skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Always ? from the few (~10) cellphones I disassembled I remember nothing that looked like a cell.

Also how do you trigger an emergency call ? manufacturer embeds a special firmware so you don't have to boot the main OS and only use energy for the call ?
SpaceX is planning on launching a satellite internet constellation with enough satellites to cover most of the globe.
Indeed. (Windows 8 users too.) It's a free update (like... you know, many other free updates) to a paid license. And it remains a paid license. "You are the product" does not apply to Windows 10, and that's why it's so key that Microsoft change it's strategy with regards to telemetry: We're paying customers.
I wonder too if HipChat compensated the original artist.

I would guess not.
Url changed from http://www.theverge.com/2016/7/21/12247370/police-fingerprin..., which points to this.

Submitters: please submit original sources, especially when there's an obvious one. This is in the HN guidelines (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html).
Though I don't necessarily agree with you, I'll upvote you as I think you bring up a good counterpoint that's not being discussed.

It's possible that this company's business plan assumed the replacement by obsolescence model - instead of a high upfront cost to recoup their R&D, they expected users to replace it every few years at full cost.

This is no different than the vast majority of the bait & switch type schemes the tech industry and every other market uses. If one is acceptable, I don't see why the other is not, just because a small percentage of the population on HN understands how to replace the electronic components of said hardware.

Should a chemist be able to manufacture patented pharmaceuticals in his garage simply because he/she knows the procedure? What if the drugs cost $10K a month because the company spent billions developing and marketing them? Now what if the chemist decides to make the expensive drugs for his family? And his friends. And their friends. Where does it stop?

The DMCA has been abused, but it isn't so cut and dry.
I've seen plenty of people suggest or question which is better, storing files in a database or outside of a database.

Like just about everything, each has trade-offs.

I don't find it immediately obvious that a database would never be used for such a thing, or that reaching for a third party file storage service is the only solution to consider.
Companies benefit a ton from cheaper labor. But the existing laborers lose out because of competition driving down wages.

There might be a neg positive effect on the economy, but the benefits go to the rich and the immigrants, at the expense of the local poor and middle class. Prices are not going to fall that much because of immigrant labor, and certainly not enough to make up for the decreased wages.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SW26010
That was an old IRA technique to detect certain types of signals nearby. Cheap headphones and a modified radio of sorts. Looking for interference.
My gosh, that is terrifying.
> A software developer that has code manipulating data through pointer casting or bitfields would not be able to simply recompile an application for one endian mode to another.

Why wouldn't pointer casting work as is across compilations on opposite endianness?
Why would you shoot an unarmed person lying on the ground in the middle of the road with their arms raised? It almost as if the police in America feel like no situation can be resolved without someone getting shot.
The purpose of copyright and patent laws is to give the greatest benefit to society (in the American constitution, the phrasing is "to promote the useful arts and sciences"). The granting of temporary monopolies to registrants is a common tactic used to achieve that end, but not the only possible one, and one that admits of many variations (terms, extensions, and limitations vary across jurisdictions and over time).

Maybe some people think that the exact laws we have right now are the best possible at serving the underlying purpose of the long-term enrichment of the public domain, but many seem to think that improvements could be made.
Sounds like something Ycombinator should look at soliciting startups for.
The analogy with sleep is even more apt when you consider that we forget our dreams, mostly. Not only is there no "continuity of thought", there are actual forks in consciousness analogous to brain uploading. Not caring if a digital copy of yourself lives on because "you" are still dead is like not caring if you're still alive when you wake up because either way, your "dream self" dies.
Perhaps out of all the morally reprehensible positions completely at odds with the notion of a free modern society Trump has espoused at one time or another, his intention to crack down on free speech by making it easier to sue those who disagree with you I think is often overlooked.

It is not as flashy as the abuse and bigotry towards every non white-male group under the sun, encouragement of political violence, advocacy of war crimes, torture, the wholehearted embrace of nationalistic fascism, etc.

But recall Thiel was recently in the news for financing the lawsuit that destroyed Gawker as part of a personal vendetta. If Trump had his way, Thiel would likely be able to simply sue them out of existence because he wanted to and was wealthy -- instead of waiting for them to do something illegal and helping to support the resulting lawsuit.

Perhaps the answer is not so strange. Thiel is wealthy and powerful and likes to use that power to reform the world around him as he sees fit, and sees voting for a wealthy and powerful person who wishes to give the wealthy and powerful more power will help to further his ends.
More on What GM Paid to Buy Cruise Automation (YC W14)
All of that information is already available from other sources for free. The only thing released that wasn't already accessible was the presentation and art-work from TIME. I hate feeling like I have to chime in on the side of large organizations against individuals, but in this case the thieves are absolutely in the wrong.
Meet Graham, the only person designed to survive on our roads
Well it will happen regardless of whether Facebook does it or not. Also it won't just be Facebook, there are many other companies (and future companies) that will increasingly make the world more connected. That's been the trend ever since the beginning of human history so I doubt it will stop.

