skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
$330 per user? Is that a good price for customers buying cheap razors?

I'm a guy. I shave a bit. I've been, and continue to be, totally astounded how DSC is a business, let alone a successful one. No matter your preference for DE vs these fancy multi-blade rigs, just uh, go to Amazon and buy? "Subscribe and Save" if you have an issue buying more when you run low?

What's the attraction?
Experiment suggests people may sense single photons
I have watched the videos and it actually look useful.
nope, that's exactly correct. They even use the term "trustees".
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While I agree that this is fluffy, I would submit that:

1 There are a number of other organizations with serious ML chops

2 Knowing that something is possible is frequently the biggest aid to making it happen

3 This solution is likely tightly coupled with Google's infrastructure
Here's the original paper: http://www.nature.com/ncomms/2016/160719/ncomms12172/full/nc...
Those are very big advantages.

Asking why software engineers would want to live in the Bay Area is like asking why investment bankers would want to live in New York City or London. There is just such a critical mass of activity and connections that one would miss out on anywhere else.
Ask HN: How do you automate non-simulated iOS apps?
For a non-jailbroken iPhone what are the current methods (no matter how crude) to automate apps, (e,g. tap) on an actual device or via XCode UI Automation, hardware solution, etc. (not counting capturing and playing back API calls.)
hmmm.... It certainly has nothing to do with the first amendment protections since twitter is a private company, but - at least from my POV - it does have to do with censorship, bias, and, depending on how you define it, free speech.
>My dog has been on a killing spree this summer, sometimes catching 2 birds in a week :(.

usually dog tags on the collar is enough. Otherwise, have you ever thought about attaching a small bell to the collar so that it'd warn the birds before the dog catches them?
None of that code is any more clear, either conceptually or syntactically than a simply implemented and well designed library that does something purposeful and applied, like their "application" of handling validation.

And if you want "private" variables in javascript, just use a closure! Do people who write these blog posts even know basic javascript these days? If you really want all the features of java [said no one ever], than why don't you just.....use java??

It's just extra cruft we're going to have to support now in our javascript runtimes.

</slams door>
But the new account will have no followers, it will take time/effort to get them all back, so suspending an account is still worthwhile.
its better to have two major players then just one even bigger player.
Is there any evidence this isn't fake?
Sure: it's ruled by money or social/technical standing rather than votes. It's run by a bunch of Ayn Rand-ian social darwinists who believe morality can be defined in absolute, 'dispassionate' truths. Oh, and they're now playing the game they hate so much and know so little about.
Are those ones as nice? Serious question, it seems silly to compromise on something that you're going to use daily (or close thereto) just to save $10-$20 (once you factor in shipping). Then again if you can't tell the difference, might as well get the cheaper one.
The worst acquisition of the decade was arguably Nest Labs, bought for $3,200,000,000 in January 2014; rather than Tumblr, bought for $1,100,000,000 in June 2013.

Both acquisitions failed to meet the expectations of their new owners. In the case of Tumblr, Yahoo bought it for its community in an attempt to gain/regain relevance with the 16-25 demographic. In the case of Nest, Google wanted a piece of the 'connected home' pie.

Tumblr is a community and it may disappear over time as alternatives emerge; it's a nature of the game. Meanwhile, Nest replaces hardware in your house that used to work fine with cloud-connected versions that have issues when you lose connectivity.
Now say, you took out a mortgage and came up with 5 million dollars. Another 100 people don't have any dollars, so they would like to seize your 5 million dollars with a patch. There's a clear majority vote to take your 5 million dollars. Should they be allowed to do that?
FYI, the guy you're replying to jailbroke iOS in 2007 by exploiting a flaw in Safari's TIFF parser: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JailbreakMe
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$2.7 > $0 so...
That's a solid point, determining it's own cost/benefit curve would be really interesting. I find it comforting that even our soon-to-be robot overlords will have performance goals and yearly reviews with management.
I'm pretty sure this is the guy who said in the
"Indie Game: the Movie" documentary something akin to: "If my game doesn't succeed I'm going to kill myself" in a sincere fashion.

