. In my instance PHP based stuff is fine even if not fashionable. People actually use PHP and there is enough there for me.
I have had other skills to get work with in the past but for now I only care about a few code keywords for codebases I use.

As well as a skill in demand I like to have a second string to my bow, this being another work thing. This can be an appreciation of retail sales through working in a shop, this may be useful to a client in retail that has bricks and mortar stores. Having worked in science can also be that second string of related experience.

Then there is the matter of being able to show confidence and enthusiasm in all communication. As per the mocking quote at the top, confidence and showing that does matter. As does enthusiasm.

Also, aptitude is important. You have to actually believe the job is as good as yours and to be convinced of that fact. That has to be as certain as your mum doing Christmas Dinner, not to be questioned or thought negatively about.

I very much believe that self belief is really important and that it should come if you do have in demand skills and acceptable recent experience. Exams etc. matter not in an in demand sector.
>I think this is where starting out small and simple usually works.

Very much agree. Make something quickly that somebody really likes, and try and find more people who like it. Figure out what people like about it and expand in that direction. Rinse and repeat, as you expand just keep making sure more people want it.
> The examples you gave take no more than 30 seconds. Sure, FADEC can eliminate most of them, but they're quick.

Sure. Maybe I shouldn't have picked the engine section as the example.

In the context of this thread, way more than that is needed.

> Put another way, the latest fighter jets and commercial heavies still have significant visual preflights.

And that is fine. The stakes are high, the plane itself is much more complex and placed in high demand, plus they can hire staff.
Having been through the cycle twice I'm going to tell you a secret.

You could be the greatest developer, who has honed skills in every language and still be in bad shape. What you know has NOTHING to do with your ability to survive.

You need cash on hand. A lot of it. That recommendation about three months in the bank, you should have six months or better yet a year of your current salary. If you get laid off, you better start living lean. Cut every expense you don't need to make that money last as long as possible.

You need to have a network, cause skill alone won't get you work. Its quickly going to turn into "who do you know" and "who can get you in the door". It is vital that you build and maintain these relationships NOW, cause when it hits the fan, its going to be too late.

Honestly, the down has always been good for the bay. There is a lot of "medium talent" in the bay right now, and a down market is very much going to clear all of that out.
You forgot the big one: Most small aircraft cannot fly in bad weather. If it's raining, windy, or even cloudy these things are going to be grounded if the pilot doesn't have an instrument rating.
Insurer to offer policy for self-driving cars
MS doesn't have such strong verticals anymore. The end of the consent decree, the "One Microsoft" initiative, and the massive reorg from a couple years ago all went a long way towards breaking down barriers internally.

Windows releases OSS projects as well, it's not only the dev div team that values open development.
Well, i'm more concerned about the data than talk or text. Most of the calls i make are done via Google on my laptop (free minutes), so i almost never need minutes on my phone. It's not the data price of Fi that bothers me, it's the flat $20 charge for Unlimited Talk/Text that i don't want to pay.

If they gave me $5 or $10/m for reduced talk, i'd be in heaven
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Sooo, after Microsoft came out with their project management thing inside 365, I decided to rush some stuff and post what I've been working on for the past six months or so.

Couple of things:

* we went with a news feed format instead of checklists or Kanban boards. I'd love your thoughts on how well this works.

* we're really trying to leverage Gmail in ways that are helpful. For example, you may send an email to a client, then forward that email to your boss and the rest of the team right after. Instead of doing that, you can just log the email to the project as you're sending it. Then your boss (and everyone on the project team) is in the loop without unnecessary BCCs or forwards.

Would love your thoughts and bug reports. :)
One point I took away from the article was to look around and think more deeply about what issues today are just important as freedom in computing was during the ascension of Linux.

To me, a big one is ownership: who really owns/controls the things we purchase?

As for free software, consider that desktop computers are rapidly becoming less and less relevant to consumers at large, on average, yet they are also becoming one of the last holdouts of free software. Of the devices being produced and sold today, what fraction are free and what fraction are locked down? How do you expect that to change tomorrow?
To be fair, that was a default, but you can change it, or avoid it entirely by not installing the launcher developed by Canonical. Which was always both the strength and Achilles' Heel of Linux compared to other desktop OSes. For people that never install Unity (Kubuntu, Lubuntu, Ubuntu Gnome), it's simply not an issue.

