skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Goodbye, Times of India, and Hindustan Times. And anyone else who joins the bandwagon.

What's surprising is, that unlike in the US, newspapers in India aren't in a decline and have no need to do this. Subscriptions (the print variety) are strong despite print ads getting increasingly in-the-face. I'm pretty sure this will get them to the cesspool soon enough.
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I have one question regarding the statement:

"the cloud infrastructure cannot be more than 100km from the end device consuming the application, due to the finite speed of light, which can only traverse ~100km (round trip) in the 1 ms that is available for the networking portion ..."

Since light would traverse ~299km in 1ms, would the max distance of the cloud architecture be ~149.9km - assuming we do not take into account any additional processing and response times?

Edit: The author was using the speed of light in current-day fibre-optics as an estimation (~213km in 1ms, a reduction of about 30% from vacuum).
Relevant - http://www.nature.com/nphoton/journal/v7/n4/full/nphoton.201...
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HTC turns its Vive VR business into a separate subsidiary
Could someone please explain what I'm looking at? My financial education is severely lacking ...
For context, I think it's a shame Carp don't gain the Swimming skill anymore. Or teeth, apparently, if the wiki is to be believed.
That's was the attraction. I guess it still is for very simple web apps that one person can build. It's been a while since I've worked on anything like that. It's probably been a few years since I've even signed up for any service like that. The web has moved on to building more scalable things.

If you're writing something moderately complex then you're very likely to be running it on a virtual instance (maybe more than one) on AWS/Digital Ocean/etc, and if that's the case then you'll go much faster if you have a testable, reproducible build process that your development team can tear down and build back up easily. That is much more complicated than FTP'ing a few scripts to a server and importing a SQL script with PHPMyAdmin, but at the same time, as soon as your service hits a few thousand users with hundreds of them accessing it concurrently, your PHP script FTP'd to a shared server probably isn't going to work very well.

Learning new things is not a reason to avoid moving forwards. If anything, it's why I got in to web dev in the first place. New things are what make it interesting. I don't learn all of them, and I don't switch tools very often, but sometimes something comes along that makes life better. Reproducible builds with Ansible/Puppet/Chef/etc is one of those things.
Is that not the speed of light in a vacuum? I believe its different in different mediums.
It's not really a competition if the companies don't try to innovate.
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Jeff Bezos Heats Up His Space Race with Elon Musk
Yes, the vetting part is also important. As it is now renowned newspapers are serving ads that are border fraudulent, and I don't really understand how they are putting their reputation at risk this way by letting third parties publish non-vetted content on their site.
I think the changes have big effect on Indian Media ,they already lost 100 million page views
http://factordaily.com/indian-news-sites-lost-100-million-pa....
Memristor technology is  losing to COTS
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We are one of the top Strategic Consulting Firms specializing in providing business solutions to the travel industry and cater to a lot of small as well as big businesses all across the US.http://travelteamconsulting.com/strategic-travel-marketing/
ads are just a too complicated way of making money.
if they want money for their stuff, then they should remove the adds, put a nice big pay wall and voilà.

"No one who refuses to contribute to the creation of high quality journalism has the right to consume it.”

I'll pay or not. But I won't have to fight an arm race anymore.

Or maybe the guy is lying : he wants a very particular kind of "contribution" to his journalism. Maybe a contribution in terms of tracking, personal information, etc...
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DBAN all the disks, smash all the chips, degauss the scrap and ship straight to your nearest neutron star. Proceed to direct said neutron star into the nearest black hole. Accelerate said black hole to at least five 9s of c, along whichever vector is least convenient.

The backup tapes? I'm sure the trash is fine.
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The rise of self-learning software
This seems oddly controversial, I guess the downvoters didn't see the original comment.
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Intel Furthers Machine Learning Capabilities
Google extends TensorFlow machine learning to iOS
Yes, it's about 2/3 c (speed of light) in a fibre optic (refractive index n=1.44), and about 1/3 c in a copper cable. Air barely slows it down.
All the flavors in the world, and you choose salty.
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AWS’s Elastic File System is now ready for production use
But even when with regards to innovative monopolies, the monopoly can lead in the wrong direction. On example is that today because Google monopolizes search, you cannot find a decent forum search engine, which seems terrible from the Democratic perspective.
Everyone is welcome to donate a bitcoin or two. :)

The address is on my Orbital Designs site - http://orbides.org/
I think the value of what he does is that it's driven by curiosity. A pile of money donated by people might put him under pressure to deliver things to his audience which might ruin that.