EDIT: It was the game developer named Fez who made the statement [1].

[1]: 39:00 mark of Indie Game: the Movie .
It would also be more efficient to be able to tell when the gif started
One use case for us was throwing an exception when accessing an undefined property, for a very specific part of our app. Made debugging loads easier.
No, I didn't even think of that. I switched the sprinklers to run at midnight instead of 7-8PM a few days ago, and so far so good. If it happens again I'll give the collar w/ tags a try, thanks.

Hopefully she's learning that she gets a bath and I get grumpy every time it happens too.
Uh, you're welcome?

I don't think I made your point, though. The laws that were passed to rescue the previously failed rules were utterly unknown at the time the failure was occurring. Instead of those rules being followed through (resulting in the complete destruction of debt-currency), a political elite was able to force a rescue of the failed actors. Wealth was redistributed across the world as USD should have ceased to exist and all debt vanished, but was allowed to be propped up at the whims of technocrats (Fed buyers).
No. The resolution of this (primitive) device is 10's of microns, which is too large to be disturbed by normal vibrations. Most SEM vibrations in simple machines are caused by insufficient damping from its own vacuum pumps.
The Product Development Triathlon
It should have 2015 in name.
But no smoking gun this time? Any other times? Or just the effect of a popular, charismatic guy doing something and others joining in?
In this thread are men literally defending sending unsolicited dick pics to unwilling participants.

Feel free to waste your breath trying to convince me that CoCs aren't needed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbRS9K4rZ8Y :)

PS: I think that crow actually said "thank you"?
One frequent one I ran across is that I'm searching for "one two three", where "three" is the highly specific term I'm after. Google will return the more frequently searched "one two" results.

Another is the date control, google thinks older is better but it very often isn't.

The date options suck too. Last week is usually zero hits, last month maybe one unrelated one, but then last year returns far too many. What I really want is to add a weighting so that newer stuff has higher priority.
Why are you assuming it's fake? "Crows and ravens can imitate human voices" is an established fact, not an unusual claim.
>And don't even get me started on _jackdaws_

Top level trolling
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He does sound a little like a voice synthesiser, but I think that's mostly because both birds and computers speak English poorly. Here's another example: https://youtu.be/AfsnHVaScjg
Yes! It absolutely is censorship and bias. I agree with that. But private corporations are allowed to censor and be biased.

That's why a bar can kick you out for screaming racial slurs if they want to: it hurts their business by making their customers unhappy. That's also why corporations can donate to any political cause that they want. Some private corporations exist only to be biased! The ACLU is an example.

"Free speech" means, to me, the freedom to speak without fear. Twitter has not given Yiannopoulos a reason to fear speaking. He's just no longer free to use Twitter as a broadcast medium. It's like if Twitter lent him a huge megaphone that said "TWITTER" on it, listened to what he said, and then decided they didn't want him to have it anymore.
How much is your time worth? If you have to put extra effort into finding what you want, that could very quickly cancel out.
omg but your oppressive code of conduct may prevent me from harassing or berating someone down the line, so I better act like they stifle speech even though I can't find a single example of them doing so!!111 /s

It really is magical to see these people that think that everyone are supposedly always courteous to each other throw such a shit fit over codifying that into an official policy.
Milo has joined Team Conservative in the left-right culture war, but that doesn't make him a conservative. Left/progressive and right/conservative seem to be identities rather than ideologies. They're pretty much just two opposing tribes waging an endless, annoying war, mostly on the internet.
You're right, I completely misread the post I replied to.