This is quite a bit different than, for example, the situation with Windows 10.
I don't see where your reply fits in. The article isn't claiming anything that you seem to be in opposition of? It doesn't say what reality is (whose anyway?). It points out mechanisms. With those mechanisms anything is possible, from Hitler to fantasy land.

Example: Describing the laws of physics doesn't give any description of whether you stand in a wasteland or in a paradise. Either one is built upon the same rules. The rules the article mentions don't rule out the worst much-less-than-cooperation outcomes.
Reposts are allowed on HN if a story hasn't had significant attention yet (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html). Links to previous submissions aren't helpful if there's no actual discussion at the other end, which explains the downvotes here.

Your post beat this one in time but this one won the luck of the draw. Sorry about that. We're hoping to change the duplicate detector in a way that gives the original submitter credit more often, but for the time being there's still a lot of randomness in which post gets traction. For now, the way to mitigate that is to submit many good stories; it evens out in the long run.
Amazon still doesn't turn a profit. Neither does Salesforce. Their measures are pure revenue / growth.
One point that I've not seen mentioned yet, is that the neural revolution somewhat aggravates economic inequality. What recent progress basically has shown is that deep learning works better with more layers and more resources. Geoffrey Hinton has also recently conjectured that there exist a pretty much unexplored regime of applying gradient descent to huge models with strong regularization trained on relatively small (but still big) data. This inequality is alleviated to some extent by the fact that the machine learning community fully embraces online education and open science, but still, you need 50-150 GPUs to play human-level Go and having several grad students that explore a wide variety of complex and huge models is key for progress. I can only see this aspect getting worse in the years to come.
This works at the macro and micro level.
I think the rationale is: You don't want to be holding an asset who's value is predicated on a very low interest rate loan. If mortgage interest rates go up by a factor of two, housing affordability will come down by a factor of two (assuming an interest only loan). Better to sell now, pocket the money, then buy back in when prices are lower.
Today i learnt haha
What does the snake represent?
Hrm. Looks like a neural net wrote this comment.
People are discovering simpler ways of climbing stairs and stay fit
A subscription that works basically like paid software you can keep plus a maintenance fee is much more palatable to me. I place a high value on being able to maintain access to my tools and creations, and prefer models (including FOSS) that permit that.
Intel SGX.
A reassuring story for those of us who feel we are strong in many areas but fear we have deep, dangerous holes in certain fundamentals.

This vignette explains part of something I hadn't understood about the emergence of Heisenberg's work (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werner_Heisenberg#Matrix_mecha... ): he seemed to work out the core theory of QM without really developing a sensible, general approach. Compare this to Newton, who did develop calculus to explain mechanics (even if we these days use Leibniz's contemporaneous work). In Heisenberg's case, Born was the one who realized that we should use matrices.

It's still weird that Born didn't get the nobel for this work and had to wait 20 more years to get one.
Presumably, it'd be a joint copyright. When two people write a book together, both hold the copyright.
Biotech is on the hunt for medical mutants
Was there a justification why the Ledger Blue still has a proprietary HAL?
No, we don't know why. You also have little basis to claim the biological visual cortex is optimal. It certainly works, which is enough for people who draw inspiration from it.
No, it's also old news that they're removing it, considering they announced that a whole three days after people started complaining.
What an excellent snapshot. I could absolutely see those headlines as being April Fool's day jokes just a few years ago.
The most important thing to keep in mind during a downturn is who is funding your company and what is your burn rate? If you're running off revenues and profitable and your market isn't other startups or a bubble area like residential real estate in 2008, you have a good change of making it through. Same goes for if your company is funded by a patient angel investor with lots of money to spare. Otherwise, things probably aren't going to go so well.
>That car analogy breaks down due to the fact that you're driving a relatively obscure car manufacturer/make/model

