skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"conversation as a platform"?

Is he talking about that "Tay" debacle? http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/microsoft-tay-racist-twe...

Reading this article reminds me about the story of McDonald's. After a certain level in the organization, at a certain executive delusion, McDonalds starts thinking they are all restaurateurs, and not low-quality fast food establishments to get a quick bite. They are so out of touch with what people are really doing and using their products, so misguided, they actually fail to innovate on their core concept.

For a company that finally has a decent web browser (and it's still not anywhere near Chrome/FF in terms of features and developer adoption), I am skeptical at best. Does anyone remember when Steve ignored the web and mobile for so many years, while Google and Facebook and Apple practically ate their lunch? Remember when he famously said he was "betting the company on .net"? http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2000-10-29/microsofts...

"AI" is just a tool like .net is a tool. It's not a product or idea. It's not a service. It's cool to be excited about your HoloLens and 3D calendar, but it's just a calendar, and after the hype has worn down most people would prefer to look at a calendar on a laptop anyway. "AI" is Microsoft's new .net
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12050667 and marked it off-topic.
Aztec.js – a JavaScript library for translating pages
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Marissa Mayer sure makes some interesting contracts. Remember that she was the one who recruited Henrique De Castro from Google and personally got his contract approved by the board (though curiously withholding his name and exact compensation details). He worked at Yahoo for 15 months and earned a $58m severance. That is in addition to the ~$50m he made while working there. Again, in 15 months.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-02-02/yahoo-hold...
That's right, symmetric encryption is fine. You're also right that protocols that rely on factoring or discrete log (more generally, any hidden subgroup problem) will be broken by quantum computers. However, this still means symmetric encryption is in trouble; namely in that we still need a post-quantum method for exchanging keys, otherwise symmetric ciphers will be virtually useless.
Heck, hardcode a name with an extremely unlikely-to-ever-get-used suffix, like: routerlogin.tplink
This is such an interesting idea! Lots of potential.

Given n (city,population, area) tuples for country C, find 2 cities, the line thru which slices C into two land masses M and N. M would then have k tuples and N would have n-k, such that the ratio of aggregate population of k tuples to the aggregate population of n-k would be 90+delta:10-delta, for delta in interval [1,9], whilst simultaneously you have the ratio of the aggregate area of the k tuples to the aggregate area of n-k working out to 1+nabla:1-nabla, for nabla in [0,0.5].

No idea what the optimal algorithm would be, short of brute force so O(n^2).

This is the sort of DS project a HuffPo would run - you can slice up countries not just based on 94:6 population but also crime rate, education, victims of homicide, what have you; all you need in tuples with larger arity.
This is precisely an area where CRISPR can have a huge impact in a fairly short timeline. With animal/crop genetics we often have more understanding for what genetics are important for what feature and how to introduce the CRISPR machinery into cells, combined with room for error. Remember that with CRISPR you usually need a whole bunch of cells/embryos etc. because the recombination step after cutting the DNA (CRISPR just cuts) may not always succeed as expected. Hard to do that (and unethical) with human embryos, much easier with chickens.

That said, we also need to get over the GMO thing. The science is pretty clear that GMOs are not toxic and no worse for the environment than normal crops (in some cases less harmful actually). We should continue to be careful and ethical as we explore this technology, but let's not get distracted by pseudo-scientific fear-mongering on GMO foods.
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Well you're right that we can have a generic FTS system with a general OS based search with specific handlers for mailbox types. I guess you're trying to say that the file formats have become too complex where the clients themselves can't implement them bug-free. About that, perhaps another way to tackle that is not to go back to a more "primitive" format but to improve the quality of email clients.

Personally, I never have IT problems, so I can't comment on the support burden. But I agree with you that if I had to re-prioritize, then reducing the support costs by trading performance and going back to a simpler format is probably worth it.
Here are just a few advantages over a traditional garden:

* You get fish

* Better yield, due to items mentioned below

* The optimal watering cycle, followed by a drain cycle, means the plants get the air, water, and nutrients they need multiple times a day.

* The water being reused means you need only 10% of it

* Going organic is really easy: just feed the fish organic fish feed

* No soil diseases

* Virtually no weeds (I’ve picked ~3 weeds over the course of the 1.5 years I ran my initial proof-of-concept prototype)

* Minimal maintenance: only need to plant, harvest, prune, and feed the fish
>>The protest should be against polluting the city to power a non-necessary activity by not going to the mall.

Nearly every major set up runs on diesel generators, where all would you stop going?

These sort of protests, bans etc don't scale well.
You are right in general, but note that for instance there are still many 2 stroke auto rickshaws: http://www.autocarpro.in/news-national/karnataka-ban-polluti....