So from FB's point of view, they probably don't want to live in a world where someone else makes the world a more connected place than them.
Go, IoT, and Binary Data
Tyler Cowen made some good points on this in terms of the general spread of bad mood, where a negative interpretation of the situation in one country can spread to others where it does not really apply.[1] I think there is also evidence of a more rapid spread of bad ideas, such as extremist views that can inspire individuals to acts of violence. The impact of connectedness on enabling international crime is also clear, and we've moved from email scams to ransomware. It seems that your idea for the increase in opportunities for interpersonal conflict would be an addition to this list of downsides, particularly as the quality of translation services increases.

[1]http://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-07-18/bad-moods-...
Facebook’s Giant Internet-Beaming Drone Finally Takes Flight
Wouldn't it be easier to use some kind of case or pocket [0] that acts as a Faraday cage?

0: http://www.popsci.com/sites/popsci.com/files/styles/large_1x...
Its disappointing as it shows that their ethics and bottom-line are to some degree intertwined
1 out of 8 people in the US are immigrants. That's the highest it's ever been in recent history. And more than enough to have a big effect on the economy.
Ten Years After: Welcome TeamCity 10
This is entirely backwards.

Mathematics is the study of patterns. Humans have amazing powerful visual and spatial reasoning centers in the brain which can process huge amounts of semi-structured information.

Writing words down instead forces everything through low-bandwidth serialized language processing apparatus instead.

Mathematical notation (and computer code, and music notation, and ...) benefit tremendously from even slightly exploiting spatial reasoning skills. But better is some kind of diagram, interactive simulation, or similar.

The fastest mathematical explanation is direct tutorial, person-to-person, where the amount of symbolic formalism can be reduced to a minimum, and hand gestures, chalk drawings, colorful verbal analogies, etc. can convey most of the message. When limited to pure symbolic formalism in a scholarly paper, mathematics teaching and learning is a much harder slog.

The reason formal mathematics uses symbolic formal language as a canonical way of recording results is that it’s easier to figure out how to verify it step-by-step and make sure that the logic is correct.

* * *

I’ll give you an example, from a paragraph a friend of mine wrote several years ago in a blog diary:

(I posit that you could decipher and understand this paragraph at least an order of magnitude faster if I drew a 30 second napkin sketch.)

> The tea room I went to is an “eight tatami design”, a large square space. Each side is two tatami lengths (four widths, two widths and a length) long. The eight tatami are arranged in the following way: from the entrance—which is in a corner, second forward on the left—two tatami extend into the room to meet the opposite wall on their short sides; the tatami touching the opposite wall is met on its right long side by a third tatami’s short side. This third tatami’s short side in turn meets a fourth tatami’s long side, whose two short sides meet the opposite wall and a fifth tatami’s short side. The fifth tatami’s second short side meets the room’s the fourth corner and its long side meets the sixth tatami’s short side. The sixth tatami’s second short side meets the first tatami’s long side. These six tatami form a square with an square empty middle. The empty middle’s sides’ dimensions are all one tatami length long. The middle, then, is filled by two tatami whose orientation is like that of tatami one, two, four and five—short sides to the opposite wall and the wall with the entrance. I tried out alternative arrangements and I might be wrong but I think that this solution (or a rotation of it) is the only possible tatami arrangement for the room’s dimensions that fulfills the rule “four corners must never converge”. Going in a circle around the room, starting at the door and following the direction in the description there, we can number the outer tatami one through six and the two inner tatami seven (left from the entrance) and eight (right from the entrance).
But we are talking about interviewing for a leadership position. Judging the health of a place by how its current tech looks might be valid if you are just going to be a coder, but as a leader, you will be expected to identify and fix problems. So it is OK if there are problems.

It is much more important to figure out how people communicate, how they are treated, how the other leaders think, what they want their culture to be, etc... If you can believe in a shared future vision, and participate in the process to move towards that vision, then the details of the status quo are far less important.
If I use self hosted analytics and exception tracking I have to ensure its up-to-date with security patches. The pros will do a better job at this than anyone will self hosting. Concentrate on your core business, knowing when to outsource is important.

As someone running an ecommerce website without using advertising conversion tracking from to our various advertising networks it would simply not be measurable or cost effective. It is an essential part of how the systems works.
Let's see how this notation holds up to nesting...
Wasn't color tv just a b/v signal with color data in overtones?
Culturally, I was scared of the streets and the public transportation can be really busy at times. However the people are really nice and curious to talk with you. Anyone with any English skills will say hello to you and are generally extremely nice!
Excited to see this piece - an ambitious guide to developing with Plain Old Ruby and associated tools!