A fund that hackers can apply to for building cool projects is an interesting idea though (to the extend that I'm sure one already exists).
Getting into Blockchain development is hard so we built an online course
At least in terms of its effects on network speed, latency and reliability to mobile devices, I don't expect 5G to deliver anything like the hype it's getting.

Having witnessed the roll-out of 2G, 3G and 4G over the last 15 years in the UK, with each one being as disappointing, over-promised and patchy as the one before it, I'm hoping to be surprised. But I'm not holding my breath.

I have a phone that has been downgraded to 3G only because my provider's 4G is actually slower.
The answer is to use one of the "hidden variable" interpretations of quantum mechanics. Bell's experiments have ruled out local hidden variables, but hidden variables that violate locality are still permitted. Since this function takes the global state of the universe (hidden variables included) as its input and returns a new one for its output, there is no restriction for locality, so it remains consistent. Whether its philosophically fulfilling is left as an exercise to the reader.
Ask HN: What about an IDE with code completion based on Neural Networks?
I am aware of the smart code completion in IntelliJ, I am wondering about generating suggestion on Class, Methods etc based on a neural network trained using interaction data from people writing code?
Yes it is. Despite all the other replies asserting SONAR is active, passive SONAR systems are very much a thing.

For my undergraduate project years ago I built a microphone array that could be used to locate noisy objects. I demonstrated it by tracking aircraft taking off at a local airport.

Whilst I didn't make 'acoustic photos' with it, I did plot the flight track of the aircraft in real time, and could have a decent crack at identifying it based on frequency content.
There are a couple of advantages:

1. It's based on Theano, so it's fast. Also you are able to run your code on CPU and GPU.

2. NeuPy supports a lot of algorithms and different layer types (http://neupy.com/docs/cheatsheet.html), so you can easily construct deep neural networks.

3. In the NeuPy it's easy to read and understand network's structure. One of the newest features is a Subnetworks (http://neupy.com/docs/layers/basics.html#subnetworks).

4. Neural Network Surgery is another new feature (http://neupy.com/docs/surgery.html)
If a site is obnoxious enough to block you for ad-blocking, the chance that they actually have compelling, unique content is close to 0%. Most of the worst offenders are content farms and plagiarist shops.
No, they're not. None of my friends that care about current events really use Facebook, but if I want a picture of a forklift, bacon, or anything else that was on Imgur last week, Facebook is right there for me.

Honestly it's pretty hard do discus Facebook, what Facebook does, what it's used for and how people see it, because it's so different from person to person.
The same way it works with newspapers, I'd say. Check that it is there when you expect it to be there.
This is hilarious. Wasn't this supposed to be Facebook's original goal until they got greedy and started pushing all sorts of other nonsense to a user's feed? Now they're realizing that that same greed is making them lose users over the long term. Whoops.
Perhaps not as a regular income; but if funding for these projects is a limitation I bet crowdfunding would bring in funds to keep these posts coming :)
>Apparently this desire is wrong.

Because it's not profitable.
Are you guys sustainable, given your free tier has sufficient functionality for many use cases?
I selectively block JS, with uMatrix. I allow 1st party scripts by default, and block all else by default.

Yes it's a bit tedious to enable domains when something breaks, but I'm actually fine with that. Would of course not recommend this to just anyone.
For those who prefer audio/podcasts, the Planet Money companion piece covers a lot of the same material: http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2016/06/29/484029238/episo...
Please make sure that the question is after they have already answered the other fields, and only one per interviewer. Priming is a major problem in this kind of testing, and if you are asking people to find fault in the perceived gender of a person, they then have a high chance the reverse a previous decision.
This might very well not be what you meant, but kids (at their best) are inspired, curious and surprisingly determined in large part because they don't understand the concept of "hard work". They build their own stories in their heads which makes the process itself rewarding and challenges irrelevant. Which is what makes it so great. Some other young bloggers:

http://gizmodo.com/5911806/adorable-nine-year-old-girl-revie...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/true-crime/wp/2016/04/05...
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If this applies only to the first renter of a property, it is https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hire_purchase with the twist that maintenance risk slowly moves to the renter.

That can go OK, but the wishes of you and the developer may not align perfectly (the developer may want to spend $20,000 on improvements, to be split 50-50 between him and you, but at the movement you have only $5,000)

That gets worse once you move out. You effectively become a landlord, and your goals may no longer align with both those of the developer and the new renter.

If you want to use hire purchase for the second, third, etc. renters, too, things would get complicated fast. Say, there's a maintenance job of $10,000 to do. The second tenant doesn't have the money, the third one died a week ago, the fifth one married and divorced, the seventh one wants to spend money on other improvements, etc. Now try to get all owners to give permission to spend any money.