Not sure of where the GP lives, but PSA (Peugeot) is the second car manufacturer in Europe (after Volkswagen) in terms of markets share, and the first in France...
I'm sure "someone" knows how to run them, arguably justifiably if you have paid for them.
I've seen meaningful progress metrics in R&D-stage companies working on fusion, synthetic bio, AI, rockets, and more. I think they're especially important in R&D companies, because it's so easy to go off into the weeds or solve the wrong problems.
>new news

The linked comment was posted 29 days ago. That's not really new but then again some people might not be aware of it or the whole thing.
Give those people some credit! They happen to be also well aware that the Web is the Internet, and that Wi-Fi is also the Internet.
Not to mention icing conditions!
Do you have any more positions for roles like that? I'd like to apply.
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The fact that X works and A, B, and C don't work, does not imply A is globally optimal.
I don't see why their management career would be over. Especially if they are looking at management opportunities at US companies operating in France.

This is an industry I know well and certainly some of the FR country managers of US tech companies have shady pasts. In a sales-driven organisation this is usually seen positively as some sort of war wound (ie: this is a man ready to do what's necessary).
What's a reference for the connection between Elo and Gaussian process classification that you mention?
Excellent answer, thank you.
The Apple watch came with some pretty high end cases but, even if it had been a useful product, the rapid obsolescence curve made buying a nice case a true waste of money. The same goes for all other smart watches on the market.

What I'd love to see is a smart watch that comes in two parts:

1. A case

2. The "movement"

If a smart watch manufacturer released a case and movement separately and then committed to providing compatible movements in the future, suddenly you wouldn't have to feel bad about buying a nice case. Upgrading the movement every couple years would become relatively cheap. If the company made the case an open standard, you'd likely be able to get one from your favorite watch maker, making their smart watch a much more personal item, as mechanical watches are.

This has already been done with mechanical movements. e.g. Many mechanical watch manufacturers only make cases, and put ETA movements in them. Given how long mechanical movements can last, it's just bizarre that this hasn't been done with smart watches yet.
> I wrote the original white paper for Larry analyzing the state of the Linux kernel.

Would you mind sharing a link by any chance?
Perhaps not, but for good reason: "dear haters" and "dear dissenters" mean different things. As does, "To everyone who disagrees, please consider ..." The word "haters" is combative.
As a software developer, I find your comment to be the most ridiculous.

Yes, it's on a higher end compared to what you would normally see but I would say that the regular salaries are too low. As a software developer, we have the capability to generate tremendous amount of value. Currently, most of the value is captured by C level executives (getting paid millions). Why should software developers not getting more in proportion to the value they add?
Something from 1 month ago isn't "old" in the HN context. Heck we often discuss stuff years after it happened.
Noice! I'm excited to see how the results turn out. Have you guys thought of incorporating info other than player and match data, like money-lines?
Is this the year Elon Musk's SpaceX fortunes will lift off?
For a statement to be logical it must be universally applicable. So you feel the same way about executive compensation at large firms I presume?
I was in one of the so called "low cost tech hubs" of Dallas/Austin in 2008 during the recession. Anecdotal, but people in tech were doing a lot worse than in SV due to lack of jobs. If you were a reasonably good engineer in SV, you kept your job or at worse got a job at a lower salary in SV, while in Dallas/Austin people were losing jobs outright and unemployed for months since there weren't enough companies around.

This may have changed 8 years on, but I'm skeptical from what I hear from friends and acquaintances in Texas. From an R&D operational point of view, you cannot just up and move all major operations from SV to <insert any tech hub> on a whim. It may work for a 10 person startup, not for a company with thousands or even hundreds of employees.
Can it generate sequences of emoji that is has not seen before?
This is cool, even if it seems kind of frivolous. Word embeddings work for emoji just like they do for actual words, and it's neat to see an idea for how to commercialize that directly.

I wish they had explained details, such as what two-dimensional non-linear projection they're using for their map.

I also don't see it fully explained how they're getting representations of sequences of emoji. They explain how their RNN handles sequences of input words, but the result of that is a vector that they're comparing to their emoji-embedding space. Does the emoji-embedding space contain embeddings of specific sequences as well?
Flying cars, of course, are ridiculous.

Best sentence in the article.