A minor nitpick though, in vim you aren't pressing escape to get to that mode, it's the normal mode, it's where you should always be.
1) I always recommend to my friends to give Cortana more than a 5 second consideration - especially if they're Windows users. Since Cortana primarily uses Bing, there's always a hesitation - but it's surprisingly fun and an effective AI "assistant." I'm still working on understanding the Office 365 capabilities, as I discover some cool ones here and there

Example that blew away a colleague at work using a Surface Pro: "Cortana - I'm trying to find an Excel function to do X & Y. What should I use?" Not only did Bing find a serviceable answer, but because we made the search while Excel was opened, the function was auto-populated in the highlighted cell.

2) Some of the Bing/Cortana cognitive intelligence APIs are pretty cool and pretty available to anyone. As an example, I was hacking at a chat bot for Skype + Slack for fun one weekend, and I noticed that there was a tool that could take an image, and provide a description of what was in the image. If it was of a baseball player, the level of detail would be down to the color of her/his shirt.
Google already used neural networks earlier to get efficiency improvements earlier these improvement are on top of that. Another thing google for years has been working on producing the cheapest and most efficient servers possible from the ground up so something improving on that is a win for google
I have started feeling that most people and governments don't realise how big machine and deep learning can become and the jobs its likely going to effect.
I feel like emacs is the same way. All the talk of buffers, kill rings, yanking, etc always threw me off. I'm used to it now but I feel that audiences that are used to Windows/Mac style 'normal' text editors probably bounce hard off of vim/emacs pretty often because of the different way of doing things.
On the flip side games like Battlefield and Overwatch which are entirely multiplayer driven and have various balancing and load-testing requirements benefit immensely from (free) alpha and beta stages which are essentially demos. With the increased prevalence of such games I can only imagine demos remain prominent (even if they are called "alpha/beta periods" instead.
Perhaps for some people, but certainly not for me. I experience my vision like an old television set between channels, but with an extremely high pixel density (though perhaps a similar frame rate). When there's sufficient light, there's a strong bias to one color/brightness or another per pixel, although even then I can perceive the noise if I choose to. In the dark, it's all noise all the time - dark colored noise, but noise nonetheless - not to mention ghost patterns I hypothesize are due to minute transient pressure or chemical differentials. Far, far too much noise to distinguish a single photon. I've perceived this noise for as long as I can remember, back to early childhood.
AND that's 512MB shared with graphics, AND that was the higher of the two options Microsoft was considering for the 360:

https://forums.epicgames.com/archive/index.php/t-553976.html
Code-execution vuln resides in code used in cell towers, radios, and basebands
>Honestly that was my experience of vim in general. Whenever I had to do anything slightly non-trivial, it took a lot of mental effort to work out the exact command I needed. Whereas Sublime's multiple selections are more intuitive and flexible in unusual situations.

Vim is humbling in a way. I have been using it for 5 years and while it destroyed my ability to use a non-vim textfield, which shows me what is already ingrained, there is always a faster way to do a task and always room to improve.

I like that. You come across a better way to do something and now you just remember to do that one thing wherever it applies until you do not have to think about it anymore.
I am skeptical of the specific video he linked, not of the well established fact that Raven's can vocalize.
Splitting users sucks, but it is what people are asking for. Indeed there are blocklists that are shared to help people ignore groups, so users are already doing it in a hacky way. A kudos/vouch system might work fine. They've got thousands of employees -- certainly they can figure something out better than what they're doing. Right now it's just random-nuke-if-it-gets-attention. And it certainly feels like Twitter has a political bias.

>"full free speech" like reddit

Reddit went sorta censorious didn't they? Decided any sub that made fun of fat people was not allowed and applied that sitewide (killed new subreddits with different people, if they shared the same topic). Created a system that requires signing up and verifying email just to get a read-only view of certain subreddits? (For instance, r/blackfathers, a subreddit which had _no_ content, was quarantined, so you can't even see that it has no content unless you verify and login.) There's no justification for requiring a verified email account to view content, except to serve as a chilling effect.