I ended up disappointed. The piece reads in a very partisan manner, makes questionable declamations of common Ruby tools & patterns, and throws in a lot of obnoxious asides about how bad other programmers are.

Examples: "RoR is a good starting point for a young developer." Its usage encompasses just a tad more than that. "MVC is not an architecture." Just factually untrue.

That said, the lower portions of the guide have some good content and the list items describing popular gems are helpful.
How Things Float
Some people are noting that TensorFlow evens the playing field, allowing other companies to poach Google's employees. Whilst that is true to some light degree, there are amazingly large caveats - Google still have the major advantage when it comes to poaching. The other important note is that open sourcing TensorFlow is likely more important for attracting recent graduates in machine learning than it is for attracting employees of other companies.

Most machine learning engineers and researchers get excited by two things: underlying hardware and underlying tooling.

Google have enough GPUs to throw 50 K80s for a few weeks into the hands of a single researcher for a single paper[1]. That's impressive. It gets even more impressive considering Google are making custom made ASICs that are more efficient - both power and computation - than GPUs too. None of that hardware is open source and even if it was, I don't see anyone getting them into general production in the near future. Nervana[2] are the closest to custom hardware I know about yet still have many steps until production.

TensorFlow is also just the beginnings of the tooling Google has internally. The original TensorFlow whitepaper talks about their internal distributed training stack. A tiny recreation of this has reached the wild but it misses many of the interesting optimizations. (1) Automated efficient allocation of tensor operations to components (does this op go on GPU? CPU? Across the network to another GPU machine?). (2) Minor optimizations, such as truncating 32 bit floats to 16, then re-expanding - they noted it in the paper but I've not seen external verification. (3) Google DeepMind moved to TensorFlow but given they do a lot of reinforcement learning, they likely have a modified TF internally that's better tailored for RL. (4) etc etc etc

Given the majority of the contributors to TensorFlow are also from Google, that gives them the strongest say in the future of the framework. This is especially important given that Google would likely be trying to ensure their internal modifications and variations of TensorFlow remain in line with the open version. For that reason, I don't expect to see TensorFlow handed off to a third party caretaker any time soon.

Releasing TensorFlow is a net win for Google, both in "making the world a better place" and "making Google a better place (for attracting talent)".

[1]: https://arxiv.org/abs/1607.05691

[2]: https://www.nervanasys.com/
It doesn't make any sense. Rifles like you'd want for large predators or other animals aren't concealable.
I have no idea how police are trained but it seems situational awareness and decision making is something they should spend more time on.
The benefit of the service worker is that they can intercept all fetch events and would allow you to move validation code out of the thread that is running the UI. It can make for a simpler client, but really it's just shifting the complexity to another layer. However, there are a lot of potential benefits to service workers (eg. caching, background downloads, notifications—tho possibly a negative) so perhaps the added complexity is ok.
This is an extremely narrow view - Musk just elicits pathos to an extreme degree because that is the inherent nature of his products. If you seriously don't think social media has brought positive effects to the world and the human condition, you are naive and set in viewing the world through the lens of black and white.
I wish people understood you just can't go into a foreign country and do whatever the hell you want.

I think it comes down to how one measures progress. Sometimes you have to work with corrupt governments and monopolies because the alternative is really null. I'd much rather give a lot of people access to basic services than no access at all--in fact, one hypothesis is that people will eventually be able to afford standard internet service (censored or not).

Eventually, more informed citizens will demand better regulations and more accountability from said corrupt organizations. We can't do it for them, they need to do it but they must first be empowered. Hell, a lot of the people who will benefit could care less about net neutrality when they're starving and have very few opportunities!

It's the startup way--minus the complete disruption, isn't it? MVP, then iterate, iterate... A complete disruption is just laughably impractical.

Disclaimer: I used to work at Facebook, but these opinions are entirely my own.
> And I’m saying, ‘Sir, why did you shoot me?’ and his words to me, he said, ‘I don’t know.'”
NYPD used this robot to video chat with hoax bomber
Facebook offered to add an indefinite number of partner sites to the Free Basics program. But the problem is regardless of how many sites are offered in the free data program, it legitimizes the concept of 'zero rating', enabling wireless carriers to split the internet into tiers.
Is this purely a lack of training, or is it idiocy? Why would you shoot someone lying down with his hands up?
There was some noise about the GFW doing clever stuff(tm) to identify VPN traffic and punish the local IP for that. Was that real or hype?
You could have said "remote SC" or just "SC". I realize it's less colorful, but experience teaches that this is a price we must pay to have civil discussion online.