If you want to own something, I think it is easier to just buy one property or to invest in a developer that builds properties.
Welcome to the new financial overlords much better than the old financial overlords.

The gods of "libertarianism" must be laughing right now.
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Yep speeds on Cellphones can be crazy fast, I was testing a WIFI connection speed with a cellphone. Data was quite consistent ... until I noticed I was on 4G. Only to get lower results when I turned 4G off (the WIFI there is slower).
Likewise, everytime I see the target url links to Wikipedia, I clic, it's almost always something insightful.
But those jobs are already shitty. I visited Amazon warehouse once, the workers there aren't happy. Guess no one will if your daily work is about following instructions on the screen to move stuff from A to B. The warehouse is noisy, and the process is optimized in a way that there is very little human interaction. Those kinds of jobs are the one that need to be automated.
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It DOES use GIFT - http://github.com/disintegration/gift, but eh.. it works
Works fine with uBlock (OS X latest, Firefox latest)
I believe type theory and typed programming languages are very valuable. But if you keep your logic in code and your store as a dumb store then the store doesn't need to know about them.
Exactly right: OpenCV is the worst. And lots of trouble with Python 2 and 3 things that "just work" on Windows. I guess people don't do a lot of "real development" on Macs -- around the world, Windows is still the standard.

The only thing I use regularly that works better on Mac is "Vagrant" 1.8. I have to stay on 1.7.4 on Windows. If you look at their issue tracker, it's clear nobody's caring too much about Windows over there. Of course, with the Subsystem For Linux, I can just run the Linux one on Windows!
Every time this debate pops up, I find myself asking the same question: why aren't media companies creating ads I want to consume?

This is a trick question: they are. It's called native advertising.

Ad blockers block the scummy ads. It's still possible to make a living by serving ads, but it implies that one can't be lazy in his monetization strategy.
Hi, sorry for the late reply, I had a busy day yesterday.

Thanks for the article, it was an interesting read. I think Sourcevoid is not quite as complicated to explain as photoshop but at the same time a bit more complicated by nature than something like a social consumer app.

I do believe the "in app" onboarding experience is important, we have tried to do that in a similar way as it is suggested in the article. I want to make it even better and I think we can and should continue to improve the onboarding experience over time.

You do have a good point, it might become a little bit too verbose maybe. On Dart emphasis, the beta page might give that impression, and we do have a lot of Dart experience, but at the same time the service does support Nodejs just as much.
Even in Java it's possible (but it's not a great environment to learn these techniques in - they usually end up being very verbose when expressed in Java) .
Some types of SONAR send out sound, other types (e.g. [0]) passively listen for sounds and use beamforming to localise the source of the noise.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Towed_array_sonar
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JS13k is a great game jam, and the only one I know that offers so many prizes to all the people that submit an entry (and even more prizes for the best entries). Great community too! You can join the Slack group here: https://js13kgames.slack.com

And 13kb (zipped) is not such a low limit! Especially if you manage to generate all (or most of) your game's graphisms procedurally.

The jam starts on august 13!
Same experience as well, 4G has consistently been better then my WiFi connection. And even if i had perfect WiFi Connection i was still limited by Internet connection speed. Which most WiFi Connection spot, even at home, are slower then 4G.
This is like claiming a firewall is unnecessary because properly-configured software should be unexploitable. It's correct in a certain sense, but it ignores that configuration is terribly difficult to do correctly, hence the idea that security should be layered.

Ad-blocking is a security layer; browser configuration is terribly difficult to do correctly.
That wasn't a comparison to the 30 year fixed mortgage, just brought up an alternative.

And this is not theoretical, the usual way to get a mortgage around here is Euribor with a margin for the bank added, practically no-one gets decades-long fixed mortgages.
There is a rather fine (abridged) audio book of Finnegans Wake by Jim Norton (Bishop Brennan in Father Ted), some of which is on Youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Ks60VrtJ4Y
Typically the speed of light in copper/fibre is about 2/3rds of lights speed in a vacuum. Hence the discrepancy.
As someone who has been closely following Bitcoin since 2011, I do not think that article captures the current situation very well. Yes, there is a concentration of mining power in China, owed to their low costs of electricity. But it does not seem like the Chinese have found a way to use that power yet. In practice, it is a number of Western developers around Gregory Maxwell and Blockstream that calls the shots, aided by /r/bitcoin admin Theymos who recklessly removes posts that do not fit their agenda (I've received two temporary bans myself for mentioning ethereum in a comment).