Typically, the game goes as follows: new laws get drafted, local groups such as auto rickshaw unions get together and demand time/cash incentives to move to more expensive, cleaner equipment, local governments grant extensions, and the cycle repeats.

Then there are the general issues plaguing enforcement in India, which are listed in the wikipedia article.
Not only did Star Trek TOS feature the first interracial kiss on national television, but DS9 featured the first same-sex kiss a generation later. It also had some very prescient pre-9/11 warnings about the dark side of a war on terrorism.

The series has always been as much about social progress as technology.
Yes, that would be a good way to go.
I have a friend who partnered with another guy and they bought the Nokia OZO recently. I'm really excited to see what they do and hopefully will get to figure out someway I can participate and be useful. I'm very intrigued by video for VR. Though I am kinda sold on light field tech eventually being the solution.

That link is cool. I'll read it in depth. Thanks! I am excited by the possible shakeup in film theory caused by VR. I believe some really cool artistic innovations are going to come coupled with the technological ones.
> maybe the societal pressure for women is immense.

It is. I think feminism left our culture with the belief that it is OK for a woman to opt in to do anything she wants. But we didn't also get the message that it's OK to opt out.

Want a career? Great! Want to raise kids? Great!

Want to not have a career? Bad! Want to not raise kids? Bad!

It's unfair. I've watched almost every single woman I know in my age bracket (late thirties today) struggle with this dilemma in her life at some point. Instead of feeling that they can do anything, they feel they have to do everything.
Tribes 1 remains my favorite FPS experience to this day.
Can the page figure that with a JavaScript "watcher" or do the links have to be "physically" intercepted and redirected?
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I found the fact he was visible from the front door to be interesting. Most houses in SF do have awkward staircases in front of the door so I guess it's plausible... The door doesn't appear to have the greatest visibility inside http://imgur.com/vaSsAFx
Hey, cool. Always nice to see this work show up on HN. But I don't think this is the paper you're looking for. In '08, we could only spot phrases that we knew in advance, and they had to be at least a certain length.

The most impressive results -- going from encrypted VoIP to text -- were done by Andy White and others, a couple years after the paper you linked above. It's this one:

A.M. White, A.R. Matthews, K.Z. Snow, and F. Monrose. "Phonotactic Reconstruction of Encrypted VoIP Conversations:
Hookt on fon-iks." In Proceedings of IEEE S&P, 2011.
http://www.cs.unc.edu/~fabian/papers/foniks-oak11.pdf
The market for this is probably too small for the business to be viable at a $20 price point. Also, because a $20 plan and parts list isn't much of a commitment, most of the small group of people who buy it won't end up building it, and so the business will have minimal opportunities to generate success stories or, for that matter, to iterate.

Your (2) and (3) points seem solid!
Too many to list. Let your imagination loose. :)
>>BMTC (the public bus transport provider) has buses at least every few minutes along the main corridors during the day.

Actually definition of city has changed. Bangalore has gotten so big to a point, not all go to the core city for work these days. Plus it takes a lot of time negotiating traffic.

Underground metro is the best bet Bangalore has currently.
Killswitches: the killer app. Coming soon to a self-driving car near you.
Well, but neither the farmer or agriculture association are capable to actually collect the data - the data is generated as a byproduct when all kinds of systems do work on the farmer's fields, but it is generated by and within all these third party systems.

Aggregation and cleaning up of all that heterogenous data would be even harder, and that is definitely not the task for anyone who doesn't make their core business (I mean, none of the involved big companies is able to do that yet) creating and maintaining that capability can be practically done by a couple competitors worldwide, but not by every regional association duplicating the effort.
What are your thoughts on ENet?
And bees have been around a lot, lot longer than that. Also, thousands of years ago, there wasn't the capability of mass production like we have today.
Sixa gives you on-demand access to remote supercomputers
I don't think there is one, really. "Fast microcode" or something, maybe intel has an internal name.
Thanks, however I think an overall picture/summary that took into account seasonal differences would also be interesting in this context in addition to that type of real time information.
Has no one bothered to ask the visitors why they came?
Tell you what, replace the bits you don't like with something involving objects, or functional programming, or whatever your particular favourite is. It's just an example and the bit you've focussed on is the least meaningful part. Of everything there, it's the most trivial and the part that could be radically changed and make no difference at all.
The regulations are almost meaningless because of corruption.