Had we been speaking in person it would likely have been obvious that you didn't mean it as a slur. But the bandwidth of online communication is so much lower that there's no capacity for such error correction even in one-to-one cases, let alone when hundreds of people are reading what you write.
I would go through my parents vhs library when home alone. Mostly garbage, but I found Red October that way. It was ok.
While this post limits itself to basic mathematics, the notations in group theory and advanced linear algebra JUST DON'T MAKE SENSE. Please read the "Brakerski’s Homomorphic Cryptosystem", section 3.3, of this ( https://eprint.iacr.org/2015/137.pdf ) paper.

I had to read it 10 times to truly understand what the notation was trying to say! Fail.
Interesting! I have an old Gillette which has the exact same design. I picked it up for $5 at some thrift store. Cleaned it, sterilized it and it's been great for years.

My current razor (seldomly used as I'm bearded now) is a Weber DLC coated DE razor. It works nicely and doesn't get gummed up with cut hair.
One could say he knows he 's an opportunist and willingly projects this image. People of all persuasions can project on him a hope of 'disruption', knowing that what he says now has little chance to be followed by actions. His (unlikely) win would create an open playing field for all kinds of unconventional choices (given that he doesn't really owe a debt to his own party).

In contrast his opponent is way more predictable but also very largely unlikeable.
The technology behind Aquila
I think it would depend on the 'why' of the firing. However to mention it at all without telling you something like "You're replacing X, who is being investigated on criminal charges for/related to..." IE you have a legacy mess that you'll be cleaning up; yeah that's extremely unprofessional and likely unethical.
Why would you assume that someone who mentions Thiel's statements about women's suffrage hasn't heard his arguments? Don't you think it's more intellectually honest to question and hear what others have to say rather than just paint them as idiots because they don't believe what you believe? Also, do you think that it is even theoretically possible for someone to make a meaningful argument that women's suffrage is somehow a bad thing? I certainly don't.
is nicer to have the same enviroment for dev and production, less surprises, in OS X I use a linux vm too but most of the time I'm on a VPS.
I don't know where people get the idea that "flying cars" is a more noble achievement than "140 characters".

All these narratives you're repeating--you probably picked it up from some news article or tweet--is just another way people package their own agenda. What you're saying is equivalent to saying police is much more important than scientists. The truth is both are important and it's foolish to say one is more important than another.

Basically you're comparing apples to oranges and saying oranges are bad because the guy who sells apples started a well packaged propaganda to sell more apple and you believe it word for word.
As I understand it, the issue is that, while it might repel them to begin with, mosquitos evolve quite rapidly, and sooner or later they will learn to ignore the repellent, and it will be ineffective. There are tons of substances that mosquitos and insects find repelling. We have mapped the receptor in mosquitos which, when activated, make them shy away from a substance. But if it doesn't kill the mosquitos, or damage them, they will eventually learn that it's unharmful, and it will no longer be effective.

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v502/n7472/full/nature1...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthranilate-based_insect_re...
Fischer did not play the King's Gambit.

http://www.academicchess.org/images/pdf/chessgames/fischerbu...
For the most part that's just what we do, but the important exceptions are when a title is misleading and/or linkbait. This is in the HN guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
Purely Functional Data Structures in Elm
I wonder who is paying for this shill.
Some people are enthusiastic about compact casettes as well. It's just nostalgia, rationalized as some unquantifiable "warm" sound.

The same thing will happen with mp3s. Remember those random clicks and skips of early, buggy encoders?
Such as whom? Bernie Sanders is a politician clearly lying about the definition of socialism, while those he claims to want to imitate deny they are socialist.[1]

[1] http://www.thelocal.dk/20151101/danish-pm-in-us-denmark-is-n...
Some people are enthusiastic about compact casettes as well. It's just nostalgia, rationalized as some unquantifiable "warm" sound.
> When they call a human being "an illegal" -- it's dehumanizing …

No, it's an accurate, dry, legal characterisation of someone present in the country illegally, much like referring to someone who has murdered someone else as 'a murderer,' or to someone who has shoplifted as 'a shoplifter.'

I'm actually philosophically inclined towards completely open borders (although I have some deep concerns about what that does to community & culture), but an alien who is present illegally is truly an illegal alien. Words mean things, and that's what those words mean.
Something about Zuck just seems inauthentic and robotic. Maybe the style of writing makes it sound like a sponsored PR piece, or maybe it's the incessant corporate speak. I suspect the reality is Zuck is a strong CEO and weak innovator. Facebook is established and boring, and now all that's left is to entrench the world with proprietary Zuckernet. I strongly suspect Zuck will become the characterized depiction of the robber baron, but that's just my unfounded prediction.
By which accounts? I've honestly never heard anyone complaining about QA or "Not Premium Enough"

For example, Top Speed suggests that all other manufacturers are still playing catch-up. That it'd be nice if the seats had been updated a bit, but otherwise things are great.

http://www.topspeed.com/cars/tesla/2017-tesla-model-s-ar1729...