I really hope that the Chinese miners start to make use of their power and move Bitcoin back towards its original vision. The block size limit of 1 MB was a temporary hack and the core devs who oppose an increase are in an obvious conflict of interest: if Bitcoin can scale the way its inventor envisioned (namely by simply increasing the block size limit every now and then), the business case of the company they work for falls apart. (Blockstream, who develops the Lightning Network, which aims at scaling Bitcoin by building another layer on top.)

What makes me hope is this sentence from the article: "He said in an email this week that if the core programmers did not increase the number of transactions going through the network by July, he would begin looking for alternatives to expand the network." Recently, I spoke to an executive of another large Chinese mining company, and he shares that opinion. If the "core team" continues to refuse to increase the block size limit, they will stop applying core's updates. For that case, some members already threatened to go nuclear and change the proof-of-work protocol, making all existing mining hardware obsolete - which is quite worrying and shows that Bitcoin development currently is not in the best possible hands.
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Any website that blocks me for using an ad-blocker will never see my eyes again. End of discussion.
I don't think 1-day will be that important, 2-day is fine for most orders. But the warehouses help them save a lot of money on shipping.But surely the saving on opex in a small robotic warehouse is less than a big robotic warehouse.
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I built a system a few years ago as part of my undergraduate degree that could localise aircraft using microphone arrays and acoustic beam forming. My primary sources for information were books on SONAR.

The system worked in real time but also stored all the raw data so it could be processed again later if you wanted. I also had some fun trying to identify the aircraft based on frequency content and details on engine speeds / blade counts from Type Certificates.
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The rollouts in the UK have been particularly dispiriting as the coverage doesn't seem to ever catch up (or indeed move at all) in rural areas.

You can be pretty close in to large cities in scotland and struggle for 2G coverage let alone anything faster..
Note that @dang, the "moderator", who will instantly jump in and shadowban people who say anything that's not "progressive" will approve of complete lies like the one above. I guess that's what the YCombinator logic compels him to do.
What if, and this is just based on a study on the teacher profession, men do not handle "attrition events" well either if they are going for a job that is female dominated.

When a person decide to take up a job that is not typical for their gender and goes against ones gender identity, that decision might not bring the same confidence that someone taking a job where 80% of the people around are of the same gender as the person. That lower confidence get then translated into higher drop rates.
Or in other words a bad idea. An idea is not a good idea if your LCV is less than your CAC. Please when you see a gap in the market investigate why there is a gap. It is possible that you are a genius that can see things that no one else can, but also consider that you are walking into a death trap.
UK is infamous for its overcrowded networks and sloppy telecoms, so that's not a problem of the technology itself. I have seen better Internet/cell networks in some 3rd world countries than UK.. In my country, there's a pretty big difference between 3G and 4G (and currently used 4.5G), where ~350 Mbps is an actual speed.
The leadership of YCombinator hates Jews, and tacitly encourages this type of discussion. You'll never see moderator @dang delete this stuff.
My laptop has a beamforming microphone array. The interesting part of the linked project is that you can literally see objects using homemade stuff. Well homemade except for the printed circuit board :)
In french we also have "recursion" but it's not used for the same proposes. "Mise en abyme" is used for art or something visual and recursion when it's about logic.
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I'm going to do that lazy contribution thing you do on HN, where you ignore the thrust of the piece and instead complain about the web experience.

https://imgur.com/kfbbZo2

Bell labs are you for real?
I made a game based on the Droste effect for Ludum Dare 31 where the theme was "Entire Game on One Screen".

http://hopfog.com/screenception
Why do you think this is the reason system32 was protected? I think it was simply protected for the same reason the program files folder was, which is security. Not to prevent user mistakes.
As far as the EFTA option is concerned at least, EFTA is keen to have Britain return: http://www.cnbc.com/2016/06/27/the-associated-press-the-late...
Try it on mobile...
Bezos is no Rockefeller: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_D._Rockefeller#Philanthro...
Outside of rural areas I have found 4G to be exceptional in the UK. It is true that I have lived and worked in Manchester and London since 4G came out but it is consistently faster than any wireless option going.

Which provider are you using? I've been on Orange then EE throughout the rollout
Of course in reality, patents are filed in large numbers by monopolies, and potential competitors are threatened with nuisance lawsuits, into either avoiding competition with incumbents entirely, or paying fees to them. Another area where the US seems happy to let monopolies flourish at the expense of progress and competition.
Even with newspapers advertisers don't simply accept the circulation numbers that the publishers report. They pay third parties to provide independent numbers. It's not just about whether the ad appears but rather knowing how many people saw it.
I attended this, quite an engaging discussion.
Also, let's not forget performance. Many ads make pages take forever to load and sometimes even crash.