A majority of drivers in India never took a test - they simply bribed an official to receive a license. Only a fool would pay the Rs 20,000 fee for a commercial vehicle roadworthiness test when the certificate can simply be bought for Rs 1,500. It's easier and cheaper to pay bribes than to work through the official bureaucracy.

http://faculty.chicagobooth.edu/marianne.bertrand/research/p...
http://siteresources.worldbank.org/PAKISTANEXTN/Resources/Ur...
http://thewire.in/16474/why-swacch-bharat-type-schemes-will-...
I've tried for a few minutes, but I can't understand Launchpad. How do I find the code changes associated with that bug? I want to see the fix…
He was in the process of attempted breaking and entering on someone's house. Everyone is glossing right over that fact. This is not some innocent man who was randomly beat up by the police. He was committing a violent crime and it sounds like reasonable force was used to stop it and protect the other citizens who were endangered. Read the other responses I've left for more.

I'm actually quite critical of the police in most situations, but this is one in which I side more with the people whose house was getting broken into than the one perpetrating that crime.
There were programming languages in widespread commercial use (e.g. Fortran and COBOL) and many others for niche applications or associated with particular manufacturers.
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So, by the current state of things, I'll have to visit the privacy settings in every single social network I'm using on a monthly basis just to make sure that they haven't pushed something I didn't agree on by subscribing to their service? Great!
"This seems a lot like cucumber, which is basically a regex expander until it gets down to real code eventually."

It's not at all like that. I must have explained it badly. Cucumber is written for a machine. This was written for humans. Not shown; design discussion, diagrams, links to requirements, pieces of history, and everything else that was helpful for humans to understand the software from requirements to design to implementation.
Especially with stuff like Raspbian, so many future programmers will be exposed to his work.
Seriously impressed by your answer to Q #1, kudos! ("I see no market there, but feel free to prove me wrong")

A bit of feedback: can I suggest including a bit of information about the project and aquaponics in general? It took me a while to figure out what this is all about. Something like "Grow your own food with minimal hassle" would help a lot.

EDIT: your answer below nicely sums it up, you might want to put it on the homepage: "Here are just a few advantages over a traditional garden:..."
I assume this is using the same or similar algorithm as the NRMP algorithm uses for U.S. residency match day?
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The Yahoo deal is US only though...
What are you talking about? They have enormous revenue thanks to their position as a desktop operating system monopoly.
Care to expand on that?
imgui is great, but I have a bit of an allergy on C++. There's Nuklear https://github.com/vurtun/nuklear which is a re-take on it, but in ANSI C. It's interesting to see GUI rendering takes so much of your processing time slot, or is it that everything else is so little?
Is there any way to get the crux of this whole discussion instead of going through each comment?
The irony being that they picked up the poster child of the untractable CS problems to give it a try.
The bootstrap problem is exactly why rust isn't in the Fedora repos right now, so I am very excited about this. Also, dylib will likely end up being preferred for distribution packaging (especially Fedora which HEAVILY discourages static linking, though there's no longer a strict no-static linking policy).
1. Most Indian power generation is Coal, there are hydel, and Nuclear is stuck in Gen2 (thanks to sanctions due to Nuke testing - the current Gen is 5)

2. There is scarcity of Coal, and Coal that is mined in India is high-soot

3. The demand for electricity outstrips Supply.

4. The supply never caught up with the demand because Transmission lines are owned by Government(state-level) and there is rampant theft

5. Because of theft and subsidies money is lost by government and the more the cost of generation the more loss the government will incur, so renewable is mostly costed out till recently.

There is hope though, Russia is building six nuclear power plants in India, more dams are coming online and investments in Renewables have increased.

Once distributed solar becomes affordable, the electricity owes in many parts of India would diminish or become tolerable.
Something I find bizarre about the current mobile reddit website is notifications at the bottom of the screen which must be dismissed, that include "you have been disconnected from the internet" and "you have been reconnected to the internet", as a consequence of Wifi changes.

You are just a damn website! I do want every website considering itself so important that it needs to subsume duties of the OS and present them with its own branding.
I haven't heard it in this context, but in the No Hair Theorem, the eponymous "hair" refers to "other information," so I think it makes sense. There's lots of hidden "hair," or information, at the company?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No-hair_theorem
Another possible scenario: Mozilla pockets $1B, several months later Yahoo goes bust and then they're free to do whatever they want because Yahoo can't perform any more.
I would like to think that the judge in this case, which is now a sprawling affair with EU and US groups queuing up to be joined to it, will have the nous to ignore the Business Software Alliance's rattling of an enormous moneysabre and confine himself to the privacy issues at stake. I wouldn't bet on it though; 1% of Europe's GDP is quite the figure to drown out wishy washy concerns like privacy.
I first noticed this yesterday when nothing was loading. Turned out "out.reddit.com" was down, thus breaking every single link.

That got turned off immediately.
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I would agree that my language was a bit loose but what I'm talking about still applies as long as the viewer can turn their head.