It's totally their right, just they shouldn't be held up as a bastion of free speech. Even 4chan surpasses them on that account.
Considering you now have another electron microscope, would you ever consider building another version of this?
i like how the article is simple and to the point. thanks.
Anyone reading this comment thread curious about trying shouldn't just go with feather because crdb likes them or gillete 7 o clocks because sithadmin likes them. Different blades can make a huge difference and different people have different results. Pick up a blade sampler pack and try a bunch, pretty much every shaving store/amazon has them.
Not necessarily wrong, but not a well thought out piece. I'm all for public transit, but this doesn't cover the issue in sufficient depth to actually be informative.

Assuming $30/hour opportunity cost? Pulling 20 minutes a day out of a hat? Ignoring the alternative forms of public transit?

Commutes are complex beasts. The article ignores the demand curve of commuting, and dynamic responses like people moving closer to their work.

If we are going to look at opportunity cost, what is the expected gain by investing $53B in existing public transit? Or rezoning density downtown?
That particular example was chosen not because of OData, but because it required someone to type in a horribly long set of alphanumeric codes.

There's no way a human can effectively type that, nor is there any real way to look at it and figure out what it's doing. That the URL happens to use ODAta (because that's what Exchange does) is not really relevant.

The overriding factor, as called out in the doc, is that URLs should be human understandable. That's not to say canonical id's can't be used, but a big base64 encoded string is not recommended.
Just watching the staggering change that has happened now that Capitol Hill and University Link stations have opened makes me both thrilled for the next ones (U-District, Roosevelt, and Northgate) and insanely jealous of the handful of areas inside the city that are going to get real, grade-separated mass transit over the next two or three decades. It is already far too late for me to afford to buy housing in any of the coming-very-soon areas that is walkable to the new train stations and the new stations (Ballard and West Seattle Link) are going to areas that are already priced out of most affordability.

Though I understand the political and infrastructure reasons why we have to build light rail to the suburban areas before filling in the urban core[0], that doesn't stop me from being sad that, in my lifetime, already-dense areas like Georgetown or the Central District or Lake City or even Greenwood[1] won't see real high-capacity transit. (Having a single station in the CD's Judkins Park doesn't really count, not when Interbay and Ballard are getting five stations between them, or when West Seattle has four.) I read somewhere, probably on Seattle Transit Blog[2] from someone who likes to rant about this stuff like I do, that route 48 through the CD has more daily riders now than the train to Issaquah is supposed to have five years after it opens in 2035.

But Goldy makes the most salient point: Voting against Sound Transit 3 doesn't accomplish anything except, maybe, make Sound Transit more cautious in a second vote and less willing to put out a big package to build for the next generation. Voting for it doesn't get a perfect system, but I think that it helps more than saying no.

0 - Because Sound Transit is a regionwide taxing district so the region has to pass it and selling voters in Everett on a transit package that builds only in Seattle will not fly; because we should have been building Ballard Link 30 years ago so, by that same logic, we need to build Redmond and Issaquah Links now instead of waiting 30 years...

1 - Yes, I realize that "85th St Station" is marked as "provisional" and that 85th is the southern boundary of Crown Hill and that having a light rail stop west of IH-5 with easy bus and RapidRide access from west Greenwood and Crown Hill would be a good compromise...but nothing would beat having a station parked right at NW 100th and Holman.

2 - It's a good blog, you should read it: http://seattletransitblog.com
Sort of true, but at the price taking the blade out of the handle and storing it isn't really worth it.
Yup, exactly. A static electricity spark is typically high voltage, but very low amperage, and even it would be highly unlikely to set paper ablaze. A headphone is both very low amperage and low voltage, so essentially impossible without an external catalyst.
That's the combo I used.
Oh, okay. Well, point taken, then.
Looks like this article is from 2011 -- what tweaks and improvements have you made since then?
> Or rezoning density downtown?