The main issue I was thinking about was that you cannot say for sure where your audience is looking at any moment in time.
It means having to court a new search engine provider for a revenue stream after those three years are up. Such a deal may not be as favorable for them as an agreement to stick around partnered with yahoo.
Maybe because it scales far better than HTTP polling, and there are ready-made libraries for many platforms?

XMPP is not just an IM protocol, it's also usable (and used) for machine-to-machine communication...
I can distinctly remember the air quality in Delhi improving drastically when the public transportation moved to CNG and the metro started operating in the early 00s. Over time though, the policy of building more roads rather than focussing on public transport has led to both congestion and pollution problems worsening.
I am optimistic that once the peripheral highways are completed and metro phase 3 is operational, air quality will improve.
Thanks! Where would you like to see that info, in the blog post or on the landing page?

Edit: thanks again for the tip, I'll add that to the homepage.
This is all explained very well in the book E-Myth by Michael Gerber written over 20 year ago and summarized here: http://bit.ly/29nSHeZ

Key take away: Just because a person knows the "technology" of the business, (mechanic, plumber, baker, etc.), does not mean they know the "business" of the technology.
The question is, if there's no healthy competition in the search space, isn't Mozilla (and the web) ultimately still f----ed?
maybe they're just saying he, specifically, shouldn't have kids ;)
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I was kind of baffled by this too, does the BBC not have access to anyone that speaks their language?

Also, the article switches between them being Japanese & Chinese tourists.. is the BBC even sure where the tourists are from?

I'm unsure as to why this is on Hacker News.
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Wonderful, thanks for taking the time to explain!
I wasn't saying "tech will succeed because of porn".
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It's one of those things that makes perfect sense, but you probably didn't think about.
Kara Swisher doesn't seem to provide any indication of where the information she's reporting came from

She claims to have seen the contract in the first line of the article.
It's probably in the privacy policy / terms of service that you don't read when signing up (no one does...). It's actually nice of Reddit to announce these sorts of changes and not just say "we updated our privacy policy"
The effort/yield sucks.

We do produce a lot of our own food, but give up much of our free time to do it. On the other hand, we are not dependent on the standard grocery store supply chain in this country, and while that is worthless right now, there are potential future scenarios where that is priceless. But mostly, we do this as a hobby and so that our kids know how to produce food, whether or not they choose to actually do so when they grow up.
Long term quite probably yes, but if they manage that money wisely and concentrate on their core product rather than on all kinds of funky (and costly) stuff it could last for a long time.
It's important not to conflate "Google that develops a web browser" with "Google the advertising and search company". The same applies to the parts of Mozilla that would interact with these parts of Google.

For both Google and Mozilla, the goals of these two (or more!) groups of decision makers will not necessarily align at all times. Ideally, whatever may be going on at the ad/search/business level shouldn't impact collaboration on web standards and implementation.
Hey! I'm the dev from the library.

If you have any cool ideas or recommendations to implement, just drop a comment or add an issue in the repo. That'd be awesome.

Thank you!
From what I see, there's a pretty good correlation between the population density map (https://www.britannica.com/place/Canada/images-videos/Popula...) and the portion of Canada at least sporadically covered by permafrost. (http://www.enr.gov.nt.ca/state-environment/13-permafrost)

In addition to the rather obvious climate this implies (eg, rather cold), from what I understand, building anything on permafrost is very challenging.
This is basically a very short 'summary' of the article here:

http://99percentinvisible.org/episode/unpleasant-design-host...

Except without much actual information. There's an interesting discussion on it in this Hacker News thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12041639
this is a great example of a good idea being turned into rubbish by dogmatic worship of The Idea (tm) rather than understanding the reasoning behind that idea.
Mozilla spent $15k to remove the word slave from documentation.
They are or have been experimenting with forced registration to view content too - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11955938
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Yes, in principle they should be able to put away enough to operate in perpetuity (albeit on a small budget). It would be interesting to know whether it's happening, presumably the finances are public so it shouldn't be too difficult to to find out.
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a hypothetical, future quantum computer would be able to retrospectively decrypt any internet communication that was recorded today, and many types of information need to remain confidential for decades. Thus even the possibility of a future quantum computer is something that we should be thinking about today.

Uh-oh.

Apparently not even Perfect Forward Secrecy can protect against this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forward_secrecy#Attacks
Free to do what, though?
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To be fair this is generally the last acts of any dying company. Try to buy/hire your way out of irrelevance only to burn up the last bits of liquidity your investors could hope to get back.
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The macOS Sierra public beta comes out later today
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Ah, re-reading I think I see where I went wrong. So code is written separately, but cross linked with these document identifiers?
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CRISPR really does make me believe that someone who lives to be 200+ is alive today. The potential and speed of improvement is so astronomical I can't wait to see the future.