You can't really get any more dense in Seattle's downtown core. There aren't any single-family houses left and everything between Denny and, say, Yesler is zoned much, much more dense than pretty much anywhere else in town.

I completely agree that there needs to be more dense zoning, especially around the light rail stations. (I also read somewhere that the new Roosevelt station will have less density zoned for it, because of neighborhood opposition, than already exists in areas of Seattle not getting light rail. The math seems to bear that out, at least from the zoning maps I have read.)
Even more, if each data center runs more or less cpu-cycles depending on energy allocated to it and the algorithm does worse or better depending on how many cpu-cycles it gets, it could learn heuristically that it a certain data center happens to be associated with the algorithm running more effectively.

I think that would require the algorithm running in real time. In batch/learning mode, the algorithm would just take more or less time to complete with power not being a factor.
I think this is too little, too late...or at the very least too late. I'm heading towards more and more decentralized means of posting and communicating...you know, where I can control my own fate at least a tad more. Good luck to twitter, but this is so yesterday. ;-)
>Is there any source/docs to indicate the e.g. NSA pays $50K for this kind of vuln?

If anything smaller governments without in-house vulnerability research would be more willing to pay large amounts.

>Also note that the majority of government entities can just legally request information.

The kind of governments that would be interested in exploiting Facebook probably aren't the kind that could legally request the information in the first place.
I understand that Raven's can vocalize, I am just skeptical of that original video you linked. I am just wondering if there was evidence that it was authentic since that Youtube user's videos seem to go so far beyond what I've seen Raven's do before.
There are a number of examples to cite showing what you say isn't true.

Allowing totally arbitrary OData $filter expressions does lead to problems, but recent versions of OData have a nice mechanism to describe (and discover) what can be filtered on. This is both tooling and developer (for consumption) friendly.

There are many examples of teams providing OData API heads without using SQL as the data store. Teams do this using EXO, various Azure data stores, and custom stores.

Using (for example '$filter=productName eq cupcakes') isn't leaking any weird abstractions, but is giving clients and tooling a nice means to filter a list.
That's a significant part of it. Check out PreScheme, though, for how that might have worked:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PreScheme

It's a Scheme created as a C alternative for low-level programming used in a verified Scheme48, VLISP. It was quite efficient. LISP's doing more of that kind of thing might have fueled more use of the language.
on the front page with >350 points and >150 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12122557
VeriCoin did something similar when MintPal was hacked. They rolled back the blockchain prior to the heist. Now it's a shadow of itself, and MintPal is dead.

What a mess.
Hey, at least Google and DuckDuckGo don't reek of Marketing Team Branding Magic. Dollar-for-letter, Bing kind of sucks.
Again, the vast majority of the time, the Bing results are fine. I think I waste maybe 10 seconds a day re-searching things. ~$0.10 for ~10 seconds (approx $360/hour) is more than my job pays.
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Something like this would be a candidate for smart contracts.
They actually lose money on the consoles and hope to make it back up with games. And to be totally fair, the entire 512MB was made of GDDR3.

That's right. The entire RAM bank was made of chips designed for graphics. So it's no wonder it was so expensive.

Edit: and this was necessary to decrease the latency between graphical operations and processor operations. You can load graphics directly into what is essentially VRAM, rather than having to pull it through regular RAM first. Because there is no regular RAM.

The tradeoffs made sense at that point in time, because DDR1/2 sucked a lot, and pulling data through multiple stages would drag down performance.
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The whole point of the blockchain is that it is black and white. Your veiled insults don't change that. Stick to wall street if you want to bend the rules.
There's nothing wrong with RPC APIs. Other than being "Not Cool" due to the legacy of SOAP, they can deliver some very nice value.

Various RPC mechanisms like Bond and Protocol Buffers (and more recently GRPC) are trying hard to make RPC cool again. Personally, I hope they succeed, as REST (like any technology) doesn't work for everything.
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